Chapter 213 (1/2)
Hao Ren suspected that the Orb may have very well ended up in the Surface World.
The traces and trails point towards the malfunctioning spacecraft and the Orb of the Holy Synod being dragged into the same chaotic trans-dimensional field. At that point, a portal opened at the Blood Lake in The Plane of Dreams, so chances of the Orb and the monks guarding it being transported into the Surface World were rather large.
But that did not even come close to determining the exact location of the Orb: The spacecraft was working fine when it ran into trouble at the bottom of the lake. From Hao Ren’s guess, the ship was in space at that time, if the Orb’s position was directly reflective of where the ship actually was, it may very well have been thrown into deep space. Plus, if it had already been floating there for a good two months, who knew where it actually ended up.
Secondly, the probability of the Orb being reflectively transposed accurately was miniscule. The exact location where the craft ran into issues was at the bottom of the lake, but the dimensional rift opened in the church in the middle of the lake. As such, the MDT surmised that there was probably some distortion when the rift formed, resulting in two pathways opening. The biggest fear when using interdimensional teleportation is a positional distortion. Even a minute distortion could throw someone off their actual destination thousand of miles away, light years even. Furthermore, as both the Surface World and The Plane of Dreams were not direct mirrors of each other, any reflective transposition would not be accurate. The MDT even extrapolated the possibility of the Orb being thrown into a different universe all together. The spacecraft had a void engine in it, which was used for trans-dimensional travel. If it was still active when the ship crashed, there was a chance that it simply threw anything nearby into other dimensions.
But, the Orb’s location was not their concern as of now. What was happening in The Plane of Dreams had all of them worried.
“What will happen if the balance is broken?” Vivian looked at the MDT curiously. Her knowledge about things while exceeded Lily’s, paled before the cutting edge database.
“The most obvious consequence would be, things from both worlds starting to interact with each other without control. The more similar their fundamental characteristics are, the easier it will be for them to interact. Intelligent beings will start to communicate with other intelligent beings.” The MDT then displayed a holographic projection with a sombre scene of war and massacres on it. “For example, demons will start appearing in human city centres, nuclear warheads may fall on the capital of a magical kingdom, biological infestation may occur, a warlike race may take the opportunity to go to war for dominion and destroy other civilisations in the process. And oh, diseases and plagues. A simple flu on Earth may be the Black Death in a foreign world, and it’s the same the other way around. A small group could still be fine, as bacteria may not survive the environment and be eliminated by natural selection. However, if it involves the movement of a very large group, then it is a disaster waiting to happen. Even an experienced plague lord is nothing against bacteria or viruses from another world. A small scale outbreak could perhaps be contained, but a big one… well, the medical team may as well die alongside their patients there and then.”
The rather vivid explanation sent chills down Vivian’s spine. “Then… how did the first group of unusual creatures survive on Earth?”
“Maybe it was really the survival of the fittest, or the transference changed their physical attributes.. No one knows for sure. The Plane of Dreams is a chaotic mess after all.”
Y’zaks was also deep in thought. “You haven’t even mentioned anything about the worst case scenario. Two converging worlds will probably have issues with their spatial parameters and world rules. Well even before that, if the Planck’s Constant just diverges that little bit, any contact will simply result in an apocalypse. That’s even more dire than war or plague, hell, not many will even survive that. An apocalypse.”
The MDT moved up and down as if it was nodding. “That’s the worst case scenario, but that usually happens due to a massive convergence of two worlds. Anyway, based on the current data, The Plane of Dreams and the Surface World share pretty much the same parameters. The most important of those, the Planck’s Constant, the basic core settings and spatial construction are pretty much the same. The doomsday scenario will probably not happen.”
Hao Ren then looked up at the rest in a sweeping glance. “I think we need to make a trip back. There are too many things to report. We will also need to get someone to do something about that ship.”
“Yup, yup!” Lily nodded vehemently. “Sides, there’s no electricity, no internet and no nice food to eat… blergh.”
This lass was so excited when she first came, and now she was utterly sick of it.
“Well, that’s that. We’ll go back tomorrow then. We need to say our farewells to Becky, and bring Hilda along,” Hao Ren said as he stood up. He then noticed Wuyue, who was still curled up in a ball. “You still can’t untie the knot?”
Wuyue was flapping about by the shore. “I’m still numb… still numb…. Ah… I’m gonna roll off!!”
Hao Ren quickly went forward to give the siren a hand. “Don’t worry, we’ll wait for you.”
It was “thanks” to Vivian’s lightning attack that Wuyue was so numbed. Remember that they ran into some mechanical guardian underwater? Wuyue, the siren nanny who could not fight, simply curled into a ball using her three-metre-long tail when the enemy attacked. The first thing she saw as she peeped through her defensive ball was Vivian casting a lightning sphere and jolting everyone there…
Perhaps, the high salinity of the sea creature resulted in a high level of conductivity, or Wuyue simply forgot to put some points in her elemental resistance. She was the worst off of the lot. She was still numb after so long, and she could not untie her tail after a good ten minutes trying. And oh, she could not even dispel her siren form despite trying to so.