"Bang!"
Juan Min, having lost nearly half his weight, collapsed to the ground, his body resembling a dehydrated corpse, yet he was still alive.
His two other colleagues also collapsed at almost the same time, and the massive bleeding from their nostrils and the psychological trauma caused them to go into shock.
The silver staff and the silver sword inside instantly contracted, and layers of runes filled with divine incantations appeared continuously. Mixed with the will power that Wu You added, they transformed into a silver transparent bottle, which sucked the golden wriggling substance from Wu You's hand.
Shaking the bottle in my hand, I felt its weight. Then, looking at the box, the original form of the golden upside-down bell was revealed before my eyes.
In terms of appearance, it is no different from what Hu Anmin and his group saw. It has not become dull or broken because of the lack of any key elements, and it is still full of mystery.
"Was this thing originally in a different dimension from me? It doesn't seem like that's the reason."
Looking at the three people on the ground, I realized they had also been terrified tonight, and were almost dead.
As Wu You waved his arm, an invisible, gentle energy enveloped the three of them. Li Shun and Ruan Hongbin's complexions quickly turned rosy, while Hu Anmin gradually regained his fullness from his withered state.
...
"Ugh... my head hurts so much..."
A dozen minutes later, Hu Anmin was the first to wake up, clutching his head. As the contractions gradually subsided, he suddenly remembered something.
He jumped up in a flash, nervously looking left and right, then at the ground.
The large pit that had just been dug was still there, but the terrifying golden upside-down clock and the box that contained it were gone, and the mysterious and dreadful Van Helsing was gone as well. His two colleagues lay not far away.
When my gaze fell upon a pile of things at my feet, my breath caught in my throat and my heart began to race.
There were at least a hundred stacks of one hundred bills neatly arranged at my feet, all of them $100 bills, with some gems scattered around them.
"Huff... huff... huff..."
Hu Anmin's breathing became heavy, and his fear had long been forgotten. He looked at his two colleagues who were still unconscious on the ground, and he also saw the two long-handled shovels.
From a mountaintop somewhere on this hill, one can faintly see the lights of a horse-drawn carriage beyond the distant woods.
Wu You suddenly turned his gaze to that grove of trees, his face expressionless, seemingly lost in thought.
"Hehe, just a friendly chat over drinks and food~"
While glancing at the bloodstain in the woods, he kept his main attention focused on the transparent silver bottle in his hand.
His expression gradually changed from interest to seriousness.
In order to enhance his precognitive and exploratory abilities, Wu You borrowed Bai Ze's power using the power of the demon god, and combined it with his own slightly weaker source power to search simultaneously from two directions: the golden bell-shaped shell in the box and the bell-shaped core in the silver bottle.
At first, he tried searching the core in the silver bottle alone or searching the shell alone, but the information he got was very chaotic and disordered, with no useful information at all, and it had a strong resistance to being peeled off.
At this point, by using both methods simultaneously and forcibly piecing them together under the combined effect of willpower, even when the golden upside-down bell was still intact, a lot of useful information was indeed obtained.
But the deeper Wu You went, the more inexplicably stifled he felt.
The origin of this golden upside-down clock is extremely strange. Wu You never thought of anything similar when he created this parallel universe, nor did he want anything similar to appear. But it just appeared out of nowhere, at the same time as the parallel universe was established.
In comparison, Wu You could accept the existence of aberrant entities in a parallel universe, since this parallel universe is a better imitation of the original universe, and the presence of aberrant entities wouldn't be surprising.
However, all the information about the aberrant beings in the parallel universe only extends to the history of the planet where Best is located, which is the period 1.3 million years ago.
But in essence, that section is merely the "construction history" of that planet; in reality, the parallel universe has only been established for a short time.
Regardless of whether there are aberrant organisms in some corner of this universe, the golden upside-down bell appeared so unexpectedly. Moreover, according to the information Wu You has retrieved at this moment, there is more than one such thing on Earth, and it is not only found on Earth.
Even from a theoretical perspective, these things vary in strength and bring about different levels of anomalies. Although this universe was only created not long ago, these strange hanging clocks have appeared as if they were part of the construction of history.
Why does this upside-down clock terrify the people here? Although the explanation is incomplete, it can be roughly summarized as misfortune and natural disaster. Sometimes it can even cause supernatural occurrences, with all sorts of inexplicable events and even causing living things to transform into something like a monster, but it is completely different from the aberrant creature.
It is eerie and dangerous, and harbors ill intentions towards living beings and all life in the universe.
"Although they are completely different in nature, but..."
Wu You muttered to himself, looking at the silver transparent bottle in his hand.
"It really does resemble the monstrous offspring, at least in terms of its function!"
The silver bottle hovered beside him, and the wooden box had been replaced by an exquisite silver box, which was also covered with mantra runes.
Wu You's knuckles turned white, and his fists were clenched tightly together.
A nameless panic and fear rose in my heart.
Best travels through time using his own power, separating from the original universe at the moment the timeline shifts.
This is equivalent to establishing the foundation of this parallel universe.
This immediately attracted an unprecedented "gaze," and it was impossible to determine whether it was a mutated entity.
After that, the parallel universe was created by itself, perhaps because of the special ability of psionic spirits that "if they do not know or believe in the existence of the psionic spirits, they cannot feel its existence," and the process was not interfered with.
Besides the central planet and galaxy of the parallel universe developing entirely according to the "constructed history" in one's mind, a "golden upside-down clock" also appeared in this universe.
The nature of its spread is unknown, as is the timing of its appearance on each inhabited planet. It manifests as misfortune, natural disasters, supernatural phenomena, devouring, and destruction.
Wu You's information is incomplete because this parallel universe has only existed for a short time and has not yet evolved to the point where the Golden Bell has actually done anything to Earth.
But perhaps this is the correct order.
First, living beings; then, ecological planets; and then what? What if there are no ecological planets or living beings left in the universe?
A question that Wu You had never considered before came to mind.
'If the psionic spirits that formed the foundation of this parallel universe can be considered living beings, then wouldn't this universe also be considered a living being?'
'When all living things perish, perhaps lastly...'
Wu You felt a chill run down his spine as he looked up at the sky, which seemed indistinguishable from the real universe.
'Is the original universe I'm in really... the original universe?'
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