Chapter 519 [Chapter of the Hidden Abyss] Sixty-three: Causes and Consequences

With the "departure" of one of the two overlapping cities, Swam's power to maintain the normal form of "The Rift" with the power of the starry sky monster disappeared, and "The Rift" could no longer maintain its original state.

The small space where the crack was located collapsed violently, flowing backwards into itself like a waterfall formed by light, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

[The crack] disappeared.

What disappeared with it was the fungus city in Chen Yan’s synaesthesia.

Everything Chen Yan witnessed was produced by the [Crack]—that is, the [Door Frame Fragments] of the [Gate of Transcendence].

Now, the [Crack] has disappeared, and the [Door Frame] has also left, returning to the original world, and no longer exists within the scope of the Fungus City - thus, the Fungus City after the natural disaster disappeared from Chen Yan.

Chen Yan's synaesthesia for the [Door Frame Fragment] turned into chaos. At this time, the [Door Frame Fragment] was unknown where it was. Chen Yan only felt that the light and shadow in front of him were mottled, the colors were chaotic, and countless broken pictures flashed before his eyes, endlessly colorful.

Light and shadow appear cascading...

Everything that appeared rapidly created an uncontrollable sense of suffocation. Chen Yan had no choice but to cut off his synesthesia, and his consciousness returned to the ruins of the laboratory.

He was holding the [Door Frame Fragment] in his hand, breathing heavily, with only a few thoughts left in his chaotic mind:

'No matter where this [door frame fragment] went later, it eventually returned to the other side of the [crack] and returned to the ruins of the laboratory.'

'This is how Swarm came to our world...'

While he was thinking about it, he put the [Door Frame Fragments] into his pocket.

Chen Yan's teammates, Solar and the miners were somewhat surprised when they saw Chen Yan sitting on the ground panting.

In their eyes, Chen Yan had just picked up some kind of "garbage" from the rubble, and the next moment he fell to the ground, looking like he had after a strenuous exercise.

After calming down, Chen Yan finally figured out the connection between the two overlapping cities——

‘The ruins of the Mountain City under Yanan City and the Fungus City in the natural disaster world were actually the same city.

The source of everything is Swam's power inherited from the starry sky monster, which caused some kind of [space level] mutation in the city.

This caused the fungus city to change from one to two. One of them stayed in the natural disaster world, and the other came to the underground of Yanan City and became a city of mountains.’

‘The City of Fungus is the City of Overlapping Mountains, and the City of Overlapping Mountains is City of Fungus. They are just different names for two different worlds.’

Chen Yan's eyes trembled.

‘So, where we are now, is it the fungus city in the natural disaster world, or the city of mountains beneath the city of Yanan?’

‘According to what the zombie boy said, we are now clearly within the [Fungi City]—in the [Fungi City] in the natural disaster world [three years later].’ (Chapter 498)

Chen Yan shook his head fiercely, recalling what the zombie boy said, and clarified the time when the events in Fungus City occurred, and the correspondence between the events that occurred before and after the emergence of the City of Mountains underground in Yanan City——

‘The timeline mentioned by the zombie boy:

[Three years ago] in the Fungus City world line, the plastic dolls of [Liujiaxian] conducted in vivo experiments on the bacterial strains of [Fungi City], and due to unknown reasons, the experiment failed, opening a certain [rift].

So, this should be the first appearance of [rift] in the world of natural disasters.

What happened next was the scene I saw in my synesthesia of [the door frame fragments].’

The ideas in Chen Yan's head became clearer and clearer:

'At the same time, [twenty years ago] in the world where Yanan City is located, Chen Changsheng and other students carried [the fissure] to the laboratory of the University of Miami Research Institute, and conducted experiments on the [fissure] with the participation of the director.

.'

‘Two [rifts] appeared at the same time, so the two worlds were connected.

I can only attribute the opening of the [rift] in the two worlds to [coincidence].’

At different times in the two worlds, the two events occurred at the same time because the events matched.

But the time didn't match up.

‘Perhaps, there is a certain time difference between two different worlds that exist extremely far apart in the universe, so [twenty years ago] in Yanan City is equivalent to [three years ago] in the natural disaster world.’

Chen Yan's poor knowledge was not enough to understand this strange time difference principle, but the [fact] he saw was this:

Twenty years ago in Yanan City, the same events happened in the natural disaster world three years ago.

'Spatial mathematicians like Joseph Lagrange will surely be able to answer this question.'

Chen Yan continued to think:

‘[Twenty years ago] in Yanan City, that is, [three years ago] in the natural disaster world, after the natural disaster [blindness] befell the fungus city, under the intervention of Swam, the fungus city was divided into two.

One of them is located in the world of natural disasters and has become what I see now.

The other entered Yharnam, gradually fading into ruins as seen through the vision of the [Cosmic Spirit].’

'Well, here's the problem.'

'We clearly entered here from the underground of Yanan City before - we took the road into the ruins of the City of Peaks, not the road into the Fungus City.'

‘There must be something wrong with the [Water Curtain] we passed through before entering the Fungus City—according to what the zombie boy said, the [Water Curtain] was actually some kind of crack.’ (Chapter 498)

'Cracks appeared again in Fungus City. Does this mean that today, twenty years after Yanan City - that is, today three years after Fungus City, [Liujiaxian] and his plastic dolls started the war again.

Experiment, opened the [rift]?'

'It's possible.'

Chen Yan kept thinking in his mind:

'According to what the zombie boy said, in the timeline of the natural disaster world, in the past three years, after the events of that year, the plastic dolls of [Liu Jiaxian] rebuilt the Fungus City and became it.

What we see now.'

‘The current appearance of this city is indeed very different from the Fungus City in Synaesthesia.

In synaesthesia, the fungus city [three years ago] in the disaster world timeline was completely a [natural ecological city]. Looking back now, it actually looks quite nice...

Keji City is now a city made entirely of steel, and underground fortifications have also been built... This also means that [Liu Jiaxian] has far more control over the city than it did three years ago.'

'There is another key point - [The fall of the Mi University Research Institute Laboratory] occurred about ten years ago in the [Yanan City Timeline].'

‘I originally thought that the laboratory crashed in the ruins of Dieping City, but who knew that the laboratory actually crashed in the Germ City in the natural disaster world.’

'In other words, when Cyborg Quinn and Big Dog pushed the laboratory into the bottom of the abyss, the [rift] still existed. When the laboratory fell, it passed through the [rift] and entered the fungus city.

, smashed through the stacked buildings of Fungus City, and came to the place where we are standing now.'

When thinking of this, Chen Yan checked his thoughts again and felt that there was generally no problem.

Looking back on it again, although there are still doubts about the whole incident, it has gradually become clearer.
Chapter completed!