The sounds of fighting outside gradually faded, and Ying Gou returned first.
"How did it go?" I asked.
Ying Gou's expression was a little strange, and his gaze fell on the doctor before us.
The doctor was stunned for a moment, then asked in confusion, "What's wrong? Why are you looking at me?"
Ying Gou cleared his throat. "I could still hear the fighting after I went out, but there wasn't a single person outside. I didn't see any mechanical beasts either."
Qianqian looked surprised. "How could that be? We can still hear the fighting now, though it sounds like it's already reaching its end."
Ying Gou gave a bitter smile. "That's right. I stood at the door and observed carefully for quite a while, but I really didn't see anything. Why don't you go take a look yourselves?"
The doctor narrowed his eyes, as though even he found it unbelievable.
We followed Ying Gou outside, and the doctor's expression turned extremely grim as well. "How could this be? Where are my people?"
The entire estate looked empty. Not a single person was in sight.
It was also as clean and orderly as before, with no sign that a battle had taken place.
"Why is this happening?" he muttered to himself.
The sounds of fighting vanished completely. Qianqian said, "Interesting. Such a thing actually happened. If the battle took place in another dimension, how could we possibly hear the sounds of fighting?"
Ying Gou and I exchanged a glance. We both knew that something like this had happened once before. Ying Gou and I had experienced it firsthand.
The battle might really have taken place in this space, except a parallel space may have suddenly appeared. That parallel space happened to intersect with ours, causing those people and mechanical beasts