There was a strange phenomenon that was difficult to notice immediately even when it was right in front of you. Its unnaturalness was plain as day, yet the limitations of human thought and classic problems like visual errors made it easy to overlook—especially when a severely interfered-with camera and a lousy "photographer" tumbling wildly through the air stood between the observer and the subject.
For example, the classic academic question, "Why are pigeons so huge?"...
Hao Ren only noticed the anomaly in the footage after a sudden feeling of incongruity welled up inside him and he couldn't help taking a closer look.
The broken objects floating through the Great Pit were scattered in complete disorder. Combined with the terrible image quality, this meant Hao Ren hadn't noticed anything wrong with their scale at first glance. He simply assumed the tiny images were floating far away, while the ridiculously huge shadows were too close to the camera—but when a church spire only the size of a peanut slammed directly into Little Weak Chicken's head (since the probe was strapped to the little fellow's back, its head had been blocking the lower part of the image the whole time), he realized that something was wrong.
He then discovered that fragments with this kind of scale distortion were everywhere in the Great Pit—in fact, almost none of the fragments floating throughout the entire Great Pit seemed to be of a normal size.
There were buildings only as large as a palm, miniature kingdoms that looked like sand-table models. At first glance, these things seemed merely to be far away, but in reality they were floating right around the probe, and they really were only that small. There were also candlesticks as huge as skyscrapers and shattered wooden doors that nearly blotted out the