Folded Zone X Strange Interface Point

"The connection has been lost."

Kevin and his companions, who were speeding across the land, heard Rukira's voice coming from the sky and slammed on the brakes.

Rukira flew down.

"The connection was lost. In that instant, all the Ant Speech went out of range."

Of course, except for theirs.

Metal Ant appeared on Kevin's arm.

I reached out and knocked, but there was no response.

It seems they have indeed exceeded the permitted range.

The exploration ranges for everyone are precisely calculated, and the distance between each other will not exceed four thousand kilometers.

It's also very difficult to exceed such an exaggerated distance.

"Is this the area where communication was cut off?"

Kevin looked around and asked.

Rukira nodded.

Everyone looked around curiously.

The fact that the connection was broken after taking a single step indicates that space was deflected after that step.

"Let's go back and take a look; we need a precise location."

We could only slowly walk back.

After only a few minutes, the signal was restored immediately.

This is it.

Rukira pointed to the ground.

The group looked around but didn't notice anything unusual.

"Has the environment remained unchanged? Why is that?"

Kurapika looked around at his surroundings, frowned, and asked curiously.

If we draw an analogy to overlapping spatial regions...

It's equivalent to two normal square pieces, with the bottom edge of the left square piece connected to the top edge of the right square piece.

Geographically, these are the locations of two normal tectonic plates.

However, due to the folding of space.

The bottom of the left panel is hidden, which causes two edges that would not normally be connected to be joined together.

Therefore, after crossing the middle, the flow will directly transfer from the lower area to the upper area, with the distance in between spanning thousands of kilometers.

In this situation, the central space is folded, resulting in a noticeable dislocation of the surrounding environment.

But clearly, that's not the case here.

"Could it be because this space was folded over a very long period of time? So long that the connection between the two areas began to look the same until they were indistinguishable?"

After a moment's thought, Bianluoke offered a possibility.

Upon reflection, everyone realized that this possibility was not low.

They obviously had no way of knowing how long this spatial fold had existed.

But it must have been several hundred years ago.

At least two or three hundred years ago, Don Fritz would have discovered it and then written it down in his book.

The other party did not notice.

Either the space wasn't folded at that time.

Either the space had already folded and become so uniform that connection points could not be found.

Kevin trusts the latter more.

Judging from the strength of the Wearer Ghost and Dong when they met, Dong's strength at that time should have been around the Knight Rank, not yet at the Lord Level.

It wasn't that Kevin looked down on the other person, but the leap to the Lord Level was extremely significant, like a leap in life level.

My sensory acuity has improved immeasurably.

If Kevin didn't notice, then the chances of the other party noticing are extremely low.

Therefore, this area must have existed for a very long time, resulting in the indistinguishability of the two adjacent tectonic plates.

"I'm more curious about how this was achieved, since a large area has been eliminated, hasn't it? But geographically speaking, this area does indeed exist."

"But real-world things cannot interact with it, creating this incomprehensible bug, like a bug in an online game."

Same situation.

As he spoke, Pairo squatted down and began to draw on the ground.

Everyone looked over.

"If the areas ahead are overlapping, the width of this overlapping area is at least several thousand kilometers."

"The area several hundred kilometers wide that does not overlap above is our exploration zone, the distance from the camp to the coast."

"If we have people stand in a row along this horizontal line spanning thousands of kilometers and step forward, wouldn't the people folded below suddenly collide with the people hundreds of kilometers above, causing a spatial conflict?"

Is this situation likely to occur?

Because Kevin made a U-shaped loop, with both ends of the U connected to a single point.

This means that the hidden area in the middle did not completely disappear, allowing the blocks above to be completely moved down and connected.

This means that the two points overlap, and the hidden area exists in a state of being both present and absent.

Space was hidden and distorted.

The path above is connected normally without any errors.

The area below is completely connected to that short point above.

In other words, when someone tries to cross a hidden area, that area will directly send the person to the top Boundary without interacting with the area.

That would cause space to fold.

It's like you put ten puppets in the ground, and then push them forward; the puppets will instantly pile up into a clump.

It looked very strange, as if something had gone wrong with the world.

But such mistakes have occurred in reality.

"Why not just verify it?"

Kevin suddenly said.

"You will split into two groups. One group will watch the area that wasn't folded, while the other group will cross over to the folded area."

Kurapika and Rukira stepped over it.

Pairo and Bianluoke were watching from this side; the two sides were actually standing on parallel lines.

"We've lost contact, with you."

Rukira pointed at Kevin and said.

The two were face to face, only a few meters apart, but Ant Speech, which was four thousand kilometers away, was shown to be outside their range.

"This shows that it can potentially act on real objects. The rules of this kind of Nen ability are still based on normal geographical structures, folded spaces, only they are folded relative to us, real-world beings."

Simply put, this space exists for the world.

For these living beings who exist in reality, this space is folded.

Kevin went about his own business.

He ran wildly downwards and disappeared in no time.

Kevin sprinted downhill.

Running at full speed and at an extremely fast pace, it took a full hour to complete.

"It's about six or seven hundred kilometers away from here."

Kevin roughly estimated the distance in his mind. This time, he carefully observed the direction he was running downwards. In his perception, he had hardly deviated by more than ten centimeters.

Even if you go around Rock and trees, you'll immediately get back on track after you've gone around them.

In other words, he was moving in almost a straight line.

He turned around to look ahead.

If you walk a few more meters forward, you should be able to cross that line.

Under normal circumstances, the moment he crosses the threshold, he will appear in the direction leading to the camp.

Or at least they were not far from Kurapika and the others.

It is speculated that the points are not completely connected, but the distances between them are not short.

It's like condensing a width of several thousand kilometers into a few hundred kilometers.

When Kevin crossed the river, it took him about a week, covering a distance of seven to eight thousand kilometers.

The distance from the camp to the coast is approximately 600 kilometers.

That means there's roughly a tenfold difference.

The horizontal distance of seven or eight thousand kilometers only connects to about six hundred kilometers.

He is currently about 600 kilometers away from where he started running. So, after he crosses that point, he should be only about 60 kilometers away from Kurapika's location, according to precise calculations.

Of course, this is based on the principle of average alignment. If the alignment surfaces after folding and connecting are not even, then it is impossible to make a quick judgment.

Kevin walked forward.

As I left, I kept looking at the Ant Speech in my hand and tapping it repeatedly.

Suddenly, the connection was established.

"Hello?"

Rukira's voice came from inside.

"I can hear you. How far away do you feel I am from you now?"

Within a 4,000-kilometer Ant Speech can communicate with each other using their Nen ability, and Rukira, as a Nen user, can know the distance between different users.

Forty-seven kilometers.

It really is a fairly even distribution.

Kevin turned and ran back.

Sure enough, this time he only ran for about ten minutes before he saw Kurapika and the others.

He told them about his discovery.

The group frowned.

"We just did a small test ourselves, walking forward at a distance of several hundred meters, and found that there were no problems at all; there was absolutely no overlap in space."

You have to travel hundreds of kilometers before you discover the spatial folding.

If you only extend the distance by a few hundred meters, or even a kilometer, and walk forward, you'll find that this phenomenon is completely absent.

"Such an illusion must have been deliberately designed by Sapient Life to deceive people."

Otherwise, it would be pointless.

If it's just a simple folding and hiding, it doesn't need to be made so elaborate; evenly dividing and connecting them will suffice.

If two people walk several tens of meters apart, they will be instantly teleported after stepping over each other, and then only one or two meters apart.

It was as if my body Teleportation after I walked past.

If this is the case, the surrounding growing environment will also undergo very strange changes.

But reality is not like that.

Within a certain distance, they can move left and right without encountering any problems; there is no folding between them.

However, once the distance increases, the folding phenomenon becomes apparent.

This makes it clear that there was obvious human intervention involved.

A form of deception.

Let Sapient Life not discover the problem of spatial folding.

Or, to put it another way, reduce the likelihood of being discovered.

On a connecting line, under normal circumstances, even with constant traffic, the problem might not be discovered.

"Let's test it some more and deduce some of the characteristics of this hidden space."

Kevin thought for a moment and then said.

This is quite important to them.

Because if such a hypothesis is reasonable, it would be consistent with the areas they had previously explored.

Therefore, without a doubt, the normal, Folded Zone on the other side of the Folded Zone is a very suitable Forward Base.

The group decided to set up camp on the spot.

They started testing each other.

Kevin kept running back and forth, increasing the distance at an extremely fast speed to conduct the test.

He even ran directly to the shore from the Folded Zone, plunged into the sea, and swam forward.

The conclusion drawn is that the sea area was not folded; that is, the folded area is directly the shoreline.

In other words, the folded area is a range extending upwards from the coastline.

So from the coastline, it looks perfectly normal because it's not folded. But if you travel inland from the coast, you'll enter the Folded Zone after only a few kilometers.

In the camp at night, they kept brainstorming and speculating about everything they had experienced during the day.

This kind of spatial folding is indeed quite novel.

"From this perspective, the area on the edge is the best area for setting up camp, as it is not in the Folded Zone and will not be affected."

"Yet it can utilize the distance of the Folded Zone for quick passage."

They have calculated that the folded connection area is a dynamic connection area.

It gives one the feeling of a quantum state.

In other words, without prior observation, moving forward will not shorten the distance.

However, once the distance between two life forms exceeds five to six kilometers, folding will occur.

The distance is not based on physical geographical location, but on the distance between lives.

As long as two life forms cross together, the folding phenomenon will not be noticed by the other party, thus preventing it from becoming alarming.

However, if the two life forms could see each other and be alert to each other, such folding would not occur.

In this scenario, the average docking rate is approximately thirteen times.

That is to say, a width of thirteen meters is connected to a width of one meter.

To say that this wasn't man-made is simply impossible.

Once you understand the rules, you can utilize them.

In other words, jumping across this horizontal plane would increase their speed by more than ten times.

For example, entering the folded Folded Zone, and then traveling upwards in the Folded Zone for one hundred kilometers.

Then cross over to the Folded Zone.

That would place us approximately 1,300 kilometers above the Folded Zone.

This speed leap will save an immeasurable amount of time.

They can use it very easily.

The Stone Tablet Wasteland and the Serene Garden are only a few dozen kilometers away from the edge of the fold.

In other words, by finding a Forward Base in this area along the coast, they would be able to enjoy a number of advantages.

The Serene Garden provides various resource species, while the Stone Tablet Wasteland provides three types of resources.

Not to mention the contents encased within the stone tablet, the outer shell of the tablet is also sturdy enough to be used as building material.

In addition, there's a fast track that's more than ten times faster.

There's no better place to be found right now.

Kevin and Kurapika have begun discussing how to choose a location in this area as their Forward Base.

Bianluoke looked at Pairo was still deep in thought.

"You're still thinking about the Folded Zone?"

"Hmm----Because I knew about the existence of the Folded Zone, I always kept a map of the coastline. If you draw a straight line along the coastline, part of the Folded Zone is connected to the sea surface."

"And that area that connects to the sea is the same area where we landed on the Dark Continent."

"What do you mean?" Bianluoke asked, frowning. It didn't sound like a good thing.

"I'm just thinking that the Folded Zone must have been created by a Sapient Life form, or rather, an intelligent species."

"But once they've fenced off this area, they're completely staying away? Are they drawing a prison around themselves?"

"I think that's unlikely. Then there must be an internal or external passage. All this was done for concealment. So the passage in and out is either an underground cave or the sea. Underwater is the best hiding place."