Chapter 841: Chapter 467: Strange Changes!

From this perspective, after the incomplete connection between the two worlds, if a person from the Human World dies, they were originally supposed to be born in the Strange Space and continue to live in another form.

However, since the worlds are interconnected, they also have a certain chance of not being born in the Strange Space, but instead appearing directly in the Human World in the form of strangeness, wandering around the place they once died.

Or perhaps, driven by some obsessed desire from their life, they subconsciously try to fulfill that obsession continuously.

By resolving these obsessions, Yan Junze helps them complete their obsessions, and these strangenesses have a certain chance to return to their original Strange Space world, until they reincarnate under other conditions, or they have a certain chance to be directly reborn as a newborn in the Human World.

The Different Dimension Energy that Yan Junze gains after completing each task is apparently the release of a special kind of energy after the subconscious obsession of the strangeness is removed.

This energy is captured by the Spacetime Atlas, then transformed into energy needed for the operation of the Atlas.

Of course, now that the rules of the two worlds are in chaos, some strangenesses can break out of this order after their obsessions are resolved, continuing to stay in the Strange Space or the Human World.

Or due to some special reasons, they wander in the Human World, such as being locked down.

After a deep conversation with Rock, Yan Junze’s understanding of strangenesses completely changed.

Of course, careful thought would show that the old folk beliefs that circulated offer many similarities with Rock’s description, only the phrasing is different.

From the early morning when Yan Junze entered the Underground Space until noon of the same day, he and a strangeness talked continuously, and from Rock’s mouth, Yan Junze learned that the Strange Space seemed recently to be rather tumultuous.

What exactly happened, nobody knew, only that there was a massive leak of strong magnetic fields, which even the strangeness themselves found extremely uncomfortable.

Therefore, this will cause a sudden increase in the number of strangenesses in the Human World for a period of time.

Although Yan Junze has never been to the Strange Space, he now guesses that the world he saw through the crack inside the meat tumor that day might just be the Strange Space.

However, he could only see it but not pass through. According to Rock, the Strange Space only allows passage in one direction facing the Human World; that is, strangenesses can enter here, but humans cannot go there.

Yan Junze, tapping his fingers, said somewhat curiously: “Wandering Spirit, Sculpting Spirit, Ethereal Spirit, Demon Spirit… Rock, since you are the descendant of Possession Demon Luo Zhong, then you are…”

“Half-Demon.” Rock gave a resigned smile, “I can never reach my father’s heights, and besides, I’m afraid of being sealed.”

Yan Junze could not help but smirk, then suddenly thought of something, and asked: “Do you know, are there any other Half-Demons existing?”

Rock said, “Only a child of a Demon Spirit can be a Half-Demon. Other strangenesses at most could be Ethereal Spirits, but that doesn’t rule out Ethereal Spirits with the power comparable to Half-Demons.”

“Besides Possession Demons having children, are there children of True Word Demons or that one?” Junze asked.

Rock shook his head: “I don’t know about that one, but I know the True Word Demon was cruel; before it was sealed, it devoured all its offspring. So, even if it had children before, now there are none left.”

Yan Junze nodded in astonishment, paused for a moment, then stood up preparing to leave, and took out a short-bladed magnetic knife from his backpack, handing it to Rock.

“This was originally for me to use for self-defense. I don’t have much to give you; you keep this as a memento.”

Rock showed a sincere smile, reached out to take it, “Looking forward to seeing you again.”

As he spoke, he looked up at his Underground Space, as if talking to himself, “This place, perhaps there’s no longer a need to continue playing.”

After parting with Rock, Yan Junze climbed out of the Underground Space and returned to the dilapidated shop.

By the time he left the shop, it was one-thirty in the afternoon, and though sunlight shone outside, the heavy air around the Spirit Bridge prevented the light from penetrating directly.

However, the brightness had improved a lot compared to before.

Just as Yan Junze had left the area around Guanshui River, a figure with a backpack appeared at the street corner.

Seeing this figure, Yan Junze did not avoid them, because the person looked like an Exorcist, not a strangeness.

The Exorcist quickly spotted Yan Junze, eyes lit up, and hurried over: “Brother Yan, we’ve been looking for you for a long time. Someone from the headquarters tried to contact you, but signals couldn’t reach inside the Spirit Bridge, so three of us split up to come find you.”

“Is that so?” Yan Junze was somewhat surprised.

After leaving the Spirit Bridge with the Exorcist, he checked his phone, which had over thirty missed calls and several messages.

The messages were mostly from Zhang Xiaomo, and one was from Zhang Chengjing.

Zhang Xiaomo’s message read: My dad has been looking for you everywhere. Contact him as soon as you get out. I’ll wait for you in Huaying District.”

Zhang Chengjing’s message read: There’s been an incident, come quickly!

Yan Junze immediately called Zhang Chengjing and Xiaomo respectively.

Zhang Chengjing didn’t say much over the phone, only telling him that he was at the headquarters office building and to come straight there.

Xiaomo was already there with him.

Yan Junze immediately booked a plane ticket, flying to Huaying District in the afternoon.

Because he had been fervently using the Exorcism Method for tasks, eliminating strangenesses for a period of time, the energy limit of the Spacetime Atlas had been continuously increasing.