At first, Kaier didn’t understand what kind of help Angel wanted, and was puzzled when he heard Angel’s voice from the front.
"Alright, this is the place."
Seeing Angel pause, Kaier also stopped his steps, turned to look around, and only then discovered that they were right at the door of the last room.
To the left was the return path to the spiral staircase, while the right was a dark void.
Kaier’s gaze naturally glanced to the left because there was only a path there; the right was already the end. But what puzzled him was that Angel did not look to the left as he had guessed, but instead signaled Kaier to pay attention to the quiet void on the right.
Kaier then looked that way.
However, after looking for a while, Kaier still couldn’t understand what Angel meant, so he opened his mouth and asked, "Sir, is there anything special here?"
Angel: "They can’t see it, but you should be able to feel it."
Other people couldn’t see it, but only I could feel it? Carrying this doubt, Kaier continued to look.
After a while, Kaier hesitantly said, "Sir, do you mean those space rifts?"
Before Angel could answer, Kaier heard Dox’s voice from beside him: "Space rifts? Are there space rifts ahead?"
"Yes, there are... Sir, be careful!" Kaier was about to answer Dox but when he looked up, he saw Dox had already walked to the end of the path, and right in front of him, there was a faint rift hidden in the silent void.
"Be careful, be careful of what?" Dox asked puzzled.
Kaier swallowed his saliva nervously and said, "Sir, in front of you... in front of you is a space rift."
Upon hearing Kaier say this, Dox instinctively prepared to take a few steps back. However, at that moment, a huge attraction force came from the front.
Dox didn’t make any effective resistance and was pulled forward by this force.
When Dox was directly drawn to the front of the space rift by attraction, he finally saw the gap thinner than a strand of hair.
Only, before he could express his surprise, he was torn apart by a ripping force.
Everyone watched helplessly as Dox’s body was torn and fell into the void...
"Sir..." Kaier looked at Angel with a complex expression.
Angel: "What, do you have doubts?"
Kaier quickly shook his head: "No, no."
Angel said calmly: "It’s quite normal to be shredded by a space rift."
Looking at Angel’s serious expression and hearing Dox angrily cursing with foul language in the mind ribbon, Kaier really didn’t know what to say.
Besides, Dox as a bloodline wizard, could his physical standards withstand the space rift; just considering Dox as an ordinary person, the situation just now was very strange.
Obviously Dox had been standing there for a while without being "sucked" by the space rift, but the moment Kaier pointed out there was a space rift ahead, Dox was immediately sucked.
It sounds as if the "space rift" consciously swallowed Dox, but the space rift itself is not conscious, and Dox was merely an illusion. What killed him was not the space rift, but the controller behind it.
No doubt, it was Angel.
Not only did Dox understand this, but everyone else did, including Dox who was "killed". Otherwise, Dox wouldn’t have been cursing in the mind ribbon.
"When the observed object changes from unknown to known, the observer’s status will also change accordingly," Angel explained earnestly, and he explained it within the mind ribbon.
What Angel said isn’t difficult to understand. In short, when the variable is still a variable, it has infinite possibilities; but when the variable becomes a known constant, all ’possibilities’ collapse, leaving only the result exhibited by the constant.
At first glance, it doesn’t seem problematic, but in the current scenario, it’s that when Dox doesn’t know there’s a space gap ahead, his status could be either alive or dead; but once he knows there’s a space rift ahead, he’s definitely dead.
This is apparently illogical.
Dox is not stupid, and naturally can hear the flaw in Angel’s words, he angrily shouted "nonsense" and then began to refute word by word.
After Dox finished refuting, Angel calmly replied, "Who told you that the observed object I mentioned is the space gap, and the observer is you?"
"To be clear, the observed object is you."
After Angel said this, the mind ribbon was silent for a moment until after ten seconds, Vay broke the silence.
"Sir means earlier you didn’t notice the space rift, so... Red can exist in the state of living, when you know there’s a space rift ahead, he will definitely die?"
It means the observer was Kaier, he revealed the fact that there’s a space gap ahead of Dox, which also informed Angel, allowing him to perfect the live illusion.
According to the initial rules set by Angel for the live illusion, life and death are linked to the true world.
What this means is, in the true world, an ’ordinary person’ standing in front of a space rift will certainly be pulled in and shredded into countless pieces. Thus, in the illusion, Dox standing in front of the space rift will of course be affected by the space rift.
However, at first, Angel didn’t detect the space rift, hence the corresponding space gap did not appear in the illusion. After Kaier pointed out the space gap ahead, Angel naturally had to fill in the missing piece of this puzzle, and once the space rift was simulated in the illusion, Dox standing closest to the rift edge got affected.
Angel nodded: "What you said is roughly correct, it can be understood this way."
Vay also showed a look of understanding: "If that’s the case, then it indeed can be explained."
Hearing the conversation between Vay and Angel, setting aside how the others reacted, Dox was still very animated: "Are you a traitor, helping him to cover it all up?"
Vay remained silent, pretending not to hear.
Dox continued: "Moreover, earlier Angel clearly said: they can’t see it, but you can perceive it."
"This means he already knew there was a space rift ahead from the start. So this was completely intentional!"
Everyone heard Angel’s words to Kaier. Dox’s rebuttal was indeed quite powerful.
Angel: "How do you know what I said could be perceived, was the space rift?"