Chapter 965: Like a Farm, Indeterminate Time

After Xia Duo asked that question, the four eerie farmers immediately stopped their movements, stopped shouting their slogan, and turned their heads to stare straight at Xia Duo.

"How is this like a horror movie!"

Xia Duo felt his scalp tingle from being stared at, but he still bit the bullet and asked again, "Where is this?"

This time, the four people answered, but the result left Xia Duo very dissatisfied, because their answer was still the same slogan they had been repeating before, back and forth, just one sentence: "Expansion, expansion!"

Nothing else!

After shouting it once, they ignored Xia Duo and continued sowing. Seeing that this field was not very large, Xia Duo simply took a chair out of his Personal Space, sat at the edge of the field, and watched what these four would do after finishing the sowing.

This was not because Xia Duo was thick-skinned, but because he could hear these people's voices every time he teleported; if he stayed for even a moment, the sound would even move toward him.

If he had truly been abducted by some unknown entity, then these four eerie farmers were clearly a hint; he couldn't escape.

Xia Duo had also suspected the Princess; after all, in Netheril, she was the one most deeply connected to expansion, but the methods involved here were not necessarily something the Princess could achieve.

To say nothing else, the mere method of silently changing the ground of an entire area was not something a Great Arcanist could achieve.

Although Xia Duo was not yet a Great Arcanist, having reached his level, he still had some judgment regarding the capabilities of a Great Arcanist.

Therefore, he was more inclined to believe that some powerful unknown entity had abducted him, perhaps wanting him to do something, otherwise, it could have just crushed him to death.

……

Of course, there was another possibility, which was that all of this was a natural phenomenon, just like how he had inexplicably traveled from Earth to Netheril before, and now had inexplicably traveled again.

If that were the case, then he would take things as they came; figuring out the current situation was better than running around like a headless chicken.

While sitting and waiting for those four eerie farmers to finish sowing, Xia Duo was not idle. Since he could still use spells, he would take a look at the surrounding situation!

Although he did not hold much hope for the observation results, the fact that he had teleported several times without escaping the voices, along with the eerie scene of the wilderness turning into farmland, made him understand that the situation here was not normal!

But Xia Duo still did it; he wouldn't be at ease if he didn't, and even if just for peace of mind, he had to see what exactly was going on around here.

The Spellcasting process went very smoothly, with no abnormalities occurring during it, and even the Magic Net response was very fluid. Soon, the spell was completed, and a large Perception Field was created by Xia Duo and projected into the distant sky.

——【Eye of the Sky】!

This spell truly lived up to its name, allowing Xia Duo to conjure a pair of keen eyes hanging high in the sky out of thin air, using them to overlook the earth. Apart from a solitary piece of farmland that caught his attention, everything else was wilderness.

It was not much different from what Xia Duo saw on the ground, just with a larger range. He could see a white-hot sun, like at high noon, hanging just a little bit above the horizon at the edge of his vision.

This could not be seen from the ground; it might have been blocked by trees in the distance, and could only be seen from a high altitude.

Xia Duo lowered the Perception Field from time to time, wanting to see the environment of areas other than the one he was currently in, but unfortunately—

He didn't know if his understanding of wilderness environments was too limited, or if this really was just a boundless wilderness; in any case, he did not see anything unusual.

General Scrying alone could not explain anything. Xia Duo then tried searching for humanoid creatures, but apart from the farmland he was currently in, there were none anywhere else.

This was too strange. This wilderness was so vast, could it be that there were only these four Netherese farmers?

Xia Duo couldn't help but suspect, could it be that the spell had gone wrong?

This reminded him of the "off" feeling he had when sensing the Magic Net earlier. He was casting spells according to the method used in the Main Plane; if the Magic Net here had changed, then his spells would be "distorted."

It wasn't just the Scrying spell that might have problems; even the previous teleportation might have had issues.

However, determining the current state of the Magic Net was a fairly complex task; if there were multiple Plane Scholars working together, they might be able to get it done quickly.

But now, Xia Duo was alone, so it would be difficult to complete in a short time. He could only do it while waiting for those four eerie farmers to sow.

……

This field was not very large, roughly a 100*50 rectangular area, and the four of them had already planted more than half before Xia Duo arrived.

Don't let their robot-like appearance and mechanical movements fool you; their speed was not slow at all, and more importantly, they didn't need to rest at all and just kept working.

Of course, the slogan was also shouted continuously, without stopping.

Xia Duo didn't wait long before these people finished their work. At this moment, he stood up from the chair, put the chair away, and quietly waited for the four of them to make their next move.

And the next scene shocked Xia Duo once again—

He saw wheat seedlings suddenly sprout from this rectangular field, and these seedlings grew almost as soon as the wind blew, heading to ear and maturing in the blink of an eye!

And what about those four people?

While the wheat in the field was growing, those four people stood motionless as if they were robots shut down for maintenance. Only when the wheat in the field matured did they start moving again.

He didn't know where they pulled sickles from, one for each person, and they began to harvest.

How similar this scene was to the farm games Xia Duo had played on Earth!

This also made him suspect again whether this was a dream, only this dream was a bit exaggeratedly realistic in many details!

"Sigh—"

Xia Duo took out the chair again and sat down to wait. He wanted to see what else these people could do, and at the same time, he silently hoped in his heart that this dream would wake up soon.

……

Time passed bit by bit. During this period, Xia Duo also cast spells again to observe the sun, but that white-hot sun had not moved even a tiny bit from beginning to end.

It was still hanging just a little bit above the horizon at the edge of his vision.

This was very abnormal. Xia Duo wanted to pursue the direction of the sun to find the possible truth, but he still held onto a glimmer of hope, feeling that this was just a dream and that if he waited a little longer, he might wake up and return to reality.

Of course, the behavior of these four farmers also tethered him, making him want to see the final result, to see if there was an end, or if it was a constant cycle, or something else.

He didn't know how long he had waited; Xia Duo's concept of time had become blurred. He knew from the 【Weave Moment】 that two hours had passed.

But the eerie situation here made him unable to fully believe in the authenticity of this spell result.

The determination of the Magic Net state also fell into a standstill because he discovered that every time the farmland changed, the Magic Net would also undergo subtle changes.

Although not obvious, it meant that his previous efforts had been in vain.

This was simply a Spellcaster's nightmare!

Xia Duo was not sure if an Elf's Mythallar could achieve this level, but he would rather face an Elf's Mythallar than face this eerie Magic Net environment that seemed to have no abnormalities.

At least for him now, a Mythallar was barely traceable, and in theory, cracking it was not a problem, but here, there was really no way at all.

Completely clueless!