Chapter 282: The Final Return
The black robe turned around and left, and Thor sat in the empty labyrinth aisle, still in a trance.
It's hard to describe the mood now, shocked, confused, hopeful, maybe a little bit.
In fact, from the black robe just now, the time and space of this labyrinth were chaotic and distorted, and Thor suddenly had a feeling of sudden realization, as if he had grasped something at that moment.
This feeling is not concrete, it is looming. Although the black robe said that these rumors were only heard by him personally, Thor immediately believed that this so-called rumor was likely to be the essence or truth of this labyrinth.
Because only such rumors can reasonably explain all the strange things that happened to Thor in this labyrinth.
For example, for Phineth's team, this labyrinth is the 'Dungeon of the Gods', which is the 378th floor of the labyrinth. And for the five human white-robed women that Thor met a few days ago, this is the 'Abyss of Silence', the thirty-eighth layer of the labyrinth.
It's a topographical or spatial confusion.
Another example is that after encountering the Black Robe, Thor tells the story of the autumn of the 717th year of the Dark Calendar, but the Black Robe calls this labyrinth the 'Lair of Chaos', and threatens to come from the 244th year of the Bright Calendar hundreds of thousands of years ago.
This is clearly a temporal disorder.
Previously, because of various information asymmetry, Saul once suspected who had deceived him.
Now he finally knew that maybe they were telling the truth.
Silently put some details into the details, and in the end, Saul could only sigh a miracle.
Of course, it may not make much sense to figure out the nature of the labyrinth, because Thor's goal has never changed, which is to get out of here and go home.
However, the reminder of the black robe still gave Thor a lot of hope, he thought that he was a lost soul, trapped in this chaotic labyrinth, and a void beast appeared to save him, isn't it a very appropriate thing?
Thinking like this, Thor finally felt a lot more relaxed as he took a step.
Back at the camp again, it was Finis who was the first to greet her, and seeing that Thor was safe and sound, she didn't say anything more this time.
For some things, there is a first time, and there will naturally be a second time.
Thor was also a little embarrassed about throwing away from the team and running away again. At that time, I saw that the black-robed figure was about to disappear into the depths of the aisle, and my mind was hot, so I chased after it, as if I was chasing the tail of fate.
Dinner was unsurprisingly silent, but Thor knew that Finis would leave it for the evening. This little shiitake doesn't know when she developed this habit, and she always likes to start some important conversations when there are only two people left.
After returning to the tent at night, Thor looked at the roof of the tent with his head in his hands, calculating and waiting for Phines' inquiry.
After waiting for a long time without moving, Thor thought that Finis had fallen asleep. When she turned her head to look, she found that she was silently looking at herself in the dark, her eyes as bright as the stars in the Black Sea.
"I didn't get anything last time, but this time I may have a little clue. In the end, Saul decided that it would be better to start on his own.
"Oh. Phoenix's response was low, undisguised with a faint sense of loss.
"From tomorrow onwards, I may have to leave the team and act alone. Thor greeted Phines first.
"What are you going to do?" asked Fenis.
Thor gave a general account of the Void Beast, and then asked Phines if she had any impressions from her years of journey through the labyrinth, Phines thought about it seriously, and then shook her head.
"We'll help you find it. Phineth said suddenly.
"There's no need, don't delay the team's own business. And I don't know what kind of enemy the Void Beast is, whether it is strong or not, it is very unwise to mobilize everyone to take the initiative to approach the danger. Thor shook his head in disapproval.
"So you're going to complete the challenge alone, no matter how dangerous the other person is?"
"Yes, this is what I have to go through, or I can see it as the price to pay when I go back. Whether I meet you or not, I will face it alone when I get the news. Saul affirmed.
"Two choices, either we will help you find it together and give you a ride. If you dare to go alone, I will have everyone hunt you down, and then tie you up in my tent forever, like a sheep you raise. Phines laughed to herself as she spoke.
Thor turned to look at the top of the tent.
"Thank you!" was silent for a long time, Thor's voice sounded in the darkness, but there was no response, and Phoenixy seemed to be asleep.
In the middle of the night, Thor wakes up from his trance to find himself and Phines hugging each other.
He looked back a little dazed, and found that his bunk was behind him, as if he had rolled over in the middle of the night to hug Finis. Thor vaguely felt that something was wrong, he seemed to sleep very smoothly, rarely turned over, and would not roll that far.
The next night, the same thing happened again.
On the third day, there was silence in the darkness, and a slender shadow suddenly crept close to the sleeping Thor. She wrapped her hands around Thor's waist, fixed the point of force, and gently and slowly dragged Thor towards her bed, as if she was afraid of alarming Thor.
Thor closed his eyes and enjoyed it for a while, finally unable to stand the slow movement like a snail.
"Isn't it fun? I've been carrying the black pot for two days. "Thor was always on Finis's bed every time he woke up two days ago, so much so that Thor subconsciously thought that he had rolled over from his bed, and today he finally caught the prisoner.
Phines's head was buried in Thor's arms, and suddenly she didn't move.
"Poof~" After enduring it for a while, Finis finally couldn't help but burst out laughing, and Thor was also amused.
"Why did you kiss me last time?" asked Phoenix in a sullen voice.
"That's for examples, and people always use examples to reinforce the authenticity and persuasiveness of their language. So, it was obviously an accident. Saul was unapologetic.
"And what about this time?" Finis suddenly looked up, put her arms around Thor's neck and kissed her.
"You don't even know who I am, and I'm your brother, at least this body. Thor laughed and raised his hand to wipe the tears from the wild little beauty's face.
"What's the matter? Our clan never intermarries, and there are many lovers between brothers and sisters in the team. Phines looked at Thor.
Thor flashed Kratan's words that 'our people have always been morally indifferent', but he wasn't thinking about morality right now, and it wasn't worth thinking about.
"Brother and sister union, won't your offspring be demented?" Thor was a little shocked.
"How is that possible, close relatives will only make our bloodline purer and our offspring stronger, have you forgotten that your parents are not brothers and sisters?"
"Is that amazing?" Thor laughed as he pulled his bunk over and put it together, then took Phines in his arms.
"That's it?" asked Phines after a moment.
"That's it, you're asking too much. Saul replied.
'Bang bang bang', Thor frowned, it still hurt to be beaten twice by the small fist of the same third order.
"Since you don't want to touch me, it's a lie for you to say that when you go back, you'll have time to come back to see me later, right?
"It should be, after all, I haven't appeared in the past few hundred years, and this time-space confusion is obviously a small probability event, and I don't think it will happen again in the future. Saul replied.
Phines silently buried her face in Thor's arms, and there was no sound in the darkness.
For the next few days, every day Finis was nervous, afraid that if she found it, the time of parting would come. She didn't tell the crowd what it meant to find the monster.
Thor is also very nervous every day, afraid of finding the casualties of the team, but also afraid that he will not be able to go back. The key is to leave this floor, and the next dangerous floor will be between the three hundred and eighty floors and the three hundred and ninety floors, and I don't know what year it will drag on.
It's not just the whole party that is looking for it as it hunts and travels, but Thor himself as well.
The Void Beast, with two short legs, a single vertical pupil on its face, and a large mouth full of fangs.
These are the characteristics that Thor told the team, but Thor still felt that it was a bit unspecific based on these alone, such as the size and strength of the opponent, and the color of the skin.
The maze is so big, there are too many possibilities, maybe on the route of other teams.
In the blink of an eye, the team had been on the march for two months, and even Thor was beginning to wonder if there was such a thing as a Void Beast.
Finally, one day, Kratan ran back in high spirits and threatened to find it.
This guy has recently been promoted to three stars and is able to lead the team on his own. He has always stubbornly thought that what Soljean is looking for must be some new delicacy, so he is very focused on finding it every time and never slacks off.
"Are you sure it's hiding inside?" Thor looked suspiciously at the swamp ahead.
"Sure, it's basically the same as you described, I don't know if it's bad, I watched it hide behind that tree. Then I told them to stay here, and I went back to report the news. Kratan replied with an affirmative nod.
It's a slightly larger labyrinth room, but the ground is swampy and muddy. As for the tree Kratan was talking about, it was just a half-man's tall rotten stump, standing lifeless in the swamp.
Thor persuaded the group to retreat and walked into the swamp alone.
How big is this half of the stump, and what kind of void beast can it really cover? How big is it? And will it burrow into the swamp and run away? Is it strong? As the distance closes, Thor suddenly feels extremely nervous.
When Thor approached the stump and looked behind the tree with ten thousand wariness and anticipation, his eyes suddenly froze. It was a withered and piggy-sized thing, with a short tail, a spherical body, and two short legs, shivering with its head buried behind a tree stump.
As if sensing Thor's observation, it raised its face and gave Thor an innocent look, then let out an unpleasant scream of unknown meaning and swooped out of the swamp, its two short legs fluttering at a rapid pace.
The moment they looked at each other, Thor was a little stunned, because of its one-eyed eyes and fangs and big mouth...... It's so ugly!
"Plug it, no, kill it!" Thor shouted, it was clearly just a second-order thing.