Huggins slowly stood up, picked up the torch on the ground, and re-lit it, only to realize that Marcos's figure had long since retreated into darkness.

Taking two steps in the direction of the lift, Huggins suddenly heard Myris's voice sound again.

"Don't come any closer, my old friend, this is not the place for you. ”

Huggins rubbed his sore old waist and said incredulously, "Myris, why are you here?"

"Fate, creation, any word you and I can think of. ”

By the faint light of the fire, Huggins looked at the two figures, one large and one small, on the elevator platform.

The big figure was three meters tall and looked as strong as a hill, presumably the "Marcos", and the small figure was stiff and thin, looking like a dried corpse in clothes, was that really the old monk?

With a lot of questions in his mind, Huggins asked loudly, "Myris, where have you been all these years?"

Myris didn't seem to intend to answer this question: "Tell me, my old friend, what do you think of death?"

"Uh, what?"

"The end of life, if not the end of life, but the beginning of the pursuit of truth, would you choose to embrace it?"

"Wait, what the hell are you talking about?"

"I have sought pleasure, I have pursued wealth, and then I have sought peace of soul in the name of God...... But at the end of the day, I found out that everything was a mistake called life. ”

Huggins raised his hand and made a stop-and-go motion: "Myris, my old friend, honestly, you scared me a little. ”

Myris was silent for a moment.

Then he said to Huggins, "I shouldn't have said this to you, you're not ready." ”

Huggins said, "Myris, I don't know what you've been through, but you can trust me and go back with me." ”

"Go back?" Myris's voice was much hoarse, "I can't go back for a long time." ”

Huggins still didn't give up: "Let's go back to Twilight City, Your Majesty has been looking for you...... I mean, Todd has been looking for you, and you remember him, right?"

"Todd ......"

Myris fell silent again.

Just when Huggins thought the other party was leaving, Myris's voice sounded again: "It won't be long before the city of Taylor will be engulfed by the Black Plague. ”

"The light of life will flow into the sea of death, humanity will no longer have selfish desires, there will be no more infighting, and the path of truth will soon be opened. ”

Huggins was stunned: "Black plague?"

Myris said to Huggins, "If you're not ready to give up on life and embrace death, then get out of here...... However, no one can escape this ultimate fate. ”

Finding that Myris's voice was getting farther and farther away, Huggins shouted anxiously, "Don't go!"

Myris walked away slowly, leaving only one last indistinct sentence that still echoed in Huggins's ears.

"Tell...... Todd...... I'm ...... Sorry......"

The soul image ends.

Todd opened his eyes and stared into the nothingness after the image disappeared, silent for a long time.

Huggins whispered, "Your Majesty?"

Todd still seemed a little unable to believe it: "Is that really Myris?"

Huggins nodded: "Your Majesty, I'm also surprised, I haven't heard from Myris for many years, he was like ...... Missing. ”

Todd rubbed his temples and looked at the blurred shadow in the image, remembering his encounter with Myris in the Southern Empire.

The first xenomorph to lend a helping hand to him in this other world, the first teacher to teach him, he first went to the Southern Empire, and now he has appeared in the city of Taylor?

Why?

Huggins turned to Todd and said, "Your Majesty, I need to remind you of something. ”

"What?"

"Myris called out a person's name just now, do you still have an impression?"

Todd recalls the soul reflection he had just seen.

"Marcos?"

Huggins nodded: "That's right, it's Marcos." ”

Todd asked, "Who is Marcos?"

Huggins sighed faintly: "I didn't react at first, but then I remembered who it was. ”

"When you first arrived at the Monastery of San Cidlo, there was a small organization that sheltered xenos, the Mutual Aid Society, led by Myris. ”

"Its members include several xenos from the vicinity of the Monastery of San Cidlo, namely Myris, I, Mr. and Mrs. Raglan, Little Jerry, Edgar, Karin the Black Sheep, ......"

Todd nodded as he listened, "I've seen all of these people." ”

Huggins continued: "There's one more person left, you probably haven't met, Marcos. He went to the field to attend to business and did not return to the monastery of San Cidlo. ”

Todd turned to Huggins and asked, "What happened to this man named Marcos?"

"Dead. ”

"Dead?"

Huggins touched his chin and said uncertainly, "Or rather, it should be dead." ”

"What do you mean?"

"The next thing, I listened to Alfonso. He was part of the Xenomorph Bounty Squad and met Marcos during a hunt. After a battle, Alfonso decapitated Marcos and used it to claim a bounty. ”

Todd was a little surprised: "Marcos was killed by Alfonso?"

"That's right, Marcos's head was later stored in the dungeon of the Inquisition in the Silver Ring, in other words, it was kept as a trophy. ”

Todd paused for a moment, then said, "So there is a story like this. ”

"Your Majesty, it's too early to sigh now, and what follows is even more bizarre. ”

"Huh?"

"After the fall of the Silver Ring, I went to look up the records of the Inquisition to get Marcos' head out and bury his old friend. But to my surprise, Marcos' head was stolen shortly after his death. ”

"Not only that, but Alfonso also told me that he had collected Marcos's body and buried it, but when he went to see it, the grave had been dug up and the body had been taken. ”

The expression on Todd's face became more and more solemn: "The head and the body were stolen, who could have done it?"

Huggins looked at the image and said slowly, "I haven't figured it out about this before, but after meeting Myris, I suddenly guessed the answer. ”

Todd frowned and asked, "What do you mean, Myris's doing?"

"Your Majesty, there is a rumor that you may not be aware of...... Marcos was actually Myris's illegitimate son, but because the latter was a monk, the relationship was kept secret. ”

Marcos is Myris's illegitimate son?

Like a key piece of the puzzle, Todd finally has a complete conjecture about the whole event.