Suddenly, he stood up and looked at the dark, empty wilderness on his left.

"Hahahaha!" he erupted into a crisp laugh.

"Grandpa, Lord Wales, what are you doing here, I won't resurrect you!"

"You're scolding me again, and you're still blaming me for stealing corpses!" the child shrank back, but seemed to have the courage to scream at the other side, "I told you, it's just a corpse! You see, isn't that how I learned about the bone structure of my mom and dad?"

"Joey and the servants?...... They," Matthew smiled apologetically, "there is no way, the corpses in the cemetery are all decomposed, and only bones remain. ”

He thanked him sincerely: "Speaking of which, thanks to Joey, I can understand the location of the internal organs and muscles!"

"Hmph, it's useless for you to be angry, you're dead!

"Moreover, I will never, never, resurrect you, never!"

In the last sentence, he gritted his teeth but had a childlike angry tone, but there was no one else around him.

In the empty wilderness, only one child chattered to himself.

In the city of Emerald Mirror, a city on the far eastern border of the Hilfa Empire, Lei Jin stood anxiously in a dark corner at the city gate, his beautiful blue eyes staring viciously at the passing travelers.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, the pink sunset spread in the sky outside the West City Gate, turning from pink to purple, and the color became deeper and darker.

As the last of the light vanished from the sky, he stomped his foot and turned to walk into the city.

"If you want to say that I have any weaknesses......" Lei Jin grimaced, gritting his teeth and muttering to himself, "That must be bad luck!"

"Why did you guess the wrong direction again!" Reggin roared in frustration, raising his foot and kicking down an empty barrel on the side of the road, attracting sideways glances from passers-by.

Reggin is confident that there are no gaps in his analysis. After Subject 5 escaped from the Glazed Forest, he was sure to flee the Empire in order to be relatively safe when he already knew that a falcon was chasing him, so there were only two most likely directions:

First, go all the way west to the western border city of Najiancheng, and from there cross the border to the Western Multinational Federation;

second, to the east through this Emerald Mirror City, to flee to the Eastern Ancient Kingdom;

There was an important political reason why Rekin chose the direction of the Eastern Old Kingdom after careful consideration. The Western Commonwealth, a sub-ethnic colony, remained neutral and advocated freedom and trade, while the Eastern Old Kingdom had tense relations with the Empire due to geopolitical issues and institutional concepts that had been irreconcilable for thousands of years.

The Old Kingdom was a religious nation of many ancient indigenous peoples, united by similar beliefs of various indigenous ethnic groups, which was contrary to the powerful idea of the empire that the powerful were kings.

If a fugitive wants to flee from the Empire, he will of course prefer the side that is more hostile to the Empire. What's more, there is a witch among them - in Regin's eyes, the witch is a cunning fellow who knows the central system of the empire very well.

In terms of escape routes, there will be more and more forests and swamps along the way to the east, which are easy to hide, while there will be more villages and towns along the way to the west, and there will be more people and eyes, which are easier to expose.

The more Regin's pursuit, the more he found no trace of his psychic powers, the more convinced he was that Ian had taken this path.

"It must have been the witch who taught him not to use psychic power deliberately," Rekin pondered on the way to Emerald Mirror City, "otherwise, with this kid's understanding of psychic power, he wouldn't know how he was exposed." That's right, although I don't know how the witch escaped, but I will definitely join him. ”

But it turns out that it was Reggin himself who thought too much and completely overestimated the brain circuits of Ian and the others-

"Go east!!" the witch climbed onto Sid's back that day, and with a wave of her hand, began to give orders to the "mount".

"Fart, carry you east to Cuijing City, you have to walk 800 stars to meet the first village, you want to be tired to death? Ian, let's go west, I still have some connections over there!"

"You decide...... I can do anything, let's leave the empire first!" Ian looked nervously at the flames behind him, not having the heart to listen to their arguments.

"Let's go!" said Sid, striding forward as he strode forward, while the witch lay on Sid's back, shouting that "the mount" was not obedient and undisciplined.

Lei Jin chased east all the way to Cuijing City, and he didn't give up, and even suspected that he was chasing too quickly, but he missed them in which village and town, and walked in front of them, or the other party didn't take the main road. So he waited in Emerald Mirror City for two more days, and then he resented his luck.

When Ian and Sid left from the middle of the lake, the young master of the Lord of Wales' family, Matthew, hadn't gone far. But after all these days of trekking, he now knew he was almost there. He looked at the dark and strange forest in front of him, and it was like two worlds from the edge of the forest he was in.

The ancient trees in the forest are intertwined and strangely shaped, and all the branches look like they are growing in a whirlwind, and each branch has a spiral pattern, like when a towel is wrung dry. Their leaves are dark green and dark purple interlaced with irregular branches. These trees do not grow towards the sun, and there are many cases of overlapping branches.

As soon as Mathieu stepped into the forest, he felt goodbye to the world he knew, and this was another space.

Gloomy, dreary, ominous, you can never get any positive inspiration from it.

Perhaps it was the dense foliage on his head that made the forest so dark that Matthew pulled a torch out of his bag. At this time, it was actually a sunny day, but the warm sunlight didn't seem to spill into the forest at all. The deeper you go, the more you feel that there is a faint black mist shrouded in it, blocking the sunlight and the traveler's vision.

The forest is marked on the official map as the "Stygian Forest" and is home to the legendary twin elk and Soul Eaters.

The Stygian Forest has a high concentration of magic and is considered an area inaccessible to humans and subhumans. There is not a single village within 300 miles of the surrounding area, and the road leading to it is becoming more and more deserted. But now, from Matthew's eyes, the Stygian Forest was surprisingly quiet, and there was no sign of demonic activity at all.

Not to mention the Stygian Forest, there are not as many demonic beasts he has encountered along the way as near Huxin Town. Near the end of the road in the Stygian Forest, there was a huge inner lake. Matthew wondered if he would encounter an aquatic goblin or two, or a giant frog, but there was nothing but ordinary fish.

Entering the Stygian Forest, even the chirping of birds and insects has become scarce.

Matthew is looking for Ada, the "Yokai". Before leaving, he consulted many records and documents of the Mercenary Guild, and even spent a considerable amount of wealth to buy relevant information.

"Youkai" Ida is currently recognized as the most powerful psychic summoner. For Matthew, it can be seen as the only clue that could teach him how to "resurrect" his deceased parents. His spiritual cultivation time is still young, but his talent is extraordinary, so he can master the fur that Rekin has taught in such a short time. After Regin's departure, his longing for psychic power became heavier and heavier, and he began to gradually move in a different direction.

"If the mind can create snow monsters and clay figures, is it possible to reproduce Dad and Mom as well?" One evening, looking at the image of the clay figure he had just created, Matthew had a whim.

The thought lingered in Matthew's mind like a candy with an enticing sweet aroma.

Obsessed with the study of psychic power and his obsession with his deceased parents, he gradually fell into confusion and anxiety. Without the constant guidance of his teacher, he even forgot the nature of psionic powers, as well as Regin's admonition to psychic powers.

Matthew's life was filled with countless failures and unattainable goals, until he was crushed by frustration and rage.

"Matthew......! What are you doing?!" When the Lord of Wales pushed the door open and entered the room, he was almost speechless in shock to see the corpses of his grandson covered in blood and the servants of the land.

"Heart, lungs, liver......" Matthew muttered to himself at the disembowelment of a disemboweled, and only when he heard someone call out to him did he slowly look up and see the Lord of Wales.

"Ah, Grandpa," he said, barely letting his eyes linger on the Lord of Wales, he lowered his head again, and looked intently at the corpse in front of him, "please don't disturb me, I'm trying to get their entrails off so that Mom and Dad can be reunited with us." ”

The Lord of Wales looked at the bloody scenes around him, and his grandson, who had fallen into madness, and almost fainted: "What have you done?!"

"Ahh

"I asked Rekin to teach you spirituality, so that you can get ahead and revive the family from your generation......! Let you recreate your deceased parents!"

Matthew looked up and looked back at the Lord of Wales, his eyes still glazed.

"Even if it is reproduced, what can it be? Spiritual power is just your own spiritual power, everything is an illusion of your own imagination!"

"No, no, no, no, it's not an illusion," Matthew looked directly at Lord Wales, "it's not an illusion, I can resurrect them." ”

"Yes, you don't understand psychics," Matthew continued, "you don't. You don't know me either. Why should I listen to you, spirituality is my own power, and it is my freedom to do what I want. ”

"You're crazy......" said the Lord of Wales in despair.

"You're really annoying. Matthew looked at Wales with fierce eyes. Beside him was a large vat filled with brown-black swamp sludge. A humanoid monster was slowly rising from the mud......