The barbecue master is willing to let him stay, and of course Li Ben will not be stupid to live in a small tent by himself outside. Before it was dark, he planned to take a good stroll around the village.

The village is surrounded by mud swamp forests, tall and thin trees, and many mosquitoes and ants breed in this area.

The villagers live a leisurely life, they don't even need to hunt on their own, and the monsters that lurk in the mire are manipulated by Terina to bring people prey at regular intervals - crocodiles, snakes, turtles, and occasionally black bears.

Walking in the village, many people on the side of the road cast curious and wary glances at him. Some of them are just basking in the sun, some are sitting around playing card games, or they are eating all the time.

It's just that once Li Ben passes by, he will always feel a dense gaze.

He asks a woman who is doing laundry, "How is life here?"

"It's not bad, it's not good, do you want to stay? ”

"As far as I can see, your life is very stable, much more comfortable than wandering. ”

"Perhaps. The woman's tone was cold.

"What do you think of your prophet, or your current master?"

"We don't have a choice, we just go with the flow. I don't know what your purpose is, but I advise you not to go any further. ”

"Thank you for the reminder. ”

After that, Li Ben casually found some people to ask similar questions. The answers are a little different, but they can be broadly divided into three types.

The most common type is because they are helpless and settle down with what they encounter, and it doesn't matter to them whether they change their existing form of existence.

The second is that they enjoy their current lives and are unwilling to make changes, some of them are loyal servants of Terina, and some of them simply don't think about the future.

And the least group of people are those who want to get rid of the clutches of Terina, and they are basically young people.

In the evening, during a walk, Lee met the five young men who had tried to steal the contents of his package two days earlier. I didn't plan to have too much contact with them, but I didn't expect them to take the initiative to surround them.

"What's the matter?" asked Li Ben calmly.

The young people looked at each other, and none of them would speak first. In the end, the one who tried to take the revolver came up.

"We want to apologize to you for what happened the other day," he said. With that, the young men bent down and bowed their heads.

"Oh, I accept your apologies. At first, Li Ben thought that they were planning to come to find trouble. "Don't worry too much, you can go. ”

The young people did not leave.

I knew they had something else going on. Li Benxin said.

"That's my name Aaron. "The gun thief gave his name.

Immediately afterwards, the other four also introduced their names to Li Ben one by one.

The girl with a single ponytail said, "My name is Daphne. ”

The short-haired boy with a lot of pimples on his face said, "My name is Kevin." ”

The girl, who had short hair and looked very energetic, said, "My name is Camille. ”

The last skinny boy said, "My name is Jim." ”

"Okay, my name is Li Ben, what are your plans for me?"

Aaron said, "You're a Pathfinder, a Chaos Hunter, aren't you?"

Li Ben nodded.

The boy continued, "You must be very powerful, right? We went to see you again two days ago, and the barbecue master said that you went to the Eastern Mountains in order to complete a deal with the Prophet, which means that you must be someone of the same strength as the current Prophet, otherwise you would not be qualified for a reciprocal transaction." ”

"Well, in a sense, you're right, but I'm not really a great person. ”

"You are too modest. ”

"Okay, don't say these compliments, just say your purpose. ”

"We want you to be our teacher, and we want to be chaos hunters like you. ”

"I refuse. Li Ben said without hesitation.

As soon as these words came out, the brilliance on the faces of the young people instantly dimmed.

However, Aaron still politely asked, "May I ask why?"

"In this village, being a Chaos Hunter is not allowed, right?"

"This..."

"Do you think I don't know, and if you could, you would have done it yourself. If I help you, it will be the rules of this village, and your master will not turn a blind eye. ”

"She's not our master!" Daphne snapped up.

Li Ben realized that these young people belonged to the lowest minority in the village, and they were the ones who wanted to get rid of Terina's control. To do this, they want to look to themselves for strength.

"What you think is none of my business, and I won't take unnecessary risks just because of a few kind words from you. What's more, becoming a Chaos Hunter is by no means as simple as you think, and there is no teacher's statement on this road. If you have to say, you are your own teachers, you are trading your lives with the gods, gambling with Chaos, and the result of defeat will be more terrible than death. ”

After hearing this, the young people did not give up.

Aaron said, "We all know that our father and mother were once chaos hunters, and we understand the horror of chaos trials! ”

"Since you are determined to do so, there is no need for me to do anything for you. ”

"But we don't know how to conduct the trial ceremony, and the Prophet has destroyed all the relevant materials, so we want to ask you to teach us this. Aaron spoke of the most critical issue.

Li Ben frowned, because he saw the barbecue master preparing for the trial in the morning, so he thought that the knowledge of how to become a Chaos Hunter should not be cut off in this village, but what the young people said right now was not like that.

Are you kidding... Could it be that the barbecue master planned to perform a dangerous ritual without knowing anything, or without knowing anything? Speaking of which, he really didn't see the relevant medicine for the trial in his home, and he thought that he was just hiding it by the barbecue master.

I've got to go back and have a look.

So Li Ben said, "I'll talk about your business later, I have to leave now." ”

With that, he walked away, and the young men followed unrelentingly.

Pushing open the door of the barbecue master's house, Li Ben did not find him in it, the time has come to dinner, normally people should eat at home.

Where will it go?

Li Ben ran to the entrance of the village again, because when he first came, the barbecue master squatted at the entrance of the village and ate barbecue. It's a pity that he was still not found.

He turned back to the young people he had been following and asked, "Are you familiar with the barbecue master?"

"It's okay, because he's an interesting guy who teaches us how to cook delicious food, and everyone in the village knows him well. Aaron said.

"And where might he be now?"

"Could it be at the Prophet's mother's house?" Camille guessed.

But Li Ben felt that it was unlikely, if the barbecue master planned to hold a Chaos Trial, he would definitely find a place where no one else could disturb him.

"Are there any secluded places to go here?"

"Bones. Aaron said, "Because of the Prophet's request, after we had eaten the meat, we would collect the bones and give them to Freddy to carry to the boneyard, which was so eerie that no one would usually approach it." ”

"Who's Freddy?"

"You should have seen a man with a staff in a sack. ”

Is that sack man...

"Take me there," Lee said.

The young people agreed to come down.

The group took a side road that led to no man's land, zigzag, stretching through the dense forest into the unknown darkness.

By the time we arrived, it was already dark and there was no light source.

However, they all prepared torches in advance for lighting.

In the dark night, Li Ben sensitively noticed blood stains on the ground, and following the traces, he found the barbecue master lying naked and dying on the ground.

And not far from him, there was an incomplete circle that had been carved out wrong, the barbecue master's navel was opened, and the green herbal juice and blood were mixed together.

"The barbecue master is really here, what's wrong with him?" the young people's faces were full of doubt and shock.

"He wanted to hold the Chaos Trial Ritual, but everything went wrong here, the ritual didn't take place, and he was now unconscious from the psychedelic effects of the herbs, some of which were poisonous, and he bleed a lot, so he couldn't be saved even if he brought it back to the village. Li Ben judged after carefully inspecting the barbecue master.

"How so?"

"I guess it has something to do with Winnie. The young people began to talk.

"What now?" Kevin asked, "Is that all he has to do is die?"

"You must have something to do?" said Jim.

"Alas...," Li Ben sighed and said, "I'm not a powerful person, but the only way to save him at the moment is to let the Chaos Trial Ritual unfold normally, and then it's up to him whether he dies or lives." ”

"Is there anything we can do to help?"

"Of course, there aren't all the materials for the ceremony here, so I need you to hurry back and collect as many things as you can. After that, Li Ben recited the names of more than a dozen herbs and biological products, which were the most basic and the most common.

In fact, if there are more and more abundant materials, it can help the trialist to increase the chances of success to a certain extent.

But for now, that's all you can find in the village.

The young people moved quickly.

And Li Ben here played his old job to treat the wound and stop the bleeding for the barbecue master.

"It's stupid. He said to the unconscious man.

After about half an hour, the young people finally brought everything they needed for the ceremony one after another.

Li Ben had already perfected the incomplete magic circle. The ceremony began immediately.

The power sought by the Chaos Hunters came from a variety of different gods, and the basic source of power to turn the flesh into chaos at the beginning was usually the legendary god of the underworld, Hamdit. This god is a colleague with the god of death, Dikatrama.

"Thy people call upon thy name, the supreme Lord God, the King of the underworld, and the judge of the dead, and thou art our Father and King when we die, when we are born in this chaotic world. Your people are hungry for your teachings, and your light will guide us. No evil can snatch us from you, and your power is our eternal refuge. Your people hereby plead for a miracle to give the pious the power against the filth of this world, to make him your warrior, your defender. ”

"Chaos descends - Hamdit!"

After reading this, amid the exclamations of the young people, Li Ben inserted the ceremonial dagger prepared by the barbecue master into his navel, and the blood boiled and the dagger poured on.

After that, Li Ben immediately poured the concocted herbal juice on the wound, and mixed it with blood to draw a long red line on the barbecue master's body, which was used to pull the chaotic force to corrode the whole body.

A faint blue light shone through the dagger, and the chaos erosion in this place rose sharply. Explain that the ceremony has begun.

Lee Ben stood up, faced the young people, and said, "You have all seen that this is the method of the trial ceremony. ”

At this time, the boys and girls who witnessed the whole process did not have the joy of finally obtaining the trial method, and they were all silent and silent. It's a lot harder than they think it is.

Everyone stopped talking and waited for the results.

Soon after, the barbecue master's body changed.

Thick black qi gushed out from his navel, spread to his whole body along the lines drawn by Li Ben, and then spread out, enveloping the whole person, forming a black cocoon, which means rebirth.

If one of them can break out of the cocoon, it means that he has successfully overcome the difficulty of body transformation.

Although Li Ben has not personally experienced such a scene, he has seen it many times. Results will be available in a maximum of an hour.

If the chaotic energy in it subsides and the trialist has not yet come out, then the body can be collected for him. The corpse that dies as a result will become extremely decomposed and disgusting, just like the consequences of soaking in water for half a month after death.

Time passed little by little, the fire in the darkness swayed in the wind, the flickering halo of light changed back and forth on people's faces, and the shadows took up half of the faces. The surrounding fish and insects also seemed to sense the solemn atmosphere here, and they were all silent for a while.

The black cocoon suddenly beats, and the rhythm gradually increases, like a heartbeat. Just when it was so intense that it felt like it was about to burst, everything fell silent again, and the chaotic energy dissipated instantly.

"Did you fail?" the young men looked at Li Ben.

Li Ben didn't answer, but stepped forward to pull out the ceremonial dagger.

Just as he bent down and stretched out his hand, the right side of the black callus cracked, and a pitch-black hand grasped him. Immediately after that, a hand also stretched out on the left side, grabbed the ceremonial dagger and pulled it out.

Then embers of the burnt paper began to appear all over the black cocoon, and they spread out, turning the black cocoon to ashes.

A gray-haired man with a withered face appeared in front of everyone, covered in scales, and dark red energy scurried back and forth in the cracks of his body.

Lee Ben said to him, "Welcome back, Master Barbecue." ”

Hearing his name, the man's cloudy eyes regained their brightness, and in a burst of firelight, he transformed into a normal human appearance.

Not only that, but black hair grew back on his bald head, his skin was no longer so rough, and he looked several years younger.

"Did you save me?" asked the barbecue master, and then he added, "Look at me stupid, who else but you, thank you." ”

Noticing five other young people around him, he asked, "Aaron, why are you here?"

"Before you understand all this, I think it's better for you to put your pants on. Li Ben reminded.

The barbecue master looked down, and immediately reacted and covered his crotch, and the two girls present turned their heads away with red faces.

He trotted to the side, picked up the clothes he had taken off earlier, and put them on, then coughed dryly and said, "Let's go back first." ”

And just like that, everyone returned to the barbecue master's house. But just as they were gone, a pitch-black mass crept out of the mud of the boneyard and quietly left its camp.

............

"That's right..."After knowing that these young people in front of him also wanted to become chaos hunters, the barbecue master was a little surprised.

However, he did not directly persuade them to give up this idea, but said: "Before you are stupid like me, you should think more carefully about the way forward, what is your goal? ”

"Become a Chaos Hunter, and then? Are you going to fight with Terina, or do you want to find a way to escape on your own? Without a clear direction, confusion will only cost you your lives in the Chaos Trial. ”

His words left the young people pondering.

Aaron asked him, "What is your goal?"

"Rescue my daughter and take her out of this hellish place. "The barbecue master is very determined.

"But how could you do it alone?" asked Kevin.

"You don't know until you try, don't think about failure until then. ”

Daphne noticed that Li Ben had not spoken, so she asked him, "Mr. Li Ben, may I ask what you became a Chaos Hunter for?"

"I just had to do it. Li Ben replied, knowing that he was not a Chaos Hunter in the strict sense of the word, and that his identity as an Otherworldly had not been revealed to them. Although his skin color, accent, and language habits were somewhat different, people only thought that he was a foreigner they had never met.

Seeing that Li Ben didn't want to talk, everyone didn't ask deeply.

Li Ben took the initiative to ask the barbecue master: "What are you going to do next?"

"You need Terina's map, and I'll need some time to familiarize myself with the power I've gained, and until then, I'll be patient. Judging by past experience, she wouldn't be doing anything to Winnie right away. ”

"Understood, thank you for your patience. ”

"What about you?" asked the young men.

"Let's go back and think about it first, the barbecue master is right, we don't really have a lot of plans. Aaron replied, and others agreed.

The barbecue master said, "By the way, you haven't eaten to find me, so let's stay here tonight to rest, and I'll prepare something delicious for you." ”