Volume 1 Tower of Flesh Chapter 49 The Truth
"Is there any way to prove that this is a cursed world?" asked Liben, after all, Beyotis was just guessing at the moment.
"Yes. "Some of the core things that make up this world, the root of the curse, be it a human or other creature, or an object of special significance, which cannot be destroyed, and if outsiders try to dismantle these cores, they will be met with resistance from all sides, reasonable and unreasonable, depending on the situation." ”
"To find out if this is a cursed world or a pure fantasy world, all you have to do is find the core and try to destroy it. ”
Li Ben shook his head and said, "I don't understand you alone, how to determine which is the core, and won't trying to destroy it lead us into a curse? ”
"There's some truth to what you're saying... After dawn, we can split up, I'll test the Cursed World's speculations, and you visit the witches of the north, but be sure to keep a low profile and don't let others impress you too much until you find out the truth. ”
"Understood. Li Ben was not worried about this, he thought that his personality and style of acting could attract very limited attention, otherwise he would not have been so bored all day in the original earth world.
In the morning, the two woke up from their meditative state and left the hotel.
In the daytime world, everything is normal, the moving things around them do not show any hostility, and in the bustle of communication, they follow the rules of this world.
Adventurer, a profession that hunts monsters for a living. How do you feel so child's play... It's like playing a role-playing game. Li Ben thought.
He made an agreement with Beyotis to return to the hotel before nightfall. Beyotis knocked on the innkeeper and found out that Glow City was located in the southeast, and rushed there.
And Lee Ben is currently on his way to the witch pharmacy.
The Chaos Hunter from the Navigator Organization never said his verification plan, and Li Ben didn't take the initiative to ask.
Avoid having a deep connection with the things of this world, it is not difficult to say that it is not difficult, and it is not easy to say that it is simple. Why didn't Li Ben want to avoid intersecting with Jason, Beitis and his party, and what was the result?
The best way to avoid contact is to do nothing and refuse to communicate with the outside world, but this is of course impossible. If you want to be unobtrusive, you must first try not to conflict with the things of this world, and not use your abilities in front of everyone.
Because along the way, Li Ben saw the adventurers fighting with various monsters, and they were completely different from his own strength battle system, and he could see the difference at a glance.
Adventurers use an energy they call "soul fire", and the various skills that come from it are full of strange symbols.
Take the fireball, for example, the fireball emitted by the adventurers has a rune with a large series of small runes resembling tails, and the flames burn on these runes. As far as Li Ben knew, the fireball magic used by the magicians was that a rune circle appeared when the spell was cast, and then an energy ball with a fire attribute was emitted, and the ball itself had no rune performance.
And Li Ben always felt that those runes were familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen them.
With all sorts of unclear doubts, he found the witch pharmacy mentioned by the dwarves.
As soon as he got closer, he could smell a layered smell of herbs, bitter, spicy and sour, which was very special.
Business at the pharmacy seems to be doing well, and you can see all kinds of creatures standing at the door. The witch also seems to heal the wounded.
When it was Lee Ben's turn, an hour had passed.
The witch is not young, she looks like she is in her 30s, her appearance is average, and her dress is very conservative, just like an ordinary housewife.
The witch asked, "What do you need?"
Li Ben said: "I have heard people say that you are not just selling medicine to heal diseases and injuries. ”
"Yes, there are also miscellaneous services such as divination, tracing people and objects, do you have any questions for you?
"Have you ever seen the moon at night?"
"Of course, who hasn't seen it?"
"I want to know, how can I get to the moon?"
The witch closed her eyes and was silent for a moment, as if she was thinking about something.
"Isn't it okay?" asked Li Ben.
"Magic beans. The witch said, "With the power of the magic bean, you may be able to make people go to the moon." ”
"How?"
To answer this question, you need 100 gold coins. ”
Li Ben counted the money on his body, he deliberately killed monsters on the way here and collected a lot, and there were only 78 pieces in total.
"Then to change the question, do you mean the cursed bean that was put on a royal bounty?"
The witch nodded.
"How do I get it?"
The answer to this question requires 500 gold coins. ”
"500 gold coins is nothing compared to a 100,000 bounty, so I guess even if you know how to do it, it's hard to achieve it. ”
The witch did not deny it.
Li Ben thought for a while and asked, "What do you think I need most now?"
"I don't know, maybe you want to do a divination, only ten gold coins. ”
"Are there many people who come to you for divination?"
"Quite a few, about 40 a day. ”
"That's fine. "If the number of diviners is small, in order to avoid attracting attention, Lee will refuse to divination.
"What is the divination about?"
This is a difficult point, and it is not clear to Li Ben how far the witch in front of him can go, and it is unclear what effect her strange power will have on himself, an outsider.
In case his special information is leaked, his divination content must avoid key information.
"Where am I going next?" asked Lee.
............
It had taken Belutes all morning to get to Glow, and as soon as she saw the city, she knew that her suspicions were most likely true.
Because this city is completely the layout of the undead city in the Valley of the Wind, it can be tasked with, it is the appearance of the undead city before it became a dead place.
"Do souls unwilling to die come together spontaneously to create false past glories in order to comfort themselves?" Beyotis muttered.
"What is that tower?" she asked a passerby.
"Do you mean the Tower of the Holy King? It is a place of communication with the gods, and the royal family will regularly open the way to the heavenly realm and pay tribute to the gods, so that the gods will bless us with a stable life. ”
"Thank you, and as a thank you, I'll tell you a piece of news. ”
"Oh, what's interesting?"
"Well, the news is that you're actually dead. With that, Beyotis used a magic called the "Mirror of Truth" to summon an oval silver mirror that could see through the various disguises of the mirror.
After listening to Beyotis's words, passers-by were about to scold, when they saw the appearance of their maggot bones in the mirror, they screamed, and then their skin decayed, their eyeballs and the bridge of their nose turned into ashes, and the whole person collapsed like an old building bursting, and finally disappeared completely, leaving behind a dozen gold coins.
Beyotis erected a sign on the path outside the city that read: Mirror of Truth, free to use.
Place the mirror on the side of the road and hide in the bushes on the side, secretly observing the distance from the limit where the summon can be maintained.
Self-deception, turning the false into the true... She remembered what Li Ben said, if this is the core power and thought of the cursed world, then revealing the truth will definitely cause the world's peculiar rejection.
Sure enough, just after the third passer-by was hit, another blind man came along the way, and he was carrying a pathfinder stick, knocking and beating in front of him. Just as he passed sideways through the Mirror of Truth, he suddenly tripped over a stone and fell towards the mirror, smashing the Mirror of Truth.
Beyotis felt his soul connection with the summoned object be disconnected, and the Mirror of Truth vanished without a trace, leaving no fragments behind. The blind man, on the other hand, lamented to himself and left.
Of course, if it is just like this, it can barely be said to be a coincidence. After the experimenters were wiped out, various coincidences and accidents occurred without exception, forcibly interrupting her movements, and the most dangerous one was when she used hypnosis to induce the undead to recall the truth, only to be seen by a passing patrol and attack her as an evil spirit.
With the help of a magical trap that had been laid for him, Beytis escaped from them. She wasn't worried that someone would investigate her later, because she had used disguise magic on herself before doing this series of tests, and she had taken on the form of an old lady.
Now, she could be sure of the world's curse.
What if he tried to reveal the truth to all that existed, and debunked the lies?
If you do that, your life will be in danger.
The cursed world, unlike ordinary curses, contains chaos energy that is by no means able to withstand ordinary people, and can only appear in places where the degree of chaos erosion is higher than 50%. But in this place, she could barely feel the oppressive power of chaos on her soul.
Beyotis, who knew more about these than Leeben, felt that there were more and more mysteries.
In the evening, Beyotis and Li Ben met as agreed.
Li Ben waited at the door of the hotel one step earlier, and after listening to Beyotis's story, he also told what he had seen.
He said, "At the witch's place, I did a divination and asked where I was going. The witch told me that the results of the divination showed that tomorrow night, I would be standing above the moon. ”
Beyotis asked, puzzled, "Do you believe it?"
"Do you believe it?" asked Li Ben rhetorically.
"That's not what the witch said. ”
"You guessed it right, the result of the witch's divination is that I will return to this inn. ”
"This result doesn't make much sense. ”
"This is certainly true for us, but it is important for me to know that the results of a witch's divination may not necessarily bring much value to the soothsayer, but they must be accurate. Therefore, the reputation of this witch, in this region, and even in this world, is extremely loud and authoritative. I asked some people, and they gave the witch the nickname 'Weaver of Destiny'. ”
"Why the Weaver Girl?" asked Beyotis an inconsequential question.
"One is because many of her magic props are hand-woven silk threads," Lee replied, "and the other is that she was said to have been a weaver in a textile mill before she became a witch. What's the point, you ask?"
"I guessed what you thought, and before I came back, I thought about how to implement it. ”
"Do you think it's possible?"
"Just give it a try and you'll find out. Beyotis said.