"There is no need to be hostile, you are already linked to our tribe, one is prosperous, the other is lost, we will never harm the two of us, and maintaining trust in each other is the best choice. ”

Zhou Haomiao calmed down a lot at this time, but he was still a little unhappy, he said: "If you want to maintain trust, you shouldn't do this, why don't you just ask Maria?"

"Did you say more to Maria than to me?"

Zhou Haomiao did not speak.

"See, you don't trust Maria, you don't trust the Navigator Organization, and you do the same with me. It is good that you are wary of this strange world. But on the other hand, it also hinders communication between us, so that if something happens, you are likely not to be aware of the seriousness of the matter in time, with irreparable consequences. Forgive me for being a little tougher, but for the good of all, you must be guided. In the future, you can ask me any questions you have, and you don't need to have any worries. ”

With that, Andre got up and left, and with him was Aita outside the door.

Listening to the footsteps in the distance, Zhou Haomiao sat at the head of the bed without saying a word, completely lacking the slightly innocent vitality on weekdays.

It seems that what he sees in the world of will is not pure. Li Ben thought that he might have been hiding something.

"Do you trust them? Zhou Haomiao asked.

"Limited extent. ”

"What's the limit? It's actually no different from the situation in the original world, whether it's work or school, when you enter a new group, you are always wary at first, and when you get acquainted with it, you don't care too much. ”

"But it's not the same world, after all. ”

"That's right, in the current environment, there is no common sense that 'everyone generally has a mentality of peaceful coexistence', and this world is about survival, not life. All people act only to live, not to improve the quality of life. In this respect, we are never in the same world as them. So, I don't actually trust them, not at all. ”

"You understand more than you show. Li Ben has always felt that Zhou Haomiao is indescribably weird, but now he is very natural.

"Yes. It should be said that you are too easy to understand, you say very little, and at a glance you know that you are a guy who is vigilant about everything around you, and on the other hand, your appearance is also easy to make the people around you pay attention. ”

"Looks like you're using me as a shield. ”

"Haha, would you mind?"

"It depends. ”

"I think so. Do you know why I'm telling you this now?" Zhou Haomiao's indifferent expression was similar to Li Ben's state of indifference to everything.

"It's not just because you're from the same place. ”

"Hmm. Actually, a few days ago, while on the road, the old prophet met with me alone. ”

And then. Li Ben said.

"Then he actually said to me, 'You are the hope of our tribe, no, the hope of all mankind, you are the savior. I was shocked, I should say both shocked and excited, and I asked him, 'Really?'. He swore it was true, and he saw it in the fragments of the future. I asked him, 'Didn't you foresee anything wrong?' and he smiled and shook his head, and I had a sense of superiority over me as a man of destiny. ”

"He's not just looking for you to tell you this. ”

"Of course, after my heat subsided, he told me a lot, a lot of things from the past, about people like you and me who were 'sold' by the original world, about the will of this world and its purpose. ”

"Are you going to tell me?"

Zhou Haomiao smiled and shook his head, just as he had disguised in the past, he said: "I agreed with the old man not to tell anyone the specific content of that conversation, even if there is no contractual guarantee. ”

"Hmm. "Andre didn't call Li Ben, in fact, he already explained everything.

"But I can reveal a little bit to you. The price is not to forget about this conversation, not to tell it to anyone else who understands our language or our thoughts, and in fact, it is better not to divulge even the conversation itself, which is a matter of your fate and mine. ”

"Did you ask Andre about me?"

He asked, but he could only say a little. ”

"Then please put this little bit in my stomach, I don't need to know what my fate is. ”

"Then there's really nothing special to say, by the way, there is a sentence for you to remember, the old man said, 'We were born into this world, we are part of the world, and the will of the world is inseparable from our will. It may not sound useful now, but I think you'll need it later. ”

"Thank you. For everything. If Li Ben is used by Zhou Haomiao as a shield to hide himself, then Li Ben is actually using Zhou Haomiao's frivolous appearance to spy and collect information about this world. What's more, from the very beginning, Li Ben could have come here alive from the werewolf ice cellar, and it was thanks to him that Aita and the others paid attention to themselves who were frozen.

"No thanks... Never mind. Zhou Haomiao seemed to want to say something, but he changed his mouth and said, "After hearing this, don't you have any feelings in your heart? I guess you still have something to say." ”

"If. ”

If all this is a lie, if it is just a prophet's ploy, intending to firmly tie Zhou Haomiao, or to plant the seeds of alienation in the hearts of two people from the same world, to ensure that the two will not unite to the detriment of the tribe... From the way people in this world treat visitors from other worlds, it is not difficult to see the huge potential of the "gift of the world".

"yes... If... So I'll try to prove it... That's all for today, it's time to rest. ”

"Hmm. ”

A peaceful night passed.

Day 3 of the Shelter.

Li Ben and Zhou Haomiao went to Maria's library again to conduct an ability exploration test.

Li Ben had already decided to pretend to deal with it, concealing the fact that his soul might be eroded by chaos, as for the exploration of that ability, as long as he said that he had found the answer, could they still break his soul to see if he was lying?

Well, they don't take souls for interrogation, but they know how to put them to the test.

"Well, since you said that your ability is simply immortality and accelerated healing, and the condition is that the brain is not destroyed, then let's try the arm and heart. Mary spoke calmly and calmly.

"It's still going to hurt. Is this kind of test really necessary?" said Lee, with his signature poker face, politely refused.

"The answer to the soul cannot be wrong. Or can't you trust your own soul? Don't worry, I won't be calling you to the point in the first place. For some reason, this woman seems to have seen through Li Ben's lies and is determined to expose them in this way.

If he refuses here, the lie will be confirmed, and at that time, if the Navigator Organization pursues and fights to get to the bottom of it, it will have no means to resist. This is the dilemma of having to bow your head under the eaves. If they really notice the abnormality, there is only one way to die.

In other words, the current Li Ben has fallen into the dilemma of further abyss and taking a step back from the sea of fire.

What to do? Do you want to take a gamble? Expect the mysterious power that saved you once to take effect again? Or do you honestly explain that the visions of the world of the will are nothing more than an illusion of the soul? or some other reason?

"Test it. Li Ben decided.

Maria didn't expect him to really agree, her eyes were slightly condensed, and she looked him in the eye and asked, "Are you sure?"

Li Ben said calmly: "I'm sure." ”

"Then come with me. Mary knew that the truth is spoken only when people are truly facing death. If Leeben concealed something, such as the ability he described was false, he would inevitably be overwhelmed by fear during a series of tests, unless he was a madman or really relied on it.

Your soul doesn't lie to yourself. This may not be well understood by newcomers from the Otherworld, but for someone like Maria, who has been in contact with the forces of Chaos, struggled in it, survived, and achieved some success, it is the basis for survival.

The thinking consciousness cannot oppose the will of the soul.

Maria takes him to the Chaos Hunter Training Ground in the Navigator Division. There are shooting targets in this place, and there are different kinds of bows and arrows and firearms. Next to it is the emergency room, in which two strangely dressed people are on standby, they are not ordinary doctors, they are witch doctors.

In order to cope with the complex needs of survival, human beings have borrowed strength from various gods and legends in mythology. Druids, witch doctors, priests, one of these three is the existence that can be called a doctor in this world, and there are too few situations that ordinary surgeons like Li Ben can handle.

"Let's try your quick healing power first, Geralt, I'm sorry for you. Mary spoke the lingua franca.

A middle-aged man with white hair walked over, wearing leather armor and carrying two long swords on his back.

"Rest assured, Geralt is one of the most brilliant Chaos Hunters of our Navigators, and he is very good at what he does. ”

Geralt asked Maria, "Steel or silver?"

"Silver sword. ”

Li Ben understood these two sentences, and Aita's language teaching was not completely fruitless.

Maria had Geralt use the Silver Sword in order to rule out the possibility that he was physically infected by Chaos.

Unlike the Steel Sword, if you have the power of Chaos, even if you can still heal after being damaged by the Silver Sword, it will emit some abnormal effects, such as an ominous black mist emitted from the wound.

"Are you ready? Hold out your hand when you're ready. ”

With his palm facing up, Lee Ben stretched out his left hand. In addition to keeping secrets, he is actually exploring and trying, if he finds that the situation is not right, he can only obediently confide in the truth, or fool around, and then find a way to escape from this place and face the unknown alone.

Geralt drew his sword quickly, and a clear groove was cut in the palm of Leeben's palm, and the flesh was broken, but it did not hurt any deeper. The palm of the hand didn't seem to notice what was happening, and it took more than a second for blood to pour out of the wound.

No black fog or other anomalies appeared.

"What does it feel?" asked Maria.

"It hurts. ”

"Your wound doesn't look like healing, do you need a bandage?"

“... Wait a little longer and see. ”

"Does it take time for your abilities to activate?" she looked smiling, with some schadenfreude in it.

As he stared at the drops of blood spilling out of his palm, as if he were watching someone else bleed, he saw himself as one of those patients he had healed.

My blood is no different from others, but why don't I feel the emotion of being intimately connected to others?

Li Ben looked in a daze, and after a while, Maria frowned and said, "Okay, the farce is over here, and you don't need to go to the witch doctor for this little injury, just let Geralt bandage you." ”

"Wait. ”

"What do you want to wait for, wait for your blood to drain?"

"In general, such wounds are subject to blood clotting. ”

"What do you want to say?"

"You should know that I was killed by a werewolf and thrown into an ice cellar when I came to this world. ”

"So?"

"At that time, I felt that all the blood in my body was about to run out, and after I thawed, not only the wound healed, but also the blood regenerated. This wound usually stops bleeding soon due to clotting, unless..."

Li Ben brought his palm close to his eyes and licked the wound.

"This is not the smell of blood. With that, he stretched out his left hand again, and the wound was gone. "What I have in my body now is not the blood of a normal person. ”

After seeing Leeben's wounds heal, Maria said, "We need to collect some of your blood for analysis to make sure you are not infected by Chaos. Also, why didn't your wound heal in the first place?"

"Because I don't want to. ”

"Does the activation of power have anything to do with your will?"

"Normally, it might be so. "Lee Ben didn't lie about this, he wasn't conscious when he was bled and frozen by the werewolf.

However, he was more fortunate now that Maria seemed to be beginning to believe her words.

The healing of the wound is indeed related to his own will, but he was completely unclear before, stupidly waiting for the wound to heal on its own, thinking that this is a passive ability, if he had known earlier, he would definitely not have waited for half a day. Thankfully, Mary didn't dwell too much on this.

"Can you regenerate a severed limb?"

"Yes... bar. "After all, my intestines and throat are broken, and my bones can be restored if they are broken, so it should be no problem for the regeneration of broken limbs, right?

He has no bottom in his heart.

"Try it, use your little finger, you can connect it even if it's broken. ”

If ordinary people are faced with this situation, they will jump to their feet and complain.

Li Ben was also a little hesitant in the face of this situation, he was not a dead thing without emotions, even if he disdained these things, but the impact of existence could not be easily ignored by will.

"Or do you just skip this step and try it in your heart? The witch doctor is on the side, and he can save you in a short time. Maria's expression didn't look like a joke.

However, since he did have such an ability, he had already proved that some of his conjectures were correct, and he certainly did not intend to back down.

Li Ben stretched out his left hand again.

Geralt was also a little curious about the man in front of him, an untrained person couldn't do it so calmly, even if he knew he wouldn't get hurt.

Equally neatly, this time, the tip of Li Ben's little finger fell to the ground, and the red liquid began to gush out.

He endured the pain and focused on his broken little finger. Then, instead of descending with gravity, the red liquid condenses at the severed finger, forming a new outline of the little finger. Immediately afterward, bones, skin, and nails are reconstructed from the red liquid at a speed visible to the naked eye.

After recovering, Lee Ben tried to move, and it was no different from the previous one. And the little finger that fell to the ground turned into blood.

Seeing this scene, he had a new conjecture, whether it would be using red liquid as a medium to restore the damaged position of the body, rather than simply regenerating cells, so the phenomenon of little finger turning into blood water occurred.

"Not bad, anyone with this kind of ability can become a powerful hunter. You may consider staying with us, and we will find a way to negotiate with your tribe. ”

"I've signed a contract with them. ”

"Rest assured, there's still room for flexibility. ”

"I don't have the habit of breaking contracts. ”

"Well, I'm just kidding. So then there's the last test, are you going to stick to it? I know you're hiding something, even if your description of your abilities is correct. ”

"So, can't everyone who comes here have their own secrets?"

"Of course not. Our fear is that guests from other worlds like you don't understand the stakes and end up destroying yourself. If we can't be honest with each other, we will only be able to help. ”

Mary meant the same thing as André said when he met them.

This woman is serious.

"That's enough, now that the test has begun, let's let it end. ”

Maria no longer tried to convince Leeben, saying, "The next step will be to use a very penetrating bullet made of metal against Chaos." This bullet can cause significant damage against powerful chaotic creatures, but it is no different from a normal bullet against a normal person. It will pass through your heart and shoot out of your back, and if your abilities do come from a gift from the world, its properties will not change in any way. But if you have a relationship with Chaos, even our witch doctor may not be able to save you. ”

After saying this, she carefully observed Li Ben's expression, hoping to find some clues.

The Old Gods, the embodiment of chaos, are also the constructors of order. This world is the most uncognizable existence of human beings. If their power really comes from them, will it be cracked by the current human technology?

Everything is unknown. It was a big gamble. Limben was intrigued, and he was intrigued, even if the price of the proof could be his own life.

"I'm ready. ”

Mary called another man, who came across from Lee Ben with a light sniper rifle. Geralt and the two witch doctors stepped aside.

In general, only death row prisoners can experience being shot, and after lethal injection became widespread, there were no more executions in the country.

Li Ben didn't expect that he would be able to have such a day.

Before he began, he asked, "Mary, do you have faith? I mean, even if it doesn't give you real strength." ”

"You mean the religion of your world?"

"It's a little bit broader, not just a god, it's a thought. ”

"Created for survival, don't you think?"

"It doesn't matter why it happens, what matters is whether it goes beyond the roots. ”

"I didn't expect you to be a philosopher. Unfortunately, I can't answer this question for everyone, but personally, I feel like we've been lacking faith for too long. ”

"I see. ”

The gunshot rang out, and after the bullet passed through, the impact knocked Lee Ben to the ground.

Fluid, which looked like blood, poured out of his chest, causing him to faint for a moment. The loss of these fluids did not cause him to feel deprived of oxygen, and his brain did not shut down because of it.

Li Ben sat up with his chest clutched, feeling the sharp pain in his chest and exerting his abilities.

The red liquid condensed in his chest as it had been when he had severed his finger, and he was eventually successfully restored.

"Okay. Maria checked the bullet and found nothing out of the ordinary.

"I'll report what happened here to the minister, and you don't have to come to the competency development test anymore. ”

"Is that all?"

"What more could you ask for?"

"That's all it turned out to be?"

"Don't forget that you volunteered to cooperate with us. ”

"Really?"

"What the hell are you trying to say?"

"That bullet, I want to keep as a memento. ”

Mary hesitated and said, "Yes." ”

She threw the bullet to Li Ben, the bullet had the properties of memory metal, which had been restored by this time, and was engraved with intricate symbols.

Li Ben didn't say anything more, turned and left.

Maria turned to look at Geralt, and saw that there was something strange in his eyes, as if he wanted to say something, so she asked, "Is there any problem?"

Geralt just patted her on the shoulder and left without saying a word.

Maria turned her gaze to the others on the scene, and everyone had nothing to say, and hurried to her feet, leaving her alone.