When they had eaten and drunk, they went to rest. But Lee Ben still had something to do, and he had been thinking about the English shout he had heard at Terina's house first, and he wanted to investigate the source of the voice.

The barbecue master, who had just become a Chaos Hunter, was so exhausted that he slept soundly, so Li Ben quietly came outside the house.

At this time, it was close to midnight, and there were basically no villager activities in the village, but occasionally people came out because of the three emergencies, so some lights from the outside world were not extinguished.

At this time, Li Ben could feel the chaos beneath the mud that was about to move, and they were Terina's eyeliner. In order to prevent the grass from startling the snake, he still used the stealth effect of the crow necklace.

Following the route he remembered, he came to the manor.

At the gate of the manor, Freddy stood still like a scarecrow.

Li Ben entered through the main entrance and did not alarm him. But the door of the two-story building is closed, and if you break in, you will definitely be discovered by Terina and another person hidden in the shadows.

At this time, of course, you have to use the void ability that you got not long ago.

Reduced to a virtual state, Lee Ben went straight through the wall, in fact, he could pass through any object, such as a mountain, if he wanted to. But there will be a lot of risk in doing that, the virtual body effect disappears, and you can't completely separate from the object, even if you have the ability to do it, what will be the result of doing that, a normal person definitely doesn't want to try it yourself.

The last time I sensed the location of the sound was in the backyard of the manor. Li Ben recalled, and walked directly to the back of the house.

When you come to the backyard, the furnishings here are completely different from the front.

The ground is clean, planted with a variety of herbs, and the aroma is strong. A shed was erected on each side of the courtyard, and all kinds of precision tools were placed together in an orderly manner.

On the left are all kinds of sharp knives, tweezers, long needles, short saws, bone choppers, and hook locks, which can make people unconsciously think of ancient torture cells, but the first thing that comes to Li Ben's mind is the operating room that he often comes into contact with.

On the right, there are all kinds of strange rune props, some of which you will learn and recognize in the Chaos Hunter course, and some of which are completely unfamiliar.

Li Ben found three of the small wooden dolls and picked up one of them to check.

The doll has a tuft of hair tied around its body and a rune carved into its chest. Li Ben had seen this rune on the black magic booklet he had picked up, it was the basic symbol used to lock the soul, so the handful of hair was used to establish a bond. Obviously, Terina, they were going to do something to the owner of the handful of hair.

There is a hint of a smell similar to fruity grapefruit coming from the hair.

He put the puppet back in its place, adjusted the details, and continued to observe other things.

On the ground, he saw some tiny footprints, except for those that walked up and down in the shed, and along the footprints they walked outward, and branched out into many branches.

Li Ben went to the shed on the left to look for it, sorted out the intersection of the paths on both sides, and followed the one with the largest number of footprints to the left corner of the back porch of the wooden house, where the footprints disappeared.

He looked around, carefully turning up the carpet, and found a hidden secret door that was completely out of place with no sense of disobedience to the planks around him.

Keeping the sound of the door opening as low as possible, Li Ben sneaked in.

The basement lights were on, and the space was large, but the air was extremely turbid, and the whole room was filled with the extremely pungent smell of various herbs. The floor was littered with bandages stained with a coagulated blackened unidentified liquid, possibly blood or something else.

The most conspicuous of these is the metal platform in the center, and its four corners are embedded with iron rings engraved with unknown runes, which are used to hold the human limbs in place. The rest of the platform had been rusted, except for the four rings that looked brand new.

"Looks like this thing has been used for a long time. ”

On both sides of the room, there were rows of shelves, on which were all kinds of bottles and jars, containing many biological agents and specimens, which gave Li Ben the illusion that he had come to the university specimen showroom.

But here he did not find the person he suspected.

"It seems important here, and if it were, I wouldn't lock people up in this place. Li Ben tried to put himself in their shoes.

He saw the trail of the little wheels rolling on the ground again.

"I don't think it's just to save effort. "Their level of strength is as easy to lift an adult as it is to carry a chicken.

Following the trajectory of the wheel, Li Ben came to a wall, behind which there was a much stronger chaotic energy than anywhere else.

"Another secret door?" But the secret door obviously needed to be opened by some kind of mechanism.

As a last resort, Li Ben had to carefully observe which area had the most footprints and which bottle and jar had the most obvious traces of contact. However, all this may be in vain, and the method of opening the secret door may not be like this at all, and the way to open the door with some kind of spell as a password is not impossible.

After searching around, he didn't find any mechanism, but during the search, he noticed that there was something special about the chaotic energy in a glass jar.

In the black mass of energy, there was a hint of golden energy.

That's something that only visitors from the other world have.

"Do they want to extract this gift?" Thinking of this possibility, Li Ben instantly became solemn.

"If this approach is really successful and known to the outside world, the consequences are unimaginable. He seemed to see himself as a visitor from another world, being hunted down as prey, and experimenting on as a guinea pig.

How far did they go? Did it all come from the wizard's notebook they had obtained?... I have to find that person as soon as possible, but unfortunately the crow necklace's blurring ability has already been used, otherwise I wouldn't have to be so troublesome... Wait a minute. Li Ben seemed to have thought of something.

Hephasto's instructions note that the interval between the use of the aether ability is one night. Why not a specific period of time? but a night, unless it's referring to a moment in which it resets. ”

Li Ben looked at his watch, and in another minute it would be midnight.

So he went to the wall again and waited for the next day.

As soon as the time was up, Li Ben immediately connected the necklace and tried to use the void ability.

He felt his body enter an ethereal state. Then, without hesitation, he walked through the wall to the room behind him.

There are no furnishings in the room, only an incandescent lamp hanging from the top.

Here, he saw only a wart-covered humanoid sitting on the floor, hairless, with large patches of rotten skin and a stinking body, a deformed face, and only a pair of turquoise eyes that looked like a human being.

In his hand he held an open-capped pocket watch, which was undoubtedly a creation on earth, as it had a scale time of only 12 hours. And inside the pocket watch cover is a photograph of two Europeans and Americans who look like mother and daughter.

The humanoid kept staring at the picture, and that seemed to be the only thing he cared about.

When the void ability disappeared, Li Ben lifted his invisibility to reveal his entity, deliberately making footsteps. But the humanoid creature was immersed in its own world and ignored him.

Li Ben deliberately said in English: "How long have you been here?"

The humanoid creature shuddered suddenly, and he realized that the person behind it was not the demon who had tormented him here.

"Which country are you from?" "Which country are you from? the United States or the United Kingdom, Canada or Australia?"

The humanoid creature put away the pocket watch in his hand, slowly turned his head, and said in a hoarse voice: "Your Chinese accent is obvious, the same as what I heard those Chinese say in Chinatown." ”

Tears welled up in his abscess sockets.

"I never thought I would cry because I heard a Chinese person speak English. ”

"My name is Li Ben, Chinese. ”

"My name is Jack Johnson, an American. His voice trembled a little: "We are all people of the same world. ”

"That's right. ”

"How did you get in? Did they arrest you?"

"I have some special abilities, I heard your voice in the front hall a few days ago, so I came to look for you. Let me make sure, do you know what a hunter is, have you heard of the Navigator Organization, do you know why you came into this world?"

Jack shook his head all the time, saying, "I've never heard of this, and I've been living alone in the wild until I was caught by them." ”

"It seems that you have already awakened to your abilities. ”

"I used to be able to send flames from my body, and when I saw many monsters, I burned them with flames, until I found the village and tried to communicate with those people..."

Jack recounted his past experience to Leeben, and Leeben also told him what he knew, and the two exchanged for a long time, and Jack was calm throughout the whole process.

"I see... Can you find a way to get me out of here?" asked Jack.

"Not now, they're up there, and they can't escape even if you let you out. ”

"I understand. "He didn't show any signs of loss, he was used to life here and the inhuman torture.

"But I can figure it out, and in two days it might be your chance. "The reason why Lee Ben intends to help Jack is not only because he is from the same world as himself, but also because when he helped the barbecue master become a chaos hunter, he was destined to be the enemy of Terina and them, and he didn't think that Terina would let himself complete the deal and leave so easily.

In this world, one cannot have optimistic illusions about chaotic things.

For this reason, if Li Ben wants to leave this place, he must give himself a chance and leave a way out. The barbecue masters, Jack, and the young people could all be a helping hand in the fight against Terina.

"By the way, judging from what you said before, it seems that you can't use your abilities now?" asked Li Ben.

"Yes, after I was knocked unconscious by the villagers' sneak attack, I woke up with my abilities restricted, and I could use a little at first, but my power was greatly reduced, and I was no match for them at all. Later, I was poured some medicinal juice, tied to an iron platform, and used a knife to draw inexplicable symbols, and my ability was no longer used. ”

"What does that potion taste like, and do they give it to you regularly?"

"They let me drink it almost every day, it smells sour and it tastes sweet. ”

"If you drink it every day, the consumption should be very large, and I will investigate it later. ”

"How are you going to get out?" asked Jack.

"I need your help. They don't want you to die, and when you said you tried to kill yourself, they noticed it and came to stop it, and they should have left some kind of induction on you. I need you to try to hurt yourself and when they come, I'll be able to get out. ”

"No problem. Jack had no objection to hurting himself, and if he had chosen to die, he would never have wanted to live like this.

When he was ready, he slammed his head against the wall.

Soon there was a loud commotion outside the room.

"It's the Bull Demon, he makes a lot of footsteps every time he comes, and he's very angry. After Jack finished speaking, under his gaze, Lee Ben used the stealth ability.

In the story that Li Ben heard, the other Chaos Hunters gathered into a black mass, and the Prophet himself had already seen it, so this so-called Bull Demon should be the third key character in the story - the leader of the Chaos Hunters.

Through the walls, he felt the chaotic energy in him, and the aura that had been hidden in the shadows when he spoke to Telena earlier was the same as his. So all that was left was the black lump that I hadn't seen before.

The bull demon walked outside the door and cursed in his mouth: "Damn bastard, I thought you were smart and knew how to give up, and you fucking disturbed Lao Tzu's rest in the middle of the night." Then he recited a series of incantations.

Behind the wall, Li Ben silently memorized the syllables of the incantation, which needed to be driven by chaotic energy.

After the incantation was recited, the wall disappeared directly.

The Bull Demon's tall body had to bend over to get in, and the first thing he did when he came in was to gently punch Jack in the abdomen. It was a light force for him, but not for Jack, who had already knocked him to the ground.

The Bull Demon pulled out a loop of rope hanging from his waist, tied Jack's hands and feet firmly, and left immediately.

Li Ben naturally walked out of the basement quietly before him, but he didn't leave in a hurry, but carefully counted which of the medicines planted in the backyard was the most.

"Fleur, followed by Skull Grass... There should be other ingredients, although I know the main ingredients, but what can affect the ability of the soul level to seal the ability of the otherworldly people is by no means an ordinary mixed drug, it must be a magic potion. ”

Only by knowing which god is protecting the potion can we find a way to remove the potion.

For this reason, Lee had planned to take another risk.

As it gets dark, the back door of the cabin is opened by Terina. Once in the courtyard, she walked straight to the herbs that were planted, expertly picking many different species, and then went to the workbench on the right, took out a mortar, and added the herbs to grind in a certain order.

Lee, who was hiding in the distance, smelled the sour smell that Jack had said.

But then it's the point. Terina read a string of syllables in a language he had never heard before, and the language gave him a feeling similar to the strange shouts of the aliens he had heard from the ruins of the previous tribe as they retraced the past through the glowing flowers.

But apparently Terina's reading was more orderly.

Although she couldn't understand what she was saying, when she pronounced a syllable at the end, Lee Ben caught the most important message from it, the name of a certain god.

The name is Afogomorn.

Remembering the name, Lee immediately slipped into the house through the open back door, and he saw Winnie in the front hall who was eating breakfast, and the smell of fruit and grapefruit came from her.

She looks pretty good, and the barbecue master should be a little more relieved if he knows.

The front door of the house was closed, and there was no breath of the bull demon in the house, and Li Ben waited for Terina to walk into the basement before gently opening the door and walking out.

Winnie looked strangely at the open door, thought it had been blown open by the wind, and went over to close it.

Back in the village, Li Ben found that the barbecue master had not woken up, so he also went back to the basement to meditate and rest. He has a lot to think about.

"Yaphgomon... Isn't it the gods of human mythology, but the ancient gods? Indeed, if you want to say that you can strip or seal the power given by the world from the soul, you can't guess anything other than these beings who are the incarnation of chaos. ”

"But if it's them, it's going to be difficult..."

Humans know very little about the ancient gods, and they can even be said to know nothing. Except for the mention of their existence in some crazy wizarding texts, there is nothing. Even their dependents are not easily accessible to humans.

Li Ben has never forgotten the chaos lurking in the depths of his soul.

Perhaps this is a good opportunity to get to know Them. ”

The source and clues of everything are concentrated in the ancient wizard's research notes from the past story.

Would Térina be willing to let outsiders read it? Not in general, right?

"Ask when you go to get the map the day after tomorrow. Li Ben pondered.

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

Day 3.

Li Ben came to Terina's manor as agreed, and in the antechamber, he met Terina and the Bull Demon.

The monster appeared in front of him without concealment, and it seems that things will not be so simple. He thought.

"Let me introduce you to Boris, the former leader of the Chaos Hunters in our village. Terina said.

Li Ben's face did not change, and calmly greeted the monster: "Hello, Boris. ”

The Bull Demon hummed and said, "Hello, Otherworlder. ”

It seems that they have already discovered their identity, and they have only now explained the matter thoroughly, are they planning to do it?

Leeben became vigilant, and he said to Terina, "I'll get my pay." ”

"Rest assured, I'm ready," said Terina. ”

She didn't play any tricks, but really handed over a cowhide map with chaotic power to Li Ben's hands, because this is something that is witnessed by death.

Li Ben looked at the map and realized that he could use the chaotic energy to establish a connection with it, and then the information of the map came to his mind, and the terrain pattern on the map would also change.

The entire continent spans the northern and southern hemispheres irregularly, with the longest straight line from north to south is 19,764 kilometers, and the longest straight line from east to west is 10,433 kilometers.

If you want to go to the center of the continent, the distance in a straight line is more than 9,700 kilometers, and the terrain in the middle is complex, with plateau blood mountains, mainland inland seas, etc.

Li Ben put away the map and said goodbye to Terina, "I did receive the map, if it's okay, I'll go first." ”

"Why are you in such a hurry, Mr. Leeben. I don't think we've got some settlers yet. ”

"Oh? "The hunter was on guard.