It was a golden ocean, and Li Ben was standing on the surface of the water, looking around, and there was no end in sight.

The sky is pure white, there is no sun, and the light emitted is naturally soft and not dazzling.

It's a wonderful feeling to enter the world of your own will, like a dream or a game, you can switch between first-person and third-person perspectives at will, or you can perceive both horizons at the same time, and there is no sense of confusion at all.

"A sea of gold... Isn't my ability developed?And what about the wounds on my body?" Li Ben didn't speak, but what he thought in his heart directly turned into a voice, echoing in this world.

"Tell me, what do you see?" came Mary's voice.

In reality, Li Ben and Zhou Haomiao were lying flat on the two sofas at this time, their eyes closed. On the coffee table in the middle is a strangely shaped incense burner, which burns to release a strange fragrance.

"Cell... Cell... A beast bound in chains... Volcano... Magma... It's so hot, so thirsty, I need to drink water..."It was Zhou Haomiao who spoke.

"I need you to concentrate on listening to me, not to be at the mercy of those illusions, everything you have experienced is not real, the scene of the world of the will should not be as intermittent and broken as a dream, stabilize your consciousness, and your soul will show you the most real side..."

With Maria's guidance, the scene Zhou Haomiao saw seemed to have stabilized.

"No, there's nothing here... It's too dark for me to see anything...", his body looming as he said this.

"Then try to listen and give up your vision. ”

Zhou Haomiao fell silent. Mary focused on Lee himself.

"What do you see? Can you hear me?"

He was hesitating whether he should answer truthfully what he had seen. Li Ben moved his steps slightly, walking on the golden mirror, leaving small ripples with each step.

"I see... The other self. In the world of will, he replied as he looked at his own reflection on the golden sea.

If it weren't for the gift of the world that brought me back to life, all I could think of was chaos in their mouths. Li Ben thought so.

"Where?" asked Maria.

"In the room, in the mirror. Li Ben said.

He squatted down and lightly touched the surface of the sea with his hand, the golden water was slightly cool.

Am I the master in my world?

"Separate. He gave orders to himself.

The golden ocean seemed to be slashed by a giant blade, and a series of broken gullies appeared in a straight line, and there was nothing under the broken gullies.

"What's that?" he asked.

"Try to describe it. Maria said.

"A city, a city I've never seen before, the black-purple sea floods it, wait, why can I see?"

"It's not about seeing, it's about realizing that your soul will tell you the answer directly. Now, listen to me, as I told you before, that the gifts of the world are directly integrated with your souls, and ask yourself to see what is more in your souls, and that is the answer we want. ”

What is that? Why did it appear in his own soul will world? This is Li Ben's biggest doubt now.

The moment this question was raised, the golden sea began to boil, and the pure white sky was torn apart, turning into endless clouds, and heavy rain began to fall.

The golden waters quickly faded, became transparent, and then turned black and purple.

The world of will was no longer under Leeben's control, and he felt gravity pull him into the sea, and the black-purple sea engulfed him.

The body is constantly sinking, and you can clearly feel the humidity wrapped in the seawater. He subconsciously held his breath and tried to swim to the surface, but the turbulent undercurrents in the water kept sweeping in, disrupting his movements and sucking him deeper into the water.

The light that passed through the sea was getting farther and farther away from him, and the darkness around him was getting deeper. Li Ben looked down, and below was occupied by the starry sky of the unknown and black, as if the all-devouring monster was opening its huge mouth, quietly waiting for the food to fall in.

Finally unable to hold his breath, Li Ben's lungs were filled with seawater, although it was very uncomfortable, but he did not lose consciousness, and he did not die due to the pressure of the huge water pressure.

This is the world of will, breathing is not necessary, it is just a habit. As long as one's will is not worn out and one's soul is not dissipated, no matter what appears in this place, it will not kill oneself.

After clarifying this, Li Ben wondered where he would sink to, or did he just keep this sense of falling until he woke up? Could this happen to the world of wills have something to do with it?

I couldn't see anything, but the feeling of being oppressed by the sea didn't go away. He remembered what Mary had said, closing her eyes, giving up her vision, and concentrating her perception on the rest of her body.

Although it was very faint, Li Ben still heard the ethereal and distant voice.

It's the voice of a whale. The ups and downs shook the depths of my soul, and it was the bard of the sea who sang some ancient story.

There seemed to be light passing through his eyelids, so Li Ben opened his eyes and found that there was still darkness in his field of vision.

It's not light, it's an image that is directly reflected in his consciousness, something called a sixth sense.

Landing on both feet, the sound of whales became clear, Li Ben "saw", saw the desolate and dilapidated ruins of ancient civilizations, and saw an ancient city full of mythology. The totem symbols were covered with bricks and stones, and even if he couldn't understand the specific meaning, he could still appreciate the impact of a majestic force that shocked his soul from his soul.

Li Ben strolls through the streets of the city, sometimes blocked by the crumbling ruins, and sometimes swept into a completely unfamiliar environment by the undercurrents that come from nowhere, except for the aquatic plants attached to the bricks and tiles, only the deep sediment and dust that have accumulated for an unknown period of time.

In this world, he has no way to interfere with his will.

What is the problem?

Li Ben didn't ask about his own ability, he asked about what was under the golden sea. Mary may think that this is a mystery in the process of discovering the truth of her abilities, but as the master of her soul and will, she knows very deeply and clearly that it is not a part of herself, but a foreign invasion or parasite.

Lost in the underwater city, the only thing that can be regarded as a clue is the whale's song.

Following the sound, the low and gloomy whale song brought Li Ben an endless feeling of sadness, like crying and complaining. The closer I got to the sound, the more I was infected by it, and I didn't even know if I was crying, and if the tears were part of the seawater.

Eventually, he came to a huge high-rise building, built by humans in the highly civilized period he had seen before, with a pair of stone doors hundreds of meters wide in front of him, which recorded countless historical stories in the form of pictographic pictures.

Maybe Zhou Haomiao can understand it, but Li Ben, who is a doctor by profession, cannot.

Although the stone gate is very huge, it is not lacking in precision, if it is not for the lack of the gate, exposing it, Li Ben could not find the crack in the door for a while.

The whale chirped from behind the door, and the human, who was smaller than an ant, stretched out his hand and gently pushed it, opening the door that had been sealed for a long time.

The world behind the door was empty, and there was no sea, and when you entered the dome, you could see the stars slowly spinning. Primordial torches hung from the huge pillars were illuminated, and the brightness of the torches surpassed human common sense, dispelling darkness in large areas.

Li Ben's clothes and hair dripped a burst of water droplets, hitting the ground paved with stone slabs, each of these stone slabs is different, depicting complex lines, and the patterns between each stone slab happen to meet on the edge, and after the whole is connected, there is no trace of disobedience.

Is it something like a circuit board?

The source of whale chirping is still deeper. He walked along the stone path, and at the end of the road, he found a huge pool of water 100 meters long and wide, from which the sound came from.

There was no water in the pool, but it was filled with gray mist, like a sand table, in which countless small, strange-shaped creatures moved.

In the middle of the pool, under the gray mist, lurked a massive black lifeform hundreds of times larger than any other creature. The overall appearance resembles that of a whale, but there are several tentacles covered with red scales at the tail and fins. Its head is flanked by bright yellow eyes, a total of ten pairs, and a large dark purple eye in the center, with two layers of upper and lower mouths, and the upper part is wide and full of sharp teeth. The lower level is a vertical mouth with no teeth, replaced by more whisker-like tentacles.

The so-called whale cry came from the abdomen of this monster.

As if tempted, Li Ben subconsciously put his hand into the gray mist.

The whale song ceased, replaced by the regular breathing of some creature. The gray mist began to surge violently, converging on his hands. The thick gray mist gathered and became extremely viscous, making Li Ben feel that his hands were full of asphalt, and it was difficult to pull out.

The gray mist eventually turned to black-purple slime, and it was no longer satisfied with staying in the pool, and began to climb up Leeben's arm.

As the black slime corroded, all sorts of terrible negative emotions rushed towards him. He began to see all sorts of strange, terrifying sights and creatures. In the boundless black void, those creatures exist beyond human imagination in indescribable shapes. Is it an eye or a mouth? a tooth or a tentacle, is it a bone or a flesh?......

These shocking scenes and dizzying emotional impact made Li Ben's reason almost collapse, and he was about to fall into boundless madness.

The gray mist in the pool had all fused, and the black slime they had turned into completely enveloped Li Ben and began to erode into the depths of his soul. After his humanoid body in the world of the will began to twist and change, becoming like the Thomas and others he had seen, no, it became like a twister, or even something more chaotic, disordered, and more difficult to understand.

A white beam of light shone from the dome, and the torches on the surrounding stone pillars began to become more blazing, and the whole world was occupied by a miserable whiteness, except for Li Ben, there was no darkness or shadow.

"No!" Lee Ben tore the black from his head with his monstrous hands, revealing his hideous face.

Among the torches, golden triangles flashed, and one eye opened in the triangle, which was the eye of God, the eye of all-seeing.

These eyes focused their gaze all on Lee himself.

The black slime let out a sharp scream, blasting through him and scattering towards the eyes, obscuring them.

Li Ben's appearance at this time was as if he had been drilled and bitten by hundreds of millions of worms, and the dense black round holes were all over his body, and they were so broken that they were terrifying. But under the light of the beam, it is slowly repaired and restored to its original state.

He knelt in front of the pool, which was empty at this time, and the bottom of the pool was a large transparent crystal that was different from the stone slabs outside. The crystal was engraved with circles and loops, and it was impossible to count how many layers there were, and the center of it was where the whale-like monster used to be.

The world shook and shook as if it were about to collapse. The crystal in the pool cracked with a muffled loud thud, revealing a bright yellow giant eye, staring at Li Ben.

The dome of the stars shattered suddenly, and the sea poured in. In a trance, Li Ben was pulled up by the beam...

"Wake up!"

Li Ben woke up in the process of his body being violently shaken by Zhou Haomiao.

"He's awake! He's awake!"

Mary seemed to be performing some kind of technique, and after hearing Zhou Haomiao's notice, she broke away from the ritual.

"How long have I been lying down?" was his first question as he woke up.

"Eight hours... What do you see? You don't seem to hear my call at all. Maria asked.

"Is this the first time you've seen me?"

Not really, as recorded experience suggests that some people are prone to becoming obsessed with their own world. ”

"What about you, how long have you been in it?" asked Zhou Haomiao.

"About two hours. He replied.

"Tell me what exactly you've seen, and maybe I can help you put together some useful information. Mary asked.

Li Ben shook his head and said, "I feel very confused now, and I can't remember what happened inside. ”

"Well... You can go back and rest first, and then figure out a way tomorrow. Maria frowned slightly, obviously not believing in Liben's words, and what happened in her own spiritual world would not be easily forgotten.

On the way, the canary who led the way asked them, "Have you found the answer you wanted?"

"Not only did I not find it, but I felt like I was caught in a bigger mystery. Zhou Haomiao said.

Li Ben was silent.

"You'll find it, you can go eat first. ”

"Well, the food here is much better than eating outside, but it's all vegetarian dishes, and the only thing that can be called meat is eggs, what's the reason for this?"

"The other order creatures are basically extinct, and only a few remain, and the numbers are very scarce, and they cannot be eaten directly. If you want to eat the flesh of the beasts of the outside world, you must be prepared to be infected by Chaos. This is the same for everyone. ”

"Chaos Hunters can't do it too?"

"No, the abilities acquired by the Chaos Hunter are contractual transactions and are still controllable, but no one knows what the consequences of what you encounter in the wild, and if not, we don't need to be so cautious. The canary replied scrutinically.

After dinner, the two returned to a square in the Vault, which had been prepared for them by the Navigators.

Aita waited at the door of their tent, and when she saw the two returning, she said, "The prophet has something to look for you." ”

To be honest, the two of them didn't have a good impression of the old man Prophet. Even if there is not much contact, just from his words and deeds, the two of them can feel the precise calculation and strong desire for control hidden under the simple and kind appearance. Perhaps in this kind of world, such a prophet is a guarantee of survival for the people of his tribe, but for Li Ben and Zhou Haomiao, who came from another world and have completely different living and cultural environments, this feeling of being pinched in their hands makes them extremely repulsive.

Therefore, when he heard the news that the prophet was going to see them again, he had already been tortured in the world of will, and Zhou Haomiao, who was very tired at this time, was very reluctant.

He said, "Why don't you let him come to us?"

"In fact, the Prophet is waiting for you inside. ”

Zhou Haomiao was speechless for a while.

After entering the tent, the Prophet went straight to the point and said, "Tell me everything." There was a force in the tone that was hard to resist.

"Why?" asked Lee.

"It's good for everybody to get to know each other. ”

"What if I refuse?" Zhou Haomiao also said.

"I have no ill intentions, and according to the contract, I should make your survivability as much as possible, and it is on this basis that I help you develop your abilities. If you don't cooperate, you're breaking the contract, and trust me, you don't want to see the price you will pay. ”

"According to what you say, if everything is used as an excuse, don't we have no privacy?" Zhou Haomiao was a little angry.

"You don't have to worry about that. What I asked must be necessarily useful, not just for words, but for the assurance of the covenant witnessing gods. If I ask you something irrelevant with malicious intent, I will only be punished. ”

"You should think of it before signing the contract, this kind of vague terms, you can say whatever you want. ”

"Under the fence, it's useless to talk too much, just cooperate honestly. Li Ben told the truth mercilessly.

Since returning from the world of will, Li Ben has never forgotten those scenes, and the most important thing is that he has become interested. After those horrific and strange events, his soul felt happy, and he wanted to explore something deeper, and this curiosity occupied all his thoughts.

Those, he had already gotten some clues and answers in the spirit world, and as Maria said, his soul would give him the answer directly. The soul is an existence independent of the intellectual consciousness, something that it has never seen or understood, as long as its own soul comes into contact with it, it can always "know", and this cognition will turn into a sixth sense or other form of thinking and decision-making that affects the rational consciousness.

The city hidden beneath the golden sea is undoubtedly part of Chaos. When did you enter your own soul world?

The answer is also obvious, it is something that comes with the gift of the world. According to Mary, the golden ocean is the original form of the world's gift that has not yet been transformed into a concrete ability, so the only thing that brings itself back to life is the hidden darkness and chaos.

He also asked Zhou Haomiao if he had seen anything similar in the world of will, and the result was negative, and Zhou Haomiao said that he couldn't even understand what he was saying.

According to these days, the science that Aita gave them on the migration path showed that the ability of Chaos Hunters is to turn their bodies into chaos and keep their souls pure, and those in this situation are called "Infected". On the other hand, there are also cases where the soul is chaotic and the body is not abnormal, or both.

However, all the occurrence of soul chaos is called "degeneration", and those people are "alien demons", whether they still maintain a normal human appearance or not, unity will be regarded as a non-human existence, a different species, there is no cure, only elimination.

What happens if you confide in someone else?

Nothing good will happen.

Regarding the body of the chaotic power, he also has the object of speculation - the ancient gods.

Also obtained from the information obtained from Aitana, the ancient gods were the first beings with self-will to appear at the beginning of the birth of the world long before the birth of mankind, when the will of the world was not manifested, and the universe was in a state of complete chaos. The ancient gods are chaotic beings, but they are also beings who help the will of the world create order, and it is not an exaggeration to call them creation gods.

In the era of the ancient gods, the gods created their own dependents, and each god was a civilization. These civilizations are also the cornerstone of many civilizations in this universe today.

Later, with the establishment of the cosmic order and the growth of the will of the world, the ancient gods of chaos and their dependents were ostracized and purged, and only the most powerful part survived, wandering on the edge of the world, or sealed by the will of the world.

In this world where the forces of chaos have returned, the ancient gods have also begun to move. They are more elusive and incomprehensible than the gods imagined by human civilization, and it is very likely that their past and existence that humans can know now are the ones who have made their disclosures and declarations.

Humanity has not known anything about them. The only thing that can be experienced and recorded is the part about their families.

That chaos is still dormant, and it has not affected itself at this stage, perhaps because of the existence of the golden ocean, it is buried, and it can't be done. It is not something with the concept of good and evil, there will be no mercy and kindness. Thinking about it this way, if you really develop your own abilities, will you cause the black chaos to explode together?

This is something that Lee Ben is worried about. You can't tell the outside world, you can't let it go, and you have to rely on yourself until you find more answers.

In the face of Andre's behavior of blackmailing with the terms of the contract, he couldn't tell the truth, maybe it was this old man who used trickery from the beginning. Li Ben made up his mind not to lie deliberately, but only to tell some of the external scenes, and let them guess for themselves.

Zhou Haomiao seemed to be really afraid of Andre's warning, and spoke in great detail, explaining his conjectures one by one.