"Are you the god of fate?"

"Who else is I? ”

"How?"

The figure waved his hand, and the surrounding mist turned into a spiral pillar and rushed towards Li Ben, pouring into his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose, washing his soul from the inside out.

It didn't feel good.

After some tossing, the guy who claimed to be the god of fate stopped and let Li Ben recover.

"What do you mean by the fact that the contract cannot be established? According to the sacrificial law, the gods must accept the sacrifice and grant the sacrifice a corresponding reward, if the sacrifice cannot be fulfilled, the sacrifice ceremony should not take effect from the beginning, and I should not enter the trial!

"The trials you passed were exchanged for the opportunity for you and me to have a conversation. Moreover, the rules that you humans know are only the tip of the iceberg of the larger rules. You're not the only outsider praying to me for strength. I also know your desire to escape from this world, and I also think that if I can escape back, I will not be able to go to your world to get the price. With all that kind of cleverness, you can't survive in this world. ”

"So what is the reason why the contract can't be established, and what do you want?"

Since all his calculations are known to him, there is no need to hide them, and the god of fate must have his purpose in coming down to talk nonsense to himself.

"You are the ones who have been given a mission by the will of the world, and the world does not need people who can be swayed by fate, so I cannot give you the power of the prophets, and the fragments of fate that other prophets see in you are only a possibility. ”

Hearing this, Li Ben remembered Zhou Haomiao, who had forced him out of the tribe by listening to the prophet's prophecy, and he didn't know how he would feel if he knew this fact... Or did he already know it, but still insist on his choice?

"However, I can give you some other gifts that you need right now. ”

"So, at what cost?"

"New Covenant. ”

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

Leaving the world of the god of fate, Li Ben has been strengthened again at the soul level, although he does not have the ability to peep into fate, but under the effect of soul sublimation, he has a strong ability to sense danger, which can effectively help him survive alone in the wild.

According to Him, it would have been impossible for him to leave this place without the help of this force. Even if there was some intimidation in it, Li Ben had to believe God's word.

And the key to this contract, what is the price that Li Ben has to pay, the god of fate gave an incredible condition: "If you can return to the original world, then you will definitely return again." And that time, before completely changing the planet, you will be my family forever. ”

These two sentences reveal two messages, one is that this god cannot guarantee that Li Ben can return to the original world smoothly, and the other is that even if he can return to the original world, the god of fate has a way to collect his tribute.

And the words that became a family member are somewhat unclear, and can only indicate that he is secretly planning something that is difficult for ordinary people to understand.

Of course, Li Ben accepted this contract, after all, the thief does not go empty, he has worked hard to complete the painful trial, and there is no reason to return empty-handed. After completing the signing of the contract, the god of fate drove him out cleanly.

He tried to call the god of fate through the trial ritual again, but nothing happened.

"I'm not the only outsider looking to Him for power, and it seems that He's staking on some other otherworldly people as well. ”

Putting these things behind him for the time being, Li Ben is more focused on finding ways to get out of this dangerous place for now.

Looking at the time, it was only about six minutes in reality.

He didn't fail to ask what was going on in this place when he talked to the god of fate, but unfortunately the god ignored him.

So now, he can only pick up some dry branches, wood blocks and dead grass from the outside world, bring them back to the cave and use primitive methods to make a fire to solve his own food and clothing problems, and then think about the next plan of action.

With the help of his mental eye and crisis sensing ability, Li Ben was relieved to collect a lot of things, and a rare mandrake the size of a palm was found by chance. This silvery-white plant, if you want to describe it, can be compared to the ginseng in the original world, or understood as the mutation product of the ginseng in this world under the action of chaotic forces.

The mandrake has a full humanoid silhouette, faintly emerging facial features, and the ability to escape through the land. When he was caught by Li Ben, he let out a baby-like screaming cry. If he hadn't known its characteristics in advance, Li Ben would have been really shocked by it.

This thing is one of the few chaotic products in this world that can be directly consumed by humans, and it can permanently improve people's physical fitness without any side effects, at least twice as much as the existing foundation.

If you want to become a high-level chaos hunter, eating mandrake is also a well-known shortcut. This shows its value.

"Luck has finally taken my toll. Li Ben's mood was a little better.

However, this rare thing can appear in the surrounding area, which gives this place a veil of mystery.

It takes three months to eat mandrake, starting from its feet, you can eat a little every day, if you swallow it all at once, most of the medicinal properties can not be absorbed, which will cause severe diarrhea.

Back in the underground cave, it is much more difficult to drill wood for fire than Li Ben imagined, although there have been many successes in hunter training, but it is really not so easy to do these things alone in the wild.

He had no choice but to enter the ruins of the tribe once again to find something that could ignite a fire.

Floating up from the water, the glowing plants in front of my eyes were suddenly full of people.

These people are distorted and blurred, with varying degrees of mutation throughout their bodies.

These are the souls of those who have become plants, the true face of those alien demons. Li Ben judged. Being able to see them must have something to do with their own heart and eye ability.

He seemed to understand why he had seen visions of the past.

These souls are begging for relief.

They weren't supposed to be trapped in this place, and the souls of any dead beings had a home, either completely extinct and integrated into this world, or they could be transformed into ghosts under the influence of chaos, wandering aimlessly all day long, thirsting for the flesh and blood of life.

However, ghosts that cannot manifest in this world on their own are no other threat than scary.

And to stand still like this, trapped in the midst of plants, is tantamount to permanent torture, and you can imagine what it would be like to stuff a whole person into a small bottle.

One possibility of this phenomenon is that the tribal prophet did not know the consequences of turning man into a plant, but simply used it as a method of killing the flesh.

Another possibility is that this terrifying and strange underground cavern is, after all, a place where even the gods cannot interfere.

I got a lot of useful resources and information from this place... Free them as a little reward for me. After all, you don't have to take any risks to do these things.

The way to liberate these souls is simple: find the tribal register from the prophet, find the objects that each person used in his lifetime, come among them, and call a person's name every time they say a message.

When they are called, they can temporarily settle their souls on objects, and Li Ben can finally take these objects out of the cave and bury a monument in the outside world to achieve their peaceful sleep.

This is the human method of rest, a separate course in hunter training. If the deceased does not have access to the cemetery and the inscription, he will become a part of the chaos.

As for the alien demon, if he still retains a trace of human reason, he also has a chance to be completely liberated, although in most cases it is more likely to become a ghost.

It takes a lot of time to do these jobs. Li Ben, whose soul power had greatly increased, had no problem resisting the chaos erosion here, and he even felt that he could live here for a while.

"The light that follows the order, the eternal flame warms the darkness, in this world devastated by chaos, we pave the way for you to find your way home...... Sleep in peace, Alva. ”

A figure crept forward and disappeared from a garment in front of Libon as he crossed Alva's name on the roster.

Of course, the process is not always smooth sailing, and some souls do not follow his call, which means that he has not found the person's former belongings, or that the person is not among these trapped souls.

But Li Ben still patiently turned back to find all the relics, and there were two more figures he could see, and there was only one name left on the roster that had not been crossed out, and that was the name of the prophet of the tribe - Austin.

Lee Ben first invoked the name of Austin, and it did make a soul react. As for the other, he tried to put down the silver sword he was carrying, called out to the name of Gvar, and succeeded in giving him a home.

This also proves that it is not the plants that trap the souls, but the place.

After that, according to the plan, Li Ben found a flat place outside the cave, buried all the relics that carried the soul, and carved more than 100 simple wooden tombstones.

It's all over.

Li Ben looked at his dirty hands and said to himself, "I should still be a human..."

Alien demons do not recognize themselves as alien demons, and their abnormal behavior is completely normal in their own eyes.

What Li Ben had been worried about all along, was that he had unknowingly become an inhuman monster, and every time he used that chaotic power from the depths of his soul, his suspicions would deepen. According to the experience of human beings in this world, this is indeed the case.

The only reason he could find was the uncivilized golden ocean in the world of will.

The humans of this world have indeed recorded examples of people from other worlds who were infected by chaos and became alien demons.

Therefore, Li Ben has never thought about the "World Gift" for fear that it will suddenly change and lose the power to seal those crazy worlds in the depths of his soul. For this reason, he has been trying to hypnotize himself for a long time, making himself think that the power of rapid rebirth is a gift from the world.

Of course, this self-deception did not work.

Back in reality, Li Ben lost the silver sword he had just gotten and gained a humanistic reason that comforted him, and then it was time to continue his plan.

There wasn't much food left to eat in the ruins of the tribe, and after he searched repeatedly, he found two more jars of pickles, which didn't smell good, but they should still be edible. By the way, I collected a lot of old leather and household tools, and planned to make two sets of weatherproof coats. I also removed some foldable iron racks and combined them with leather to make a simple small tent, just enough to accommodate the next person.

"Big backpack, copper-core kerosene lamp, bowler hat, grinding wheel, flint lighter, kettle... There's a lot of stuff, tsk, and I don't feel like I can lose it... Forget it, take it all. ”

This small tribe is much poorer than Andrei's, and there is nothing high-tech. Most of them are mechanical and bulky objects, which are not suitable for single people.

There is no way to reproduce the high-tech products of the past, and many things have even been forgotten how to use them, and they can only peep from the embers left by their predecessors.

"It feels like you're back in the 19th century. ”

After a night's rest, Lee had planned to try to leave after dawn.

The fear and coercion left by gluttony is still fresh in his mind, and fighting that kind of monster is definitely something that only a madman can do.

Li Ben first moved the supplies to the vicinity of the spacious cave entrance, and for the first time he explored the way, he didn't plan to take them with him, so as not to slow down his actions when he encountered something terrifying.

Pure water is an indispensable thing, and when he was looking for relics for those souls, he found more than thirty small bottles by the way, and naturally the comers accepted them all.

Put his own perception ability to the maximum, although it is broad daylight at this time, Li Ben, who knows the danger of this place, always feels chills all over his body, and it seems that the shadow of the previous time will not dissipate so easily.

The withered trees were rooted in the blackened earth, and the air was filled with a bleak smell of desolation. The sky flickered brightly and darkly, and the cold wind blew up pieces of fallen leaves, making a rustling sound in the friction.

It looks like it's going to rain heavily.

The hunters on full alert had spent a whole morning and half an afternoon in this place. Many dangerous places, under the warning of his sensing ability, were all avoided, so he didn't see anything like gluttony along the way.

However, some deformed little monsters still appear from time to time, most of them are mutants of small wild animals, such as gophers, woodpeckers, catalpa insects, etc., which belong to the second level of chaos creatures, and Li Ben only needs to use a steel sword to solve them.

He didn't forget to make marks along the way, but each time he had to turn to avoid danger, the result was that he went back and forth in circles.

It seems that today's exploration is fruitless, so let's go back before it rains.

Passing by the tribe's cemetery, Li Ben saw some wandering ghosts, of course, because of his extraordinary soul power.

The ghosts approached Li Ben and surrounded him, and they passed through the body of the living person, making people feel as if the temperature around them had dropped slightly.

If there is no opportunity, these ghosts will only linger for a long time, and one day, their soul power will be exhausted and they will fall into a real eternal sleep.

"Hmm, what is that?" Li Ben keenly sensed that the soil of a certain cemetery was trembling.

When you look closer, the tombstone bears Gvar's name.

"Then it's Gvar's sword buried below... Did something go down?"

He looked around, and the ghosts followed him, but he didn't worry about that, as long as he was a certain distance away from the cemetery, the ghosts would leave automatically.

Let's dig it up... Excuse me, Gvar.

The source of the vibration beneath the dirt was the silver sword.

Li Ben saw that the sword body emitted a ghostly light, and he turned off his mind eye ability, and as a result, he could still see the light in the mysterious runes of the sword body, which was the essence of light condensed by the soul.

Gvar's soul did not fade or become a geist, he gave all his willpower to the sword.

And not long after the sword body was unearthed, all the souls that followed Li Ben also entered the sword body, and the black blood stains on the sword came to life, emitting a strange red glow, and it was covered with cracks all over the sword, like its blood.

The nameless silver sword floated in the air with its own strength at this time, quietly hovering in front of Li Ben.

The power of the soul that can interfere with reality, and the light of the ghost that can manifest in the present world, these two points undoubtedly show that the sword in front of him has become a chaotic alien, something that has an erosive instinct for order.

I didn't feel its hostility or unusual will. This looks like an opportunity... Or a trap.

Li Ben tried to grasp the hilt of his sword.

Rumble!

In an instant, the soul encountered a violent impact from this body, and the roar of a giant cannon seemed to be heard in his ears.

I know it's not that simple...

He felt the cries of those mad souls, the despair and sorrow of being trapped in an inhuman body for a long time, and he was at the center of the chaotic storm, and these negative mad wills turned into black and red sand, constantly striking and cutting his own soul.

It's harder than enduring that inside-out tear in the trials of fate.

He faintly saw a pure white bright spot in the storm, and his intuition told him that it was the key.

So Li Ben staggered closer to it, and stretched out his hand to grasp the light.

He pulled the light down before his eyes, and the storm around him faded away, leaving only darkness.

In the darkness, that bit of white light melted into Li Ben's soul.

When he opened his eyes, there was silence all around him, and all the geistes were gone, as if only he was left in heaven and earth, and the nameless sword he held in his hand.

"The human beings of this world can only ensure the survival of the flame of civilization because of the dedication of others, your master Gwa is unwilling to fight with his people and self-defeating, the prophet of your tribe intends to save the souls of his tribe and destroys himself, and your birth is also the only light of order for the souls of the tribe to survive......"

"Your name is the Victim. ”

As if he understood Li Ben's words, and as if his own will had been established and resonated, the blood-colored texture of the sword body emitted a burst of agitation, like the heartbeat of a living creature.