Zhang Chen walked among the mountains in the belly and came to the cave where the evil old man lived.

In fact, as for the relationship between the faceless man and himself, Zhang Chen had already noticed some clues when he first used the tooth knife in the center of the palace to fight with the insect firefly.

The toothed blade, which was completely destroyed by the arm of the 'Jizo King' during the confrontation against the Jizo King, originally took a long time to repair according to the dictation of the evil mouth, and it was not an overnight thing. However, after the Faceless Man invaded his mind and went through a strange dream, not only was his body injury completely repaired, but the evil old man also told him that Zhang Chen's tooth knife had been completely repaired.

The rebuilt toothed knife Zhang Chen is particularly easy to use, and it is much sharper than before, but it is mixed with a strange aura, which comes from the feeling that the faceless man brings to Zhang Chen.

At this moment, when Zhang Chen walked into the cave, the evil old man was using his fingernails to engrave some words or patterns on the wall.

"Evil Mouth, what is your relationship with the Faceless Man?" Zhang Chen asked.

"It's not about me, it's about you. It's a pity that he can't reveal his thoughts to others due to some forbidden reasons, and you will inevitably be misunderstood by you at the beginning, so he can only use me to reveal some very important information. ”

Evil Mouth Elder continued his portrayal and motioned for Zhang Chen to sit down on the stone chair beside him.

"This man was supposed to have a name, but he didn't seem to want to tell me, so I was asked to call him 'The Slender Ghost' because of the mystery and weirdness of the world. But as you might expect, he was just a faceless incarnation, and it was only in the process of reincarnation that there were huge problems. ”

"What's the problem?" Zhang Chen also paid attention to the pictures engraved on the wall when he asked, a large part of the entire mountain cave was engraved with such pictures and related words, and the evil mouth old seemed to be contemplating the "Body Phagoagosome Heart Codex".

"The first reason is that the number of faceless reincarnations has reached the upper limit, and there is some instability in the forced tenth reincarnation. The second reason is the most important. It is also crucial that the process of incarnation in the tenth incarnation of the faceless cannot be awakened until the incarnation reaches the age of ten. ”

When Zhang Chen heard this, he immediately added: "So before the age of ten, this avatar was a normal child, right?" ”

"Yes, because when he was a child, an arsonist set his house on fire. The house burned so much that there was no single piece of sawdust. Because living in the countryside is sparsely populated, plus the fire broke out at night. The remains of the parents were burned in the fire to the point of only a handful of ashes, but in the ruins of the building, there was a child who survived only a few skin injuries. ”

"The child was discovered, and the locals believed that he was favored by the gods, but no one wanted to adopt him, so the local government sponsored him to be raised in an orphanage."

"An orphanage?" Zhang Chen immediately connected with the strange dream related to the Faceless Man before.

"In the process of raising children, they were subjected to inhuman torture. When the police arrived, they found a total of 112 children in the orphanage. All 20 staff members died. Because of its age, there was no video recording equipment at the time, except for a notebook in the basement that recorded the cruelty in the orphanage."

"Am I attached to the body of the Faceless Man when I was young? Is the Faceling dead here? Zhang Chen asked.

"It's rare that I'm quite interested in telling you the story of your world, don't be too anxious, and then listen to me."

"The local police have huge questions about all this, why the main messenger who planned all this died here, and even every piece of skin on his body was slowly torn off his body and tied to the operating table. Using salt to infect flesh and blood without skin protection is completely painful to death. I don't know who did it.

Think about it, this kid really has the style of Lao Jun and me. ”

"Basically, the death process of every orphan here corresponds to a detailed record book, but there is a child in this separate database, which contains a large number of death record books, no matter how tortured this child, injected with ten times the lethal dose of ordinary people. Even cutting off the head can't die. ”

"Did you die at last?" Zhang Chen naturally knew that this child was the faceless tenth incarnation.

"Dead...... The child died after subjecting the doctor and nurse to the same inhumane torture. It's just that before death, a lot of negative emotions have been generated in the child's body in the process of this torture and a strange personality has been separated. ”

"The faceless incarnation will tell you of the failure of this reincarnation when the body dies. So when a child commits suicide. The Faceless Tenth Incarnation ended in failure, but because the Faceless consciousness was not awakened in the incarnation, the negative feedback effect on the Zero Faceless was very weak and basically negligible. ”

"The death of the faceless incarnation will cause all information about the person in the world, including the memories in the heads of the people involved, to disappear, and the body and soul of the incarnation will completely disappear. But...... This time the situation was different, the body did not disappear according to common sense. ”

"Do you mean that the resentment in the child's heart has reached the level of ghosts, and after death, the soul becomes a ghost?" Zhang Chen asked.

"The faceless man didn't tell me the details of this, but based on my life experience of the evil old gentleman, it is by no means as simple as a 'ghost'.

And one thing I'm thinking about is whether it's possible that when the faceless man separated from another personality when he was a child, he already understood his origins, and when he committed suicide, he didn't really die, but used some means to make himself a half-dead state, so that the faceless consciousness in the body left the body, so that he could truly dominate this body. ”

"Half-dead, how can this be done? Not to mention the need to fool Nyaratotip. Zhang Chen questioned.

"You've fought the Faceless Man, haven't you? You should have some contact with his body, the so-called half-dead state here refers to the physical life and the death of the soul, and the death of the soul makes Nyarrathotep have to believe that the incarnation of this life is completely dead, and there is no doubt about it. ”

"The body lives, and the soul dies?"

(In order to distinguish between 'faceless', future 'faceless men' will be called 'slender ghosts'.) Zhang Chen recalled the scene of the fight with the slender ghost, and for the first time, he injected the essence blood loaded with pure ghost qi into his body, and the essence blood had no effect, and the pure ghost qi even had an affinity for his body, I am afraid that this is the reason.

"The soul is the foundation, the place where consciousness dwells, and the body without a soul is just an empty shell. The early creatures of the corpse realm are such empty shells, and in the later growth process, they slowly pour souls into the corpse flesh.

It's just that the situation of the slender ghost is completely different, according to my guess, this guy is afraid that his own shadow will be his other soul in the long torture process, and he will begin to derive another personality from himself into the shadow in the subsequent torture process, and slowly create another soul. ”

"Do you mean that it's still a child's slender ghost, and it's already planning how to separate Nayarathotep from its body?"

"That's what I'm guessing, the other party is not a simple character, otherwise Lao Jun and I wouldn't be so interested in telling you this ordinary story in the world."

The old man's depiction of the cave wall came to a halt and stopped.

"Evil Mouth, why does this slender ghost want to help me?"

"His purpose for helping you is very simple, because in his opinion, you are the only one who can kill Nyaratotip among all people, and you are the only and special existence in his eyes."

"Can't he kill Faceless? And according to the strength, the green ghost should be more superior to me, right? ”

"The other party didn't say much about this, but in Lao Jun's opinion, Zhang Chen, you are no worse than that Khotan. Although my evil Laojun is not a top-level existence in the zero world, but in the mew world, even if it is the torturer himself, Lao Jun and I will not bow down to him, after all, Lao Jun's body is a unique existence in the mew world. ”

"It's just that Lao Jun is the same as this slender ghost, and he appreciates you well. Lao Jun, I have finally completed the first two chapters of the first volume of the "Body Phage Heart Canon", if you have time, you must have fully comprehended all the contents of the first volume and entered the forbidden stage. ”

"Now time is pressing, only wait to kill Nyaratotip and stabilize the situation in the world before I come to the "Body Phage Heart Codex", I almost understand the matter, I will go back first, if there is any urgent matter, I will come to you."

Zhang Chen thanked the evil old man and got up and left the cave.

"Wait a minute, I haven't told you about the tooth cutter yet. The slender ghost appeared in the process of repairing the toothed knife, as I said at the beginning, the repair process was a bit long because it was all broken, but when the other party appeared, it was a shadow injected into the broken toothed knife and the mearized spirit, which in turn served as a connecting body, making the repair process easy and fast. ”

"There are details about the toothed knife, you yourself figure it out in the process of using it, after all, the substance injected by the slender ghost, Lao Jun and I myself are not particularly clear, you need to feel it yourself. Although the other party is so generous to help you, it is indispensable to guard against others, and I am a little wary in my heart. ”

"Okay, thank you, Evil Mouth." Zhang Chen deliberately called the evil old man by his full name this time.

"Don't you kid die here......" After Zhang Chen's figure completely left the cave, the evil old man muttered slightly, and then turned his head to look at the understanding of the "Body Phagophage Heart Codex" engraved on the cave wall. (To be continued......)