Chapter Twenty-Three: The Inheritance Finally Appears, Light and Darkness (End of the Month, Ask for Subscriptions, Ask for Rewards!)
The kitchen where the worms of hell are flying around.
Most of the corpses were burned down, and only a few embers remained.
The knight who was pierced through the back of the heart by his master's sword, lying on the ground, blood spreading, flowing, and spilling. Relily, a modern civilized girl who is getting weaker and closer to death.
And, at this moment, the white-haired hunchbacked old man who has become the intersection of the eyes and sights of everyone present.
"You calamities and ruins who have been rejected by your own native world, isn't it good to die cleanly?"
"No, what do you mean?" Wei Lun raised his eyebrows, even Zhu Peng on the side felt that when people were swords and axes, and you were fish and meat, the old man in front of him was a little too arrogant.
"Don't you understand? What you've experienced since you came here doesn't make you wake up to some degree? Your bodies are full of factors that may destroy the world, so you are all expelled beings, and you yourself represent destruction!"
Not to mention, witches and knights who were originally hostile to each other, even the three of Nakato-Viren, Zoya Anst, and Daxiu Victor were watching each other suspiciously.
In this process, Zhu Peng showed amazing acting skills, he didn't feel that the dimensional world of the Immortal Continent rejected him from coming here, or even if it was really like this, how could he admit it at this moment.
Syllable!
Raising his hand, Nakato Viren smacked the hunchbacked old man in the mouth.
"Don't talk about those useless things, take us to your settlement, my proposal just now is still valid. If you don't, the guy next to you specializes in manipulating dead bodies, and he can make you into a living corpse, guaranteed to be obedient and no less than you old guy knows. Zhu Peng, who was named by the Pirate Seven Kings, stretched out his hand and rubbed his nose, and then he took advantage of the situation to put on a very terrible, very fierce, very cold and ruthless face.
Whether it was because of Viren's ferocity, or because of Zhu Peng's performance, or because of the pain and humiliation caused by the heavy slap, the hunchbacked old man slowly nodded and agreed to the request after muttering for a long time.
"However, I ask to drink the medicine first, or you will regret my room for complete resistance afterwards. Also, the sooner you drink the medicine, the less the insects will erode your body, so I ask to drink the medicine now. The hunchbacked old man's words were answered by Viren at that time, and then he stretched out his hand to the young witch hunter Jeff and said:
"I'm trying my best to help you get back to the world you want to go back to, but I can't promise them two, if you believe me, give me the medicine, if you don't believe the fuck, you're going to smash that thing right now." When Jeff heard this, he looked at Viren and then chose to hand the flask in his hand to the other party.
Nacato-Viren uncorked the bottle and raised her hand to drink half of the potion, and Relily, who had been sluggish in the process, suddenly screamed and stood up and raised her shotgun at Viren, but before she could pull the trigger, she was hit by a fireball from Zorya.
In fact, how can a liger be a lamb?
When I'm not hungry, I cuddle you and play with you, but when I'm hungry, when it's really a matter of life and death, I won't even blink my eyelids when I kill you, just like Zoya Anst killing Reilly at this moment.
Nacato-Viren drank half of the bottle of the insecticide, then handed the remaining half to the hunchbacked old man in front of him and told him to drink it.
Seeing this, Zoya-Anst hurriedly drank the only remaining bottle of insecticide, feeling that the hell worms in her body were indeed suppressed under the effect of the potion, and the people who took the medicine breathed a sigh of relief.
"Now that my promise has been fulfilled, let's go. When the hunchbacked old man heard this, he gasped for a moment before he stood up.
Then he walked to the broken wall that he was dragged out by Zhu Peng with one hand, this is a small secret room similar to a cubicle, the old man lifted a small thing similar to a manhole cover in the corner, and there was a hole underneath.
"Sir, it's too dark here, let me go down first. Zhu Peng, who vaguely felt that the old man would not take them to the town's settlement so easily, stopped the hunchbacked old man who was about to climb down, and after he gave Viren a look, he climbed down first.
It was dark down there, but it didn't stop anyone who was essentially a demon, and slowly climbed down the iron ladder to a place that resembled an underground sewer, although it was indeed a sewer, but the water was relatively clear and did not smell.
Coming down from above was Viren, then the hunchbacked old man, Jeff, Darrah the witch, Zoya and the others.
"If, as the old gentleman said, we represent calamity and destruction, then the chances of him taking us honestly to the town's settlement are very low, be careful, he may have drunk half a bottle of insecticide just to get revenge on you and paralyze us, he could find an opportunity to kill himself at any moment, and if there are no bones left, even I will not be able to extract any more information. ”
"Know, an ordinary person is being watched by our brothers, whether he is alive or dead, can he still follow his wishes?" Wei Lun replied to Zhu Peng in a low voice, under normal circumstances, this is indeed the case, yes, an ordinary person is enveloped by the attention of two peak Saint Domain powerhouses in the world, and it is surprisingly difficult to die, let alone die without bones.
This underground waterway is very spacious and expansive, a thousand turns like a labyrinth, the hunchbacked old man slowly led everyone forward, he saw the turbulent underground river, high-speed rotating steel exhaust fan, obviously have the urge to plunge into it, but he also seems to feel the faint momentum of Nakato-Viren and Zhu Peng, knowing that in this case, he can't die in front of these little supermen, so he can only temporarily put the suicide plan on hold.
There were a few times when he wanted to take these people around in a circle, but every time he was about to do so, it was either Zhu Peng or Zoya who suddenly asked him to choose the right path.
(Could it be that even my mind is being read and controlled by them?, God, what a group of demons this is!) This thought flickered in the old man's mind. And in fact, his guess is almost equal to the truth, when the mage of the Holy Domain level envelops you with spiritual power, the strange brain frequency fluctuations at the moment of lying cannot be covered up at all, and the lie detector based on heart rate and endocrine is already quite effective, not to mention the further brainwave sensing ability.
In the sewers of small towns, such as three-way roads and four-way roads are still rare after all, most of them are two forks, and the fork in the road chosen by the old man when his brainwave is abnormal is of course wrong, so the remaining one is correct.
What's more, it's not just that, as the top spy, Zhu Peng's observation is meticulous, which of these uncleaned underground sewers has been walked by someone not long ago, and which road has not been walked for a long time, he can almost see it at a glance.
After several unsuccessful attempts to lead the way, the hunchbacked old man almost despaired, and he felt that the demons following him were playing tricks on him, and they knew exactly how to get to the town's settlement.
As he was about to walk out of the underground waterway area, the water in the waterway beside him suddenly swelled, and the hunchbacked old man's eyes lit up when he saw this, and he jumped into it violently.
Although the old man is not guaranteed to survive in such a turbulent water, it is better to die than to arrive at the town settlement with this group of demons, which symbolize "destruction".
Those demons didn't seem to react, in the turbulent water, looking at those gradually smaller shadows, the old man faintly felt a little uneasy, all this seemed to be too smooth, but the ecstasy of escaping instantly diluted this sense of uneasiness, under the push of the water, the old man did not know how far he was washed away, how long he was unconscious.
When he awoke from the cold, the obsession of going home became the only clear and firm will in the old man's mind, and he thought that even if he died, he should die in his own home, on his tattered wooden bed.
As the hunchbacked old man staggered back to the town settlement, to his dilapidated wooden house and tattered wooden bed, curled up and wrapped himself in a stall, a relieved and relaxed smile finally appeared on his face, and then he swallowed his last breath.
However, in the next moment, the five figures appeared in his room.
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A mortal, even if he spares his life, even if he tries everything, it is too difficult and unrealistic to break free from the hands of the powerhouses of the Holy Domain.
The real reality is that the hunchbacked old man did rush to the big exhaust fan running at high speed for a moment, wanting to twist himself into a pile of meat puree, but Zhu Peng suddenly appeared in front of him, stretched out his hand a little, and a large number of fictitious memories and pictures crashed into the old man's mind.
Except for the moment when the courage to rush to death was real, everything that followed was actually false, whether it was a successful escape through the flood or everything else.
The reality is that the old man who was hypnotized by Zhu Peng took the five of them all the way to his own home in the town settlement, and realized that his potential was exhausted and the necromancer who could die at any time, and finally weaved a beautiful memory for him, a safe dream, and then let him die in his own home, his own bed.
(Although the dreams I weave are false, the happiness I give you is real.) Instead of making you painfully face the reality of bringing "destruction" to the town, it is better to drown in the beautiful dream I gave you. As Zhu Peng said in a low voice, it wasn't just the five people who followed the hunchbacked old man to this underground town.
As the night hits, the black tide surges, and the horrors and nightmares on the surface are also intertwined at this moment!
The inhabitants who had lived peacefully in the underground town were suddenly horrified to find that the silver scorpion emblems hanging on the eaves of each house had suddenly exploded, if only one or two would have been fine, but with the invasion of dark shadows in all directions, one after another the silver scorpion emblems shattered and exploded.
"Great Ring of Time, Lord of the Silver Scorpion, have you abandoned your most devout people, my God, save me, save all beings. From time to time, there were clergy kneeling and chanting the Word, but there were others who chose to do something more important.
They channeled the panicked townsfolk to the cathedral in the center of the underground town, where at least the statue of the Silver Scorpion Lord of the Ring of Time had not yet exploded, and the magnificent Radiance of the Divine Radiance was still protecting the people of God.
Of course, a mere cathedral could not accommodate the large number of townspeople in the town, but there was basically no need to worry about this problem, and in the process of running towards the church with food, a young girl was eroded by the black mist that poured around her, and at a speed visible to the naked eye, blue-black veins appeared on her fair skin, and her eyes gradually lost their lustre, revealing a white porcelain-like texture.
Then she fell to the ground, and the whole person actually shattered like a fragile porcelain doll, and what flowed out of her body was not blood, but a large red powder.
"Run, run. ”
The broken porcelain doll girl was whispering, her lips opening and closing up and down in porcelain, but she didn't know who she was confiding in, who she was advising.
The carriage was jolting violently, and a young boy did not understand the nervous and frightened emotions of his parents and his sister, whose father, dressed in a decent dress, was driving the carriage in front, and the older sister threw herself into his mother's arms and cried out of excessive fear, while the mother slapped her daughter on the back to comfort her while crying.
She said, "The Ring of Great Time, Lord of the Silver Scorpion, will not abandon his loyal people, Isabel, and all will be well, Isabel." ”
At this moment, the puppet in the young boy's arms suddenly fell because of the violent jolting of the carriage, and at the same time, a black and gray wind blew from behind to catch up with the galloping carriage.
The boy stood up and took his puppet because of the bump of the carriage and lay on his puppet, at this moment, there was a black and gray wind blowing, when the smiling boy stood up with his beloved puppet, he found that the carriage that was like a small house was gone, and his mother, sister, and father who was driving the carriage in front were gone.
The body that had been slashed off by the black-gray wind spewed out a large mist of blood, which sprinkled the little boy's body and brought him the last warmth of his life, and the carriage was still running, but no one knew where it would finally stop. Already, no one knows.
"From what I know, although the silver scorpion is indeed the symbol of the ancient dark wizard Anglie, Anglie did not embark on the path of becoming a god, and he disappeared after two thousand years. Therefore, no matter how pious he is, it is useless, and what Anglie left here is just a mechanism for the collection and transformation of faith energy. Five figures floated in the air, and they watched as the entire underground town descended into darkness.
Only the very center of the underground town was supported by a silver glow like a burning flame, but the five people present knew very well in their hearts that this brilliance could not last too long.
(Since Anglie has not embarked on the path of becoming a god, what is the container for staying here to absorb and transform the beliefs of the people of the alien dimension?)
(By absorbing "harmful substances" to the surrounding dimensional world every once in a while to obtain the plane reward for maintaining its own existence, and then using these harmful to stimulate the piety of the people of the alien space, the power generated by piety is used to digest these harmful substances, but it will further nourish the strength of the collection and transformation vessel itself, so as to form a fragile but perfect balance, such a design, simply ingenious, exquisite.) From the wizard's point of view, Zhu Peng had to sigh at the ingenuity of Anglie's overall design.
Although I don't know why this powerful being didn't come here to harvest here later, it is a very good thing for myself.
The fruits cultivated by the ancient great wizard Time Ring Anglie for thousands of years have reached the moment when the melons are ripe and the fruits are ripe.
Collecting the fruit, the five Sanctuaries in the mid-air are afraid that they all have such thoughts, but at least so far, no one dares to say it blatantly, not to mention that due to the intervention of the party, the fragile balance designed by Angli has been broken, and the malicious, harmful, and expelled objects from all the nearby planes in the vicinity, the five Sanctuaries can only say that there is a certain amount of room for fighting back in front of these existences, but whether they can handle it or not, this kind of thing is difficult to say.
Whether the fruit left by the ancient great wizard will be too heavy and hard, and whether it will stone people to death if it falls, this kind of thing is uncertain at present.
"Alright, alright, everyone should stop pretending to be confused. According to the operating mechanism of this world, we may not be able to fight against the evil that will eventually condense like this. At this point, Zoya Anst glanced at everyone before continuing:
"In this case, we might as well digest this dark invasion, as long as we digest this big head, and then find the legacy of Lord Anglet, if we can, we will try to modify the operation mechanism of this world, and finally help the people here solve the problem of being constantly violated by the surrounding world, and then we can also get Lord Angle's inheritance, so that everyone is the beneficiary. Zoya Anst's rough plan sounded perfect, and it was impossible to make a perfect plan at a time when it was impossible to make a perfect plan, so everyone agreed to it.
At this time, the young witch hunter Jeff and the witch no longer said anything about returning to their own world, for the more high-level lifeforms, the easier it is to cross the constraints of the plane, if you can get the inheritance of the powerhouse of this world and obtain your own life essence promotion, then even if you can't find a way back here, you can always find other opportunities to go back in the long life in the future.
To put it bluntly, if you can be promoted to a fifth-order transcendent, there are not too many dimensional worlds that you can't go to in this huge universe and can't find after working hard.
The five of them landed from the sky and easily infiltrated the cathedral in the center of the town, they all had roughly trimmed their appearance, this xenodimensional space town is also not small, there are a lot of people, it is impossible for everyone to know whom, not to mention that the people in the cathedral at this moment are just getting rid of the catastrophe, and no one will think of conducting a comprehensive inventory.
And at this time, except for the core cathedral of the underground town, all the places are already a hellish scene of destruction.
The earth cracked and shattered, terrifying steam erupted, and countless demons roamed, searching, and playing with the remnants of the town.
There are also some people who don't know whether they are lucky or unlucky to have their silver scorpion emblem left, they let the emblem shroud and cover them with their firm faith, but this is only to bring a certain amount of entertainment to the demons, people will be hungry, tired, tired and desperate, as long as the search time continues long enough, they will still be caught after all.
For a time, the number of demons entrenched in the underground town was too much, and it was the civilians of this alien dimension who died by themselves.
Originally, according to the design of Anglie, every other year to absorb the impurities of the surrounding plane space, and then the people of this world fight with faith, so that the balance of absorption, digestion, absorption, and digestion can basically be maintained, but many people will continue to die in the process, but according to the fertility of human beings, this metabolism is completely bearable, and this alien space is not large, and there should be a certain consumption mechanism.
However, Anglie missed a little bit of his calculations, or even if he did, it was useless: human beings are a kind of existence that seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages, and is good at finding loopholes in the rules.
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After hundreds of years of normal operation in this extradimensional space and small dimensional world, the entire dimensional world is much larger and stronger, and from the perspective of the world, it is thriving.
However, the human beings in the midst of it can no longer bear the irregular day of each year, the day when they have to constantly digest the malice and disasters of the neighboring world.
They modified the teachings left by the great wizard Angelley, and then established an underground town under the town, so that they still lived on the ground in their daily lives, carefully day and night, pure faith, and digested the malice and resources from the neighboring world.
However, in the middle of July every year, the day when this world absorbs the malice and disasters of neighboring worlds, there is an alarm mechanism in the design of Anglie, so that people in this small world can quickly retreat to the underground world after receiving the alarm, and then cover it with the power of modified doctrines and beliefs to avoid the black July.
Originally, there were loopholes like this, and the population died less, and just the explosive exponential growth of human reproduction, this small world couldn't stand it.
However, after research, the town government finally implemented a quasi-family planning policy, which strictly limited the total number of births, so that the rules of the whole world could be self-consistent.
But, in fact, it just seems that it can be self-consistent, if it can really be done like this, Angliel will not let the dead people in this world go by place, all he wants is profit, and he is not psychopathic, and he can't see others happy.
The existence of the underground town has allowed the people of this small world to avoid the dark and raging seventh month, and there are fewer dead, and then the strength and purity of faith will irreversibly decline, if it is in a world of faith, this is just a certain god, and it is a common loss of all gods, but in this small world run by Anglie, it represents a decrease in the "digestion" ability of the plane.
The plane's ability to digest is decreasing, but due to the mechanism of the world, the amount of "food" drawn to the surrounding areas every year has not decreased.
There are no major changes in a short period of time, but year after year, day after day, thousands of years later, the dark side of the entire alien dimension is already boiling and stirring like volcanic lava that is about to erupt, it can be said that Zhu Peng and others found that the underground town is just an introduction, so that the surging darkness has a channel to erupt out in advance.
In fact, if this continues to accumulate, it won't take a few hundred years for this small world to be pulled into the endless abyss, where even the core cathedral of the underground town will be eroded, demonized, and even destroyed in an instant!
In the underground town, countless demons began to hunt and fight each other, either to snatch the small amount of human blood food, or for other interests, or just to satisfy their own bloodthirsty and killing desires.
They wouldn't have invaded the silver-shrouded cathedral now, but when the final evil took shape, a decisive battle was inevitable.
Demons are chaotic creatures, and their own positions are very chaotic, and many times, people can control and drive them as long as they pay a small profit. But when driving demons, they always have a knife in their hands, because their position is very confused.
Zhu Peng, dressed in ragged sackcloth, wandered among the worshippers, pretending to be an injured person, so he leaned against the corner of the wall and did not participate in the worship.
Faith is the most sincere only after the baptism of blood!
This is a sentence I once saw in a book that commented on the belief in the gods, and at this moment, the situation in front of me confirms this truth:
O countless bloodied men, who have just lost their relatives, their wives, their daughters, and their friends, and now they do not care about their grief, and fall to their knees before their gods, and cry out the word in a frenzy.
In the center of the cathedral is a coffin suspended by iron chains and inlaid with the image of a mighty half-scorpion.
Zhu Peng could feel that everyone's faith was invested here, and then spread into a silver divine light.
(It's really interesting, what is there in there?Relic, artifact...... Godhead?) can be used as a transit device between faith and divine power, no matter how Angli witchcraft is against the sky, no matter how much it can turn decay into magic, it cannot be a low-grade thing to speculate intellectually, because it is not necessary.
It's as if someone would wait an extra 20 minutes for a bus to save a dollar, while someone with a little more financial means would choose to take a taxi.
It's as if someone has never only watched piracy, and even complacently because he cares about ten dollars a month. And some people throw 100,000 or 1 million at their favorite works, also because it is unnecessary.
Mind, I care about the ten dollars a month, not because of diligence and thrift, but because most of them are actually because of poverty.
Throwing 100,000 or 1 million at your favorite works does not mean that people are stupid and have a lot of money, but because they are rich, and they think that their mood at that moment is worth the 101,000 million.
Even if the ancient great wizard Time Ring Angel had the ability to create a void and turn decay into a magical anti-heaven, he didn't need to bother with it, because an artifact was not very difficult for him to obtain, and with that dozens of hundreds of years of kung fu to turn decay into magic, he went out to find a transcendent existence and grab another artifact.
Zhu Peng understands this psychology very well, and it is not a problem to be able to settle the problem with money...... Although now he has neither money nor things, embarrassed.
Zhu Peng could feel the existence of faith transformation in the holy coffin, and so could other people, and some people even couldn't help it because of it.
Jeff, the witch hunter, looked at the half-hollow coffin, his eyes were full of fire, and his pupils faintly revealed a silver holy light, in the world of witches, the Holy See is the greatest source of power, but Jeff, who has been cultivating faith and will since childhood, has never felt so close to the gods.
Just as Jeff's sanity was about to be unable to suppress the heat in his heart, Nakato-Viren suddenly appeared on the side, and he pressed the palm of Jeff's newly blooming silver-white light.
"Don't go crazy, you think clearly, there is now thousands of years of accumulated faith power in this, if you forcibly seize it at this time, you must first fight with this power of faith, even if you succeed, without this power deterrence, the dark power outside will immediately rush in, you have to fight again, do you really think it is possible for you to win in such a situation?"
At the same time, on the other side, Zoya Anst pressed the same fanatical witch Dara, she and the Seven Pirates King Nakato Viren both came from the immortal world where the gods walked on the earth, so they could maintain a considerable degree of calm in the face of the existence in the holy coffin, although their hearts were also eager, but after Zhu Peng sent a reminder with spiritual power, they all reacted instantly and suppressed the other two.
"Instead of doing it now, it's better to wait for the Silver Scorpion faith and the dark forces to fight and lose. No, the dark forces out there are even far stronger than the power of the Silver Scorpion faith, and we even have to help the church suppress the dark forces before doing our own thing. Zoya Anst pressed Darla's hand and relayed what Zhu Peng had taught her, however, in her own heart, she couldn't help but be amazed at the calm and rational nature of the man Daxiu Victor.
Just as Nakato Viren and Zoya Anst were far calmer than the knight Jeff and Dara the Witch when facing the Holy Coffin, Zhu Peng was far calmer than these two when facing the Holy Coffin.
In addition to its own quality, it is also because in the wizard main world, the path of believing in gods is a path that has been defeated and denied, and Zhu Peng once participated in a spy mission, and the gods who were swept away by the Kasa Cosmic Storm could not even cope with the strong among the legends and demigods.
Belief in the god system, so it is assessed by the wizarding world as the wrong evolutionary path, at least, it is far from the most powerful and superior lifeform evolution route.