Chapter 106: Bonfire
"Newcomer, your luck is really good, much better than the ones who came before, the place we came from is the outer area we just cleaned up, otherwise you wouldn't be facing these cold corpses. Boom. ”
In the darkness, the figure turned around and limped forward with the lantern, and kept laughing like a night owl.
Hearing this, Simon's heart moved, and he remembered his original purpose, could it be that the eight devout disciples of the Eternal Mirror had fallen into this ghost place, and he followed directly, and asked, "The person who came in front of me, what kind of place is this?"
The figure slowly stopped, the lantern in his hand raised slightly, wrapped under the hood, and a seeping smile pulled out from the corner of his mouth, like a demon under the dim light.
"They, of course, are dead! They weren't as lucky as you to be in this supposedly safe area. As for where this is, this is hell!!"
The figure raised his head and looked at Simon, who was a little taller than him, his tone was full of madness, his head poked out of his hood, and his terrifying head stretched out in front of Simon's face, his expression full of madness.
"I'm the devil of hell!"
In the flickering firelight, Simon saw his true face. A dry face was covered with all kinds of strange injuries, lacerations, burns, tears, corrosion, and depressions of all kinds of injuries crowded on his face, mixed with blood and thick water, and there was no intact place to be seen.
Simon looked at the head in front of him quietly, his expression calm, as if he hadn't heard his answer.
Is this hell?
He didn't believe it at all.
As for the ghost-like head in front of him, he didn't care too much, just like looking at ordinary people, he had the slightest feeling of fear because he saw such a terrifying appearance.
He has seen a lot of ghost things like this, and the guys in the Filthy Sea Demon Sect in the Hanhai Law Realm are much more terrifying than him, and the first condition for those crazy people to get started is to make themselves unhuman and ghostly, and they are disgusted. He hadn't dealt with several of them many times.
"You're good, really good!"
The figure looked at Simon, whose expression was calm and unaffected by his appearance, and looked extremely excited, and he hid his head in his hood again, chattering nonsense. It seems that it is rare to find someone who has a common topic.
"Newcomer, yours is very good. I love the look on your face now, really, I swear, more than the look of the woman I liked when she was excited. Let me think about it, I remember one time I saved a guy, and he tried to run away because he was afraid of my head, and he actually tried to run back into the darkness in front of me, and go back to feed the monsters, you say it's ridiculous. Hahaha. ”
The figure began to laugh maniacally, and the lantern in his hand shook as his body shook.
After laughing for a while, he gradually paused, his face instantly became extremely gloomy, he found that the guy in front of him was not smiling, how could he not laugh at such a funny joke?
He's starting to dislike this guy a little.
"Do you know what happened to that guy?" the figure suddenly thought of something again, and his face became excited again, and he replied naturally, "I naturally won't let him run into the dark, what a waste to eat the monster, it is better to let me eat it, you know, I haven't eaten such fresh meat for a long time." It tastes so delicious. ”
As the figure spoke, his eyes involuntarily drifted to Simon, and the gluttonous juice in his mouth began to secrete a large amount, and the long tongue covered with moss licked his lips involuntarily.
Simon sensed his malice at the first moment, and the thunder flashed all over him, and he was about to take the lead.
The figure's reaction was beyond Simon's expectations, he stood in place, ignoring the thunder on Simon's body, and said unhurriedly, "Let's go, wait a minute, there will be evil things here again." ”
With that, he limped forward again.
Simon looked at the figure that was about to disappear into the darkness, and after a little thought, he strode along.
Anyway, this guy is the first person he can communicate with in this dark world, so it's better to follow him for the time being, after all, this world feels more and more dangerous to him.
He clenched his fist, the thunder in his fist was much smaller than when he first arrived, and the darkness seemed to be eating away at his power.
Soon, Simon caught up with the figure in front of him who was limping through the darkness with a lantern.
Unfazed by Simon's arrival, the figure looked at the flame that seemed to suddenly become a few minutes smaller in the lantern, tore a piece of flesh from his arm, and threw it into the flames.
Suddenly, the firelight lit up a few more minutes.
The two of them walked slowly in the darkness like this, the figure seemed to be normal, and he didn't make any moves that made Simon feel threatened, but he still kept a certain distance from the figure in front of him.
In the darkness, there was a dead silence.
The two of them hadn't said anything since then, except for the small snapping sound of the flame burning in the lantern.
With the help of the faint light of the lantern, Simon was able to see a little bit of the world he was living in.
They were now walking on a wide, boundless avenue, with huge square limestone paved ground beneath their feet. In the darkness on both sides, you can faintly see some tall buildings with only broken walls left, and you can vaguely see the grandeur of their long ago.
On the spacious streets, you can occasionally see a lot of products from the modern world.
Abandoned phone booths, dilapidated antique cars, and completely shattered street vending machines fall haphazardly in this world, and occasionally strange noises come from them.
However, there was no figure at all, and Simon naturally did not meddle in anything, but kept speculating in his heart about the relationship between this world and the outside world.
If you want to say that this world has no connection with the outside world, you can't believe it if you kill him.
You know, when the figure leading the way saw him, he spoke fluently in the spoken language of the United States of Adolia, and it was not difficult to hear from his words that he was not the only one who had come into this world. Coupled with the things we see now, this world is definitely intimately connected to the outside world.
This may also be the key to getting out of the way.
Time kept passing like this, and after I don't know how long it was, the figure suddenly spoke, and there was a bit of relaxation in his tone, "We're about to arrive." ”
"Hmm. ”
Simon agreed, and instantly raised his alertness, he could already see that in the darkness ahead, a faint light broke through the darkness, and a huge and majestic city gate was not far ahead. Although it has collapsed for the most part, it still does not affect its majesty and height.
The two of them soon passed through the tall gates and entered the ruined city.
On the wide street, there is a street lamp standing on both sides of the street every other distance, above the street lamp, the swaying flame continues to emit light and heat, illuminating this dark world, and also making everyone who comes here feel a kind of warmth and comfort from the soul, which makes people can't help but want to get close to the flame and blend into the flame.
These lampposts have strange shapes, far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.
They are made of all kinds of twisted monsters, ranging from beasts with wings like eagle claws on their backs, to long worms with sharp teeth like chrysanthemum beaks, and monsters that vaguely resemble humans.
They were all bound in place by unknown spells, and their flesh and blood supported the flames until they were completely reduced to ashes.
Simon looked at these lampposts and was secretly frightened, each of them had a breath that was weaker than that of the Headless Horseman Lancelot, who had stepped into the Sanctuary.
From the outside, it can be said that it is already an existence that no mortal can look up to. But here they can only be used as lampposts, standing on both sides of the road one after another, emitting light and heat.
Simon forcibly suppressed the horror in his heart, he didn't believe that the powerhouses of the Sacred Domain level were really so overflowing.
If this is the case, where can people outside live so peacefully, I am afraid that it has already become the ration of these evil creatures, and I am afraid it is more due to the factors of this dark world.
Simon calmed down a little and continued to follow the figure.
As he went, he gradually noticed that the flow of people on the streets gradually increased, and during this time, he had seen no less than six or seven human-looking beings. They all hurried down the wide streets, carrying a flaming lantern, and barely said a word to each other.
"It seems that there are quite a few humans in this place!" Simon sighed quietly as he looked at the figure that had just passed in front of him. However, he did not rush forward to say hello, and still observed secretly.
After crossing two long streets, the figure suddenly stopped, and he turned to look at Simon, and pointed to a tall, slightly intact building not far away, signaling that he had arrived.
The figure led him through the tattered door into what clearly looked like the main building.
As soon as Simon entered the door, he saw a roaring bonfire in the hall, and in addition to that, there were two figures next to the bonfire.
They were sitting around the campfire at the moment, their hands stretched out around the fire, with a look on their faces that they wanted to touch but were afraid of being burned by the flames, and slowly tentatively stretched their hands into the flames, not paying attention to the two people who walked in.
The figure didn't care, he just threw Simon into the hall, turned around and walked into the corridor behind the hall, and quickly disappeared in front of his eyes.
Simon stayed in the middle of the hall, looking at the two people next to the campfire with great interest, watching their expressions as they wanted to put their hands into the tinder but did not dare to reach into the tinder.
Gradually, the huge bonfire completely took over his spirit.
The orange-red flames gradually turned into a holy and brilliant milky white in his eyes, and the flames danced like elves dancing in them, so beautiful that people couldn't take their eyes off them at all.
A huge thought connected with his spirit, like returning to the warmth of his mother's embrace, Simon subconsciously walked to the campfire, and then stretched out his hands to touch the warm campfire like the two people next to him.
Boom!!!
At this moment, the Mirror of Eternity, which had bitten into his earlobe, shook violently, and a loud sound like the heavens and the earth cracking suddenly resounded over Simon's soul.
He woke up in shock, and his whole body quickly moved away from the campfire as if he had seen a poisonous snake, and he did not even dare to look at it again.
This thing is alive.
When Simon escaped from the temptation of the campfire, he actually felt a sense of loss from the flames, and this feeling of loss has been haunting him at this moment, and he can't help but want to return to the campfire again.
Simon couldn't help but feel a little panicked, it was simply terrifying!
For the first time, he felt that his mind that he had cultivated for four hundred years was so vulnerable that it would be affected by a bonfire, and this thing was even more powerful than the Five Aggregates Misty Regent Divine Technique of the Great Freedom Heavenly Demon Sect.
If it hadn't been for the Mirror of Eternity's sudden awakening at the last moment, he would have been completely consumed by the flames.
Simon quickly turned his head and didn't dare to look at the bonfire in the hall, so he directly cut his wrist and borrowed his own blood as a spell casting material, and blessed himself with one spiritual protection spell after another to prevent him from being affected by the flames again.
While these are low-level spells, it's always nice to have a little more protection.
Just as he had done all this, someone had already walked up to him from the other side of the hall, and a red-haired man with a flame of fire walked directly in front of him.
The red-haired man looked at Simon and stretched out his right hand in a friendly manner, as if he was at a banquet in the outside world, and said to him with a smile on his face, "Hello, I'm Aiken, and it's an honor to meet you, strange Mr. Mage." ”
Apparently, he had been here for a while, and after seeing Simon perform a few minor spells, he had mistaken him for a mage.
"Green, it's a pleasure to meet you. ”
Simon nodded at him and lied about a name, without the slightest intention of shaking hands with him.
After all, in this weird world, it's better to be careful, no matter in the past life and this life, the various curses and spells that overwhelm the name body are really countless, and he has to be careful to guard against them.
Aiken didn't care, he still had a bright smile on his face, "Your Excellency Mage has only been in the inner layer of this shadow world for a short time!"
Simon nodded, and was about to answer, when a terrified and desperate roar suddenly came from the campfire in the hall.
"Don't, I don't want it!"
The two figures sitting cross-legged around the campfire could not resist the temptation to return to the flames, their features twisted and let out a desperate cry, but their bodies involuntarily jumped into the fire at the same time.
A huge tongue of fire suddenly protruded from the scorching bonfire, swallowing them directly.
Suddenly, the sky was full of sparks and danced, like the silver flowers of the fire trees blooming in the night, gorgeous and dazzling.
Aiken glanced at what was happening in the hall, still with a big smile on his face, not taking it to heart in the slightest.