Helios, the middle floor, was locked down by layers of mysteries, and flames burned in the cramped camp. The alchemists gathered around the fire with expressionless faces, staring silently at the beating light.

In the growing darkness, this is the only solace.

The only beacon in countless nightmares.

But in the darkness beyond the firelight, suddenly there was a sound of footsteps, like a cold rain beating in front of the window in a cold night, so low, crisp, with an unsettling chill, gradually approaching.

The people in front of the campfire raised their eyes, their expressions became gloomy, and they drew their weapons and aimed them at the source of the footsteps.

Then I saw a little light that was shining in the darkness.

As we get closer, the outline becomes clearer.

He took on the appearance of the young man, smiled at them, waved his hand, and a wisp of green smoke rose from the corner of the cigar in his mouth.

Familiar flavors waft in.

At that moment, there was a faint voice of relief.

Only one man was still holding a knife.

"Izzy, you're late. ”

"Ahaha, I'm sorry, I met an old acquaintance on the way, so I stayed and chatted for a few words, and I accidentally forgot the time. ”

Izzy patted his head and looked at their expressions, becoming more and more happy: "Everyone looks in good spirits, what a gratification!"

His footsteps stopped outside the boundaries of the secret ritual, and he didn't go any closer.

Just smiling, looking at the familiar faces.

The old Egyptian lady Ima, the Russian Union's metallurgist Valery...... And even finally, the trembling Rachel!

"Huh?" Izzy asked curiously, "where's Huaishi?"

Rachel's expression twisted for a moment, and he said coldly, "He's dead!"

"yes, that's a pity. ”

He shrugged his shoulders regretfully, and glanced at Rachel meaningfully, "Then how did you escape?"

“......”

In an instant, Rachel's expression changed, as if he was trying to restrain his anger and resentment, his lips moved, but finally he withdrew his gaze: "It has nothing to do with you!"

He hid his slightly deformed body behind his robes, hiding from Izzy's scrutinizing gaze.

Izzy retracted her gaze and smiled, "So, what's the catch?"

No one responded.

"Did you go home empty-handed?"

He sighed sympathetically, then moved out of the way, happily showing the queue behind him in the dark: "And I'm different...... I've got Garandion back!"

Silence was sudden.

Everyone looked up in amazement.

And in the darkness, among the silent alchemists, the leader lifted his helmet and showed an old countenance.

"The exploration base is ready. ”

The old man who was as cold as a stone said lightly, "Please come with me." ”

In an instant, everyone suddenly changed color.

"Wait...... Wait a minute......" Rachel incredulous: "Big, big...... How can the Great Grandmaster ......?"

"Probably because he couldn't rest assured, he followed us from the beginning. Izzy shrugged his shoulders and smoked a cigarette: "Oh, to be honest, I was scared, how about it?

"I ...... I ......"

Rachel's expression twitched, and it was difficult to say what was in his heart.

- He saw with his own eyes that Garand was beheaded by Publius!

But gradually, the convulsive expression quickly twisted, and the muscles squirmed, as if it had become another face.

A cold will settled into his shell, making him raise his head and smile at his long-lost friend.

But the smile was not warm.

So cold.

Full of mockery.

"Don't you look down on those mille-feuille the most, 'Garand'. ”

Separated by a long distance, Publius smiled strangely, "When did you start studying the small skill of carving insects, which can only be used to survive?"

"I'm different from you, Publius, we've never been the same. ”

Garland replied even more coldly, "How many selves can you separate from spirit and blood and bones?" ”

The cane struck down and collided with the floor, bursting with a sharp sound.

Truncated links from afar.

"No, we're all the same, ...... from the beginning"

In the last moments, the grim smile on Rachel's face faded, and only one last muffled whisper came from his spasmodic throat: "It's all ...... A link in destiny......"

In the dead silence, he finally lay on the ground, gasping for breath.

I've already burst into tears.

The alchemical matrix that had been engraved on the back of the deformed shell quietly dissipated, leaving only an ugly scar like a burn.

"I don't know...... I didn't say anything......" he exclaimed in defense: "I am innocent, Grand Master, believe me!"

"I know. ”

Garland didn't care, "Get up, Rachel, there's still a place to use you." ”

Rachel was stunned for a moment, then ecstatic, and nodded vigorously with a happy smile on his tearful and snotty face.

"Grand Master, I need an explanation. ”

In silence, Valery spoke: "What's going on with all this?"

"Unexpected. "But my promise is still valid. ”

He raised his eyes and stared at the alchemists gathered next to the fire as he was told: "It's just that you need to play a little bit. ”

As he spoke, wisps of blood oozed from the ceiling.

Stretching, spreading, pulling into threads, inextricably linked, turning into rain.

Red rain.

In an instant, the whole world was covered.

Priestess Imma's eyes moved slightly, and she looked up in disbelief.

Countless slender blood-colored colors converged and overlapped, turning into a crimson curtain at their feet. From it, countless vast phantoms emerged, fleeting, and conjured up countless mirages.

A terrifying loud bang erupted.

The blood that seeped out finally broke through the vigilance, burst into a roar, and turned into a sea of red.

In an instant, they were engulfed in it.

The whole of Helios shook violently.

The light signal traveled so slowly that five seconds later, from the observation of the current Harley's sounding glasses, I could catch a glimpse of the terrifying state of affairs in the monstrous chariot hovering over the Eye of Jupiter.

The sea of blood dissolved by the Sons of Leviathan was rising, gushing out of every rift, spreading, pervasive, rapidly shrinking and spreading.

Forming a hard and huge crystal cluster, moving rapidly, countless sharp corners unfolded like petals, collided, closed again, reversed, and expanded their volume in extreme defiance of common sense.

A faint glow flows from it, reflecting countless unfamiliar mountain and water features.

Together, like lotus flowers, they took root in Helios' shell. Immediately afterward, countless water colors appeared out of thin air, and in the ocean-like blue, there were the edges and corners of corals and huge fish shadows.

It was an element of destruction long dead, the remnants of the old Gaia, representing the past history.

- Forbidden Secret Ritual Gaia's Seed!

In this way, it was forcibly inserted into Helios's system.

At this moment, the attack from Garand began!

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There was a loud roar, and countless clouds of dust fell from the ceiling.

The skeleton that probed its brain on the three wheels was startled, and subconsciously pulled out the stick that could buzz and vibrate, and waved it wildly.

almost poked Huai Shi.

"You pay attention, can't you change something else?" Huai Shi's eyes twitched, and he snatched the thing from him, and then rummaged through the skeleton's collection for a long time, and found a frying pan and stuffed it into his hand.

"Big brother uses this, this is a blunt weapon, it's powerful!"

"Really?"

The skeleton scratched his head as if he didn't understand, and then pinned the pan to his ribs, and the Huai Shi was speechless for a while. Beans Literature Network

They have been advancing at the gloomy bottom of Helios for an unknown amount of time.

Under the command of Kirithime.

"Front...... The detour ahead ......" the skeleton suddenly reminded.

In its eye hole, the tail of the fish ball twitched nervously, and then quickly, it raised half of its tail and pointed in the other direction.

But there's only one way forward, and there's nowhere else to go.

Huai Shi hesitated and scratched her head.

Decide to trust the judgment of the fish ball.

It stands to reason that the mice used in this experiment should not be able to adapt to the external environment at all, and they don't know how to raise skeletons, they are actually alive and jumping, and they are keenly scary to abnormal states.

Along the way, Huai Shi alone saw it, and he took them to avoid an unknown number of dangers.

Sometimes it's a patrolling Nativity Spirit, sometimes it's a monster that escapes from the workshop after losing control, and sometimes it's ...... It's simply other alchemists who have completely solidified into distortions.

Sometimes Huai Shi simply can't see anything.

Only the belated premonition of death constantly reminded him not to make the wrong choice.

Thanks to its radar, the group had been walking around Helios for so long on such a large tricycle that they hadn't even triggered a fight.

Although the detour is at least seven or eight times, safety first!

"I haven't seen anything after walking for so long. Huai Shi scratched her head: "Tongji, are you reliable in guiding the way?" I feel more and more panicked......

What you saw along the way was simply a miserable situation like an abandoned real estate.

I don't know how many years it hasn't been maintained.

Even the lights on the walls are still stuck in the gas age......

"It's just ahead, not far. ”

Tong Ji retracted her gaze and said calmly: "Even if there are changes later, it is impossible for Helios's basic skeleton and internal structure to change, unless it wants to fall apart, otherwise the cambium layer, the outflow layer, the creation layer and the active layer must be balanced." In order to maintain balance, the replaced discarded core structure had to sink and be thrown into the debris pile. ”

Huai Shi suddenly said: "So we are going to restart the engine with the discarded furnace core?"

"How is that possible?" Kirihime was amused, "If it's me, I'll have to destroy all the spare things before I do anything, and take the key into my own hands." Publius had been brewing for so many years, and it was impossible not to have thought of it at all. ”

"Isn't that a garbage heap?" asked Huai Shi, "What are we picking up garbage for?"

"Silly boy. ”

Tong Ji was helpless, and said seriously: "Why don't you start your own skills in the operation of illegal organizations? Think about it, the garbage is useless, but what about the garbage itself! Even if the furnace core or the like is definitely scrapped, there is no way to destroy the interface......

It's like the blood vessels of the human body.

It was the pathway hidden in every inch of Helios' entity, the closest hidden branch of the Matrix to the engine.

"Then how do you know?" Huai Shi keenly noticed that something was wrong.

In the silence, Tong Ji's appearance gradually became innocent.

Look into the distance.

Whistled.

Huai Shi was about to ask, but she saw an abnormal scene out of the corner of her eye, and slowly turned around.

Outside the narrow window beside him.

In Kirihime's whistle, a silvery white color is slowly rising......

Through the narrow window, one could see the majestic silhouette that was emerging beyond Helios.

It was a round of nothingness...... Moon?!

At this moment, a waning moon is hanging high in space beyond Helios, shining above the Eye of Jupiter!

Is whistle so good?

When Huai Shi looked back at Tong Ji sluggishly, she heard her helpless sigh.

"That's none of my business...... That's Publius, okay!"

At this moment, with the emergence of the bright moon, the light of the Sun Chariot suddenly rose.

When the vacant 'moon' appears next to the chariot representing the sun, this incredible sun and moon form a huge secret ritual that can change the heavens and the earth!

With the glow of the sun and the moon blending with each other, there is an infinite power bursting out from it.

Reversely exploits Garand's Gaia seed.

It follows the miracle of the oldest geocentric doctrine, which runs on top of Helios and turns into an undying forged fire.

Shockingly large fluctuations emerged from the top of Huaishi's head.

Through the layers of thick walls and cabins, with Helios as the battlefield, the two great masters who stood at the top of the whole realm began to fight.

The calamities and miracles of the abyss are constantly changing from it.

Just a slight aftermath, the heat they degenerated, burned the entire husk of the chariot red.

Everything is gradually being put into the furnace.

Extraction!

On the top of the small three wheels, some border relics with a slightly inferior level of production actually cracked out of the cracks, and the essentia in them silently dispersed, and was quickly pulled by the invisible force, flying towards the whirlpool.

Even the silent Shao Si Ming was actually in turmoil, and there were bursts of burning phantom heat to Huai Shi.

If you don't hurry up, I'm afraid I'll be burned to ashes as scraps!

Huai Shi didn't hesitate any longer, picked up the hated water and switched to the bloodsaw mode, and followed the guidance of the fish ball's tail to cut through the thick wall.

After the collapse of the iron wall, the air that had been silent for an unknown number of years surged, filled with the smell of staleness.

Ashes flying.

A deeper darkness lay before them.

"What's next?" Huai Shi probed his head at the entrance of the cave, looking at the intricate routes inside.

"I don't know. ”

Tong Ji flapped her wings helplessly: "It's already difficult to deduce the approximate location by relying on the trend of the outer structure, and it's too difficult to be more detailed......"

She paused and looked at Huai Shi's side: "However, aren't these 'locals' who are more familiar with the situation?"

Huai Shi followed her line of sight, looked at the skeleton with the same stupid face, and finally, saw the trembling ...... in its eyes A guinea pig?

On Huai Shi's shoulder, the phantom of the crow flashed away.

"Lead the way, okay?" she smiled and whispered, "I'm in a hurry." ”

The tone is full of gentleness.

The mouse snorted and shrunk into a ball in the skull's eye hole, as if trying to play dead, but the skull was only so big that it couldn't hide it.

Soon, he gave up struggling.

Trembling inside, he crawled out, raised his tail, and pointed in the direction of the right side of the inside.

Then, he looked back timidly, very uneasy.

It was as if he was afraid that Huai Shi would eat it.

Tong Ji was helpless and shook her head slightly: "Do you need me to explain to you the difference between 'leading the way' and 'guiding the way'?"

"Boom!!"

The mouse screamed in horror again, and crawled through the tunnel on all fours, as fast as he could, to the fork in the road, and flicked his tail at them in a hurry.

I can't wait to find a flagpole and hang my skin.

I'm afraid I won't be attentive enough.

Sir，thisway!

"That's right!"

Tong Ji nodded with satisfaction, then looked back, and urged in a brisk tone: "What are you doing in a daze, let's go!"

No, this rat is so psychic!

Even Tong Ji can see it......

Huai Shi didn't bother to ask any more, confirmed the equipment on his body, and assisted the skeleton to hide the little three wheels, and then walked in.

At the back, the puppy of friendship stays in front of the rift for a long time.

He looked down and sniffed the air around him.

I looked into the distance in confusion, as if I had smelled something, but I couldn't smell it carefully.

But soon, at the call of Huai Shi, it turned around and walked into the darkness.

For a long time, for a long time.

In the silence, the light of the entire corridor dimmed again.

Invisible shadows creep in.

As if chasing something, a pale footprint formed by a line of ashes disappeared into it.

Only faint laughter echoed in the air.