Chapter 44: Ptolemy

After entering the Black Valley, everyone soon heard the clanging sound of metal colliding, and several men walked slowly, wearing heavy chains on their bodies, making a crisp sound with every step. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 Info These men took shovels and kept scooping up black dirt from the ground and putting it into a basket on the back of their companions, and whenever a man's basket was filled, he would carry it deeper into the valley. These people are like soulless puppets, constantly digging, and when one goes, another one will come out of it to fill the vacant position.

Richard walked over to some of the prisoners and looked at the places they had dug in, and found that the aphrodisiac power was particularly strong in those places. When the black soil was dug up, Richard could see that the ground below was wriggling like the organs of some giant creature, and it began to secrete more black soil. Whenever the black soil in a place was dug up, revealing the flesh-colored substrate underneath, the prisoners would stop digging.

Richard observed for a moment, then pointed to the hillside not far away and said, "That place is not bad either." ”

The place Richard was referring to was another place where the power of pink was very strong, and his words made several prisoners react, but these prisoners looked at Richard with a strange gaze, not fear, not hatred, in short, a state that is difficult to describe.

An elderly prisoner said slowly, "Go there and have a look." Another man of the prime of life, who was stronger in his life, dragged his heavy chains to the spot pointed by Richard and dug it until he had dug a two-metre-deep pit before jumping down. A moment later, he crawled out of the ground again and cried out, "A point of abundance." ”

All the prisoners were overjoyed, and the older prisoner gave Richard a deep look and said in a deep voice, "Young man, you have a pair of eyes that make people shudder. Tell me whether you are a messenger or an enemy of my God. ”

"Sometimes it's an enemy, sometimes it's a friend. ”

The old man was obviously surprised by Richard's answer, as he had actually put himself in a position alongside the god of courage.

The old man said slowly: "Your arrogance is astonishing, maybe you will be qualified to say this in the future, but not now. There are many people behind me who used to be as arrogant as you, but they are now in the same situation as me, if not as good as me. ”

"I don't think we're talking about the same thing, I'm not arrogant, I'm narrating a fact. I am not a believer in the God of Courage, for me, Neian is just a powerful soul, in front of the rules of the true plane origin, the strong soul is a soul, the weak soul is also a soul, not to mention that above the plane origin, there are deeper rules that govern all planes, such as time and space. So, it's not me who is arrogant, it's the guy who has to distinguish himself from other souls. ”

Richard's words made the old man show a hint of imperceptible shock, he nodded slowly, and said: "Maybe you are right, there is a madman named Bruno in this valley, he has a similar point of view to you, I heard that he has written a book in the past few years, if you are lucky, you may want to come and take a look, but no one knows where he hid the book, not even the overseer, in order to thank you for helping us find a rich point, you can ask another question." ”

"Your name. Richard surprised the old man again.

"I've almost forgotten what my name is...... Oh, Ptolemy, it seems to be the name. ”

"Okay, then I'll go in. Richard waved goodbye to the old man, and then walked towards the Black Valley.

Seeing Richard's thoughtful look, Reilly asked, "Does the name have any special significance?"

"If I remember correctly," said Richard, "there was a pope in the Church of God of Courage named Ptolemy, who was said to have reigned for a short time and then fell ill and died, but that was more than 300 years ago. Under normal circumstances, it is difficult for the Faro people to live for such a long time, but it is difficult to say in this land of divine punishment...... Well, let's go in first. ”

The road into the valley was long and rugged, and the sky was getting darker and darker, and the clouds in the air had long since turned black, and only a few places were thick lead, and it became a shining area, and on the mountain walls on both sides, there were torches inserted into them, burning bright yellow flames, illuminating a small area around them, and from time to time you could see groups of prisoners gathered under the mountain wall, and they were hard to chisel the rocks, which were also black, but extremely hard, and no one could chisel even a small piece of fragment from the mountain wall.

A giant taller than an ogre walked from the front, his body was almost the same width and height, it looked like a moving mountain of meat, he had a deformed giant hand with no fingers on it, and instead there were more than a dozen tentacles. He walked slowly, glancing at the prisoners working on both sides from time to time, and one of the prisoners didn't know why he angered this guy, only to see him swing his huge hand vigorously and slam the prisoner to the mountain wall.

A huge blood flower bloomed on the black mountain wall in an instant, and the blood was immediately absorbed by the mountain wall, and the prisoner who fell on it was no longer human, but he was still struggling and writhing in pain, showing inhuman vitality, wisps of dark aura invisible to the naked eye rose from the earth and poured into the prisoner's body, and every wisp of dark aura entered, making the prisoner show indescribable pain, but his body was constantly recovering. After a few moments he was back on his feet, as if he had never been injured, but the process had been painful, and as soon as he was in good shape, he grabbed the pickaxe and struck the wall of the mountain with all his might, though nothing could be done.

The giant quickly walked up to Reilly, and he leaned down so hard that he could look beyond his belly and see the six of Reilly.

The giant sniffed vigorously, then showed a confused look, and said hesitantly, "I haven't seen you, I don't know if I can beat you...... Ah, then, go in, go to that dead man, his name is Ribs, he is smarter, smarter than me, and he knows what to do with you. ”

"What about you?" said Reilly, playfully, "if you're willing to come with me, then I can take you with me when I leave." ”

The giant thought for a moment and said, "When you come out, I can go with you." ”

Reilly gave him a deep look and said, "That's it." ”

When Reilly and the others walked away, the giant suddenly shivered, showed a cunning look, and muttered: "It's terrible, I don't want to die yet, let them go to the rib trouble, who let him offend me." By the way, if those people can really come out, it would be good to leave the Black Valley with them. I've had enough of this hellish place. ”