Meanwhile.

Bering moved his wrist slightly.

Although it wasn't as flexible as before, it was at least much better than when he was wrapped up in the body.

Therefore he did not hesitate to praise: "Very good workmanship, Miss Chrissy." ”

Next to her, the witch Chriss, with a pale face and a forced smile.

Only she knows what she has been through during this time.

Although it is said that Hermes's props can cut these special spiritual chains, it has to be said that when she found a prop suitable for this process, it really made the witch so anxious that she almost vomited blood.

A lot of things are of little use to the man in front of him, and some props that can be used to cut through the hard shells of some xenomorph can't even make a small white mark in front of this man's chains.

Even if she had already guessed in advance that the strength of these chains would be far beyond imagination, when it came time to really get started, it still made the witch feel anxious.

This thing is so [beep]!

No matter what it was, it was no different from scrap metal in front of these chains, and the "jingle bell" seemed quite intense, but when I looked back, nothing happened, and the man was still wrapped like a dumpling.

What's going on?!

If it weren't for the witch in the back who took out some of her precious collections, maybe Er Bering would still be lying on the operating table like a corpse and couldn't stand up!

Holding a delicate pair of small scissors, the witch panted and said, "You...... You ......"

After catching her breath for a long time, she barely managed to utter a complete sentence: "Why can't you try to use your prophecy power to see which prop can be cut?" ”

This is also the place where the witch's "cutting project" has been carried out so far, and she does not understand the most.

You're a prophet!

Since it's a prophet, shouldn't it have been known early in the morning?! If you knew the answer and told her earlier, wouldn't she not have to work so hard?!

Faced with the witch's question, Bering just shrugged: "It's simple, because 'right now' is not necessary." ”

"What's more, who says I'm useless?" He smiled and said, "If it's strict, it's just useless now." ”

Listening to Bering's words, the witch fell silent.

After a while, she sighed: "I understand, too, after all, we are not in a relationship that can trust each other." At the end of the day, it's a deal between us. It's understandable that you want to get as much information as you can on me. ”

"I'm even beginning to wonder how much you've used this ability to find out how much of a mystery you've found out about me before that," she said with some weakness, "Anyway, time isn't a one-way line for you. ”

Faced with the witch's exclamation, Bering just smiled and didn't answer.

Yes.

Although he did not use his prophetic abilities to help Chris find suitable items during this time, it does not mean that Bering did not observe the future.

At least during the time that the witch took out a new item every time, Bering had already made it clear when she obtained this item, the situation, and the usefulness of it.

And all this, the witch of this timeline is not impressed at all.

So he has actually communicated with the witch for a long time, but it doesn't reflect the current point in time.

Previously, Bering used his ability to predict the future to find out the witch's family background thoroughly, even more familiar than the witch herself.

It's better to say that the witch didn't understand this until now, which made Bering a little surprised.

It seems that her hands and feet are still tied, giving her the illusion that Bering can't move freely and can't find out more information.

Thinking of this, Bering smiled and walked down from the "operating table".

As he moved, the fragments of the chains that had been piled up on him fell to the ground one after another, like a white snowfall, covering a small half of the floor.

Gently pinching the fragments of these chains, Bering said thoughtfully: "How did these chains come from? ”

The witch next to her, who was packing up her tools, glanced at him, then shook her head and said, "As far as I know, this should be the shackles that time has put on you prophets. ”

As she collected the precious Artifacts, she said, "I've had a similar phenomenon with that guy in the past, and I still remember what that guy told me at the time......"

"She said, 'In the past, the law of time was seriously hurt by some factor. As a result, it will integrate the distorted nodes into its own laws, completing itself. So, in the final analysis, the prophets are nothing more than pigs produced by the laws of time trying to repair themselves.'" ”

As she spoke, the witch said, "But she later denied her own statement, and said, 'There is only one prophet, so it is not appropriate to say that it is a pig, in fact, it should be more similar to a patient trying to prolong his life in the terminal stage of cancer.'" In short, you prophets should know more about these things than we do. ”

And Bering also bowed slightly: "I probably guessed this." ”

"The laws of time seem to be badly damaged," he said, "and the narrowness of time is proof of this—otherwise, there would be little theory as to why the flow of time in a place varies so much." Normally, the flow rate of time should be unidirectional, either faster or slower than the baseline. But one moment is fast and some time is slow...... It's a little puzzling. ”

"But I didn't expect that the guy who broke the oath actually knew something about it. Has she ever been to the abyss before? ”

After hearing this, the movements of the witch's hand paused slightly.

It didn't take long for her to whisper, "No." ”

"She had never been to the Abyss, nor had she ever tried to go there," she said, "because she had told me herself that the Abyss was her grave, and that if she set foot in that place, she would die." Death in the physical sense can never be resurrected. ”

This surprised Bering a little: "Grave ......"

He stood there and began to think about it.

In the past, he thought that the oath breaker was Hermes, after all, the characteristics shown by the other party were very similar to Hermes in many ways. But then the words of the Pale Lady and Hela negate this, which means that she has nothing to do with Hermes;

Later, Bering thought that she was the second person in the ferryman's mouth to be sent into the abyss, but now the witch said that it was absolutely impossible for the oathbreaker to enter the abyss......

So what is her true identity in history?

Moreover, since the person who entered the abyss was not her, then who was the only "human" who entered the abyss and stole the spiritual laws that the Tyrant Ring said before?

It can't be Hermes, you know, Hermes is a god......

However, in the next second, Bering was slightly stunned.

He looked up at the witch, a hint of seriousness flashing in his eyes.

"Miss Chris, I remember the events on the peninsula, you should be a witness, right?" "You're not just a witness, you're one of the planners." ”

When the hospital was abandoned, Bering once told Chrissy that the Peninsula incident was planned by her and two other "catastrophic" xenomorphs.

At that time, Chriss's answer was that the Peninsula incident was essentially the work of some "old guys".

And Qi Guangyou said before that there was a human being carrying gods who broke out on the peninsula, causing the "Peninsula Incident" that shook the world.

At the same time, the decline of the Hermeticians seems to have come from this. This is what the Tyrant Ring says. Otherwise, the ring would not have been sealed in the Smoky Mountain......

The witch pursed her lips when she heard this.

"Yes," she said, "I'm ...... Witness it. ”

Looking at the witch, Bering whispered, "Then, I want to ask." The person on the peninsula incident, isn't it...... Hermes! ”

As soon as this sentence is spoken.

The air next to him seemed to be stagnant.

It's as if there is something oppressive about the name that makes people breathe harder, and even the damp moisture in the air makes people's cheeks chill when they hit their faces.

And the other side.

After hearing Bering's words, the witch looked at him with complicated eyes.

After a long time, she sighed slightly, and then nodded: "That's right, it's her." ”

"Or more accurately, the human who carried her spirit," she said, "and that human was overshadowed by some guy in the end, and in the end, he couldn't carry Hermes's divine power at all, and completely exploded on the peninsula." ”

Bering frowned slightly: "In this way, the one who seized the spiritual law was actually the one who contained Hermes in his body...... Mankind? ”

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The witch replied quickly this time: "No, after all, it is Hermes, who just occupies the identity of a human being. ”

She glanced at Bering and said quietly, "Do you remember the previous encounter we had in Morrowind City?" On that bus, I found a schoolgirl and you beat me to the ground running. ”

Bering's face remained unchanged and unchanged: "I remember." ”

Looking at Bering, who had a face of "nothing happened at that time", the witch smiled a little helplessly: "Hey...... At that time, I said that the female student was the perfect fit for me, and she was a being who could be a part of 'me'. ”

"Hermes is practically doing something similar," she says, "to find the perfect fit for herself, and then to incorporate your own spirit, to completely replace that person, and finally the two of you merge into a new individual." It's just that Hermes's memory is too huge for other people's memories to squeeze her, so in the end she is no different from the original. ”

"She's played this set many times, so she's got a lot of names in the past, 'Aristotle', 'Gobert', 'Paracelsus'...... For him, it's just a change of name. ”

Listening to these names that have made great achievements in the history of philosophy and alchemy, Bering's face was slightly gloomy.

She ...... What exactly do you want to do? He said.

Do what?

The witch smiled: "Didn't she already do it?" ”

Putting away all the tools, the witch said in a smug voice, "Use your human identity to infiltrate the abyss, and then steal the law." It's just that because she was discovered by other xenomorphs in the end, she had to choose some special laws on the spot. ”

"As for the xenomorphs who enter the abyss, what is the law that they desire the most, I think you know this matter better than me, right?" The witch glanced at Bering.

Suddenly, Bering realized: "She wants to steal time!" ”

Hermes's goal was to sneak into the abyss under the guise of a human being and steal the law of time?!

Thinking of this, Bering suddenly felt a little incredulous.

Someone really made a similar plan, and it seems to have been planned for thousands of years, and in the end it almost succeeded?!

As for almost, it was because Hermes stole not time but soul in the end.

However, this is also an unimaginable feat.

You know, the soul is second only to time, and it has never been occupied!

However, Hermes succeeded in stealing in the end......

Does this mean that maybe she is only one step away from stealing the law of time?!

Glancing at Bering, the witch whispered and said, "As a shelterer of thieves, her stealing skills are indeed quite superb. And using her human identity, she was able to deviate from the eyes of laws and xenomorphs at first. Under the combination of various factors, she has achieved something that no one has done before - stealing the law and bringing it into the material world. ”

"But it's a pity that at the end of the old calendar, she was plotted, and in the end, the adaptive type that carried her body couldn't bear it and exploded, which caused the law of time she stole to completely affect the entire peninsula, and in an instant, the violent spiritual power destroyed countless humans and xenomorphs."

"Even after a few decades, the peninsula is still a highly mentally active region. There are monsters here that can get up again because of these spiritual energies at any time, and there are other xenomorph monsters that try to gain improvement through these spiritual powers. Of course, in addition to this, there are the most crucial factors. ”

The witch said word by word: "Hermes is not dead, even now, she is still standing on the peninsula in the form of a spirit, waiting for the human who can carry her spirit to appear, enter the human body again, and merge with that guy!" ”

"She's been waiting for this day for decades, and no one knows if she'll keep waiting, but one thing is clear - even with the absence of the entity, Hermes is still a serious ...... for everyone Danger that is hard to ignore! ”

"No one wants to face a guy who has mastered part of the spiritual 'law', let alone the fact that this guy is almost insane right now. You know, the old guys who plotted against her at the beginning are now only a few scattered, and the others are ...... It's all dead in a dream! ”

Hear the words.

Bering's face shook slightly.