The ruins are very large, with collapsed load-bearing columns and mounds of earth piled up by excavators.

At the same time, Heaton had just stood in the ruins and sensed that something was wrong.

The coolness in the bearded man's mouth does exist.

The coolness was bone-chilling, as if there was a bewitching beauty transformed into a spirit, and she gently swept her body with her cold hand.

Every inch that passed, Rao is Heaton, and felt the hairs rise.

But the weird thing is that there is no stand-in messenger!

Heaton's eyes swept every corner of the underground space, revealing strangeness everywhere, but there was nothing suspicious on the surface.

Wrong!

Heaton wanted to lift his feet, but it seemed to weigh 10,000 pounds, and he couldn't move.

But Heaton didn't feel any strain, but was comfortable, as if the fairy beauty had touched her forehead and was letting you rest on her lap and massage it gently.

For a moment, Heaton couldn't tell if it was heaviness or enjoyment.

But his body really couldn't move.

Suddenly, a tyrannical and noisy thought rose from the bottom of Heaton's heart.

The chuckle of the child, the scolding of the woman, the roar of the beast of unknown nature, and the murmur of the serpent that kept ringing.

Escape!

Heaton forced the thought in his mind.

But in an instant, it seemed that four or five more beauties surrounded him.

Some grab arms, some hug their thighs, and some even hug their waists.

It's cooler.

At this moment, Heaton seems to have two personalities, the fearful and fleeing personalities are constantly shouting, but they all seem to be useless.

The personality that is immersed in the gentle country is the dominant one, and holding down the screaming personality makes all its actions in vain.

Can't run away!

Heaton remembered the bearded man's words and immediately reacted.

They were able to get out of trouble because Parr suddenly went crazy and seemed to cause a huge movement that pulled their consciousness back into their bodies.

So get out of trouble.

Because bearded people are ordinary people and are not sensitive to stand-in attacks, the whole process is muddy and difficult to explain.

But Heaton was different, he could clearly feel what was happening to him.

Own body and consciousness, no, soul separated!

The spirits pulled their souls apart from their bodies and came to a strange space.

The space created by the stand-in ability!

In the distance, chaotic, violent whispers continued to sound, urging Heaton to fall!

Heaton immediately calmed down his excitement because he was inexplicably attacked by a stand-in.

Solution!

Although the specific ability of the other side has not yet been figured out, it is not difficult to see from the current situation.

The attack is the whispers of chaos.

For such a long time, his body has not been attacked, and even his soul is just trapped, it is not difficult to see that the more powerful and weird the stand-in ability, the more restrictions it has.

The other side did not take the opportunity to appear, so while restricting himself, his body and stand-in messenger also had restrictions.

Heaton just needs to find a way to put his soul back in its place!

Since it is impossible to break free, then...

Heaton's soul no longer resisted the coldness that surrounded him.

The idea of escaping was shattered in an instant.

In an instant, Heaton only felt that he had become light, not as if he had been under the weight of 10,000 catties just now, as if he was about to ascend to immortal.

Heaton looked down and saw his body standing on the ground.

His soul is out of the body!

But he had no fear, his mind became empty, he had no desires.

Heaton forgot everything, forgot the arrows, forgot about the stand-in messenger, forgot about fleeing.

The soul began to peel away inch by inch from the body, and Heaton seemed to float in a warm ocean, and everything in the world seemed to become unworthy.

No, he has forgotten everything in the world.

Is this death? No, it's not death.

Is this heaven? No, it's...

In Heaton's eyes, the entire underground space became illusory, as if it had turned into a long river, with stars dotted on it.

Heaton, however, had a hard time raising any thoughts, and just wanted to lie in this long river until he died.

Follow the long river, keep drifting, as if you have reached the end, there are mountains blocking the way.

These are the four mountains!

Guarded by four mountains, Heaton's soul dwells in the middle, like a cradle, coaxing Heaton into an eternal slumber.

"Peng!"

Suddenly, the floating Heaton's right hand seemed to inadvertently touch one of the mountains.

The mountain shrank in an instant and became a toy.

Heaton didn't have time to look at the toy's appearance, and the river became turbulent.

Then came the roar of the beast.

Deafening.

I saw that the remaining three mountains began to shake and collapse, disintegrating and turning into a three-headed giant snake.

The serpent had wings on its back, wriggling its massive body and rolling in the river.

"Whoa!"

Suddenly, Heaton took a step forward with his left foot.

He's back in the real world!

And at his feet, there is a calf-high statue of a giant snake!

At this moment, there is no coolness, and the hot breath of the outside world rushes along the entrance of the cave where Heaton has just come down.

The stand-in ability is unlocked!

Heaton picked up the statue and looked at it closely, just like the three-headed serpent in the long river.

The body is covered with scales, the back has wings, and the forehead is a little rugged.

The ability to break through the double is not unexpected by Heaton, the double is a mental ability, that is, it can act on the soul.

Heaton activated the ability of the Toy Kingdom before he lost consciousness.

According to his reasoning, the opponent's stand-in should be similar to [Yakong Miasma] to pull people into another space and then attack.

But unexpectedly, even after entering the stand-in space on the opposite side, the other party still did not attack.

Heaton doesn't know why there are four strange giant snakes, and even the giant snakes have entities, but when the giant snake is turned into a toy, it is naturally good to remove the stand-in ability.

He could roughly guess that the four-headed giant snake was the key to the opponent's stand-in ability!

Naturally, it was impossible for him to disarm the toy snake now.

"Master!"

Heaton was observing the situation around the ruins with a toy snake when Kira Yoshihiro's voice came from above.

Then, Kira Yoshihiro and the bearded man also went down the ruins.

"Master, you've been down for three hours, and I'm worried about what will happen, so I took the initiative to bring someone down!"

"Three hours!"

Heaton was shocked.

According to his experience, it won't take more than ten minutes!

When my soul left my body, I didn't even become sensitive to time, or was it because of my stand-in ability?

"Let them go back!"

Kira Yoshihiro drove the bearded seven people up.

Then, the Toy Kingdom appeared, and countless toys poured out of its body.

Toys turn into mice, scorpions, insects, and burrow into the ground.

"Ding~"

In a few moments, Pethia landed in front of Heaton with an arrow in his mouth!

It's the stand-in arrow that Heaton has been looking for!

Petsha continued to fly back, Heaton following.

I saw that in the hole dug by the toy, there were four arrows lying peacefully, plus the one in Heaton's hand, a total of five.

And the arrow in Heaton's hand suddenly seemed to have life, and it came out of his hand and shot directly at Kira Yoshihiro.

"Ugh! Belch! ”

The arrow pierced Kira Yoshihiro's throat directly, and the wound was so large that he fell straight to the ground.

The hot blood stained the yellow sand on the ground, and it suddenly became sticky.

Kira Yoshihiro clutched his throat and couldn't make any sound.

"Lord... Belch! Ahem! ”

Kira Yoshihiro wanted to ask Heaton for help, but the intense pain combined with a ruptured trachea in his throat left him almost dying.

Heaton frowned at everything in front of him.

This is the stand-in messenger chosen by the arrow!

"Hold on!"

Heaton didn't say much, he didn't have the ability to save Kira Yoshihiro right now, except to make it a toy and suspend his physiology.

But the power of arrows works spiritually!

After the inability to awaken the stand-in, the decay and lesion of the flesh is the result of the mental reaction on the body.

"Poof!"

Heaton's hand grabbed the shaft of the arrow and drew it quickly.

It was still a golden arrow, and there was not a trace of blood on it.

One more thing missing!

Petsha found five arrows, and Heaton's most wanted Worm Arrow was not among them.

In another moment, Mr. Rat emerged from the ground and stood in the position where Heaton had been hit by the stand-in.

Heaton immediately understood that there was something down there!

Immediately, all the toys poured towards Mr. Mouse and began to explore downward.

The sand beneath Heaton's feet began to crumble, but there was a layer of toys that kept holding the area beneath Heaton's and Kira Yoshihiro's feet.

And just like that, Heaton began to descend as if he were an elevator.

"Boom!"

Suddenly, Heaton's descent began to increase at a faster rate, and then landed steadily.

There's still room down there!

All the toys turned into fireflies, and the entire underground space instantly lit up.

Cold!

Piercing cold!

It's still the same familiar coldness, but it's far stronger than before.

But the ensuing stripping of the soul did not appear, nothing happened.

There is a lot of underground space, and Heaton releases [Justice] and Petsha.

In an instant, the underground space not only became cold, but also foggy.

Fireflies spread out, providing Heaton with a view.

Kira Yoshihiro was turned into a toy by Heaton and carried with him so as not to be attacked if he remained in place.

The underground space is huge, and the range of [Justice] fog is far from the end.

Heaton could only choose one direction to move forward.

About a dozen minutes away, breaking through the thick fog, a huge figure appeared in front of Heaton's eyes!

Giant Serpent!

The whole is made of bronze, ten meters high, with its wings outstretched, coiled all over its body, without any support position, but standing firmly in place.

Was this built by local ancients?

How did they keep such a heavy bronze serpent from falling?

The thought immediately crossed Heaton's mind.

"Hello!"

What's even more shocking is that the giant snake suddenly spoke, and its voice was like a bell.

I saw that the bronze giant snake in front of me emitted a violent metal friction and moved flexibly.

【Toy Kingdom】!

Heaton thought it was a stand-in attack and immediately summoned the [Toy Kingdom].

"Don't be nervous! Human, I feel the breath of companionship in you, it was you who saved us! ”

"Saved you?"

Heaton frowned and pulled out the snake statue toy!

"That's it, fourth!"

The bronze serpent was a little excited, the head of the snake in front of it was shaking, and the tail in the back was also swinging, and the huge sound of the bell shook Heaton's ears a little deafening.

"Wait a minute!"

"Okay! I'm a little too happy! Because we've been trapped for I don't know how many years! ”

The serpent was very polite, lowered its body, and coiled itself on the ground.

"Can you tell me about the situation, I don't know how I saved you."

Heaton asked.

"About a hundred years ago, maybe a few hundred years ago, we suddenly became conscious, but before we could enjoy the human world, we were pulled into that river of time.

We couldn't get out anyway.

Until just now, you suddenly appeared and woke up the fourth, and because of this, we withdrew from that space. ”

Hearing the words of the giant snake, Heaton probably understood that the giant snake in front of him was one of the long rivers.

"What are you... Creatures, why are they conscious, and what is that space? ”

The giant snake in front of him was so easy to speak, Heaton also calmed down and continued to ask.

"Hmm... We also don't know why consciousness suddenly appeared. ”

"That's right!"

Suddenly, the same voice rang out behind Heaton.

These are the other two giant snakes!

They cut through the mists of Justice and came straight to Heaton's side.

"The third child is right!"

The second serpent later said.

"Who's the third!"

The first giant snake said dissatisfied.

"Who's the fourth!"

Then, it said it in the same tone, but Heaton could clearly perceive a change of consciousness within it.

"You're the fourth!"

"Fart, I'm the boss!"

In Heaton's shocked gaze, the giant serpent directly in front of him began to curse each other.

It uses the same tone, the same voice, and scolds different things.

It's like a schizophrenic patient, talking to himself.

"Alright, humans, leave them alone, I gave them a silence!"

The giant snake in front of him changed consciousness again, these were the two snakes later, but now they took up the body of the first snake.

"Actually, I'm the boss."

The first thing he said was to emphasize his status as the boss.

"I don't...!"

Later, the second one still wanted to speak, but there was no sound for a moment.

"I'm the boss indeed!"

The snake raised its head with some pride, and the two bronze snakes behind Heaton also raised their heads in the same way.

"I believe in you!"

Heaton looked at the scene in front of him and replied.

He couldn't detect any danger from the three-headed serpent, which was why Heaton was talking to them.

"You're very discerning. Hey... Ahem! ”

The serpent barely froze, coughing to hide its embarrassment.

Heaton didn't bother with it and waited for its next steps.

"We were built thousands of years ago for sacrifices, to recruit yin spirits, to suppress yin veins, and to serve as a place for human souls to return.

At that time, we were called spirits.

For thousands of years, we have no consciousness, only a trace of the spirit gathered by human beings.

As time passed, we were gradually buried, and the leylines changed, and even the suppression of the yin veins could not be activated.

Without the faith of man, there is less and less spirit.

We are dying! ”

"You guys? Is it the four of you? ”

"Yes and no, we are one spirit, not four spirits.

We are called the four serpents, the four in one, existing independently but sharing oneness.

It's like I'm talking to you right now, even if the three of them have been banned by me, they can still know what we're talking about. ”

Heaton nodded, and the four snakes spoke clearly.

"Not so long ago, about a hundred years, suddenly we could speak, think, act.

It's something that excites snakes!

We have been trapped for thousands of years, even if the spirit is unconscious, but after a thousand years of loneliness, we are unable to perform our functions even now.

But no sooner have we gained consciousness, and within two minutes, we are pulled into the river of time, and that is our ability! ”

"What are you capable of?"

Heaton's heart said Sure enough, it was the attack of the stand-in messenger!

"[Wasted time]!

We can create a time field nearby, and the consciousness of the person who enters the field will be pulled into the river of time, and once they enter the river, they will become desireless, like a baby lying asleep in the arms of its mother.

If the body is not stimulated and alarms the soul, or if it has a strong will to get rid of it, it will stay in the river of time until death.

But death is not the end, our body has the function of resisting yin, and the soul after death will still be in the long river of time until the soul is completely wiped out. ”

"So, the moment you awaken the stand-in, you were pulled into the long river of stand-ins by your own ability and couldn't come out?"

"A stand-in? Sure enough, it's a good name! ”

The four snakes pretended to be stupid in embarrassment, avoiding Heaton's hurtful remarks that pierced the snake's heart.

Heaton felt a little helpless for a while, the voice of the four snakes was as loud as a bell, and they sounded calm, but in fact they were like a teenager who loved face.

You can even fight for the size of the row.

But the four snakes in front of him reminded Heaton of another stand-in.

Anubis.

The knife that has a consciousness of its own.

The same entity has consciousness, but Anubis is because after the death of the double messenger, the consciousness is attached to the knife that is used as a stand-in.

The four snakes are very different from it.

But the stand-in has always been the most peculiar spiritual energy in the world, and no matter how strange things happen, it is not an exaggeration.

"Do you want me to release it?"

Heaton said, holding the body of one of the four snakes that had been turned into a toy.

"No, no, no! Don't! ”

The four snakes shouted excitedly, how could they still pretend to be pretending just now.

"You don't have the ability to fully master the stand-in ability, do you?"

"Is that your stand-in ability? It's amazing! ”

The Four Snakes still responded to Heaton with the blunt topic diversion technique.

"Well, I probably know why you suddenly came to consciousness and awakened as a stand-in."

"Really?"

"What is it?"

"Oh~"

I don't know when, the ban of the four snakes was lifted, and the other consciousnesses occupied the remaining two bronze bodies, quickly catering to Heaton.

It was noisy and noisy, and for a while, Heaton listened a little big.

"It's an arrow, an arrow that can make people awaken a stand-in!"

"Arrows?" x4

Heaton nodded, just now [Justice] had found the sixth arrow, which was the only worm arrow.

Worm arrows can penetrate stand-ins, and although [Justice] is not a stand-in, it still has the nature of a stand-in.

Therefore, the Worm Arrow can still damage Justice.

Petsha retrieved the arrow, and it ended up falling into Heaton's hands.

"About 50,000 years ago, a meteorite fell on a sparsely populated part of the planet, namely Greenland. It is assumed that the meteorite came to Earth on its own through its strong spiritual will, and did not hit the Earth by chance.

In 1978, an ore excavation team discovered an unknown virus in the rocks of the surrounding area and discovered that it had been lurking in the meteorite that hit the Earth long ago.

Despite extensive research on it, doctors have not been able to determine the purpose of this alien virus beyond the complete eradication of human life. Similar to the theory of evolution, it has been found that certain people have a trait that allows them to survive when exposed to the virus, and gives them a supernatural ability – a stand-in.

Hundreds of years before the discovery of the virus, a man hoping to gain the power of the gods made a meteorite into several arrowheads. These arrows allow the wielder to awaken the Avatar ability.

When an organism is impaled by one of these arrows, an unknown virus contained within it will catalyze and awaken the individual's dormant state.

This process is similar to natural selection – the evolutionary process in which some organisms adapt better to their environment than others, making it easier for them to survive.

However, if the target lacks sufficient psychic strength, then they will die. Arrows, on the other hand, usually seek out and stab at those who possess great psychic powers.

Although you are not human, the weak spirit spreads throughout the underground ruins, so the insect arrows are buried deep in the ground for various reasons.

Seek the Spirit, stab the Spirit, so you awaken your Avatar and gain consciousness. ”

[Justice] is an insect arrow found in the thick layer of soil above the head of the ruins, and the arrow has an autonomous consciousness, and it is impossible to determine whether it is the spirit that the arrow is looking for by itself, or some other reason.

"No wonder we suddenly became conscious!"

"I thought we were gods!"

"How should the stand-in be used, why are we pulled into the long river of time without feeling anything!"

"Who knows!"

……

The Four Snakes began to discuss on their own, leaving Heaton aside.

Heaton didn't care, the arrows were already in hand, and his goal had been achieved.

He's thinking about one thing!

How to maximize benefits!

In other words, that's how to kidnap these ignorant little snakes!

Since awakening the [Toy Kingdom] Heaton seems to have awakened the hamster physique, no matter what good things he sees, the first thought is how to get it, and then turn it back to the empire!

Dio is like this, and so are the four snakes in front of him!

It's another big project worth studying!

"Nai~ Can you take us out?"

Heaton didn't know that it was the eldest of the four snakes, but the snake head in front of him, which was bigger than himself, actually showed a pitiful expression.

"Hey! Fourth, we want to save face! ”

An upright four snakes squeezed the head of the snake in front of Heaton.

"Hmm... That one... Can you feed us? ”

"Fourth, you have no face!"

The four consciousnesses of the four snakes seem to have only two identities, that is, the boss and the fourth.

The last snake head squeezed away the straight snake head again, and the two snakes stared at Heaton.

"That's... We know we're too big, and if we go out, we're going to make a splash! ”

"So, you want to be like that?"

Heaton picked up the toy snake, and his heart blossomed.

Isn't this pure and pure for nothing?

"That's right, even if you turn us into the fourth, you only need to release one of them!"

"Peng!"

"What one, one is also big!"

"Huh? So what to do, we just tried, the toy snake feels the same as the long river of time, our thinking will become very slow! ”

"That's right! So what to do! ”

The Four Snakes had another small meeting inside.

"I have a way!"

Heaton opened his mouth.

"Huh!"

Three huge snake heads came over in an instant.

"Look at it! His name is Petsha, and he used to be an animal too! ”

In the distance, Petsha flew onto Heaton's arm, his head held high.

Stare at!

"Same as the fourth!" x4

"You're saying you can let us move freely in that state?"

Heaton nodded.

"But it takes time, and you can become not only smaller, but even anything!"

Petsha on Heaton's arm immediately understood, changing from a falcon to a snake, then to a mouse, and finally to his original form.

"What a stand-in!"

Heaton laughed happily, like a strange uncle who cheated on a child.

"But why can't your stand-in take the initiative? As soon as a bronze snake becomes a toy, the ability is gone? ”

That's what Heaton is more concerned about.

"Hmm... We are not very clear, it seems that it is because of the material, and the material from which we are made is not ordinary bronze, so we have the effect of suppressing the yin veins.

Once one of the four is changed or damaged, it will lose its effect.

The stand-in ability also seems to inherit this effect, and once one of them changes, [Wasted Time] will be invalidated.

We really can't control the wasted time! ”

Heaton probably understood that this was a constant stand-in ability, similar to a formation, as long as it was turned on, it would always be maintained.

"It must be the fourth!"

"Who's the fourth!"

"That's you!"

Without saying a word, the four snakes began to quarrel again.

"Yes, but because you're too big and too loud, I'll have to stay here for the time being until I turn you into Petsha!"

"Yes~" x4

As soon as he heard that he could go out soon, the four snakes immediately became well-behaved.

The analysis of [Toy Kingdom] needs to be constantly toyed, and Heaton can't return to Duwang Town with these four big guys bigger than his own home.

It's not as conspicuous as the toy analysis process.

At least, the empty underground space is a good place for analysis.

"I'll be coming to see you every day!"

"No problem~" x4

"Do you want anything to eat? I can bring it to you! ”

Heaton asked, he didn't expect anything from these four snakes who hadn't eaten in thousands of years, oh no, they hadn't eaten since they were made.

"Pig's head!"

"Cow!"

The four serpents, Balabala, said some items, and the more Heaton listened, the more he felt that they were sacrificial food.

"Can you really eat it?"

"Can't!" The three big snake heads shook their heads at the same time and continued, "It's just that I haven't seen it for a long time, and I miss it a little!" ”

"Okay, I'll bring it to you!"

Heaton assured, not feeling unreasonable in the slightest.

Since you want to raise these four big guys, you need their abilities, and you need their help, how can you still be stingy?

What's more, these four mental ages are just children.

Finally, Heaton returned to Duwang Town with the arrow.

He left Justice in the underground space and guarded the Four Serpents, just in case.

And Kira Yoshihiro still hasn't woken up.

Heaton frowned as he looked at the blood-clotted wound on his neck, and at the chest that was exhaling more and inhaling less, rising and falling lower and lower.

Chosen by the arrows? Isn't it inevitable that a stand-in will be awakened?