Chapter 22: Horror Conjecture

Su Nian didn't care about the safety of other people, but he cared about Ji Yun.

He hadn't seen his mother since he was a child, and his father was away all year round and rarely came home.

Ji Yun, who grew up together, is not an exaggeration to say that he is a brother, at that time he often went to Ji Yun's house to eat and drink, and his uncle and aunt also took great care of him.

I haven't seen each other for years, but that feeling is still there.

Faced with Ji Yun, who chose to take risks, he finally decided to go together.

ran to Ji Yun's side, and before he could speak, he saw Ji Yun turn his head and grin:

"I knew that Brother Nian, you would definitely support my decision."

"You can harm me, sooner or later you will kill me."

"How come, you and I have combined our swords, and defeating the Purgatory God is just around the corner."

Su Nian couldn't help but roll his eyes:

"Aren't you afraid that the God of Purgatory will hear this?"

"Hehe, don't be afraid, there are not a few people who scold the God of Purgatory, wouldn't many people have died if something happened, but so far no one has been punished for insulting the God of Purgatory."

Ji Yun's words made Su Nian stunned, and an idea appeared in his mind.

After entering the Decaying World, he received a prompt from the camp of Shadow City to "leave the strong surveillance area", which seemed to prove that Ji Yun's guess was right.

The Infernal God has limited or no attention to the Recruited Warriors who are exploring the Decaying World.

When he first received the Shadow Godhead, he had a vision.

Work as a middleman in Shadowcity, set up a stall to buy rotten resources that should be sacrificed to the God of Purgatory, and then sacrifice them to yourself in the ruined temple to earn the difference in price.

But thinking that it was a big risk to be a middleman on the territory of the Purgatory God, he still chose to give up.

After listening to Ji Yun's words, he thought of the possibility of being a middleman in a roundabout way.

Since you can't be a middleman in Purgatory City, can you be a middleman in a corrupt world that is out of surveillance?

Although the market of middlemen in the Corrupt World cannot be compared to that in Purgatory City, the chances of encountering other recruited warriors are not low.

Especially as the number of explorations increases, you will encounter a large number of non-human conscription warriors in the future.

They are all potential trading clients.

"Brother Nian, why are you in a daze, you can't be afraid of death."

When he came back to his senses, he looked at Ji Yun and said angrily:

"I'm afraid, I'm most afraid of death, but you want to take me to death."

"I'm taking you to earn the embers, as the saying goes, the most dangerous place is the easiest place to get rich."

In small talk, the two headed in the direction of Blood City.

Along the way, skeletal warriors rose from the pile of bones and attacked them.

But with a good quality weapon in hand, it becomes easy to kill the decaying creatures of Blackstone 1 Star.

The Bone Warrior would not dodge in the face of an attack, and the sawtooth knife in Su Nian's hand could easily smash the bones and shatter the rotten aura in the Bone Warrior's skull.

By the time Su Nian came to the front of the Blood City, the main quest had been completed (13/30).

The city gate in front is half-hidden, the black paint on the surface has peeled off, and the city walls on both sides are full of cracks, and the ground is littered with rubble falling from the city walls, as if it will collapse at any time.

Entering the city through the gates, there was a gravel road overgrown with yellow weeds.

The buildings on both sides of the street have collapsed, and as far as the eye can see, they are in ruins.

The dark clouds over the city were low, and the ashes fell from the sky, like yellow paper money scattered on the world, adding a touch of desolation to the broken city.

In the city, you can also see the black fog spreading and shrinking, obscuring the view.

"It's too late to return, there may be rotten monsters in the darkness that we can't contend with."

"You have to believe that the light we release can dispel the darkness."

"The light on my body was lent to Tiga back then, so I am afraid of the dark now." Su Nian didn't have a good airway.

The Tiga in his mouth is a heroic character created based on prehistoric materials.

"It must be that you forgot to report your address when you borrowed the light, and Tiga doesn't have your address, so of course I can't return the light to you by sending a courier."

Looking at each other, the two couldn't help laughing.

After the interlude, the two of them poked down the weedy road towards the city.

Coming to the corner of the main road, Su Nian looked at the fork on the right and saw three sarcophagi placed in the center of the road in triangular symmetry, and a black stele was erected in front of each sarcophagus.

"Let's go and see."

This time, it was Su Nian who took the initiative to speak.

Now that he has entered the city, he is ready for battle, and being timid will affect his performance.

"What did you do in the past," Ji Yun couldn't help but be curious.

"I think there's something good in the coffin, pry it open and see."

"Good idea." Ji Yun immediately nodded in affirmation.

Coming to the first sarcophagus and standing still, Su Nian looked at the stone tablet placed in front of the sarcophagus.

The stele was covered with cracks, and it was engraved with alien characters that he couldn't read.

At this moment, a faction prompt came to mind:

[Faction Hint (Purgatory City): Text Analysis On!] 】

I saw that the words on the stone tablet were distorted and changed, and became the earth script that he was familiar with.

[Mystical forces are corrupting our world, and they are also eating away at our bodies, and a large number of monsters are emerging from nothingness...... We are not willing to wait for death to come. ]

[The world is withering, everything is silent, food is getting scarce, and we are going through endless wars against marauders in order to protect what little food is left.] ]

[The end of the world will come, but no one wants to die first, the only remaining resource is our hope to survive in the end times, but it also brings us war.] ]

[The priest decided to study a way to coexist with the mysterious corrosive power, and he told me that since he couldn't resist, he tried to adapt to the corrosive power of the mysterious power, which might be a way to survive.] ]

[It has created fifteen containers that it hopes will use to transform our life forms...... Find the future Expeditionary Warriors, and we will be here waiting for your return. ]

……

The text on the stele seems to depict the scene before the world was completely eroded by a mysterious force.

"Brother Nian, this mysterious power refers to the power of the corrupt world."

"Possibly, let's go to the other steles and have a look."

Curious, he looked at the contents of the two steles in turn.

After a long time, Su Nian returned to the first stone monument and stood still.

Each stele here depicts roughly the same scene, left by the owner of the sarcophagus before it was corroded.

In addition to the process of the world being eroded by corrosive forces, it also records the task of how to rebuild the home after resurrection if the transformation is successful.

This information was engraved on a stone tablet in order to inform the warriors returning from the expedition what was happening in the city.

But it turned out that the expeditionary warriors described on the stele did not return.

By reading the contents of the stone tablet, he also understood the reason why there were corpses everywhere outside the city.

The world in which this scene is set seems to have been devoured by a corrupted world, during which the ecology of the original world has been devastated, resulting in a massive shortage of food.

Endless wars broke out here over the ownership of the food.

Among the bones piled up outside the city were the remains of looters who had come to fight for food and the corpses of warriors who defended the city.

As for the coffin in front of him, it seems to be the product of some kind of experiment.

In order to solve the problem of being weakened by corrosive forces, the priests in the castle have launched a plan to adapt the life in the castle.

The coffin is the container used for the transformation.

Su Nian looked at the coffin, which was more than one meter high, and could see the complex lines carved on it, which emitted a faint light, slowly absorbing the wisps of black mist in the air.

This seems to be the process of transformation recorded on the stele.

"Brother Nian, have you watched the recent news?"

Ji Yun suddenly spoke out at this moment, interrupting his thoughts.

He turned his head to look and found that Ji Yun's expression was very solemn.

"What's wrong?"

"Recently, there was a news that an untouchable black space node has been discovered in the direction of Antarctica, and the smell of decay that can only be perceived in the decaying world is slowly flowing out of this node."

Su Nian immediately understood what Ji Yun wanted to express:

"What you're trying to say...... Our world is also suffering from the devouring and merging of the decaying world?! ”

Ji Yun nodded with a solemn expression and said:

"After reading the contents of the stone tablet, I have reason to suspect that the earth is also going through the process of being devoured and transformed by the breath of decay...... It may be a preliminary stage now, so it has not affected our lives, but as long as the corrosion continues, it is possible that the earth will be integrated into the decaying world in the future, and become a scene in the decaying world. ”

"Hiss~!"