If O'Cruise had been able to manifest himself, his face would have been as ugly as Penny's.

Pale foreheads, dripping beads of sweat, drop by drop on the metal floor, the brain went blank.

Not just the two of them, but the other three souls hidden in the Aether Plane were in a dilemma with Penny.

Be calm.

Penny took two breaths, calmed down, picked up a bunch of scrolls from the ground, all of them were powerful spells in the three or four rings of arcane, and then carefully approached the front of the secret door, a transparent glass-like spiral staircase led to the unknown depth, and at the end there was a trace of white light caused by the spell, he took a deep breath and walked lightly.

The secret door opened automatically, indicating that he had been exposed, and escaping was not a very reliable behavior, and it was also a matter of luck, and Penny was more inclined to look back and see what was under the secret door.

If it's a miracle mechanic below, naturally everything will be fine, and you don't have to think about anything, if not, maybe there will be a turnaround.

As soon as his body sank into the secret door, there was a soft sound above Penny's head, and the light cast from it disappeared, and the secret door closed automatically.

The way back is gone.

Penny's heart calmed down completely, and the feeling of gambling on his life was like this, and it was not that he had never died.

As soon as he entered the underground, Penny's eyes suddenly appeared in a brilliant light, and he was shocked for a moment.

It was open and open, and it didn't look like a basement that was supposed to be small.

The spiral staircase has disappeared behind him, looking up at the vast sky, and looking down, there is a vast land, as far as the eye can see, stretching to the horizon.

Nearby, a magnificent high-rise building, a large ring of magical words floating in the air with seven colors of light, rapidly or slowly spinning, a huge sense of magnificence filled Penny's heart, and his eyes wandered in front of this jungle of steel and magic runes, gradually trance.

A glorious city of steel and magic patterns.

Whoosh -

A strange-looking spaceship flew past Penny's ears, and at the same time, a loud noise reached Penny's ears, and he looked down to see countless people in somewhat unfashionable clothes coming and going on the streets, and in a trance, Penny was in the middle of the streets, feeling the prosperity.

Penny stretched out a hand and passed through the body of an oncoming man, and the 'people' around him were clearly oblivious, and the mage's eyebrows furrowed.

"Although it is gorgeous and prosperous, it is only a phantom and a memory after all. ”

The utterance, full of sighs, was not Penny's own words, nor the soul words of O'Crus, but a somewhat dry-sounding voice.

The crowd faded, and a 'man' appeared about ten feet in front of Penny, which was said to be in quotation marks, because the guy who spoke didn't look like a normal living person at all.

The shriveled body looked like a mummy, more like it belonged to a dead man, like a living Buddha enshrined in some temple in another world, but those eyes vetoed Penny's judgment, and the two gazes that shot out of it were indifferently but incomparably stable on Penny's body, with scrutiny and interest.

Penny cheered up, all he had seen was hallucinations, but this person who looked a bit like a zombie was the first real thing he could feel in this basement.

"Who are you?"

Penny didn't know how to say hello, so he had to start with this sentence.

"I should have asked you this question. The mummy smiled, and the skinny face made the smile look terrifying: "There aren't many people who can come here, are you that guy's new assistant?"

"Sort of. Penny sighed, "Who are you?

There was not the slightest respect for the wizard in the mummy's tone, and Penny vaguely felt that he didn't have to worry about anything anymore.

However, when this sentence was asked, I saw that the mummy was silent for a while, and then said in a hoarse voice: "Also...... Sort of. ”

"Sort of?" Penny's expression became a little strange.

"He created me with some of the things he discarded, and then placed me in this place. The mummy said.

"Uh...... In this way, he is your creator, but listening to your words, it seems that there is a lack of respect for him. Penny scratched his head.

At this time, he did not receive a message from Oclus, although he was a little strange, but the 'person' in front of him was not hostile, he asked for his surname and decided to talk about it first, maybe he could get some useful news.

"How can you have respect for someone who wants to kill you all the time?" the mummy laughed, with some irony, "You know, with his surname, you can kill you at any time because you made a mistake in the experiment. Besides, he hated me so much that he wanted me to disappear immediately. ”

"You mean he...... Want to kill you?" Penny frowned and looked at the dreamy scenery around him, "But at this time, with all due respect, it doesn't seem difficult for him to kill you, or is there anything you can do to keep him from killing you?"

"Of course not...... But ......" the mummy lowered her voice and laughed twice, "Have you ever heard of anyone who can live after killing himself?"

Penny was stunned for a moment, then turned to look into the mummy's eyes, his heart beating violently a few times, and an answer was about to come out.

"I haven't met you yet, but that doesn't stop you from getting to know me again. The mummy raised his head, and the shriveled neck bone made a clicking sound: "You know, the emptiness produced by thousands of years of solitude, and some inexplicable emotions, is enough to drive anyone sane enough to go crazy, so he created me, or rather, I created me with these 'emotions' and 'bodies' that I didn't think I needed." ”

"I think I understand. Penny smiled wryly, "Mr. Sagba Pascal." ”

"Of course you can call me that. This mummified version of Sagba Pascal nodded: "Don't worry, I don't have a good impression of me in the golem shell, because I am something he doesn't need, or rather, something that 'I' don't need, if you want, just talk to me for a while, and I'll show you the way out of here, you have to know that the loneliness of not talking to anyone is hard......"

"Really?" Penny's heart skipped another beat, then shook his head, "But I still have some companions who have been turned to stone by that golem, and I need to restore them ......"

"Removing the Eternal Petrification, you want to kill 'me'?" the mummy was silent for a moment, then asked suddenly.

"......" Penny was silent.

"Life is precious, so many people pray for eternity. The mummy said lightly: "If I were you, hearing what I just said, I would choose to leave here alone." ”

"Life is precious. I don't know what kind of emotion pushed him, Penny began to say what was in his heart: "Although my relationship with my companions is not enough to live and die together, I have promised not to abandon them, and I think it is a shameful thing to turn my back on my companions. I find it hard for me to accept living with such a shame on my back. ”

"Stupid. Sagba Pascal shook his head disapprovingly: "Sometimes, it's courage to bear shame. ”

"I guess I lack that courage. Penny touched his nose.

Sagba was stunned for a moment, then laughed again: "Do you have the guts to face a quasi-legendary spellcaster who has existed for four thousand years, but thinks you lack courage because you don't want to break your own little principle?"

"For me, principles are more important than life. Penny looked up: "As for the danger, do everything you can, and leave it to fate." ”

"Destiny ......" Penny saw the mummy's bright eyes and was in a trance: "So, you have enough courage to choose your fate?"

Penny was silent, and he noticed that this mummified version of the ancient machinist was not only talkative, but also unusually sentimental, and seemed to be easily introduced into a special emotional state by certain topics.

"Look, how about these landscapes I've laid out?" There was silence again, and Sagba Pascal suddenly raised a hand and pointed to the magnificent mirage around him.

"Is it the Imasca Empire?" Penny looked up, taking in the scenery again.

"It's my memory......" the mummy sighed, "all these years have haunted my memory, my homeland, my hometown of birth, that small town filled with the smell of straw, my upbringing, the heart of the empire of Loyan, the lamp that burrows into the stacks of arcane and mechanical books every night, my mentors, my colleagues at the Royal Academy of Mechanics...... My love and her, they were everything in my life. ”

"But everything was ruined. The voice of the strange mechanic turned low, his body collapsed significantly, and the surrounding illusion also changed: the clouds turned crimson, meteors rained down from the sky, and hundreds of millions of wolf-headed soldiers entered the city under the guidance of more than a dozen vast and brilliant humanoid light clusters, and the glorious city turned into ruins in a blink of an eye......

This is the scene of the Murholland gods attacking Luoyan.

Seeing this scene of civilization collapsing, Penny's state of mind also unconsciously sank.

"It's all ruined......" repeated Sagba Pascal with a sigh, "and I'm still here, thinking about it all the time...... Three thousand eight hundred and fifty-four years. ”

"There is no dynasty that never ends. There was a moment of silence, and Penny spoke.

"You are quite right, the metabolism of all things, the rise and fall of dynasties, this is very normal. The Mechanic Sitting on the ruins of the Mirage nodded calmly and held his chin with his hand: "So I have been searching for the existence of 'eternity' all these years, hoping to give me a little meaning in this long life, but I find that I seem to be in a state of confusion......"

"Young man, can you tell me what you think eternity looks like?" asked the machinist.

"I haven't thought about it yet...... Penny thought for a moment and said with a wry smile, "But I think the so-called eternity is to keep the essence unchanged and permanent, but the world changes all the time, so ......"

When he said this, he suddenly stopped, because he saw that the strange mechanic's eyes had turned red like beasts, and his heart was cold, and he hurriedly stopped.

"Change, change?"

The wizard muttered to himself twice, and suddenly laughed uncontrollably, the mummy's body continued to fall off its white skin because of the shriveled, and Penny was worried for a while: "Is this so?" What I have insisted on, what I have believed in, what I have believed in as the meaning of existence, has disappeared for thousands of years, and in the end what remains is just a phantom, and even I myself have become such a deformed appearance, unable to maintain the essence, not even a complete existence, what is the point of eternal lingering, just escaping reality, how sad!

After laughing maniacally, Sagba Pascal lowered his head in silence for a while, and looked up at Penny: "Then, if you insist on facing another 'me', even if you do me a favor and end this deformed life." ”

Penny was stunned.

I was a little hesitant to write this chapter, and I guess many friends won't find this way of writing refreshing.

But a certain fish still wants to be able to take responsibility for his role, even if it is a villain boss who is destined to have a coffee table, he can't do it rashly.

Perhaps, it's also a bad habit.

Continue to ask for recommendation votes, the top ten newcomers on the homepage, it's not easy.

Tomorrow I'm going to open up the wasteland and push the boss bird.,I've been thinking about the plot for a long time~~.