Dominate the Treacherous Realm

　　 Jenkins pointed his sword at the miner again, and the miner immediately turned his head and let his normal face speak:

"I am a miner in Linden Town, Zall City, the Kingdom of Fedictrie. The mine disaster claimed the lives of my father, my elder brother and my younger brother. I have to take care of my family. But you think that mining alone , Can I really feed so many people? The big people in the city rely on the coal we dug up with their lives, enjoying the life we ​​can’t enjoy, but I can only continue along the mines where my father and brothers died. Their lives. If I don’t dedicate my only soul that still has some value, am I going to watch the remaining family members starve to death, or go into the skin and meat business?"

　　 What he said is also the truth, in other words, this is probably a poor man.

　　Intelligent life is complicated. It is difficult to use labels to explain good and evil things. It is rare to find a person who only does good things or only does bad things in his life. Moreover, "good things" and "bad things" have completely different views for different people.

　　 So, although what happened in front of me may sound tragic, it is only an ordinary epitome of this era. In the corner that Jenkins can't see, countless similar things are still happening.

When he feeds cats with gourmet food in high-end restaurants, innocent girls will die of starvation in the corner of the street; when he uses those wood-burning wood to light his own fireplace, he can't think of how much the lumberjack has paid for a piece of wood. The hard work; while he was sitting in the carriage with his eyes closed and waiting to reach his destination, the carriage driver who drove the carriage might be worried about the family’s winter rations.

　　 Jenkins can behave as a "good guy" most of the time because he is lucky enough to get the current living environment. If he came to this world and became an orphan in a slum, he might also follow the path of the two people in front of him.

　　 Good and evil are the two sides of human beings, and they are mutually dependent as twins. Even if it is a devil, there is good, and even if it is an angel like Louise, there must be evil. The so-called "twin devil" itself may refer to the contradictory but simultaneous existence of good and evil sides of human beings.

　　 "Let me guess, no matter which metal cocoon I choose, the third person must be the poor man who was forced to go on the wrong path because of the tragedy of the times."

　　 "I don't know anything."

　　Human Face Snake replied, his tail trembling suddenly:

"I need to remind you that there is usually a time limit in the treacherous world. Don't you feel that the neighborhood is getting hotter and hotter? After a while, the magma sea below will riot, and the magma will rise until The entire cave is flooded, so you need to make a decision as soon as possible. Should you choose a third cocoon? Or rely on these two souls to help you find the door to leave?"

　　 "Where is the Fire Worm?"

　　 "Sorry, what did you say?"

　　 A different expression finally appeared on the face of the human face snake:

　　 "I don't know anything."

　　 This sentence is finally a lie, and Jenkins also determined from this that the power of the scourge beast hidden in this treacherous realm is really the power of the seventeenth era scourge beast [Earthfire Worm]. He just asked casually, after all, of the 14 calamity beasts he already knew the name, only this one had the closest connection with magma.

"So, what do you want to do? From my point of view, sacrificing the souls of evil people who are not good people in themselves, and finding a door for me to leave, seems to be something that can be accepted by myself. But there is really such a thing. Is it simple?"

　　Human Face Snake smiled at this question without saying a word. It stood there with its body crossed, and spat out a letter to Jenkins:

　　 "You are the participant, and I am just the host."

　　 is not just a conspiracy of the differential engine, even this time the horror itself is very strange.

　　 Even if an ordinary person breaks into the treacherous realm, there is no mortal situation, but there will be no situation without any danger. In the current situation, Jenkins just chose two cocoons at will, and almost gathered the conditions for leaving. He didn't make any sacrifices, not just physical strength, even intelligence did not need to be used. Not to mention the treacherous realms that require extra care and caution compared to the rules in the past, even the treacherous realms that cannot be regarded as ordinary treacherous death and the two masters of blooming flowers are more difficult than this time.

　　 He didn't choose the third metal cocoon right away, but stood still and thought about it. Looking suspiciously at the human-faced snake, the latter smiled at him, and then looked at the miner and the conductor:

　　 "If I let you enter the magma, your soul will burn...What is the principle of this? Can it be said that it is the sacrifice of the soul to gain the ability to move in the magma?"

　　 "We are the bait, the bait to suppress the mad demons below the magma. When we enter the magma, the souls will be extracted by the demons in the magma, and as bait, of course we cannot be swallowed by the magma immediately."

　　 The conductor explained that his soul is obviously stronger than the weak absenteeism.

　　 "This isn't a place like a [magma hell] prison, right?"

　　 he thought suspiciously, and then asked:

　　 "What would happen to those crazy demons if they got your soul?"

　　 "Will be active for a while, and fall silent again after our soul disappears. They are completely crazy and only interested in the soul."

　　 The conductor explained again, the normal face begged:

　　 "Please, kindhearted people, don't let us..."

　　 "So, the trap of the Deception is that once the selected person is allowed to enter the magma, even if the door is found, I will only enter the door under the obstacle of the awakened mad demon."

　　 But Jenkins has seen the strength of the mad devil. He rushed to the ground just now, but only awakened one of them. The power of that guy will be enhanced in the current environment. Jenkins can deal with one or a group, but he doesn't want to spend all his power in the first deception to deal with demons that don't need to fight at all.

　　 knows the rules of the deception, but the differential engine also sets up traps. But no matter how you look at it, Jenkins can't see the black aura that represents the power of [Earthfire Worm]. He suspected that the snake in front of him was the worm, after all, it was in the shape of a long strip.

　　 But at close range, no matter how strong the black aura of the human-faced snake is, he can't see the slightest trace of the power of the beast of calamity.

　　 looked to the sky again, there may also be that worm in the dense metal cocoon. It's just that he couldn't find his goal in it under the aura of the treacherous realm.

Section 2109 Chapter 2078 Funeral (Add 6/10)

A series of grunting sounds came from below 　　, and the magma sea was indeed rising. Now the temperature here has far exceeded Nolan's normal summer temperature. Fortunately, the chocolate did not follow. The cat didn't hate cold very much. After all, it could hide in Jenkins' arms when it was cold, but chocolate especially hated heat.

　　 Thinking of his cat, Jenkins's heart shuddered:

　　 "I must go out."

　　 His eyes became firmer, instead of choosing the third metal cocoon, he came to the edge of the big rock and looked at the magma sea below.

　　 The scorching air stream surges upwards, and the acid gas mixed in it has already made the skin feel uncomfortable. He opened the heavy backpack, and took out the things he needed for a long time.

Kneel on one knee on the edge of the big stone, use a silver knife to make a nick on the hard stone surface, then crush the petals of the blue flower with your fingers, drop the juice into the nick, and place a small piece of it separately Human phalanx, crystal powder and a small piece of sapphire are placed on the ceremonial base.

　　 There is no starry sky in the paradox, so some rituals that rely on astrology cannot be used. But this ritual does not need to correspond to the sky. Jenkins finally cut his finger with a dagger, squeezing out a drop of his own blood and dripping it on the sapphire.

　　 Immediately, the dents carved by the knife lit up along with the juice of the petals. The crystal powder slowly melted into the light, and the finger bones and sapphires placed side by side merged with each other.

　　 When the ceremony is over, only the sapphire finger bones are left. It looks like a work of art, and I don’t know why. Most of the ceremonial supplies will turn into such a beautiful appearance with a little processing, but Jenkins, who knows its source, would not put this kind of thing in his own home.

　　 The ceremonially processed finger bones are exuding chills. Jenkins picked it up and inspected it, and he was sure that this was only the ritual "Frost Fairy Sigh" he had heard from Dolores. It was really useful. It was a ritual left by the ancestors of the Stuart family's benefactor, Jenkins. Never used it.

　　 tossed the finger bone in his hand a few times, and then hurled it forward. It presents a standard parabolic trajectory, and under the influence of gravity, it eventually falls into the magma.

　　 Jenkins counted a few numbers silently in his heart, stood on the edge of the big rock with his head stretched out, and when the countdown went to zero, he heard the muffled sound of "boom", and then saw the cold air erupting into the sky from the depths of the magma like a fountain. The rapidly cooling lava formed a black solid substance in the area where the cold air was gushing.

　　 But these substances didn't exist for long, they were shattered by a roar that shook the world.

　　Roar~

　　 The devil’s arm was slow, but it stretched out from under the magma with an unusually oppressive feeling. The miners and conductors trembled like sieves at this moment, and even the hundreds of metal cocoons above everyone's heads began to shake irregularly, as if they were worried about being caught by this huge arm.

　　 Because there is no need to evade this time, I can see the arm completely. The thickness of the arm is comparable to the last layer of the metal tower, and the surface of the skin is covered with cyan muscles. The bulging of the muscles looks like an extra layer of armor on the arms. The uncomfortable profanity runes flashed dark green against the flames of magma. The runes are scattered in the texture of the muscles, making it difficult to distinguish whether they are naturally formed. It was carved the day after tomorrow.

　　 The palm of his hand has five fingers like humans, and some blood-red disgusting things can be seen in the cracks of the blue nails.

　　 The arm stretched out from the magma, first accurately patted the "cold gas fountain" to extinguish the cold, and then stretched out to the huge rock where everyone was.

　　 Jenkins took out his sword and swung it forward. The white sword light collided with his arm. While the arm was cut off abruptly, even more frightening roars came from under the magma sea.

　　 "You disturbed the stray mad devil."

　　Human Face Snake reminded, his body squirmed uneasy, probably not because he was afraid of the demons, but because he was afraid that Jenkins would give him a sword like this:

　　 "Isn't it easier to throw these two souls down and find the door? Why do these meaningless things?"

　　 "Throw it down, isn't it really good to fall into your trap?"

　　 Jenkins turned around and said, rummaged in the backpack again, and found a black cross with a skull face at the cross. This is an alchemy item provided by the Church of the Dead to make it easier for people to let the dead souls return.

　　 For Jenkins, as a sage son, he does not need to use such items to help the soul go. But in the paradox, he is not sure whether ordinary methods are still useful, so the items made by a professional funeral team are more secure.

　　 He held the cross and approached the miner and the conductor. The two of them were scared by Jenkins' sword or by the continuous roar of the demon at the moment, and they all shrank into a ball. If the metal cocoons were not severely damaged, they would probably crawl in again.

　　 "I am not a wicked person, and now I probably have a way to let you continue to ‘go down’ instead of being trapped here as a demon’s bait and tortured for eternity."

　　 He shook the cross in his hand:

　　 "Of course, it's only possible. So, now, tell me what you know, otherwise I can't guarantee who you will die in the end."

　　 "Sir, we are all poor people..."

"Yes, yes, I know that you are all poor people in our time, the victims of the times, the oppressed objects in the corner that the big men can’t see, the people who really need to be saved, and the people you really Supported our era, but your life is still stuck in the last era... Two people, is there anything else to say?"

　　 He looked at them, and the miner and the conductor looked at him. Afterwards, he turned his head decisively and let the face on the back of his head deal with Jenkins.

　　 "Since you know, why..."

　　 "You always have to give me some time, don't you think that I was a person who can influence the times in the past?"

　　 He has only been in this world for one year. Although he has become a vested interest in one year, he is indeed not to blame. Twenty years later, if he still faces such questions, he may not be able to answer, but now he is not afraid to ask inner questions like this:

"I am only a member of this world. I have seen the luck and misfortune of this era and intend to change it. However, I have not succeeded yet, and you have become like this. I feel sad for your misfortune, but I will never take this as my responsibility."

Section 2110, Chapter 2079, Jenkins' Conditions (plus 7/10)

　　 The two faces on the back of his head looked at Jenkins, not knowing what to say.

　　 Jenkins is not the complete "good old man" they think.

"Now, I will only say the last time. How much do you know about this place? How much do you know about this nasty snake here? Have you ever seen a terrible worm? What kind of soul is in the metal cocoons above? "

　　 The ages when the miners and the conductors lived were 12 years ago and 7 years ago respectively, that is, the age when Jenkin did not arrive. After the two died, they came here directly and were trapped in the cocoon, and the cocoon would periodically enter the magma, allowing the mad demons to extract soul nourishment, but it also protected the souls of those sinners from being extracted all at once. .

　　 Jenkins originally thought that these metal cocoons were made by differential engines. After all, the cocoons themselves are metal, but in fact they are the tools of the demons.

　　 The two souls also gained some knowledge during their trapping. When they were sucked by the demon xi, they also got some information about the place from the mad demon through the contact of the soul.

　　 Those metal cocoons are similar to "food containers" cast from a special demon alloy. These metals can make the soul in it grow stronger regardless of the consequences. Although this will cause the soul to mutate, deform, or even completely collapse, the demons don't care about it.

In other words, the two people Jenkins encountered had symptoms of soul splitting, on the one hand because they were exposed to inaccessible forces due to the "tragedy of the times" when they were alive, and on the other hand because they were instilled by the power of the devil after death. And make the soul a problem.

　　 This is what the two know about this place. Although the metal cocoons are not transparent, they are not soundproof. They can always hear the dreams of crazy demons and the roars in the magma, but they can't hear what is happening outside.

　　 So, the two of them couldn't tell Jenkins the origin of the human face snake, let alone whether there was a big worm here.

　　 "Maybe others will know. The soul here is not only people like us, but also some ancient and powerful guys."

　　 The conductor reminded in a low voice that he actually didn't want Jenkins to ask too much.

　　 Jenkins sniffed:

　　 "Then what's the smell of burning waste gas in your cocoons? This is the unique smell of Nolan City, why do you have it?"

　　 "This is to nourish the soul."

　　 "Nourish the soul?"

　　 "Yes, the black ash you see can penetrate into the human soul and make the soul powerful... torn and mutated."

　　 These things made by the differential machine have such an effect, Jenkins is not surprised, but surprised that the demons of [Magma Hell] are so advanced with the times and can get this kind of things from the material world.

　　 "Who is in charge? Is there a guard here? You can probably see that this is a prison for mad demons."

　　 "This area is much larger than you think. There are guards, but it doesn't know where it is."

　　 Deception is only a small piece of space debris, so the actual area cannot cover the entire range mentioned by the two people. The guard who is responsible for guarding here is most likely not in the Deception.

　　 Thinking of this, Jenkins looked suspiciously at the human-faced snake, listening to the bubbling sound of magma below it getting louder and louder, he looked up again at the hundreds of hanging metal cocoons above.

Under the rules of 　　 Deception, if he dared to shoot down all the cocoons at once, then Deception might dare to die with him. So he can only choose one more, and try to see if there is anyone who knows the situation completely.

　　 did not choose immediately, but looked at the two souls:

　　 "Since you have told me the information, I can send you out of here. But where you are going next is not my final say."

　　 "As long as you leave here, you can go anywhere!"

　　 Both of them said so, they were really scared of this terrible place.

　　 Let the conductor and the soul of the miner sit together, Jenkins held the cross in his right hand, and pointed the skulls between the crosses to them, while pressing his left hand on the back of his right hand to keep his hand steady:

　　 "Praise the sages of inheritance, praise the end of death."

　　 He whispered, this sentence on the one hand means that he has not changed his beliefs, on the other hand, he hopes to get the help of the **** of death. You must pay attention to the order, otherwise it may cause trouble.

　　 tried to activate this alchemy item:

　　 "Dust returns to dust, soil returns to soil, don't stay if you should go."

　　 The cross in his hand turned directly into brown dust and scattered all over the place from Jenkins' hands. He shook his hand, but the two souls in front of him were still there.

　　 But not that nothing happened. They all observed that the color of the soul was fading, turning into some light particles and dissipating in the air.

　　 "It actually did...I mean, it looks like it did."

　　The miner and the conductor finally showed a smile, they hugged each other, and then looked at Jenkins:

　　 "Sir, you really are a good person, you..."

　　 "Needless to say, go ahead, no matter which world you are going to, I hope you will not be on the wrong path."

"But we don’t need us, we are living in choosing us, not we are choosing life... If we can, we also hope to go to a more prosperous, more developed, and fairer era, where everyone can study , Everyone can eat, everyone can..."

　　 The voice disappeared, and their souls disappeared in front of Jenkins.

　　 "You let their souls be free, do you want to find a door in the magma by yourself?"