Endless Debt

After leaving the prison, Boluogo walked aimlessly on the streets. The noise around him had nothing to do with him, and wherever his eyes touched, there were all strange sights.

Sixty years have been enough to change too many things, not only Boluogo himself, but also the land where he once fought.

The vast scorched earth was no longer replaced by the Oath City of Opos in the Iron Jungle. Everything that Boluogo was familiar with in the past disappeared in the expansion of the city. He moved forward in a daze until he came to the edge of the great rift. He cast his gaze into the deep darkness below.

Boluogo has thought about why the Great Rift was born more than once.

Perhaps it was created by some kind of weapon, but Bologo knew very well that the existing weapons of mankind could not cause such horrific terrain changes. Later Bologo became a sublimation master and knew the secrets of this extraordinary world. He vaguely thought Another possibility.

In the fall of the holy city, not only mortal soldiers like myself were fighting, but also those noble and glorious beings. If it was a war between the glorious ones, then this land would be twisted into this kind of The appearance is not impossible.

Then……

One light.

A ray of light that penetrates the sky completely.

From the Pillars of Royal Power of the Kogadel Empire to the end of the Rhine, starting from the Freeport and ending at the Windy Highlands, no matter where you are, as long as you raise your head, you can see the light that splits the sky and the earth.

Light, great rift, ashes, the death of King Solomon, the fall of the holy city...

Boluogo vaguely felt that he had caught something, those clues floating in the wind. He stretched out his hand randomly and quickly caught them all, and then pieced together the forgotten truth.

"Ashes? Why are there ashes here?" Aimu also asked at this time.

The amount of ashes here is a bit scary, almost filling every corner, completely burying the dark rocks. Looking ahead, the misty gray continues to extend into the darkness, as if the bottom of the large crack is completely covered by these ashes. .

Boluogo carried Aimu on his back and stood up straight. He no longer had the mentality of surviving in the wilderness. He was full of vigilance and his eyes were stern.

"Ashes... the product of burning matter," Bologg said to himself, "What exactly is burning and producing such a large amount of ash."

The folding knife picked up some ashes, and they scattered countless fine dust in the air, falling lightly.

Boluogo stepped forward and completely stepped into the world of ashes. They rose high and covered all the rocks. At the same time, the temperature around them was also rising continuously, and even the cold of winter could not invade it.

"Cheer up, Aimu, it's not as simple as we think." Boluogo whispered to Aimu.

For everyone living in Opos, the Great Rift is a mystery that is close at hand. It may be that people are too close to it, so close that they talk about it every day and still live in it.

Qiushang Town, Wandering Road, Mine...

Too close, so close that the mysteries and strange stories about the Great Cleft have become chats after dinner. The mystery and awe are no longer, it is just a topic for entertainment.

But what this has changed is only people's attitude towards the Great Rift, not the nature of the Great Rift. No matter how people view it, it still stands here silently, accepting everything that is thrown into it.

The Great Rift is the most mysterious and treacherous existence in Oath City Opos, far surpassing all mysteries.

Whether it is the current dispute or the secret war, it all stems from the fall of the Holy City sixty-six years ago, and the great rift appeared after the fall of the Holy City and behind that ray of light.

Boluogo firmly believed that there must be a direct connection between them, and this connection, the secret that was deliberately hidden, might be hidden in this deep darkness, at the end of this endless ashes.

Stopping his pace, the ashes under Bologo's feet were relatively soft, as if they had just been piled on top. He lowered his head and vigorously peeled away the ashes. Not long after he went down, he encountered a slightly hard layer of ashes.

I don’t know how long they have been there, but the ashes actually solidified into a layer of gray ash, which fell apart like dry white bark under the heavy blow of the jackknife.

After it shattered, there was another layer, and then another layer after another.

"Did you find anything?" Aimu asked.

Boluogo looked at the small pit he dug and the layers of ash that still existed after the layers were broken. After thinking for a moment, he said.

"The outer layer of ash is relatively soft. After going down a little, it solidifies. It seems that it was formed by being squeezed for a long time."

Boluogo picked up the folding knife, and the glow of the alchemical matrix lit up slightly.

In the ether vacuum environment, the ether in one's own body is extremely precious. Use less and less. However, in order to explore the truth, Bologo ordered the snakes to climb up the folding knives and then stab them towards the ash layer.

The folding knife was completely submerged in the ash layer. The snakes continued to crawl downwards, drilling through the layers of ash. After a few meters, the hard obstruction disappeared. The snakes moved faster, seeming to break through these solidified layers. Hard, and then reached the limit of secret energy release.

Boluogo was about to call back the snakes, but at this moment, a change occurred.

Through the group of snakes, Boluogo could feel the faint restlessness coming from below. It seemed that there was another thing that was moving quickly through the ashes, heading towards the group of snakes. Then, in Boluogo's perception, a scaly snake disappeared. The trace, and even the etheric reaction left on Bologo disappeared, as if it had been eaten by some kind of monster.

Before Bologe could make any reaction or judgment, a strong sense of madness penetrated the thick layer of ash and hit Bologe's mind.

The vision fell into darkness for a moment, and for a moment Bologo heard it.

Noisy sounds, hoarse sounds, wailing sounds... Thousands of tones hit the eardrums like a rainstorm, leaving bloody traces on them.

What followed was an extremely crazy and weird hallucination, which kept flashing and extinguishing in front of his eyes, like a cursed kaleidoscope, refracting evil into broken fragments.

Countless pale spines intertwined into rugged pillars, scarlet spiderwebs of flesh and blood, a huge exposed heart, beating hard, sending out a wave of blood, and at the end of the darkness, scarlet mouthparts. It opened like a hungry baby bird, letting out bursts of shrill wails.

Intense pain burst out of Boluogo's mind. He lost control of his body and stumbled backwards, as if his bones had been drained.

"damn it……"

Boluogo gritted his teeth and resisted, his firm will maintaining a trace of sanity under the power of madness.

He could clearly sense that the snakes were dying one after another, being eaten clean by another more terrifying predator. Bologo used his last bit of strength to summon back the only scaly snake, and then fell heavily. Go down.

The evil force tried to continue to intrude on Boluogo, but with the return of the scaly snake, the connection between the two was interrupted, and that power could only roar, unwillingly being locked back into the darkness, allowing Boluogo to seize the opportunity. Got some respite.

Boluogo got up from the ground, panting, and it took him a long time to recover. Silver-white scale snakes crawled on his arms, and his silent, blue eyes were full of solemnity, as if he had discovered some amazing secret.

Buried under this ashes.

"What's wrong?"

Aimu couldn't understand how Boluogo felt, but she also noticed the abnormality in Boluogo's movements.

Taking deep breaths repeatedly, Boluogo did not mention the crazy meaning. He had a deep connection with the devil, and he would always notice something that he shouldn't notice at some inexplicable and strange times.

Boluogo had become accustomed to his heart rate soaring from time to time. He remained calm and murmured.

"There's something wrong down there..."

After penetrating the hard ash layer, the group of snakes moved quickly. Bologo originally thought that the bottom was soft soil, but when he recalled, it was an environment full of hard rocks. Bologo felt that it was more like soil than soil. ……ash.

Ashes that have not yet been squeezed together and solidified into layers of ash.

This is unreasonable. Logically speaking, the inside is squeezed into a hard layer of ash. Why is the inside soft and the outer shell hard?

Bologg said as he touched the scaly snake on his arm. A severe burning sensation came from his fingertips, which made Bologg immediately withdraw his hand.

The little snake slowly raised its head. Boluogo looked at it. After pausing for a few seconds, he stretched out his hand again. The temperature on it dropped a lot and became warm.

"What the hell is this place?"

Boluogo realized what was going on and couldn't help but cursed.

"what happens?"

Aimu's voice was a little anxious. She had been asking questions just now, but Boluogo didn't reply to her, and just made his own judgment.

"The outer ash layer here is hard, but the inner ash is extremely soft. This is unreasonable. But after I recovered the snakes, I found that the snakes carried high temperature, which means..."

Boluogo said to Aimu.

"That is to say, under these layers of ashes, something is burning, constantly emitting high temperature, dispelling the cold, and itself is constantly turning into ashes, filling the inside, and being squeezed to the outermost part, it becomes It became the current layer of ashes." Aimu said following Boluogo's words.

"Yes," Boluogo swallowed, "I failed to explore that thing. The limit range of my secret power is ten meters."

Bologg's eyes fell on the ashes under his feet. The burning thing was located at his feet. The exact depth was unknown, and the core temperature was unclear. Then Bologg's eyes slowly raised and looked into the depth of the crack. at.

"There is something burning under this big crack. I don't know how huge it is and how long it has been burning..."

Boluogo's words were like a curse, and the chaotic hallucinations just now kept flashing back in front of his eyes.

Scarlet, weird, crazy, always hungry, insatiable...