Endless Debt

Stepping back into the forge volcano area, rolling heat waves hit your face. Looking up, the volcano is like an insurmountable bronze wall, towering and majestic. Its outline looks so majestic in the infinitely extending dome, as if it is the earth. A huge barrier that separates you from the sky.

Between the gaps, the lava resembles a twisted monster, with delicate lines outlining a ferocious face. Silver-white flames dance in the depths of the scorching lava, like elves jumping in the flames, alluring and dangerous.

The flames were so bright and red that the hot breath forced people to take a few steps back.

Boluogo and Freya were hiding behind the bunker. The huge wall was breathing fire, and the flames danced like waves, turning into soaring flames.

"It was the secret laboratory I discovered beneath the Forge Volcano."

Freya said, her voice coming through the protective clothing and sounding particularly dull.

"okay, I get it."

Boluogo nodded, but did not act immediately. Instead, he stuck his head out vigilantly and looked at the few additional figures under the forge volcano.

In addition to the staff wearing protective clothing, there are many more staff here who should not be in this area.

Field staff.

The thin uniforms looked particularly slender in the heat wave, and they were like upright weeds, swaying slightly.

"They are on guard," Freya said. "You fought with the security staff here before, but they didn't find you, so they put the security down here."

Freya gave an example for Boluogo, "You can understand this as an area bound by a strange rule. Everyone is abiding by this rule, and this rule is to maintain the false operation of the 'Order Bureau'."

"Their actions all originate from regulations." Bologo understood what Freya meant.

After the forge volcano was put under martial law, the field staff vigilantly inspected every staff member wearing protective clothing and witnessed them jumping into the volcano one after another and burning into nothingness.

"The forge volcano also requires energy to maintain combustion, and these employees, they look like twisted monsters, but in fact, they are made of pure ether."

Boluogo whispered, "They are using their own power to provide energy for the entire ruined area."

"I've noticed this before, but I didn't investigate it in detail," Freya said fearfully. "After all, their job is to 'sacrifice'."

Boluo Ge had the ability to fight in front of everyone, but Freya couldn't.

"It's not complete chaos here."

Boluogo judged rationally, "Real chaos is complete disorder. What the ruins area presents at this time is more like a process of order turning into chaos."

The space is distorted and dislocated, and the entire ruined area is transforming into an unknown form. Under this chaotic phenomenon, the staff maintain an alternative order, as if fighting against the chaotic space.

"Xilin's power was just an opportunity. He broke the foundation of the Kenshi, causing the entire building to twist and deform... There must be other forces at work." Fuliya concluded based on many years of experience.

"Containment area."

Boluogo said, "Just like the upside-down world that affects your cognition, something must have been released from the containment area. Those containment objects are like poison, further distorting this place."

The figure squirmed slowly in the shadows. Bologger felt the heat around him. He couldn't help but whisper, "Have you seen this scene? Belphegor."

No one answered.

After a short movement, Boluogo and Freya successfully explored the vicinity of the Forge Volcano. The next step was to follow the hanging ladder on the bronze wall and go deeper.

There were ashes and sparks floating above his head, and for a moment Boluogo felt that he was walking on a burning winter night.

"It's down there." Freya whispered.

Boluogo looked at the deep darkness below. The ashes piled up a thick layer in the darkness. After a long period of precipitation, they formed a gray-white hard shell on the surface of the metal, and streams of red-hot Molten iron fell from above, pouring into the darkness, gathering and surging to form slender rivers of burning iron.

"Follow me."

Boluogo and Freya leaned together and moved forward cautiously. At the intersection at the end of the hanging ladder, there were two employees wearing protective suits. They had indeed strengthened the security. There was no one on duty here before. .

The chatter of the staff could be heard clearly.

"Have you not caught the intruder yet?"

"Not yet and have no idea what internal security is doing."

"Ha, they also suffered a defeat once?" it laughed, "Would you like to make a bet on how long the intruders can escape?"

"I don't bet, who knows if they will keep escaping."

After the clerk finished speaking, he was silent for a while, then he raised his head and looked at the seemingly endless raging volcano.

"Ever since Xilin attempted the invasion, the Kenshi has been twisting. Maybe the intruders were swallowed up by the Kenshi itself?"

After listening to it, the other employee stopped talking. The two looked at each other and murmured.

"Kenshi will never fall."

Boluogo listened to their words and muttered silently in his heart, "Kenshi will never fall."

This is the ruins area. As early as when he was in the normal room, Boluogo had heard rumors in the Bureau of Order. Some people said that the room was alive and would eat some lost employees from time to time.

Boluogo always regarded it as a strange story until that day when he mistakenly entered the House of the Rising Sun.

In this ghostly place called Oath City Opos, every strange story is a truth that needs to be verified.

"I often hear this saying, it's like some kind of slogan to them," Freya said timely, "Sometimes, I feel like they are like...like..."

Before, Boluogo explained the follow-up of the Secret War to Freya. Freya recalled it and said, "Just like those souls who died in the war, they were reborn as monsters, but they were still trapped in the Secret War. , stubbornly holding on to the Kenshi."

Freya's notes are filled with conversations between the staff, and Bologg has also read those records. Everyone's conversations are different, and the words are extremely vivid, and can even reflect their personalities.

If you throw away their weird appearance and evil nature, in Bolog's eyes, they are really living people.

For a time, Bologo also wondered whether he had unknowingly suffered cognitive distortions and regarded living people as monsters, but he quickly rejected this.

Cognitive distortion can deceive one's senses, but it cannot distort the nature of pure ether.

"We'll find out what happened."

Boluogo said firmly, and then strode forward.

The two clerks guarded the main road. Bologg could not avoid their sight and could only stride forward.

They also noticed Boluogo's arrival and said suspiciously, "It's not time to shift yet."

"I know."

Before he finished speaking, Boluoge suddenly accelerated, and his figure was like a twisted phantom, appearing in front of the two staff members in an instant. The protective clothing was easily penetrated, the throat was cut open by the bite, and the head was split open with the saw and axe. .

Judging from my own experience and Freya's notes, these employees are independent individuals. Through "playing", they can use a communication method similar to whistles to communicate across distances, but equally, Due to the existence of "playing", as long as Bologo kills them before they send a message.

They are undead, but in order to "play" a good clerk, death and the inability to deliver messages are part of the role-playing.

The two staff members were instantly paralyzed, with the glow of ether flashing in the wounds, but just as they were about to heal, a strange suction force was released from Bologo's body.

Blessing, sucking the soul and usurping the soul!

Since they are pure energy bodies, with Bologo's plundering protection, they may be able to swallow their ether.

Brilliant streams of light overflowed, and countless brilliance danced in the air. The ether was guided by Boluogo, flickering in and out, intertwining into a spiral vortex.

This vortex is like a pupil of fire. The ever-changing stream of light finally reaches its peak and quickly collapses into a single point of light.

The glow was incorporated into Boluogo's body and reflected on the increasingly dazzling alchemical matrix.

Bologger took a long breath, he did it.

There is no perfect immortal body. For this reason, the immortality of the staff also has flaws. Their flaws are similar to Bologg. Multiple kills will weaken their own ether. When the ether is completely collapsed, they will stop. Resurrection.

Now Boluogo has swallowed up the ether of both of them, causing them to fall into a deep sleep. Boluogo knows that this cannot kill them completely, but it will take at least several hours for them to wake up again. Absorb the ether floating in the air.

By then Bologo's operation would have been over.

"You...what did you do?"

Freya rushed over, and she only saw Bologg suddenly rushing in front of the staff, completely defeating them in two blows.

The ether was plundered, screaming gas overflowed from the wounds in the protective suit, and the original body seemed to evaporate on the spot, leaving only an empty shell in the end.

"nothing."

Boluogo shook his head. He didn't expect the attack to be so effective. Unfortunately, he didn't have many uses of such a move at the moment.

After resting, Boluogo's own ether was already in a full state, and now he had plundered the ether of the staff. His alchemical matrix seemed to be bursting, and floating shimmers of light jumped up on the mapped lines.

"We should go," Borlog urged.

"Um."

Freya walked forward quickly, running non-stop on the hanging ladder. It seemed that no one had been here for many years. The steps of the two made the hanging ladder sway slightly, and even the fastened ash shell was full of cracks, and even fall off.

The ashes fell like heavy snow, and the diffuse dust and smoke was filtered by the breathing valve of the protective suit, and heavy breathing came and went.

"It's almost there."

The route in memory gradually overlapped with reality, Freya said happily.

From the moment she met Boluogo, she had a sense of crisis. This sense of crisis came not only from Boluogo's evil appearance, but also from the sacrifice of interests.

Freya knew very well that this was a dangerous place. Taking one more person would be another burden. She was afraid that Boluo Ge would turn around and run away after using her. She was even more afraid that she would be worthless and abandoned by Boluo Ge. Now she has proven her worth to Borogo.

The hanging ladder continued to extend in the darkness, ashes and sparks continued to fall, the distant sound of silent booming came, and the forge volcano vibrated regularly, like the beating heart of a giant.

Suddenly, Freya stopped walking.

"What's wrong?" Boluoge asked, while also looking towards the darkness ahead.

A huge bronze wall was seen rising from the ground, blocking the way for the two of them.

"wrong……"

Freya muttered to herself. She searched anxiously around the hanging ladder, but she still couldn't find any other way. This was the end of the hanging ladder.

"It's gone!" Freya said anxiously, "The road is gone."

She looked at Boluogo nervously. As early as the beginning of the chaos in the ruins area, Freya had seen those things. In desperate situations, the ugliness of human nature was fully exposed.

So what if Bologe confesses so much to himself? It's always difficult to see a person clearly. Maybe this is Bologe's disguise. Will he be angry? Or do you feel like you cheated on her?

Freya's mind fell into darkness, and all kinds of excessive crises and speculations were bred in her mind. From the beginning to the end, Freya could not be considered a mentally healthy person. This extreme environment and chaotic cognition , has already twisted her.

Just when the excessive sense of crisis made Freya decide whether to take the initiative or not, Boluogo spoke.

"Don't be nervous, Freya," Bologo said.

"you……"

Freya's words were paused. The protective clothing isolated their faces, and even their voices were blurred. She didn't know how Boluoge noticed it.

"Relax, relax, I am not your enemy, and this is not your fault." Boluogo continued to comfort.

Boluogo couldn't see Freya's expression, but he saw pages and pages of graffiti and some random and twisted words in Freya's messy notes.

Freya is indeed a strong person, but this extreme environment has already distorted her mind.

"ha……"

Freya gasped, and she didn't notice how bad her thoughts were just now, and the physical reaction was so severe that the heavy pressure almost forced her to vomit.

"There's nothing wrong with your route, it's it that's problematic."

Boluogo lowered his head. He noticed that the broken ether line was actually reconnected at this time. Looking along the direction of the extension of the silk line, on the huge bronze wall in front of him, one after another security personnel were standing there silently. .

The first person in the lead loosened the etheric cord and extended it back to the corner.

"It turns out that it wasn't cut off," Boluogo whispered, "it was just blocked from transmitting, and then used it to find my location and set a trap."

Boluogo raised his head in confusion, "You are much smarter than I thought."

As if in response to Boluogo's words, a roaring sound came from the forge volcano, and the hot temperature increased again.

The red flame was gradually replaced by pure white light, until what shone in the gap was endless hazy white light.

"So you are here."

After learning that the hazy light would appear in all spaces at the same time, Bologo became curious as to why there was no trace of it in the Forge Volcano area. It turned out that it had always been there.

Found within Forge Volcano.