I'm a villain, not a devil

For Sean, the most valuable thing in the City of Sand is not the gods who come down to offer benefits, nor the wealth and history accumulated by this city over thousands of years, but the mysterious world that has been hidden underground.

Sean didn't let anyone else follow him down. Only Enderly, who had received his message early, followed him.

He followed Sean with the device in hand, constantly tapping on the holographic keyboard, and never forgetting to explain to Sean while he worked.

"Brother, we don't have enough time. However, after preliminary research, the equipment and other things in the Sand City that can help improve strength are all powered by this ore."

There is a translucent stone in the center of the device, which is the ore produced from the Sand City mine.

The ore is an irregular cylindrical shape with a very high hardness. There is a layer of strange fog on the surface, which makes the ore, which should be transparent, become translucent. Of course, the weirdest thing is inside. A little man about ten centimeters tall is opening his mouth and seems to be screaming.

Not only did the little people inside look like living people, but their attire was also familiar to Sean, and was very similar to the attire of ordinary people on Earth in his previous life.

The ore is like a cage that can shrink people and lock the unfortunate ones inside.

Endeli quickly tapped the holographic keyboard with one hand, with a puzzled look on his face: "I extracted a little surface material, and the test showed that there was nothing special about it, except that it was well sealed. In fact, similar ores are produced in Paradise City and surrounding cities, and most of the products are used for long-term energy storage. However, due to the difficulty of mining and the complicated processing steps, the ores are not very useful, so they are not worth much."

"In my opinion, this ore is just a carrier, mainly used to imprison the little person inside. I'm not sure whether it is a living creature, but my equipment shows that the other party can output energy just by screaming inside, and this energy is highly adaptable."

Enderly scratched his head and said, "It doesn't make sense... Normally, no matter what kind of ore it is, it won't produce this type of energy reaction... I still tend to think that this thing is actually man-made, but it doesn't make sense why there are man-made veins under the Sand City? Which good person made a bunch of high-tech energy sources and buried them underground for others to dig them out and use them?"

Sean nodded thoughtfully, then asked, "Have you ever cut it?"

Enderli replied, "I cut a few pieces to test them, but after cutting them open, they were just ordinary ore, with no space inside. I observed that as long as I cut close to the little man, the little man would automatically disappear, and my energy reaction device had no reaction. Well, brother, I feel that the little man inside is an etheric body."

"Etheric body?" Sean looked surprised. If it was an etheric body, Noah should not have no reaction.

As expected, Noah immediately gave a reply: "Master Saint Three, I did not detect any relevant etheric fluctuations nearby."

Enderly continued, "I speculate that this ore was used by someone in some way - I tend to think it was some unknown ritual. Anyway, this method was used to make an energy extraction device, and the little man inside might be a projection of some etheric body. The ore constantly absorbs the energy of the etheric body in some way to supply energy. The only problem is, according to this speculation, how can the absorbed body have so much energy supply?"

"Etheric body and body..." Sean looked thoughtful, then nodded, "I see. Are there any other characteristics?"

Endely nodded mysteriously: "Yes, there is, but this may be big news..."

"kindness?"

"Brother, just watch."

Having said that, Enderli stopped and took the ore off the equipment.

He simply stuffed the ore into his clothes, completely covering it, then took out a player and played a lullaby.

The lullaby is soft and beautiful, and it makes people feel sleepy after listening to it for a while.

Sean raised his eyebrows: "Isn't this the song I taught you?"

This lullaby came from the Ego Religion. The Ego Religion's holy city was destroyed by the City of Heaven, and the spoils also included the Ego Religion's cultural products. Sean remembered that he had heard it several times.

Enderly nodded. "It's a ritual song of the Id religion. It was originally meant to ask the great Lord to sleep. To be honest, it has a very good hypnotic effect. I used it to hypnotize myself when I was too excited to sleep before. Damn, that's not the point. The point is that I found that the ore transport machine in the Sand City is actually an all-round lighting device."

"Noticing this, I tried to place the ore in a completely dark and quiet environment. As a result, the little man in the ore showed signs of calming down. Then I thought of this lullaby, and after trying to play it, the little man in the ore actually fell asleep directly."

As he said this, he opened his clothes and made a gesture to keep quiet.

Sean looked and saw that the little man in the ore stopped screaming and closed his eyes and fell asleep. His face showed a look of relief as he finally got some rest after being exhausted.

Enderly lowered his voice: "Isn't it magical? It's like a person who has been tired for a long time can finally rest - but as long as he is touched by the light, he will automatically wake up after a while and enter the screaming state again. The only difference is that the ore no longer provides energy when he is sleeping. It's weird, isn't it? It's just like the state of human work and sleep. In fact, you see..."

He connected a device to the ore and a projection appeared.

"This is a holographic dream device. Its essence is to read brain waves, allowing the user to enter the dream they want during sleep - and then..."

As Enderly pressed the button, Sean saw that the holographic dream device connected to the ore flashed a few times, and some blurry images appeared in the projection.

Enderly said excitedly: "My God, a piece of ore... He is dreaming! This is why I said that the little man inside is a projection of the etheric body. And if you look at these pictures, although they are blurry, you can vaguely see that... It is not the same world as ours! I believe that there are parallel worlds or other worlds, but the people in that world are projected to us in some unknown way!"

"The City of Sand has previously used the etheric bodies of people from other worlds to power its own devices! It's hard to imagine! Moreover, think about it, brother, just one etheric body projection has such a huge amount of energy. How abundant must the energy of that world be, and how powerful must the people there be!"

A strange look flashed across Sean's face. Enderli was not familiar with those blurry images, but he was very familiar with them...

Damn, there was a supermarket in that picture, and... he had been there before.