"Why do I always feel that sometimes you look at me like you are looking at a dead person?"
After leaving the performance tent with Jenkins, the halfling asked cautiously, his mind was very sensitive.
"This is your illusion."
Jenkins refused to admit this, and returned with the halfling fortune teller to the tent where the animals rested again.
Because of the large number of animals living here, the smell in the tent is very bad. The halfling stood outside the tent to watch out for Jenkins, while Jenkins looked at the animals doing their own thing.
"Can you tell me what happened to the lion?"
This sentence was not spoken, but was silently recited in my heart after activating the [Soul Empathy].
It might work, at least the animals caught the thought. The parrot standing high and the zebra grazing with its head down all looked at Jenkins.
"do you know?"
he asked again.
"Lane got weird, it wasn't what it was anymore."
Eyes met those of the zebra, and Jenkins read the meaning in that simple look. Maybe it's because most of the creatures here are trained and have lived with humans for so long that reading their minds isn't difficult.
"When did this happen?"
"It happened when we came to this human town."
The parrot said that it was really talking, speaking human language with its own mouth. After finishing speaking, he turned his head and stopped looking at Jenkins, as if shy.
"Do you know what invaded its body?"
"Something very old, older than all of us."
In the corner that Jenkins didn't pay attention to, the old turtle with a very beautiful shell replied. Seeing Jenkins looking at it, the old turtle said again:
"I am the oldest one here. When I was young, I also traveled around with an Elf Druid Elder. The thing that invaded Ryan's body is more terrifying than the most terrifying thing I have ever seen. If possible, please Kill Ryan, don't let bad people do bad things in his image."
The animals here are pretty nice and don't mind chatting with Jenkins a lot. They all easily spotted Jenkins' elven ancestry, and claimed he stood out like a green torch in a dark world.
"Animals that are slightly smarter can find that you are unusual. This is too simple."
The lazy Dalmatian lying on its stomach said that it is not a performance animal, but a pet raised in a circus.
Animals have long noticed that something is wrong with the lion, but they cannot tell people. They wanted Jenkins to kill the lion as soon as possible, because they felt that the lion had been hollowed out, that the inside was turning into something beyond description.
Jenkins told the halfling about his discovery, and the halfling pondered for a moment, thinking that the sooner he could do it, the better. But he chose not to tell more people in the circus about it, because neither he nor Jenkins was sure that the others were completely reliable. Jenkins remembered the last time the story was about ordinary people planning everything.
The two agreed that on this night, with the cooperation of the circus animals, they would slip into the tent and kill the lion. But when night came, Jenkins took advantage of the last performance of the circus that night and came to the halfling's tent again, but found that he was gone.
There were no special marks in the halfling's own tent, as if he just went out normally and disappeared. But Jenkins found the Impermanence of Everything card under the cushion where the crystal ball was placed. He took the card and walked out of the tent. He couldn't see the shadow of the halfling, so after opening the Eye of Reality, he [ Vientiane Impermanence—Apocalypse] was placed in front of my right eye.
For a moment, it seemed that even the world froze. Countless dense lines appeared in front of Jenkins' eyes. These lines, like the fine spider silk spit out by a spider, entangled the whole world and connected everything.
Every strand is destiny, every strand is inevitable. Jenkins had seen such a scene before, and he once again glimpsed the truest destiny. Unlike the last time, he didn't faint immediately, but felt that he could easily touch the lines in front of him, and even change them easily.
"Huh~huh~"
After dozens of seconds, he panted heavily and took the card away from his eyes. The heart is beating violently, as if running a long distance for a kilometer on an empty stomach after waking up. I touched my right eye and found no blood, but the vision in my right eye was a bit blurred, which is a sign of excessive eye use.
A brief glimpse of fate allowed him to see where the halfling went, the origin of the strange creature inside the lion, and even the root of all the sins in Blacktown.
But it was taking a risk to peek one last time that made him what he is now. He didn't fully see the thing hidden in the darkness. Through fate, he saw the beast of disaster that was born countless years ago. It was a terrifying, black behemoth, as if it had condensed all the sins of the world. Jenkins couldn't imagine what kind of terrible power could give birth to such a vicious and twisted creature.
He now fully understands why the influence of that creature still covers this land tens of thousands of years later. Since the birth of the creature representing sin, this land can no longer be cleansed, it is enough to pollute everything from all aspects of time, space and destiny.
"This is definitely a Calamity Beast. In an ancient era in the past, a Calamity Beast was born in Black Town! And it was not defeated by anyone. Its power is affecting all time and space in the future!"
This is the only valuable conclusion Jenkins has come to. He concluded that all the tragedies in Black Town are related to the disappearing Calamity Beast. What is certain is that the unknown calamity has definitely not been sealed by the gods like "Scarlet Float", its power is still active, and it may even return from outside the material world at any time.
"So the master of time, why did he involve me in it? Doesn't he think that I can seal that terrible beast of disaster?"
Jenkins couldn't figure this out, but the most important thing now was to save the halfling first.
He put the card of Impermanence in his pocket, and went to the tents of the animals. They are all asleep and can't wake up no matter what. Jenkins had already seen this result in fate, so he didn't care about it. He pushed away the large box of performance equipment in the corner of the tent, then opened the extremely abrupt trapdoor on the ground, and passed through the long and ancient stone trap door. Tunnel into the underground of Blacktown.