What the miner said is indeed true, but the lava sea below is too big, and there are sleeping crazy demons. Even with the ability to swim inside, it's hard to say whether the door will ever be found. Therefore, the safest way is to find three creatures that can move in the magma in a row, so the chances of winning are greater.
There's just one more problem, the miner said, acting in the lava would burn his soul...
"How did you get the ability to move in magma?"
Jenkins went on to ask the miner, who sobbed and said:
"It was those demons who caught me and wanted to cultivate my soul as bait, so they gave me those disgusting powers."
He covered his face with his soot-stained hands, as if trying not to recall the terrible events.
Jenkins stared at him for a long moment:
"Then before you die, are you an ordinary person?"
This time the miner stopped talking and continued to cover his face and sob. Knowing that he had a problem, Jenkins squinted his eyes to call out the monocle, observed the person in front of him more carefully, and said to him:
"So, can you let your other face talk to me?"
The miner's twitching movements stopped immediately, and a few seconds later his head turned straight a hundred and eighty degrees around his neck, pointing the back of his head toward Jenkins.
On the back of the head with short brown hair, there is a human face. The eyes of the human face were not the gray eyes of the miners, which were blood red.
"Sure enough, although your death was caused by a mine disaster, it shouldn't be that simple. In the material world, you should have gained power from some kind of terrifying existence, but you also died because of those powers. Interesting, really interesting. "
The last sentence was spoken to the human-faced mechanical snake:
"It's really not easy for you to find such a person after painstaking efforts."
"No, this is not what I found."
The voice of the snake with a human face was exceptionally gentle:
"It wasn't even my master who found him. He was already here, waiting for the one who chose him."
Jenkins ignored the snake and concentrated on observing the face that appeared on the back of the miner's head. The miner in front of him is a soul, and when the face on the back of his head appears, it is still the original soul. This shows that the miner's soul is a rare "two-in-one", one soul carries two consciousnesses.
Soul forms are rarely able to camouflage, especially in front of Jenkins' eyes, and it is even more impossible to camouflage. It's just that I don't know whether this special soul is born like this or has been transformed by extraordinary power.
"and who are you?"
He asked the face on the back of his head:
"Me? I'm not that wimpy guy who likes to cry."
said the face, in the same voice as the miner:
"Whatever you think I am. I know, you want us to burn our souls into the lava that sleeps mad demons, we can't defy you, but maybe, we can make a deal, will you..."
But seeing the sword appearing in Jenkins' hand, he shut his mouth wisely.
"It's really powerful, a twin devil in another sense."
As he spoke, he took a step back again, and while watching the miner curled up vigilantly, he casually pointed his finger upwards:
"Second, I choose this."
With the clattering sound of chains, the second metal cocoon landed on the same level as the boulder, but it was not above the boulder, but suspended above the magma sea.
Seeing that the snake was not moving, Jenkins could only sit on the bench and fly over, cut off the chain and removed the metal cocoon. After it was cut open, a puff of black smoke with a strong "Nolan smell" also came out, and then a man wearing a dirty conductor's uniform crawled out of the metal cocoon.
With the first experience, this time Jenkins directly put on the monocle to observe the other party, then grabbed the other party's neck, and pressed it against the seemingly soft but extremely strong metal cocoon, black smoke from the contact between the two popped up everywhere:
"Don't play tricks on me and let that face behind you do the talking."
Just like before, the conductor's head was rotated 180 degrees on the neck, and a weird face appeared behind the thick short red hair.
"How did you die?"
"Train accident, oh, for God's sake, please let me go and talk."
It is also the lingua franca of the 18th century, and this time it can even distinguish the characteristics of Nolan's accent.
"Do you still believe in God?"
Jenkins sneered, threw him back to the ground, and looked at the snake:
"It's really painstaking."
"Let me emphasize again, my master and I currently have no ability to interfere with the main body of the paradox. Moreover, the souls of these sinners are not brought by us."
"So, you want me to believe that the two people I picked out at random happen to be modern people, and both have signs of soul splitting?"
The human-faced snake kept smiling and did not answer, but the coiled mechanical body squirmed, and the sound of metal scraping against the ground was particularly disturbing.
"So do you have the ability to enter the magma operation?"
Jenkins asked again the second conductor who appeared, who was also huddled up, and replied with the back of his head:
"But that would cost my soul, oh, a good man like you..."
The sword light swept across the top of its head, cutting off a bunch of hair, leaving another obvious cut mark on the metal cocoon behind it. It then changed its tune:
"You probably guessed that I got where I am now because I believe in the indescribable things in the void. But did I do it voluntarily? My mother was seriously ill, and the train I was in charge of happened to be in winter. I encountered a supernatural being, an avalanche, and a series of horrible things. Although that experience was incomplete due to unknown reasons, it was really terrifying... If I don’t dedicate my loyalty to those terrifying existences, it will not only be the one who gave birth to me and raised me Mother, even my wife with tuberculosis, my daughter who is selling flowers on the street, will die of starvation or disease... "
It sounds like it's trying to gain sympathy, but it's all true.
"It's not my own desire that made me come to this point, what made me look like a devil, it's life that persecutes me. Good-hearted people, are you going to persecute me too?"
Halfway through speaking, he turned his head back. In the second half, what happened to him was told by the conductor's own face. The situation of the conductor is similar to that of the miner just now. To put it mildly, it is a "twin body", two different beings using one soul. The ugly term is "soul splitting", where the same soul splits into two related but different consciousnesses.