"And what about you? What happened to you when you were alive?"
Jenkins pointed his sword at the miner again, and the miner immediately turned his head, letting his normal face do the talking:
"I am a miner in Linden Town, Drow City, Kingdom of Fidiktli. The mine accident took the lives of my father, my eldest brother and my younger brother. I have to take care of the family. But you think, mining alone , Can I really feed so many people? The big men in the city rely on the coal we dug out with our lives to enjoy a life that we can't enjoy, but I can only continue along the mine road where my father and brothers died. Their lives. If I don’t donate my only soul that still has some value, am I going to watch the rest of my family starve to death, or go into the flesh business?”
What he said was also true, in other words, he could probably be regarded as a poor man.
Intelligent life is complex, and it is difficult to use labels to explain good and evil things. It is rare to find a person who only does good or bad things in his life. Moreover, "good things" and "bad things" also have completely different views for different people.
Therefore, although what happened in front of us sounds tragic, it is just an ordinary microcosm of this era. In the corners that Jenkins can't see, countless similar things are still happening.
When he feeds cats with delicious food in high-end restaurants, innocent girls will freeze and starve to death on the corner of the street; when he uses those logs to light his own fireplace, he can't imagine how much the lumberjack will pay for a piece of wood When he sat in the carriage with his eyes closed and waited to reach his destination, the driver of the carriage might be worrying about the family's winter rations.
The reason why Jenkins can act as a "good guy" most of the time is because he is lucky to get the current living environment. If he had been an orphan in a slum when he came to this world, he might have followed the path of the two before him.
Goodness and evil are the two sides of human beings, interdependent and twins. Even a devil, there is goodness, even an angel like Louise, there must be evil. The meaning of the so-called "twin devil" itself may refer to the contradictory but simultaneous existence of good and evil in human beings.
"Let me guess, no matter which metal cocoon I choose, the third person must be a poor person who was forced to go on the wrong path because of the tragedy of the times."
"I don't know anything."
The snake with a human face replied, its tail suddenly trembled:
"I need to remind one thing. Generally speaking, there is a time limit for strange lands. Don't you feel that the vicinity is getting hotter and hotter? Before long, the magma sea below will riot, and the magma will surge up until Flood the entire cave, so you need to make a decision quickly. Do you want to pick the third cocoon? Or do you rely on these two souls to help you find the door to leave?"
"Where's the Fire Worm?"
"Sorry, what did you say?"
A different expression finally appeared on the face of the human-faced snake:
"I don't know anything."
This sentence was finally a lie, and Jenkins was able to confirm that the power of the beast of disaster hidden in this strange world was really the power of the beast of disaster of the 17th century [Earthfire Worm]. He just asked casually just now, after all, among the 14 beasts of calamity whose names he already knew, only this one had the closest connection with magma.
"So, what exactly do you want to do? From my point of view, sacrificing the souls of these wicked people who are not good people in themselves, and finding the door to leave for me, seems to be acceptable to me. But there are so many Is it easy?"
The human-faced snake smiled and said nothing at this question. It stood there with its body crossed, and spit out a letter to Jenkins:
"You are the participant, and I am just the host."
It's not just the conspiracy of the Difference Engine, even this paradox itself is very strange.
Even if ordinary people break into the strange world, there is no certain death situation, but there will be no situation without any danger. As for the current situation, Jenkins just chose two silkworm cocoons at random, and almost met the conditions for leaving. He didn't sacrifice anything, not just his physical strength, but even his intellect didn't need to be used. Not to mention the strange worlds with strange rules and the need to be extremely cautious compared with those in the past, even the strange lands where the two masters of death and flowers appeared, which cannot be regarded as ordinary strange lands, are more difficult than this time.
He didn't immediately choose the third metal cocoon, but stood still and thought about it. Suspiciously looking at the snake, the latter smiled at him, then looked at the miner and the conductor:
"If I let you enter the magma, your souls will burn... What is the reason for this? Could it be that you sacrificed your soul to gain the ability to move in the magma?"
"We are the bait, the bait for suppressing the crazy demons below the magma. When we enter the magma, the demons in the magma will extract our souls. As bait, of course we cannot be swallowed by the magma immediately."
The conductor explained that his soul was obviously stronger than the weak absentee.
"Isn't this a place like a [magma hell] prison?"
He thought suspiciously, and then asked:
"What will happen if those crazy demons get your soul?"
"Will be active for a while, then go silent again after our souls are gone. They're completely insane and only interested in souls."
The conductor explained again, and the normal face begged:
"Please, kind soul, don't make us…"
"So, the trap of the Paradise is that once the selected person is allowed to enter the magma, even if I find the door, I have to be hindered by the awakened mad demon to enter the door."
And Jenkins has seen the strength of the crazy demon before. He just fell rashly and only woke up one of them. The strength of that guy will be strengthened in the current environment. Jenkins can deal with one or a group, but he doesn't want to spend all his strength in the first treacherous realm, dealing with demons that don't need to fight at all.
Knows the rules of Treacherousland, but the Difference Engine has additionally set traps. It's just that no matter how you look at it, Jenkins can't see the black aura that represents the power of the [Earthfire Worm]. He suspected that the snake in front of him was that worm, after all, they were all elongated.
But at close range, no matter how strong the black aura of the human-faced snake was, he could not see the slightest trace of the power of the disaster beast.
Looking at the sky again, the worm may also exist in the densely packed metal cocoon. It's just that he couldn't find his goal under the aura of the strange world.