"So where is the trap?"
Unexpectedly, Jenkins asked the corpse on the obsidian stone table:
"If I want to leave here, I have to sacrifice someone's bones and flesh. Do you have any good ideas?"
"There are still many flesh and blood in the ground! Don't sacrifice us, sacrifice them!"
The hundreds of voices shouted in unison.
Jenkins didn't have any more thoughts for the time being, so he took the piece of wood that was removed from the tombstone, and found a random place to dig again. Soon after, another male corpse was dug up. This male corpse was also covered with a white cloth. The clothing on his body was almost the same as that of the previous corpse, and even his appearance was similar.
It's just that the corpse just now looked like a young man in his twenties, and this corpse looked like a middle-aged man in his forties.
The obsidian stone table had a large area, and Jenkins moved the second body so that it lay side by side with the first. Sure enough, when the corpse touched the stone table next to the bonfire, an inexplicable gust of wind reappeared, causing many souls to float out of the soil in the cemetery and enter the second corpse.
It also opened its eyes, and Jenkins got the second story.
Most of the many souls in the second body were from about 30 years ago. But they didn't die because of the great plague 30 years ago. The time point of their death was before the plague appeared.
Most of these occupations in life were factory workers or hired miners. The causes of death were overwork, occupational diseases and accidents at work.
On the eve of the great plague 30 years ago, the development of the technology tree in this world was completely different from that of the foreigner's world. Thanks to the improvement of the steam engine and the creation of inventors, a steady stream of steam technology products have been realized in the factory, and the factory owners have also seen the advantages of assembly line production, absorbing more young people who came to the city into the huge industry In the industry, let them use their flesh and blood to create value for themselves and civilization.
No matter which world it is, capitalists are not good people, so those evil things that Jenkins can think of and can't think of, as well as the evil deeds that can be seen and cannot be seen from history books, have caused the tragedy of these storytelling souls.
The birth of the fire of civilization itself is to illuminate the way forward for mankind, but the birth of this fire has a price, and it needs someone to be burned. These people are the ones who are burned, and even after being burned, their souls are imprisoned here, waiting for Jenkins, who is trying to keep the fire of civilization to continue, to decide whether even their dead souls will be spared.
"If I want to leave here, I have to sacrifice someone's bones and flesh. Do you have any good ideas?"
He asked again, and the cry from the second corpse was completely expected:
"Sacrifice others! Sacrifice others! There's still a lot of bone here, there's still a lot of meat here! Don't sacrifice us!"
As expected, it was the same answer as before, and Jenkins was not surprised, but tilted his head and glanced at the bonfire beside him. Compared with when he first appeared here, the flame was already weak, only a cluster of small flames remained.
Don't talk about digging up the third body now, even if Jenkins wants to think about it, he probably doesn't have time.
[I want to remind you]
"Needless to say, I know."
Metal Skull said before finishing writing Jenkins.
Sacrificing the two corpses in front of him and burning part of his soul so that Jenkins can have time to continue thinking is of course the best choice at present. But in this way, no matter how you look at it, it looks like you have fallen into the trap of a strange place. The strange place will not test your conscience, so there is no way to break the situation so easily.
Perhaps choosing to sacrifice part of the soul can indeed delay some time, but this may make it more difficult to find a real way out.
Thinking of this, Jenkins raised his right foot and slammed it to the ground:
"Aura of death!"
A gray halo erupted from the soles of the falling feet, sweeping across the entire cemetery, and even made the blue flames in the bonfire tremble, as if they were about to be wiped out by the burst of aura.
There are thick spirits of death gathered here, but gathering below the ground has no effect. Pulled by the ability Jenkins used at this moment, the spirits in the entire cemetery became restless.
There was only the last ray of faint blue flames left, and the thick darkness invaded, making people shudder, and even the two corpses on the obsidian stone table were trembling.
The eruption of the spirit of death was consciously guided by Jenkins, allowing the aura of death to infuse the head of the rotten man sticking out of the ground. At the same time, he took out the Holy Bone Sword and thrust it into the ground.
The spirit of death and the holy sword of bones began to play the role of manipulating the undead at the same time. The rotting human head, together with the body below, sprang out from the ground, and then walked towards the bonfire that was about to be extinguished uncontrollably.
It is also resisting, but Jenkins took the lead in snatching the short-term control of the death spirit in the entire cemetery. Coupled with other death abilities and the blessing of this sword, this rotten living corpse cannot escape control in a short time of.
This caused it to walk like it was fighting itself, but still getting closer to the flame.
"You can't sacrifice me!"
It howled at Jenkins in its last light.
"You don't have a story, do you? I don't have time for stories now."
"It is a dead person, it wants bones; I am an immortal, I want flesh. Haven't you thought about the meaning of this, it only has bones, but I have bones and flesh. I am your second way, you sacrifice If you leave me, you can only let it manipulate you, I am the one standing with you!"
Jenkins frowned, stopped controlling it and continued to move towards the flames. If he didn't believe the other party's words, there would never be any existence here to stand by him. What he cared about was the rotting corpse saying it was "undead". And related to the meaning of the ritual of the rebel, if you sacrifice the undead here, it seems that you are really rebelling against the fate of the "undead".
"Could it be because of this that the difference engine controlled the skeleton but didn't do anything to the corpse?"
He thought to himself, and said to the rotting corpse:
"Now that the flame is about to go out, if you don't sacrifice you, do you want me to take action against the host of the paradox? If you can provide a better method, I think I am willing to believe that you and I are standing together."
"Didn't you find other corpses? Sacrifice them!"
"I prefer to believe that's a trap too. Now you have no choice but to provide another way to light the fire, or to light it yourself."
The cluster of blue flames is really about to disappear, and now all the people and corpses are completely in the dark, and the only thing that can be illuminated is the burnt yellow bones under the flames.
"The bonfire burns not only bones with souls attached, but any material containing spirits is fine! But the burning effect is very poor, and it is impossible to rely on other things to help you find the door to leave! Other items can only burn and provide you with short-term bright."
Jenkins will immediately throw one of the metal cocoons he got from the last treachery into the bonfire. He was worried that this would extinguish the flames, but the flames engulfed the metal cocoon in an instant. The light spread instantly, reaching the same level as when Jenkins first arrived, but the metal cocoon burns extremely fast, and one cocoon can burn for up to ten minutes. If you add all the items in Jenkins' backpack and the remaining two cocoons, He can last an hour or so at most.
"What is that, why is it burning so brightly?"
The rotting corpse wondered, and Jenkins guessed that this was because the cocoon itself was used to cultivate the soul, so it was contaminated with some soul power. But he did not explain, but let go of the control of the corpse, and it immediately shrank under the ground, leaving only the head and two hands sticking out of the ground.
In this way, Jenkins, metal skeletons and rotting heads all gathered around the campfire.
Jenkins said to the head again:
"Since you said you were on my side, do you know how I should find the door?"
"Of course I know, don't offer bones to it, offer meat to me!"
Jenkins snorted and changed the subject:
"This skeleton has become like this, with metal components, you know what's going on?"
"Of course I know that beings outside the world have meddled in what happened here. I was hiding, hiding in the soil, and it would just sit there stupidly, so it was made like this."
"The existence outside the world you mentioned, what else did it do?"
"Look up and up."
Jenkins looked up and saw a dark sky without any light. This look is terrifying, as if the abyss is hanging upside down in the sky, the more you look at the sky, the more you feel that there is something looking at you in the depths of the sky.
"Abyss? Could it be..."
"Yes, it projected a huge abyss into the sky. I can feel the horror of that abyss. It is the desire of the living for immortality, and the jealousy of the dead for the living. For the sake of everyone, you'd better not To test the sky here..."
Judging from this, the power introduced in the second treacherous realm is exactly the power of the disaster beast [Undead Abyss] sealed under [Night Manor].
After encountering Night Manor, Jenkins and the church knew that the coming of Night Manor was related to the cultists and the Difference Engine, and they speculated that it was the Difference Engine trying to gain a deeper understanding of the power of the Calamity Beast, and incidentally caused some troubles for Nolan. trouble. It is only now that I understand that not only that, the difference machine at that time was collecting the power of the disaster beast.
"I just want to leave, I won't provoke it."
Jenkins continued, but he also understood that even if he did nothing, the abyss in the sky would never be quiet all the time. From the rules obtained from the last treacherous realm, we can see that the power of the beast of calamity entering the treacherous realm also needs to abide by the rules, so the abyss must be waiting for an opportunity to wake up.
But the important thing now was to find the door to leave, so Jenkins picked up the wooden board leaning against the obsidian table again.