The driver twisted his tentacled head and looked at the three people and one candle in front of him with his single central eye.
His eyes quickly locked onto Price Silvertail, who had the most powerful aura, and stared at the cracked rat skull under the silver armor and the slight lingering aura of the abyss.
Clap, clap, clap! The driver actually clapped his hands.
“It’s really rare~ There are people who refuse to “condense the mask” and tear off the mask on their own without any help. What kind of perseverance is this? It’s really admirable.
But, if you reject the abyss, why come here? Beings like you are not allowed to face the abyss."
Price did not sense the danger from the other party and chose to respond in a peaceful manner: "I am just a guard, escorting my friend to the abyss."
As he spoke, his long silver tail slightly lifted up and pointed at William standing beside him.
The driver's gaze also shifted over, "Two Path Completers and Tumor Knights as guards, and a candle doll flowing with evil sun oil as a lighting fixture, what an exaggerated configuration.
Since you chose to accept the Abyss when you entered the Abyss, you are eligible to go to the Abysmer Settlement.
Put out the candles and get in the car. I will answer some appropriate questions during the journey.
Of course, you can choose to refuse the ride and explore on your own. I was just ordered by Death of Mouth to come and greet you, my distinguished guests."
Faced with an invitation of unknown danger, William's brain thought quickly and responded: "Price, Jin, Thirteen, let's get in the car."
Jin scratched his helmet and said puzzledly: "Ah~William, why don't you just kill this man? Then use your brain to read his memory, and then we can drive the carriage ourselves, wouldn't it be safer?"
Before William could explain, the driver said:
“I am different from the mouth you just killed. It is very difficult to kill me in the dark place.
Furthermore, even a lunatic cannot obtain any information about the abyss from my brain. Once the relevant information is lost, my brain will self-annihilate."
Jin nodded, "Oh~ It seems that the internal constitution is already very mature. In this case, it is indeed difficult to deal with. Just do as you said, William, and get in the car."
The team reached a consensus.
As the candle on Thirteen's head slowly descended into his skull, the almost tangible darkness instantly enveloped everyone.
The abyss matter, no longer suppressed by the candlelight, became active in William's body, and its activity increased by more than five times. However, William still did not impose any restrictions and allowed these things to wreak havoc in his body.
Jin and Price rely on armor and their own abilities to block the invasion of darkness. They refuse to have any contact with the abyss, and their only purpose is to assist William.
Thirteen kept his skull burning to protect himself from the darkness.
The skull candle converges,
The only lighting at the scene was the black candle inserted between the horses' necks. The dim light it emitted could provide an effective field of view of about ten meters, in only black and white.
Instead of having the warmth and security of normal candlelight, dim light actually nourishes darkness.
"Hurry up and get in the car. It's still quite a distance from the edge to the settlement."
At the driver's urging, I stepped into the relatively normal wooden carriage.
William, Jin and Thirteen sat on one side, and the huge Lord Price sat alone on the other side.
The carriage seemed to be specially customized for the team, just enough to accommodate four people. When Price, the largest one, sat up straight, his head was just a fist's distance from the top.
The bumpy feeling of the wheels rolling over stones is completely buffered by the special structure of the car, and the car remains absolutely quiet.
William immediately opened the front window and tried to communicate with the driver: "Why did you come all the way to pick us up? What is your purpose?"
However, the driver was holding a weapon similar to a bone scraper and was slicing off the flesh on his body.
“Wait a moment. Since I was briefly exposed to your evil sun, I need to clean my entire body. If there is any afterglow of the evil sun left, even a little bit will make me feel very uncomfortable.
You guys can talk to each other first, don't worry, my carriage is absolutely safe."
"OK."
Just as William closed the front window, Thirteen, who was squeezed on the other side, coughed twice to attract attention and then took the initiative to speak: "Ahem~ That... Since the driver doesn't have time now, why don't I introduce the Dark Place and the Abyss~ I have read a lot of books during this period.
And Mr. Price seems to have no idea of this.”
William stretched out his right hand and made an invitation gesture, "Okay, Thirteen, please tell us in detail."
“Okay, let’s start with the formation of the Dark Land.
If we regard the old world as a living being infected with various diseases,
The evil yang is a very important stabilizing organ of this life.
The areas covered by the evil sun's light will show a 'stable state', and various diseases will grow and change within a controllable range.
Areas that are not illuminated, such as more famous corners, are prone to malignant lesions, a kind of lesion that is uncontrollable and even harmful to the development of the world.
Once the malignant lesions exceed the limit, the center of the lesion will send information to the monastery, and the monks will go directly to the destination to capture the malignant pathogens.
If the situation is too difficult for even the monasteries to handle, the focus center will even send out a signal to ask multiple source epidemic areas to provide assistance.
Under this mechanism, as long as the evil yang exists, the few "dark corners" will not cause too much trouble. Not to mention the abyss, even the darkest place almost does not exist.
But with the end of the war, the evil sun fell, and darkness spread to every corner of the old world.
Those areas that had been classified as "dark corners" as early as the existence of the evil yang were like fish in water, as if the shackles had been unlocked, and various uncontrollable malignant diseases occurred repeatedly and promoted each other.
It even acts on the corpse of the 'invader' to produce new 'malignant diseases'.
These malignant diseases are very smart. They are well aware that powerful pathogens still exist in the Old World, so they combine with darkness to form a dark space isolated from the Old World and suitable for their own growth.
These self-isolated dark spaces are collectively called the Dark Places.
Due to differences in regions, species, and the "different corpses" brought by war, the malignant diseases that breed in different dark places are also completely different.
If an abyss is formed in the center of the darkest place, it means that this type of malignant disease is enough to threaten the center of the lesion. The abyss that continues to spread deep underground is trying to transmit the malignant disease to the center and worsen the reaction.
When the uncontrollable abyss first appeared, each source epidemic area sent special teams with firewood to try to directly erase the so-called abyss.
But the final result was the disintegration of the firewood and the collapse of the troops.
Even if there are some remaining flames in the shattered and dead Evil Sun, it is simply unable to suppress the abyss. It is almost impossible to eradicate such a world sore.
With the loss of a large number of personnel, two solutions were finally obtained for the abyss.
1. Find the controller
Abysses like the Original Tomb, which were formed long before the fall of the Evil Sun, will not cause harm to the old world because the abyss is directly controlled by the "original dead".
Because of the existence of the original dead, death, an extremely dangerous disease that was enough to destroy the entire old world, was turned into a controllable disease, and could even be used to fight foreign enemies at critical moments.
With the exception of the first deceased,
There was also a subsequent situation where the abyss was controlled, which was the Circus of Fear that you, teacher, have come into contact with.
Rumor has it that there is a magician who has gained recognition from the third abyss - Corner. Although he cannot achieve absolute control like the first dead person, he can borrow the special power of the abyss.
Moreover, ever since the magician climbed out of the abyss and established a relationship, the speed at which the third abyss erodes the world has greatly slowed down, and it even has no tendency to threaten the center of the disease.
Because of this,
The old world does not impose any restrictions on the Dark Land, and even encourages the development of neutral cities such as the City of Lights, so that any patient can participate in the exploration of the Dark Land and allow more people to come into contact with the abyss.
If there is a person who can establish a connection with the abyss, not only can he eliminate the threat of the abyss, but he can also use the malignant disease in turn and turn it into the power of the old world itself.
However, this method is more like gambling. After all, after such a long time, there are only a handful of individuals who can be recognized by the Abyss, and most of the Abysses are still in an unstable state and may threaten the center of the disease at any time.
Hence the second option.
2. World Infection
Using the old world's ability to move freely between planes, they searched for worlds with an infection similarity of more than 80%, stole the rules there, and even moved the sun of the infected world over to recast a new evil sun.
Even if the worst happens, the patients can abandon the old world and settle in a new infected world.
So Master, what you are doing now is very meaningful. Once you can get the recognition of the Tenth Abyss, the entire Old World will be grateful for your dedication.
The reason why the Duke has helped you many times in this matter is not only because you are a high-quality customer, but also because what you do is of great significance to the Old World.
The reason why you have not been hunted down by the monastery during this period is also because of this incident."
"Getting recognition from the Tenth Abyss, haha..." The driver who was slicing meat was eavesdropping on the conversation and couldn't help laughing.