Qi Leren slept for eight hours, and when he was woken up by the alarm clock, he roughly pressed it off, wishing he could close his eyes and sleep in the dark again.
There was still a dull pain in his head, and the blood vessels near his temples were pulsating, making Qi Leren have to wonder if the blood vessels there were about to burst. Besides, he felt uncomfortable all over his body. He seemed to be curled up in a narrow box. Like a night, not a single part of his body was intact.
It shouldn't be, when he was training with Chen Baiqi before, he was still alive and kicking when he woke up, why was he so tired this time
Leaving the range of the Twilight Land, the outside world changes day and night. It is already morning, and the warm sunlight shines in through the window glass. Qi Leren sat up and stretched himself, the bone made a frightening "click" sound, which startled him.
"Are you awake? Come and have breakfast when you wake up." The illusionist who was separated by a curtain said angrily.
Qi Leren sat down and took two slices of bread with jam from the illusionist: "How long will it take to reach the underground ant city?"
"Land in another three hours, and then walk into the sphere of influence of the Dragon Ant Queen. If it goes well, it will take two days." The illusionist said lazily.
"It will take so long?" Qi Leren was worried. Today is the twenty-fifth day since the Holy City mission was completed. In the game, Ning Zhou is on the twenty-ninth day...
Even if he passed through the desert smoothly, the time left for him was only two days!
The huge underground ant city, the vast sea of people, this is really too urgent.
Fortunately... Fortunately, he is not without clues.
Qi Leren recalled the information he got in the game and in the dream. He knew where the red magma was. It was the lake of fire in the depths of purgatory. According to legend, it was the projection of the lake of fire in hell on the human world. On the last day of Ning Zhou's life, he will be there...
Qi Leren couldn't think about everything about Ning Zhou, as long as he thought about it, his mind would go blank because of uncontrollable fear. He didn't dare to think about the mood of Ning Zhou, who was gradually awakening the power of the devil in his body, didn't dare to think about who was hurt and killed him, and didn't dare to think about what happened to him at the last moment of his life. Is he full of disappointment and boredom with the world, does he... remember his dead lover.
The people of Qi Le tried to find a reason why Ning Zhou was still attached to this world. He had suffered too much in his life: his only relative had long since died, and his lover who had not yet had time to confess his love was buried in the holy city. Exiled, his piety no longer recognized, even his last convictions could not be preserved—he became the demon he hated most.
Perhaps for Ning Zhou at that moment, death was a kind of relief.
"Hello." The illusionist called out suddenly.
Qi Leren turned to look at him: "What's wrong?"
The illusionist looked at him a little strangely, and a little disgusted: "Your expression just now... I can't stand it."
As he spoke, he rubbed his arms exaggeratedly.
Qi Leren:? ?
"I think it's hard work for you to fall in love. It's better to be single after chasing your husband thousands of miles away to purgatory." The illusionist dressed as a professional woman pushed the women's glasses on the bridge of her nose and said.
"It's good to be single, but what's the difference between being single and widowed if you've met the one you're destined for?" Qi Leren said. In the days before meeting Ning Zhou, he had a very good life. If he hadn't met Ning Zhou, such a life would be considered a happy one. But he met Ning Zhou but missed him, and he couldn't let go of it for the rest of his life.
The illusionist felt shown off.
Qi Leren couldn't feel the illusionist's resentment. He continued to browse through the information of the underground ant city, and asked when he saw any doubts: "The domain of the Dragon Ant Queen? Is this underground ant city also a domain?"
"Oh, yes, it's the same as Twilight Land...you don't know it?" The illusionist gave him a sideways look with contempt.
In fact, Qi Leren, who only knew about this in the last dungeon, of course couldn't be timid. He asked calmly, "I know, but why are the land of dusk and the land of dawn so similar? Because the original power of these two fields Is it all about time?"
The illusionist's face changed, and he asked angrily: "You know too much, who told you? Chen Baiqi? She probably doesn't know this information."
"It's not her." People in Qi Le knew that Chen Baiqi didn't have this information, and she respected Su He when she learned that Su He came from the Land of Dawn.
"Don't ask, it's not something you should know." The illusionist glanced at him and said.
Qi Leren still had a lot of puzzles, but the illusionist made it clear that he would not reveal any information to him, so he had no choice but to give up. The two then chatted about some things about the underground ant city, which is the sphere of influence of the dragon ant queen. Although it is also a domain, it is not a normal domain. The dragon ant queen is not a person, but a generation. title.
Each dragon ant queen will choose her own heir after aging, and pass on the domain of the underground ant city to the next one in a special way. This inherited domain is different from other domains and has natural defects inside.
According to distant legends, the original underground ant city was jointly created by a group of ant queens leading their subordinates. In the Grand Canyon deep in the desert of Tranquility, there is a natural gap between the two worlds, which connects the demon world and the human world. But the seal was still firm at that time, and most demons could not pass through this gap. Only the Dragon Ants gnawed at the gap with their talents, and were able to travel between the two worlds.
The demon ant queens who were excluded by the demon world were very satisfied with this underground cave that had accumulated fossil water for millions of years, and led their subordinates to settle here, and decided to create another glory of the dragon ant clan here.
The initial establishment was very difficult, but soon they gained a firm foothold. Once the external crisis was lifted, the group of ant queens began to ruthlessly compete for power. Finally, a powerful ant queen killed the competitors and became the dragon. Ant Queen.
After the first dragon ant queen came to the throne, she led the dragon ant demons to expand wildly, and brought the Jinghai desert parish into the rule of the demons. This move angered the Holy See, and the Holy See encircled and suppressed these unscrupulous demons. Finally, the dragon ant queen decided to retreat. Underneath the Tranquility Desert - a huge underground cavern with an underground network extending in all directions, like an ant's nest.
The wonderful thing is that the entrance of this lair is narrow and the interior is hollow. The army cannot enter here and must parachute at the entrance of the cave. This terrain blocks the Holy See and allows these demons to multiply in this area.
After weighing the losses, the Holy See decided to give up the siege, and the two sides signed a peace treaty. The Dragon Ant Queen promised not to slaughter humans, and would never leave the sphere of influence of the underground ant city, and guaranteed that in the underground ant city, all wisdom, including humans and demons, would All creatures will be treated equally.
So this small-scale conflict subsided. Before the death of the first Dragon Ant Queen, she used a method that has not been deciphered so far to pass on her domain to her successors. Since then, successive Dragon Ant Queens have used the same method to inherit this ancient domain. Twenty-two years ago, when the first war of demons invaded the human world broke out, the demon king led the demon army to break through the gap between the two worlds and came to the peaceful and prosperous human world...
"Which Dragon Ant Queen is still alive?" Qi Leren asked while flipping through the documents.
"Well, but it's about as good as hell," said the illusionist.
"Usually speaking, Queen Dragon Ant represents a neutral force among demons, which is determined by her original power... But this Queen Dragon Ant has a very obvious tendency..." Qi Leren said, his eyes fell on I read a certain line of text in the information for a long time.
"She is a follower of the Devil King of Destruction, but her own power is contradictory to this. We can't figure out why she would follow a devil king who is contrary to her original power. Maybe the new Dragon Ant Queen will change her mind Right, after all, 'power' is the most worthy of 'order' to follow." The illusionist said.
The Dragon Ant Queen's original power is not a secret, her original power is quite neutral, and can even be divided into the sacred camp, because she represents "order".
But this demon whose original power is order, followed the demon king of destruction without hesitation more than 20 years ago.
Qi Leren still didn't know much about "original power". Before he left, Chen Baiqi gave him an emergency make-up lesson, but the time limit couldn't say too much. He only knew that the precondition for condensing the field was to condense the half-field, and before condensing the half-field First of all, you have to find your own original strength.
Qi Le people are very lucky, although he escaped death... no, he really died once, but at the moment before death, he had already found his own original power and received the feedback of the law, which pulled him back from the brink of death .
This power is called "rebirth".
Thinking about it carefully, he has actually been reborn countless times. Every time he reads the SL Dafa archive, he is reborn. Otherwise, how can he explain the countless tombstones on Undead Island? The creation of those tombstones may be because he really "died" every time, but was reborn back to the moment when he was saved.
Regarding this, Chen Baiqi said to him in this way: "The door to the new world has been opened to you, take a peek at the magic of the other side through the gap, it is a great fortune to be able to see the wonder of that realm with your own eyes. , because the vast majority of people will not be able to open this unique door in their entire lives.”
Qi Leren could read a faint sense of loss and melancholy from her face. He couldn't help but think of Chen Baiqi's experience of condensing half of the domain but breaking it. High-spirited, she felt so miserable when she fell, and Ning Zhou... his half domain was also shattered.
Is it different? In the past, Qi Le people never thought about it.
He has always felt that he is a very ordinary person, with the advantages of ordinary people and the shortcomings of ordinary people. Human weakness and compromise are not lacking in him. He doesn't have much aggressiveness, and he doesn't want to make a breakthrough, he just wants to live his life in an ordinary way.
If he stayed in the real world, maybe this ordinary to mediocre ideal could be realized, but here...
It is doomed to be impossible.
"What if... What if I say, I want to open this door?" Qi Leren asked suddenly.
Chen Baiqi paused when she lit a cigarette, and the light of the match gathered a small light in her windshield hand, illuminating her slender eyebrows and eyes. This woman seemed to be seeing him for the first time. , carefully tracing his expression, Qi Leren looked at her without evasion, eager to get an answer from her mouth.
"Oh, why?" Chen Baiqi asked.
Qi Leren laughed, firm but shy, his serious eyes seemed to be shining.
"Because I want to protect him well."