"Where are you?" He made sure that he was out of Beelzebub's monitoring range, and used the blood contract to convey the message to Hikis.
"I see you."
Yicha raised his head and saw a vague blue-purple bird figure standing on a platform in Kishino in the distance, with a large pile of hell hounds piled at her feet.
"I'm here." Hikisi sent the message.
"Don't come over." Yi Cha passed the message.
"ah?"
"It's hard to explain to you. You can understand that I have contracted a very serious plague. As long as you come near me, you will die."
"What plague?"
"..."
"You're kidding. Hehehe. Okay. Do we still want to go?"
Yicha thought about it and said:
"You go ahead. Take the dog with you. I'll follow you."
The blurry blue-purple figure in the distance held up the Hell Hound, which was larger than her, looked up, spread its four narrow and beautiful wings, and flew in the direction directly opposite Yanya.
Then she circled close to the Goose Head Grassland and flew into the underground court of justice in the recess of the mountain.
Why is it here? To check.
In order to prevent the traces of rebellion from being reflected on Hikis, he originally thought that he would just follow her and keep a certain distance.
But the underground trial court is a circular structure that goes all the way down. If Hikis went down to the floor below him and lost her sight, it would be easy for her to walk very close to the vertical position with him.
Even if he could always activate the blood contract to sense Xiqis's position, according to a rough estimate, they would still have to maintain a vertical distance of at least ten levels.
Under such cover, if Hikis encounters any difficult problem, it will be difficult for him to rush to support as soon as possible.
But there is nothing we can do...
Go in first.
Icha waited for a while at the door of the underground trial venue, making sure that Xiqisi had descended more than ten floors, and then slowly moved forward along the circular route.
…
The underground trial venue was dark and damp, without any lighting. After walking for a long time, the light was completely blocked. Fortunately, their demon blood allowed them to see in this ordinary darkness.
The center of the underground trial court is a dark, bottomless courtyard that leads straight down, surrounded by a ring of annular rooms, the number of which still coincides with the evil number - six hundred and sixty-six on each floor.
All the cells on the top dozens of floors were filled with various skeletons covered in dust. Further down, shriveled corpses gradually began to appear, then relatively shriveled corpses, corpses that still contained moisture, relatively plump corpses, and corpses with fresh dates——
"Why are there dead bodies on the top floors, but there are living demons on the lower floors?" Xiqisi's news came along the blood contract.
Looks like she's gone deep enough.
"This has something to do with the way the underground trial venue is used." Yi Cha replied, "Demons who have been convicted will be thrown directly from the big hole in the center of the trial venue to the bottom, and then be sucked into the empty compartment at the bottom. Their The cage will rise layer by layer over time. The demons that are not dead when they reach the top will be released."
"Won't they fly up?"
"You can't fly in the patio."
"Have any demons been released?"
"what do you say?"
"How could I see the one who was released?" Xiqis suddenly became ice-snowy and smart unexpectedly.
"There are legends. I've never seen it."
"Tch. Oh. All demons who have been convicted of crimes will be thrown into this hole?"
"Either throw him away or kill him on the spot."
"Aren't there more distinctions between crimes? Then why convict?"
Echa discovers that although Hikis is half-demon, she seriously lacks any common sense about demons. Ifomie didn't seem to teach her much.
"The verdict is only whether the person is guilty or not." He replied a little helplessly.
As he descended, he gradually began to see some round, steaming corpses. There are also some cute maggots crawling around on the ground.
…
"Throw it away. Wait for death. What a monotonous way to deal with it." Hikis picked up the topic again.
"Of course it's the same if you're found not guilty," Icha said.
"ha?"
Icha felt Xikis stop.
She seemed quite excited. So he also stopped - the distance between the two floors was not enough for him to fly.
"Will the innocent be thrown down here?" After a while, the news containing a lot of emotional fluctuations was passed to Yi Cha through the blood contract.
"Um."
"What about guilt?"
"Executed immediately. I should have said that. Either executed when caught, or executed in the square outside."
"Aha?" Hikis still had the same contemptuous attitude, but it was mixed with disbelief.
"Um."
"Why, from what you said, the result of innocence is worse than guilt?"
"Of course. It's certainly better for a demon to be guilty. There's only one exception, and that's treason. Rebellion is the worst."
In fact, this is a change in the wind direction in the past few thousand years. Yi Cha didn't go into too much detail.
To be precise, it was Beelzebub's changes after he was promoted to the King of Demons. Although there had been factions that had previously proposed that evil, crime, and radical aggression should be the correct course of action for demons, Beelzebub was the first leader to put this tendency into practice.
She changed a lot of the rules that weren't to her liking because they weren't evil enough, and then she changed some of them back without telling the other demons which ones she changed.
This makes the remaining ones even more evil, which makes the whole program even more confusing.
Beelzebub was very talented in this area.
"What happens if you rebel?"
After a while, Hicks began to move downward.
"Strip the soul. Torture the soul. Things like that. Humans are supposed to be pretty good at this too. Haven't you always been among them? You should know better."
"I only understand half of it." Hikisi's reply was very matter-of-fact.
She only has half a soul, the demonic part of her.
"Hmm." Icha thought for a while and decided to say more, "If the soul is not stripped off, there will be no difference. Whether it is to be executed immediately or to wait for death here, everyone will go to Ganmeniti."
"Gamenity?"
"Where demon souls go."
Yi Cha pointed upward, and then sent the gesture element over. He was actually a little surprised that Xiqisi didn't even know this. These should have been taught to her by Ifo. he thinks.
The devil's bedtime stories are full of stories about Comenity, and even a young devil who has just learned to fly knows a hundred horror stories about the City of Mercy.
And she hadn't even heard of it.
He suddenly felt a sense of sympathy.
As a result, Hikis lost a lot of common sense.
"Sounds interesting," Hicks replied slowly, her mood calming down. Yi Cha suddenly realized that his feelings just now were also transmitted through the blood contract.
"For most demons, it's better to simply annihilate them. That's actually better. Among the various murder methods, I think the best is to kill them with their souls. Although it's not interesting, it's not painful." He said patiently explain.
"Why?"
"Wait until half of your soul goes to Comeniti. You have a lot of time to understand why." Icha remembered something important and stopped chatting.
"Right. Let me ask you, since you don't know anything, how do you find the Son of Chaos here?"
"While I was walking back and forth, I heard a voice calling me. I came down here, and halfway..."
"Didn't you meet the guard?"
"There were a few. But they were all killed by me... and sent to Ganmeniti. Hmph."
strangeness.
The guards here shouldn't be that weak. How could Hikis kill them easily with her divine power dissipated?
Yi Cha quickly thought of a possible explanation and changed the topic:
"How did you identify the Son of Chaos? Did you see him?"
"Not really. But I know he's there. You'll know it too if you look at it."
News of Hikis came through.
"No. Just one floor below me."
