A shadow swayed behind the ruins of Shichai. He was obviously frightened by Upsilon's actions and tried to huddle himself completely behind the pile of rocks. But the result of that attempt was not successful. His initial scream had already exposed himself, and his subsequent actions of lying on the ground further exposed him outside the shelter of the stone door. This timid and frightened shadow didn't even dare to raise his head to look at them, and just buried his head under his arms.
Luo Binhan stared at him. This shadow is gray in color and has an odd outline.
"... Bang Bang." He said.
The other person raised his head from his trembling arms and looked at him with a pair of gray eyes. The shadow hadn't said a word yet, but Luo Binhan already knew that he was indeed Bang Bang. This is proved by many details: the body outline between a foal and a muntjac deer, four slender legs with no obvious joints, a neck that takes up half the height of the body, and he even wears that piece of clothing on his body. Clothes brought in times of distress.
Luo Binhan has never seen all these characteristics in any other creature. These characteristics uniquely pointed to Bang Bang, but the shadow-like creature in front of him was not the Bang Bang he was familiar with.
"...Bang Bang," he called again, "What happened to you?"
His voice seemed to give the other party some courage, and he finally stood up from the ground unsteadily. This allowed Luo Binhan to see the whole picture of the other party clearly: it was dusty, gray and hazy as if he had crawled out of ashes and sand, and at the same time his outline was so messy and wild. Luo Binhan didn't know what caused it, and he couldn't even describe it. It was a bit like a wild cat blowing up its hair when it was frightened, but all the hair on Bang Bang's body - or rather, the surface of the skin that looked more like hair, had all become rough and sharp, as if someone had wiped off Bang Bang's hair. Bon's smooth outlines were drawn with ink lines and crudely repainted with charcoal. When Luo Binhan stared at his outline for too long, the surface of his skin even occasionally experienced a slight, extremely unnatural, high-speed spasm.
This returning Bang Bang looked so weird and unstable that Luo Binhan felt that he would collapse at any time. Instead of falling down and dying, it begins to disintegrate from the spasms of the skin, like a sandcastle being toppled by the waves.
"I..." the visitor stammered, "I thought I was dead..."
"I think so too." Luo Binhan said. He immediately felt that it was immoral to say this alone, at least it could not fully express his inner thoughts. So he suppressed his uneasiness about the new form in front of him, and tried to ask in a relaxed and soothing tone: "How do you feel now?"
"Oh, I...I feel...a little weird..."
Xin Bangbang turned his head and kicked the gravel next to him. He still looked nervous, but no longer shaken and panicked like before. That makes him more like the Bang Bang that Luo Binhan is familiar with. Luo Binhan knew very well how weird this thing was, but he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
Upsilon looked at him from the side, with an almost helpless smile on his face.
"Mr. Zhou Yu, is this the Bang Bang you are talking about? Well, how should I put it? He does look very cute, much like the friends I met in the dream world. However, what's wrong with his skin now? What's going on? It seems different from what you described before. Could it be that I was infected with some disease?"
Luo Binhan couldn't answer this question. He winked at Upsilon a little awkwardly, indicating that he had better not ask this in front of Bang Bang. But Upsilon was still smiling, as if he didn't understand what he meant at all.
"Mr. Bangbang... Oh, it must be Mr., right? I don't have any special skills to determine gender, so I will just follow Mr. Zhou Yu's method. I heard that you came from other civilized areas outside the alliance, Is that so?”
Bangbang looked at Upsilon a little confused. It is still digging at the gravel at its feet, becoming more and more like what it used to be. Its oddly distant sound had also improved significantly, no longer sounding like it was coming from the depths of a cave.
"Oh, yes," he said timidly, "I'm from, um, from college..."
"Coming from a joint academic institution, I am the apprentice of scholar Finlatan, right? I heard these from Mr. Zhou Yu, but I only heard a few words. Maybe I am wrong. However, just Based on these terms, there is really no way to judge how far it is from the Alliance. Oh, this is also a normal phenomenon, because it is difficult to estimate the geographical distance between star layers, let alone places like Gate City that are connected by magic. Generally speaking, civilizations that have just learned how to tunnel will not know which direction they are running. So please don’t be nervous. I am the Central City dispatcher appointed by the alliance. To put it bluntly, I am the person responsible for maintaining the safety of the alliance and rescuing foreigners in distress. Of course, it is proper to be a guest. But before that, I have a few things to explain to you, Mr. Bangbang, and a few questions that you must answer. Is this okay? "
Bangbang hesitated for a while. He looked at Luo Binhan, as if he was seeking the opinion of this old acquaintance, and also seemed to be looking for a little voice of support. Luo Binhan didn't want to pretend that he didn't see it. He weighed it and said to Bang Bang, "He is Lao Mo's biological brother. He has a different father and different mother."
"Oh!" Bang Bang exclaimed, "But they don't look alike at all! His hair is not curly at all!"
Luo Binhan felt extremely comforted when he heard this. He turned to Upsilon and said, "He identifies male and female by the length of his hair. Your brother is generally considered a girl in his eyes."
"Yeah, this... haha, it's not impossible... it's just an image anyway, you can think of it as a sister. But it's too much to say that we don't look alike at all. Momolo's ears are completely like mine. Yes. Have you seen it? There is a small dimple here on the ear flesh. This is called leaky ear in Baipingxing. It is said that people with such ears are very lucky. They will only hear what they want to hear and what they don’t want to hear in their lives. It will automatically slip through, and it sounds great, right? As long as my ears are there, no matter what kind of requests the upper-level people make...ah, no, this should not be said. In short, my ears are very good at catching. Take what you want to hear. I used to chat with the White Tower mage who fought with me, and I didn’t remember anything like the principles of spells, but only about the information here, I asked me to tell him everything he said. Just write down one word silently."
Upsilon scratched his ears and said in a nonchalant tone: "In order to restore this area to a level that can be reopened, each pair of Galaxy Front Theater Support Mage Advisory Groups designed a design based on the legend of Styx. This ether pollution purification system is used to collect the curses that pervade this area bit by bit into different tributaries, and finally guide them to the high spiritual belt for elimination. Although the efficiency is not very high, it is very stable, and it is also No human maintenance is required. As far as I know, there are nine main streams and nearly a hundred small tributaries for these 'rivers' used to collect curses. Of course, there are particularly dangerous parts among them, such as the 'Yuchen River'. The River of Resentment, where all curses about kinship, friendship, and physical and mental integrity will be collected; the Glacier River is responsible for collecting all curses about immortality; anger, destruction, and all sharp and violent violence will flow into the River of Flame; the River of Bones is a river full of The red and black river of bones condenses the curse of the corpse; the River of Tears and the Frost Flower Lake are about sadness; the River of Forgetfulness and the River of Poison represent forgetfulness and evil thoughts; as for the River of Pussy, the River of Plague, and the River of Uncleanness , the Oath River and other small tributaries, the danger of these is much lower. As for you, Mr. Zhou Yu, although I have not seen the specific situation, I guess it comes from a tributary of the Resentful River called the Spring of Life. "
"Ah?" Luo Binhan said.
"I guess, because there are so many tributaries of the Resentful River. To be honest, the names and functions I can name are only about 10%. However, the characteristics of the Fountain of Life are very obvious, so I think it should That's the right river. Although that tributary is called the 'Fountain of Life', it actually condenses the curse of 'destiny seizing'. To put it simply, the fate of anyone who drinks the spring water will be Take away.”
"What?"
"Haha, I'm kidding, it's not that exaggerated. But it is indeed a place where the curse of 'luck of survival' is condensed. It is said that if you use the correct ritual and drink the water containing that curse, your vitality will Transfer it to the spell caster. This is something that the Jin Enga Titans and their affiliated races were very good at in the past. As for people like you, Mr. Zhou Yu, since there has been no ceremony at all, there will be nothing bad about drinking it. The consequences, right? The worst case scenario... Well, I think it's just a strange dream. It's about the same as swapping dreams or personalities with people who have also drank water. Oh, it doesn't matter, normal people fall into this In a completely unfamiliar place, you will definitely not drink liquids of unknown origin casually! Is that so, Mr. Zhou Yu?"
Luo Binhan looked at Asabam expressionlessly, then nodded resolutely and said, "Of course!"
"Your eyes seem to be avoiding me, Mr. Zhou Yu."
"I didn't." Luo Binhan said immediately, "This is an occupational disease, okay?"
"I do have occupational diseases, but they are of no use to you, Mr. Zhou Yu. The reason why I want to talk about these things about the cursed river is to explain to Mr. Bangbang the state he is in now. Why is he acting like this? Such a state appears before us, why do I have to solve this matter before I can continue to track my target. In a nutshell, the Mr. Bangbang in front of us should have been cursed by some kind of curse in the river of resentment. influence."
