"If I'm not wrong, the power of the evil god is lurking in the bodies of these residents, so we didn't discover it, and the door should be just a prototype, or maybe even just a gap."
Fang Cheng explained his guess to Isis. This guess was not blind, but a revelation he got based on his mother's memory.
In the mother's memory, after she died together with the evil god, her power was divided into two parts, which entered two cracks and blocked them, and finally evolved into the Lord of Demons and the Kingdom of the Undead.
So Fang Cheng guessed that there might be the same cracks in the mines in Centralia Town, and the power of the evil god seeped out from the cracks, affecting the residents of the town.
The endless reincarnation in the town of Centralia may be to prevent the door from opening.
After listening to Fang Cheng's explanation, Isis no longer expressed doubts, but asked: "Then what are you going to do?"
Fang Cheng hesitated a little, but finally made up his mind: "Of course, open the door."
If the purpose of the endless reincarnation in Centralia Town is really to prevent the door from opening, then if you want to get rid of the reincarnation, you can only open the door.
Isis said calmly: "You are playing with fire."
If the door is really opened, if it is not handled properly, it may cause a disaster.
Fang Cheng said confidently: "It doesn't matter, I'm sure."
The door in the seafloor fissure may have been opened naturally. Not even Fang Cheng could close it, not even the mother and the earth's native power.
But those doors that are forced open can be forced closed. Fang Cheng has encountered this many times.
However, to be on the safe side, he still asked Yi Xie'ai in his mind to avoid overturning the situation.
"If I forced the door open in the mine, would you be able to close it?"
"It can be done."
Yi Xie'ai's voice sounded in his mind: "But if there is a problem, I don't care."
Fang Cheng was used to Yi Xie's behavior of throwing the blame before it even started.
"As long as you can close the door."
He doesn't have to actually open the door, just make a gesture and come out first.
Isis did not question Fang Cheng's sincere appearance, but asked: "Since the door is still in its prototype and we can't see it yet, how are you going to find the door?"
"I already have an idea, I can give it a try first."
…
"Did the two of them escape?"
Richard has been waiting for Fang Cheng and Isis to reappear. After waiting for a long time, he has not seen them come out of the subspace again.
There is a high probability that he has run away. After all, no one can bear it forever in this endless reincarnation.
"Hmph, they turned around and ran away after just a few blows. Even though they have great strength, they are just two cowards."
Richard lay on the sofa and mocked the two of them, but there was obvious loss in his eyes.
After confirming that the two of them couldn't catch him, Richard wanted to have a good time with them to relieve his years of loneliness.
After all, for half a century, I have been playing cat and mouse games with Du Lu and others, and I have long been tired of it.
Now there are two newcomers, and they are so strong that they cannot be let go easily.
Unexpectedly, these two cowards would choose to give up so quickly, leaving Richard White happy.
"You can still run away, but I can only continue to stay in this ghost place..."
Richard looked up at the ceiling and murmured to himself: "When will it end?"
After being in a daze for a while, he suddenly woke up with an expression of surprise and joy on his face.
For no other reason than Fang Cheng and Isis reappeared in Centralia Town.
"Haha! You actually dare to come back without knowing your life or death. It's great to come back!"
Richard was so surprised that he almost jumped up from the sofa, with an uncontrollable smile on his face.
"Don't worry, I will definitely give you more hope this time and won't let you suffer too many blows."
Like a child who has found a lost toy, he wandered around the living room mumbling something.
"Should we come closer next time? Maybe we can pretend to be caught by them..."
…
While Richard was dreaming about a new game, Fang Cheng and Isis had returned to the town of Centralia.
The time just stuck at twelve o'clock in the middle of the night, and a new reincarnation began.
Fang Cheng immediately entered a house by the road.
The owner of the house, a bachelor, was preparing food in the kitchen.
Fang Cheng looked at the opponent's back and then started to kill him.
Although these residents are all innocent, they should have died long ago, and they are just repeating the last process of their lives.
So Fang Cheng took action without any psychological pressure.
You are all dead, so it's not too much for me to touch up your sword.
"What is he going to do?"
At another point in time, Richard was lying on the sofa observing Fang Cheng's actions, slightly confused.
Could it be that he was frustrated because he couldn't get out, so he vented his anger on these residents?
This kind of thing is not unheard of. When Dulu's group of investigators were trapped, they also committed many irrational behaviors.
They had to stop when they realized that doing so was meaningless and would deepen their despair.
Richard suspected that Fang Cheng had also begun to enter a state of incompetent rage, but the expression on his face looked calm.
In the kitchen, the bachelor's body fell to the ground. In Fang Cheng's field of vision, a faint black color emerged from the body.
Seeing this thing, Fang Cheng's tense heart suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.
His guess was correct. The power of the evil god was indeed lurking in the bodies of these residents.
Isis followed in and waved to the corpse when she saw Fang Cheng.
The power of the evil god floated on his palm under his control.
Fang Cheng asked Isis, "Have you seen it?"
Isis shook her head: "I can't see it, but I can vaguely feel it."
Fang Cheng's thoughts moved slightly, and the evil god's power was given color by him, floating on the palm of his hand like a black mist.
Isis finally saw that the black mist seemed to be alive, twisting and trying to escape, but was tightly controlled by invisible forces.
Not only Isis, but also Richard saw it.
He stood up from the sofa in a flash, his shocked eyes piercing through time and space, staring at the black mist on Fang Cheng's hand.
"Impossible...this is impossible...why can you find..."
After seeing the power of the evil god with her own eyes, Isis took a breath and asked Fang Cheng: "Your guess is correct, what's next?"
Fang Cheng smiled slightly: "Of course, gather all these dirty things."
His bloodline elements spread rapidly, covering the entire town of Centralia in an instant.
Thousands of residents were swallowed up by Fang Cheng's blood elements at the same time, and the evil power lurking in their bodies was also brought back and gathered in Fang Cheng's palm.
Thousands of evil gods' power gathered into a small black sphere, like a black hole, swallowing even light.
Looking at the power of this evil god, Isis could feel subtly uncomfortable.
Fang Cheng, however, had long been used to it. He pulled her through the cracks in the subspace and appeared in the mine.
The underground fire has not been ignited yet, the area of the mine is not large, and the altar hidden in the mountain is nowhere to be seen. It will not appear until the underground fire burns.
Fang Cheng didn't need to wait that long and directly started to hollow out the mountain to where the altar would appear.
Since the cultists chose to build their altar here, the door must be nearby.
Isis didn't know how Fang Cheng would find the door. Since he was confident, he must be sure, so he hid quietly and watched.
Fang Cheng injected his bloodline elements into the small black ball in his palm and deliberately gave up control.
As soon as the blood elements entered, these evil gods swarmed up like sharks that smelled blood and began to pollute.
The power of the evil god has the ability to contaminate and assimilate, and can pollute the mother's power and turn it into his own.
Fang Cheng's strength comes from his mother, so he cannot escape this ending.
As long as he does not control the blood elements, he will be completely contaminated by the power of the evil god.
The size of the small black ball gradually expanded, and soon it turned into a giant black ball with a diameter of more than ten meters.
boom!
The surrounding underground fire suddenly appeared.
Richard should have realized something was wrong and started to accelerate the reincarnation at this point in time.
Fang Cheng also had to find the door before the reincarnation ended, so he simply let go of the black ball.
The energy density of this black ball has caught up with the penetration peak of the door in the seafloor fissure. After being released from control, it quickly turned into a humanoid monster.
This monster is completely black, looks like a demon with goat horns, and has a vertical pupil on its face.
It stared at Fang Cheng and Isis with malicious eyes, but the blazing underground fire around it made it more vigilant.
The monster did not attack the two of them, but turned around and shot in a certain direction.
"Stop it!!"
Richard suddenly appeared in the mine, shouting anxiously to Fang Cheng and Isis.
Fang Cheng and Isis did not move, watching silently.
The monster quickly turned into a black light, flew into the sky above the original location of the altar, and exploded suddenly, turning into countless black light spots.
These black spots quickly condensed into a point, and then slowly spread into a circle.
The edge of the circle is a circle of light that flickers on and off, while the inside is a pitch black that makes you unable to see your fingers.
Seeing this scene, both Fang Cheng and Isis felt a rather contradictory emotion emerge in their hearts.
There is indeed a door hidden here, but now they have to open this door with their own hands in order to escape the reincarnation of Centralia Town.
Fang Cheng never thought that one day he would take the initiative to open the door for the evil god.
It's like a loyal and loyal woman opening the door to welcome guests.
"No... no... stop it quickly... stop it quickly!"
Richard looked at the door that appeared and yelled crazily.
But he didn't dare to rush forward and do anything. He could only scream in vain.
"Hurry! Hurry up!"
Fang Cheng originally thought that Richard was calling him, but after looking over, he realized that Richard was actually yelling at the surrounding underground fire.
Under his shout, the underground fire burned faster, turning the entire mine into a furnace, swallowing up everything.
The speed of underground fire burning is approximately equal to the speed of reincarnation. When the flames devour everything, reincarnation will end.
In the end, the door failed to open successfully, and the reincarnation was over.
Fang Cheng and Isis returned to the subspace of the Lord of Demons.
The two looked at each other, and the atmosphere seemed very dull.
Fang Cheng said: "We have found a way and forced Richard to show up. Why do you look unhappy?"
Isis looked at him and said, "Then why are you unhappy?"
She didn't need to remind him, Fang Cheng knew that his complexion would not be much better.
The reason why the two are unhappy is simple. A new door has appeared. If the reincarnation in Centralia Town is unlocked, this door will be exposed to reality.
The door to the seafloor fissure is already troublesome enough. If another one comes along, I might as well just lie down and forget about it.
"No matter what, we have to get out of here first."
Isis sincerely advised the other party: "In reality, there are still many people and many things waiting for you to go back. You can't be trapped in this place forever."
Fang Cheng looked at her suspiciously: "Why do I feel that there is something in your words?"
Isis smiled slightly: "It's just an illusion."
Regardless of whether it was an illusion or not, what Isis said was not wrong. There were so many people waiting outside, and Fang Cheng couldn't be trapped in this place forever.
He took Isis out of the subspace of the Lord of Demons and prepared to open the door again.
This time the time is earlier to see if we can open the door before the reincarnation.
The two had just returned to the town of Centralia, and were about to repeat their old tricks to collect the power of the evil god, when a voice stopped them.
"etc!"
Turning around, Richard, who had been hiding, finally appeared in front of the two of them.
He looked at the two people with eyes full of hatred and hostility, but his tone was pleading: "You may not know what that thing is. I tell you, it will threaten the safety of the entire world, so I beg you, please don't Do this.”
Fang Cheng and Isis looked at each other and felt relieved.
If possible, the two of them would not want to continue to open the door, but if Richard refused to surrender, then they would have no choice but to continue to adopt this approach that was similar to perish together.
Now, as soon as the two of them showed up, Richard took the initiative to run out, which was already half the loss.
But this couldn't be blamed on Richard. He didn't know the positions of Fang Cheng and Isis at all. He didn't know whether they really wanted to open the door or were using it to threaten him.
Richard didn't dare to bet. Once the door was really opened, everything would be over, so he had no choice but to admit defeat.
"We can keep the doors closed for now."
Fang Cheng ignored the hostility in Richard's eyes and gave his conditions: "But you must tell us the truth about Centralia Town."
Richard was silent for a while and then sighed. His whole body seemed to have grown older all of a sudden.
"Let's talk somewhere else."
The three came to Richard's house.
He had regained his composure on the surface, and was still in the mood to ask Fang Cheng and Isis if they wanted something to drink.
"I only have tea and wine at home, and they are not valuable things."
"No need to delay, stop talking nonsense and start quickly."
Fang Cheng said impatiently, but Isis used idealism to create two cups of black tea for him and herself.
Richard poured himself a glass of wine and sat on the sofa opposite the two of them.
"Where should I start?"
He shook the wine glass and suddenly fell into memories: "Time has passed too long, and I have forgotten a little."
Fang Cheng teleported in front of Richard and reached out to touch his head: "Then let me remember you well."
Richard subconsciously wanted to run, but Fang Cheng's threatening words immediately followed.
"If you dare to run, then I will open the door directly. It will be useless whatever you say."
Richard did not run, but he also passed through the space crack and hid behind the sofa, avoiding Fang Cheng's touch.
He apologized in a neutral tone: "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't cooperate with you, but that no one can touch me in this town of Centralia. This is an ability that even I can't control. .”
This was half true and half false, mainly because Richard was afraid that Fang Cheng would take the opportunity to kill him, so he didn't dare to touch his head.
"No one can touch you?"
Fang Cheng sneered: "Dulu's group of investigators have killed you so many times, and now you say no one can touch you?"
Richard also laughed: "Everything they experienced was fake. I deliberately acted it out for them. From beginning to end, those people never touched me."
Isis took the initiative and said, "Why are you doing this?"
Richard sighed: "If I didn't do this, they would have gone crazy and died in endless reincarnations. I am giving them a hope of living."
"Even if this hope is false?"
"Yes, it's better to live than to die. If you stick to it, a miracle may happen one day. Even so, many of them won't be able to hold on. If it weren't for me, they would all have died long ago."
Duruna's pursuit plan was false from the beginning. It was Richard who deliberately led them to think this way and gave them a hope of survival.
Seeing that Richard was unwilling to compromise, Fang Cheng had no choice but to give up on reading his mind and returned to sit on the sofa.
Richard also returned to face the two of them and began to tell.
Instead of telling the truth about Centralia, he took the lead in telling his own life story.
Although I just said that it had been too long and I had forgotten it, when I actually told it, it was clear and detailed, and it didn't look like I had forgotten it at all.
Half a century ago, Richard's identity was an explorer, traveling around the world on adventures.
In addition to his identity as an explorer, Richard is also a natural superpower with the extremely rare ability to control time.
It's just that his ability is too low, and he can only accelerate himself for 0.5 seconds.
While traveling around the world, Richard accidentally got a strange thing - his mother's body.
This thing seems to be able to communicate with Richard secretly and enhance his abilities.
This made Richard ecstatic and regarded his mother's body as his most important treasure.
Under the temptation of continuing to enhance his abilities, Richard accepted the guidance of his mother's body and came to settle in the town of Centralia in North America.
The town of Centralia is a remote, unremarkable coal mining town, and there are countless such towns in North America.
But since his mother's body guided him here, this place must not be simple.
As an adventurer, Richard has excellent personal abilities. After his diligent investigation, he discovered something unusual in the town of Centralia.
The mine in the town belongs to a mining company called Bronte, and the residents of the town are all hired miners of this company.
Every once in a while, the town administrator will bring a group of strangers to the town of Centralia to avoid the miners and enter the mine.
