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Chapter 631 The truth about the Mother of Finger?
At the deepest part of the dark blue "sea", a shadow is hiding.

His body was covered with wounds, and faintly glowing blood oozed out of the wounds and then drifted away with the water.

However, when Li You came here, he could feel the flow of sea water and breathe normally at the same time, which was quite magical.

This is the space where the Mother of Finger hides, and it is also the deepest part of the entire ruins. The Mia Finger Ruins, the Finger Delivery Room where the previous battle took place, and the seabed here are actually different sides of the same space.

It sounds complicated, but after experiencing it personally, Li You has found a way to travel through it - this is also thanks to the spatial power from the Sakura Dragon.

So soon, he caught up with the Mother of Finger.

However, at this time, the "Mother of Fingers"... no, Metier had no reaction to his arrival. Her twisted body shrank into a ball and trembled slightly.

Ignoring her appearance, age and identity, she really does look like a helpless little girl.

This made Li You feel a little embarrassed for a while. It was not just a question of whether he could do it or not, the key point was that with his current means, it seemed that he could not kill the Mother of Fingers!
As the daughter of the Supreme Will, Metier's status is even higher than that of the Beast of Elden. Even if it is Pi Dan, Li You doesn't think that his immortality can kill him, let alone the Mother of Finger.

It’s one thing that Metier is not good at fighting, but his status is there.

Looking at his appearance, he had no reaction to the outside world and was unable to communicate. Li You chased him, but he didn't know what to do.

But at this moment, something in his system backpack reacted.

"Om-"

Li You was startled. He opened the system backpack and found that the one that responded was the large iron box he had stuffed at the bottom.

It is the iron box containing the secret treasure obtained in the eternal city of Noklongn.

Li You took out the treasure chest in a daze. The box, which he could not open before because he "did not have a corresponding destiny", suddenly opened by itself. A dark black dagger, as if made of flesh and blood, flew out and floated in front of Li You.

This is the secret treasure of the Eternal City of Noklongn, the Hunting Finger Knife.

"...?"

He tried to reach out and touch it, and then he held the knife in his hand without any hindrance.

Even Li You didn't react at first and wondered why the Hunting Finger Knife would unlock itself.

But then he remembered the description of the item that hunted the Finger Blade, the destruction of the Nox people, and... the story about the Mother of Finger that Ymir had told.

"The secret treasure of the Eternal City, Noklong, is said to be a knife that was born from a corpse. This is evidence of the Eternal City's treason and a symbol of the city's destruction."

"A blood-stained cursed item that cannot be used by those without a related destiny. It is said to be able to harm the Supreme Will and the messengers who serve Him."

Li You was startled: "Wait... No way!?"

He couldn't help but think more, the hunting finger knife in his hand trembled, conveying a vague impulse, pointing directly at the Finger Mother in front of him, while the Finger Mother's body trembled a little more violently.

"The destruction of the Eternal City...is it because of this!?" Thinking of that possibility, Li You was stunned.

The Knox people angered the Supreme Will by hunting the Finger Knife and brought about their destruction; the Finger Mother was supposed to receive messages from the Supreme Will, but for some reason it was damaged and became ineffective... and the Hunting Finger Knife can indeed kill Two Fingers, which was confirmed by Lani in the game.

When I think about it this way, there is probably only one answer.

In the distant past, the Knox people created the Hunting Finger Knife and used it to harm the Finger Mother Metier, causing her to be disconnected from the Supreme Will and the Eternal City to bring about its own destruction.

After losing Metier, the signal receiver, the Supreme Will might have really cut off its communication with the border area, or maybe He was really angered, so He gave up... In short, the Supreme Will shifted its gaze away from the border area, which led to everything that followed.

Thinking of this possibility, Li You was stunned for a moment, because the more he thought about it, the more reasonable it seemed.

Combining the previous and subsequent clues, it is not difficult to connect them. It's just that the Hunting Finger Knife is a key item in the main game, and the Finger Mother is a new character added in the DLC. Li You didn't even get to play the DLC, so he didn't think about it in that direction before.

What's more, Li You originally supported the view that the Knox people angered the Supreme Will with their "god-making plan" and brought about their destruction - those skeleton giants on the Chair Temple.

But now it seems that the variable of the Mother of Finger is probably a more reasonable explanation.

As a result, Li You's eyes changed when he looked at the Finger Mother: "If this guess is true, it will really shock the environmental science world...ah, the big secret of the junction. But in this case, Kara's idea may be wrong. The blame for the chaos in the junction cannot be put on the Finger Mother."

After all, the Knox people are to blame, right? After all, it has been confirmed that the Supreme Will is not a "colonizer" but a true creator of the borderland.

But if this is really the case, should we kill the Mother of Finger?

"Tsk... why is it so troublesome! The old thief's fragmented narrative is killing me!" Li You couldn't help but complain.

The Hunting Finger Knife was unaware of Li You's thoughts and was still trembling at this moment, wanting to fulfill its duty as a cursed instrument to hurt and kill the Finger Mother.

However, this knife cannot act on its own. Li You easily controlled it, then took a few steps forward and came to the Mother of Finger.

He tried to touch Metier's body to see if he could communicate with Him, but found helplessly that his test only made Him more frightened, and His consciousness went straight into the deepest part of the spiritual world, not allowing him to touch it at all.

Li You is not good at this. Maybe Aiji can find a way, but even if she is here, Li You will not let her try.

After all, Metier is a god. Her spiritual world cannot be summarized by the word "sea of ​​consciousness" at all. It is a small universe!

This small universe is also filled with all kinds of chaotic things that humans cannot understand. If you explore its spiritual world and get involved accidentally, you may never come back.

After another fruitless attempt, Li You sighed and said to himself, "There's nothing I can do. The ability of the Finger Mother is too important. I have no choice but to do this."

"Auntie, please bear with me for a moment. I'm very quick...ah, this knife is very quick."

Of course, the Finger Mother did not respond, but just huddled into a ball. Li You raised the Hunting Finger Knife and poured his strength into it. The originally short blade suddenly expanded several times, and as he exerted force, it fiercely pierced into the back of the Finger Mother's body!

"Pfft-"

The swollen hunting finger knife pierced into the tail of the mother of fingers, blood gushed out, and the mother of fingers trembled all over. Li You didn't waste any words, he grasped the handle of the knife and swung it hard!
There was a flash of dim knife light, and the entangled tail finger of the Mother Finger was cut off at the root!
The body of the Finger Mother trembled violently, and Li You immediately opened his hand and the Shield of Aegis appeared, but this time it pressed the wound on Metier's tail finger to prevent the blood from spurting out.

He threw the hunting finger knife away, then grabbed the fallen huge tail finger with one hand, and with the other hand, sprinkled a bunch of potions on the exaggerated wound of the Finger Mother to help stop the bleeding.

Li You actually didn't know whether he needed to do this, but it was better to be prepared. Fortunately, it seemed that the divine blood in Metier's body was strong enough, and the huge wound began to close almost in the blink of an eye. Although it did not heal in the end, it did not cause heavy bleeding.

Seeing this, Li You also breathed a sigh of relief. He looked at the tail finger in his hand again. This organ, which looked like two fingers entangled together, was the "antenna" that Metier originally used to receive the Supreme Will signal and communicate with the two fingers. Li You had already noticed this before.

This is also the most indispensable thing in Li You's plan. On the other hand, since we have this, the Mother of Finger itself is not important - anyway, without the tail finger, He can no longer send messages to the two fingers.

The only problem is that this thing is really a bit too big. Li You was thinking about whether to use the refining flame to shrink it, and the huge tail finger actually shrank by itself, and finally turned into a strange short stick, which was held in Li You's hand. Between the two fingers at the top, a group of illusory light of a small universe appeared faintly. "Hmm?" Li You was a little surprised, but this saved him a lot of trouble.

He looked at the Finger Mother Metier, who was still trembling and crying by herself, and shook his head: "Without the antenna, you should not be able to influence the situation at the border."

“I don’t know whether the two fingers did all these things because of your instructions or because they just went crazy. But from now on, you should just stay here. The Shadow Land has been separated long ago, and no one should covet your power anymore.”

Li You was actually not sure whether it was right or wrong to keep the Finger Mother, but looking at her appearance, he believed that she had nothing to do with the chaos in the border area.

You must know that there is such a thing as the Three Fingers of Crazy Fire under the royal city. Although it is not certain whether it is Metier's baby, but thinking about what Lani's two fingers did, it is obvious that the children of the Mother of Finger have their own ideas.

The two fingers should obviously be considered as an entire intelligent race, not just tools or apostles. In this way, the reckoning should also be specific to individuals... individual fingers.

After making up his mind, Li You did not hesitate any longer and prepared to leave. He put away the short staff transformed by Metier's tail finger and picked up the large iron box that fell on the ground.

He originally wanted to pick up the Hunting Finger Knife that he had thrown away, but perhaps the cursed device was not happy with Li You for throwing it away after using it like he did with the Big Orange Pill, or perhaps the permission that was unlocked when facing the Mother of Finger had expired. Anyway, when Li You went to check, the Hunting Finger Knife had already flown back into the iron box and closed the door. When Li You tried to open it again, it didn't respond.

"… Never mind. It was an accident that I was able to use it this time. I was planning to return this thing to Lani last time."

Now that he thought about it, he had gained something unexpected by not rushing to meet Lani because he was worried about Millicent's matter.

But by this calculation, it seems that two days have passed since the originally agreed time...

Li You: "emmmmm..."

It should be fine, right?
After all, Lani is a very arrogant person, so nothing should happen... maybe?
With a hint of worry, Li You transformed into a dragon again, used the power of the Sakura Dragon to travel through space, returned to where Kara was, and then took her back to the ruins on V's side.

"You are back."

V was standing in the center of the magic circle, sweating profusely. "This thing is really mind-numbing. My chip is almost at full power! Can we stop it now?"

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Li You nodded to her apologetically, then looked at Kara who insisted on hanging on him, "Can you take over? Gather the scattered power and then infuse it into this staff."

Kara had just forced Li You to hang on him on the pretext that he had wings on his back in human form. Now he let go of his hand and looked at the staff that Li You took out, with surprise in his eyes: "Isn't this the tail finger of the Mother of Finger?"

Li You nodded: "This is enough."

"Okay, leave it to me. I have studied this magic circle before."

As she spoke, she took the staff and ran to replace V. Her body floated up in the center of the magic circle, and began to operate the huge magic circle that almost overheated V's chip, and injected the magic power absorbed from the magic circle into the staff formed by Metier's tail finger.

When V came back from her shift, she mentioned the Pandora that Kara had just returned to her, and conjured up a handheld electric fan to blow air on herself, while asking, "The matter with the Mother of Finger is settled, right? But there's still some here."

Li You was stunned, then he looked at the two figures beside him.

Yoran and Anna.

Anna was originally a puppet. After being bounced away by Li You and Ymir being killed, she lost her controller and became motionless.

As for Yolan, it can be guessed that she was probably deceived by Ymir and counted money for others. At this time, she was leaning against Anna's cold body, breathing out more than breathing in.

Li You was stunned. He seemed to remember that he was a little too heavy-handed because he was annoyed, but it definitely wasn't to this extent, right?
"It's not you. Her health seems to have been very poor to begin with. She can't stand any injuries, and she's also suffered a mental shock." V has been watching and is very clear about Yolan's condition. "Now she herself doesn't know whether she wants to live or not."

Li You looked at Yolan, also somewhat speechless. He never had a good impression of those who were stubborn, but Yolan and Anna were both victims anyway...

At this moment, Melina appeared again.

She looked at the two people. "I roughly know their experiences. They were born in a dark, cold prison, their light was taken away, they were trained to be swordsmen of the night, and finally turned into terrifying blades... but their hearts became fragile because of this."

Li You seemed to understand something: "Could it be related to the Horned Man again?"

Melina nodded, and Li You couldn't help but frown.

TNND, how many good things have the Horned People done? Why do they keep running into the evil deeds of these beasts even though their entire race has been wiped out?

"So these two were originally persecuted by the Horned People, and then used by Ymir, right?" Li You couldn't help but step forward to look at Yolan, but saw that her face under the helmet was blank, her eyes were out of focus, and she kept muttering in a low voice:

"Mr. Ymir... Where are the stars? Where is the starry sky? I can't see them..."

"...The night is always dark. Please, I want to see the stars...see the light..."

Well, this time Li You couldn’t bear it anymore.

But fortunately, now he doesn't have to worry about many problems alone.

"Let me do it, Master."

Li You turned around and saw that Kara had already walked out of the magic circle. Compared to V's previous sweating, she now looked refreshed and had no signs of fatigue.

Kara came to Li You and said, "I heard everything... They are also miserable people. I think I can help her."

Yolan was still muttering over and over again, and Kara squatted down and took out a strange prop from her magic pocket, which looked like an enchanted contact lens to Li You, and then gently covered Yolan's eyes with it.

The eye mask suddenly emitted a soft light, and Yolan's face became bright: "...Ah, it's so bright...Our darkness has disappeared..."

After she finished speaking, her head dropped completely, but she was not dead. Her body disintegrated along with Anna's puppet, and what was left in its place was a box of ashes with power.

Kara picked up the small box and sensed it, and found that it contained the souls of Yolan and Anna.

"Just take a good rest." Kara put away the box.

Then, she stood up and handed the tail-finger staff to Li You: "Here, Master, the work is done."

Li You was also refreshed: "Great! This will complete the merits. The only thing left is..."

Melina at the side spoke at the right time: "So, Li You, can you tell me what you saw in the deepest space of the ruins?"

Li You looked at her, thought for a moment, and said, "I do have some new and unexpected discoveries, but I'm not sure. They are just inferences at the moment."

Melina said, "That's fine. I want to hear your judgment."

Li You nodded: "Okay. Then don't be afraid of what I'm going to say next..."

(End of this chapter)