Abstraction for a bad world

Chapter 167 The Indigo Giant's Last Wish, Brother, You Smell Good (4.1k)

Mercury rank promotion ritual?
The unexpected noun made Yuan Qingzhuo, who was about to push the wheelchair, utter a puzzled "hmm".

I just came to consult Sister Fa...

So, this promotion ritual was prepared for me long ago?
As if he had guessed what Yuan Qingzhuo was thinking, Flandel turned around calmly and said, "Just as you thought, we have already started preparing the rituals for your promotion."

Flandel tapped Yuan Qingzhuo's finger, signaling him not to stand there but to move forward.

When the wheelchair slowly moved toward the outside of the teleportation altar, Flandel continued, "But you don't need to think about how much extra resources I spent on you in this regard - because there was no resource spent at all."

"If I must say... this is just to recycle someone's leftovers."

The moment he walked out of the house with the teleportation altar, Yuan Qingzhuo heard the calls of various creatures.

The dark green trees are scattered throughout the field of vision. Unlike traditional religious buildings that are full of Western architectural style, all the buildings and roads here are built relying on naturally formed dark green trees.

Therefore, as long as Yuan Qingzhuo turned his head slightly or lowered his head, he could see that the creatures moving hundreds or even thousands of meters below his feet were no different from those in his own area.

——It’s as if this altitude of about a thousand meters has no effect on the ecosystem.

Compared to the familiar monastery or the crowded outpost in the Second Abyss, the population density here can only be described as sparse.

Without asking questions about the news about the promotion ritual that he was about to see, Yuan Qingzhuo rubbed the fence beside the wooden road and sniffed it with his nose.

Then he hesitated and said, "Sister Fa...why do I feel like the roads and buildings around here are alive?"

Having said that, Yuan Qingzhuo used his fingers as a knife, and after cutting a tiny cut on the wooden fence, he became more certain of his idea.

"You can remove the word 'feeling'." Farandel lay comfortably in the wheelchair and replied calmly: "Do you know why the Fourfold Abyss is called the Giant's Cup?"

——Of course it’s because there are many giants living here.

——This is what is written in the teaching group’s children’s textbook.

"Of course it's not because there are imaginary giants living here. Rather... that kind of extremely arrogant race simply cannot bear to fall into the abyss."

Flandel smiled and said, "Yuan Qingzhuo, have you heard of the story of...'The Battle of Rejection'?"

Yuan Qingzhuo, who was curiously observing the small animals around him, suddenly brightened up and said, "It's a story I haven't heard of. Sister Fa, please bring it up quickly."

"But it's a pity." Farandel turned his head and put his finger in front of his lips, keeping it a secret: "I can't say... at least not in the fourth abyss."

After trying hard to hide the sweat on his face, Yuan Qingzhuo saw Flandre reaching out to catch a blue bird, teasing it for a few times before speaking:
"But there is only one thing that is beyond doubt."

Flandre ran her fingertips along the blue bird's hair and whispered:
"——Now all creatures in the Fourfold Abyss, all civilizations, all tribes, countries, races, and companies exist because of these unshakable giants."

She seemed to say something quietly to the bird, then raised her hand and let the blue bird fly away into the thick fog in the distance.

Looking at the small figure that left a long wave of sound, Yuan Qingzhuo swallowed back the words he had originally wanted to say, "I didn't expect that Sister Fa, you are so caring for small animals."

Instead, there was the natural question: "These giants?"

Farandel said with a little more emotion: "Yes, these giants."

It turned out to be the case.

Am I now walking on the remains of an ancient giant?

With so many trees around, how many giants over a thousand meters tall must there be?

Yuan Qingzhuo looked around and said, "It turns out that these dark green trees were originally the bodies of giants... Then how many giants are there in this area?"

"Didn't I say that?"

Flandel frowned slightly and repeated what he had said before: "Everything we see now is just a tiny part of Indigo."

"To put it more simply and intuitively, the ecosystem hundreds or thousands of kilometers around here is dependent on indigo."

Yuan Qingzhuo thought of a possibility, so he hesitated: "Indigo...?"

"Yes, he is just an ordinary giant who is thousands of kilometers tall."

Height, thousands of kilometers?
This length can no longer be described as "high".

It has simply crushed the normal person's gigantic fear into the ground.

Yuan Qingzhuo lowered his head again and took in the lowest floor that he could see from here—another dark green building that was no different from the one here.

In other words, this glance down from ten thousand meters high... was just moving a small piece of the giant's skin?

Farandelle says:
"And these dark green trees that you said looked like living things are just a thin layer of moss and some plant communities growing on the indigo."

After seeing Farandel, every one of the church staff along the way subconsciously straightened their backs and saluted her in the most standard way.

The saint lying in the wheelchair did not say anything, but continued to act as a cheap tour guide and explained:

"Before I explain to you the significance of these giant remains, you first need to understand some subtle characteristics of the Fourfold Abyss."

Not long after, the blue bird that had just flown away flew back, and this time landed on Yuan Qingzhuo's head.

It was a pity that he did not understand what the bird was chirping about - even if he used his martial arts will it was of no use.

Because the bird language spoken by the bird seems to have been specially encrypted?
Therefore, it can only be used for the most basic communication with animals, and the will of martial arts is of no use.

Amid the birds' joyful chirping, Farandel continued:
"——The [Ice Mountain Range] that is only 0.00001 degrees away from absolute zero; the [Dead Silence Plain] that always maintains a vacuum; the [Scorching Sun on Earth] that has a surface temperature of tens of millions of degrees and is called the 'Second Sun' together with the blood-red sun in the sky; and the [Miasma Swamp] under our feet..."

She spread her hands:
"There are simply countless dead places in the fourth abyss. In addition to merging and growing with each other, they may also randomly swap positions... Well, ordinary people below the core casting stage can't survive. Some more dangerous Jedi can even cause the fall of legends."

Nothing to do with the enemy.

If one wants to survive in the fourth abyss, one must first possess the ability to fight against this natural environment which can be described as a natural disaster.

"And these giants who stood on the earth until their death were distributed in the four abysses. As time passed, they formed giant trees that reached the sky."

Flandel's eyes seemed to be reminiscing. "Even at the last moment, they did not waste their life magnetic field, but violated the oath they made on the first day of falling into the abyss... forming a [force field] that can protect weak creatures from being affected by the external environment."

After listening to Flandel's emotionless third-person tour guide-style explanation, Yuan Qingzhuo felt nothing in his heart, but instead several doubts arose.

——This is how it should be.

Until he accidentally touched a protruding branch while pushing Flandre around a corner.

Then, that long, gentle, and expectant emotion surged into his heart.

It was as if someone was standing behind him, patting his shoulders with a pair of big, broad hands and saying encouraging words like "Come on" and "Go grow."

Yuan Qingzhuo, unable to hold back his curiosity, naturally released his martial arts will and had a deeper exchange with "Indigo" through this branch that had brief contact with him.

"What's wrong?" After noticing that Yuan Qingzhuo stopped for dozens of seconds, Flandel turned around and asked.

"It's just... well, it's a bit shocking."

Yuan Qingzhuo forced a smile, withdrew his hand from the branch, and continued to push Flandel in the direction of her finger.

——The force field created by the remains of the giants, and the creatures born from the remains of the giants.

The force field gives birth to living things and protects living things.

As more and more creatures appear and become more abundant, the strength of the force field will gradually increase.

"After a long, long time, I hope to see you again, beautiful creatures..."

That is what the Indigos say to every creature that comes deep here.

Yuan Qingzhuo then realized:

The giants didn't seem to be completely dead.

Instead, the hope of reviving, of destroying, of killing the previous abyss, is placed in the future after an immeasurable amount of time.

——This is what Yuan Qingzhuo had just briefly felt in Indigo's body with his martial arts will.
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Soon, under the familiar guidance of Flandel, Yuan Qingzhuo bypassed hundreds of bends and walked into the deep green forest where few people had been.

"If you hadn't brought me here personally, I would have been afraid of having my waist cut off."

Yuan Qingzhuo muttered to himself as he walked around a large tree stump again, and then he heard a creepy chewing sound.

Just two steps closer, they saw the ragged little girl lying on the ground, chewing food with her sharp teeth.

Crunch crunch crunch~
Scales were torn, muscles were ripped, and bones were bitten off.

Blood gushed out everywhere.

A giant snake with a diameter of more than three or four meters was lying peacefully on a large open space - if you ignore the little girl who was constantly eating with it.

Yuan Qingzhuo looked towards several cult members standing not far away and found that half of them looked calm and were watching the giant snake being eaten with great interest, as if they were watching a good appetite eating show.

The other half pretended to be calm, trembling and sweating profusely, and was almost running away.

Flandre tapped the armrest twice with his fingers and began:

"Is this today's meal? It looks good, doesn't it? [Gluttony]."

Hearing Flandre's voice, the girl who was eating stopped what she was doing, turned around, and grinned with a bloody smile:
"I finished my breakfast four hours ago. How could that fellow Temperance be so kind as to give me the Hell Python he raised..."

The girl known as gluttony covered her mouth halfway through her speech, and then gave Flandre a sinister yet flattering smile.

It looks quite primitive.

If you ignore the corners of his lips that are stretched behind his ears.

Farandel shrugged. "It's nothing—provided you don't lie to me in your report."

"You know, I've never been good at lying."

Gluttony wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, glanced at the corpse of the Hell Python that was coiled on the ground with a look of pity, and then opened his mouth wide.

It swallowed the entire giant snake, which was over a hundred meters long, in one gulp.

She shook her head and touched her flat belly:

"It really doesn't taste good if you swallow it in one gulp..."

"Squeak! Chirp!"

The azure bird above Yuan Qingzhuo's head let out a joyful cry after seeing Gluttony swallow the giant snake.

"Oh! Isn't this Blue-chan? Come into my mouth and warm it up!"

Gluttony's eyes lit up, and she opened her mouth again and swallowed the bird that was flying towards her in one gulp, leaving Yuan Qingzhuo, who was about to call it back, stunned.

“Eated…eaten?”

Yuan Qingzhuo had never expected that the messenger bird, which seemed to have learned advanced secret language, would end its life in such a hasty ending.

"Lan-chan is my good friend who helps me monitor that guy Temperance. How could I eat him?"

When Gluttony opened his mouth towards Yuan Qingzhuo who asked the question, he could see a little azure bird jumping around on his pink and scarlet tongue.

You can even see it pecking at the snake meat shreds between its teeth as snacks, having a lot of fun.

"Wait a minute..."

Yuan Qingzhuo saw Gluttony's nose twitching a few times, revealing a look of infatuation.

Then saliva could not stop dripping from the corners of her cracked lips.

The next moment, the girl who was originally more than ten meters away had already arrived in front of Yuan Qingzhuo.

The gluttonous little hands only grabbed the corner of Yuan Qingzhuo's clothes, and the tip of his nose was almost touching his arm.

"——Brother, you smell so good!"

Under Yuan Qingzhuo's scrutiny, the girl could no longer stop drooling and the strong desire in her eyes.

I only heard her panting, squeezing out a lot of tears, and saying with a pitiful expression:

"Just give me a bite... no, give me a taste..."

Seeing that Yuan Qingzhuo seemed to be still thinking, Gluttony transformed into a giant succubus with devil horns on his head and a height of 1.7 meters, and said in a very seductive tone:

"You can do whatever you want with me... just give me a taste of your flesh..."

Seeing that Yuan Qingzhuo had not agreed, Gluttony, whose eyes were getting redder and redder, began a transformation show.

Young girls, mature women, married women, little boys, transvestites, futanari... in the end, they even turned into all kinds of strange monsters, and she used all kinds of tempting tones and benefits to guide Yuan Qingzhuo, just to make him agree to be tasted by her.

Seeing that it didn't seem to have the expected effect, Gluttony gritted his teeth and transformed into Flandre, wearing an Inquisitor's uniform (a black stocking with holes) and with a cold face.

Then he spoke to the shocked Yuan Qingzhuo in a cold tone:
"Don't you want to try the opportunity to rub your teacher, the Saint of the sect, against the ground?"

Sorry, don't want to, sorry, it's okay.

Yuan Qingzhuo stepped back in silence and looked at Flandel who had revealed a brilliant smile at some point.

(End of this chapter)