Deep in the Living

Chapter 284 Going Home
Agatha reached the other side ahead of time.

Although the waiting time might exceed a day, she did not feel bored at all and was still immersed in the story told by Rody and the corresponding world.

Her life was almost fixed in the monastery.
Her mind was fixed on the hellish world described in the monastery library.

As a special "nun", she was subject to many restrictions and had to be confined in the monastery most of the time. This was a rare occasion when she was able to go out because she was tasked with catching mice.

Even if a world invasion breaks out, their Order rarely takes action unless a life form from the other world accidentally lands near the monastery.

The encounter with Rody made her know the outside world for the first time, a world that was more interesting than the monastery, even more interesting than hell.

The seed of a forbidden fruit has been planted in the mind, and even the monastery's mental wire cannot restrain it.

Just as she was immersed in the story, thinking about pseudo-people, horror literature and things related to the human world, she suddenly heard a breathing sound.

Only three hours had passed when she sensed a familiar breath, the breath of the monks in the torture chamber.

Looking over,

Rody was seen running across the bridge without taking any protective measures for his body.

"Rodi!"

Agatha wasn't the only one shocked.

The pilgrims, who had spent nearly thirty hours climbing across the bridge, were also affected when they saw the scene of running, a psychological impact that almost made them fall off the bridge.

Even more bizarre,
Rody still had his eyes closed, not even looking at the wire under his feet. His thoughts seemed to have gone somewhere else.

Snapped!
As his feet touched the ground opposite the bridge, Rody opened his eyes.

There was no trace of fatigue in his eyes, and there was even a different look in them, as if he had seen something that excited him.

He asked Agatha quietly, "It shouldn't have taken long, right?"

"No, it was fast."

"That's fine." Rody looked up at the area in front of him. The ground seemed to be covered with a layer of white snow, but there was a metallic color in the snow.

"Is this area that looks like it's covered in white metal all the territory of the Prologue?"

“It can’t be considered a territory. It’s just that most demons consider it our territory. After all, the only way to get here is to cross the Bridge of Sin.

In fact, the main activity area of ​​the Order is only near the monastery and the three special institutions controlled by the members of the Order.

This is [Hell Border - Pure White Plateau].

With your Crow Pony's speed, it will take about 1-2 days to cross here."

"Is this already the border? By this calculation, the real hell doesn't seem to be very big, but the population is very large, especially the spine people and tumor people."

Agatha explained patiently, "According to the records in the book, the real hell has experienced two [world compressions]. The original world was quite open and spherical.

After two major world compressions, the entire world became a cone-shaped structure, with a surface area reduced by 84%. "

"World compression?"

It is difficult to give an exact idea of ​​the level that Rody has reached now.

"Yes~ Since the local resources of the real hell are very few, it has long been unable to support the astonishing reproduction rate of the demons, let alone the living needs of large forces.

[World Invasion] becomes the most important thing to do in the real hell.

Only invasion and plunder can bring enough resources to support the development of hell.

If you want to invade another world, you need to bring the real hell closer.

The earliest hell was too large, slow to move and consumed a lot of energy, so people began to conceive of projects related to world compression.

Today, the cone-shaped structure of hell can move quickly in the plane space and complete long-distance movement with less energy consumption, making it more suitable for world invasion.

As for the fuel that powers the world, a large part of it comes from the bodies of people who died on the battlefield.

After the corpses recovered by the original pus are squeezed dry, they will be thrown into the Hell Rift to charge the world's fuel.

Of course, if you need to travel quickly, there are other, faster ways to charge. The Hell Furnace is always burning."

When Luo Di heard this, his heart skipped a beat.

Perhaps one day, the real hell will reach the earth. Who knows what kind of apocalyptic scene it will be at that time.

but,

The plane distance between the real hell and the earth should be very far, otherwise it would not have taken so long for Rody to appear as a connector.

As long as he has enough time, Rody is confident that he can climb to the upper levels of hell. As long as he has a certain say, he may be able to put an end to this situation.

"Rodi, let's go. The monastery and the torture chamber are in the same direction."

"Okay." The two of them still used the same method of movement.

This pure white plateau made Luo Di feel extremely uncomfortable. There was no real hell, and the temperature was about 30 degrees Celsius. Even the dryness gradually faded, and occasionally he could catch a glimpse of puddles with small pieces of metal floating in them.

the most important is,

It's quite desolate here.
Before, Rody often saw hell creatures and various small towns when he was on the road, but now he could see nothing, only a few thorny plants with metal components attached to their surfaces.

Occasionally, you can see pilgrims crossing the bridge.

They had successfully passed the most difficult part and now only had to complete the last easy step to reach the monastery and become one of its members.

Of course, the real asceticism has just begun.

When Rody and his companions passed by these pilgrims, they would bow and kneel down to them.

Soon, we arrived at the Grand Monastery.

Also different from what we expected,

The so-called great monastery turned out to be a huge white cube, which was completely different from the rough style of the Chaos Hive City and was much smaller.

You can only know what it is like inside by going deeper.

Agatha said softly, "The mouse is dead. My activity cycle has ended. I cannot send you to the torture chamber. When you return from Lord Hawke, remember to come to the monastery to find me.

When the time comes, just go to a certain entrance and gently tap this iron pillar, and I will come and pick you up immediately."

Agatha separated a delicate iron rod about the length of a finger from her palm and threw it at Rody on horseback.

"I'll come over when the time comes."

Agatha's pupils trembled when she received a positive reply, and she was indescribably happy.

"Just keep going along this road until you reach the end where the torture chamber is. Goodbye."

"Goodbye."

Rody looked at the metals with different properties in his hands and wanted to try to put them into his left arm, but he found that the iron wire inside his left arm did not seem to be compatible with the iron rod, and even repelled each other and could not be put into his left arm.

You can only put the iron rod in your pocket.

After holding back for a long time, Feiji was finally able to speak.

As a subordinate unit, it was not convenient for it to interrupt the conversation between the messenger and the nun, so it remained silent throughout the whole process.

"Sister Iron Pillar, this is a special monk from the great monastery...Mr. Di, this nun is extraordinary, almost equivalent to a special elite among the Spine Legion.

This type of nun is specially used for external combat and can restrain most creatures of hell.

She is still young and has great room for development in the future.”

"I can tell."

"Mr. Di, if you are used to forming a team, you can bring her along. It will be more efficient to hunt wanted criminals."

"Ah."

Fei Ji wanted to say something more, but finally turned into a necklace and wore it on Luo Di.

It could feel that this envoy's journey had just begun, and the things that had happened before and shocked it were just appetizers.

After walking along this road for several hours,

Crack, crack, crack~ I felt a torture instrument coming from my left arm.

I didn't see any buildings related to the torture chamber.
Instead, a giant coffin-like transport vehicle was moving on the road, pulled by two stitched monsters covered with hooks.

There was also a group of demons around, whose bodies were restrained by torture instruments and whose eyes were sewn shut with hooks. They seemed to be both prisoners and escorts.

They immediately nodded towards Yaju one by one, with no sense of strangeness at all, as if they had known Rody for a long time.

When Rody looked at these escorts, he also felt a vague sense of familiarity. Their physical features seemed to be somewhat similar to those of the mental patients in the Fifth Hospital.

Keep going.

The ground begins to slope upward.

Rody also gradually saw the true edge of hell, with countless red thunders leaping in the darkness.

On this edge, there stood a special building, the structure and proportion of which were exactly the same as those of the Fifth Hospital...

But although the proportions are the same, the specifications are several times larger.

Any sinner coming here would feel intense pain, but for Rody, it was like returning home, and his tense nerves finally relaxed.

(End of this chapter)