On the way back to City 0001 on the armored train, Li Xiang rejected Lia and Bai He's invitation and sat alone in the carriage to rest.
The tragic state of the He Family was still echoing in his mind. They plundered people in the name of cleaning up. Even if they were powerful aristocratic families, once they became the product of a failed political struggle, they had no dignity to speak of.
In order to transcend, one's strength had to reach the level of a player so that they would not be too restricted.
Every player had a very broad immunity. The few players who left the He Family had long disappeared before the cleaning up.
They did not return when they heard the news and allowed their families to be destroyed. It was just as Hestria said. Once they became players, they would completely break away from their previous circle.
They would have a brand new identity and status.
After getting off the armored train, he took off the black robe and returned it to Wang Yuan. Hestria stood at a distance, quietly waiting for him to return. Seeing that it was a Level 3 player, Wang Yuan swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.
"How are you feeling? Tired, aren't you?" Hestria smiled and put a coat on him.
November in the North was different from the South. There was no sticky humidity, but the cold wind and air were bone-chilling, cutting one's body like knives.
"A little." Li Xiang nodded slightly. "I'm not used to that kind of situation."
"It's good to see it once. This is why Lord Night Shadow is unwilling to mix into the circle of the upper echelons. There are all kinds of open and secret struggles every day. According to Lord Night Shadow, you can't focus on improving your strength, and there's no real enjoyment of life. Such a life is worse than death. "
Hestria imitated Night Shadow's tone so vividly that Li Xiang immediately thought of her expression and demeanor when she said those words.
"What are they doing it for?" Li Xiang waved goodbye and got on the carriage with Hestria. They were about to rush to the Magic Association's stronghold in City 0001.
"Power, resources, women, and the pleasure of dominating everything. Sitting in a chair every day and deciding the fate of countless people with a click of his finger is a fatal attraction for some people. "Hestria poured a cup of black tea and handed it to him.
"Especially after going to the border, going to the Great Wall of Disaster, and fighting with the true Calamities, their hearts have long been tempered into fragile toys. They don't dare to increase their strength, nor do they dare to take a step out of their comfort zone." She curled her lips, her eyes full of disdain.
Li Xiang thought back to the first time he encountered a xenogeneic. That indescribable terror made his scalp go numb.
If a person had to fight monsters that were even more terrifying than this for a long time, not only would they become numb, they might even go crazy.
"Hestria, have you ever been to the border?" Li Xiang turned around and asked her if she liked being addressed as "sister". She asked Li Xiang to call her by her name.
In her opinion, Li Xiang was the successor of Night's Shadow and the second master of the Rose Maids. They were master and servant, not brother and sister.
"My ex-husband died at the border." Hestria hesitated for a moment, then slowly unbuttoned her maid uniform, revealing a white, flat, and bouncy belly.
Near her navel, there was a hideous scar.
Or to be precise, it was a large, indescribable "area".
The texture was obviously different from the surrounding skin. It was like a pile of rotten meat that had been forcibly sewn together. As she breathed, it wriggled slightly. Upon closer inspection, one could even see rows of tiny teeth gently biting on it.
"Is it disgusting?" Hestria closed her clothes and slowly buttoned them up. She felt Li Xiang's eyes, which were originally wandering around her chest, stop after seeing the wound. "Do you feel a little mental pollution?"
"Uh, a little." Li Xiang resisted the nausea that surged up from his stomach. It was not that his tolerance was poor, but as Hestria said, mental pollution was spontaneously formed, and his body instinctively rejected it. "How did it happen?"
"It was bitten by him. 'It' might be more accurate to say 'it'. I met my ex-husband in college. He came from a very famous player university. It was a joint holiday activity between our two universities. He and I were in a group and had individual guidance. At that time, I was just a girl who had just entered college. I was ignorant and longing for the future. I had no resistance to a handsome and powerful boy like him. "
Hestria showed a very girlish expression, then closed her eyes and slowly recalled. Suddenly, she transformed a wand and waved it. A dark green projection appeared in the carriage. A young man and a young woman were exploring a dark forest.
"I told you before that a school like ours can't compare to the top schools at all. After four years, it's difficult to become a magician, let alone a player. At that time, our strength was far inferior to yours. The summer joint activity was originally to draw lots to solve the strange incidents that were spreading around the world. I didn't expect that we would encounter a borderline mutant. "
The scene changed, turning into black and white.
An illusory mist suddenly appeared in front of the boy and girl. It looked very strange, rising in the form of smoke. Every wisp of mist was covered with fine sharp teeth.
"I fainted. When I woke up, he told me that he had killed the borderline mutant. At that time, I fell in love and couldn't extricate myself. There was also the so-called suspension bridge effect. I didn't consider that his strength wasn't enough to deal with a borderline mutant. We used the bounty from killing the borderline mutant in exchange for rich resources, and he gave them all to me. This is one of the reasons why I was able to go further later. "
Hearing this, Li Xiang had already heard a hint of strangeness, but he didn't say anything and let Hestria continue to recall.
"After returning to school, we didn't see each other for four years. During that time, we occasionally exchanged letters, but it was basically once a month. At that time, communication devices were still a rare commodity. At that time, communication was still very dependent on messenger birds. Now, messenger birds have sunk into the ranks of ordinary people. After graduation, I narrowly passed the player assessment. Later, I found out that he was expelled after returning to school. Because his strength didn't change for a year, he was still stuck at the level of a Level-2 Magic Apprentice. "
The scene kept changing, and the girl who had become a player and the boy who was still at the bottom of the valley met again.
The status of the two changed seven hundred and twenty degrees.
Hestria didn't despise him. She used her power as a player to obtain a position in the military for him, and then secretly got married without anyone's approval.
"This was probably the last bit of immaturity before I left the ordinary world. During a mission, we went to the border together, and he finally showed his fangs. "
"He was corroded by the borderline mutant at that time? Then why wasn't he discovered in human society for so long … "Li Xiang asked.
"No, it wasn't a borderline mutant. At that time, he had already transformed into a disaster. It needed to be dormant, and it also had the ability to hide its aura. To really live, it had to leave human society where powerhouses were everywhere, return to the border, and return to their side. After being with me, he said that he felt inferior and was afraid. I thought that the difference in status made him unable to bear it, so I promised him to live away from human settlements. After all, players have their own circles. "
"So …"
"During that mission, our exploration team was almost completely wiped out. I was just a newly promoted Level 1 player, and I had never had any experience fighting against a disaster. It left this mark on me, tormenting me day and night. As long as it was alive, it could gain strength from my pain, uneasiness, and fear."
Li Xiang sucked in a breath of cold air, especially when he learned that Hestria was actually married to a Calamity and was deceived …
"Serial number C- 98665, the disaster's name is Thousand Teeth Shadow. They can imitate human speech, actions, and thoughts. They feed on human negative emotions and enjoy the feeling of destroying and destroying everything. They can learn, they can grow, and they will specifically attack your weaknesses. Every player more or less has such an inner demon in their heart. " Hestria chuckled and unconsciously touched her belly. "Now can you understand why they are so powerful but still hide in human cities and don't dare to go to the border to fight against the Great Wall of Disasters?"
"Too many people think that by becoming a player, they have the ability to fight against disasters directly. They don't know that most players are just slightly stronger ants in front of disasters. They have to become strong, very strong, to have a little bit of resistance. "
"Sorry … I made you remember something not so good." When he heard the name [Thousand-tooth Phantom], he felt an inexplicable tremor. These powerful disasters could already penetrate countless space-time and transmit their fear to this place.
It was just a name.
"It's nothing. I just wanted to tell you that even so, disasters are just imitating humans and using their fear to do evil. As powerful as they are, they still need to learn and analyze, but we ourselves are self-taught and are born to know these things. "Hestria pointed out." Humans are the biggest disaster. "
The conversation stopped abruptly here.
Hestria began to talk about the Magic Association as if the conversation just now had not happened at all. However, the story of the Thousand Teeth Shadow and her had been deeply ingrained in his mind.
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