#87 - Chapter 87: Beneath the Abyss
“Oh?”
“The sweet reality universe, huh.”
At this moment, Wu Wei suddenly recalled.
The words used by the Blood Driver, Hendrickris, were escape and cage.
And he wasn't the only one who said it that way.
From the earliest Imp Mother Caroline recruited by Wu Wei, to the Plague Twins, Hel and Mara, they had all said similar things.
According to Wu Wei's understanding, these demon heroes seemed to be living in a boundless dark corner before responding to his summons to this world.
And the demons' evaluations of that darkness were also different.
Regarding that darkness, the Imp Mother's attitude was one of annoyance and dislike, while the Pure Child Hel's attitude was somewhat indifferent, seeming to neither like nor dislike it.
As for the cute little Mara, her attitude was to love that darkness very much, and she didn't even want to return to the real world, just wanting to stay there.
But what about the Blood Driver Hendrickris?
His attitude towards that darkness was another extreme.
He was very disgusted and hated that darkness.
He even used the word cage and regarded his return to the real world as an "escape".
Such a complex contrast in attitudes naturally made Wu Wei curious.
He was very curious about what kind of place that darkness was that would cause such a large difference in the attitudes of these heroes.
At the same time, he was also curious about what these demons had experienced in the past.
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“Hendrickris...”
Still immersed in the joy of escaping the cage and returning to the real world, Hendrickris heard Wu Wei call his name and immediately knelt before Wu Wei, saying very respectfully.
“Here! Great Master of the Abyss, are you summoning me?”
“Yes, I have some questions I want to ask you.”
“Please ask, anything I know, I will tell you without reservation!”
Wu Wei glanced at Hendrickris's "right hand", which was the sword that his body had transformed into, and then said.
“I want to know, before responding to my summons, where did you, the Imp Mother Caroline, and Hel and Mara live? Where is that darkness you are referring to?”
Hearing Wu Wei say this, Hendrickris immediately replied.
“Below, Lord.”
“Below?”
Wu Wei frowned. What kind of answer was that?
And Hendrickris naturally knew that his answer would not satisfy the Abyss Lord, so he quickly added.
“That's right, Lord, I'm talking about below.”
“My other brothers and sisters and I all live below.”
“Are you referring to underground?”
Wu Wei glanced at the ground beneath his feet and continued to ask.
“No, the bottom I'm talking about refers to the legendary bottom of the entire Endless Abyss, and also the bottom of the convergence point of all worlds!”
“It is pure darkness, a place of pure silence, and it is also the end point of all causal lines.”
“Before responding to your summons, I had always stayed below.”
“But if you want me to say where exactly that area I was in is...”
Hendrickris lowered his head, saying humbly and apologetically.
“I'm very sorry, Lord, I really can't say where exactly that place is, because I myself don't understand how to get there or how to enter.”
“After returning to the real world last time and following the Abyss Lord at the time to defeat, I have been staying there.”
Suddenly, Hendrickris revealed an unexpected piece of information.
Wu Wei raised his eyebrows.
“Wait, other Abyss Lords? Defeated, when was that?”
“Who was he? And are there other lords in the entire Endless Abyss!”
Hendrickris was still lowering his head.
“Yes, Lord, there used to be at least sixteen lords in the Endless Abyss, but now there are none, I can only sense you.”
“Because the previous lords, they have already died, and...”
The Blood Driver Hendrickris said slowly.
“I have no way to tell you their names or who they are.”
“Because the Endless Abyss has erased all of them, including their names and memories, after their defeat!”
Even erase names and memories?
Wu Wei was stunned.
But Hendrickris continued to speak.
“Moreover, in that darkness, the passage of time is meaningless, which is why I call that darkness a cage.”
“We cannot escape from there, nor will we be harmed there, and even... we will receive a certain degree of nourishment in that darkness.”
“That is an area woven together by space and time, and the essence of that darkness is so profound that I cannot even understand it.”
“So I must admit that I cannot even tell the time about everything about the previous lords, because I do not know how long I have stayed in the darkness.”
“All I know is that in such a long time, your appearance has once again given me the opportunity to return to the real world.”
“.....”
“Is that so?”
Wu Wei nodded.
“Then in that darkness, did you have any communication with the Imp Mother Caroline and the Plague Twins?”
Hearing Wu Wei say this, Hendrickris nodded.
“Of course, we know each other.”
“However, we rarely communicate with each other, because many times, we are not allies of the same camp, and even enemies of each other.”
“And...”
Hendrickris raised his head and glanced at the Imp Mother Caroline, who had returned to the abyss through the teleportation gate, and after receiving a new batch of little imps, went through the teleportation gate to other areas.
“Our current state is actually very different from before, so there is little need for us to communicate with each other, after all, the flow of time experienced by each of us is completely different.”
Hendrickris was telling the truth. The heroes under Wu Wei rarely communicated with each other, or even almost never.
Although the Imp Mother Caroline had protested to Wu Wei that the Plague Twins were using too many little imps for their plague experiments, this was only the Imp Mother Caroline complaining to Wu Wei. Even though she hated her children being used as experimental subjects, the Imp Mother Caroline never directly approached the Plague Twins to negotiate.
And the Plague Twins never took the initiative to communicate with the Imp Mother Caroline for any reason.
This interesting phenomenon had been overlooked by Wu Wei, who was wholeheartedly focused on the war.
It wasn't until Hendrickris mentioned this that Wu Wei suddenly realized.
“Then what were you like before, what were the Imp Mother Caroline and Hel Mara like before?”
