Chapter 510 True Greed

"Self-redemption? Ridiculous!"

The night watchman heard the sound of the snake laughing.

"What did I do wrong? What do I need to redeem? I am just a part of the world, just doing what I should do. Why should I be deprived of my freedom and imprisoned in this ghost place forever?"

"How can you think you are doing what you should do?"

The night watchman frowned and said in confusion: "You only know how to kill and create disasters. Wherever you natural disaster beasts pass, the whole earth is filled with grief and blood. Too many innocent creatures died tragically in your hands. This is why other creatures hate you. This is the real reason why you are imprisoned here! If you don't change your nature and behavior, even if you escape this time, you will be imprisoned again sooner or later in the future!"

"Other creatures? Innocent? Hehe..."

The snake laughed again.

"In the final analysis, aren't you still standing from the perspective of 'creatures' and treating me as an imaginary enemy? You imprisoned me not because you are so 'innocent', but because I violated your interests!"

"You intelligent races always think of yourself as the masters of the world. In the name of 'survival', you can arbitrarily transform the world and make it more suitable for your survival. But have you ever thought that for the world itself, you 'creatures' are the real cancer!"

"The creatures in the real world have no lifespan mechanism. All creatures can survive forever if there is enough food and no fighting. This will definitely lead to an increase in the number of creatures in the world until it collapses. The existence of our natural disaster beasts is to restrain the proliferation of creatures. By regularly killing a large number of creatures, we can ensure that the number of creatures in the entire world is always maintained within a controllable range. This is a necessary world balance mechanism! "

"And you intelligent races, whether it is the gods or you humans, are all equally selfish and greedy. You are so greedy that you want to reverse the world mechanism and make the whole world your appendage, and you are shamelessly calling it "protecting the world"! "

"..."

For the first time, the night watchman was speechless in a debate with the snake.

Indeed, he has always looked at the problem from the perspective of humans, but if you look at it from the perspective of the entire earth, humans are the termites. They are always trying to make themselves live better, and for this reason they have made many irreversible changes to the world. The same is true for the gods in the real world.

"Ridiculous! All of you are trying every possible way to imprison me, but you don't know that some snakes are destined not to be caged. Every scale of it is covered with the glory of freedom!" The full-blooded voice of the snake continued to come.

"Emm, you remember the lines so clearly..." The night watchman looked strange.

What made him happy was that the snake had at least listened to and thought about his preaching seriously over the years. He was sure that the middle school snake four thousand years ago would never be able to come up with such a clear and logical theory.

But he didn't expect that after thousands of years of preaching, he failed to make it reform, but instead cultivated it into a "philosophical snake" and really thought about the meaning of its existence.

But now is not the time to consider such philosophical questions.

At this moment, the cave beasts deposited in the bottom of the cave have started to move again.

The originally calm dark cave beasts suddenly seemed to sense something extremely terrifying, and scrambled to flee upwards, like countless inverted black waterfalls, all starting to climb up along the surrounding mountain walls.

"Hurry up and find a way! The true body of the snake is hidden among them!" The night watchman shouted hurriedly.

The others looked solemn. In fact, there was no need for the night watchman to explain. When the night watchman said that the snake had escaped, combined with the gathering of dark cave beasts at the scene, they had already vaguely guessed the cause and effect.

"It is an incarnation condensed from snake skin!" The lamp god said with an unpleasant face: "Shedding is a means of escape for the snake. This incarnation can theoretically carry a very small part of the snake's power..."

But if the Sealing Spear is not damaged, the snake should not be able to shed its skin, so he is not sure how the snake did it now, but in short, the snake is now obviously planning to mix in this group of dark cave beasts and escape!

The only good news is that it seems that the snake can't directly control these cave beasts to fight, otherwise they can just let the cave beasts pounce on them directly, which will be enough to make them drink a pot.

It should have temporarily used some method to attract the cave beasts to collectively land at the bottom of the cliff, and now it is urging the power of fear to force them to flee in fear, and it will escape among them.

"It must be stopped immediately!" The lamp god said hurriedly.

However, he could only say this sentence without a beginning or an end. The problem is, how to stop it?

The number of cave beasts is really too many. The range of the cave bottom is already amazingly large, and the density of these dark creatures is so dense that people will feel dizzy at a glance.

Hundreds of thousands of cave beasts, each of which has no visible shape, only a black mass. Such creatures are entangled in layers, almost swallowing all the light in the underground. It is impossible to find the location of the snake, let alone stop it?

"How about it, do you want to make a wish?" The lamp god hurriedly looked at Mu You.

Making a wish, relying on the power of miracles, is the only way he can think of now.

"Can I make a wish to destroy the incarnation of the snake?" Mu You asked.

"How is that possible? What are you thinking?" The lamp god smiled bitterly: "Even if it is just an incarnation, it is still the incarnation of the snake! The power of miracles has its limits, especially when dealing with a certain existence. The restrictions are extremely large. The creatures with combat power exceeding my ability are basically beyond the scope of the wish."

"In short, it is impossible to directly solve the opponent, but you can make a wish to kill other dark cave beasts instantly, so that at least the location of the snake incarnation can be exposed!" The lamp god said quickly.

"Just expose the existence..."

Mu You hesitated for a moment.

There is only one free wish left. The first two times were used to destroy the millions of undead army and to resurrect the dead people on the earth. They were all used in meaningful places, but now, they can only point out the location of the snake. It seems a bit of a waste of talent.

The most important thing is, even if they find the location of the snake incarnation, can they stop the snake?

You have to know that this is not an ordinary underground, but a dark cave. There is endless darkness above. As long as the snake does not fight and escapes, once it escapes from the light into the darkness, they will almost have no chance of finding the snake again. Whether he makes a wish here or not, the result seems to be doomed...

"Don't worry, no need..."

Just when Mu You was struggling, the voice of the herbalist suddenly came from behind him.

"Oh?" Mu You was about to turn around, but heard the exclamation of the night watchman from the other side: "Look over there!"

Everyone looked in the direction he pointed, and saw a long and thin shadow suddenly appear under the feet of one of the densely packed dark cave beasts on a mountain wall in the distance.

These creatures born in the dark cave are born with the ability to devour light, and will automatically absorb all the light shining on them, so naturally there will be no shadow.

This also applies to the snake skin of the snake. After all, this thing is also born in the dark cave and has the same light-eating characteristics, so it is theoretically impossible to distinguish the snake by the shadow.

However, at this moment, a shadow appeared under the feet of a dark cave beast.

Not only that, the shadow was rapidly extending and spreading, and in the blink of an eye it expanded into a circular shadow with a radius of several meters, with a lot of jagged edges, like a "hairy" ball.

This familiar shape immediately reminded Mu You of something: a shadow ball!

The outline of this thing is exactly the same as the shadow ball, but it is dozens of times larger than the shadow ball.

After the circular shadow appeared, it opened its "mouth" like the little yellow ball in Pac-Man, revealing two rows of jagged teeth, and then closed it, swallowing the dark cave beast connected to it in one gulp.

"Roar!"

At the moment of being swallowed, a roar suddenly came from the sky.

The next second, the shadow ball's mouth, which had just closed, was forcibly opened from the inside by two dark hands, and then a black snake head emerged from the shadow, and the snake neck and body behind it...were all emerging little by little, as if trying to escape from the shadow.

However, when the black snake came out to the last tail, the stretched shadow closed again and bit the tail tightly.

The black snake suddenly twisted and struggled violently on the rock wall, and a large number of cave beasts passing nearby were slapped down by it, and the rock wall was also cracked.

But no matter how the black snake struggled, it could not break free from the shadow behind it, and could only drag the shadow ball to move.

After a few seconds, as the black snake moved to the boundary illuminated by the light of the barrier, it was about to rush into the darkness, but the shadow ball behind it suddenly seemed to be stuck by something, and it could not move forward an inch, and the black snake was forced to stop escaping.

Looking down, it was like a piece of iron ball tied to the tail of a snake. The snake wanted to drag the ball through the fence, and the snake body passed through the fence, but the iron ball was stuck under the railing. No matter how the black snake struggled, it could not get away.

"This is..."

Mu You immediately turned back to look at the herbalist, and his intuition told him that all this was directly related to the evil clone.

"Take it and you'll understand."

The herbalist seemed to have expected Mu You to ask, and without saying much, he threw the archiver in his hand.

Mu You subconsciously caught it.

The moment the metal short stick came into his hand, Mu You suddenly felt that there were many scattered memories in his mind.

He had not stored the state in the archiver, but the herbalist had stored it, and Mu You inherited his memory. With this touch, the memories that were hidden by the herbalist with magic were suddenly revealed.

Mu You quickly digested this part of the new memory, and then he realized that the herbalist had noticed the little action of the snake preparing to "escape from prison" from the beginning.

But he did not make it public, because he was greedy: the herbalist realized that this might be an opportunity to capture the snake for his own use!

As we all know, the original body of Gushe is too powerful. Even the top gods such as the God of Order and the God of Chaos have to bring a group of subordinates to barely defeat it. It is simply wishful thinking to subdue Gushe.

It is for this reason that no one in history has ever dared to attack the natural disaster beast. It is too late to hide from such a thing.

But now, Gushe has been imprisoned for a long time and began to yearn for freedom. He is ready to use the characteristics of molting to create an incarnation to escape from prison.

The power of the incarnation is naturally far inferior to that of Gushe, but it is precisely because of this that it is possible to subdue it.

The snake skin shed by the snake was dead skin without feeling before the will was transferred. Because it was closely attached to the surface of the snake and integrated with the snake body, it was difficult to detect without careful observation.

The herbalist also discovered the little action of the snake by accident.

After that, he immediately made a plan, asked Linglong for the shadow ball, and then transferred the shadow ball under the dead skin without anyone noticing. Using the ability of the shadow ball to cut and swallow the shadow, he began to eat the shadow of the snake skin little by little, so that the shadow ball could grow rapidly by absorbing the power of the snake.

Whenever the snake shed a bit of snake scales, the shadow ball would immediately swallow the shadow of the snake scales. Over time, its breath had completely integrated with the snake scales. Even without the cover of the herbalist, it could move under the snake skin without being noticed by the snake.

However, the whole thing must be carried out carefully, and it must not be discovered by the snake or the night watchman Linglong.

Firstly, this is an extremely bold plan. The premise of wanting to capture the snake is to let the snake complete its "escape" plan first and let its incarnation escape successfully.

And in this process, if something goes wrong, resulting in the failure of the shadow ball to capture the snake and letting the snake escape, it will be a complete failure, and the consequences will be immeasurable.

With the character of the night watchman and Linglong, they probably won't agree to this kind of thing. Telling them will destroy his actions instead.

Secondly, the snake is extremely sensitive to the emotions of intelligent creatures, especially when the snake is concentrating. As long as you stand near the snake, if you have the evil thought of capturing him, it will be noticed immediately! Then the whole plan will still fail.

For this reason, the herbalist not only needs to keep this secret from everyone, but even himself, every time before coming underground, he must first use the forgetfulness spell to forget all the memories of capturing the snake, and then use the archiver to restore the memory, and then continue to secretly control the shadow ball to digest the snake's shadow.

The reason why the herbalist became more and more silent and withdrawn later was because the pressure brought by this matter was too great, and he needed to keep it extremely secret. He could not reveal a word or show any flaws. For this reason, he could only disguise himself as a madman who was obsessed with potion science, so that he could appear more natural.

In this way, in the next four thousand years, when the snake was carefully planning to escape from prison, it didn't know that its actions had already been seen through, and someone was using its plan in reverse to secretly plan a bigger conspiracy...

"This is too risky..."

Quickly sorting out these memories, Mu You looked at the herbalist with sweat on his forehead, but he remembered what Linglong had said to him before: "True greed is to ignore risks and seek things that are not available!"

Now, Mu You has a real experience of this sentence.

There is no doubt that the characteristic of greed lies in the herbalist, but his greed is not the petty fight of Linglong who takes advantage of a little bit, but the real greed - he actually tried to use four thousand years to subdue a natural disaster beast for his own use!

Even the former demon god himself would not dare to imagine such a thing...

Sure enough, the moment Mu You recovered this part of his memory, the part about 'greed' in the demon god's bones instantly became quiet, and the digestion was more thorough and rapid than the previous five personalities.