In other words, you have never had it, so it is strange. How can you say you have no interest in something you have never had? “

Not to mention that antiques are inherently valuable, and there can only be one in a world at most. In addition, antiques are divided into different grades. This antique in the underworld is very special. Even though it is not complete, it can be comparable to antiques of average quality. No matter how you look at it, it seems unreasonable for a homeless person who has never fully obtained its origin to say that he is not interested.

This is like a professional player who has never won a major championship saying, “Well, I feel like it doesn’t matter whether I go to the S Championship or not.” It’s a bit pretentious and deliberate, which makes people laugh.

But the tramp was not annoyed by Lucifer’s somewhat sarcastic words, he just sighed and said: “You don’t believe it because you don’t understand, you don’t understand what the curse I am talking about is.

Remember what I said before, those people who were born from your body fragments and gained flesh and blood, and who thought they were the unique Jiang Lu until they died?

Due to various coincidences, they will return here intentionally or unintentionally, to the land where they were born, and then discover this place, see me, see the wandering “physique”, and see this antiquity.

This is actually a curse, a curse that comes from blood.”

The homeless man seemed a little helpless:

“But in the beginning, when I first came back because I wanted to complete my origin, I didn’t realize this.

In fact, it’s not that I had no way to take away the origin from Jiang Lu. It’s just that Jiang Lu had just been born at that time. In terms of closeness to the origin, I, who had been entangled in its body for endless years, was naturally better. I could have absorbed it by force, but that would inevitably cause Jiang Lu to die. Although I longed for this power at that time, I also had my own principles and bottom line. In addition, Jiang Lu was the son of that man, so I did not do so, but left.

As for ‘physique’, I think if it is not fully replenished, then there is no qualitative difference between one third and two thirds. At most, it will only make me, who is already hard to beat, stronger, but I will still not be a match for the top ancient gods and the old days. Therefore, I don’t care and did not specifically absorb it since it was not wandering in the spiritual realm like it is now.

It was not until I returned to this place many times, intentionally or unintentionally, either because of some feelings or because I had to, that I realized something was wrong.

I began to consciously realize that I would never be able to get rid of the influence of Jiang Lu and the remaining “physique”. No matter where I was, I would always return to the starting point.

At that time, I understood that this was because we are all incomplete, so the origin flowing in our bodies will follow instinct and approach each other, just like the same blood, which will always move towards each other.

I don’t know if this is a characteristic of the old days that is different from us, and I can’t find any evidence to prove it, but somehow, as Jiang Lu grows older, I have this intuition more and more. This feeling, after his ‘physique’ has absorbed the diluted Yellow Spring power that spread throughout the underworld for many years, has finally hatched and taken shape as it should, and finally reached its peak.

I was trapped in the ancient artifact and my “energy” was taken away after being assimilated. Jiang Lu was born with a “talent” for some reason, and Jiu Ri was finally hatched after going through many difficulties and only had his “physique” left. These three individuals who should have had no intersection and had completely different life trajectories were bound and entangled together.

If the origins in the three of us do not combine, then this entanglement will continue endlessly, as if it were a fatal inevitability.

I wanted to get rid of this entanglement immediately, because the existence of this entanglement made me… I don’t even know how to describe this feeling… I’ll say something that you may find inexplicable, it makes me feel that I am no longer myself, no matter where I am, no matter what I want to do, I will be affected at any time, and this influence is often negative, or it is a hindrance, or there are all kinds of psychological traumas that appear for no reason… I don’t know if you can understand. “

Until this moment, Jiang Lu, who had remained silent, could not help but ask, “It’s like a child from an unhappy family entering society?”

The homeless man was stunned and couldn’t help but give a thumbs up: “It’s so lively.”

After that, he continued with a complicated expression: “Not only that, there are always some strange and incomprehensible things in my mind. The unknown makes me feel scared. I want to be a free and omniscient god, but in the end I find myself so small and helpless, like a small boat in a foggy sea, swaying and about to fall.”

Jiang Lu shrugged and made no comment.

This reaction surprised the homeless man: “Although you are not aware of this, you should be able to empathize with me to some extent. Don’t you have ever experienced these things and have no resonance at all?”

Perhaps in order to awaken Jiang Lu’s similar unpleasant memories, the homeless man guided him, “For example, the sudden sadness when you are happy, or the terrible thoughts that suddenly appear in your mind, or the suffocating and oppressive feeling when you stand at the foot of a mountain and look up at the peak, don’t you have any?”

“Yes.” Jiang Lu nodded, but he didn’t seem to care: “But I thought that was a strange idea that all men would have, a second-year syndrome or a desire to explore and learn about extraterrestrial life, or maybe he felt that he was having his period. You know, men always have a few days like this every month when they feel down.”

“No! No! This is not the same thing!” The homeless man shook his head frantically.

At this moment, he deeply realized what it meant that ignorance is bliss. Who would have thought that Jiang Lu knew nothing but lived such an easy life? It was like a simple-minded person might not even realize that the other person was scolding him. To put it nicely, he had a pure heart, but to put it bluntly, he was a little stupid.

But for a moment, the homeless man didn’t know whether he should envy this stupid person.

“In short, I have been tortured for long enough. I know that if I continue like this, my mind will be damaged sooner or later, and I will go crazy sooner or later. If the three origins cannot be integrated into one, such days will never end.”

The tramp continued:

“I can’t count how many times I’ve come back here, desperate to bring the three origins together again.

Of course, at that time, I was the only one who had the final say. Unable to bear this torture, I made up my mind that I had to do something radical even if it went against my principles.

I’m not bragging. Even though you, Jiang Lu, were already the lord of the underworld at that time, you were still far inferior to me. I didn’t take you seriously. I still felt that in the underworld, the only one who could defeat me was myself.

However, I did not meet you in this Jiang Family compound, but I met that person. “

“Who?”

“Nyarlathotep.”

The tramp took a deep breath:

“He was standing in front of this relic, crafting a weapon to poison you!”

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“Although I don’t know the principle, it seems that he can extract certain substances from the ancient artifacts to make the beings with the origin of the ancient artifacts enter a state similar to poisoning. Although they will not die, they can be made comatose, lose all ability to move and perceive the outside world, and become a breathing corpse.”

Jiang Lu was stunned.

Nodens said that the ancient artifacts, which were actually embryos of the Old Ones, would absorb the energy of the Old Ones and put them into a deep sleep. It was precisely by utilizing this characteristic that the Old Gods were able to keep the Old Ones out at the cost of huge casualties, thus achieving the delicate balance of today.

The situation described by the homeless today seems to be exactly in line with this point.

In other words, Nyarlathotep is not only immune to this reverse erosion, but can also master this characteristic and use it for his own benefit?

But…

“Why is he targeting me? And how do you know he is preparing a weapon to poison me?” Jiang Lu asked.

Hearing this, the homeless man just opened his mouth for a moment, wanting to say something but stopping himself.

Jiang Lu saw this and immediately realized something was wrong, and asked, “Is it necessary to hide it now?”

Lucifer also said: “He is our number one enemy. If possible, I hope you have nothing to do with him.”

In just a few seconds, many guesses had already appeared in the minds of the two people based on the homeless man’s reaction, and most of them were not positive. Almost all of them represented that they were already falling into crisis step by step.

But what was unexpected was that although there was indeed a hidden secret, it was not some hidden conspiracy, but something that the homeless man simply found difficult to talk about.

“I didn’t know at first. I didn’t even know who Nyarlathotep was.”

Under the pressure from the two, the homeless man knew he couldn’t escape and could only stammer and explain:

“In theory, only your father and I know about this place, so when I found a stranger in front of the ancient artifact, I acted without hesitation.

However, I didn’t even see how he made the move, and by the time I reacted, I had already fallen down.

It’s hard for me to describe what that feeling was like. From my perspective, it was as if I was not knocked down, but I was still standing, but the world suddenly turned upside down, the ground turned over and hit me in the face.

Not only that, I also lost the ability to move, as if the tendons in my hands and feet had been plucked. I couldn’t feel my limbs at all and could only collapse to the ground with numbness all over.

But fortunately, I was still conscious. While I was shocked that there was someone in the universe who could defeat me so easily, I also widened my eyes and stared at the guy’s back.

After knocking me down, he didn’t even look at me. He turned around and carefully scraped something from the antiquity. If my perception was correct, he probably scraped for more than half a month and finally collected a few drops of black juice the size of a fingernail.

After that, he held the juice in his palm and stood for more than half a month. Finally, he produced a small piece of black crystal.

And then…”

“And then what happened?”

The homeless man’s expression showed a hint of fear, as if he was unwilling to recall that time.

“Then, he fed the crystal into my mouth. He actually used me to test the medicine!”

The homeless man gritted his teeth, but besides being angry, he felt more helpless.

“As soon as I ate the crystal, I lost consciousness. When I opened my eyes again, I had no idea how much time had passed. Everything around me hadn’t changed, but it felt like a lot of time had passed.

Judging from Nyarlathotep’s reaction, he was not satisfied with the results of the first trial, so he started the process of making the medicine again.

By then I could feel my limbs again, and seeing that he was defenseless, I immediately wanted to run away.

But what I didn’t expect was that before I could run to the cave entrance, I was pulled back by an irresistible force. Then he said the first words I had seen him say –

“Don’t think that you can call yourself a human just because you stole a little human food. A mouse is a mouse. Just accept your fate of being used as an experimental subject.”

When he repeated this sentence in the tone of Nyarlathotep, Jiang Lu and Lucifer both frowned.

This is a kind of arrogance that regards all living beings as lowly lives and tramples on them underfoot. It is an extreme contempt with disgust. Even if they just listened to the retelling, it was enough for Jiang Lu and Lucifer to feel Nyarlathotep’s disgusting self-esteem.

Perhaps in the eyes of the other party, the ancient gods are just a group of despicable rats who sneak onto the candlesticks and eat the tributes, and the gods or immortals who are not even as good as the ancient gods are just like harmless microorganisms and are not worthy of his attention.

“At that time I had a vague idea of ​​his identity, but I didn’t know who he was.”

The tramp continued:

“I only know that he is far superior to me, someone I cannot defeat even if I complete all my origins. The only person in my mind who might be able to fight him head-on is probably the one in the Dream Realm.

I knew that I had no chance of escaping, so I could only make the same choice as when I was trapped in the antiquity: pretend to surrender first, and then look for an opportunity. So I tried while asking questions to see if I could get anything out of him.

But he didn’t seem to bother to communicate with me and just kept feeding me crystals.

Until…I forgot whether it was the third or fourth time he woke up, he said the second sentence –

‘Why is it that no matter what the dosage is, the results are the same? Give me some feedback, you damned rat! Why did I wait for such a long time only to get a loser like you? ! ‘”

At this point, the homeless man smiled in revenge: “Haha, he’s anxious.”

Jiang Lu opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but finally held it back.

But Lucifer couldn’t hold back: “Bushgomen, why do you sound as if your successful revenge has caused him so much harm? Is there any need to be so proud?”

But the tramp disagreed: “That’s because you didn’t understand the implicit meaning.”

“How to say?”

“What he said means that he knew someone would come back, and he seemed to be certain that the person was me who took away the ‘energy’. He intended to use me to test the drug from the beginning.”

The tramp explained:

“Of course, I also felt strange at first, so I couldn’t help but ask, and this is what he answered –

“I didn’t expect that stealing some of the essence would make stupid creatures like you smarter. Yes, I am waiting for you here, using you to test the medicine, and then give it to the Lord of the Underworld.”

I was very surprised, why he called me “stupid creature” and called Jiang Lu not only the Lord of the Underworld, but also the honorific “that one”.

“Is this a problem worth worrying about…” Lucifer was speechless.

“So you are stupid too.” The tramp shook his head. “The reason why he called me that is, of course, because Jiang Lu and I have different status in his eyes. Because Jiang Lu was chosen by the ancients, although his bloodline is not the bloodline of the old times, in Nyarlathotep’s eyes, he can probably be considered half of his kind.”

Lucifer was stunned and wanted to refute, but he felt that the other party’s words made sense.

“Since he considers me a fellow tribesman, why did he use medicine on me? Why did he want to harm me?” Jiang Lu was puzzled.

“I am not sure.”

The tramp shook his head:

“But one thing I can be sure of is that he is not trying to harm you.

And no matter what he wanted to do, he had no intention of appearing too early in this conspiracy. From the beginning to the end, he was just hiding in a dark corner and did not leave any trace in front of the public. Otherwise, with his strength, if he wanted to harm you, he could have subdued you as easily as he did me.

But as far as I know, the one who poisoned you was Yin Di.