Chapter 38: The Unsolved Mystery

Seeing that metal figure being solved by Farrah in an instant, Jack, who had already retreated a certain distance, couldn’t help but exclaim.

“Extracting life? Farrah, your research has already had problems. Continuing like this, you will receive Yggdrasil’s punishment.”

“Hey, don’t say that, my old friend. It’s just extracting life. Compared to your kind of living human dissection, quantifying and transferring life force research, my research is actually more normal.”

“Those are just the lowest existence among Mortal World humans,” Jack had no regrets about his evil deeds and explained nonchalantly: “Making them my experimental targets actually makes their deaths more valuable. Although I could see their pleas and struggles, believe me, after I dissected them, their eyes were full of praise for my actions. I let them know that becoming a Mortal who dedicates themselves to Awakened research is such a noble thing.”

Not only Xiao Fen on the small building not far away, but also Jack the Ripper’s opponent, Farrah from the Underworld, was disgusted by Jack’s words. He, moving like a black flame, even paused slightly because of this explanation.

“If I am a blood-drinking madman, Jack, then you are a madman who has lost the future. Because of being incomparably desperate about the future, you became so crazy. Yggdrasil sealing your true name is without question. Moreover, your current behavior is more like seeking your own death. Perhaps today is a good opportunity. I will no longer consider the alliance and just kill you directly. Maybe Yggdrasil will let me leave that damned place of imprisonment. The gates of the Underworld would be a good place for you.”

Jack also let out a strange laugh in the darkness and responded in a low voice: “I await the arrival of the day I am killed, looking forward to it incomparably. But that time is definitely not now. The one who has truly lost the future is only you, Farrah.”

After speaking, Jack reached into his clothes and took out a small section of a leg bone, saying in a low voice: “Tribulation of Hilter, Manufacture, Stitched Monster.”

Almost in an instant, this small leg bone underwent the processes of enlarging, filling out, bone growth, and skin generation. When Xiao Fen realized what he was looking at, a huge, at least three-meter-tall ferocious monster appeared in this street.

Compared to those Stitched Monsters that had fought with the Web, this individually manufactured Stitched Monster appeared more solid. To be precise, this monster could no longer be described as stitched.

The surface of the monster was covered by complete muscle groups. It looked like a giant that had been skinned alive. Those thick muscle fibers and slightly curved limbs constantly reminded the onlookers that this Stitched Monster was not like those simple counterparts with slow movements and stiff actions.

As for the monster’s head part, it was now equipped with a thick bone helmet. The entire head was surrounded by this helmet. Only at the eyes did red light spots occasionally seep out.

Just like Farrah, Jack’s manufacturing work did not stop there. He took out a bottle of bright red potion from his body and directly sprinkled it on the Stitched Monster, chanting in a low voice: “Lamentation of Solomon, Secondary Manufacture, 64th Demon God, Haures.”

A dazzling brilliance flashed again. When Xiao Fen reacted from this blinding light, the original Stitched Monster had already turned into another appearance.

On the still huge body, there was an additional layer of skin engraved with a large number of complex tattoos. Above this skin, there was also heavy armor.

In the four hands of this giant, each held a sharp weapon . Those cold-flashing weapons reflected against the armor on the giant’s body, emitting an indescribable sense of sharpness.

As for the bone helmet on the giant’s head, it had now turned into a metal battle helmet, still tightly sealing the giant’s entire face. Its eyes, which previously occasionally emitted red light, now directly turned into two clusters of burning flames.

Facing this huge monster, Farrah made a sound similar to a sneer and said: “Is Secondary Manufacture just such an existence? Jack, has your genius brain now turned into rotten chunks, so you are unable to make any progress?”

Jack did not answer Farrah’s question. Instead, he took out a small leather bag from his clothes and opened it. In an instant, a scimitar with long flames appearing on it appeared in his hand. In his other hand, this Awakened wearing an old-fashioned gray coat was already holding a huge round shield full of ancient Rome style.

Xiao Fen looked at the constantly changing situation in front of him, secretly surprised in his heart. It seemed that these two Legendary Awakened had not discovered their own situation. They did not think they were in the Trial World, but had been staying in the Real World all along.

This point was very important. It was hard for Xiao Fen to imagine that the World Tree designed two Natives with self-awareness.

In other words, everything that had happened so far was what had happened in history. After the Lux series of missions were triggered, the World Tree eventually copied everything that had happened in this block in history into the Trial World.

Xiao Fen now had some understanding in his mind of where the difficulty of this Lux’s Salvation mission lay. At the same time, he became curious about the identity of the person who had stood in the same place in history.

That’s right, in history, there was once an Awakened or a Trialist who undertook the same work as Xiao Fen at this time. Because of this, Farrah noticed something wrong with the small building when he came out of the Underworld gate.

In other words, what Farrah said just now about Lux’s new friend was actually not referring to Xiao Fen, but to Xiao Fen’s predecessor.

Similarly, the Awakened who once stood in the same place and watched the same battle had done the same things as Xiao Fen in real history.

Finding Lux’s notes, helping Lux slaughter those Stitched Monsters, and even the weapon was Acid Poison Bullets. The bullet Jack threw on the ground earlier was not Xiao Fen’s manufactured product, but that predecessor’s manufactured product.

And later, that predecessor continued to do the same things, simultaneously attracting Jack the Ripper and Farrah, and causing a fierce battle between these two Legendary Awakened.

What happened after that has now become a complete blank. All the mysteries surrounding this Trial World were actually written in that blank space.

The only thing Xiao Fen could confirm was that the predecessor definitely did not succeed in the end, otherwise the World Tree would not have let Xiao Fen try to rewrite history in this Trial World.