“……!”

Looking at the tall figure in front of him, Fang Zheng couldn't help but whistle. Fina's eyes widened in surprise, and she opened her mouth but couldn't speak.

A huge black bear appeared in front of the two. But compared to the bears Fang Zheng had seen in the animal world before, this black bear was even bigger. Just lying on all fours, it was nearly two meters tall. It just stood in front of Fang Zheng and Fina, staring at the two humans in front of them. Then, Fang Zheng saw the blue-haired little angel coming around from behind the giant bear.

"How is it? Master, look, this is what I just found. I have already made an agreement with it. It agrees to be your mount temporarily and take you two down the mountain."

“Very good.”

Fang Zheng touched Nymph's little head, and the little angel smiled happily. Then she stretched out her hand and placed it on the giant bear's head, as if they were communicating. Then the giant bear squatted down obediently and motioned for the two to ride on its back. Since there was such a convenient means of transportation, Fang Zheng naturally rode on it without hesitation. As for Fina, the priestess girl hesitated for a moment, but finally sat behind Fang Zheng carefully.

Then the giant bear stood up and carried the two people quickly towards the foot of the mountain.

This giant bear was huge, but it ran very steadily. Sitting on its back, Fang Zheng and Fina felt even more stable than sitting on a horse. No one knew where Nymph had found this giant bear, and how she had "convinced" it to let them ride.

But anyway, with this giant bear, the journey was much easier. As one of the top predators in the forest, this bear was clearly a king of the mountain, and no animal dared to provoke it. And unlike its huge size, this giant bear was also very fast, so fast that Fang Zheng even thought that if he gave it a battle armor, it could be used as a mount in Zul'Aman...

This big bear, Amani War Bear, do you know him?

Of course, this was just Fang Zheng's idea when he was bored and killing time. The big bear was obviously living comfortably in the forest and had no intention of wandering around in a ghost place like Zul'Aman. In fact, less than an hour later, it took Fang Zheng and Fina through the forest and came to the Dark Swamp.

This is a dark swamp.

Although he had heard about the Dark Swamp from Garrison and Knight Conan, and Fina had also introduced the history of the Dark Swamp to him, Fang Zheng still couldn't help being a little dazed when he saw this pitch-black land with his own eyes.

The snow was still falling, and the white snowflakes fell on the ground, covering the entire land in white. However, this was limited to the mountains and forests where Fang Zheng was. In front of him, at the foot of the mountain, where the ground bordered the dark swamp, a clear black and white boundary stretched out. The snowflakes seemed to have left no mark on the swamp at all, leaving only the dark soil and the scattered ruins in the distance.

The Dark Swamp is indeed dark.

“Roar… Roar…”

Standing at the foot of the hill, the giant bear also stopped moving forward. It opened its mouth and growled at the dark swamp, as if it was facing some terrible enemy. Nymph flew to its side, stretched out her hand to hold down the giant bear's head, and after a moment, she turned around and looked at Fang Zheng, shaking her head.

"This child can only send his master here. He doesn't want to enter the swamp..."

"It doesn't matter."

Hearing Nymph's apology and uneasiness in her answer, Fang Zheng waved his hand, then he flipped over and jumped off the giant bear, coming in front of it. Then Fang Zheng reached out and touched it quietly, and the next moment he had a salmon in his hand.

"I really don't have anything good, so let this be my fare."

“Woo…”

Looking at the fish in Fang Zheng's hand, the giant bear was stunned for a moment, then approached cautiously. It first sniffed the salmon in Fang Zheng's hand, and after confirming that it was okay, it took a bite. Then the giant bear growled, nodded at Fang Zheng, and then turned around and disappeared into the forest.

"Sure enough, it feels good to have a mount."

Watching the giant bear disappear, Fang Zheng shrugged his shoulders and then looked at the girls around him.

"let's go."

The road in the Dark Swamp was not easy to walk on. In fact, if Fang Zheng were to describe it, the feeling of walking on the Dark Swamp was similar to walking on the Zerg fungus blanket. The ground under his feet was not hard ground, but soft soil. Even through the leather boots, he could feel a warm agitation underneath, as if he was not walking on a piece of land, but on the body of a monster that exuded a foul odor.

The fluttering snowflakes were nowhere to be seen. In fact, when Fang Zheng stepped into the swamp, he felt as if he had stepped into another world. The dense clouds above almost blocked out all the light. Even in the daytime, it looked so dim and gloomy. The cold wind blowing through the swamp was like the wailing of ghosts, as if the wronged souls who died hundreds of years ago were still wandering in this land.

"This was once a prosperous country..."

Fina looked at the ruins beside her with a complicated expression. From its appearance, it can be vaguely seen that this should have been a manor. But now, the manor has been completely burned into a black wreckage. The pillars collapsed, and only a few walls still stood there, still telling of the former glory.

"But it was humans who destroyed it, not the devil."

Fang Zheng glanced around, then took out a map to check the direction, and answered casually. After hearing Fang Zheng's answer, Fina's expression was a little complicated. She hesitated for a moment before asking.

"Mr. Fang Zheng... do you think war will disappear?"

"War, war never changes."

After comparing the directions, Fang Zheng continued to walk forward and answered without turning back.

"To be honest, from my perspective, of course I hope for a peaceful and stable life. I can live comfortably at home, eat and wait for death, without having to worry about anything or do anything, and enjoy my life every day. But unfortunately, there is no such good thing in this world. Struggles are everywhere, and sometimes you have to fight for something. To be honest, I can understand the thinking of that country. The only mistake they made was to underestimate the other side's determination to resist to the end."

"What about the battle between Order and Chaos?"

"Chaos... Honestly, it's still too far away from me, although I have seen the Son of Chaos once..."

Having said this, Fang Zheng suddenly paused for a moment, then he turned his head to look at Fina with an amused smile.

"By the way, Miss Fina, have you ever thought about something?"

"What's up?"

Perhaps Fang Zheng's gaze had some "bad intentions", so Fina instinctively became nervous and asked.

"So... maybe chaos is also a part of order?"

“Hey…Hey hey hey?!!!”

This time, Fina seemed to be extremely frightened. Before Fang Zheng even finished speaking, she widened her eyes and screamed.

"How is this possible? Order and Chaos are mortal enemies! Moreover, they are completely different!"

"Oh? Then tell me, according to your understanding, what is order? What is chaos?"

"Because, because order is..."

Perhaps Fang Zheng's question was too confusing, so Fina didn't know how to answer it for a moment. She opened her mouth and was stunned for a long time, then clapped her hands as if she remembered something.

"Order has identifiable characteristics and obeys rules and laws. Chaos, on the other hand, is a mess with no rules or laws... How can the two be the same?"

"If what you said is true, then chaos is indeed a part of order."

"How is this possible? Chaos has no rules and..."

"Didn't you just tell me the characteristics of chaos?"

Having said that, Fang Zheng winked at Fina playfully.

"You said that chaos is disorganized and without rules or laws... Isn't this a characteristic that can be identified?"

"Is this possible?"

At this moment, Fina felt terrible. She opened her mouth wide and stared at Fang Zheng blankly, as if he had said something outrageous.

"Why not?"

Seeing Fina's puzzled expression, Fang Zheng smiled a little. He stretched out his hand, pointed at the ground beneath his feet, and then pointed at the snow-covered mountains in the distance.

“Just like black and white, although they are so different, aren’t they both part of color?”

"this……"

This time, Fina finally stopped refutation. She lowered her head, her face uncertain. Fang Zheng turned around and continued to move forward... Fortunately, Nymph was on guard in the sky, otherwise Fina's shout just now might have attracted the cultists.

Looking at Fang Zheng's back, Fina bit her lower lip and followed him.

"So Mr. Fang Zheng... do you think that our war with Chaos is wrong?"

"I didn't say that."

"But didn't you just say that chaos is also a part of order..."

"I also said that they are like black and white."

Fang Zheng was not a cultist, so he naturally had no intention of brainwashing the poor little thing behind him. He just suddenly thought of this paradox just now, so he brought it out to tease her. If he led this little girl astray, it would be troublesome.

"If we compare them to a country, then we are the people of the White Country, and Chaos is the Black Country. They want to dye us black, but of course we don't agree... I don't think you, Miss Fina, would want to be dyed black. That wouldn't look good."

"Of course... Fufu, Mr. Fang Zheng, what you said is really interesting."

Hearing this, Fina finally showed a smile, but the look in her eyes when she looked at Fang Zheng became more complicated.

"So, Mr. Fang Zheng, if we are citizens of the White Country, who is the painter?"

"I don't know about that. Maybe the goddess knows the answer."

“…”

This time, Fina didn't say anything. She lowered her head, looked at her toes, and then muttered to herself.

"Maybe... even the goddess..."

However, before Fina could finish her words, Fang Zheng's expression suddenly changed. He then pulled Fina over and hid in the shadow of the ruins nearby.

"Mr. Fang Zheng?"

“Shh…”

Facing the extremely surprised Fina, Fang Zheng made a gesture and looked up at the sky.

Soon, under the gaze of the two, a dark shadow flapped its wings and leaped across the air.

It had a jackal-like head, bat-like wings, a human-like body, and a long black tail. In fact, when Fang Zheng saw this monster, he knew its identity without Fina's explanation.

That's a devil.