Starscream simply sat next to Bai Ling, poked his clothes, and said mischievously: "I think, given your current condition, it's probably difficult for you to move a bit, right?"
This is not something that Red Spider said casually.
Although she didn't know the condition of the chains on Bai Ling, her intuition told her that it would be very difficult to break free from them.
Attached to these densely packed white chains were waves that even Red Spider found difficult to deal with, and these waves seemed to be vaguely connected to Bering's soul. Unless someone who was deeply immersed in the "soul" was dealt with, most people might not be able to solve it.
"By the way, how did you get yourself into this state? Where is this place?"
Red Spider said casually, "Since you have dragged me onto your pirate ship, then as a prophet, you should at least give me some clues, right?"
This sentence itself is also a temptation.
Even now, Starscream has not completely let down his guard against Bering.
Even if a cooperation agreement has been temporarily reached with Bering, it is only because Bering has something that Red Spider covets, and it is also the "compass" that Red Spider needs to crawl out of this remote place, that's all.
If everything Bai Ling knows is really squeezed out, this madman will definitely turn against him at the first opportunity and use his sharp spider legs to pierce straight into Bai Ling's chest!
The conflict between humans and monsters is irreconcilable. Monsters born from "distortion" are cannibals or enjoy killing, except for a very small number of them who are kind to humans because of their distorted form.
Because of their "distorted" formation, all alien species are basically crazy. And crazy people certainly won't seriously admire world peace and the harmony between humans and monsters.
Blood, killing, and torture, this is the underlying logic of these monsters!
Of course, this is just the majority of cases. Just like the vast majority of humans have sexual fetishes for humans, but there are always some people with more... unique tastes, and of course there are some species that are not like this.
For example, Luqi and the Web Weaver are both specific products, but they are not universal.
Bering also understood this very well.
In fact, he had never really felt at ease with Starscream.
Using each other and being wary of each other should be the most harmonious way for two people to get along.
Although this model is a little fragile, it is more acceptable than any one party suddenly showing great goodwill.
After all, no one would think that the enemy who was facing you with a knife one second ago would drop the knife in his hand and cry bitterly in the next second, right? If this is true, it should mean that your enemy has a greed or... hatred for you that is far greater than before.
Fortunately, as a "prophet", Bering has some buffer time to deal with the possible betrayal of Starscream.
In fact, in the future he saw, Red Spider was quite law-abiding.
So he rarely said a few more words: "Some small accidents."
Glancing at the chains on his body, Bai Ling said calmly, "After fighting with the oathbreaker, I was also injured."
This statement is an understatement.
But to those who know the business, it actually has a special meaning.
At least after hearing these words, Red Spider's eyes suddenly became profound when he looked at Bai Ling.
"Oh, is that so?" She stretched out her voice. "I never thought you could kill that guy too. Tsk, that's right. After all, that guy's predictive ability isn't as difficult as yours..."
Perhaps in order to gain Bering's trust, Starscream revealed a little more: "That guy is different from you. His prophecies have never been shown to us. And when he prophesied, he was half-hidden and seemed to be very concerned... In addition, he often wears an iron mask, and most of the time he won't let us see his appearance."
"We all think that He has been injured in some way, or that He is unwilling to reveal His condition to others in order to keep it secret," Red Spider spread out his hands. "We have to say that He has done a pretty good job of maintaining a sense of mystery. Even the dog He raised, the Pale Lady, knows almost nothing about Him."
Hearing this, Bai Ling nodded slightly: "The price of a prophet."
He said calmly, "There is a price to pay for using the ability of foresight. The consequence of this price forces Him to wear a mask to hide His figure. This is normal."
This sentence inadvertently showed Starscream the difference between Bering and the Oath Breaker.
It should be noted that in order to avoid the cost of the prophecy, the Oathbreaker had to wear a mask to hide his appearance, but at this moment, Bering personally used the foresight several times in front of Starscream, and still looked like nothing happened.
Under this comparison, it should be easy to see who is stronger and who is weaker.
Therefore, after Bai Ling said this casually, the look she gave him became more eager.
Bai Ling even felt that if the timing wasn't right, Red Spider would have wanted to roll up his trouser legs and carefully massage his legs and wash his feet.
Of course, Bering was just bullying Starscream because he didn't know much about the "Prophet".
So far, Starscream only knows that the prophet's ability is to see into the future, but she has no idea how to see it or how far she can see.
This is normal.
No prophet would tell this crucial knowledge to the people around him, even those closest to him.
Therefore, Starscream did not know that although the price that the Oath Breaker had to pay was very painful and forced him to use his abilities with caution, the future he could see was very far away.
And Bering only lasted less than an hour...
However, although the quality is not as good as that of the Oathbreakers, Bering is the winner in terms of quantity.
It’s hard to say which one is better.
One is better at playing the long game to catch big fish. He started planning hundreds of years ago and left his own vision in the long history. He revived after the passage of time and let everything dance on his fingertips like a big drama. The other is proficient in small-scale layout, dividing big events into countless small nodes, and using almost unlimited error correction capabilities to find the most critical steps, and finally reaching the perfect ending in a long repetition.
Comparing the two, it is hard to say which one is better and which one is more useless.
But Starscream didn't know this.
She only knew that Bai Ling seemed to be much more capable than the Oath Breaker, and that not long ago, he seemed to have torn the Oath Breaker, who was halfway to the "Origin", to pieces with his own hands...
Therefore, it is clear what her subjective feelings will be.
After thinking for a while, Bering suddenly said, "Nostradamus."
He met Red Spider's puzzled look: "I heard that Nostradamus killed two prophets. So, among those two prophets..."
Before he finished the sentence, Starscream understood what he meant.
Waving his hands, Starscream said, "Not really."
"It seems that you have some knowledge about Nostradamus," she said, "but Nostradamus can't kill that guy. In fact, that guy's title of 'prophet' is not known to outsiders."
Starscream looked at Bering and said, "Only we know His identity and abilities. Humans know nothing about Him, except Him as a person. Therefore, under such circumstances, there would naturally be no rumors that Nostradamus had left a 'prophet' that he had not killed."
Hearing this, Bai Ling seemed to be thinking about something.
This was somewhat unexpected for him.
Originally he was still confused. Obviously the oath-breaker was also a prophet, and Nostradamus specialized in killing prophets, so why was the oath-breaker not stabbed?
It now appears that this is because the intelligence on the human side is not detailed enough.
After figuring this out, Bai Ling felt relieved.
It has to be said that Nostradamus still troubled him before. After all, anyone would feel a little nervous when he thought that the person who had killed two prophets and might even have killed a guy like the Oath Breaker was targeting him.
But now it seems that since Nostradamus can't deal with the oath-breaker, he probably can't deal with himself either.
Well, it looks like there's no need to worry too much for now.
Thinking of this, Bai Ling showed a faint smile on his face.
Starscream didn't understand the meaning of this smile, but just thought that Bering was probably thinking about something weird again.
After looking up at the sky, Red Spider lowered his head again and smiled, "Well, it's getting late, how about we set off first?"
After taking a look at Red Spider, Bai Ling groaned and said, "Okay."
"But before that, you need to do something for me," he said.
Starscream, of course, agreed with both hands and feet: "No problem, no problem! What do you want me to do?"
After saying this, Bai Ling on the opposite side was silent for a moment.
When Starscream became confused, he said, "Help me take off my clothes."
Red Spider: “?”
She subconsciously took a step back, and looked at Bai Ling with a questioning look.
When she took this step back, she felt something was wrong and had to stand still, coughing: "Ahem..."
Starscream said righteously: "Let me make it clear first. Although I am essentially old, the core of me is currently a girl under fifteen years old. No matter which country you are in, attacking someone of this age is a crime and you will be shot."
"Not to mention that I'm a monster," she said with eyes wide open, "I'm not a human, I'm a piece of meat. Don't you humans say that you need to have the right person to fall in love with? At least it has to be a human, right?"
This guy, really is.
Bai Ling couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.
Although he had seen her behave like this in the future, even if he experienced it again, Bai Ling still wanted to slap this Red Spider whose head was full of inexplicable things.
Unfortunately, I can't do anything now and have to let the other party come, so I can only ask for help.
With a barely perceptible sigh, Bai Ling said unhappily, "What are you thinking about?"
He pointed at his clothes and said, "Help me undress, then take out a communicator from inside my clothes. Then, fold my coat and put the communicator on top."
"Oh, and I have one more thing to say," he said. "The pen is in my pocket, and I'll tear off your clothes to use as paper."
Why my clothes?!
Starscream looked at Bering, his expression revealing such doubts.
But when she noticed the unquestionable determination in Bai Ling's eyes, she instantly wilted.
After making up his mind to tear a hole in his own children's clothes, Red Spider lay on the ground and wrote crooked words on the cloth ball with Bering's black signing pen, stroke by stroke.
After doing all this, she folded the clothes she had taken off Bai Ling and placed a communicator on it.
"Okay," she turned to look at Bai Ling, "what's next?"
Next up…
Bering glanced at his body, then at Starscream.
At the same time, they fell into silence again.
There were quite complicated emotions in this look.
However, Starscream didn't react to the meaning of this look at first.
When she realized what was happening, she laughed: "Ha, I know, you can't move now!"
She jumped in front of Bai Ling, smiled evilly and said, "How about this, do you want me to carry you on my back or drag you? Or do you actually want to be carried like a princess?"
Facing Starscream's teasing, Bering just looked at her, his eyes calm and deep.
For some reason, under such a look, Red Spider subconsciously felt his scalp tingling.
It's like an adult seeing a tiger in the middle of the road, with its slanted eyes staring at him without any emotion, which is chilling.
"Ahem," she coughed twice again, "It's just a joke, a joke, a joke."
Grabbing Bai Ling's collar with one hand, Red Spider muttered twice: "Okay, let me see how to break this damn space..."
"Tsk, Tartarus is such a troublesome place. Even though I've been here once, I still feel uncomfortable all over. Fortunately, I don't live here, otherwise I would really go crazy..."
"Oh, I found it. I haven't sorted out the inventory for a long time. If you hadn't stopped me today, I might not have been able to bring this thing here... Hey!"
As Red Spider's voice, which was still in the process of voice change, was heard, the next second, just as the ferryman had personally opened up the rift in time and space, a twisted centipede-like crack appeared before his eyes again.
However, this time when Bai Ling looked over there, he could see that the space beyond was not the black space where he had fallen before, but some more...brighter place.
It's like an endless mountain range, with clouds, light, and some strange monsters roaming in the clouds.
This is "Tartarus".
A world created by the wreckage of an alien species that failed to reach the top of "Origin"! Holding Bering's clothes, Red Spider stepped across the crack and suddenly passed through this space! Soon after her clothes slipped away from the crack, the opened passage closed again at an astonishing speed.
Before long, this world filled with scarlet mud returned to its previous state.
Only Bering's neatly folded clothes were lying on the ground, indicating that someone had been here not long ago.
Dust blew up from afar, as if trying to cover these things up.
Wait until the sand is almost completely covering everything on the ground.
A pitch-black sickle shadow instantly tore through the space in front of it, creating a crack that was several times wider than the one created by Red Spider.
After a commotion, a figure walked out from the crack.
That was the ferryman who left.
Her tall figure stopped beside Bai Ling's clothes and looked around.
The black sickle swayed slightly with her movements, scraping the ground from time to time, leaving bottomless grooves.
Just by looking at these hideous gullies, one can guess what the ferryman is like... Thunderous rage! She bent down and took out a piece of cloth from Bai Ling's clothes.
"This is someone else's clothes," the ferryman muttered to himself, "someone came in and took him away."
This is really annoying.
The ferryman thought expressionlessly.
She turned over the note left by Bering and only then noticed the words left by Bering.
The handwriting on the note was very ugly, but fortunately the ferryman did not have any reading and writing difficulties, so even though it was a bit difficult, she could still understand it.
What Bai Ling wrote was also very simple. The general meaning was that although the ferryman was very kind to him, for some personal reasons, he could not stay with her.
But he can leave his things to the ferryman, just like her ball before. If he is bored, he can just stop pinching the ball and tearing Bering's clothes.
At the same time, Bai Ling also mentioned that he had left a modern device for the ferryman. He could play many small games on that device, and he also left a lot of novels and movies, so that the ferryman could enjoy the entertainment life of modern people if necessary.
"That thing will run out of power. To recharge it, you just need to shake it vigorously twice. Of course, for you, I guess just shaking it casually twice will be enough. I hope you can find the long-lost happiness through this thing. If I have time in the future, I will bring someone down to see you."
The signature is "The Prophet".
Look at this note.
He glanced at the communicator beside him again.
The ferryman put the things in his hands into his pockets and said softly, "It seems that I need to go out for a trip."
"It's really strange. Not only did a stowaway appear in the Abyss, but the prohibition of 'not leaving' engraved on my soul also seemed to have disappeared..."
She said to herself, "It seems that you are more special than I thought. If that's the case, it's even more impossible for me to let you go."
"After all, if the meat is right in front of you and you let it run away without even taking a bite, wouldn't that be a shame?"
The words fell.
In the ferryman's soliloquy that sounded like a dream.
A strange color gradually flashed in her originally calm eyes.