Bai Ling moved his wrist slightly.

Although not as flexible as before, it was at least much better than when his whole body was entangled.

Therefore, he did not hesitate to praise: "Very good craftsmanship, Miss Chris."

Next to her, the witch Chris looked pale and her smile was very forced.

Only she herself knows what she has been through during this period.

Although it is said that Hermes' tools can cut these special mental chains, it has to be said that finding the right tools for this process really made the witch so exhausted that she almost vomited blood.

Many things are of little use to the man in front of him. Some props that can be used to cut off the hard shells of certain alien species cannot even make a small white mark in front of this man's chains.

Even though she had guessed in advance that the strength of these chains would be far beyond her imagination, the witch still felt extremely anxious when she actually got her hands on them.

This thing is so damn hard! No matter what it is, it is no different from scrap metal in front of these chains. The "ding ding dang dang" sounds seem quite intense, but when you look back, nothing happens. The man is still wrapped up like a dumpling.

What the hell is this?! If the witch hadn't taken out some of her precious collections, Bai Ling might still be lying on the operating table like a corpse!

Holding a pair of delicate scissors, the witch said breathlessly: "You...you..."

After panting for a long time, she managed to utter a complete sentence: "Why can't you try to use your prophetic ability to see which prop can be cut open?"

This is also the part that she doesn't understand the most in the witch's "cutting project" so far.

You are a prophet!

Since he is a prophet, shouldn't he have known the answer long ago?! If he knew the answer, and told her earlier, wouldn't she not have to work so hard?! Facing the witch's question, Bai Ling just shrugged: "It's simple, because it's not necessary 'right now'."

"Besides, who says I'm useless?" He said with a smile, "To be more precise, I'm just useless now."

Listening to Bai Ling's words, the witch fell silent.

After a while, she sighed and said, "I understand. That's right. After all, we don't have a relationship where we can trust each other. In the final analysis, this is a transaction between us. It's understandable that you want to find out as much information as possible about me."

"I even began to doubt how much you had discovered about me using this ability before this," she said somewhat weakly, "Anyway, time doesn't move in a single direction for you."

Faced with the witch's sigh, Bai Ling just smiled and did not answer.

Yes.

Although he did not use his predictive ability to help Chris find suitable props during this period, it does not mean that Bering did not observe the future.

At least every time the witch took out a new item, Bai Ling had already figured out the time, circumstances and purpose of her obtaining the item.

The witch in this timeline has no memory of all this.

So he has actually been communicating with the witch for a long time, but it has not been reflected at this point in time.

Before this, Bai Ling used his ability to predict the future to get a thorough understanding of the witch's background, even more familiar with it than the witch herself.

Rather, it was the fact that the witch only understood this now that surprised Bai Ling.

It seemed that her hands and feet were tied up, giving her the illusion that Bai Ling could not find out more information because he could not move freely.

Thinking of this, Bai Ling smiled and then walked down from the "operating table".

As he moved, the fragments of chains that were originally piled on his body fell to the ground one after another, like a heavy white snow, covering half of the floor.

Gently picking up the fragments of the chains, Bai Ling said thoughtfully: "Where did these chains come from?"

The witch who was packing up her tools nearby glanced at him, then shook her head and said, "From what I know, this should be the shackles that time has set for you prophets."

As she collected those precious treasures, she said, "I encountered a similar phenomenon with that guy in the past. I still remember what he told me at that time..."

"He said, 'In the past, due to some factors, the law of time was severely damaged. Therefore, it will integrate the distorted nodes into its own laws and complete itself. So in the final analysis, the prophet is nothing more than a pig created by the law of time in an attempt to repair itself.'"

Then the witch continued, "But He later denied his own statement, saying, 'There is only one prophet, so it is not quite appropriate to call him a pig. In fact, it is more like a patient trying to prolong his life in the late stage of cancer.' In short, you prophets should understand these things better than us."

Bai Ling nodded slightly: "I guessed this."

"The laws of time seem to be seriously damaged," he said. "That narrow gap in time is proof of that - otherwise, it would be hard to have a theory to support why the speed of time in one place varies so much. Normally, the speed of time should be unidirectional, either faster or slower than the baseline. But sometimes it's faster and sometimes it's slower... it's a bit puzzling."

"But I didn't expect that the Oath Breaker also knew about this. Has he been to Tianyuan before?"

After hearing these words, the witch paused slightly.

After a while, she whispered, "No."

"He has never been to the Abyss, nor has He ever tried to go there," she said, "because He once told me that the Abyss is His grave. Once He steps into that place, He will die. Death in the physical sense, there is no resurrection."

This surprised Bai Ling: "Grave..."

He stood there and began to think carefully.

In the past, he thought that the Oath Breaker was Hermes, after all, the characteristics he showed were very similar to Hermes in many ways. But then the words of the Pale Lady and Hela denied this, which meant that he had no connection with Hermes; then Bering thought that he was the second person sent into the Abyss by the ferryman, but now the witch said that the Oath Breaker would never be able to enter the Abyss...

So what is his true identity in history? And, since the one who entered the Abyss was not him, then who was the only "human" who entered the Abyss and stole the spiritual law as mentioned in the Tyrant King's Ring? It couldn't be Hermes, because Hermes is a god...

However, the next second, Bai Ling was slightly stunned.

He looked up at the witch, a hint of seriousness flashing in his eyes.

"Ms. Chris, I remember the Peninsula incident. You must have witnessed it, right?" he said. "You may not only have witnessed it, but you were also one of the planners."

When they were in the abandoned hospital, Bering once told Chris that the Peninsula incident was planned by her and two other "disaster"-level aliens.

Chris’s response at the time was that the Peninsula incident was essentially the work of some “old guys”.

Qi Guang had said before that a human being carrying a god erupted on the peninsula, causing the "Peninsula Incident" that shocked the world.

At the same time, the decline of the Hermetic sect seemed to have come from this. This was what the Tyrant King's Ring said. Otherwise, the ring would not have been sealed in Yanxia Mountain...

The witch pursed her lips when she heard this.

"Yes," she said, "I am... an eyewitness."

Looking at the witch, Bering said softly: "Then, I want to ask one thing. Is the man involved in the Peninsula Incident... Hermes!"

As soon as these words were spoken.

The air around seemed to be stagnant.

It was as if the name contained a sense of oppression that was enough to make one's breathing heavier, and the damp moisture in the air, hitting one's face, made one's cheeks feel cold.

And the other side.

After hearing Bai Ling's words, the witch looked at him with complicated eyes.

After a long while, she sighed slightly and nodded: "Yes, it is Him."

"Or to be more precise, it was the human who carried His spirit," she said. "That human was tricked by some guys in the end, and finally he could no longer bear the power of Hermes, and he completely exploded on the peninsula."

Bai Ling frowned slightly. "So, the one who seized the spiritual law is actually the human who contained Hermes in his body?"

The witch responded quickly this time: "No, in the final analysis, he is still Hermes, just occupying the identity of a human."

She glanced at Bai Ling and said faintly, "Do you remember our previous encounter in Morningwind City? On that bus, I found a female student and you beat me up severely."

Bai Ling's expression remained unchanged: "I remember."

Looking at Bai Ling who looked like "nothing happened at that time", the witch smiled helplessly: "Hey... I said at that time that the female student was the perfect match for me and could become a part of me."

"Hermes actually used a similar method," she said, "He found a model that perfectly matched himself, and then incorporated his spirit into it, completely replacing that person, and finally the two people merged into a new individual. However, because Hermes' memory was too vast, the memories of other people could not squeeze Him, so in the end He was no different from the original."

"He has used this trick many times. That's why He has had many names in the past, such as 'Aristotle', 'Goebel', 'Paracelsus'... To Him, it's just a name changing one after another."

Hearing these names that have made great contributions to the history of philosophy and alchemy, Bering's face darkened slightly.

"What does He...want to do?" he said.

What? The witch smiled: "Hasn't He already done it?"

Putting away all the tools, the witch said calmly: "He used the identity of a human to sneak into the Abyss, and then stole the laws. It was just that because he was discovered by other alien species in the end, he had to choose some special laws on the spot."

"As for the alien species that enter Tianyuan, what law they desire most, I think you should know this better than me, right?" The witch glanced at Bai Ling.

Suddenly, Bai Ling understood: "He wants to steal time!"

Hermes' goal is to sneak into the Abyss under the guise of a human and steal the law of time? !

Thinking of this, Bai Ling suddenly found it a little unbelievable.

Someone actually made a similar plan, and it seemed to have been planned for thousands of years, and it almost succeeded in the end? ! As for the word "almost", it was because what Hermes stole in the end was not time, but the soul.

However, this is also an unimaginable feat.

You know, the soul is the law second only to time, and it has never been occupied by anyone!

However, Hermes finally succeeded in stealing...

Does this mean that perhaps he is only one step away from stealing the law of time? !

Glancing at Bai Ling, the witch said dimly, "As a patron of thieves, His stealing skills are indeed quite advanced. And by using His human identity, He was able to deflect the attention of the laws and alien species at the beginning. With the addition of various factors, He achieved what no one had ever accomplished before - stealing the laws and bringing them into the material world."

"But unfortunately, at the end of the old calendar, he was plotted against, and the adapter that carried his body couldn't bear it and exploded. This caused the soul law he stole to completely affect the entire peninsula. In an instant, the violent spiritual power destroyed countless humans and alien species."

"Even after several decades, the peninsula is still a highly spiritually active area. Monsters are always able to rise again because of these spiritual energies, and there are also other alien monsters that try to improve themselves through these spiritual powers. Of course, in addition to this, there is the most critical factor."

The witch said word by word: "Hermes is not dead. Even now, He is still sitting high above the peninsula in the form of a spirit, waiting for the emergence of a human who can carry His spirit, and then He will once again enter that human's body and merge with that guy!"

"He has been waiting for this day for decades. No one knows whether He will continue to wait, but one thing is very clear - that is, even if He has lost his physical body, Hermes is still a serious danger to everyone...a danger that cannot be ignored!"

"No one wants to face a guy who has mastered some of the spiritual 'laws', not to mention that this guy is almost crazy now. You know, of those old guys who plotted against him in the past, only a few are left now, and the others... have died in their dreams!"

Hearing this.