The Red Spider behind him finally stopped biting Lan Kong's finger and looked at him curiously: "What did that guy just say?"

Not long ago, Red Spider finally remembered why he felt Zou Ye looked familiar.

It turned out that the guy was the unlucky guy who was caught by Bering together with him before! Looking at the box held in the witch's arms, Starscream breathed a sigh of relief for no reason.

Fortunately, I was thinking of rushing over to kill Bai Ling at that time, instead of running away like this guy.

Now it seems that I should make some money myself!

Apart from other things, Red Spider still has all his limbs and is getting closer to the "origin", while Zou Ye's head has been torn off, leaving only his heart in a small box! In comparison, although my thoughts are not so pure, at least the result is good! Isn't there an old saying, "Judging by the deeds, not the heart"! Even if I wanted to twist Bai Ling's head off before, I didn't succeed in the end.

Thinking of this, Red Spider suddenly felt less guilty.

Bai Ling didn't know what kind of changes in her thinking went through her mind, and why she came to such an incredible conclusion.

He is just a prophet, not a mind reader.

Just thinking that if he had the ability to read minds, he probably wouldn't be so worried now.

"Yes, although the question has been asked, the answer is puzzling," Bai Ling frowned. "In fact, it seems even more strange because it has been asked..."

The witch was slightly startled when she heard this: "The answer is very unusual?"

Abnormal?

Bai Ling smiled bitterly: "Yes, it's very abnormal."

He looked at the witch with a serious expression: "Didn't you tell me not long ago that Hermes has no entity and is still hovering in the sky above the peninsula?"

The witch nodded subconsciously: "Yes, I sometimes go to collect information to confirm that Hermes... Wait, what do you mean?!"

The next second, the witch seemed to understand something, and her pupils shrank slightly! Bai Ling could only nod helplessly: "If the characteristics you described to me are accurate, then that guy is it."

"The man who stole the power of souls from the Abyss, the monster who caused the Peninsula Incident, Hermes."

Wait until his words fall.

The witch was the first to object: "Impossible, this is absolutely impossible!"

She looked into Bering's eyes. "Hermes has not found a body suitable for Him so far, and it is impossible for anyone to bring a body suitable for Him into the peninsula during this period of time - unless that person is a complete lunatic!"

"Did you guess wrong?" the witch asked tentatively, "For example, maybe they are just members of the Hermetic sect?"

Bering shook his head: "No, I am sure this is Hermes."

He took a deep breath and then slowly said, "Because I have personally talked to Him in the future."

"He called me using Luo Hongzhe's phone," Bai Ling said. "He said, congratulations on my return from the abyss, and called me... 'child'."

Red Spider beside him couldn't hold back for a moment after hearing this: "Puff."

She patted Bai Ling on the shoulder and said happily, "It seems that you have gained an elder without realizing it. Oh, from His tone, you may even think He is your father..."

Bering didn't say anything to Starscream.

In fact, he is thinking about other issues now.

In that phone call, Hermes did more than just congratulate him.

He also said something...something that Bering couldn't understand.

"It looks like you've gotten through your ordeal," Hermes' voice was so low that it was hard to tell the gender of the person he was talking to. "That's very good. At least you're one step closer to escaping the control of time."

A moment later.

Future Bering asked solemnly, "Are you really Hermes?"

Hermes' voice was still as calm as ever. "Of course, it's genuine. As someone who has lived for a long, long, long time, it has become boring to use someone else's name. In fact, I prefer to openly admit my identity, because anyone who hears this name will respect it."

Listening to the cold boasting on the phone, Bai Ling had a blank expression on his face: "So, what is your intention in calling me now? And, if I guess correctly, you have weakened the connection between me and Zou Ye, right?"

Rarely, Hermes' voice was filled with a smile. Although the gender was still unknown, at least the emotion could be sensed: "Purpose? Intention? My child, as a prophet, you should know me better than I do. If you don't know, it just means that the time when you know everything has not yet come."

"Because of a certain prophet, I swore a long time ago that I would never reveal any useful information to anyone, especially to you. This is fatal to me - I don't want what happened on the peninsula to happen again. It's rare to find a good body, and I want much more than before."

He seemed to have made up his mind not to tell Bering anything, and this would not change even if Bering observed the future countless times.

Hermes is tight-lipped and only talks nonsense.

With a sigh, Bai Ling said, "So you made this call just to disgust people?"

"No, no, no," Hermes said with a smile, "In fact, I'm not sure whether you have returned to the real world. This call is just a test. You know, ordinary people like us can't understand time at all, let alone observe the future like you. We can only rely on our own judgment."

"You can understand this as a sign of my goodwill towards you. Although I roughly guessed that you might have returned to the surface, I will not reveal this to anyone. I know that the All-Knowing Society should be looking for you now. Out of kindness, I will not reveal your location to them."

Hearing this, Bai Ling raised his eyebrows: "Reason?"

He didn't believe that Hermes would be so kind.

According to the witch, Hermes was a man who had gone mad to a certain extent. This was understandable, because if someone had no body and his soul had been floating in the sky for decades, he would probably have some brain problems.

As expected, Hermes responded soon: "It seems that you prophets are all equally sharp. I really admire you. Time is really favoring you."

After briefly praising Bering, Hermes finally revealed his purpose this time: "In fact, I came to you this time just to ask for a promise from you."

Bai Ling: "What promise?"

Hermes: "Haha, actually you already know it, right? The power of the prophet, you all have this. Okay, but I don't mind saying it again. You should know what my purpose is, no matter whether you heard it from other people or guessed it yourself. Yes, I planned to sneak into the Abyss to steal the law of time, but failed for various reasons. In the end, I could only steal the soul. Even so, I achieved the pinnacle of the Hermes School and the craftsmanship of artificial life."

"And this time, my purpose remains the same," Hermes said softly, "I still want to dive into the abyss and steal 'time'! To do this, I need your help."

"As a prophet, although I don't know the relationship between you and time, I guess there must be some special connection between you and that cornerstone. Therefore, I hope you can go to Tianyuan with me in the future and help me find the law of time!"

Bai Ling sneered: "You want to steal time? Ridiculous, have you ever thought of a possibility that the prophet might be time itself? If so, if you plan to steal time, aren't you just digging our flesh?"

Hermes: "No, no, no, my child, although my understanding of you is still very crude, I can be sure that you are not time itself. Well, it seems that I have to break the rules today, and it is because of you prophets."

"In fact, rather than being a part of time, you are the rebels against time," Hermes said lightly. "Think about it, with such a huge thing as time falling on you, what can you humans do? In the final analysis, you can only do what time wants you to do under its drive."

"But all humans yearn for freedom, and so do all prophets. Although you know the fate of others, your own fate is always controlled by others. That's why you want to rebel. In fact, you are one of the results of the rebellion - a dead prophet, haha!"

"Well, it seems that I have said too much this time. If I continue, I think you will even reveal how old I am. In this case, I will hang up first. Whether you received this call or not, I will treat it as if you did. After all, you prophets are all like this. You always like to change things that may happen as if they have not happened, and things that are bound to happen as maybes."

"Farewell, then, prophet of this generation."

After saying this, Hermes hung up the phone.

Only Bai Ling was left standing there, thinking blankly.

Time goes back to the present.

The witch probably still found it hard to believe Bai Ling's words, and she kept muttering, "Impossible, absolutely impossible."

While saying this, she kept biting her fingers and had a complicated look in her eyes.

Bai Ling could also understand her current situation.

As a witness to the Peninsula incident, even if she did not contribute much, she probably also has the responsibility of standing idly by.

If Hermes really came back to life...

People of the older generation like her would probably have to be knocked on the door by Hermes for tea.

"But Hermes wants me to go to Tianyuan..."

Stroking his chin, Bai Ling thought: "Should I agree to it?"

After thinking about it, Bai Ling felt that it was worth considering.

So far, it seems that only the ferryman knows the method to enter Tianyuan.

There was no way Bai Ling would go looking for the ferryman - unless he wanted to have his limbs chopped off and be left with only a head like Zou Ye, placed on the scarlet yellow sand.

Bai Ling felt that the ferryman was likely to do such a thing.

Therefore, Hermes, who had entered the Abyss, might be one of the few people he could ask.

Even An Jianxiu’s “shadow” didn’t know about it. It was estimated that the only person in the world who knew how to enter Tianyuan was Hermes.

As for what happens next...

Let's wait until later.

It was obvious that Hermes knew things like "the rebel of time" and "Bering was the result of rebellion", but he would never say it out loud.

Since He wants to be a riddle teller, Bering will find the answer himself.

This process probably won’t take too long.

So far, the future that Bering can see has ensured the breadth of his cognition.

At this moment, Red Spider next to him stretched lazily: "Ahaha..."

"Where are we going now?" Starscream asked.

Bai Ling also came back to his senses: "Go find someone."

"If we want to return to the country without anyone noticing, then her help is necessary," Bai Ling said. "After all, she is still the top talent in this country."

As he spoke, Bai Ling drove at lightning speed.

He hadn't driven for a long time, and it was the first time he touched the steering wheel in many days, so he felt a little itchy.