The ferryman took off his hood, revealing his beautiful but inorganic face: "Finally I found you."

She stared straight at the peculiarly shaped bus in front of her, her deep eyes seemed to see something deeper through the bus.

Not long after, a person got off the bus.

Bai Ling put his feet on the ground and looked at the person in the distance silently.

"It looks like a long time has passed in your sense of time."

After a pause, Bai Ling continued, "From your tone, it seems that a long time has passed since I left?"

Listening to Bai Ling's words, the ferryman did not respond to his question immediately, but just gently put away the sickle.

God knows how she managed to stuff such a large weapon into her sleeve.

After she had completely put away the sickle, she looked up at Bai Ling and said, "It took a long, long time."

"If we follow your human sense of time, then I have been looking for you in that place for seventeen years since you left."

Her tone was flat and without any ups and downs: "Originally I thought you were completely swallowed by the yellow sand, so I dug out every possible piece of sand I could see. Then I thought you might have been buried at the gate of the Abyss and went to the Abyss. Later I guessed that someone might have brought you back to Tartarus."

"But I can't go there," she said, "so I can only wait, waiting for a possible meeting again."

"As it turns out, we are now meeting again. This undoubtedly confirms my previous point..."

The ferryman looked at Bai Ling and said, "The two of us must be connected by fate."

She was so sure of this conclusion that when she spoke it there was a rare hint of indisputability in it.

Bai Ling felt a chill down his spine.

Even though he was dead, it was hard to feel the cold sweat running down his back.

'Seventeen years,' he thought to himself, 'and that's seventeen years after seeing me disappear so suddenly.'

During these seventeen years, the ferryman would have thought of himself no matter what he did. In addition, she used to have a dull personality, but after seeing him, her emotions were completely aroused. Therefore, the psychological fluctuations during these seventeen years were probably like a volcanic eruption and a tsunami.

Just thinking about it makes my scalp tingle.

Now Bai Ling had almost no doubt that if he was really caught by the ferryman, he would probably face having his limbs chopped off, his ears and eyes poked out, and standing in the narrow space of time like a stick.

So this is the purpose of "time"?

By creating a "doll" with deep obsession to entangle with Bering, making him exhausted and completely restraining his possible destruction? Using "love" as the toughest rope to tightly wrap the possible threat, strangle his throat, and make it difficult for him to even breathe.

If this is true, then time is really a guy with a bad taste, and it's comparable to myself.

Thinking of this, Bai Ling smiled bitterly: "I almost forgot, to some extent, He is really 'me'."

If you think about it this way, it's no surprise that time would behave so erratically.

Bai Ling felt that he might actually be able to perform a similar operation.

He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"How did you get to the surface?" He looked at the ferryman. "If I remember correctly, you said that you had no way to leave that place, right?"

This question is somewhat abrupt.

Generally speaking, it is unlikely that the enemy will reveal all his cards to those who might be against him.

But the ferryman is not an ordinary person.

She wasn't even a person.

So she responded calmly: "Someone summoned me from that place using 'Origin' as the foundation. Essentially, 'Origin' is an existence that is free from the constraints of time, and summoning based on 'Origin' can circumvent the constraints of the law. Therefore, I can live in this body."

I see.

Bai Ling nodded slightly when he heard this.

Just as he guessed, the Oathbreaker used the body of the Lionheart as a sacrifice to the Ferryman, and then "pulled" her out of the narrow space of time.

But this also brings up a problem.

That is, the current ferryman is definitely not at the level of her heyday.

As a "doll" created by time, her status is terrifyingly high. If she were placed in religious mythology, she would at least be an angel.

However, it is difficult for angels to enter human society, especially after they borrow the human body, their power will inevitably be restricted and weakened.

So strictly speaking, the current level of the Ferryman probably depends on the "Lionheart" that constitutes her body - how strong this origin that was plotted against by the Oathbreaker is, and how strong the Ferryman is probably.

This is probably a mixed message.

What made Bai Ling feel relieved was that the ferryman didn't look like a tough guy who could single-handedly kill all the aliens who dared to sneak across from the sky. But what worried him was...

Even “Origin” is pretty scary.

Therefore, he had to consider whether he could use some simple means to fight back that did not require any physical effort.

"you……"

Before he could finish.

Suddenly, the ferryman on the opposite side frowned slightly.

"You can predict the future?" she said. "I heard that you have this ability."

Huh? Bai Ling was slightly startled.

This was the first time that his current condition was pointed out so directly by the enemy.

Out of caution, he just shook his head: "I don't know what you are talking about."

How could someone possibly reveal all of his abilities? However, the ferryman seemed to believe it: "It looks like what that person said. Your ability can indeed observe what will happen in the future. Even now, it is possible that we are in the future that you observe. Hmm..."

Ferryman: "This is a very troublesome ability. I think it is not suitable for our relationship. Therefore, I hope you can stop using such power."

"After we return, if you need to observe the future to see something, I am willing to wait with you. But now..."

She pulled out a sickle from her sleeve again: "I still hope that we can be in the same 'time and space' and communicate on an equal footing. After all, I don't want to miss any opportunity to establish contact with you."

This is trouble.

Bai Ling felt a little tricky.

If Hermes's previous difficulty was due to his absolute confidence that Bering must have observed the future and therefore planned everything as if it had already happened, then the pressure from the ferryman now was of a different kind.

She will think that everything now is "the future" and nothing has happened in the real world. Therefore, she will not listen to any dissuasion, let alone any hesitation or delay.

Two completely different attitudes, but both equally difficult to deal with.

With a sigh in his heart, Bai Ling raised his hand: "Okay, let's start again..."

However, he still didn't finish this time.

The ferryman seemed to have made up his mind. The moment Bai Ling raised his hand, his toes lightly tapped the ground.

The next second, in just a blink of an eye, she suddenly flashed in front of Bai Ling from hundreds of meters away! The broad sickle was like a full moon in the night sky, crossing Bai Ling's chest and heading straight for Bai Ling's shoulder!

She wanted to cut her eyes open! Bering guessed what the ferryman would do without a moment's hesitation.

But the opponent's speed was too fast.

Before the soul-burning potion was injected, Bai Ling's dynamic vision could not keep up with the ferryman's inhuman speed! However, there was always someone around him who could reach the ferryman's sleeve.

A hand reached out from behind and suddenly grabbed Bai Ling's collar, followed by a surge of huge force that surged silently.

In the split second when the ferryman's sickle was about to cut Bai Ling's eyebrow, the person behind Bai Ling pulled him out of the sickle's attack range and threw him aside.

With a loud "boom".

Bai Ling felt the restraint on his neck and turned to look behind him.

"Thanks," he said, "but be careful."

Behind him, Red Spider's petite body grabbed Bering by the collar and dragged on the ground like a forklift pulling wood.

She nimbly jumped onto the building next to her and gritted her teeth: "Damn it!"

Turning his head to look at the ferryman behind him, Starscream couldn't help but gasp: "The real 'Origin'! How on earth did you provoke such a monster?!"

Bai Ling was somewhat helpless: "To be precise, it's not just me, it's you too."

He spread his hands and said, "Before you rescued me from the narrow space of time, I stayed with that person. I think it is not difficult for you to understand what kind of label that guy would put on you if you were to pull me out of that place."

Starscream was furious when he heard this: "Damn you! Wasn't I forced?!"

"Yes, no matter whether you were forced or not, we are all tied to the same rope now," Bai Ling shrugged. "At least the guy on the other side doesn't seem to have any intention of letting you go."

That's true.

Before Starscream subconsciously rescued Bering, the ferryman had already manipulated the sickle and slashed out several black blades as if he was chopping off a king, cutting straight through everything around him.

Whether it was a building, a signboard or a bus stop, in front of the huge sickle that was as tall as a person, it was like steaming butter. It broke into two pieces without any hindrance, and then slowly slid to the side, revealing a neat cross-section.

"With this kind of power," Starscream couldn't help but feel a little regretful, "this is definitely not a simple origin. If you still have any other methods, you'd better use them all, otherwise we will all die here!"

As she spoke, she suddenly jumped up and leaped directly onto the TV tower hundreds of meters away. One of her feet smashed through the glass of the TV tower, and then she rushed out of the spacious and bright office, leaped hundreds of meters again, and landed on the rooftop of a department store.

The employees inside the TV tower stared blankly at the figure that flew by like lightning, and then looked at the broken glass all over the ground.

Before they could react, another dark streak of light passed in front of them.

The dark halo exuded an unrivaled sharpness, like a sharp sword several thousand meters long. The moment it passed through the TV tower, it slashed the tower with one blow, without any hesitation, clean and neat! A few tenths of a second later.

The dozens-story TV tower collapsed with a loud bang, and fragments of stone and steel fell from the sky like a bloody rain!

The ferryman didn't even look at it, but just continued to move towards the direction of Red Spider.

Her body's center of gravity pressed down and she fell directly onto the department store below her. The powerful impact force made her glide from the seventh-floor rooftop of Building A to the second floor of Building B hundreds of meters away.

A black meteor pierced through Building A of the department store, and everything fell apart.

People in the mall looked at the ferryman stupidly.

It wasn't long before someone finally realized something.

Soon, screams echoed in this desolate ruin! Standing up, the ferryman frowned.

"Hidden in the crowd?" she murmured to herself, "Do you think you can buy some time?"

"But it doesn't matter. If you are among them, then you only need to kill all the others and you will appear."

"After all, we are connected by fate and inextricably linked."

The words fell.

The black sickle was raised high.

With a "ripping" sound.

Internal organs, broken limbs, blood, and stones flew up into the air, accompanied by even more miserable screams, directly setting the entire shopping mall on fire!

And in some inconspicuous corner.

Starscream took a deep breath while carrying Bai Ling. "What a lunatic."

"It looks like she's completely in love," Starscream said with a complicated expression, "Why don't you just give in to her? Staying with such an outrageous monster, maybe you can figure out the limits of the human body..."

Bering ignored Starscream's teasing.

In fact, he was frowning and staring at the ferryman's butcher knife from the unknown darkness.

And Red Spider also saw the clue: "So, this is actually in your foresight?"

"With your personality, you definitely wouldn't watch her being slaughtered like this," Starscream analyzed rationally, "So you want to know that guy's weakness in the future?"

Bai Ling nodded slightly.

"So I need to wait a little longer," he said, "at least I need to see what other tricks that guy has."

He risked being seen by those big eyes by rashly activating the function of predicting the future.

Although it is dangerous to be discovered by Big Eyes, Bailing would rather choose the former than being taken back to the Narrow Space of Time by the ferryman.

At least for now, the big eye cannot see below the sea surface.

But even so, he currently needs to save it for future use.

Therefore, every prediction is precious.

At least in this future, he needs to truly see the ferryman's...weaknesses.