In the abyss, Harvey glanced at the shackles on his hands and looked at Ash with extremely resentful eyes.
Liz said affectionately: "Look, this is the fate of being implicated by Ash." Although she didn't say a word, everyone could understand Harvey's helplessness.
Ash pulled Liz's little face back and forth: "Don't mess up the narration!"
Iguala smiled and said, "Xavi, you should think about it from another perspective. Gospel already knew the crime you would commit in the future, but didn't kill you on the spot. You have already made a lot of money. Now he even gave you a reward. I think you should be grateful to Gospel."
Ash also echoed, "Yes, yes, you see there is no chain between these shackles. Gospel has already given you a break. You should reflect on yourself and be a better person in the future."
Harvey's handcuffs are not chained, so they are not restraints, but look more like sex toys. However, with his dark skin, they also look a bit like slavery.
The necromancer just complained. For someone like him who liked to carry a coffin and whose aesthetic taste was as hard as marble, he naturally didn't care about the appearance bonus brought by handcuffs.
After a brief test, Harvey transformed himself into a mist spirit, dancing with joy as if he had gotten a new toy. He couldn't help but float to the side of the coffin, knocking on the lid excitedly: "Alice, this form really suits you very well. Once I have figured out this form, I will arrange it for you right away. Hmm? You said you don't like white mist? Then I will add a little change and dress you up in blue mist form..."
Watching Harvey's heated conversation with the coffin, everyone felt that their sanity was being tested.
"Okay." An Nan closed the Gospel. "We should leave now. We need to find a safe place to rest as soon as possible. Ash's injury cannot be delayed any longer."
"Please follow me." Pan Ji said, "I have already found a way to leave this abyss."
The funeral group walked along the abyss passage. When Harvey finished his whisper with Alice, Ash asked, "So, did you change your mind or lie?"
Harvey looked at Ash and then at Igula, "Are you asking me? Not Igula?"
Compared to the necromancer, it is obvious that the trickster is more suitable for the words "change of heart" and "lie".
"The 'you' in the video said that you love life so much that you mass-produce half-dead undead creatures." Ash said, "But you just vowed that you would not do such a blasphemous act... Either your future self has changed your mind and thinks that turning living people into undead is not blasphemous, or your current self is lying and you don't actually adhere to this principle in your heart."
"After all, the Weaving Festival will not come out of nothing. It will only be inferred based on your current behavior."
Annan and Liz stared at Ash, as if asking, "What's going on between you and Qinna?"
Ash wasn't embarrassed at all. He really had nothing to be embarrassed about. He and Qinna didn't have any intimate behavior. At most, Qinna licked his face... But there was blood on his face at that time, and he was An Nan's fiancé, so it was normal for Qinna to have this level of contact with him!
Harvey hesitated for a moment, then shook his head and said, "I didn't lie, but I won't change my mind in the future."
"As long as I practice the necromancy faction, I will definitely stick to the boundary between life and death. Necromancers believe that life and death are equally important. This is not just empty talk, nor is it some illusory professional ethics."
"After all, what's the difference between a corpse and a pile of rotten meat? Then why can corpses be transformed into undead spirits, but rotten meat can only rot?"
"Because the corpse bears the traces of the living person's life."
"Because the living have joys and sorrows, vicissitudes of life, and spiritual insights. After they die, most traces of them fall into hell with their souls, but a small part remains in their real bodies. What the necromancer cares about is not the flesh and blood, but the information on the flesh and blood, as well as the time, mind, and various magical factions hidden deep in the flesh and blood."
"It is because they have worked hard to live that their corpses can bloom with a more brilliant new life in the hands of us necromancers and become the power of us the living."
"Think about it carefully. Any organization will encourage its members to fight and strive as hard as possible. Although members will die in the end, the fruits of their life's struggle will be transformed into the strength of the organization and into a better life for the next generation... Isn't this the Undead faction?"
"It's not just the Organization Kingdom, this world is the same. We magicians will eventually move towards death, and we will fall into hell and wash away all our emotions, but we will leave pure memories and realms in the virtual world, constantly accumulating the thickness of the virtual world and becoming the power of future living people... Isn't this also a faction of the dead?"
"To me, the Void is the most powerful necromancer, and the rules of society are typical of the necromancer faction."
"Will farmers harvest unripe crops halfway through their farming? Will chefs serve semi-finished products to customers? Will a country stifle the ambitions of its young people?" Harvey spread his hands and said, "You should understand what I'm saying... Why are you looking at me like that?"
Harvey was a little thirsty after talking, and when he turned around, he saw that everyone had stopped and stared at him, as if they were watching a cockroach transforming into a rhinoceros beetle.
After a while, An Nan suddenly asked, "What is the strength of Mr. Harvey in the video?"
Banji replied: "It's definitely not an angel, but being able to control a five-winged god with a mortal body means he must be at least a sanctuary, if not a legend, right?"
"Sacred Domain or Legendary..." An Nan exhaled: "The others may be misjudgments of the Weaving Festival, but at this point, its judgment is probably correct."
There was a reason why they were so shocked. As magicians, they could clearly see the height of Harvey's current realm. If their magic school was still "magic", then Harvey had already touched the edge of "truth".
Harvey did not regard the Undead faction as a simple tool, but as a methodology to help him understand the world and himself. In fact, every magic faction is a way for magicians to explore the world and themselves.
Even Ash, the husky who had infiltrated the wolf pack of sorcerers, could vaguely realize this.
For example, the sword faction and Sword Princess, he didn't know whether Sword Princess's personality made her good at the sword faction, or Sword Princess influenced her personality, but the result was that Sword Princess became more and more sharp and decisive. After spending a long time with Sword Princess, Ash always felt that if he did anything wrong, Sword Princess would definitely stab him to death without thinking.
But it is difficult for most magicians to realize this, or even if they realize it, they cannot make up for it, because you have not reached a high enough level to see such a vast scenery, and you can only guess a little through other people's oral descriptions.
However, this did not prevent An Nan and the others from hearing Harvey's grand vision, because they could see a glimpse of the beauty themselves, so they knew that the magnificence in Harvey's words was not false.
Now the only things that prevent Harvey from becoming stronger are time, reality and virtual realm. For him, the bottleneck in realm faction no longer exists.
Therefore, Harvey was sure that he would not change his mind. To him, the Undead faction was almost equivalent to a political view. If loyalty was not absolute, it was absolutely disloyal. If he changed his mind, it could only mean that he had found a magic faction (methodology) that was more suitable for him, so he would definitely give up the Undead faction.
"Could it be that the gospel deduction was wrong?" Ash muttered.
"Is there a possibility?" Liz, who was held by Ash's hand, said, "Uncle Harvey actually had no choice."
"Um?"
"It's like a question my father asked me before. I'm holding the track-changing lever of the tram in my hand. If the tram continues to move, it will crush five people to death. If I change tracks, the tram will only crush one person to death..."
An Nan thought thoughtfully: "No matter which choice I make, the result will be bad, so I can only choose a result that is not so bad..."
Panji looked at Yaxiu and said, "Is this what you usually tell Liz?"
Although his teaching ability was questioned, Ash was very calm: "Compared to my question, Liz's answer was actually more interesting. She said that she values fairness the most. If crushing five people to death is unfair to the five people, and crushing one person to death is unfair to that one person, then crushing everyone to death is fair, so the two tracks should be connected."
"..." The young butler could only reply with such high emotional intelligence: "The disciple is better than the master..."
"Why don't you just be honest? Are you really father and daughter?" An Nan glanced at them and said, "I won't blame you for hiding it."
"So, it is very likely that something will happen in the future that even Harvey cannot tolerate, so Gospel believes that Harvey would rather create a family of undeads to take revenge on society." Ash guessed: "Something so disgusting that even a necromancer cannot tolerate... Harvey, do you have any idea?"
Harvey thought for a moment and said, "For example... the Gospel Nation promotes universal cremation? This waste of resources would really make me furious."
"Gan, it's you indeed."
However, they didn't really care about the fact that 'Harvey would become the source of all evil'. Firstly, they all knew that this was the result of deceiving the gospel, and secondly, this matter had nothing to do with them - Harvey was not going to turn them into undead creatures.
Not to mention Ash and the others, they are not even locals; as for Annan and Panji... when Annan cross-locked Ash just now, she was just questioning him why he was so close to Qinna. As for Harvey turning Sennheiser into a mist spirit, she had no objection at all.
Compared to Harvey's necromancy plan, everyone is actually more concerned about what will happen in the future that even the necromancer cannot tolerate.
In addition, one of the characteristics of the Blood Moon Corpse King is "Immune to Miracle Weaving", which gave Ash a strange guess.
Watching An Nan and the others discussing in front, Ash suddenly realized that the fraudster at the end of the team seemed to be walking silently with his head down, without expressing any opinions. He thought for a moment and patted Liz on the back: "Go find your sister An Nan, remember to hold her hand tightly, I won't come back to find you if you are thrown into the abyss."
"Tsk." Liz pouted and went over to grab An Nan's sleeve: "Auntie..."
"Call me sister." An Nan tapped Liz's forehead.
Ash slowed down his pace and walked side by side with Igula, and suddenly said, "I think you might have run away."
"Huh?" Igula looked at him and asked, "What the hell are you talking about?"
"Gospel probably thought you would run away to other countries and commit crimes in the future, so you didn't appear in the video footage." Ash said, "And didn't you say you wanted to explore ruins when you have money? Harvey and I are definitely not interested in traveling, so it's only natural that we go our separate ways."
Igula looked at him and said nothing.
"The other lists haven't been announced yet. Maybe there will be a list of ruins explorers, a list of conspirators, or a list of gigolos. Then we'll be able to see your style..."
Igula still didn't speak.
"In fact, the most likely scenario is that you are being kept by some rich woman, so you don't need us poor friends anymore... Do you understand what I mean?"
Igula finally nodded: "I understand, you are looking for trouble, right?"
"Hmm?" Ash scratched his head. "I mean, you don't have to worry about why you didn't appear in the Weaving Festival. Not to mention that you might appear in the next list, it's actually a good thing that you didn't appear. Look at the rest of us, all of us have been framed by the Gospel and have been ruined. You should be laughing secretly as the one who escaped the net."
Currently, Annan, Ash and Harvey have appeared in the two lists.
Among the others who did not show up, Panti is now in his sixties, so it is normal that he did not show up after fifty years; Liz is only about ten years old now, and as the saying goes, girls cannot be kept back when they grow up, and she is in the rebellious period of youth, so it is natural that she did not act with Ash when she grew up.
The only one who should appear is Igula, but so far there is no trace of him on the list.
If Ash and Annan might have had a tryst before, there was no need for Ash and Harvey to act alone, right? However, only Ash and Harvey appeared, and there was no trace of Igula.
Although no one said it, everyone thought of a possibility -
"You think I'm worried about dying?"
Ash blinked his eyes and said, "Why else have you been so dejected and silent? Hey, it's not embarrassing to be afraid of death. I won't laugh at you all the time." As he said that, he patted Igula's shoulder.
"Ha, how could I..." Igula paused and suddenly laughed: "Well, I might be a little worried, but when I saw you, I knew I was worrying too much."
"Why?"
"Have you forgotten that the contract between you and me still exists, and you still owe me a wish. If I really have to face a life-and-death crisis, I will definitely let you die in my place first."
Igula pushed Ash's hand away and said, "You'd better pray every night that nothing happens to me, or else something will happen to you too."
Ash just remembered this: "...That may not be the case. Maybe I wasn't around when you died!"
"Well, this is indeed a problem, look here."
Igula suddenly snapped his fingers in front of Ash and said, "Okay, I have given you a psychological hint. Once I die but the wish has not been used, this psychological hint will be activated and consume the wish on my behalf."
Ash kept rubbing his eyes, as if trying to rub out the psychological suggestion as eye mucus: "What, what psychological suggestion?"
"It's very simple. This psychological suggestion will modify your memory and delete all your unnecessary memories."
"What is redundant memory?"
"Memories that have nothing to do with me." Igula raised his lips. "This way, I will be the only one left in your memory. Then you will mistakenly think that I am your most important companion. Then, even if it takes your entire life, you will find a way to pull me out of hell."
"It's actually possible!" Ash was shocked, but quickly shook his head: "No, that's not right. Even if I only have your memory left, I may not want to revive you! Why do you think I will do this?"
Igula was stunned.
Immediately, the Trickster laughed and said, "I'm not teasing you anymore. There is no such convenient psychological suggestion in this world... Even if there is, it is not something that a two-winged magician can cast. I didn't say anything just now because I was thinking about what to do in the future. After all, you and Harvey have caused such a big trouble now. Even if I don't want to, I will definitely be implicated by you."
"Really, really no hint?" Sweat broke out on Ash's forehead.
"I think you won't believe me whether I say yes or no, so how about this? I will use my wish to modify your memory right now, so that you won't doubt it anymore..."
"Then I won't bother you from thinking!"