As soon as I opened my mouth, I knew I must have guessed something wrong.

Because as soon as these words came out, I immediately fell into a confused stage. I looked at "Stuart", "Stuart" stared at Zach, and Zach looked at me stupidly.

More importantly, Zach still looked expectant, as if he hoped that I could give him a clear explanation.

...How could I know about your own affairs! (╯°□°)╯︵┻━┻

After the shooting stopped, the dragon-shaped monster in the sky seemed to be dormant, hiding its huge and bloated body in the abyss of clouds. However, the snake-shaped electric light swinging in it always reminded us that the crisis has not really been eliminated.

There was also a huge wave stirred up by a giant shark at our feet, which attracted the person who finally broke the deadlock - a person who had disappeared for a long time.

"I really forgot."

At some point, Mr. Rhodes woke up from his coma and came to us across the mess on the ground.

There were slight traces of rain on his temples, but his eyes were still as firm as a rock, which instantly awakened the stalemate atmosphere.

"Mr. Rhodes, are you awake?!"

I was a little relieved, but I immediately reacted, "Did you find this guy on the ground?"

Mr. Rhodes waved his hand and did not answer.

I don’t know if it’s my misunderstanding, but the copper ring that suddenly appeared on his left hand is very similar to the King Soul First Fire Ring on my hand, but it’s a little brand new...

But the one who is most excited at the moment is not "Stuart" who killed someone, nor me who wants to question why he is a mole, but Zach who is seriously injured...

"Rod, please listen to my explanation... Marcus is talking nonsense! I don't have any strange ideas! Don't believe it!"

Hey, Meng De, what do you want me to say about you?

You came on stage as soon as Rhodes fell. The timing was so perfect that it didn't look like you were rescuing people, but rather like you were here to confirm his death, or to just hit him again before he died. How can I trust you?

Mr. Rhodes ignored his crazy words and just talked calmly to "Stuart" on the ground.

"Norberti, you have already met Zach with your own eyes, and he has completely forgotten about it. Don't you still believe what happened back then?"

"Stuart" on earth...

Oh no, judging from the name, he should be called Norberti. But this name is obviously a homophony of "nobody".

His emotions suddenly became intense.

"Liar! The way he looked just now, he clearly came here because he remembered it!"

He stared at Rhodes with his venomous eyes, which made people ache, "Our agreement has been terminated, and I will not tell you any news about the end of the Ghost Route!"

Mr. Rhodes sighed, but his expression did not change much.

"The agreement I signed with the contract thief is only part of it, and the ghost route is not important to me. I just want to end this cursed thing..."

After saying that, Mr. Rhodes walked around Norberti, finally looked at me and nodded.

Rhodes' expression was a little subtle, and he said in a slightly sad tone: "Long time no see, Marcus.

I heard some clues, but I didn't know where to start, so I asked the question that I had been wondering about for the longest time.

"Mr. Rhodes, please tell me first why this guy on the ground was allowed to join!"

"What you want to ask is exactly what I want to say."

As Mr. Rhodes spoke, I could feel that he was not only speaking to me, but also to Zach, who was in the fog.

"The reason why I cooperate with the Contract Thief on behalf of the Wilmarth Foundation is actually because I am one of the founders of the foundation."

"Although the founder passed away a few years ago, he planned until the last moment of his life to end it all. Here are his scars and obsessions, and also the nightmare that he can never escape..."

"His last name is Sionnis."

……………

Siannis.

This ordinary surname once represented one of the most famous families in the Federation. But today, it also symbolizes the Wilmarth Foundation's unswerving courage to fight against mutation.

I have seen the image of this man in a dream. There are both majestic and heroic figures across the black and white lines, and also the desolation on the way to escape overseas, but what is most impressive is his appearance in the dome library.

It's a magical encounter.

Everything seemed to have been guided by the invisible hand of fate from that moment on to this mist-shrouded land. The fate of the rest of his life, like Professor Craven's prediction, was deeply entangled here.

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Mr. Rhodes then said something that I didn't see in the dream.

After losing his limbs, Mr. Sionis miraculously survived the shipwreck and returned to the Federation.

Because of his disability, he was not politically liquidated, but instead received all privileges except political rights.

But after losing his heir, he became more paranoid and even more extreme in his hatred of the federal government.

He had seen too much darkness, so he chose to cooperate with Miskatonic University, which had always been independent, and found Professor Wilmarth, who also wanted revenge, and created the prototype of the foundation.

Their enemies are hidden in the invisible, wandering in the mist, and every thought can cause monstrous disasters. Even Mr. Rhodes laments their will to transcend human limits.

But the strange thing is that this old man paid special attention to the rising star among the contract thieves, the contract thief killer "Norberti".

Mr. Rhodes launched an investigation out of curiosity, and finally discovered the unknown relationship between him and Zach, an old acquaintance of Ore Town...

"Um...he has a relationship with me?"

Zach's face gradually turned pale due to blood loss, but he still looked embarrassed and asked tentatively, "Why don't I recognize him at all?"

The killer named Norberti chuckled and seemed to start praying viciously again.

Finally, Mr. Rhodes said: "Zach, it's not that you don't know him, it's that he is very different from the one you met before..."

"When Lilia and I rescued you from the shipwreck, we found that you seemed to have forgotten something, but your subconscious was still guarding the road to Kuroshio Island..."

I muttered: "Has Zach's brain been used to mine Bitcoin? Is there still memory loss?"

Zach also said with some confusion: "I'm not guarding anything... The reason why I stayed in Ore Town is because of my phobia of the sea..."

Thalassophobia is a terminal illness that Zach suffers from. It is also a unique existence in Ore Town, a magical place where three people cannot find a father and mother. But the principle of this disease has always been a mystery.

When I heard this, I understood something for him in advance... Why did I understand it before him?!

From the communication with the "inner demon", the [Death] trait felt a powerful obsession, which derived all kinds of terrifying negative emotions. However, they were influenced by Mrs. Lilia I accidentally mentioned, and were finally suppressed smoothly.

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At first, I thought he was possessed by Cao Cao, determined to become a traitor, evil thief and traitor, and insisted on entangling Lady Lilia.

By the way, I was planning to confer Zac as the King of Wei, a hussar general to supervise all the Chinese and foreign military affairs, open the government ceremony with the three divisions, add nine tins, praise and worship the unknown, enter the court without tending, and go to the palace with swords and shoes.

Then give him a thousand times of Wancheng-Chibi-Tongguan hell level difficulty dungeon to cure his illness.

But now that I think about it, Zach's extremely severe thalassophobia may also be a manifestation of his inner demons - or "Herod's Picture".

Only the "Herodian Diagram" state, which is so dangerous that it can almost cause the soul to collapse, can affect this man with a half-step fourth-level gene lock, causing him to vomit and go into shock and die on the spot.

And the emergence of this "inner demon" obsession, as Mr. Rhodes said, is because the subconscious wants to watch from night to day to prevent outsiders from approaching this infinite world outside the boundary and awaken the people who are still there.

A demon wandering in the mist...

"No...my head hurts...I still can't remember..."

Mentioning the lost memory, the blood vessels in Zach's eyes began to twist again, and a terrifying aura emanated from him, but it was full of confusion and distortion, almost tearing him apart in two.

But the more I think about it, the closer I feel this explanation is to the truth!

Because Zach was on the edge of the "Herodian Map" state and was able to sail here alone.

His violent actions at that time seemed rough and barbaric, but he did not actually kill an innocent person. He only used murderous intent to judge the threat level of the enemy.

This behavior is more like warning and expelling intruders!

My eyes gradually became clearer, and more and more clues came together in my mind, and I even thought of the young sailor I saw in multiple dreams...

Coincidentally, that person also wore a purple headscarf...

"You forgot, didn't you..."

Norberti had a panoramic view of Zach's painful appearance, smiled sinisterly, and twisted his body again, getting bigger and bigger.

"Hey, don't set off the mine! That thing will kill everyone and animals within ten miles!"

The Hongyi artillery can be said to be dozens of miles away, and the infantry mine has such power, I can only consider it as a little artistic processing.

The mine made a beeping warning sound, and the beep became more and more rapid. The fuse was triggered in the blink of an eye, but Norberti's actions were even more weird and violent!

"Lie down!"

Several people present quickly climbed down and found that the expected explosion did not occur.

"Causal Chaos Effect! Everyone, be careful!"

Mr. Rhodes' reminder suddenly sounded.

A big hole appeared on the ground, and the soil was piled up and scattered everywhere, but the weirdo on the ground disappeared!

Chaos of cause and effect does not mean reversing life and death, but it can transcend the inevitable stage of explosion and death, directly enter the category of "fruit", and exhibit some strange characteristics.

I just felt a pain in my head. The character status panel was instantly filled with a bunch of negative statuses with question marks. I couldn't see the effect on it at all. I just felt like my whole body was like a crumbling building block toy, and every cell was shaking in four directions.
To be continued...