Li Zheng was shocked. How long had it been since Ma Long followed the leader of the Nine Heavens Legion into the sinful realm, and he had already risen to the level where he could threaten him?
And also in the case of serious injuries?
"Ma Long?"
Li Zheng's nose moved and he smelled a faint sweet smell, which was the smell of blood: "Why are you here? Where are the others?"
There were many people who entered the Sin Realm with Captain Jiutian. Team Malone still had insufficient money and some other people he didn't know. There were at least dozens of them.
"died."
There was no emotion in Ma Long's voice: "They are all dead, and I am the only one left alive."
"All dead?"
Li Zheng suddenly raised his hand and lifted off the hood covering Ma Long's head, revealing a head with no skin and flesh and blood directly exposed to the air.
"what are you doing!"
Ma Long raised his hands in front of his face in panic. Because he had no eyelids, his eyes were wide and round, which looked very strange.
"this……!"
Li Zheng watched Ma Long put on his hood again, frowned and asked: "What on earth did you encounter in the Sin Realm? How did you become like this? Also, you have reached the golden light zone of the Tianlong Clan, why don't you come back?
Treatment in the outer city?”
Unexpectedly, he met one of the targets he was looking for as soon as he entered the Sin Realm. Seeing Ma Long's current appearance, Li Zheng had too many questions that needed to be answered.
"I can't go back."
Ma Long's voice was dry: "I don't know what happened to me. I just remember that I followed... followed..."
He hit his head twice in confusion: "Damn it, who did I enter the realm of crime with? Why don't I remember? No, I clearly remember it! But why did that name suddenly disappear from my head the moment I was about to say it?
?why why why!!!"
The beating on the head became more and more intense. Li Zheng was afraid that Ma Long would accidentally beat his head to pieces, so he quickly stopped him.
"Don't be anxious, speak slowly."
Li Zheng tried his best to make his voice sound softer, soothing Ma Long: "Don't go to the meeting if you can't remember things. Tell me what you remember, for example, why are you like this?"
Something appalling must have happened to Ma Long, and this incident is definitely inseparable from the leader of Jiutian!
"I have no idea."
Malone was silent for half a minute, seeming to be recalling seriously: "I really don't know. There seems to be fragments in my memory. After the fragments, I was in a... yes! I saw a castle deep in the Sin Realm!"
"castle?"
Li Zheng's heart moved: "The realm of laziness?"
He also saw a castle in the depths of the Lazy Sin Domain. It was unknown whether a woman lived or was imprisoned in that castle. The reason why she was said to be a woman was only judged from the voice of the other party.
And the other person seemed to know him.
"I don't remember which area of crime it is."
Ma Long shook his head and said: "I only remember that I was lying outside a castle when I was awake. At that time, I had already become like this ghost. I tried to enter the castle, but...it was very painful! As soon as I got close to that castle
The castle will become particularly painful! It’s not the physical pain, it’s the pain in the heart, it’s the pain on the mental level or even the soul level, as if someone is being roasted on a fire!”
He seemed to feel the pain at that time. He was like a shrimp, holding his head in his hands and arching his waist.
Seeing that Ma Long was showing signs of collapse again, Li Zheng quickly stopped him from continuing to recall: "Don't think about those painful things. Think about it differently. How did you return to the Golden Light Zone?"
Li Zheng wanted to work backwards from Ma Long's return route and find the castle where Ma Long had been. He suspected that there was more than one castle in the Sin Domain.
Perhaps there is one in every sin realm, or even... countless!
"I don't know." Malone said these four words again: "I tried to enter the castle, and was tortured by pain. When I woke up again, I found that I had reached the edge of the golden light zone. Then I tried to enter the castle from the outside.
I went back to the city entrance, but my nameplate was gone, everything that could prove my identity was gone, and the outer city would not accept me back into the city."
"The nameplate is gone?"
Li Zheng asked: "Where is your capsule residence? Is it gone?"
The capsule residence, like the nameplate, is something bound to the player and cannot be lost easily.
"No more." Ma Long's voice was hoarse: "Since I became like this, I have forgotten even the feeling of hunger, and I don't need to eat."
Li Zheng frowned. Ma Long's symptoms were very similar to some kind of assimilation, the kind similar to the alien beasts in the Sin Domain.
But for some unknown reason, Ma Long still retains the consciousness of being a human being.
Thinking of the warning given by Lao Pu, could it be that Ma Long has mastered some kind of mortal sin rule?
The document sent to him by the terminal before leaving stated that all residents of the outer city who tried to master the rules of major sin never returned to the outer city after entering the sin area at a certain time.
It's like it disappeared out of thin air.
The residents of the outer city have organized exploratory teams to go deep into the criminal territory to look for those people, more than once.
But every exploration came to nothing.
Li Zheng has never been exposed to the rules of major sins, so he has no way of confirming these speculations. Maybe he can discover something by taking Ma Long with him and observing for a while.
"What are your plans next?" Li Zheng asked: "I want to go deep into the sin area and check out the castle you mentioned. Do you want to come with me?"
"I seem to have no choice." Ma Long smiled bitterly: "I only see you as an acquaintance here. Apart from following you, it seems that I have nowhere to go."
He couldn't go back to the outer city, and Ma Long also wanted to find out what happened to him. Since he met Li Zheng, the best choice was to follow him.
After all, Li is one of the strongest people he knows, and he has a profound background. There may be a way to solve his current troubles.
"Then let's go."
As Li Zheng stepped out of the golden zone, negative emotions came from all directions, and a faint anger grew from the bottom of his heart, lingering.
Fortunately, Li Zheng has already had experience in this area, so this negative emotion does not pose a threat to him.
After Ma Long followed, Li Zheng looked back.
Ma Long seemed to be in a more relaxed state than him, as if he couldn't feel the negative emotions of the Raging Sin Domain, and his steps were brisk.
"Try not to fight in your current state." Li Zheng warned: "Although I don't know how you walked back to the Golden Light Zone from the depths of the sinful realm, you are currently in an unknown state, and rashly fighting may cause you to suffer serious consequences.
The weird state is getting worse. If you encounter a strange beast, just leave it to me to deal with it."
"..."
Ma Long was silent for a few seconds, a little discouraged: "Although this makes me feel like a waste, but... you are right."
If it wasn't to find out what happened to him, the best thing to do would be to stay in the Golden Light Zone and wait for Li Zheng to come back instead of following him as a pendant.
Although Ma Long has lost a lot of memory and his thinking still occasionally falls into chaos, he at least clearly feels from his thoughts at this moment that at least he has not become a fool and still retains his basic sanity.
