Two giant black pythons stood up and swallowed two hell bells.

"It's nothing special. Can't the monster's ability be swallowed and absorbed?"

Yilumi raised his head and closed his eyes, carefully feeling the changes in his body, but the strange thing was that he didn't feel any changes.

"boss."

Suddenly, Kim Bradley shouted, in a low tone.

Ilumi opened her eyes and looked at Kim Bradley.

At this time, Kim Bradley was looking at Pride with a solemn expression. It should be said that he was looking at Pride's face.

Ilumi also lowered his head and looked at Pride. At this time, Pride was closing his eyes tightly, as if he was feeling something.

After a moment, Pride took a deep breath of the humid air in the swamp, raised the corners of his mouth, stretched out his scarlet tongue and licked his lips, as if he was enjoying some delicious food.

"This is……"

What struck Ilumi most strangely was that a strange black rune appeared on Pride's right cheek. The rune looked like two circles, one positive and one negative.

The rune is not big, only taking up about one-third of the right cheek.

"There is no feeling of nostalgia."

Pride slowly opened his eyes and touched his right cheek. Unlike Illumi, he seemed to be able to feel the difference.

"Mobius strip..."

Ilumi looked solemnly at the two connected black circles on Pride's face, one positive and one negative. This strange black rune symbolized the cycle, eternity, and infinite Möbius strip.

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"Is there something like this on my face too?"

Ilumi thought to himself, and then immediately controlled the Ranger Neuromechanical Helmet to bring up the perspectives of other Avengers soldiers.

The screen flashed, and the picture of Ilumi's face immediately appeared on the screen, but there was nothing on his face. He stretched out his arm, and there were no runes on his arm.

"It may be that it appears directly in my true face."

Yilumi's heart moved, and a white light appeared on the soles of his feet. The white light gradually passed over his head, and the tall adult's body returned to the appearance of an eleven-year-old boy.

"The long-lost body."

Ilumi twisted his neck, raised his arms, and got used to the boy's body a little. He then took off the neuromechanical helmet that could not be fully worn due to its shrinkage, looked at Kim Bradley, and asked in a childish voice.

road.

“Do I have a Möbius strip on my face?”

"No." Kim Bradley responded solemnly.

Suddenly, Illumi frowned and felt itchy on his left arm. He immediately stretched out his arm and looked down, and saw a black Möbius strip gradually forming on the back of his left forearm.

"I also have it on my body. This kind of thing will appear whenever I swallow a monster?"

"What about abilities?"

Ilumi looked at Pride. At this time, Pride had recovered, and nothing had changed except for the Möbius strip left on his face.

"Pride, can you use your power on me?"

Ilumi said in a deep voice, while Pride raised the corners of his mouth and spoke in a low voice.

"no problem."

The moment the words fell, Pride's eyes flashed red, and Illumi felt murderous intent rising in her heart. She immediately sat cross-legged and closed her eyes tightly.

At this moment, in Yilumi's consciousness, a red full moon suddenly appeared in the sky. Under the full moon, Yilumi was sitting cross-legged on the top of a mountain made of countless corpses.

The endless blood gathered into a sea of ​​blood and surrounded Yilumi sitting on the top of the mountain. More and more blood flowed until Yilumi, who was at the top of the corpse mountain, was also in a sea of ​​blood.

The uncontrollable smell of blood rushed toward Yilumi, and blood kept pouring into his nose, ears, and mouth, making it difficult to breathe.

Just when Ilumi couldn't bear it anymore and was about to wake up, a burst of intense black light suddenly burst out from the sea of ​​blood. At the same time, the "water level" in the sea of ​​blood continued to drop.

For a moment, Ilumi felt like she was breathing again.

A Möbius strip glowing with black light emerged from the sea of ​​blood. The turbulent sea of ​​blood slowly calmed down under the black light of the Möbius strip.

Yilumi's brows tightened and relaxed, then he slowly opened his eyes and returned to reality.

"interesting."

Pride looked at Ilumi who was sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes open, curiosity in his eyes.

He could feel that the killing intent in Yilumi's heart had reached an unstoppable level.

But suddenly a strange force appeared, completely suppressing the murderous intention in his heart until it subsided.

"The Möbius strip, it seems that the things on those hell bells have their origins."

Ilumi stood up slowly and glanced at the Möbius ring symbol on his left forearm. His body glowed with white light and he reappeared as an adult in his previous life.

"lets go."

Yilumi ordered that thirty-five people, including himself, get on the inflatable boat again and head towards the place where longevity food grows wild in the north of the swamp.

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August 15, 14:22.

Ilumi and his party rowed for ten hours in the Hell Swamp, and finally arrived at the northernmost part of the swamp, where the longevity food [Nitolomi] grows wild.

The difference from yesterday was that there were no accidents for Yilumi and his party on today's journey, that is, no creatures or hell bells actively attacked them.

“This is where the longevity food [Nitolomi] grows wild.”

Yilumi stepped on the land at the edge of the swamp and looked at a white elk-like creature grazing in the forest ahead, or to be precise, at the thing above its head.

This elk-like creature is not large, measuring only three meters long and one meter high.

But its hair is white and clean, and there are two branches on its head that branch out into many small branches, with white flowers like magnolia blooming on them.

There is not a single leaf on the two branches and the branching slender branches, which look very clean and pure.

"puff…"

It moved its front legs to push aside the grass, and took a step forward.

The same white figure appeared behind it, also grazing with its head down.

Only then did Ilumi and his party notice that they turned out to be two heads, but their silhouettes were completely overlapped just now and could not be seen from Ilumi's side.

"rustle…"

The breeze blew gently through the forest, blowing the grass and branches and leaves. Ilumi looked deeper into the forest, and there were more.

They are in pairs, their movements are gentle and completely synchronized, their postures are elegant, and every move they make gives people a noble and pure temperament like the ancient nobility among animals.

"A very strange creature."

Ilumi and his team just stood on the land at the edge of the swamp, observing them quietly. He had seen the hand drawings of the longevity food [Nitolomi] in the V5 Special Risk Management Agency.

It's what these strange creatures look like with the branches and flowers growing above their heads.

But for some reason, the hand-drawn drawing did not depict the appearance of these white creatures, nor did it say that the longevity food [Nitolomia] was a tissue of this kind of creature.

"Goooo!"

Suddenly, two noble creatures that were grazing in front of them raised their heads at the same time, and their movements were completely synchronized to look at Ilumi and his group standing at the edge of the swamp.

"Goooooooo"

They looked at Ilumi and his group, blinked, their ears slowly stood up, and they raised their heads and chirped softly.

Immediately, they turned around at the same time, jumping and disappearing into the forest in perfect synchrony.
Chapter completed!