Marvel: Spear Bureau Technical Advisor

Taunting and humiliating a hell lord is just a daily routine of standing forward in the position of human beings and Kama Taj disciples; it does not hinder the possible agreement between him and Mephisto.

But some questions still need to be asked clearly.

"I have two questions that need to be answered honestly by Mr. Mephisto." Qianqian proposed a thing that is absolutely impossible for hell creatures.

"Please say."

"If it's just a high-level devil defecting into the main material plane, why are you so anxious?" Xiangqian expressed his confusion, "I know that after the devil embryo is born in the world, it can serve as the carrier of the devil, allowing him to break through the dimension The barrier came to the world with its real body. But this is more of a disaster for mankind, why are you so anxious?"

A high-level devil descends into the world with his real body, and with the thirst for souls of hell creatures, it is bound to bring huge loss of life to human beings; it will also be a severe challenge for Kama Taj.

But Mephisto, as a king of hell, if you say that he will care about the possible heavy casualties of human beings, and take the initiative to warn Kama Taj, isn't that a joke!

That's why I asked forward the question: "I really want to know, besides cultivating devil embryos, what else has Locke done? How much trouble will his defection cause you?"

Mephisto seemed a little hesitant in the face of this problem, and the frequency of hitting the ground with the crutch in his hand involuntarily accelerated.

Qianqian listened to the announcement of the boarding announcement on the radio for the second time, and kindly reminded: "You still have at most 5 minutes to convince me to help you, Mr. Mephisto."

"I have lost part of my authority;" Mephisto said, "For nearly ten centuries, Locke has been my assistant; in order to better manage the territory, I have given him part of the authority. Now, with His defection is also lost."

Xiangqian was quite surprised: "Are you kidding me, Mr. Mephisto? A hell lord would actually hand over his authority to others and lose it?"

Mephisto, the Lord of Deceit who is known for his cunning and deceit, is it possible that he will still be suspicious of others?

"Originally, there was no problem." Mephisto sighed like a fake, "As long as I think, those rights can be taken back at any time. But Locke...he found a way to completely take the rights as his own."

"So for you, what is the most serious consequence?" Qiangqian asked.

Mephisto replied: "The most serious consequence is that he will be qualified to challenge me; as long as he can accumulate enough power in the main material plane, when he thinks it is appropriate, he will return to hell and challenge me issue a challenge."

Hearing Mephisto's narration, Qianqian originally listened with a gloating smile, but suddenly his mind flashed like a flash of light, and he thought of a problem that he had ignored before.

"Is the authority you gave Locke your soul?" Xiang Qiang asked suddenly.

Mephisto's face froze, and although he returned to normal immediately, the vigilance and hostility revealed at that moment were still keenly captured by Qiangqian.

"Sure enough, you can't hide it from you, can you?" Mephisto is much more relaxed than before, "You are right, for the Lord of Hell, the authority of the territory is our soul."

Now that he has been seen through, Mephisto is also open and honest.

"I've told you before that the Lord of Hell carries a world with his soul—it's true. For us, the territory is carried with the soul, and then the power is obtained from the territory; Locke got my soul fragments, and partly got This is the reason why I said that after taking the soul fragments as his own, he is qualified to challenge me in the future."

"But in my opinion, this kind of challenge does not pose a great threat to you." Xiangqian disagreed with the answer of the hell lord.

"To accumulate enough power, Locke must absorb a large number of human souls; conflicts between him and Kama Taj are inevitable. Why don't you just sit back and watch him be wiped out by the Supreme Mage? There is no chance for him to successfully absorb power and return to hell One in ten thousand."

Mephisto sneered: "This is stupid short-sightedness from short-lived species; James, although you are born with the potential to be a strong man, judging from your current achievements, there is a high probability that you will become the master of one party in the future; but you must not Not to mention, you are still too deeply shackled by human thinking habits."

"I would like to hear more about it." Xiangqian switched to his mother tongue at this time, and he knew that Mephisto could understand.

"Life is short, life is easy, opportunity is plentiful; human beings—especially those living in powerful and rich countries—don't appreciate the cruelty of competition. You don't mind losing one, two, or more, because For most of you, the world will always continue to offer you new opportunities."

Mephisto's tone carried the natural sense of superiority and vicissitudes of the longevity species.

"If you go back a century, you will find that people who lived 100 years ago treated their competitors more cold-blooded and cruel than you are now. Because they have too few opportunities. The more poor and backward where the signs are more pronounced."

"And, what if all the opportunities are missed from the beginning to the end? A mature and stable society will always give those failed individuals the bottom line; in just a few decades, at most a hundred years, people will die. So, with It's hard to see the brutality of competition from a personal perspective."

Having said that, Mephisto looked straight ahead: "But you are different, James. You should understand that your life form has been fundamentally out of the scope of human beings; it's just that your thinking logic The synchronization shift has not been completed."

"Your speech was wonderful, Mr. Mephisto." Applauded forward, "Perhaps, your point of view can explain why the competition between countries and nations is more cruel than the competition between individuals?"

"Cruelty? Humans don't understand cruelty enough, James." Mephisto said, "Even from the beginning of the survival competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, the 10,000+ years of human society's competitive behavior has added At the same time, the degree of tragedy is not as bad as hell."

"When dealing with potential competitors, we will never give them even a ten-thousandth chance." The Lord of Hell whispered softly, but murderous.

"Blunt and thorough; every university should invite you to give a lecture on the philosophy of competition," said Forward.

"How do you know I haven't been there?" Mephisto asked quietly, "The earliest universities in the world were established under my own witness, and some of them even received my funding."

"Ha, that's because I'm still ignorant." Qiangqian almost forgot that this one in front of him is the one who likes to wander around in human society the most among all the hell lords.

The third announcement urging boarding came from the radio.

Looking forward to the ceiling of the hall, the eyes seem to lose focus;

"My second question is, why don't you go to the ghost knight to help you? We know very well that you have found a new knight; two years ago, he was the one who helped you solve the problem of the San Van Gonzale contract. By the way, he also killed your useless son, what's his name... Witch Heart Demon, right?"

"Of course, my initial reaction was to go to him." Mephisto was not at all surprised that Kama Taj knew about the existence of Ghost Rider.

"The results of it?"

The question also seemed to embarrass Mephisto a bit: "He's out of control; I can't command him right now."

"Haha, out of control? It's better to say that he figured it out." Xiang Xiang said, "You are paying for the past fraud, Mephisto."

The Lord of Hell defended himself eloquently: "I have faithfully fulfilled the contract every time."

"From a legal point of view, a contract based on fraud is invalid and unprotected." Qiang joked, "It seems that as a party to the contract, Johnny Blazer is more willing to do it from the standpoint of human law. Look at the contract between you."

"Hmph!" Mephisto protested feebly.

"Okay, I'm leaving." Qianqian stood up, dragged the suitcase and walked towards the boarding gate.

The last announcement urging boarding has already been broadcast on the radio.

"What, are you going to ignore Locke's threat?" Mephisto was surprised.

The forward faction comforted the Lord of Hell with ease: "Don't worry, Mr. Mephisto; we all know that Locke can only be completed on the winter solstice, which is the day when the barrier between hell and the main material plane of the earth is the weakest." The real body has come; it is only the beginning of October."

"You have to think clearly, James. Locke's behavior is not only a threat to me, he is also causing trouble for Kama Taj." Mephisto restrained his smile, "I'm not just talking about casualties ; at the same time, his actions are setting a very bad example for other dimensions."

The old devil reminded meaningfully: "The method of cultivating devil embryos is not a secret in the dimension of hell, and it used to be very popular on the earth. The reason why no one has tried this method for centuries is entirely out of respect for the supreme mage. Respect; but Locke is ruining it."

Xiangqian heard the almost straightforward threat from the Lord of Hell.

Dimensional barriers cannot solve all threats of invasion. The current peace of the magic side of the earth depends on the powerful strength and prestige of the Supreme Mage.However, if the invasion of Locke is not handled properly, it may destroy the peace that Karma Taj has always maintained.

Qianqian's face darkened slightly: "If other devils or dimensional demon gods want to follow suit, we welcome them—as long as they can afford the price."

Mephisto's expression was as usual, he looked at him coldly and forward, and for a long time he showed a warm false smile again; "Of course, with your financial resources and power, two months is indeed enough, I can afford to wait .”

"Really?" Forward asked.

"Really." Mephisto vowed.

Xiangqian smiled heartily: "That's good, I originally planned to change the ticket to Europe if you were really in a hurry."

Under the influence of the dimension barrier, Mephisto can only roughly sense the approximate location of the devil embryo, which is somewhere in Central Europe.

Even with Mephisto's strong mentality, he can only roll his eyes at forward's bad taste.

"By the way, if time drags on for too long, it won't do you any harm if Locke holds your soul fragments for a long time?" The forward question was almost like a surprise attack, making Mephisto's expression a second time. change uncontrollably.

Although the change in expression was only for a short moment, and he didn't wait for the other party's answer, he moved forward but didn't care, turned and left with an obvious sneer.

And staring at the forward figure from the beginning to the end, until the young Master Karma Taj boarded the plane, the eyes of the Maharaja of Hell flickered for a while.

And on the plane to Hong Kong Island, I let myself sink into the depths of the seat, and my thoughts were also complicated.

The loss of a piece of soul must have a great impact on the Lord of Hell, but it is difficult to grasp the magnitude of this impact forward.

Because he has controlled the border of hell for a short time, it can be said that to a certain extent, he has been a hell lord for less than half an hour; although the time is short, he has a deep understanding of the source and form of the power of the hell lord cognition.

The most simple and clear fact is: the soul of the hell lords is their real power source; and for the hell lords and all hell creatures, the real power is both powerful and fragile, and cannot withstand the slightest damage.

To use an inappropriate analogy, the full power displayed by a high-level devil is like the steam locomotive of an old-fashioned train; when the train is moving, a large amount of water vapor and smoke will be emitted from the steam engine to wrap around the locomotive, forming a huge-looking Smoke cloud.

For the locomotive, it doesn't matter if there is more smoke and water vapor wrapped outside, and it will not damage the power of the train; but if the steam engine itself is damaged, even a small crack may cause irreparable damage. serious consequences.

The relatively minor consequences such as a drop in output power, increased wear and tear of spare parts, mechanical shutdown, etc.; and more serious consequences are the direct explosion of the steam engine.

To the devil, external power is like the smoke outside a steam engine, a little more or less doesn't matter; but the loss of a soul fragment and the loss of real power are far more serious.

It is similar to the situation where a steam engine is opened with a crack; a small gap may cause immeasurable losses.

Now, Locke's betrayal is equivalent to tearing a rift in Mephisto's soul, making his true source of power incomplete.This is also the real reason why the old devil is so anxious.

As for saying that there will be challenges in the future, and saying that the threat will be snuffed out in the bud, it is just an excuse for Mephisto.

Half the words spoken to the deceitful devil are too much.

Logically speaking, Xiangqian and Kama Taj could sit idly by and wait for Mephisto and Locke, two high-level demons, to kill each other.

But as Mephisto said, if Locke wants to continue enough to challenge Mephisto's power, he will inevitably bring heavy casualties to the earth's humans; and it may trigger further chain reactions, completely breaking Kama Taj's painstaking efforts Maintain the magic side balance.

Among them, the conflict of interest makes people in a dilemma, neither Qiangqian nor Karma Taj can sit idly by.

"If you're going to find someone in Central Europe...it seems like you have to contact Sylph."