Maze Fan: I opened a buffet in the maze

There is no day or night in the red space, only eternal darkness with a bloody color.

Only when the bases of the stone pillars near and far released red electric light, did a few dark moons wrapped in red light seem to appear briefly in the sky.

"Old man, what is your name? Where is this place?"

Following the mysterious old man through the scarlet field of corpses, Fan Wei took every opportunity to ask questions. After entering here, he was searching for the truth and thinking about the enemy's intentions.

The red-robed monk threw them in and never reappeared.

Perhaps, they did not dare to enter here. The scene they had seen before seemed to explain everything. This scarlet space was a place of exile from which there was no return...

And the mysterious old man in front of him should know a lot.

"What do you mean old? I'm only...only fifty-three years old!"

The weathered uncle who was mistaken for an old grandfather glared and pulled his messy beard, but he was not actually angry. Instead, he was very happy that someone was talking to him.

After the communication, the sound became much smoother.

"Hehe." The bearded uncle laughed creepily, "You don't know where this place is? Could it be that someone has framed you and you're here too?"

"I fell into a trap..." Fan Wei told the truth.

In this situation, he couldn't think of any reason why the uncle would be hostile, other than to trick them into eating meat.

"I can tell at a glance that you're an honest outsider." The uncle sighed and snorted, cursing in Northern Empire slang: "Unlike those despicable and shameless stinky fish outside!"

He introduced himself: "My name is Willow Cakins, Grand Maester of the Heart Agency."

"Misle Fan, this is Kanisha." Pointing his finger upwards at the head of the girl who was standing high above him, Fan Wei responded by calling out their two names.

"Tsk, they're also modified products? Those brainless bugs out there are getting worse and worse."

The bearded uncle commented to the girl with a click of his tongue, then stopped in front of Fan Wei's slightly embarrassed expression, and said in a slightly more serious tone, "We're almost there, follow me closely, and don't make a wrong step!"

The corpses were still piled up in front of me, but there was a depression extending downwards.

Dark, almost black blood accumulated in the low-lying areas, forming a small lake. In the dim light, a patch of gray-white could be vaguely seen above the dark red.

Verokakins took a step into the blood lake, his footsteps slightly sinking, and he actually stood directly on the blood!

Following the uncle's signal, Fan Wei and the others followed forward and tried to move towards his position.

The ground under his feet was slippery and cold, and Fan Wei felt as if he was stepping on an unknown object floating in the blood, with a shaky buoyancy supporting his body.

But even with Kanisa's current size, she can still stand very well.

The surroundings were very quiet as the three of them advanced step by step in the blood lake. Although there was nothing unusual, Fan Wei always felt that there was a hidden danger.

In the blood lake...there seems to be something indescribable?

It was like some kind of spirit, very chaotic, manic and uneasy! It came faintly like a whisper, as if it wanted to penetrate through the surface of the body and into the heart! It made the skin a little tight.

"Don't be distracted!"

A low shout brought the two back to their senses. With the uncle's reminder, Fan Wei and Kanisha calmed down and continued to move forward. Finally, they reached the center of the blood lake without any incident.

There stood a thick dead tree covered with red palm-shaped leaves.

The tree itself has lost its vitality, and its leaves come from the vines on the tree. You can see blood vessel-like lines in the bark fibers.

The three of them squeezed into the not-so-wide space in the heart of the tree from the half-split tree trunk.

This is the shelter of Verokakins, which is only about ten square meters in size. Kanisa, the biggest one, can only sit huddled up with her knees hugged.

The bearded uncle first took the pieces of meat in his arms, turned around and carefully piled them at the roots of the vines in the dead tree.

Sensing the blood, the vine stretched out many tiny tentacles like a living thing, drilled into the flesh, and quickly absorbed the flesh and blood until it shriveled and turned black.

The originally dry branches were moistened, and in a flash they bloomed with red flowers and produced several fist-sized spherical fruits.

Some deep red, almost black liquid condensed on the palm-like leaves and fell into the lake outside like a light rain, as if it was the reason for the accumulation of the blood lake underfoot.

"Eat. We've already been to Red Poison. It's okay to replenish our energy."

The bearded man picked the fruit and handed it to Fan Wei, saying with a sigh, "Get used to the taste first, this is the only thing you can eat in the future."

"Mr. Caggins, where on earth is this?"

Fan Wei took the fruit and took a bite. His eyes twitched involuntarily. The flesh was soft and rotten like mud, extremely sour and astringent with an indescribable strange taste.

His sense of taste was already very sensitive, and it felt like he had a mouthful of diluted hydrochloric acid in his mouth, with some weed flavor added...

"Here, hey, this is the 'end of the world'." After sitting down, Willow Kakins relaxed a little and began to answer Fan Wei's questions.

"Where the Imperial Research Institute discards its 'waste'."

He sighed, "You should know something about the Empire's life transformation experiments, or you may be a participant."

After looking at Kanisa, the bearded uncle took out a small, turbid glass bottle from the neatly arranged sundries and took a big gulp of the red liquid inside.

“When a transformation experiment produces one effective finished product, it may also produce a hundred waste products.”

"Seven or eight of them are still useful, but the rest are uncontrollable, useless or even harmful, and will be thrown into this garbage dump."

"Humans, hybrids, beasts, bugs, and all kinds of modified creatures are like being flushed into a sewer, in a completely uncontrolled situation, conducting another experiment of survival of the fittest."

"The End is such a testing ground."

Fan Wei nodded. He had some guesses about this, but still had doubts. "What is the relationship between this place and the Blood Lord's sect?"

"Oh, you've dealt with those perverted lunatics?"

Willow Kakins' eyes flashed with interest. "I guess you were sent here by them, right? Those bugs in the empire are really corrupt to this extent, allowing the devil's followers to wreak havoc."

"Hehe~"

Seemingly taking some pleasure in someone else's misfortune, Cakins did not hide anything, or rather, he did not need to hide anything.

He smiled a little crazy, "Young man, let me tell you a big secret. In order to gain power, the empire has actually been secretly making deals with the devil!"

"The source of power for our Heart Machine to transform life comes from the blood demon 'Lord of Blood' in the abyss!"

"This is why the test subjects are always full of mania and horrible mutations. While the 'red poison' brings power, it will grow and spread in the body, eventually turning normal life into the monsters outside."

"Hehehe, those seemingly stable modified bodies might mutate one day."

"With millions of people, one opportunity will turn the imperial capital into a living hell."

Verokakins laughed crazily. Fan Wei was not too interested in the chaos within the empire for the time being. He only focused on the present and deciphered the unknown factors one by one.

"Red Poison?"

He felt that the university scholar in front of him seemed to have a lot of confusion and madness in his mind, which might be related to the "red poison" he mentioned.

"That is some kind of source power substance coming from the Lord of Blood." The bearded uncle explained.

"We used to call it 'the red element'."

"Its essence is a polluting energy. When it accumulates and grows in living things, it becomes 'red poison'! The more red poison accumulates in the body, the more bloodthirsty and crazy the creature becomes, and the stronger it becomes."

"Those monsters outside will become more and more terrifying by constantly devouring their own kind."

"However, there is a limit to the amount of red poison that a living thing can endure. Once they ingest too much, they will explode and die immediately. The places where the red poison is most concentrated are the corpses scattered all over the ground."

"They were the first experimental subjects that were thrown away. They became waste and accumulated into a mountain."

"This is all..." After raising his head and taking a big gulp of the liquid in the bottle, Willokakins gritted his teeth and said, "This is the sin of the empire."

"What is the purpose of the empire?"

Fan Wei couldn't figure out, was the purpose behind this sea of ​​blood and corpses just to compete and gain power?

The bearded uncle's eyes turned sinister, "The purpose, isn't it simple?"

"Let me ask you, is there any difference between gods and demons? For humble and weak mortals, if you can't become a god, then what's wrong with becoming a demon?!"

"Devouring, evolving, and pursuing the limits of the individual, isn't that the purest thing in this experimental field?"

"Using the lives of countless creatures as nutrients to nourish an ultimate life, and to use it to spy on the power of gods and demons, this is the purpose of the empire's top leaders, or the royal family."

"And what I know is just the tip of the iceberg of their plan."

The bearded uncle grinned and said, "Young man, sometimes you can see the essence of things from the surface. Think about it, the current behavior pattern of the empire is not without reason."

Fan Wei suddenly realized and understood, isn't this "eating"?

The empire's development model of eating up all the weak and shaping an ultimate strong one is really chilling.

“But I still don’t understand some of it.”

Vero Kakins held the bottle of wine and suddenly whispered, "With the ability of the empire's high-ranking officials, they don't have the ability to consume all the 'nutrients'. Many times, it's simply wasted."

"Unless there is a hidden absorber that eats up all the leaked parts."

“Who is the ultimate beneficiary behind the scenes?”

(ps I took a three-day break and recovered. Sometimes when I write too much, my sense of language will suddenly collapse.

Not only can I not write the current content, I can't even start writing anything else, anything new.

But it would be nice to take a break.

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