Mysteries: Arcana Wars

Looking at the smiling face of the Seven of Hearts, Fors was a little stunned. The ringing and noise in her head were noisy, and her thoughts surged up her throat, but were blocked there, and she inexplicably felt nauseous.

"Hey, what's with that expression on your face?"

There was a hint of dissatisfaction with the doubt in the Seven of Hearts' tone, but there was still a smile on her face.

"Don't you believe it? What's so bizarre about this? Isn't this normal?

"People on the ground always have unrealistic fantasies about the underground city."

"They were crushed for various reasons in the society above ground, and then they thought that the underground city where the modern social order was falling apart would not have the things they feared and suffered. Haha, who made them think that the underground city was some dreamy utopia? Was it an urban legend, or one of those cool movies where the protagonist killed his way through the underground city and became the king of darkness?

"Just like Uncle Glennan, who thought that by staying away from society, he could escape the pain and torture. His wife's betrayal, the salary of the consortium that kills without compensation, his son's death and huge bills, his own unemployment and inability to pay the rent...

"These modern people thought that by escaping from the ground to the underground, they could escape from the pain caused by the monster of the city. But what is the reality? They seem to have escaped from the city, but the monster of the city has already crushed their bodies and spirits, leaving indelible trauma. These traumas will follow them like ghosts, even to the ends of the earth.

"Will Uncle Glennan be able to forget the shame, pain and sorrow immediately after leaving the city? Can he really walk out of the huge shadows of his wife, son and the son of the consortium?"

"Maybe he just needs more time! Time heals everything!"

Fors suddenly interrupted the Seven of Hearts eagerly, as if she was eager to convince herself, or to cover up herself, wanting to get some kind of false affirmation from the other party. But after realizing her own gaffe, she felt panic and guilty, and spoke in a low voice.

"Maybe, I mean maybe... After all, that's what it says in books and newspapers..."

This made the Seven of Hearts even more interested.

"Oh! Yes! Perhaps time can indeed save him. Our Uncle Glennan may be able to walk out of the shadow of city life in a year and start a new life in Evernight Harbor.

“But, my dear sister Bessie, the dungeon will not give him so much time.

"Hunger, poverty, robbery, extortion, fraud, murder, extraordinary disasters that will always exceed your imagination, and infrastructure that may collapse at any time... This is the true face of the underground city. The collapse of the modern urban order is not the disintegration of all pain, but the release of disorder and sin.

"The fact is, they are just escaping from one kind of pain to another.

“So before these city dwellers with fantasies and filters can accept the dirtiness and chaos of the underground city, the brand new pain that is beyond their cognitive scope will pierce into the rotten wounds they have acquired in the city like a sharp knife, and then make two strong circles, until those city dwellers who are already fragile can no longer bear it, and those who want to commit suicide will still commit suicide.

"But when they can't stand it anymore and want to escape back to the city, especially when they want to return to the city from Evernight Harbor or other deep underground cities, it's not that easy. Lack of experience, endless crimes, and not knowing the up and down passages will all lead to their death.

“This is the real dungeon!”

"If that uncle was willing to stay in the city instead of coming to the underground city out of sheer confusion..." Fors muttered to himself, "Would he have survived?"

"Oh, Sister Bessie, why do you think so?"

The Seven of Hearts changed her tone to a dramatic one, with a compassionate and loving expression on her face.

"The aboveground city has its own sufferings, and the underground city has its own sufferings. The sufferings and joys and sorrows of the residents of the two cities are not the same. If you insist on discussing your own sufferings from the perspective of a city dweller with a precarious hoodlum in an underground city, and say that you envy the freedom and unruliness of the underground city, then they will only think that you have nothing to do and come here to show off your superiority to them.

“Similarly, if I, as an old ghost in the dungeon, complained to you, a city dweller, about my moments of life and death and the source of my happiness, you would just think that I was exaggerating and adding fuel to the fire. Reality is not that dramatic.

"The pain of the two is indeed different. But when people compare life in the above-ground city with life in the underground city, they often overlook one fact."

At this point, the Seven of Hearts couldn't help but laugh nervously.

"That means they are all Backlund! They are all Backlund who eat people without leaving any bones behind!

"Hahahaha!"

For thought about retorting, but she didn't know what to say. The noise in her head was rumbling, and she only felt that the laughter of the Seven of Hearts was strange and harsh.

Noticing Fors's strangeness, Klein raised his hand and gave the Seven of Hearts a rifle butt.

"Ouch! Why are you so violent!"

“Don’t let his words throw you off balance.” The adventurer remained calm. “In the Extraordinary World, Sequence Five is definitely not just an ordinary ‘gangster’.”

As he spoke, Klein once again searched the Seven of Hearts' body, and pulled out an antique long pipe with an obsidian ring pendant.

This is exactly what the Seven of Hearts bought at the antique stall just now.

"You seem to like this, so here you go." The adventurer weighed it for a moment, then threw the long pipe to Fors, "Don't think too much. Your life is yours alone, just live your life well. Don't let him control your rhythm. Don't pity them, because they won't pity you."

“Ah!? This…oh…ok…” Fors clumsily caught the thing. The fine texture of the metal and jade proved that this thing was indeed valuable. Even if it was not a real 300-year-old antique, it was still an excellent work of art.

"Hey, hey, hey! That's my stuff! I paid for it!" The Seven of Hearts complained dissatisfiedly.

"You have just given it to Bessie."

"you……"

The Seven of Hearts couldn't catch her breath and said through gritted teeth.

"Okay, fine! Give it to Sister Bessie!"

Fors was a little overwhelmed holding the long pipe. In fact, she didn't necessarily want to buy this long-stemmed pipe at the antique stall just now, but it was rare to see a Western Continent-style product with her own eyes, and it was an antique, so she couldn't help but feel curious and wanted to take a few more glances.

Moreover, the pipe had come into her hands in such a strange way. Fors felt a little nervous and worried, fearing that the Seven of Hearts, who was always talking nonsense, had already done something to the long-handled pipe.

"I...I'd better give it to Hermann..."

Fors carefully put the long pipe into Hermann's pocket.

"I can barely take care of myself and not hold others back, so I really don't have the ability to keep such valuable things.

"But thank you for your kindness, Mr. Hermann."

Seeing this scene, the Seven of Hearts, who had just gone mad because of losing the antique, burst into laughter again.

"Then I have told you everything I should tell you, and I have given you everything I should give you. It's time for you to let me go!" He fluttered on the ground while laughing.

"what are you laughing at?"

Just as Klein was about to ask more questions, he suddenly felt the familiar vibration from the ground beneath his feet.

"Hey, gentlemen, I have a suggestion: how about we make a deal?

"Let me go, and we'll work together to find a way out. I'll listen to your instructions and do whatever you tell me to do until we leave this damn furniture store together. What do you think?

"Hurry up, gentlemen. Time waits for no one. If we continue to be in a stalemate, we will all be crushed to death here when the earthquake wave comes."

Klein and Leonard looked at each other, then glanced at Fors.

Fors was a little surprised at first. She didn't expect that her opinion would be asked. After hesitating for a moment, she nodded.

The two men immediately loosened their restraints and pulled the Seven of Hearts up from the ground.

"Be honest and have fun working with me."

The next second, a violent vibration reached where they were with huge energy.