48 Hours a Day

"Why are you so kind to tell me these things?" Zhang Heng said solemnly.

"Because you haven't stepped into my trap, and we are not sure that we can win each other now, then negotiation will become our only option to resolve our differences." Nyaratotip said, "and we Before the conversation begins, I need to help you recognize your current situation."

The monster in the black mist paused, and then said, "Those fanatics and dependents have never given up looking for you over the years, but the old fox in Chronos is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He has been hiding you very well. , Put you in China, the desert of faith. For some well-known reasons, it is not friendly to all gods. The low conversion rate of faith is horribly low. Until this round of the game, among the gods Few people turned their eyes there.

"But just over a year ago, Cronos took the initiative to find one of the masters of the under-ice city... the servant, revealed your situation to the other party, and promised to help the other party to train you to become one. Only a perfect container for the owner of the city under the ice to get out of trouble, in exchange for friendship with each other, and since then news about you has spread quickly among those fanatics and dependents, I believe You have already met some of them."

Zhang Heng thought of the hazy seaside town, the half-man, half-fish and frog monsters in the town, and the guys he met on Yonaguni Island. Each of them looked at him with longing eyes. Only then did Zhang Heng realize that the desire was not aimed at him, and what they really wanted was the thing that used him as a container.

"They have found you. Once they realize that you have completely lost your feelings, they will happily surround you to accept the advent, whether you like it or not, and on the other side, the old guy Cronos is obviously also fighting. With his abacus, friendship is just a lie. Chronos is not a fool. He doesn’t know that the owner of the city under the ice will not have any good feelings for him because of his help, so he You must also have no intentions, as for other gods...

"No one welcomes the arrival of a madman, let alone that madman is extremely powerful, but also brings fear and destruction to the world. They may not have any special dislike for you, but since killing you is the easiest way to prevent That guy's way of getting out of the seal, if you were one of them, how do you think they would choose?"

The monster in the black mist gave a chuckle, and continued to break his fingers to help Zhang Heng analyze, "I have said so much, I believe you can also understand how you are now...the situation is not good, although I always feel that The term "enemy of the world" is a bit second, but I have to admit that it is a perfect word to describe you now. Although you may feel a little unwilling to do so, you still have entered this desperate situation without knowing it. in."

"What about you?" Zhang Heng asked, "What do you want from me?"

"You are a smart person, and I always like to talk straight to smart people. Of course I have no good intentions with you," Nyaratotip admitted happily, but then he continued. "But as I said before, our interests in certain things... are the same. You don't want it to happen, and I don't want the guy in the city under the ice to come out and completely take my boss's position. At this point we have the same goal."

"What will happen to me if it happens?"

"Good question. Of course, your body won’t be in any trouble, because it was originally cultivated as a container. As for your soul, it may be strong among ordinary people, but it’s strong against the owner of that ice city. His spirit will still be crushed ruthlessly, swallowed clean, and disappear from this world forever. And now I may be the only one who is willing and able to protect you."

Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows when he heard the words, "How are you going to protect me?"

But then the room fell into silence again, and after a while, Nyarlatotep's voice sounded again, "Don't be busy shooting."

After he finished speaking, a paw slowly stretched out from behind the door, and there was a bloody bone in that paw. "This is my second spine. Just put this spine into your body. , It can help you resist that guy’s mental assault after the advent ceremony begins. I can’t guarantee that it will succeed. After all, that guy is too strong now, stronger than all the rest of us combined, but this time I It's preconceived, so the success rate... probably half and half, but it's worth a bet after all.

"Actually, this is what I was busy doing when you pretended to be in a coma. If it weren't interrupted by you, I should have done it. Don't worry, although you need to cut your neck in the process, but then I I'll help you sew it to make sure it's intact, even Cronos can't see it. Speaking of it, this time I've also laid the blood for you. Although theoretically my body can be reborn, those who were killed by you The parts hit with a sniper rifle can repair itself, but some key points cannot be reproduced casually. For example, now my second spine is lost."

Standing in the yard, Zhang Heng listened to Nyarlatotepu's words silently, but did not answer immediately.

And the monster in the black mist was not in a hurry. He seemed to be sure that Zhang Heng couldn't refuse, because as he said, the young man in front of him didn't actually have too many choices from the moment he was born into the world.

Zhang Heng’s life has long been arranged by people. Whether it is the mad believers, or Cronos, Hydra, or him, everyone who approaches this young man has their own ghosts, for all kinds of differences. The reason, wanton manipulation rewrites Zhang Heng's life.

Each of them is not a waiting person, has different goals, and at the same time they all use Zhang Heng as a tool to achieve this goal.

But tools have no right to resist.

It’s like the current Nyarlatotepu, which seems to provide Zhang Heng with the right to choose, but he knows the boy in front of him

There is no way to refuse his proposal, because as long as the latter does not want to be completed by the owner of the city under the ice, he can only choose to cooperate with him, even if he knows that this is a poison in a honey coat, he can only swallow it with a frown. Go down.