I'm a villain, not a devil

Chapter 738: God's Forsaken Land and the Time Cube

The god of machines and miracles...

With such a mysterious name, he was hunted for two hundred years?

Noticing the expression on Sean's face, Nieqi let out a few strange laughs.

"He's just a thief from the Third Age. In this world, including above the starry sky and below the abyss, thieves are always the lowest class of people. Only a fool like me who can't even see clearly about himself would befriend such a thief."

Sean looked him up and down and asked a question.

"A thief and an idiot... Well, it's not that I don't believe you, but I have a question. You obviously hate these two and have been hunting one of them for two hundred years, but they seem to be fine now?"

Nieqi was not angry, he just snorted.

"Kid, I know what you're thinking. Ha, this is not a secret. You'll know it sooner or later. It doesn't matter if I tell you now. I have something that was stolen by the God of Machinery and Miracles. The reason I failed to hunt him down was because the God of My Self set a trap for me a long time ago."

"In my prime, even if these two idiots were tied together, they would not be my match—" He laughed strangely again, "Of course, if I wasn't too weak, I wouldn't have participated in the queue in the imperial capital. Ha, it's a pity that I didn't have a good time at the party, and I lost the body of an evil god in vain."

Nieqi was quite calm and didn't seem to mind showing his current weakness.

He has a similar shameless pragmatist vibe to Sean.

Sean shrugged, taking it as an acknowledgement of the other party's words, and then asked, "Then under the current rules of the world, you cannot come to the world, and your Nieqi sect - hey, to be honest, I haven't seen many people from it, and I guess if I had seen them, I would probably have dealt with them easily."

Nieqi sneered, "They are just a few inferior chess pieces placed in the mortal world. I didn't even bother with you for destroying my evil god's body. Besides, you don't need to worry about what I should do. Now it's your turn to tell me about the plan. How are you going to use the machine and the god of miracles to deal with my true self?"

Sean raised his eyebrows. "I do have a rough plan, but I need to get to know the God of Machinery and Miracles better. After all, he is a god, and many of his characteristics will affect my judgment and the details of my plan. You also know that with my current strength, if I want to take action against the god, I must take all aspects into consideration."

He was lying, of course; dealing with the God of the Self was indeed one of his goals, but not now.

Sean's main goal is to get detailed information about the God of Machinery and Miracles from Nieqi, and solve the big trouble in the imperial capital first - and Sean suspects that the inexplicable appearance of the God of Machinery and Miracles is related to the "ending" half a year later.

Nieqi's round pupils glanced at Sean for a few times, and after a moment he said leisurely: "What you said makes sense, but I don't trust you enough, and your strength is not fully recognized by me - who can tell whether I will cooperate with you or be used by you?"

Sean curled his lips: "That's not interesting. In this shitty world, who dares to say that they can trust others completely?"

Nieqi suddenly laughed strangely: "That being said, I have a way to have the best of both worlds."

Sean remained calm: "What's the solution?"

Nieqi said, "You can regard this as a test from me. If you pass the test, it proves that you have enough strength to cooperate with me. At the same time, while I let you take risks, you can also gain benefits. As for how much benefit...ha, if you are brave and lucky, your gains will satisfy you. Moreover, you can also learn the detailed information of the God of Machinery and Miracles and the God of Self. How about it?"

Sean rolled his eyes without hesitation in front of the other party: "Do you think I'm stupid? To pass your test? You can't trust me, but you want me to hand over my life to you to control it?"

Nieqi shook his eyes: "No, no, no, in order to prevent this, the test I gave you was not set by me, but there is something in it that I need - don't be careful and don't be greedy, that thing is useless to you."

Sean raised his eyebrows: "How can something that doesn't work for me be useful to you?"

Nie Qi chuckled: "Of course, this is a unique personal need - you will understand after you see it. I don't mind if you insist on using it. After all, having one more flesh and blood believer that I am optimistic about is certainly not a bad thing for me."

Sean narrowed his eyes: "What do you want me to get?"

Nieqi said: "I want you to bring back a finger for me. When I see you, I know that it must be mine. You know what you are going to ask next, so I might as well tell you all at once."

A ray of light shot out from the center of his round pupil, forming an image.

In the video, countless unspeakable monsters are roaming on a blood-red land, where blood is flowing like rivers and magma is flowing. In the sky, there are even rotten remains shaped like flying dragons flapping their wings.

Nie Qi said, "I'm going to your place to help me find that finger back. Ha, for me, if you can get out of here safely, it means that your strength has reached the requirements for my cooperation with you. As for why I don't go there in person, it's very simple. This place is also under the operation of the world's rules. My real body cannot go there, and my evil god body, ha, to be honest, can't stay in there for more than three minutes."

Sean frowned slightly. The strength of the evil god's body belonged to the lowest level of deep blue. The specific strength depended on the strength of the body.

The evil god body of Nieqi was not strong at that time, but it was the most bizarre one. If it were not for the attack of the tree heart, the Nieqi messenger that Sean created at that time would not be able to completely deal with him.

What's more, Nieqi must be familiar with this place. His evil body couldn't even last three minutes in there?

He frowned and asked, "What is this place?"

Nie Qi gave the answer: "The Land Forsaken by God can be seen as an alien space parasitic on this world, but it is the kind of space with unknown origin and unknown time of appearance. This alien space has a good name and appeared before the First Era."

Sean was slightly curious and asked, "It appeared in the First Era? But I've never heard of any relevant information."

Nie Qi chuckled: "Of course you don't know. After all, this is the private land of the gods. To be more precise, this is a good place for the gods to hide things."

"Most of the laws in this alien space are the same as those in this world, except for the 'elk'."

Sean was slightly surprised: "Lost? That's it?"

Nieqi corrected, "Elk, the kind of elk that lives in the universe - of course, they also get lost. Because once you enter that alien space, no matter what level of existence you are, whether you are a mortal or a god, you will get lost in it. The most annoying thing is that the terrain in it will suddenly change from time to time." "The reason why it is called an elk is because there is a creature in the shape of an elk in that alien space. You can think of it as the guard of that space."

The corner of Sean's mouth twitched. Damn, even gods use puns?
Nie Qi chuckled, "Because that place is special, after being discovered by the gods, those gods who fight with each other and dislike each other will throw their mortal enemy's things into it after snatching them. That space is special and abnormal. When there was no rule that gods could not descend to the world, many gods went in to look for their own things. They were fine, but they rarely found their things."

"When the rules of the world change, no one will be able to enter that place, and it will be impossible to find anything there."

Sean frowned: "That finger belongs to you, and was thrown in there?"

Nieqi admitted readily, "Yes, it is a part of my body that was cut off by someone using a divine weapon. Without this thing, I have never been a complete individual. Although I have gotten used to it over the years, I still miss my fingers occasionally."

Sean narrowed his eyes slightly: "What does this have to do with the God of Mechanical Miracles and the God of the Self?"

Nie Qi said, "Don't worry. Didn't I tell you that I chased that mechanical guy for nearly two hundred years? Although I failed to kill him, I injured him several times during that time. During one of those times, his core component fell off. I picked it up and threw it directly into the God-Forsaken Land. That core component contains some of his memories. You can also use this thing to threaten him."

"And I, that idiot, was just lucky. He was one of the first few people to find the God-Forsaken Land. As far as I know, he found his godhood there."

Sean was surprised and asked, "Godhood?"

Nieqi's round pupils flickered. "Yes, there are still godheads in the God-Forsaken Land. Moreover, based on my experience of entering it a few times, some of the godheads are complete and have never been deprived of their integrity. I am not interested in completeness. If you find the godhead in it, it is yours."

Sean corrected, "If you're not interested in completeness, you shouldn't want your finger."

Nieqi retorted: "Individual integrity and the integrity of the Godhead are different concepts. I am very satisfied with my Godhead, and I do not want any external integrity to pollute its purity - Tsk, you people who pursue the supreme power will never understand that I am the one walking on the true and correct path."

Still quite principled...

Sean glanced at him suspiciously. "And then what? I don't see any benefit from this. The most you can do is tell me the entrance to the God-forsaken Land. Inside, I have to face the dangers and find the treasures by myself. And I have to help you find things? What's more, what contribution did you make to the machinery and the self?"

Nie Qi laughed and said, "The entrance to the God-Forsaken Land is already valuable enough information. You have to know that many gods don't know where the real entrance is, especially under the current world rules. They don't even have the opportunity to find it."

Sean rolled his eyes: "It's none of my business. I'm not a god."

Nie Qi laughed strangely, "But you want to walk a path higher than the gods - Sean, you don't think I don't know, do you? Although I disdain to deal with those idiots in the starry sky, I still know something about the rumored map of the gods. If I hadn't been uninterested in other gods, I would have joined the group of gods who were against you."

Sean waved his hand: "There's no point in talking about this. Who can tell the map for sure? I don't even know myself. Besides, whether we are enemies or not won't affect anything now. If you want to kill me, you have to queue up in the starry sky first."

Nieqi laughed loudly: "Your rogue-like character is very much to my liking - to show my sincerity, I will give you something that is connected to my finger and can help you find it more conveniently. In addition, the guardian elk of the God-forsaken Land has something to do with me. Apart from the monsters left over from the war between gods, you don't need to spend extra energy to face other things. How about it?"

Sean raised his eyebrows and said, "It's useless to talk about this. I came to cooperate with you, not to do hard labor for you."

Nieqi sneered: "But you are only Deep Blue now, not a god yet..."

Sean interrupted Him directly: "Don't worry about the difference in strength. I just said cooperation. You are the one who feels that there is benefit and stays. It is not my turn for you to test me. Remember, this is cooperation."

Nie Qi was silent for a moment, and finally said in a deep voice: "Okay... this thing belongs to you."

As he spoke, a small thing flashing with strange light jumped out from the round pupils and jumped into Sean's hand.

It was a Rubik's Cube with different sides flashing with different colors of light.

"With the Time Cube, you only need to twist out one side, and you can make the surrounding space and time completely stagnate for five seconds - during these five seconds, all creatures in this area will be completely frozen. It also works on gods at the level of evil gods, and of course, it also works on you." Nieqi explained.

Sean frowned slightly and looked at him, then said, "If it works on me, then it means that all time has stopped. What's the use?"

Nie Qi couldn't help but laugh angrily: "Why are you so anxious when I haven't finished talking? It is completely effective for other creatures, including their thoughts, but for the user, it will only freeze the body, and the mind can still move freely for five seconds. Do I need to say more about its usefulness?"

Sean was really surprised this time. If that was the case, it would really be effective.

He fiddled with it for a bit, and quickly restored one side to pure black.

Suddenly, a strange wave spread throughout the surroundings, and Sean felt that his whole body was completely stagnant, including his breathing, energy fluctuations, etc., there was no movement anymore, and even his perception of the surroundings was instantly lost.

Only his mind was still active, and he could even communicate with Noah in his mind.

Is the etheric layer still active?

However, as soon as I felt something, the stagnation was restored.

The Eye of Evil continued to speak, and glanced at the Time Cube in Sean's hand.

After noticing that one side was twisted, he immediately said angrily: "What the hell are you twisting at this time?!"

"You are not allowed to inspect the goods?"

Nie Qi said angrily: "If you use this thing too much, it will destroy the time flow of the entire world! The rules of the world will come to you, do you think you can use it infinitely?! I have used it five times before, and there are at most five chances left! Now there are only four chances left!"

(End of this chapter)