From Hunter x Hunter to Supreme Will

This is just his understanding and guess.

"If that's the case... Even if we escaped to the center of the lake, we wouldn't have survived until now. Why don't you destroy us?"

Men Qi asked a soul-searching question.

“Why don’t your neighbors kill you?”

At this point, Long no longer hid his feelings from the three people.

"Because of the law, killing someone will result in a death penalty... The Dark Continent naturally has no laws, but it must have some kind of order, and this order is beneficial to humans. For example, a certain creature that dominates the Dark Continent likes humans very much... or even humans. Or it is restrained by some factors."

"In reality, the energy on the island in the lake is too poor. Many things in the Dark Continent cannot get the energy they need after entering the human world... This reason alone is enough to make most creatures unwilling to go there. It's like living a life of luxury. Would you be willing to become a beggar?"

"The way organisms live is determined by the environment."

Long said: "This is the homeland of humans and monsters. We once belonged here... Dong Fulishi was able to roam this continent for hundreds of years. His existence and my existence can prove that in a certain era in the past, humans were fully capable of surviving on this continent. They were able to control this life energy that seems to be extremely huge now, and they had a unique power system. Our ability to control thoughts is one of the manifestations."

"As for why they were fleeing, why they were migrating... maybe it was a war, maybe it was a disaster."

"This is just my guess, it may not be accurate... You just need to understand that humans... are actually very scary."

Long smiled at the three of them, which was rare. He rarely smiled since the death of Fant and Rita.

"Perhaps... the diversity of all life forms in this entire Dark Continent was created by our ancestors back then."

"The people who migrated to the island in the lake were probably only a minority, not all of the people on the Dark Continent... There might still be humans living in the center of the continent right now, forming some kind of new civilization."

"Of course, it could also be a 'purgatory' created by other species... Whether it is the Garden of Eden or a magic box, we need to open it ourselves... I think it is more like the second one."

"..."

The three were speechless.

During the conversation, they came to the city center.

I saw the tall stone statue close at hand.

The topic stopped abruptly.

Chapter 255 The Truth X Are You... Human?

“No wonder we can’t understand what’s on those murals.”

Anthony's lips were dry.

Although the stone statue in front of me has the appearance and outline of a human, it is not a human.

Most importantly, the species carved into the stone statue and the accessories it wears are...human.

The rings on her hands and the necklace around her neck are all made of human skulls.

"It's the worst truth." Long said in a deep voice.

He had just finished telling the three people his guess, but now he felt like he had been slapped in the face.

Long had seen a scene on the stone paintings of the Bozwa tribe. It was that the ancestors of the Bozwa tribe were surrounding a mother monster, and one by one they voluntarily threw themselves into its mouth to be eaten... In fact, this had already foreshadowed the situation of the ancestors of mankind in the Dark Continent.

However, I just feel that it is not that simple.

But what we saw confirmed the heritage of the Bozwa people.

Why would a human city build a stone statue of a monster and place it in the very center? Judging from the local topography, it seems to be a place of worship.

This creature clearly has ill intentions towards humans, but humans worship it like a god.

This was the truth that Long was most unwilling to accept...so he didn't say it.

The monument under the monster statue was engraved with incomprehensible words and images.

It's exactly the same as the patterns on other buildings in the city.

The reason why they couldn't understand it was because what was recorded above was not the past or civilization of this human city... but the history of this monster in front of them, this race, which was not a memory of humans! Long walked around the stone statue. Even though he couldn't understand the murals in general, he could still vaguely observe some of it.

Human beings... are just too weak, without the so-called halo and various renderings.

For countless years, the ancestors of mankind have been living in the Dark Continent, using a despicable method... by clinging to powerful creatures.

Although humans have developed their own way of survival and means of controlling life energy, they are still no match for the powerful life forms that are spread across the Dark Continent.

The only thing to do... is to reproduce.

Continue to reproduce so that the human race will not become extinct.

Keep the fire burning…

Until one day, someone who returned from the sea discovered a small island in the lake. There were no terrible life forms there... It was suitable for human habitation, so they chose to migrate.

Just as the initial speculation suggested, humans... were driven out.

Eliminated from the food chain.

"That is to say... in the long years, the human race has never stood out from the Dark Continent and has always been at the bottom of the food chain. It is precisely because they are too weak that they are ignored..."

After a while, Long finished looking at the patterns on the stone wall and closed his eyes.

The appearance of the island in the lake saved the lives of the human race.

That's it.

The truth... is always bloody and naked.

"team leader…"

Men Qi looked at his expression and seemed to want to say something but stopped himself.

Some thoughts flashed through Long's mind. There was a reason for his previous speculations.

The door and the wall guarded by the gatekeeper are obviously the creations of human civilization.

Furthermore, the patterns on the Kuruta tribe’s clothing are very similar to that door, which means that there are humans living in the core area of ​​the Dark Continent.

"This should not be the whole truth, just a part of it..."

Long opened his eyes and took a deep breath: "The human groups living on this continent should also be different. The conditions outside the wall and inside the wall are different."

"According to my observations, from the perspective of the food chain and ecological characteristics, the weaker the species, the more likely they are to be driven to the edge of the Dark Continent, while the stronger the species, the more likely they are to live in the center of the continent. The entire Dark Continent is likely to be a high-low sequence eliminated by countless food chains, with the higher-level species inside the gate and the lower-level species outside... The human groups are not unified, and it is likely that they are fighting each other."

No matter what he said, the facts were before his eyes and he had no choice but to believe it.

There were just some doubts in his mind that had not yet been resolved.

At this moment, suddenly, beautiful music sounded from the square where the stone statue stood.

Men Qi and the other two were horrified and immediately assumed a fighting stance.

Looking around the venue, there are actually many small stone sculptures of creatures that are exactly the same as the stone statues, each of which is more than three meters high. I don't know if they felt their breath of life, but more than a dozen small stone sculptures suddenly rotated like music boxes and began to pluck and play the instruments in their hands.

Although the stone creatures have the same appearance and body shape as humans, the polishing technique is very rough, so at first glance, they are just upright cylinders, and the lines of the body are not carved in detail. The thing in the hand is not a musical instrument that Long and the others are familiar with, so they did not recognize it at the first time.

The bodies of both large and small stone statues seem to be covered with a thick layer of hair.

The back of the head protrudes outward.

As soon as the music was played, Men Qi and the other two used their telekinesis to protect themselves and blocked their five senses at the same time. However, it was useless.

They still seemed to be able to 'hear' sounds.

The muscles on Anthony's face began to move, and it seemed that his skull and skin were beginning to twist and deform...

Wrinkles quickly appeared on Men Qi's face, making him look old.

Soul attack!

Long was very familiar with this ability.

A wall made of black fog instantly enveloped the three people.

And in Long's eyes, as the music played, the space here began to be filled with strange fluctuations... soul lines like musical scores were floating in the air.

"The Devil's Dark Sonata?"

"Is this the Demon King?"

Hazy pupils shrank.

Finally, he encountered a dangerous source who had the same spiritual power as him.

This was within Long's expectations.

But... this stone creature doesn't look like a demon.

Dark Sonata is a solo piece composed by the Devil, played by piano, violin, harp and flute...and the instruments in the hands of these little stone statues are not these four.

The "staff score" that others could not see lingered in the space, constantly hitting Long's body. The notes disappeared one by one with a bang, obviously having no effect on Long.

"No wonder I couldn't detect you... As a fellow user of soul energy, it shouldn't be difficult for you to avoid my perception."

Suddenly, I understood.

He waved his hand suddenly, and the air roared.

All the rotating stone statues were smashed into pieces in an instant.

But…the music didn’t stop.

Long slowly turned around, looked at the towering stone statue, and said lightly: "Come out..."

As the words fell, the pedestal-like stone surface suddenly split apart to reveal an open passage.

Then, a group of strange creatures wearing black robes and with disgusting looks walked out.

A few of them still retained flesh and blood, but their limbs and faces were completely deformed, even more disgusting than the earthworms in the Yin Beast... Among them, under a black robe was a moving skeleton.

It's just a skeleton.

But there is soul fire burning in his eye sockets... a bit similar to the necromancer in Long's past life memories.

These strange creatures...are all human.

Long now understood what these stone statues were... they were human beings!

They are just humans who have undergone mutations after listening to something like the 'Dark Sonata'.

Long used his telepathic ability "clairvoyance" to take a quick look. This group of people were deformed and mutated, not only in body but also in soul... The soul fire in their bodies was not burning, but like a mass of mucus.