Life has dealt a heavy hand to a weak demigod like me.

After hearing what he said, Peroz also felt that he had done a lot of stupid things before.

She wasn't stupid, on the contrary she was very smart, but her intelligence would sometimes go astray, and she often didn't want to use it against other people.

"Teacher...what should I do next?" Peroz asked in a low voice, "Should I continue to gather information or..."

"Go to that mountain and explore it at night." Hogot said seriously after thinking for a moment.

"Huh?" Peroz looked at Hogot strangely.

"You probably haven't told anyone else about me, have you?" Hogot asked.

Perozzi nodded. She listened intently in front of Salieri and indeed did not mention Hogot.

"You go over there to investigate, and I'll follow behind you to provide support."

"After revealing so much information to you, the other party didn't inquire about me, which shows a lot of problems."

"Either he doesn't care how many of us are coming this time, or his words about the mountain are real and are just a prelude to gain our trust."

"It would be unwise to attack a strange explorer in a place like this. After all, no one knows what weapons the stranger has in his bag of tricks that could be used here."

"Let's assume that the other party has malicious intentions, and he didn't lie about the mountain incident, so what is his purpose?" Hogot asked Peroz.

"Find out our reserves of weapons and extraordinary equipment?" Peroz asked uncertainly.

Hogot nodded. "That's a possibility, but it's not the only one. Perhaps there's a more complex arrangement within the mountain."

"Climbing a cliff after losing your strength is a very dangerous thing."

"During this process, once you reach a certain level, it will be difficult to escape the enemy's attack even if you have a lot of strength."

Imagine that halfway up a cliff, Peroz is climbing up step by step with a mountaineering pick in both hands. At this time, a man comes out of a small hole in the cliff wall, holding a gun or a crossbow in his hand.

In this situation, Peroz needs to hold the climbing pick in one hand and fight back with the other.

At the same time, because of his awkward position, Peroz found it difficult to dodge the opponent's attacks and could only be attacked like a living target.

For a moment, Peroz's face turned pale.

"Of course, many things are just assumptions. Even if it really comes to that, we are not without a way to escape." As he spoke, Hogot reached out and took out a silver ring from his treasure bag.

"The Feather Falling Ring is a piece of technology I acquired through restoring some historical relics. It doesn't have any extraordinary properties, but it does contain some extraordinary materials. As long as you wear it, your body will be as light as a feather, and you won't be hurt even if you fall from a high mountain."

"I remember there's one in your treasure bag."

Peroz nodded.

"And this." Hogot took out another pebble-like object.

"The Fog Gem, if crushed, will instantly create an invisible fog around you. This fog will gradually expand, reaching a maximum range of one kilometer."

"And this." Hogot took out another pair of glasses.

"Eye of the Mist, as long as you carry this thick fog, it will not be able to affect you."

"And then there's..." Hogot took out a special grappling hook, a small mirror, and some magic bombs.

Looking at Hogot, who looked like Doraemon, the corners of Peroz's mouth twitched slightly.

She felt that with these things, even if there really was an enemy attacking her on the cliff, she would be the one who survived.

"I always feel that there should be a lot of useful things in the bag. Now we should hurry up and sort it out. Maybe it will have unexpected effects."

Peroz nodded seriously.

To be honest, ever since Hogot gave her the treasure bag, she hasn't used many of the things in it.

After all, because of Charles, Peroz had no chance to fight in the Kingdom of York, and she did not experience any adventure after obtaining the treasure bag.

Although the journey to the astral world is very exciting, it is Charles's exclusive show, and she only needs to stay quietly in the carriage.

Therefore, although she had the treasure bag for a long time, it had also been covered in dust for a long time.

Now, it's its time to shine.

"The preparations are really sufficient." Still sitting on the chair, Salieri's eyes were fixed on the table top of the stone bench.

At this moment, every move of Hogot and Peroz was in his eyes.

"But it's precisely because of this that things will become more interesting."

"To break a toy like this... just thinking about it makes me shudder..."

As he spoke, Salieri took out the bottle of alcohol that Peroz had given him before, and then he drank it all in one gulp without hesitation.

"It's so delicious...it would be even better if it were accompanied by some desperate wails."

"But before that, I need to slowly gain your trust. Only then will the expressions on your faces be even more intoxicating after the final scene is revealed..."

Salieri's eyes fell on Hogot's face.

Compared to Perozzi, who felt no sense of accomplishment in cheating, Salieri felt that the old man Hogot was more worthy of his attention.

The first thing is to make sure that his previous words are "true". At least before the last scene is revealed, he wants what he said to sound "true" in their ears.

Then he needs some actors to act with him.

Salieri took out some scripts from his space, then rubbed his head in distress.

"With so many wonderful scripts, which one should I choose as my own story?"

"Well... let God decide."

As he thought this, Salieri placed all the scripts in front of him. He then took out a small stone and threw it into the air. After a moment, he looked at where the stone landed, nodded in satisfaction, and then slowly put it away.

"Conquer that mountain quickly and feel the overwhelming despair." "Then... I will guide you along the 'right' path."

"A way out, a false hope..."

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Chapter 351 Chapter 21 The Tower, a Cage of Despair

At night, in the east of the lost city.

After passing through a forest and a "green sea" formed by green wheat, Perozzi and Hesper quickly arrived at the cliff that Salieri mentioned.

"It's so high..." Hesper's tone was a little amazed.

In his memory, although he was born in the Lost City, he had always been traveling within the Lost City. In fact, because of the convenience of Green Wheat, he rarely went outside the Lost City.

He had heard about this cliff from others, but he had never seen it himself.

"When you look up at night, you can only see darkness. The feeling during the day should be more shocking." Peroz looked at the dark patch in the sky, and then began to organize some climbing props.

"Sister Peroz, do you really want to climb up now?" Hesper's eyes looked around, and feeling the uneasy silence in the atmosphere, he couldn't help but pull the corner of Peroz's clothes.

"Don't worry, I'm prepared." Peroz raised a goggle-like object in his hand. "With this, it doesn't matter to me whether it's day or night."

Hesper nodded, but seemed to be hesitant to speak.

Originally, he had not planned to come with Peroz, but after Hogot's analysis, Peroz felt that it might be more dangerous if Hesper stayed alone in the house.

So I brought him here.

"Do you feel it's a little dark and scared?" Peroz, who was wearing goggles, saw Hesper's performance and touched his hair with some amusement.

Because of his previous mature performance, Peroz almost forgot that he was just a child.

"I..I'm not scared."

"I just don't like the night very much!" Hesper said seriously.

"Yes, yes, little Hesper is not afraid." Peroz smiled and said seriously, "If you feel scared, you can light a bonfire here before I leave."

"But that might make your situation a little more dangerous."

"But don't worry too much. Mr. Hogot is on guard right now."

"You don't have to be afraid with him around."

Hesper nodded, then looked around.

The still, dark night without a trace of wind was, in a way, quite scary. But for some reason, compared to the countless times he had been startled awake by darkness in his memory, today he felt a little uneasy or even uncomfortable with everything around him.

As for fear...

It was as if the things he was afraid of before were no longer scary to him.

Moreover, in the previous nights, his vision could only see very close places, but today his vision seemed to be unaffected by the darkness.

Hespel felt that some strange or wonderful changes had taken place in him.

Compared to this change, the fear brought by darkness is nothing.

"Sister Peroz, please be careful." Hesper originally wanted to ask Peroz whether the changes in himself were normal, but for some reason the words were swallowed back when they came to his lips.

"Don't worry, although this cliff looks steep, it is nothing to me." Peroz said confidently.

She was not blindly confident, but skills such as cliff climbing were one of the key training projects of the Krolov family. After all, as mid-level transcendents, they did not have the ability to fly for a long time.

At the same time, the two mountaineering picks she carried also contained some extraordinary power.

Combined with the two, the mountain wall in front of her looked straight and steep, but it was nothing to her.

Afterwards, Peroz climbed up like a monkey with a mountaineering pick in both hands in front of Hesper's somewhat surprised gaze. Not long after, he lost sight of the other party.

The mountain wall is very high, so high that you can't see the end at a glance.

If it weren't for the feedback from some extraordinary items he carried with him, Peroz probably wouldn't have been able to climb to the top in one go.

However, even with the support of extraordinary items, it still took Peroz nearly five hours to climb to the top.

Faintly, she seemed to see a faint light about to appear on the horizon.

She touched a small device near her ear. There had been no further communication from Hogot during the journey.

"Is everything okay down there?" She breathed a sigh of relief and then looked around.

The top of the mountain and the bottom of the mountain seemed to be the same, except that the position was a little higher. The surrounding plants seemed to be the same as those at the foot of the mountain, with only those useless trees and endless green wheat.

But when she raised her head, her eyes were filled with shock.

It feels like being in the deep sea. In the sky above your head, countless sea fish swim around. Some of them directly ignore the world below them, but some of them will cast some curious glances at this place.

However, after trying several times and failing to break through the external protective layer, the fish seemed to give up and just swam around the protective layer in the sky.

Peroz took out her crossbow and gun and launched a tentative attack into the sky. Although she could see the fish swimming in the sky from the peak, as if the ocean was not far from the sky above the mountaintop, when she actually launched her attack, she realized that the distance was like an insurmountable chasm.

The bullets and arrows that shot up into the sky had no way of reaching the protective layer separating the ocean and the sky before their kinetic energy disappeared, and they could only fall down helplessly.

Although it looks close, the distance from the mountain peak to the edge of the sky is higher than the distance from the foot of the mountain to the peak.

However, this height was affected by the extraordinary power in the visual space, causing Peroz to mistakenly believe that his attack could reach that boundary line.

Peroz's gaze lingered on the boundary between the sky and the sea for a long time, and then she walked forward with somewhat heavy steps.

She did not find the tombs that Salieri said the explorers who came here had prepared for themselves, but she saw a tall tower, a tower that reached the sky.

Wood, soil, green wheat branches with exquisite design, a building that looks unattractive but reaches the sky appeared in front of Peroz.

She placed her hand on the tower, as if she could feel the resentment and anger in the heart of the person who built the tower towards the current predicament, but at the same time she seemed to be able to feel the despair behind this resentment.

Peroz did not search around for the tombs that Salieri had mentioned as he had previously planned, but instead went up the tower.

One thousand meters, two thousand meters, three thousand meters...

At 5,000 meters, Peroz saw a special node where many extraordinary objects were placed. Then she continued to climb upwards. After 20,000 meters, Peroz reached the top and saw some skeletons.

Judging from the marks on the bodies, Peroz judged that they had committed suicide.

Looking at the sea of ​​clouds below the tower and the ocean above the tower which seemed to be the same as the one seen below the tower, Peroz seemed to understand the despair in the hearts of those who had exhausted everything to build the tower.

Countless people spent thousands, tens of thousands of years or even longer, giving everything they had to build this tower that reaches the sky.

But the border line that seems so close is actually an unreachable place.

Perhaps it was the extraordinary power that stretched the space, or perhaps it was for some other reason.

They were once full of hope but gradually became desperate.

In the end, they completely gave up on this tower that could have taken them away from here. Many people even lost hope completely after giving up and eventually chose to give up their lives.

"I couldn't understand some of Mr. Salieri's words before, but now I seem to understand them."

"This place is truly a hopeless place."