Chapter 1646

Sitting by the fire, looking at the woman directly opposite, rod seemed to find something.

In rod's memory, he seems to have met the woman, but he can't remember where he met her, but there is some impression in his heart.

Waiting for a moment, seeing that the woman had no response, rod asked, "who are you?"

The woman didn't answer rod's words, just gave him a light look.

From the darkness behind her, she picked up a handful of dry branches and put them into the fire in front of her. For a moment, the flames in the fire grew stronger.

After all this, she smiles with satisfaction, looks at rod and says, "tell me what you think of suffering."

Her voice is low, not like the effect of deliberately lowering her voice, but the voice itself.

"Suffering? What do you mean? " Rod gave her a puzzled look and didn't understand the meaning of her question.

In this strange environment, rod does not know what impact his answer will have on the follow-up. The best choice is to ask the woman in front of him first, and then answer according to her answer.

"What people have suffered, what they have suffered." She explained slowly, "maybe it's physical suffering, death, disease, deformity, maybe it's spiritual, madness, pain, love."

"Love?" Rod seemed to find something, frowned slightly, looked at her and asked, "is love also a kind of suffering?"

"Of course." She nodded, "when all creatures are just born, their hearts are peaceful and happy. They have no fear, no desire, and are extremely pure. Have you ever observed the eyes of any new born creature? There's no impurity in it. "

Rod listened to the woman's story in silence and calm.

"However, with the contact with the outside world, the original happiness and harmony of the newborn are destroyed, and the fear and desire are generated. The innocent mind has mixed thoughts, which makes people lose their eternal happiness. This is the existence of suffering. Since we were born, everything we have experienced, even the love that can make people happy for a short time, is suffering. "

Then she pauses and stares at rod carefully: "this is my understanding of suffering. I want to hear from you."

Rod thought for a moment and replied, "I think suffering can give people strength and make them heroes."

"Hero? Is that your understanding of suffering? " She seemed disappointed and gave rod a disgruntled look.

Rod nodded: "if suffering has any meaning, it is to let people go beyond suffering. People can't do it with their own strength. Only by becoming heroes can they do it. "

She said with a smile: "although I don't agree with what you said, I agree with one of your words. The significance of suffering is to let people transcend suffering and obtain eternal happiness. "

Rod seems to realize something: "eternal happiness... It's not something that can be achieved simply. Even the Lich who seems to gain eternity will die when he meets a stronger enemy. What kind of happiness can last forever? "

"There is only one kind of existence, with such happiness. In the ancient legend of Erathia, that kind of existence is called "God." She raised her voice and stood up from the fire, her broad robe covering her body. "We meet again, rod."

Listening to her, rod's face suddenly changed, and he subconsciously entered a state of vigilance.

In rod's impression, after he came to hell, he did not reveal his real name, and always claimed to be elot. However, the woman in front of him called out his real name. Listening to her words, she did not seem to see herself for the first time.

After thinking of this, rod seems to realize something. He looks at the woman unexpectedly and knows that his soul will come to hell. It seems that there is only one person.

"Marcia, is that you?" Rod asked with some doubts. He couldn't figure out who else was in front of him, except for Marcia.

In the face of rod's question, she didn't answer directly, just a smile on the corner of her mouth, which can be regarded as the default of rod's words.

At this time, rod also recalled where he had seen the woman's face. In the temple of revelation not long ago, the statue of the greedy king was clearly made of the woman in front of him.

Once upon a time, under the influence of the realm of the dead, maxika presented the form of an old woman, but in the trial in the depths of hell, rod saw her real form, or what she used to be.

The difference between the two looks was so great that rod was not used to it for a while.

"I found the guide you left behind." After pondering for a moment, rod said slowly, "when you just disappeared, I used a treasure to explore your situation and found that you were hanging on a lava lake. Now it seems that you are in better condition than I thought. You can find me in the trial, it seems that you are safe and sound

However, maxika shook her head: "what you see now is just a small means. My body is still on the lava lake, and I will be punished... The lava lake you see is the lake of fire in the trial, and my location should be a place called the door of betrayal."

Rhode's face changed at the words of maxika. Before that, from Hella's story, rod already knew that among the ten gates leading to the city of huoyin, the most important one was the gate of betrayal. Unexpectedly, maxika was locked there.

"Why are you locked up? What did you do? " Rod asked with some doubts. He didn't understand what she had done. As one of the kings, she would be punished like this.

"That was a long time ago." Instead of answering rod's question directly, she just shook her head. "The arrogant King imprisoned me at the door of betrayal as one of the sacrifices for the birth of the beast. If you can save me, I may be able to give you a lot of help."

"Beast? What's that? " Asked rod, as if he had found something.

"The ultimate creature." "All creatures that fail in the trial will become part of the beast," said maxika slowly

Rod frowned. In his memory, there was no such ultimate creature in the previous life of the game. Maybe it was because the players at that time disrupted the process of the game, or for some other reason, rod could not get any help from his memory for everything that happened in hell.