Origin of all things Arkham

hell? ! !

Generally speaking, the word "Hell" is not an unfamiliar word among people with Tobias' profession and level.

How should I put it, it is more like a kind of eternal existence in the oath... a festival destined to come?

Death may not be scary, but hell is not.

In past company team-building projects involving threatening others, collecting debts, destroying people's families, etc., Tobias heard various curses more than once, which were basically related to [Hell].

Does he believe in the existence of hell?
maybe.

If people do too many bad things, they will inevitably have all kinds of random thoughts in solitude in the dead of night.

But Tobias never thought it would be now.

Unexpectedly, when he was most proud and ambitious, the door to hell would suddenly open to him.

He lowered his head and grasped a handful of sand in his hand. It was red in color, glowing with a greasy red light, but dry and bone-grinding, with a strong smell of sulfur and a choking smell of blood...

There is no doubt that this place is indeed hell.

"Oh my god...oh my god, here, here is really..."

"What is it? You wait here for a while, and I'll go find two locals to ask for directions."

Linn patted Tobias on the head and was about to leave. After thinking for a moment, he drew a circle on the ground and wrote a few words outside the circle with great satisfaction.

"Lynn's here. Okay, that should be enough."

Linn clapped his hands, looked around, jumped off the flat red ring top, and safely left Tobias here.

And Tobias has been in an offline state. He didn't even hear what Linn said, let alone when he left.

I don’t know how long it took, but the cold wind and sand blew from the top of the mountain in curls, scratching Tobias’s face and hands. The cold stinging sensation brought back his dormant brain nerves, and Tobias Yas's whole body trembled, and his eyes became alive.

"Damn...damn, damn, damn! How could this be hell! Why did Linn bring me to hell! He is not a god! He is not the lord of hell!"

Tobias roared in a low voice, grabbed handfuls of red sand from the ground and threw it into the air. His whole body was flopping around like a big catfish, venting his dissatisfaction in an attempt to use this anger. Get rid of the fear in your heart.

However, all this has no effect.

As far as the eye can see, nothing Tobias has changed.There is still only red sand here, and the sky is filled with gray clouds. It is neither darker nor brighter.

This world seems to have been like this since ancient times and has never changed.

After struggling for a while, Tobias felt infinite sadness and fear in his heart. He felt that it would be better even if Linn was here now, even if he could hear his ridicule.

"No! I can't just be like this...I am Tobias Wheel! I am the man who unified the metropolis! How could I be...by..."

Struggling to get up, Tobias wanted to say something to calm himself down, but his voice became smaller and smaller, and was finally drowned in the whining wind.

He looked down at his feet. On the flat platform at the top of the mountain, around him, there was a crooked circle drawn on the ground, enclosing him in the middle.

Somewhere directly ahead, outside the circle, there were some writings left.

【Lynn is here】

"Damn it Lynn! Damn it!"

After kicking somewhere in the circle, Tobias strode out, panting with a winner's smile.

But this smile did not last long. He suddenly realized that he was still trapped on the top of the mountain and was still not out of danger.

"Huh... Calm down, calm down you damn thing! There must be some way to get out of here, you can definitely go back!"

Tobias forced himself to calm down and thought about ways to save himself.

First of all, Tobias confirmed that although he came to hell, he was still alive, not dead.

This was confirmed by the heartbeat and the blood that flowed from the back of the hand cut with a dagger.

Secondly, Tobias firmly believes that Linn will never stay in hell with him, which means that there must be a way to go back!
Once these two points are determined, the next thing to do is obvious.

He wants to return to the human world!And, the first thing to do is not to be caught by Linn again!

Thinking of this, Tobias made up his mind.

……

Although he is a heavyweight athlete weighing almost 400 kilograms, and his body looks like it is basically all muscles, but what no one may believe is that Tobias's body flexibility is not inferior to that of any professional athlete.

After all, athletes train themselves for performance, honor and money. Tobias trains himself so that he will not be killed.Moreover, he has enough energy, perseverance, and even money and resources to invest in himself.

Rock climbing relies on flexibility and determination not to be afraid of death.

The flat crater that Lin En chose is not too high. Although the shape of the mountain is as strange as spikes sticking out of the ground, it looks like it is only 200 meters high. Produces desperate numbers.

Taking off his suit, tearing off the sleeves of his shirt and wrapping them around his hands, with a dagger in his mouth, Tobias climbed through the cracks in the rocks and escaped from the top of the mountain bit by bit.

That is to say, his physical fitness is strong enough. If it were anyone else, there is a high probability that he would be exhausted and die on the way.

Tobias succeeded, he successfully reached the ground.

However, before the pain in his hand disappeared and before he could take a breath, a new danger appeared.

A monster that looked like two different creatures spliced ​​together appeared in front of him, spitting out a long, snake-like forked tongue, and stared at him with six pairs of eyes open.

"The living! You are human! Living!"

Now that we know we are in hell, it is not surprising to see demons uttering human words.

But you should still be afraid, especially when facing an extremely ugly demon.

He took off the dagger from his mouth and held it in his hand. Tobias's eyes were firm, his legs were straight, and his whole figure was like a tiger and leopard ready to pounce.

The devil smiled. It didn't seem to care about the other party's gesture of resistance. It just kept running back and forth around Tobias excitedly: "It's really a living person! There have been no living people in hell for a long time!"

Humanity!I won't kill you, as long as you give me your two eyes, I promise to leave here! "

Silently, Tobias chose to refuse in silence, but he knew that there should be no reason to argue with a creature like the devil.

"I don't know what you are, but... I am indeed a living person, a human being who mistakenly went to hell.

I can sign a contract with you. There is such a thing in hell, right?As long as you help me leave hell and return to the human world, I guarantee that you will have whatever you want!Let alone one pair of eyes, I can even help you find a hundred pairs of eyes!

How about it! "

"Hehe, hahaha, hahahahaha!"

Tobias' words were met with a disdainful laugh from the devil.

"Human beings are so funny. Do you think you can leave hell easily? It's so funny.

There are very few passages from hell to the human world, they appear randomly, and many of them were destroyed by that damn Constantine. Do you want to go back?Haha, go back? !
Who do you think you are, Lynn?Why don't you..."

As he spoke, the demon's words suddenly stopped, and a look of astonishment appeared on its human-like face. Its front legs took a step back unconsciously, and its nose twitched.

"You, how did you get here?"

in silence.

The devil took a step back again, his expression more cautious, and his back even arched.

Tobias thought for a moment, straightened up, and took a step forward.

"Don't come over! I said don't come over! Did you hear that?"

Tobias clearly saw the hair on the demon's body standing on end. The whole demon seemed to have seen something terrible. After shouting twice in a panic, it made a strange and noisy cry and stomped on the ground. The dust that was raised ran away in a panic.

Looking at the demon running away, Tobias did not feel happy in his heart. On the contrary, he felt that the shadow named Linn hanging over him seemed to be a little bigger. "Lynn... what kind of terrifying monster are you... Sigh, I am obviously only active in the metropolis, how could I offend Linn..."

Holding the dagger in his hand, Tobias took a deep breath. The strong stimulation of sulfur made his lungs hurt, and it also helped him clear his mind.

"Get out of here! Get away from Lynn!"

After careful consideration, Tobias chose to continue running away.

However, although Tobias, as a human being, has enough sense of crisis and is careful enough, he obviously still underestimated the danger of hell.

Less than 2 minutes later, after going around a pillar-like mountain, Tobias saw two uglier and more terrifying demons appearing in front of him, fighting and eating each other.

Likewise, the two demons also saw him.

"Humanity?"

"The living!"

Just like the previous one, the other party saw his identity as a living person at a glance, and immediately put down the fight between the two sides and looked at him, with many pairs of eyes showing undisguised greed.

If you can't do anything, run away!
Tobias turned around and ran back, but his speed, which was enough to be ahead of most humans, was of no use. In just a few seconds, he was stepped on by a demon falling from the sky. Even though he tried to resist, But the demon spit out fire and directly melted the dagger in his hand, along with half of his palm.

"Ah——! Damn stupid devil!"

Tobias suddenly felt a little regretful and missed the small circle and the flat hilltop.

"Haha, they are really human."

The demon who stepped on him was very happy and discussed with the other demon with a smile: "How about, I want his flesh and blood, and you want his soul?"

The other demon nodded, and sharp black nails popped out of its front paws, pressing them on Tobias's forehead, about to stab down.

"Lynn!"

Tobias had an idea at this moment and shouted crazily: "I was caught by Linn! If you eat me, Linn will definitely come to you!"

Unexpectedly, such a sentence actually worked.

The two demons paused for a moment, and then...

"Oh, it's useless, human. Although Linn hates it, this hell is almost endless. Even if you really get into my stomach, he can't find us."

Having said that, we must continue to do it.

And just when Tobias felt unbearable pain on his forehead, and was about to watch himself being cut open, a dark red light flashed, and the heads of the two demons fell off. Come down.

Tobias didn't realize what was happening at all, and the smelly blood poured all over his face.

"vomit……!"

Tobias, who continued to vomit and was covered in blood and dirt, struggled to sit on the ground and moved backwards, leaning against the rocks and gasping for air.

At this time, he saw the fourth and strangest demon he had encountered since entering hell.

A short man, almost exactly the same as a normal person, but with three heads, a little devil.

"You just said that Linn brought you here?"

The little devil put his hands behind his back, tilted his head, and looked at Tobias curiously.

"Yes, yes. It was he who brought me..."

"where."

"I don't know. He said he wanted to find someone...to ask the devil."

"Well."

The little devil nodded: "Where did you come from?"

Tobias was stunned and subconsciously looked back towards the top of the mountain.

The next moment, the scenery in front of him suddenly blurred, and the strong wind blew against his cheeks, making him unable to open his eyes. When he was thrown to the ground, Tobias realized that he was already on the top of the original mountain, lying in the circle.

The little devil with three heads was looking down at the words written by Lin En, showing a satisfied expression.

"Well, it's really him."

As he said that, the little devil looked at Tobias, and all three heads showed "kind" smiles.

"Do you have any way to bring Lin En back?"

"I...yes! But, I have a request. I want to go back to the human world!"

There was another flower in front of him, and the little man had appeared in front of him, looking at him with a smile: "I think I should remind you.

The consequences of cheating on me are really serious. "

Tobias was scared.

Of course he could guess that although this little devil didn't have a scary appearance, it was definitely a big scary devil.

“I-I don’t know…Lynn said he’d be back soon…

help me!I'm willing to sign the contract!I would give my soul!Just let me return to the human world!I'm willing to do anything! "

"child."

The little devil shook his head: "You overestimate yourself. In fact, you don't have any chips to trade with me, including your soul.

Likewise, you have no qualifications to sign any contract with me.

Let Lin En come, it's almost the same.

Oh, haha, here he comes. "

The little devil looked somewhere in the sky. Linn, dressed in a frog costume, rode a translucent spirit body and landed on the top of the mountain.

"Eh?"

Linn saw an extra person on the top of the mountain at a glance, and also saw the wound on the trembling Tobias' hand.

"Old man, you injured my prisoner, you have to pay for it."

"Okay."

The little demon nodded with a smile and took out a large piece of gold from his gray rags.

"I'll compensate you for this."

"cut."

Lin En snatched the gold and put it into his pocket: "Who are you fooling? Is there any soul or something? Get me one thousand eight hundred."

"Okay."

The little old man wanted to take out his pocket again, but Lin En put his arm around his shoulder and asked in a low voice: "Old man, who are you?"

"Beelzebub."

"That's Beelzebub."

"probably."

The old man looked at Lin En with a smile: "I should be the only Beelzebub in hell."

(End of this chapter)