Endless Debt

TEDA stepped into the dark spiral staircase, put his hands on the handrails, and climbed up step by step. He rarely did this, being defeated by one person's words.

He wanted to refute something, but in the face of Boluogo's words, TEDA really couldn't find a way to defend himself.

Teda understood that what Boluogo said was right. He was a hesitant coward who did not dare to face such cruel facts. He was also a selfish man. In order to satisfy his own selfish desires, he dragged more and more people into Quagmire.

But TEDA couldn't stop. Like a rolling stone from a high mountain, it was already thundering, crushing everything in its path. No one could stop its progress, not even TEDA itself.

Going up to the third floor, this is TEDA's private territory and no one is allowed to set foot in it. Boluogo once imagined what kind of secrets were hidden here, but in fact the layout of the third floor is very simple.

There is a long corridor, with doors lined up on both sides of the corridor. The doors are closed and locked tightly, as if there is some kind of strange beast imprisoned behind the door.

TEDA rarely comes here, where his nightmares are sealed.

He pushed open the door closest to him. The room behind the door was filled with black boxes. TEDA opened one of the boxes at random. Under the dim light, bursts of golden light rose up.

Countless Mammon coins were neatly placed in the box. Teda reached out and brushed these cold coins, and the slightest coolness wrapped around his fingertips.

He closed the box and turned to look at the other boxes in the room, thinking about the things stored behind other doors.

If Bologo saw this scene, he would definitely scream. No one would have thought that TEDA had so many Mammon coins. These golden coins piled up into mountains, almost filling the third floor.

The bright golden light reflected on TEDA's face, and his face was slightly distorted and distorted in the golden light, and bursts of light melody spit out from TEDA's mouth.

He was humming an ancient song with a gentle expression, as if he was coaxing a child to sleep.

It is not easy to accumulate these Mammon coins. It took TEDA many years to continuously implant the alchemy matrix into people and generate a steady stream of value for Wandering Cross Road to accumulate these.

Teda knew the horror of his purpose. In order not to attract anyone's attention, he never used these Mammon coins. Instead, he stored them here, in silence, gestating his own wishes.

After closing the door, Teda walked towards the end of the corridor, the song echoing in the darkness.

Gently pushing open the door at the end of the corridor, Teda stepped in cautiously for fear of waking up the sleeping person behind the door.

The interior layout is very simple, without any furniture or clutter. The empty room exudes a hazy blue light, and a faint mist fills the air under your feet.

As if he had stepped into a cold storage, the temperature in the room was significantly lower than the outside world, and even TEDA's breath was filled with white mist.

TEDA hesitated in his steps, his wrinkled face was filled with joy and fear, but in the end he couldn't restrain his inner emotions and stepped forward.

A hospital bed is located in the center of the room. Various instruments and equipment are set up around the hospital bed. The ether is tumbling in it, and a slight buzzing sound can be heard among the machines.

Teda moved a chair, sat down next to the hospital bed, lowered his head, and put his hands on his forehead.

After a long time, he came to his senses and looked at the girl on the hospital bed with his bloodshot eyes.

She was very similar to Aimu, just like sisters. She was lying on the hospital bed with her eyes closed, as if she was asleep, and a faint light lingered on her body like a hazy veil.

This is an alchemy weapon often used by the medical department, and its name is "Statistical Mist".

From the outside, it looks like a glowing gauze mist. After attaching to the human body, it will greatly reduce the body's metabolic consumption and put the body into a state similar to dormancy.

This alchemical weapon is often used to protect patients who have been in coma for a long time, which can greatly protect their fragile bodies. However, under the modification of TEDA, it was used to protect Alice's body.

Looking at Alice's peaceful face, intense sadness surged into Teda's heart.

He still remembered that nightmarish day when Overlord Xilin arrived and recruited everyone in the domain without distinction. The violent ether easily invaded everyone's moment soul threshold.

The Sublime Ones could still resist for a while, but ordinary people's souls were completely torn apart by the exploding ether.

Alice was under the influence of Overlord Xilin at the time, but fortunately she was not fully recruited. When Overlord Xilin had just released this powerful power, the Glory of the Order Bureau had already arrived and stopped him.

But the tragedy still happened.

The power of the Glorious Ones is at the pinnacle of this world, and they can easily cause terrible destruction with just one move, let alone Alice at that time.

She has not yet reached adulthood, and her soul has not yet been completely stabilized. Under the power of Overlord Xilin, her already unstable soul was completely disrupted.

Just like a condensation ceremony, the condensation was suddenly interrupted in the middle of the process. Alice's soul was not plundered and condensed into a physical philosopher's stone, but her soul also failed to return to normal.

Listening to the steady ticking sound, Alice still had an extremely weak heartbeat. After so many years, under TEDA's careful care, Alice's body was still sound in a stagnant state, as if time had frozen on her body. She looks just like that day, but her soul can never be reset.

According to the judgment of the medical department, Alice was counted dead, but Teda was unwilling to accept it and continued the condensation ceremony, condensing Alice's soul into a philosopher's stone, and her body was protected and maintained a weak vitality.

"Start button, I need a start button..."

Teda was troubled. From an alchemist's point of view, Alice's body could actually be regarded as a perfect body, but Teda couldn't find the start button. He had tried to reverse the condensation of the Philosopher's Stone and let it overflow. The soul returned to the body, but in the end it all ended in failure.

Also, in the research of alchemy, many people have tried to reverse the sublimation, but according to the current research, this process is irreversible.

After countless failures, Teda shifted the goal of research to another direction. Since the soul could not return to the body, he created another body for Alice.

The body of an alchemy doll.

"Why wasn't you the one who woke up?"

Teda whispered, thoughts crawling over his spirit like poisonous snakes, making him exhausted.

He still remembered that day, the alchemy doll started to move, and under this steel body, she also gave birth to her own consciousness.

Like a big blurred dream, Teda thought it would be Alice who woke up, but under this body, another consciousness was born.

A confused, unfamiliar consciousness.

Teda was extremely disappointed when he learned that she was not Alice, and this rejected consciousness named himself Aimu.

Teda looked very bad. The blue light shone on his face, making him look like a dead tree. The slender shadow cut his cheek into a hideous and terrifying look.

Opening the cabinet next to the hospital bed, low-temperature air-conditioning overflowed from the cabinet. The coldness made Teda's palms quickly lose consciousness. He took out an injection from it, and the needle was filled with bright blood.

After coming out of the low temperature, within a few seconds, the frozen blood in the needle became active and restless.

"The blood of immortality..."

Teda whispered softly.

If alchemists create many alchemical materials based on their understanding of the "secret source", and use these alchemical materials as the basis to build alchemical weapons.

Then the blood of eternal life can be regarded as a kind of contract material. Just like the contract object corresponds to the alchemical weapon, this weird material is born from the power of the devil.

To maintain Alice's physical immortality, relying solely on the resources of the Medical Department and TEDA's knowledge is completely insufficient. TEDA needs some power beyond the specifications, even if it involves taboos.

When he first used this eternal blood, TEDA was very hesitant. Unlike many sublimation practitioners, he once served as the director of the sublimation furnace core and knew many secrets, such as what this eternal blood really represented.

"The blood of 'the evil in this world'."

Teda said without any emotion, as if calling out some kind of taboo, he vaguely noticed that the entire alchemy workshop was shaking slightly.

Not just in the alchemy workshop, but in the entire Great Rift, the monster noticed his own blood and was frantically trying to recover it.

TEDA knows what all this is about, but he is not ready to completely become an enemy of the Bureau of Order, and he has never thought of such a crazy move as awakening the evil in this world.

Injecting the blood of immortality into Alice's body, the extremely vital blood was integrated into her body. The sick body glowed with healthy blood color at a speed visible to the naked eye, and even the weak heartbeat became stronger.

Teda grabbed Alice's hand and put it on his forehead.

"The Orangutan Sect has come to awaken the evil in this world, but the Immortal Heart is in the hands of the Gray Trade Chamber of Commerce. They will definitely break out into conflict..."

Then Teda whispered another spell.

"The soul determines the body, but this can be reversed. The body will also affect the soul..."

Crazy delusions were woven in his mind. Looking at the sleeping Alice, Teda's voice was firm.

"I'll wake you up, Alice."