Giant snakes surround the earth and sky.

Kelly saw nine worlds hanging high in the void, some as hot as the sun, some as cold as the abyss, some as hazy as smoke, and a magnificent palace looking down on the other eight worlds.

And in the middle, a world she was no longer familiar with floated.

Obelia continent.

In the fog surrounding the continent, it seems that the entire planet Ellen can still be seen.

However, such a majestic nine worlds seem incomparably small under one thing.

Like the huge scales of mountains, like the unfathomable gaps in deep ocean ravines, like the huge eyes of the planet, and the greedy forked tongue that licks the nine worlds as if playing with the things in the bag.

The worldly python - Jörmungandr.

The moment Kelly saw the giant snake's eyes, she naturally knew her name.

But Kelly knew that this beautiful giant had not seen her. She was looking into the unknown void in the distance, expecting something to appear.

"Kelly?"

The girl returned to reality and found Hewen looking at her with concern.

She looked around, but she didn't see what she expected. She didn't regard everyone as a snake, nor did she regard the big as small and the small as big.

Nothing at all.

The thinking has not collapsed, the reason has not collapsed.

Kelly looked around again in disbelief, trying to find something wrong, but she couldn't find anything that didn't match her knowledge.

"Kelly?" Hewen asked again.

The girl shook her head violently:

"I'm fine, what's wrong?"

Elwood said:

"You seemed a little distracted just now."

Kelly smiled and explained:

"I was a little distracted just now."

Elwood twitched his mouth, was he distracted in front of this corpse? He was more willing to believe that Kelly was addicted to some weird part of it.

His guess was not far from reality.

Elwood didn't want to know more about Kelly's true thoughts, so he asked Hevin:

"What do you think? For what purpose did this prisoner do this? Self-expression? Show off? Or is he really a fanatic?"

Hewen analyzed:

"He definitely does not believe in Ouroboros, nor is he a member of a sect that has been systematically studied, because there are a lot of blasphemous details in his treatment of the victims, which here refers to blasphemy against the God of Ouroboros."

Elwood asked:

"Could it be that he is a crazy artist who regards human life as the material to realize his own expression, but why would he choose this blood sacrifice ritual that has been lost for many years?"

Elwood has seen many murderers in his career, and the proportion of "artists" among them far exceeds that of other groups, but he has never seen such outstanding creators.

The murderer must be very aware that any visual arrangement can trigger human physiological instincts of shock and fear, and he is well versed in this.

Hewen said:

"In terms of technique, his handling of the body was neither solemn nor serious, but more casual. He did not treat Abbas's body seriously, but for some purpose, such as

Induce fear, or provoke the police to kill him, and simply deal with it in a way that he is already familiar with."

A casual creation? Elwood could not imagine that if this was a casual creation, the murderer would be able to create horrific creations that would break the boundaries of human thinking if he were serious about it.

But there are doubts.

Elwood asked:

"Professor Hewen, can you tell from the appearance of the corpse the state in which the murderer handled the corpse? This is not a skill that a folklorist should master."

Hewen asked:

"Detective Elwood, you haven't read my book seriously, have you?"

Elwood sneered:

"I've been very busy these days."

Hewen said:

"In the chapter about the Ouroboros Church in my book, I described a situation similar to blood sacrifices I saw."

Elwood asked doubtfully:

"Didn't you say that this church has been dead for many years?"

Hevin replied:

"Yes, the church died a long time ago, and the young man who performed the blood sacrifice was not a believer in Ouroboros, but a well-educated young man whose spirit was on the verge of collapse.

"According to what he said, he held this ceremony because there was a terrifying ancient evil demon, the chaotic descendant of Managalm, who was hunting him. He had to borrow the power of another ancient god to fight the evil demon."

Elwood sneered:

"He committed himself to the devil and prayed that he could fight against another devil? It's a shame he could figure it out. What's his ending?"

Hevin continued:

"The young man has more conscience than Aaron's murderer. He did not use humans to perform blood sacrifices. Instead, he studied ancient books diligently and completed the ritual with substitutes that conformed to the teachings - various animals.

"I was there at the end of it all, because I had seen what a serious blood sacrifice was, and so I knew that this sacrifice was nothing more than a cruel mockery of Ouroboros and everyone else.

"When he was finally discovered, the ending was not good. People found red marks on his throat as if he had been entangled by a giant python, and his lower body was missing, leaving only the canine gnawing

Traces of food."

Hewen smiled and explained:

"Of course, since I arrived there after he died, I was not able to see his death with my own eyes. How much of it is just rumors among the people and how much is the imagination of ignorant people is unknown.

And know.”

Heven did not forget to clean up the remnants of the old god's power before leaving there.

Or should it be called the Old Evil?

Elwood seemed to be in awe of the story and was, as he claimed, half a mystic.

Hewen said:

"For the murderer, this blasphemous ritual is just a tool to achieve a certain purpose, a crude work he made carelessly."

Elwood closed his eyes.

Tools, rituals, Havan, books, Ouroboros, immortality, reincarnation, Abbas, Aaronic University, purpose, distance, time, place.

The police detective spoke his inference slowly:

"The murderer wanted everyone to pay attention to Abbas's death. In order to achieve some purpose that I can't determine yet, he needed people to turn their attention to this man.

"What has changed since his death?"

While the detective was mumbling to himself, Kelly looked at Hevin.

Because she thought of a very terrifying answer, an answer that she couldn't understand and accept, but seemed to be able to explain everything.

That is the reason why the murderer killed Abbas in such a cruel way was to make Hevin suspicious of others.

How could someone indifferently kill an ordinary student who had no grudge against him just to create some trouble for the professor that did not pose a real threat?

The figure of a woman in black appeared in her mind.
Chapter completed!