The 48th Arrival

  The meaning of life?

  It's just experiencing all the colorful things in the world...

  Or is it just a crawling driven by the instinct of survival?

  As the question is complex and great, Penny doesn't have a philosopher's brain, so he won't have a philosopher's answer. This passage is a classic nonsense, after thinking about it, it just passed, without leaving any trace in his worldview.

  He woke up from his sleep - due to a severe pain, opened his eyes, the Holy Warrior pressed against his right hand, and it was clear that the source of the pain was here. He didn't have the strength or courage to pull out his hand - possibly causing more serious injury to the unhealed fracture.

  He endured the pain, but the warmth of his arm and the slight rise and fall of breathing made him feel comforted.

  The Red Robe's spell did not take the life of the Holy Warrior.

  Pannie let out a breath, propped himself up with his elbow, and found himself in what should have been a dimly lit underground room. The reason it was described as "should have been" dimly lit was because the large transmission gate not far in front of him illuminated the entire room. He took two deep breaths, feeling a clear sense of discomfort.

  The air carried a faintly musty smell, as if I had entered a decaying wooden building. With each breath, my nerves felt an extremely irritating sensation, somewhat like a novice's first experience with smoking, but the feeling was even worse.

  The air was filled with an eerie atmosphere, and Penny furrowed his brow. As he lifted his head, the teleportation gate's light suddenly intensified, causing him temporary blindness. When his vision recovered, he felt that the annoying aura in the air had strengthened significantly, and the surroundings became noisy as well. He saw countless grotesque monsters with mouths full of saliva staring at him like wolves, looking like they hadn't eaten for over a dozen days.

  "Master! Master! Who are these humans? Are they the stored food you brought back? Can we eat them now?"

  The little devil who had just stepped out of the portal was beaming with joy as he gazed at Penny and the Holy Warrior, his hands waving excitedly as he proposed.

  Panni was speechless for a moment. As an incantation summoner, foreign languages were compulsory courses, and Sere was more inclined towards Inferno language and Abyssal language, which he had studied some of, although not to a high level, but understanding the little demon's words wasn't a problem.

  He glared at the mouse on top of Little Devil's head with a paralyzed expression: "Tell your little brother not to make such nutritionless jokes."

  The blue-eyed mouse blinked, the little devil couldn't understand Penny's words, and while still drooling over human soft flesh, he received his master's command in his mind. His eyes lit up, and he quickly started to dance: "Really? Master! Do you want us to pretend to eat him to scare him?... Ah yo!"

  A loud thud shook the ground, and the little devil was caught off guard by a spiritual explosion. Penny couldn't help but chuckle as she looked at the mouse's eyes, which were clearly blazing with anger. Suddenly, she no longer felt the wariness she had when she sensed that her magic pet was out of control, and her mood also lightened up. She took a look around at the group of monsters staring at her: "What is this place?"

  The mouse's eyes flickered and the little devil who had crawled up from the ground shouted: "Master said, this is the abyss."

  "Abyss? So you've come here to develop, huh." Panni was surprised for a moment, then realized why the atmosphere here was so strange. He turned to the mouse with some dissatisfaction: "You could have communicated with me directly, why did you pretend to be deaf and dumb?"

  "Because the master thought it was unnecessary." The cunning devil said so, and then fell to the ground with a "hiss", apparently this sentence was not spoken by the mouse.

  "Alright, forget it." Panni shook his head helplessly. After this incident, he found that he really wasn't qualified to show off in front of this old mouse, and even his life was saved by the other party. He could only change the subject: "What about those red-robed Taoist priests?"

  The mouse flicked its tail, and the cunning devil pulled out a small pouch. Penny was astonished to recognize that it was a magic bag - although not of high grade, but indeed a very precious item. He naturally did not know that this thing came from the tragic heart-stealing magician. Only saw Adi turn over the mouth of the bag and pour out what was inside.

  A large pile of notebooks - the research notes of a demon's magic, but among them was an unusual object that spoiled the strong scent of books. It was a human head, to be precise, a demonized human head, with horns and monstrous tumors on its forehead, and teeth sharper than those of ordinary people. However, the face still retained a human appearance - except for the scales on the side of its cheek, which revealed that this was the head of someone who had been decapitated just before completing their demonic transformation.

  In fact, the cut at the neck is not a clean cut, it seems to have been torn off by biting and pulling. Penny looked around at the ferocious beasts and knew that this human head was probably their handiwork.

  More importantly, this human head penny had been seen before, and it was from the Ring's mentor who intended to kill him. He thought for a moment and sent a message to the mouse: "Can I have this thing?"

  As for the events he participated in, this demonized head is a very important piece of evidence, and he felt it was necessary to grasp this evidence.

  The mouse nodded, and the cunning devil sent a message to reluctantly put away the human head and book in his bag. The cunning devil's face turned black, as if the mouse had made an excessive request, and he jumped up and shouted: "No way, Lakras will never accept..."

  Bailen was another spiritual explosion, the cunning demon immediately shrank back, with a reluctant expression on his face, he handed the magic bag to Penny.

  Penny was extremely surprised, never expecting the mouse to deliver this thing directly to him.

  Bailen thinks this thing is useless and it's a waste in the hands of slaves, better to give it to Penny who can make good use of it.

  However, the great former Balrog Morlakras was exceptionally sorrowful in his heart. Since the fall of Du Xīn Mó, this treasure had been in his hands, and he had cherished it with a thousand true loves, yet unexpectedly, he still couldn't keep it safe now.

  It's all because of this human, if it wasn't for that damned master running into this guy, how would I have lost my treasure?!

  Lakras gritted his teeth in thought, adding another name to the list of those he hated. He walked with a slow and deliberate pace, cursing under his breath: "Oh great abyss, preserve my detestable master for just a little while longer, so I can devour this wretched mortal and reclaim the treasure."

  Penny listened with amusement as Larcus muttered a curse under his breath, and was even more amused that the mouse didn't react. He looked around and noticed that Saint Warrior was still not awake, so he asked the mouse again, "Do you have any way to wake her up?"

  "The master says it can try a soul blast." The little devil who had been robbed by Penny cackled maliciously.

  "Never mind." Panni hastily shook his head, that was a life-threatening thing, and he didn't know where the mouse had learned it from. He couldn't try it on Saint Warrior randomly. Looking at Cera's breathing, although weak, but stable frequency, thinking that there was no danger to her life, so he stopped thinking about it and started worrying about other things: "Can you send us back to Ferren?"

  He didn't like this place at all after inhaling the musty air of the abyss for a long time.

  Coordinates.

  To Penny's astonishment, a voice of indistinguishable gender echoed in her mind. She looked at the mouse in surprise and saw that its tail was pointing to the portal.

  Pan Ni was taken aback for a moment, then lowered her head and fell into thought.

  The incantation system's magic, apart from summoning and a few seals, is most famous for teleportation. Almost all teleportation spells are in the incantation system, so Penny is no stranger to how teleportation gates work.

  "I need a positioning coordinate highly correlated with the primary substance interface. Where on me is that kind of thing?" Penny's forehead broke out in cold sweat.

  The difficulty of positioning and shuttling on the bit plane is indeed high.

  It's not hard to guess that the mouse was able to transmit to the main material plane because at that time, Penny, who was in the main material plane, had a soul connection with it, so it could easily locate the coordinates. However, now both of them are in the Abyss...

  Pang Ni's heart sank slowly, was he destined to become a permanent resident of the abyss?

  This is certainly impossible. The Red Robe Master was already treacherous enough, and this place is the source of chaos and evil in the multiverse, a hundred times more difficult to mix than Ciel!

  Facing the sincere eyes of the little mouse, Penny felt even more suffocated and had nowhere to vent his emotions. After all, they were here to save him; otherwise, he would have been dead long ago.

  Panni's gaze shifted to the Saint Warrior beside her, thinking that she might have something on her body related to the main material plane. However, due to being in the Abyss, the Saint Warrior's armor and treasures had all been corroded - not to mention even if there was anything usable, Panni wouldn't be able to use it anyway.

  In his anxiety, he pulled his arm out from under the Saint Warrior's body. The pain immediately pierced his brain, and he hoped this would calm him down. At the same time, a metallic clanging sound came from beside his ear, and his ears moved slightly as he lowered his head to see that when he pulled out his arm, the female Saint Warrior had turned over, her waist pouch turning over, and several coins fell out.

  "Got it!"

  Penny's eyes lit up, and she suddenly thought of something on her body that had a deep connection with the main material plane. If 'thoughts and blessings' could also be considered a connection...

  He walked to the center of the magic circle in front of the transmission gate under the gaze of the puzzled mice and demons, and began to meditate on the pendant hanging from his chest - the pendant was a copper coin.

  "This is a keepsake left by my mother, a copper coin blessed by the lady, wearing it will bring you good luck."

  Recalling the words of the southern girl, Penny's eyes glazed over for a moment before closing them to activate her magic array, attempting to sense the 'coordinates' on the other side of the copper coin in a distant space-time.

  A burst of intense light shot out from the portal, and Penny's locating thought probe suddenly reached its limit. He furrowed his brow, opened his eyes, and the copper coin seemed to come alive, floating up into the air. A beam of light shot out from the center of the coin, piercing through the radiance of the portal.

  However, the glow never transformed into a stable spatial rift, but instead grew stronger and stronger. Penny was somewhat puzzled, wondering if this was a success or a failure?

  "Squeak!" The light grew brighter and brighter, and Beren, who was lying on the demon's back, seemed to have sensed something. Suddenly, all his silver fur stood up straight, and his green eyes stared fixedly at the glowing portal, letting out a sharp cry!

  The cunning devil and a group of abyssal demons seemed to have been frightened, the abyssal demons had already fled from the underground chamber, while Adi hid in the corner of the room farthest from the transmission gate, curled up into a ball and buried his head in the wall, trembling with fear.

  Penny's bewilderment was interrupted by the sight of two slender fingers wearing rings emerging from the light, accompanied by a bright female voice that entered Penny's ears:

  "Goodness... It's been a while since I've been in the Abyss. The nostalgic yet annoying smell."

  That hand was completely exposed, with pale skin shining with a faint glow. The hand shape was round and smooth, extremely beautiful. What drew more attention was that all five fingers of this hand were wearing exquisite gemstone rings. A gold-plated chain was threaded through a hole under one ring to a chain inlaid with five huge diamonds. These massive diamonds shone with pure treasure light, which Panni had never seen even at the jewelry exhibitions shown on media before.

  And yet this bracelet was merely the last of dozens on her wrist, just one ornament on this arm alone, so luxurious as to be beyond human description.

  However, such luxurious decorations appear on this hand, but there is no rough and tacky air of a nouveau riche, nor will it make people frown, because a sacred breath matches the luxurious decoration, without any discordant feeling.

  This sacred aura was overwhelming and irresistible, Penny held her breath, facing the female figure that gradually revealed itself after turning around, a surge of desire to worship and pay homage welled up from the depths of her soul.

  However, he was more at a loss and shocked in his heart, and he couldn't have imagined that his blind cat would kill the mouse with such an attempt.

  "I have heard your prayer, my disciple, speak and tell me what you desire."

  The woman, who was radiant but whose face couldn't be seen clearly, walked out of the portal and said to Penny in a tone that was level but carried an air of superiority.