As Zuo Si walked along the road, he quickly set the goals for this mission in his mind:
Absolutely, under no circumstances, must DOOM and Vergil cross paths.
If those two were to meet, it would surely result in a tragic bloodbath, and the entire process would likely be too gruesome to witness.
If such a thing were to happen, Zuo Si would not need to worry about how to bring Nero back, but rather how to ensure Nero did not hold a grudge against them.
For this reason, Zuo Si had to stall for time.
Around four or five in the afternoon, Nero would reach the top of the Demon Tree and have a great battle with his father. After that, Vergil and Dante would temporarily return to Hell, and in all likelihood, DOOM would not come to this world again—everything would be fine!
At this current point in time, Nero and Dante should be inside the Demon Tree; he just needed to make sure they didn't head in that direction.
"Let's just look around here for a bit." Zuo Si kept a smile on his face like a charlatan. Victoria and DOOM looked at the man before them, both feeling that Zuo Si seemed to be calculating something.
However, they didn't say anything. In a place where only Zuo Si knew the specific situation, and given that Zuo Si had no reason to do anything detrimental to them, they remained silent.
The three began to search the vicinity. Zuo Si looked around with interest—the authorities had not constructed a worldview for the ordinary people in the Devil May Cry game, and Zuo Si knew that the life of these commoners should feel similar to his own world.
Now that he had truly arrived in this world, Zuo Si naturally intended to take a good look at the scenery and understand what this world was really like.
However, the further he walked, the uglier his expression became.
The reason was simple—he saw many things that were not in the game.
That was the corpses of commoners.
With the demon invasion, the Demon King needed human blood. So, after so much blood had been condensed, where were all those human corpses?
The game naturally wouldn't provide an answer because it didn't pursue gore and shock. Demon hunters would solve everything like heroes, but no matter how powerful a hero was, they couldn't save everyone. The moment this tree appeared, quite a lot of people had already lost their lives.
What wasn't shown in the game was fully revealed in this world.
This place was not just a ruin.
There were countless corpses with nowhere to rest.
There were fathers, mothers, children, families...
Of course, they could no longer open their eyes to see everything before them.
Zuo Si felt a sense of depression and gloom in his heart.
In a sense, this was a possible future for the world he lived in.
Zuo Si took a deep breath and calmed his mood.
In that instant, he even wondered if he should let DOOM and Vergil meet, just to let that madman who pursued power experience what true power was.
However, this thought flashed through his mind for only a second before he cast it aside.
It was hard to say who would win if DOOM and Vergil fought. Although DOOM had a special attack against demons, the demons here were not the demons of DOOM's world, and Vergil's strength was also terrifying. If they really fought, it would be like a clash of titans.
It was too unstable, and Zuo Si did not like such instability.
"These damn guys, shit." DOOM looked at the surrounding corpses, squinted his eyes slightly, and shook the weapon in his hand.
Victoria's expression wasn't good either. Although some hunters would lose their lives due to various accidents during the hunting process, those hunters usually didn't die so miserably.
But the humans around here had simply been brutally, cruelly murdered.
"I don't like this place." Victoria shook her head. "Why do such creatures exist in this world?"
"Who knows—just kill them when you see one."
DOOM said as much.
The three continued walking, and before long, they arrived at a plaza.
Zuo Si looked at the scenery here and suddenly felt it looked familiar—demons would probably spawn here in the game soon.
But since those demon hunters had already been here, there shouldn't be any other demons, right?
Zuo Si pondered.
He suddenly felt a bit of heat in the air.
At the same time, a sense of foreboding grew in his heart.
Around him, DOOM and Victoria were almost in a defensive state.
It was over.
A helpless, bitter smile appeared on Zuo Si's face.
"Damn little insects!"
Then, the ground shook, shadows appeared, and a massive, hot creature climbed out. It was covered in fur, its abdomen resembling a bloody maw, with flame-like light flickering within. Its body bore some wounds that looked quite serious, as if it had just been beaten up badly.
Zuo Si recognized this demon.
Goliath.
Wasn't he supposed to be dead?! Why would he appear here?
Zuo Si's mind was full of questions.
Goliath was not in a good mood right now.
He was one of the demons who invaded this place, with the goal of slaughtering humans to prove he was a powerful Demon Lord among demons.
The one who erected the Demon Tree this time was a newly appeared Demon Lord, but Goliath didn't like that guy at all.
He was just a bastard who had appeared out of nowhere. Although he opened the gate to the Demon Realm and let all the demons out, Goliath still believed he was the most powerful demon.
Then he was slashed by a strange little insect carrying a blade that sprayed fire.
That little insect's combat power was inexplicably strong. Even though he was just a human, he possessed terrifying power that even Goliath could not contend with.
That wasn't the end of it. After being beaten down by that guy, another guy in black clothes popped out from somewhere and hit him on the head—that blow almost killed him, and he had to use quite a lot of effort to fake his death and escape.
Now Goliath was fuming, but he had no good method to deal with it.
Just then, he suddenly sensed the presence of three humans.
Fuming, Goliath didn't care about anything else and jumped out directly, intending to eat two little insects to relieve his current anger.
Then he saw three people.
One normal human, and two...
Strange things?
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