Reincarnation Paradise - Chapter 4255

[Chapter 34: Slate]

Inside the cathedral, the four ‘good teammates’ were sitting around the round table, and Wood was the first to ask,

“Bai Ye, have you already got the four Originium?”

“Yes.”

“Let me see?”

“…”

Su Xiao raised his left hand with the Black King’s armguard, and as a dark energy emerged on his arm, a pure black spar gradually gathered in his hand, and finally traced back to the source stone.

He was able to do this because he discovered that it was not so much that the Black King’s armguards absorbed the Originium, but rather that the Originium was inlaid on it in a special way.

If the Originium was absorbed, after so many generations of the chosen, the five Originium would have been incomplete long ago. Even if each person’s proof only absorbed half of it, it would not be enough.

After Wood took the Origin Stone thrown by Su Xiao, he took out several items of great age, a scale with a strange shape, a loupe, and a steel scale dragged by a small skeleton.

“If there is a corresponding special energy, that large piece of star core stone has a significant effect on improving talent.”

Su Xiao opened his mouth and heard what he said. Wood, who was identifying the source stone, stopped moving, and Sin Yas was on the side. He also looked at the star core stone on the “Sacrificial Altar”.

“Similar to Innate Awakening?”

Sin Yas of course knows that innate abilities can be awakened. Although the Falling Star where he is located, the awakening of innate abilities is not as intuitive as the Paradise camp, but there is a way to awaken innate abilities, and it is also divided into one time. Awakening and second awakening.

“No, this is more like an increase in volume.”

Su Xiao pointed his finger on the teacup in front of him, and the

crystals spread up along the mouth of the teacup, increasing the capacity of the teacup by nearly one-third.

With such a succinct and intuitive description, Wood and Sin Yas of course understood the degree of gain represented by it.

But what is interesting is that Caesar has no interest in the star core stone, because there are many people competing for this thing, secondly, it is not used, and finally, even if it is obtained, there will be all kinds of troubles when selling it.

Compared with the star core stone, Caesar is more interested in the source of darkness, which is easy to carry and easy to trade.

In addition to the star core stone, Su Xiao also has a guess that there is really a black maple tree species in the dead city, but it is not the first generation tree species that he said came from the abyss, but the original tree species grows into a mother tree, and the mother tree condenses tree species.

It can be said that 99.9999% of the black maple trees in circulation are the output of black maple trees cultivated from such tree species.

The black maple tree at the Arcane Eternal Star is also the one at the bottom of Heiyuan, and the one at the bottom of Yuanlong is also the same as what Su Xiao has.

The mother tree of these four black maple trees came from the Falun Dafa camp. Now that mother tree is still alive, it was originally in the “Land of the Beginning and the End”, but after being missed by Su Xiao for a long time, it was transferred by the old Miefa. There are many places for soul trees. Later, Su Xiao happened to be there for a while. Right now, I don’t know where the mother tree was transferred to by the old killing method.

The current situation is that there is another mother tree in the dead city. Although this mother tree has withered, is it the tree species left behind?

If there is a tree species left, where will this species be?

kept in a treatment facility?

Very uninsured, plus such treasures, the treatment center really does not have the qualifications to store them.

With the style of healing the church, these lunatics who even dared to be captured by the ancient gods, they used blood for blood and kindness to the extreme.

If the mother tree really leaves tree seeds, then the Healing Church will only be left to one type of person, the one who solved the problem of Dead City.

If you want to solve the problem of Silent City, that is, to remove the dead energy here forever, there is only one place you must go, that is, the Highest Sanctuary, such as the Holy Ten Church, Wolf Tomb, etc., all for the sake of being able to enter the Highest Sanctuary. prepare for.

Judging from this, if the Healing Church really has tree seeds, they can only store the tree seeds in the Most High Sanctuary.

Su Xiao succinctly described the conjecture that he had thought of. Hearing this conjecture, Sin Yass and Wood both fell into contemplation.

“Bai Ye, are you sure that the mother tree of the black maple tree will produce tree species?”

“Well.”

“Is there any clear evidence for this.”

Sin Yas frowned, while Wood on the side had no doubts about what Su Xiao said. , I believe more than 70%.

“The mother tree of the black maple tree in the void was cultivated by the ancestors of the extermination methods. I have seen that mother tree, but unfortunately, there is an old guy looking at the mother tree.”

Hearing Su Xiao’s words, Sin Yass suddenly looked to the side. Wood, found that Wood’s expression was still the same, obviously he had long known that there was a black maple mother tree in the extermination camp.

Su Xiao’s way of unifying the interests of ‘good teammates’ is very simple. First, he takes out the benefits that he can see, that is, the star core stone. In addition, he also used this thing to improve his talent an hour ago. This is the best proof.

It is not enough to have the benefits that can be seen, and it is safe to add a larger benefit, and the value of the possible benefits is higher, and the source and existence may be reliable enough.

If sin Yass and Wood would not risk this possibility before coming to Dead Silent City, the problem is, Su Xiao said before that Dead Silent City has black maple species and black maple trees. There is even a special mother tree.

This made Sin Yass and Wood wondered whether Su Xiao had reliable information, had long known the information about the black maple tree in the dead city, and knew that the mother tree here had died, so he used this as a pretext to attract cannon fodder to help share the burden. Risk from Dead City.

“This round, I’ll join.”

Sin Yass expressed his position, and Wood put down the teacup on the side, indicating that he would also join, and all three looked at Caesar.

“I’ve been a little busy lately…”

“We’re going to open the Highest Sanctuary. The Highest Sanctuary was once a place of pilgrimage for the “Sect of the Gods” and a place to store treasures. There are at least three treasuries there.

”

Su Xiao is not lying. This was mentioned by the archbishop when he was in the city of high walls. The archbishop at that time was very sober.

“Even if I have been a little busy recently, I can’t delay the business!”

Caesar smiled wickedly, as if he would do his best to save the Silent City. He actually heard about all the treasures of the Supreme Saint.

The

interests of the ‘good teammates’ were successfully reached. After confirming this, Wood Said: “Since we have reached the inner city, the cathedral also has a transmission device leading to the treatment center, as usual, it is time to clear the field.

Hearing this ,

Sin Yas agreed, his eyes turned to Gulu, and he said with a smile: “You two, do you want to join us or leave?”

”

Sin Yass smile is easy-going and friendly.

“Of course join.”

”

How smart Gulu is, she can be sure that if she says she wants to leave now, Su Xiao will not take action because of the sympathy of the head. As for the other two old Yinbei, that is, the tentacle monster and the skull, they will definitely put her in the Dead, so as not to leak the news.

Gulu also sat at the round table, seemingly calm, but in fact he was a little panicked, asked, what should I do if I joined a team with four old Yinbei, wait online, very anxious.

After Su Xiao, Sin Yass, Wood, and Caesar discussed, they came up with a preliminary plan. The first was about the origin, the initial source stone, and the final finished source stone.

The known information is that the huge “source” is sealed in the High Sanctuary. Compared with the risky risk of opening the High Sanctuary at this stage, it is the key to figure out what the “source” of death is.

Su Xiao has a certain understanding of the history of the Dark Continent, and Sin Yass, Wood, and Caesar have each learned some secrets after entering this place, of which Caesar has discovered the most.

Speaking of which, Su Xiao now has to give Caesar some thanks. After the other party arrived in the inner city of Dead Silent City, he originally planned to provoke the abyss breeding creatures in the dark area of this place and conflict with the dead people in the inner city. benefit.

However, this plan failed, not because of Caesar’s lack of ability, but behind the dead people and the abyss breeding creatures, there are two huge consciousnesses restraining them and not engaging in large-scale melee, so no matter how provoked, there will be. Can’t fight.

The failure of this plan means that the abyssal creatures will not save wealth, resources, etc. In the end, Caesar can only collect a lot of dark matter and leave, and it is impossible for him to return empty-handed.

The reason why I want to give Caesar some thanks is because the other party went to the ancient laboratory after leaving the dark area. If anyone else, the steel maker would not put it in, but when they encountered such a thing, as a demigod steel maker , was also disgusted by this fellow.

When we first met, Caesar sneaked into the ancient laboratory, where he could block outsiders, but it was still difficult to block Caesar who was one with human and pot. extreme gain.

In other words, the combat power brought by the unity of man and tank is not needed by Caesar. He can’t fight, and he doesn’t need to fight. It is more suitable for Caesar to give up this part in exchange for strength in other aspects. gain.

After the Iron Maker discovered the infiltrator, the Iron Maker did not directly attack this thing. Of course, he realized how difficult the Abyss Jar was.

The steel maker carried Caesar, like kicking a ball, and kicked Caesar out of the underground laboratory.

Caesar, who was kicked out, flinched and walked away. An hour later, he sneaked back, took off his shoes, and threw him into the underground laboratory. Half a minute later, a steel maker came from inside. shouting.

After that, Caesar reached a ‘reconciliation’ with the steel maker, and the steel maker allowed Caesar to enter the ancient laboratory on the condition that if Caesar dared to throw shoes at his house, he would risk his life and fight with Caesar. .

In fact, the steel maker is not disgusted with Caesar. He has been imprisoned for too long. When he suddenly encounters this wretched and treacherous guy, he is more angry and funny. When it comes to hatred, it is difficult for the steel maker to get along with others. Enmity, he has lived for too long, so long that some things don’t matter anymore.

Because he was able to enter the ancient laboratory, Caesar took the opportunity to sneak into the abyss battlefield and met Eminem. At that time, Eminem was in a very bad state. The treacherous Caesar rarely lost money once, and his heart was bleeding for free. Eminem bought several bottles of high-quality recovery potions, so that Eminem could survive the difficulties at that stage.

It was also because of these potions that Eminem was able to support the second batch of resources, nearly a hundred bottles of recovery potions, and the power of the world sent to him by the old ghost.

Before, Caesar was going to come to Su Xiao and inform Su Xiao of Eminem’s location and situation, but he met the ghost old man on the way. After the ‘polite’ exchange between the two parties, Caesar knew that Su Xiao already knew Eminem’s situation. He also entrusted the old ghost to send supplies, and then the supplies were returned.

“There are many secrets in the dark continent, which are all recorded on several stone slabs. It is said that these stone slabs are also the key to opening the treasure house of the Highest Sanctuary.”

Caesar said, chewing the tea in his mouth. This is the tea that Su Xiao invited to drink. Although it wasn’t black maple tea, it was brewed with Eternal Spring. With Caesar’s temper, he would feel bad if he didn’t chew the tea.

“Slate? What’s the news?”

Wood said, this kind of important information must have a reliable enough source.

“What the steel maker said, although he knows everything, he doesn’t tell me.”

“So, where are these slates?”

Sin Yas said to the point, these slates are not only the keys to the treasure house, but the things recorded on them are also very important. , for example, what is the “source” of death.

Only by knowing this, can Su Xiao, Wood, and Caesar imitate the source stone. As for Sin Yas, he is not good at this, and then there are areas that he is good at, and he needs to deal with it.

“Compared to the slate, the key to the High Sanctuary is the key. It is a building that the Healing Church gathers the power of an era and blocks it. Don’t even think about it without a key…”

Sin Yass words were just halfway through, Su Xiao took out the Sanctuary key and put it in on the table.

“It’s really yours, Bai Ye.”

Sin Yas picked up the sanctuary key, observed it a few times, and put it on the table again.

‘Gollum, Gollum!

Go and touch the key, fast, just touch it, you don’t need to drop the bag, and it won’t damage it, just touch it, and the opportunity to make a fortune is in front of you.

‘

The voice of the hymn appeared in Gulu’s head. Gulu held the teacup in both hands. After drinking a sip of hot tea, he raised his hand to pick up the sanctuary key to check, but Wood took a step ahead of her and picked up the key first.

“Sorry.”

Wood responded with a smile and put down the key, indicating that Gollum could look first, but just as Gollum was about to take it, Caesar just picked up the key.

“Hey? This, this, you first.”

Caesar put down the sanctuary key, and Gulu raised his hand again, but suddenly, her movements froze, and she was still talking and laughing about natural sins Yass, Wood, Su Xiao, Caesar , At this moment, they all looked at her expressionlessly, four pairs of deep eyes with different pressures, staring at her.

“So, is it you, or the soul body in your consciousness space, that has something to do with the Sanctuary key?”

Sin Yas looked at Gulu with a smile.

‘Not good!

‘

Gulu smiled reluctantly, and the hymn in her consciousness space was also very nervous. The two of them were just a little impatient, and they were noticed.

It seemed that Gulu didn’t speak, but in her consciousness, she and the hymn had begun to communicate quickly. The content was:

hymn: “Gulu, you try to fool yourself.”

Gulu: “Fuck | Fart! Four old yin Beep, how can I be fooled?!”

Psalm: “Then think of a way, I really can’t find your father,”

Gulu: “It’s okay to joke around, but it’s useless to call your father and grandpa at this time, and Psalm, you What is there, let me touch the key.”

Hymn: “I have… a church slate, or do you think my brain is sick? I choose to come to the Dark Continent. After this slate is automatically activated, I can’t think of it. Not even in the Dark Continent, otherwise the dead silence will find me.”

Gulu: “I lost it, quickly take it out!!”

Psalm: “Don’t take it now, it’s just old Yinbei, you can find a way to deal with it.”

Gulu: “I* *You**…”

”

Children, stop swearing.”

Wood suddenly said, hearing this, Gulu was shocked, she asked tentatively, “Can you, know what I’m thinking?”

“Of course not .

, but you and the soul body called hymn are communicating with spirit, which is different from thinking, thinking is your heart, brain, spirit, etc., chain decision, outsiders cannot detect, but communicate with your hymn with spirit ***Gods have unique wavelengths.”

After Wood briefly explained the difference between “thinking” and “spiritual communication”, the corner of Gulu’s mouth twitched, and she wanted to say at this moment: ‘You four, you are really omnipotent.

”

Gulu, don’t worry, Bai Ye can pull out the soul body in your consciousness space, and I can bring enough pain to the soul body to make her hand over the church slate.”

Sin Yass took out an apple-sized flesh Tuan, he squeezed it with one hand, and the translucent worms inside were squeezed out. These worms were about 1 cm long, the grains of rice were thick, the whole body was full of tiny eyes, and the mouth was a circle of fine fangs. twisted.

When it comes to torturing the soul alone, Sin Yass is the number one in the team, and no one is dissatisfied.

A 20 cm long, wide, 3 cm thick slate suddenly appeared and was caught by Su Xiao during the fall.

[You get the church slate.

]

[Hint: There are four such slates in total. After the splicing is complete, the contents recorded above will be visible.

]

[The contents of the church slate are: the important history of this world, the five initial stigmata, and the imprint of the gods.

]

[Hint: This is a special item in the world, which must be dropped after death.

]

…

Seeing these tips, Su Xiao finally knew why the leader of the Steam God Cult, the Duke, came to the Silent City. What the other party plotted was not important historical records or stigmata, but the imprint of the gods.

The Duke is to become a demigod like the Iron Maker, and this is the ultimate purpose of his adventure to Dead Silent City.

“This thing is the church slate? That thing is easy to handle.”

Sin Yass palm gave birth to a black tentacle, and then the tentacle split, turned into a black fluid, and drew a map on the table.

“I’ve been bored recently, so I just checked how many people came to the inner city, but I didn’t know if I didn’t check it out. It’s busier than we thought.”

Sin Yas pointed to the table, a mass of black fluid turned into four small human figures, he introduced:

“This is the Duke, Cain, Luge, and the Yeti. We temporarily call this the Duke team. There is a church slate.”

“How can you confirm the news?”

“I joined them yesterday, but I was expelled from the team.”

Sin Yass shook his head regretfully. He can only say that the Duke team that hurts each other is all Don’t blame Yas, it can be seen that apart from a few ‘good teammates’, others are so afraid of this guy.

Sin Yass continued to introduce: “In addition to the Duke team, there is also the Raven team.”

The Raven team Sin Yas mentioned is the Moonlight Maid, the Mechanical Dominator Crank, and the Raven Girl. The three are headed by the Raven Girl. , the reason is that the current crow girl is not easy to mess with.

“By the way, Wood, you still remember the Necronomicon.”

Hearing Sin Yas’s words, Wood’s green pupil flames condensed, and he more than remembered that it was the “Wild Father” who had just left the Devil Race.

“Yes, you guessed right, the Necronomicon is on the Raven Girl.”

Hearing this, Wood looked at Su Xiao.

“…”

Su Xiao took a sip of tea and said nothing.

“The Raven team also has a church slate. The Duke team and the Raven team met before and prepared to cooperate because both sides had a church slate. Unfortunately, I was recognized by the Raven Girl.”

Sin Yass tone revealed a bit of regret.

This church slate is likely to be kept by the Maid of the Moonlight all the time. Su Xiao went to the Holy Ten Church and failed to take the Maid of the Moonlight, and naturally he did not get this church slate.

In this way, three of the four church slates know their whereabouts. In fact, if you don’t want to artificially create the source stone, you don’t need to go to the church slate to know the origin of the dead “source”.

“I know where the last piece is.”

Wood said, and everyone else’s eyes turned to him. His fingers were on the table, and the green smoke eroded the wooden table and carved the appearance of a person on it.

“This is Stigma Mentor Worm, the mortal enemy of Great Sage Turz…”

After Wood’s narration, Su Xiao understood the situation. After the death of Great Sage Turz, there was chaos in the high-walled city.

Originally, Mrs. Yan was supposed to become the leader of the high-walled city, but due to the choice of the academic school, there was a change, and they released Worm, who had been imprisoned.

Worm was imprisoned because his philosophy was diametrically opposed to that of the Great Sage Turz, and in the past, the two sides had always been hostile.

The great sage Turz is going to seal the dead city to death. Whether the first-generation saintess, the wolf knight, or the chorus, the great sage Turz does not believe it at all. In his opinion, after so many years, the dead city If the problem still remains unresolved, the tradition of the elected should be abandoned and a new direction should be chosen.

It is also because of the Great Sage Turz’s doubts about the Healing Church and the challenge to the system at that time that the city with high walls is today. To evaluate the Great Sage Turz with right or wrong, good or bad, will inevitably lead to mistakes. Fair.

The stigmata instructor Worm has another view. Because he should continue to go deep into the dead city, find the four church slates, use the five initial stigmata on it, as well as the power of the divine imprint, to strengthen the battle, and use the divine imprint. , a new demigod was born.

Under the leadership of the demigods, coupled with the power of the initial stigmata, they continue to challenge the dead silence city. As long as it is not destroyed, they cannot give up. It seems that the banning of the dead silence city can bring peace for a while, but it will be sooner or later that the dead silence will erode the ban. matter.

Right now, Stigmata Instructor Worm did not stay in the high-walled city as a leader, but brought a few strong men who were willing to follow him, and came to the dead silent city inner city with the remaining shelter stones in the high-walled city.

Wood’s guess is that the reason why Stigmata Instructor Worm is so obsessed with the church slate is because the other party has a church slate.

After Su Xiao and the four sorted out the information, it was obvious what they would do next, not only to get the other three church slates, but also to clear the scene.

Su Xiao and others don’t care about the situation in the dead city and the outer city, but the inner city must be cleared.

“The Dukes, the Ravens, the Worms, choose one of the three, which team shall we deal with first?”

Wood put a king chess piece on the table, and if he looked carefully, he would find that he had already made twelve Pieces of chess pieces, these pieces are impressively the images of the stigmata mentor Worm, the Duke, the Raven Woman and others, and the details of their faces are vivid.

“The Duke team.”

Su Xiao always felt that the Duke became different from before, more dangerous, and more difficult to calculate.

“Agree.”

“I have no opinion.”

“I can do anything.”

After Caesar said, everyone looked at Gulu, which made Gulu a little surprised and asked, “I can also propose? I am not forced to join. You guys won’t believe me.”

“You provided the church slate.”

Su Xiao’s words made Gulu quite surprised, and initially realized the fun of joining the ‘good teammate’ team temporarily, but she didn’t know it. Yes, this experience is not complete, join the ‘good teammates’ team without getting a backstab, that’s all for nothing.

“Now that you’ve decided, let’s get started.”

Wood placed the twelve king chess pieces neatly, and then looked at Caesar.

Caesar didn’t know when he had buckled the jar of the abyss. The man and the jar were one. He rested one hand on the bottom of the wooden table, and the rich darkness covered the table.

“Cough, I need some soul power.”

Wood coughed lightly, and Sin Yas, who was on the side, seemed to be deaf, completely ignoring this sentence, and letting him take out the soul crystal was no different from stabbing him.

“…”

Su Xiao took out a soul crystal (large), took a bite, and put the rest on the table.

I saw Wood pressing on the table with one hand, and the four pieces on the table moved on their own. These four pieces represent the Duke, Kane, Luge, and Yeti.

When the four pieces stopped, Wood pressed it up, and the black mist on the table gradually formed the shape of a building. He asked, “Which building is this?”

“The treatment center.”

Su Xiao had been there a few hours ago .

There, naturally, the appearance of the treatment center will not be forgotten.

“Give me an approximate direction.”

Sin Yass said.

“The high tower in the center of the inner city, north of Wolf Tomb, east of Holy Ten Church, the central dimension is…”

Su Xiao located the location of the treatment center for the other party based on where Sin Yas had been, and Sin Yas’s cuffs spread Black tentacles emerged, and these black tentacles first turned into semi-fluid, and then disappeared.

More than 10 minutes later, Sin Yass opened his eyes and said, “Find the four of them, in such a building.”

Sin Yass pressed on the table, and a building made of black mist appeared.

“This is a building a few hundred meters north of the treatment center. I’ve been there.”

Caesar gave a more precise location, so the Duke team tracked it successfully.

“The Duke’s ability is to explode and decompose. Fighting him in a narrow environment will have a higher risk.”

Su Xiao said some of the Duke’s abilities, and he didn’t know how specific it was.

“I can get them out.”

Caesar said, extra confident.

“Then I will let them escape, and even if they escape, I can track them in real time.”

Sin Yass also expressed his position.

“I went to find the Ravens nearby. The Duke and Ravens are working together. Even if they are not together, they will not be far away from each other.” I

can only say that in terms of details, Wood never missed any details, but the Raven Girl Being stared at by the Necronomicon, Wood should avoid it. When he went to look for it at this time, it was obvious that there was a secret. I want to come, there is a secret between the Devil Race and the Necronomicon that outsiders don’t know.

“I was responsible for killing the duke.”

Su Xiao also stated that he did not need to participate in the preliminary work. When others created good enough opportunities, he could just kill the duke, and he would be assisted by Yas. Vice prepares to be lazy.

Gulu, who witnessed all this, didn’t say anything. The only feeling she had at the moment was that you are too skilled. You haven’t left the cathedral yet. Chu, I was about to order a coffin for the Duke.

The group came to the small room of the cathedral and activated the teleportation device here. When the surrounding mist dissipated, the group had reached the second floor of the treatment center.

Half an hour later, Su Xiao, Sin Yas, Wood, Caesar, Gulu, and Baja were already at the top of a tower more than 30 meters high, overlooking a two-story building half a kilometer away. The four dukes were in that building.

One of the advantages of being in Silent City is that you don’t have to worry about being perceived by the enemy at medium and long distances. In this ghost place, the perception range of the Perception Department is no more than five meters. The perception of Silent Energy after it is released is too serious.

After a while, Caesar sneaked down the tower and approached the second-story building where the four dukes were located. Boubo Wang was just a few meters away from it, helping him to investigate the situation.

Soon, Caesar arrived at the building where the four dukes were located. The building looked very good. Although the doors and windows were old, they were still intact, but there were gray dust on the windows.

Caesar was fighting against the wall, and he could even hear the Duke and others talking on the first floor of the small building, as to how to force the four out.

I saw Caesar lifted one foot and took off his shoes. This was not the end. He took out small bottles one by one and poured feces yellow powder into the shoes, as well as more than a dozen suspicious substances such as snot-like sticky substances.

‘Ouch~’

Caesar retched silently. Boubo Wang, who was a few meters away, had already retreated. He was in an alley 100 meters away at the moment, retching a little in shock.

Beside the building, Caesar took out a match, slipped on the sole of his shoe, and caught fire with a clatter, he threw the match into the shoe in his hand.

Shout!

The flames in the shoes rose more than three meters high. He pushed open the window with one hand, threw the shoes in with the other, and finally closed the window smoothly.

Boom!

A muffled sound came from the small building, and in the next few seconds, the small building was deadly quiet.

“Ow!!!”

A shrill shout came from the second-floor small building, followed by a figure smashing the door and rushing out, along with thick smoke billowing from the door.

Lu Ge almost rushed out, his eyes were so hot that he couldn’t stop crying. He took a deep breath of fresh air, but at this moment, another burning shoe flew towards him.

Boom!

A large plume of thick smoke exploded like a smoke bomb, and Lu Ge’s body inside was stiff, motionless, and fell into a coma.

Immediately afterwards, Cain, wearing a gas mask, rushed out of the building. From the erratic and occasional panning steps, it could be seen that he should feel very bad at the moment.