The moment Lilith felt the connection was back again,
She immediately opened a gate to the mainland and went to the lava sea.
When she walked out of the gate and saw the pearl-like mainland, she thought this was the wrong address.
But when she looked at the sky and saw the single bubble with a pillar of law connected to it, she was sure this was the right address.
"What in the underworld's name did he do?
Where are the suns? Where are the spaceships?
Where are the things on the mainland's surface?"
Not knowing what happened here, she went to planet Lubo.
Everything was fine here, except,
"He merged so many more black holes?"
She could clearly feel big empty spaces, as big as a universe, here and there.
But not only one, now there were hundreds of them!
And all of them were contributing to the mainland and lava sea.
The raw law that was being sent was so much that it made the mainland 'full'.
Lilith looked at the birth treasures on the silver platform and asked about the recent events.
But they were as oblivious as she.
They said everyone was on high alert here to stop him if he was going to do something crazy.
The only thing new she learned from them was that he had already founded the level 3 civilization.
She asked for a picture, but the crystal wasn't connected to the guardian token, so the space mirror sent her a short memory of what it saw before running away.
The Space mirror knew Lilith was going to get angry, but it showed her anyway!
Seeing the gathering of more than 500 mainlands and millions of universes, Lilith's eyes widened in shock and anger.
"How could they do this?
Why is it that so many Mainlands are disconnected on my side, but they are all gathered there!?"
As she got angrier and angrier, the sky changed color!
From outside, the whole bubble became red!
"Mortal!"
Shouted Lilith loudly!
She wanted to know what exactly happened.
But nobody answered her.
She looked at the shivering birth treasures and saw that the guardian token was still there.
"Who is missing from your group?"
The backpack immediately answered,
Lilith gritted her teeth and left.
"Did he destroy my communication device because he thought I might try to contact them and ask for an explanation if I saw the current situation of the level 3 civilization?"
While confused, she returned to the underworld, and upon seeing the changes there, she thought it was the wrong address again.
Looking down, she didn't see any hexagons anymore, not even the dark ones!
The whole ground was one single surface, shining brightly with fire and lava.
"How?"
Lilith looked up and saw there were no dark-red clouds in the sky anymore either.
Instead, only a clean ceiling with shiny magical lines and runes.
"The seal is working even better than it originally was?"
Upon investigation, she discovered it was actually the raw law from the 'Evil mainland' above that had completely repaired it.
"He merged all those black holes to reinforce the seal?
How many black holes is that..."
Lilith felt better after seeing the changes here.
She knew he didn't suddenly turn into an enemy of hers for some reason.
She asked the underworld law to see if she could get any answer from it, and it actually answered,
[Secret guardian, Mortal, asked for an emergency disconnection to reinforce the seal.]
Lilith was speechless.
"You can make emergency requests like that without a vote now?
No wait, he is a newborn, the underworld naturally knows he won't do anything harmful, and he probably promised it unlimited raw law to reinforce the seal..."
She looked around her and didn't know what to think.
Then she heard her daughter's excited voice coming.
"Mother, look!
The underworld is alive again!"
....
In the metro.
A little boy, in a black suit and red tie, was writing something in his notebook.
[Main quest lines:
1. Secure the territory, stop any information leakage, destroy all possible spy devices ?]
The little boy nodded.
"I cleared our mainland from surface to 300km depth.
And I cleaned the sky so thoroughly that it was literally only 'nothing' left.
If there is something that can rat me out even now,
Then I can say this world itself doesn't want to be saved.
Right, little notebook?"
The notebook in the little boy's hand vibrated,
The little boy chuckled and continued writing.
[2. Investigate the current condition of the level 3 civilization.
3. Find a way to not leave a single 'weakness' to be exploited.]
*Ding Dong*
Hearing the ring, the little boy stood up.
"Let's get off here and take a look."
And after putting the notebook in his pocket, he left the metro.
Leaving the metro, the little boy looked around and nodded in approval.
"I remember Dr. Neil said in one of his videos that the fastest way to travel is actually through the ground, not flying in the sky.
You ask why?
Because on the surface, you always need to walk through the planet's curvature.
But the fastest way is actually underground.
You can just connect point A to point B with a straight line.
Like here, they actually made tunnels even from one side of the planet to the other."
The little boy, who looked at the tunnel entrances everywhere around him, was naturally Little Mortal, coming to the level 3 civilization's mainland after he had cleaned the guardian territory.
Looking at a familiar wormhole that a bunch of chips opened, Little Mortal said,
"Oh, there are even wormholes to travel around.
But there are only a handful of people using them."
The notebook in his pocket vibrated.
Little Mortal nodded,
"You are right.
That should be for rich people."
In this trip, the only thing he brought with him was the birth treasures without a 'line' connected to Fate.
He didn't want to bring the child Crystal with him either, but he heard that his big sister was going to 'sponsor' Rose in her advancement, and he needed to farm some law.
So he let it join the team.
When Little Mortal was out of the underground area, he looked at the street in confusion.
"No vehicles?
And no signs to show the directions?"
Then he heard a creature beside him muttering,
"I want to go and register for the new season."
And as if the street itself heard him, a line appeared on the ground connected to a specific destination, and the part of the ground underneath the creature's feet started moving and took him away.
Little Mortal, with a jaw slightly dropped, looked at the creature leave.
After a while, he muttered too,
"I want to go and register for the new season."
But it didn't matter how long he waited; nothing happened.
The notebook and crystal, who already knew they needed to connect to the street using law, stayed quiet.
They just got here; what if he gets angry at their city services and destroys everything before they can investigate anything?
Little Mortal, who figured out the reason after seeing everyone else using this service, shrugged.
"Whatever.
Going on foot is a lot healthier anyway."
And followed behind another guy who went to register for this 'new season', whatever it was.
While watching the tall buildings and structures that he couldn't tell what they were, everyone and everything around him suddenly stopped moving.
It was like someone pressed the pause button.
Little Mortal looked around in confusion,
"What happened?
Did they run out of battery, or is it some kind of tradition?"
At this moment, a voice came from the sky,
"There might not be any law in our mainland.
But the reason for that is because no one dares to commit any crime here, not because it's lawless."
Little Mortal looked up and saw a 1.5-meter-tall, yellow-eyed, green-skinned man.
He had a head about seven times larger than a human's, wearing red and blue leather clothes and carrying a small bag on his waist.
Little Mortal muttered,
"Why does he look so familiar?"
And the crystal vibrated,
He looks like the guy who seems to be an 'Agent'.>
"Oh, right...
But this one seems different.
That one had a small number on the back of his hand.
It was 33, but the number of this one is 44."
While in his invisible mood and hiding in his domain, Little Mortal walked towards the place this Agent with number 44 was going to land.
It was actually close to a creature like a crocodile.
After landing, Agent 44 took out a card from the small bag on his waist and placed it on the 'paused' crocodile.
The card transformed into a cage, swallowed the crocodile, which couldn't move at all, and then changed back into a card.
Now, on the surface of the card was a picture of an imprisoned crocodile.
The agent put the card back into his bag and left.
A couple of seconds later, the crowd started moving and whispering.
"That was an agent..."
"Information law is no joke!
They can counter any law with this law."
"Isn't information law a unique law?
How is it that all of the 10 agents can use it?"
"No one knows.
We only know they were always on the mainland.
They are like secret law enforcement who were born on this mainland, and nothing can hide from their eyes."
"Why else do you think there are no laws or specific rules here?
No one can commit a crime without being caught!
They have eyes and ears in every corner..."
Little Mortal, who had heard many interesting things, looked at the figure of the Agent far away, chuckled, and chased after him while muttering,
"This mainland is actually lawless?
So everyone's free to do anything as long as they don't get caught?"
The notebook vibrated, saying,
The Crystal was speechless...
This notebook was showing some fanatic behaviors recently, and it was getting worse.
....
Agent 44, while flying towards his destination, saw two other agents like himself on the way.
They only nodded at each other and left without any unnecessary conversations.
And weirdly enough, the only flying creatures or objects were these agents,
As though no one was allowed to fly in the sky except the agents.
After flying for a couple of minutes, Agent 44 arrived at a tall skyscraper, landed in front of its entrance, and the two walked in while the door scanned him and opened by itself.
Inside was just an empty lobby.
At the end of the lobby was only an elevator door, which he walked to, and again, after being scanned, the two walked in.
"Vault."
One single word from him, and the elevator started moving up.
While Agent 44 was silent, his companion, Little Mortal, was looking around curiously.
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The number of floors they were going up was increasing fast.
It started with 1, because they were probably on the first floor, and it reached +1000 soon after the elevator moved.
Little Mortal nodded and brought out his notebook, adding new information to what he had already recorded.
[ Level 3 civilization investigation mission:
1. Travel is through underground subways.
(Rich people can use wormholes.)
2. 'Smart streets' (I can't use it.)
3. Agents are all information law users (so obvious why, right?)
4. For some reason, there is no Law here
It seems the reason is the high level of security.
Basically, there is no privacy here, not even in the toilet (disgusting...)
5. Nobody flies here except the big heads?
6. Buildings might be bigger and taller than they look.
(The floors are expanded in different dimensions, probably.
For a high-level civilization, this should be natural.)]
After he was done, the Crystal asked,
Now with Little Mortal's 100% stealth mode, and his 300km domain, it didn't matter where; they could just have a conversation anywhere.
Little Mortal, hearing its question, chuckled,
"Not telling.
Be surprised by it later if you can't guess."
The Crystal was speechless.
Can't he tell it to become surprised now?
As the number of floors reached 10,000, the elevator stopped.
An empty hall appeared when the elevator door opened.
Except for a small pillar, not even 1 meter tall, at the center of the hall, there was nothing else.
When Agent 44 and Little Mortal walked to it, they saw a card on top.
On the card was a word.
'Vault number 44.'
While Little Mortal was wondering what this card was for, Agent 44 tapped on it, and after being scanned again, the card on the pillar transformed.
In a couple of seconds, the empty hall became full.
All around them, shelves with various cards appeared from hidden dimensions.
Similar to what Little Mortal's 'elder's disciple', Heavenly Father, emptied once.
Agent 44 walked to a particular shelf and brought out the card with 'imprisoned crocodile' to place it there.
Looking at the other cards, Little Mortal saw many more cards with the picture of an imprisoned creature in a cage on them.
He brought out his notebook and added a new line to his information.
[ 7. Vault 44 is the prison
(There might be more of them.)
8. The vault card can be activated by the agents
(Vault 44 was activated by Agent 44.)]
Then, while Agent 44 was going back to the same small pillar to deactivate the vault, Little Mortal asked,
"Little Crystal, can you make an avatar of this dude if we need to?
Your master is a level 10, so I'm sure your main body is more capable now."
And the Crystal vibrated, saying,
Only my main body can.>
Little Mortal nodded,
"That's enough."
And as he walked to Agent 44 to leave with him, the elevator door suddenly closed.
The lights turned red, and an alarm sounded!
In a moment, all around them, small wormholes opened, and flying chips came out and started scanning everything in this empty hall.
Agent 44,
"Emergency lockdown?"
And then another wormhole opened, and another Agent walked in.
Little Mortal, who saw the familiar agent, said,
"It's the one I - no! I mean, my disciple saw.
His number is 33."
The Crystal vibrated, saying,
Little Mortal shook his head confidently,
"Impossible."
The notebook vibrated,
And sure enough, while the Crystal wondered if the notebook's guess was correct or not,
Agent 33 asked,
"44, did you catch the Thief?"
Agent 44 responded,
"There is no thief here, only for some reason the 'God's mark' just erased by itself..."
Then a voice echoed inside the vault,
[All agents gather for an emergency meeting.]
Hearing the voice, the three immediately entered the elevator, leaving the chips behind.
After being scanned again, Agent 44 said,
"Agent's headquarters."
This time, the elevator moved in a direction that wasn't up or down and stopped soon after.
All three, with solemn faces, exited the elevator.
Little Mortal, while writing another line of information with a deep frown, walked to the group of seven other big heads who seemed to be waiting for them outside of the elevator.
[ 9. All of the vault's cards have a mark.]
Then he said to the Crystal,
"Little Crystal, there are another seven big heads, record a copy of them like 33 and 44."
Agents 33 and 44 joined the rest and waited in silence.
Little Mortal walked between the group and saw their numbers.
11, 22, 55, 66, 77, 88, 99.
Seeing nine copies of the same big heads gathered, Little Mortal didn't bother with them anymore and just waited.
Not long after, another big head, but in a completely white leather outfit, exited the elevator.
All nine big heads nodded at him.
"Agent 1."
Little Mortal looked at him and nodded too.
"Agent 1."
This new agent in white had a number 1 tattooed on the back of his hand and seems to be the leader of the group.
Agent 1 walked between the nine other agents, and they stood in a circle around him.
A moment later, he said,
"Activate."
And their numbers started shining before their figures disappeared.
Little Mortal, who was left alone, snorted,
"They forgot about me!"
The Crystal vibrated,
And Little Mortal stepped forward, and while the scene around them changed, said,
"Here."
And gasped in shock.
"Look at this place..."
A facility-like place with a high ceiling, maybe 100 meters high, unfolded before them.
Looking around, Little Mortal couldn't even see any walls nearby because of how vast this place seems to be.
Not far away, he saw the 10 big-headed guys walking away, so while looking around, he ran after them.
Advanced machines and structures were building different things everywhere.
The familiar chips of different kinds were flying here and there.
On their way, Little Mortal saw an iron wall, 4x4 meters, going inside a machine, and coming out from the other side as a card.
This whole place seems to be an underground facility for turning various items into cards.
"Why would you need an iron wall as a card?
If they want to make a building, then make a 'building card'..."
While not understanding the use of some of the cards he saw, Little Mortal brought out his notebook and wrote.
[ 10.
1 level higher is a facility.
2 level higher is the Hypermind.
3 level higher is Fate.]
The Crystal was speechless; it asked,
And Little Mortal nodded,
"Yep."
The Crystal, who was always up-to-date with his activities until today,
"-_-"
It felt like an important episode was shown to the audience without its notice...
It was going to ask if it could see the main villain,
But they reached a new area where every 10 meters, their group was being scanned,
So it didn't say anything anymore to see where they were going.
They had an emergency meeting to attend.
The group of 10 visible and one invisible shorty finally reached a staircase that was leading down.
Little Mortal raised an eyebrow,
"Little Crystal, is it just me, or are we going to discover some hidden secrets?"
The Crystal didn't know what to say.
You know where Hypermind and Fate are, apparently.
What other hidden secret is left in this world for you to discover?
After going down for a while, they finally reached a security door, but before they could open it, the door opened by itself, and a familiar lady walked out!
Little Mortal gasped,
"Look, it's my descendant, little Sel!"
A silver-haired lady in celestial robes, with glowing violet eyes that reflect both heaven and earth, walked passed them with a simple nod.
She was Selene, the Twilight Oracle that Lilith showed them before.
One of the ancient ones.
The 10 agents nodded back at her politely and waited for her to leave before they walked in.
Little Mortal, who hesitated for a moment, felt the notebook vibrate,
And Lhe gasped again and ran after the 10 big heads.
When he walked through the door, the first impression this 'secret' place gave them was an old school office.
Around 30 people were here, and each of them was working behind a desk by themselves with their backs towards the door.
Little Mortal, while surprised, ran to the 10 big heads to not fall behind, and just out of curiosity, glanced at one of the office workers,
That made him gasp for the third time!
"I was wondering why you two are so silent!
Look who's here?
They are so similar to those cyborgs from the gang we got into a fight with!"
The office workers were indeed looking extremely similar to the standard cyborg they encountered inside the sealed sphere.
But their eyes were glowing with white light,
Their clothing was clean and resembled that of normal humans, with a cup of something like coffee beside them.
They seemed to be 'alive'.
Little Mortal stood on the tip of his toes and took a peek at what they were watching on their desk,
And gasped for the fourth time.
"Is this a life-like online game?"
On the desk was a scene playing, showing a group of humans with various equipment fighting a swarm of monsters attacking them from every direction.
The office worker he was passing by tapped on the desk, and the scene changed to a bigger monster fighting another group of people!
"What in the world?
Is he an admin or something?"
And while scratching his head, he reached another door with the 10 big heads.
After knocking, a familiar voice sounded from inside,
"Come in."
And after Agent 1 opened the door, they all entered.
Little Mortal looked around and nodded,
"Definitely the boss's office."
The room, with another cyborg sitting behind a desk at the end, was indeed looking like a simple room for the boss.
The cyborg behind the desk asked the Agents,
"Is Selene gone?"
Agent 1 nodded,
"Yes, sir Xyron."
The cyborg named 'Xyron' nodded.
"Close the door and sit."
The crowd closed the door, and chairs came out of the ground for them to sit.
Little Mortal, who seemed no one cared to leave a chair for, could only stand in a corner.
Xyron then looked at one of the agents,
"33, any progress with the Thief on your side?"
And he shook his head.
Hearing his familiar voice, Little Mortal, while smiling coldly and writing in his notebook, said,
"I told you guys!"
[ 11. Xyron, the same storyteller who left a message in that big robot that no one cared about, turned out to be a cyborg, acting as a boss or something. ]
"Agent 1, how are things with Lilith? Still no news?"
Agent 1 shook his head.
"She suddenly destroyed both her communication devices, too.
I think after what happened to the four mainlands that '33' destroyed, she can't trust this side anymore."
The cyborg called Xyron nodded,
"That's only natural.
She isn't like the three ancient ones here, whom we can deceive because we are in another dimension disconnected from world law.
But remember to contact her each year using our copied communication devices while impersonating different ancient ones.
She might get her hands on new communication devices somehow."
Agent 1 nodded,
"Understood."
Little Mortal nodded too and took note.
[ 12. My partner never talked to her colleagues after some point in time, and agents aren't working for the ancient ones.
13. Agents can impersonate the ancient ones, and my partner probably had a group chat with only one other person for billions of years.
I'm pretty sure with her fiery temper, she will burn this mainland to ashes if she finds out lol ]
Xyron tapped on his desk, and the room turned dark.
An image appeared.
In the image, there was a massive and familiar vulture.
"33, is that the same vulture you saw?"
And Agent 33, while puzzled, asked,
"It is the same vulture, Krevaris!
This is an image sent by 'god'?"
Xyron nodded,
"Yes.
God 'extracted' this recently.
It seems the final battle is near, and this vulture is the final obstacle in front of us and God's return."
Agent 33 said,
"That shouldn't be possible!
I threw a black hole card there..."
Xyron snorted,
"You are trusting your cards too much.
Did you see the vulture being devoured by it?
Anyway, that's why I called you over for an emergency meeting."
Little Mortal took note again, but this time in cyborg's language, so when Crystal and Notebook tried to read what he was writing, they couldn't understand it!
[ 14. My guess was correct.
- Fate has fallen
- Vulture is the main character
- The story is going forward for them with Fate's version, not mine. ]
The two birthday gifts looked away in disappointment.
They knew that secret information had been revealed, that even their 'security level' wasn't high enough to know about.
Xyron continued,
"Many sudden changes happened recently."
And tapped his desk again, and another image appeared.
This time, a recorded footage started playing.
The first thing they saw was a chip, flying by itself.
Then a blue light appeared out of nowhere and hit the chip, 'killing' it.
The crowd furrowed.
Little Mortal, Crystal, and the Notebook gasped!
"Passive Fate skill?"
Agent 1 asked in confusion,
"What is this?"
And Xyron explained,
"A messenger chip, which got destroyed by something that seems to be made of spirit stone.
We sent a 'chip squad' there to try and see what happened to it by gathering the scattered light and recreating the scene.
What you saw was the result."
Agent 1 asked,
"This chip was from which type 2 mainland?"
Xyron looked at Agent 33 again,
"The one he got its manager killed with his black hole card.
It was probably information about the anomaly there."
Agent 33 frowned,
"Lubo was there.
That's why I used the black hole card.
But now that God predicts that the vulture is alive, and will be our last obstacle, does it mean Lubo is alive too?"
Xyron nodded,
"The possibility is high.
But that's not the only thing.
A day ago, we lost contact with our type 2 civilizations."
Agent 1 asked,
"How many?"
And as the white glow in Xyron's eyes turned red, he said,
"All of them.
And not only that, every single spy we planted on the remaining mainlands is wiped out too."
The room became silent.
Even Little Mortal was looking solemn, and while gritting his teeth, said with a heavy tone,
"Who could it be!?"
The Notebook and Crystal, who saw the culprit live in action,
<-_->
Agent 1 broke the silence,
"How is the 'sealed realm' condition?"
Xyron shook his head,
"I don't know.
Only God has access to that place.
I don't know about activities there.
But if God found a way to break the seal, it would tell us."
Little Mortal started taking note again.
[ 15. That sneaky hypermind is the only one that knows about the sealed realm.
Conclusions :
- Sinners' race doesn't know about what Hypermind is doing there
- This mainland is like the first line of defense for Hypermind
- Hypermind is somehow pretending to be a God here ]
The Notebook and Crystal finally received the answer they were looking for after hearing about this 'God'.
So it was Hypermind, the final boss behind the scenes!
Xyron then said to them,
"I want you to be extra vigilant from now on.
If any ancient ones make a suspicious move, imprison them without hesitation.
And send 30 type 2 mainlands out to look for the rest of the normal and evil mainlands.
Soon, we can break into God’s dimension and open a path for its return."
At the end of his words, you could hear the excitement in his voice.
Agent 1 asked,
"Why did Selene come here?"
Xyron laughed mockingly,
"She was asking for a spot as usual, for the underworld.
I told her we are sending one every season, but Lilith never accepts the invitation or sends anyone up here."
Agent 1 nodded,
"Lilith didn't trust anyone on this side after the death of the first mainland.
Unlike the ancient ones here who think everything is fine, she can see the underworld is dying slowly,
which is why she never accepts any invitations, or we could infiltrate the underworld too.
I even sent 'clean' invitations so nothing goes wrong until we lure one of her Underlings up here, but she always simply destroyed them."
Xyron nodded,
"And the one I sent recently would be the last one probably, because we lost access to all of the lava seas out there, only if-"
Xyron was going to continue, but his eyes changed color and suddenly started glowing Gold.
Seeing the sudden change, all 10 agents stood up, knelt on the ground, and shouted,
"We kneel before your infinite mind, O Sovereign Intelligence, vessels of your will, bound to your perfect design."
Little Mortal panicked and kneeled down too while shouting,
"We pee before your infinite mind, O stupid Ai, and and... Emm, what was the rest?"
The Notebook and Crystal felt dizzy for a moment and turned off on the spot.
Xyron, with eyes glowing gold, looked at the agents for a second, and then his eyes turned dark, as if he went offline too.
The agents shouted,
"As God's order!"
As if they received a private message, and went back to their seats, as if nothing had happened.
Xyron's eyes turned white a moment later, and he said,
"You can leave now.
Notify me immediately if anything happens."
Little Mortal, who saw the meeting suddenly end, looked at them in confusion,
"Wait, what just happened?
Was that hypermind?"
But no one heard him...
Seeing that the agents were leaving, he ran after them and walked beside Agent 1.
"Hmph, let's see where you are going.
After such a commotion, there is no way you guys don't act on whatever message you just received."
The crowd left the office, then the facility, and returned to the mainland's dimension.
After that, they left the building and, without saying anything, they flew in different directions.
Little Mortal looked around and ran after Agent 1.
Agent 1 flew to a skyscraper similar to the one that Agent 44 had gone to a while ago, entered a similar vault, and picked up a pack of cards.
After that, he left in a hurry.
Not long after, the two arrived in front of a wormhole.
The other 9 agents arrived soon after.
All of them walked inside at the same time.
At the other side was an empty void and 10 other wormholes.
But these wormholes seem to be different.
Agent 1 and the rest brought out their pack of cards and threw them inside.
After that, they turned around and went back inside the wormhole, leaving the dumbfounded mortal behind.
"What in the world just happened?
Can't you talk to each other?"
And then entered one of the 10 wormholes, saw the scene at the other side, and hurriedly came back before the wormhole closed.
After going back to the mainland, he took out his notebook and wrote.
[ 16. It seems Hypermind is aware of the sealed realm's seals receiving reinforcement.
It sent its hunting dogs out to investigate.
17. Agents can receive orders directly from Hypermind through Xyron without.
It seems Xyron doesn't know about this. ]
What he saw at the other side of the wormhole he entered was more than 50 level 2 civilization mainlands, which were moving in different directions at full speed.
If each agent just released 50 of them, it means 500 level 2 civilizations were going to start searching the empty space for their 'Evil mainland'.
Little Mortal snorted,
"Good luck finding my speedy territory.
If that cowardly mainland feels even the slightest movement around, it runs so fast with all the raw law it has that no one can catch it, let alone see what's happening inside."
But he paused for a brief moment and said,
"It's better to go back, though.
I need to be careful dealing with Hypermind."
And went to the dark world.
His destination?
Underworld.