Chapter 5: On the Eve of Escape

Si Tang picked up the food and sat on the stone bench to eat. While chewing, he stared at the stone gate.

Faint sunlight filtered through the cracks along the edge of the heavy stone door. Si Tang's eyes suddenly lit up as he glanced at the pile of "junk" left behind by Yin Fan when he cast a spell to find medicine yesterday.

If I'm not mistaken, there's a crowbar in there.

Si Tang quickly swallowed the fish in his hand and couldn't wait to go forward and turn over the pile of things. Sure enough, it was a crowbar.

In other words, using the principle of leverage, she could use this pry axe to open the stone door.

A glimmer of hope instantly ignited in Si Tang's eyes.

.......

Three days of peace.

Fan Yi, who came to deliver dinner, opened the stone door and his eyes first fixed on Si Tang, who was sitting on a stone bench and looking at him expectantly.

Well, that's not a big deal. He doesn't look like he was going to die a few days ago.

Fan Yi approached gracefully, clutching a trident with two sea fish skewered on it. His expression was cheerful, suggesting he was in a good mood.

He slowly came to sit in front of her and put the sea fish aside. The fish must have just been skewered, and its tail fin was still swaying slightly. Water droplets splashed in the air, and when they were about to splash onto his robe, they were blocked by an invisible force.

The next moment, the ground lit up with fire, and the golden reflection fell on his ink-black clothes. His eyebrows and eyes were like paintings, and he was inexplicably charming.

"You're here." Si Tang immediately sat up straight.

"Hmm." He said casually, glancing at the trident on the side, "Go grill some fish for the humans."

Si Tang blinked slightly. The moment before, he was still wondering if he was talking to him. The next moment, he heard a "ding" sound. The trident skewered the sea fish and moved obediently to the fire to automatically grill the fish.

During this time, Fan Yi lowered his eyes and did not move at all, as if he was not in control.

"You... are talking to it?" Si Tang stared.

"otherwise?"

Si Tang stared at the trident in amazement. The artifact had a spirit, and it felt like this world was straight out of a fantasy novel.

The trident cannot speak. Now I have no words to express my suffering.

Who would have thought that one day, it, the mighty artifact of the God of the Sea, would have to grill fish for this human!

Unheard of! It's going to complain to the Lord God in the upper realm! Lord Fan Yi doesn't treat it with any care, and what god wouldn't care for a small thing? Aside from serious combat, I'm afraid of damaging it, so how could I grill fish?

As a result, Master Fan Yi had been a living devil since birth, wielding it to overturn the waves one day, and riding it to draw thunder the next. Not only did he cause unrest in Atlantis, he treated it like a beast of burden. It was only when Master Fan Yi got lost in a rift in the plane of time and space just three hundred years after his birth that it finally had a decade-long sabbatical.

The days that followed were even more restless, otherwise I wouldn't have been put in solitary confinement every day as punishment by Lord Zeus!

Who knows? If the master commits a crime and is punished, the artifact will definitely be implicated. Otherwise, I wouldn't be staying with my master in this godforsaken sea! It's divine punishment, exile, and imprisonment. Most unbearable, the ocean here is incredibly polluted. Oh my god, I'll have to stay here for a hundred years.

It misses Atlantis, the world of 0003, which is full of spiritual power!

Of course, Si Tang couldn't hear the long-winded mumbling of the "heart" of a magical artifact.

The air was quiet for a few seconds. Si Tang looked at him secretly, not forgetting the task he had to find out today.

"Um...I want to ask, is there anyone else who survived the shipwreck besides me?"

"Are you worried about them?"

Si Tang pursed his lips and said in a softer voice, "Of course."

"All dead." His voice was emotionless, and he paused mid-sentence, his tone revealing a hint of disgust. "Dead humans really smell terrible. There's not a single one worth eating."

The soul also disappeared.

Si Tang: “…”

Her eyes dropped slightly as Trident was already holding a grilled fish in front of her, skewered with it. Looking at the grilled fish, Si Tang finally figured out who had made the two previous skewers.

She took it and subconsciously said thank you.

The trident got Fan Yi's approval, shook its head and tail, flew out of the cave with a whoosh and sank into the seabed.

"I don't seem to have heard any sound of ships in the past few days. Has this place deviated from the route?" Si Tang inquired calmly.

"Human, put away your cleverness." Fan Yi sneered, his deep blue eyes piercing through everything. "Right now, you're safest around me. If you ever step out of this cave, the next time we meet, you'll be a corpse dead of thirst and starvation."

Si Tang didn't say anything.

Of course she knew that even if she escaped from the cave, it would be difficult to return alive.

That's why she couldn't act rashly for the time being. She had to find the best time.

Si Tang finished the fish in his hand and said casually under Fan Yi's gaze, who was always looking at him like a little pet, "So many people died, there should be a search and rescue team."

Upon hearing this, Fan Yi tapped his fingers on his knees carelessly, and responded in a lazy voice without any hesitation.

"Now that you mention it, a search and rescue team actually did come to investigate nearby. However, this place is so far off the route that the chance of being swept here by the waves is only one in ten thousand. They left quickly."

Maybe it’s the confidence of being a god.

Si Tang raised his head slightly at this time, and his gaze stayed on his soul-stirringly beautiful face for two seconds, actually analyzing the meaning of his expression.

But nothing was seen.

He may have been careless, or he may have been flying around, and he didn't notice the burning branches on the shore, which were left by her before she met him.

Si Tang said softly, but his mind was in a whirl of thoughts.

Normally, if the search and rescue team reached the shore of this island, they would have noticed the burning branches she had set a few days ago.

There is a high probability that they left to seek help. After all, it is difficult for two or three people to search the entire island.

And tonight is the best time to escape.

Thinking of this, Si Tang felt his blood stirring slightly, which was the reaction of seeing the dawn of hope.

As if sensing the human's emotional fluctuations, Fan Yi raised his eyelids slightly and glanced at her.

Humans seem to be strange creatures, and their thoughts and emotions are interesting things worth studying.

For example, now, Fan Yi is very curious about what this human is thinking.

So Lord Poseidon focused his attention slightly, trying to find out what the other person was thinking.

Si Tang was silently rehearsing an escape plan in his mind when he suddenly heard a slightly surprised exclamation in the air.

Si Tang raised his eyes and looked towards the source of the sound, wondering what caused the fish to be surprised.

I only saw the other person suddenly staring at me with strange eyes.

It's like encountering an incomprehensible problem.

"You don't believe in God?"

Si Tang heard the other party say this suddenly.

A moment of confusion crossed her face. "Believe in God?"

She had always been a materialist. Even though she had recently completely shattered that notion, believing in a god...if the gods were truly reliable, would she have to be reduced to the point of becoming their dinner?

"What a pity." He sighed with some regret, his tone slightly dissatisfied.

This was the first time I was interested in the voice of a human being, but I didn’t expect that the other person wasn’t a believer.

In his mere three hundred years of memory, it seemed that all humans believed in gods, so much so that the constant prayers in his ears kept him restless.

However, after being exiled to this world, such voices became much less frequent.

“An interesting new century.”

Si Tang heard him continue. She certainly didn't know what strange things the fish was thinking about.

Fan Yi looked at her for a long time, just like looking at his own pet. He couldn't figure out anything, but he felt that there was still a lot of time and he had enough time to study this human.

He left after a while.

Si Tang stared at the other person's leaving figure and clenched his palms.