Strange Tales of Saint Libya

She happened to run into Chesia, who was standing by the door, and she was being sarcastic and mocking.

"Oh, you little wimp who cries at the drop of a hat can't be a man, giving up now?"

Moonlight Hill stood with his hands on his hips, not giving an inch: "What are you doing standing at my door? Spying on me?"

"Bullshit! Who's spying on your childlike figure?"

While suffering from menstrual cramps and feeling irritable, Tsukikage Koyama kicked Chesia in the groin. Having once been a man, she knew even better how to exploit men's weaknesses.

But Chesia easily grabbed his ankle.

Moon Shadow Hill began to sob:

"This is bullying!"

"A grown man is bullying a little girl!"

Chesia immediately released Moonshadow Hill's foot, looking guilty, and hurriedly explained to the servants around him who were staring at him, "I didn't lay a hand on her, she kicked me first!"

After that, he threatened Tsukikage Koyama again in his ear: "Don't think that just because you've turned into a girl, I can't hit you."

"Didn't your martial arts say that everyone is equal before a martial artist?"

"I'll always have a legitimate reason to get back at you!" Chesia swung his fist, which was as big as a sandbag.

Moon Shadow Hill, however, smugly glanced sideways, pretending not to hear, his face full of an infuriating "you can't hit me anyway" look, which made Chesia even angrier.

After that, when Tsukikage Koyama eats, she uses a male body. Once she has digested the food and burned off the calories, she transforms into a female body so that she won't gain weight.

Chesia looked at the mountain of empty plates left by Moonshadow Hill and said with disdain, "Glutton."

Yueying Xiaoshan gave her brother the middle finger: "You're a grown man, and you don't even eat as much as I do. I despise you."

"Why do you even have to compare how much food you eat? You're such a competitive woman from Dongyin." Chesia was speechless.

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Lin Xue sat with Herines for a while and listened to him talk about the Lake of Tears.

It sounds like the place where some kind of weird prop is produced.

Out of professional habit, he took a look at the forum.

Section: Strange Tales of San Lia

Subject: The Legend of the Lake of Tears

As everyone knows, Saint Ria has a college festival, in which the suffering of the sacrifices is offered to the evil god.

In addition to the offerings, each student of Saint Ria also has daily lessons, and the academy will give each student a bottle of tears.

These tear-shaped bottles are about the size of test tubes, inlaid with gold and silver, and are very beautiful.

What the students of St. Lean need to do is fill their tear bottles with painful tears.

Students who fail to pay their grain tax will be punished.

For students admitted through special admissions, the punishment is to repay all the money that Saint-Lia had previously funded for free. I don't know about the punishment for nobles, but it would probably affect the prosperity of their families.

Some people live such happy lives that they can't even shed a tear of pain. What can be done about that?

The intensity of pain in the tear sample also needs to be tested by the school. Trying to fool the college with tears that only show mild pain will still result in punishment.

So some people came up with the idea of ​​pain outsourcing.

You may not feel pain yourself, but you make others suffer greatly and shed painful tears. In that case, you are not the one who is suffering.

At that time, those who contribute tear bottles with a sufficiently high concentration of pain will be rewarded by the academy and favored by the evil god.

More and more people are starting to bully others to complete their own tear-collecting mission.

Once the tears pass the test, confirming that they are indeed painful enough, the school will send students to pour the tears, bottle by bottle, into the "Tear Lake."

The Lake of Tears was originally just a mass grave where people had died. It is said that in order to suppress the yin energy and evil spirits of the dead, it had to be filled with the painful tears of the living to prevent any accidents.

The more painful tears flow in the Lake of Tears, the safer Saint Ria will become.

The Lake of Tears was shrouded in terror in everyone's eyes.

Therefore, during the day, Tears Lake is a perfect spot for couples to meet.

A person driven mad by love confesses to their lover: "My love is as painful and desperate as the tears in a lake of tears."

Jumping into the Lake of Tears and swimming around it can be used to prove one's love for their lover.

For love, they dared to jump into a lake filled with mass graves where people were buried, disregarding the potential dangers lurking within.

Unexplained drownings, cramps, and feet getting tangled in aquatic plants occur frequently.

Many who fell into the Lake of Tears died mysteriously. And their once inseparable lovers soon moved on to other people's arms not long after their funerals.

The legend of the Lake of Tears began to emerge at night.

It begins with a mentally ill student who is bullied by the entire class saying: That night, he went to the Lake of Tears, intending to drown himself, but he saw that the Lake of Tears had turned into an endless ocean.

Moreover, he transformed into a black, footless bird, circling above the sea.

He was in the middle of the sea.

The sea was beneath his feet, divided into four distinct, dark areas by something invisible.

Each of these four sea areas has different waves.

The liquid inside also looks very strange.

A voice inside him told him: These four sea areas are all death waters, where those who fall in will die in extreme agony.

These liquids are substances that current science has not yet discovered, possessing bizarre physical and chemical properties, and are extremely dangerous.

He refused to believe it, so he casually threw the thing he was carrying into the darkest, bluest part of the sea, and found that it had vanished instantly.

It's like being corroded by sulfuric acid or swallowed by a black hole.

Only then did he truly believe the voice within his heart.

He tried his best to fly, but he became more and more tired, yet he still couldn't fly away from this endless sea.

No matter how he flies, he will always return to the center of the original ocean—where he will see the boundary of four different sea areas.

In other words, no matter how many kilometers he flies, he will still be trapped in a maze and return to the same spot.

As his strength gradually ran out, he felt despair.

He knew he was destined to die here.

The only good news is that you can choose which pot to jump into and die.

Although every area of ​​the sea is black, it has different colors. Some are black with a reddish tinge, some with a greenish tinge, some with a bluish tinge, and some with a grayish tinge.

At least, being able to choose how you want to die before you die is a form of democracy and freedom.

Just as he had chosen his final resting place—that dark reddish-black sea—his strength finally gave out.

He landed directly in that area of ​​the sea.

However, when he fell into it with the determination to die, expecting excruciating pain, he found that it was just like ordinary water.

This liquid looks exactly like water.

He tried to swim to other areas of the sea, but was blocked by an invisible wall of air.

He stayed in that dark reddish-black sea for a long time in a daze. After the sun came out, he lost consciousness and inexplicably appeared on the shore.

At night, the Lake of Tears, which had transformed into an endless sea, returned to being the Lake of Tears.

After this incident, many people encouraged other students to go on an adventure to Tears Lake at night.

They let the weak and vulnerable scoundrels scout ahead for them, and as long as they themselves were not in real danger, they were not afraid at all.

Surprisingly, while everyone was rushing to learn about the Lake of Tears at night like a gold rush,

Someone was the first to discover a secret:

It turns out that all sorts of treasures can be found in the Lake of Tears at night.

These treasures can mostly meet many of their real-world needs and accomplish things that are simply impossible for humans.

It's like collecting seashells and seafood in the ocean, which has attracted many people to try it.

It is said that many people found their own treasures during this gold rush.

Those who didn't find the treasure were also forced to go on the adventure.

But gradually, new information began to emerge.

It turns out that when you're fishing for treasures in the Lake of Tears, the treasures you find earlier are the worst and the least useful.

The later you get the better the treasures, and the higher the probability of getting top-tier items.

However, if you soak in the Lake of Tears for too long, you will also assimilate into the Lake of Tears and become a handful of black water.

To avoid becoming part of the black water and being assimilated, some people discovered a way to protect themselves from disaster: dragging another person who wasn't trying to collect the treasure into the water, using that person's time to prolong their own lives.

Those who are used as human candles will be turned into black water first, but this will buy more time for those who want to retrieve treasures to retrieve more good treasures.

Each time you try to retrieve a treasure, each person can only bring one candle.

The four different sea areas also represent four different types of blind boxes:

Money, love, power, happiness.

Those who gained experience in gold panning would first explore different sea areas, taking people out to investigate and find out what was there. For those lucky enough to find top-quality treasures, they would first try to lure them in, then threaten them, and if that didn't work, they would secretly sabotage them to steal their treasures.

However, despite such a legend, Saint-Lia has banned this practice in recent years.

In previous years, many people lost their lives trying to find treasures in the Lake of Tears.

At 11:56 PM, Tsukikage Koyama arrived at the Lake of Tears with a servant. At exactly midnight, the Lake of Tears would turn black, becoming an endless sea of ​​tears.

She threw the inverted cross that Herines had given her into the Lake of Tears, and instantly, the seal on the Lake of Tears was broken.

The Lake of Tears also turned into a black ocean ahead of schedule.

"Miss, what do you need me to do...?" the servant asked timidly.

Moon Shadow Hill kicked the servant into the sea: "Stay in the sea and don't move!"

The servant nodded softly, her bent back resembling a twisted vine.

So Moon Shadow Hill started scooping and scooping in the sea.

As time went by, the props produced in the sea became better and better.

But the maid began to scream in fear: "Miss, I feel hot all over, I feel like I'm melting."

"Okay, okay, stop yelling! I'll be quick!"

Moon Shadow Hill discarded the unwanted props one by one.

I can't find it, I just can't find it.

"Miss, if you want to become the heir, all you need is a power or luck-related item. It's not available yet, is it?" The maid, fearing she might die, quickly reminded her.

"I know, you don't need to tell me!" Moon Shadow Hill shouted irritably.

"Good evening, my clerk."

Herines suddenly emerged from the sea, his long, wet hair plastered to his face, like a seaweed or a water ghost, startling Moonshadow Hill.

"Evil God, why are you here?" Moon Shadow Mountain took several steps back in fright. "This entrance is so bizarre!"

Cherenes propped his chin on his hand, resting his elbow on the mirror-like surface of the sea: "Strange? I think it's pretty cool."

"I thought the way the mirror image made its entrance was really cool, so I tried to imitate it. Now it looks like a huge failure."