Chapter 101 Chapter 101 The Deep Diver uttered a sound from his throat...

The Deep Diver made a whirring sound in his throat, as if something was strangling his neck. His breathing was sometimes loud and sometimes soft, like a broken bellows with a mouse in it. There was no telling when it would explode, and no telling when the mouse would come out. It was just a sound without any rhythm, which made people panic.

If his breathing were used as the background for the game of passing the flower, then even the person with the best hearing and mental arithmetic skills would not be able to tell whether he should stop at the next moment.

His eyeballs bulged out from between his thin, almost non-existent eyelids, and then, when they turned upwards, the pure white part was exposed. But if you looked closely, you would find that even this white part was covered with black dirt and blue-red blood vessels, like a pile of worms and eggs wriggling on white bones.

He plopped down on the ground, his hands spread out to the sides, his curled fingers and webbed hands touching the ground. His open clothes revealed a flat, sweat-stained chest. His skin was a mixed color, blue, red, and white mixed together, like a spilled plate of paint.

He looked like he was trying to fake fainting, but he was too panicked to act properly.

Bai Tianming stood beside him and looked down at him, with a hint of helplessness on his face, like a director with excellent eyesight but gentle temperament, who sighed softly in front of an actor who worked very hard but lacked a bit of talent.

The hairs all over the Deep Diver's body stood up, and his skin gradually turned into a darker bluish-purple color, but the color was so mottled that it looked like the corpse spots that would appear on a dead person.

Every hair on his body was trembling, and he tried his best to sense the information around him that he could not see. This made him extremely sensitive. He didn't know if there was really wind, but he knew that all the sweat on his body turned cold at this moment, as if he had been kicked into an ice storage, and his body was completely stiff, and he couldn't leave no matter what.

Deep despair emanated from his chest, as if the Grim Reaper holding a scythe was about to cut open his heart, walk out of his body, and slowly reap his soul.

He almost fainted, but he still held on to a glimmer of hope that he could survive. His body trembled slightly for a moment, and then he tried his best to calm down.

His mind was blank, he couldn't think of anything and couldn't care less about anything. It seemed as if what was placed here was indeed just a corpse, and his real soul was floating in the darkness in the universe, waiting for its final fate, like a piece of rotten wood.

In the soil not far from Bai Tianming and the Deep Diver, a huge stone stood up like a giant. This stone giant staggered towards Bai Tianming.

The ground shook. Bai Tianming stared at the stone without blinking. The stone walked in front of him and knelt down. The next second, all the stones on his body turned into pebbles and rolled to the ground.

Some stones hit the face of the deep diver who was pretending to be unconscious, and some stones rolled behind the deep diver, and these stones pushed the deep diver out at the same time.

The Deep Diver had no power to resist and did not even think of resisting. He rolled to the side and lay there, like a tattered cotton doll that accidentally fell on the ground. He lay motionless, secretly alert, and gradually began to think in his mind how to escape.

"Master!" Every stone bounced on the ground and shouted to Bai Tianming.

Bai Tianming picked up a stone from the ground and looked at it carefully. He found that it was a seed that looked like a stone. It had sprouts on its head, roots under its feet, and its whole body was covered with furry, snow-white hair.

However, whether it is the buds on the head, the roots under the feet, or the fluff on the surface, they are all too small and can only be seen by picking them up and looking carefully.

This has nothing to do with eyesight, because people with good eyesight do not necessarily have super observation and discrimination abilities. If they are not sure that this is a plant and determine that it is a stone, even if they see the flaw, they will only tell themselves: Maybe it is an illusion, maybe it is a plant stuck on the stone when it rolled in the wind, maybe it is a seed of a plant that flew onto the stone, maybe it is a feather left by a bird that passed by here to rest.

There are many reasons to want to believe something, but when people face something they don't understand, they are often speechless.

In this way, in such a dark environment, it is easy to mistake plants for stones.

Amid the stone-like plants all over the ground and the excited and fanatical shouts, Bai Tianming had a vague illusion that he had unknowingly turned into a monkey and had tamed a group of little monkeys in a wild mountain.

He couldn't help laughing at this illusion. Seeing his smile, the plants' calls became even louder and more eager, just like a group of golden retrievers with their mouths grinning, barking, and tails wagging, ready to rush over.

"Eat this," Bai Tianming said with a smile, holding a soft plant that looked like a stone. He looked at the Deep Diver lying on the ground, trying to quietly crawl away. "I'll let bygones be bygones. How about that?"

The Deep One lay stiff on the ground, trying to pretend he knew nothing, but a strong fear burst out from his heart, causing him to shiver.

Even so, he still wanted to play dead.

Bai Tianming was silent for a moment, a faint smile of appreciation and anticipation gradually spreading across his face. He slowly said, "If you don't speak, I'll burn you like a real corpse. Don't think I can't light a fire here."

The Deep Diver knew he couldn't pretend any longer. He couldn't really be willing to stay still and burn to death. He climbed up, but he had no strength left, his limbs trembling. He sat on the ground, barely raising his head. He looked at Bai Tianming with his bulging eyes filled with tears: "I'll eat."

His voice choked for a moment, then became extremely firm, his eyes gradually calmed down, and even his trembling pupils gradually became still, like a corpse gradually coming back to life, or a seriously ill person gradually dying.

Bai Tianming handed him the thing in his hand. He reached out and took the thing in his hand as if it were a small chocolate bean. After taking a closer look at it, he put it in his mouth without chewing it. He stretched his neck and swallowed it like a small piece of gold.

His eyes widened even more, his face turned a little pale, then gradually turned green, but after taking a deep breath, his complexion returned to normal.

He seemed to have suddenly lost his strength, and he fell to the ground, as soft as a puddle of mud. He closed his eyes and breathed slowly, as if he had just freed his neck from a suffocating rope and regained his understanding of the beauty and ease of the world.

Even if he understood something good, it might not be true, but he was willing to deceive himself at this time. Bai Tianming did not expose him and took his hand back.

Suddenly, the sound of running was heard not far away.

Bai Tianming turned his head and saw that a group of deep divers were running towards him. They had wide eyes, pale faces, clenched fists, and their bodies were shaking, but they refused to relax or stop. They ran forward with all their might, looking back as they ran, creating gusts of wind, but they didn't notice that there were two people in front of them.

When they were about to bump into them, they finally spotted Bai Tianming, who was lying motionless. He was looking at them with an interested gaze, as if he was squatting beside the broad leaves of a plant, observing a group of insects huddled together.

At the same time, they felt the fear of being manipulated by others and being unable to resist powerful forces, thus losing control of their own destiny.

But there were still many of them, and although fear could spread quickly, it could not knock them down immediately. After they stopped, they immediately looked back and found that there was suddenly no one behind them. They were all shocked, and then they began to think about the reason.

If they had not run to a safe place, or they had met someone who made this land safe, it would be hard for them to believe that there was a truly safe place here. Therefore, they looked back and forth between Bai Tianming and the deep diver lying on the ground, confirmed their target, and believed the latter.

A slightly more organized-looking Deep Diver stepped out from the group. He took two steps forward, then stopped, lowered his head, and bent at the waist. He gave Bai Tianming a respectful and friendly smile. "Hello, I'm Gideon, a Deep Diver sent by Ksira from the deep sea. May I ask if you are the lord sent by Cthulhu to meet us?"

Joseph, the deep diver on the ground, sat up and looked at his fellow across from Bai Tianming who was not far away. There was no expression on his face, as if he was a puppet with his soul removed. But a sneer arose in his heart, like a drop of water falling into a pond.

It would be bad enough to recognize the wrong person, but he also mistook the host for a guest, or even as a malicious saboteur, mistook the host for an uninvited guest.

Even if the master did nothing, he could foresee how terrified and crazy Gideon and others of his kind would be when the facts were laid out before them and the truth pierced directly and sharply into their minds like a sledgehammer.

"I remember that the Deep One is a follower of Cthulhu. Can a follower address his superior by name like this?" Bai Tianming blinked and asked out of curiosity.

"In theory," Gideon was stunned for a moment. He hadn't expected that after identifying himself and asking about the situation, he would be asked about something that seemed like basic knowledge. But then he thought, perhaps the other party was testing him. If they thought he was too useless, they would just abandon him. To avoid being abandoned, he suddenly ignited a raging fighting spirit. His eyes widened, almost excited, and he said with extreme seriousness, "This is not allowed, but my lord is magnanimous and merciful, and he doesn't mind."