Lu Ban saw that the groom transformed into a fish-man, wandering in the muddy sea, while on the other side, the bride's body was also undergoing alienation.

The shape of her head changed, and her clothes tore apart, revealing her body that was becoming hard and growing scales. In just a few seconds, the bride had become a merman like the groom.

The people of the Hai family may not have been normal humans from the beginning, but rather fish-men like they are now.

Under the influence of some reproductive force beyond nature, the people of the Hai family were able to gradually intermarry with humans and gradually become ordinary humans. However, despite this, many of their ancestors retained the characteristics of fish, such as protruding eyeballs and wrinkled faces.

Those walking corpses in the fog are probably the ancestors of the Hai family.

They were cursed in some way that even if they died, as long as they stayed in the fog and guarded the stone statue, they would not decay.

The reason why the Hai family was able to resist the shipwreck brought about by the incarnation of the Black Queen Mother was because of the power of this bloodline and the extraordinary power such as Qi Langwu contained in the bloodline.

But at some point, about twenty years ago, the Hai family obtained something that represented the incarnation of the Black Queen Mother. The effect of this thing on other ordinary people was the same as that on Drizzt, which only tortured their will. But for the Hai family, it could make them completely regress and become like their ancestors.

From then on, the Hai family lived in seclusion, put on masks, suppressed the incarnation of the Black Queen Mother, and tried to find a way to crack this atavism phenomenon. In order to give birth to the next generation, they had to adopt this method and inject the bride with the silt to make her become the same fish-man.

This is the secret of Ku Shui Town.

The groom of the muddy sea and the bride entangled by tentacles gathered together.

Bow to heaven and earth.

An ear-piercing buzzing sound burst out from the tower. The eyes of those numb and mechanical townspeople lost all color, leaving only pure white. They seemed to be undergoing some kind of transformation. Their bodies twisted, and the things they were nurtured in their bodies were about to break out of the ground.

Bow twice to your parents.

Puff——

Those members of the Hai family who were dancing the Qilang dance and wearing masks were the first to show signs of alienation. Their bodies swelled, their masks fell off, and their fish heads became hideous and terrifying. Their limbs began to become more slender, and the webbed feet between their hands and feet were clearly visible. Even their skin turned green and dark black.

With this as the center, more townspeople began to transform. Their eyes began to bulge, the shape of their heads changed, and one by one they tore off their clothes, turning into half fish, half human.

At this moment, this entire town has become a world of monsters.

The couple bowed to each other.

The bride and groom, who had turned into fishmen, stood facing each other. The ends of their limbs began to split, and their five fingers turned into countless tentacles made of mud. These tentacles blended with each other, causing the two to gradually merge into one.

At this moment, outside Ku Shui Town, hundreds of zombies with bulging eyes gathered together. A hole gradually opened up on their heads. Inside the skull, there was no brain, only black, smelly mud and tentacles made of the mud.

More and more people jumped into the mud. Unlike the bride and groom, as soon as these people touched the mud, their whole bodies began to disintegrate, as if they were made of the mud and became a part of this huge mud.

[Attend the Hai family wedding in Kushui Town and witness the union of the bride and groom 1/1]

In Lu Ban's field of vision, indifferent gray system text emerged. It seemed that this was the true union of the bride and groom.

However, after that text, another line of cold text appeared.

[Survive until the end of the wedding: 00:59:59]

One hour, the scene before my eyes will last at least another hour.

At this time, Lu Ban saw that in the open mouth of the tall tower, in the center of the tentacles, something was reflecting the sunlight.

Despite being surrounded by mud that reeked of metal, and despite the insane scene that tormented his will, Lu Ban still saw it clearly.

In a filthy world, there is a white statue.

Without a doubt, Lu Ban's first instinct told him that this was the [Black Queen Mother's Statue of Mercy]!

“This sludge seems to be spreading.”

Trist said that he saw the pool of silt gradually begin to overflow as the people of the townspeople jumped into it, surging in all directions. Stones, trees, buildings, everything was swallowed up by the silt, and everything became one.

In the mud, countless faces emerged. These were probably the faces of all the Hai family members and all the people who had been swallowed by the mud from ancient times to the present. At this moment, now, their souls were boiling in the sea of ​​mud and returning to reality.

"Let's leave the town quickly and go outside. It shouldn't be difficult to escape for an hour..."

Trist originally wanted to tell Lu Ban to run away quickly, but who knew that the people around him had disappeared.

Looking forward, Drizzt discovered that Lu Ban was walking towards the muddy tower.

“Are you crazy!!!”

He couldn't understand Lu Ban's behavior. He only saw Lu Ban take out a suona from his bag.

"I must take that idol."

Lu Ban replied.

"...You want to save this town? You want to save this sea? Don't dream. We are just witnesses, just insignificant wretches. We have no ability to change this doomed crazy world."

Trist looked at Lu Ban, and for some reason, he remembered some of the chosen ones he had met who naively believed that they could bring something good to the world.

Lu Ban did not answer.

Drizzt hesitated only for a moment, but soon sighed again.

He is also one of those naive people.

"If you can take the statue, you can indeed stop the current sludge from spreading, and at least save the lives of people outside this area, but it will be difficult for you to come back."

He checked the load of his revolver.

"But I have a way, as long as you are willing to believe me."

"Of course I believe you."

Lu Ban nodded, and then, under Trist's gaze, walked towards the crazy and chaotic world.

"You'd better cover your ears."

Lu Ban did not look back, but just roared. Amid the intertwined cries of those souls, the voice seemed a little small.

"Cover your ears?"

Drizzt hurriedly did as he was told.

The next moment, in that messy world, Lu Ban put the suona to his lips.

"It's a big wedding day, how can there be no suona accompaniment?"

He played the suona.

It was a piece of music that could not be called a melody at all. Any elementary school student could play a more beautiful melody than Lu Ban. He just played the suona as he pleased, completely relying on instinct.

However, as soon as that awkward, unpleasant, and ungraceful melody came out, the originally boiling sea of ​​​​mud suddenly stopped for a moment.

The mud that swallowed everything actually spread out around Lu Ban, leaving way for him.

Just like the saints in the classics parted the sea, the dirty mud with a metallic stench opened up a non-stop and infinitely extending road for Lu Ban.

Trist looked at this scene in disbelief. There was some kind of horrible aura emanating from Lu Ban's suona, which even made Trist, who knew nothing, feel trembling and fear from the bottom of his heart. Even these horrible and terrible muds were nothing compared to the malice emitted by the suona.

Lu Ban's nose, eyes, and ears were all stained with blood, which was soon replaced by new green shoots. Those shoots were intertwined and continued to grow, greedily absorbing nutrients in the sun, and even extending vines towards the wriggling mud.

In the pale sunlight, in the turbid mud, and above the harsh melody, these terrifying new greens bloomed into white flowers.

Lu Ban could feel that some great existence was responding, resonating, and connecting with him from a very far away place. With him as the carrier, some kind of change transcending time and space was coming to this world.

He interfered with, contended with, and confronted this world, a certain existence within this quagmire.

Just one more minute and he would be a vessel, a window for something cruel, grand, and indifferent.

But he had already come to the side of the statue.

Lu Ban stretched out one hand and held the statue tightly.

[Obtained Item: Black Queen Mother's Statue of Mercy]

The next moment, Lu Ban was swallowed by endless mud and could no longer be found.