Chapter 8: Meet Again

That strange perception had been pointing him in the approximate direction.

But that seemed to be just the direction.

All Zeus knew was that the strange fish was below him, but he had no idea how to get past it.

He tried to explore the abilities he had acquired. In addition to being able to feel the water, he seemed to be able to roughly distinguish the composition of matter, but this was limited to the parts he touched.

Walking in the house, he wore soft-soled slippers and walked lightly and quietly. When he passed the corner of the corridor, he would carefully look around and make sure there was no one around before moving forward.

Thanks to the fact that he usually had no interest in tormenting servants, there was usually no one on guard in the house at night, but there were people patrolling outside.

Hughes counted and found that only the lights at the corner of the corridor and the stairs were on.

He didn't have much direction, so he could only focus on checking the suspicious areas. However, with the enhanced senses brought by the symbiotic ritual, he soon discovered something wrong in the study.

"There's a lot of metal inside the wall here, which should be some kind of mechanical structure."

Looking at the wall in front of him, Xius raised his eyebrows.

I actually found it. There are indeed some unknown things hidden in this manor!

He looked around the dark room. Being able to see in the dark, he was not affected at all. After thinking for a while, he began to focus on exploring other metal objects in the room.

If the mechanism behind the wall here is a mechanical structure, then there must be a directly connected transmission mechanism extending all the way over. That would be easy to deal with. Xiu Si began to sense the walls of the entire house inch by inch.

Soon, he discovered that there was metal inside the wall connected to the fireplace. If he looked closely, he found that there was indeed a charred part deep in the fireplace. It looked like stone, but in fact, it had springs and gears inside.

"This depth?" Zeus looked around and took a long-handled axe from the display stand above the fireplace. It had a sharp tip on the top, which poked into the mechanism deep in the fireplace. It was just the right length.

Hughes placed the tip of the axe against the stone and applied gentle force.

After a low sound of gears gnawing, part of the fireplace chimney flipped back, revealing a gap just big enough for one person to pass through.

Hughes curled his finger, licked it with his tongue and then put it into the hole.

"The air is circulating, and there is another exit below."

Hughes looked delighted.

Without rushing to enter, Zeus turned and walked to the door of the study, observed for a while, and after making sure that the noise of opening the passage had not disturbed others, he turned and walked to the fireplace.

He did not use the lantern to illuminate the area, as his dark vision was more than enough. After tightening the hem of his clothes and cuffs, he took a deep breath and walked into the cave.

After entering the secret passage, Zeus did not rush forward, but instead touched the surrounding walls. Sure enough, he found two metal pull rings not far away, one high and one low. He tried to pull the high one, and the wall behind him slowly closed.

The secret passage was covered with moss, emitting a faint fluorescence in the darkness. Zeus kicked the stone steps under his feet, which were a little slippery. He tried to take a breath, and the air was also full of the smell of dampness.

It seems obvious where this leads to.

As Xiu Si walked down, he looked around.

This place doesn't seem to be completely man-made. After walking a few steps, I entered a space similar to a cave. A small stream flowed down by the road.

Hughes walked to the stream, scooped up some water and took a sip.

“It’s actually fresh water.”

With water source and some food stored here, we should be able to survive for a long time.

Hughes put his hand into the water and activated his extraordinary senses again.

The originally vague perception of the water area became extremely clear this time. He seemed to have turned into a fish, swimming down the stream, and the sea was not far away.

And that familiar existence seemed to have sensed his actions. It excitedly turned around in the sea for a few times, then slowly walked up to the shore and came towards him.

Hughes subconsciously reached for his pistol, but found nothing. Then he remembered that he had not prepared any weapon when he came down.

"Forget it. If it wanted to harm me, it would have done it at the dock. Why not just go and meet it directly?"

After withdrawing his perception, Zeus walked down along the stream.

The sound of the brook and the faint sound of waves lapping in the distance made Xiusi feel inexplicably familiar.

Not long after he walked away, the familiar and ugly figure appeared before Xius' eyes.

Unlike the dying state seen at the dock, the monster now looks completely different.

It was still a swollen mass of flesh, but there was no sign of weakness and decay. Several limbs stretched out from the flesh, supporting it on the ground, and it crawled in an extremely strange and awkward posture.

And above that mass of flesh, scales could be vaguely seen between the swollen flesh.

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The creature before him looked more like a bloated floating corpse than a living thing, yet it was visibly full of life, which was indescribably strange.

Zeus's eyes twitched. Creatures of this appearance had only appeared in horror movies in his previous life.

Logically speaking, seeing such a shocking appearance, Zeus would be frightened at least to the point of going crazy, but now he only felt a sense of familiarity.

I could sense its ugliness, knew that its appearance was repulsive, but the feeling was not quite real.

It sounds complicated, but it’s actually like encountering a disgusting monster in a game in your previous life. No matter how bizarre the appearance is, it will look just like that through the screen.

So when Zeus looked at the monster in front of him, he unexpectedly didn't feel it was that bad.

The effect of the symbiotic contract? But the swollen monster in front of him was quite uncomfortable. It seemed to feel guilty about its ugly appearance. It curled up and tried to hide its swollen limbs. The movement was somewhat funny.

Does it have similar concepts of beauty and ugliness as humans? Seeing the clumsy appearance of the swollen monster in front of him, most of Zeus's nervousness dissipated.

"I'm sorry, my lord, for letting you see my ugly body..." came the monster's muffled voice, and it realized that its efforts were in vain.

Is it ugly? It is indeed ugly, but Hughes knows that it shouldn't look like this, at least in the deep sea, it should be more normal.

However, Hughes did not have time to refute this, because -

".What did you call me?"

"My Lord," the swollen monster seemed to understand his thoughts and continued, "You are the salvation of the cursed. You lead us out of our tragic fate. You are the god we are waiting for."

Zeus's face twitched. What was going on with this monster? Why did it suddenly call itself a god? "Please allow me to explain." The swollen monster looked sincere.

You should explain it properly, thought Hughes. Any ordinary person would have been scared away by your reckless behavior.

Hughes folded his arms and looked at it.

(End of this chapter)