Chapter 31 Let's Set Sail, ███! "No, you're just playing with me."...
The banging on the door suddenly became loud and intense, the door was clearly deformed, and Lin Feng's hand went numb from the impact. His mind was also numb. He stared at the seawater that had seeped into the crack, not knowing how he had been forced to become a traitor. Then he heard the evil god slowly say, "The gate is used to defend against Lamia, it is very sturdy. The other side obviously came prepared and used special tools to break through it. The gate will be broken in less than three hits. If you don't show your loyalty now, the first thing those two will do when they come in is kill you."
Lin Feng: "..."
Before he could even mentally say "I'm sorry, brother," he quickly used the hilt of his knife to wed the bulging door crack and helped pry it open: "I'll lend you a hand!!"
With the cooperation of both parties, the sluice gate was successfully broken open, and seawater poured in. Taking advantage of her petite stature, Zhu Wen quickly crawled in, while Yan Bocheng waited outside to assist her.
Upon detecting the flooding in the dungeon, the dungeon's defense system immediately activated, with gates closing to isolate the other cells and directly abandoning the cells at the far end.
The boy put away the prop air hammer and immediately spotted Lin Feng, who had been knocked away. Before he could even mock him, the thin-faced man raised his hands in surrender and shouted, "I'm yours now!" Even Zhu Wen was speechless.
But why wouldn't he take free labor? There was no life-or-death bet between him and Lin Feng; it was just a matter of who doubled their payout and who got to play for free. It was obvious who he should choose. Plastic Bag 2.0 looked even worse than him; who could put up with that?
"A wise man submits to circumstances," Zhu Wen proudly raised his chin and directly commanded, "Then why don't you hurry up and throw these prisoners into the sea?"
"Huh?" Lin Feng paused for a moment. "This counts?"
“Each coffin only contains one person, so one box of smuggled goods equals one coffin, which equals one person filled with smuggled goods.” Zhu Wen’s eyes crinkled with laughter as he tossed a prisoner onto the sea with a fishing line. “Why don’t we try it and see? You can’t just take smuggled goods from any ship and expect us to just stand by and watch, can you?”
He paused for a moment, waiting for the number of tasks to change, then raised his eyebrows triumphantly. With a flick of his fishing line, a row of cages was pulled down in succession: "Hey! As expected, there's a line. Our task is based on the total amount of smuggled goods from the five cruise ships, and your task is based on the total amount of smuggled goods from Right Port... Do you think if I throw out all one hundred cages from the cell, your numbers will become negative?"
So, back to the present, Xue Chao coldly watched as Lin Feng in the camera position helped Zhu Wen throw out the last cage.
[Seized smuggled goods (-18/25)]
The cages in the last cell were all submerged in the sea. Lin Feng clung desperately to the crack in the door, swaying like seaweed with the waves: "I'm done for, I'm done for! What will my teammate do if he finds out? He looks like a heartless bastard!"
“Former teammate,” the evil god kindly corrected, his tone meaningful. “I’m also curious whether he’ll come back to kill us… He should be arriving soon?”
Lin Feng's mind, which had been fluctuating with the waves, suddenly had a flash of inspiration. This evil god was unpredictable, but the most recent inexplicable thing was that it wouldn't let him turn off the computer and share the screen...
He exclaimed incredulously, "You doubt he's a host??"
"Oh." The evil god feigned surprise, as if admiring, "You're quite clever."
Lin Feng: "That's why I betrayed him. He saw everything from beginning to end. He said before that the dungeon was important, so it seems he already knew that losing smuggled goods in Right Port would result in points being deducted. He'll definitely take measures and come back to kill me... I've already thrown away a hundred cages. No matter how slow he is, he'll be here in the blink of an eye! Holy crap, what should I do—"
Before he could finish yelling, he heard a sharp sound sweeping across the water. Thinking it was his former teammate coming to claim his life, he quickly dodged, only to see Zhu Wen swinging a pneumatic hammer and smashing it down on the next gate. Lin Feng was dumbfounded: "Ah, again?"
After two extreme fluctuations, the quantity of smuggled goods began to rise again. Lin Feng realized that Xue Chao had brought in a new batch of coffins from upstairs using Lamiayi—"receiving goods" upstairs and "unloading goods" downstairs, racing against time!
Zhu Wen already knew part of Xue Chao's plan from Lin Feng: "He has to hide from both Lamia and the Qihang family, so he must have a way of hiding his eyes. He won't be easy to find. First, demolish the dungeon to leave him no way out, then go up and kill him—you, continue, why aren't you moving faster?"
Lin Feng followed, on the verge of tears. He didn't know which ship was the Giant, but both sides in the gambling mission were definitely pirate ships!
The evil god probably isn't always there. He's either busy with his grand evil deeds, or like traditional evil gods, he's slumbering in the void, only occasionally glancing into the instance to offer a few pointers. And now he's suddenly reappeared, as if he's been absent for a long time and has suddenly come to his senses: "Huh? He didn't come down?"
Lin Feng suddenly realized: Right! If they had been monitoring him with cameras the whole time, they would have noticed something was wrong long ago. It's impossible that he only realized what was going on after the numbers dropped into negative territory and then acted as if he wanted to finish the job quickly and race against the people downstairs!
He smashed open another gate, and while being used as free labor by Zhu Wen, Lin Feng fought for his last bit of privacy: "So he's not the host at all, right? Can I turn it off now?"
The evil god suddenly asked, "He touched you... Did you find anything extra on your body?"
"What could be extra..." Lin Feng exclaimed in surprise as he patted the spherical object in his pocket, "Holy crap!"
"Eyes?" the evil god asked. "He didn't swallow the banshee's eyes back then."
Lin Feng remembered that Xue Chao had been holding his eyeballs in a daze, with the pupils facing him. He swallowed the eyeballs decisively and cleanly, which triggered the debuff. Lin Feng was so amazed by Xue Chao's skill and daring that he didn't even notice whether it was a divine eye or not!
"The reason for swallowing it is twofold: first, to divert your attention, and second, to create the illusion that he is blurring the aura of the Eye of Lamia, just like the Voyagers and the Opposition did."
Instead of hiding their eyes separately, the navigators and the opposition hid them inside the investigator's stomach—the monster is sensitive to blood, especially the blood of the guilty. Humans also have their own "smell," and the combined smell of flesh and blood would overwhelm the banshee's eyes, leaving her in a state where she could sense something but couldn't pinpoint its location.
To be on the safe side, the Divine Eye needs to be moved frequently. However, moving it in a special protective container filled with blood would actually make it an easier target, since everyone knows that the thing is too precious. It's more convenient and deceptive to move it inside a person's body.
Besides, people are cheap and can be easily replaced, which is more useful than custom-made containers. Who knows whether the head inside the investigator's stomach or the head on his neck is his own?
Maybe none of those are true. Too many parts have been replaced, and the original parts are nowhere to be found.
Lin Feng quickly pulled it out: "He wouldn't have given me his eyes, would he? I'm the real bait, right?! Holy crap... wait?"
The evil god also said, "After all, I concealed your aura, and he thought it was your supernatural power. It is indeed suitable to hide... no, that's not right."
Lin Feng pulled out the eyeball, but it wasn't the divine eye with deep red stripes; it was just an ordinary eyeball.
"What... what is this?"
“…Ah.” The evil god uttered a seemingly meaningless and emotionless sigh, “He won’t give you the banshee’s eyes.”
Lamiai is a monster after all, and its destructive power cannot be restrained by divine eyes. No matter how carefully a person walks, they will still step on a few insects when passing through grass. Xue Chao's attraction of Lamiai is both a benefit and a crisis. The dungeon is very important, and it is impossible to bring Lamiai here again. Even if that thing just crawls over, there is a risk that its tail will knock down the cell, which will actually help the opponent.
"If you're not going to give it, then don't. What's the point of giving me a fake one? It scared me half to death." Lin Feng was amazed by Xue Chao's methods, but also felt that this guy was completely out of his mind.
"Just kidding you." The evil god suddenly chuckled, his voice surprisingly sweet and mischievous. "No, just kidding me."
With Lin Feng's intelligence, the person's performance was clearly meant for the blind man, but that person didn't seem like the type to go to such lengths. It could only be a performance for the "other person" inside Lin Feng's body.
The man guessed that He would realize His ability to conceal His aura could be used to hide the banshee's eyes, and that He would discover that He was the real bait, and that the banshee's eyes were on Him.
To my surprise, it turned out to be fake.
Like a gang rendezvous, a spy thinks he has obtained a confidential document, but when he opens it, the entire sheet of paper contains only one line of large text: "Haha, just kidding."
That person never trusted Lin Feng from the beginning.
Hmm... was it in the interrogation room when they were telling Lin Feng to shut up? Had he been discovered?
Interesting, very interesting.
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Third floor.
Xue Chao patted the window. Not long ago, Lamiai broke through this place from the outside. Sure enough, magic fights magic. Monsters breaking through the ghost wall is a perfect match.
But now, the glass has "grown" back together, and when you push it open again, it becomes the venue once more.
The ghost wall in this building will "self-repair".
When Lin Feng tried to get close to him by saying "it just fits perfectly into the pit," Xue Chao had his doubts. The kid was as thin as his face, and if he stood on the side of the road, he would be as thin as a telephone pole. If he took a step, he would be as thin as a chopstick. In the dark, he would be a long, thin ghost. But he was big enough to fit into any shape, and he was a whole size bigger than Lin Feng. The pit he dug into was bigger than him, yet Lin Feng crawled into it "just right."
Unless the pit "grew" into him on its own. So he made a plan at that time.
Later, they parted ways. When he climbed the building, the hole had indeed shrunk. He made some noise to "activate" the flock of lambs. Under the cover of their bleating, he broke the hole open a little more and crawled out again.
Zhu Wen wanted to demolish the entire dungeon, which would greatly reduce the amount of smuggled goods. The supply of goods to Lamiai on the upper three floors could not be stopped, and Shenyan would have to keep wandering around the building... The interconnected network of countless meeting places could then be fully utilized.
With the Divine Eye no longer in the hands of the Voyagers, Lamiai became less polite to them. Both sides had the same goal: the Divine Eye. However, once they clashed, they would inevitably fight each other. Taking advantage of the monster's "settling accounts," Xue Chao nimbly and quietly climbed through the window and skillfully reached another venue that had been smashed into half-ruins.
He slipped behind the curtains, pushed open the window, and saw the bride standing by the window, her eye sockets barely supporting her eyeballs, which were covered with half-rotten flesh and blood. She could barely look at him, and seemed to be on the verge of falling out at any moment. Xue Chao nodded repeatedly, "That's great, what do you think?"
Undine didn't speak or move. Xue Chao didn't care whether she agreed or not, and directly took out the Divine Eye soaked in blood from the blood bag. He had squeezed out half of it with his own blood before climbing up, and the eye had already drunk half of it: "Anyway, you have several spaces, and you alone have several. You have enough people for a human wave tactic. Help me out. If I don't restrain these demons and monsters, where am I supposed to find your child? Hurry up, do you want to do it yourself or should I do it?"
Seeing that this scoundrel was about to gouge out her eyes, Undine finally blocked him and elegantly gouged out one of her eyes. With Xue Chao's reminder, she reinstalled the Divine Eye into its socket, where it was attached to bone and flesh, hiding the deep red stripes.
Before long, the black pupils facing outwards—the color of the head's eyes—suddenly turned blue, exactly like Undine's original eyes.
Xue Chao confirmed his guess and curled the corners of his mouth: "After wandering around the venue for a while, I'll switch places with the other 'selves' to confuse them. I'll trouble you ladies to help me keep this building under control. I'll go find your child, don't worry... even if he's broken into eight pieces, I'll pick him up and bring him back to you piece by piece."
Undine nodded and floated away as gently as she had come. At the same time, all the wedding dress ladies in the terminal started to move, weaving through the interconnected, maze-like halls, confusing all the seekers.
Xue Chao handed over the target, and with the chainsaw he had just gotten from another magician, he squeezed through a new batch of broken windows that hadn't fully healed yet, and landed right on the back of the clock in the lobby.
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