Chapter 40 Let's set sail, ███! "So I sent her to her release..."
The walls of flesh and blood were completely covered by intricate strands of hair, which grotesquely trembled, causing the hanging strands of hair to sway. In the very center of the ceiling, the sleeping half-human, half-snake goddess was deeply engulfed in a web of mycelium-like hair, and just one glance made Xue Chao feel violently dizzy.
The crimson of roses, the golden hue of sunlight, cyan, crimson, pure white, flowing with the silvery glow of the moon, the glitter of jewels, the powerful hooves of a fine steed, the majesty of a lioness, the feathers of a peacock, the scales, spots, and lines of a snake or fish, constantly changing—she…she should clearly have a physical form, yet what enters the eye is a rainbow of turbulent undercurrents and unpredictable shifts.
The goddess's face was even more dazzlingly beautiful, but it did not have the "dignified stillness of a slumber." Instead, her features were wide open in anger, as if she had been frozen into a sculpture at the most heart-wrenching moment. In particular, her empty eye sockets were wide open, as if she was struggling to break free from the restraints of the wall and wanted to confront Xue Chao.
...No, it seems He really is closer now.
The fleshy, scale-covered wall trembled again, and this time Xue Chao could see clearly that it was "breathing".
Xue Chao immediately lowered his head, covered his eyes, and shook his head violently, trying to shake this bizarre scene out of his mind. But the sinister rainbow seemed to stick to his cerebral cortex, constantly throbbing and climbing inward. He uncontrollably grabbed his face, and blood splattered on the ground, where it was licked clean by the walls of flesh and blood, making a rustling sound like a sigh.
"——"
His mouth didn't move, but Xue Chao heard the sound. He was as if he were under a spell, but he quickly broke free and forced himself to sort out his thoughts—that's right, he came here to return his eyes.
The evil god said, "Once the hidden boss battle is triggered, you don't need to worry about the main quest." But then, Zhu Wen deliberately stuffed another divine eye into his stomach, letting him be overwhelmed by monsters, while everyone took the opportunity to cross over to Giant Port.
This is very strange. Giving him the God Eye is equivalent to giving it to Lamiai. In the end, it will definitely return to Lamiai's eye socket, awaken the goddess, and trigger the hidden boss battle. What use would they be if they crossed over to Giant Port?
The goddess's retinue alone caused them such a sorry state, with countless deaths and injuries. Once the goddess awakens, in the realm of the sea, on someone else's territory, what will Giant Harbor use to resist? With its large size, will it be enough for the monster to eat twice?
So the truth is, even if you trigger the hidden boss battle, you only need to defeat the boss or complete the main quest to clear the game.
The evil god was using the rules that all players understood to trick this newbie into accepting a "deal" orchestrated by the evil god himself.
As for the players, after all this fuss, the countdown to the main quest is already halfway through. It will also take time for Lamia to catch up and attack Giant Harbor. They just need to survive the remaining ten minutes or so.
But it doesn't take that long to sail into Giant Harbor and enter the fog, so what will happen during the remaining time? What lies beyond the fog?
Everything is in Lamia's prophecy.
So he came to the underwater temple in order to find the prophecy.
However, the temple only contains ancient, unreadable script, and if the prophecy were hidden within, it wouldn't seem like something a player could find.
Xue Chao recalled Zuo Gang's talking head and boldly guessed that only by putting it into the Divine Eye could the Divine Eye drive the body to utter the prophecy.
The investigator surnamed Chen heard the prophecy from Lamia, who had eyes, and then used his own eye sockets to house Lamia's eyes, climbed back to the port, and also uttered the prophecy.
That's right... I need to get my glasses back on.
Once the thought arose, it swept through all his thoughts and mobilized his limbs.
As her hair grew longer and longer, the goddess slowly lowered her angry head. Xue Chao also lowered his head, slowly raised the glasses in his hand, and placed them into the goddess's eye sockets.
[SAN value: 7/?]
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Giants Harbor sails joyfully across the sea, with the fog not far ahead. The people about to arrive in the new world are once again filled with jubilation, almost as if it were a pre-programmed routine.
Lin Feng remained as quiet as a chicken, standing next to his superior. He could sense that he was still a shrine where the evil god sat in peace. Looking at the possessed superior, he felt as if he were watching a statue in the shrine peeking out and mischievously moving other things around.
It's like... it's like something overflowed from his shell and contaminated others, yet he remains the original being who was brought into this world.
Anyway, His Lord was not in any hurry or crisis. In order to enjoy the scenery, He ordered a set of luxurious tables and chairs and a parasol to be brought to the deck. He leaned back elegantly and was enjoying the fine wines from the Giant Port. The fog and waves seemed to be just to amuse Him. He became the person on the ship who looked the most like he was "on a sea vacation".
So the eunuch accompanying him didn't dare to rush. He could only cautiously glance at the resumed banquet from afar. To the people on the ship, it seemed that the thrilling crossing was just an illusion. As long as they weren't dead, their actions would automatically return to the path of "celebrating the great voyage," which gave him a different kind of "uncanny valley effect."
"Do you find them terrifying?" the evil god asked, toying with his divine eye as if he had eyes on the back of his head.
"Yes, yes, it's a bit like something that isn't human wearing human skin... No!" Lin Feng covered his mouth. He dared to say anything, and he even included the evil god who wore people as clothes in his insults!
“They are simply simple enough that from birth to death, a single thread can guide them. No matter how fierce the storm, if they can’t climb over it, they die without resentment.” The evil god sighed, “They are truly blessed, unlike her.”
"she?"
“Lamia, it’s truly heartbreaking.” The evil god opened his palm, his divine eye fixed on the direction of the underwater temple, one eye filled with a furious and urgent rage. “So I’m sending her to her release.”
"Oh—ah? Aren't you with the dungeon boss? You deliberately stole the Divine Eye to wake her up..."
He spent ages mentally preparing himself, finally accepting that his faction was the despicable villains who were about to betray the players and unleash the boss. But from what this old man was saying, it sounded like he was going to just kill the boss!
"How can I kill her if she doesn't wake up? I don't have a penchant for mummy-cutting to vent my anger." The evil god could only feign compassion for a moment. One second he was sighing for Lamia's plight, feeling helpless and determined to make her suffer a short, sharp pain, but the next second he ruthlessly complained, "I originally wanted to leave after getting the things back, but her smell was too awful, so I had no choice but to kill her... Hmm, I guess I put the other eye back in, right?"
"What? The other eye? Who put it on…?" Lin Feng's mind suddenly clicked, "That newbie!"
"Whatever. If he's killed by the monster, the monster will naturally return the eye. If he doesn't die, he'll definitely go to the underwater temple. The Banshee Town is there. He wants to know if the prophecy can only be returned to its rightful owner. The result is the same."
Just as the evil god had predicted, the deep red stripes on the divine eye flashed frequently, and the pupils shrank. Suddenly, a "tornado" rose from the seabed in the direction of the underwater temple, breaking through the surface of the sea and rushing straight into the dark clouds. The sea and sky merged, and thunder was summoned again. A torrential downpour drenched them thoroughly.
A strange sound drifted from the eye of the storm, a plaintive lament that pounded into everyone's ears, filled with resentment and anger—it was Lamia's "song"!
Everything happened in an instant. The evil god laughed a few times and suddenly crushed the other divine eye. The storm and the song were like infants strangled by the umbilical cord, which had not yet crawled out of the womb of the sea and were silenced and dissipated like smoke.
The thunder was swept away by the dark clouds, and the rain was like water that disappeared in an instant; Giant Harbor continued its steady progress.
Zhu Wen had been secretly observing. Although he had activated his superpower and was floating in the air, he did not rashly approach the ghostly thing. Seeing that the boss had not woken up, he breathed a sigh of relief and disappointment and immediately retreated... He never expected to encounter such an unlucky person in this broken dungeon. He was definitely having a run of bad luck today.
He spent ages preparing, thinking that the thing had thought the players' quests weren't exciting enough and had specially awakened the boss to "spice things up," but at the last minute, it turned out he had to kill the boss.
Sure enough, this adorable child couldn't understand the unpredictable mind of a psychopath.
As the effect of his superpower wore off, Zhu Wen was able to evacuate the deck. The main deck suddenly fell silent. Lin Feng snapped out of his daze at facing the storm, hugged himself tightly, and shuddered before daring to look at the god who had stirred up all of this.
The evil god remained motionless, frozen in its laughing posture. Lin Feng cautiously called out a few times, but received no response. Suddenly feeling a strange unease, he mustered his courage and kept repeating "I'm sorry to offend you," before gently poking it.
The officer, possessed by the evil god, suddenly exploded and died, as if he had been violently crushed by an invisible hand. Blood and bits of flesh drenched Lin Feng, giving him a second, chilling "rain" that blocked his mouth and nose, nearly suffocating him in the blood.
"...Aaaaaaah!!"
A ball, the size of an eyeball, fell from His shattered palm, but its surface was covered by a layer of airtight black cloth, and it rolled away.
This material... looks like the black trench coat worn by newlyweds.
The underwater temple. The moment the divine eye was placed into Lamia's eye socket, a storm suddenly arose in the sealed temple, rushing upwards and smashing open the blocked passage.
Xue Chao was thrown up and slammed into the wildly dancing hair. The angry roar of thunder struck the sea and reached his ears. In the midst of the strange and shocking change, the rainbow light all over the goddess's body became even more dreamlike and illusory. It was impossible to tell whether it was a change in color or her movement. It seemed as if she was about to awaken.
Then the raging waves vanished in an instant, like smoke and clouds, as if it were an illusion.
Xue Chao crashed back to the ground. The temple was so calm you could hear a pin drop. He curled up, his head buried in his knees, as if he had been knocked unconscious and couldn't recover for a long time.
The comments section was still reeling, shocked by what had happened and worried that the newcomer was really dead, when they heard a few low, hearty laughs.
"【██】Is the boss awake or not?! Did it freeze halfway through booting up again?"
"Wait, family, look into Lamia's eyes!"
The goddess's empty eye socket now holds an eye—a blue eye!
Like blue eyes from the depths of a night sea embedded in the goddess's angry face, instantly transforming into a raging sea, glaring at Xue Chao.
Xue Chao laughed wildly a few times, then sprawled out, lying on his back with his hand covering his left eye, blood constantly flowing from between his fingers—he had gouged out his own eye and put it into the goddess's eye socket!
Then he let go, and the divine eye was clearly visible in his own eye socket!
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