The players came to the holy spring. The spring was calm and reflected their shadows. The water was very clear, but the bottom could not be seen at a glance.
"This holy spring seems to be very deep." Abai squatted beside the holy spring and muttered in a low voice.
"First get the holy water and then find a way out." A male player took out a glass container and dipped it into the water to fill it.
"Gulp...Gulp..." The holy water poured into the bottle and the spring was very quiet.
Everything went smoothly, but Yue Ya always felt a little uneasy. He looked back at the group of mummies behind him, but they were not moving at all.
The male player suddenly let out a scream, Yue Ya quickly turned around, and a stone hand stretched out from the water and grabbed the male player's wrist. The stone fingers pierced the man's wrist, and blood bloomed into a bloody and dangerous flower on the water surface.
Yue Ya rushed to rescue the man, but Shi Shou was too fast and powerful, and Yue Ya only had time to grab the male player's trouser leg before being pulled down by the powerful force from underwater.
"Swish--" The male player's trouser leg tore open and he was completely submerged in the water. Yue Ya didn't stop and his head plunged into the water. The spring water rushed into his nasal cavity, bringing a stinging pain. He quickly held onto the ground with his hands and managed to stabilize his body.
He held his breath, endured the discomfort, opened his eyes and looked underwater.
No one knew where the stone hand had gone, and the male player's body had turned into a statue, sinking motionlessly to the bottom of the water.
There are countless statues standing under the water. The types of statues are very wide, including houses, big trees, streets... and an astonishing number of humans and monsters. There is no end in sight, just like a small underwater city.
The Holy Spring is not a "spring", but a vast underground sea, a secret underwater city, and a gloomy underwater tomb.
The male player's petrified body is about to fall into this huge tomb.
[The underwater city is actually here. Hiss, the fear of the deep sea is coming. Will Yuezai have to dive into the water to investigate again? I’m a little suffocated just thinking about it.]
[Where is the underwater door? I remember the host has the key to the underwater door, which is the snake-shaped ring obtained from the treasure of the ghost ship]
[It must be in the underwater city. This city is so big, we must first investigate the location of the gate before going underwater. Do historians have a research room?]
[There are so many types of these monsters, some with fins, some with tentacles all over their lower bodies, some with extremely long necks... I can't count them all. If they were all alive, wouldn't the scene be terrifying?]
[Why did the male player die, but the anchor was fine? Where did the hand that was pulling people go? I would be more scared if it didn’t come out]
"Yueya, what did you see? Are you okay?"
The anxious voices of his companions were heard on the water. Yue Ya could hardly hold his breath anymore and quickly pulled away before the danger came.
He pushed his wet hair back and said in a deep voice, "I'm fine, but he... turned into a statue and sank to the bottom of the sea."
Yue Ya clenched his fists. He didn’t have a deep impression of this male player, but he remembered the other’s eyes longing for a companion.
The players were silent for a long time, and the atmosphere was somewhat heavy.
Ah Bai looked at the torn skin on Yue Ya's arm and broke the silence with a hoarse voice: "You have tried your best to save people. I thought you tried your best to save the female player because she had fought side by side with you for a long time, but the male player who just died had only been with you for a short time, and you also tried so hard..."
Yueya blinked away the water droplets on her eyelashes and used the resurrection technique to heal the wound on her hand: "I'm just doing what I think is right."
Abai nodded and exhaled: "In this kind of game, death is the norm. Every death brings not only fear but also clues. Can you tell me what you saw?"
"An underwater city." Yue Ya blinked away the water droplets on her eyelashes. "Ancient books mentioned underwater cities. I didn't expect it to be here. There are many statues of humans and monsters underwater."
"He was dragged down, but you were fine. This proves that he broke the rules, but you didn't." Abai pondered for a moment and came to a conclusion: "He took the holy water in the wrong way."
Yue Ya nodded: "Don't touch the Holy Spring again until you find the right method."
We can't start from underwater, so we can only investigate above water. Yueya walked to the group of mummies, which were the only clues in this secret room.
The mummies all maintained a posture of worship; their bodies were stiff and deformed, but they still made people feel pious.
Xiaofang said: "Could these mummies also be a formation? Just like the dead heads in the passage, the dead heads created a ghost wall, and these mummies created a secret room."
This is the easiest way of thinking and the first reaction of most people. However, Yue Ya shook his head and said, "There is no Yin Qi on these mummies. They are just ordinary corpses. They may have sacrificed their souls to the main gods long ago, and then their bodies were dried here."
Ah Bai felt it and said with certainty: "There is indeed no Yin Qi."
Yue Ya narrowed her eyes and asked, "From the perspective of a believer, what would the Holy Spring look like?"
Yueya knelt down and looked towards the Holy Spring.
The holy spring turned a dazzling water red color. A formation was painted around it, dividing the nearly circular holy spring into five directions, four of which had a white bone hand painted on them.
The only position without a pattern was where Yue Ya had stood before.
This is the only safe area.
Yue Ya waved to the players, and they also saw this scene after they squatted down.
Ah Bai guessed: "The direction with the bone hand might be where the sacrifice was thrown, so the male player was dragged into the water as a sacrifice."
[Yuezai's astonishing luck]
[So they also found the entrance to the underwater city. If you enter the water from this direction, you won’t be quickly petrified. The underwater city must be hiding the most important secret of the Lost Island.]
[Yes, but with Yuezai's personality, he will definitely investigate thoroughly before taking action. Perhaps gathering the cores of the four incarnations of the gods will lead to new progress.]
Yue Ya stood in a safe place and filled a large bottle of holy water. After he stood up, the closed passage reappeared.
This bottle of holy water was like a pass. On the way back, there were no annoying ghost walls and no harassment from evil spirits. They left the Evil Dragon Cave smoothly.
Yue Ya looked at the transparent holy water in the bottle, put it into the player's backpack, and returned to the inn along the same route.
After leaving the dense forest, Yue Ya's phone rang. He swiped the screen and a message from Zhuang Yan for help popped up.
[Yue Ya, there is something wrong with the leather jacket man. After completing the task, come to the altar immediately!]
"There's something wrong with the altar. I'm going to help." Yue Ya explained to the other players, "Do you want to go together or go back to the inn to investigate?"
Xiaobai pursed his lips: "I'll go with you."
Xiaofang said, "Then I'll go too."
The other player wanted to go back to the inn and thus parted ways with them.
The altar was right in the God Square. Yue Ya remembered the way, so he ran at full speed and reached his destination as quickly as possible.
The sky was gloomy and a heavy rain was brewing. A riot was taking place in the God Square.
The altar was crowded with people, and heart-wrenching screams came from the center of the crowd.
Yueya walked towards the center of the riot and heard the islanders talking along the way:
"Those people must have come from outside. I heard they wanted to stay at the hotel, so they came to help with the celebration..."
"The innkeeper gave these outsiders such a good opportunity, but he didn't expect them to blaspheme the gods. The gods were angry, so they brought disaster upon them..."
"They will eventually become the God's punishers who bear their sins, and they will not be free until they have paid for all their sins."
Someone spotted Yue Ya and the others, recognized them as “outsiders” as well, and whispered, “Shush,” “Stop talking.”
Something happened to the players who came to clean the altar today. According to Zhuang Yan's request for help, this matter was closely related to the man in leather jacket.
Yue Ya pushed through the crowd and came to the front row with the best view. In the open space in front of the altar, three players in strange conditions were the center of sight.
The three people are Zhuang Yan, a man in black clothes, and a pretty female player with long curly hair.
Zhuang Yan kept scratching his body, leaving scars all over his exposed skin, and he was still mumbling nonsense: "Get out of my body! Get out now!"
The man in black waved the weapon in his hand, attacking the air frantically.
Another female player curled up on the ground, hugged herself tightly, and shivered weakly: "It's so cold, so cold... I can't get out, I will die in this ice coffin..."
Seeing the appearance of these three people, Yue Ya frowned: "It's mental pollution. They are dominated by hallucinations and negative emotions."
Xiao Bai agreed, "They are trapped in hallucinations. They can't see us or hear our voices. If we go up now, we will be targeted. If we want to solve the problem, we can only find the source of the hallucination."
Yue Ya searched the crowd and found the professor lying unconscious beside the flower bed. The man in the leather jacket and two players stood beside the professor, with a faint smile on their faces, looking like they were watching the fun.
Yue Ya didn’t know whether Zhuang Yan had notified Hong Cha, so he quickly sent a message to Hong Cha, telling her that she had the curse-breaking flower. As long as he could find a way to drag Hong Cha over, he could use the curse-breaking flower to remove the god’s curse.
He looked at the altar again. It was cleaned very well. The platform for offerings had been cleared. There was only a transparent fish tank on it with three small goldfish in it. The three goldfish were in different states, corresponding exactly to the states of the three mentally polluted players.
"It's him." Yue Ya's brows furrowed even tighter, searching the crowd for the golden-haired boy.
"Are you looking for me?" A cold voice sounded behind me, as if a poisonous snake was spitting out its tongue behind me.
Yue Ya stabbed back with the stone blade, but was easily blocked. He was very close to the blond boy and could see a scary doll sitting on his shoulder.
How come the scary doll from the ghost ship is here with the blond boy?
"You are looking at my new toy. It was given to me by someone else. Isn't it cute?" The blond boy held the stone blade and chatted casually, with a hint of amusement in his pupils: "Your cat is also very cute. Give it to me as a doll, and I can release your three friends. How about it?"
Fei Fei didn't like the blond boy and showed his fangs at him.
"My cat told me to tell you, don't dream." Yue Ya injected spiritual energy into the stone blade. The lime on the stone blade fell off, revealing the sharp blade hidden inside, which cut the palm of the goldfish boy.
Dark green mucus dripped onto the ground, and several divine blood flowers broke out of the ground.
"This dagger belongs to the God of Wood. Did you kill her?" The goldfish boy's cheeks were covered with golden scales, and his ears opened up with sharp fins. He sneered, "Using that useless knife against me is not a good option."
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