The professor was knocked unconscious by the man in leather jacket while cleaning the altar, and was then placed in a hotel by Yue Ya to rest. He woke up once, but was not in a good condition, and soon fell into a deep sleep again, so Yue Ya did not ask him to go to the research institute together.
Upon learning that ancient books recorded how to use the Heart of God, Yue Ya and the others immediately went to find the professor.
The professor's room was on the third floor. Yue Ya knocked twice and the door opened.
The professor was wearing a coat and thick glasses. His face was pale, as if he had just woken up.
"What time is it now? I seem to have slept for a long time." The professor covered his aching head.
Seeing that he had no recollection of what happened yesterday, Yueya told him the general situation and went straight to the point: "Teacher, we found some interesting things while you were resting. We need you to look up some ancient books to see if there is any record of the 'Heart of God'."
"Heart of God?" The professor frowned and recalled, "There is no record of it in the text of the ancient book, but one time I accidentally found something hidden in the cover of a book. I cut open the inner page and found a thin piece of paper with the words "Heart of God" written on it."
"What's written on it?" Zhuang Yan asked impatiently.
The professor paused, his voice a little hoarse: "It says that the Heart of God contains powerful power. As long as it is nailed into the statue of the main god, the main god can fall asleep again for hundreds of years... Why do you think of asking this? This should just be a legend."
"Nothing, teacher, you can continue to rest."
The players got the clues they wanted to know, and without further delay, they headed to the Holy Spring.
Yue Ya led the way with a pointer. He had walked this road once before and found the Dragon Cave very easily. He passed through the long passage and came to the cave where the holy spring was.
It was Hongcha's first time here, and she was shocked by the group of mummies beside the holy spring: "Why are there so many kneeling mummies? It's so creepy."
Soon someone discovered that the passage they came from had disappeared: "Fuck, why is the passage gone? The cave has become a secret room!"
Yue Ya comforted him, "This is easy to crack, don't be nervous."
"That's good. It was pretty thrilling the last time you came here, wasn't it?"
Ah Bai thought of the last experience and sighed: "Who said it wasn't true?"
"Is this the holy spring? It looks very small." The man in black said as he walked towards the holy spring.
Yueya stopped him and said, "There is a sacrificial array beside the holy spring. The only safe entrance is the direction where the mummies are worshipping. If you fall into the water from other directions, you will turn into a statue."
The man in black suddenly felt his feet go numb and didn't dare to take another step forward: "Where is the safety zone?"
Yueya told everyone about the safety of the Holy Spring and how to crack the secret room, then took out the diving equipment: "I only have six sets of equipment. Choose five people to go into the water with me, and the rest of you will stay here to provide support. If we don't come up before dark, the people who stay will leave here and find their own way out."
Abai said: "This is the last level, we will definitely pass it safely. Also, I want to go into the water."
Zhuang Yan and the twin sisters also raised their hands, indicating that they wanted to go into the water.
Hongcha raised the corner of her lips and said, "Underwater cities are rare. I must go and see them for myself."
The guy in black hesitated and was the last one to sign up.
Yue Ya distributed equipment to them and reminded them, "We know too little about the underwater city. There may be many hidden dangers below. After entering the water, everyone should act according to circumstances. If you encounter danger, go ashore immediately. Remember, no matter how urgent the situation is, you must go up from a safe direction."
The players agreed and put on their diving equipment.
This set of equipment is equivalent to a set of underwater game skins. After putting them on, they can move freely underwater, their breathing and communication will not be hindered, and it will not affect their use of skills.
Yueya put Feifei into the player’s backpack and was the first to jump into the holy spring. Players followed in his footsteps and jumped into the water one after another.
Last time, Yue Ya plunged his entire head into the water to save someone. He had seen the underwater city from afar, but this time he was still shocked by the close encounter.
The sculptures standing at the bottom of the water are lifelike and look very strange. Some of them are not human at all, but tentacle monsters with human faces. The expressions on their faces are very vivid, and their body language is very exaggerated and very contagious, as if they will be resurrected in the next second.
Underwater sculptures of this scale are extremely rare. If the environment did not allow it, Yue Ya would really like to stop and appreciate and learn from them.
Others didn't expect that there was such a vast expanse beneath a small pool of spring water, and they were fascinated by it for a moment.
Yue Ya hovered in the water, called up the map of the underwater city found in the research institute, and overlooked the underwater city.
The map is very simple but clear, and all the iconic buildings can be found on it.
Yueya quickly planned a route to the underwater gate and waved to the players, signaling them to dive down.
This time they entered the underwater city. Yue Ya saw dark green aquatic plants climbing on the buildings, and there was deathly silence all around.
"It's so strange, there is not a single fish here." Hongcha's voice was muffled in the equipment, sounding very ethereal.
Yue Ya turned into a new street and suddenly a strange, pale face flashed in front of him. His heart instantly jumped to his throat and he instinctively stepped back.
Zhuang Yan followed behind him and helped him up when he saw this. The two of them collided with each other, causing a series of water waves.
"What's wrong?" Zhuang Yan asked.
Yue Ya looked forward and saw the shadow of a pale face. He asked Zhuang Yan, "A face just flashed by. Didn't you see it?"
Zhuang Yan shook his head: "I was always behind you, I didn't see it."
[I saw it!! It scared me]
[I also saw qvq]
[It flashed so fast that I couldn’t see clearly, but I seemed to see a white tentacle, and I instantly got goose bumps]
The audience in the live broadcast room all said they saw it, and Yue Ya confirmed that he was not mistaken: "That thing may pop up again, so be careful."
The appearance of this pale face made the lifeless underwater city even more eerie, and players had to be extremely cautious.
But until Yue Ya found the underwater door, the strange thing did not appear again.
The underwater door is a very ordinary stone door, which is very different from what the players imagine. It stands alone in the open space. The players swam around it and did not find anything special.
Hongcha even had some doubts: "Did we find the wrong one?"
"You found the right one." Yue Ya pointed at the door lock. There was a very delicate groove on it, the same size as the snake-shaped ring on his hand.
"Get ready, I'm about to open the door." Yue Ya took out the snake-shaped ring and filled it into the groove.
The snake-shaped ring fits the groove perfectly, and a huge black snake shadow appears out of nowhere, opening the closed stone door.
Behind the stone gate is an even bluer sea. Apart from the sea water, there is only a statue, a statue of a goddess that is so beautiful that it will take your breath away.
On the ghost ship, the round-faced boy once sketched in a notebook a statue of a goddess he had seen in ancient books. At that time, he specifically emphasized that he could not draw even one-tenth as beautiful as the goddess.
At that time, Yue Ya thought that it was an exaggeration made by the round-faced boy. It was not until he saw it with his own eyes that Yue Ya realized that he was not exaggerating.
Somewhat different from the portrait, this statue of the goddess has her eyes closed. She is wearing a holy gauze skirt, and her hands are folded with palms facing up, holding up the sun, moon and stars, with a compassionate expression.
It took Hongcha a long time to find her voice again: "If I hadn't known what this 'god' did, I would have really been deceived by her appearance and thought she was really a god who protected the world."
Thinking of the evil of the main god, the beauty before their eyes was greatly reduced, and the players all woke up.
Xuecha asked: "Yueya, shall we do it?"
Yue Ya nodded and took out the Heart of God. Everyone held their breath and waited for the historic moment. As long as they nailed the Heart of God into the statue, they would be free...
When the Heart of God was about to touch the statue, Yue Ya suddenly thought of something, and she retracted her slender fingers and took the Heart of God back into her palm.
This small action seemed to grasp the hearts of the players.
Hongcha's voice was a little off as she spoke: "What's wrong?!"
Yue Ya put the Heart of God into his backpack and said in a cold voice, "Something is wrong."
Hongcha's heart skipped a beat: "What's wrong?"
Yue Ya has always been very reliable in his work. The players knew he was not joking and they all became nervous.
Yue Ya frowned: "Don't you think our journey was too smooth?"
It was indeed smooth, they only saw one ghost along the way, and the ghost did not cause them any trouble. Being too calm in the dungeon was actually unusual.
Yue Ya continued, "If the Heart of God can put God's consciousness to sleep, why are there no believers or monsters to stop us?"
"Although we killed four incarnations of the gods, there are believers everywhere on the island. It is impossible for them to be unaware of our actions. The fact that we have come this far smoothly means..." Xuecha's face turned pale: "They acquiesced to our actions."
Everyone realized that there must be something fishy going on.
Ah Bai took a deep breath and asked, "Which link went wrong?"
Yueya thought about it and thought of someone: "We all overlooked a problem, because we know that ancient books are dangerous and seeing the contents of ancient books with our own eyes may lead to curses, so we habitually avoid ancient books, do not verify them with our own eyes, and do not doubt the professor's words."
Abai: "Are you saying that the professor lied to us?"
Yue Ya narrowed his eyes and said, "Don't forget, if the ancient book is cursed, the professor must be the first person to be cursed. It's just that he has always been gentle and polite, so we ignored his danger. He is just like the last historian who got the ancient book. He is a fanatical fan of ancient civilization and is extremely obsessed with the goddess statue."
The players fell into deep thought and were all convinced by him.
[Oh yeah, the professor was always dizzy, and I subconsciously thought he was an insignificant NPC, and I forgot that he was also a crazy fan of the goddess]
[Thinking back, the professor's expression was a little unnatural when he talked about the Heart of God]
[It went really smoothly, so smoothly that it was abnormal]
"Then let's go back and verify it first?" Hongcha felt that the situation was a bit tricky. "If there is really a curse in the ancient book, we have no way to verify it."
Yueya said: "We can first take the initiative to cultivate a curse-breaking flower."
Speaking of curse-breaking flowers, Hongcha felt a knot in his stomach.
If you want to cultivate the curse-breaking flower, you must first eat the problematic seafood meal, then use the divine blood flower to detoxify it, and then have Yue Ya use his spiritual energy to help it grow.
The process is complicated and painful, but it doesn't take long.
"Let's go back," Xuecha said, "If we came here as a conspiracy of the believers, then once the heart of the god is nailed into the statue of the goddess, we will all die here."
The others also agreed, and Yue Ya asked them to withdraw first, while he went back to get the snake-shaped ring on the door.
This groove has been empty for hundreds of years. It was easy to press in, but it was a bit difficult to take it out. Yue Ya was operating delicately when two pale fingers suddenly stretched out to the groove, almost touching Yue Ya's fingertips.
Yue Ya raised his head and saw a pale and blurry face approaching!
Yue Ya moved his fingertips, a dagger appeared in his hand, and he stabbed it towards the monster's face!
This thing suddenly disappeared, and then Yue Ya felt a sinking sensation on his back, as if something was crawling up on him.
When Yue Ya wanted to turn around, something sticky and soft wrapped around his neck!
"What if we don't exist?!" Zhuang Yan sneaked over at some point, pulled away the monster lying behind Yue Ya, and pressed him against the door.
Yue Ya rubbed his neck and turned around to see the monster held down by Zhuang Yan. It had no hair on its head and had dense white tentacles growing behind its head. The shapes of its nose and mouth were a little blurry. Only its eyes were particularly clear, and they were wearing a pair of glasses, making it look a little out of place.
The monster stared at Yue Ya through his glasses with a resentful look.
His eyes swept across the monster's white tentacles floating in the water, and Yue Ya suspected that the ghost face that flashed before was also it, but this face looked familiar... Had he seen it somewhere before?
Zhuang Yan’s fire skills could not be used here, so Yue Ya raised the dagger and stabbed it into the monster’s forehead.
A huge tentacle suddenly swung from the side and wrapped around the monster's body. This tentacle was so huge that the waves it created directly knocked Yue Ya and Zhuang Yan out.
Yueya grabbed the door panel in time to prevent herself from hitting the statue of the goddess.
"What the hell is this monster! It's too big!"
Hearing the sound of the man in black clothes trembling, Yue Ya looked over immediately and saw that a big hole had collapsed in the road of the underwater city. Several black tentacles like giant snakes stretched out of the hole and danced in the water. On one of the tentacles stood the white-faced monster from before.
The monster stared at Yue Ya sinisterly and uttered a clear human voice: "Give me the Heart of God, and I will let you go."
The voice was so familiar. Yue Ya remembered that the glasses on the monster's face were exactly the same as the ones worn by the professor.
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