Chapter 45 Chapter 45 The octopuses crawl faster...
The octopuses crawled faster.
Boaz's voice, coming from inside the starfish, suddenly became more excited. "I think I smell you, the devil. Are you in the vent? I'm coming to find you!"
There was a flurry of hurried footsteps, and then Boaz seemed to bump into something with a thud and stop. He looked at Haixing and said to Bai Tianming in a tired voice, "It's too much trouble to find someone."
It sounds like I've suddenly aged fifty years.
"Why don't you come find me?" Boaz coughed twice and spoke in a hoarse, slow, and malicious tone, like a spider hanging from the ceiling in the middle of the corridor by a spider silk thread, intimidating all passers-by. "I'll be waiting for you here. If you find me, we can have a good talk.
Whatever you want to talk about, I'm here for you.
If you can't find it, in three minutes, I'll open every dimensional rift I can and throw everything on the ship in. I've prepared a warehouse! Are you looking forward to it? The timer starts now!
The starfish fell from the ceiling with a snap, trembled twice, and bleed red blood. Its body split into seven or eight parts, and finally, it turned the withered yellow color of a corpse, like a pool of dry mud, and lay there motionless.
Even the blood around it gradually changed from bright red to dark red, and finally stopped at dark purple, looking poisonous.
It seems there are dangers everywhere here.
But that is for ordinary people.
Bai Tianming reached out and touched the purple blood on the ground. It smelled like mulberries. To him, it was only a trace amount of poison. It couldn't kill him at all, and it couldn't even paralyze him.
He pinched the octopus next to him and wiped his hands. Just before the octopus was about to spray ink at him, he pinched the octopus and asked, "Where is it?"
The octopus opened its pair of large black and white eyes and stared at him without blinking, with a dull expression, as if it didn't understand anything.
Bai Tianming sneered and asked again, "Do you know where the person who just spoke, Boaz, is?"
The octopus felt an extremely strong pressure coming from above, and its entire body began to tremble. Instinctively, it raised one of its tentacles and replied, "There!"
Bai Tianming threw the octopus aside and walked in the direction of the tentacles. There was a wall, but after passing through the wall, there was a clean and empty room.
There were two doors in the room, one was the one he had just opened, and the other was in front of him, which he walked over to and opened, another door in the room.
Behind the door is a long corridor. On both sides of the corridor are a row of neatly arranged rooms. The doors are either open or closed. Some of the doorways are covered with green carpets, some with blue carpets, and some with red carpets.
The edge of the red carpet was furry, as if it was bleeding. Each strand of wool was made up of many thin strands of wool mixed together with blood, as if there was a huge centipede hidden underneath, with half of its leg sticking out.
Behind the intricate maze-like passages was a small, extremely clean room covered with a large carpet. On the carpet lay a person who looked as if he had just woken up.
There was a pitch-black, bow-like pillow under his neck. He rolled on the ground, got up, sat against the wall, stared at the wall for a while, then raised his head and looked at the ceiling.
On the ceiling was a paper-thin parrot with reddish-green feathers and a sharp yellow beak. When it saw him looking over, it opened its mouth, revealing its scarlet tongue, and shrieked in a shrill voice, "Three minutes! Three minutes! Two more minutes!"
This is a clock.
The person on the ground laughed and lay back down, looking up at the parrot. He raised one arm and waved to the parrot, and the parrot fell from the ceiling tremblingly.
The parrot fell on the man's arm, and Boaz grabbed the parrot and crushed it with one hand, like tofu, leaving crumbs everywhere.
He clapped his hands, sat up from the ground, shook his clothes, stamped his feet, and made sure that there was probably no more parrot residue on his body. He pushed open the door with a smile and said to the person behind him: "I changed my mind. Let's start cutting the space crack in one minute!"
The shaggy black carpet rolled up and turned into a black, shaggy poodle. It ran to the door on all fours, looked at his back, nodded, and shouted, "One minute later!"
Before he finished speaking, the curly-haired dog turned into an octopus covered with tentacles, looking ready to attack. Obviously, in a minute, countless space cracks would be opened until there could be no more.
Boaz meant it.
Bai Tianming found him.
The two sides stared at each other across the long corridor.
Boaz was stunned for a moment. Although he came out with the intention of finding someone, he was just strolling around without any investigation at all. Therefore, he was a little surprised to see someone suddenly.
He came back to his senses and looked at Bai Tianming, a special demon, one he had never seen before, not on the list, with a strange color, and a powerful demon.
"Maybe I need some help." Boaz was never stingy in helping himself. He stared at Bai Tianming closely, muttered to himself, and reached out to knock on the wall next to him.
A wooden board on the wall suddenly loosened, and an octopus tentacle grew out of it. On the tentacle was a bottle of potion glowing with purple starlight, and on top of the glass bottle was a wooden stopper.
Boaz took the bottle and took a look at it. There was a label on the bottle. The label was a little yellowed, but it did not affect the observation. It said: Special enhancement potion for demons.
Boaz opened the wooden cork and drank all the potion in the glass bottle in one breath. He threw the glass bottle aside. The wooden board next to it loosened, and two tentacles stretched out and took in the wooden cork and the bottle.
No sound was made.
Boaz walked towards Bai Tianming step by step and said with a smile, "Nice to meet you, it's our first time. Let's get to know each other better!"
Bai Tianming stood still, waiting for him to come closer. He looked him up and down, considering where to hit him so as to break his bones without being disturbed by the octopus tentacles that suddenly emerged from the wooden board. A smile unconsciously appeared on his face.
Boaz stopped three steps away from Bai Tianming, stared at Bai Tianming's face blankly, took a breath, took three steps back, staggered, and took another step back before he barely stopped by holding on to the wall.
He seemed to have suffered a huge mental shock and his face turned pale, but even so, his eyes were still staring straight at Bai Tianming, without any vigilance, as if the person opposite him would disappear in the blink of an eye. He was dazed and shocked, with a vague disbelief.
Bai Tianming suspected that he was pretending, but at the same time he felt that his acting skills were not that good, so he was a little confused. He lowered his eyes to check himself and was suddenly shocked.
Many years ago, when he was still a human, he met a priest who swore allegiance to him, which he accepted. From then on, he gained another kind of power in his soul.
This power is gentle and harmless in normal times, but when the priest or those who submit to him are disrespectful to him or make him unhappy, that power will pounce out like a roaring beast in the mountains, bite the soul of the person opposite, tear it apart fiercely, spit out the broken and pain-stained soul fragments, piece them together at random, and finally leave leisurely.
People whose souls are torn apart usually do not die or are seriously injured, but they will only feel pain, as if their entire body has been torn apart and then put back together.
According to people who have tried it, there is no problem moving if you want to, but no matter which part of the body you use, it will feel extremely painful, as if every inch of the bone is crushed, every inch of the skin is burned, and every organ is picked off and dried in the sun. After a period of time, the pain will dissipate on its own. During this period, no painkillers will work.
At that time, the priest, who had been bedridden because he wanted to test the extent of this power's counterattack, had just woken up. When he opened his eyes, he saw Bai Tianming sitting next to him, watching over him. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Have you been watching over me all night?"
The priest's voice was very hoarse. Bai Tianming brought him a glass of water. He couldn't sit up by himself, so Bai Tianming helped him up and fed him the glass of water. His lips were bleeding, but he took a sip and didn't care at all.
When he breathed, his whole face hurt, and when he drank water, from his throat to his stomach, there was no place that didn't hurt, but he was happy, as happy as if he had just woken up.
He couldn't move a muscle, like a bundle of straw. But he opened his eyes, sparkling with hope, and looked at Bai Tianming. He said happily, "Are you angry? I don't think this pain is enough. Whoever makes you unhappy deserves death. I don't care what others do. If I'm wrong, I deserve death even more. Don't be sad."
Bai Tianming sighed and just let him continue to rest.
He lay in bed, his eyes, distinctly black and white, like the bleak, clear autumn sky outside the window, unblinking as he looked at Bai Tianming with unwavering seriousness and persistence. "This power won't harm innocent people. It only affects me and those who follow me. If those who follow me don't recognize you and dare to offend you, this little pain will only serve as a minor punishment. If you disagree, I'll find another way."
In the end, Bai Tianming agreed.
Because if the priest were to find another way, it would definitely be more painful than the pain brought by this power, so it is better to save trouble.
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