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Before Xie Xuan appeared here, Xiao Yao had already killed the fishman waiter and all the fishman customers dining in the restaurant once using his own method.
But it was useless. The killed murloc quickly recovered to its original state by absorbing the vitality through the domain.
In the brief interval of recovery, Xiao Yao saw Zhang Zheping at the position of the fishman's heart, but Zhang Zheping's heart was empty. Not only his heart, his entire torso was empty, as if there was no internal organs inside.
In the body of the fish-man waiter, Zhang Zheping was left with only a skin and a skeleton. In other words, the heart of the parasite in this realm should have been placed in another place in the realm, just like in the previous C-level realm.
Xie Xuan naturally thought of what Xiao Yao could think of, but what puzzled her was why Zhang Zheping, as the parasite of the domain, tortured himself like this.
"In the realm of his own creation, the host is a kind of god, able to do whatever he pleases. If what Zhang Zheping said outside is true, why does he continue to torture himself in the realm?"
Xie Xuan paused. "Furthermore, those trapped within this realm might not even know that such a filthy business exists on 98th Street. Did Zhang Zheping go to such great lengths to construct a realm that recreates his life, just to let these people experience his pain firsthand?"
Xiao Yao shook his head. "If he wanted us to experience his pain firsthand, then the roles he assigned us were wrong. We shouldn't be the bait being fed to the fish, but the fish lying on the chopping block."
Xie Xuan and Xiao Yao were both silent for two seconds before they thought about it and said uncertainly, "Is it possible that the victim isn't Zhang Zheping?"
Hearing this, Xiao Yao frowned and said, "But I saw with my own eyes that the mycelium in Zhang Zheping's body went out of control and swallowed him up, and then the domain was formed."
Xie Xuan suddenly thought of what the man who stabbed her said, and asked tentatively, "Is it possible that there is a supernatural power that can control mycelium?"
Xiao Yao's expression was unnatural for a moment, but in the dim corridor, Xie Xuan didn't notice.
"Perhaps. The world is so vast that nothing is impossible." Xiao Yao said, "Do you think someone manipulated the mycelium in Zhang Zheping's body to form this realm?"
Xie Xuan did not answer immediately. After thinking about it carefully, she found that there were many inconsistencies in her previous guess.
Even if there really is a person with superpowers who can control mycelium, he cannot ensure that someone infected by spores will become a parasite.
However, if the mycelium in Zhang Zheping's body was just a part of another psychic, just like the symbiotic spores in Xie Xuan's own body, these mycelium would never be able to form a field.
Xie Xuan denied the guess she had just made, "Maybe I'm overthinking it. Zhang Zheping's heart might be like the train we encountered last time, hidden somewhere else by the parasite."
Xiao Yao nodded and said, "Where do you think the most likely place is? I've been to the restaurant where the merman waiter delivered the food, and none of the merman dining there had Zhang Zheping's heart on them."
Xie Xuan didn't know what Xiao Yao meant by "having been there", but to be able to verify one by one among a group of fishmen that they did not have Zhang Zheping's heart and then escape unscathed, it took a terrifying strength.
But since Zhang Zheping's heart is not in the most likely fish-man diner, could it be hidden in an ordinary person like it was on the train?
While Xie Xuan was still thinking, she suddenly felt a little itchy on the back of her hand. She scratched it subconsciously, but her fingers felt something slippery and cold.
She lowered her head and saw a faint blue fluorescence in the darkness.
This is a fish. Not long ago, she saw schools of small blue fish around the giant tree. Xie Xuan guessed that they lived near the giant tree and fed on the fish that failed to hatch.
But why is it here?
The little blue fish on the back of Xie Xuan's hand jumped, and the subtle sound attracted Xiao Yao's attention.
"This is..." Before Xiao Yao could finish his words, a loud explosion suddenly came from above his head, and then the entire corridor began to shake, and the transparent glass on both sides of the corridor began to crack.
As the incident suddenly happened, the originally dim corridor was suddenly filled with the same blue light as that emitted by the little blue fish on the back of Xie Xuan's hand.
These little blue fish actually live behind the glass on both sides of the corridor. The loud noise above their heads woke them all up!
"Crack--" The sound of the glass breaking was like a death warrant at this moment, and the blue fluorescence behind the glass became brighter and brighter, as if it was ready to pounce on its prey.
Judging from the last time Xie Xuan encountered these fish next to the giant tree, these fish will only attack injured humans with a smell of blood, but once the glass is broken, they cannot remain intact.
Xie Xuan didn't have time to think about anything else before the glass shattered, and directly used a transparent shelter to lock her and Xiao Yao inside.
The glass wall that was more than ten meters high suddenly shattered, and the surging water mixed with pieces of glass fragments as big as them rushed down.
The transparent cage was like a hamster ball, being swept by the water flow and shaking and rolling violently.
Xiao Yao and Xie Xuan were both dizzy from the fall. After finally waiting for the cage to stabilize, Xie Xuan struggled to climb up from Xiao Yao.
Xiao Yao had served as Xie Xuan's cushion several times, and now he was grimacing in pain.
Xie Xuan had been mentally prepared for Xiao Yao to ask her about the origins of the cage, but unexpectedly, Xiao Yao came to his senses, touched the wall of the transparent cage, and said hesitantly, "Is this waterproof?"
When asked this question, Xie Xuan also answered hesitantly: "It should be waterproof, right?"
It was obvious that the cage was not only strong but also waterproof, and was now slowly rising in the deep water.
The surrounding water once again turned into the deep dark blue color that Xie Xuan had seen at the beginning. In the absence of any light, they could still see a few scattered small blue fish hovering under their feet.
Xie Xuan raised his head and looked upwards. "If I continue to ascend, I should be able to return to the breeding room where I first entered."
But Xiao Yao didn't respond. Instead, he gently pulled her arm and pointed in a direction, "Look there."
Xie Xuan turned her head and looked over. In the water with extremely low visibility, she could vaguely see several dark shadows swimming in the water.
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