Chapter 127 Going to Sea
It was already evening when Yang Muqi and I returned to the large dormitory in the white house. In addition to the blue gravel at the beginning, he also took me to six other places on the island and took six different tokens.
Blue stones, a bottle of sea salt, two shells, two conch shells, and a clump of seaweed.
For a moment I felt like I was on a trip.
Does everyone have to take these?
I couldn't help but ask him.
He glanced at my notebook and said, "No, it's just that getting these will speed up your transformation."
"As long as I stay in this white house, alienation will not stop. Soaking in the pool will speed it up. Similarly, these things will speed it up."
He pulled out a rope from his clothes, on which were a bunch of things similar to mine.
"Since this is a competition, of course the sooner we complete the task, the better."
I understand. This is the real king of rolls.
During the three days I was playing badly, everyone had already figured out where to get the accelerator card.
[So as long as those people didn't live in the white house, they wouldn't be alienated.]
Yang Muqi nodded, then paused.
"Although I also want to persuade you to give up, but since Shi Qing dared to let you come alone, it means that he must be quite confident in your ability."
No, no, no, he is not confident in my ability.
He is confident about the "Wan Ge fan" buff on me.
"Let me help you try for the time being."
"Even though you give me a bad feeling, I've lived in this world for three seasons—" He opened the door to his room and jumped into the pool. "The most important thing I've learned in these three seasons is not to trust my intuition. In overlapping dimensions, intuition can sometimes be deceiving."
"I only trust my own rational judgment."
Then he sank himself to the bottom of the water.
…
Did you see it?!
He believed I was a good person—
[Honestly, for his own good, host, you should stay away from him——]
[After all, I'm really worried about a certain protagonist getting sliced and killed because you got too close to him... He's not an evil god like Villar.]
...Don't make me sound like someone who will die if you play with him.
【hehe. 】
I walked back to my room. Since it was the last room, it was the most private room in terms of privacy. I felt like it was designed.
[Do you even need to guess? It must have been designed. Those slicing guys of yours couldn't stand having their brother stared at.]
We can talk without being sarcastic!!!
I sat on the bed in the room and tied all the things I got today to the rope with blue gravel hanging on it. The dried seaweed was different from any I had seen before. It was dark blue and was wrapped around the rope. Then I looked at the pool opposite.
Do you want to go down?
[Ding Di Di - Stage 5: Speak
I believe you are also worried about not being able to speak, but it doesn’t matter, you will be able to speak soon, you just have to find a way yourself.
Mission Reward: Mechanical Spine (Believe me you will need it)]
…
No, this quest appeared when I was trying to decide whether to go into the water. Doesn't it clearly tell me that my inability to speak is related to water?
Are you guys some kind of "Harpoon Cup of Fire"?
I can talk when I get into the water, right?!
Such a rigorous Little Mermaid setting, right?
Then I jumped into the water cursing.
For a moment, I felt like I was back in my mother's womb. The water surrounded me and I even felt the warmth. It was a hundred times more comfortable than being on land.
My skin relaxed completely.
Blue and white intertwined before my eyes.
Wait a minute—white?!
I opened my eyes wide underwater.
My hair turned back to white.
"Mmmm..."
Then he choked on the water, floated to the surface, and his hair turned back to black.
...I put my hand underwater, and the skin in the water returned to its previous color, with a few more scales, and some sticky mucous membranes between my fingers. When I took it out, it returned to its original state.
This is a big problem. I will turn back to my original appearance underwater - how can I continue to cling to Yang Muqi?
And I still can't talk underwater.
The system's tasks won't deceive me, so is it because my alienation level is not high enough?
But this reminds me that I still can't rush into it recently. At least I have to wait until everyone has become different from before.
I silently pulled my lower body out of the water, and I actually felt a little reluctant.
[This is also the feeling when a child is weaned off a pacifier.]
Your analogy is unnecessary!!!
[Host, don’t you still have that mask? If you really can’t help, wear the mask——]
…
Thank you for reminding me again. That brother knew that my face-shaping might not work, so he prepared a mask for me early in the morning.
Why didn't my mind react at that time?
I wiped the water off my body and took out the mask.
It looks like a thin layer of material similar to silicone, and even looks a bit ugly. Then I put it in my bag and can't use it for the time being.
…
After seven days, the people left in the white house had basically undergone significant alienation, but the direction of alienation was different for each person.
Some of them really don't look like fish.
I don't know the criteria for this judgment, is it because everyone's physique is different or what? Some of the alienated creatures don't even look like animals. When I passed by room 35, I seemed to see a kelp spirit.
His entire body turned the color of kelp.
If this wasn't a life-or-death situation, I'd even think he was making fun of himself.
There are also some that have transformed into conches and scallops, with their entire bodies beginning to bend - except for the shell.
That picture is a bit disgusting.
After looking around, Yang Muqi and his team members turned out to be the most normal fish.
However, Yang Muqi began to grow tentacles.
"It looks like some kind of octopus."
He commented as he looked at the two sticky, translucent tentacles, about ten centimeters long, growing from his waist.
The skin color of the whole person began to turn yellow-brown, the hair grew longer, patterns gradually grew on the body, and the face began to change into an inhuman shape.
——At least it’s not ugly.
"You don't look any different." He looked at me. The other people looked a little less human and looked at me. Uncle Liu's skin turned blue and his hands gradually turned into two pincers. His forearms were a little stiff now.
It's lobster.
Sister Yu and Wenwen look like some kind of tropical fish and a shark respectively.
Xiao Zhang grew pointed horns on his head, like a sailfish or a swordfish.
Compared to them, I just have more scales and my face looks a little more like before.
[I am different on land than underwater.]
To prove it, I put my hand in the pool next to me.
They all saw my transformed hands.
My fingers grew longer and pointed, a gradient of dark blue, making it hard to tell if the tips were flesh or nails, and there were fins attached to each of my fingertips, and shimmering scales.
It looks like it has very strong attack power.
But when I took it out, it immediately returned to its original state.
"...Your alienation is indeed in a different direction from ours."
Yang Muqi said thoughtfully.
"Can you breathe underwater now?"
I nodded, able to breathe but still unable to speak.
"Then we'll go to the sea next week. This pool leads to the sea." He jumped into the water and swam to the other side of the pool. "There's a valve down here. Pull it open and you can see down there."
He pulled the valve, and the water at the bottom of the pool began to fluctuate. Then a 2*2 channel opened in the middle of the bottom of the pool, with deep blue sea water below.
It looks very deep.
It is obvious that this is a secret passage leading to the sea.
...That's really thoughtful. Some people are living in the pool now, but if they secretly go into the sea one day, no one else may know. It finally feels like this is a competition.
After closing the valve, Yang Muqi came out of the pool, took out a few stones and handed them to us.
"Many items in this world are unusable, but this one still works. It's a small locator that can confirm each other's positions. Let's gather once we get to the sea. The seabed might be more dangerous than I thought."
His eyes turned to me.
"We are all the alienation of ordinary creatures, but Shi Sang is not. He is more like the alienation of some sea dwellers."
"Is it the sea dweller that the locals talk about?"
Xiao Zhang took a breath.
"...Yes, I even suspect that they still live in the sea, and they might be able to come ashore at any time and blend in with the locals. The difference between Shi-san's underwater and surface appearance is proof of this."
…
[Host, they've even come up with different excuses for you.]
Don't make any noise, I'm thinking.
On the eighth day, I didn't see any changes. My breathing became smoother, and I seemed to be able to hear the sounds of the distant sea through the gills behind my ears. However, my feet felt a little stiff after entering the water. Was I going to grow a tail?
On the ninth day, my pants burst. My lower body had grown longer, almost twice the size of my upper body. My legs were literally all the way down to my neck. I looked at the gauze dress on the wall. Is that what's waiting for me?
Day 10, no change.
Day 11, no change.
Day 12, no change.
Thirteenth day, no change.
On the fourteenth day, at midnight, we were about to go down, but my legs were reluctant to move. It was just that I didn't want to stay outside the water anymore. Lying in the water was much more comfortable than outside. My hair was scattered in the water, intertwined with the gauze dress.
[…I can’t look at you right now. You’re completely inhuman. You’re a little too dazzling.]
No, do I need to wear that mask to show you this? Will I be suspected?
[I don't think so. There are dozens of people out there who are even less human than you.]
Your insults are becoming more and more sophisticated.
I touched my face and throat, but still couldn't say a word. But at least I wouldn't choke on the water when I opened my mouth.
So where's my tail?
Didn't you want me to be the Little Mermaid?
With my current hair, face, and gauze dress, is it wrong if I don’t have a sleek, plump tail?
Cursing, I took out the locator given to me by Yang Muqi. Five light spots were flashing on it, indicating that everyone else was ready. I hung the locator around my neck and swam towards the valve at the bottom of the pool.
I opened the valve and plunged into the deep blue.
I felt an itch in my throat.
"Fuck—"
Covered his mouth.
The Little Mermaid can't swear!
Isn't this too sudden?!
[Ding Di Di - Stage 5: Speak (Completed)
Mission Reward: Mechanical Spine (It is recommended that you use it immediately, otherwise disabled fish will be discriminated against.)]
…
I subconsciously used the "Mechanical Spine" as instructed in the mission announcement.
In an instant my legs came together, and then my speed doubled. I looked behind me and saw a blue-purple fish tail about three meters long appear where my legs were originally, flashing a bright blue light in the water. My entire vision seemed to have changed, and the originally dark scene around me became exceptionally clear.
My hair isn't white either.
The color above is invisible to the human eye, a bright blue that exists outside the spectrum.
In just a few seconds, I swam out of the channel, and before me were various corals and fish on the continental shelf.
The locator on my neck beeped and I swam towards the location indicated by the locator.
It feels so good to be a fish, it's like coming home.
So the reason I didn't transform into a fish before was because I was missing that mechanical spine? If I can't speak, I can't complete the mission, and if I don't complete the mission, I won't have a spine and can't transform into a fish.
[It looks like it.]
Where is my spine?
That bone spur is my real spine? Isn't it some kind of soul manifestation?
And that weapon doesn't look like my original spine, does it?!
[I don’t know anything at all——]
That’s right, you didn’t know anything when I asked you before, you are such a piece of crap.
I took out my bone spur and looked at it over and over again but couldn't see how it resembled my spine. I originally thought it was some introduction written for middle school students, but I didn't expect it to be realistic.
Sometimes, isn’t it necessary to be so realistic?
The locator on my neck showed that we were getting closer, so I decided to postpone this issue. I should know it in the future anyway. The first step to avoid internal friction is to think less about uncertainties.
Putting away the spurs, I picked up the pace.
I feel incredibly fast now.
From a distance, I saw a man with an octopus lower body and a human upper body... Yang Muqi and Wenwen, a cute cat with a shark tail, next to him.
That’s great, with Wenwen here my fishtail doesn’t look so weird anymore.
——I just don’t know if their color range has changed, and whether they can see the color of my hair.
I appeared in front of them and waved to them.
Then he successfully captured two vigilant people, who even made attacking gestures.
"I'm Toki-san."
When I said this to them, the two people in front of me paused and shook their heads, and the look in their eyes when they looked at me became even more strange.
Oh no, my voice won’t have any enchanting effect, right?
"Can you speak now?"
Yang Muqi's voice had a watery sound, which was very different from his original voice.
I nodded.
Wenwen's face turned red, and she silently hid behind Yang Muqi, but her body was now bigger than Yang Muqi's, and she couldn't hide it at all.
"Captain Yang, he's so beautiful."
Yang Muqi: ...
Although Yang Muqi didn't say anything, I could feel that he really wanted to complain.
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