Chapter 133 End
Superb Holy Body of Taking the Blame, but in my current condition I don’t think I can appear in front of Yang Muqi and the others again.
——I feel that as long as I leave here, the collapse will continue.
Either wait for fifteen days for Villar's "cross-dressing man" to become invalid, or wait for the Sea Festival to end and leave this dungeon directly.
...Wait, the Sea Festival will be almost over in fifteen days, so Veraer will come with us. Wouldn't this dungeon be completely useless then?
The collapse of the copy is almost equivalent to the destruction of the world.
What about the people here?
[Host, don't worry. The dungeon world is completely connected. The Sea God isn't the core of this dungeon; the Sea Festival is. So even without the Sea God, this world won't be destroyed.]
…
It’s no wonder that he has been trained. He is much better than before when he knew nothing.
[You only need to complete the Sea Festival and successfully leave the world.]
Actually, there is another way.
Items can be traded.
Can't I just give this prop to someone?
Change the scapegoat.
【ah? 】
What do you want to do?
I thought about it, if I belong to an NPC now, can I issue tasks?
I just need to issue a "Sea God's Legacy" mission and find the best scapegoat during the Sea Festival.
——There will always be greedy people who want to get this status.
I opened my pager again, and the sea blue color disappeared, leaving only eleven colors.
I clicked on the blue-purple light.
The lights began to flicker, but no one spoke.
I roughly described my thoughts in my mind, and still remained silent, but I knew he heard it, after all, the flickering of the light paused noticeably.
『…』
"This is against the rules."
His words were calm and straightforward, but he did not directly refuse.
"Humans are not capable of possessing such power."
But if you gain such power, you won't be able to leave this sea, right? That would put you beyond the realm of humanity—or is it impossible to return Arinea?
"...In this world, sea gods are not necessary."
But the noise just now clearly showed that without the Sea God, many terrible things would happen, right?
"The sea will turn upside down, the curse will be broken, land people and mermaids will return to the embrace of the sea, and the world will be wrapped in the ocean - isn't this a beautiful future?"
It's really hard for him to say such a long paragraph in such a plain and straightforward manner.
But then again, they don't even consider whether humans or mermaids will die.
Except for me, this group of slices differentiated from the protagonist are more perverted and arrogant than each other.
What on earth did I do to the protagonist to make him have such an unhealthy love for me?!
…
"There is another way."
"Just give the authority of the Sea God to a dead thing."
Dead thing?
"Rocks, shells, gravel, anything is fine."
"As long as there's no awareness, there won't be any problems."
Wouldn’t this be too hasty?
Doesn't it sound weird that Poseidon is a reef, shell, or gravel?
It's like the strange development of some low-budget cult film, which is so bad that no one watches it, and the director and actors lose a lot of money.
"...Then what are you going to do?"
Finally, I heard a hint of helplessness in his tone.
Although I don't know which part this slice is from, he is still very tolerant of me, but he won't spoil me to the point of being abnormal like others.
I looked around. There weren't many living things in this sea area belonging to the Sea God. Most of them were dead.
Something suitable suddenly occurred to me.
I took out the pearls that Villar dropped, mixed the pink and black together, then used my points to exchange for an item called "Eternal Gold Thread" and started stringing the beads.
[Xiaoyu, you don’t mean to…]
Verral's pearls are very strong, and because they are not from this sea area, I don't have to worry about any problems that I have overlooked.
By the time I had finished stringing the black and pink pearls, it had become a very long string. When I wore it around my neck and wrapped it around twice, it could reach my belly.
Sweet and cool style!
【……】
I won't cry anymore.
Okay, two more.
It fit right where the knot was tied, and then I took the title off my head and transferred it to the pearl necklace.
One second.
Five seconds.
One minute.
…
Ten minutes.
Okay, sure.
I looked at the pearls in my hand. The black and pink pearl string was glowing with a bright blue light, and golden thread began to wrap around each pearl.
Like the line on my mouth.
——Even inanimate objects are cursed.
I hung the pearl necklace on the chair where Arinea sat at the beginning. The pearl necklace looked perfectly in place on it, and the power it emanated made the sea calm and peaceful.
I wagged my tail, took one last look at the necklace, and turned to leave.
Probably no one will ever come here again.
When I left this sea area, the sea area belonging to the sea god disappeared, just like a lifeless pearl, without any fluctuations, but it did exist.
"The Sea Festival is in three days."
A blue-purple voice rang in my mind, and I was startled.
I remember when I first arrived, there were still about ten days left before the Sea Festival, right?
So it's the time difference in that sea area?
The voice in my head died down, and the light of the pager died down.
But this guy still remembered to remind me of the time - it turns out he still wanted me to complete the task!
I swam along the current towards the so-called altar. I didn't know how many people had come here to complete the task. I was sure I wouldn't be among the top three this time.
And I wanted to avoid Yang Muqi and the others. I had been away alone for so long and didn't want to explain to them what I was doing.
Give Shi Qing some face.
…
Relying on some unique talents that I don't know where they came from and the invisibility props exchanged for points, I successfully avoided everyone and completed the sacrificial dance on the altar.
Wagging his tail and shaking his hands, the sea god is now a string of pearls, so don't expect the pearls to have any aesthetic taste.
Anyway, I was judged to have completed it, and even had a ranking, fifth, neither higher nor lower, with no rewards or penalties.
Then the Sea Festival began——
I could feel the sea water surging and starting to rise. The entire sea surface lifted us up and we flew forward. I still didn't reveal my figure, but I saw many tribes that were very similar to the Nilgara tribe. They seemed to see me and looked in my direction, and then saw nothing.
It can't be that there is some aura on me that they can sense, right?
I also saw Nilgara. I don’t know if it was my imagination, but the black color on him was even darker, to the point where ordinary people would feel dizzy just by looking at him—so what on earth is he???
[Perhaps he has some connection with the protagonist, but it's not a slice.]
Okay, it’s useless to say it.
From the deep sea to the shallow sea, the speed was extremely fast. The change in water pressure made all the mermaids move even faster, and then they rushed into the sky - accompanied by huge waves, they saw the sky and the island.
Saw the sun.
The people on the island raised their hands, wore flowers and gorgeous clothes, and stepped into the water to welcome the huge waves.
I looked at the humans on the ground. They were rejoicing from the bottom of their hearts for the arrival of the huge waves, with a few desperate faces interspersed here and there.
Those are contestants who have given up alienation.
When did they begin to realize their destiny?
Then the sea swallowed up the island and all was quiet.
…
Following the sea water, the Sea Festival is still going on, and the sea water is still pushing the races in the sea forward. There are islands and city-states in groups. I finally saw the protective shield released by the saint mentioned by Nirgara, and the sea water cannot shake it.
The mermaids and humans look at each other from afar across the protective shield. They have similar faces, but live in different worlds. They can only see each other once every ten years. They know of each other's existence, and they also know that this world belonging to the ocean separates different races.
…So is Arinea's curse really meant to be a curse?
Is it true, as he said, that he cursed the world because he couldn't leave the sea?
The Sea Festival lasted for three days. It seemed as if the creatures in the sea had swam around the planet. There were more people living on land on this planet than I thought. Even though the land area is not large, humans are a race that can always adapt to any living environment.
Just as I was daydreaming along the current, the sea water gradually began to recede, and at the same time, the sound of water settling was heard.
"Ding Ding—Congratulations to V-61 zone adapter Shi Sang for completing the competition. The "Sea Festival" dungeon has successfully concluded. Next, the settlement will be announced:
Twenty-three contestants completed the mission in this copy, and twenty-eight died.
Shi Sang ranked fifth and completed the "God Killing" hidden mission, and was rewarded with 100,000 universal currency. Since he did not enter the top three, his points did not increase.
Next, your alienation level will be cleared and you will return to the overlapping space. Please be prepared.
The cold report was completely different from the previous harvest season, but the voice was still the same, and the blue-purple light on the waist was flashing, indicating that no one had changed.
So what happened?
"I'm just working. Sangsang also likes the normal "me", right?"
This sound suddenly rang in my mind, and then my eyes went dark, and I had a strange feeling on my body. The alienation was indeed disappearing, but I felt like they were dormant in my body again, and there was a feeling that they would pop up again at any time.
Then I stood in a room and opened my eyes. This place seemed familiar, very similar to the white space when I first came here - but wasn't there too much stuff around???
There are sets of white furniture, various soft and furry cushions, as well as decorative bouquets and art paintings.
It's like some kind of artist-designed boutique.
So, where is this?
I blinked. It had been a long time since I had felt the solid ground with my legs. For a moment, I almost forgot to use my lungs to breathe. It was not until I felt suffocated that I remembered that I was no longer in the alienated mermaid body.
I am a human now.
[It's really weird to emphasize that you're a human host—]
[There's nothing I can do about it. Xiaoyu has reached the age where she's starting to have doubts about her self-awareness.]
Yes.
wrong.
Villar, why is your voice still female?
[…Who do you think you blame?!]
[The time in that sea area is different from the flow outside. In reality, only six days have passed, so this title will expire in nine days.]
【Thank you so much for the system explanation.】
Gnashing of teeth, sister!
[Don't call me sister. I've never seen you call me brother so easily!]
So will the little pearls still drop now?
"No, no! I've already left that world and am now my true self! I don't have the attributes of the Little Mermaid!"
Eh…
I really like the pink pearls. I should have made a necklace out of them.
【……】
[Local specialties, think positively, this is also a manifestation of the host's love for you! My only sister...brother!]
【……】
"Sangsang, you're back——"
While I was still joking with System Villar in my head, Shi Qing had already appeared at the door. He looked at me with joy, "I heard that you met Yang Muqi... They didn't do anything to you, did they?"
He looked a little nervous, probably because Yang Muqi went to him to confirm my identity as soon as I left the dungeon.
So I say that smart and rational people are sometimes too efficient.
I shook my head.
I can't speak again. I feel like I'm the cursed one. If I want to speak freely in this world, I have to install a transparent fish tank on my head and fill it with sea water.
Just like Sandy in "Sea Baby", except that she was there to release water and I was there to soak in water.
[…This is so weird, host.]
I know it’s weird too!!!
I don't really mean to do that!
"...Are you tired then?"
Shi Qing asked again, and I shook my head again.
"Did he give you any trouble?"
I continued to shake my head.
"Is he dead?"
I paused.
He looked at Shi Qing, his expression did not change at all, as if what he was saying was a very ordinary thing.
Then I nodded.
He rubbed his hands in my hair, "That's good..."
"'Heart' is back, that will be soon."
The last sentence was spoken quietly, but I still heard it.
So Arinea represents the heart, and they all know that Arinea is doomed to die.
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