Returning from the abyss

Chapter 142 Water Burial Ceremony
In contrast, Zhao Chenshuang's plan was even crazier.

She is also planning to use the dirty blood ritual, but she is planning to create "hybrid blood".

Murlocs, pig-faced men, cursed villagers, and tourists themselves are mixed with different known blood to create mixed-race people with different proportions—since the dirty blood ritual is likely to only take effect on "decayed blood", this process In fact, it is not troublesome.

It happened that Deng Wei and some other people couldn't see the castle on the top of the mountain, so Zhao Chenshuang took this group of people away to arrest them, and they don't know how the progress is now.

In comparison, Ning Yeyi was easier to find.

After going through the reset, if there is no accident, Ning Yeyi will definitely act according to the "message" left in advance, at least until she finds the other party, she will not deviate from that course of action.

Lu Ning quickly ran to the Moon Lake cave that she found at the beginning. After plugging her ears in advance, she walked slowly along the cave.

After walking a few times, she was already familiar with her movements, and soon passed through the glowing moss area and walked into the underground cave of Moon Lake.

On the surface of the shining golden light, there is a pair of crystal coffins, which are filled with water with golden spots floating continuously. You can vaguely see a person encapsulated in this coffin, floating slowly, but without any voluntary actions .

Seeing this scene, Lu Ning immediately pulled out the shotgun, rubbed her fingertips, and the muzzle of the gun was instantly stained with blue current.

boom!
The shattered projectile bombarded the crystal coffin not far away with a blue arc, and immediately, a large crack appeared in the perfect coffin, and the current rushed into the water inside, quickly annihilating all the golden spots.The person in the coffin twitched slightly and opened his eyes.

Click!

The water flow turned into a blade, easily tearing the cracked coffin from the inside. A black shadow with short hair jumped out instantly, and countless water splashes turned into water nails in the air. The hand directly pressed down on Lu Ning.

One blow missed.

Lu Ning's figure blurred for a moment, and in an instant, he had already retreated two steps away. With a flick of his hand, he wiped out the lightning on the shotgun, picked up a bullet with his left hand, loaded it from the barrel, and put the gun back into the holster.

"Are you almost awake? The way I called people may be a bit rough."

She looked at Ning Yeyi who was shaking the water droplets from her hair, and said calmly.

To be honest, if the clothes and some features were not still there, she probably wouldn't have recognized the person in front of her.

Ning Yeyi's pupils had turned silver, almost merging with the whites of her eyes. Two cracks appeared on both sides of her mandible, and her mouth began to protrude forward. It was especially obvious that the gap between the fingers of her hands had grown. The webs of aquatic animals appeared, and the corners of the eyes were also cracked to the sides of the cheeks.

"Speaking to me, my ears haven't recovered yet."

After a while, Ning Yeyi finally spoke. At this moment, the water nail fixed in the air turned into water again and fell back into the lake like a torrential rain.

"Are you really here to share the divine blood?"

"Ah... almost lost." Ning Yeyi scratched her head, showing an expression of lingering fear, but on her current face, she looked a little scared.

"It doesn't look bad now."

"Let's leave. The murlocs probably rushed over when they heard the noise. Let's talk as we walk."

As a task that is not optional, "Investigate the secrets of Moon Lake", its difficulty is judged to be not too high, which means that everyone can complete it.However, few people can resist the murloc's singing, so how can we investigate?

Ning Yeyi slowly described what happened after her "reset".

"I woke up in the cell and found that I was alone, and the security was heightened. Someone came to patrol and check every hour, but I quickly noticed the marks on the clothes."

The traces were created by the rule of "Things that are not held by the resetter will not be reset". Ning Yeyi's coat is double-layered, and she puts the information she needs in words that she can understand. In the form of a picture, he tore off the mark on the inner cloth, and then handed over the torn strip to Lu Ning for safekeeping - in this way, she would not be ignorant because of the reset.

Then at night, the tourists who didn't go to the castle returned to the village again and made a big fuss. Ning Yeyi took advantage of the chaos to escape, and then found the Moon Lake Cave according to the reserved route map, avoiding the time reset at night , and then walked inside, and began to test the method that everyone can use...

damage hearing.

A certain amount of sacrifice isn't a big deal in a scenario where you can die at any moment.Not only tourists think so, but even the setters of the scene seem to think so.When Ning Yeyi pierced her ears and could no longer hear the mermaid's singing, that mysterious power could not affect her anymore. After verifying this, she continued to the next project, which is to share the blood of the gods .

The murlocs were very happy and welcomed her into the lake, endowed her with the ability to breathe underwater through some secret technique, and then led her through an underground waterway under Moon Lake to the real "Moon Lake".

It was a full moon in the midst of a mountain, completely illuminated by a golden color. The diameter of the lake was more than five kilometers, which was completely different from the small crescent-shaped lakes outside.

In the mountain that was mostly occupied by water, a rock wall was sunken in. Inside was a cemetery with an area of ​​about [-] square meters, which was used to place the corpses of the murloc "God".

Ning Yeyi saw "God" there.

Its body is huge, with a length of about seven or eight meters. It is piled up at the end of the cemetery like a pool of mud. Eight transparent tubes extend from its body, and what flows through the tubes is a sticky liquid that is as bright as a galaxy. The end of each tube is connected to a bag made of fish bubbles to collect the slowly flowing mucus.

What surprised Ning Yeyi the most was that this huge "god" was still alive.

That was the first time she realized this problem. For "God", "death" and "physical death" are not the same concept.

Just like humans regard brain death as the end of life, "gods" seem to have certain criteria for judging this. At least in the eyes of the murlocs, their gods are already dead.

The murloc who led her in took out a half-filled fish bubble, replaced it with a new one, and left the cemetery with Ning Yeyi.After returning outside, Ning Yeyi was awarded a shell mark by a murloc who seemed to be the oldest, and then returned the same way.

Before she left, she glanced at the surrounding walls, which were full of faintly glowing symbols and pictures, which seemed to record a piece of history.

Then came the water burial ceremony—a ceremony in which the murlocs shared the blood of the gods.

The ritual requires the supply of the entire Moon Lake. The executor must lie in a specially made water coffin, inject the blood of the gods into the body, and submerge it with golden water to simulate the necessary environment for "birth".The god's blood will replace all the blood in the body within twelve hours, which will inevitably cause some physical changes, and then, when the golden color in the water completely dissipates, the executor will be reborn.

The process was very simple, but it was broken by Lu Ning halfway through.

"Thanks to your timely arrival, this ceremony is really dangerous."

After Ning Yeyi finished talking about her experience, she thanked Lu Ning.

"If the water burial ceremony is completely completed, I will become a murloc. Although I will gain power second only to 'God' because of the purity of my blood, I will never be able to leave this place."

"Your ears..."

"It's almost recovered. The divine blood is indeed very powerful. Not to mention the recovery and strengthening effects, the blood can still retain information—even though it's only for the murloc."

She habitually reached out to brush her hair, but touched the crack on the side of her face.

"Uh... am I ugly now?"

Lu Ning looked at Ning Yeyi's somewhat frightening face, and nodded earnestly.

"Going back can restore..."

"Forget it, I don't rely on my face to eat." Ning Yeyi shook his head, uncovered this article by himself, and continued, "The murlocs cannot leave the water for more than an hour. With this constraint, no matter how strong other abilities are I don't want any more."

Indeed, one hour is far from enough whether it is going up the mountain or leaving the mountain range, that is to say, it will be left in this scene forever.

"The second-order elimination method... means of elimination other than death."

Neither Ning Yeyi nor Lu Ning thought that most of the first-tier tourists were still stuck in the equation of "death = out". However, with the promotion, the way of elimination began to change.

"However, I haven't fully transformed yet. At most, I can just add more water. Relatively speaking, the bloodline magic that I can use is not too much. Ah... the feeling of gaining power is really good."

As Ning Yeyi said, she stretched out her hand, and some green water squeezed out from some vegetation on the side of the road, forming a water ball in front of her. She opened her mouth and swallowed the ball of water.

Lu Ning looked at the flowers and plants that had dried up and died due to the loss of water, and her footsteps paused slightly, before Ning Yeyi noticed it, she followed again.

"The information you left is just the key points. I'll tell you what I need to tell you again. Now let's go find Shen Xinyue together."

"Shen Xinyue? Did you guys never find her?"

"Cheng Wuling should have found her. Although we don't know when, we should be able to get another follower from her." Lu Ning explained.

"Well, if you lead the way, will you say that you are a second hand, that is, we have already failed?"

"Failed, everything is restored, but there are still some things that have not been restored... At least all the gods we know can avoid time reset, so the priority of time reset is actually lower, and real enemies can also use this effect Come and observe our movements."

"Listen, we haven't actually made real progress."

"The benefits to you will far outweigh the dangers, that's what I learned from the first scene."

(End of this chapter)