Here, the Lord said this is a good thing

If Ye He knew that the Goddess Yingyue wanted to "help" him lift the curse, Ye He would stop her just like Puninoer did.

Venus's rank is several levels higher than the gods in this world, and Yehe doesn't dare to do anything to it, so if Goddess Yingyue does this, she will only bring trouble upon herself.

Puninor, who had always stayed by Ye He's side, had witnessed the horror of Venus at almost the closest distance. Given her relationship with Ye He, she wisely chose to pretend to be dead at that time.

Afterwards, Ye He did not blame her at all, which is enough to explain the problem.

【Huh? 】

When Ye He discovered that the divine power points in his body that belonged to Goddess Yingyue began to become restless.

He knew that this goddess was in trouble.

【ah! ! ! 】

really!

Hearing the screams of Goddess Yingyue, Ye He felt much better.

[Ah! What's going on, meow? ]

【Huh? Meow? Eh hey hey!!!】

[Why am I cursed too? Yehe! What on earth did you provoke?]

How the hell did I know it was so strong? I'm also a victim!

Ye He glanced upward unhappily, then continued walking forward.

For some reason, Ye He had a feeling that the stronger he became and the more powerful people he came into contact with in this world, the more helpless he felt.

It turns out that the leapfrog enhancement in the grade ranking is not limited to just the three levels of 147.

Ye He estimated that there were still two more "leaps" between the 10th and 13th levels!
This means that Venus is stronger than one could imagine, and it is definitely not an existence that the current Ye He should come into contact with.

And such a cat...is a cat raised by a strong man named "Mr. Prankster".

And this "Mr. Prankster"... according to Venus, he is actually her son...

Well, well, things are getting more and more interesting.

The "wanting one's son to be successful" gene engraved in his bones made Ye He feel inexplicably happy, even though he had never thought about what his offspring would be like.

Now Ye He will not think about why he has a child when he is obviously infertile. He still has a long way to go.

"Is this right here?"

While opening the divine vision, Ye He also used the power of the Eye of God.

He used all these abilities to look at the two-story building in front of him.

By this time Ye He had arrived at a nondescript street in Saidawell.

Because it is far away from famous places such as the municipal center, commercial district, and university, this street is almost forgotten by everyone and exists alone in the corner of Cedarville.

The buildings here also have a sense of history of being "dilapidated". They are old, short and featureless, which is the characteristic of this place.

There is also a patch of "ivy" vines that spans half of the street, covering dozens of houses in one go, giving this street without a green belt some "life".

However, these lush greens also make people wonder whether the residents living inside can still get enough light.

The small building in front of Ye He is one of the most unremarkable ones on this street.

It didn't even have vines, and some half-dead branches poked out from the back of the southeast corner of the building.

It should be a fruit tree that was planted in the backyard a long time ago. Now it has lost all its leaves and is as dying as this street.

But in Ye He's dual vision, the big tree is still alive and surprisingly full of vitality.

The reason may be the opening of a maze, which has been open in this small building for a long time, and the power leaking from the maze nourishes it.

Ye He opened the door in his own way and walked to the second floor where the maze was located.

There are still some living people in this room, and it is in the room where the entrance to the maze is located.

They had no intention of moving, so if Ye He wanted to greet them, he had to go to them in person.

But before that...

Some monsters lurking in this small building have begun to become restless because of the undisguised human breath coming from Ye He.

Just as Ye He stepped into the room and took a few steps, a large piece of black paint peeled off from one of the walls.

Some charred substance was flowing on the wall behind the skin, sticky and turbid.

First, an arm with sharp claws emerged from the substance, and then this level 4 monster named [Split Shadow] stretched out half of its body from this [Splitting Shadow Nest].

It was roughly humanoid in shape, but its head was entirely dominated by a massive mouth.

Ye He could tell the aggressiveness of this kind of monster from its sharp claws and fangs, even though they were covered with charred substance.

What surprised Ye He even more was that... this monster actually had a brain.

When it turned its head to "look" at Ye He and was about to roar threateningly at Ye He, it seemed to suddenly recognize who the man with the calm eyes was.

After an awkward pause of one second, the split shadow immediately retracted its claws and began to retreat into the nest.

"Snapped."

A hand suddenly grabbed its neck.

When Ye He pulled it out of its nest completely, a feeling of fear actually emerged from this frightened and trembling monster.

"Your background? And who is upstairs?"

As there was no response to the simple question, Ye He could only regretfully use his divine power points to purify the monster.

Whether the cause of its death was because Ye He, in a bad mood, accidentally broke its spine, or because of the purification of its divine power points, this little detail is insignificant.

Ye He casually reached into the Split Shadow's nest and rummaged around. The Split Shadows inside should have shared perception with the victim, so they huddled in a corner deep in the nest pretending to be dead, not daring to be discovered by Ye He.

But the silver-white flames that erupted from Ye He's hands caused them to dissipate along with the nest.

After the charred matter was also purified by the divine power points, all that remained on the wall was a picture frame full of traces of weathering and corrosion.

It turns out that this monster is not residing on a certain plane, but is hidden in this picture frame.

These are of no importance to Ye He. They are not even qualified to allow Ye He to flip through "The Road to the Gods".

And there are more “inhuman residents” in this house than just this one group of divisive shadows.

Just after passing the entrance hall, Ye He came to the entrance of a large room that was suspected to be a living room.

"welcome……"

A female corpse hanged on the ceiling by many white silk threads actually welcomed Ye He in a completely normal voice.

"Hello."

Ye He looked at the white silk threads hanging the female corpse and praised them.

[Shadow of the Past] (Level 6 Monster: Ghost Fungus)
These white threads are the body of this wandering shadow, and this female corpse is most likely the "original placenta" that produced this monster.

The power leaked from the maze not only nourished the dead tree in the backyard, but also seriously affected the members of this family.

Even an ordinary picture frame was eroded by this power and turned into a monster nest with a comprehensive strength of about level 5. The residents here should also be eroded by the power of the maze.

"You are... Ye He... the master... of this city..."

"We don't want to... cause trouble..."

The second sentence was uttered by a male corpse curled up in the corner of the living room. Because he had only transformed into a rank 5 [Shadow of Betrayal], his voice was not as pleasant as that of his wife.

Ye He looked at the couple with interest. Isn't it interesting? They turned into inhuman monsters together, but they did not lose their minds and still retained human consciousness.

How similar it is to a certain jealous shadow that Ye He had encountered before!
So……

Ye He raised his head and glanced towards the second floor.

If this couple are the residents here, what about those guys up there who are still human?

Are they the culprits who used the leaked power of the maze to study and transform some "rational" monsters?
"they are……"

Ye He stopped the woman's explanation with his hand. Rather than knowing the answer in advance, Ye He preferred to explore it on his own.

He has his own standards of judgment, and he only believes in his own standards of judgment.

In order not to alert the enemy, Ye He even let the two monsters in the living room go, and then walked up the stairs.

Ye He ignored all other monsters along the way, unless they sent themselves to Ye He, they would be torn to pieces by Ye He.

When Ye He stepped onto the stairs, a white light immediately appeared under his feet.

Ye He still ignored the illusion in front of him. He didn't even look at what kind of monster was living on the stairs, and walked towards the second floor on his own.

The stairs he walked down left behind footprints burning with silver-white divine fire. This was Ye He using his divine power points to "remind" the monsters under his feet not to delay his progress.

But Ye He still used too much force. One "footprint" of the first level was enough to cause the monster to die tragically shortly after Ye He left.

[You killed a 5th level monster, Lingering Shadow, and gained 10 days of survival and 32 points of divine power.]

It was only after Ye He saw this reminder that he realized that he had accidentally "stepped" someone to death.

There is no "Sweet Home" in this building, so the structure of the second floor has not changed. Ye He looked along the corridor and saw four doors standing very simply in their respective positions, with the doors closed.

The two bedrooms occupied by monsters were ignored by Ye He. They seemed to be aware of something and did not even open the door to attack the passing human. Ye He just passed by the door.

Behind the other door was the bathroom, which was actually the cleanest place in the house, because Ye He saw through the door that there was nothing inside except a human skeleton.

The last door is where the maze is located, and it is also where those "living people" stay.

Ye He walked forward and turned the door handle. The door was not locked, so Ye He pushed it open slowly and decisively.

Two men were sitting at a small table playing cards, and a woman was lying on the bed, covered with a quilt and sleeping soundly.

A floor-to-ceiling mirror that constantly radiates a strange, colorful glow.

Ye He quickly captured this information in his mind.

"Ye He?!"

After a few seconds, the two men who were playing cards didn't hear anyone entering the room, so they looked towards the door.

Only then did they realize that the person who came with light steps and opened the door naturally was not their companion.

The atmosphere in the room quickly became subtle, but the two men reacted extremely quickly!

They stood up and saluted Yehe:
"Mr. Ye He, we are researchers from the Imperial Research Institute. How did you find this place?"

As they were talking, they took out their ID cards from their pockets and showed them to Ye He.

"researcher?"

Ye He didn't even look at the two certificates. He just smiled playfully at the two men:
"Are you Ekaterina's people?"

"Yes, yes, the dean asked us to be responsible for researching the entrance to this maze."

The other man also reacted and replied to Ye He as naturally as possible.

"Um... researcher?"

Ye He repeated their self-proclaimed occupations again, and he laughed even more happily:
"When the researchers at the Imperial Research Institute see me... their hearts won't beat as wildly as yours..."

As soon as these words were spoken, the atmosphere that had just been eased by the two men instantly dropped back to freezing point.

What caught the two men off guard was Ye He's next words:

“She’s actually the only researcher, right?
And you... are from the Federation? Haha, this maze is really interesting, it can actually connect to the Federation!"

Caesar, whose news was spread by Ye He, had investigated them thoroughly. Even the "investigation report" they secretly recorded on the back of the card table was discovered by Caesar and presented to Ye He.

When they discovered that Ye He had seen through the truth, and that he seemed to be very interested in the Federation on the other side of the maze, the two men were so scared that their faces turned green!
It doesn’t matter if they die here, but they must not let this man pass through the maze and run to the Federation!
After two seconds of silence, the two men suddenly burst out in tacit understanding!

They suddenly attacked, one of them pounced on Ye He, and the other pounced on the floor-length mirror.

"boom!"

Then they had their fists crushed by Ye He and their heads shot through with a bullet.

"Ah! What happened?"

The woman awakened by the gunshot sat up and looked at Ye He in a daze.

"It's okay, just keep sleeping."

Ye He responded to her casually.

"Oh well."

She actually just lay back down like that and even covered herself with the quilt!

Considering that she was indeed a researcher at the Imperial Research Institute, Ye He was too lazy to make things difficult for her. He just lowered his head to look at the man who was pinned to the ground by him.

"Chat? Otherwise I have to go book a train ticket to the federal capital."

"……it is good."

……

"This is an extra-large special maze. It has multiple fixed entrances and exits on the continent. Each entrance and exit corresponds to a different area inside. These areas can cross each other, so we came here from the Federation."

After a simple and honest explanation of the situation in the maze, the surviving man looked at Ye He tremblingly and began to pray for a chance to survive.

"What about her? Have you made contact with Ekaterina?"

Ye He pointed at the female researcher who really fell asleep.

"she……"

A subtle expression appeared on the man's face.

"She is indeed a researcher at the Imperial Research Institute and a subordinate of Her Highness Catherine. We... just told her that we were colleagues, and she believed it... I really didn't lie, this is true!"

The man himself felt that this explanation was a bit far-fetched and was afraid of angering Ye He.

But Ye He was well-informed and had seen all kinds of outrageous people. Why would he be so petty with this man?
He simply pushed the man backwards with his backhand, and the space behind the man automatically opened up, causing him to fall into a cell in the dungeon of the Imperial Research Institute.

This is certainly not Ye He's ability, but...

"I haven't found the right person for the job. If you're ready to go in, I won't hire you."

The space healed, and from another cracked space, Ekaterina appeared, still working at her desk.

She responded to Ye He's unspoken question without even raising her head. As Ye He thought, everything that happened here was under her control.

"It doesn't matter. I have my own needs, but I won't necessarily go to the Federation."

"Okay." (End of Chapter)