AWITTGABAGIWOBAFOAP Chapter 53
by VolareFish heads densely packed were exposed to view, thousands of faceless faces slowly advancing in one direction.
All kinds of strangely shaped fish-men surged out of the black fog, their withered tails intertwined and knotted together. They formed a fish army, staring at Song Ningwan with blood-filled holes.
The sea surface had been invaded.
Now was the true dead end!
“There’s no escape,” Pulan said.
“Are you afraid?” Song Ningwan’s voice still didn’t have much inflection, he just turned his head to ask.
Pulan was puzzled, “Why be afraid? I’m just about to die.”
“Judging by your voice, you’re not very old. Don’t you feel any regrets?” Song Ningwan said, about to make a desperate last stand.
“Regrets?” Pulan savored the word, and suddenly laughed meaningfully, “I think it would be more of a regret if *you* died. Aren’t you trying to save people?”
Saving others at the expense of oneself, that was the real regret.
This was the first time Song Ningwan realized that Pulan had such a harsh side. What had she experienced over the years? And why had she become like this now?
“Thousands of troops” were converging on the shore, about to swallow the two of them. When there was no way to retreat, choosing life from death was also an option.
Several fish tails had tentatively touched the shore, quickly locked on, and launched an attack. Sharp fish claws tore through the silent air.
War was about to break out!
“Jump down!” Pulan grabbed Song Ningwan’s sleeve and ran towards the death swamp behind them.
This was simply courting death. Even the bone fragments of that mutant species were gone…
But Pulan didn’t seem like someone who would compromise, so how could she court death?
Suspicion and doubt, survival and death…
“Trust me.” Pulan realized that the person behind her was unmoved, and turned her head to say with a very firm tone.
A fish-man raised its sharp claws, about to slash Song Ningwan’s shoulder.
At the critical moment, Song Ningwan still chose to move. He agreed to gamble with his life and jumped into the boiling death swamp with Pulan.
The tense and exciting feeling of leaping into the air, where life and death were unpredictable, made the blood in his whole body flow backward, and he almost couldn’t breathe.
The burning pain that scorched his skin made Song Ningwan regain his senses. Pulan fell into the death swamp first. Seeing the mire quickly engulfing the top of her head, her throat tightened faintly.
There was no turning back once the arrow was released. Song Ningwan could only brace himself and accept fate. No matter what the outcome, he couldn’t regret it.
With a plop!
Song Ningwan was exhausted and weak, falling into the death swamp. The silvery luster reflected the uneven rise and fall of his breath. The membrane secreted by the surface of the bionic suit gently wrapped around him, providing a suitable temperature and sufficient oxygen, and to a certain extent, resisting the invasion of low-level bacteria.
He desperately tapped his head to keep himself highly awake.
Wave-like viral infections were everywhere, attacking invading life forms within any range without discrimination, turning them into nutrients and absorbing them completely.
His throat was dry, his pupils rolled back, and the abnormality spread from the outside to the inside.
Song Ningwan felt suffocated as if octopus tentacles were swirling around his throat. He was unbearably itchy all over, and in an instant, he felt icy despair, and in the next, burning pain.
Struggling desperately in the heat, the scene before his eyes was bizarre. He vaguely saw a long-haired figure standing against the light, and the tower instantly collapsed.
In despair, he had long forgotten the agony of living, and stretched out a scarred hand, but didn’t say a word.
…
Song Ningwan felt a sting on his eyelids and moved his fingers, discovering he had no strength.
“You’re awake.” Pulan’s indifferent voice echoed in the void.
Enduring the severe pain, Song Ningwan opened his eyes and discovered that there was another world beneath the death swamp.
Sure enough, in times of crisis, seeking life from death could break through the clouds and see the moon.
Blue ice crystals covered the entire rocky tunnel. Song Ningwan supported himself against the rock wall to get up. Besides Pulan, Yuanwei and Xie Xiaoyu were actually there!
“How did you know the death swamp was an illusion?” Song Ningwan looked at Pulan.
“That’s because Lan knew I hadn’t gone back, and it was impossible for me to leave alone, so this seemingly boiling swamp is the key to breaking the situation.” Yuanwei’s protective suit had long been broken, and she hadn’t replaced it in time, seemingly not minding others seeing her.
Song Ningwan didn’t say anything. Seeing Xie Xiaoyu shivering against the crystal, his lips pale, he walked over.
“You came…” Xie Xiaoyu raised his eyelids.
“Yeah, there are no medical facilities here. I’ll treat your wounds when we get back to 001.” Song Ningwan tried to soften his voice. The broken arm had already been wrapped in cloth, and it didn’t seem to be a major problem.
“Yeah.” Xie Xiaoyu paused, “By the way, welcome to Landis.”
“Is this Landis, the sacred land in the sea? Where is Hydra?” Yuanwei spoke.
“Let’s go forward.” Song Ningwan took the lead and walked in the front, always feeling that he had been here before, a very familiar feeling.
The giant cave was carved from natural ice, and even on the outside, he felt a bone-chilling coldness. The inside was deep and lonely, like a abyss with its bloody mouth open, wanting to swallow everything.
The further they went, the more severe the cold they felt.
The crystal clear objects made their hearts feel cold. A cold wind blew through his veins, and Song Ningwan couldn’t help but pause.
Yuanwei spoke, “What’s wrong?”
“I’ve been here.” After Song Ningwan finished speaking, he took the first step into the bright space.
After entering the interior, it was a different world. Jade beads rang crisply on the curtains, the ice crystal firmament was exquisite and translucent, like an inverted Milky Way, the spring reflected the moon, and there was a jade platform in the center.
In front of them, under the icy and snowy sky, countless fish bone remains were piled together, so many that they almost filled the entire space!
This was the place where Hydra was sacrificed!
Mottled bloodstains pricked at the platform. After ten thousand years of baptism, they still couldn’t fade away, and the resentment was overwhelming.
“Are we going in?” Xie Xiaoyu took half a step back, his expression ugly.
“Let’s go, we can see the palace of Landis after passing through the sacrificial platform. I think Hydra should be inside.” As soon as Song Ningwan finished speaking, he was stopped.
“Wait.” Yuanwei smiled and walked up to Song Ningwan, her expression suspicious, “Why do you know Landis so well? I’m just expressing reasonable suspicion, after all, we’re in a cooperative relationship.”
“I was trapped in an illusion and know some of the causes and consequences. For some reason, Hydra destroyed Landis in order to take revenge and expelled the Sirens. These corpses should be what He did.” Song Ningwan looked at Xie Xiaoyu and found that the other party was pursing his lips tightly, silent.
“Siren, you want to completely obliterate Hydra, right?” Song Ningwan asked.
Xie Xiaoyu was stunned, realizing that he was being asked. He opened his tightly pursed lips, somewhat mentally breaking down, “Do you think He didn’t do anything wrong? He’s a disgusting monster, defiling Landis with that kind of intention. He should go to hell!!!” He was just indiscriminately venting the anger in his heart.
With a slap!
A loud slap echoed around. Song Ningwan’s tone was very cold, and a trace of disgust flashed in his eyes.
“Siren, dare to say that again?”
Song Ningwan rarely got angry. Although he looked very strict, he always had a plain appearance, as if the sky was falling, he would not be moved.
But this time, Xie Xiaoyu clearly felt that Song Ningwan was angry, even angrier than the last time he accidentally injured that metal heart.
“Why?” Xie Xiaoyu covered his face, not understanding.
Everyone hated Hydra.
How could a monster like Hydra deserve… No one would like Hydra, not even the Siren.
Evil gods can only go to hell…
“You don’t deserve Hydra.” Song Ningwan said at this moment.
Xie Xiaoyu was stunned, thinking he had heard it wrong, and said tremblingly, “Why?” This time he understood even less, just stubbornly asking, wanting to know the answer.
“Siren, if I have to kill Hydra to get the Siren Pearl, I won’t do it. But I won’t stop others either.” Song Ningwan continued, “If you want to kill Hydra, we’ll part ways from now on. Because you don’t deserve pure love, you don’t deserve the noble Hydra.”
These words obviously brought a great shock to Xie Xiaoyu, so much so that he couldn’t recover for a long time.
“Although I don’t know what kind of charade you’re playing, we must get the Siren Pearl.” Yuanwei withdrew her gaze and stepped onto the sacrificial platform full of skeletons. At first, nothing happened.
But suddenly, a miserable scream rang out in the silent cave, shrill and frightening.
“Help! Don’t kill us! Please! Hydra! Ah ah ah ah!!!”
“We’re wrong… ah!”
“Siren King, please redeem us, it hurts so much…”
Countless male and female voices were mixed, old and young. They all screamed for mercy, but still died on the sacrificial platform, their expressions horrified.
It could be seen how cruel Hydra’s revenge was…
The corpses were piled up into a mountain, the screams were deafening, and the dead could not be saved.
“Even now, do you still think He is noble?” Looking at this terrifying scene, Xie Xiaoyu raised his eyes and asked again.
Indiscriminate killing of innocents, brutal and tyrannical, that was an evil god.
Song Ningwan frowned. He was just an observer, criticizing things with his self-righteous sense of justice. No one could bear the emotions for the person involved and decide what to do.
“I’ll go explore the way first.” No one could comment on this situation. Yuanwei took the initiative to break the silence, walking in the front, carefully circling around the edge of the sacrificial platform. She tried not to make a sound when exploring the way.
“These corpses are not right! Run!” Even Pulan noticed and shouted.
Song Ningwan turned his head in surprise. Xie Xiaoyu, who was just here, was gone!
Sure enough, the miserable crying gradually stopped. The corpses lying on the sacrificial platform piled up into a mountain. Affected by a certain aura, they stood up one after another. Bones rolled down from the top and collided, making clattering sounds.
The corpses were twisted together, forming a ball, looking for the breath of living people.
There was no escape.
The corpse ball came at an extremely fast speed like a whirlwind. Pulan was panting when dodging. Her physical condition was poor, and it was difficult to completely avoid it.
At this time, Yuanwei hugged Pulan and jumped away from the ball’s attack.
Seeing that the corpses only attacked Pulan and the other two, Song Ningwan asked, “Don’t you need S-class mental power?”
Yuanwei’s footsteps paused slightly. Pulan in her arms remained unchanged, seemingly already knowing that her hidden S-class mental power had been discovered.
“Lan, your body…”
“Put me down.” Pulan’s tone was serious. She took the initiative to jump out of the embrace. Until the corpse ball drove towards her again, Pulan released S-class mental power. At this moment, the ground shook and the mountains swayed, and the corpse ball in front of her instantly shattered.
The skeletons were scattered, and they had no ability to regroup. Yuanwei breathed a sigh of relief and immediately caught Pulan’s falling body.
“Lan, how are you?”
“I’m fine.” Pulan glanced at Song Ningwan and was helped up by Yuanwei.
“You know I’m S-class.” Pulan’s tone was very firm, but she didn’t have much emotion. “You’re more powerful than me, who are you?”
“How is that possible?” Yuanwei frowned. The highest level in the Underground City was only S. How could anyone’s mental power be higher than S? But Pulan wouldn’t judge wrong.
Pulan didn’t, and kindly reminded, “Never mind, your teammate doesn’t seem like a good person.”
Song Ningwan thought, Xie Xiaoyu?
Siren was indeed not a good thing.
Looking at the mess on the scene, they originally planned to recuperate and then decide how to seize the Siren Pearl.
Song Ningwan looked down at the scattered corpses. Suddenly, a huge black shadow blocked the light, shrouding everyone in darkness.
The monster was unbelievably tall, its skin burned and rotted beyond recognition, and even its basic human form could not be distinguished. Only the skeleton remained of its legs.
“What is this again?” Yuanwei vaguely felt a pressure. Something was wrong, this monster was not simple.
This feeling was too familiar. Song Ningwan couldn’t believe it. He slowly said the answer in his heart, “Hydra.”
That was the guardian of Landis’ pollution source—Hydra!
Sure enough, the monster reacted strongly when it heard this name. It kept muttering in its mouth, “Hy…dra…”
Song Ningwan didn’t intend to interfere, but Pulan’s mental power was over-released, so he could only put it away and recuperate first.
The behemoth reflected in the girl’s eyes. Pulan was not afraid at all. She rushed up and used fighting skills to kick Hydra’s face, but they were all blocked.
With just one blow, Pulan was thrown out and her back hit the stone wall.
Too powerful, was this the evil god Hydra?
Seeing Pulan being knocked down, Hydra desperately attacked Song Ningwan for some reason. After Song Ningwan dodged, Hydra chased after him, as if there was a deep hatred between the two.
Getting closer, Song Ningwan could hear Hydra constantly muttering in its mouth, “Hy…dra…”
?
Was it crazy?
Song Ningwan didn’t continue to dodge, but released vast mental power. In just an instant, the behemoth knelt on the ground.
!
Pulan was shocked and murmured, lowering her eyes, and the pagoda built up in her heart collapsed.
It was him…
So, Li Ming had always been him?
But why did he come to Landis, was he seriously injured?!
Maybe his life was in danger now…
“Lan, you’ve been coughing up blood. We need to get the Siren Pearl quickly, otherwise your body…” Yuanwei squatted down, unable to move the girl whose internal organs were shattered.
“No need, no need.” Pulan seemed to have exhausted all her strength, not wanting to struggle anymore. She looked at Song Ningwan out of the corner of her eye, her eyes full of tenderness.
“!” Yuanwei frowned rarely, “Why?”
On the other side, Song Ningwan rarely used his mental power, but at this moment, he just wanted to get the Siren Pearl quickly.
“Hydra, give me the Siren Pearl.” Song Ningwan walked to the giant head, squatted down and gently stroked the burned skin, his movements gentle.
“Hy…” the monster shouted in a gasping voice, moving its head, as if looking at Song Ningwan.
“Why do you keep calling your own name?” Song Ningwan was puzzled, too awkward. Since entering Landis, there had been an unspeakable illusion, trapping them in a predicament, but not killing them.
Why exactly?
“Are you really Hydra?” Song Ningwan looked at the monster at his feet and couldn’t help but ask.
“Of course He’s not.” Someone laughed behind him, his tone was strange and crazy.
Song Ningwan turned his head and met a pair of blue pupils in the sea of blood and corpses. At that moment, confusion and incomprehension suddenly filled his heart.
How could it be him…
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Mind reading took effect. At this moment, thousands of years of pain and resentment suddenly impacted his brain, and sadness lingered in his heart, making it impossible to breathe.
“Why are you so hard to kill? Haven’t I given you enough care along the way?” Xie Xiaoyu laughed, He seemed to finally shed that stupid disguise, exposing his inner self.
“Hahaha! This is so interesting. Of course He’s not Hydra, do you want to guess who He is?”
Everything was wrong, so that’s how it was. Song Ningwan calmed down and said word by word, “He is indeed not Hydra, because you are, Xie Xiaoyu.”
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