That shouldn't be...
and many more……
The cut I made just now seemed a bit deep...
"Jump!"
Hitzfeld rushed over and tried to grab her.
"What are you grinning at, you idiot!!!"
The sound caused vibrations in the corridor, and suddenly, the ceiling slid down along the gap left by the slashed knife and hit the ground with a loud bang.
Without Bokan's manipulation, the wall material returned to its original shape. Hitzfeld pressed his whole body on the woman, carefully raised his head, and made sure that both of them were intact and no part of them was crushed by the heavy objects before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she heard a crisp sound.
Ding!
A gold coin hit her on the head.
Ding ding ding...crash!
Then the second one... the third one... even a bunch!
The gold coins poured down from the gap above like a wave, burying half of the two people's bodies underneath.
"It's pretty good..." Xia Yibing popped her head out from the pile of gold coins, "We can be considered to have taken a gold coin bath."
"Well... or bathing together..."
Her voice became lower and lower because she noticed that Hitzfeld seemed unhappy.
Did I piss her off again?
This time the reality didn't give her much time to think about it, because soon she heard a series of creaking and friction sounds again, and could clearly see that the perspective from which she was lying was tilting.
There was another loud bang, and the entire ground collapsed along the knife marks on the floor, carrying a large pile of gold coins and two people back to the third floor of the Dragon Tomb.
boom!
Once again, the third layer was affected by the knife marks, although it seemed that only half of it was affected... but this impact was not enough for the ground to support this weight.
They returned to the fourth floor in a very embarrassed state.
“Maybe I cut it a little too hard.”
Turning over, Xia Yibing reached out to the girl.
"But you also saw the situation... I can't control it, do you understand?"
Hitzfeld glared at her and turned away, trying to get up himself.
Xia Yibing raised her eyebrows, stuck the knife into the pile of gold coins, raised her hands and bent down, picked her up horizontally again amid her screams, and then very carefully and gently let her feet touch the ground.
Hitzfeld glared at her again, his face much redder this time.
She decided not to bother with the crow's mouth, and seeing the lantern they had held at the beginning lying at her feet, she bent down to pick it up and turned it on again.
"what!"
She uttered another short scream.
"Connie... and Mark..."
"Who are you talking about?"
Xia Yibing hurried over and saw her dig out two people from the pile of gold coins. Both of them were very familiar to them, but they were still unconscious.
"They are all alive." Xia Yibing briefly checked their bodies. "Ma Kai is a little suffocated. Don't worry, he will be fine on his own."
"As for Connie being like she's sleeping... well, I think she's just sleeping."
"How could this happen?" Hitzfeld looked at the pile of gold coins and then looked up above his head. "How could they be mixed in with the gold coins..."
"Not in the coins, but in the walls."
Xia Yibing slapped her knee as if she had figured something out.
"Remember how Bokan manipulated these wall materials?"
The girl nodded.
"The outline of the Dragon God's Tomb is Kyle's corpse, which contains flesh and blood." She continued, "And years of contact with the Dragon God's Tomb allowed him to gradually erode and control this huge corpse... He doesn't need Russell's key to come in, so he can naturally soften the shell of the Dragon Tomb and use that kind of wriggling method... to bring the prey in as well."
Almost at the same time she finished speaking, a soft thing resembling a giant intestine fell down with a whoosh, and the broken end hit Ma Kai's face, spitting out a large pool of pink-orange foul-smelling mucus.
Well...in fact, they also saw that there were a lot of human bones mixed in the mucus.
Some have begun to decompose, while some are still in good shape.
After a brief shock, they all agreed that this was also one of the ways the Dragon Tomb replenished its energy.
Yes, if we really talk about "replenishing energy", especially when the object is a living thing, is there anything more primitive than "eating" or "consuming food"?
I can't believe Kyle would turn himself into something so disgusting...
Hitzfeld frowned as he thought of the young man who strived for perfection in his memory.
She thought it must be Bokan.
It was that monster that took control of the Dragon Tomb and transformed it.
"Look..." Xia Yibing picked up Ma Kai's clothes with a knife.
He was completely soaked in mucus and looked like he had just been fished out of a cesspool.
And Sixus next to him was very dry and clean.
They all had this kind of treatment.
"It's different treatment, isn't it?" Xia Yibing raised her head and looked upwards. "Some people are only fit to enter the digestive tract and be broken down into energy, while others are stored by it..."
"Maybe it was to threaten me." Hitzfeld pinched his nose and said, "He seemed to want to cooperate with me at the beginning..."
The slime in that pipe stinks.
It really stinks.
She was sure it wasn't an illusion, it really tasted just like Crystal Island.
"Cough cough cough... Ugh - what smells so bad?"
Just as I was sighing, the mixed-haired loli was awakened by the smoke.
As soon as she opened her eyes, she instinctively took a deep breath, and then her complexion suddenly changed, from pale to green, and then from green to orange, purple... and finally a mouthful of acid water spurted out, splashing sporadically on Ma Kai.
...Even Xia Yibing couldn't stand it anymore. She covered her eyes, as if this could help her avoid someone's situation.
"Where is this?"
After a pause, Sixus saw the two people standing there, and recalled how they made inferences in the laboratory and how they were attacked by an unknown monster.
"That thing engulfed the entire house...and we're in the basement now?"
Shake head (Xia Yibing).
"wine cellar?"
Shake your head (Hitzfeld).
"A secret passage out?"
They all shook their heads.
"It can't be in the dragon tomb..."
Sixus's face turned completely dark.
"You should be happy that you were eaten by the dragon tomb and still alive, instead of turning into a puddle of stinky water..."
Xia Yibing mocked her and began to briefly describe to her what had just happened to them both.
After listening to this, Sixus fell into deep thought.
"What do you think?"
Xia Yibing kicked her.
Time is precious, and they still have to find a power station.
If she wasn't an expert, she wouldn't bother talking to her.
“It’s rude…!”
The hairy loli jumped up and said, "Stop lifting your stinky feet in front of me!"
"Stop talking nonsense and speak quickly--"
"Aisune thought the thing wasn't dead, and she was right."
Sixus took a breath, then his face changed and he covered his mouth and nose with his hands.
"But didn't you say that he has no split body?" Xia Yibing was curious.
"That is a clone that is completely under his control." Sixus said in a muffled voice, "Imagine that the viruses he created invade your body, not to contaminate you - they won't alarm your immune system. I said at the time that they are here to make friends."
"make friends?"
"It's like a cooperative relationship, a subtle influence, you can understand it as a special kind of parasitism."
Sixus said.
"Will the parasite's mind gradually bend and become identified with him?" asked Hitzfeld.
"That's it!" Sixus nodded, "But he still retains his consciousness!"
She is right.
Both of them recalled the scene they saw in the dream projection - someone was furious after being exposed for falling into a cesspool, and it was obvious that the person being parasitized still retained his previous memories.
"But if his original body dies..."
Sixus lowered his voice and stretched it out.
"Oh, I was wrong. I heard you just say that he can live forever?"
"That's exactly what he said."
Xia Yibing replied.
"Theoretically, this is impossible." Sixus shook his head. "It is impossible for a life to live forever. Even God can't do it. Who is he? How can he deserve eternal life?"
"But that's what he said."
Xia Yibing emphasized.
"Either he's talking nonsense." Sixus tried to analyze.
"Connie, anyway, it has survived from ancient times to the present..." Hitzfeld reminded her, "It can even be traced back to the last era..."
"Or maybe it's a kind of aggregation!" Sixus' eyes suddenly lit up.
"Yes, aggregate!"
"What do you mean?"
"All the cells in his body will die... He is not immortal." The mixed-haired loli spoke quickly, "If my guess is correct, this is the case... The composition of his body and those microscopic lives have changed for who knows how many generations..."
"Is this possible?" Hitzfeld frowned. "How could he still be conscious..."
She had seen similar theories in some popular science magazines in her previous life.
But the problem is that this is difficult to do, unless new cells form a new individual. In this process, it should be impossible for Bokan's consciousness to be preserved?
"That's the point!" Sixus clapped his hands hard.
"He is not a normal life form at all."
"Inheritance of consciousness cannot explain his situation, so it can only be aggregation..."
"He is not an individual at all, but a collective consciousness!"
Chapter 129 The Worst Ending
"'Tree of Life' team, 'Tree of Life' team, I'm Milanka, can you hear me?"
