Chapter 709: Chapter 689: New Life
“The agreement I signed with the bar is only external, and I didn’t expect it to really respond to me. If there’s a chance to go to the Corner Depths in the future, I must go and thank them properly.
But this time it’s not necessary, which is a bit of a pity, isn’t it?”
Luo Di’s left hand, raised in the air for the passage connection, had undergone a slight “descent transformation,” with the skin on his palm turning into a scorched state, and the space touched by his fingers exuded a slight iridescence.
This feeling was one Luo Di had experienced before, precisely when interacting with Dormo, it was the feeling of a dream.
However, since it was no longer needed, the feeling gradually dissipated along with the closing of the passage, the sensation that could tear open the membrane between dream and reality drifted away like the wind.
“Miss Song, is Yu Ze alright?”
Luo Di had just asked this question when Song Huiwen, completely monsterified, unexpectedly coughed up several straws from her mouth,
a talisman fell in the dark room corner, and Yu Ze, who was hidden between the walls, adjusted his sunglasses and walked out unharmed.
“Looks like Captain Le Wuwen succeeded.”
As Yu Ze smiled, he placed a Concentration Talisman on Song Huiwen’s body, while also giving a gentle stroke.
The other gradually returned to her original form, though her body still retained penetrating wounds, suffering about 30% flesh decomposition.
Song Huiwen still stood upright, still able to move normally, her vitality as a creature was astonishing.
The team quickly headed to the beach area to check the situation, seeing a few bubbles floating on the water surface, indicating the other party had already dived down.
Luo Di, without hesitation, dived in,
but Yu Ze stopped at the edge of the beach, raising his hand in front of Song Huiwen, “You stay here to recover, I and the compatriot will go down, that’s enough.”
Song Huiwen shook her head, clearly still uneasy about Yu Ze, still wanting to provide protection. She knew very well how terrifying and dangerous the monster they were facing was.
Yu Ze suddenly took out a golden elixir, gently feeding it into the other’s mouth.
As the elixir entered the body,
a powerful energy quickly released within.
Song Huiwen had to focus on absorbing the energy, otherwise, it might cause more severe consequences.
The energy nourished the bodily wounds, allowing previously irreparable wounds to begin growing new flesh, her agitated mindset slowly calming down, she sat down imitating Yu Ze’s usual meditation posture.
Yu Ze gently patted her head, then turned to enter the sea.
While fervently diving deeper, Luo Di was suddenly tagged with a talisman, sealing all the aura he emitted, and the approaching Yu Ze also made a shushing gesture, signaling him to pause the descent.
The next second, a dangerous creature swiftly swam by, failing to notice the two’s existence.
Upon closer inspection, it was the previous blood and flesh dragon, currently conducting patrols in the mid-ocean layer.
Continuing the descent,
a variety of unimaginably numerous blood and flesh lifeforms were also patrolling, preventing anyone’s approach.
Including but not limited to
“Blood Whale,” whose entire body was covered in skull-shaped barnacle structures, with fibers floating out to perceive potential nearby lifeforms.
“Great Mound of Flesh,” spherical with no extra features, drifting among the ocean.
This featureless organism almost discovered the two, its interior seemingly housing extremely sensitive sensory nerves.
Sensing from fifty meters away, it would rapidly close in through jet propulsion, as if to engulf any flesh it touched. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ novelꜰire.net
Luckily, Yu Ze was there,
drawing talismans remotely to restrain this thing’s perception, allowing the two to smoothly dive further and avoid it.
There were also numerous mesh-like tiny fish and shrimp formed of flesh, swiftly moving through surface fibers.
Passing through layers of obstructions, the two finally reached the bottom, where the mermaid’s corpse lay.
However, the once kilometer-scaled huge mermaid had undergone significant changes compared to previous observations.
The umbilical cords that once pierced the abdomen had all disappeared,
the previously relatively intact corpse was now rapidly shrinking,
the scales on its body also shedding quickly,
yet the abdomen of the corpse slightly bulged, showing faint pulsation.
The Faceless Man stood beside the corpse, his hand placed on the abdomen, sensing the changes within. His attention was fully focused there, naturally overlooking the two young people’s arrival above.
They waited patiently,
for a full two hours.
The two, relying on their Water Avoidance Talismans, silently hid in the darkness, awaiting a specific change to occur.
the Faceless Man seemed to sense something, and with a palm strike, cut open the fish’s belly, extracting the nurtured entity inside!
With the extraction, the mermaid’s corpse completely collapsed, scattering with the ocean currents.
Oddly, despite having guarded the mermaid’s corpse for nearly a hundred years, the Faceless Man seemed unconcerned.
His attention was entirely focused on his hands, carefully cradling a newborn caesarean section baby, its belly still attached to an umbilical cord.
the deep-sea pressure didn’t affect her, the girl’s scales allowed her to comfortably adapt to this environment.
The Faceless Man seemed to sense something again, swiftly swimming upwards with the girl in his arms, seemingly intending for her to breathe her first air on land and embrace the essence of fear from the Corner.
As his ascent accelerated, something strange occurred once more.
With every hundred meters upward, the girl in his arms would age a year, her body and hair growing.
Luo Di and Yu Ze could only stealthily follow behind, doing their utmost not to be detected.
They naturally recognized the rapidly growing girl in his arms as Wu Wen. Compared to Wu Wen’s former appearance, she had some slight changes.
More ethereal, more slender… or perhaps, more like a fish.
Breaking through the water surface.
The girl was now around ten years of age.
Her body was covered with scales, concealing certain necessary private areas.
Breathing in the first air from the Corner, she emitted the newborn cry that an infant should.
Salty wet tears opened her eyelids,
light yellow sclera surrounding a vertical dark pupil.
Song Huiwen was waiting on the shore, initially stunned by what she saw, but the next second she was staring with hostility at the Faceless Man.
The Faceless Man naturally saw her too.
an endless web of flesh fibers instantaneously lashed out, akin to a net of flesh that was impossible to evade.
the girl uttered her first words, “Brother… brother, don’t!”
Suddenly, all the flesh fibers halted, stopping in front of Miss Song, and then swiftly retracted.
Yu Ze and Luo Di returned to the shore, quickly positioning themselves beside Song Huiwen.
The girl continued, pointing at the three, “They… are friends, they are good people.”
The Faceless Man not only understood the words but also felt the emotion.
He no longer harbored any animosity, or more like his inner conflict had resolved.
Extending his hand, the flesh membrane cloaking the Fishing Village all retracted, condensed into a fleshy lump in his palm, submerged beneath the skin.
Then, the blood and flesh life forms in the sea also disintegrated into the most primitive flesh fibers, crawling back into his body.
The girl further spoke, “I know a place… there you can read, eat, and have a home. Brother, can we go there together?”
The Faceless Man nodded.
His sole purpose for staying in the Fishing Village had been fulfilled, he didn’t like the ocean, nor the stench here, or rather he had long detested it, staying only to achieve a certain goal.
The girl led the Faceless Man towards the elevator, deliberately passing by Luo Di, allowing a slight contact between her scales and his body.
In her seemingly naive demeanor of just having come into the world, there suddenly flashed a familiar feeling, moreover throwing a special, knowing smile at Luo Di.