After turning at the junction, Bai Lixin looked back and saw that the catfish monsters had significantly slowed down at the junction. Some had stopped chasing, while others continued to rush towards them.
Just then, the water’s surface erupted again.
Xia Chi turned around and almost despaired.
He thought new catfish monsters were appearing, but instead, he saw a three-meter-long monstrous fish suddenly leap out of the water. It opened its jaws and swallowed the catfish monsters that had jumped in the air.
The monstrous fish made an arc in mid-air and then plunged back into the water. Judging by the exposed fins, it swam in the opposite direction towards the other path at the junction.
There were not many catfish monsters left, and they gradually disappeared into the filthy water.
The group stopped, e Xia Chi leaned against the cold wall, panting heavily.
‘Damn it, who said this sewer looks quite normal? It’s not normal at all, okay?!
Other people’s sewers might cost you your nose, but this sewer costs you both your nose and your life!
Oh, it was me who said it was normal. No problem.’
————————————-
In the live broadcast room
[“This sewer looks normal”]
[Xia Chi: My bad, damn it!]
[Xia Chi has followed God Xin for almost three years and still hasn’t understood the mechanism of God Xin’s copies. He’s too naïve.]
[Ahem, ahem. I want to speak for Xia Chi. It’s not three years, there was a gap of more than two years. Have you forgotten? God Xin was in the Eternal Diamond Mountain at that time.]
[Watching this copy, I feel like I’m watching Alien. But isn’t this plot change too drastic? Just half a day ago, it was all about beautiful and eye-catching merfolk. Now, it suddenly turns into these disgusting monsters. My little heart tells me I can’t handle such a contrast.]
[God Xin: This is normally, thank you for watching.]
[God Xin: Are you polite?]
———————————-
Xia Chi’s endurance wasn’t this bad, he was just suddenly shocked, which caused him to lose his breath.
After resting for two or three minutes, he recovered. He looked at the place where the catfish monsters disappeared with some fear, and then at the pitch-black walls above. Finally, he gulped. “Brother, where are we?”
Bai Lixin shrugged. “I don’t know. You chose the path. This route is a bit different from the one I recorded, but it doesn’t matter. Let’s keep going.”
“Are we really going to continue?” Lin Xiao, who hadn’t spoken much, spoke slowly, with a calm voice. “This path might contain things more dangerous than catfish monsters and the strange fish we encountered before.”
“What do you mean?” Xia Chi asked.
Lin Xiao explained, “Bloodline Suppression.”
“In nature, a herd of sheep won’t appear in the territory where a wolf pack frequents, and sardines will avoid swimming near sharks. The weaker side deliberately avoids the area where the top species of the food chain is present. The catfish monsters don’t dare to approach here, and that strange fish only dared to lie in ambush at the junction. After eating the catfish monsters, it swum in the opposite direction. There should be a species here that they are all afraid of.”
After a brief pause in his voice, Lin Xiao continued, “So, should we continue forward?”
As soon as this question was asked, he quickly knew the answer from the subsequent actions of the other two.
Seeing Bai Lixin moving forward and Xia Chi hesitantly following behind Bai Lixin, Lin Xiao was momentarily stunned. Then, he quickly caught up.
He didn’t continue speaking but silently observed the two in front.
Xia Chi’s fear was genuine; he was really scared.
But even though he knew there was danger ahead, he still went against the grain.
Bai Lixin was also puzzling. He unexpectedly handed over the decision-making power to a player who seemed unreliable. Could it be that he wanted Xia Chi to take the blame?
Like some players who fear making mistakes, to reduce their guilt, they hand over the decision-making power to others. This way, if someone else makes a mistake, they can stand on the moral high ground and blame others without hesitation.
Just like those people in the past.
Lin Xiao frowned slightly, and his gaze towards Bai Lixin carried a somewhat unclear gloom.
Bai Lixin silently glanced at the man behind him.
S419M: [Lord Host, it seems this Lin Xiao has some hostility towards you, but I don’t know the reason.]
Escape System: [Hostility? Why would someone dislike a good person like Master Bai Lixin? It’s strange.]
S419M: [ Silly sister, people’s preferences are their freedom. Just because someone is good doesn’t mean everyone has to like them. Whether it’s due to interests or behavior, it’s possible for one group to resent another.]
Escape System: [But this is too much. Won’t Master Bai Lixin get upset?]
S419M: [You underestimate Lord Host. Whether it’s gold coins, points, or people who dislike him, he doesn’t care about these things. ]
Bai Lixin: [I can sense his hostility towards me. ]
S419M: [What are you planning to do now?]
Bai Lixin: [Nothing, he only has animosity towards me and no intention to harm. There is no need to react.]
“Weird,” Xia Chi’s voice echoed beside Bai Lixin. He walked inside the sewer and placed his palms against the wall. “Brother, did you hear any strange noises?”
“It sounds like something being smashed, step by step, but not exactly.”
He pressed his ear against the sewer wall and used the back of his finger to tap the wall. “Why does it seem like it’s coming from inside the wall?”
After Bai Lixin withdrew his consciousness back to reality, he approached the wall. He imitated Xia Chi and pressed his ear against it.
“Tap, tap, tap.”
“Tap, tap, tap.”
A faint sound entered Bai Lixin’s ears through the wall. The sound wasn’t coming from a fixed location; it fluctuated between high and low, as if it was moving inside the wall.
Xia Chi: “Could there be an unknown species locked inside the wall? No way, right? Could it be trying to find a way out?”
After thinking about it, he quickly retracted the fingers he used to tap the wall, looked at Bai Lixin somewhat apprehensively, and said, “Did the sound of me tapping the wall disturb it? What’s inside… should not be a person, right?”
How could anyone survive in a place like this?
Or perhaps… is there a hidden underground chamber on the other side of the wall? Is someone locked in the secret room?
But when he tapped the wall just now, he always felt that the wall was too thick. Is it hollow inside?
While Xia Chi was still guessing what might be inside the wall, another rustling sound suddenly echoed in the darkness.
There was a splashing sound, followed by the sound of something moving on the ground.
Xia Chi’s neck suddenly tensed, and the flashlight immediately shone towards the direction of the sound. At the pitch-black end of the ground, there was an additional layer of water stains.
The ground was wet, indicating the water stains had just been made.
Something just moved in a place they couldn’t see.
The moment this thought flashed through his mind, Xia Chi immediately felt a creepy sensation, as if his entire body was covered in goosebumps.
Xia Chi took a deep breath, and moved the flashlight back and forth. Besides the newly added water stains on the ground, there was nothing else.
Just as he was about to retract the flashlight, a person suddenly appeared in the light.
Seeing Bai Lixin walking forward, Xia Chi hesitated for a moment, then bravely followed behind Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin reached the water stain and glanced around before refocusing his attention on the water stains.
Near the drainage ditch, large areas were stained with water.
But as the water stains gradually moved away from the ditch, they turned from a large area into small spots.
The spots were divided into a left and a right, each with a similar front-to-back distance. In this way, it looked somewhat like footprints of a land creature.
If you looked more closely, it resembled human footprints.
Quickly realizing this, Xia Chi lowered his voice and said, “Brother, it looks like human footprints.”
He paused, then said half in fear and half in realization, “Could it be that the green skinned monsters we saw at the bottom of the sea are also here?”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Isn’t there a possibility that it’s not a green skinned monster, but normal people like us?
Why does Xia Chi always have the talent to turn the unknown into monsters?’
S419M: [You can’t blame Xia Chi. For anyone who stays in a horror copy for a long time, their first reaction to unknown things is monsters, right? Especially when staying with you, they have to be even more cautious.]
Bai Lixin: [???]
‘Are you polite?
What did I do?
Is it my fault that I have low luck? I’m a victim too!’
After turning at the junction, Bai Lixin looked back and saw that the catfish monsters had significantly slowed down at the junction. Some had stopped chasing, while others continued to rush towards them.
Just then, the water’s surface erupted again.
Xia Chi turned around and almost despaired.
He thought new catfish monsters were appearing, but instead, he saw a three-meter-long monstrous fish suddenly leap out of the water. It opened its jaws and swallowed the catfish monsters that had jumped in the air.
The monstrous fish made an arc in mid-air and then plunged back into the water. Judging by the exposed fins, it swam in the opposite direction towards the other path at the junction.
There were not many catfish monsters left, and they gradually disappeared into the filthy water.
The group stopped, e Xia Chi leaned against the cold wall, panting heavily.
‘Damn it, who said this sewer looks quite normal? It’s not normal at all, okay?!
Other people’s sewers might cost you your nose, but this sewer costs you both your nose and your life!
Oh, it was me who said it was normal. No problem.’
————————————-
In the live broadcast room
[“This sewer looks normal”]
[Xia Chi: My bad, damn it!]
[Xia Chi has followed God Xin for almost three years and still hasn’t understood the mechanism of God Xin’s copies. He’s too naïve.]
[Ahem, ahem. I want to speak for Xia Chi. It’s not three years, there was a gap of more than two years. Have you forgotten? God Xin was in the Eternal Diamond Mountain at that time.]
[Watching this copy, I feel like I’m watching Alien. But isn’t this plot change too drastic? Just half a day ago, it was all about beautiful and eye-catching merfolk. Now, it suddenly turns into these disgusting monsters. My little heart tells me I can’t handle such a contrast.]
[God Xin: This is normally, thank you for watching.]
[God Xin: Are you polite?]
———————————-
Xia Chi’s endurance wasn’t this bad, he was just suddenly shocked, which caused him to lose his breath.
After resting for two or three minutes, he recovered. He looked at the place where the catfish monsters disappeared with some fear, and then at the pitch-black walls above. Finally, he gulped. “Brother, where are we?”
Bai Lixin shrugged. “I don’t know. You chose the path. This route is a bit different from the one I recorded, but it doesn’t matter. Let’s keep going.”
“Are we really going to continue?” Lin Xiao, who hadn’t spoken much, spoke slowly, with a calm voice. “This path might contain things more dangerous than catfish monsters and the strange fish we encountered before.”
“What do you mean?” Xia Chi asked.
Lin Xiao explained, “Bloodline Suppression.”
“In nature, a herd of sheep won’t appear in the territory where a wolf pack frequents, and sardines will avoid swimming near sharks. The weaker side deliberately avoids the area where the top species of the food chain is present. The catfish monsters don’t dare to approach here, and that strange fish only dared to lie in ambush at the junction. After eating the catfish monsters, it swum in the opposite direction. There should be a species here that they are all afraid of.”
After a brief pause in his voice, Lin Xiao continued, “So, should we continue forward?”
As soon as this question was asked, he quickly knew the answer from the subsequent actions of the other two.
Seeing Bai Lixin moving forward and Xia Chi hesitantly following behind Bai Lixin, Lin Xiao was momentarily stunned. Then, he quickly caught up.
He didn’t continue speaking but silently observed the two in front.
Xia Chi’s fear was genuine; he was really scared.
But even though he knew there was danger ahead, he still went against the grain.
Bai Lixin was also puzzling. He unexpectedly handed over the decision-making power to a player who seemed unreliable. Could it be that he wanted Xia Chi to take the blame?
Like some players who fear making mistakes, to reduce their guilt, they hand over the decision-making power to others. This way, if someone else makes a mistake, they can stand on the moral high ground and blame others without hesitation.
Just like those people in the past.
Lin Xiao frowned slightly, and his gaze towards Bai Lixin carried a somewhat unclear gloom.
Bai Lixin silently glanced at the man behind him.
S419M: [Lord Host, it seems this Lin Xiao has some hostility towards you, but I don’t know the reason.]
Escape System: [Hostility? Why would someone dislike a good person like Master Bai Lixin? It’s strange.]
S419M: [ Silly sister, people’s preferences are their freedom. Just because someone is good doesn’t mean everyone has to like them. Whether it’s due to interests or behavior, it’s possible for one group to resent another.]
Escape System: [But this is too much. Won’t Master Bai Lixin get upset?]
S419M: [You underestimate Lord Host. Whether it’s gold coins, points, or people who dislike him, he doesn’t care about these things. ]
Bai Lixin: [I can sense his hostility towards me. ]
S419M: [What are you planning to do now?]
Bai Lixin: [Nothing, he only has animosity towards me and no intention to harm. There is no need to react.]
“Weird,” Xia Chi’s voice echoed beside Bai Lixin. He walked inside the sewer and placed his palms against the wall. “Brother, did you hear any strange noises?”
“It sounds like something being smashed, step by step, but not exactly.”
He pressed his ear against the sewer wall and used the back of his finger to tap the wall. “Why does it seem like it’s coming from inside the wall?”
After Bai Lixin withdrew his consciousness back to reality, he approached the wall. He imitated Xia Chi and pressed his ear against it.
“Tap, tap, tap.”
“Tap, tap, tap.”
A faint sound entered Bai Lixin’s ears through the wall. The sound wasn’t coming from a fixed location; it fluctuated between high and low, as if it was moving inside the wall.
Xia Chi: “Could there be an unknown species locked inside the wall? No way, right? Could it be trying to find a way out?”
After thinking about it, he quickly retracted the fingers he used to tap the wall, looked at Bai Lixin somewhat apprehensively, and said, “Did the sound of me tapping the wall disturb it? What’s inside… should not be a person, right?”
How could anyone survive in a place like this?
Or perhaps… is there a hidden underground chamber on the other side of the wall? Is someone locked in the secret room?
But when he tapped the wall just now, he always felt that the wall was too thick. Is it hollow inside?
While Xia Chi was still guessing what might be inside the wall, another rustling sound suddenly echoed in the darkness.
There was a splashing sound, followed by the sound of something moving on the ground.
Xia Chi’s neck suddenly tensed, and the flashlight immediately shone towards the direction of the sound. At the pitch-black end of the ground, there was an additional layer of water stains.
The ground was wet, indicating the water stains had just been made.
Something just moved in a place they couldn’t see.
The moment this thought flashed through his mind, Xia Chi immediately felt a creepy sensation, as if his entire body was covered in goosebumps.
Xia Chi took a deep breath, and moved the flashlight back and forth. Besides the newly added water stains on the ground, there was nothing else.
Just as he was about to retract the flashlight, a person suddenly appeared in the light.
Seeing Bai Lixin walking forward, Xia Chi hesitated for a moment, then bravely followed behind Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin reached the water stain and glanced around before refocusing his attention on the water stains.
Near the drainage ditch, large areas were stained with water.
But as the water stains gradually moved away from the ditch, they turned from a large area into small spots.
The spots were divided into a left and a right, each with a similar front-to-back distance. In this way, it looked somewhat like footprints of a land creature.
If you looked more closely, it resembled human footprints.
Quickly realizing this, Xia Chi lowered his voice and said, “Brother, it looks like human footprints.”
He paused, then said half in fear and half in realization, “Could it be that the green skinned monsters we saw at the bottom of the sea are also here?”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘Isn’t there a possibility that it’s not a green skinned monster, but normal people like us?
Why does Xia Chi always have the talent to turn the unknown into monsters?’
S419M: [You can’t blame Xia Chi. For anyone who stays in a horror copy for a long time, their first reaction to unknown things is monsters, right? Especially when staying with you, they have to be even more cautious.]
Bai Lixin: [???]
‘Are you polite?
What did I do?
Is it my fault that I have low luck? I’m a victim too!’
