A battered fishing boat carried the four of them toward the island. The fisherman sat calmly at the stern, keeping a constant eye on the troublesome engine, which needed to be restarted every so often to keep it from stalling.
During this time, Jia Xin had gradually adapted to his body. He reined in the righteous energy leaking from him back into his body, no longer causing any rejection toward Zhang Chen and the others. The fusion of Buddha nature and Daoist Mind seemed to offset one another, making Jia Xin feel no different from an ordinary person.
"I wonder how much you know about the island ahead, Senior?" Jia Xin asked.
"The island? There's a mental hospital inside, guarded by Nyarlathotep. On the surface, it holds some relatively unimportant psychiatric patients, but every one of them is quite dangerous. And among those patients is one special patient."
"Yes, our purpose in going to the island is precisely for that special patient. I wonder whether the one guarding it is a faceless incarnation or the main body?"
"For a special patient? As for whether it's an incarnation or the main body, you'll have to figure that out yourselves. It's not that I don't want to tell you, but I happened to be placed under a gag order not long ago."
The fisherman shrugged helplessly and shifted his gaze to the white-haired spider woman clinging to Zhang Chen's side.
"A whole bottle of Corrosive Heart Water. Faceless was really willing to use that on this Young Girl. I truly can't see what value she has. Yet such a massive amount of Corrosive Heart Water didn't thoroughly corrupt her into evil, only altering her personality. This girl is quite special."
"Mm! Senior, do you have any way to solve the Corrosive Heart