Something's Wrong-I've Fallen into Eupusca's Lair!

His voice rose an octave as he stared wide-eyed at Hong Lin, who had stopped in his tracks, in disbelief.

"I can't be sure if Eupusca is guarding the other end of the door. To avoid being attacked from both sides, I need to confirm your identity!"

"..."

Confirm my ass!

There was no doubt in the eyes of this Chosen of God of "Prosperity," only excitement!

Cheng Shi finally understood. She didn't doubt herself at all; she just wanted to find out something she wanted to know from that tongue!

Okay, okay, just don't get yourself into trouble.

Cheng Shi took out the tongue with a strange expression and handed it to Hong Lin.

Hong Lin pinched her tongue with a slight look of disgust. After studying it for a moment, she found that the method of use was quite simple. She only needed to point the tip of her tongue at the target to be circled in turn and say "I swear here, I will eat lies!" and then she could start asking questions.

So she activated the contract, binding the two of them together, and then opened her mouth to ask Cheng Shi:

"How exactly did you manage to trick Zhen Yi!?"

"..."

Sure enough, I told you so, the fire of gossip burns equally in everyone's heart.

Cheng Shi stared speechlessly at Hong Lin's expectant face, hesitated for a moment, and tentatively replied:

"I impersonated her... and did some shameful things?"

After saying that, the Tongue of Lies continued to wriggle on Hong Lin's fingertips, without any reaction.

"!!??" Hong Lin was stunned. She had always thought that Cheng Shi was lying, but she never expected that it was actually true?

Cheng Shi's face lit up with joy. Sure enough, an ambiguous truth is still a truth!

But Hong Lin was not willing to give up, so she immediately pressed on with another question:

"What shameful thing did you do?"

Cheng Shi shrugged and said, "Big sister, this is the second question. It's no longer valid. It's my turn to ask you."

"!!!"

That won't do!

Hong Lin's expression turned serious, and she turned to leave. But before she could take two steps, the tongue seemed to sense that she was about to break the rules of the game. Without saying a word, it struggled out of her hand, floated up into the air, and slapped her cheek hard.

Cheng Shi was all arms crossed, ready to watch the show, but what happened next completely stunned him.

Hong Lin suddenly ducked to avoid the tongue's attack, then with a "whoosh," he transformed his right hand into a giant bear paw and slapped the tongue hard. With a "smack," the tongue that was about to slap someone was sent flying.

"Holy crap, are you cheating?"

Cheng Shi stared in disbelief, and the smile that was about to appear on his face quickly faded.

But the battle of Tongue of Lies that had been slapped away seemed to feel that it had lost face, so it suddenly swelled up and became as big as Hong Lin's bear paw, and slapped at Hong Lin's cheek again.

If that hits hard, his head will probably be blown off!

Hong Lin hadn't expected the tongue to be so persistent. Her pupils constricted sharply, and her anger flared up instantly. She transformed into Giant Bear and charged straight at the tongue.

But in her anger and embarrassment, she forgot one thing: the place they were standing on was not the decaying leaf ground of the Sighing Forest, but a spatial sinking passage in the Mist Gate!

The cramped cave was simply too small to contain such a massive bear, and so, the instant Hong Lin unleashed its earth-shattering roar, the spatial passage...

It collapsed.

"!!!"

Before Cheng Shi could even utter a curse, he was swept away by the spatial turbulence with a "whoosh" and disappeared along with Amir.

Along with it disappeared the persistent tongue and the embarrassed Giant Bear.

"Slurp~"

"Roar!!!"

The good news is that in the collapsed space, the distance between the three of them was not far, and under the illumination of the desolate lamp, they did not suffer too much spatial compression.

The bad news is that the passage between the Mist Gate has been destroyed, and they may have lost their way back to the Fungus-Footed People.

But at this moment, the two who were now conscious could not make such far-sighted plans. They had to stay alert to face other risks that might arise at any time in this endless, shattered space.

Cheng Shi was alright; he only needed to be vigilant and keep an eye on Amir. Hong Lin, however, wasn't so comfortable. Although her Royal Bear Spirit body made her immune to spatial distortions, that tongue...

They continued their relentless assault on her cheeks.

So she could only press down her tongue while continuously injecting the power of [Prosperity] into the desolate lamp, so that the resulting [Decay] could barely protect the "excessively weak" Cheng Shi.

Fortunately, the process of falling did not last long. A few minutes later, the three of them were spat out by the space and landed on an open ground.

"Bang—"

"Bang—"

"Grass..."

Cheng Shi landed on his back first, his spine slamming heavily onto the ground with a muffled groan. But he ignored the pain in his back and immediately sat up, cautiously surveying his surroundings.

This one glance was enough to terrify Cheng Shi, leaving him utterly horrified.

The place he was in didn't look like the Sighing Forest at all; it looked more like a flattened area within the forest. There wasn't a single Twisted Night Python here, and even the decaying leaf ground had disappeared. He was sitting on solid mud.

But the absence of the Twisted Night Python doesn't mean there aren't other "plants." In this cleared area, there are densely packed, rotting... Fungus-Footed People corpses!

Yes, it's Fungus-Footed People corpse!

They were planted headfirst into the hard soil, and the mycorrhizae inside their rotten mycorrhizae spread out due to their upside-down position, emitting a nauseating stench, like blooming, Corrupting Flowers.

The stench and rotten flowers stretched out in patches, together forming this "prosperous" "flower garden".

Cheng Shi sat on the ground and glanced at it for only one moment, and his face turned extremely pale.

He suddenly realized where he was, and quickly shouted:

"Baldy, watch out! This place seems to be..."

He was about to warn the Giant Bear in the distance that this might be Eupusca's private property when he noticed that the Giant Bear had just been playing mind games with the tongue, had now stood up with a thud from the flowerbed, its body poised to pounce as it looked ahead.

Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat. He stood up and peered out, only to find that in front of him, hidden by the Giant Bear, the Decay tree spirit Eupusca, with its wrinkled and piled-up flesh, was hunched over. With one hand, it was pulling the remains of Fungus-Footed People from the treetop behind it, and with the other hand, it was digging a small hole in the ground with the remains of another Fungus-Footed People and then inserting it upside down.

In this way, a "fresh" "flower" blooms again in this flower garden where all kinds of flowers are in full bloom.

Seeing this scene before him, Hong Lin's face was also solemn.

The more bizarre it is, the more dangerous it is. At this moment, no one can say for sure whether Eupusca's strength in this unknown territory is still "ordinary" as it was in the Sighing Forest, or whether it has become even stronger!

The loud commotion of the three falling clearly attracted Eupusca. It slowly turned its head and saw the [Prosperity] Giant Bear, which it had been longing for all night, standing in front of it again.

Eupusca's aged face instantly turned fervent.

"... grass!"

Cheng Shi's pupils contracted sharply. He immediately pulled out his Scalpel, kicked the still unconscious Amir behind him, and quietly pinched the ring on his hand that had been activated by his own fright.

Hong Lin reacted even faster, swinging the Tongue of Lies back without turning her head, and roaring:

"Keep your tongue to yourself and take care of yourself!"

Then, with a roar, it charged toward Eupusca.

Then, with a loud "boom," the two enormous objects collided again. The massive shockwave spread outwards, shaking the flowers in the flowerbed to the side and making the ground tremble violently.

Cheng Shi's eyes narrowed, and he immediately stuffed the struggling tongue back into his personal space. He cautiously observed the battle and constantly examined his surroundings to prevent any other hidden dangers or undiscovered helpers of Eupusca.

But after looking around for a long time, he realized that there was no one else here except Eupusca!

What exactly is this flowerbed?

Eupusca's vegetable garden?

Is Dizer's body reminiscing about the days when He planted trees in the rainforest?

Arranging the Fungus-Footed People that I previously protected here, like arranging flowers, will allow them to recall the happy times of the past?

Huh? Isn't this behavior a bit too hellish?

No...

Is this how you all in [prosperity]?

Are you no longer human?

Oh right, they weren't human to begin with.

However, it seems that Eupusca was not feeding on [Prosperity], which means that all the players' previous guesses were wrong. His hunting of the Fungus-Footed People does not seem to be an arrangement of [Prosperity].

So... is the spark of this Trials still from those Fungus-Footed People?

How could He save the sinners He had exiled from the slaughter of Eupusca?

Cheng Shi frowned slightly, feeling that something was not quite right and the logic seemed a bit off.

To be honest, if Prosperity is such a nostalgic god, then the curse it bestowed on Old Cui shouldn't have been so cruel.

So what exactly does He want to do?

Furthermore, what was Eupusca thinking? What use is planting dead people on the ground? Does she think she can accumulate more "prosperity" by planting "people" in the Sighing Forest?

But there wasn't a trace of prosperity flowing through this entire flowerbed!

On the contrary, the power of Decay is surging, abundant, and omnipresent.

This is no flower garden of prosperity, it is clearly a hell of Decay!

Cheng Shi's gaze darkened slightly. He felt that daydreaming was useless. He should take advantage of the fact that Eupusca's attention was completely drawn to Hong Lin to look for some new clues and key things that could help him judge Eupusca's behavioral logic.

So he crouched down and carefully dragged the unconscious Amir to begin his search.

But he searched for a long time without success until he walked halfway around the flowerbed and came to a spot behind Eupusca, where he finally found something conspicuous.

It was a box, a box that didn't seem to belong in the Sighing Forest.

Because Cheng Shi was very familiar with the style of the box, it was clearly the box that the Tower of Reason used in various Experiment to store Experiment specimens!

And this box, representing [Civilization] and [Truth], actually appeared in the Sighing Forest, which is shrouded in [Decay] underground!