Afros, Open the Door! I Know You're Home!

[The Gate of Desire Despiser]:

You can use a corpse filled with desire and obsession to build a Gate of Desire Despiser, and use the Door Key to open it and step into the true Abyss of desire.

Now, Cheng Shi is facing the gate to Abyss of desire. To open this gate, he should first offer two Sacrifice to the Great One on the Bone Throne. But somehow, the effects of these items imbued with the power of [death] seem to be...

I bought it on credit.

Praise to death!

Cheng Shi didn't know if the torrent of death he had offered to that the Great One before could still offset the Sacrifice, but since the door had already appeared, he couldn't just not go in.

So Cheng Shi stood up, straightened the bits of flesh and cloth on his chest, and walked in with a smile.

After he disappeared from the Rosna Imperial Court, the blood-soaked battlefield fell silent once more, with only the howling wind seemingly wailing and mourning for the death of the Screaming Count.

Meanwhile, on the other side...

The Poison wounds had healed considerably with the medicine, and she was still interrogating Galen, verifying all the details with Rosna's historian.

Jiang Chi stood there with a smile, waiting for the outcome of another hunt.

After a long while, a terrifying thunderclap came from the direction they had come from in the distance of the imperial court. A flash of lightning illuminated the place for a moment, revealing three astonished faces.

Galen was alarmed because he never remembered such a powerful Thunderbolt in Kannaal City, Jiang Chi was surprised because he remembered his Priest teammate's lie that "we've run out of disposable items."

Only Poison, after a slight moment of surprise, instantly curled the corners of its lips into Yin-Yang smile at Jiang Chi, "A pushover."

Jiang Chi looked slightly helpless. He shrugged and said, "Anyway, it's not me who got my teeth chipped. Sigh, I hope the person returning home in the snowstorm will bring some good news."

Not long after he finished speaking, Da Yi returned, coming back from the direction he had disappeared in.

Poison and Jiang Chi exchanged a glance, as if asking if this was the "Returning Traveler in the Snow" he had mentioned. Jiang Chi nodded slightly, looked at Da Yi, and asked with a smile:

"What were you found?"

Da Yi's expression was somewhat complicated. He shook his head and said:

"Damn it, I did find a secret room, and I even saw a knife rack where Daggers were kept, but the Daggers... are gone. Those cowards took everything."

If we don't talk about that, what's wrong with you guys?

Is the ram coming?

Where is my brother Cheng?

Brother Cheng?

Hearing this, Poison wanted to laugh, but she couldn't laugh in front of Da Yi. She thought that Cheng Shi might indeed be someone else's brother, but probably not Da Yi's.

If Da Yi cared about Cheng Shi, his first words wouldn't have been a response to Jiang Chi's question, but rather he would have asked where Cheng Shi was.

Clearly, he already knew what had happened here, and he knew that the Thunderbolt just now was related to Cheng Shi. Perhaps he also knew some things that he and Jiang Chi did not know, but at this moment he chose to pretend to know nothing and shifted the blame for the loss back to him.

Jiang Chi seemed to have expected this, and with a regretful expression, he stretched out his foot and sighed:

"The Gongyang Jiao and the Chameleon came together. We were separated. I was caught in Hunter's trap and couldn't catch up with the Priest brothers. To protect the only clue..."

He pointed to Old Galen and continued, "I had to turn back."

Seeing this, Poison realized why Jiang Chi hadn't treated his own injuries all along—he had left an excuse.

She chuckled softly without saying a word, but the chuckle drew Da Yi's attention.

Da Yi frowned upon hearing Jiang Chi's words, a hint of anger in his eyes. He looked at Poison as if seeking an explanation, but Poison muttered under his breath:

"It's alright. Once we find the Gift of Scars, I won't fight over it. I just hope that you, Da Yi, can let me take a look at it so I can draw a picture of the Gift of Scars and burn it for the little Priest to thank him for all that he has done for me."

"..."

"..."

This is just pure Yin-Yang. The meaning of "Poison" is obvious. Since everyone's goal is to "Gift of Scars," why care about Brother Cheng?

Da Yi was speechless, and most importantly, he couldn't refute it to his face.

No matter how dark or sordid one's thoughts may be in private, they can never be brought up in public, simply for the sake of saving face.

So he could only try to salvage the situation by saying, "Damn it, Brother Cheng has a lot of tricks up his sleeve. How do you know he's definitely going to die?"

Poison pursed his lips and remained silent, while Jiang Chi said with a solemn expression, "We dare not take the risk, so we are waiting for you."

"..."

Da Yi felt like he was being roasted over a fire. He had originally planned to give the ram a chance to kill the Poison, but he didn't expect the Gongyang Jiao's appetite to be much bigger than he had anticipated. It seemed that the ram wanted to kill everyone.

Unfortunately, he ran into Cheng Shi and got himself killed.

Yes, Da Yi knew that Gongyang Jiao was dead, and he even saw him die with his own eyes.

He shared the same doubts as Screaming Count Howl about the fact that Cheng Shi strength was so terrifying, but what terrified him even more was the sentence Cheng Shi uttered when he opened that strange bone door!

What does it mean to say, "After all, it's just Mortals's body, and it's still a bit fragile?"

The tone and perspective of these words don't sound like something a human player would say!

Could it be that Cheng Shi is just a shell, and his soul... has already been replaced?

It's not impossible. Peak Player all know that there are some superhuman beings in the top circles. As for why these souls, who Annihilation in the history of the Isle of Hope, would be reborn with a different skin, no one can say for sure. But everyone agrees that these beings are not to be trifled with.

Da Yi never expected that he would dig his own grave today, actually provoking a terrifying "non-human being".

Thinking about this, his feelings were quite complicated, but the mission to find the [Gift of Scars] could not be interrupted, so he could only take it one step at a time and maintain the superficial relationship for now.

"Damn it, we need to save lives quickly! There's no reason to wait for others. I'll go first, and you guys keep an eye on the left and right for me!"

With that, Da Yi scooped up Old Galen and flew off in the direction where the Thunderbolt had flashed.

Jiang Chi raised an eyebrow, swallowed a pill, and quickly followed. Poison watched the two actors' backs with interest and followed with a smile.

On the other side.

When Cheng Shi pushed open the door and stepped into the darkness, the darkness in front of him kept twisting and changing, and soon brought him to the familiar building.

The Evil Infant Tribunal of Dolgo D!

The door that almost dragged Cheng Shi into the Abyss of desire appeared before him once again.

This time, he was no longer as awkward and uneasy as before. Instead, he went straight to the door, knocked frantically, and shouted:

"Bang bang bang—"

"Afros, open the door! I know you're home!"