077. Night of Returning Souls

Lu Ban saw that the groom transformed into a fish-man and wandered in the sea of silt. On the other side, the bride's body was also undergoing alienation.

The shape of the head changed, and the clothes on her body were torn, revealing a body that was hardening and growing scales. In just a few seconds, the bride had become a fish-man like the groom.

The people of the Hai family may not have been normal humans from the beginning, but rather the fish-men they are now.

Under the influence of some kind of super-natural reproductive force, the people of the Hai family gradually intermarried with humans and gradually became like ordinary humans. However, despite this, their predecessors also retained many characteristics of fish, such as the protruding eyeballs and wrinkled faces.

Those Walking Corpses in the fog are probably the ancestors of the Hai family.

They have received some kind of curse. Even if they die, as long as they are in the fog and guard the stone statue, they will not decay.

The Hai family's ability to resist the shipwreck caused by the incarnation of Black Mother relies on the power of this bloodline and the extraordinary power of Wave-Praying Dance contained in the bloodline.

But at some point, about twenty years ago, the people of the Hai family got something that represented the incarnation of Black Mother. This thing had the same effect on other ordinary people as Trist, only torturing the will, but for the people of the Hai family, it could completely return them to their ancestors and turn them into the appearance of their ancestors.

Since then, the Hai family has lived in seclusion, put on masks, suppressed the incarnation of Black Mother, and tried to find a way to break this atavism. In order to breed the next generation, they must use this method to infuse the bride with the mud and make her become the same fish-man.

This is the secret of Drywater Town.

The groom of the sea of silt and the bride entangled in tentacles gathered together.

Bow to heaven and earth.

An ear-painful buzz erupted from the tower. The eyes of the numb and mechanical townspeople lost their color, leaving only pure white. They seemed to be undergoing some kind of transformation, their bodies were twisted, and the things conceived in their bodies were about to burst out of the ground.

Second bow to the high hall.

Phew——

Those who danced Wave-Praying Dance and wore masks were the first to appear alienated. Their bodies swelled, their masks fell off, and each of their fish heads became terrifying. Their limbs began to become more slender, and the webs between their hands and feet were clearly visible. Even their skin turned green and dark black.

With this as the center, more townspeople began to alienate. Their eyes began to bulge, the shape of their heads changed, and they tore off their clothes one by one, turning into half-fish and half-human beings.

This entire town, at this moment, has become a world of monsters.

Husband and wife bow to each other.

The groom and the bride, who had turned into fishmen, stood opposite each other. The ends of their limbs began to split, and the five fingers turned into countless tentacles made of mud. These tentacles blended with each other, making the two gradually merge into one.

At this moment, outside Drywater Town, hundreds of Walking Corpses with protruding eyes gathered over, and a hole gradually opened in their heads. Inside the skull, there was no brain, only black, foul-smelling sludge, and tentacles made of those sludge.

More and more people jumped into the mud. Unlike the bride and groom, as soon as these people came into contact with the mud, their entire bodies began to collapse, as if they were made of mud and became part of this huge mud.

[Participate in the Drywater Town Hai family wedding and witness the union of the groom and the bride 1/1]

In Lu Ban's field of vision, indifferent gray system text appeared. It seemed that this was the true union of the groom and the bride.

However, after that text, another line of cold text appeared.

[Survived until the end of the wedding: 00:59:59]

An hour later, the scene in front of me will last for at least another hour.

Lu Ban At this time, I saw something reflecting the sunlight in the open mouth of the tower and in the center of the tentacles.

Despite the sludge that reeked of metal around him, and despite the unhinging sight that tortured his will, Lu Ban saw it clearly.

In a world of filth, there is a pure white statue of God.

There is no doubt that Lu Ban's first instinct told him that this is [Merciful Statue of the Black Mother]!

"The silt seems to have spread."

Trist said, he saw that the pool of mud gradually began to overflow as people from the town jumped into it, surging in all directions. Stone, trees, buildings, everything was swallowed up by the mud, and everything merged into one.

In the mud, countless faces emerged. I am afraid these are the faces of all the Hai family members and all the people swallowed by the mud from ancient times to the present. At this moment, now, their souls are boiling in the sea of mud, returning to reality.

"Let's leave the town quickly and go outside the town. It shouldn't be difficult to escape for an hour."

Trist wanted to tell Lu Ban to run away quickly, but who knew that the person next to him had disappeared.

Looking forward, Trist found that Lu Ban was walking towards the tall mud tower.

"Are you crazy!!!"

He couldn't understand Lu Ban's behavior. He only saw Lu Ban take out a suona from his bag.

"I must take that idol away."

Lu Ban replied.

". You want to save this town? Want to save this sea area? Stop dreaming. We are just witnesses, just small wretches. We have no ability to change this world that is destined to be crazy."

Trist looked at Lu Ban, and for some reason, he remembered some Chosen of the Gods he had met who naively thought they could bring some good things to the world.

Lu Ban did not answer.

Trist only hesitated for a moment, but soon sighed again.

He is not one of those naive people.

"If you can take away the idol, you can indeed prevent the spread of the silt today, and at least save the lives of people outside this area, but it will be difficult for you to come back."

He checked the bullets in his revolver.

"But I have a way, as long as you are willing to believe me."

"Of course I believe you."

Lu Ban nodded, and then walked towards the crazy and chaotic world under the gaze of Trist.

"You'd better cover your ears."

Lu Ban did not look back, but only roared. Among the intertwined shouts of the souls, this voice seemed a little small.

"Cover your ears?"

Trist hurriedly followed the instructions.

The next moment, in that messy world, Lu Ban put the suona to his mouth.

"It's all the Great Wedding Day, how can it be without suona accompaniment?"

He blew the suona.

It was a piece of music that could not be called a melody at all. Any primary school student could play a more beautiful melody than Lu Ban. He just played the suona as he pleased, relying entirely on instinct.

However, as soon as that awkward, unpleasant, and graceless melody came out, the originally boiling sea of silt suddenly stopped at Shana.

The sludge that swallowed everything spread out around Lu Ban, making way for him.

Just like the saint in the classics parting the sea, the filthy mud exuding the stench of metal opened up an endless and endless road for Lu Ban.

Trist looked at this scene in disbelief. Some kind of terrifying aura emanated from Lu Ban's suona, which even made Trist, who knew nothing, feel trembling and fear from the bottom of his heart. Even these terrifying silts were completely incomparable to the malice emanating from the suona.

There was blood on Lu Ban's nose, eyes, and ears. The blood was quickly replaced by new green shoots. Those shoots were intertwined and growing, greedily absorbing nutrients in the sun, and even stretched out vines towards the creeping mud.

Under the sunshine of Pale, in the turbid mud, above the harsh melody, these shocking new greens bloomed into white flowers.

Lu Ban can feel that some great existence is echoing, resonating, and connecting with him from an extremely distant place. Using him as a carrier, some kind of change transcends time and space and is coming to this world.

He interfered, contended, and confronted some existence in this world, this mud.

Just one more minute and he would become some kind of vessel, a window for the arrival of something cruel, majestic and indifferent.

But he had already arrived next to the statue.

Lu Ban stretched out one hand and held the statue firmly.

[Item obtained: Merciful Statue of the Black Mother]

The next moment, Lu Ban was swallowed up by endless mud, and his figure could no longer be found.