Lonely Island

[Welcome to Investigator!]

[Confirming game ID: 4812]

[Game items confirmed: Voidwood Box; Underwater Breathing Potion (2 bottles); Endless Rope; Custom Large-Caliber Bullets (100 rounds); Treatise on the Myriad-Dimensional Doomsday; Detailed Guide to Star-Guiding and Moon-Drawing; Xia Lun's Single-Action Revolver; Mosu Steel Short Sword "Night Plume"; Nightmare Overcoat; Wicker Man; Damaged Sextant]

[Items inside the Voidwood Box confirmed]

[Warning: The Voidwood Box contains special items. Special item list: Daoist Huang's Eyeball (charged); Stasis Hourglass; Bottomless Coffee Cup]

[You have burned 1 Snail Statue. The designated item has been determined, and the difficulty of this Scenario has increased slightly.]

White characters seeped out of the darkness like grains of salt. Crooked and blurred, they were hard to make out. The sound of waves breaking against rocks suddenly reached Xia Lun's ears, though it was faint, as if coming from far away.

Everything before him was still pitch-black, but he could already feel the dampness. A clammy chill, like the ache that crept into one's joints on a rainy day, slowly seeped through his skin and into his awareness.

As the wet rush of the surf continued, the white characters began to twist, as though water were washing over them.

Does this Scenario have something to do with the sea? Xia Lun wondered.

[Temporary Language Comprehension acquired!]

A new line of text appeared. At almost the same instant, a sickening sensation of weightless free fall struck without warning, cutting off Xia Lun's thoughts.

His heart raced. Blood surged into his forehead, and a dizzy, pounding throb hit him like a lead shot, leaving his mind briefly blank.

But he had been through worse. Xia Lun had, after all, once had his head blown apart by buckshot, and he recovered quickly. He forced the dizziness back through sheer