Chapter 923: Chapter 921: Reward and Entrance
This is too obvious.
Only one person can bring mental imprisonment and visual burning through eye contact, Little Grape Grep, and now Little Grape has combined with the Yellow Robe to form a humanoid entity.
It possesses the quick movement and concealment of the Yellow Robe, as well as the evil sun burning of Little Grape.
Even now, when Yi Chen looks at it, he can feel the burn from the soul,
but none of this matters, what matters most is Little Grape’s abnormal state—those eyes arranged in a smiley face make one suspect Little Grape is affected by the Clown Virus, possibly a whole new form of indoctrination.
If William can’t explain this, Yi Chen might really be inclined to kill.
However, on the opposite side of the lake, Little Grape raises its right arm, making a waving gesture goodbye, and that smiley face on its face dissipates, seemingly back to normal.
Before Yi Chen can inquire, Little Grape has disappeared.
He seems to have been called by William as an examiner, responsible for eye contact with contestants who step ashore, those who can survive the burning with the [Fujiang’s trait] then qualify to ascend to the final stage.
Yi Chen looks at the tranquil lake before him, the overall temperature rising 10°C due to Liu Xinzhi’s descent.
He doesn’t intend to go down to rescue or retrieve, just quietly waits.
After about ten minutes, a figure leaps from the center of the lake like a water lily budding, a woman with a perfect body surface bearing scars of burns but her internal organs mostly healed and no longer heating up.
The eyes directly burned by the evil sun still haven’t healed, but the ash between her eye sockets has been cleaned away.
Additionally, Liu Xinzhi is holding something in her hands, a television soaked and tangled with aquatic plants! By chance, she discovered this TV hidden at the lakebed.
As Liu Xinzhi swims ashore, she catches Yi Chen’s scent through her nostrils and rushes to embrace him.
“Mr. Yi, I almost thought I would never see you again!
I was engulfed in flames just now… fortunately, my body held up, luckily I have awakened Fujiang’s will, and blessedly had Sister Mu’s water attribute helping to resist.
Although I can’t see anymore, as long as I’m alive, it’s alright.
This is something I accidentally hit on when I sank to the lake’s bottom; it’s kind of shaped like a TV! I wonder if it can still be turned on.”
“It should be able to.”
“Wait… my eyes are starting to regenerate again! That’s odd, they clearly couldn’t just now.”
Liu Xinzhi reaches her hands to her eye sockets, where spherical objects are slowly growing, though now the eyeballs are leaning more towards gray instead of white.
Once the eye is fully formed, Liu Xinzhi’s vision undergoes a transformation.
She can see further into the distance and even perceive objects through and observe the slow trajectory of falling leaves.
Yi Chen observes Liu Xinzhi’s newly grown eyeball, seeing the pupils marked like the evil sun, and whispers,
“Firewood’s curse? Evil sun’s illness infection… could it be that William arranged for Little Grape not for filtering and hunting but as an [Opportunity].
Any participant who encounters Little Grape and captures it visually has a chance of illness infection.
If the Fujiang’s trait within their body can endure it, they can, like Liu Xinzhi, become infected with the Old World’s most dangerous “Evil Sun Hyperthermal Eye Disease,” gaining an exceptionally special vision.
Interesting, William…
Since Little Grape and Yellow Skin are here, Nash should be here too. From the previous screams, I suspect on the mountain.
Xinzhi, let’s climb the mountain.”
“Ah? We’ve already got the TV, do we still need to climb the mountain?”
“Yes.”
“Understood!”
Liu Xinzhi’s back adopts an additional upper half figure of a woman clutching the TV on her back, stepping onto the narrow mountain path.
The change in her eyes allows her to see contestants hundred meters away in advance, avoiding them as much as possible because of carrying the TV.
However, as she rounds a mountain path corner, her vision shows nothing yet she suddenly bumps right into a man with insightful eyes.
This man’s appearance makes Liu Xinzhi feel quite dismissive, compared to which Mr. Yi seems much better looking.
In the scattered-eye state of the man, upon bumping into the forefront two, he’s momentarily taken aback! His inherently scattered eyes instantly focus on Yi Chen, almost instinctively uttering those three words.
But his acting stabilizes the “mountain climber.”
Thud!
The man immediately kneels down, crying and saying, “Please take me to the coast! I’ve been lost for many days, if I can’t get out, I’ll die here.”
Of course, Liu Xinzhi intends to refuse, but considering the strange nature of the man before her and Mr. Yi’s unexplained reason for wanting her to climb, she suddenly realizes it might relate to the strange man.
She quickly shows a gentle smile and proactively grabs the ‘mountain climber’s hand,
“Come on! We’ll take you out!”
Nash, posing as a mountain climber, is quite stunned, every woman he had met before looked down on him, yet this woman is so enthusiastic, leaving him a bit bewildered.
During their trek through the woods, Yi Chen suddenly speaks,
“How have things been lately?”
Nash’s emotions had already been stirred when he saw Yi Chen, but now that he’s acting, he’s forced to suppress his emotions internally, making him appear strange.
“Good… pretty good… oh! No! Not good at all~ I’ve been lost in the mountain for a long time, I’m dying.”
“Don’t panic.”
Yi Chen gently pats Nash’s shoulder, almost causing Nash to wet himself! After all, during his time in the theater he’s been eating and drinking well, even restored his supporting actor status, enjoying life immensely.
Upon seeing Yi Chen he feels an inherent guilt, his emotions are extremely complex.
Just then, Liu Xinzhi’s pupils capture an intruder, “Mr. Yi, someone nearby has noticed us! They’re approaching.”
“Handle it normally.”
The four appear in different positions at once,
As Liu Xinzhi crouches to temporarily place the TV on the ground, preparing for a battle, during her squat and rise, the four individuals have already had their tendons torn and bones extracted.
All the bones have been packed within Nash’s climbing pack.
Liu Xinzhi’s pupils quake, she dodges behind Yi Chen with a quick slip.
“Who… who are you?”
Nash says with a smile, “A lost mountain climber~ since you’re willing to help me find the way out, I’ll help you with some troubles~”
When everyone returns to the coastal landing point, Nash leaps and disappears into the sea.
Following that, a water tank surfaces where he entered the water, holding a special weapon inside,
Materials made from potential Fujiang killed recently by Nash, forged and compressed from their bones into a special bone blade, seemingly infused with part of the monastery metal.
Moreover, because Liu Xinzhi held Nash’s hand the whole journey, he remembered her hand structure, this bone blade fitting perfectly to Liu Xinzhi’s grip.
This Fujiang-related weapon interacts well with Liu Xinzhi, wielded quite proficiently.
After twirling it twice, Liu Xinzhi slightly purses her lips,
“Thank you, Mr. Yi… that person probably belongs to the special staff for this program~ because we helped him, he provided a reward.
Previously seen yellow robe eyes should be of similar nature.
Do you know them all?”
“Yes.”
“They’re amazing! I wonder how Mr. Yi compares with them… tsh! Surely Mr. Yi is better.”
“About the same~ Let’s go! Quickly open the TV, there’s no one in the coastal zone, we can enter the final stage.”
“Alright.”
The fully soaked TV surprisingly starts up normally, adjusting the channels using the top knob, spending considerable time finally finding the beauty pageant show on channel 114.
When the show’s TV light falls on them,
Even Yi Chen is overcome with an irresistible pull, instinctively leaning forward, until his face presses against it, buzz! The TV image transforms into a hole similar to the deep abyss.
After a period of falling, they land steadily on the stage.
Various ribbons spray out, multiple spotlights focus on them,
Then,
Liu Xinzhi sees a host walk out from the depths of the stage curtain, whose appearance is so similar to Mr. Yi.