Free Web NovelChapter 34: Chapter 34: Dandelion Appears
"That Evil Fallen had a human form, but its entire body was like rotting flesh, piled up like heaps of decaying meat, and its speed and strength were both very slow. At first, we really thought we could handle it, and we did suppress it for a while, but no matter what kind of injuries it sustained, it would heal instantly. The most severe injury it ever received was from the acid rain when it was stealing the corpse of our second-in-command."
Yang Zhen noticed Bai Wu’s gaze didn’t seem to be on the skeletal remains.
Listening to Yang Zhen, Bai Wu roughly thought of a possibility.
This Evil Fallen possessed a perverted level of regenerative ability.
Almost any type of damage was unable to truly kill it, but acid rain could.
Perhaps the only thing capable of killing this Evil Fallen was the world outside the tower itself.
The damage caused by acid rain, even for that Evil Fallen, was not something that could be easily recovered from. In other words, if there was a way to lure it into an area covered by acid rain and somehow keep it trapped in the rain, it could be killed.
But how could one keep the monster in the rain continuously?
By now, Bai Wu had a clear understanding of the terrain.
All the objects were spaced evenly, the space between them being the area covered by acid rain.
Other areas were sheltered from the acid rain.
The size of each area was consistent, distributed neatly like an international chess board.
The black areas would be attacked by acid rain, while the white areas provided shelter from it. However, the acid rain wasn’t always present.
Bai Wu touched his chin, having been silently counting the time from the beginning, was soon to face the Evil Fallen in their first confrontation.
"Looking at the information we have now, it’s not enough to figure out a way to break the situation, and moreover... something doesn’t feel right."
Why did the note hint at the truth being hard to discern? The information extracted from the skeletal remains’ last words indeed matched up with what Yang Zhen had provided.
Acid rain could kill the Evil Fallen.
Yet Bai Wu had this nagging feeling that something was off, and his intuition had always been very accurate, helping him out of misunderstandings many times before.
Next to the skeletal remains, there was also a ring:
[The day before yesterday, Dandelion graced this set of bones with his presence, leaving behind this ring. It shouldn’t have overlooked such a small detail, but then you can’t help that little fellow by your side being too lucky. This is a wedding ring, whoever wears the ring will temporarily fall in love with the person who put it on for them, enveloped by an intense sense of marital bliss, even if it’s... an inanimate object. But this only works outside the tower. Do you have a vision in your mind now? Wait, you’re not thinking of using it for some lewd purposes, are you? So it turns out you’re that kind of person, coincidence, I am too.]
Bai Wu indeed had an image in his mind.
Especially with the use of the word ’graced’, a rotting Evil Fallen, gracing a set of bones full of marital happiness?
That image was a bit too morbid for most tastes.
But the item itself was good, if it could be used inside the tower and put up for auction, those perverts up on the third floor would probably fight over it, bloodied and bruised?
Unfortunately, the ring only worked outside of the tower, which made Bai Wu even more confused about the principles behind Spirit Possession.
And at this moment, from the other end of the burrow, came the sound of pebbles hitting the ground.
Liang Yu sent out a signal.
"Go, hurry, we should at least find an open area to take shelter from the rain and to fight. This place is too cramped."
Yang Zhen was no fool, though he did not know how Constantine knew the timing of the rain, he also counted the numbers in his mind. With Liang Yu’s warning, it was likely that both the acid rain and the Evil Fallen were imminent.
The atmosphere suddenly became tense, Bai Wu nodded, and also tossed the ring into his own backpack.
So far, he didn’t think the women of this world were of any interest, but the ring, perhaps, could be useful in a future scenario. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
The trio moved swiftly and soon left the burrow.
Seeing that the three were unharmed, Liang Yu breathed a sigh of relief. Once he accepted the setting that they could survive, he yearned for life more than anyone else.
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Acid rain descended, the colorless, tasteless liquid falling upon the jungle.
If Bai Wu had not had the information from Yang Zhen, nor Prayle’s Eye, he would indeed have thought it was just ordinary rainwater.
He watched the rain curtain, and the remark resurfaced in his eyes.
[There are many liquids in a person’s body: white hereditary chromosomes, red blood, green bile. Although this thing is transparent, I’ll give you a hint; this is certainly not saliva.]
It was not saliva, and it certainly couldn’t be the things mentioned in the note, possessing such strong corrosiveness...
Stomach acid?
"What do we do now?" Yang Zhen said.
Not far from a giant tree at the base, through a layer of mist, Bai Wu could already make out the outline of the Evil Fallen.
[Level 4 Mutation Evil Fallen. Mutation Entry: Telekinesis. Perfect Mutation Entry: Absolute Regeneration. Pathological Mutation Entry: Weakness, significantly reduced speed and strength.]
Unfortunately, Dandelion was an honest person; he never kept a diary. Otherwise, on the crooked pages of the journal, you’d see the words "heal and save," and then, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, you’d peer into it all night until you could finally make out the words silhouetted between the lines—every page contained just two words: ( ). Answer correctly for three points, answer wrongly and die.]
Well, a fill-in-the-blank question, here we go.
Under the influence of acid rain, Bai Wu noticed that Dandelion hadn’t moved. The content in the remarks, along with the encounter with the twelve disciples of Elijah, made Bai Wu know all this had something to do with eating.
It’s only natural for Evil Fallen to eat humans, so why is Dandelion’s consumption of humans being emphasized? Moreover, considering the focus of the remarks, this seems like a very important piece of information.
"We can’t do anything right now, just wait for the rain to stop."
Unable to come up with an answer, Bai Wu first responded to Yang Zhen.
"But once the rain stops, it’ll come over. Then we..."
Yang Zhen didn’t finish his sentence when he suddenly remembered something—if this Constantine is such an expert, wouldn’t he be able to easily suppress this not-so-strong Evil Fallen?
Bai Wu knew what Yang Zhen was thinking. He didn’t want to encounter the Evil Fallen, it wasn’t time yet, so he said:
"This Evil Fallen’s combat ability is pretty ordinary. Under this chessboard terrain, it can’t catch up with us. We can just play hide and seek with it for now, looking for a hiding spot, but during the process of moving to the hiding spot, we need to assign someone to distract it."
The Mutation level of Dandelion was surprisingly low, which puzzled Bai Wu. Elijah was level 6, Little Pitiful was level 9; when facing Little Pitiful, the note provided was to forfeit the battle.
When facing Elijah, the suggestion was to make use of external objects, but there was no other hint for Dandelion...
It seemed it wasn’t the illusion that Yang Zhen and his companions could counterkill, but that Dandelion was genuinely weak.
What exactly the Pathological Mutation Entry was, Bai Wu was still unclear, but it seemed to be an attribute in their favor, making Dandelion appear frail because of it.
Another point worth noting, Mutation Entry: Telekinesis.
It seemed this was the reason why the three’s Return Roulette had been destroyed.
Bai Wu was not particularly worried about his own Return Roulette being damaged, as long as he kept a certain distance from Dandelion, Dandelion would not be able to sense him at all.
"But who will confront him?"
Yang Zhen asked himself; if it weren’t for the chaotic negative attribute he was encountering, he would be able to suppress this Evil Fallen.
The negative attributes of the three of them were: Yang Zhen had Chaos, Qin Lin had Sluggishness, and the bald guy had a rather strange one, Corruption.
Bai Wu still couldn’t grasp what exactly Corruption meant from its literal sense.
"Yang Zhen, you go."
"My sense of direction right now..." freёwebnovel.com
"I said, you go. The Return Roulette in my hand is our hope of getting out alive, and if any one of you three holds onto the Roulette, it will attract the Evil Fallen, but not with me. So unless you don’t want to get out, the distraction task must be left to you guys."
Bai Wu raised his hand and continued saying,
"Chaos basically just alters your perception of direction, you just need to figure out the current degree of deviation."
Bai Wu began to teach Yang Zhen how to correct his sense of direction; he knew his way around this.
This thing was like the outdated dance game from his previous life; you follow the arrow direction and press the corresponding arrow, but sometimes you are asked to press the arrow in the opposite direction.
With Bai Wu’s guidance, Yang Zhen felt as though he had indeed found a pattern.
He wasn’t someone with no sense of responsibility; accepting the reason in Constantine’s every sentence, he said:
"I don’t know how long I can distract it for, are you sure you can really lead us out?"
"Is there any other choice?"
Bai Wu remained vigilant toward the three of them, at least toward Yang Zhen and Liang Yu; he always maintained his guard.
The style of the remarks might not be serious, but they’re not aimless.
He still remembered, upon seeing the tree hole, the remarks referred to the bald Liang Yu and the bearded Yang Zhen.
Especially since there was another part coming up, related to the survival of the three of them.
It’s likely that these two had their own secrets, each representing a different variable.
However, that made things interesting. Being on a battlefield with such a chessboard layout, Bai Wu felt a sense of playing a game of chess with that "teacher."
