When he saw Wen Shi disappear before his eyes and the seriously injured mermaid bleeding and furious on the shore, the fat man calmed down instead.
There is no such thing as a space teleportation item in the game. The reason for its disappearance is either a substitute item that directly leaves the copy, or a hidden map is triggered.
Pei Wenwei would not waste a death substitute for a bet of 10,000 points... The fat man squinted his eyes at the shimmering lake, certain that there was a hidden map that could be triggered underneath.
But before he could investigate in detail, he was given goosebumps by the fierce murderous intent.
Mermaids are more extreme than ordinary humans. After Wen Shi disappeared out of thin air, the mermaid, with no way to vent her emotions, suddenly looked at the fat man.
The fat man was complaining in his heart. This was why he wanted to choose the principal's camp. Those who are not of my kind must have different hearts. It is almost impossible for humans to be completely trusted by mermaids.
At this point, he could only barely comfort himself that this trip was not without gain, at least he knew that there was another mermaid hidden in the academy.
"I tried very hard to stop him from escaping." The fat man said with a headache.
Even the mermaid could not deny this, as the other party had almost succeeded in preventing the target from escaping.
He withdrew his gaze and saw the huge mermaid sink into the lake. Unwilling to believe it, he still wanted to continue looking for Wen Shi. The fat man stood there for a few seconds, then turned around and retreated back to dormitory building No. 32.
The position of the iron chain tied to the well had changed. The fat man explored the well and found that as expected, the torso of the mermaid king had disappeared.
The only thing that he couldn't understand was that the ice cone had clearly pierced Pei Wenwei's heart, so why did the other party still show such an arrogant and complacent expression in the end?
Illusion? Or perhaps there's a rare item that can reduce damage.
He was so confident in his ability to calculate the probability of survival that he even thought of the possibility that Ji Yuanzhi had disguised himself as Pei Wenwei.
The corners of his mouth, which were always raised, dropped, and the fat man looked towards the exhibition hall. With the torso missing, something big was bound to happen tonight. Now that the camps had been divided, he had to think carefully about how to take advantage of the situation and kill the principal.
…
It was pitch black all around.
The pitch-black environment almost made Wen Shi think that the teleportation was not yet complete. He kept taking potions to restore his health. His hands and feet were still sore even when his health bar rose rapidly.
The tip of my nose moved, and a faint strange smell drifted over.
Wen Shi took a few minutes to recover, but he still couldn't stand up. The side effects of almost having his health reduced to zero were too obvious.
"Not a complete transformation."
Unable to focus on the stats panel, he verbally pokes at the game. After those slightly childish words fade away, Wen Shi, thanks to the cat's agility, is finally able to move freely.
The night vision ability was unable to penetrate the overly thick darkness, so Wen Shi had to take out the [small lantern] again.
A slightly cold glow illuminated a small area, and the deformed and rough head in front was suddenly reflected in the clear pupils.
"Fuck..." The last word was swallowed back into his throat.
The decline in body functions weakened the five senses, and Wen Shi now finally knew where the source of the strange smell came from.
After a sudden stumble, he regained his balance, gathered his composure, and looked at the skeleton from top to bottom while holding the lantern.
The flesh and blood had long since weathered away, but the sparse hair seemed to contain some kind of magic, and some still remained. The densely packed, serrated, sharp teeth were clearly not human.
The upper body is made of human bones, and the lower body is made of fish bones. This is the deformed body of a mermaid who has been dead for a long time.
Within the area illuminated by the light, there was a human skeleton with a dagger stuck in his chest. The sharp tip seemed to have grown into the bone and was stuck there tightly.
The system's cold prompt sounded:
"Please choose one of the skeletons to greet within thirty seconds."
"…"Are you kidding me?
Wen Shi shook his head, his voice a little vague due to weakness: "That night at the principal's residence, I was very curious why the trigger point was at the lake."
Song Yan said that there were many aquatic plants in the lake that were beneficial to mermaids. When he fell down, he also felt that the lake water was clearer than ever before.
This is an unpolluted lake, and the principal has no reason to pollute the resources within the academy, so there is no place more suitable than here to store the Mermaid King's heart.
To put it bluntly, it is also a strategy of hiding the truth from the public.
The light of water can also be seen in the places where the surrounding lights shine. Wen Shi did not completely leave the multi-dimensional space of the lake, but simply came to a space that was separated by mental power.
He walked towards the human corpse step by step, and stopped in front of it in the last three seconds. He waved his cat tail in a friendly manner and said, "Hi."
Human corpse: "..."
For Wen Shi, this is not even a multiple-choice question.
The focus of the series of tasks is all on the letters hidden in the album.
The Mermaid King had bewitched the inhabitants, and the spiritually corrupted residents were now clinging to him like a demon. This bewitching feeling must have existed even earlier, but the Mermaid King was too weak at the time, otherwise the outcome of that revenge operation would have been completely different.
The only person who could help the Mermaid King transport the heart here without anyone noticing was a resident or a student in the academy.
If you want to find the whereabouts of the heart, you naturally have to say hello to humans.
You awakened the loyal servant who was bewitched by the Mermaid King.
[He was the one who smuggled the heart here, and after the mission was accomplished, he committed suicide according to the Mermaid King's order.]
When the prompt sound stopped, Wen Shi looked to the other side, curious about where the deformed mermaid came from.
Crunch, crunch.
An unpleasant friction sound brought him back to his senses, and he saw the human corpse in front of him slowly standing up in an awkward posture, with two pale leg bones moving forward.
The human bones did not come when rushing to Wen Wen. They brought a gust of cold wind when passing by him. After a while, the human bones stopped in front of the deformed mermaid. It bent down and put its hands on the mermaid's skull. A magical scene happened. The deformed mermaid gradually became illusory until it completely disappeared. Only a shining scale in the center remained, which flew into the hands of the human skeleton.
This piece of fish scale obviously did not belong to humans. Wen Shi suddenly realized that what he had seen before was just an illusion. This piece of fish scale had the effect of creating mental pollution.
His gaze fixed on the scales, Wen Shi's throat twitched suspiciously. A human couldn't have entered this space alone, and the Mermaid King couldn't have entered the academy at that time. So, did this scale have the function of both creating an independent space and mental pollution?
He wants to have it too!
The claws that were ready to move wanted to be raised several times, but were finally restrained by reason.
Wen Shi said with a hint of regret: "Forget it, let's be safe."
Since the game asked you to make a choice earlier, there will definitely be a punishment if you make the wrong choice. It is very likely that this fish scale has an autonomous attack consciousness.
The skeleton held a scale in its hand, the sharp end of which drew the word "king" in the air. Wen Shi witnessed the scene of space rifting for the first time, and his pupils dilated slightly, vaguely catching a glimpse of the corner of a bloody heart.
The fatal selection process is over, and now he just has to wait to get the heart.
As the space completely split open, the full picture of half of the heart was completely revealed. The valves were constantly trembling, and it was still beating.
Fresh, hot, and catty!
Wen Shi slowly raised his arm, and the next second someone suddenly patted his shoulder from behind. Wen Shi shuddered and turned his neck stiffly to look back.
A figure resembling a human or a ghost appeared behind him at some point: it had no eyes, an open chest similar to the torso of a mermaid in the well, and all its limbs were made of eerie black smoke.
The man looked at Wen Shi with his hollow eyes. After several seconds, he slowly opened his mouth and imitated Wen Shi's previous greeting: "Hi."
"…"
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On campus.
The blood drops in the pale torso kept moving around. These were all the pollution sources that the mermaid's torso had absorbed before. The seemingly peaceful pollution sources now began to arrogantly invade every muscle texture.
Under the moonlight, the crystal blood beads moved like a snowball, and each drop seemed to have a mouth full of sharp teeth, queuing up to eat madly.
Jian Qingrong just stood aside, calmly watching the mermaid king's torso being devoured.
Next to him, there is an octopus standing in the shadows.
When Wen Shi was away, the little octopus put away its cute and coquettish appearance, its beloved top hat appearing on its head. Several tentacles wrapped around a shiny knife and fork stolen from somewhere, and began to carve the meat with precision. After the cuts were completed, the little octopus held the knife in one tentacle and opened a slit in the other tentacle, dripping the octopus blood evenly onto each portion.
The moment the pollution source touched the mermaid's torso, it boiled to the extreme, and started a devouring carnival in the same way as the blood drops.
The little octopus's eyes became bright, and he felt very happy as his strength increased every moment. The tentacles on his body, which were the most fragile, were gradually becoming as tough as the mermaid king's hair.
"So comfortable." It sighed.
Jian Qingrong's expression was gloomy because of the darkness, and he said lightly: "It's not bad."
He kept an eye on the little octopus's eyeball. Ever since he noticed the difference in this eye, he had always thought that this eye was controlled or forced into his body, but the big eyeball had liked to grab Wen Shi's attention from the very beginning. This was undoubtedly an emotion that continued from his body.
Jian Qingrong thought quietly, trying to find a logical chain that could connect the dots.
At the same time, in the exhibition hall in the distance.
Yarlin strolled on the fourth floor as if no one was around. He couldn't find the sealed Mermaid King, but... Yarlin looked in a certain direction. As his body was being devoured, the Mermaid King would have some sense of it.
He released his mental strength, and now all he had to do was create a sense of crisis for the fish king, and then cooperate with the free workers to work hard.
"Come out."
The people behind the sculpture looked at each other.
When they heard footsteps coming in their direction, the president of the Six Commandments was sure that their whereabouts had been discovered, and led two members out.
The most fair game equally limits every outstanding skill. Ji Yuanzhi's [Information Omniscient] is not omnipotent. In fact, that night, the president of the Six Commandments followed the principal to the fourth floor and left in a hurry after being almost discovered. However, Ji Yuanzhi only deciphered the location.
Yaerlin's eyes fell on the silver metal in the hands of the Six Commandments leader and he guessed its purpose at a glance: "Explosive?"
The president of the Six Commandments did not answer. He wanted to repeat the same trick and use this method to force the Mermaid King to wake up.
[Little Steel Egg] is priceless, and when used in conjunction with the advanced [Fire Doll], it can successfully direct the Mermaid King's anger towards Pei Wenwei.
Just when the Six Commandments leader was about to take the initiative and let Yaerlin hold back the two members to do the work, Yaerlin suddenly made a gesture of invitation, as if asking them to go ahead and do it.
"…"
The Six Commandments leader didn't dare to let his guard down, his eyes fixed on Yaerlin: "Since you won't stop me, then come out with me."
Avoid being hit by the aftermath of the explosion, as the game will consider it as malicious injury.
Yarlin cooperated very well. He glanced at the doll and roughly guessed the purpose of the thing. He had done something bad to it once, and it was nothing more than an attempt to divert trouble to someone else again.
He shook his head. In fact, even if he did nothing, after what happened tonight, he would definitely be on the Mermaid King's kill list.
Yaerlin stepped back outside the exhibition hall. The next second, flames from the explosion shot up into the sky. Yaerlin vaguely caught a glimpse of a strange shrill sound.
The mermaid king, who had been dormant for many years, finally woke up ahead of schedule.
The members of the Six Commandments evacuated quickly, leaving only Yarlin blending into the darkness, silently watching the mermaid king's head, with its neck broken off, flying in a certain direction in the lake blue mist.
"The balance is about to be broken." He smiled playfully.
The principal is determined to find a complete heart to completely destroy the Mermaid King. The Mermaid King is slowly digesting the damage caused by the pollution, and victory or defeat depends on who is faster. Now that part of the Mermaid King has been devoured, even without a complete heart, the principal may still be able to deal with it.
There is only one way for the Mermaid King to survive...
Yarlin sneered, as if he had already seen the demise of the Mermaid King.
…
The terrifying head flew towards somewhere at a strange speed.
At the same time, Teacher Ruan heard the explosion but did not go out immediately. He was... looking in the mirror.
Recently, when it's late at night and everyone is asleep, Teacher Ruan always stares at the mirror in a daze.
[Philosophical Mirror] makes him constantly question the rules, but the submission in his bones cannot be eliminated overnight.
The terrifying tide came overwhelming, and when Teacher Ruan came to his senses, he was facing the head of the mermaid king outside the window.
"King?" There was confusion in his shocked eyes.
Why did the king wake up at this time?
Before Teacher Ruan could even ask his question, he was surrounded by dancing hair in the blink of an eye. These ice-blue, curly long hairs, which were stronger than the strongest fishing line, formed a dense cocoon.
Teacher Ruan realized instantly that Wang wanted to kill him.
No, to be more precise, they devour themselves. Mermen have a history of cannibalism.
"Why?"
He had worked hard for many years to create a perfect background so that he could be admitted to Mingzhu Academy and find similar people to strengthen his strength, but in the end he was treated as a reserve food.
As the most loyal subordinate of the Mermaid King, his loyalty is even greater than that of another mermaid hiding in the campus, but the King chose to devour him first.
Teacher Ruan didn't know that between the two choices, the Mermaid King would of course prefer to devour the other mermaid and leave Teacher Ruan behind, but the Mermaid King could feel the mermaid's breath weakening, and it must have been seriously injured.
In order to recover his strength as quickly as possible, he could only choose to devour the stronger party.
The tough hair was like the steel sheets of a meat grinder, creating countless cracks in the flesh. After being frozen by frost, the blood could not resume its smooth flow immediately.
The merman was about to die from his best attack.
The strength of the two sides was not on the same level, and Teacher Ruan, who did not put up any futile resistance, soon turned into a bloody corpse.
As the blood moistened his hair, a hint of red appeared on the Merman King's pale cheeks, threatening to take root and burrow into his internal organs. Just as he was about to devour his prey, a beastly growl pierced through the completely isolated space. Teacher Ruan didn't know what had happened, but his sturdy cocoon suddenly trembled violently, a hole appearing on the outside.
Outside the cave, an agile leopard appeared from nowhere. It just took two steps forward, and its mighty and elegant streamlined body showed the aura of a predator.
This is Yarlin's spirit body. He had been following Wen Shi secretly to prevent him from being in mortal danger. Tonight he was waiting at Teacher Ruan's residence.
Beasts communicate more easily with beasts.
The aura emanating from the leopard invisibly stimulates the animal nature hidden in others.
"Kill it."
Teacher Ruan shuddered all over.
The spirit spoke in human language, its rare amber eyes looking forward, and it spoke word by word, "Go and kill your king."
With him assisting on the sidelines, I borrowed Prince Min's knife to kill the Mermaid King, so it wasn't like I was borrowing too much power from others.
Killing with a borrowed knife always works.