Eldritch Horror Theatre - Ch. 47: Dark Night Flowing Frost
"Are you... alright?"
Watching Fu Qian struggle ashore, Ji Liushuang asked cautiously while trembling.
Fu Qian completely understood this. No one could react calmly upon seeing a fellow human bloated several times their normal size and covered entirely in mouths.
"Never better!"
He replied in a leisurely tone, successfully inciting a wave of verbal abuse.
"Shameless boasting! Your death is imminent, you'll be obliterated body and soul hahaha..."
"Idiot, you're ruining our last sliver of a chance."
"Young man, don't be impulsive..."
"Who are they?"
Ji Liushuang instinctively backed away; she had already recognized Feng Yunhong's voice.
"You can collectively refer to them as seniors, though whether they are highly respected is hard to say."
Suddenly, the volume of curses doubled.
"Can you... save them?"
Ji Liushuang seemed to faintly understand Fu Qian's situation, subconsciously taking another step back before remembering the people still trapped in the blood pool.
Among the arrogant quintet, there was no trace left of Huang Zhaoyan. Yuan Xin only had half his face exposed and was on the verge of suffocating.
"No."
Fu Qian refused outright. The eyes of the three who were still standing dimmed, and Yuan Xin struggled in a bout of despair.
"Are you coming with me?"
"You're going to send me out?"
Ji Liushuang's initially dim eyes lit up instantly.
"No."
Fu Qian shook his head.
"Giving you a chance to watch me go out."
...
The scenery shifted. Not long after, the edge of the Ruins was impressively in sight.
Ji Liushuang didn't even know what her own mindset was anymore.
After Fu Qian said that, she wasn't even angry, and actually followed him all the way out.
Perhaps after staying in a hopeless situation for too long, even if it wasn't her, she just wanted to see something break free from it.
She found an excuse for herself.
The two walked one after another, taking the same path they came. Along the way, they even saw the palm monster that Li Weixuan had wounded, as well as a few lush piles of hair.
However, their reactions were very strange. They had clearly spotted the two of them, but they merely gazed from afar, entirely too afraid to approach.
Feels like holding court!
Fu Qian marveled inwardly, knowing these things weren't necessarily afraid of him.
A greater possibility was that, as beings completely assimilated by the Furnace, they were unwilling to touch something like him, which was actively being rejected by the Furnace itself.
The barrier was already close at hand.
The closer he got, the more Fu Qian felt the surges of power frantically struggling upon his body.
The retrograde flow of vitality and blood was nothing anymore; his muscles and bones were creaking. The chaotic power made even walking a problem, and the howling in his head grew louder and louder.
"Stop, you're really crazy..."
"Young man, don't be too arrogant..."
"Brother, you are still young, please do not go down the path of self-destruction..."
...
Fu Qian made no response to this. Controlling his body without changing his expression, he walked firmly step by step to the edge of the barrier and extended his right hand.
As if touching a layer of viscous jelly, the originally indestructible invisible barrier was now easily penetrated.
It really works!
Fu Qian blinked and looked back at Ji Liushuang.
The latter was staring fixedly at his right hand reaching outside, her eyes complex.
"Any last words?"
Last words?
Hearing this, Ji Liushuang froze for a moment before lowering her head.
"It doesn't seem to have any meaning anymore, does it?"
"If it's really as you said, even if I tell you my last words now, the moment you go out, all information related to me will be erased."
"You're not stupid! Theoretically, that's indeed the case, so the pressure is on you."
Fu Qian looked at her.
"If you don't want to waste this opportunity, you need to think of a final message that I won't forget."
A final message that won't be forgotten...
Ji Liushuang froze for a while, then suddenly her eyes lit up.
"Do you know Silver Mist Manor?"
"I know it."
Fu Qian nodded while frowning.
Although it was bizarre, he just knew it.
When Ji Liushuang mentioned this place, a magnificent building bathed in sunlight naturally surfaced in Fu Qian's mind.
He was very sure this was the place she mentioned.
But the problem was, I've never been there; I'm not even from this world.
Fu Qian thought for a moment and guessed a possibility.
That was that his mind had already been polluted by the consciousnesses of the other Beyonders, and this was their memory.
In fact, from just now, his head had been filled with various chaotic images, a myriad of everything.
Looking at it now, this current form brings more than just physical instability!
Not good. Fu Qian suddenly had an ominous premonition.
"On the easternmost side of Silver Mist Manor, there is a cedar forest."
Seeing that Fu Qian actually knew it, Ji Liushuang felt a surge of joy and spoke quickly.
"A type of flower grows beneath the cedar trees. This flower only blooms at night, as white as frost under the moonlight, and very beautiful when clustered together. You can go see them when you have time."
"A woman named Ji Xue likes to take evening walks there. If you meet her, you can say hello for me."
"Understood. I'll go take a look if I get the chance."
Looking at Ji Liushuang's face full of pleading, Fu Qian didn't ask what her relationship with Ji Xue was, simply nodding in agreement.
The next moment, his entire body pressed against the barrier, squeezing through amidst countless wails and curses.
[Incomplete soul state, Containment Failed]
Almost the instant he regained his freedom, a prompt rang out by Fu Qian's ear.
So it really didn't work!
Although he vaguely felt something was wrong when he noticed the memory confusion, truly facing it still made him sigh.
The meaning was clear. His method of forcefully merging quantitative changes to trigger qualitative changes had allowed his physical body to escape, but his soul was damaged as a result, so it didn't count as an "intact" escape.
This mission probably has OCD.
Intense pain transmitted through him. Fu Qian looked down.
Clusters of blood exploded all over his body, his skin was packed with agonized faces, and his body was disintegrating at a rapid pace.
Amidst the wails, the scene before his eyes rapidly shattered, and Fu Qian returned to the familiar Warehouse.
[Mission Failed]
[Evaluation: Merciless Blood Wrist]
[Kills: Zhao Ran]
[Special Kills: Feng Yunhong, Li Weixuan, Chi Hesheng, Luo Binhai, Shui Jing, Grimm Wood, Belozov...]
[Special Kill Reward: Lucid Dream]
[Special Kill Reward: Feast]
[Current Sanity Value: 55]
[Play Event Replay?]
After reading the series of summary messages, Fu Qian froze for a moment before realizing who Zhao Ran was—that unlucky assassin bro!
As for that string of special kill names, Fu Qian specifically scrolled down and counted. There were a full twenty-seven of them.
Needless to say, this group consisted of the Beyonders who had been "eaten" by Feng Yunhong over the years, the very gang that had just been frantically trash-talking him.
That guy Feng Yunhong only beat them down to residual health without taking the kills, ending up forcibly gifting him two and a half Godlikes!
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