Chapter 129: 127 The Closest Attempt to Success

Although the sinister whispers surged into Drake's body along with the green hue, those sounds seemed to possess life; they invaded Drake's physique, wreaking havoc to the extreme.

Drake felt a wave of intense pain, and the sensation continued to intensify, like wave after wave of the sea; unable to control his hands, he dropped the Green Light Gem he had obtained with such difficulty and knelt on the ground.

His stomach churned, his blood surged and boiled, and his brain was constantly bombarded by malicious whispers; Drake watched as the green hue spread and proliferated across his body, his physique becoming increasingly uncontrollable, and feeling as though something wanted to break free from his body, he vomited uncontrollably.

Li Nuowei saw Drake's Abnormal state; he stood where he was, observing continuously.

When he first glimpsed the miraculous effect of the Green Light Gem on a Jiaoren Disease Patient, he was once moved to pity and was deeply shocked; although the process was terrifying and the person involved was in extreme agony, Drake had indeed, in one reincarnation line, transformed back from the appearance of a fish-man into a human due to the influence of the Green Light Gem.

Li Nuowei only hoped that Drake could hold on; as long as he could successfully turn back into a human, saving Drake would no longer be an empty promise.

The mire attempted to pick up the dropped Green Light Gem, yet the influence of the Anhai Ancient Records was still at work, and those ghosts wailing and shrieking in the mire were all staring at Drake with spiteful, deathly glares.

The mire had also thought about targeting Li Nuowei, but while Drake was drawing the fire, Li Nuowei had already taken advantage of the gap to retrieve some of the treasures of the God of Anhai from the mysterious treasury at the end of the hidden passage, applying those artifacts deeply imbued with the fish-man Curse onto the mire.

The mysterious power attached to those artifacts was merely a Curse to humans, but to the mire, it was more of a seal.

According to the history recorded in the Anhai Ancient Records, the sealing method that the Saintess of the Anhai Divine Society learned from the Yellow Sand Truth School required the use of the power of the God of Anhai, and this power was the very Curse the God of Anhai placed upon his believers—that miraculous power that transformed humans into fish-men.

In essence, the "Anhai Ancient Book" that Drake and Li Nuowei snatched from the museum could also be considered a treasure of the God of Anhai, carrying the power of the God of Anhai; those Gold Treasure items could seal the mire, and the power carried by the "Anhai Ancient Book" could naturally also exert some pressure and force the mire back, not to mention that the "Anhai Ancient Book" might contain a stronger Curse than those Gold Treasure items used for sealing.

It was precisely because Li Nuowei knew the strangeness of the "Anhai Ancient Book" and that the Curse it contained must be far stronger than those Gold Treasure items that he had insisted on not letting Drake, who was caught in the distress of the "Jiaoren Disease," take the book, waiting until the very last resort to deliver the "Anhai Ancient Book" into Drake's hands.

"These things are truly filthy." Li Nuowei looked at the amorphous mud that could not approach him, his gaze then shifting to the reality beneath his collar, where large patches of dark green Scale were emerging from the layers of flesh bumps rising on his chest skin; he then looked at the gold and silver treasures in his hand with some disdain.

He did not covet these things, but the existence of these cursed gold and silver treasures was indeed useful; at the very least, they could help Drake deal with the swamp, making it worth the effort he took to successfully steal the Green Light Gem from the swamp.

However, these gold and silver treasures of the God of Anhai were not entirely usable; Li Nuowei had only held these treasures of the God of Anhai for less than a moment before the mysterious radiation hidden within them—which could also be seen as the Curse of the God of Anhai—began to erode his body in less than half an hour, also wanting to turn him into a member of the fish-men.

Regarding this, Li Nuowei could only hope that the Green Light Gem would be equally effective for others, such as himself.

Drake vomited so violently that it felt as if his entire stomach were about to be expelled; that green hue finally began to slowly disappear from his body, his slightly bulging, increasingly bright and yellowing eyes finally returned to normal, and the scales on his hands and body fell off rapidly, but those scales were like fingernails falling off due to disease—the pain of losing a single fingernail was hard enough to endure, let alone the agony of large patches of scales falling off one after another.

Soon, Drake was bleeding profusely all over, his body twitching and trembling, and he was covered in fallen scales and hair; yet, in such an extremely painful situation, Drake actually stopped wailing from the pain and instead let out a wanton laugh, as if he could no longer feel the pain and had been possessed by something strange.

"It seems it was a success." Li Nuowei felt a surge of joy in his heart and immediately shouted, "Drake, come back quickly, take the Green Light Gem, we need to get out of here."

Upon hearing this, Drake's laughter froze on his face, and he looked at him with a stiff smile: "Get out, why get out? Isn't it good to stay here?"

Li Nuowei sensed that Drake's sanity was a bit strange, and he immediately said: "Staying here is certainly no problem, but have you forgotten what you wanted to do?"

Drake's eyes became even more vacant, and he only heard Li Nuowei continue: "Take the Green Light Gem, save the other patients troubled by the Jiaoren Disease, and put an end to this Abnormal event once and for all."

After hearing this, the lifeless light in Drake's eyes recovered slightly; he stood up and said, not knowing if it was out of weakness or fear: "Yes... how could I have forgotten..."

Having recovered a bit of his sanity, he gritted his teeth and picked up the Green Light Gem that was desperately pouring terrible whispers into people's brains, running toward the stairs; he was going to escape with Li Nuowei.

The mire naturally would not let Drake escape easily; the mire leaked its body into the ground and then began to churn the earth desperately, preventing Drake from escaping.

Something burrowing underground suddenly squeezed through the flat ground, and the entire surface nearby changed drastically; Drake tripped and fell to the ground due to a misstep, and the Anhai Ancient Book in his hand accidentally slipped from his grasp and fell to the ground.

Drake wanted to pick up the Anhai Ancient Book, but the swamp underground seemed to sense Drake's intention and plowed further; the mire pushed the thing Drake needed almost to Jiuxiaoyunwai, and soon it seemed to be churned together with the soil, never to be found again.

As the Anhai Ancient Book moved further and further away from him, Drake's panic intensified; having lost the protection of the Anhai Ancient Book, he was like a woman without a stitch of clothing, vulnerable to an attack by the mire at any moment.

Helpless, after trying several times to repel the mire to no avail, Drake could only crawl up and sprint desperately.

Li Nuowei felt this was the closest attempt to success; upon sensing Drake's intention, he immediately tried to meet up with him.

Before long, Drake reached the boundary of the Anhai Ancient Book's current protective range; he leaped out with force, and with Li Nuowei there to catch him, he landed safely and easily.