Chapter 342: Let's Start the Carnival!

The group walked along the slippery street toward the center of the city.

The wet, dark green stone slabs were covered with slippery moss, and stepping on them felt like stepping on the back of a whale. The wall bases of the leaning buildings on both sides of the street were eroded into honeycomb-like pits by the seawater.

"Big... Big Brother, why is the architecture of this city so strange! It's not regular at all, leaning and crooked, it makes people feel annoyed!"

Mei Pengcheng stretched his head and shrank his neck, looking at the buildings on both sides of the street constantly, muttering from time to time.

"It has nothing to do with being crooked, it's the patterns on them! Those patterns contain some indescribable knowledge, so people feel annoyed and dizzy when they look at them!"

Xie Yaoyao held his little red umbrella, looking up at the sky from time to time, explaining his little brother's doubts casually.

"Patterns? Knowledge? Why don't I see any knowledge!"

Mei Pengcheng reached out and scratched the back of his head, full of doubt. Could it be that knowledge entered his brain in a way he didn't know? And there's such a good thing?

"Hehe, it's right that you can't understand! If you could understand, it wouldn't just be psychological annoyance!"

Indescribable knowledge is not necessarily a good thing!

Mei Pengcheng's heart became more and more suspicious, so he couldn't help but take two quick steps to the porch in front to observe carefully.

The arches of those porches were carved with reliefs of intertwined tentacles, and blackened copper wires were embedded between the textures of the tentacles. Each pillar was carved into the shape of twisted seaweed, and the top of the pillar supported a severely worn octopus stone statue—the suckers on the octopus tentacles still had traces of gold foil, and shell fragments were stuck in the eye sockets.

This... actually has a bit of eerie beauty!

But... knowledge?

Sigh! I guess I'm destined to have no fate with knowledge in this life. Even nine-year compulsory education couldn't save me. What can these reliefs teach me?

"Big Brother! Are those fishmen all dead? Will there be any fish that slipped through the net? I always feel a chill on my back!"

Mei Pengcheng's mouth was naturally unable to be idle. After losing interest in the buildings in front of him, he immediately changed the subject, but it was only when he turned around that he realized that the large group of people just now had all disappeared unconsciously.

"Big Brother! Big Brother! Where are the people? Big Sister! Damn it, where did such a large group of people go?"

Mei Pengcheng, who already felt something was wrong, panicked immediately.

And just at this moment, the slippery ground suddenly cracked open a fanged mouth, and slippery, terrifying tentacles drilled out from the throat, the suckers spitting out bubbles that drifted over.

"What kind of ghost is this?"

Mei Pengcheng's hair stood on end, his curved sword "clanged" out of its sheath and slashed forward. The airflow stirred up by the sword wind actually condensed into a solid wave, washing away all the bubbles in the sky with a "splash."

"Hmph! I'm not the kind of person who can be... Eh! Eh! Eh! Don't hit! Don't hit! Big Brother, don't hit! It's me, it's me!"

Mei Pengcheng, who had just set up a pose with his curved sword and showed off halfway, only felt a blur before his eyes. He was grabbed by the collar and lifted up, followed by slaps that kept hitting his face incessantly.

"Ouch! Hiss~" Mei Pengcheng looked at his good Big Brother with resentment. "Big Brother, what on earth is going on?"

You guys just fell for the illusion of the Star-Spawn, I hit you to save you.

Following Xie Yaoyao's gaze, Mei Pengcheng immediately saw three monster corpses at his good Big Brother's feet. The monsters had an octopus head, a pair of tattered wings on their backs, and were wearing black robes in a decent manner.

So, I just fell for an illusion?

It was this kind of monster that attacked him.

"You guys? That is to say, we all fell for the illusion?"

"Ah, yes! But Yingying and the others broke the illusion themselves. Only you and your men were saved by me."

Mei Pengcheng turned to look, and sure enough, he found that the *Night Skeleton* pirates were all looking at their boss flatteringly.

"Thank you, Big Brother! But Big Brother, why are their faces all fine?"

"It has nothing to do with the face, the illusion is broken when the Star-Spawn dies!"

"Then... my face?"

"Oh, that's because I saw you strike a pose that was too cheap, and I couldn't help it!"

Eh?!

Eh!!!

Big Brother, you can't bully people like this!

"Hehe, Big Brother's lesson is right! But Big Brother, I still have to rely on the 【Tidal Lord】 you gave me, it's really amazing! And this 【Cutter】 you gave me is also very easy to use! Haha!"

It was just that Mei Pengcheng's flattery didn't get a response. Xie Yaoyao suddenly raised his head, the quiet dark clouds above his head suddenly rioted, streaks of lightning streaked across the sky, and the light rain that Xiao Anni brought with her turned into a torrential downpour.

"It's about to start!" Xie Yaoyao took a deep breath and handed the little red umbrella in his hand to Nie Yingying. "Yingying, Xiao Anni is my life, I leave her to you!"

"In addition, you take everyone to hunt at will in this city. There should be some Outer God servants like Deep Ones, Star-Spawn, and Abyss Folk hidden here. Don't get close to the center of the city!"

After speaking, Xie Yaoyao's flesh squirmed for a while and instantly turned into a crow, and together with Lilisi and Helai'er, they spread their wings across the rain curtain and disappeared from everyone's sight.

"Sister Nie, Brother Yao, he..."

Duanmu Xing looked at the departing Xie Yaoyao with a worried face, and couldn't help but walk to Nie Yingying's side and hold her arm.

"It's okay, Axing! Believe in Brother Yao, even if we follow, we'll only add to the chaos."

Agatha had already heard Mei Pengcheng talk about their encounter on *Aurora Island*. Involving the realm of gods, it wasn't something that more people could help with.

"That's right, Axing, don't worry... Vivian, stand still for me!"

With Xie Yaoyao's departure, Nie Yingying immediately felt the burden on her shoulders return.

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As the glowing astrolabe was stuffed into Carlisle's chest cavity, the star core flickering in his heart immediately merged with the astrolabe, and the entire temple was illuminated silver by the brilliant starlight.

Altarlos's aged human body finally couldn't support itself under the illumination of this starlight and exploded, revealing a pile of constantly squirming tentacles inside. These tentacles danced wildly with the pulse from the ground.

And the twelve Star-Spawn around the altar were no longer quiet at this moment. Their black robes were torn to shreds, and the tentacles all over their bodies danced and carnivalled together with the increasingly dense pulse. They wanted to celebrate together that the great Cthulhu was about to wake up from his long slumber.

The starlight in the room also lit up the patterns on the dome of the temple at the same time. When the last silver star of the twisted constellation on the dome was about to be lit.

"Caw!"

An incomparably ugly crow call appeared in the temple.

"Ah! Finally made it in time!"

Xie Yaoyao turned back into human form and appeared beside the altar in the center of the temple in a flash.

"The star map is all lit up! Then let's start the carnival!" ===== CHAPTER 343 =====