Chapter 296: Oh no, fell into Erpuska's lair!

Oh no, fell into Erpuska's lair!

His tone rose by an octave. He looked at Hong Lin, who had stopped, in disbelief, his eyes wide.

"I cannot be certain if Erpuska is guarding the other end of the door. To avoid being attacked from both sides, I need to confirm your identity!"

"..."

Confirm my ass!

There was no doubt in the eyes of this 【Prosperity】 Chosen; all that was there was excitement!

Cheng Shi finally understood. She didn't doubt him at all; she just wanted to find something she wanted to know from that tongue!

Fine, fine, fine. Just don't get yourself tangled up in it.

Cheng Shi took out the tongue with a strange expression and handed it to Hong Lin.

Hong Lin pinched the tongue with some disgust. After studying it for a moment, she found that the method of use was quite simple. One only needed to point the tip of the tongue at the target to be circled in turn and say "Sincere oath here, lies shall be eaten!" to start asking questions.

So she activated the contract to circle the two of them, and then opened her mouth to ask Cheng Shi:

"How exactly did you scam Zhen Yi!?"

"..."

Sure enough, what did I say? The fire of gossip burns equally in everyone's heart.

Cheng Shi looked at the expectant Hong Lin, speechless to the extreme. After pondering for a moment, he tentatively replied:

"I disguised myself as her... and did some ugly things?"

After speaking, the Tongue That Eats Lies continued to twist at Hong Lin's fingertips, with no reaction.

"!!??" Hong Lin was stunned. She had always thought Cheng Shi must have told a lie, but she didn't expect this to be true?

Cheng Shi's face lit up with joy. Sure enough, an ambiguous truth is also a truth!

But how could Hong Lin be willing to give up? So she immediately asked again:

"What ugly things did you do?"

Cheng Shi spread his hands and said: "Big sister, this is the second question. It's invalid. It's my turn to ask you."

"!!!"

How could that be!

Hong Lin's face turned stern, and she turned to leave. But she didn't expect that before she had taken two steps, the tongue seemed to feel that she was about to break the rules of the game. Without a word, it struggled out of her hand, floated into the air, and slapped fiercely toward her cheek.

Cheng Shi was hugging his arms, ready to watch a good show, but he didn't expect the next scene to completely stun him.

He saw Hong Lin suddenly lower her body to dodge the tongue's slap, let out a "woof," turned her right hand into a giant bear paw, and slapped it back fiercely at the tongue. Then, with a "pop," the tongue that was about to slap someone was slapped away directly.

"Damn, are you cheating?"

Cheng Shi was dumbfounded, and the corner of his mouth that was about to giggle was held back.

But the confrontation between this person and this tongue wasn't over yet. The slapped-away Tongue That Eats Lies seemed to feel that it had lost face, so it suddenly expanded by a circle, became as big as Hong Lin's bear paw, and slapped toward Hong Lin's cheek again.

If this hit landed, her head would probably be slapped off!

Hong Lin didn't expect this tongue to be so difficult to deal with. Her pupils shrank suddenly, and her anger flared up. She turned directly into a giant bear and collided with it.

But the embarrassed and angry her forgot one point: the place they were standing on wasn't the rotten leaf ground of the Sighing Forest, but the spatial subsidence passage inside the fog door!

This narrow cave couldn't accommodate such a huge bear, so the moment Hong Lin let out a heaven-shaking roar, the spatial passage...

Collapsed.

"!!!"

Cheng Shi didn't even have time to curse before he was wrapped in the spatial turbulence and thrown out with a "whoosh," disappearing along with Amir.

Disappearing along with them were that persistent tongue and the giant bear with an embarrassed face.

"*Slurp~*"

"ROAR!!!"

The good news was that in the collapsing space, the distance between the three people and the tongue wasn't far. Under the illumination of the Wilderness Lamp, they didn't suffer too much spatial compression.

The bad news was that the passage between the fog doors was destroyed, and they might have lost the way back to the Fungus-Foot tribe.

But at this moment, the two awake people couldn't make such long-term plans. They had to tighten their nerves to face other risks that could appear at any time in this endless falling broken space.

Cheng Shi was fine; he only needed to be vigilant about his surroundings and take care of Amir. But Hong Lin wasn't so comfortable. Although the body of the Royal Bear Spirit made her unafraid of spatial pulling, that tongue...

Was still persistently launching attacks on her cheek.

So she could only press the tongue while constantly injecting 【Prosperity】 power into the Wilderness Lamp, letting the 【Decay】 that grew out barely protect Cheng Shi, who was "excessively weak."

Fortunately, the falling process didn't last too long. After a few minutes, the three people and one tongue were spat out by the space and fell onto an open space.

"BOOM—"

"BOOM—"

"Damn..."

Cheng Shi landed on his back, his spine hitting the ground heavily, making a muffled groan. But he couldn't care about the pain in his back; he immediately sat up and began to carefully examine his surroundings.

And it was this examination that made Cheng Shi's heart terrified and his soul flee.

He saw that the place where he was didn't look like the Sighing Forest at all; it was more like an area in the forest that had been leveled. There wasn't a single Twisted Night Python here, and even the rotten leaf ground had disappeared. The ground he was sitting on was solid mud.

But no Twisted Night Python didn't mean there were no other "plants." In this cleared area, it was densely planted with rotten and festering... Fungus-Foot corpses!

Yes, Fungus-Foot corpses!

They were planted head-first into the hard mud. The silk-like fungal roots within their rotten fungal feet spread out due to being upside down, emitting a nauseating stench, like "blooming" flowers of decay.

And this stench and rotten flowers stretched into pieces, together forming this "prosperous" "flower garden."

Cheng Shi sat on the ground and only took one look, his face turning incredibly pale.

He suddenly guessed what this place was, so he hurriedly shouted:

"Baldy, be careful! This place seems to be..."

He just wanted to remind the giant bear not far away to be careful that this might be Erpuska's private property, but he found that the giant bear, who was still playing mind games with the tongue, had already stood up from the flower garden with a boom, her figure ready to go as she looked ahead.

Cheng Shi's heart skipped a beat. He stood up to take a look and discovered that in the area ahead, obscured by the giant bear, the decaying tree spirit Eupuska—its skin and flesh piled in layers of wrinkles—was hunched over. With one hand, it plucked the remains of a Fungus-Foot person from the tree canopy on its back, and with the other, it pinched another Fungus-Foot corpse, gouged a small hole in the ground, and shoved the body into it headfirst.

In this way, a "fresh" "flower" bloomed again in this flower garden where a hundred flowers bloomed.

Looking at this scene, Hong Lin also had a solemn face.

The more bizarre it was, the more dangerous it represented. At this moment, no one could say for sure whether Erpuska's strength in this unknown land was still as "ordinary" as it was in the Sighing Forest, or if it had become stronger!

The huge commotion of the three falling clearly attracted Erpuska. It turned its head slowly, and then saw the 【Prosperity】 giant bear that it had been thinking about all night appearing in front of it again.

Erpuska's aged face instantly became fanatical.

"... Damn!"

Cheng Shi's pupils shrank. He immediately took out his scalpel, kicked the still-unconscious Amir behind him, and quietly gripped the ring on his hand that he had charged up in fear.

And Hong Lin's reaction was faster. She threw the Tongue That Eats Lies back without looking back and roared:

"Keep this tongue safe and take care of yourself!"

Then, with a "ROAR!", she rushed toward Erpuska.

Then there was a "BOOM," and the two behemoths collided again. The huge shockwave spread out, shaking the flowers in the flower garden, and even the ground trembled endlessly.

Cheng Shi's eyes tightened. He immediately put the struggling tongue back into his personal space. He cautiously observed the battle situation and constantly examined the surroundings to prevent any other hidden dangers or undiscovered helpers of Erpuska here.

But after looking around for a long time, he confirmed that there was no one else here, only Erpuska!

This flower garden... what kind of place is it?

Erpuska's vegetable garden?

Could it be that Dizer's shell is missing the days when He planted trees in the rainforest?

Inserting the Fungus-Foot people He previously protected here like flowers can make Him recall the happy times of the past?

Huh? Is this behavior a bit too hellish?

No...

Do you 【Prosperity】 followers all have this kind of character?

Not acting like humans?

Oh right, They weren't humans to begin with.

But looking at it this way, it turns out Erpuska wasn't feeding on 【Prosperity】, which means all the previous guesses of the players were wrong. Its hunting of Fungus-Foot people doesn't seem like an arrangement of 【Prosperity】.

So... are the sparks of this trial still those Fungus-Foot people?

To protect those sinners exiled by Him under Erpuska's slaughter?

Cheng Shi frowned slightly, always feeling that something was wrong, and the logic didn't seem very smooth.

To be reasonable, if 【Prosperity】 is such a nostalgic god, then the curse bestowed upon Cui Lao shouldn't have been so heartless.

So what exactly does He want to do?

Furthermore, what exactly is Erpuska thinking? What's the use of planting dead people on the ground? Could it be that in this Sighing Forest, one can accumulate more 【Prosperity】 by planting "people"?

But there isn't a trace of 【Prosperity】 flowing in this entire flower garden!

On the contrary, the power of 【Decay】 is surging, full, and everywhere.

This is not a flower garden of 【Prosperity】; this is clearly a hell of 【Decay】!

Cheng Shi's eyes sank. He felt that empty thinking was useless, so he had to take advantage of the time when Erpuska's full attention was attracted by Hong Lin to search for some new clues in the surroundings, some key things that could help him judge Erpuska's behavioral logic.

So he lowered his body and began to search carefully while dragging the unconscious Amir.

But he searched for a long time and found nothing, until he walked behind Erpuska after turning half a circle along the entire flower garden, and finally found an eye-catching thing in this flower garden.

It was a box, a box that looked like it shouldn't belong to the Sighing Forest.

Because Cheng Shi was very familiar with the style of this box; this was clearly a box used by the Tower of Rationality in major laboratories to store experimental specimens!

And such a box, representing 【Civilization】 and 【Truth】, actually appeared in the Sighing Forest shrouded by 【Decay】 underground! ===== CHAPTER 297 =====