Chapter 187: Sara's Song (XII)

Xiao Lan's mouth curved and his eyes lit up when he received Luo's message.

A certain piece of the heart suddenly became light and leaping.

He immediately replied to his boyfriend: [Where are you?

"Sir, I've missed you." A low voice suddenly sounded behind him.

There was not the slightest sound of footsteps and the sound came very abruptly, as if it were haunted.

Xiao Lan said he was fine with this, his boyfriend was more powerful than a ghost, so he was used to it.

He turned his head and Luo was standing behind him, gazing at him with a smile.

Seeing Xiao Lan turn around, Luo reached out and gently brushed the wound on Xiao Lan's neck with a warm feeling, "How did you get yourself into this mess after not seeing you for a while?"

Under his power, the wounds on Xiao Lan's neck from his battle with Zhu Zhiyi are healing fast.

Xiao Lan felt a slight tickle on his neck, but he didn't struggle either: "Don't worry, it's not even fatal, it's just a small wound."

"Hmm." Luo gave a meaningless hmm, not sure if he was accepting Xiao Lan's statement or if he had grown accustomed to the roughness of his treatment of his wounds.

Luo's eyes were downcast as he examined Xiao Lan's wound, his long fingers gently rubbing over it with a gentle touch, as if he was caring for something precious.

Although this jumbo ...... man is not only strong enough to carry a stick, he can also knock over dozens of strong men with one stick.

At the moment, Luo's face is serene and focused, his raven-feathered lashes lowered, half hiding the sparkle in his eyes.

From Xiao Lan's point of view, it was a beautiful sight.

"What is Sir looking at me thinking?" Luo whispered.

Xiao Lan then realised that she had been staring at Luo's movements for so long that she seemed to have forgotten where she was.

Xiao Lan said, "I'll just ...... look around ......"

With that, he smoothly touched Luo's face, "Who makes my boyfriend good looking?"

At that, Luo lifted his face and moved closer to Xiao Lan, his lips close to his ear, "Sir, you can keep looking at whatever you want, wherever you want."

He also added the last few words in an elegant tone.

There seems to be some kind of metaphor.

Xiao Lan: "......"

He thought the guy was driving and had evidence of it.

Meeting Luo's slightly teasing look, Xiao Lan doubted that if he asked the question, he would be given a ride up the highway.

Given Luo's usual hobbies, Xiao Lan wondered if he had been reading some indescribable books from human society in the meantime.

Not bad for an expository non-human, sooooo but sooooo.

Not much longer.

Luo withdrew his hand, but by now Xiao Lan was well on his way to recovering from the wounds he had sustained in the battle.

Xiao Lan hurriedly took the opportunity to digress from the topic that seemed to be going off on a tangent, "Did you find your shard on that ......?"

Luo smiled and looked at Xiao Lan for a moment, not trying to continue teasing his boyfriend as he reached out and pointed in a direction, "It's over there, it all feels like it's gathered together."

Xiao Lan said, "We'd better get there early."

Luo nodded, "Good."

The shard needs to be taken now.

And when can't a car ...... be driven?

There is a long day ahead.

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With Luo as their guide, the two men moved in one direction through the labyrinthine wall of sacrifices.

They went deeper and deeper until they reached depths they had never reached before.

The further you go in, the more the scenes around you look like the ones Xiao Lan had seen on the altar frescoes.

More and more human bodies appeared on the wall of sacrifice, all of them maintaining their struggling movements, their faces the same frenzied expression as the mural.

They seem to have become one with the walls, as if they were self-contained sculptures.

But a closer look reveals that none of these are actually real corpses, but are made up of blood-coloured roots on the walls.

Somehow these roots, after devouring a human being, form a human shape again.

Following the wall of sacrifice a little further, they came to the end of the rootstocks.

It turns out that these rhizomes are growing on a kind of tall black branch.

The branches look as if they have withered away, but they keep dripping black liquid from the top, which collects on the ground and forms a black pool of a good size.

The black pool of water has not a single ripple, as if it were a collection of the sunken death of all those who died on the wall, and it looks inexplicably eerie.

There is no other passage here anymore, it seems to be the end of everything.

Xiao Lan looked at the pool in front of him, so dark it looked like chemical pollution: "Is this the end of the wall of sacrifice?"

He looked around and found nothing that looked like a boss.

What about Sara? Could Sara actually be a dark pool?

Luo's eyes fell on the pool, " Sara should be down there, watch out."

As if hearing his name mentioned, a Little Xiao rippled through the pool.

The ripples quickly widened and something was about to break free from it.

With the sound of crashing water, a dark and huge object emerged from the pool, as if it were a small mountain.

It appears to be made up of tree roots and has a body that looks a little like a human.

However, the shape is very irregular and only structures such as the head and limbs can be seen, but there is no detail.

Where the head should be extends a number of long black roots, which flutter in the air like the vipers on Medusa's head.

Only half of its body leaves the water, and below it it looks as if it has grown into the pool, seemingly unable to detach itself.

It's like a failed attempt to imitate a human being that didn't work.

According to the theory of the Valley of Terror, this appearance of not being a human being makes it more frightening to look at.

A slit opened in the black monster's pitch-black head and from it came a voice: " Sara ......"

Xiao Lan asks, "Are you Sara?"

The dark monster said, "They say ...... I am Sara ...... all want ...... faith in me... ..."

"Believe in me ...... and become one with me ...... happy ......"

Xiao Lan and Luo looked at each other with an odd feeling in their hearts.

How is it that this Sara is not the same kind of evil god that they thought she was, full of aura?

It doesn't look as if ...... is very clever.

Sara is still saying, " Sara ...... eat ......"

Xiao Lan tries to ask, "Do you know what 1+1 equals?"

Sara: "1 plus 1 ...... faith ...... eat ......"

Xiao Lan's suspicion deepened as he replaced it with, "Nice to meet you."

Sara: "nai ...... s ...... earth ......"

Xiao Lan whispered to Luo: "...... This Sara is not a fool, is she?"

It doesn't seem to have any language skills, it's just mimicking the words it once heard, and it can't remember them all.

Luo stared at Sara's movements, "It's not unlikely."

Sara heard her name again, " Sara ...... silly ...... sub ......"

Xiao Lan: "......"

Luo: "......"

Hanhan, did you even learn this line?

No need to ask, this guy is still a real douche.

Xiao Lan was a bit shocked, how could anyone with this level of intelligence become an evil god, is the threshold for engaging in feudal superstition so low nowadays?

Suddenly Sara's head came up in Xiao Lan's direction, "You ...... are delicious ......"

He turned to Luo again: "You ...... have no taste ...... are not good ......"

Xiao Lan suddenly understood the criteria for the selection of the so-called offerings.

That is, what Sara finds tasty is a 'qualified offering' and what she doesn't like is a 'disqualified offering'.

If you like it, you keep it in your cocoon and eat it slowly, if you don't like it, you throw it out to fend for yourself, as many animals have the instinct to do.

What faith and shelter, what sifting of sacrifices, what glory only the pious receive.

These are simply figments of the townspeople's imagination, or they are taking what they hear in their hallucinations seriously.

In fact, the God in them is not even capable of full thought.

It's almost ironic.

Sara simply uses her powers to seduce those who hear her voice and give them a feverish desire to get closer. Then it just picks its favourite food from the crowd that offers it.

It actually hunts on its own instincts and is picky about what it eats.

Perhaps it was only because one of the first people to be influenced by Sara was the bishop of the church, and under his guidance Sara's songs were taken as God's will.

Even if they later discovered that Sara was not God, they classified it as such.

Those who are then affected also have more or less hallucinations or hallucinations, and they also take their hallucinations to be what Sara is saying to them.

But who would have known that Sara is actually just a retard who can't even speak properly?

But, even if Sara is a fool, it's a tough nut to crack in its own right.

This, coupled with being fed by the master with pieces of Luo, probably reinforced the power of Sara's song again.

Xiao Lan asked Luo: "Where are your pieces? It hasn't eaten them all, has it?"

Luo said, "Just try it and see."

Luo reached out and briefly lifted the shielding of his scent, but reverted back to it for just a moment to prevent detection by the Juggernaut.

Although it was only for a moment, Sara jerked her head around.

If it had eyes, they would be bursting with greed.

Sara deadpanned Luo's direction, "You ...... ate you ......"

Luo smiled up, "It seems that there is nothing wrong with being in you."

The dark, twisted palm of a myriad of roots lashes out at Luo.

Luo disappeared quickly from his spot and the attack fell short, hitting the ground hard and making the whole area look like an earthquake.

The red roots on the wall of sacrifice seemed to feel intimidated and squirmed uneasily.

Sara's palm lifted and a huge palm mark appeared on the ground where it had struck.

But more than that, a black mist remained on the palm print, which continued to corrode the ground below like a strong acid, making a nuisance sound.

It was a powerful slap, and if it had been slapped on a human body, the effect might have been even more violent.

It is no longer a dream to go from a three-dimensional ordinary person to a two-dimensional paperweight in an instant.

The battle has begun and Xiao Lan and Luo are attacking Sara.

Their constant companionship has given them an unspoken understanding of the battle.

The two figures weaved in and out of Sara's attacks, seizing every opening to strike back at Sara.

Sara's successive attacks have fallen short.

Not only that, but these two kept chopping off the roots that made up its body.

This made its not-so-bright brain feel angry and annoyed, and the attack became more violent.

To be honest, you don't even need tactics to deal with a retard like Sara, she'll just run at you.

Even if the attack is strong and fast, the lack of strategy is still its disadvantage.

But Xiao Lan found that the slashed wounds on Sara's body were quickly filled with roots that grew nearby, not quite recovering, but making it difficult for their attacks to be effective.

The two sides went back and forth for a while.

It seemed to be impatient at the delay in taking the two men.

Sara opens her dark mouth and Sara's song begins again.

Hearing Sara's song at such close range, Xiao Lan was immediately affected by the sound of the song.

The world before him changed at once.

Xiao Lan finds himself standing in a tidy corridor.

On either side, students come and go in their school uniforms, their faces familiar, but Xiao Lan can't name them for a while.

Xiao Lan marches with them in the corridor.

He didn't quite understand why he was leaving, he looked at his uniform which looked exactly like everyone else's, maybe there was something going on at school?

The crowd around us were talking and laughing and looked as if they were relaxed.

Xiao Lan is the only one who moves on in silence, at odds with the pleasant atmosphere around him.

Where are they going?

Suddenly, the sounds around them were silent.

It was as if an invisible hand had pressed the pause button on the students; their movements were stuck in the last second, the hem of their coats and the ends of their hair raised had not yet fallen, but the whole scene was frozen.

Xiao Lan was a little puzzled for a moment as he looked around him.

What's going on here?

"Cluck ...... Cluck ......"

There was a sudden, strange sound of a squeezed throat from the long-haired girl in front of him.

Then, while the girl's body remained in a forward position, her head turned little by little.

Just as she was about to turn to the human limit, her head spun violently and accelerated, turning the whole thing directly in the direction of her back.

Xiao Lan now got a good look at the girl's face. Her face was small and her features were delicate, but where her eyes were, they were stuffed with plant roots and looked hideous and eerie.

The girl cracked a wry smile before she opened her mouth at Xiao Lan, and countless dark roots gushed out of her mouth and came barreling towards her.

Xiao Lan was startled and took a step back, barely dodging the attack.

He looked around, trying to find something to defend himself with.

Xiao Lan has just raised his hand, but is surprised to find himself holding a long, blackened knife.

The blade is oddly textured, but looks very sharp and should cope with the scene at hand very easily.

The incoming root was close at hand, and Xiao Lan gripped the suddenly appearing blade and was about to swing it.

"Sir!"

The girl's expression was still the same grimace as before, but the voice that came through was a low, nice male voice.

Xiao Lan thought the voice sounded familiar, as if he could always hear it.

But something is not right.

That voice should have been gentle and unhurried in tone, not with a touch of anxiety and unease as it is now.

Xiao Lan's swinging of the knife was uncomfortably slow.

Xiao Lan glances around.

At this point, all the students around us turned their heads at some point, not caring how many degrees the human body's limit is capable of turning.

They thus turned their faces all the way to Xiao Lan.

Their faces, which had been somewhat familiar to Xiao Lan, remained the same.

But the eyes were all occupied with the same roots of plants as the long-haired girl before them, and they looked at Xiao Lan, the corners of their mouths rising as if lifted by a thread, with all the same identical smiles.

Xiao Lan looks again at the knife in her hand.

The knife had appeared in his hand out of nowhere, but it felt very smooth in his own grip, as if he had already used it in combat countless times.

What's this knife ...... called ......?

It seems very important ......

A man ...... gave something to him ......

"Offering you my bone of my bones, will you accept it?"

A phrase rang in his head.

Although the voice was soft, it was like a thunderbolt that instantly cleared Xiao Lan's somewhat chaotic mind.

" Xiao Lan!" The girl in front of him called out to him again.

The girl's face was still fierce and the roots in her mouth attacked him once more, as if to strangle him.

But the voice was exactly the same as Xiao Lan remembered.

The smiles on the faces of the students around them grew wider, full of malice and unspeakable anticipation.

Xiao Lan lashed out with a fierce slash towards -

around yourself.

The blackened blade swept through, slicing in two those students who carried an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

There were still smiles on the faces of the students before they all disappeared into a black mist.

Xiao Lan came back to his senses and saw what was in front of him.

The school corridor in front of them disappears and the surrounding area becomes again the end of a wall of sacrifices covered with roots.

Red walls, dark pools of water.

Luo in front of him.

Luo is fending off Sara's attacks while clearing them away, and Xiao Lan's slash has taken care of a number of them.

Luo keeps a close eye on Xiao Lan and only drops his heart when he notices the change in his eyes.

Xiao Lan looks at Sara, who is not far away.

A thought flashed through his mind -

Damn, what a great retard.

If Xiao Lan had just slashed at the long-haired girl in the illusion, the attack would have been on Luo.

He sort of understood why so many people had died from internecine violence.

For in their eyes, they were not facing their own kind at all, but ghosts and monsters that were attacking towards them.

It's no wonder so many players have fallen in love with Sara's song.

Even if Sara itself is a puddle of mud, with an ability like Sara's Song, it's a tough opponent to beat.

What's more, Sara is actually a very strong fighter.

It is at the top of its game in terms of attack power, speed and recovery, and even summons Brother Xiao and creates illusions of authenticity.

If Sara didn't have a weakness for mental retardation, players wouldn't even be able to escape the game.

At the same time, because Sara is mentally handicapped, there is little chance of a head-to-head battle of wits, so you have to fight it hard.

After all, it has no wisdom, rendering the most subtle schemes useless.

Xiao Lan almost stabbed her boyfriend, how could she not get back at him?

He gripped the [Bone of Disobedience] tightly, and with his feet firmly planted, he rushed towards Sara like an arrow.

Skills on.

[Title: Poverty Can't Limit My Imagination]

【Ability: Attack power increase (lv.5, 500%)

At the same time, Xiao Lan increased the burn multiplier for poverty values.

The quadruple burn of the poverty value changes the effect of the skill to 2000%, which means that -

20x attack power.

Since we're going to be tough, let's see who's tougher.

Real men, just that hard.

Xiao Lan is a true man of great strength and miracles.

With the bonus of the skill, the blade swung out and severed one of Sara's arms with a vengeance.

Luo didn't need to be distracted from Xiao Lan's side, and with his full force, the dark shadow strangled Sara's other arm.

With his devouring power, the black shadow had instantly engulfed Sara's arm with a great gaping hole.

Sara let out an ear-splitting scream.

This caused Xiao Lan's eyes to drift back into a trance, but this time Xiao Lan forced herself to wake up quickly and not fall back into the indistinguishable hallucinations.

Sara, who had lost her arm, was furious.

It completely abandons its human-like form and reverts to a pool full of pitch-black roots.

This form makes it feel more at ease, attacking more intensively and swiftly, attacking all around it, in an unstructured manner, but extremely difficult to deal with because of its numbers and force.

Xiao Lan and Luo had difficulty getting close for a while.

Had to quickly dodge up through the root attack.

Sara not only attacked Xiao Lan and Luo, but also pummeled the Wall of Sacrifice, the blood-red roots constantly being jerked off and turned into debris in repeated attacks.

The alienated monsters fared no better as they were unable to defend themselves against Sara's attack and were killed.

Xiao Lan was somewhat moved by the sight of this scene -

No shame in being a retard.

Sara is so unpredictable that she's almost cleared out more alienated monsters in this wave than Xiao Lan and Luo combined.

Sara, who has lost her human form, is on the attack and doesn't even notice that her own Brother Xiao has taken care of her.

Perhaps there is no concept of its own people in its empty mind.

The whole world is divided into only the tasty, the edible and the inedible.

The alienated monsters are nothing more than spoiled food.

Suddenly, Xiao Lan sees a shiny object in the roots waving in the sky.

The object seemed to be hidden deep inside Sara's body, only occasionally exposed in between attacks.

Xiao Lan said as he dodged, " Luo, what do you see there?"

Luo said: "A core, a half-baked core. Is this his way of trying to ...... raise a replacement that can't think? True to form, he is."

This also seems to fit well with the logic of the master's behaviour.

If one's brother does not obey, then strip him of his power and raise a new obedient one.

This bromance is plastic to the top of the world.

Xiao Lan looked at the roots waving all over the sky: "Going to get them?"

Luo said, "Of course, I'll have to ask you to accompany me on the road."

Xiao Lan pulled a blade: "Go."

The two men sprinted towards Sara again.

This time the blades intertwined with the black shadows, washing away all the blocks ahead.

Like two parallel blades, they moved forward with great force, aiming straight at the heart of Sara.

Despite being a retard, Sara instinctively senses a crisis.

It tries to retrieve the roots that are attacking frantically outwards to reinforce its own core.

But it was already too late.

Luo's figure turns into a black shadow the moment it approaches its core.

Dark shadows deeper than the night instantly surround Sara's core, frantically devouring the power that was originally within it.

This half-finished core was originally made up of Luo's power, and sensing the power from its origin, it too instinctively wanted to devour Luo.

Sara has once again issued the Sara song.

And I wonder where the sound comes from when it doesn't even have a mouth.

This time, Xiao Lan was prepared, covering his ears in advance and quickly moving away from the battlefield where Luo and Sara were devouring each other, turning off his skills temporarily to save poverty.

Dark shadows and black roots battling each other in the dark pool.

It's impossible to tell who is who when it's black as a pile.

Xiao Lan had to stay by the shore, lest she accidentally stab her boyfriend.

The dark shadows continued to devour Sara's power, and even the mentally challenged sensed that something was wrong.

Sara's voice breaks, "I am ...... Sara ...... all of you ...... are going to... ...believe in me ......"

But this time it is not facing some compelled believer, but a predator intent on feeding on it.

Sara's voice fades.

"Believe in me ......"

"Eat ......"

"Silly ...... ......"

"Dog Man Man ......"

Xiao Lan: "......"

Where did you learn that last word from?!!!

And delicately used in the current situation is what's going on ......