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Published at 15th of March 2018 09:21:51 AM


Chapter 208

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Chapter 208: Journey to the Deep

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation  Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

In fact, the disturbing energy in Beinz Blood Lake was real. The respect and fear of the local people towards the lake wasn’t entirely out of superstition—the lake was influencing its surroundings in a tangible way, causing a dangerous land such as the gnarled grove and the highly poisonous plains to form. For the average person, diving into the blood lake was as good as dead.

Hao Ren had already thought about that, he had Nangong Wuyue dive into the water before he went in himself. As the siren’s control over the water was able to shield them against the negative energy in the lake, and also by the fact that everyone seemed to possess an indestructible body, they leaped into the lake on after another. Anyway, if Becky were here, she wouldn’t be able to withstand the strange energy field at the bottom of the lake even with the help by Nangong Wuyue.

Nangong Wuyue took a quick spin in the lake, determining the effective range of her control in the water before letting everyone in. Y’zaks—highly skilful and daring—led the way. Hao Ren was the next followed by Vivian who was a little hesitant. With Nangong Wuyue’s magical control of vast area of the water, they didn’t have to worry about getting wet and breathing under water—the thrill never stopped no matter how many times one had been doing it. Vivian stretched out her neck in the water and told Lily, "Are you coming or not? Why are you still hesitant?"

Lily crouched on the bank, her ears and tails puffed up. She stretched out her palm testing the water nervously like a puppy and cried. "I just don’t like diving... I almost drowned when I fought with a sub earlier."

The trauma remained in her.

Half perplexed, Vivian asked, "Are you nut? Why did you fight with a sub?"

Still touching the lakewater with her palm, Lily cried as she explained. "When I went to the beach for the first time, I heard there was some nice food in the water. So I got into the water trying to catch some fish. Unknowingly, I swam a little too far off the coast and bumped into an American sub which I’d mistaken as a shark. I bit the propeller, the next thing I knew I was hit black and blue and even had lost some teeth—that was when I realised it was a sub."

"...stop the crap. Just get in now. Or you prefer to stay on the bank?" Vivian’s arms akimbo. "See, even I’m not afraid of water. What are you afraid of now?"

Hao Ren’s eyes rolled: Vivian must be kidding. This vampire ate garlic, drank holy water, wore crosses, played kongfu in church, flew two hundred miles looking for wild vegetable in broad daylight without shedding a sweat; she was no ordinary vampire.

Compressing her lips, she hesitated for like half a day before jumping into the water with her eyes shut.

Hao Ren freaked out when Lily jumped head first and got her head stuck in the mud. He quickly told Lily as an after thought. "...Forgot to tell you that the water’s very shallow near the bank, you can’t jump in that way..."

Pulling her head out of the mud, Lily paddled herself towards them, doggie-style. She yelled. "That’s why I said me and water are like fire and water!"

Hao Ren: "....."

Thanks to Lily’s lively personality, everyone was in good mood. They wheeled and began to dive happily towards the centre of the lake.

The lakewater was red. The night was dark. Before long, total darkness had engulfed the small exploration team as they dived deeper. Y’zaks summoned a ball of fire leading in front; it was the kind of evil flame, inextinguishable even in the permafrost and emitting a bright glow of light giving better visibility. But despite of the guiding light, what was ahead of Hao Ren was just a sea of red.

Thanks to the water control ability of Nangong Wuyue, he didn’t feel the underwater pressure. But the sight of red everywhere depressed and bored him. It was said that red could caused mental agitation—he wasn’t sure about others, but he believed so.

Luckily, he needn’t have to endure it for too long: Nangong Wuyue was pushing everyone forward in great speed, they would probably reach the bottom in no time.

"It’s just red everywhere. It’s depressing." Nangong Wuyue wagged her tail leading in front. Her voice was sent directly into everyone’s eardrum. Obviously, Hao Ren wasn’t the only one got sick about the red vision. "I’ve a weird feeling, it’s like we’re being watched."

"Not me though." Hao Ren looked around, constantly surveilling his surroundings for any strange movement. "But one thing’s for sure—this place is creepy. I heard story told by a missionary in the camp; he said every pope would spend their last moment in the chapel situated the middle of the lake, but no one had really seen their body. The popes would stay in the chapel alone for a month and then disappeared just like that. The church tried to explain away that they had transformed into some kind of saint bones guarding the holy place. So does it mean that all their bodies are in the lake?"

Vivian pulled up to him and hit him. "You’re disgusting."

The vampire maiden then thought for a while and said, "Looking at the colour of the water gives me satisfaction—a delusion of stomach-filling and appetising."

Y’zaks guffawed. "Me too. I feel like at home with lots of lava and red everywhere."

Lily remained quiet the moment she got into the water. She was still struggling with her sub-fighting trauma, and holding her breath since the beginning. As chatters went on, she paddled doggie-style towards Hao Ren. "Is the colour of the water that bad? I don’t feel a thing though..."

Still keeping a distance from Lily, Vivian said, "Don’t you remember you’re a husky? You’re color blind."

"So what?" Lily was enraged. "As colour blind as I’m, I could still recognise red! Just that I don’t have a feeling towards it."

Hao Ren quietly glanced at Lily. This sabre-rattling maiden did look like the one in female-dog-frenzy.avi.

He felt a jolt in his arm. He looked down and there it was Lil Pea. The little one had been very excited the she got into the water. Hao Ren had to hold her in his arm so that she wouldn’t run out of sight. She protested. Knowing the area was under the protective control of Nangong Wuyue, Hao Ren was hesitant before he finally allowed her to get loose. "Don’t go too far, the water’s poisonous."

Lil Pea took a few spins in the water right after getting loose from Hao Ren. She scurried around them like a fry in excitement—it seemed she was also indifferent towards the colour of the lake. Lily was chasing after Lil Pea trying to catch her but the latter was too slippery. Soon, Lil Pea burned out. Instead of coming back to Hao Ren, she followed closely behind Nangong Wuyue, slowly flapping her tail and moving in the vortex left behind by Nangong Wuyue.

Nangong Wuyue stared in astonishment at the fry. "She do know how to leverage on the vortex? That the talent of her race?"

Hao Ren sighed. "Everyone has their own talents—but I’ve never seen someone could’ve paddled doggie-style as fast as Lily."

After swimming along Lil Pea for a while, on a whim, Nangong Wuyue transformed her tail into that of a three-metre long, amorous snake-tail.

Out of a sudden, Lil Pea suffered a huge shock, turning her views on life and the world upside down.

The little mermaid was stunned and pinned to the spot before waking up as she drifted hitting on the chest of Hao Ren. She then tried working on her tail just like what Nangong Wuyue had done while Nangong Wuyue looked on and laughed her head off. "No matter how hard you try, you’re not going to make it longer. No, you can’t!"

Hao Ren sighed again. He couldn’t understand what was the point of the humour, when the two were competing about who’s got the longer tail—it didn’t help also that it was a hundred years old adult fish against a newly-born fry.

The mind of the female monsters was truly and f**kingly mysterious.

The journey to the lake became less boring because of the hoo-ha. As they were drawing close to the destination, a faintly black shadow appeared before them.

Nangong Wuyue was startled. "A very strong magnetic field?"





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