Chapter 314: Colorful Creatures
"If I were you, I wouldn't open that box."
Luo Geng's speed was indeed fast—Lin Ye didn't even have time to warn him before he acted.
Colorful mist sprayed out from the box, seemingly endless, instantly enveloping Luo Geng's entire body in the blink of an eye.
This was precisely why Lin Ye hadn't tried very hard to seize that box. The box's owner was a tenth-tier spiritual energy user, and a woman at that. Luo Geng had just killed her subordinate and her subordinate's subordinate, while her goal was to kill Lin Ye to prevent Victoria from winning. Now she had produced an unknown box.
Anyway, Lin Ye definitely wouldn't open such an unknown box himself.
He hadn't even wanted Luo Geng to open the box, because barring unexpected factors, killing Luo Geng was just a matter of time for him, but now things were hard to predict.
Victoria: You'd better stay away from that mist.
Lin Ye: What is that thing?
Victoria: I don't know, but that woman once entered a dangerous plane called the Bizarre World. That mist likely originates from there.
Lin Ye: Is that plane as dangerous as the Abyss? Victoria: Not that dangerous, but still very hazardous.
Lin Ye: By the way, why are you so short?
Victoria: I'm just relatively young.
Lin Ye: A young tenth-tier spiritual energy user?
Victoria: I'm not human. My total lifespan is much longer than humans'.
Lin Ye: Alright.
The colorful mist dissipated, and the flesh plant that had been shrouded in the mist had disappeared.
Lin Ye carefully observed his surroundings and soon noticed some faint pits in the spot where the flesh plant had vanished.
Something had burrowed underground from there.
Before Lin Ye could figure out what had happened to Luo Geng, numerous colorful flesh spikes shot up from below, piercing through Lin Ye's body.
The flesh spikes were extremely fast, and combined with Lin Ye's current inability to use mental energy, it was very difficult for him to dodge such high-speed piercing attacks.
Ash gathered, and Lin Ye quickly reconstructed himself in the middle of the road, but the moment he appeared, the flesh spikes from below pierced him to death again.
After that, Lin Ye kept reconstructing, and the flesh spikes continuously pierced through his body. The thing below seemed brainless, constantly chasing Lin Ye's figure.
"Hey, can you think of something instead of letting me get stabbed repeatedly!"
Lin Ye said to the man who had been watching from the sidelines.
"Its main body is hidden underground, and the flesh spikes retract very quickly. What can I do?"
The man watched with great pleasure as Lin Ye kept getting stabbed to death by the flesh spikes. Although it wasn't the man's true body, it possessed some of the man's memories.
"Then what use are you?"
Lin Ye dismissed the man. A large amount of ash gathered at Lin Ye's feet, and a giant plant appeared in the middle of the road.
This was the Divine Emissary that had died here earlier.
A large amount of ash merged into the Divine Emissary's body, causing it to grow taller and taller. Lin Ye stepped onto the Divine Emissary's branches, avoiding the flesh spike attacks.
Lin Ye: It's hiding underground. I can't deal with it.
Victoria: Even if it came up, you couldn't handle it. Stall for time. As long as we stall until those two participants die, the game will end.
Lin Ye: What if there are still one or two participants hiding outside?
Victoria: Then we'll have to deal with it here. If we let it out, the situation will become even more troublesome.
While Lin Ye was contemplating countermeasures, color appeared on the Divine Emissary like a virus, quickly spreading to every corner of its body.
Lin Ye tried to dismiss the Divine Emissary but found it had gone out of control—he could neither dismiss nor control it.
Numerous colorful flesh spikes appeared on the Divine Emissary's surface, piercing through Lin Ye's body once again.
"Is this never going to end?!"
Lin Ye took out the white card he had drawn earlier. This was the card he had copied from those two seventh-tier participants.
【White Card--Unlock】
【Randomly removes a certain type of lockdown, removal time is random (1/1)】
【Note: Leave everything to Fate】
"Those two useless guys. Feels like copying anyone random would be more useful than this."
Lin Ye crushed the card.
He unlocked the Red Sea Handkerchief, with an unlock duration of one minute.
"...What the hell? Not only is it useless, but it even has a time limit?"
Lin Ye was stabbed to death by the colorful flesh spikes again. Although it felt useless, he still threw the Red Sea Handkerchief onto the Divine Emissary, since he'd wasted a card and could only use it for one minute anyway.
However, something even Lin Ye didn't anticipate happened—part of the color was absorbed by the Red Sea Handkerchief, turning it into a colorful handkerchief.
But this didn't stop the colorful flesh spikes from continuing to pierce through his body.
The thing below seemed to have absorbed Luo Geng's obsession, determined to kill Lin Ye.
Victoria: This isn't good. How much longer can your skill last?
Lin Ye: I don't know. Maybe until there are no enemies inside.
Victoria: But it has already assimilated the Divine Emissary composed of ash. Perhaps it's analyzing your composition, and after some time, it will be able to assimilate you like it did the Divine Emissary.
Lin Ye: You're right, but I really can't find a way to deal with this color. I've played all my cards.
Besides the remaining pink loot cards, loot cards can be used directly and transformed into cards of other colors.
Victoria: If you could get another blue support card, I might be able to do something.
Lin Ye: Alright.
Just as Lin Ye was about to use a pink card, the flesh spikes that had been constantly stabbing his abdomen from below disappeared.
"Huh? What happened?"
Lin Ye noticed that the Red Sea Handkerchief he had thrown onto the Divine Emissary earlier had disappeared—probably because the unlock time ended and the system reclaimed it.
"Damn it, what did you do?"
A panicked voice emerged from within the Divine Emissary. The Divine Emissary's epidermis split open, revealing Luo Geng inside, entangled by the color.
"So that's why it kept attacking me—it was under your influence. I thought you were dead."
Lin Ye didn't immediately take action. With the disappearance of the colorful handkerchief, the color creature seemed to have undergone some change. This change might not be safe, and he didn't want to get involved.
"Damn it, it's going to use me to hatch new colors! Quickly return the missing part to it, or else you won't be able to escape either later!"
Luo Geng struggled desperately, but the colors were rooted deep within his body, making his struggle meaningless.
"Sorry, that part is in my loot space, and I don't have any unlock cards left now."
Lin Ye said truthfully.
"...I'll be waiting for you over there."
After speaking, Luo Geng's body was torn apart by the colors, blooming like a flower.
In the center of Luo Geng, who had turned into petals, a bright red flower bloomed.
Alluring fragrance floated around the gorgeous petals—this was the same scent Lin Ye had smelled this morning.
It was exactly the card creature Lin Ye had drawn this morning.
The flower blooming within Luo Geng was just the beginning. Soon, the Divine Emissary's surface became covered with such flowers, densely packed like a massive flower bed.