Chapter 271 Abyss Scholar

The two of them crossed the distance in the middle without any danger, and finally bypassed the monotonous library maze and came to a spiral corridor.

As he walked down the corridor a distance, continuing to avoid sea monsters along the way, Lin Jinghong touched a secret door.

Lin Jingxian was very surprised, but did not ask any more questions. They walked quickly through the long tunnel, and then the view in front of them suddenly opened up.

Ahead was a courtyard, with a beam of light falling from above into it.

Lin Jinghong and Lin Jingxian looked upwards following the light, but could not find the source of the light. They wondered if there was a direct path from above to the outside.

But Lin Jinghong quickly withdrew his gaze, because the special water flow was not directed from above, but right in this courtyard.

Lin Jinghong walked towards that place, but after walking around a decorative coral rockery, he stopped.

Lin Jingxian immediately followed him and was then startled.

Before their eyes, the strange woman who could be said to be the original cause of all their current experiences, was lying there.

The opponent's body was already in pieces. It was possible that she had already reached her limit, and the battle with Anti had further injured her.

Half of her head was completely shattered, leaving only the black abyss matter wriggling to fill it up, but it seemed that even the abyss could not forcibly support her existence.

Both of them held their breath and wanted to leave as soon as possible.

Lin Jingxian really wanted to ask his brother why he led the way to the boss room. Although Lin Jinghong had expected this, he still had a heavy expression and did not want to have too much contact with the other party.

If it were a normal situation, and he met a senior who also had calm eyes, he would certainly be overjoyed to ask for advice.

But this senior’s condition is totally wrong!

Why did his eyes lead him here?
Suddenly, Lindsay, who was already paralyzed on one side, moved slightly, and her only remaining eye slowly opened and looked at Lin Jinghong.

“The mission… involves you… coming here… huh…” Lindsay said slurringly.

Lin Jinghong did not stop his steps as he retreated, and said, "Have you regained your sanity?"

“…severe damage, so that the abyss…will be weakened…and I can regain some of my consciousness…” Lindsay said with some struggle.

"What are you directing me to do?" Lin Jinghong asked.

"Originally... there was... but... now... nothing happens..." Lindsay looked at Lin Jinghong with difficulty. The sadness revealed in her eyes made Lin Jinghong unexpectedly empathize with her, even though he was puzzled.

"Why?" he couldn't help asking.

"You are also... immersed in the abyss..."

Lin Jinghong realized something and slowly raised his hand that was covering the wound on his abdomen. Black cracks began to spread on his skin at some point.

Lin Jingxian tried to reach out his hand, but was pushed away by Lin Jinghong: "Are you stupid? How can you touch this thing casually!?"

"How is this possible? What is the source of infection? Many of us have fought against those sea monsters and been injured, why only you, brother...!?" Lin Jingxian asked repeatedly, even though he knew that perhaps no one could answer him.

After seeing Lindsay's current appearance, even if they didn't know what this "abyss" meant, they knew it was definitely not something that could be easily contaminated.

"Is it still useful to remove it now? Perform surgery here directly? I have taken courses on this subject! Use miracles to prevent infection and suture wounds. Brother, please bear with it for a while..."

"I told you not to touch it! And... it's already very deep..." Lin Jinghong shouted angrily, shocking the bewildered Lin Jingxian. After just a little feeling, he discovered the trouble.

Starting from the injured internal organs, the substance called "abyss" has spread in his body, especially invading the blood and spreading throughout the body.

Only at this time did external symptoms, these black cracks, appear from the wound.

"I'm sorry... I was used... I wanted to inherit but... my body... my will... attacked you... and also made the abyss... target you..." Lindsay said weakly and intermittently.

Hearing this, Lin Jinghong knew that he had suffered an unexpected disaster.

These black things have a certain will, and the will of the one in front of him who was corroded and tried to find him as the successor has been distorted into aggressiveness.

Although he failed on the boat, the closer contact still gave Abyss an opportunity without him realizing it.

And his serious injury in the sea gave those things an opportunity.

Awful.

Lin Jingxian kept scratching his scalp, not knowing what to do. "Abyss... Mission..." Lindsay just collapsed on the ground, mumbling something.

Lin Jinghong looked at her quietly, not knowing what he was thinking.

……

Under Celia's guidance, Anti found the cell where they were initially held. This cell was indeed very crude, as even the fences were a bit twisted, resulting in large gaps in some places. If it was stretched a little wider, it would not be difficult for a slender adult to squeeze out.

They escaped through this loophole.

The two men swaggered into the cell, and all the octopus heads guarding it were killed by Anti, and then they could pass through unhindered with the help of the master key.

There are many people imprisoned around, not only the captured people on the ship, but also some people who seem to be living here in the deep ocean center for a long time, and of course some other sea creatures.

Most of them were listless, even nearly crazy. Some of them, Anti noticed, had even been infected with the abyss, and although they had not erupted directly yet, the signs had already appeared.

Anti saw other prisoners who had not been able to get out through the loopholes in their cells.

When they saw Antioth, they immediately felt like they had seen a savior. They crawled up and over the railing, promising Antioth countless benefits, hoping that he could save them.

But after Anti asked them about the matter and compared it with Celia's information, he said, "It's safe to stay in there for the time being. I'll let you out later."

"Don't be ridiculous! There are so many strange things here. After many people and sea monsters are taken away, scary screams will be heard from behind that door! We are left here to die!"

Anti looked at the door that the person who spoke pointed to, did not respond, but just walked towards the door.

Seeing that Anti really didn't seem to want to let them go, the young man, who had already been pushed to the brink of collapse by the current situation, found it difficult to control himself.

Some of the bodyguards of these young people who were also captured helped to hold them down and comfort them, and apologized to Celia and Anti.

Clang.

When Anti got halfway close, the door suddenly opened, and an octopus head with bloody tentacles walked out. It was obviously surprised when it saw Anti approaching.

Then it was cut into two halves by Anti's sword, and he walked into the door stepping on its corpse.

Inside was another empty room filled with beds. It had probably not been taken care of for a long time. Some of the beds even had deformed corpses lying on them that were beginning to mold and rot.

There are also some beds that seem to be freshly baked sea people, not only octopus-head sea people, but also shrimps, crabs, shellfish, and the most common fish.

Some of them looked like they would not live long and were barely alive, while others were gradually stabilizing and would be able to move around soon.

Others kept groaning and howling in pain.

There were some tools scattered on the ground, and without the night eyes, it was impossible to understand the purpose of these tools.

But after watching it, the whole thing is just "Abyss Fusion Surgical Tools".

There are still a large number of bookshelves on the walls on both sides of the room.

Suddenly, at the end of the room, there was a sound of flesh tearing and squirming.

Followed by a sharp scream.

"what--!"

There, a strange-looking octopus sea man was holding those tools and performing some evil transformation on the humans and a crab on the stage in front of him.

Around the "operating table", thick column-like glass containers were filled with wriggling dark abyss matter, which was being drained onto the table by the octopus sea man.

The sound of Anti approaching seemed to attract the other party's attention.

It stopped what it was doing, slowly turned its head, and saw Anti.

"Human? Escaped?"

However, after it carefully observed Anti, its moving tentacles suddenly straightened up, then waved vigorously, and turned directly to face Anti.

"... Such a rich abyss... And the darkness of the predator... Ah... What are you? No... You are so powerful, why are you so ugly and lowly?... You should be like us... Become our beautiful form... Together... Feel the abyss——"

[“Abyss Scholar”, Esther: A sea scholar who has devoted himself to the field of the abyss. Due to his research on the abyss, he is highly regarded by the “Library Sage” and was able to create his own abyss school, which has become the mainstream of the current library. As a sea creature, he took the initiative to integrate humans with abyss materials, naturally in order to get closer to the abyss he longs for. ]

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