206: Chapter 206 A Greedy Sacrifice! A Divine Scheme?!

Boom!

A dark beam of light pierced through the haze of the C3 Sea Area.

A violent suction created a massive whirlpool several hundred meters in diameter on the sea surface.

The enormous, one-hundred-and-fifty-meter-tall corpse of the Abyssal Great Demon was shriveling, weathering, and disintegrating at a visible speed.

Black ash fell like snowflakes from the sky.

Chen Du stood on the shadow bridge.

His golden eyes reflected this shocking scene.

In his mind, it was as if a pot had boiled over.

On the cover of the sacrifice notebook.

The strange mouth was grinning wildly, drool almost dripping out.

“Delicious! So delicious! High-grade flesh, pure divinity!”

“This is the main course! This is the life this lord should be living!”

Immediately after.

A series of cold yet blood-pumping system prompts frantically scrolled across Chen Du's retina.

“Successfully sacrificed an Overlord Rank initial stage creature: Abyssal Great Demon corpse!”

“Evaluating sacrificial item value... Extremely rare!”

“Obtained life essence: 3000 points!”

“Obtained transcendent material: godhead fragment*1!”

“Obtained special reward: S-rank equipment blind box*2!”

3000 points of life essence!

Chen Du's eyelids twitched.

Before, after much negotiation, Wang Zhen had only promised a thousand points.

This wave brought instant wealth, replenishing all the previously consumed resources.

And it wasn't over yet.

The Ferry System's prompt tone suddenly rose an octave:

“Ding! Detected massive divine flesh feedback, Vehicle Core absorption complete!”

“ferry no. 0819 meets hidden conditions, forced form leap initiated!”

“Holy crap, this ship is transforming again?”

Lin Keke, holding her magic staff, her eyes wide as saucers.

On the sea surface.

ferry no. 0819 emitted a grating metal friction sound that set teeth on edge.

Creak—crunch!

The white cruise ship's hull was engulfed by a layer of dark gray special alloy.

The deck area expanded by a full three times!

The waterline suddenly sank, creating a huge circle of white waves on the sea surface.

The towering superstructure rose from the ground, its outer armor half a meter thick.

The original electromagnetic rapid-fire cannons were directly upgraded to twin-barreled heavy naval guns.

Azure energy patterns flowed along the armor seams.

In just ten seconds.

A luxury cruise ship used for sightseeing had forcibly transformed into a three-hundred-meter-long metal fortress!

The oppressive feeling was fully maximized.

The flagship, the judgment, docked next to it, now looked like a child's toy.

“This is what truth is.”

Chen Du pulled out a cigarette pack from his pocket, tapped one out, and bit it.

He stepped on the shadows and leisurely walked back to the deck.

As soon as he landed.

Two gusts of fragrant wind enveloped him.

“Captain is mighty!”

Lin Keke hugged Chen Du's left arm, her ample curves pressing against him.

This girl hadn't even dispelled her magical girl transformation.

Her super-short pleated skirt swayed back and forth, and her fair, long legs were dazzling.

On the right.

Xia Mo said nothing, but leaned against Chen Du's right shoulder with extreme dominance.

Her usually cold cheeks were slightly flushed.

“Alright, stop rubbing, you're wrinkling my clothes.”

Chen Du complained, but his hands were honest.

He wrapped his arms around their slender waists, then gave Xia Mo's leather jacket a squeeze.

Xia Mo's breathing hitched, and she glared at him.

Not far away, Tang Ran, carrying her Spiked Club, grinned widely.

An Nuonuo hid behind Xia Lai, looking at Chen Du with eyes full of adoration.

A relaxed and comfortable atmosphere.

Just then.

A sound of knees knocking broke the calm.

Wang Zhen scrambled and crawled along the shadow bridge.

This Sleepless City councilor was as disheveled as a stray dog.

He dared not look up, holding a dark metal remote control high with both hands.

“M-master...”

Wang Zhen's voice trembled, “This is the master control terminal of the First Combined Fleet.”

“Twelve warships, three thousand elite firepower, now... all yours.”

“I only ask you... to spare my worthless life.”

The transfer of power often happens in an instant.

Hundreds of fleet soldiers, holding guns, were now obediently kneeling on their respective decks, not daring to breathe loudly.

Chen Du didn't reach out.

He looked down at the top of Wang Zhen's head, and the tip of his leather shoe gently lifted the other party's chin.

“Councilor Wang, if you had shown this attitude earlier, we wouldn't have had to go through so much trouble, would we?”

Wang Zhen was covered in cold sweat, forcing a smile uglier than crying: “Yes... you are right to reprimand me.”

The overall situation was decided.

Resources, combat power, territory—all taken in one go.

Chen Du released the two beautiful women on his left and right.

With a thought.

Two blind boxes emitting dark golden light appeared in his palm.

“I'm going to see what kind of top-tier items this Overlord Rank can yield...”

Just as Chen Du was about to open the blind box.

Screech—!

A sudden, strange noise abruptly interrupted his movement.

The sound came from the sea surface several hundred meters away.

“Uh... ah... ho ho...”

The sound was extremely eerie, with a hoarse, leaky quality.

Everyone's smiles froze on their faces.

Wang Zhen suddenly looked up, his face full of disbelief.

“This is... Ce'er's voice?”

“Impossible! He was clearly swallowed by the monster!”

Chen Du immediately activated Tyrants Gaze.

In the center of the great demon's ashes.

A pool of monstrous black blood was now defying the laws of physics.

It wasn't seeping into the sea.

Instead, like rainwater flowing backward, it was drifting upwards into the sky, drop by drop!

“Something's wrong, everyone be on alert!”

Xia Mo reacted extremely quickly, drawing her sword instantly.

Chilling air swirled around her.

Tang Ran even directly activated Blood Rage, smashing her Spiked Club onto the deck.

“Ho ho... with blood... as a pact...”

The voice of the deceased Wang Ce grew louder and louder.

He was chanting an ancient, obscure incantation!

As the incantation was chanted.

All the remaining corpse fluid, black blood, and the scattered flesh of the recently fallen soldiers on the sea surface.

All defied gravity, gathering madly towards the sky.

The sky changed.

The gray sky was quickly stained a suffocating crimson.

The wind stopped.

The waves stilled.

A pressure a hundred, a thousand times more terrifying than the Abyssal Great Demon before descended from the firmament.

This was a ritual! An ultimate ritual disguised by the Sacrifice itself!

The black blood in mid-air intertwined and wriggled.

In just a few seconds, it outlined a pattern on the blood-red sky that occupied most of the firmament.

An eye.

A blood-red eye, inverted in the sky, with a swirling pupil!

It hung silently in the sky, gazing at everyone on ferry no. 0819 Fortress.

Lin Keke's face turned pale, and she plopped down onto the ground.

“What... what kind of monster is this... this game is beyond the scope!”

Even Wang Zhen, kneeling on the ground, was so terrified by this gaze that he lost control of his bladder and bowels.

“Goddammit.”

Chen Du gritted his teeth, feeling his bones creak.

In his mind, the sacrifice notebook, which had been laughing wildly, suddenly changed its tune.

The strange mouth on the cover actually began to gush black blood!

“Idiot! Run! Don't look, run!!”

The writing in the notebook twisted to the extreme:

“This is not the remnant soul of an evil god at all! This is bait set by its main body!”

“It deliberately made you open the Sacrifice channel! It used the channel, followed the karmic line, and directly invaded your soul in reverse!”

“The coordinates have been exposed!!”

What?

The greedy Sacrifice had brought about the evil god's most vicious open conspiracy.

All the bait eaten came with hooks.

Drip.

A drop of cold sweat slid down Chen Du's forehead, hitting the metal deck.

The moment the blood eye gazed upon them.

A grand, mechanical, emotionless voice echoed directly in everyone's minds.

It was the voice of the Heavenly Dao.

“Warning!”

“Detected an unspeakable entity forcibly interfering with reality!”

“ferry no. 0819 has been locked onto by the god of fear!”

“Target contamination index too high, forced trigger of escape and kill rules!”

“Survival mission changed: Escape the Gaze.”

“Elimination countdown: 10 minutes.”

“If the current sea area is not escaped by the end of the countdown, rule-level elimination will be executed.”

10:00.

09:59.

The crimson countdown was directly projected onto everyone's retinas.

The countdown to death had begun.

Despair coiled around the girls' necks like venomous snakes.

Before this hanging blood eye.

Whether A-rank or S-rank, they couldn't even muster the thought of resistance.

“Captain...”

Li Yaozhi trembled as she stepped forward, wanting to take Chen Du's hand.

But Chen Du took a step forward.

Standing at the very front of the fortress.

He casually wiped a trace of blood from the corner of his mouth that had been shaken out.

In his golden eyes, there was no fear.

Only the madness of being thoroughly enraged, and surging ambition.

“Want to eat me?”

“Then let's see if your old teeth are hard enough!”