35: Chapter 35 Death Desert 18

The pitch-black lake bottom was silent and deep; aside from the occasional splashing sound, there was almost no noise.

A White-haired Girl with hair reaching her waist was walking along the pitch-black lake bottom as if she were taking a leisurely stroll. The water pressure, which should have made movement impossible, seemed to have absolutely no effect on her.

The occasional sound of something slicing through the water made one's heart shudder. The White-haired Girl's cold and indifferent expression indicated that she was not experiencing any emotional fluctuations due to the gloomy and terrifying atmosphere around her.

At this moment, Luo Yuejian was walking slowly underwater.

System: "Why aren't you going up yet?"

Luo Yuejian chuckled inwardly: "Although I am courting death, those ghosts up there are just too terrifying..." She coughed twice and feigned a reasonable tone: "Besides, that way of dying is too undignified."

slacker system: ... The host really manages to shatter my perception of her every single day ^_^

The slacker system paused for a moment before saying: "Although you say that, I still have to remind you that strolling at the bottom of the lake and refusing to go up counts as slacking off. You've been walking underwater for nearly five minutes, and you know the penalties."

"No, no, no, I'm going up right now!" Luo Yuejian recalled the situation where she was controlled by that ghost thing, immediately pressed her palms together in a prayer gesture, and prepared to leave. Suddenly, she had a flash of inspiration and took a mineral water bottle out of her backpack. She hadn't taken a single sip of water on this journey; having a drink before going up wouldn't be too much to ask, right?

She had originally intended to drink water when passing by that oasis lake, but she had forgotten the order of events—she had washed off the bloodstains on her body before remembering she needed to drink water.

Looking at the lake water that had been tainted by the bloodstains on her body—even though the bloodstains disappeared quickly—Luo Yuejian still couldn't get past it in her heart, so in the end, she only took a hurried sip of water.

The moment she opened the mineral water bottle, Luo Yuejian suddenly remembered something, and her hand, which was about to bring the bottle to her lips, suddenly stiffened.

Oh my, her brain! How could she open a mineral water bottle inside the lake? The water would all leak out!

Luo Yuejian looked at the mineral water bottle in front of her, which appeared to still be full but had actually swapped its contents with the lake water, and sighed.

Just as Luo Yuejian sighed, behind her back—without her noticing at all—five or six strange fish with pig-like bristles, mouths full of jagged, sharp teeth, and sounds like piglets, were shrieking while foaming at the mouth, their bellies turned upward.

Seeming to hear some noise, Luo Yuejian turned her head back in confusion, but she saw nothing.

At this moment, in Luo Yuejian's livestream room:

[ My Yue seems to be able to use Underwater Breathing??? ]

[ Walking underwater looks so beautiful! White-haired Beauty is the GOAT! ]

[ Umm, it's pitch black underwater, where did the person above see beauty? ]

[ I'm starting to doubt whether Moon God is even human now... ]

[ Eh, maybe it's just some special ability; there's a player in the next livestream room who isn't afraid of fire. ]

[ ?!? Are players from these small places all this ridiculous? Can they reach this level without awakening genetic origin energy? Am I too behind the times? ]

[ Umm, there are always some capable and extraordinary people, right... ]

[ ? What kind of move is this from my Yue? Is she trying to drink water underwater? ]

[ Don't say it, but seriously, don't say it, that bottle of water is also poisonous... ]

[ Please, of course my Yue wouldn't be that stupid! She must have her own reasons for doing this. ]

[ ...Holy crap, what kind of move is this? How did those fish all die?! ]

[ That must be the Zhuan fish that Wolf-tail Guy mentioned earlier, right? Those sharp teeth look truly spine-chilling... ]

[ It's the poison in that mineral water bottle! Moon God just opened that mineral water bottle to spread the lethal toxin inside into the lake and poison those strange fish! ]

[ How on earth did Moon God discover those fish behind her were about to swim over? She didn't even turn around? ]

[ It must be the sound of the water current; actually, if you listen carefully, you can hear a faint sound of water current, but we just can't judge where those sounds are coming from or the direction of their movement. ]

[ This is too amazing, right? And in that instant, she thought of a solution, effortlessly using existing items to take care of those strange fish! ]

[ Too amazing, my Yue is invincible! ]

[ Umm, let's just say, is there a possibility that the White-haired Beauty just wanted to drink water, and by coincidence, poisoned those strange fish? After all, her movements really looked like she wanted to drink water. ]

[ Hahahaha I'm dying of laughter, how come there are still people who think my Yue's behavior is a coincidence? Then explain why my Yue pressed her hands together before opening the water bottle? ]

[ That obviously looks like reverence for life. ]

[ Look at Moon God's expression right now; it's still so indifferent and cold, maintaining reverence for life, but without a shred of apology. Wuwuwu, Moon God is killing me! ]

[ I won't say who is licking the screen. ]

The system beeped and urged her a few times. Seeing that she really couldn't delay any longer, Luo Yuejian sighed and had no choice but to start swimming helplessly toward the place where light was radiating above.

Luo Yuejian couldn't see it herself, but the viewers in the livestream room could clearly see her movements at this moment, agile and elegant.

The faint light spilling down from above, enveloping the floating objects in the lake water, was like holy light raining down. Her pure white, sacred long hair drifted with the water waves, and her graceful, ethereal figure looked like a mermaid with legs rushing toward the light of the mortal world. Many viewers in the livestream room took screenshots, using this scene as their light-brain wallpaper.

Luo Yuejian was actually very nervous as she swam near the top. Those bird-like-but-not-bird ghost things up there were no joke; if she were bitten by those sharp fangs, Luo Yuejian was already shivering at the thought.

However, having said that, this game would automatically result in a victory when only one person remained, and since she was still here and hadn't left the game, it proved that her teammates were not dead yet. She wondered what method they used to survive.

Thinking about it, those teammates were actually quite capable. Not to mention the two newbie players who fainted at the start, those two veteran players, Wolf-tail Guy and Camo Uncle, both looked like impressive people. If her goal weren't to die early and be reincarnated, she would definitely have to cling to their thighs.

As she thought this, her peripheral vision suddenly caught something; the stone statue connected to the top from below the lake had a huge base, likely a structure like a foundation.

Before, at the bottom of the lake, she couldn't see the forest for the trees and hadn't noticed that there was such a large stone platform at the bottom of the lake. Now that she had come up, she realized that there was such a behemoth at the bottom of the lake.

A flash of inspiration struck Luo Yuejian; that base might have some clues. If she went to check for clues, the system surely wouldn't judge her for slacking off, right? The time she spent swimming back and forth wasn't short, and adding in pretending to look for clues... Hehe, she turned her body and swam toward the bottom of the stone statue in the center of the lake.