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Chapter 743 The Power of the Dark Shrine

Darkness is a secret that cannot be looked at directly. If someone opens their eyes in the darkness, they will see a completely different world.

The indescribable pain made Gao Ming wish he could smash his skull open. It was as if ink was spreading in his pupils, and he began to see more terrifying things. In addition to the childhood pains of his severed hand and wheelchair, new things began to emerge from the deep pool.

A student's workbook features a drawing of a female celebrity, interspersed with several photos. Upon closer inspection, the woman in the photos looks somewhat familiar.

As the exercise book was soaked and ruined by sewage, a fair arm adorned with a bracelet appeared. It was a corpse, pale from being submerged in water. From its clothing to its appearance, one could still vaguely see a resemblance to Dingxiang.

Beside the female celebrity's rotting corpse, a pair of large leather shoes were exposed. A tall, muscular woman in a custom-made suit had a huge package wrapped around her legs, filled with documents and insurance. She had a somewhat androgynous appearance and a physique stronger than most men. Even in death, she wore an arrogant expression, seemingly never giving Li Sansi a second glance, as if she were Li Sansi's boss at work.

This woman is almost the same size as Wu Wei, the youngest member of the crew who can be bossed around by anyone.

The third corpse's face was also rotten from being soaked. Its skeleton resembled Jia Youzhi's, and its clothes were all expensive designer brands, indicating that it was either rich or noble, and was from a completely different world from Li Sansi.

The three corpses that floated out of the deep, polluted pool pierced Li Sansi's malice even deeper. The darkness within him was growing rapidly, exceeding the control of the Blood City Tattoo, and countless threads of malice burrowed out from Gao Ming's skin.

"Three subordinates, three corpses, were Dingxiang and the others all figments of Li Sansi's imagination in the darkness? Turning everything in the darkness into reality, Li Sansi touched upon the power of the shrine's master. It all happened here, right here in this deep pool of filth!"

His gaze dipped downwards as Gao Ming stared at the deep pool.

“This underground sewage pool is filled with garbage abandoned by people, hiding the dirty secrets of all the city’s citizens. The real body of the Dark Shrine should be down here.”

Gao Ming descended and became Li Sansi. He was the first to guess the path to the Dark Shrine's main body, but he didn't know if it was a trap.

Inside the restricted area, the medicine was continuously injected into his body, but in this underground pool, the situation was completely reversed. Darkness eroded him, and Gao Ming's body reached its limit. He could clearly feel the Blood City tattoo fading.

"Darkness isn't darkness without light; true darkness is bone-chilling despair." Gao Ming's face was contorted as he grabbed the rope binding the driver. The dream demons were hunting the dark shrine, and the shrine's master was also peering into the darkness within the dream demons' hearts, a darkness permeated by despair: "Let's go, we can go back!"

Li Sansi is the battlefield of the game between the two sides. The master of the Dark Shrine uses the exposure of his own secrets as bait to lure Gao Ming into the darkness step by step.

The driver's mind was also in turmoil. Gao Ming was clearly infected by the madness, and it seemed that his inner malice had also spiraled out of control. Taking Gao Ming with him now was no different from running away with a bomb. But then he thought of Gao Ming's many tricks up his sleeve, how he had saved him several times along the way, and most importantly, the fact that Gao Ming had a gun.

With gritted teeth, the driver carried Gao Ming on his back and ran outside. He dared not listen to the nonsense coming from Gao Ming's mouth, nor did he dare to look at the strange objects around him that were changing rapidly.

He ran for several dozen meters before quietly turning back. In the darkness, sewage flowed from various pipes into the deep pool, but it seemed that it could never be filled.

"My aunt didn't chase after us."

Before his heart could settle, the driver noticed that Gao Ming's face had become almost entirely feminized. Terrified, he began to run for his life. He didn't understand why Gao Ming could persist for so long after contracting the insanity, but he knew that if Gao Ming collapsed, he would be the next to suffer.

"Hang in there, you have to hold on!"

All the darkness converged on Gao Ming, and the driver unleashed his full potential, running through the passage. When they passed a fork in the road, Gao Ming would give him a heads-up.

The voice of Gao Ming grew increasingly strange, and the driver was truly afraid that if he turned around, he would see his aunt's face. He ran through pipes, climbed over mountains of garbage, jumped into sewage, and crawled through wire mesh. The driver couldn't remember how long he had been running; he was exhausted, yet he dared not stop, until a beam of light shone upon him.

"who!"

"Stop immediately! This is the Ninth Cleaning Squad, stop immediately!"

To the driver, the voice of a living person sounded like heavenly music. His legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground with Gao Ming on his back: "Watch out, watch out... the one on my back..."

"Captain, it looks like they ran out of the penalty area."

"Should we inactivate it directly? Or throw it back into the restricted area?"

"Disinfect it first, then take it back and hand it over to the department in charge of the restricted area."

The group didn't pay much attention. After sterilizing and disinfecting, they used the isolation bag that had contained the body to cover Gao Ming and the driver, leaving a ventilation hole, and then dragged them directly out of the underground water network.

Away from the darkness, Gao Ming gradually felt a touch of warmth, and the Blood City Ghost Mark once again suppressed the malice in Li Sansi's heart.

He regained his senses, but the malice in Li Sansi's heart grew several times stronger. What was worse, the memories belonging to Li Sansi in his mind seemed to have their own thoughts, and those fragments of memories together formed a gruesome human face.

"Those memories I least wanted to face came back." Gao Ming was very glad that he had brought the driver with him into the underground water network. His original intention was to use the driver's perspective to make comparisons and determine whether he was normal. Who would have thought that he would end up escaping with the help of the other person?

Without a driver, Gao Ming would have been swallowed by darkness and sunk into the garbage abyss, either assimilated or left to wait for rescue by other dream ghosts.

"I've already experienced the shrine master's methods firsthand. The other citizens who were affected by the dream ghosts should also have serious problems. I just don't know if it's good or bad for me to contact them now. What if the shrine master is just waiting for me to contact them?"

Taking a breath of fresh air, Gao Ming banished the thoughts from his mind.

"In short, we've figured out a lot of things and gained a lot. The next focus should be on weakening the power of the shrine's master." Gao Ming had already planned for this: first, eliminate the gang's cancerous growth, and then rebuild the municipal council hall.

After regaining some strength, Gao Ming looked around and saw that he and the driver had been thrown into a garbage truck belonging to a cleaning company. Apart from the two of them, the surrounding area was full of sealed corpses.

The sight of so many gruesome faces pressed against his side made him slightly uncomfortable.

"Fortunately, he woke up relatively early. If he had been sent to a cleaning company, he would most likely have been dissected, and the secret of the Blood City tattoo might have been exposed."

Gao Ming tore open the isolation bag, waking the unconscious driver and deliberately making a noise.

There was a strange noise coming from the carriage transporting the bodies. Not long after, Gao Ming felt the vehicle slow down, as if the driver wanted to check the situation.

(End of this chapter)