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Chapter 788 Director Li, think it over!

With each sentence, the facial features and body shapes of the three subordinates behind him would change slightly.

In the end, the three of them transformed into Li Sansi dressed in different clothes, becoming three cold, expressionless Li Sansi.

Black waves crashed against the walls, and Aunt's figure appeared and disappeared on the opposite bank. More corpses surfaced from the bottom of the deep pool.

Darkness surged toward Gao Ming, and his aunt turned around, and the corpses all looked at him.

One by one, the faces, soaked and mangled, eventually all became Li Sansi himself; in this boundless darkness, it seemed as if he were the only one there.

Ding Xiang, Jia Youzhi, and Wu Wei placed their hands on Gao Ming's shoulders as the rotting corpses drew closer.

A child's arm, shaped like a white radish, grabbed Gao Ming's leg. His stepmother's hair was spread out in the sewage, like dense water plants entangled around Gao Ming's shoes.

His eyes, now just dark holes, were completely filled with darkness. He saw many people waving at him from the deep pool. He saw his ailing aunt, his biased adoptive mother, his missing adoptive father, and his father, dressed as a lawyer, defending himself against the death penalty.

With his body moving forward, Gao Ming was pulled into the deep pool by countless forces.

Gao Ming's own memories surfaced in the darkness, fading away like a painting on water, disappearing as soon as they were drawn.

He sank into the darkness, malice rolling through Gao Ming's veins like tiny, sharp pebbles.

It felt as if countless worms were crawling out of my liver.

They gnawed and tore at his heart, liver, spleen, and stomach, pulling him down with them. There were no cries, let alone calls for help; Gao Ming could only watch helplessly as he sank. He sank into boundless darkness, water overflowing his eyes, his nose, and his mouth.

Gao Ming felt as if he were lying on a black sea. He could see the full moon above his head, the force that had been supporting him all along. But the distance between him and the moon was growing ever wider. The strands of moonlight, like the gentlest hair, were wrapped around his hands, yet they would eventually break off. He watched them snap one by one, as if his own heartstrings were breaking. Gao Ming felt his heart was about to shatter, but even if it shattered, he would still live on, broken but unbroken.

He lowered his head and saw the Blood City Ghost Mark on his body. The complex and mysterious patterns resembled the rings of a tree, only now they were being chopped down by axes. All hope was slipping away along the veins of those rings, and he was being dismembered by the darkness bit by bit.

In the dim light, Gao Ming heard someone calling his name. He tried his best to open his eyes and saw that all the garbage in the city was in this bottomless pool.

A disassembled music box, a headless plush toy, and corpses with their swollen faces pressed against Gao Ming's ears.

This is the darkest, most chaotic, and dirtiest place in the entire city; even the bravest light dares not shine here.

Sewage flowed into his eyes, stinging him deeply. It forced him to see all the ugliness clearly. The evil thoughts abandoned by the citizens had not disappeared. They were all buried here. They waited, waited, and one day, they would erupt completely.

At the deepest part of all emotions, at the center of all malice, Gao Ming saw a strange shrine.

It was soaked in the filthiest sewage, a repository of the city's sins and unbearable memories. It was the source of all darkness, the culprit of all misfortune. Gao Ming had imagined many kinds of dark shrines, but only when he actually saw one did he realize that everything was different from what he had imagined.

The shrine felt welcoming and familiar. It made you want to get closer, to touch it, to become one with it, as if that would end all suffering.

Gao Ming had always wondered, what exactly is darkness? If we're talking about controlling the power of darkness, then he's also someone who lives in darkness, but that's clearly different from what the master of the Dark Shrine pursues.

There was no answer, and no way to break free; Gao Ming was already inseparable from that thing.

Li Sansi's malice assimilated Gao Ming's body, turning every blood vessel black. He could no longer hear Han Hai's voice, and the holes in his eye sockets revealed only darkness. Only his heart continued to beat.

That flesh and blood heart belonged to him. When he fought against the Mountain Lord in the forbidden zone, Li Sansi unleashed all the malice in his heart. Gao Ming took the opportunity to seal his heart with the Blood City Demonic Pattern.

Tiny black veins replaced the Blood City tattoo, and Gao Ming's will flickered like a candle flame on the black ocean. Perhaps in a few minutes, everything he had would be swallowed up by Li Sansi. The Dark Shrine would gain all the information about the Vast Ocean by merging with Gao Ming, knowing the appearance of every outsider. His body sank down to the side of the shrine; only in this way could he have a chance to get close to it.

"you lose."

"All the changes you make will go back to the original track, and you will become nourishment for the shrine."

"We are all living in darkness. If we see light, it is our eyes that are deceiving us. If hope arises in our hearts, it is our souls that have sinned."

"Finally, thank you for saving my mother's life; this is something I could never have done."

Li Sansi's voice came from his mouth; he had taken over all the body's organs except for the heart.

The shrine in the darkness resembled a mother with outstretched arms, and Li Sansi was her child, his body, stained with malice, falling onto the shrine.

Li Sansi and Gao Ming were enveloped in complete darkness, their two souls unusually quiet.

"Are you waiting for my consciousness to extinguish itself?" Gao Ming's consciousness condensed into a single point, like a faint starlight.

"Consider this your way of repaying me for saving your mother's life."

Did you think I had given up hope?

"Isn't that so?" Li Sansi murmured. He had no friends. Jia Youzhi, Ding Xiang, and Wu Wei were all manifestations of himself from the Dark Shrine. Gao Ming was the one who truly entered his life and memories.

"I will never despair." Gao Ming's laughter emanated from his will, the flame of his will trembling: "When the world is better off without me, I will use my own death to fight for more opportunities for everyone."

The will, about to be swallowed up, burned everything like a meteor and crashed into the heart engraved with the Blood City Ghost Mark.

The gruesome wound was torn open, and Gao Ming harbored a special bomb in his heart, developed by the first generation of Night Watchers and infused with the Blood City Curse from the Vast Ocean.

He took three subordinates to an unlicensed clinic for surgery to implant this thing into their minds. He induced the malice in Li Sansi's heart and used drugs to put himself and his three subordinates into a coma. He did all this to deceive Li Sansi and create an opportunity to get close to the Dark Shrine.

The unspeakable world of the shrine exerted too much pressure on the Dream Demon, and Gao Ming alone could not possibly succeed, so he chose to sacrifice himself.

The final link in Gao Ming's plan fell on his own shoulders. From the moment he publicly exposed himself, he had already envisioned this final step.

"There's more than one Dream Demon who's entered the Dark Shrine. We've gathered the power of half the Vast Ocean to complete this high-stakes gamble. We can't lose, not even once!"

Gao Ming has already shattered the will of the gods. If he can destroy the Dark Shrine and shake the foundation of the city, then the other Dream Demons of the Vast Sea will have a good chance to completely annex this place and give birth to the first truly unspeakable one!
Without the slightest hesitation, Gao Ming detonated the special bomb at close range.

The bomb in his heart was meant to kill Li Sansi, and the self-destruction of his godlike will was to maximize the damage to the Dark Shrine. In the final moment of being devoured by Li Sansi, in the last instant of merging into the Dark Shrine, Gao Ming chose death, and the flesh-and-blood demon god also chose to decay within the Dark Shrine.

One dragged Li Sansi to his death, while the other sacrificed all his flesh and blood to cause the dark shrine that wanted to devour him to collapse.

Gao Ming and the flesh-and-blood ghosts used bones as fuel, and with death they unleashed blood-red flames, illuminating for the first time the deep underground pool that held the malice of the entire city.

The light from the vast ocean pierced the shrine shrouded in darkness.

"I have done everything I could. The rest is up to you."

(End of this chapter)