I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

"Brother! Chu Chu really saw that child!"

What child? Lin Yan was momentarily confused.

"That's the child who appeared in the 'Lost Thoughts,' right? His name is Xiaoming?"

"When Chu Chu was taking a walk in Nanhu District before, she seemed to have seen him near an abandoned signal station."

"He was sitting on the slide, holding a frog balloon, and he was laughing!"

Lin Yan was overjoyed: "Xiao Ming is still alive?"

He seemed unaware that he was focusing on the wrong thing.

"No, brother, he's dead. Now he's just a lowly freak."

Chu Chu's voice lowered, then suddenly rose again:

"Oh, no wonder Chu Chu felt a sense of familiarity when she came in."

"That child, he's connected to this place!"

Lin Yan became more and more confused as he listened. What did "continuous" mean?

Forget it, it doesn't matter.

Knowing that Xiaoming is still around is enough, even if it's bizarre.

Lin Yan suddenly felt something was wrong.

Why would I have this thought?

Unfortunately, the black water cage in front of him shrank by an inch, giving him no chance to think.

Lin Yan immediately shouted at Chen Shu:

"Chen Shu! Xiao Ming, Xiao Ming is still here!"

The giant frog's headgear was tilted slightly, as if trying to hear what the human was shouting.

Lin Yan used all her strength to make her voice carry:

"Xiao Ming is still here! He can smile now!"

The giant frog got stuck.

The black water was still flowing out, but the speed had obviously slowed down.

The entire wave pool fell silent for a moment.

The giant frog suddenly let out a mournful cry.

It looked like it was laughing, and it looked like it was crying. It raised its head, and its dark, hollow eyes met Lin Yan's gaze.

A glimmer of hope ignited in Lin Yan's heart.

He made the right bet; the father finally stopped when he heard the news about his son.

Then he saw Chen Shu raise his hand, pointing directly at him.

You lied to me.

The giant frog's voice suddenly became very soft.

"You're trying to lie to me too."

"I have seen his ashes with my own eyes."

The giant frog took a step forward, its feet touching the black water, but the surface was as calm as a mirror, without even a ripple.

"You people... are all the same."

"You all said that you've had a tough time, Master Chen, and that you want to help us."

Its voice rose higher and higher, tightening Lin Yan's heartstrings inch by inch.

"Then you all raised your phones..."

It lay on its back, roaring with all its might, and the entire wave pool trembled.

The light tubes on the ceiling crackled and shattered one after another, and fragments fell like rain.

The tiles on the pool wall cracked and fell into the black water piece by piece.

"you!"

"They're all the same!!!"

A loud bang was heard.

Centered on the giant frog, a black, circular wave wall exploded outwards in all directions.

The black water surged, the pool walls cracked, and the discarded mascot costumes that had been pressed to the bottom of the pool seemed to come alive, swelling up one by one and floating out of the water.

They lined up and wriggled toward the giant frog in the center of the pond, like fledglings returning to their nests, like pilgrims on a pilgrimage.

Meanwhile, the entire water world was shaking violently.

In the distance, the swarm of frogs that had been surrounding Saya suddenly stopped moving in unison.

The balloons in their hands fell off, and the pupils on their headgear simultaneously became cloudy.

Immediately afterwards, the bodies of the dozens of baby frogs began to dissolve, as if being sucked into a toilet bowl, collapsing from the feet down and turning into green water.

All the green water converged and surged towards the wave pool, skimming the ground.

Saya stood in the middle of a pool of green water, the scissors in her hand still dripping black blood.

The frogs around her had all disappeared.

With a loud crash, the wall of the wave pool changing room suddenly shattered.

A figure emerged from the ruins.

Saya's eyes were fixed on the front, on the direction of the wave pool.

She chased after the horde of frogs returning to defend, hacking her way from the wading area to the changing room, and then hacking through the wall of the changing room.

"Miss Saya!" Lin Yan's voice came from the other side of the pool.

Saya looked in the direction of the sound and immediately saw Lin Yan enveloped in black water.

The black water shield had shrunk to the point of clinging tightly to his body. His face was pale and his lips were white, yet he was still smiling at her.

Saya paused, then cursed.

"I sent you to find the core of the formation, and what did you do? You just drove this thing crazy?!"

Lin Yan forced a smile, but the water shield was too tight to hold his breath; it was pressing against his ribs, making it difficult to even breathe.

Without another word, Saya took a step forward, stepping through the green water and rushing directly to the edge of the wave pool.

Sensing her approach, the black water in the pool transformed into a black wave that crashed against the pool wall.

Saya didn't stop. She raised the scissors above her head, blade pointing downwards, and plunged them fiercely into the black wave.

"laugh!"

White steam burst open, and she ripped the black waves in two.

But the impact of the water curtain was too great; some black water splashed onto Sayo's clothes, emitting wisps of white smoke.

Saya glanced down at the hem of her dress, which had several holes burned in it, and then at the scissors in her hand.

The blade was covered in black water, which was dripping down the blade and into the pool, making a hissing, corrosive sound.

"Tsk."

Chen Shu turned to look at the uninvited guest and slowly raised his hand.

It's Blackwater again.

This time, the black water erected a wall of water around the wave pool, squeezing towards Saya from all directions.

Saya stood still, the scissors in her hand beginning to vibrate.

"This is so troublesome."

She held the scissors upright in front of her with one hand, then swung them in a semi-circle.

With a snap, the approaching wall of black water was torn apart by pure violence, creating a vacuum zone.

However, the domain of a demon-level being repairs extremely quickly. The black water, which had just been severed, quickly reassembled itself like a living thing and pressed down on it again.

At this moment, the black water shield on Lin Yan's body loosened slightly.

"Chen Shu has gone mad; he simply doesn't believe his son is still alive!"

Lin Yan looked at the giant frog in the distance and spoke into his phone.

"Chuchu! You said you saw Xiaoming before, do you have any way to get him here?"

The phone screen lit up, and the smiley emoji appeared, but for once, I didn't reply immediately, instead showing a conflicted expression.

"Speak! This is the only way!" Lin Yan urged.

"Chuchu! Now! Bring Xiaoming in!"

"There is a way...," Chu Chu suddenly said, becoming coy.

"Xiao Ming is now just a weak, wandering soul without a physical form."

"If Chuchu matches his signal frequency, she can download him into this field from the outside, just like downloading a data packet."

"Then hurry up and pull it!"

"But..." Chu Chu's voice became even softer, and the emoji on the screen started fidgeting with its fingers.

"The data storm outside is too intense, and this evil spirit's turtle shell is so hard. If Chu Chu tries to forcibly pull people away..."

"Someone needs to tear a hole in this field from the inside, and..."

Lin Yan frowned. Even at a time like this, she was still making excuses?

"And what? Stop pretending."

Saya's cool voice interrupted Chu Chu's hesitation.