Why play in a band if you don't form one for life?

Lisa looked on kindly.

Liang covered his mouth: "Like a little animal."

Liang didn't lower his voice deliberately, so Chu naturally heard it. She instinctively wanted to get angry, but she suppressed it in the end and turned to LAYER: "LAYER, how long is the journey?"

LAYER shook her head. Unlike No. 2, she was always in the normal world and could only take a look with her spirit sword occasionally, so it was difficult for her to match the scenery over there with the map. She only knew that there should be a large lake ahead, and the city was built on an island in the lake.

Getting no answer, Chu? walked irritably to the side of the boat and picked up the rifle from it. The gun glowed with a little light and hummed.

This spear, Rhongomyniad, was decided to be used by CHU? according to custom. In fact, only CHU? had the ability to use it: when others held it, the spear seemed to weigh a thousand pounds and the spear was covered with dust; only when CHU? held it could it be used freely and the spear was shining. PAREO said that it must be Miss Belle's final will that chose Master CHU?. CHU? didn't quite believe it, but he could only admit it for the time being.

"Master CHU?, you are still recovering, so it is better not to touch the gun." PAREO approached CHU?, who was trying to make a gun swing.

"In Apocalypse, I'm much better now and can start practicing with my gun," Chu said. "The sooner I master it, the better."

"After all..." CHU? closed his mouth and didn't let the rest of the words leak out.

"Master Chu?" Pareo was a little surprised. Recently, she felt that Chu's words were less aggressive and more easy-going. This seemed to be a good thing, but she was not used to it.

However, no matter what Master CHU? becomes, she just needs to do her own thing. Thinking of this, she pinched the ends of her hair, and the wig changed to white and green. The [Change] refined with external filth has no other effect except enhancing filth resistance, but PAREO can change her color at will, making it much more convenient for her to switch hair color.

"Oh, Maya's color?" Shiko's voice came from behind.

PAREO turned around: "Yes!" She smiled naturally. She felt very lucky to meet someone who was also a fan of Paspale here, not to mention that Shizi also risked his life to support her.

Shizi was sitting on a bench at this time, with a few command flags on one side and a copy of the "Mahayana Mahasamghika Sutra of the Ten Wheels of Ksitigarbha" on the other.

The scripture was handed to Pareo as soon as it was refined. After Pareo came out, it was returned to Shizi. Shizi studied it for a few days, as if he wanted to do something. Yazi was watching beside him.

Seeing that PAREO was paying attention, Shizi picked up a banner. "I want to try to sew the scripture into the banner, and then put the [Blue Sky Fairy Sound Palace] into the flagpole. When the time comes, if we encounter any monsters, I will wave my hand -" She really waved her hand, "the banner will fly out, and set up a seven evil soul-locking formation!"

"I understand!" Yazi imitated Shizi and waved his hand.

PAREO maintained an awkward smile. To be honest, she didn't understand at all. What is Biluo... maybe it's the jade slip that copied Liang's ability? Or something else... never mind, as long as Shizi is happy. She turned around and continued to pay attention to CHU?

The smell of cake came from MASKING.

Five days later, CHU? has not fully recovered, but the AI has initially restored its functions. She can live in the armor and lead a normal life.

Two days later, the speedboat entered a large lake.

CHU?Looking towards the horizon. According to the map, this should be very close to the Twin Trees of Life and Wisdom in the center of the Garden of Eden. In the previous city, the shadows of the trees were obscured by the purple clouds in the sky.

And now, outside the lake, everything was pure black.

Chapter 56: City in the Lake

The lake didn't look big, but it wasn't small either. Shizi compared it silently in his mind and felt that it was much bigger than the world-famous lake in his hometown, but compared to those big lakes that had a touch of blue on the national map, it was just a small shrimp.

The lake water was still blood red. During this time, Shizi tried to treat this phenomenon as a red tide, so that he would not be too uncomfortable.

The speedboat continued to speed across the blood lake.

Chu? looked behind him. In the direction he came from, there was only a quiet darkness. The darkness surrounded the lake shore, extending upwards, covering the entire lake in a hemispherical shape, and extending to the other side. This place looked like a small world with a round sky and a square earth. There was no light source in the dark background, but there was a faint light from nowhere filling the space, allowing Chu? to see the abandoned city in the center of the lake in the distance.

There are no tall buildings, only two or three-story gray buildings. From a distance, the buildings are densely crowded on the blood-red lake, like bacterial plaque growing on rotten meat.

"Venice..." she heard Pareo mutter. Pareo was right beside her, so he could hear it.

"But this is in the lake," MASKING added, "It's more like Tenochtitlan than Venice."

"Tenochi..." Ako thought it was very cool and tried to repeat the name, but then her tongue got tied.

CHU? magnified the scene in his eyes. In the dim vision, the first thing he noticed was the continuous, ochre-red roofs, all covered with tiles, with a low slope. Most of the buildings in the city have this kind of roof.

The color of the wall is also uniform, but it is not very clear in dim light, probably because the color is relatively light. CHU? Start AI and process the image.

However, the next moment, she narrowed her eyes.

The wall was not egg white, not canary yellow, not white.

It's gray. The color of tombstones.

Moreover, the wall was translucent. According to analysis, the wall was undulating just like the water surface beside them, and something could be seen through the wall, but what it was could not be seen.

Suddenly, a guitar strummed. Based on her understanding of other people's instruments during this period, Chu turned her head reflexively and looked at Yili. The latter looked frightened, as if she suddenly saw a stranger talking to her.

"What's wrong?" Kita was beside her, grabbing Ichiri's shoulders.

Yili said nothing, but shook his head and pointed behind the speedboat. In the wake behind the speedboat, a large piece of ice floated up, and a dark shadow was trapped inside.

Yukina's face fell. She had already seen what the black figure was: a strange-looking mermaid, a common sight among water monsters.

This kind of thing is also common. When I was on a raft going to the sea before, I often froze the monsters coming from the bottom of the water like this.

But it's different now. We are in the Garden of Eden now. According to the memories that Kita and Chu saw, there should be no monsters in the Garden of Eden. Did the catastrophe destroy something and allow monsters to infiltrate here?

However, if it was infiltrated from the outside, why was it not discovered before, and only found in this place close to the core of the Garden of Eden? Is it because the concentration of filth here is relatively high, what kind of attraction does it have to them?

For a moment, Youxina had a lot of thoughts in her mind, but she did not stop her hands. She wrapped the speedboat with thorns and asked others to strengthen their defenses.

"This lake... I can't see too far in it." Yili was still frightened. In ordinary water bodies, her perception could extend at least ten meters, but now it was only a few meters at most. Just now, the mermaid suddenly appeared in her perception and almost hit the speedboat. Fortunately, she reacted quickly.

But now she remembered: the speedboat was also equipped with the same protective equipment as the airship, so it would be fine even if it really hit. She secretly glanced at others, hoping that no one had thought of this. If they really thought of it... maybe someone had already thought of it but didn't show it to avoid embarrassing me... Yili shrank back and shivered.

Kita stood by with her hands raised, not knowing what to do. Even after spending so much time together, she still couldn't keep up with Ichiri's train of thought. She looked towards the bow. If it was Shiko, she would probably be able to tell her what Ichiri was thinking right now.

So jealous.

She curled her lips and let Yili stay there, then turned her head and looked at the sky nearby. Since there were monsters in the lake, there might be monsters in the sky too. Although there was a shield, she still had to be prepared.

Fortunately, there were no signs of other monsters except for the occasional tremors from the bottom of the boat. The speedboat quickly approached the city in the lake.

As we get closer, we can see more details.

The walls of the building were indeed all grey, and seemed to be made of gas. With Yukina's eyesight, he could barely see that there seemed to be living things in the building. There were waterways between the buildings, which replaced the streets, and the buildings were built directly on the water. In the center of the city boundary, there was a very wide river, which seemed to be the central waterway.

Even though the building materials are different, the architectural style is extremely obvious.

"It's really Venice..." CHU? heard PAREO mutter.

"Should we go into the city? Or just go around?" Shizi asked. This city didn't look safe at all.

If you can take a detour, you should do it. The speedboat turned around and went far away from the city, heading to the other side of the lake.

However, the speedboat stopped soon. The lake shore was nowhere to be seen. The darkness covered the lake. If we wanted to find the upstream estuary, we had to rush in. We might as well go into the city. The speedboat circled along the edge of darkness and returned to where it started.

"Ah." Youxina sighed softly, "Let's go into the city."

Maybe there is a way to leave.

The speedboat was difficult to control in the small river, so Shi Zi turned and headed into the central waterway.

The wall of smoke was receding rapidly on both sides. Although the wall was made of gas, the roof was still made of normal tiles. As the speedboat passed by with a loud roar, living things gathered at the walls of each house, flapping the smoke and roaring at everyone.

"Why do I feel like... those monsters are all humanoid?" Lisa shrank to Yuki's side, not showing her usual mature look, but trembling with fear. She had almost no fighting ability, and was most afraid of monsters, not to mention that they gathered in a place that was almost within reach.

Rikka also leaned towards MASKING, trembling with fear.

Yukina didn't say anything. She could see clearly that those monsters were indeed humanoid. In other words, they looked exactly like humans.

Next to her, CHU? muttered: "Two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, two hands, two legs..." Her AI analyzed the result - human. At least in appearance, they are exactly the same as humans.

"Zombie?" She blurted out her guess without realizing it.

"Ah! Don't say it!" Lisa screamed, covering up CHU?'s words and the roars around her.

"It's normal, right?" Liang Lao was calm and even stretched out his hand to wave at the street, "Okay~ remember to buy CDs - there are things like monsters, so it's not surprising to have zombies."

There was another slight tremor from beneath the boat.

“Could it be that the mermaid before was also…” Rikka hugged the guitar tightly.

Shizi frowned and stopped the boat: "One mile, can we just freeze this river?"

"Eh?" Yili felt a little stressed, but she nodded. "I'll try..." She began to play the guitar. A thin layer of ice began to form on the edge of the boat, which gradually expanded, but soon stopped. After a while, she put her hands down. "No, the water here is hard to freeze. I can only freeze a small piece of it by melting the water I created."

At this time, a strange female voice sounded in everyone's mind: "I am more familiar with this place."

Kita's eyes were lifeless.

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Chapter 57: Shadow in the Mist

"Are you willing to... believe me?" The voice of the remnant soul sounded in everyone's mind.

Yukina turned to Kita, whose body was now occupied by a remnant spirit: "What do you want us to do?"

Her voice was still full of caution. Although Kita said she meant no harm, after all, this journey of theirs was caused by her, and she had never provided any substantial help, so it was hard for Yuki not to be on guard against her.

"Right... dock... go to the Duke's Mansion..." The remnant soul was getting weaker and weaker. She only had time to say this sentence before she sank back into her body and returned it to Kita.

Kita blinked, woke up, and found that the others were discussing something.

"Do you want to believe it?" Shizi stopped the boat temporarily. Seeing the speedboat stagnant, the zombies on both sides became even more noisy, pretending to break the wall and rush over.

There seemed to be a fork in the waterway ahead. Since entering the city, I had not seen any bridges up to that fork. The left bank, the right bank, and the island seen in the distance at the fork made up three islands within sight.

CHU? Looking towards the right bank: There are indeed several small docks there. Some are entrances to buildings, which are full of zombies, so there is no need to worry about them. There are also some leading to the streets, but the ground is also foggy like the walls, and it doesn't look like you can stand on it.

A golden substitute flew out of MASKING's body, and he went ashore to try it out: "This ground is walkable, almost like solid ground."

Hong Xia raised her hand: "I think we can give it a try. This is the only clue anyway."

You Xina lowered his eyelids. "The intelligence only has one sentence. We don't know where the Duke's Mansion is. The environment on the shore may change at any time. We also have to consider the threat of zombies..."

"You mean, just ignore it?" Saya leaned against the edge of the boat.

"I mean to go ashore." Youxina said in a deep voice.

"Huh?" Hearing such contrasting words, CHU? couldn't help but ask a question.

"As Ijichi-san said, this is the only clue," Yukina said.

She turned to CHU?, who was wrapped in a black iron shell. "What about you?"

"What?" CHU? She didn't react for a moment. When she asked the question, she realized that others were waiting for her opinion. "... Haven't you already decided?"

Her words seemed to be unpleasant, but her voice was powerless. PAREO finally couldn't help but worry: "CHU? Sir, is there something wrong?"

However, CHU? did not answer. She just supplemented it by asking, "Anyway, if something happens, you two will definitely take responsibility, right?" The mask covered her face, and her expression could not be seen clearly.

This sentence was a bit strange. Youxina frowned: "Of course. Any other questions?"

"No more." Chu turned her head away. Although others couldn't see her face, she still made this move instinctively.

Yukina's eyelids narrowed slightly. She looked away: "Any other opinions?"

"Yes." Sayo also turned her gaze away from CHU?, "I suggest waiting for a while to see if there are any changes."

Yukina tilted his head in confusion: "What do you mean by change...?"

"Is it the kind in the game, the boss that only reappears during a certain period of time?" Yazi was sitting in his seat, leaning into the boat, swaying.

"Indeed...it's possible...I agree with Hikawa-san's opinion..." Rinko also agreed.

For some reason, Sayo blushed, "It has nothing to do with the game. This is just necessary caution."

"Okay, okay." Shizi showed the same "I understand" face as the giraffe, stood up, stretched, and said, "Then wait."

Apart from the constant roaring on the shore, this period of time seemed a bit boring. Liang had been dozing with his arms propped up, and suddenly opened his eyes: "That roar just now felt good."

"What?" Kita had been keeping his eyes on the shore without turning his head, but when he heard Liang's words, he still responded.

"It's the sound 'Ah——'." Ryo looked at Kita, "You can use it in the new song."

Kita turned around in disbelief: "Huh? Do you mean I should sing?"

Shizi touched her chin and said, "If it's in this style, should the melody be like this--" She raised her hand, used the speedboat engine as a musical instrument, and played a melody.

"Concentrate." Sayo stared at the window on the street and frowned, "But the tone seems a bit too high."

CHU? looked in another direction and finally couldn't help but said, "And it's a bit messy in the middle."

"If this is the case..." Rinko also joined in the fun.

“Dongdong—” Yazi tapped his fingers, “Pound!”

Most of the people started to discuss. They hadn't played music for a long time, and they were all a little bored. Yukina had a cold face and didn't participate. However, Hongxia also started to join in. Seeing her serious face, she deliberately changed the style of the song to gothic rock. Now, Yukina couldn't keep silent.

"This..." As soon as she opened her mouth, everyone fell silent, waiting for her to speak. However, the next moment, Yukina's expression became serious again: "There is movement, pay attention."

A thin layer of mist rose up from the river bank and gradually became thicker. The double fork in the distance was soon hidden in the thick mist. As the mist thickened, the roars around became clearer.