Now that Lu Shi had fainted, he felt a long-forgotten sense of fear. It was as if he was realizing for the first time just how vast the distance was between humans and gods.
Lu Shi still did not react, but his physical strength was actually maintained at the safe level of 60.
"I should have told you sooner." Ye Bugui hugged Lu Shi tightly. What made him even more desperate was that the Black Tai Sui's tentacles still didn't attack them. It was as if it didn't care about them at all.
Why would an elephant intentionally step on a mosquito? It simply can't see it.
"Don't look directly at God," Ye Bugui whispered in Lu Shi's ear as he held him.
Unfortunately, Ye Bugui's voice could no longer reach Lu Shi.
After he used his skill, Lu Shi realized that his ability had succeeded and he had seen the truth.
However, he never expected that what he was seeing was the truth of the Black Tai Sui descending to earth.
He entered an ancient memory, the protagonist of which was a group of living dead buried underground and used as nourishment.
"Qiangzi! Qiangzi is home!" The elderly woman sat by the river. She put her clothes there, scrubbed them, and then washed them clean in the water.
Not far away, a little boy with his bare bottom was swimming in the water.
When he saw the bubbles from washing clothes floating towards him, he even tried to catch them.
"Hurry up!" The mother frowned. "It'll be dark soon, and you'll be taken away by the water ghost tonight!"
Hearing his mother's words, the little boy shook his head dismissively and said softly:
"Mom, I'm not a primary school student anymore. There are no water ghosts in this world!"
That's what they said, but the child still quickly got up and changed his clothes.
When he put on his clothes, he found himself tripping over something.
The boy, who was already soaking wet, slipped and fell heavily into the water.
"Mother!"
The boy struggled desperately in the water, feeling something gripping his legs and preventing him from getting out.
At that moment, the word "water ghost" immediately came to mind for the boy.
His expression changed; he couldn't believe he had actually encountered a water ghost.
What puzzled the little boy even more was that his mother had just been standing by the river waiting for him to come home.
But in the blink of an eye, there was no one left on the riverbank.
He had no choice but to give up resisting and sank into the water.
But something amazing happened: the little boy found that he didn't feel suffocated at all after entering the water.
He seemed to have been reborn.
Could it be that he is already dead and has become a ghost?
Propelled by the water, the little boy eventually reached the bottom, where he saw a large, yellow, rock-like mass of flesh pressing down on the seabed.
He initially thought it was a stone, but when he touched it, it felt like something alive, slippery.
More importantly, he also saw bubbles coming out of the lump of flesh, which indicated that it was alive.
The discovery did not frighten the little boy. As a child, his first thought was that the lump of flesh was some kind of rare underwater creature.
He even fantasized that he could live a life of comfort and security thanks to this discovery.
The little boy then picked up the ball of flesh with all his might, and it floated directly to the surface of the water.
And so, the little boy carried the ball of flesh home.
His parents looked surprised when he brought the thing home.
"What's wrong?" the little boy asked, puzzled.
The father walked over to the ball of flesh, squatted down, and reached out to gently stroke it.
"This looks like a Tai Sui (a type of rare fungus)."
"Tai Sui?" the little boy didn't understand.
“Never mind that,” the father said seriously. “This thing is the embodiment of a deity, and we must worship it. But Qiangzi, since you found it, it means you are destined for it. I think you will definitely get into a good university in the future.”
When Lu Shi saw this, he realized that the background of this memory was Ye Bugui's world.
However, Tai Sui and Black Tai Sui should be two different things.
Qiangzi nodded, but his eyes revealed his joy.
When the night was deep and quiet, Qiangzi quietly ran out of his room and came back to the living room.
At this time, Tai Sui has replaced the God of Wealth and is placed in the most conspicuous position in the living room.
For Qiangzi, the thing he cares about most right now is whether he can make a wish upon Tai Sui.
Yes, for young children, their understanding of deities is very simple.
That is, the gods can grant their wishes.
As the one who discovered the Tai Sui, Qiangzi should also have this right.
So he knelt before the Grand Duke Jupiter and whispered, "Grand Duke Jupiter, may I make a wish to you?"
Unexpectedly, Tai Sui actually answered him: "If you eat me, you will live forever."
Lu Shi was shocked when he saw this. Isn't immortality what they cultivators have always been pursuing?
If biting into a Tai Sui (a type of rare fungus) really could grant immortality, then Lu Shi wouldn't want to cultivate immortality at all.
As an ordinary person, Qiangzi simply could not resist such temptation.
So Qiangzi walked up to the Tai Sui without hesitation and took a bite out of it.
It had a strange texture, as if he wasn't biting into a solid object, but rather a wisp of air.
From Lu Shi's perspective, however, he could see very clearly that Tai Sui transformed into a cloud of black energy and entered Qiangzi's body.
Qiangzi didn't keep the secret of immortality for long before he told his parents.
The elderly couple did as instructed.
However, humans are inherently greedy, and once they attained immortality, they desired even more.
So they began to make all sorts of wishes to Tai Sui, and Tai Sui actually granted them all.
Moreover, as long as a little bit of the flesh of the Tai Sui is left, it can grow automatically, just like a perpetual motion machine.
Gradually, the changes in Qiangzi's family could no longer be kept secret from the villagers, so the whole village started eating the meat of the Tai Sui.
As long as you eat the flesh of the Tai Sui, you can have one wish fulfilled.
Even Lu Shi himself couldn't resist such temptation.
Soon, the prototype of the Dream Come True Group emerged.
It originated from the villagers' unrealistic fantasies, which all came true with the help of Tai Sui.
Unfortunately, what they encountered was not Tai Sui at all, but an evil god named Black Tai Sui.
It deceived these people from beginning to end, weaving a huge illusion with their greedy desires, and then making these people the nourishment for its growth.
The legend of the Black Tai Sui even led a certain obstetrician to become its believer...
After Lu Shi saw through the truth, he finally woke up.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Ye Bugui with red eyes. At that moment, Lu Shi thought he was still in the illusion.
"What's wrong?" Lu Shi asked softly.
"You... Lu Shi, you're awake?" Ye Bugui was extremely excited: "I thought you would never wake up again!"
"I was just having a dream." Lu Shi immediately got up from Ye Bugui's arms, then looked up at the ceiling; the Black Tai Sui was still lying there. "It didn't attack you?"
“No.” The person who answered him was Modi: “It just seems to be lying there, doing nothing.”
"How could this be?" Lu Shi seemed somewhat surprised, and then he recounted everything he had seen in his dream.
Ye Bugui gradually smiled, raising an eyebrow as if he had found a way to break the deadlock:
"I think we need to go back underground again."
“That’s what I think too,” Lu Shi replied tacitly.
Modi shrugged; he knew his opinion didn't matter.
Chapter 69
☪ Dream Come True Group (The End)
Do you think it will stop us?
Lu Shi couldn't help but be drawn to the Black Tai Sui, whose tentacles covered the surrounding area, out of the corner of his eye.
He also knew that if this thing got even slightly serious, all three of them would probably die here.
“No.” Modi shook his head, his tone barely certain. “This must be part of the dungeon's design! If the goal was for us to kill him, then they shouldn't have given us so few players.”
“That’s true.” Ye Bugui rarely praised Modi. “Although we all know that this system is thinking about killing us all all day long, it is still reasonable and would never throw us into a dungeon with no hope of clearing it.”
"There are already few players in this instance, and we've already encountered such a significant obstacle as amnesia. So I think all we need to do is find a way to leave this place, just like the goal the system has given us."
Although Lu Shi largely agreed with Ye Bugui's earlier statements, he still expressed his own opinion at this point:
"Remember the system warning we received earlier, telling us not to let the chairman find out? Is it possible that Black Tai Sui and the chairman are actually two different people?"
Modi was taken aback for a moment, but upon closer reflection, Lu Shi's statement made a lot of sense.
"Possibly. But our immediate priority should be to go underground."
Lu Shi had no objection to this, so he followed Mo Di and Ye Bugui and jumped down into the crack in the ground without hesitation.
Just as they had predicted, the underground was interconnected.
They followed the path through the ground and soon found the spot they had visited before, which was covered with small white flowers.
This time, they had just stepped inside when, unexpectedly, all the tiny white flowers that covered the ground sprouted up from the ground.
Unlike before, this time the undead under the white flower have become more aggressive.