how come……
Compared with Rachel, who was already looking stupid, Li Min's psychological quality is obviously much stronger.
Even so, the violent blow in front of her still shook her finally clear mind to the point of collapse.
But even though she couldn't understand it, she still grabbed Rachel and retreated frantically, while the frost quickly gathered in front of her eyes to form a shield.
She didn’t think she could create a defense stronger than the cliff, but she had to do something——
A crisp cracking sound sounded, and Li Min was shocked. She realized that root tips were growing crazily on the newly condensed ice shield, and they spread all the way forward, rushing straight into the water below the cliff.
don't want……
Although I knew that the power form in the Sea of Ashes was unstable, I never expected that something would go wrong at this time.
He originally wanted to avoid being noticed as much as possible, but ended up attacking the divine creature in reverse. Li Min felt a sense of despair in his heart for a moment.
However, as the frost overflowed, Li Min, who was dragging Rachel with him and ready to bear the wrath of the divine creature at any time, found himself surprisingly quiet the next moment.
Missing?
There are no traces of huge tentacles on the sea surface covered with broken ice.
"That thing...is hidden in the water?"
At this time, Rachel finally came back to her senses, her voice trembling slightly.
"No."
Li Min shook his head.
"He's not there anymore, I'm sure of it."
"gone?"
Rachel was stunned for a moment, and after subconsciously breathing a sigh of relief, many doubts arose.
"Then what is He here to do? Not to kill us?"
"It looks like, with the performance just now, if we really want to kill him, we will never be able to escape."
I can't resist it either.
Looking at the cliff that no longer existed, Li Min silently added in his heart.
"I always feel that it's not the legendary Poseidon. He's not that manic. He's a divine creature. Is that the one you met?"
"Um."
Rachel nodded with certainty.
"It's strange. If it was the kind of attack just now, it's hard to imagine that you would have a chance to escape here, and there would be such a prank-like behavior, wait a minute -"
Li Min seemed to realize something.
"He's not killing, He's driving!"
drive away...
Rachel was horrified by her friend's inference, and she lowered her head and muttered to herself.
"It does seem like... we leave with one hit every time, but it's always at a critical node, so we have only one choice. We enter here step by step... just like a flock of sheep..."
The more she talked, the more frightened she became, and Rachel looked bitter.
"No matter what the purpose is, it seems that you are right. The situation is far less optimistic than imagined."
"Don't be discouraged."
Li Min comforted her calmly.
"Think of the best in everything. At least you don't have to run out anymore. The purpose of trying to make contact has been achieved."
"……Yes."
Although her friend was completely unrecognizable, Rachel's familiar behavior made her feel a little more at ease for a while.
"So what do we do now? Venture deeper and see if we can get rid of this guy?"
"Or should we go and join those people?"
Rachel pointed in the direction as she walked back and forth, her implication being clear.
Rather than being targeted by a monster with unknown purpose alone, it is better to use the crowd to distract your attention.
"When I came out, what I told them was to investigate. Now that I have brought such news back, I can definitely make a deal."
"Neither."
Li Min decisively rejected her proposal.
"Don't go looking for them, and don't go deeper. Let's find a place to hide."
"Like you said before, I know a very nice place."
…
"It's unimaginable that there could be such a hole in it."
After a while, Rachel looked around, unable to conceal her surprise.
The place where Li Min took her was a cave near the top of the floating island, which was quite secluded.
Not only is it not small in scale, but in the absence of biological growth, the walls are gray and white and even feel inexplicably dry.
"Our ship was completely unrecognizable just now. I can't think of any force that could erode a hole in it."
"That's because it wasn't eroded in the first place."
Walking to a corner to rest and conserve energy to the maximum extent, Li Min explained casually.
"It's like you can't imagine how such a solid island could disappear overnight."
"Although they appear to be unconscious dead things, they grow out of the ups and downs of the entire sea of ash."
"This also determines that they will also dissipate unpredictably, or die."
"Everything here is like that."
As if in response to Li Min's words, without any warning, a thin layer of raindrops fell outside, and the entrance of the cave instantly turned into a curtain of water.
The rain is the same as the sea, also glowing with a dead gray color.
"You're not here specifically to take me out of the rain, are you?"
Rachel, whose previous two suggestions had been rejected outright, seemed to be in a good mood.
Faced with this sudden change, I was even in the mood to make a joke.
"Now can you explain why we are hiding?"
"Simple, as to why He drove you in, I just thought of an answer."
Li Min didn't sell out.
"It's not teasing, nor is it expecting you guys to confess anything. He may be looking for food."
"Foraging?"
This answer shocked Rachel and was obviously difficult to understand.
"But He clearly didn't eat us."
"You are not food, but bait."
…
"He drove you in because he was waiting for something else."
"Use us to fish out real food?"
Rachel realized it all at once.
"This is why He neither kills us nor lets us go...it does seem to be a lot more reasonable."
"But doesn't it mean that everything inside the Sea of Ashes will be meaningless as soon as it leaves? Why is he looking for this kind of food that will kill him?"
"I can't explain clearly, but at present this seems to be the most reasonable explanation. I can only understand that because of some special reason, He no longer cares about this."
Li Min shook his head.
"But it doesn't matter. As long as the other baits work, we will know the answer to the question."
"So that's why you didn't let me join them..."
Rachel was thoughtful.
"Yes, what we need to do is to survive longer than other baits until the bait loses its meaning."
"Baits that are put together are more likely to attract predators, so during this period, you should try to minimize contact with them."
Li Min's voice became lower and lower as he went on. Rachel looked at him strangely and found that the latter was looking at the direction of the cave entrance intently.
Looking over, I saw a figure gradually becoming clearer in the rain curtain, and the next moment I even poked my head in to take a look.
"Excuse me, could you please come in and take shelter from the rain?"
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