Volume 13: The Son of Darkness, the Lord of the Netherworld, the Happy One Chapter 34: The Real Time Bug
The collection of mission items went relatively smoothly. Lu Mei first went to a side temple sacrificial site mentioned in the intelligence records. It was a place that the cult had previously allocated to the people for sacrifice.
There, Lu Mei found an escaped insect cultist. After defeating the wild boar zombies he created, she successfully killed him and obtained the fragment of time in his hand.
Then he successfully found another insect cultist in the big library in the city.
He used the fragments of time to successfully transform some zombies into insects. Then, when necessary, he could summon these insects together, merge them with himself, and transform into a powerful swarm of insects.
It was also a bit difficult for Lu Mei to deal with it. Fortunately, the opponent's sanity was almost worn out, and he had a strong smell of zombies. The fragments at that time could not eliminate the aging of his mind.
After completing the Great Library.
Lu Mei found another cult defector in the nearby mountains.
He also stole the fragment of time and escaped here.
Unlike the other two people, he chose to use the fragments of time as a medium to transform those zombies.
This insect integrates the fragments of time into its own body, using this method to interfere with its own body to the greatest extent, maintaining its own activity and preventing it from becoming a zombie.
They are all half soul and half body. An aging soul will cause the body to deplete, while a strong body will replenish the soul.
So, for the first time, Lu Mei saw a "normal person" in this place.
The other party was wearing a purple robe. There were no feet under the robe, but a large number of thick tentacles.
The tentacles extending from both sides of the robe are intertwined, looking like a person with his arms folded.
The top of its head does not have the empty hole and tentacles, but still has a somewhat human appearance, but is also covered with various insect features.
"I sense the aura of the other two time fragments in you." The normal insect looked at Lu Mei, but unlike other people who collected time fragments, he did not attack Lu Mei directly when he saw her. He even introduced himself: "Hello, I am the high priest of the insect cult, you can just call me the insect priest."
"You want to complete the collection of ritual items and then reverse it, right?"
"I advise you not to do this. You won't get any results from this, and it will only bring about greater disasters."
"Otherwise, why do you think I took the fragment of time and left directly?" The insect priest said very seriously, while also lifting up his purple robe slightly.
There was a transparent fragment stuck on his body. As the Insect Priest moved, it emitted a faint breath of life, allowing the Insect Priest to become healthier.
"You see, the power of time on the Fragment of Time can only ensure that my body does not age."
"There is no way for me to maintain my current state of health, or even to feed my mental state through a healthy body."
"All this is because I discovered the true utility of the Fragments of Time."
"The time worm we first designed, the ideal time worm that could make a person's body unaffected by time and thus obtain eternal life, did not completely fail."
"The Time Fragments are the raw materials of the Time Worms."
"I have mastered how to transform the Time Fragments into real Time Worms."
"Do you want to live forever?"
The words of the insect priest are extremely tempting.
In this eternal land, everyone knows that the ritual of the Insect Cult has failed.
However, it is precisely because of this knowledge that, by looking at the existence of the Eternal Land, we can verify the authenticity of the Insect Priest's words.
The fragments of time, things that this ritual strips from the time realm, may really be able to achieve eternal life.
If an ordinary person were here, he might really be moved, but Lu Mei is not an ordinary person.
Although her current strength is only at the Life level, her foundation is at the Pseudo-Sun level.
As long as she can build a reasonable power system and make it regular and condensed, she will naturally become a Sun-level power.
The so-called eternal life is just a byproduct of this process. It is not worth her taking the risk to integrate into the Worm of Time.
"You should be different from me. You have not been contaminated by the ordinary time worms here. You can still leave this eternal land."
"As long as you can help me do one thing, I will teach you how to create the real Time Worm."
"The thorn ring among the holy relics is now on the other side of the mountain. There is a guy hiding there relying on that thing. Go and give it to me."
"When the time comes, you will take the real Time Worm with you, leave this eternal land, and successfully obtain eternal life."
“Isn’t this good?”
The insect priest thought that if he said this, Lu Mei, a foreigner, would agree no matter what.
Even if they are suspicious and wary, they will still play tricks on you after getting the traded items.
But I didn't expect that after hearing all this, Lu Mei would take action directly.
The illusory power of dreams quietly invaded and was about to confuse the insect priest.
At the same time, Lu Mei's figure flashed, and by pulling out the space anchor, she achieved a space jump that was faster than the overlap of the spiritual world.
Lu Mei appeared behind the insect priest in the blink of an eye. The blade in her hand turned into an anchor at this moment. Once it stabbed the insect priest, it would anchor him completely.
At the same time, some future scenes began to play in my mind.
The dream mist is of no use to the insect priest, and when he realizes Lu Mei is about to take action, he will quickly wriggle his body to avoid being anchored, but his body will be scratched.
The injuries on the body can be recovered quickly in just one or two breaths.
However, the Insect Priest cast the Insect Curse during this process.
These future moments flashed by, and Lu Mei swung the sharp blade in her hand. Although the Insect Priest did not expect Lu Mei to attack so boldly, he also sensed the danger. His body squirmed rapidly, and the power of time acted on him, allowing him to show the ability to stop time and move away.
However, Lu Mei's blade was swung too fast, and his time stop did not really have any effect, as the tentacle on his arm had been cut by Lu Mei.
The anchoring force on the blade instantly penetrated and anchored the tentacle, and the entire tentacle suddenly lost its sensitivity.
The Insect Priest will then move away and cast a curse, which is the ability that the Insect Cult has established itself.
The so-called Time Worm was originally considered a curse.
However, before the insect priest's curse took effect, the dream power that had been interfering previously underwent a change at this moment.
The dream power, which originally had only a confusing effect, turned into tangible substance at this moment and instantly enveloped the insect priest's head.
The curse of the insect priest was interrupted in an instant, and at this moment he seemed to fall into a dream, becoming confused and no longer having any strength to resist.
Lu Mei’s dream power is naturally not that strong, but she still has the “power of her true self”.
The power of her true self is still very weak, but she discovered that any power, as long as it is blessed by the true self, can be continuously strengthened and become more powerful.
This kind of push can even act like a snowball, allowing the power to continue to increase.
Lu Mei then added this true self to the power of dreams.
The power of dreams will be rapidly strengthened.
Lu Mei used this to control and kill the insect priest.
After successfully obtaining the Fragment of Time from him, the Insect Priest's body seemed to be unanchored, and his body quickly faded away and turned into debris and dissipated.
Obviously, he had already been a zombie, but it was the fragments of time that made him what he is today.
And on this piece of fragment, Lu Mei found some traces of insects.
The fragments pierced into the side of the insect priest's body and grew something like blood vessels.
At this moment, these blood vessels are still beating continuously, like little insects trying to return to the body of the insect priest.
Lu Mei completely removed the blood vessels of the insects, and then completed the collection of the fragments of time.
Afterwards, according to the description of the insect priest, they went to the other side of the mountain and indeed found traces of a holy relic.
The three holy relics are the Time Watch, the Ring of Thorns and the Bloody Leaf.
The time pocket watch is the power of the time side, and has been transformed by Hollander into the key to the small portal.
The whereabouts of the Blood Leaf is unknown, and no trace or clues were found in the Insect Cult.
On the contrary , the information about the Thorn Ring was obtained from the Insect Priest.
This is a man-made cave, and the entrance is covered with thorns.
If the thorns at the door had not been cleared away, no one would have known that there was such a hole behind it.
And behind the entrance of the cave, Lu Mei saw a long line of expulsion lights.
Clearly, she had found the right place.
At the beginning, there was civil unrest among the people of Holland because some people were able to leave and some were not.
Two of the groups took out the remaining two relics and disappeared without a trace.
According to intelligence, these two groups of people know how to make the Lamp of Expulsion.
Lu Mei's interest in this thing actually exceeded that of the so-called Time Worm.
As she continued to go deeper, Lu Mei was attacked by a beetle-like creature.
There are a lot of these beetles, and they are not small in size, about the size of a fist, with hard shells, and most importantly, they can fly.
If it weren't in this cave, these beetles would become much more troublesome.
Lu Mei also had to rely on the group control power of dreams to completely resolve them and walk into the "main room" inside the cave.
With Lu Mei's arrival, her eyes first fell on a coffin placed in the main room.
At this moment, the coffin was shaking slightly, the lid was slowly pushed open, and a human sat up from it.
This was the first human Lu Mei saw after entering here.
His body was tied with bloody thorns, and the red color from the thorns was particularly dazzling to the eyes.
After the other person got up, he looked a little confused, and then his eyes became clearer, and then those clear eyes fell on Lu Mei.
"The Land of Eternity, has it been unlocked?" he asked.
