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Chapter 542 - 218: Futile Efforts

Chapter 542: Chapter 218: Futile Efforts

Huge tentacles sprang out from the stairway and heavily struck the door of room 409. Heart Stealer, with its keen sense, quickly realized Li Changhe’s thoughts and, without any hesitation, completely disregarding Li Changhe’s anchor point status, initiated an attack.

However, the tentacles, capable of tearing apart a ship, couldn’t leave any traces on the door.

The room had an absolute isolation mechanism, and any external force would be cut off.

This allowed Li Changhe and Xiao Nan, who had already entered the room, to avoid all danger.

"Humans! You will regret this. When you fall asleep, I’ll make you witness the most terrible nightmares." Hearing Heart Stealer’s threat, Li Changhe in the room was not surprised.

Divine creatures were naturally terrifying, and Heart Stealer had left a back-up plan when blessing itself. This was to guard against Li Changhe making any destructive plans.

"Unfortunately, you have no chance now." Inside the room, Li Changhe looked through the observation window and saw the scene in the hall.

At the moment, there were five... no, four Abnormalities that had broken out from the containment of the fifth floor.

Heart Stealer, White Night, Nothingness, and Apocalypse Bird.

If placed in any city, they would cause the most dreadful disaster.

But now, they were on the Dream Cruise, facing the invincible captain within the ship, with only one path left—failure.

What remained was to see how long they could hold on.

The only difficulty of the plan was opening the rooms on the fifth floor.

They would indeed respond to humans, but once the room was opened, they would be attacked by the Abnormalities within.

And apart from the Holder girl, everyone else would die within the first moments.

Not everyone had the self-preservation ability of the box.

With Li Changhe’s original attributes, opening room 502 of Nothingness would have killed him instantly.

Fortunately, White Night and the others wanted to exploit Li Changhe’s anchor point, so they had given him a powerful blessing.

However, Dog Brother wasn’t so lucky. The moment Li Changhe climbed over the fence of the fifth floor.

Dog Brother let out a sharp scream, apparently suffering an attack from Nothingness.

The powerful force from the attack even transferred onto Li Changhe.

After removing the Azure Flame mask, Li Changhe’s eyes were bloodshot, and after several dry heaves, he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Despite having a 70% damage reduction given by White Night, he still took a decent amount of damage. It felt as if a sharp knife had cut through his body.

Xiao Nan, on the other hand, activated her Demon Armor before entering room 509. At the moment, she wore a tight blue scale armor, her soft hair bound by an ancient crown, and a gorgeous water mantle draped over her shoulders.

This was the Demon Armor of Demon Baal, luxurious like a king, yet irresistibly charming.

But there was a deep scratch on her slender left leg.

That Apocalypse Bird attack could shred the Demon Armor’s defenses. Had she run a little slower, the consequences would have been unthinkable.

"Are you okay?" Yun Ting didn’t look back at Li Changhe, nor did she care about the wound on her calf. Instead, she faced off against the indescribable dark shadows in the room, wielding her sword.

After entering the room, Li Changhe’s blessing disappeared along with it. This also signified the return of Tingdaros Hound’s freedom.

Yun Ting, who had disappeared from everyone’s view, had also arrived here early after retrieving the Insect God Shell from room 308. She now took out the Sanction Nails and looked at the Tingdaros Hound.

Black Fog gathered in the corner of the room, and several pairs of crimson eyes emerged. However, it didn’t recklessly attack.

It was quite injured.

Coming to such a bizarre place, it bore things it shouldn’t have.

First, White Night and Heart Stealer, and finally, it blocked Nothingness’s attack for Li Changhe.

It had endured too much, and this made it extremely furious.

It was known for its persistence in stalking prey at all costs, across time and space boundaries, until the prey was killed.

Yet at this moment, it surprisingly thought about giving up on the idea of eating this prey—’Maybe I shouldn’t eat this prey.’

"Calm down, Dog Brother, didn’t you get some good stuff this time too?" Li Changhe wiped the blood off his mouth and approached the Black Fog, asking: "How was the taste of Corpse Face? That’s an incredibly powerful Abnormality. It must have been quite beneficial for you, right?"

Corpse Face, the Abnormality that was first beaten up by the captain and later caught in White Night’s attack, had quietly disappeared in the earlier Black Fog.

Li Changhe knew best that Dog Brother had taken the opportunity to swallow Corpse Face.

Poor Corpse Face, so formidable yet encountered with the invincible captain in the ship, eventually fell prey to Dog Brother.

"..."

The Tingdaros Hound in the Black Fog didn’t respond.

Li Changhe continued: "Wasn’t our cooperation this time successful enough? You’re seriously injured now, even if you’re undying and indestructible, you wouldn’t want to fight with us again, would you?"

After hesitating a while, the Hound’s crimson eyes narrowed and glanced at Xiao Nan next to Li Changhe.

It could sense that the human girl had a similar strength to the Mermaid who had severely injured it in the past.

And the prey it had tagged was no longer as vulnerable as when they first met.

Li Changhe also posed a certain degree of danger to it. It couldn’t eat him this time... and probably wouldn’t be able to eat him next time either.

"Human..." To everyone’s surprise, Dog Brother actually uttered a human voice.

Although very harsh and strange, it sounded like someone who hadn’t spoken in many years and momentarily forgot how to speak.

"After eating Corpse Face, Dog Brother gained this ability." Li Changhe thought to himself, while Dog Brother’s voice gradually stabilized and became proficient, even with a slight similarity to Li Changhe’s voice. Its learning ability was horrifying.

"Next...time. I...want similar food. Or I’ll devour you."

Dog Brother unexpectedly laid down conditions, as if intending to use Li Changhe as a long-term meal ticket.

And it seemed that after gaining enough benefits, the prey Li Changhe didn’t seem to be so important to it anymore.

Unfortunately, one could only have a single Symbiotic Body; otherwise, Li Changhe would definitely coax Dog Brother into signing a Symbiotic Covenant.

However, with this...

"Of course, next time, we’ll cooperate even more happily." Li Changhe responded with a smile, "So, I look forward to it."

Those indescribable dark shadows retreated back into the Black Fog, and soon the Black Fog dissipated.

The Tingdaros Hound left the Dream Cruise.

At the same time, there was a change in Li Changhe’s [Player Panel].

The curse of the Tingdaros Hound became the gaze of the Tingdaros Hound.

[It no longer wants to kill you. You might even try to summon it, but if you fail to pay the price, it will devour you utterly.]

Simultaneously, various powerful forces surged in the hall. The divine Abnormalities revealed their own formidable strength.

But, facing the invincible captain within the ship, all their efforts were in vain.

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