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Chapter 377 - 86 Gu Pan: Beyond the Sea is... (Request for Monthly Ticket)_3

Chapter 377: Chapter 86 Gu Pan: Beyond the Sea is... (Request for Monthly Ticket)_3

Following that, a male corpse with a fatal wound—a large hole in the chest and abdomen—was dug up.

After clearing the mud covering his face, Tang Yuming suddenly exclaimed and could no longer sit still.

"How could this be... how can it be me... could I already be dead?"

Tang Yuming staggered backward, his face deathly pale.

The excavated corpse was not just any Tang Family member; it was clearly himself!

At this moment, his expression changed continuously, from being initially pleased when he discovered the body, to displeased upon realizing it was a Tang Family member, and now to being horrified upon discovering the corpse was his own.

The rapid change in his expression and the richness of his facial expressions could truly qualify him as a master of face-changing.

The sudden, eerie scene also shocked the bystanders inexplicably, yet someone still kindly advised, "Don’t get agitated, it might just be an illusion."

"Right, you are clearly alive, how could it be a dead man?"

"Don’t scare yourself; clearly, we are all the same. If you are a dead man, does that mean we all are too?"

"This is clearly fake; it might just be a dummy. I suspect the person who left the markings is the mastermind behind this place."

"Yes, that’s right!"

Amidst the clamor, Tang Yuming’s complexion improved slightly. However, seeing the familiar-looking corpse on the ground, he felt unnerved, experiencing a bizarre sense.

At this moment, he almost wanted to flee this place and never return.

However, Gu Pan seriously glanced at Tang Yuming.

The discovery of one’s own corpse was actually not surprising to her; if all went as she expected, when they opened the lighthouse door, everyone present would see their decayed corpses within.

But there were two strange points.

Firstly, she carefully recalled her memories and realized that in past cycles, this Tang Yuming always disappeared during major battles, and she didn’t know whether he had deserted or had been captured.

Secondly, though everyone would soon see corpses wearing their clothes, those corpses were either rotten or reduced to skeletons, making it impossible to discern their true faces— only through certain accessories and such clues could they feel it was themselves.

In terms of shock, it was far less than that of the corpse of "Tang Yuming" currently in front of them.

After all, this was a fresh corpse, and though the body was cold, it hadn’t yet decayed, as fresh as it was initially, not having been dead for long.

"Something is off..." She stepped forward, cleaved the corpse on the ground in two.

Tang Yuming’s eyelids twitched. "Damn it, Gu Qian, what are you doing!"

He was genuinely startled. When "his" body on the ground was split open, he inexplicably felt as if he himself was also being sliced in half, feeling a shiver run down his spine and the hair on his back stand on end.

Gu Pan, expressionless, observed the evenly split corpse, looking at the patterns of blood and flesh, yellow fat, red meat, white bone, grey brain, and lungs.

"It’s a real corpse." Gu Pan retracted her gaze, bringing the bad news, glanced at Tang Yuming and casually asked, "How many cigarettes do you smoke a day?"

"About a pack and a half, maybe less than two packs. Why?" Tang Yuming was perplexed, but still answered subconsciously.

"Then this might really be you." Gu Pan pointed to the grey-black lungs in the corpse, said it, and walked toward the supply point ahead, leaving Tang Yuming and the others exchanging glances, with the former looking as pale as death.

Is this really me? Tang Yuming was enveloped by immense fear.

At that moment, Gu Pan had already walked up to Tang Rou.

The latter looked at this young man with a fierce killing aura, who seemed to have courted a widow and appeared to be very daring, slightly lifting her chin. "How is it over there?"

Considering the situation had drastically changed from all her previous cycles, Gu Pan weighed her thoughts for a moment. She chose to avoid talking about the cycle and simply stated, "Over there, Tang Yuming’s corpse appeared. I suspect this place is an open ruins; we’ve fallen into the ruins and can’t get out for now."

Comparatively speaking, this direct conclusion about the possibility of the ruins was more convincing than the obscure and hard to explain "cycle."

"Ruins?" Song Qixing asked softly, questioning.

Of course, any skepticism vanished once Gu Pan said, "The Promotion Drive won’t open, don’t believe me? Try it for yourselves."

Noticing this, Tang Rou let her beautiful eyes wander, taking a few extra glances at "Gu Qian."

"It’s odd about the ruins," Song Qixing said, stroking his chin and questioning again, "As per rules, we shouldn’t have been able to enter the interior of the ruins without using the Heart Fire Incense Burner, a special barrier should have kept us outside."

Unlike his occupation as a "Fire Mage" which characteristically comes with a hot-tempered and irritable nature, in reality, he was someone adept at questioning and thinking, earning the nickname of a nitpicker.

He looked at everyone, particularly at Tang Rou, and smiled, "They are all newbies, who haven’t entered the ruins before, so it’s understandable. But you should know that after the Heart Fire Incense Burner is exhausted, if we are still inside, we should be dispelled from the ruins."

"That makes sense," Tang Rou became slightly suspicious.

Gu Pan, frowning, said, "Open ruins may be different from other common ruins, for instance, they might be present inside the borderline."

Exactly!

Song Qixing chuckled and glanced at Gu Pan, thinking of the secret rumors that the Gu Family had a secret base hiding an entrance to a special ruin. It seemed these rumors could hardly be dismissed as unfounded.

However, that was a matter for later. For now, he looked around and said with a smile, "Gu Qian has a point as well, anything is possible. If it really is such special ruins, then we might be in danger. On the wasteland, the highest are First-tier Monsters, but in the ruins, the limit could be anything."

"Good to know," Gu Pan thought inwardly while pouting.

"As for the specifics, we will see right away. Since this place is so bizarre, I won’t stand on ceremony anymore."

With that, Song Qixing gathered a bright flame in his palm, continuously condensing it into a dense fireball, then without hesitation, he smashed it at the gate of the supply point lighthouse.

"Fire Mage," "Flame Strike"!

In the enormous booming explosion, it seemed as though the entire lighthouse was shaking.

This made Gu Pan stare wide-eyed for a moment; before this, Song Qixing always charged to the front and was instantly killed by the giant monster octopus, showing nothing particularly impressive.

But until this moment, she finally realized just how strong the other party was.

This was the power of a Second Rank max-level Transcendent!

As the dust and smoke rolled away, a bizarre salty scent suddenly appeared before everyone, and they also saw what was behind it.

"Ah?"

Everyone was stunned.

Tang Rou and other descendants of the Tang family stared ahead blankly, mouths agape in shock.

And Song Qixing, who personally blew open the gate, almost popped his eyes out.

Inside the gate, there wasn’t a lighthouse interior.

Instead, it was a vast expanse of shimmering seawater.

Specifically, a strait.

The water surface had layers; above was the blue expanse of the sea, less than ten meters away, the color became dull and gloomy.

Further below, the color darkened progressively, less than fifty meters down, it turned pitch black.

Bottomless, black as ink, like a monster of the Abyss had opened its immense jaws.

The terrifying and immense pressure hit them, making everyone feel as if they were in a dream.

"It can’t be... How could this..."

Even Second Rank beings like Song Qixing and Tang Rou were mouthing in disbelief, despite their reluctance to believe. But this distinctive, unmistakable seascape already explained everything, and almost in unison they said:

"This is..."

"Sea of Death!"