I Forged the Myth of the Ancient Overlords
Chapter 420 - 420 419. Strange Ceiling_1

Chapter 420: 419. Strange Ceiling_1 Chapter 420: 419. Strange Ceiling_1 The scene shifted, and Cui Siter thought the dream had ended, but when he opened his eyes, it seemed that was not the case.

He saw himself lying on a bed, fully clothed, with a thin blanket over him. Next to the bed, at the desk, sat a handsome young man.

The man appeared to be busy with paperwork, looking preoccupied with official duties.

Cui Siter quickly recognized the man as Stone.

After a short contemplation, he concluded that he was seeing through Liz’s perspective.

It was likely that after the monster had fused with Liz and drawn from her consciousness, it was now accessing her memories.

“Are you awake?”

Stone looked over at Cui Siter. His tone was relaxed and gentle, lacking the usual restraint and calculation.

“This liquor is quite strong, you knocked out after just half a glass, nearly vomiting all over me,” Stone remarked, gesturing toward a nearby wine glass.

Cui Siter could feel the embarrassment of the body’s owner. He heard a female voice, apologizing while asking if she still needed to work.

After all, it seemed she had passed out before she’d even started serving the guests.

“No need, I just wanted someone to chat with. You tell me something interesting, and I’ll listen,” Stone said as he put down his pen and looked this way.

The owner of the body began to stammer, awkward and timid, but as the conversation deepened, she gradually relaxed and felt a genuine happiness.

She could sense that this man was under immense pressure, and only this brief respite allowed him to shed some of his burdens.

“You don’t need to continue with your current job. I need a servant to clean, and I think you’d be suitable,” Stone said, surprising and exciting the body’s owner.

The subsequent dreamscape was fragmented, consisting of snippets of the two of them. Stone talked about various things – his journey to Abandoned Capital, his first killing experience, complicated family ties, his Godfather, and his dreams.

“Abandoned Capital’s society is now completely fixed. Poor people are poor for life, and their descendants will always be poor. People like us can only become dogs for the upper classes. I want to change that so people like you don’t have to sell their bodies anymore, eliminate those bastards who traffic in illegal drugs. Even if we are a gang, we need to be one with principles.”

Cui Siter was well aware that for this, Stone needed to become the Godfather of the Catania Family, needed that family to unify Abandoned Capital’s underworld, needed to wage war against the city’s elite.

This was also precisely what led to the deaths of Liz and Aio and the monster’s birth.

In order to save people like Liz, Stone’s actions led to her death.

And he was unable to accomplish anything, his dreams, his career, everything was utterly ruined.

Cui Siter even saw when Stone had someone pick out a fitting maid uniform for Liz, his teasing imagination of her embarrassed reaction when wearing it, and his astonishing, regretful, stoic, and sorrowful expression when he heard of the fire at Happy Home Apartments.

The very thing he sought, that brilliantly shining Glass Flower, was in fact nothing more than foul sludge from the sewer.

He was naive to think a gang represented a rebellion against the existing order, a symbol of resistance, not realizing that once one is tainted with the sludge, there’s no going back to the beginning.

Cui Siter felt his physique undergoing some change.

He seemed to have become that sludge, his mind hosting many consciousnesses.

In a trance, he spoke the name of the other party.

“Aio.”

“She must have been Liz’s twin sister or younger sister, who had been weak since childhood, suffering from a serious illness.”

“After becoming the host for the Sludge Monster, her life became even more fragile.”

“In the final moments, she turned into the monster, killing the gang members, and also consuming everyone, merging all the consciousnesses together.”

“Stone and Liz already knew each other. Stone wanted to save Liz, but by then, it had already happened.”

“Aio used her entire consciousness to suppress the monster’s madness, and Liz’s consciousness controlled the sludge, finding Stone.”

“She wanted to help Stone fulfill his dream, to bloom a splendid Glass Flower in this desolate, broken land.”

Cui Siter’s nostrils oozed a great deal of blood, and his brain felt as though it was being roasted over a fire. In his field of vision, cold, indifferent texts from the System kept popping up.

[You are suffering from Corrosion]

[Sanity -1]

[You are suffering from Corrosion]

Eventually, his Sanity stopped at the point where only twenty remained. Cui Siter felt his vision distort, and he fainted.

When Cui Siter awoke again, what he saw was an unfamiliar ceiling.

“You’re awake? The surgery was a success, you’re a girl now.”

Lu Ban said with a congratulatory tone while peeling an apple.

“????”

Cui Siter immediately checked his pants.

“Don’t talk nonsense!”

He exclaimed.

Lu Ban finished peeling the apple and put down the knife.

“Want an apple?”

“Yes.”

Then Cui Siter saw Lu Ban take a big bite of the apple, savoring it with relish.

“…”

Cui Siter began to look for his revolver.

“You’re awake? That’s great, it’s just in time for dinner.”

Shia came in at that moment, carrying a tray in her hand heaped with a mound of food.

“Did you get this food for me or for yourself?”

Cui Siter felt it might be better to just lie back down.

“The food here is quite good, it’s just a bit bland, but being bland is better for a patient, you should eat these.”

As she spoke, Shia took a big bite of her food, quickly gobbling up more than half of the small mountain on the plate.

“How long have I slept?”

Cui Siter asked.

“About a day; for someone dealing with Corrosion, your recovery speed is already very fast.”

Shia answered, and then polished off a chicken leg in three seconds.

“Is the mission accomplished?”

He checked his system interface, and indeed the mission was completed, now ready to be settled—meaning Lu Ban and Shia were ready to return.

“Congratulations, now you are the famous detective of Abandoned Capital, who cracked the Glass Flower case all by yourself, and the godfather of the Catania Family was murdered by his foster son. You fought off the monster but failed to capture the foster son.”

Lu Ban handed the newspaper to Cui Siter.

“I don’t want to go through this again.”

Cui Siter felt that his body had indeed undergone some changes, though he wasn’t sure if they were for better or for worse.

“Since you’re fine, then it’s time for us to leave.”

Shia cleaned up the last bit of residue on the plate with her tongue, then she put the plate down.

“You can have the nurse get you food later, or go yourself.”

“I’ll leave this for you.”

Lu Ban placed an item on the table of Cui Siter’s bedside cabinet and then stood up.

The two Walkers then disappeared, as if they had never been there at all.

Cui Siter picked up the thing Lu Ban had left for him and carefully examined it in his palm.

It was a pendant with the pattern of an unknown flower, made of glass with a little bit of grayish sludge inside it.

As he gazed at the pendant, he didn’t notice someone was already standing outside the door.

That person knocked on the door.

“Come in.”

Cui Siter looked over.

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