Chapter 107
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What exactly is the Anomaly Lord?
In Lou Yan’s memories of three lifetimes, he had pondered this question countless times, but never got an answer.
No one knew what the Anomaly Lord looked like or where it would appear.
Now, as he looked at the blurred massive black figure through the gray mist, even with Lou Yan’s good eyesight, he couldn’t see through the fog that enveloped the Anomaly Lord, nor could he see the appearance of the Anomaly Lord.
Is the Anomaly Lord a real existence? Can it be killed?
Is it the source of the Anomaly Resurgence?
Lou Yan had countless questions piled up in his chest. The Anomaly Lord! What a resounding title! It meant that the black shadow in front of them was the most formidable existence among all anomalies and the king commanding all anomalies!
What abilities does it have, and what are its weaknesses?
Lou Yan wanted to learn more about the Anomaly Lord through the fog, but he knew that the existence of the fog also protected the lives of humans like them.
If they really saw the Anomaly Lord, they would probably suffer strong mental contamination and then immediately collapse and commit suicide.
A black crow suddenly broke through the fog and flew in front of them, its crimson hollow eyes looking down at the four people. The crow opened its mouth and even uttered human words: “Congratulations on reaching the eighth floor and getting the opportunity to meet the Anomaly Lord. Lucky people, you can make your wishes in front of the Anomaly Lord.”
The voice echoed in the vast temple, and it was impossible to distinguish its gender. Several people looked at the massive black shadow motionless in the fog, knowing that the crow was here to ask questions on behalf of the Anomaly Lord.
Lou Yan and Li Sanxin immediately pushed Lin You and Ye Buyan forward—a hint that these two were almost out of mental strength, so they should make their wishes while still rational.
Lin You and Ye Buyan knew their physical condition and didn’t refuse. With his strong willpower, Lin You resisted the mental contamination better than Ye Buyan. He signaled for Ye Buyan to ask first.
Ye Buyan, panting heavily, propped himself up on his knees and cautiously asked the crow, “Can any wish be granted?”
The crow squinted at him and coldly snorted, “The fact that you ask this question means your wish is quite substantial. Greedy humans, speak your wish.”
Ye Buyan’s heart sank.
The crow didn’t give a direct answer, which meant not all wishes would be granted.
Wishes like “hoping all anomalies in the world disappear”, “hoping anomalies can live in peace with humans”, or “hoping anomalies won’t harm humans”, Ye Buyan knew the Anomaly Lord wouldn’t agree. After much consideration, he solemnly stated his wish.
“I want Tai Kang Village to never be visited by anomalies.”
The crow’s eyes flickered, seeming to ask if the Anomaly Lord agreed. Soon, the crow bluntly said, “It can be done.”
Ye Buyan’s face showed joy, but before he could be too happy, the crow chuckled twice and then continued, “But from now on, anomalies will appear in the villages around Tai Kang Village.”
Ye Buyan suddenly stood up, unbelieving.
The crow said, “You only said you wanted to protect Tai Kang Village, but you didn’t say you wanted to protect other villages. Thanks to your reminder, we noticed such a place. It’s just a pity for the villagers in those villages. Because of you, their villages will have anomalies come so soon, hahaha.”
Ye Buyan’s mouth trembled, his breathing becoming more and more rapid, his brain aching, and he gritted his teeth and uttered a “you” before passing out.
Lou Yan caught him in time, looking coldly at the crow.
The crow chuckled twice again and looked at Lin You. “What is your wish?”
Lin You took a deep breath, his gaze firm, and said slowly, “I want the Anomaly Lord to tell me how humans can end the Anomaly Resurgence.”
He knew that this question would probably not get an answer, but Lin You was stubborn and insisted on asking.
Considering the outcome of Ye Buyan’s wish, Lin You didn’t wish for the anomalies themselves to end the Anomaly Resurgence. He was afraid that once he made a wish for the anomalies to take action, the anomalies would resent it and retaliate even more. For example, if the anomalies chose to destroy the entire world and then leave, would it mean that the wish “to end the Anomaly Resurgence” had been fulfilled?
Compared to anomalies, he believed more in the agency of humans themselves. He believed that as long as they found a way, without relying on external forces, humans could end this terrifying disaster!
Lin You stared at the black shadow behind the fog with burning eyes. Lou Yan hadn’t expected Lin You to ask such a question directly, knowing that it was a question destined to have no answer… but perhaps it was because of this stubbornness that Lin You was Lin You.
Lou Yan also stared at the crow and the black shadow, although he knew it was impossible, a faint hope rose in his heart, wanting to know what the Anomaly Lord would answer.
The crow spread its wings and circled Lin You, emitting strange calls from its mouth, mixed with intense malice. The gaze of the Anomaly Lord also fell on Lin You. The bricks with ghost heads on the ground, and the deformed and strange paintings on the wall, all twisted and turned for a moment, wild laughter and piercing screams rang in Lin You’s ears.
“You want to kill us! You want to kill us!!!”
“This human actually wants to end the Anomaly Resurgence?”
“End the Anomaly Resurgence??? Hahaha!”
“Kill him, kill him!”
“What a foolish human.”
“Eat him, eat him…”
Countless anomalous forces attacked Lin You, and murmurs that others couldn’t hear echoed in Lin You’s ears. Lin You saw many grotesque anomalies approaching him with sinister grins. Blood flowed from Lin You’s facial features, his face instantly turned extremely pale, and he bit his teeth tightly, his gaze unwavering. He forced himself to take a step forward, but staggered and almost fell.
Li Sanxin quickly caught him, his face pale with worry. “Lin You?”
This sentence attracted the attention of the crow, which then flew to Li Sanxin and asked him what his wish was.
Suppressing his anger, Li Sanxin blurted out without hesitation, as if he had thought about it many times in his heart, “How can a person fused with anomalies delay the Anomaly Resurgence in their body?”
This was the question Lou Yan had always wanted to ask and the question he was prepared to ask the Anomaly Lord this time.
Lou Yan glanced slightly surprised at Li Sanxin, who nodded at him and pointed to his back.
Lou Yan understood Li Sanxin’s intention. Li Sanxin meant that he would ask this question, and Lou Yan could use his chance to make a wish to remove the ghost marriage tattoo on his body.
Lou Yan looked away with a guilty conscience.
How should he tell Li Sanxin that he never intended to waste this opportunity on removing the ghost marriage tattoo?
“That’s a good question,” the crow’s eyes glanced over the four of them, and it said playfully, “Among the four of you, three are fused with anomalies. Besides you, they also need this answer, right? But since it’s your wish, I’ll only tell you the answer.”
The crow flew onto Li Sanxin’s shoulder, and its gray-yellow beak approached Li Sanxin’s ear, murmuring a few words.
Li Sanxin nodded thoughtfully, his brow slightly furrowed, showing no signs of joy, but rather a troubled expression.
Lou Yan looked at his expression and knew that the method given by the Anomaly Lord to delay the Anomaly Resurgence must be very difficult to achieve.
But as long as there was a method, it meant there was hope of survival, which was enough.
After speaking, the crow flew away from Li Sanxin’s shoulder and came to Lou Yan, the last one who hadn’t made a wish yet.
The crow looked deeply at the mask on Lou Yan’s face and stared at Lou Yan through the mask. “The Anomaly Lord wants me to ask you, what wish do you want to make?”
Lou Yan stared at the crow for a moment, then looked at the black figure in the fog. He didn’t want to say his wish directly to this malicious crow.
“I heard that the Anomaly Lord is omnipotent. Can it guess what my most desired wish is?”
The crimson eyes of the crow flashed with malice, but before it could speak, Lou Yan heard a chaotic, blurry, and distant murmuring in his ears: “Mmm… Ah…”
When this murmuring reached his ears, it turned into words.
“—Come here.”
The Anomaly Lord was personally talking to Lou Yan.
Lou Yan’s face flashed with surprise, and the crow snorted coldly and turned to lead the way, “Follow.”
Lou Yan restrained his expression and followed the crow.
When they were about a dozen meters away from the Anomaly Lord, the crow stopped, and Lou Yan stopped as well.
The thick fog still separated Lou Yan from the Anomaly Lord, but Lou Yan could vaguely see the massive figure of the Anomaly Lord in the fog. He could even feel a pair of extremely terrifying eyes quietly staring at him from above.
Lou Yan glanced at the Anomaly Lord a few times and then stared at the ground, avoiding accidentally looking directly at the Anomaly Lord and causing his mental strength to collapse.
The Anomaly Lord stared at Lou Yan for a long time. Lou Yan’s palms sweated, but he remained calm on the surface without showing any horror or fear.
Finally, the Anomaly Lord spoke, “What wish do you want to make?”
The voice was heavy and murky, as if it dissipated into the air as soon as it was spoken, but condensed next to the ears. It contained strange and anomaly colors, as if it didn’t exist at all.
Listening to the Anomaly Lord speaking so close had a huge impact on Lou Yan’s mental strength as well. His brain throbbed, and he swallowed the bloody smell rising in his throat, and said the wish he had made when he wished upon a shooting star, “I want to kill a person, but I can’t kill him by normal means or with anomalous powers. He is very powerful, and I need to know how to kill him. My wish is to be told how to kill Fu Xuezhou.”
The Anomaly Lord seemed to smile, but it seemed not. However, the voice of the Anomaly Lord softened a lot, as if the question Lou Yan asked was extremely pleasing to it. It murmured to Lou Yan and told him the answer, “Extreme cold h*ll.”
The Anomaly Lord said, “Only in extreme cold h*ll can Fu Xuezhou truly die.”
Lou Yan frowned, silently reciting the words “extreme cold hell” in his mind, and tentatively asked, “Where is extreme cold hell?”
It was unknow if the Anomaly Lord also wanted to kill Fu Xuezhou very much. Obviously, each person could only make one wish, and obviously, Lou Yan had already asked a question. But this time, the Anomaly Lord still slowly answered Lou Yan’s question.
“It will appear at the North Pole glacier in 45 days.”
The North Pole…
In 45 days.
So, if he wants to kill Fu Xuezhou, there are only 45 days left?
Lou Yan no longer cared about mental contamination, raised his head and looked deeply at the figure of the Anomaly Lord in the thick fog.
The indescribably massive figure stood a dozen meters away, and the towering temple could only accommodate its size. The Anomaly Lord really was omnipotent and omniscient, even knowing how to kill Fu Xuezhou.
Such an existence was truly terrifying for humanity…
Lou Yan averted his gaze, turned around, and walked towards Li Sanxin and the others. Li Sanxin was anxiously waiting for Lou Yan to come out. When he saw that Lou Yan was safe and sound, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Lou Yan walked to Li Sanxin’s side, helped Li Sanxin support Lin You and Ye Buyan, and prepared to leave. But just as they were about to move, Lou Yan heard light footsteps approaching them.
Another person has arrived on the eighth floor.
This fellow who arrived on the eighth floor gradually approached through the dense fog, and the blurry figure became more and more graceful. Lou Yan stared at this figure, feeling somewhat familiar.
Soon, the face of this figure also appeared, who else but Wen Yian?!
Lou Yan burst into laughter directly, staring straight at Wen Yian.
Well, what a coincidence.
Enemies on a narrow road.
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