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Chapter 544: Procrastination (4k+)

"Were you born and lived on the Hidden Island, a descendant of the people of Mu Continent?"

The stranger suddenly changed his previous soothing and calm tone, turned his head and asked in a stern voice.

He really thought that Liu Yonglu came from the Hidden World Island, and he might have a mission! First of all, this guy was no stranger to Mu Continent, and he even knew the cause of the destruction of Mu Continent.

It was not unheard of for strangers who were teleported by the space rain. He had asked each of them about their situation, and found that none of them had ever heard of Mu Continent, which showed that the outside world knew very little about this disappeared and silent continent.

In addition, Liu Yonglu was very cautious after entering the Island of Tranquility and had no flaws at all, so the stranger directly traced his origins to the Hidden Island.

"Was I born... on the Hidden Island? Well, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want."

Liu Yonglu's eyes widened, and the atmosphere that had just eased disappeared in an instant:
"I first lived in Balitai, and later moved to Tonglou. I am not from Mu Continent."

The stranger stared into Liu Yonglu's eyes, and Liu Yonglu also looked at him, the two of them competing like fighting cocks.

Strange... this person was telling the truth! In his eyes, the lies were like bubbles floating on the water, which would burst immediately. The stranger could not believe his ears:

"You want to know why I created the Island of Tranquility? I'll show you now. This is more direct."

As the stranger spoke, he reached out to touch Liu Yonglu's head.

"Hey, you should just talk, but why are you still touching me like a child in the twelfth lunar month..."

Liu Yonglu certainly didn't dare to let a stranger touch him. He was already on full alert. Seeing the other party suddenly attack, Liu Yonglu shook his fan to block the attack and quickly shrank back.

But the stranger's hand exploded in mid-air, turning into countless glass fragments. The fragments passed through Liu Yonglu's fan, which was like a donkey being bitten, and finally floated onto his shoulder.

Liu Yonglu only felt that the scene in front of his eyes was becoming more and more blurred. The wild beaches around him were gradually breaking apart. The fragments floated in the air and began to reassemble. When he opened his eyes again, he was already in mid-air, and the stranger was standing next to him.

"Let me cut back!"

Liu Yonglu also became anxious, and his fan turned into a large golden ring knife and placed it on the stranger's neck.

"You are such a strange person. Don't you want to know the whole story of the establishment of the Island of Tranquility?"

The stranger calmly pointed at the ground below the two men.

Liu Yonglu only now discovered that his body was in a translucent state. He was dozens of meters in the air, and the island under his feet looked somewhat familiar.

The beaches... the mountains... and the tropical trees bearing sour fruits, returned to the island of peace by themselves?

No, because then Liu Yonglu saw hundreds of people on the beach being washed ashore by the waves, walking towards the depths of the island in a panic.

Among these people, there were men, women, young and old, of all genders and ages. Some were holding large pieces of deck debris, and some were holding large wooden barrels. It seemed that they had just experienced a shipwreck and fled to the island for their lives.

Liu Yonglu squinted his eyes and observed carefully. He found that these people had some strange physical features...

At first he saw an old lady hunching over and moving forward step by step. There was nothing strange about this, as it was normal for an old lady to have a hunched back as she got older.

But then he saw a child following behind the old man, who looked to be no more than thirteen or fourteen years old, and was in the same posture.

A lump of flesh grows on everyone's back. If the symptoms are mild, the lump is not big and looks like an ordinary hunchback. If the symptoms are more severe, it is a bit scary. The lump is almost the same size as the host's body, like a big box is carried on the back.

"These are the original inhabitants of the Island of Tranquility."

The stranger's voice sounded in Liu Yonglu's ears.

"You still say you haven't done anything immoral! Why didn't I see through you before? I will chop you up on behalf of the Saint and justice!"

Liu Yonglu was really angry. He shook the sword in his hand, and the sword embedded into the stranger's neck but did not cut off his head. The neck that came into contact with the blade turned into transparent fragments.

"I didn't do this, why do you always think the worst of me?"

The stranger held his head with both hands to prevent it from falling off:

“This is the result of the advent of the Judgment Star. These people, like me, are from Mu Continent.

There is a canal in Mu Continent that leads directly to the Lost Sea. Ships often pass through the canal. When the Star of Judgment descended, they happened to be on the ship.

Although I was lucky enough to escape from Mu Continent, I was also affected by the power of the gods. "

Liu Yonglu thought of the duplicate figure he had seen in Kurt when he entered the ruins of Mu Continent through Xiali. The two figures were exactly the same and overlapped completely:
"Will the meat ball continue to grow? Will it eventually grow into a person who looks exactly like the original owner, a monster with two bodies connected together?"

The stranger looked at Liu Yonglu in surprise and nodded:
“It can’t be said that they are exactly the same. What is being nurtured in their bodies is… a body that is difficult to explain with common sense.

The Star of Judgment represents order and stability, while flesh and blood life itself is a probabilistic product of disorderly birth.

Under the influence of this god's will, the flesh and blood body will eventually be replaced by another body. If these people continue to drag on, they will become like what you said. "

Liu Yonglu understood what the stranger said, and he didn't think the other party was making up a lie to fool him, because Liu Yonglu had indeed seen the Duplicated Image Man in Mu Continent.

"So it was you who saved them?" Liu Yonglu asked doubtfully.

"I'll walk you around again."

Following the stranger's words, the two of them appeared on the hill of the Island of Tranquility this time, which was the plateau that Liu Yonglu first arrived at before entering the city.

The people of Mu Continent all felt the deformation of their bodies at this time. Many of them were on the verge of collapse and hugged each other and cried loudly, while a small number of people prepared forbidden spells to worship.

"The mass ceremony for nurturing conscious bodies is no secret in Mu Continent. After all, our bodies are made up of fragments of consciousness from all the residents of Mu Continent.

Someone thought that this was the time to call us.”

The stranger turned his head and saw Liu Yonglu wearing a black helmet. The knife that was across his neck was gone. The man was standing quite far away from him, with shifty eyes, stretching his neck to look down.

"What are you doing?"

"Who would watch a foreign movie without a helmet?"

Liu Yonglu glanced at the stranger. The scene in front of him kept changing, and there was always someone inputting the voice-over next to him. Isn't this a foreign movie?

Liu Yonglu usually goes to the one who beats people up, and today he is afraid that he will get beaten up.

"As you wish."

The stranger assumed that Liu Yonglu was mentally ill, and did not waste any more time talking to him, but continued to explain what was happening before his eyes:
“Even I cannot resist the divine power of Judgment Star and transform them back to their original form.

And this impact is not just the changes in appearance that you see, almost everyone's mind has been disturbed, and they are tortured by auditory and visual hallucinations for most of the day."

Liu Yonglu saw several old men suddenly take off their clothes and dance hand in hand in the open space. They were drooling and had a neurotic and unreal smile on their faces.

He also saw a mother trying to feed her crying child, but the child sucked blood instead of milk from her mother's chest. "The meaning of my existence is to satisfy the wishes of the residents of Mu Continent, because my body is made up of the fragments of consciousness of countless residents.

In other words, if I violate this principle, I will completely disappear and no longer exist in this world.

So I showed up.”

The stranger had never told these words to anyone before. After he finished speaking, he let out a long sigh.

“I learned their wishes one by one while they were conscious.

I can't cleanse the divine power exerted by the Star of Judgment. If I could really do that, I would have protected everyone when the Star of Judgment descended.

So I can only find another way to feed them, keep them warm, and make them feel that they have recovered their health. At the same time, their relatives and friends will be resurrected in their consciousness and accompany them as before. "

The picture in front of me changed again, but this time it was a bit surreal, and the world was divided into two parts, left and right.

In the picture on the left, the residents of Mu Continent are favored by the gods. They come to a paradise city where they have no worries about food and clothing. Here, they don’t have to worry about their livelihood.

Delicious food, fine wine, comfortable rooms and all entertainment activities are at your fingertips.

In the picture on the right, just as Liu Yonglu saw, humans have been deformed into bloated and obese monsters. These creatures can hardly even turn around, let alone play polo on the grass.

Mud, shit, stinking streams, monsters grunting and rolling in joy.

"Okay, that's good, buddy, you are quite capable and eloquent!"

Liu Yonglu, who was wearing a helmet, sneered and clapped his hands, then asked with a crooked mouth:

"These islanders from Mu Continent, just consider them all cured by you, I won't argue with you. They are all monsters anyway, but at least they are not suffering mentally, which is better than the re-imaged people from Mu Continent.

But there are still many outsiders on the Island of Tranquility, right? Like me, they were brought to the island by the space rain. These people are healthy and have no disasters. Why did you transform them into this? Tell me!
You can’t explain this clearly. Even if you are eloquent, I have to…”

Liu Yonglu showed his face and made a gesture of spreading his wings like a roc:

"Seek justice!"

The stranger looked calm, without any shame or anger on his face. He just nodded. The scene in front of him changed again, and the two of them had returned to Liu Yonglu's backstage.

The space that Liu Yonglu entered just now was not a dream at all, it was just that the stranger shared a small part of his consciousness with him.

"Have one?"

A box of Yuzhou brand cigarettes appeared in the hands of a stranger without warning. He handed it to Liu Yonglu. Liu Yonglu swallowed and shook his head.

Liu Yonglu knew very well what the consequences of getting something for nothing would be. No matter how strong his addiction to smoking was, he had to hold it back!

The stranger was still the same as before, so he didn't need to force it. He just lit a cigarette and continued:

"Do you believe me?"

"Do not believe."

Liu Yonglu shook his head. The story of the Island of Tranquility was too shocking. How could you convince me just by touching your upper lip with your lower lip?

"There's nothing I can do about it. To be honest, I don't know why the outsiders on the island became like that. I really don't know."

The stranger raised his hand and shook his head helplessly:
"When they first came to the island, they mistakenly entered the City of Tranquility just like you did. The entrance to the cave was affected by my power. You can imagine it as a special dreamland.

Although they were not affected by diseases like the original islanders on Mu Continent, they also suffered an incredible amount of pain and distress in their hearts.

Do you still remember the Dutchman you chatted with yesterday?"

Liu Yonglu nodded.

"He was in the Dutch Navy. He was married before he entered the service and had a family in his hometown. His five-year-old child and his wife often stood at the entrance of the village waiting for him to come home.

But one day when he was out at sea, his young child was infected with an infectious disease and died due to ineffective treatment. He was also a boy, also named Clauber.

His wife couldn't bear the blow and her mind started to deteriorate. He told me all this himself."

The stranger exhaled a puff of smoke.

"The Dutch sailor seldom returned home after that, and he would wake up in the middle of the night with tears streaming down his face as he dreamed of the past.

He had prayed to the Saint countless times to have his son return to him. "

The stranger seemed unfamiliar with the word "saint" and took a long time to think about it:

"On the Island of Tranquility, he met his love again. She was no longer mad and sick in bed. She was as young, beautiful and charming as before.

Here, they gave birth to their own children, who were as lively and active as the little Claude who had died. What was wrong with this kind of life? "

The stranger repeated his words one last time:
"I really don't know why their bodies became deformed like that. I have observed them closely countless times over the years. They were fine in the first few years, but then... they developed in that direction.

Of course, I have tried to tell them part of the truth, and after hearing it, these people, without exception, chose to end their lives. "

There was a long silence after the stranger finished speaking.

He and Liu Yonglu were both thinking about how to deal with the relationship between the two parties next.

The stranger's thoughts were simple: he was a god, influenced by the original will at his birth.

Let Liu Yonglu make a wish to continue living on the island, which is an unchangeable future.

Just wait and see. Anyway, when you are hungry you have to ask me for food, and when you are thirsty you have to ask me for water. You can't live on eating fruits forever.

The same logic went for the stranger who produced the Cosmic brand cigarettes just now. He was still thinking about assimilating Liu Yonglu.

But what if this person refuses to compromise? Thinking of this, a hint of murderous intent flashed in the stranger's eyes!
This murderous intention happened to be caught by Liu Yonglu.

Oh no, this guy is going to do something desperate!
Liu Yonglu was not so naive as to think that he could make the man in front of him cry bitterly, mend his ways, and willingly take him to the secluded island with just a few words.

I have to think of a way to delay... There's no guarantee of victory if I take action now. This guy is a bit difficult to deal with. It would be best for me to wait and see today and find a safe way to escape. That would be the best.

Thinking of this, Liu Yonglu’s bad trick came again!
"Dou Nival, I think I have explained it clearly enough. How about it? Are you willing to stay here for a while longer?"

Finally, the stranger spoke first and broke the silence.

(End of this chapter)