This sudden turn of events silenced everyone else on the ship.

The three players were naturally aware of this situation, but the remaining three were not so calm.

There were two little girls who were good friends, one of whom seemed to be named Xiaohua and the other Xiaoli, and then there was an old man with a white beard.

"Waaah..." Xiaohua couldn't help but shiver and leaned against her best friend.

Meditation?

Is this what meditation is?

Was going on this meditation retreat really the right thing to do?

The boatman at the bow didn't look like a normal old man at all; he was as withered as a zombie...

Xiaohua couldn't help but look up at the boatman again.

suddenly!

The boatman turned his head again, his dark eyes looking at the people on the boat with an unusually deep gaze, but the words he spoke were devoid of any emotion.

"Next comes the second half of our operation. In this second half, you will encounter more challenges coming from the water. This is the first test of whether you are able to meditate. Only those who pass this test can continue to Jing Shui Ancient Temple for meditation."

More challenges?

Looking ahead, Nanxi discovered that the water was not the same as the calm waters she had just experienced. The water in front of her was turbulent, and there seemed to be something thin and long moving beneath the clear water, giving her a sense of unknown fear.

Those things must be ghosts or monsters.

Nanxi smelled the scent wafting in the air and quickly made up her mind.

[I didn't expect them to start causing trouble so quickly.]

The person who just fell into the water behind me is now silent. If I remember correctly, he only had time to struggle twice before a dark shadow appeared underwater, grabbed his mouth, and pulled him down.

[Tsk tsk.]

[The trouble we caused on the water before was at least on a cruise ship, but now it's this small wooden boat. Even if something happens, we can't act rashly, or the boat could easily capsize!]

Oh yes, we also need to consider this little wooden boat.

"if……"

Just after the boatman finished speaking, a trembling voice came from the boat.

The one who spoke was Xiaoli. She was still young, and she even raised her hand when she spoke. After everyone's eyes focused on her, her voice trembled even more: "If I don't want to meditate now, and I want to go back, is that okay?"

She didn't want to continue this so-called meditation.

How terrifying! She wants to go home!

"You want to go back?"

The boatman's face twisted into an even more sinister smile. "It was only because you sincerely signed up that Jing Shui Ancient Temple felt your sincerity and chose you from among so many people to be part of this meditation retreat. And now, before even reaching the temple, you want to go back?"

The voice suddenly turned exceptionally cold at that moment.

"Could it be that you've been acting insincerely all along? You... were you toying with the gods and Buddhas of Jing Shui Ancient Temple?"

The wind around us cooled down at this moment.

The girl named Xiaoli turned pale and didn't dare to say a word. All that could be seen was large beads of sweat falling down her face.

She had a premonition.

If I nod in agreement now, I will surely suffer an even more miserable fate than the man who just fell into the water.

What should I do?

What should we do next?

Xiaoli felt her whole body trembling. Under the boatman's gaze, she didn't know what to do. Just then, a very gentle voice suddenly rang in her ears, like a clear spring flowing into her heart.

Don't be afraid~

The voice was clear and melodious, gently easing Xiaoli's tension.

Finally, someone spoke up for her, and Xiaoli couldn't help but look in the direction of the voice. She turned her head and saw a beautiful woman on the water beside her.

It was a beauty she couldn't describe.

If Xiaoli had to describe it, the woman on the water was just as beautiful as the woman named Nanxi on the boat.

"Don't be afraid, don't worry. If you have anything on your mind, you can tell me. Don't forget, you came here for meditation, didn't you?" The woman's gentle words on the water touched Xiaoli's heart.

Xiaoli immediately felt extremely wronged: "I came here for meditation, but I didn't expect to participate in such a dangerous meditation retreat. My parents said that I could achieve spiritual growth and that it would be a lot of fun, so I came. But now I've encountered such a terrifying scene, and I don't want to go anymore."

That's right.

This is Xiaoli's honest opinion.

She was so young that she didn't understand the true meaning of meditation at all; she was just spoiled by her parents.

All she knew was that going to the Jing Shui Ancient Temple for meditation was a good thing, and that those chosen would be able to attain happiness.

Xiaoli no longer wants this kind of happiness; she wants to go home and misses her parents.

"Really?"

The beautiful woman continued to ask gently.

Xiaoli sobbed, "Really, I want to go back. How can I go back?"

Just as Xiaoli was feeling extremely distressed, a beautiful woman on the water gently reached out a hand to her.

"Do you want to go back? How about I take you back with me? We can do it quietly, and then we can surprise your parents when we get home?"

Is it really possible?

Is it really possible to go back?

Xiaoli's eyes lit up immediately, and she was about to place her hand in the beautiful woman's hand...

"Xiao Li!"

"Xiaoli, wake up! Don't jump into the water! It's dangerous! This is all a test from Jing Shui Ancient Temple. If you jump in like this, that will be the real danger!"

Suddenly, I heard a voice that sounded like it was crying.

That voice... it sounds like Xiaohua's voice?

Xiaoli opened her eyes in confusion and saw Xiaohua in front of her with tears streaming down her face. Xiaohua was desperately reaching out and pulling at her body.

He seemed intent on diving towards the surface of the water.

Xiaoli looked down at the water and found that the beautiful woman who had appeared on the surface was gone. In front of her was a dark green, menacing tentacles, one of which was only a centimeter away from her hand.

"Aaaaaah!"

Xiaoli couldn't help but scream, and quickly shrank back.

Because of the large movement, she could even feel her fingertips touching the tip of the tentacle, a strange sensation that was both cold and sticky.

What's wrong with me?

[Tsk, it seems the second half will involve illusions. Those with weak minds will be misled by the illusions created by those tentacles and become entangled.]

No wonder this little girl kept saying nonsensical things from the middle onwards.

The two girls had a deep friendship; if it weren't for Xiaohua's desperate intervention, Xiaoli would definitely have been taken down.

【Yes. 】

After hearing Xiaohua recount what she had just experienced, Xiaoli became even more terrified.

The water was no longer calm; it was now covered with menacing tentacles that were waving about.

The boatman seemed oblivious to the tentacles, simply rowing forward without paying any attention to them.

Sometimes the ship gets so close to some of the tentacles that they're practically glued to the ship.

Nanxi and Passerby A exchanged a glance.

Both of them understood the situation, but they didn't take it seriously.

For a five-star instance, being greeted by such a crisis is something they should be grateful for.

Just then, another exclamation suddenly rang out from the ship.

"Be careful!"

This time, it was Wu San who spoke.

It turned out that Wu San saw a tentacle next to him that was about to touch Nanxi because of the direction the ship was moving.

According to a passerby, Nanxi is a huge, huge powerhouse.

We can't let something like this happen to our thighs.

Wu San instinctively reached out to stop it, but the moment his fingers touched the tentacle, his eyes went blank.

"Don't say that... What?"

"You say you know how to quickly clear this dungeon, and not only that, you can make me number one on the player leaderboard?... No way, number one is too flashy, I'm a low-key person..."

Wu San muttered something, and although no one knew what kind of hallucination he was experiencing, they could guess what it was from what he was saying.

You little rascal, you're really greedy.

[This is hilarious! Speedrunning a five-star dungeon isn't enough, you want to be number one?]

[It's not that I want to be number one, it's that I think the number one person isn't humble enough, hahaha!]

[I ask you, which 98-year-old wouldn't want to be number one at least once! (In that tone)]

Hahahaha!

Nanxi: "..."

Passerby A: "..."

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