I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

"Remember to treat us to something delicious when the time comes."

Sia was only interested in food, but then she thought about it again.

"So, who exactly is this mud, and why does it listen to Stone?"

“I think it’s possible that Stone himself came into contact with the corruption of the otherworld, so the monster treated him as one of its own, or that he had helped Liz before, so when the girl was devoured by the rampaging monster, the remaining consciousness chose Stone?”

Drizzt will pull his thoughts away from the question of how to clean up the mess.

"Why don't you ask it yourself?"

Lu Ban pointed to the blooming glass flower.

The monster is dead, and this glass flower may become a landmark building here, standing in the wealthy area.

But there must be a reason why it chose Drizzt to depict those dreams.

Trist reached out and touched the crystal-clear glass flower, and in an instant, the scenery before him changed.

This is a kind of pollution seeping into his consciousness, bringing him knowledge while also eroding him.

Drizzt saw that he was lying on a bed.

This is that room.

He felt extremely weak, and even breathing was exhausting all his strength.

There was a commotion outside the door; I didn't know what had happened.

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps approached.

Trist's gaze shifted towards the door, which was suddenly pushed open, and Liz rushed in with a look of anxiety on her face. She quickly closed the door behind her.

“There are a lot of people outside, and they are all carrying guns. They may be Mr. Tucker. They may be looking for Mr. Tucker. We must leave immediately.”

As she spoke, Liz tried to pick up Drizzt, but the frail strength of a young girl was clearly insufficient. She failed once, twice, and the sounds outside the door grew louder and louder. This time, Drizzt could clearly hear that it was the sound of gunfire.

bang bang bang-

The door was pushed open, and shouts and wails mingled with the sounds of screams. Drizzt saw that the person outside had been shot through the head, and the blood splattered onto the walls, turning them crimson.

"what!"

Liz screamed as she saw men in black suits sweep past the doorway, several of them rushing forward and firing into the next room.

A moment later, it became quiet next door, as if some sound had been heard, followed by another gunshot.

Liz covered her mouth and hugged Trist tightly. She stared blankly at the gangsters outside the door, unable to utter a sound.

"It's him, it's definitely him."

Drizzt saw the gang bring a woman, Flora, who pointed out Tucker's body and laughed maniacally.

The gangsters exchanged a few words and then prepared to leave.

At that moment, Flora suddenly looked at Liz and Drizzt in the room and raised her hand.

“These two are also Tucker’s mistresses; we can’t let them live.”

The gangsters exchanged glances, and several of them took Flora away. Trist noticed that McKee was among them. Then, a man who looked like a gang leader walked into the room.

The man pinched Liz's face to confirm the girl's appearance, and then he began to tear at Liz's clothes while hurling extremely offensive insults.

Liz struggled violently and scratched the man.

Enraged, the gangster pulled out a pistol from his waist and fired at Liz.

bang bang bang-

Liz fell backward, her petite body drifting down like a flower petal.

Tristana's vision turned bright red.

He felt something gushing out of his body, accompanied by intense emotions.

The gray silt burst forth, tearing the gang apart.

More gangsters rushed in and opened fire, but the bullets did not harm Twisted Fate. Instead, the tentacles made of mud pierced through their bodies one by one, and the will of the dead flowed into Twisted Fate's brain, making him feel dizzy.

Finally, the gangsters were all dead.

Trist approached Liz and looked at the girl who had been his only family. Mud had spread and covered Liz's body.

In Liz's increasingly unfocused eyes, Drizzt saw his final reflection.

It was a face almost identical to Liz's, but noticeably thinner and more fragile.

"Live."

With her last breath, Liz uttered a sentence and a name.

“I love you”.

Chapter 419 The Unfamiliar Ceiling

The scene shifted, and Trist thought the dream was over, but when he opened his eyes, it seemed that was not the case.

He saw that he was lying on the bed, his clothes were intact, and he was covered with a thin blanket. At the table next to him sat a handsome young man.

The man appeared to be processing documents, looking very busy with official business.

Trist quickly recognized the man as Stone.

After a little thought, he came to the conclusion that this was Liz's perspective.

It's likely that the monster fused with Liz, absorbed her consciousness, and then saw her memories.

"you're awake?"

Stone glanced at Drizzt, his tone relaxed and gentle, lacking the restraint and calculation he usually displayed.

"This liquor is really strong. You passed out after only half a glass, and you almost threw up all over me."

Stone said, pointing to the wine glass beside him.

Trist could sense that the body's owner was somewhat shy. He heard a female voice apologizing and asking if he still needed to work.

After all, it seems he got drunk before he even started serving the guests.

"No need. I just want to chat with someone. Tell me something interesting, and I'll listen."

Stone put down his pen and looked over.

The body's owner began to stammer and stammer, clumsy and timid, but as the conversation deepened, she gradually opened up and felt a heartfelt joy.

She could also sense that the man seemed to be under tremendous pressure, and only this brief rest could relieve him of some of his burden.

"You don't need to continue your current job. I need a cleaning servant, and I think you'd be perfect for the job."

Stone said that it surprised and excited the body's owner.

The subsequent dreams were somewhat fragmented, consisting of snippets of the two of them together. Stone rambled on about various things, mentioning his journey to the ruined city, his first experience of killing someone, his complicated family relationships, his godfather, and his dreams.

"The society in the ruined capital is now completely fixed. The poor will always be poor, and their descendants will always be poor. People like us can only become the dogs of the upper class. I want to change this, so that people like you will no longer have to sell your bodies. I want to eradicate those bastards who sell illegal drugs. Even if we are a gang, we need to be a gang with principles."

Drizzt knew very well that for this to happen, Stone needed to become the godfather of House Catania, needed the family to unify the underworld of the ruined city, and needed to wage war against the upper echelons of the ruined city.

This is precisely what led to the deaths of Liz and Io, and the birth of the monster.

In his attempt to save people like Liz, Stone's actions led to Liz's death.

Moreover, he couldn't do anything; his dreams, his career, everything was completely destroyed.

Trist even saw Stone's eyes filled with a mixture of shock, regret, restraint, and sadness when he jokingly imagined Liz's embarrassed and annoyed expression as she had a maid outfit chosen that fit her, and when he heard from his subordinates about the shootout at the Happy Home Apartments.

What he pursued, that dazzling, shimmering glass flower, was actually nothing more than the foul sludge of the sewers.

He was naive, believing that gangs were a form of resistance against the existing order and a representation of the spirit of rebellion, but he didn't realize that once he got involved in the underworld, he could never go back to where he started.

Trist felt that his physique had undergone certain changes.

He seemed to have become that mud as well, his mind containing many consciousnesses.

In a daze, he uttered the other person's name.

“I love you”.

"She should be Liz's twin sister or younger sister. She was frail and suffered from a serious illness since childhood."

"After becoming the host of the sludge monster, her life became even more fragile."

"In her final moments, she became a monster, killing the gangsters and devouring everyone, merging everyone's consciousness together."

“Stone and Liz already knew each other. Stone wanted to help Liz, but before that, the incident had already occurred.”

“Aio used all his consciousness to suppress the monster’s madness, while Liz’s consciousness controlled the mud and found Stone.”

"She wanted to help Stone realize his dream, to make a dazzling glass flower bloom on this barren and desolate land."

Tristana's nostrils were gushing blood. He felt as if his brain was being roasted over a fire, and the system's cold, indifferent words kept popping up in his field of vision.

You have been corrupted.

[Rationality - 1]

You have been corrupted.

[Rationality - 1]

Finally, his sanity came to a halt with only twenty points remaining. Drizzt felt his vision distort and he fainted.

When Drizzt woke up again, he saw an unfamiliar ceiling.

"You're awake? The surgery was a success, you're a girl now."

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

"???"

Trist immediately checked his pants.

"Don't talk nonsense!"

He called out.

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