I created the myth of the Great Old Ones.

Seeing the three of them happily munching on chicken legs, Changzheng also came over.

Lu Ban generously tore off another chicken leg and handed it to Chang Zheng.

He finished the chicken leg in his hand and then prepared to have another one.

Lu Ban had just taken a bite of the second chicken leg when he suddenly realized something was wrong.

"Tell me, how many legs does a chicken have?"

Upon hearing Lu Ban's words, the people holding chicken legs exchanged bewildered glances.

Chapter 815 What will Lu Ban eat tonight?

Lu Ban looked at the plate.

A roasted chicken has several drumsticks.

Not only that.

Those roast suckling pigs also had several eyes.

The fish's fins have grown many tentacles, which, if they weren't already solidified, would probably be wriggling and trying to grab onto something else.

The vegetables also had a strange color, as if they were growing on animal entrails.

"vomit--"

Nagamasa immediately vomited up what he had just eaten. On the deck, the vomit was a deep purple color and seemed to be trembling slightly.

"Are you alright?"

Nagamasa looked at the three of them and asked in surprise.

"It's not a big problem."

Lu Ban felt something rubbing against his teeth in his mouth. He thought it was bits of meat and reached out to touch it, but instead pulled out a slippery, dark tentacle. The tentacle was writhing and twisting. When it touched Lu Ban's skin, the smooth surface of the tentacle suddenly became rough and turned into sharp teeth, biting Lu Ban's skin and sucking the flesh and blood from underneath.

He was startled, then bit off the tentacle in one bite, chewed it many times, and swallowed it.

"Are you sure everything's okay...?"

Nagamasa then looked at Sia.

Sia patted her belly, but no tentacles emerged from her mouth, and her abdomen did not undulate in any strange way.

He looked at the leopard one last time.

"Leopard is dying! You have to save Leopard!"

The girl, dressed in white robes and scarlet trousers, clutched her throat, foaming at the mouth, looking as if she were about to die.

With a thud, the petite girl fell to the ground, twitched once, and then fell still.

"what happened to you?"

Changzheng hurriedly wanted to check the situation, but was quickly stopped by Xiya.

"How long do you plan to keep playing?"

"Sia asked."

A moment later, the motionless, lifeless girl twitched slightly, then got up again, as if nothing had happened.

Aren't you two worried about me at all?

Leopard looked at Lu Ban.

"We're more worried about the chicken leg you ate than about you."

Lu Ban reached out and touched the fish's tentacles in the plate. The thing didn't move. He pulled it off, and the wriggling tentacles quickly began to wrap around Lu Ban's fingers.

"It seems that time has shifted here because of our arrival."

"Sia said."

She cast a spell on every sailor who boarded the ship, enabling them to resist the supernatural forces here. This effect may gradually spread, causing things that were originally frozen to begin returning to their original time.

“These things remain unchanged while time is frozen, but if time resumes its flow, they will appear contaminated… These people should be the same.”

Upon confirming this, Xia immediately looked at Changzheng.

"Tell the sailors to go back and not to touch anything here."

No sooner had they finished speaking than they heard a scream.

Nagamasa looked in the direction of the sound, only to find that the sailor who had been standing there checking the situation was nowhere to be seen.

Where did they go?

Nagamasa asked the other sailors suspiciously, but they looked completely bewildered and had no idea what had happened.

Without taking any rash action, Nagamasa ordered them to leave immediately.

The two sailors had just nodded and turned to go to the rope ladder on the side of the ship when they suddenly disappeared.

"what--"

With a gradually deepening cry, they vanished into thin air.

"What...what happened?"

Nagamasa felt a deep sense of fear. He dared not move and could only stand beside the three of them, as if this were the safest place in the world.

Did you see that?

Xi Ya asked Lu Ban in a low voice.

"I only saw the general outline."

Lu Ban said, placing his hand near the shoulder of one of the diners. Instantly, a phantom book appeared on the diner's body. Lu Ban held the silver pen "Last Words" and opened the book.

An honest businessman never deceives his own desires.

[He's planning to go back to his hometown to retire after this deal is done; his stance is far too prudent.]

[It hasn't aged despite the years of weathering, and has even developed some unique organs—truly amazing!]

With just a gentle touch, it will bring you unparalleled pleasure. Don't you want to try it?

Similar text was written on it.

From the outside, this diner looks no different, just an ordinary middle-aged man. But in reality, he has been corrupted and transformed into a monster.

The humans on this ship probably had similar food supplies.

The Calm Belt is inevitably polluted, but due to the extraordinary power that causes time to freeze, the polluted creatures cannot be transformed. However, once their time begins to pass, the transformation will immediately become apparent.

Just like when Lu Ban touched the roast chicken, the chicken began to mutate rapidly, growing several legs, and those legs quickly mutated into twisted monsters.

Lu Ban didn't know

But why did those sailors disappear?

Lu Ban was somewhat curious.

He could see that when the sailors disappeared, some dark shadows seemed to cover them.

But how come this shadowy figure couldn't be detected even under Lu Ban's [True Sight]?

His gaze swept across the ship, but he found nothing unusual.

Nothing unusual happened to the sailors on their original ship; they were still waiting for Lu Ban and the others to return.

Although with Leopard here, there shouldn't be any major problems, Lu Ban guessed that, given Leopard's personality, even if she discovered something, she probably wouldn't tell him. Rather than giving Lu Ban and Xi Ya a walkthrough so they could clear the game quickly, Leopard would probably be more interested in seeing how they would handle it.

Just like Lu Ban watching live streams, it's not interesting to watch the streamer speedrun according to the guide; the fun lies in the various random entertainment effects.

Just as Lu Ban was looking around, Xi Ya suddenly disappeared from his side.

As if she had never existed, the armored girl vanished into thin air without a trace.

There wasn't even a scream.

"What... what's going on?"

Changzheng's voice trembled as he approached Lu Ban, looking around as if trying to grab her.

"Don't be nervous."

As Lu Ban spoke, he grabbed Chang Zheng and threw him back to the rope ladder, then rolled back to his own boat.

He glanced at the ship; the sailors were still operating as usual.

It seems that Sia is still alive, otherwise her magic would have failed, and these sailors would have been gradually captured by the Calm Belt, freezing time.

So, where did Sia go?

Lu Ban looked at Leopard.

"Do you know something?"

"I only know what I know."

Leopard said with a grin, seemingly unfazed by the current situation.

"If you're willing to give me some fun, I can offer you some off-field assistance."

"What kind of fun is this?"

Lu Ban asked.

"What I want is all that: the thrill of youth, the nervous ambiguity of romance, the sweetness of love, the annoyance of arguments, the pain of resolute farewells, and the hatred that runs deep in my bones. Which kind of chaotic emotions can you provide me?"

Leopard smiled, as if looking at a dish he had always wanted to eat.

"...I'll try to find it myself first."

Lu Ban didn't think accepting Leopard's proposal would be easier than finding one himself. After thinking for a moment, he placed his hand directly on the diner.

Suddenly, the middle-aged man's flesh swelled, and something emerged from under his skin.

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From beneath the originally normal skin, milky-white tentacles, like new shoots, emerged from the pores, resembling the surface of rotting flesh infested with maggots. These tentacles wriggled and swayed continuously, and finally, beneath the skin, more and thicker white tentacles tore through the skin and wrapped around Lu Ban's hand.