Ark Chess Player.

Slightly humid air, a constantly rising and falling chest.

The intense pounding of their hearts filled them with hormones.

In the dimly lit room, Ghost Shark's face was clearly visible. She no longer seemed to have the same ease she had shown before; her pretty face quickly flushed red, and her bright eyes trembled slightly.

Lin Lu pressed down on her, his reason almost overwhelmed by the wonderful sensations she was giving him. He had underestimated Ghost Shark's nun's habit; it wasn't just visually stunning, but the actual contact with her exuded a fierce violence that stirred his most primal urges.

"Don't panic."

Lin Lu moistened his slightly hoarse throat, licked his dry lips, and swallowed.

"Doctor, my purpose here is solely to save lives; I have no other intentions."

"We can share a bed, but not physically."

Lin Lu's gentle gaze lingered on Ghost Shark's eyes, trying her best to make the other party feel her goodwill.

“You might not believe me, but we’re in a one-for-one situation right now. You won’t lose, and I won’t fall for it.” Lin Lu looked down at his chest, which was being tightly gripped by Ghost Shark, and then at his left hand pressing firmly against the other’s towering breasts. He said frankly with a righteous expression, “If I, Doctor, do anything to offend you, you can kill me anytime.”

"However, if you have any requests, young lady."

"As a doctor, I would never refuse."

Lin Lu felt confident speaking with a clear conscience in his heart.

"Who...who are you...?"

The ghost shark looked like it was about to cry.

The mature allure has faded, and now lying on the bed, with Lin Lu pressing her down, is just an innocent girl.

With moist red eyes glancing left and right, Ghost Shark looked at Lin Lu with teary eyes, her voice timid and pitiful.

"What have you done to me... Why are you doing this to me? Who brought me here? Tell me!!"

Ghost Shark, like a girl about to be violated, trembled and her voice shook. She struggled desperately, but her whole body was limp and powerless. An indescribable heat gathered in her chest, her heart pounded, and her breathing became erratic. Fine beads of sweat seeped from her skin, soaking a large patch of her nun's habit.

If she were in good condition, she could probably embed Lin Lu into the ceiling with a flick of her wrist, the kind of thing that you couldn't even pry off.

"Huh? So professional? You can even change character attributes depending on the scene and conditions! When you were pinning me down, you were the friendly older sister next door ready to drive the big car, but now that the situation has reversed, you're playing the pitiful lost girl. Such a high-level way to play, you really know how to play!"

Lin Lu sighed inwardly, realizing that he was still too innocent and couldn't compare to him.

However, Ghost Shark's expression didn't seem feigned. Lin Lu stared intently at him, then gripped his left hand slightly tighter.

The soft cotton ball changed shape as the five fingers buried it deeper, and the girl's body trembled even more violently, her crimson eyes welling up with tears.

Lin Lu's conscience began to ache.

The physical kind.

Through a layer of soft panties, Ghost Shark's fingers gripped a spot on his chest tightly, as if he were using his last bit of strength to resist.

The grief and despair in the girl's eyes... if this were role-playing, I'd declare Specter the winner of the first-ever Rhode Island Academy Award for Best Actress! There are no other nominees!

"Damn! Are you serious?"

Lin Lu's eyebrows twitched violently, and he silently pulled back the belt he was about to undo.

"Girl, that's not very kind of you. You went to great lengths to get me to go on this journey to the West, and now you're being heartless before DIO is even out. Let me tell you, this is against professional ethics. You can't do this. You know, holding it in for too long will cause inflammation!"

"Woo..."

"Fine, fine, you're in charge! You're the boss now, okay?"

Startled, the ghost shark pressed its finger against Lin Lu's chest and twisted it. The sharp pain almost made Lin Lu cry out, but he dared not retaliate in kind.

—That imagery is just too vivid!

It took a while for Ghost Shark to loosen its grip on her fingers a little, but she was still as frightened as a fledgling.

Lin Lu's face turned pale and purple. He realized that this was the real Ghost Shark.

She was just a simple, lost girl.

The previously divine and alluring secondary personality was suppressed by Ibitas's power, and the factors that caused Ghost Shark to go out of control have been eliminated... half of them.

This is why Lin Lu dared not remove his left hand from Ghost Shark. He wasn't doing it to enjoy the comfort of having every finger submerged, but to soothe the girl's emotions with love and peace—to prevent her from launching a counterattack and leaving him airborne, unable to get down, and now performing an ace-level aerial combat routine.

“Let’s sit down and talk this over, okay? If you keep squeezing like this, I’ll soon be able to do a plank with both hands off the bed, believe it or not?” Lin Lu frowned. “I’m confident in this area. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”

Ghost Shark nodded somewhat timidly, but she found her hands were like magnets stuck to Lin Lu's chest, unable to break free. Her face flushed even more, and she realized that she was the one who had molested him.

Lin Lu reluctantly moved his hand away from Ghost Shark's chest and instead placed it on her abdomen.

"uh-huh--"

In an instant, Ghost Shark felt countless hot currents rushing towards her private parts, giving her a tingling sensation as if she had been electrocuted, leaving her somewhat bewildered.

The two sat on the bed, still in contact with each other. The girl remained kneeling, while Lin Lu leaned forward, as if an obstetrician were massaging her abdomen. The scene was incredibly awkward. If the person in front of him were Kal'tsit, Lin Lu could have easily pulled her into his arms… Wait, why am I thinking of Kal'tsit again?

Lin Lu blinked and started a conversation.

"Do you still have any memories of the past?"

He is clearly also a person with amnesia.

“I…remember myself…coming from the deep ocean.”

Ghost Shark slowly shook her head, her voice trembling even more than before.

"A voice keeps ringing in my head, never stopping for a second." Ghost Shark seemed to feel a chill, quietly hunching his shoulders, and whispered, "Listen... the Lord of all things, in the darkness, is murmuring to himself..."

Lin Lu looked around at the dim surroundings and closed his eyes to listen.

After remaining silent for several seconds, he trembled with fear for the first time and suddenly opened his eyes!

Lin Lu asked in horror, "Was that voice saying—'Christmas Sale: 90% off premium games, new products not selling well, help us out?' Oh right, and he can't even count to 3!!"

Specter Shark: "???"

Chapter 77 Because I am the Doctor of Rhodes Island

"I can't recall."

"I don't know who I am."

“Ghost Shark…that’s what the ‘dead’ call me.”

"The doctor told me that the condition for continuing treatment was to fight for Rhodes Island."

"I will, I will dedicate all my strength to you."

"So, please..."

Please don't give up on me.

The gray-haired girl explained that, without realizing it, tears had soaked her face, and only weariness remained in her eyes.

Having been implanted with false beliefs, I am constantly tormented by voices echoing in my mind, unable to sleep day and night.

Every nightfall, the ghost shark is forced to clasp its hands together in prayer, devoutly praying, singing, and cheering to the stars.

Without doing so, she couldn't get a chance to catch her breath from the splitting headache. But each time she prayed, the voice in her head became even more solid. Ghost Shark seemed trapped in an endless vicious cycle, where despair led only to more despair.

Lin Lu figured it out.

Ghost Shark is an innocent girl who has been tragically harmed by a cult.

Those despicable cult members have actually tormented a perfectly healthy young woman into this state of mental instability! This pains Lin Lu, an upright person, deeply.

It was quite heartbreaking, because Ghost Shark was a little emotional while talking, and her hand on Lin Lu's chest unconsciously gripped too tightly, causing Lin Lu's nipples to hurt.

"If I told you that I might have a way to free you, would you be willing to try?"

Lin Lu pondered, to be honest, he wasn't very confident, but how would he know if it would work if he didn't try?

"You mean...?"

Ghost Shark was stunned; she seemed unable to grasp the meaning behind Lin Lu's words.

Countless nights of breakdowns have made her afraid to hope for a return to normalcy; she just wants to be a little more lucid.

“I can’t guarantee it will work, after all, I’m lost just like you.” Lin Lu raised his right hand and used his index finger to wipe away the girl’s tears, fading the tear stains. “But I can feel your pain. You have a long road ahead of you. I hope you make some friends, enjoy fine food, and see the world.”

"Ghost Shark, will you believe me?"

To be honest, Attorney Lin's question sounded very unsure of himself.

Because his hand was still on the other person's smooth, flat abdomen, just like a middle-aged balding uncle groping his subordinate.

Ghost Shark stood there dumbfounded for a long time, then finally nodded blankly, like a lost child in a shopping mall meeting a kind lady at the service desk. She had no choice, but fortunately, she met someone capable of helping her make a choice.

"I will not let you down."

Lin Lu smiled slightly and said softly, his tone indifferent.

Ghost Shark suddenly looked up and realized that the person who called himself the Doctor had changed.

The white-haired youth who seemed to have lustful thoughts but lacked the courage to act on them seemed to have become a completely different person.

Calm and collected, as if the entire situation was under his control, he was simply passing the time from beginning to end.

A cobalt blue light gathered in Lin Lu's eyes as he calmly gazed at the ghost shark, but his eyes did not reflect the girl's image.

Lin Lu's gaze went very far, as if he wanted to cross a period of time, beyond ships, beyond wastelands, beyond hills, and beyond oceans.

Until those cobalt blue eyes reflected the dim, vertically oriented giant pupils.

"found it."

The cobalt blue flame in Lin Lu's left eye suddenly ignited, radiating a chilling aura as it confronted the hostility.

The left hand, which was attached to the girl's abdomen, suddenly glowed, and the double helix mark on the back of the hand burned fiercely, emitting orange-red flames.

extraction.

This is one of Lin Lu's trump cards.

Lin Lu was able to withstand Talulah, this humanoid calamity, in Chernobog precisely because he used the power of extraction to decompose and absorb the incoming Originium Arts, converting them into his own power. However, the power of extraction is not without limits. Otherwise, he would have simply drilled into Chernobog's central energy core and seized enough Originium energy to power the entire city. What would he have been afraid of then? He could have easily torn apart the Reunion Movement and stormed out of the city without hesitation.

In Chernobog, Lin Lu used the power of extraction to endure the despair of the hounds who had been artificially infected by the Reunion Movement in order to free them.

The more impurities an Originium contains, the greater its side effects and the more severe the mental pollution it causes.

Lin Lu decided to use this move because when he used Ibitas's power to suppress the Ghost Shark, a message popped up in the Spirit Realm.

"Should we perform energy extraction? Success rate: 20%."

Even if Ghost Shark were willing to believe him, the dismal success rate would only increase from 20% to 25%.

Given Lin Lu's pathological caution, the success rate is not 100%, but the failure rate is 100%.

The risk of directly extracting unknown energy is too great, and he dares not think about the consequences of failure.

but--

If this could save the girl from the corridor of despair, then Lin Lu was willing to bear any burden, no matter how heavy.

Because I am a doctor from Rhodes Island.

"Epicas!!"

Lin Lu roared, and a dazzling star chart rose up from behind him, instantly illuminating the secluded room with a ring of stars.

The data-driven spiritual realm is operating at an accelerated pace, and spiritual power is continuously increasing, causing the surrounding information to become distorted as a result.

Lin Lu needs any force to increase the success rate as much as possible!

The success rate rose from 25% to 40%, but that's not enough, not enough!

Lin Lu suddenly understood why he was angry.

It wasn't just because of the ghost shark's suffering, but also because he felt a deep-seated hatred for it.

Forcing someone to believe in the unknown through twisted means is undoubtedly a desecration of a girl's soul.

What truly restrains Ghost Shark is not this gloomy room, but the nun's habit she wears—a mobile cage intended to accompany her throughout her life.

Ghost Shark stared blankly at Lin Lu, her hand still pressed against his chest. Her nun's habit seemed to be touched by flames, emitting wisps of smoke. Streams of black matter struggled to escape from the clothing, distorting and twisting its outline.

"Quiet!"

Lin Lu roared, forcefully silencing the frenzied black creature.

The flame above his left eye flickered, and the light emanating from the intertwined marks on the back of his hands resembled a burning flame, breaking down, melting, extracting, and absorbing the black matter it touched.