Chapter 642 The Secret of the Underground Cave (Part )
Riko already knew roughly what happened next, but hearing it from Timitite's mouth gave it a completely different feeling.
On the way of exploring downwards, he gradually got close to a girl named Namichi. Because both of them were infertile and Timitite was older, they often referred to each other as mother and son.
In Namiqi, Timitite seemed to see her former self, but Namiqi was luckier than her...
At first, Timitite thought so, because Namiqi was from Abyss, and the residents of Abyss were very kind. Although there were still some criticisms against people who could not have children, this was actually reasonable and understandable. Therefore, Namiqi's early life was much better than his own.
but--
The abyss is the real hell.
Namiqi, under the influence of the Heart of Dreams, became a machine for giving birth to babies. Those babies did not survive for more than a day. In the end, the babies she gave birth to became food...
In a trance of hunger, she, Timitite, was fed by Dak with clay pot rice made from Namichi's children. The taste was -
“Thinking back on it now, it’s still so delicious!”
Timitite said, covering his eyes, but couldn't stop the tears, which kept flowing, "I actually think my grandson is delicious, it's really terrible!"
after that.
A soul saint, after being saved by them, left his heart of dreams to them.
At Dark's suggestion, the leader gave the Heart of Dreams to Namichi, who no longer looked like a human, hoping that she could return to her original appearance.
But it failed.
Namichi's body swelled again, and the others could no longer bear the fact that they had become man-eating monsters. With a strong sense of guilt, they entered Namichi's body, hoping that Namichi would eat them.
However, they did not die, but transformed into mutants, and Namichi also entered the Sea of Dead, continued to dive, and came to the fifth floor...
"It's ridiculous, isn't it? I was the only one, the mother, who did not become an alien after entering Namichi's body. Instead, I retained my human identity. But seeing that everyone had lost their human appearance, I didn't dare to face them anymore and hid in the cave."
Timidite cried and said, "Captain Hope asked Dak to build this secret room for me, and used his power to influence the insects underneath, making them food that I can eat..."
I want to die.
To prevent me from committing suicide, Dake took away all my possessions.
Whenever I fainted from hunger, I could always feel the Hope Worm entering my mouth... No one else would come here specifically, and most of the mutants who came to collect the Hope Worms had lost their memories of being human. They might not even know who I was and would not feed me, so I could only grope in the mire by myself, dizzy with hunger."
"I want to die—"
"But my body instinctively wants to survive, which is really ironic."
After hearing this, Riko felt that she couldn't let Timitite be so timid any longer, so she called Mahaha, pulled her out of the ravine, and bought her some clothes.
Free gift to Timitite?
Not according to the rules of this space.
But my clothes are too small and the other person can't wear them.
So, Liko asked Timitite to pay a price, which was to talk to her.
Thus, the deal was done.
After listening to what Li Ke had said, Zhou Qing looked at Timidite for a long time and sighed, "Fortunately Tang San didn't come here, otherwise after hearing such a tragic story, he would definitely want to destroy this place."
Dugu Bo nodded: "I also have the idea of destroying this place..."
After the episode, Zhou Qing said to Timidite: "At that moment, we cannot simply judge by the concepts of right and wrong in the outside world, and -" After a pause, Zhou Qing continued, "When a person is about to faint from hunger, he actually has no strength at all. You can't explore the Hope worm by yourself."
When a person's stomach is empty, it will make a chirping sound, prompting the person to eat, but if one endures this feeling, the hunger will temporarily subside, because the body will actively break down the fat in the body to replenish energy in order to survive.
But humans are not able to hibernate like bears. Even a fat person will starve to death if he does not eat for a long time.
Therefore, when Timitite was about to faint from hunger, he probably didn't even have the strength to speak, let alone take the initiative to touch the Hope worm.
"You mean, someone fed me?" Timidite shook his head violently. "That's impossible. Hope's body is too big to fit in there, and Dak has been building the clock tower. The rest of the people have basically forgotten about me."
"I really don't know her, but I think she looks familiar." The proprietress confirmed what Timitite said.
Timitite wanted to cry but had no tears.
She had known about this kind of thing for a long time, but when her former acquaintances and friends said in front of her that they didn't know her, she still felt a huge blow in her heart.
"Speaking of which, why is Hope's body so big?"
Seeing that Timitite was quite excited, Zhou Qing no longer worried about whether anyone would feed her, but instead became concerned about Hope's size.
Although the bodies of the mutants vary in size, I have seen mutants from other villages along the way, and their sizes are still within the normal range of understanding.
The largest one was the seven-meter-tall conch-like mutant that appeared during the previous hunt for the purple slime.
Only Hope is different. It is about tens of meters long, comparable to an ordinary hundred-thousand-year soul beast. Even in terms of body length, the hundred-thousand-year-old Azure Bull Python described in the original book is not as long as Hope.
Is it because Hope is occupying the position in Namichi's brain?
Or was it that Hope was already a very powerful soul master before he became an alien, so after the transformation he retained a state similar to his martial soul's true body?
"It's not these two reasons." Timidite denied Zhou Qing's guess, "Before I entered the bottom of the cave, Hope's height was still within the normal range, only about five or six meters, and he didn't enter the cave at the beginning. It was only after obtaining another Dream Heart that he entered the cave transformed by Namiqi, and his body size gradually grew."
"Dream Heart?"
Riko was shocked, "Doesn't that mean Hope became that big because he fulfilled his dream?"
"Maybe." Timitite was not sure.
"What I want to know is, have you really never gone out since you entered the bottom of the cave?" Zhou Qing suddenly asked.
"No."
"Then how do you know that Hope got another Dream Heart?"
Immediately, Riko and Dugu Bo reacted and suspected that Timitite was hiding something, or that simply too much time had passed, causing their memories to become confused.
Both of them tend to prefer the latter.
reason?
Anyone who lived in such a sunless claustrophobic space for nearly two hundred years would become a madman. To be able to maintain a thinking logic close to that of a normal person like Timitite was considered to be very strong inside.
(End of this chapter)
