CHAPTER 302: CHAPTER 302: MURDER PERFORMANCE

The underground environment of the Water Prison was deep and dark.

Baiyu walked all the way forward. The area below had basically been explored by the man in the coat before, and the map he provided had no errors.

Rows of old cells lined both sides of the passage, with iron doors wide open, and inside was decayed and dilapidated.

Just as the man in the coat said.

The cells were all empty and deserted.

Baiyu continued downward.

The underground Water Prison had about three levels or so.

With the Blood Worm exploring the way ahead, Baiyu quickly reached the lowest level.

A heavy iron door blocked his way.

"The man in the coat should have stopped here at the time."

Baiyu searched around the iron door but found no entrance or way to open it. Just as he was about to leave, a fierce gust of wind blew from behind.

He turned around to see.

It was another armored person he had encountered before, except this time the armor was white.

These armors weren’t strong.

Baiyu easily dealt with it, and once again retrieved a key from the armor.

Everything was going quite smoothly.

Click.

The iron door opened.

Moist air rushed in.

Behind the door was an open space, with a subterranean dark river flowing past, the sound of water rushing endlessly.

In the open space.

Stood an ancient piano.

The little girl Baiyu had seen in the room before was at the piano, playing with passion. The elegant music mingled with the flowing water echoed in the cavern-like space.

Truth be told.

If a normal person encountered such a thing, they might be quite frightened.

But Baiyu, he wasn’t a normal person.

Having been scared once by this little girl, he now felt no ripples in his heart. Even with a mindset of experimenting, he quietly cast a "Purification" at the little girl.

The Scholar Secret Technique had always been invincible.

However.

This time the purification had no effect.

The little girl continued sitting at the piano, playing even more engrossedly.

The other party wasn’t a physical entity.

Baiyu walked closer to the piano.

Last time he had obtained a diamond-like Crystal Stone from the room with the little girl in it, though its use remained unclear, it likely had nothing to do with opening the door.

"To make her phantom disappear..."

Baiyu mused, sitting in the place the little girl was seated, imitating her action.

In an instant.

The surroundings changed rapidly, the elegant piano music began to envelop the whole space.

It was an immense opera house.

The enthusiastic audience filled every seat, practically overcrowded.

There were not only humans but also various kinds of Sub-humans.

The writings around the opera house were in a federal language Baiyu wasn’t very familiar with.

This was the language used by the Free Federation.

At this moment, the little girl was on the stage of the opera house, her ten fingers dancing on the keys like elves, continuous elegant music emanated.

She was intoxicated by her own playing.

The spotlight was on her, making her the focus of everyone’s attention.

Compared to the first time entering the Illusion Realm.

This time Baiyu was like an observer, able to move around freely in the scene.

Like an invisible man.

The piano played on passionately, the scene remained silent, everyone immersed in the melodious tune.

Was this illusion about the girl’s past life?

Just as Baiyu was pondering.

The previously continuous piano sound abruptly stopped.

The surroundings changed again!

The light disappeared, figures vanished.

In the vast opera house, only he and the little girl were left.

The surroundings fell into endless darkness.

Baiyu found himself fixed in the center of the audience seats in the opera house, unable to move, his Blood Qi suppressed and hard to mobilize.

The little girl, dressed in a Lolita outfit, looked at him and stood up.

"Hey, hey, is this some sort of forced plot-kill scenario?"

Baiyu felt a bad premonition.

The first time he saw this illusion, he didn’t encounter any danger.

But this time, something seemed off.

The little girl looked straight at Baiyu, lifted her skirt, and bowed deeply at ninety degrees, performing a perfect curtsey.

Then.

She started rapidly playing the piano again with her hands.

But this time... the piano music made the Pollution Level skyrocket!

While others play the piano for money, she plays it for life!

At this moment, Baiyu wished neither to look nor to listen, but he could only sit there like a block of wood, unable to change anything.

The Pollution Level kept rising.

Almost every few seconds it increased by one point.

The piano piece had only been playing two minutes, and Baiyu’s Pollution Level was already more than halfway.

A familiar itch came from the palms of his hands.

Grotesque mouths split open respectively on his left and right hands.

This was a sequela left from Baiyu’s first contamination by the female streamer’s Pollution Level, which had never been cured.

Under normal circumstances, when his Pollution Level was stable, there wasn’t a problem. As soon as the Pollution Level rose, these two mouths would split open from the palms.

So Baiyu was always very cautious.

Every time the Pollution Level rose slightly, he would immediately restrain himself, preventing the situation from worsening.

"Dammit... this time I let my guard down."

Baiyu attempted to retrieve the "Descent of the Demon Lord" Magic Elixir from the Scholar space but found no way to do so.

"Baiyu, what are you doing?"

At this moment, Cang Yan’s surprised voice echoed in his mind.

Baiyu’s consciousness entered the Scholar space, seeing the entire space presenting a bizarre gray-black hue, the walls, the floor, rapidly decaying and corroding.

This was the first time such a mutation appeared in the Scholar space.

Baiyu instantly realized.

His Pollution Level was surging so high that it was affecting the space in his mind.

"Baiyu, quickly think of a way!"

Cang Yan shouted loudly.

"Stop yelling, I’m more worried than you."

The Pollution Level had already crossed the 50-point threshold.

Baiyu coldly watched the little girl playing in front, judging by the progress of the piece, it should be nearing the end.

However...

Whether he could last until the end, and whether she would play another piece afterward, were all unknowns.

"The Suffering Paperman can’t be used either."

The situation had reached its most critical point.

The mouths in Baiyu’s palms kept splitting open, a bright red strange tongue sticking out from the mouths.

Pollution was intensifying!

Baiyu hardened his heart at the moment, simply letting go of the suppression. Those two tongues licked the air, and then hooked back in a curled state.

The mouths immediately made chewing sounds.

Did the mouths bite air?

Baiyu was about to make a snarky remark, your growth for so long has no use at all.

He suddenly felt his whole body relax.

He was able to move!

The action of the two mouths chewing the air had broken his restraints?

Baiyu didn’t have time to think much.

The little girl’s musical theme on stage had reached its climax.

At this time.

Pollution Level had reached 70 points!

Baiyu quickly took out the "Descent of the Demon Lord" Magic Elixir from the Scholar space, gulped it down, and a surge of power arose from within him.

The feeling of his body about to mutate rapidly disappeared.

"Now let’s play for real."

Baiyu looked at the little girl on the stage, his form vanished in a flash of blood light, appearing above the opera house.