chapter 93

Chapter 93

They were invited by Sean to visit the seabed and even toured the stunning Red Coral house.

Sean exchanged a few words with the Sea Demon, broke off a piece of Red Coral, and together with a Pearl and a blank card, handed them to Lu Li.

“If you have time, you can walk into the city and see what’s happening inside.”

Leaving the sea.

Lu Li sat on the beach and raised the bouquet toward Bosi.

“For you.”

Bosi said, “This is yours.”

“This is the bouquet I want to give you,” Lu Li said. “Remember to find a vase for it and put it in your room when we get back.”

Bosi then wrapped the bouquet with a piece of black cloth and held it.

“Wrapped like this, you can’t even tell what it is,” Lu Li pulled the cloth away. “Don’t you like it?”

The black cloth fell away defenselessly.

Bosi, afraid to hold it yet worried about dropping the bouquet, still managed to catch it.

In the end, the bouquet bathed in Moonlight remained intact.

Even when held by him.

It did not wither.

Lu Li reminded him, “Don’t cover it again.”

Bosi looked at the bouquet. “Okay.”

He thought, luckily he had made a vase in advance.

When the tide rose, water swept up. Lu Li crouched down, placing his hand in the water, curiously watching the cold water flow through.

He scooped some seawater into his hand and said to Bosi, “Sean’s house is huge.”

Bosi: “It’s all right.”

Lu Li stood up. “That’s a two-bedroom, one-living room, one-kitchen, one-bathroom!”

“It’s about the size of a storage room in my Palace.”

“Your Palace is that-big?” Lu Li’s eyes lit up. “If there’s a chance, can you show me?”

Bosi fell silent.

The Underworld King’s Palace.

No entry except for official business.

How could a human go in?

Lu Li kept staring at him. Bosi brushed off imaginary dust from his shoulder and straightened a brooch that wasn’t crooked, saying, “Depends on your work performance.”

Lu Li quickly translated this in his mind and smiled. “You’re so nice.”

“Does your Palace have a kitchen? I saw the Sea Demon can fry Starfish. Can you do that…”

“Oh, and I have two friends. Their game holidays don’t match mine. Can you help extend theirs too…”

They walked toward the city, guided by the Moon.

Moonlight also fell on the bouquet in Bosi’s hands.

–

At first, one or two poor people noticed something strange.

“The tide hasn’t been rising lately. Instead, it’s been receding again and again. Why is that?”

“This isn’t just a simple ebb! The sea is retreating!”

“What’s there to panic about? Let’s just move our village in the direction the sea is retreating.”

Then panic spread among the poor.

“After the tide receded, there’s no food left on the shore! I just came back from the beach-not a single fish, no shrimp, no shells! This never happened before! The Moon no longer grants us food!”

“Then let’s go out to sea and fish. Before we found food from the receding tide, weren’t we fishermen?”

“It’s been years since we went out to fish. I’ve forgotten how to cast a net! My fishing gear is all rusty-can it still be used?”

“If we don’t go out to fish, we’ll all starve!”

Lu Li and Bosi stood among the panicked, fleeing poor, watching a fishing boat that had just set out into the mist, only to return soon after.
The poor people on the boat broke down and cried out:

“We can’t go to sea! Without the guiding Moon on the ocean, we’ve lost our direction!”

“If we really set sail, we’ll never come back-we’ll all die!”

“This is the Moon’s punishment! We must beg for forgiveness! When the Moon forgives us, the food will come back!”

“It must be those homosexuals! There are still homosexuals hiding in our village. We should have burned Sean back then! We’ve already driven out the boy he infected and his family, and everyone else has kneeled to the Moon! Unless whoever is still hiding among us steps forward to accept punishment, the Moon will never forgive us!”

Lu Li and Bosi passed by the poor people on the shore, who were fighting each other because of internal strife.

Under the Moonlight, several timelines overlapped.

In the end, only white bones remained along the coast.

These bones, even in starvation, still maintained the posture of frenzied fighting.

–

Vendors in the Rich District began to refuse to sell fruit and food to Mr. and Mrs. Qiao.

Even when the Qiao family’s servants went out to shop, the moment they touched the fruit, it would rot.

Countless maggots crawled out from the flesh of the fruit, falling onto the panicked, screaming rich people.

On the same day, a piece of news that shocked the entire Rich District was published.

Mr. Qiao, voted the district’s most loving husband, had cheated-not with just one, but with more than twenty Maids. Indecent photos became the running joke of the Rich District.

“No laughing!”

“It’s fake! All of it is fake!”

“And what about you? If my love is fake, yours is even more so! There’s no such thing as eternal love in this world!”

Mrs. Qiao tore up a newspaper, screaming as she grabbed fruit and threw it at those grinning at her. Everything she touched turned black and rotten-this became the second joke in the Rich District.

More newspapers circulated endlessly in the hands of the rich; Mrs. Qiao could never tear them all up.

Lu Li watched as she picked up a knife from the fruit stall and walked home.

Mrs. Qiao stabbed Mr. Qiao more than a dozen times.

She then found the more than twenty Maids hiding in the house, turned the knife on them, and blood splattered on Mrs. Qiao’s ferocious face, making a sizzling, corrosive sound.

Mrs. Qiao screamed and threw away the knife. She rushed in front of the mirror, seeing that her face was already bare bone.

“Ah-! My face! No!”

“There’s nothing left! Everyone is laughing at me! I hate you, Qiao, I hate you!”

Worms squirmed out from her eye sockets.

Mrs. Qiao sat in front of the mirror and decayed into a pile of white bones.

A gentle touch caused her bones to fall apart.

–

The Masquerade Ball in the Noble District had just begun.

Lu Li stood at the edge of the dance floor and, in the overlapping timelines, saw Mirella and Fenny.

Bosi sneered, “As an Evil God, you’ve really lowered yourself, mingling with these NPCs and entering Game Day.”

Fenny had always clocked in and out on time for years, but only recently started taking frequent vacations.

So, he was mingling with humans after all.

Looks like he still doesn’t have enough work.

Lu Li walked into the dance floor and made a shushing gesture at Bosi. “Shh, I really want to know what those two are saying at the Masquerade Ball.”