The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

392: The Exit (Drafted 2/22)

No one would have thought humans, the race all other powerful creatures looked down on, would one day rule the continent.

In fact, humans played a pivotal role in the creation of corpse demons, one of the powerful creatures that had run rampant in that era.
Back then, sacrifices to gods and powerful demons were common.
Most sacrifices were often in the form of beautiful, sixteen-year-old virgins.

Small spirit monsters would come and fuse into their dead bodies.
Not every fusion was successful, but those that were successful resulted in a new entity called a corpse demon.
They were extremely powerful with bodies as hard as the toughest ore.
And by taking in human blood, they could evolve even further.
The stronger a magician or warrior was, the more delicious it was to a corpse demon.

The corpse demon they sealed inside the tomb was a powerful one that had managed to eat several tribes in its quest to evolve.
A different general had been responsible for getting rid of it.
He had wanted to destroy it completely, but the general in charge of the tomb’s construction had something else in mind.

He wanted to use it to guard the exit tunnel created by the prisoners.
Thus, did the corpse demon escape death and stay alive for tens of thousands of years all the way to today.

The slaughter of the tribes hadn’t been a secret at the time, so when the spirits heard mention of a corpse demon, they were able to figure out which corpse demon it was that was sealed inside.

Feng Wu successfully avoided a water column.
Her small brow furrowed at the thought another could appear at any time.

“Feng Wu, what are you thinking about? Be careful not to get hit.” Zo was worried when he saw Feng Wu not paying attention.

Feng Wu turned to look at Zo and said in all seriousness, “I’m thinking about how to leave here.”

“Leave? But we don’t know where the exit is.
How do we leave?” Zo wanted to leave as well.
Even if it was an infinite dungeon, being someplace else in it was better than staying where they were and dying.

“I know where the exit is.
It’s under the shell.”

The way out was under the shell bed? Zo was surprised.
He wanted to ask how she knew, but thinking about it a little made him realize it must have been Rui Baby who told her.

It was a good thing he didn’t ask.
With Feng Wu’s personality, she would have told him the truth and that would have been chilling.

“Everyone, listen! The exit is under the shell bed.
We can leave if we get the bed out!” The only way to leave was to get everyone to work together.
He and Feng Wu alone wouldn’t be able to move the shell.

Those close to him heard.
The were quite surprised and had wanted to get closer to clarify the matter, but the mershark’s attack intensified, preventing them from doing so.

They didn’t know how Zo knew this, but they didn’t think there was any reason for him to lie.
So the people who heard spread it to the others farther away, and soon enough every one was aware where the exit was.

“Find a way to lure her from the bed!”

Everyone shared the same thought.
They had to get her off the shell and away from it if they wanted to leave.

The thought that there was a way out buoyed everyone’s spirits.
No one wanted the exit to be a lie, so they chose to firmly believe in it.

They all worked hard to leave.
This, of course, included Feng Wu.
She successfully helped Zo avoid water columns and whirl pools.
There were several times he nearly got sucked in, but Feng Wu pulled him out and away each time.

Everyone ran from the water column so they could coordinate an attack on the mershark.
They attacked one by one with magic and qi, but unfortunately the mershark was so powerful that their attacks didn’t have an effect.

It wasn’t that their attacks were useless, no, it was that the water in front of the mershark acted as a shield.
The water really was the mershark’s home.
It was just too difficult to deal damage.

“Hit the bed!” The only female magician in the group shouted.

Everyone changed targets to hit the shell.
Fortunately the shell was much easier to damage.
A few attacks with magic and qi was all it took to shatter it to smithereens.

With it gone, they could see a black vortex hidden underneath.
It was clearly a teleportation channel.

They were overjoyed at being able to use it to leave the place.
Though no one had doubted it was there, seeing a physical representation of their hope was heartening.

“Ha!” The mershark’s irritation got worse upon seeing its beloved bed blown up by its food.
The water columns accelerated and the number of whirlpools increased from two to four.

Now the adventurers had to avoid the water columns while paying attention to the whirlpools at all times.

The man standing at Zo’s left couldn’t dodge a whirlpool in time and his body involuntarily moved toward the vortex.
He panicked, and without even thinking, pulled at Zo.
They ended up switching positions, allowing him to escape the whirlpool’s gravity.

“Ah!” Zo only had time to let out a scream before he was tugged hard into the whirlpool on his way to the vortex center.
Just when he thought he was dead, a slender hand reached in and yanked him out, effectively swapping places.

“Feng Wu!” Zo had escaped the catastrophe, but he wasn’t overjoyed in the least.
His heart filled with guilt and despair as he watched Feng Wu get sucked toward the vortex in his place.