novelraw Chapter 708: Lady Bojiang
Chapter 708: Lady Bojiang
"These are..."
Looking at the strange creatures above emitting synthesized voices and revealing a little bit of their edges, Fisher couldn't help but turn his head to look at Gou Wen beside him. Initially, it was just curiosity about what those completely non-humanoid creatures were, but Gou Wen, with a dark face, controlled the transparent boat to float upward while saying upwards,
"These are all guests temporarily under my care."
Bringing up "guests", Gou Wen gnashed his teeth a little.
Fisher understandingly patted his shoulder, and subsequently spoke with deep meaning,
"Rest assured, I will absolutely not tell your wife about this matter."
"Get lost!"
Gou Wen slapped Fisher's hand away, speaking with a stinky face,
"I didn't even drop my guard when Marquis Bai chased me back then, let alone these... Ugh!"
Before he could finish his words, the somewhat small, diamond-shaped crystal-like creature roughly the size of Gou Wen's head above had already taken the lead to pounce down. In mid-air, Fisher only then realized this creature's body was originally curled together to form a diamond shape. After extending, it had three transparent triangular tentacles stretching out, looking exceptionally bizarre."Aiya, Gou Wen dear, your health is poor yet you always love running outside..."
"Yeah yeah..."
The massive tentacles above also stretched down. Fisher turned his head to look, only to see rows of eye-like structures neatly arranged like beans in a pod above him. This scared Fisher into taking a step back, and even Emhart hid behind the back of Fisher's head.
"Eh, a new face eh... This smell, is it a consciousness body from here?"
"...Hello?"
As Gou Wen's small boat ascended and landed on the small island, Fisher finally fully saw these outsiders at the edge clearly.
Aside from that petite, bizarrely-shaped diamond creature, the appearance of the creature with two massive tentacles was also difficult to describe. It looked like a slug, its entire body wrapped in some kind of clothing flickering with little bits of fluorescence.
"Hello, consciousness body. I am Concubine Yu, very pleased to meet you..."
"Concubine Yu?"
Fisher paused slightly, turning to look at Gou Wen beside him whose face was getting darker and darker.
And that diamond-shaped creature he swatted aside also floated up, greeting Fisher using some kind of synthesized voice,
"Hello hello, consciousness body. I am Consort Luo."
The remaining couple of oddly-shaped outsiders using synthesized voices all gathered around as well. As if observing some rare object, they surrounded Fisher, greeting him one by one,
"I am Lady Chuan..."
"I am Consort Long, hello... awooo..."
Fisher struggled to dodge a tongue sticking out from the mouth of a lizard-like creature. That tongue, curved and dripping with saliva, stretched in front of Fisher like a greeting, making the expression on his face increasingly forced.
"Excuse me... Hello, excuse me..."
The ranks of these strange creatures weren't considered high; at most they were like ordinary Demi-human Races of the Extraordinary Rank. With a light push, Fisher squeezed out from among these creatures with strange names, walking towards Gou Wen who was wiping some kind of sparkling powder off his face.
That powder seemed to be left by the diamond-shaped Consort Luo from earlier.
"What's going on?"
Fisher inquired in a low voice. Meanwhile, Gou Wen angrily cast a glance at his chest, cursing in a low voice,
"Isn't it all that fellow's fault!"
"That fellow?"
Fisher paused slightly, lowering his head to glance in the direction of his embrace; that place was exactly where the Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual was located.
"The Demi-Human Girl Con?"
"Correct!"
Gou Wen waved his hand, ignoring the retention of this group of "singing birds and fluttering swallows" behind him. With familiarity and coldness, he grabbed Fisher and walked towards the interior of the island. Actually, apart from that group of chirping creatures behind them, the entire island wasn't considered lively, without many living things. On it, Fisher also saw the wreckages of some strange machinery, seemingly components of various spaceships.
Through Gou Wen's introduction, Fisher learned that this place was originally the hiding spot Gou Wen created in the Spirit World. It was built through the combined efforts of Mikhail, the Demi-Human Girl Con, and himself. Later, after it was completed, the Demi-Human Girl Con frequently dropped by as well.
And when this group of outsiders first arrived, the Demi-Human Girl Con also helped settle them down. There were many foreign races who couldn't even communicate through language; it was all thanks to the Demi-Human Girl Con to barely communicate with them.
It had to be said, the Demi-Human Girl Con handled matters very efficiently. Very quickly she had chosen names for these lost outsiders and prepared communication devices. It was just that her wicked sense of humor was invariably present.
"...So, those names like consorts and concubines were all given by the Demi-Human Girl Con?"
"Hehe, that's right! Named using the directions they roughly came from. One day that fellow inexplicably said she wanted to help me build a 'harem'. I hadn't even figured out what it meant, but when I returned here, that group of fellows' names and titles were all chosen..."
Emhart couldn't help but start laughing. But Gou Wen threw a sidelong glance at him, making him hide even more securely behind Fisher's head.
Fisher also felt quite helpless. No wonder Gou Wen unexpectedly found the "Demi-Human Girl Completion Manual" as an explanation for the sin of greed Fisher committed in the past. It was primarily because he knew the original master, as if nothing she did would be surprising. And now, the Completion Manual inheriting her mantle was in Fisher's hands.
Comparing the two, Gou Wen might even find Fisher somewhat more pleasing to the eye.
"So, where are we going right now?"
"Going inside, to meet a very special outsider."
"Oh?"
Fisher cast a glance at the "various consorts and concubines" frolicking joyfully behind them. Meanwhile, Gou Wen stared straight ahead, advancing rapidly between the green plants planted on the island and along the paved stone paths,
"The foreign living beings from outside The Ultimate who crash into this place are essentially all insignificant unlucky folks. Without their civilization's technology, they appear insignificant. Not only can they not see the Barrier, they also can't see The Ultimate which serves as the gap in the Barrier. They all trespassed into this place through a combination of errors, and the various aircraft they used to enter were essentially all damaged. By this point, they can only stay here to evade the Spirit World Contamination. What they can do is very limited...
"She is the sole exception. She is extremely ancient and powerful. She had already been staying in the Spirit World long before the Spirit World Contamination appeared. Her civilization possesses a tradition of following deities. After entering this world, she became a devout follower of the Mother Goddess in the Spirit World, and it was also through her that Asuka got acquainted with the Mother Goddess... She has walked every corner of the Spirit World, and even possesses unique methods to overcome the Spirit World Contamination and walk within the Spirit World. She might know the place you mentioned."
Hearing this, Fisher narrowed his eyes with some curiosity,
"Is that so..."
"It's just that, precisely because she is extremely ancient and powerful, it is exceedingly difficult to communicate with her..."
At this moment, he and Gou Wen had already walked to the center of the island. And very quickly, the silhouette of a completely pure white, glowing, slender massive tree appeared before him and Gou Wen...
Or rather, that should be some kind of life form resembling a tree, because Fisher quickly discovered that creature didn't have roots extending deep underground.
Those pure white root tentacles spreading outwards were her feet, while that slender thing resembling a tree trunk was her torso. It was just that because her entire body emitted light from top to bottom, Fisher couldn't distinguish the differences between her specific parts clearly.
As if hearing the commotion behind her, that glowing slender massive tree turned her body around, revealing a pair of slightly slanted, teardrop-shaped black eyes, presenting a massive contrast with her body emitting pure white light.
Just seeing the existence of this thing, Fisher felt the magic circuits on his body brighten up. Even the human body maintained by Usurping Life started twisting, slowly reverting back to the tentacles of a Chaos-kin.
This was a Demigod-level creature. Fisher even suspected the fading of Usurping Life's power on his body was the influence of some unknown Laws of hers.
In front of this thing, even Gou Wen felt a bit unwell. He pinched the bridge of his nose, opening his mouth to say,
"【Lady Bojiang】, wake up..."
Still not awake?
Fisher paused slightly. After Gou Wen's call, that thing's black "eyes" cracked open inch by inch, revealing ripple-like golden irises from within. And the countless glowing branches entwined beside her head as if merged into one with her torso also extended outwards, like a woman with an graceful figure stretching.
"Buzz buzz buzz..."
A vibration like electroplating sounded. This seemed to be this creature's original voice. But very quickly, her voice transformed into a synthesized voice like those consorts and concubines, only with a bit more indifference.
Yet when she saw Fisher beside Gou Wen, her ripple-like eyes trembled slightly, spinning like whirlpools.
"Thud!"
Following the twisting of her eyes, her tree-like body also bizarrely twisted in a spiral, rotating circle by circle as she approached Fisher before her.
Fisher remained motionless, watching that incomparably horrifying creature draw close to him bit by bit. That pair of golden gazes seemed to be sizing him up, but very quickly retracted again, leaving him somewhat baffled.
Fisher turned his head to look at Gou Wen, only to see him with an expression accustomed to strangeness.
"Lady Bojiang has an eccentric temper, and frequently doesn't stay here, instead wandering everywhere in the Spirit World. She knows a lot of things about the Spirit World. She only returned not long ago, which is why she was sleeping just now. Usually, after waking up she will fly away again... Can you describe the exterior appearance of that shelter?"
"I can't. I entered the interior of that shelter directly, so I don't know what its exterior space looks like... However, I left my original Fluid Sword there. You should be able to see the structure of the Fluid Sword on the outside."
After explaining, Gou Wen then nodded and looked at Lady Bojiang before his eyes, asking,
"Lady Bojiang, I would like to ask you to tell us the location of an angel shelter with Ramastia's Fluid Sword hanging outside."
"..."
But that glowing, tree-like Lady Bojiang merely remained silent. Only the light emitted from her body flickered brightly and dimly, not knowing if she still wasn't fully awake.
"Lady Bojiang?"
Wait until Gou Wen asked again, Lord Bojiang just then seemed to recover their wits and lowered their slender head, saying to Gou Wen,
"I can... but..."
"I know, want to play those wicked games of yours, right?"
Lady Bojiang nodded. And Gou Wen heaved a sigh, rolling up his sleeves as he said to Fisher,
"She previously found a 'Truth or Dare' artifact made by Michael in the Spirit World. That artifact can randomly generate two drawing-lots games targeting the reader, and then she became addicted to playing it. That thing looks like a failed sex toy made by Michael. The questions and games are all very stupid, but she plays it with tireless joy... I'm almost used to it."
Gou Wen was just about to step forward, but Lady Bojiang shook her head, instead tilting her head towards Fisher,
"No... I want to play with him... I've already grown tired of playing with you..."
"?"
Fisher raised his eyebrows, while Gou Wen also stepped back speechlessly to look at Fisher, saying casually,
"No need to worry. Michael is an angel, the things he makes don't have much substance. Moreover, regardless of anything, as long as we answer truthfully, she will give us the answer... Lady Bojiang is very friendly."
Fisher nodded. Actually, thinking about it carefully, although Lady Bojiang was very old and frequently ran all over the Spirit World, all in all she had lived in Gou Wen's hiding spot for so long. If their relationship was truly terrible, it wouldn't have reached this point.
Just treat it as satisfying a small eccentricity of Gou Wen's friend?
Thinking this way, Fisher also stepped forward. He then saw Lady Bojiang's tentacles slightly wave, and she took out a mirror-like thing from her embrace. That seemed to be the toy made by Michael that Gou Wen mentioned.
Gou Wen cast a glance at that mirror, only to suddenly discover that the mirror didn't emit the starting glimmer like in the past. Just as he was slightly confused, Lady Bojiang's head had already cracked open slightly, and countless red silk threads dropped from that abyss-like mouthpart.
That was the content for drawing lots. What was drawn was the game content after being unable to answer Truth, while Truth was asked by Michael's mirror...
Originally it should be like this. But in Gou Wen's eyes, that mirror hadn't even started, how could it ask?
Right when Gou Wen was confused, in a place invisible to both Fisher and Gou Wen, from the exterior of the island, a Harte Bird seemed to have received news and hurriedly flew towards here, passing through the island's barrier and entering inside.
Under the faint moonlight unable to pierce the red mist, that Harte Bird twisted bit by bit within the woods, transforming into a mature and stunningly beautiful woman with black hair, like an older sister.
She panted slightly, a trace of excitement in her eyes that leaked like fine wine, because just now, she had received news of Fisher's location from Lady Bojiang.
Standing within the woods, she looked at the faint light emitted by Lady Bojiang ahead. She was just about to step forward, but like a lady she adjusted her floating posture, becoming elegant, incidentally also adjusting her expression and the creases of her illusionsary clothes...
She was just about to step forward, but mysteriously heard Lady Bojiang's telepathic message,
"Wait a moment..."
Wait a moment?
Wait for what?
Renee paused slightly, but felt that Lady Bojiang's Laws had unknowingly already wrapped around her and this area, revealing absolutely no trace.
And ahead, behind the countless dropping silk threads, Lady Bojiang looked at Fisher before her, speaking softly,
"You must answer three questions of mine or perform three Dares as a reward. Not only will I tell you the location of the shelter you're looking for, but I will also tell you the locations and internal structures of all the shelters. I will even tell you the method to overcome the influence of the Spirit World Contamination..."
"Three?"
Gou Wen paused slightly. Usually he only had to answer one question.
Fisher also paused slightly, but still nodded and said,
"Alright."
Lady Bojiang nodded in satisfaction, continuing to ask,
"First question, whose female does your first time belong to?"
"..."
What?
Did he mishear?
Just hearing the very first question, Fisher instantly felt the pressure rise.
Fisher composedly cast a glance at Gou Wen behind him, only to see him with his mouth slightly wide open, unable to clearly see the specific meaning behind his expression.
It was just that under the concealment of Lady Bojiang's laws, Fisher didn't notice that right behind Lady Bojiang, a woman carrying a faint fragrance had unknowingly leaned against the shadows, similarly listening attentively with curiosity.
"...First time? Referring to the first time of what?"
"First kiss and first night."
"This should count as two questions, right?"
"Fine... The first time of your first kiss, and the first time of your first night, respectively belong to who?"
"..."
Fisher already started struggling over whether to choose the Dare. Meanwhile, Emhart behind him looked at Lady Bojiang before his eyes in surprise, as if he had seen a fellow enthusiast.
But thinking it over over and over again, anent Gou Wen behind him, he basically had no need to lie either.
He already knew of Raphaela and the others' existences. Having Fisher say his love for them was purely platonic and they did nothing, do you think Gou Wen would believe it?
"The first time of my first kiss was Elizabeth, and the other one was Raphaela. But you probably don't know them, right? How can you ensure I'm answering truthfully?"
"...I only need you to speak the answer."
Lady Bojiang nodded, and Gou Wen's gaze also scattered upon Fisher's body,
"Next question. Among the women you know, the person you love the most is which one?"
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