Chapter 889: Flesh Cube

889. Flesh Cube

"You help me gather all the Crystals here together, and I can take you out."

Lin Ye decided to negotiate terms a little.

"I can't cause too much impact on this Plane, or the system will directly dispose of this Plane.

Besides, you don't have the qualifications to negotiate terms with me."

Lola only wanted to escape this cage as quickly as possible, not collect any Crystals.

"Then there's nothing to talk about. You can go ahead and make your move."

Lin Ye replied very casually.

"You don't actually think I wouldn't dare to make a move, do you?"

Lola merely glanced at him, and Lin Ye's lower body was digested away.

"You are a deity, how could you not dare to make a move?"

Lin Ye's upper body stood in the middle of the starfish, lifting his head to meet Lola's gaze.

"Make a move? Why leave half behind?"

Lin Ye couldn't even be bothered to open the World of Ashes to restore his body.

"I agree. I don't want to be left with only an upper body."

Scarlatti suddenly spoke up.

"A wise choice. Then the other one won't be needed."

Lola completely digested Lin Ye. She would rather give up this body than waste time here.

Thud!

Scarlatti pulled out a large-caliber black pistol and blew Lola's head off with a single shot.

"What are you doing?! Is this entertaining to you?!"

Lola was merely a body controlled by a deity. Even getting her head blown off meant nothing.

"I'm just shooting for fun. It's not like you'd dare to make a move against me anyway."

Now only Scarlatti remained here. As long as Lola still wanted to get out, she couldn't touch Scarlatti.

"You bastard!"

Lola tried to regenerate her head, only to discover that She couldn't restore it.

"What did you do? There's something wrong with that pistol!"

Lola wanted to digest Scarlatti, but after losing her head, She had also lost all of her perception abilities.

"This is a specially made pistol, and the bullets inside are specially made too."

Scarlatti wanted to fire a few more shots, but a hand stopped her.

"I was planning to stuff Her to death. That way you could save some bullets."

As ashes flickering with fiery light drifted past, Lin Ye reappeared in the middle of the starfish.

"No matter how you look at it, that's still a deity. You can stuff Her to death?"

Scarlatti looked at Lin Ye with a skeptical expression.

"Those Starfish Ornaments were all made from different materials. She's already digested a lot of terrible things, and my body was also troublesome. If She digested a few more bodies, we wouldn't need to lift a finger."

That was why Lin Ye couldn't be bothered to fight. Unless Lola could eat the entire World of Ashes, she posed no real threat to him.

"It feels way too troublesome. Might as well just fight directly. I don't want to be left with only an upper body."

Scarlatti emptied her magazine into the headless Lola.

Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang!

The bullets blasted Lola's body apart. Lola didn't dodge the bullets. After losing her head, She seemed to have completely lost her ability to gather information.

"What do we do now? She probably isn't dead yet. If we leave this place, we might end up bringing Her out with us."

Scarlatti definitely didn't want to leave this Plane together with Lola.

"No problem. I'll take Her away."

Lin Ye took out a constantly squirming Cube from his loot space.

"What is that?"

Scarlatti kept a bit of distance. She could feel that this Cube wasn't anything good.

"The Spiral Maze of Flesh and Spirit. There's a deity imprisoned inside, probably about the same level as the deity here."

Lin Ye tossed the Cube into the Flesh Forest. He didn't need to do anything; the Flesh Forest actively swallowed the Cube on its own.

"That's it? Aren't you afraid the deity down below will eat that Cube?"

Scarlatti asked with some concern.

"The last few Starfish Ornaments I made were infused with a special spiritual imprint. Those spiritual imprints will transform flesh and spirit into material similar to the Cube. The deity down below has eaten far too many things that don't belong to Her, like a bloated building with chaotic structure, so She can't stop this transformation.

All we need to do is wait a while, and we'll be able to recover the Cube that has the deity's true body merged into it."

Lin Ye made a few more Starfish Ornaments. They could use this time to continue mining. With the deity's threat gone, he could send more squads to the mining area.

"I still don't quite understand. Even if those things can merge together, why wouldn't the deity end up controlling the Cube in the end?"

Scarlatti felt this method was a bit unreliable.

"The special spiritual imprint transforms a whole. The deity down below is the whole being transformed.

The transformed whole will merge with the Cube, forming a new whole.

The deity down below can't even control Her own body, so how could She control that transformed and merged whole?

After the transformation is complete, She'll only be lost among those chaotic structures."

Lin Ye controlled the starfish to descend downward. He stayed far away from the city district. That place was extremely dangerous right now. Approaching carelessly might mean never coming out again.

Even for him, finding the maze's Exit wasn't guaranteed.

Lin Ye began mass-producing starfish squads. With the deity's threat gone, he could let the starfish squads mine autonomously without needing to divide his attention to control them.

"Don't make so many. Deep in those mining areas, there are many monsters that wield rule power. If you're not careful, those monsters might come out and clear out the entire mining area, or even attack us."

Back when Scarlatti sent people to mine, many miners had been killed by those monsters.

"Didn't that deity eat those monsters?"

Lin Ye felt that the other party wouldn't leave those "desserts" behind.

"Hard to say. Some monsters are even more troublesome than deities. The other party might have left them alone."

Scarlatti felt that deep in the previous mine shaft, there was indeed that kind of monster.

"Alright, I'll control where they mine. You tell me the mining spots nearby."

Lin Ye sent out ten starfish squads to mine in the vicinity, and Scarlatti shared the map of this area.

Two days later, most of Lin Ye's spatial items were filled to the brim with Crystals. The starfish sent to mine in the mine shaft had already been swapped out several times. Just as Scarlatti had said, there were still many dangerous monsters deep in the mine.

In the distance, the city was wrapped inside a massive flesh Cube. The giant flesh Cube was rapidly shrinking, and after a while longer, it would shrink back to its original size.

"I'm not planning to keep mining. If you need it, I can share some with you."

Lin Ye recalled the starfish squads, preparing to call it done here.

"No need. My spatial items are already full. This haul is several hundred times more than I expected. I won't need to come back here to mine anymore."

Scarlatti was extremely satisfied with this harvest.

"That's good then. You can head back first. I still need to wait a little longer over here."

Lin Ye mounted the starfish, preparing to return to the city district.

"I'm not in a hurry. Once you recover the Cube, then I'll go back."

Scarlatti still felt that the Cube might not be reliable.