Ultimately, CORAN chose to trust Yang Tao and drank the milk in his hand. In that instant, Yang Tao heard the sound of a heartbeat coming from within his body.
It was messy, chaotic, but powerful.
The grotesque wound on CORAN's face healed rapidly. Feeling the change in his body, CORAN tore off the necklace around his neck and removed the 'black pearl' from it.
He then inserted it, along with the one he had just obtained, into his eye sockets.
A few seconds later, CORAN blinked and looked at Yang Tao, who was by the sea, saying solemnly, "Thank you."
"You're welcome. By the way, do you want to leave here?"
If he left, then this level, which had no Level Lord and no clear entrance or exit, would completely become his private territory.
CORAN gently shook his head and said, "As long as those children leave, it's fine. I want to stay here and help those who need help."
Yang Tao turned to look at CORAN. He now looked much like an ordinary human middle-aged male, but anyone could tell at a glance that he was not human.
It wasn't his eyes without whites, nor his two-and-a-half-meter-tall body, but a very special feeling.
It was like a fake person; they looked similar, but there was a peculiar sense of eeriness.
"With me here, you can rest assured. If new Wanderers come, I will send them to a safe level immediately."
For the sake of this level, Yang Tao felt it would be better to persuade CORAN to leave. He wasn't a Level Lord, so leaving or staying wouldn't have much impact on him.
"There are many Wanderers in the Backrooms who need your help..."
A hesitant expression appeared on CORAN's face. Seeing this, Yang Tao didn't forcefully press him for a response. Instead, he smiled warmly and said, "No need to rush. You can go back to the castle and discuss it with your children. When you've thought it over, you can find a Villager anytime... hmm, those square-shaped guys wearing brown clothes."
He pointed to the Villagers who were picking up bodies not far away.
"Perhaps you are right."
CORAN was somewhat swayed. The strange creatures under this man's command could play a much greater role in this hellish place than he could alone.
"Alright then, you consider it. I'm going to check out the water."
Upon hearing this, CORAN quickly tried to dissuade him, "The water is too dangerous. I've seen some enormous Entities in the sea more than once..."
"The aura those guys emit makes me feel that even on land, I might not be a match for them."
Yang Tao smiled dismissively.
"When I need their bodies, it might be a bit tricky, but when I don't need their bodies, they're all just easy pickings."
CORAN was about to speak.
Suddenly, a bright red number 30 popped into his vision and kept decreasing. A sense of death enveloped his heart.
He saw a block, slightly larger than a Rubik's Cube, appear in Yang Tao's hand, constantly flashing, and then...
Then the block was forcefully thrown into the sky above the sea.
One... two... three...
Soon, the first thrown block turned into a one-meter square and fell from the sky onto the sea surface.
With a boom, a dazzling white light erupted, and a crater-like depression appeared on the calm sea. Both the seawater and the Entities in the water all disappeared.
Before the seawater could fill the sunken pit.
Dazzling white light appeared again.
One after another.
Watching the countless Entities being cleared out, CORAN felt his horizons broadened!
It could be done this way?
However, Yang Tao felt the efficiency was too low.
He wondered if he should go to the Wandering Earth and call over a planet to spray a couple of times...
He guaranteed that two shots from the plasma nozzle would instantly vaporize the surrounding Entities. That was a plasma cutting beam longer than the Planetary Engine itself.
Before he could open the wooden door and go back to call for help.
The Entities that had survived in the ocean seemed to sense his thoughts and swam towards the deep sea.
Seeing this, Yang Tao smiled at CORAN and said, "I didn't expect the guys on land to be brainless, but the ones in the water are quite smart."
CORAN nodded gently.
Any Entity with a bit of intelligence, seeing its kind inexplicably killed beside it, wouldn't they run instead of waiting for death?
"You go back first. I'll go into the sea to check the situation."
With that, Yang Tao walked directly into the sea. CORAN opened his mouth but ultimately said nothing.
The other party was stronger than him, much stronger.
Until Yang Tao's figure completely disappeared into the turbulent sea, CORAN also turned and rushed towards the Entities that were surging forward in waves around him.
He saw hope in clearing this island.
In the vast ocean, Yang Tao walked on the bone-strewn seabed.
'How does this level have so many Entities? Could it really be a refresh?'
Besides that, Yang Tao also thought of another possibility: that the Entities here, like the Wanderers, also came from other levels, but couldn't find an exit and thus became more and more numerous.
But this quantity...
It couldn't be one or two levels transporting them here; it would have to be at least a hundred or so levels.
Aimlessly swimming in the sea, Yang Tao suddenly saw a large number of Smilers queuing up and swimming in one direction.
'Smilers can also dive??'
He never expected Smilers to have this trick; Frowny didn't mention it.
These Smilers, after a few were killed by Iron Bro's lightning at first, immediately scattered and fled. He originally thought they were hiding, but now it seems they were calling friends and preparing for a tribal migration.
'These guys should know how to leave...'
Immediately, Yang Tao swam towards the group of Smilers. His speed in the water was slightly affected, but he was still faster than this group of Smilers.
His appearance immediately caused a commotion among the Smilers, but they quickly stabilized and continued swimming forward in a line.
At this moment, a massive Smiler swam towards him. One of its eyes was larger than Yang Tao's entire body.
Health: 75,000 / 75,000
The most important thing wasn't its health, but its teeth. Its teeth weren't emitting white light, but rather a colorful, rainbow-like glow.
Very cool.
"Yang Tao, our Smiler tribe has no intention of being your enemy!"
"Enemy?"
Yang Tao looked at the dazzling glowing face in front of him, chuckled, and said, "I'll give you a chance to rephrase that!"
"Yang Tao, with your current status, you shouldn't make things difficult for us ordinary Entities..."
Yang Tao heard its words and couldn't help but laugh aloud, saying, "Status? How interesting. What do you think my status came from? If I wasn't predatory and didn't take advantage of the weak, how would my notorious name, Yang, be so famous in the Backrooms, and how would you have heard of me?"
First Generation Smiler: "..."
What he said made so much sense!