69novels Chapter 131 The Randomly Selected Unlucky Guy
Chapter 131 The Randomly Selected Unlucky Guy
Chapter 131 The Randomly Selected Unlucky Guy
The capsule's effects only last for two hours.
However, by this time, the deadline had obviously passed.
As Killua and the other two breathed, seawater rushed into their nostrils, bubbles rising one after another, but their expressions showed no pain, remaining peaceful as they immersed themselves in different hallucinations.
Before long, they will drown here without a care in the world.
I think I understand now how those standing corpses died.
They probably encountered a similar situation.
Su Wu smashed all the conch shells emitting ethereal music around her, grabbed the three of them, and disappeared instantly.
They surfaced before the three people choked to death.
"What's wrong with them?" Kong, who was waiting at sea, came over to observe.
"...You drank too much water." Su Wu sneered and punched each of them squarely in the stomach.
"Ugh—" The three, caught off guard, were punched and arched their backs like shrimp, spitting out a bunch of water.
Leaving the seabed, coupled with the intense physical pain, caused the three to immediately open their eyes and regain consciousness.
The first thing Killua said to Su Wu after opening his eyes was, "You're not dead?"
Su Wu gave the other person a tap on the head without any expression.
Even if you die, I won't die.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch—" Killua clutched his head, wincing in pain.
"Why did you hit me... Oh wait, how did we get up here?" Killua asked, puzzled, after seeing his surroundings.
He remembered that they seemed to have encountered a super big monster at the bottom of the sea, and then some arrogant guy was beaten up by that monster, spitting blood and looking like he was about to die.
And then...and then what happened? How did they get up here?
"The lord defeated the monster! He rescued us," Maro suddenly said with a confident expression.
He saw Killua, Gon, and himself being completely overwhelmed by the monster, utterly powerless to fight back. Just as they were about to be slaughtered by the monster, the adults who had been watching the whole time intervened.
The monster was killed with just one move.
As expected of an adult, you are truly amazing!
"How come I remember... I..." Xiao Jie recalled slowly.
"It was all an illusion, there's no point in thinking about those memories," Su Wu said directly. "The three of you almost died down there because the props malfunctioned during the illusion."
"So I just brought you guys up here," he said casually.
"...We've let the adults down again," Maro said, head bowed.
Killua & Gon, who were accused of holding each other back: ...
I want to refute it, but I can't.
"Tch, it was just an illusion." Killua said with a bored expression.
"However, it sounds like everyone has a big monster in their hallucinations," Xiao Jie noticed a detail.
"A super big octopus with a bunch of tentacles," Killua immediately said.
"Me too," Maro said, indicating that he saw the same image.
"Me too, why is that?" Xiao Jie pondered, stroking his chin.
"...Because we did see it before, didn't we? An octopus that was originally lying on the statue left after it saw us coming." Su Wu said calmly.
"The illusion is just a magnified version of itself, further amplified..." Su Wu said thoughtfully.
Because they had seen it not long ago, and because they were certain that there were monsters in the ruins, the monsters that matched their imaginations appeared in their hallucinations.
"So it's based on what we've seen before," Xiao Jie nodded in sudden realization.
"Shall we go down again?" Su Wu asked casually.
"Of course, we haven't found anything yet, have we?" Killua and Gon said without hesitation.
"Alright then." Su Wu nodded.
Just then, Killua looked down and saw his reflection in the seawater.
His face was deathly pale, even ashen.
His eyes were listless, and he looked like he hadn't fully recovered from a serious illness.
After realizing his current situation, he seemed to feel a strange sense of fatigue.
And... the intense burning sensation from the parts of the body exposed to sunlight.
"...Something's not right with me," Killua concluded immediately.
His current situation seems to be influenced by a strange power...
"Hmm...it's probably some kind of aftereffect. It's okay, it'll be over in 24 hours." The culprit, Su Wu, covered her mouth with her hand, afraid that she might laugh out loud in the next second.
He imposed a constraint on himself: all five cards had to be used simultaneously for the effect to take effect, and a person had to use two or more cards. So he used three cards on himself: the upright Moon, the upright High Priestess, and the reversed Ace of Cups. He used two cards on Killua: the reversed Sun and the reversed Ace of Wands.
Otherwise, the Moon and High Priestess cards will not be effective.
Killua should be thankful that his Schrödinger conscience prevented him from using all three reversed cards on his opponent.
Otherwise, Killua would have triggered the stacking effect of three cards right now, a 175% amplification effect... which would definitely be much worse than it is now.
The two cards will not trigger the amplification effect, so it's just a normal effect.
As for why Killua was chosen... well, it's because they're destined to meet.
Good brother, if he's in trouble, of course you should help him out. But if the other person is in trouble... well, then let's temporarily sever our brotherhood.
"..." Killua stared at the boy with white hair just like himself, and had a lot to say.
For example—who doesn't know that my current state is inextricably linked to you? You even know the recovery time perfectly well, and you're almost laughing out loud! Did you think you could hide it by covering your face?
You've already exposed everything!
"So how do you feel right now?" Su Wu asked.
He was still quite curious to know how Killua felt after being affected by the reversed Sun and the reversed One of Wands.
"...I'm tired, and it hurts when the sun shines on me." Killua raised one of his arms.
Her skin was fair and without any scars.
But beneath this facade, he was enduring a feeling as if he were being scorched by the sun.
Fortunately, his pain tolerance, honed from childhood, is exceptional, allowing him to endure this pain without feeling any discomfort.
"Hmm... Are you afraid of sunlight and your energy is reduced?" Su Wu nodded.
The fear of sunlight is clearly the effect of the reversed Sun, and the reduced energy is the effect of the reversed Ace of Wands, or rather, the effect of the reversed Ace of Wands is... to make one lazy.
Although I can roughly guess a bit, it's still a pleasure to hear unlucky people tell their own stories of misfortune.
After all, it was actually shown on the card, but he just wanted to hear the "winner's" thoughts.
There's also a reversed Ace of Cups, which he used on himself. The effect of this card is to deprive him of emotions.
In other words, during the 24 hours that the card is active, he will become a person without emotions.
However, in his opinion, there was no difference between using it and using it.
"Are you still going now?" Su Wu asked with a gloating smile. Such emotional expression seemed a bit out of place with the emotionless debuff she was wearing.
"..." On one hand, there was the lingering fatigue in her body, and on the other hand, her mind seemed to be shrouded in a shadow, clamoring for weariness. Reason and emotion seemed to have separated, clamoring for different choices.
"Go." Killua said with a vicious look in his eyes, as if he wanted to devour Su Wu whole.
"Let's go then." Su Wu gestured to Marofa to use the props.
After using the props, the group dived underwater again.
Thank you to all the adults who helped catch the bugs.
(End of this chapter)