Chapter 40: How to Repay a Life-Saving Favor

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  A flash of silver-white light, and when Lin Taiping reopened his eyes, he had once again appeared in the Hall of Gods.

  Still the fiery altar blazed, still dozens of towering statues of gods stood, and still that hollow voice echoed: "Mortal, the gods have decided to grant your impudent request. Kneel devoutly before the altar, pray silently with a sincere heart, and you shall see all the blessings the gods can bestow upon you!"

  It's okay, it's okay. Lin Taiping couldn't help but let out a long sigh of relief as he re-exited the Hall of Gods.

  He was most worried that the Ring of Gods would mutate after absorbing this talisman, and if a reminder of system upgrade or pirated implant conflict appeared, it would be really not worth it. However, from the current situation, such a terrible situation has not occurred.

  However, from another perspective, the fact that the God Ring would actively absorb the talisman is a bit too strange. Moreover, after absorbing the talisman, one quarter of the ring's surface actually transformed into gold. Who can tell me what's going on here?

  "Lin, what's wrong with your ring?" He was full of doubts here, and on the other side, Tuluo had already curiously stretched out his head, staring foolishly at the ring. "It's really strange, your ring has changed color a bit, haha, it's interesting, if they all turn golden, what would happen?"

  "It's nothing, I just added a little color-changing magic to it." Lin Taiping replied lightly and put away the ring without batting an eyelid.

  However, Tuluo's careless words inadvertently reminded him that after the gods' ring absorbed this piece of glittering stone, a quarter of it actually turned into gold. This made one really unable to help but wonder, if the entire ring surface were to transform into gold, what kind of situation would arise?

  Of course, for now, this is just an idea, after all, there is only one Fu Shi stone, and even if you want to find more, you don't know where to look. The only thing worth celebrating is that at least the ring's function has not been affected after its variation, otherwise it would be a real loss.

  "Well, things that can't be figured out will just have to wait till later." Lin Taiping let out a soft sigh and decided not to waste any more brain cells thinking about this unknown matter.

  It was at this time that Ye Ge, who had finished bandaging her wound, walked over with a dozen or so Dark Elves. The beautiful Tribal Chief's face was filled with awkwardness, clearly not quite adapted to the sudden change from enemy to lifesaver, to the point where she didn't know what to say for a while, her two pointed ears shaking back and forth in distress, almost to the point of emitting black smoke.

  "So, what do you want to say?" Lin Taiping looked at her with a kind face, that harmless smile, really made people have the urge to go crazy and run wildly.

  For a few seconds, Ye Ge really wanted to rush up and knock out this abdominal black bastard, then drag him into the bushes to do something, but in the end she didn't do it. After being embarrassed for a long time, she finally stuttered: "Then, thank you, if there's anything I can do..."

  "Ah, of course!" Lin Taiping was not polite at all, his eyes shining with expectation. "A life-saving favor, this is a life-saving favor! In situations like these, offering one's body in return is a given, but I'm not interested in that sort of thing. You can just take out tens of thousands of gold coins and repay me with tears of gratitude."

  "Tens of thousands of gold coins, why don't you go rob?" Ye Ge's eyes widened in disbelief, his pointed ears standing up like they had been electrocuted. "Alright, although you're a despicable and sinister guy with a black belly, but this time, our Dark Elf tribe really owes you one... if there's a chance in the future..."

  "Don't put it off till later, let's do it now." Lin Taiping smiled and stretched out his hand to pat Ye Ge's shoulder. "It's okay if you can't take out the gold coins, you can do something else instead. I have a contract here, just press your fingers on it and you'll be able to repay my lifesaving kindness."

  "How detestable! Do you take me for a fool?" Ye Ge was pushed by him towards the tribe, and couldn't help but grit her teeth. "Despicable guy, I dare to swear on my favorite pointed ears that there are at least nine traps in this contract. You dare say there aren't?"

  "Of course not, in fact there are only eight." Lin Taiping replied straightforwardly and confidently. The two equally despicable guys gradually disappeared into the distance, leaving behind a group of Minotaurs and Dark Elves staring at each other with wide eyes.

  After a long time, several Minotaurs couldn't help but pull on Tartarus' robe: "Chieftain, what should we do now? Is it time to go have some midnight snacks?"

  "Alright, alright." Reminded by them, Tuluo suddenly felt hungry and didn't care about anything else. He casually picked up the blood-stained broken corpse and threw it onto a nearby beach.

  As soon as they finished, a large group of Minotaurs rushed out excitedly, ready to launch a fierce food battle. None of them noticed the corpse with bloodshot eyes that had been thrown onto the beach, which was now emitting a faint red glow.

  The next moment, a segment of the giant octopus's tentacles suddenly fell off without warning and slowly crawled like an insect before dropping into the sea with a light splash.

  Yes, no one noticed that when this piece of octopus tentacle sank to the bottom of the sea, it suddenly emitted a strong black fog, spreading in all directions.

  As if attracted by the black fog, a blood-red jellyfish slowly swam over, circled around the octopus's tentacles several times, and after a moment of contemplation, it suddenly raised one of its tentacles and began to tap out a rhythmic beat on the seafloor.

  As the tentacles struck, sound waves rippled out, spreading endlessly across the ocean floor. After traveling for miles, another crimson jellyfish received the information and responded in kind, striking the seafloor and continuing to spread the ripples.

  Six hours later, this mysterious and eerie sound wave arrived at a sea area covered with red algae. This crimson sea area was desolate and quiet, as if there was no life existing, except for a huge black warship with a white skull sail, cutting through the waves like a fierce beast.

  A hundred-year-old oak-built hull, sixty meters long and twenty meters wide, with every part covered in thick iron armor several centimeters thick. At the bow of the ship, where a blood-red devil statue hung, a black ram from a unicorn whale pointed menacingly forward, emitting an aura of extreme malevolence and terror.

  On the prow of the demon ship howling with sea winds, a strange clown with his face fully painted with oil colors was enthusiastically throwing colored balls. The high-standing patchwork nightcap and the multicolored motley costume, together with his busy movements, made him look so ridiculous.

  But at this moment, on this ferocious ironclad warship, no one could laugh!

  On the slippery deck, hundreds of pirates knelt down in fear. Among them were unstoppable warriors, barbarians from distant wilderness, and black mages who could summon a rain of fire at any time. However, these seemingly powerful beings now all trembled with fear, their arms even slightly shaking.

  In the suffocating silence, the little clown with a painted face finally turned his head, and a sharp laughter echoed over the sea: "Haha, it's so funny, it's too funny! Do you know? I just found out that Blood Eye, that idiot, was actually killed by someone."

  A deafening crash, a blinding flash of lightning cut through the sky, a devastating storm, in this moment without warning arrived, hundreds of pirates even more terrified bowed their heads, pressed their faces tightly on the cold deck, as if only such an ostrich-like foolish behavior could help them escape a calamity of thunder and fury.

  In the midst of a raging sea and torrential rain, the whole world seemed to be in chaos, but that little clown still looked up at the sky filled with dark clouds, laughing with a twisted face, shaking all over.

  "Go, find that guy, dig out his eyeballs, chop off his neck, and then peel off his skin to make a rug for my living room... Haha, it's so funny, it's really too funny!"