God's Gift

Ye Li took a deep breath, took a step forward, looked directly at Lu Keming, and asked, "Did you succeed in your mission?"

Lu Keming's expression remained unchanged, he just looked at them indifferently.

Shen Minghua looked at Lu Keming's eyes, understood what Lu Keming meant, and answered for him: "No."

His words were like thunder, ringing in everyone's ears. The students started to make a noise, "We still want to open the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave?!"

"Now that we have no sacrifices and no blood of the master dog, how can we open the Ten Thousand Buddha Cave?"

Song Wenshan, standing in the crowd, looked at the students around him. He swept his eyes over them and saw that they were all covered in mud. He slowly withdrew from the crowd, his expression became terrified, and he said in a trembling voice:

"It's you."

"What?" The students who were closer to Song Wenshan heard what Song Wenshan said and looked at him in confusion.

"You are the sacrifice." Song Wenshan's gaze fell on the stone gate behind them. Wisps of black mist were pouring out from the cracks in the stone gate and rushing towards the crowd.

He trembled and shouted, "Everyone who helped sacrifice the girl will become a sacrifice!"

At the same time, all the students' brains sounded the alarm.

"Warning: The intelligent computer has detected an unknown danger. Students, please evacuate as soon as possible!"

"Red warning: The AI ​​data is collapsing and can no longer protect the students. The students may be in danger of death. Please evacuate immediately!"

This was the first time these students had received such an alarm. They stared with wide eyes and asked in panic: "What does this mean? Can't protect us?"

"This is not to say that if we die in the trial, the real world will also die!" A student reacted and shouted: "Run!"

They rushed outside, but the black fog behind them was faster and soon submerged them.

Shen Minghua stood outside the black fog and used his mental power to try to disperse it, but as soon as he released his mental power, the black fog wrapped around him and began to absorb his mental power.

Ye Li quickly took Shen Minghua back a step, interrupting the connection between the black fog and Shen Minghua.

"What on earth is this thing?" Fang Ziang looked at the black mist, his eyes filled with disbelief, "It's so powerful that it can actually absorb spiritual power!"

"Master..." Anthony was sweating, "They..."

Lu Keming did not answer. He lowered his head and looked at the bag that Yu Youyou had handed to him at last, which was bulging with a bunch of things.

He lowered his eyes, opened the bag, and saw a round flower on top of the pile of snacks.

The opening of the flower was sealed, and the petals were crystal clear, with the red liquid inside faintly visible.

"This is..." Anthony looked at the flower filled with red liquid and raised his head to look at Lu Keming in shock, "The blood of the messenger dog..."

Lu Keming stared at the flower for a long time without moving, until the voices in the black fog disappeared and the students inside lay on the ground one by one, then he reached out and took out the flower.

Shen Minghua also noticed Lu Keming's actions. He looked at the flowers in Lu Keming's hand and asked, "Did Youyou leave them for you?"

"Yeah." Lu Keming placed the flower in his palm, his eyes like cold and wet mist, falling on the flower.

She was ready for even this.

When did you receive the task?

Lu Keming thought about the prompt from Yu Youyou's intelligent brain that he heard at that time. He asked Yu Youyou what was wrong and how she answered.

Nothing.

Lu Keming clenched his fingers inch by inch, the flower in the palm of his hand was crushed, and the blood in the flower bloomed in the palm of his hand and flowed down through the fingers.

The black fog that had originally subsided surged again and caught the drops of blood falling from Lu Keming's hand.

"Do you want to open the Cave of Ten Thousand Buddhas?" Shen Minghua looked at the black mist that caught the blood and raised his eyes to ask Lu Keming.

Lu Keming glanced at the stone door that was opening, then looked at Shen Minghua, and asked, "You don't want it to be wiped out?"

"I do." Before Shen Minghua could answer, Ye Li came up. She stared at the blood in Lu Keming's hand that was almost dried, looked at the corpse behind him, and thought of Yu Youyou's last appearance. She clenched her teeth and answered decisively.

Shen Minghua looked back at Ye Li, noticed the anger in her eyes, took a step back, and said to Lu Keming: "Then let it disappear completely and become nothing."

"But the Thousand-Faced Buddha is so dangerous..." Song Wenshan, who had escaped by chance, looked at the corpse on the ground with a hesitant expression, "It was able to absorb the president's spiritual power just now. Can we really defeat it?"

Lu Keming looked up at the stone door that had been completely opened, with an unclear expression, and replied, "I don't know."

He walked through the stone gate and looked at the Buddha statues in the Ten Thousand Buddha Caves coldly.

The sound of chanting rang out again. Fang Ziang, who followed, covered his ears and looked at the scene in the cave in dazzlement.

Black mist flowed down the cave wall tens of meters high like a waterfall. Countless human faces appeared in the mist, and they instantly rushed towards the few people.

Lu Keming raised his hand first, and his surging mental power condensed into a huge protective shield that enveloped several people.

But the black fog was also slowly devouring the mental shield, and gradually countless cracks appeared on the protective shield.

Shen Minghua was the first to react. He raised his hand and used his mental power to fill the cracks. Because of the foundation built by Lu Keming, it was much easier for them to fill the gaps.

Lu Keming turned his gaze and looked at the Thousand-Faced Buddha in the center of the cave. He stepped on countless white bones, climbed over the tree roots formed by the bones, and came to the bottom of the Thousand-Faced Buddha.

He looked at the red flame dancing in the Buddha's right eye, stood at the highest point, and decisively reached out to grab the fire. However, as soon as he touched the fire, the vast spiritual power in his body began to be devoured by the fire.

"Lu Keming?" Shen Minghua looked at the protective shield above that was cracking and disintegrating, then turned to look at Lu Keming in front of the Ten Thousand Faces Buddha, and noticed that his mental power was being sucked away.

Shen Minghua now understood the key to the Ten Thousand Faced Buddha's absorption of spiritual power.

He withdrew his hand, ran a few steps to Lu Keying's back, and spread the mental power in his body around Lu Keying, slowing down the speed at which Lu Keying's mental power was being sucked away.

But Shen Minghua's mental strength was not as strong as Lu Keming's. Even if it was constantly replenished, it was just a drop in the bucket.

Moreover, Shen Minghua no longer repaired the gap and relied solely on Ye Li and the other three. The crack in the protective shield became larger and larger, and the black fog that was originally blocked outside poured in and began to gnaw at the bodies of several people.

Ye Li let out a muffled groan, and cold sweat broke out on her head. She turned around and glanced at Shen Minghua and Lu Keming.

After weighing the pros and cons, Ye Li gave up on repairing the mental shield, turned around and ran to Shen Minghua, and together they applied their mental power to Lu Keming.

Fang Ziang and Anthony followed immediately. Song Wenshan hadn't figured out the situation yet, so he could only wave away the biting black mist on his body and ran over.

With four people behind him, Lu Keming's situation improved a lot. He glanced at them and held the fire even tighter.

The flame of the fire became more and more vigorous, burning Lu Keming's skin and soon turning his hands into black.

As his mental power drained more and more, Lu Keming's black eyes changed. His pupils contracted and elongated, and golden textures spread outward from the center of the pupil, quickly occupying the entire pupil.

Black scales also began to cover his fingers.

Lu Keming turned around and looked at the people behind him. They were all eaten alive by the black fog. The flesh on Shen Minghua's legs was eaten clean, and even the white bones were visible.

"Lu Keming, hurry!" Shen Minghua endured the pain and shouted anxiously at Lu Keming who turned back.

Lu Keming pursed his lips, but withdrew his hand instead. He used the last of his mental strength to throw the people behind him dozens of meters away and pushed them out of the door.