I Will Teach You How to Hunt Gods

To be honest, Yun You really admires... and is very grateful to Aurora.

This girl is truly remarkable. She solved the mystery with a frail body and made it here. To save her father, she did not hesitate to even perform an eye extraction.

She is brave and kind-hearted. Even in tough situations, she shares the intelligence and advice she has gathered along her way, just like her father, Miles, the old worker who would rather sacrifice himself than harm friends and family in dire situations. Truly worthy of being a parent and child pair.

And the notes she left behind genuinely helped Yun You.

Despite the fact that with her intelligence and skills, slowly exploring might allow Yun You to solve the mystery, Aurora's intelligence did save her a lot of effort and prevented detours.

Yun You is sincerely grateful to this girl and silently makes a decision in her heart; if she ever meets the girl again, she will find a way to repay the favor.

But then again, when it comes to this girl who left the mine two weeks ago, Yun You really can't help her, and can only silently pray in her heart...

"I wish you safety."

Then, Yun You pulled herself together and, as usual, shared the intelligence with Jack and Frost Moon.

"Why does it seem... like we're about to enter a [BOSS level]?"

Jack knocked on the metal door and quipped, "It really feels like it. We've solved part of the puzzle and found the 'hidden door' along with a way to enter it."

"Inside, there might really be a ferocious monster BOSS waiting for us to go in and defeat it."

Yun You didn't refute this statement made in a somewhat joking tone.

"Indeed, from every perspective, it does seem so."

The little girl shook her head and softly said, "But I hope it isn't."

She didn't continue her words, but Jack understood what she was thinking.

If there really is a monster behind the door, and it's one that's extremely adept in battle and dreadfully aggressive, then...

Aurora, who went in alone and missing an eye, would have no chance of survival.

Yun You doesn't want to see Aurora's corpse after going inside.

But sometimes, objective facts do not change according to human wishes.

"We'll know what's inside once we go in."

Finally, the emotionally detached Frost Moon ended the topic.

"Let's think about how to achieve this 'eye extraction' requirement."

Yun You and Jack nodded and began to ponder.

But after thinking for a long time, Yun You still couldn't come up with a good method.

Previously, when reading the intelligence diary, she specifically got some animal eyeballs from the Black Market, like pig and sheep eyes, to prepare for the "eye offering" issue.

But after trying several times, she found that these things didn't meet the "offering conditions."

The fungus blanket accepted these eyeballs, devoured them completely, and then ran off, neither opening the door nor giving any feedback, much like the "silicone eyeballs" left by old miner Miles.

It seems that to open the door, one must strictly offer human eyes.

"Why don't I give it a try?"

After thinking for a while, Yun You decided to use her own blood-red eye.

She wasn't sure if the eye loss could be restored through "eating," but based on the previous "arm regeneration" situation, it should be... no problem, right?

Should be...

If it can recover, that would be wonderful. Even if it can't, there's always the option of using a nano-repair agent and cybernetic eye to restore vision.

Although these things are a bit expensive, for an Apprentice Death God, they are affordable.

With this in mind, the little girl gently removed her gas mask and picked up the knife.

But just then, Jack suddenly grasped her wrist.

"Such a dangerous thing, you shouldn't do it. Let me handle it; I have an idea."

Jack took the knife, smiling, "We don't need your eyes, nor mine or Frost Moon's."

"Oh?"

Yun You tilted her head, curiously asked, "Then whose are you going to use?"

"This one's."

Jack pointed to a dark corner.

There, a vengeful corpse in a blue miner's outfit was sitting on the ground, mindlessly counting the stones at its feet.

"Use a vengeful corpse's eyes?!"

Yun You was startled, but then she understood Jack's thoughts.

Although vengeful corpses are mutant creatures, they are mutated from humans, so the eyeballs are definitely still "human" organs.

Also, because vengeful corpses possess life and remain consistently active, their eyes haven't decayed even after more than thirty years.

Logically, they should be usable.

But Yun You truly hadn't thought of this.

The girl's mindset hadn't shifted, subconsciously ignoring the existence of vengeful corpses, treating them as mute "people," not considering using their eyes as substitutes...

Aurora probably thought the same, considering these wandering corpses were workers like her father and victims of the disaster 30 years ago, so she never considered harming them, preferring to injure herself rather than harm them.

But Jack is different. Being a mercenary, he always considers his and his employer's interests. Since there are ready "dead" eyes available, he definitely won't let the "living" take risks.

"That makes some sense."

The girl nodded, whispered, "Let's try it."

With that, she prepared to extract the vengeful corpse's eyes.

But Jack stopped her again, shaking his head.

"Let me do it."

After saying that, the mercenary got up and walked to the back of the vengeful corpse.

But instead of starting right away, he solemnly bowed, knelt on one knee, and drew a cross on his chest.

"Sorry, I might have to offend a bit."

"I need to borrow your eyes, but it's not for personal gain; it's to uncover the secrets of the mine and help you get revenge... I hope you can understand us."

"May the angels bless you, Amen."

With that said, he took off the rusted cross-shaped pendant from the corpse's neck, pulled out a new silver cross from his pocket, put it on the corpse, and then gave a formal salute.

After doing all this, he finally raised the knife and extracted the corpse's eye.

And the vengeful corpse itself didn't resist, just quietly sat there with a very peaceful expression.

"Thank you."

Jack expressed his gratefulness and then gently crushed the eyeball with the knife, placing it into the fungus blanket.

Although the "God" required the offering to chew the eyeball with teeth and spit it out in a bird-feeding manner, it was too disgusting... too disrespectful.

So Jack simply used the knife to do it all, hoping to preserve the vengeful corpse worker's dignity as much as possible.

If it still doesn't work, then they'd have no choice but to use the "God's" prescribed method.

Fortunately, in the end, that "God" didn't seem to care about this detail.

After the fungus blanket completely absorbed the eyeball, the metal door creaked open.

But instead of revealing a monster, they saw a blinding white light!

It burst out from the door crack, instantly enveloping the entire pit.

The world before Yun You and the others was replaced by white light. They couldn't see anything clearly, and their senses gradually faded away, merely feeling gusts of fierce wind sweeping across their bodies, transporting them to another world.

After an uncertain amount of time, the wind finally stopped.

At the same time, a loud noise emerged from all directions.

There were shouts, hawking cries, and voices filled with laughter and banter.

But most noticeably, there was a welcoming message directly transmitted into their minds.

"This year is the New Calendar 1899. Welcome to Yangshan Town. Please settle comfortably here and enjoy the blessings of family life~"