# 1181
Chapter 1182: Sinking
Lin Qiye saw the earnestness in Jinian's eyes, fell silent for a moment, then shook his head: "Perhaps you're overestimating me. I don't have such great abilities." "Not having it now doesn't mean you won't have it in the future." Jinian crossed her legs and said leisurely, "The faster you grow, the happier I am. I'm rooting for you~" Lin Qiye gave a helpless smile. "By the way, you came to find me this late. Is there something important?" Seeing the conversation finally getting to the point, Lin Qiye's expression gradually turned serious: "Regarding Uruk and the King of Heroes Gilgamesh, how much do you know?" "Gilgamesh? Why are you suddenly asking about him?" Jinian was stunned, "He can't be a patient in one of the later rooms, can he?" "That's right." "Interesting... Which room?" "The fifth." "Then who's in the fourth?" Back when Jinian was in the asylum, she had only opened up to the third door. She didn't know the identities of the patients in the rooms beyond that. "Sun Wukong." "...Holy shit!" Jinian's expression lit up with excitement, "Great Sage? The fourth room is actually Great Sage? He was my childhood idol啊啊啊! Can you get me an autograph from him?" Lin Qiye: ... "What a pity the asylum is now in your mind, I can't get in, otherwise I'd definitely want to meet him... By the way, you must have opened the last patient room too, right? Who's in the sixth?" Lin Qiye took a deep breath and spoke a name: "Yerand." Jinian froze. "Yerand? That Holy Sovereign from the Western Holy Church?" Jinian seemed to have thought of something, her brow slightly furrowed, looking somewhat puzzled. "What's wrong?" Lin Qiye asked. "Nothing... I just find it a bit strange." Jinian mused, "Haven't you noticed? As the doors go further back, the divinity within the patients becomes weaker and weaker. From the first door's Supreme God of Night, Nyx, to the second door's God of Magic, Merlin, to the God of Music and Poetry who can't fight, Bragi, then to the Great Sage who came from being a monster demon, and finally to the half-human half-divine Gilgamesh... The further back the doors go, the more they resemble 'humans' rather than deities. After you told me about the fourth and fifth patient rooms, I expected the sixth room to be a deity of human origin, but I never expected it to be the famous Yerand... This person's divinity is actually much higher than any of the previous ones." Hearing Jinian's reminder, Lin Qiye realized there did seem to be such a pattern. After careful consideration, he said: "Maybe you're overthinking it. This might just be a coincidence. Besides, apart from Zhou Ping, there are no deities of human origin in this world." "Maybe... By the way, go ahead, what happened with Gilgamesh?" Lin Qiye recounted Gilgamesh's symptoms. After hearing this, Jinian nodded slightly: "I understand. You want information about him and the Kingdom of Uruk... You've come to the right person." "You know about it?" Lin Qiye's eyes lit up. "The Oath Society's scope of activity, apart from the 'Human Enclosures' of various divine kingdoms, also involves exploring various ancient divine ruins. Previously, one of our teams explored the hidden history of the Kingdom of Uruk. The specific report is in 【Utopia】." "However, don't get too excited too soon. History is ultimately just history. Although I don't know who targeted Gilgamesh, I estimate it'll be difficult to infer their identity just from historical information... I'll use the Oath Society's intelligence network to try to help you investigate, but I can't guarantee we'll find anything." Lin Qiye breathed a sigh of relief. His understanding of the Mist was far too little. If he had to search for clues about Gilgamesh alone in the Mist, it would be like finding a needle in a haystack. Now with the Oath Society's help, things would be much simpler. "Thank you." "No need to be so polite. Helping you helps myself." Jinian pointed at him, then at herself, "We are on the same front, after all." ...
Two days later.
Lin Qiye walked to the bow of the pixel cruise ship shrouded in Mist, looking around. Through the hazy fog, no islands or land could be seen in any direction. This was an area of sea that Lin Qiye and the others had never explored before. "Seven Nights, why are you up so early?" Baili Pangpang walked out of the cabin, yawning. "Jinian said we'd arrive at 【Utopia】 this morning, so I came out to take a look." "We're almost there?" Baili Pangpang glanced at the misty sea around them and asked in confusion, "But there's not even a trace of an island here... And there's no Wall of Divine Signs here to keep the Mist out. Do the people of the Oath Society live in the fog wearing gas masks?" "That shouldn't be the case." Lin Qiye shook his head, "Haven't you noticed? The members of the Oath Society basically all wear a kind of silver ring, which seems to be made of the same material as our铭牌. It should be able to resist the erosion of the Mist." "That's called 【Chenji Steel】." Jinian's voice came from behind. She wore a black tattered cloak, walking over slowly. Her right hand,插在兜中, lifted to reveal a silver ring, "This is a special material mined from the deep sea, forged into metal. It has the effect of dispersing the Mist for a short time. The necklace with your铭牌 around your neck is also made from this material, but with higher purity. Moreover, this material is extremely rare. Our Oath Society has been mining it for years and has only managed to forge sixty or seventy Chenji Rings. Basically all of them are on our teams that go out on missions." "Didn't you say there are over ten thousand people in 【Utopia】? What about everyone else?" Jinian's mouth curved upward, a mysterious smile. "You'll find out in a moment."
A moment later, a light green glow lit up from the top of the pixel cruise ship, like some kind of signal light, flashing continuously in the Mist. Lin Qiye and Baili Pangpang, as well as Cao Yuan who had just arrived on the deck, all turned their heads in confusion toward the top of the cruise ship. At the same time, a voice sounded from throughout the ship's hull: "Attention all, the vessel has entered Zone A waters. Everyone prepare for return." The Oath Society members busy working around the cruise ship quickly set down their work and returned to the cabin. Lin Qiye and the others also returned to the second floor of the cabin, observing the outside situation through the huge floor-to-ceiling windows. Jinian stood alone on the swaying deck. The moment the light green light disappeared, she raised both hands and gently pressed them on the deck. In the next instant, dense pixel particles burst forth from the bottom of the cruise ship, like curved barriers rising rapidly from every direction of the hull. In just a few seconds, a large amount of pixel particles wrapped the entire cruise ship, like a hollow giant sphere floating on the sea surface. As whirlpools emerged from the sea surface one after another, the giant sphere gradually sank and disappeared beneath the Mist-churning waters.