Netherworld Retrograde

Capítulo 896: Chapter 422: The Hidden Champion Agent

The curse of Cheese is a sugar addiction, a trigger-type curse.

Every time she uses her ability, if she doesn’t intake enough sugar, she’ll experience heart failure.

As a result, her backpack often carries a large amount of candy.

The sugar is consumed by the curse, and as a Spiritual Ability User, she doesn’t have to worry about excessive sugar causing other issues.

Spiritual Ability Users’ strong physique generally keeps them from getting sick and also free from the concerns of cancer.

Of course, as they age, Spiritual Ability Users near the end usually die from organ failure…

And Cheese faces the risk of tooth decay.

She ends up brushing her teeth five or six times a day.

That’s not particularly strange…but…

Li Yelai glanced at Cheese’s clothes and instinctively looked away.

For some reason, Cheese had changed into a light and breathable white vest.

The vest, although originally loose, now outlined her graceful figure.

Beneath the vest, her full figure was faintly visible.

Her exposed shoulders and abdomen were dotted with droplets of water. The droplets slid down her fair skin, tracing enticing paths…

“You brushed your teeth, why did you change clothes?” Li Yelai turned his gaze aside.

“I traveled all day and night, sweated a lot. I saw there was still some water, so I wiped my body…” Cheese pointed to the empty water jug and wet towel nearby.

Evidently, while protecting Li Yelai, she had undone her clothes and wiped her body in the cave…in front of Li Yelai…

Li Yelai couldn’t help but remark, “Aren’t you afraid I’d regain consciousness midway and open my eyes? Can’t you be more cautious?”

Cautious? Cheese felt like laughing. A guy who took off all defenses in front of her, with his consciousness leaving, what right did he have to talk about that?

You’re the most incautious one!

“Afraid? Maybe a little…” Cheese replied softly.

Li Yelai had been in the ark for about an hour.

If Li Yelai returned ten minutes earlier, given the scene at the time, she probably would have been scared.

After all, explaining the scene back then…wouldn’t be easy.

Thinking about what had just happened, Cheese’s heartbeat accelerated a bit, she licked her lips that were slightly swelling, her gaze landing on Li Yelai’s neck.

On the side of Li Yelai’s neck, unbeknownst to him, and on the collarbone, there were several red spots and bite marks…

In a certain sense, she should really thank the Heartless Fruit.

Otherwise, she wouldn’t have dared to do such bold things.

Of course, under the influence of the Heartless Fruit, she still maintained enough rationality.

Otherwise, Li Yelai would have already been parasitized.

“The time I spend in the ark is uncertain. I might return quickly, you really can’t do this again.” Li Yelai reminded once more, taking out a piece of clothing from the Reserve Space for Cheese to wear.

If he had come earlier, he might have seen something he wasn’t supposed to.

“Got it…” Cheese responded, putting on that obviously oversized hoodie, covering her fair skin.

‘After all, you’ve already seen it.’ Cheese thought.

Then, she asked, “Did you find any intel related to the Heartless Fruit?”

“The Heartless Fruit possesses a certain intelligence. It will actively provoke the host’s negative emotions or desires in order to achieve its parasitic goal,” Li Yelai said.

“We had speculated about that,” Cheese nodded, “However, while the Heartless Fruit has intelligence, it shouldn’t be able to transmit intel. Otherwise, our location would’ve been detected long ago. We wouldn’t have been able to hide here. The Heartless Fruit would’ve long controlled the host to counterattack us.”

“Yes, that’s true,” Li Yelai nodded, “but we still need to be cautious. From what I understand, the Heartless Fruit will stir up certain negative emotions—be it jealousy, desire, or domination—based on the relationship between its host and the target. It’s tricky to defend against.”

After that, Li Yelai took out an official directive.

The first point of official information was for Li Yelai and Moon Shadow to leave the second layer of Ten Thousand Dragon Lake and seal all the entrances to the second layer.

“This aligns with our plan. You certainly can’t stay on the second layer…otherwise, humanity will lose a future Champion, as well as a rare Causality-level Divine Monster,” Cheese muttered softly with quivering eyes, “Remember…you can’t be parasitized.”

“Don’t worry! With intel in hand, I definitely won’t be parasitized. The Heartless Fruit won’t be able to eliminate me at first sight,” Li Yelai said. “Besides, I’ve brought so many Imitative Heavenly Soldiers. Our side’s combat strength has significantly increased, I probably won’t need to fight myself.”

“Okay,” Cheese whispered back, “Be extra careful though…”

“I understand,” Li Yelai replied, “and I also have measures against the Heartless Fruit.”

Li Yelai shared the intel obtained from Yun Yue with Cheese.

This left Cheese pondering for a long time.

“It’s almost impossible to coax all the official strongholds out of the Heartless Fruit simultaneously. With our current conditions, there’s no way to make so many Heartless Fruits abandon their hosts at the same time, not to mention extracting them in that instant. The Heartless Fruit has intelligence, it won’t believe it…unless some terrifying Calamity suddenly strikes. Destroying all the hosts, otherwise, it would never give up…”

“A Calamity? I can do that,” Li Yelai said. “I have the Lucky Wheel. Have you used it before?”

Saying this, he took out the Lucky Wheel from the Reserve Space.

“Never used it…but come on, a taboo item that gives blessings or curses based on luck, in your hands, transforms into a Catastrophe launcher,” Cheese quipped, reaching out for the Lucky Wheel and casually spinning the pointer with a flick.