I Got My Cheat Skill by Acting My Way into a Horror Protagonist Role Chapter 76

System, where is this place?

The enormous blazing sun hanging overhead, while scorching the sky, didn't seem to be a real sun, otherwise Xiao Gui'an definitely wouldn't even be able to stand steadily.

Even so, he still felt his body faintly aching, his power being suppressed.

Lifting his gaze, all he saw before him was a stretch of yellow sand; this was clearly a land of death and desolation.

It's a secret realm!— System analyzed, —It should be an ancient secret realm; I can't immediately determine what the trigger condition is.

However, the Chosen One of Fate is probably the biggest trigger condition. As long as he exists, no matter where he goes, the disaster of famine will eventually descend...—

Even though the power of the blazing sun overhead was somewhat diminished, this death desert filled with swirling dust was real. The extremely high temperatures caused the surrounding space to warp.

The Ghost Bride held the Chosen One of Fate, yin energy swirling around her. She slightly raised her hand, the bright red wedding dress shielding him from the scorching sun's rays.

The extreme yin resentment energy that would never normally be used on a male infant now became a neutralizing agent counteracting this terrifying temperature.

Can you even distinguish directions here?

Why does everywhere seem exactly the same?

Xiao Gui'an looked around blankly, momentarily unsure which direction to go.

After these past few days together, although the Chosen One of Fate's spirit body still emitted that fatal scent, like opium tempting one to fall into depravity, Xiao Gui'an had been suppressing his desire for it, his willpower had strengthened considerably, and he had even grown somewhat accustomed to it.

But now, within this secret realm, Xiao Gui'an felt that craving to devour the other surging wildly again like vines in the shadows.

Perhaps due to this secret realm's rule power or something, Xiao Gui'an's deceased corpse actually experienced the sensation of 'hunger' once more, making him develop a desire to 'feed.'

Probably even those cultivators who had long achieved grain avoidance and no longer needed to eat the five grains would be affected by this strange secret realm, suffering the pangs of famine.

This place had not a trace of spiritual energy; all vitality was severed.

"Gurgle—"

The little Scavenger resting on Xiao Gui'an's shoulder also grew restless, slightly opening its sharp mouth and emitting low growls, as if numerous bloody hands were struggling to emerge from deep within its throat, wanting to tear something apart.

Although it was an unspeakable entity not belonging to this world, it was itself composed of 'devouring' and was still affected to some extent. That intensified instinctual desire drove it to feed.

Eating Xiao Gui'an was impossible.

But this hunger sensation had to be resolved somehow, otherwise if it couldn't resist and ended up devouring the little one too, that would be disastrous.

The little Scavenger dropped from Xiao Gui'an's shoulder, then instantly enlarged.

Bloody tentacles extended one after another, emitting a putrid, bloody smell. Like a massive mouth from the abyss slowly opening, the bloody tentacles then swept up large handfuls of yellow sand, stuffing them into the sharp, gaping maw.

His pupils slightly constricted, Xiao Gui'an showed a somewhat surprised expression nearby.

System, eating dirt—no, can Scavenger eat sand? Will it get indigestion?

Don't worry, as a processor of world garbage, Scavenger inherently possesses devouring attributes. It won't be picky about what it eats; it's just some sand, completely fine— System declared confidently, but the situation changed abruptly the next second.

As if it had eaten something extremely disgusting, even the unfussy Scavenger began thrashing. The secondary teeth deep in its throat trembled, the flesh and blood it ate a few days ago churning slightly upward, faintly giving a feeling of retching.

After struggling several times, Scavenger ultimately didn't vomit out the yellow sand it had swallowed, and continued eating.

After eating roughly two sand dunes, whether it was finally full or simply unwilling to eat more, it finally couldn't take it.

Rapidly shrinking, it returned to Xiao Gui'an's sleeve, retracting all those wriggling tentacles back into its body, then lying perfectly still as if dead.

Xiao Gui'an:!

Xiao Gui'an reached out a finger and poked it—no reaction whatsoever. He fished it out and shook it—still no response.

System??!! What happened to Scavenger? Why isn't it responding at all???

System was also deeply shocked, but after a brief investigation, it determined the other's current condition could be considered as having an upset stomach from bad food, then entering a self-sealed state of playing dead, trying hard to digest.

In the short term, it probably wouldn't wake up to feed again.

It seemed the yellow sand in this secret realm had strange properties, making even Scavenger find it difficult to accept.

This was somewhat bad.

Xiao Gui'an had originally thought that if he truly became unbearably hungry, he could eat some sand to slightly alleviate the hunger sensation or something.

Now it seemed that approach might not work.

He couldn't possibly end up gnawing on himself, could he—

He also wondered if this secret realm was like real-world deserts; if searched carefully, perhaps he could still find a water source.

But since this was the third disaster, how could it possibly be that simple?

Could such a loophole exist? Xiao Gui'an didn't hold much hope in his heart.

He feared that any beings who had previously fallen into this death secret realm had ultimately died without a burial place.

Within this stretch of yellow sand, there was no food and no water source.

They also had to constantly endure the continuously intensifying sensation of 'hunger.' If that 'feeding' desire remained unresolved, he feared that in the end, even if they didn't die, they would go mad.

What should we do, System? How do we leave this place?

Under the high-hanging blazing sun, a somewhat slender figure in bright red lightly stepped across the vast expanse of yellow sand, one step after another. But the shallow footprints were instantly erased by this strange, terrifying secret realm, unable to leave any trace.

Every rolling sand dune looked identical. Here, concepts of direction and time seemed nonexistent; the position of the blazing sun overhead never changed.

Faced with this situation, System was very troubled. It had roughly calculated using data—the flow rate outside was three times slower than in this secret realm.

Four days in the outside world extended to at least twelve days here.

Moreover, the scope of this ancient secret realm was difficult to estimate. At least for those trapped within, this desert possessed an 'endless' attribute. Using ordinary movement methods, it would be impossible to ever leave this secret realm.

System indicated that the only thing it could do was continuously conduct detection, then see if it could identify weak points in this secret realm.

During this period, Xiao Gui'an had better not stop within this secret realm. For every extra inch of yellow sand crossed, there was one more possibility of finding a weak point.

If the weak point was also the exit, and the power required to break it wasn't too strong, then after locating it, spending a certain amount of time, they most likely could break out from the inside.

If they couldn't find one, then they could only endure the twelve days within this secret realm.

On the final day, if the Chosen One of Fate survived passing the third death disaster trial, the famine disaster would disappear, and they would likely be expelled by the secret realm, then leave this place.

Besides the above two scenarios, two other possibilities remained.

One was that headquarters received the message System sent, intervened, and rescued them ahead of schedule.

The other was that the Old Heavenly Master had already deeply entered the hundred thousand li mountains of the southwest.

He was already very close to them, able to precisely calculate the Chosen One of Fate's location, apply external force in reality, and break the secret realm from the outside.