They all call me an Outer God.

Chapter 157 Lost
Leo had just followed this route to chase the clown. Ria put away his weapon, and soon after, he found fresh footprints on the ground.

"It's their trail!?"

As Ria approached the footprints, he soon discovered that they perfectly matched his own footprints, meaning they were indeed his own.

This is really strange; he was clearly moving in a straight line, but it turned out he was going in circles.

"We're lost."

Ria spread her hands and looked at Little Swarth. Little Swarth immediately understood. It turned its neck and looked up, changing its perspective from different angles. A few seconds later, the mythical creature spread its wings and flew into the sky to scout the road.

"Goo-"

It successfully flew to the top of the treetop and was preparing to continue flying upwards when it suddenly felt its wings being entangled by something unknown.

Little Swarth then noticed that its feathers were covered in purple bubbles, which were hindering its flight and interfering with its ability to orient itself.

It immediately became angry and transformed into countless tentacles to fight them, but the many bubbles were too tiny for it to handle. Soon, it landed on the ground and crawled towards Ria like a clump of seaweed.

On the ground, the tiny bubbles disappeared automatically; dealing with them was quite a challenge for the young mythical creature.

"Can't fly up?"

"Gurgle." Little Swarth shook his tentacles up and down, then approached Ria and burrowed into his skin.

Ria stood still and observed for a moment, but ultimately chose to let it observe the road ahead, while she closed her eyes and walked forward without relying on her vision.

"If I encounter an extraordinary creature, I'll be reminded again. After that, no matter what tree I bump into, I won't need any reminders."

His vision was plunged into darkness, but the golden eyes on his body opened silently and looked in different directions.

"Click."

Lia took his first step, the sound of cracking leaves echoing on the ground, but he didn't stop, continuing to walk directly in what he thought was the way forward.

From Little Swarth's perspective, the host wasn't walking in a straight line, but rather in a crooked, zigzagging curve. He was about to crash into a big tree, but he managed to narrowly miss it by just missing one side.

"I have to be fully focused to make sure that the angle and distance of each step are as consistent as possible."

"Trust your instincts, trust your eyes; they won't let you bump into anything."

Ria's strides grew longer and faster, and gradually he stopped walking slowly and started running with all his might through the forest.

Such commotion quickly caused the bubbles to gather, and the bubbles eagerly led Ria to the swamp, preferably to drown in it and become their new playmates.

So Ria's predicament was resolved, and when he suddenly opened his eyes, he was very close to the swamp and almost fell in.

Thanks to Little Swarth's shout, Ria quickly calmed down, took a few steps back, and looked at the swamp covered with greasy purple bubbles, where animal carcasses were still undigested, and flies and mosquitoes were rampant.

"Kelcha!? Is it Kelcha?"

Someone called him from behind. Ria turned around and saw his fellow club members walking towards him, looking very reserved.

This person was indeed an acquaintance, and he also possessed vital signs. Ria did not lower her guard against him, but on the surface, she displayed a completely different attitude.

“Serren, it’s so good to see you again—I thought I’d never see you again, thank goodness I still have old friends here.” “Me too, I’m so excited to see you!”

The man called Seren showed a look of joy and tears, but at that moment, Ria frowned and looked around at just the right time: "Speaking of which, I don't even know how I got here."

"I don't know either. I only remember that a person holding a purple balloon led me here, and then I got lost and couldn't find my way. In the end, I just ended up here in a daze."

"Is anyone else here?"

"Don't even mention it. You're the first person I've ever met here. I thought I was going to die here. Now that you're here, I'm so glad."

"Kercha, I think you're a smart man. You'll definitely find a way to escape. If you can get me out of here, I'll give you 100,000, no, 1 million gold coins!"

"one million?"

Anyone can make a boast, but it depends on who you're talking to.

Lia asked him, "Are you serious?"

“It’s absolutely true. I swear if I’m lying, may I die a horrible death, provided you take me away from here.”

"I'm afraid that's not the case," Ria thought to herself.

Because the other party simply couldn't give him money; this person was even more stingy than him, and it's said that even the training expenses were covered by a loan.

Using large sums of money that don't belong to you can make people feel no guilt about spending it, and even make them addicted to it.

Since the other party could not provide any guarantees, the deal should not have been finalized. However, Ria still agreed to the other party's request, hoping that the other party would not regret it later.

"You agreed? That's great! Now, how do we get out?"

"Aren't we still hunting?"

"Who cares about the event now? I almost died from the suffocation here. Getting out of here is the key."

"You have a point."

Ria crossed his arms and nodded, then began walking around the edge of the swamp. He didn't have a specific destination; he was just thinking about whether he could find the clown and how he could complete the performance of the three memes together.

He stopped walking, and Cyren quickly put his hands behind his back: "Why did you stop?"

"With so many swamp bubbles here, why are there no other features associated with them?"

"What do you mean?" Seren looked at Ria's back with some confusion.

Ria explained to him: "These bubbles are alive. They are born from the swamp and capture creatures as their carriers, carrying them around."

Those carriers are responsible for luring prey into the swamp, and new bubbles leave the swamp after obtaining a carrier to continue searching for prey, and so on, which can be regarded as a kind of indirect ecological cycle.

The corpse, essentially an appendage of the bubble, will wander around, dragging the bubble along like a balloon. Once the bubble bursts, the carrier loses most of its offensive capabilities and is rapidly decomposed into a skeleton by microorganisms…

Ria continued to explain some of his speculations, which left Seren completely bewildered. He didn't understand how Ria knew so much, nor did he understand why he was telling him these things.

(End of this chapter)