Chapter 469: [You Can't Escape After All...]
Lin Yi actually sensed an aura in this slime that was of the same origin as "Ashes"!
A bad feeling immediately arose in his heart. Could it be that the Nightwalkers here were all melted by the Ashes, and then, as if being fried in a pan, had their juices collected...?
Otherwise, why would the viscosity of this slime be so high?
"What exactly happened above?"
"No, I can't delay any longer!"
The moment he sensed the aura of Ashes, Lin Yi knew he had to resort to drastic measures. So, he directly guided A'Gui to forcibly absorb the remaining Ashes in the slime, and steered A'Gui to move upstairs.
But he hadn't walked a few steps when he felt an indescribable powerful resistance in this layer, preventing him from moving forward like soft glue.
The surrounding space seemed to have softened, completely entangling A'Gui's body. For a moment, it was impossible to distinguish whether it was space or slime.
Lin Yi didn't care about anything else, he just single-mindedly controlled A'Gui to absorb the Ashes in the slime, and continued to advance towards the 5th floor of the teaching building.
He didn't know how long had passed, maybe three or five minutes, or maybe ten or twenty minutes. The space on the 5th floor of the teaching building fluctuated slightly, and a fierce red palm broke through from that space, followed by a head, and then the upper body...
A'Gui was like a person who had fallen into a swamp and then pulled himself out, except that this swamp was now vertical. Until it completely crawled out, the slime stuck to its body like mochi, pulling out long strips.
A'Gui tore off these slime strips and then silently observed the surrounding environment.
At the same time, Lin Yi's perception, centered on A'Gui, slowly radiated outwards.
As soon as he investigated, Lin Yi immediately felt the scorching aura coming from Building B of the teaching building.
"That is...? !"
Lin Yi controlled A'Gui to quickly rush to the corridor bridge connecting Building C and Building B.
A'Gui's eyes were fake, so Lin Yi could only use perception to observe everything around him. In his eyes, the world was formed by countless grid lines intertwined, and countless auras filled the grids, dotting the world little by little.
Through perception, he found that on the side of the corridor bridge close to Building B, the wall seemed to have been melted by high temperature into countless honeycomb-shaped holes. Some of the holes still had some flowing liquid, but those liquids had now solidified, turning into solid droplet-shaped substances.
Near the corridor bridge, there were also some charred corpses. Those corpses were dilapidated, and the ash crystals inside seemed to have been hollowed out.
The entire world over there was like Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, full of hellish doomsday scenes.
"Could it be that the Fire Man has undergone some kind of mutation again?"
Lin Yi speculated for a moment. Just then, A'Gui's body shook, and a faint, scorching airflow surged from its pores.
"Not good! It absorbed too much Ashes when crossing the layer, it's going to burn up!"
When Lin Yi constructed this puppet, in order to ensure that it could attract zealots and the [Apostle of Ashes · Fire Man], he had put enough "bait". Except for the bones, the muscle fibers all over its body were infused with Ashes to the greatest extent.
But now that the already saturated container had gone through such a "gluttonous gulp" in the stairwell, it was naturally on the verge of exploding.
So, he decisively gave up observing and controlled A'Gui to return to the stairwell and climb to a higher floor.
Just as he went upstairs, a strange wind seemed to blow through the stairwell, gently calling his name in his ear:
[Lin Yi ah... Lin Yi...]
A'Gui's movements suddenly stagnated, and Lin Yi, who was controlling A'Gui, felt a tremor in his heart.
"This call... why is it still calling my name?"
[Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...]
[Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...]
The layers of the stairwell seemed to squirm, and the steps under A'Gui's feet became crooked and distorted.
But such a sense of distortion could not cause an effective influence on the current Lin Yi—because he was not relying on sensory feedback to perceive the world, but on perception.
The grid formed by the lines continued to distort, but A'Gui was still able to accurately step on the grid.
Even if it stepped out, its entire body would undergo a strange change.
[Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...]
[You can't escape after all...]
The wall powder in the stairwell squirmed strangely, and the twisting trajectory seemed to seal countless evil faces in the wall.
Some of them were smiling ugly, some were crying abstractly, and some were grinning with a strange laugh.
The countless voices were ethereal and quiet, singing ancient songs in some kind of prayer language, but the singing was intermittent and unclear, seeming to have only fragments of words. But gradually, more voices began to enter Lin Yi's ears...
[Fate...]
[Ouroboros...]
[...Ring...]
[Starting point...]
[Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...]
[...Where are you going...?]
[Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...]
[...Where can you go...?]
[Lin Yi ah... Lin Yi...]
Demonic sounds pierced his ears, making the person's brain pulp seem to be stirred. A'Gui didn't have breath, but with Lin Yi's blessing, it still made heavy breathing sounds.
The heart in its chest then "thump, thump" beat, and the Ashes flowing in the blood vessels became more and more turbulent. The original clusters of small flames seemed to be ignited, and actually began to fan up scorching flames...
"Too noisy..." Lin Yi murmured, gritting his teeth, his brain swelling uncomfortably.
"De som..."
"...jager lyset..."
"fantomer..."
He hummed obscure scales. There were still important matters now, and he didn't want to be delayed here.
So, after simply clearing his throat with the pronunciation of the precept, he slowly uttered a certain precept through A'Gui's mouth—
"Those who chase the light through the mist will eventually become phantoms."
"De som—jager lyset—i—tke blir til slutt—fantomer"!!!
As soon as the precept came out, it was like a strong wind sweeping away dust. The surrounding noisy demonic sounds suddenly quieted down, and the distorted floor also recovered.
Lin Yi lightly shook (A'Gui's) head and then smacked his own head as if it were an old television with a bad signal. Then, he started walking, climbing all the way to the 8th floor of Building C.
By the time he reached the 8th floor of Building C, A'Gui's skin, made of transcendent materials, had become crystal clear, pink, and tender. Within the blood vessels beneath the skin, the flowing flames seemed to have transformed into a lava-like substance.
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Lin Yi briefly sensed A'Gui's condition and then walked out of the stairwell.
"It's about time to detonate…"
He quickened his pace towards Class 18 of Group C, the designated location agreed upon with Tian Bufan to lure the enemy.
However, as soon as he approached the corridor, a strong sense of unease arose in his heart.
As if from some kind of premonition, he subconsciously felt that he was being watched. It seemed his arrival had attracted the attention of a certain entity, and that entity… appeared to be in Building B of the teaching building!
Anyway, he was about to make a big move, and plus, this wasn't his main body, so feeling confident, he fearlessly looked towards the location of Building B of the teaching building…
The perceptual feedback from this layer was the opposite of the visual perceptual feedback from the 4th floor and below. In the area on the 4th floor and below of the teaching building, normally, anyone's perception of the 5th floor and above was nothingness. Without hallucinations caused by abnormal weather, it was impossible to see the area above the fifth floor.
While in the area on the fifth floor and above of the teaching building, when looking down, everything seen or perceived was a hazy, illusory scene.
Not only that, when Lin Yi's perception extended beyond the railing of the teaching building's corridor and probed into the void, the information fed back was also just a hazy environment. There wasn't even any mist; the entire world was nothingness, along with some mysterious, unknown wrinkles.
Like ripples in the void, or like the breathing of some non-existent, mysterious creature, drawing out ripples in the layer.
And if one wanted to perceive other buildings, they could only do so through the paths that already existed within the layer, such as the corridor bridge.
When Lin Yi looked towards Building B of the teaching building following his senses, his perception naturally spread over.
Along with the spread of perception, a large amount of information elements were captured by him, and then constantly deduced in his mind, like a spiritual vision, reappearing certain things that had already happened. These things appeared in front of his eyes in the form of flickering fragments without any warning.
In one of the fragments, he seemed to see a slender figure moving with some kind of anti-human posture, with a speed that was staggering.
In another fragment, he saw the figure of the "Ashen Apostle - Fire Man" again. It had entered a state of complete combustion, and its figure even had a floating feeling, like an elemental being constantly releasing flames. The hellish burning remains on the walls seemed to be its handiwork…
There was also a fragment showing a large number of fanatical believers struggling in the flames, wailing in pain, their hands gripping their bodies fiercely, their fingertips buried in their flesh…
"A great battle once happened there?!"
Lin Yi was extremely shocked.
"In just the time it took to eat a meal, Building B of the teaching building turned into that state?"
Everything was fine there before he left. Now that he came back after finishing his meal, it was like this. Was that too coincidental?
Was it really just a coincidence?
Who was that figure?
Why did it feel so familiar?
Perhaps out of a subconscious desire to reverse-trace that feeling of being watched, he lingered here for a moment, his perceptual tentacles probing wildly.
After these days of training, whether active or passive, his various "stats" had been improved and strengthened. Now, when he released his perception, he wouldn't become exhausted after extending it only a little distance, like the first time he used "My World."
Of course, the main thing was that he wasn't urging "My World" now.
"My World," this kind of skill with a vast amount of computing power, was really a test of one's mental strength and spirit.
Finally, a blurry fragment appeared in front of his eyes again. In that fragment, a slender figure seemed to be gnawing on something, but when it had eaten halfway, it suddenly turned its head and looked towards him.
It was the moment of looking over that made him feel that sense of being watched, and now the perceptual tentacles that spread over just happened to bump into it head-on.
The moment he saw that figure, Lin Yi's heart was shaken fiercely.
"How is it her?!"
Zhang Lingzhen!
That slender figure was actually Zhang Lingzhen!
"What's going on, what exactly happened?!"
Zhang Lingzhen had become a guy who could face the Ashen Apostle - Fire Man head-on just by going to the cafeteria and back?
Was the improvement that great?
Hey, someone's cheating!
But maybe…
"Perhaps it's not cheating, but the will of the 'Burial Body' has awakened and taken over her body?"
The "Burial Body" could absorb ashes and had always wanted to break free from the convenience store's containment and return to the art building. After Zhang Lingzhen devoured part of the "Burial Body's" body, she became a shadow clone of the "Burial Body"?
Lin Yi suddenly had a flash of inspiration. The relationship between Zhang Lingzhen and the "Burial Body", to a certain extent, might be somewhat similar to the relationship between Lao Mo and the cafeteria—oh no, Lao Mo and the cafeteria were symbiotic. If you look closely, the difference is still quite big.
Perhaps, it's more like the relationship between him and A'Gui?
Don't say it, but don't really say it!
It really seemed to be this relationship!
The process of Zhang Lingzhen gnawing on the "Burial Body's" torso might not necessarily be an intentional act of the "Burial Body", the purpose of which was actually to fuse the flesh and blood with Zhang Lingzhen, transforming her into a "puppet" for it to control.
In essence, it was the same logic as him using the "roots" of a part of the "Burial Body" to construct a "puppet."
The only difference was that the will within had changed from the "Burial Body" to Lin Yi.
"Crap!" He suddenly thought of something, and couldn't help but slap his thigh, "Damn, I didn't bring the equipment!"
"Hey, that's really unfortunate!"
It was indeed unfortunate, after all, who could have thought this would happen?!
A'Gui was a one-time consumable, and that bone spur was also almost a one-time consumable, but it was clear that A'Gui was meant to be consumed this time, while the bone spur was obviously not.
That kind of great weapon, in terms of emotion and reason, would be more useful if left on the main body.
Moreover, A'Gui's purpose here was to attract all the abnormal units in the teaching building area after igniting the ashes, and then buy time for Tian Bufan to explore Building A of the teaching building.
His main purpose this time was to mock the crowd, and then pull the position, not to fight.
