Chapter 339 Carelessly entering the desolate land
"Old, Old Mo...?" Lin Yi widened his eyes and looked at Lao Mo in front of him in shock, "Just now...?"
Lao Mo nodded calmly: "Did you have an auditory hallucination just now?"
Lin Yi was shocked: "You know?"
Lao Mo shrugged: "It's all too familiar. It's all the 'old routine'. Once you've seen it too much, you'll get used to it..."
"When any creature crosses the safe boundary, it will sense some special fluctuations due to the differences between the layers. It's normal for you to hear it... But then again, can you hear the call that probably comes from?"
"I... couldn't recognize it for a moment." Lin Yi shook his head. Those voices were both strange and familiar, but he couldn't react. "What's wrong? Do you have any explanation?" "
He continued walking forward. After crossing the safe boundary, the whole world around him felt hazy and shaky in Lin Yi's perception, as if he had walked into an undersea tunnel. Looking through the glass of the tunnel, everything in the water was twisted, like swinging seaweed.
Thick mist piled up on the ground like cotton wool. From time to time, there was a rustling sound of soft sand and dead leaves on the soles of the feet. Occasionally, one or two gusts of wind blew through, and the forest leaves swayed a few times, making a dry and hard rustling sound.
Speaking of which, Lin Yi suddenly discovered that he did not seem to encounter any nocturnal species or pseudo-human sculptures to intercept him along the way.
I don’t know if they were intimidated by Lao Mo’s aura like they did before, so they didn’t dare to invade.
After passing the safe border, if Lin Yi remembered correctly, it seems that he should have entered the desolate land...
"Is the "interesting scenery" that Lao Mo said is the matrix?"
Lin Yi felt confused, but what does that have to do with the Art Building?
"Could it be that... the desolate land is a certain area on the road to the Art Building?"
He thought of the scene when Old Merlin was drawing branches. Could it be that the desolate land was also one of the branches?
The two of them walked forward slowly...
Not far from the path forward of the two of them, among the misty weeds, some squirming and struggling figures could be vaguely seen. These figures crawled hard on the ground, but the body became stiff at a speed visible to the naked eye, and eventually became completely petrified and turned into a hard stone.
Such a scene is extremely abstract, because night is originally the home of nocturnal species and pseudo-humans, but now they are "killed" in their own home, and the way of death is even more incomprehensible, as if all the water in the body has been drained.
X May 9, 2023, 21:12, outside the "safety boundary".
Lin Yi followed Lao Mo and kept moving forward, but never met any dummy until...
"Crack!"
A crisp voice came from Lin Yi's feet.
Lin Yi was startled, and quickly lowered his head to look through the fog, only to see some broken pure white debris appearing under his feet, as if he had trampled the broken sculpture fragments even more.
"This is...a sculpture fragment?!"
Lao Mo stopped and looked back, glanced at the sculpture fragment, and said calmly: "Yes, keep walking."
His tone was very calm, without any urging, and seemed to be extremely normal about everything.
Lin Yi quickly followed up: "Old Mo, how did these fragments appear? Only the sculptures that just died tonight will form fragments, right?"
If it dies during the day, it will turn into white powder particles and be annihilated once it is exposed to sunlight.
"Yes." Lao Mo said, "These are all fake people who are blocking us."
"Standing in front of us?" Lin Yi was surprised: "Did you kill these?"
Lao Mo's expression was indifferent, seeming to acquiesce in Lin Yi's conjecture.
"But... when did you take action?" Lin Yi couldn't help but look at the butcher's knife on Lao Mo's waist, "Is there really that kind of knife spirit that kills people invisible?"
Lao Mo. The corner of his mouth twitched violently: "Idiot... think again."
Lin Yi shrank his neck and quickly closed his mouth. Then he thought of something, and asked tentatively: "Is it... the field?"
Lao Mo then withdrew his gaze and said noncommittally: "Absolutely."
Lin Yi was immediately in awe. Although he had some suspicions in his heart, it wasn't until Lao Mo was sure that he also had a field that he smoothly developed a feeling of "this is right."
At this moment, Lao Mo stopped, frowned slightly, and muttered: "Hey, that's weird..."
"What's wrong?" Lin Yi asked in a low voice.
Old Mo's empty gray eyes swept around, and then he said: "Someone has been here..."
"This way...?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. Under the fog, he could not see the road ahead clearly. He could only vaguely see the overlapping branches and leaves, and the faintly twisted ancient trees.
"Could it be...that Lao Mo was talking about Kuai Kuai?"
But Lao Mo's words turned the finger of attack on Shan Nan.
"I didn't kill some of the dummies here. It seems like someone arrived here with some equipment containing extraordinary properties..."
Lao Mo bent down, reached into the mist that submerged his calves, and picked up a mutilated corpse of a dummy.
This dummy sculpture is in dilapidated condition, as if it had been directly smashed by some force.
He suspected that it was Shannan who did it.
I didn't expect that Lao Mo actually knew about the exoskeleton armor, and then he shook his head: "Unlikely, do you know what the core material of the exoskeleton armor is?"
"I don't know, what is the core material?"
Lao Mo was about to speak, but he didn't know what he thought of, and suddenly stopped.
Lin Yi: "???"
"Why don't you say anything?"
"I'm afraid it will affect your appetite." Lao Mo said weakly.
Lin Yi was stunned: "Huh? No... you said so?"
Lao Mo said: "Let's put it this way... hitting the dummy with the exoskeleton armor is to 'attack the other's shield with the other's spear', and usually, the exoskeleton armor itself cannot cause fatal injuries to the nocturnal species or the dummy."
"If you add in the factors at night, the conditions will be even more difficult..."
Although Lao Mo said this, Lin Yi still thought of Shan Nan. He still thought that this was Shan Nan's masterpiece - if this road really leads to the desolate land.
Otherwise, who else could have done it?
After Lao Mo looked at it, he threw it aside as if it were trash, and then continued to move forward, and the direction of his advance seemed to be the place where the ancient trees were twisted and entangled!
When Lin Yi followed Lao Mo to the end of the ancient tree, as Lao Mo pushed aside the branches, an empty and desolate land appeared in front of Lin Yi, as expected in a dream.
The floating fog, the faintly concave terrain, the potholes at the end, the large plaster bodies covering the earth...
That really is a barren land!
Before Lin Yi could recover, Lao Mo had already pushed aside the trees and walked out, stepping into the desolate land without any sloppiness.
He did not hide his intentions at all and walked out carelessly. On the contrary, some of the fanatic believers closest to him were stunned for a moment.
"Chef...could he have fallen behind and gone to the wrong place?" The fanatical believer glanced at Lao Mo, and then without even a second glance, he continued to work on the large plaster bodies on hand.
Lin Yi was stunned.
What the hell is going on?
Just one glance and no follow-up?
Are fanatics so easy to talk to?
Meet someone to order food?
The most important thing is that not only this one fanatic didn't respond, but other fanatics who noticed Lao Mo glanced at him and then looked away, as calmly as classmates in the class who saw someone from the next class passing by.
Just when he was confused, Lao Mo started walking on his own. He came to the nearest large plaster body and knocked on the large plaster body: "Busy?"
The fanatic believer lowered his head and quickly dipped the solid supernatural substance in the vessel and then applied it to the large plaster body, completely ignoring Lao Mo.
However, Lin Yi noticed that the fanatic believer's body seemed to be trembling slightly, as if he had an indescribable sense of... fear towards Lao Mo?
"Hello?" Lao Mo knocked on the large plaster body again and asked several questions. Seeing that the fanatic believer didn't respond, he frowned, then walked to the fanatic believer and picked up the fanatic believer like a chicken.
"Stop! Stop!!"
At this moment, a rapid voice sounded from the depths of the desolate land.
Before Lin Yi could react, a chill came over him. Lin Yi noticed the mist surging in front of him, and some dark figure was approaching quickly from it.
After the fog broke a little, Lin Yi noticed that the person who came was still a fanatic believer, but judging from his status, he seemed to be one of the leaders of this group of fanatic believers.
Beside the little leader of the fanatical believers, there were two people on each side. To Lin Yi's surprise, one of them turned out to be his "acquaintance" - the weird art female teacher.
It's just that now, she is not wearing the professional attire, but is wearing the dark green robe of the "unified standard" of the fanatic believers. If the hood hadn't been torn and hollowed out, he wouldn't have been able to recognize her at a glance.
Seeing the weird female art teacher, Lin Yi subconsciously thought of the scene of Mu Daxian removing one of her legs, so his eyes subconsciously fell on her legs...
At this sight, Lin Yi's eyes flashed with a faint, slightly appreciative light unconsciously.
I saw that under the tattered cloak skirt of this weird female art teacher, she could see her white-skinned legs with some slate gray... These two legs were not wearing stockings or high heels, but they were walking barefoot on the sandy soil of the desolate land. They were a little dirty, but they seemed to have a different feeling.
Of course, through Lin Yi's careful observation, it can still be found that there are some slight differences between the two legs. At least compared to the left leg, the right leg has a less "original feel" - her right leg was removed at first, and then overwritten by Mu Daxian into a big chicken leg. In the end, she personally threw her "chicken leg" off the stone bridge.
And now, it was obvious that she had pressed another button for herself.
"These fanatical believers...can't be treated according to common sense."
Just like this, an even weirder thought came to his mind...
A "person" like the weird art female teacher who had one leg removed could actually build a new one for herself and still maintain the so-called "sanity". If such a case spreads, will it be taken out of context by some interested people as a "medical miracle".
Is it possible for some people who suffer from diseases that cannot be cured by current medical methods, after learning that there is a method of "efficient regeneration", find a way to become a fanatical believer and "regain life" in another way? !
This...? !
If we only look at it from a one-sided level, leaving aside those who died on the road of "glorious evolution" as described by pseudo-artists, those "people" who appear under the survivor bias seem to be like this...
At least, they are also "surviving" in such a way.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a cold sweat, as if there was a dark cloud called "philosophical dialectics" shrouding over...
Just when Lin Yi was still thinking wildly, the weird female art teacher also noticed Lin Yi, especially Lin Yi's eyes full of "appreciation".
She then squinted her eyes, and then stretched out her hand to lift the hem of the cloak...
A half-wisp of spring light was like white snow on a sunny day, which made Lin Yi's eyes dizzy, and his eyebrows twitched subconsciously.
Then, Lin Yi reacted suddenly, his eyes suddenly slid and fell on the face of the strange female art teacher.
Beneath the torn cloak, the face of the female teacher of weird arts no longer had the scary smile that reached her ears, only a weird, disgusted expression: "So you are so good... If I had known this, I might not have let you slip away..."
(End of this chapter)