Chapter 468 "I saw... the mystery of the world!"
Tian Bufan said calmly: "Usually it takes a lot of effort to build a model, so it's normal for you to take a long time, right?"
"That's true..." Lin Yi thought thoughtfully.
Tian Bufan said: "Before taking action, let me emphasize one last time. You use the "puppet" to attract hatred to Building C, and I will act according to the situation... You can do it as much as you can, but no matter what happens to the "puppet" or what situation you encounter, the main body will not go there. Do you understand? "
"This..." Lin Yi was a little confused, but seeing Tian Bufan's serious expression and his lack of intention to explain, he nodded, "Okay, I understand..."
Tian Bufan added: "On the way there, it's best to rewrite the puppet's knowledge. Anyway, it's just a mouthful if you don't need it. Just make up a name to fool it."
Lin Yi glanced at Tian Bufan and the others, and then controlled the "puppet" to step onto the covered bridge to Building C.
In the original plan, he did not want to go to Building C. After all, no puppet master would go to the battlefield with the "puppet". However, when he couldn't bear to build the puppet, he found that the strength of the puppet wires (perception tentacles) was really limited. In addition, the perception would need to cross layers. In order to allow the "puppet" to better connect with the main body, he decided to put his humanoid signal tower as close to the "puppet" as possible.
Otherwise, it would be a joke if the “WiFi” is disconnected at a critical moment.
Before leaving, he glanced at Zhao Lingxiao.
Under the normal layer, Zhao Lingxiao didn't look like he was sticking out his butt in that weird way. Instead, he sat on the ground blankly, in a daze, and his whole body seemed to be covered with a layer of blue-gray powder.
Lin Yi sighed helplessly. Zhao Lingxiao refused to listen to his advice and insisted on peeking at things he shouldn't peek at. Now his will has fallen to the bottom. If he can't wake up on his own, he may be in trouble.
"Hey, wish yourself luck." Lin Yi had no intention of rescuing Zhao Lingxiao. Although he thought that he could still save Zhao Lingxiao if he insisted on it, but it was unknown how much energy would be wasted.
If the consumption is too large, it may affect the performance of their own plans.
After all, what he has to face next is the "Apostle of Ashes and the Fireman" and that large group of fanatical believers.
Secondly, we are all adults and should pay the corresponding price for our actions.
It’s not like he hasn’t tried to persuade Zhao Lingxiao, but he didn’t listen.
Finally, Lin Yi said "Come on" and stepped onto the covered bridge to Building C of the teaching building.
…
Not long after Lin Yi left, Zhao Lingxiao's body began to tremble slightly.
"Huh, Huh, Huh..."
She panted heavily, her chest rising and falling, and she simply regained some strength. She didn't care about anything else, kneeling on the cold ground, relying on her earlier memories, groping wildly among the rough bricks with her hands, crawling bit by bit towards the place where Lin Yi had dissected the roots and built the puppet.
Her palms were very hard, and it didn't take long for groping to turn into friction. Her fingertips were rubbed red and even bloodshot, but she seemed not to feel the pain and still repeated the groping movements mechanically.
Her eyes were distracted and her pupils were slightly dilated, as if being pulled by some invisible force and unable to stop.
"Where...where..."
She muttered to herself, her voice hoarse and rapid, as if it was squeezed out from the depths of her throat, her lips were chapped, and the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, as if she was chewing something invisible.
She was getting closer and closer to where Lin Yi was, and the frequency of her fingers scraping back and forth became faster and faster.
Her fingernails were filled with a mixture of dust and bloodshot, and blood seeped out like spikes...
"It's obviously here...it's obviously here..."
Her voice was filled with an almost desperate persistence, as if the lost thing was the most important part of her life.
Suddenly, her fingers stopped, and her fingertips touched a small piece of slightly moist ground.
"This...!"
"Here! Found it! Found it!!"
Her body stiffened suddenly, and then she lowered her head, with the tip of her nose almost touching the ground.
Her breathing became slow and deep, as if she was sniffing something, her gray eyes narrowed slightly, and her pupils began to shrink back to normal.
Her lips were slightly opened, the tip of her tongue gently licked the chapped lips, and then she greedily sucked the air here.
The next moment, her eyebrows were crooked, as if she had caught the most pleasant taste.
「Found it...Found it」
Her voice became low and hoarse, with a strange sense of satisfaction.
She put her face close to the ground like a dog, as if she was licking something, and while licking, she crawled forward.
At this moment, she was like a weird creeper with a slightly perverted dragon's spine. The loose school uniform was also pulled out of a certain body-fitting curve because of this body posture, which looked both graceful and evil.
As Zhao Lingxiao continued to get closer to the construction site, she began to inhale the atmosphere nearby, wishing to devour everything that was left here.
Sometimes she frowned, the expression on her face was twisted and painful, and sometimes she showed an almost crazy joy.
「More...I need more...」
Finally, she touched some residue.
When the "puppet" first took on a human form, it gathered those dark auras under Lin Yi's guidance, and the "essence" remaining in the flesh and blood was also absorbed by the "puppet". However, even so, there were still some completely useless dregs, which were discarded by Lin Yi.
These severed remains were all turned into petrified sculpture fragments under the dim sunlight, and there was still some dust that had not yet dispersed.
This part of the dust is the dregs in the dregs. It will be annihilated when the wind blows, but Zhao Lingxiao caught them before they were completely dispersed...
She greedily sucked these extraordinary substances that had almost lost their properties, and the enthusiasm in her eyes was almost crazy.
「Yummy... so delicious...」
Gradually, a hazy light began to float around her body, green, blue... and chaotic, as if indicating some strange change in her.
Suddenly, the breath seemed to be pulled by some kind of force, and began to twist into a vague outline of symbols, like some kind of ancient totem, some kind of strange writing.
「我看到了……我看到了……！！！」
她的声音因为激动而疯狂地颤抖，她高举双手，面向昏沉的天空。
"The secret pattern in the starry sky...!"
"Mystery...real!"
"The real secret pattern!!!"
She seemed to have seen something, like a devout believer who had glimpsed a corner of the god, and the corners of her eyes became moist.
"Teacher... I finally saw... the mystery of the world..."
The halo around her became extremely powerful, but like fireworks, it quickly flourished and faded, and finally even the blue-gray color began to dissipate.
When all the brilliance subsided, she was as calm as a helpless girl slumped on the ground.
But her eyes returned to normal, even more energetic, as if full of vitality.
"I...what just...happened to me?"
She looked at herself in confusion, and then around. She still had some vague memories of Lin Yi, but those memories stopped when the darkness spread.
Next, she remembered that she was lost in the darkness, as if she had been drifting for countless years, and finally saw some sporadic points of light, and saw the broken starry sky...
Such a starry sky, as if it was a mottled corner of time and space imprinted in ancient times, constantly refracted in unknown latitudes, and finally appeared in front of her eyes.
"It's Lin Yi! It's that guy!"
She remembered everything - of course only those memories she still had.
She took a deep breath, and she seemed to be able to feel the breath of ashes.
She tried hard to recall the broken starry sky and the secret pattern, and in a daze, she felt that there was a familiar smell in the secret pattern.
I don’t know if it was because she suddenly thought of Lin Yi, but she actually felt that there was an illusory outline of a human figure in the infinite darkness, constantly swinging the hammer to hit something, and the broken sparks kept sketching some kind of pattern in the air.
And that pattern... seemed to be a corner of the illusion of the vast gods she had glimpsed.
There is a certain kind of fanaticism, looming...
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X May 10, 2023, 13:23, Building C, Teaching Building, 4th floor, stairway.
While crossing the covered bridge, Lin Yi's will was completely integrated into the "puppet", polishing its mobility until it was no different from normal.
By the time one person and one puppet arrived on the 4th floor, the "puppet"'s figure and footwork could no longer be seen to be strange.
At the top of the stairs, Lin Yi looked at the handrail at the end of the stairs and frowned slightly.
For some reason, the closer he got to the 5th floor, the stronger the uneasiness felt in his heart. He had a strange premonition, as if something unexpected had happened in the area above the 5th floor of the teaching building.
"The next thing will be left to you..." Lin Yi patted the "puppet" on the shoulder, "Go, Agui!"
Agui was the name he decided after rewriting the "puppet's" cognition.
Puppet Tonggui has a homophonic pronunciation of "gui".
Agui means Apu.
Immediately afterwards, he replied with the will in the "puppet" in a wicked way: "Agui... set off..."
Lin Yi (puppet Agui) slowly walked to the stairs, waiting for the moment when the sun was covered by clouds, and the real body walked out of the stairwell and stood in the sun.
He felt that if he had extraordinary characteristics, he would definitely be a "Superman", because he felt that he could absorb sunlight and become stronger.
He looked at the sky, observing the movement of clouds and changes in light, waiting for the moment when the fluctuations in the layers appeared.
The wind is strong at high places, and the leaden gray clouds are very low, as if cotton wool soaked in sea water is hanging on the roof. It is okay not to look at it, but once you look at it, you can't help but feel depressed.
Lin Yi walked out of the stairs and went to the covered bridge to look at the campus.
The handrails on the covered bridge here are covered with rust, and the peeling rust blocks glow like blood in the humid air.
He could see the cobblestone roads in the campus like a decapitated python lying in the fog...
There were also a large number of ivy growing on the outer walls of the teaching building. When the wind blew, the leaves flapped, revealing the spiderweb-covered veins on the back, which looked like the capillaries of thousands of dry palms.
Lin Yi had an idea: "The path between the layers of the teaching building may have always existed, but there is a lack of a channel to open it up."
"If it is possible for clouds to block the sun... then there may be a similar method of sharing the same path."
If the path between the layers is like a contactor, the current will flow when it is connected, and when it is disconnected, even if they are very close to each other, there is no possibility of connection... What is this situation?
He thought about it, feeling like he was about to blurt out something but couldn't.
"By the way, it's the "door attribute"!"
It doesn't mean between layers, but only between the 4th and 5th floors of the teaching building. There is a certain door attribute.
And when the clouds cover the sun, the door opens.
"In other words...as long as I master the underlying principles, I will be able to open this "door" on my own one day!"
"At that time, I will be able to cross the layers myself!"
Lin Yi suddenly felt that this may be the principle of the nocturnal species penetrating the layer, and it is possible that this is a very basic technique, but because he does not know it, he cannot use it.
The simplest way to put it is like the Pythagorean theorem. People directly tell you that three squared plus four squared equals five squared. It will be very simple for you to use it directly. But if you deduce it yourself, how much time will it take? Not to mention the talent issue.
He was thinking about it, and suddenly he noticed a thick cloud floating over Building C of the teaching building.
His eyes were focused, and he decisively handed over his body to the control of instinct, staying in place, and then used most of his energy to control Agui's body.
The time has come, Agui stepped forward, crossed the illusory barrier, and stepped onto the first step leading to the fifth floor of the teaching building.
As soon as its right foot stepped onto this step, the sole of its foot seemed to have sunk into some kind of gelatinous ground. Asphalt-like mucus poured out from the gaps in the steps, immediately wrapped around its ankle joint, and quickly eroded upwards along the leg.
"What's going on?!"
This sudden situation made Lin Yi unexpected. He did not expect that the layer would actually erode the "puppet".
"What about the slime?"
"There were no such strange situations when I traveled through the world last time!"
As the mucus wrapped around him, Agui's skin began to collapse like a wax figure under high temperatures, and the blood vessel network under the skin was looming.
"It's such a high temperature! It's so hot, hurry up and catch up with the lava!"
"Wait, this is... the smell of "ashes"?!"
"These slimes... seem to be nocturnal species?!"
(End of this chapter)