Chapter 339 Carelessly Entering the Barren Land

Chapter 339 Carelessly Entering the Barren Land

Chapter 339 Carelessly Entering the Barren Land
"Lao, Lao Mo...?" Lin Yi widened his eyes and looked at Lao Mo in front of him in shock, "Just now...?"

Lao Mo nodded calmly: "You were hallucinating just now, weren't you?"

Lin Yi was shocked: "You know?"

Lao Mo shrugged: "It's very familiar, it's all 'old routine', you get used to it after seeing it so many times..."

"When any creature crosses the safety 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 tell what the call is coming from?"

"I... couldn't tell for a moment." Lin Yi shook his head. Those voices were both strange and familiar, but he couldn't react in time. "What's wrong? Is there any explanation?"

Lao Mo patted the butcher knife on his waist and said, "This is the way to say it. It doesn't matter if you can't understand it. Let's go. This journey will be very interesting."

As he spoke, he continued to walk forward. After crossing the safety boundary, the whole world around him seemed hazy and shaky to Lin Yi, as if he had walked into an underwater tunnel. Looking through the glass of the tunnel, everything in the water waves was distorted, like swaying seaweed.

The thick fog piled up on the ground like cotton wool, and from time to time there was a rustling sound of soft sand and dead leaves under the soles of the feet. Occasionally, a gust of wind blew through here, and the leaves of the forest swayed with difficulty, making a dry rustling sound.

Speaking of which, Lin Yi suddenly discovered that along the way, he seemed to have not encountered any interception by nocturnal species or pseudo-human sculptures.

I don’t know if it was because they were frightened by Lao Mo’s aura like before, so they didn’t dare to invade.

After passing the safety boundary, if Lin Yi remembered correctly, he should have entered the scope of the barren land...

"Could the 'interesting scenery' that Lao Mo mentioned be the matrix?"

Lin Yi felt confused, but what did that have to do with the art building?

"Could it be that... the wasteland is an area on the road leading to the art building?"

He thought of the scene when Lao Mo was using branches to gesture. Could it be that the barren land was also one of the branches?
"It's not impossible... And the fanatics' base camp is also in the Art Building. They must have gone to the wasteland through the Art Building. If that's the case, it doesn't make sense for Lao Mo to go to the Art Building from here through that road..."

Thinking of this, Lin Yi calmed down a little. He kept his guess and waited for Lao Mo to reveal the answer.

The two walked slowly forward...

Not far from the path they were taking, in the misty weeds, they could vaguely see some wriggling and struggling figures. These figures were crawling on the ground with difficulty, but their bodies were becoming stiff at a speed visible to the naked eye, and eventually became completely petrified and turned into a piece of hard stone.

Such a scene is extremely abstract, because night is the home ground of nocturnal species and pseudo-humans, but now they are being "killed" in their home ground, and the way of death is even more incomprehensible, as if all the water in the body has been drained away.

X023年5月9日，21:12，「安全边界」之外。

Lin Yi followed Lao Mo and continued to move forward, but never encountered any fake people, until...

“Crack!”

A crisp sound came from under Lin Yi's feet.

Lin Yi was startled, and quickly lowered his head to look through the mist, only to see some broken pure white debris under his feet, as if the already broken sculpture fragments had been crushed even further.

"This is... a fragment of a sculpture?!"

Lao Mo stopped and looked back, glancing at the sculpture fragments, his face calm: "Yes, let's keep going."

His tone was very calm, without any urging, and he seemed to be extremely normal about all this.

Lin Yi quickly followed: "Lao Mo, how did these fragments appear? Only sculptures that just died tonight can form fragments, right?"

If one dies during the day, once exposed to sunlight, he will turn into white powder particles and disappear.

"Yes." Lao Mo said, "These are all fake people standing in our way."

"Blocking us?" Lin Yi was shocked: "Did you kill them?"

Lao Mo looked indifferent, as if he agreed with Lin Yi's guess.

"But... when did you make the move?" Lin Yi couldn't help but look at the butcher knife on Lao Mo's waist, "Is there really such a knife aura that can kill people without being seen?"

The corner of Lao Mo's mouth twitched fiercely: "Idiot...think about it again."

Lin Yi shrank his neck and quickly closed his mouth. Then he thought of something and asked tentatively, "Could it be... a domain?"

Lao Mo then withdrew his gaze and said without comment: "That's about right."

Lin Yi was immediately filled with awe. Although he had some guesses in his mind, it was not until Lao Mo confirmed that he also had a field that he easily developed a feeling that "this is right."

At this moment, Lao Mo stopped, frowned slightly, and muttered: "Hey, this is strange..."

"What's wrong?" Lin Yi asked in a low voice.

Lao Mo's hollow grey eyes scanned the surroundings before he said, "Someone has been here before..."

"This way...?" Lin Yi was slightly stunned. Shrouded in fog, he could not see the road ahead clearly. He could only vaguely see the overlapping branches and leaves, and those faintly twisted ancient trees.

"Could it be that... Lao Mo is talking about Kuai Kuai?"

But Lao Mo's words turned the blame towards Shan Nan.

"Some of the fake people here were not killed by me. It seems that someone brought some equipment with extraordinary properties and arrived here..."

Lao Mo bent down, reached into the fog that had submerged his calves, and picked up a mutilated pseudo-human corpse.

This pseudo-human sculpture was in tatters, as if it had been smashed directly by some force.

"Only athletes have this kind of brute force..." Lao Mo asked doubtfully, "But...if an athlete comes here, it's impossible for him to walk out alive."

Lin Yi quickly asked, "Could it be that some polluters are wearing some special armor... I mean, exoskeleton armor or something like that?"

He suspected that it was Shan Nan who did it. Unexpectedly, Lao Mo really knew about the exoskeleton armor, and then shook his head: "It's 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 suddenly stopped talking because he didn't know what he was thinking about.

Lin Yi: “???”

"Why are not you talking?"

"I'm afraid it will affect your appetite." Lao Mo said weakly.

Lin Yi was stunned: "Ah? No... you said it?"

Lao Mo said, "Let me put it this way... Using exoskeleton armor to attack fake humans is like 'using one's own spear to attack another's shield', and usually, exoskeleton armor itself cannot cause fatal injuries to nocturnal species or fake humans."

He shook the pseudo-human corpse beside him and said, "To achieve this... one needs to be at least a second-level sports student."

"If we add the night factor, the conditions will be even more difficult..."

But even though Lao Mo said this, Lin Yi still thought of Shan Nan. He still believed that this was Shan Nan's masterpiece - if this road really leads to a barren land.

Who else could have done it?
After seeing it, Lao Mo threw it aside like trash, and continued to move forward. The direction he was moving in was exactly 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 tangled branches, a vast and desolate land appeared in front of Lin Yi, just as in his dream.

Floating mist, faintly sunken terrain, holes at the end, large gypsum bodies covering the ground...

It’s really a barren land!
Before Lin Yi could recover from his shock, Lao Mo had already pushed aside the tangled wood and walked out, stepping into the barren land without any hesitation.

He did not hide his intentions at all and walked out carelessly, which made some fanatics closest to him stunned.

"Chef... could it be that you have fallen behind and gone to the wrong place?" The fanatic glanced at Lao Mo, then without even paying any attention to him, he continued to tinker with the large plaster bodies on hand.

Lin Yi was confused.

What the fuck is going on?

Just one look and no follow-up?
Is the fanatic so easy to talk to?
Serve different dishes to different people?
The most important thing is that not only this fanatic did not react, but even the other fanatics who noticed Lao Mo, all looked away and then looked away, as calmly as classmates seeing someone from the next class passing by.

Just as he was confused, Lao Mo started walking. He came to the nearest large plaster and knocked on it: "Are you busy?"

The fanatic lowered his head and quickened his movements of dipping the solid supernatural substance in the vessel and then applying it to the large plaster body, completely ignoring Lao Mo.

However, Lin Yi noticed that the fanatic'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 did not respond, he frowned, then walked to the side of the fanatic and picked up the fanatic like a chicken.

"Stop! Stop!!"

At this moment, a hurried voice rang out from the depths of the desolate land.

Before Lin Yi could react, a chill came over him, and he sensed fog surging in front of him, with a dark figure approaching quickly from it.

After the fog was somewhat broken, Lin Yi noticed that the person who came was still a fanatic, but judging from his status, he seemed to be one of the leaders of this group of fanatics.

And beside the fanatical leader, there was a person on each side. To Lin Yi's surprise, one of them was actually his "acquaintance" - the weird art teacher.

However, now she was not wearing the professional suit, but the dark green robe "uniform style" of the fanatics. If it weren't for the hood being tattered and hollowed out, he would not have been able to recognize her at a glance.

Seeing the weird art teacher, Lin Yi subconsciously thought of the scene where Mu Daxian removed one of her legs, so his eyes subconsciously fell on her legs...

Upon seeing this, a subtle, slightly appreciative light flashed unconsciously in Lin Yi's eyes.

Under the ragged cloak skirt of this strange female art teacher, her legs were revealed. They were white with a hint of blue-gray skin... These two legs were not wearing stockings or high heels. Instead, they were just walking barefoot on the sand of the desolate land. They looked a little dirty, but seemed to have a different feeling.

Of course, after careful observation, Lin Yi can still find some subtle differences between the two legs. At least compared with the left leg, the right leg has less "original feeling" - her right leg was removed at the beginning, and then it was rewritten by Mu Daxian into a big chicken leg, and in the end she personally threw her "chicken leg" off the stone bridge.

And now, it was obvious that she had pressed another one for herself.

"These fanatics...really can't be judged by common sense."

And just like that, an even weirder thought emerged in his mind...

Like the weird art teacher, who had one leg removed, a "person" could actually build a new one for herself and still maintain her so-called "sanity". If such a case were to be spread, would it be taken out of context by some people with ulterior motives and become a "medical miracle"?

Is it possible that some people who have diseases that cannot be cured by current medical means, after learning about a method of "efficient regeneration", will find a way to become fanatics 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" in the words of pseudo-art students, those "people" who appeared under the survivor bias do seem to be like this...

At least, it is "surviving" in this way.

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a cold sweat, as if a dark cloud called "philosophical dialectics" was looming over him...

Just when Lin Yi was still daydreaming, the weird art teacher also noticed Lin Yi, especially the look in Lin Yi's eyes that was full of "appreciation".

She narrowed her eyes, then reached out and lifted the hem of her cloak...

The glimmer of spring light was like the best of spring, making Lin Yi dizzy and his eyebrows twitched subconsciously.

Then, Lin Yi reacted suddenly, his eyes slid suddenly and fell on the face of the weird art teacher.

Under the tattered cloak, the weird art teacher no longer had that creepy smile that stretched from ear to ear on her face. Instead, she had a weird, disgusted expression: "So you like this... If I had known this, I might not have let you slip away..."

(End of this chapter)