Chapter 347 Lin Yi's Faceless Form
Chapter 347 Lin Yi "Faceless Form"
Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he restrained himself.
After being rubbed repeatedly by Lao Mo, the two scales have become something very soft and sticky. When applied to the face, it feels as cool as some ice powder.
Lao Mo kept operating as if he was applying a facial mask on Lin Yi.
"Lao Mo, what is this?" Lin Yi was unable to speak because his mouth was rubbed by Lao Mo.
"Stop crowing...it will be done soon." Lao Mo's technique became faster and faster, and gradually, the mask-like substance covered his entire head.
"Done." Lao Mo withdrew his hand, looked up and down at Lin Yi, and nodded with satisfaction, "What did you say just now?"
Lin Yi took a breath and said, "I say...what is this?"
He touched his head. This "headgear" on his face did not make him feel suffocated at all. On the contrary, it was very breathable and even made him feel cool from time to time, as if he was wearing a layer of mint-scented... white stockings.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt a little perverted.
Lao Mo said, "I modified your appearance, so that when you get to the Art Building, as long as you anchor your identity, those weird things won't be able to lock onto your identity."
"'No identity'?" Lin Yi touched his face, and was shocked to find that although his hand had touched the bridge of his nose, he could not feel the existence of his nose at all, nor could he feel his facial features, nose, or even hair.
He kept touching his face, as if he was rubbing a smooth ball of flesh, looking funny and ridiculous...
"Lao Mo, I, I I I...what am I doing now?!" Lin Yi was horrified.
"Am I now... the person I once saw in the mirror?"
That appearance is the "faceless" version of myself that only appears in visions!!!
Lao Mo observed the situation of the storm in the distance and said, "We can remove these things with supernatural powers, or just wait for the sun the next day... By the way, what time is it now?"
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his wrist: "It's 23:04..."
Lao Mo nodded slightly: "Not bad."
Although he said this, Lao Mo's hand had already touched the handle of the butcher knife. He held the handle and tapped it with his index finger in a certain rhythm, as if he was thinking about something.
Lin Yi thought for a moment and asked, "Lao Mo, you said before that you would tell me the real name of the "Big Snake" after we get out of that road. Is it convenient for you to tell me now?"
The old man thought for a moment, then nodded and slowly uttered a name: "Fantom av rttene", which means... "Shadow of the Origin."
"As the name suggests, it means 'phantom of the root'."
"However, as the 'Shadow of the Origin' lost its true name, it fell into the cracks of the layers and became a 'mysterious creature' that relied on instinct, or in other words, the underlying behavioral logic. The fanatics gave it another nickname - 'Shadow of Jörmungandr'."
“Yeah, “Jörmungandr”…? !” Lin Yi exclaimed in surprise.
"To be more precise, add 'Shadow'." Lao Mo corrected, "Jörmungandr is a giant snake that surrounds the courtyard in Norse mythology. It is also known as the Midgard Serpent, but this is not that thing, and it does not mean that the 'Shadow of the Origin' has become 'Jörmungandr'."
Despite this, Lin Yi was still shocked, because he knew that the more the name was related to mythology, the more impossible it was to name it so casually for something in "reality".
While observing the trajectory of the storm that enveloped the Art Building, Lao Mo quickly explained to Lin Yi: "Initially, a group of 'Apostles' entered the ocean and sailed out to explore the ocean, but they were defeated in the end..."
"The 'Apostles' who escaped back, based on their limited observations and their understanding of the 'origin', outlined the initial concrete object, which is the original version of the 'shadow of the origin'..."
"The 'madmen' have tried to name it with various names, but in fact... according to the most credible book, 'The Origin and Evolution', no 'apostle' has ever really touched the 'root'. Everything is just a crude description of an ant's leg."
"'Jörmungandr', 'Quetzalcoatl', 'Hydra', 'Xiangliu', and even 'Leviathan'... were all things that the 'Apostle' had drawn based on the ocean."
"They are most likely the forms of the 'Source' observed in different times and spaces, which were recorded by the 'Apostles' and derived into mythical creatures..."
"The original 'Root Shadow' was annihilated when Doomsday broke out, but the fanatics still used the secret books handed down by the 'Apostles', as well as the notes left by Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and others, to use the solidified extraordinary power to perform 'super-concept' sculptures, outlining and reshaping the prototype of 'it'... which is the 'Big Snake' you see now."
"It is the 'Shadow of the Origin', the 'Shadow of Jörmungandr', and even has many other names. But no matter what name it is, it is not as simple and crude as just calling it 'The Great Snake'."
"Never call it by its real name in the Bone Forest or the Matrix, and it's best not to call it "Shadow of Jörmungandr". But it doesn't matter once you leave."
Lin Yi's mind was full of thoughts. He took a deep breath and said, "Since the 'Shadow of Jörmungandr' is called 'Big Snake', is it because it looks like a big snake?"
Lao Mo nodded: "From the appearance, it can be roughly said to be a 'snake'..."
"Oh..." Lin Yi instantly stood in awe of Lao Mo. He didn't expect that Lao Mo had actually faced off against a being of the "Big Snake" level. He was indeed the "Black Chef" that even the fanatics were extremely afraid of!
"Don't look at me with such admiration, I can't stand it." Lao Mo seemed to see through Lin Yi's thoughts and explained, "I haven't seen it, and I only heard about it from others."
"Others? Is it the store owner?" Lin Yi asked.
“I guess so.” Lao Mo nodded. “The only people who can deal with beings of their level are the store owners and their ilk… Don’t ask me more. I don’t know. If I knew, I wouldn’t have to lead this path.”
Seeing this, Lin Yi stopped asking questions and just kept thinking about the creatures that Lao Mo had mentioned, such as "Jörmungandr", "Hydra", "Leviathan", etc. It seemed that the origins of these mythical creatures were all related to the root...
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but develop a strong interest in Li Huiyuan's "Mysterious Genealogy".
"Could it be that Li Huiyuan's major is related to this thing?"
Li Huiyuan's "Mysterious Genealogy" seems to be more like an art-related category, but she unexpectedly became a sports student. It's really unpredictable.
Lin Yi then chatted with Lao Mo for a while.
Then at some point, a huge wave hit the rocks on the shore with a thunderous sound. "Boom!"
The broken waves splashed everywhere, immediately attracting Lin Yi's attention.
He looked at it in real time, and suddenly found that the waves, which were already surging, had become crazy and distorted at some point.
The madness of the sea seemed to be affected by the art building, becoming terrifying and heart-shaking. The howling wind swept across the sea, like countless invisible giant hands, stirring the sea water fiercely.
The black waves surged up wildly, like towering black mountains, almost covering the sky. Each wave was bigger and more ferocious than the last. They overlapped and collided with each other, and the splashing water was like a gray curtain, dancing wantonly in the air, and then carried by the strong wind, slamming hard into the sea.
There seemed to be some black shadows in the waves. They were wandering like ghosts, and shuttling back and forth like schools of fish. They were rushing towards the direction of the art building like thousands of swords returning to their origin.
The storm's raging range was expanding, like a huge whirlpool, beginning to sweep up everything around it. The sea was so dark that no one could see the bottom, and every trough in the waves seemed like the entrance to an endless abyss.
Huge waves hit the rocks on the seashore. The reefs trembled in pain under the impact of the waves. White foam surged around the reefs wildly, and the coastline seemed to tremble.
"It's started!" Lao Mo's eyes were fixed on Storm Corner where the Art Building was located. Sparks of spiritual stars began to appear in his gray eyes like the light of a flint ignited by fire.
"This storm is similar to the tide, just like the high tide and the low tide. It has been high tide just now, and now it is low tide... In this periodic change, there will inevitably be a moment when the receding tide collides with the rising tide..."
"At that moment, the breach will open!"
"I will use this effect to 'surf' at that moment, using the power of the tide directly to carry us to the Art Building."
"When the time comes, I will forcibly borrow your strength. Be prepared and don't resist, otherwise I'm afraid I will cause some harm to you."
"Okay!" Lin Yi nodded heavily. He knew that this was the meaning of Lao Mo bringing him along.
As a mobile energy supply station, he had a very high level of awareness, so he said the most enlightened words: "As long as you don't kill me, you can kill me..."
The corner of Lao Mo's mouth twitched fiercely: "Don't worry, I can't kill you."
"Hey, it seems like this sentence can be interpreted in two ways..." Lin Yi complained in his heart, but if he said so at this moment, it would ruin the atmosphere.
At this moment, Lao Mo suddenly exclaimed: "Here it comes!"
A bright light burst out from his eyes.
Before he finished speaking, Lin Yi felt that the aura around him stagnated briefly, and the next moment, a powerful gravitational force that broke free from inertia suddenly erupted, and then advanced exponentially at a geometric rate, eventually sweeping up the surrounding aura.
When these auras appeared around him, a powerful feeling of being pushed on his back appeared. He felt the ground beneath his feet begin to tremble, and the gravel on the beach began to slide as if it was absorbed by a vacuum cleaner.
And at this moment, another breath appeared!
A dark green aura that was almost black rose from Lao Mo's body. In this dark green aura, strands of entangled golden aura could be vaguely seen.
Old Mo, who was entangled in the dark green and golden auras, had a feeling of holiness mixed with evil. The two completely opposite and contradictory auras coexisted harmoniously in his body.
The emergence of this breath even broke through the feeling of being pushed on the back that Lin Yi felt.
Then, he felt the extraordinary power in his body surge up uncontrollably, and he felt as if it was seeping out from his body.
This feeling is like being sucked soul by an evil demon.
Lin Yi reacted immediately and realized that this was probably Lao Mo's attempt to requisition his power!
He then tried his best to calm himself, but his instinct was to feel unhappy about this external will.
"Lin Yi, relax!"
"I... I'm relaxing!" Lin Yi wanted to cry but couldn't. He thought to himself that I was very honest, but my body had its own ideas...
"Lin Yi, what's going on over there?" Lao Mo drew on his extraordinary power for a while, but felt something was not right, as if the smell was not pure. He gritted his teeth and focused his attention from the Art Building on Lin Yi.
When he saw Lin Yi, Lao Mo's gaze subconsciously drifted behind Lin Yi, as if some strange shadow appeared behind him.
Lao Mo opened his mouth, a rare look of surprise flashed across his eyes, and then he suddenly figured something out and changed his words, "Well... you come and sense my power, follow my power, time is running out, you can only succeed, not fail!"
Lin Yi's expression sternly heard this, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay!"
It was not difficult for Lin Yi to sense Lao Mo's power, especially under Lao Mo's guidance, it was as smooth as being led by someone's hand into the room.
The extraordinary power in Lao Mo's body is complex, yet pure to the point of being terrifying.
To be honest, there are supernatural powers of all colors in Lao Mo's body, comparable to an angel sculpture.
Speaking of purity, no matter what color the power is in Lao Mo's body, it has formed its own "circle" according to its own trajectory. They do not offend each other. All of them are mixed in different proportions according to Lao Mo's mobilization, producing various qualitative changes.
And now, he discovered that the extraordinary power in Lao Mo's body was pouring out of his body like a torrent, affecting the spatial fluctuations within a certain range around him!
Such a fluctuation was extremely violent at first, but soon began to coordinate with the surrounding storms, as if looking for some common frequency.
"Could this be... a 'domain'?!" Lin Yi reacted instantly, "Lao Mo has opened his domain!"
(End of this chapter)