Chapter 359 Gobble

Chapter 359 Gobble

Chapter 359 Gobble
"When did I say we were no longer capable?" Lao Mo asked in return, "I was just saying that the extraordinary powers extracted from these nocturnal species are too complex. Rashly absorbing them will only deepen the contamination and cause you to fall."

"Isn't that the same meaning?"

"Yes..." Lao Mo did not comment, "So I didn't ask you to absorb it, but asked you to eat..."

"Supernatural power is the blue bar, but my status is "dead" and you are "alive", so once I leave the cafeteria area, the blue bar will start to be consumed in an irreversible way, but you can recover by yourself, eating only speeds up your recovery."

"Your recovery speed has been increasing... I have actually been absorbing your extraordinary strength all along the way, but you just didn't notice it."

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then said in surprise: "I always thought it was the effect of the gray fog!"

"That's only part of it. Another part is because of me, so you can assume that the amount of supernatural power consumed in your body is twice the normal amount..."

"No... Lao Mo, you haven't used up any of your 'blue' until now, have you?!" Lin Yi's voice became a little louder, thinking to himself, no wonder I thought I had kidney deficiency, you were using my body for fourteen times a night?!

Lao Mo coughed dryly, "Not really... I used a little of my own energy. After all, the car needs its own battery to start, and then it starts burning oil."

This analogy made Lin Yi's mouth twitch. He thought of when Lao Mo used "Layer Transition", he used his own extraordinary power as a trigger, and then almost drained him dry...

So this is almost the only operation along the way? !

“Oh my god…”

Lao Mo's face was stern, and he said threateningly, "Originally, after absorbing the extraordinary power of the matrix, I thought it was enough to support the use of "Layer Transition", but I didn't expect that when you touched the scales, you interacted with the "Root Shadow", so that knife... consumed all the extraordinary power I drew from the matrix."

When Lin Yi heard this, he was startled.

He was still wondering why he hadn't seen Lao Mo use that move that almost tore the layer apart all the way.

That knife, which could kill gods and Buddhas, shocked him deeply.

He thought that the energy consumption of that blow would be very high, but seeing that Lao Mo was calm and composed, he almost thought that Lao Mo's basic attack was so unparalleled. It was not until now that he realized that the power of that blow was based on the energy consumption of the matrix.

A limited skill that requires the power of half the matrix to create.

No wonder...

Lao Mo said, "Don't be so aggressive. If I hadn't told you just now, would you still not have reacted? Do you still think that's your normal state? Do you know what this means?"

Lin Yi shook his head.

Lao Mo said, "It's like you've been carrying a heavy load all the way, and the weight is getting heavier, but you've managed to 'adapt' to it. This means that when you leave me and return to the campus... your ability to use supernatural powers will be improved by several levels."

"A person who can eat, drink, defecate and urinate normally while carrying 100kg, when the weight is removed, won't he be able to float on water with his iron legs? It won't be that easy for ordinary angel sculptures to kill you in the future."

"Besides, the extraordinary power floating around the Art Building is very strong, so you will recover faster than in other places."

When Lin Yi heard this, he felt a sense of accomplishment as if he had been PUAed, and couldn't help but feel complacent: "What you said seems to make sense."

"So just bear with it."

"Ah? What can I endure...ah——"

Lao Mo's grey eyes instantly turned into a cold golden colour. His domain slowly enveloped Lin Yi, and a terrifying suction force erupted instantly, almost sucking out his soul.

After just a few breaths, Lin Yi felt as if he had been drained dry. It was as if he had been cut open and everything inside his body had been dug out. It was extremely overbearing, yet it left him with a glimmer of chance to survive.

"Don't be afraid, kid." Lao Mo's voice sounded in his ears, "Your recovery ability has not yet reached its limit. Take advantage of this opportunity. Even the boss can't have the precise control like me to make you survive until the last drop of blood."

The feeling of hunger and fatigue gradually enveloped Lin Yi, and he began to frantically absorb the extraordinary power around him. At the same time, he grabbed the food at hand without any image. However, just when he put the food to his mouth, he realized that his "faceless" self had no mouth.

He was stunned for a moment, and then, driven by instinct, he reached out and touched the corner of his mouth...

Just like opening a zipper, he opened a huge hole in the curve of his mouth, from the left ear to the right ear, like a terrifying rag doll with a ripped mouth.

This scene stunned Lao Mo, who was about to help him open his mouth, but Lin Yi didn't realize anything was wrong and continued to eat all the food he could get his hands on.

The bag made of bed sheets that he carried on his back had a lot of things spilled out when he continued to encounter nocturnal creatures, but the number was still considerable. Now it has become the focus of his care.

The more "normal" part of the extraordinary power in the air was devoured frantically by Lin Yi. Gradually, no matter whether it was the part floating in the air or the part squeezed out of the nocturnal species, they were all devoured by him without distinguishing between friend and foe.

Lao Mo was shocked when he saw this, and was about to slow down the absorption process to give Lin Yi a chance to catch his breath. However, at this moment, he suddenly froze.

"This kid...what's going on?!"

Lin Yi was like a madman who had lost his mind and was rummaging through the trash can to eat. There was a flickering light in his eyes. He violently tore open the packaging of bread, biscuits and other foods, and then kept putting them into his mouth. At the same time, his body was filtering out extraordinary power like a filter. A large amount of extraordinary power was absorbed into his body, and the unnecessary "dross" was all discharged.

This form is like a Klein bottle with a filter?
Lao Mo rubbed his eyes, somewhat incredulous, and thought to himself, could this kid be a fucking Klein bottle turned into a spirit?

Is it so outrageous? !

He understood the boss more and more. If he discovered such a "magical" guy, he would not know how to train him. How could he easily let others to torment him?
Understand the boss, become the boss, surpass the boss.

quack quack...

Thinking of this, Lao Mo suddenly shrank his neck, and a crooked way that might allow him to escape unscathed suddenly emerged in his mind - if he spread a false news that "Lin Yi is dead" and let the boss know, would he come and kill him directly, and then take him and Lin Yi back to the campus?

Just like...he came to save Mu Daxian?
"Huh, things are surprisingly similar..." Lao Mo smacked his lips and subconsciously reached out to touch his chin, but after some thought, he felt that he was being unkind.

Not only is he not kind, but he also seems a little...stupid.

Because this plan seems to be very good, but the only drawback is that it is a bit time-consuming. In fact, the biggest problem is how to spread the false news that "Lin Yi died in the bell tower"...

Once this question arises, everything comes back to the beginning.

If you have the guts to spread fake news back to the campus, I’m already back!

I'm such a little genius...

Lao Mo sometimes felt that he had a dark sense of humor. Of course, thinking about these things while "recharging" could still help to lighten the mood. Moreover, this kind of "human" thinking could effectively distinguish himself from the call from the Art Building. On the other hand, while frantically devouring extraordinary power and food, Lin Yi gradually behaved more like a wild beast hiding in a dark corner and secretly enjoying its prey. His slightly arched back and the faint "咈咈咈" sound coming from his throat made him look even more terrifying.

If Lao Mo could not see Lin Yi and only heard the noise coming from Lin Yi's side, he would really think that there was a wild beast lurking there.

Lao Mo sometimes couldn't help but wonder, compared to Lin Yi, who looked like a normal person most of the time, but seemed like a non-human at critical moments, he, a dead man, seemed more like he was still alive.

Lin Yi's stomach was like a bottomless pit, gobbling up the food with a grunt. He ate a mouthful of bread and a mouthful of tomato, and when he couldn't go any further, he drank some water. In the end, he had almost finished all the food nearby, and only half a bag of tomatoes was left at hand.

He reached out to grab the tomato, but Lao Mo snatched his backpack away.

"Eh...?!" Lin Yi looked at Lao Mo ferociously, like a beast whose food had been taken away from his mouth. Two black-edged golden whirlpools appeared in his eye sockets, which were completely invisible except for his zipper-like mouth, like the faint light in the terrifying deep sea.

His body tensed and he began to exert strength, like a swift cheetah ready to pounce.

Looking at Lin Yi like this, Lao Mo frowned and said in a commanding tone: "Enough."

"咈——" Lin Yi seemed not to hear it and rushed out like a flash of blue lightning, aiming at the backpack.

However, Lao Mo's speed was faster than Lin Yi at this moment. He grabbed Lin Yi's cracked, evil rag doll-like face, and then slammed him hard onto the solid stone floor under his feet!
"I said...enough!!"

“Boom!!”

There was a crashing sound, so dull that it seemed to crack the stone slabs beneath one's feet.

Lin Yi's body was smashed to the ground in a strange way, like a piece of xylitol that was stepped on by someone, but in the blink of an eye it began to repair itself until it was back to normal.

Apart from the strange manifestations in these body movements, Lin Yi's eyes quickly recovered.

"I..." Lin Yi propped himself up and half sat up, touching his slightly swollen head, "...I'm fine."

Lao Mo opened his mouth and said speechlessly: "I think I have confirmed that you are okay..."

He pulled Lin Yi up from the ground and looked him up and down as if he was looking at some strange creature.

Lin Yi felt creepy when Lao Mo looked at him, and subconsciously stroked the goose bumps on his arms: "What's wrong?"

Lao Mo shook his head slightly: "Do you have any impression of what happened just now?"

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then said: "I was eating voraciously, and then you suddenly took the backpack away. I reached out to grab it, and then you pushed me to the ground..."

"Emmmm... just 'pressed to the ground'?"

"Ah? Isn't it?"

Lao Mo silently exhaled slowly through his nose: "..."

Lin Yi: “Huh?”

Lao Mo shook his head: "Nothing..."

He threw the backpack with half a bag of tomatoes left to Lin Yi: "It's not good to eat too much, carry the rest, and let's go upstairs."

"Ah? Aaaaaah!"

After saying this, Lao Mo began to walk deeper into the corridor.

Compared to the road we walked along, this corridor was dark, but there was not even a shadow of a nocturnal species. It seemed like a piece of pure land in the art building.

The candlesticks on both sides of the corridor released tiny candlelights, illuminating the limited area.

Lin Yi followed Lao Mo for a while, then he looked down at the time and found that it was already past 1 o'clock.

He was a little surprised, and then he realized that he had been so busy eating that he didn't expect that it took more than 40 minutes.

"Look at the time?" Lao Mo's voice sounded.

"Yeah." Lin Yi nodded.

"When is it?"

"Just after 1 o'clock, um... 1:02."

"Not bad..." Lao Mo nodded and continued moving forward.

Lin Yi pursed his lips and couldn't help asking, "Lao Mo...what's the matter with that music box? I mean, you seemed to be very tight-lipped when we were in the gallery before. I wonder if we can talk about this matter after we leave the gallery?"

In Lin Yi's understanding, if the music box has a similar mechanism to "Shadow of the Origin", then there seems to be no problem in discussing it outside the gallery. Moreover, compared to "Shadow of the Origin", which cannot even be named near the matrix, Lao Mo still muttered out the name of "Amon's Music Box".

"You mean... "Amon's Music Box"? " Lao Mo asked while observing the environment in front of him.

"Yes."

"That thing... is a creation that carries extraordinary properties."

Lin Yi's heart moved slightly. There were many creations with extraordinary properties in the Art Building, but the one that Lao Mo treated so seriously must be extraordinary. He couldn't help but guess: "Could it be that the creator of the music box is special? "Amon's Music Box"... 'Amon'... Was it created by someone else and given to the person named 'Amon', or was it created by the person named 'Amon'?"

"It was created by 'Amon'."

"Amon... the 'first apostle' - one of the earliest 'apostles' recorded in the secret code. Even the concept of 'apostle' was proposed by them..."

"And 'Amon'... more than 90% of the entire Black Moon Outpost was designed by him alone."

"He is also one of the few people in history who has the title of 'Apostle'..."

Lao Mo's expression was terribly heavy. He narrowed his eyes, as if he was chanting some name, and slowly uttered the name:
“Designer.”

(End of this chapter)