Chapter 498: Can’t afford it
Chapter 498: Can’t afford it
It is known that the birth of the Smiley Angel is a quantum obsession body formed when the soul of the dreamer is lost in the depths of the layer and then infiltrates the layer to return. It is also inextricably linked to the Master of Magic.
It can be said that the upper limit of the path of the Laughing Angel is just the lower limit of the Mage who has been exiled by time.
If this kind of smiling angel is the first generation of smiling angels, then the smiling angel transformed by Yutong is... the "second generation"?
Or... the second generation of the Laughing Angel?
Lin Yi suddenly used his divergent thinking to think about many things.
Referring to what Mu Daxian once said to Maozi, the official authorities and many mysterious organizations are studying angel sculptures. Perhaps those organizations have really discovered some clues and are trying to study the "second generation of the Laughing Angel"?
But... what surprised Lin Yi was that the night watchman had never told him about the existence of this path.
Can the Laughing Angel really be "produced" in this way?
Pathway sequences… do they really exist?
If it exists, it means that there is not only one way for the Laughing Angel to be born.
If it does not exist, the commandment also says [Anyone who inherits the power of angels will eventually become the phantom of an angel].
It's contradictory.
It's really confusing... The more Lin Yi thought about it, the more confused he became. His brows furrowed further and further, and he held Yu Tong's hand tighter and tighter.
Yu Tong, who had been calm, suddenly began to tremble again, as if her heart was being tightly clenched.
Lin Yi was so lost in thought that he didn't realize Yu Tong's change. This question was like an unavoidable paradoxical cycle that stuck him.
The storm of his thoughts seemed to be reflected on his face. His brows became tighter and tighter, like two hemp ropes tangled together, distorting his entire face.
As his mind sank deeper and deeper into the quagmire, an illusory whirlpool seemed to appear before his eyes. The whirlpool slowly rotated in the void, like the starry night in Van Gogh's paintings, so beautiful that it was beyond words.
However, in the depths of the vortex, he seemed to see groups of laughing angels dancing like locusts, and their feathery pupils were scattered all over the world like a storm.
What on earth is this Laughing Angel?!
Did the magician who was exiled to the time room tamper with some "parameters" of the dream builder in the time dimension, causing the sequence of the Laughing Angels to undergo various forms of abnormalities?
His face was twisted and distorted as he thought, like a whirlpool mask...
He crossed his arms and stroked his chin and nose...hiss - he had no chin and nose!
There is only a twisted vortex-like face!
"I'm doing it?!" Lin Yi scared himself and didn't bother to think about more questions. He quickly pulled his thoughts out of the question.
He suddenly came back to his senses and touched his face again. The swirl was gone, leaving only a face that couldn't be more normal.
"call……"
He let out a shallow breath and felt much more relieved.
He looked down at Yutong in his hand again. The originally spherical stone had been slightly deformed by his squeezing...
The marks are not deep, but they are there for sure.
Fortunately, the secret pattern in Yu Pupil does not seem to have lost its effect yet.
He glanced at his watch.
17: 01.
This time, the time seemed to have passed not long.
He looked at Lu Zhao and Chen Xue again.
These two people are no longer by my side.
The two of them retreated a few meters away tacitly, looking at him with strong fear in their eyes.
……
Two minutes ago, as soon as Lu Zhao called for help, Lin Yi walked straight to Chen Xue's side.
At that time, Chen Xue was deeply trapped in the distorted layer and couldn't extricate herself. Naturally, her perspective was distorted as well, and everything she saw was chaotic and blurred.
In a daze, she heard Lu Zhao's voice, but after the voice passed through the layers, it was torn and reassembled, forming a call that sounded extremely strange...
Then, a blurry afterimage appeared in her field of vision. The afterimage came closer and closer to her, like a dark cloud, bringing with it a strong sense of oppression.
She wanted to dodge, but she didn't have the ability to do so. It was not until the thing grabbed her wrist that she could see clearly the figure emerging from the depths of the fog.
"Xiao, Xiao Zi..." She was extremely shocked, but Lin Yi remained silent. Before she could react, the latter reached out and grabbed her wrist.
The moment Lin Yi grabbed her wrist, the vortex-like flowing lines in the space suddenly slowed down, and the originally distorted picture gradually returned to normal.
Before Chen Xue could react, Lin Yi had already peeled the coat off her hands.
Chen Xue felt as if her entire arm was pulled out of a quagmire and gradually regained consciousness.
"Thank you..." She thanked Lin Yi in shock, but Lin Yi didn't pay any attention to her. Instead, he focused all his attention on Yu Tong, and no one knew what he was thinking about.
Chen Xue looked at Yutong in Lin Yi's hand with a strong fear in her eyes.
Lu Zhao hurried over, took her hand and moved away a little.
"Old Lu, what about that Yu, that thing?" Chen Xue didn't understand why Yu Tong became like a real stone and didn't move at all when it was in Lin Yi's hand, but became as violent as a bomb when it was in her hand.
Lu Zhao smiled helplessly and said, "From now on, this Xiao Zi is hiding a terrible secret that we don't know... William's reminder was right. If we had used force just now, I'm afraid we would have been 'annihilated'."
"Team wiped out?" Chen Xue curled her lips in noncommittal. Although Lin Yi had a lot of problems, if it came to a battle, she still didn't think that the four of them would be no match for him.
After all, there are too many factors that affect the outcome of a battle, and it is impossible to draw a conclusion based solely on speculation about combat effectiveness.
She didn't dwell on the issue of whether the group would be wiped out or not, but frowned and asked, "What about Yu Tong? Should we return it to him?"
"What else can I do?" Lu Zhao was somewhat helpless. "Do you want to feel the horror brought by the distortion of the layers again?"
Chen Xue quickly shut her mouth.
Suddenly, Lu Zhao seemed to have thought of something. He looked at Lin Yi fiercely, and his brows suddenly furrowed.
Just when Chen Xue wanted to ask Lu Zhao what he had discovered, Lin Yi had already recovered and turned to look at them.
……
X023年5月10日，17:01，B组2班书架区。
When their eyes met, Lu Zhao and Chen Xue were at a loss for a moment.
"Um..." Lin Yi raised the feather pupil in his hand and confirmed again, "You really don't want this thing?"
Lu Zhao shook his head and said frankly: "Forget it, if it is not destined, don't force it."
How could he not want it, but that thing would best be stored in an Alshed box, and unfortunately they didn't have that kind of box.
At first, he wanted to get Yutong desperately because he saw that Yutong was a piece of unresponsive stone, but now he realized that Yutong only became unresponsive when it was around Lin Yi.
He would not risk the lives of his teammates and try to obtain something beyond his ability, even if it meant he could not effectively control it.
They have their own tasks, and it would be best if they could get additional benefits on this basis. If not, they can only seek stability and retreat.
"I feel embarrassed when you say that." After hearing that, Lin Yi was polite in his words but honest in his hands. He took the jadeite and put the feather pupil back into his pocket.
Lu Zhao shook his head and said, "Then Feicui, just think of it as making friends with classmate Xiao."
"The boss is so generous!" Lin Yi was no longer polite and smiled in a servile manner.
After Lu Zhao finished speaking, he stopped talking nonsense and took Chen Xue directly to the bookshelf beside him.
"Hey, classmate Lu, wait a moment!" Lin Yi called them.
Lu Zhao looked back in confusion.
Lin Yi said, "I'm a little curious. What did I look like when you saw me just now?" Lu Zhao looked puzzled, "Why do you ask that? Aren't you just you? Could you look like something else?"
Lin Yi smiled and said, "Oh, nothing, nothing."
As he said this, he continued to pick up books.
The three of them parted.
Lin Yi frowned slightly. This Lu Zhao was really a fox. As soon as he found out that he couldn't get any benefit from him, he immediately started to flatter him.
But fortunately, he still got some information.
He took out the jade, played with it in his hand for a while, and then secretly injected supernatural power into it...
“Kacha…”
As soon as a trace of it was injected, cracks immediately appeared on the surface of the jade.
The corner of Lin Yi's mouth twitched violently.
It’s over!
Is this jade so brittle that it cracked already?
Lin Yi felt a little distressed.
I didn't feel sorry for my extraordinary power, but I felt sorry for this piece of jade. It could have been exchanged for a lot of money, but it was torn apart by my own extraordinary power...
It's definitely worthless now...
Oh, it’s all over…
Lin Yi sighed bitterly and carefully put the jade away.
He continued to move, and this time he thought of something, so he decided to go straight to some history books.
……
On the other side, Lu Zhao and Chen Xue stopped acting after walking a little further away. They picked up a book from the bookshelf and left the bookshelf area.
Until he returned to his seat, Lu Zhao's brows remained in the shape of the Chinese character "川".
Chen Xue finally couldn't help but ask: "Old Lu, did you make any important discoveries?"
Chen Bing and Jin Jiuyao also looked over.
Lu Zhao glanced at everyone, then slowly said: "This is so weird!"
"Don't keep us in suspense, just tell me!" Jin Jiuyao urged.
Lu Zhao asked: "Xiao Jin, when did you know that the raw stone was valuable?"
Jin Jiuyao was stunned for a moment, not knowing why Lu Zhao asked him such a stupid question, but he still answered: "Since I can remember, my parents told me what a rough stone is... Why do you ask such a strange question?"
Lu Zhao glanced at Chen Xue.
Chen Xue's expression changed. At this moment, she also knew why Lu Zhao's expression changed drastically!
Each federation has its own currency, and the exchange rates often fluctuate, but physical minerals such as raw stones and some rare extraordinary metals are a kind of currency in themselves, or even they are the currency itself.
This is common sense, it's impossible that no one knows it.
But Lin Yi didn't know.
too weird!
Lu Zhao slowly placed the backpack at his feet, and the yellow chain naturally slid off.
"That Xiao Zi, he actually has no idea about the value of the rough stone... I think he only knew those concepts after I explained them to him! No, I should remove the word 'feeling', he only knew them from me!"
Jin Jiuyao was puzzled: "It's really strange that someone knows nothing about currency changes."
"This isn't the strangest thing. The strangest thing is..." Lu Zhao lowered his voice and described the two changes of Yu Tong in Chen Xue's hand and Lin Yi's hand. "As soon as Yu Tong left his surroundings, it immediately became agitated, but when it was in his hand, it became dead silent."
The expressions of Jin Jiuyao and others became serious one after another - although they had not yet realized what the problem was, this abnormal phenomenon was itself a kind of weirdness.
Lu Zhao slowly guided their thinking: "Imagine..."
"There is a creature whose concepts are out of touch with today's society..."
"It can destroy the dead body of the Laughing Angel statue..."
"It can also suppress Yutong's explosion and make it stable..."
“Is this thing… still a human?”
“Fuck…” Jin Jiuyao’s hair stood on end and he subconsciously stroked his arm.
The twin sisters' faces also turned a little pale.
"Did we see a ghost in broad daylight?" Jin Jiuyao said in fear.
"See you, you dead ghost!" Lu Zhao was speechless, "I didn't say he was not a human!"
Jin Jiuyao was speechless: "Then why are you so startled?"
Lu Zhao said in a deep voice: "Since 99, many things have changed. The world pattern, social structure, etc. have all undergone earth-shaking changes..."
"At that time, before our organization had even sprouted, the Chinese authorities had already sent people in to investigate..."
"The code name of the operation at that time was "S1" or something..."
"The first season?" Jin Jiuyao said subconsciously.
"I'm going to hit you!" Lu Zhao shook his fist. He really wanted to beat him up. He was still thinking about those B games.
Jin Jiuyao quickly shrank his neck.
Lu Zhao continued, "I remember that operation. Among the personnel sent by the government, only Yuan Lijian left the campus alive. The rest were wiped out."
"But what does this have to do with Xiao Zi?" Chen Xue was puzzled.
During that operation, official information was top secret, and the only channel for all organizations around the world to obtain information was from the mouth of Yuan Lijian, a living resource.
Therefore, the information they obtained was very limited, even one-sided, and it was not known how true it was.
Lu Zhao glanced at her, his expression suddenly darkening: "Why haven't you thought of this... Could this Xiao Zi be one of the people who entered the campus in 99?"
"How can this be..." Jin Jiuyao just opened his mouth when he was violently interrupted by Lu Zhao.
"Don't interrupt!" Lu Zhao's expression was more serious than ever before. "He has been trapped since he entered the school in 99... Even he himself doesn't know that he is no longer a human being."
Lu Zhao spoke in a low voice, murmuring the ancient admonition like a dream:
"In the abyss of fog and darkness, lost souls pursue phantoms..."
"He - Xiao Zi... might be one of the lost souls."
(End of this chapter)