Above the gray fog

The scene in front of me is dazzling.

Compared with the outer city, the streets here are spacious and clean, paved with glimmering stone bricks, as if every step is on the stars.

The towering buildings are lined up one after another, and each building exudes a unique brilliance.

The streets are bustling with people.

The pedestrians are wearing a variety of clothes, some wearing traditional robes and cloaks, and some wearing modern casual clothes, with bracelets on their wrists shining with technological light.

The laughter between people and the humming of mechanical equipment constitute a prosperous and harmonious city picture.

From time to time, there are flying vehicles flying overhead, in various shapes, including small flying vehicles like flying birds and huge airships. The airships are engraved with ritual patterns. When the engine is running, these patterns will emit a faint blue light.

On the streets, there are also some automatic walking mechanical puppets, holding brooms, silently sweeping the fallen leaves and dust on the streets.

Some pedestrians ride all kinds of strange mounts, including huge flying beasts and colorful high-tech roller skates.

There are also some suspended floating bridges in the sky. Pedestrians walk on the bridges as if they are walking in the air, and the city scene under the bridge is in full view.

The girl's eyes are deeply attracted by the surrounding scenes. She looks at a huge tower in front of her.

The surface of the tower is decorated with complex gears and pipes, and steam fills the air, as if the whole city is breathing.

A huge mechanical clock tower stands above the tower. It is exactly the hour. The clock tower emits a low bell. The sound of the gears turning and the hissing sound of the steam are intertwined, forming a unique city symphony.

The strong man took the girl to a wide berthing area, where huge airships are parked.

The appearance of the airship is full of science fiction, and the streamlined hull is decorated with gorgeous ritual patterns.

A huge pod is hung under the airship, and people enter and exit the hatch. The propeller above the head rotates slowly, making a low humming sound.

The strong man came to an unmanned airship, put the girl aside, and leaned over to say to her.

"Wait for me here, I'll be back soon."

The girl nodded and watched the strong man walk into the huge airship.

The girl stood there, and the pedestrians around her cast curious eyes on her.

An elderly woman came over and asked gently: "Little sister, where are you from?"

The girl opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

She lowered her head and held the bone stick tightly in her hand, with a hint of uneasiness in her eyes.

The woman stared at the girl for a while and winked at a place.

Not long after, a ruffian youth came over and stretched out his hand to snatch the black bone from the girl's hand.

The girl shook her head desperately.

"Can you show me this thing?" The young man asked with a smile, but there was no kindness in his eyes.

Seeing that the girl refused to let go, the young man pretended to snatch it.

A trace of determination flashed in the girl's eyes, and she hugged the bone stick desperately.

"You're quite strong," the young man sneered, snatching the black bone.

The girl's expression suddenly changed, from panic to anger, and finally a little fierce.

She pounced on the young man and bit the young man's hand fiercely.

"Don't bite, don't bite, give it to you, give it to you!"

The young man wailed in pain and threw the black bone away in disgust.

While the girl was picking up the black bone, he kicked her on the butt, causing her to fall to the side.

The younger brother next to him picked up the black bone and flattered him, "What the big brother likes belongs to the big brother. Do you really think he will give it back to you? This bone looks good. Which beast is it from? It's useless in your hands. It can only shine in the big brother's hands."

At this moment, a hand suddenly stretched out from behind and pinched the younger brother's wrist hard.

"Give it back to her." The man said.

"Che Ziming, I advise you not to meddle in other people's business!" The younger brother said viciously.

Immediately, he screamed, "Ahhh!"

"Give it to him." The man called the big brother spoke.

The boy named Che Ziming took the black bone and handed it to the girl, "This should be very important to you. Keep it well and don't let anyone snatch it away again."

The girl looked at Che Ziming, opened her mouth, and made an "ah, ah" sound, as if to thank him.

"Hahahaha, it turns out to be a mute." The younger brother seemed to have discovered something and immediately laughed out loud.

The others also laughed.

"Hahaha."

"Hahaha."

For the girl, this laughter was particularly harsh.

She squatted on the ground, covering her ears, and her whole body was shaking.

She was not afraid of those man-eating monsters, but she felt indescribable fear when facing these people who looked like her.

At this moment, she seemed to be in a cold and strange world, isolated and helpless, and could only hold the black bone in her hand tightly, as if it was her only support and protection.

"Didn't you hear? It's a mute, worthless." Che Ziming looked at the woman standing aside.

The woman said softly, "Let's go."

"Are you okay?" The boy asked softly after the woman left.

The girl didn't say anything, nor did she raise her head, but just shook her head gently.

"It's best not to separate from your guardian in a place like this." The boy said, and when he saw that the girl didn't want to pay attention to him, he turned around and left.

He didn't walk too far, leaning against the silver hull, silently observing the surroundings.

Not long after, the strong man appeared next to the airship's door.

"Little girl, come up, we are going to the Ivory Tower now." The strong man shouted to the girl.

The girl raised her head, glanced at the strong man, then stood up tremblingly, but in the next second, she suddenly fell.

Seeing this, the strong man suddenly appeared in front of the girl and quickly supported her thin body.

He found that the girl had fainted.

His right hand condensed a pale white light and gently placed it on the girl's back, feeling the weakness and stubborn medicinal properties in her body.

"With this kind of Qi deficiency, the medicinal properties of Qi Explosive Needle are still in the body..."

He frowned, his face becoming more serious as he continued to explore.

"Is this... the mental pollution of an alien god? It's a miracle that it can survive until now."

He immediately picked up the girl and strode into the airship.

The space inside the airship is spacious and complex, full of steampunk style.

Copper pipes and gears intertwined, making a low humming sound.

Various instruments and displays are embedded on the walls, showing various data and navigation status of the airship.

The strong man placed the girl on a soft cushion, and soft light emerged from the cushion, wrapping the girl's body.

He gently patted the girl's cheek to make sure her breathing was steady before relaxing slightly.

Then, the strong man walked to the cockpit and said to the pilot.

"Go quickly, as fast as you can."

The pilot nodded, pulled down the control stick, the huge steam engine made a low roar, and the airship began to slowly rise into the air.

The buildings and crowds on the ground gradually shrank, and the airship passed through layers of clouds and mist, flying towards the Ivory Tower.

Over the next month, the airship sailed at a steady pace.

In Lin Shan's opinion, the speed was not fast, but it was far faster than the flying speed of a strong Sequence 6 man.

The scenery below is mostly composed of contiguous steel buildings. At night, the flashing neon lights are even more dazzling than during the day.

The strong man has been delivering life force to the girl and keeping her alive.

The girl's soul has taken on a semi-rotten appearance, and God knows what kind of pain she is suffering in her subconscious sleep.

The strong man also noticed the black bone in the girl's hand. He picked it up and observed it carefully for a while, but could not see anything unusual.

Lin Shan was dismissive of him. If he could see the abnormality of Heigu, it wouldn't be just Sequence 6.

At a certain moment, the airship suddenly slowed down, and the strong man looked through the window and saw a tall tower reaching into the sky.

"I didn't expect there would be time to come back." He murmured to himself.

Tower of ivory.

The body of the tower is as white as ivory, emitting a holy light. The tower is huge and seems to be connected to the sky.

The airship hovered in the middle of the ivory tower. The strong man hugged the girl, jumped off the airship, and landed steadily on the pontoon built around the middle of the ivory tower.

Surrounded by lush vegetation, this is a hanging garden.

A variety of flowers and trees intertwined into a lush green scene, and the air was filled with a faint floral fragrance.

Occasionally, you can see three or two students in white robes walking together in the garden, enjoying their rare leisure time.

The strong man identified the direction, and then flew away in a certain direction.

Every step he took made the ground shake slightly. The students in front sensed or saw his arrival in advance and quickly moved out of the way for fear of being hit by him.

The journey was smooth, and the strong man ran for more than ten minutes before finally reaching the gate connecting the hanging garden and the tower.

The tall stone door is engraved with complex ritual patterns, emitting a faint light.

"Hurry up and help me contact Instructor Su Fa." The strong man slapped an exquisite token on the table.

"Elite graduates testify..." The aunt at the gate obviously recognized the token, and a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.

"I don't have permission to contact the instructor directly. Let me check the location of instructor Sufa for you." The aunt put a finger on the bracelet, and data lines immediately flashed on the bracelet.

"Teacher Su Fa, the gold of mutation - tutor of the mutation system, is currently located in the office in area A." She said quickly.

The aunt raised her head and glanced at the girl in the strong man's arms, frowned and said, "She needs immediate treatment, right? I can send her to the infirmary first, and you can pick her up later. How about that?"

The strong man hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "Thank you. She is mentally contaminated by the external gods. Please arrange for treatment as soon as possible."

He carefully handed the girl to his aunt, feeling relieved.

The reliability of the Ivory Tower reassured him.

After doing all this, the strong man immediately ran towards Area A on the middle floor of the ivory tower.

There are no fast-moving vehicles in the Ivory Tower, and the extraordinary power will be greatly suppressed here. This is to protect the students from accidental harm and to prevent the tower from being destroyed.

Because the Tower of Ivory, in addition to being an academy, is also a huge cage where foreign gods are imprisoned.

There is also an unwritten rule in the ivory tower. Students who graduate from the tower, whether they are elite students or ordinary students, cannot contact their previous mentors again.

This is to allow tutors to concentrate on teaching current students, and also to prevent tutors from being shaken by the death or injury of graduates.

The strong man ran all the way, and the scene in front of him kept changing.

It is not only vast in area, but also full of strong technological atmosphere.

Every corner is connected by a metal passage several kilometers long, which leads to various squares, forests, and even small towns. Many of these places exist as training grounds, and there are really Outer Gods wandering around.

The facilities in the entire ivory tower are extremely complicated. If the strong man had not studied here for eighteen years, he would have been lost long ago.

Two hours later, the strong man finally came to a white jade door.

He took a deep breath and knocked on the door.

The door opened automatically, and a student just walked out of it.

Seeing this, the strong man rushed in directly and followed the path in his memory to an office.

The office was elegantly decorated, with various research results and awards hanging on the walls, and ancient classics and modern science and technology books on the bookshelves.

Teacher Su Fa sat behind his desk. He was a middle-aged man with a slender figure, a serious face, and a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

His eyes moved from the documents on the table to the strong man, slightly surprised.

"Who are you?" Teacher Su Fa asked.

"It's me, Kui Qian." The strong man said immediately.

Su Fa's eyes flashed with surprise, "It's you, kid. Didn't you graduate? Why are you back? I remember you went back to your hometown."

"Time is tight, so I'll keep it short." Kui Qian organized his words and briefly explained his purpose.

After listening, Teacher Ka Su Fa's face became solemn, "It's about the tower master, this matter is very serious."

"Where is the girl now?" Su Fa asked.

"Ask the aunt guarding the Garden Bridge to send her to the infirmary."

"You follow her, I'll contact the tower master."

"Okay."

......

Lin Shan on the other side naturally didn't know what happened before, he only knew that the girl was going to die again.

I don't know if she is the child of luck or the child of bad luck.

If you say she is lucky, she is really lucky, but if you say she is unlucky, she is really unlucky all the way.

As soon as the strong man left, two students found the aunt guarding the door.

They seemed to have something urgent to do. The aunt couldn't take the girl to the infirmary in person. She could only put the girl on a bench nearby and call the paramedics in the ivory tower for her.

The paramedics arrived quickly. They were wearing white uniforms. They skillfully placed the girl on a mobile bed and carefully checked her vital signs.

After confirming that everything was correct, they quickly pushed the girl into the layers of metal passages.

The paramedics pushed the bed through one metal door after another and finally came to a strange and gloomy town.

The buildings here seemed to be forgotten by time. The walls were covered with moss and mildew, and the air was filled with a decayed smell.

The paramedics stopped and looked at each other, then took off their cloaks and revealed their true faces.

Under the seemingly ordinary uniforms, there was a disgusting true face.

Their skin was a sickly gray-green color, covered with irregular scales and pustules, exuding a rotten smell.

Slender tentacles snaked out from their trunks and limbs, covered with mucus, with tiny suction cups at the end, constantly wriggling, as if looking for something to suck.

Their heads did not have normal facial features, but were covered with dense small holes, each of which had tiny tentacles, like the sensory organs of some deep-sea creatures, trembling from time to time.

"We caught the wrong person, not her!" A low voice sounded from the underground of the gloomy town.

"She has the pollution mark of the disordered, how could it be wrong?" another voice questioned.

"No mistake, the disordered marked not her, but the bone in her hand."

"Bone?"

"That's right, because of this bone, the projection of the disordered will appear. The disordered regard this bone as a threat, and we must remove it."

Hearing this, Lin Shan in the bone was a little excited.

Did he find him?

Can we finally get out?

A tentacle stretched out from the ground, tied up the black bone, and tried to corrode it with corrosive liquid.

However, the corrosive liquid could not leave any traces on the black bone.

They tried to bombard the black bone with the ‘black’ concentrated energy beam, and then tried to break the black bone together. Then they used all the means they could use, but the black bone did not have a single scratch.

Lin Shan felt a little helpless in the bone. After all, he was a great Outer God at the level of Sequence 3. These means were too inferior.

Half an hour later, the voice underground was already a little out of breath.

“We must take this bone to the King of Corruption, or take it out. I can’t remove this bone.” The voice said helplessly.

“Things that can be regarded as threats by the disordered are not something we can deal with.” Another voice from the underground agreed.

At this moment, a beam of white light suddenly exploded in the center of the town. In the white light, an old man with a fairy-like appearance and extraordinary temperament appeared. His robe was flowing, his demeanor was solemn, and his eyes were staring at the two Outer Gods below and the little girl in front of the Outer God.

"Sure enough, it's here, Mamazaha, who on earth are you? How could you have calculated this after hundreds of years?" He whispered to himself.

The two Outer Gods looked at each other, obviously frightened by the old man who suddenly appeared.

"Why is the Tower Master here? He shouldn't have discovered this place." The voice below questioned.

"We don't know."

The white-bearded old man waved his hands, and white light surged towards the two Outer Gods like a tide.

Suddenly, their figures began to twist and dissipate into nothingness.

Has a high-ranking person finally arrived?

Lin Shan released his perception and peeked, but was immediately disappointed.

It was just Sequence 1.

He seemed to have heard the name Mamazaha just now.

This mysterious person who only existed in history came here hundreds of years ago?

"Bones..."

The girl who had already fallen into a coma coughed a few times and spoke vaguely.

"Bones..."

Lin Shan, who was dragged underground by the tentacles, could also hear this faint but unignorable sound.

The mute spoke?