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Chapter 222: Petrified Light Bulbs and... Mountain Men?

A gust of wind blew, the leaves rustled, and the mist surged, as if exuding some kind of cold aura.

Lin Yi had also climbed mountains before, experiencing the rhythm of the wind blowing through the forest on the mountainside and summit, the breath of the mountains, containing the vitality of the mountains.

But in this misty mountain forest, Lin Yi seemed isolated from the world, feeling no "living" breath other than the silence and coldness.

This mountain... was as good as dead.

"Swish, swish, swish..."

His ears captured a trace of noise hidden within the sound of the forest.

Night-dweller!

In the depths of the mist, layers upon layers of lush forest leaves were like nets laid on top of each other, finally blocking out the sunlight, and in that area, there were obviously some furtive things that had been entrenched here all year round...

As if sensing that their territory had been invaded, they slowly wriggled out, their flesh rubbing against dead leaves and damp old bark, making swishing sounds.

Lin Yi looked in the direction of the sound, his gaze piercing through the ethereal forest miasma and thick fog, and saw the shapes of those things.

Wait...

Are those... Night-dwellers?

Lin Yi stared intently, finally able to glimpse some of the inner details.

They seemed to be things that were indistinguishable between humans and large snakes, and it was impossible to tell whether they were made of sculpture or pseudo-humans, only that they looked like a kind of flowing solid-liquid hybrid life form...

Like a pool of viscous liquid, slowly wriggling and crawling out.

Lin Yi didn't know whether to call it "it" or "them." That thing was like something formed by the fusion of countless Night-dwellers and pseudo-humans.

"Brother Xian..." Mao Feiyang couldn't help but reach for the corner of Mu Daxian's clothes, as he had naturally noticed their existence.

When it appeared, Mao Feiyang had a terrifying feeling of accidentally falling into the entrance of an underground snake cave, and being locked on by the terrifying giant snake in the cave.

He felt the hairs all over his body stand on end.

That dense forest was like a cave, and the cave was inhabited by a large number of Night-dwellers and pseudo-humans!

If Ge Qing and Nie Yun were newly born pseudo-humans, then these were all old things among the pseudo-humans, even some old and immortal monsters!

"Ignore them."

Mu Daxian was used to it, as if he could sense the dividing line between light and darkness in the depths of the dense forest, and always managed to lead Mao Feiyang to move along the boundary line.

"This... really ignore them? Just let them stare at us?" Mao Feiyang asked in a low voice.

"Otherwise?" Mu Daxian glanced at him, "You jump in and start a massacre?"

Mao Feiyang pursed his lips: "I can't..."

"If you can't, then follow me obediently."

As Mu Daxian was speaking, his eyes suddenly lit up, and his tone became much brighter, "Hey, found one!"

Mao Feiyang looked in real time, only to see that there was a lamppost in front of Mu Daxian.

However, that was a lamppost without any number.

Moreover, next to that lamppost, there were two completely petrified human sculptures.

These two sculptures maintained a painful appearance, as if they had sculpted the appearance of drowning people before their death, and then made them into sculptures and placed them here.

"Those are... dead newborn pseudo-humans?" Lin Yi's eyes lit up, as if he had thought of something.

"Brother Xian, there's no lamppost number!" Mao Feiyang said anxiously.

Mu Daxian's voice came from the front: "I'm looking for a lamppost without a number."

Mao Feiyang was stunned, as if he understood something, and quickly followed.

He saw Mu Daxian come to the bottom of the lamppost, first move away the two human sculptures, and then squat down to clear away the dead leaves piled up on the base of the lamppost, confirm the number on the base, and then stand up and look at the lampshade.

"Very good, very good, the light bulb is still there."

Mu Daxian immediately broke off the arm of a human sculpture, and then stepped on the human sculpture to climb up the lamppost, used the sculpture's arm to break the lampshade, and reached in to take out the light bulb inside.

Lin Yi quickly looked over, only to see that Mu Daxian was holding a sphere the size of a billiard ball in his hand. This sphere had been completely petrified, and looked like the kind of stone ball held in the mouth of the stone lion at the entrance of the municipal government.

However, there were simple concentric circle patterns on the surface of the stone ball, which looked... really like a stone-carved billiard ball.

Mu Daxian put the petrified light bulb into his bag, and then, holding the sculpture arm in his hand, continued to move forward.

"Brother Xian, those two, could it be..." Mao Feiyang followed, pointing to the two human sculptures, especially one of them, which Mu Daxian unceremoniously took materials from on the spot, breaking off half of his arm to use as a hammer...

"That's right, they are newborn pseudo-humans."

Mu Daxian said, "Only they can get close to the lamppost, and then absorb the extraordinary power of the lamppost bit by bit, and finally achieve the purpose of one-for-one with the lamppost."

"Accurately speaking, according to experience, the power of four newborn pseudo-humans can just absorb the extraordinary power of an aging light bulb."

"Aging light bulb? That thing can age?" Mao Feiyang's eyes widened, "Isn't that a stone containing extraordinary power?"

Mu Daxian paused, waved his hand, as if to encompass all the sculpture phalanxes all over the mountains and plains: "Don't forget, they are all 'stones', and..."

He looked back at Mao Feiyang and sneered: "Angel sculptures... are also stones."

Mao Feiyang's scalp instantly went numb: "Are you saying... this light bulb is related to 'sculptures'? !"

"Could it be... there must be an antidote near the poisonous substance? These light bulbs and pseudo-humans are mutually reinforcing and restraining?"

Mu Daxian took a deep look at Mao Feiyang: "Your kid's comprehension is indeed good, it's almost the same as what you think, but the details are still a bit off."

"Uh... I actually guessed it right?" Mao Feiyang was also a little surprised, he just reacted faster than he thought, and said it randomly.

"..." Mu Daxian was speechless, "Praising you a little and you're already floating? You like being James, you come and single-handedly defend the Giggling Angel next season?"

Mao Feiyang: "..."

They were silent along the way, and the two spent some time, but they only collected two more petrified light bulbs.

"It seems that this thing is not easy to find..." Mao Feiyang couldn't help but sigh.

"It's hard to find."

Mu Daxian affirmed, "Only veteran art students know the wonderful use of petrified light bulbs, and this skill is often inherited through practical combat."

"If I die in battle in the future, this skill will be passed on to you to pass on to the next talented art student embryo."

"Ah?" Mao Feiyang was stunned, "What die in battle?"

"Just giving you a heads-up, don't be nervous."

Mu Daxian patted Mao Feiyang on the shoulder, seemingly not taking life and death as a matter, just fulfilling some kind of leader's responsibility.

"By the way, what are we collecting these petrified light bulbs for?" Mao Feiyang asked.

"To conceal our aura," Mu Daxian said. "Of course, mainly to conceal the aura of 'Him' on you."

"His aura will only fade with time, but theoretically, that aura won't dissipate until the Grinning Angel comes out and kills you. The good news is we've already made it through one night..."

"So, we just need to make it through one more night?"

"You're thinking too much. This aura can last at least two or three days. Even if it's not enough to cover the duration of a Gray Mist invasion, it's enough to get you killed."

"Ah? Then, will just relying on the petrified light bulbs work?" Mao Feiyang was a little panicked. It didn't seem like that's what he said at the beginning!

Could it be that Brother Xian said that just to reassure me?

Then, how can I be sure that what he's saying now isn't just to reassure me by downplaying the 'consequences'?

"Ah, plans never keep up with changes!" Mu Daxian said meaningfully. "People can keep making plans, but sometimes changes will force you to pick up a certain abandoned plan again..."

"I've only known you for two days, kid, and these days have been so damn fulfilling..."

Mao Feiyang: "..."

"Finding one or two more petrified light bulbs should be enough," Mu Daxian said.

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Mao Feiyang gritted his teeth and said seriously, "Then we can't be careless!"

As soon as he finished speaking, Mu Daxian suddenly said, "Hey, I found another one!"

"Uh? Ah~?" Mao Feiyang was speechless. "Damn, how didn't I see it?"

"Because you're blind," Mu Daxian said and walked forward. Mao Feiyang curled his lips and followed him again, but he suddenly felt something and couldn't help but look at a certain place beside him following his intuition, and then his eyes lit up!

"Hey, there's a lamppost over there too! I found one too!" he excitedly tried to claim credit.

"That side won't work. It's in the other party's territory. Don't go in," Mu Daxian's voice came from the front, extinguishing Mao Feiyang's enthusiasm.

Mao Feiyang calmed down and realized that the location of the lamppost was already on the line of light and shadow. Although there were still sparse spots of light now, it could be swallowed by darkness at any time.

"The light is tilting..." he sighed.

"That's right. We don't have much time left. If we can't find it here, we'll have to change places," Mu Daxian explained while skillfully removing the light bulb from the lamppost in front of him.

Mao Feiyang followed him and continued to observe.

"Hey, Brother Xian, Brother Xian! It looks like there's someone over there!" Mao Feiyang saw something and couldn't help but tug at the corner of Mu Daxian's clothes.

Mu Daxian immediately looked over and indeed found a figure in the direction Mao Feiyang was pointing!

"Could it be a Pseudo-human art student?" Mao Feiyang whispered.

"Don't rush, let's see what's going on first," Mu Daxian put away the third petrified light bulb and took Mao Feiyang to hide behind a bush on a small slope, using the shade of the trees to conceal their踪影, and then observed the guy.

It was a burly uncle wearing a khaki windbreaker and a concise hairstyle, who was wielding a hoe and digging something near the lamppost.

"Why would an uncle suddenly appear in this school?" Mao Feiyang asked.

Mu Daxian shook his head and said, "How would I know? Let's watch first!"

Mao Feiyang didn't know who that was, but Lin Yi recognized him at a glance.

「Isn't that 'Mountain Man'?」

Mountain Man was among the group who entered the school on the afternoon of May 8th. Because of his older age, he had a sense of standing out from the crowd among all the trainees.

Lin Yi recalled that the first time he saw Mountain Man was when he returned to the classroom after lunch, and then around 3:00 PM, Mountain Man left the classroom...

He didn't remember the specific time, but he just remembered that he left in the afternoon, and then he saw him again after dinner...

To be honest, he didn't even know if he went to the cafeteria for dinner.

Memory is always so wonderful, it will complete the closed loop in a magical way.

And from what he saw now, when Mountain Man left, he went to the mountains to dig something, so he had so much dirt on him.

But judging from the situation at night, Mountain Man seemed to have encountered something.

Could it be that he dug up something amazing and attracted some nocturnal species to attack? Lin Yi guessed.

But as he observed, he soon discovered that Mountain Man actually dug out a... bag from near the lamppost!

「A bag? Wait! It's that bag!」 Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly. He remembered that Mountain Man was carrying a bag when he returned to the classroom in the evening!

「That's not right, that is to say, he dug this bag out from under the lamppost?」

「How did he know there was a bag here? Who buried it, and how did they tell him after burying it?!」

Mao Feiyang also realized the problem and couldn't help but say, "Damn, Brother Xian, how did that person dig out a bag?"

Mu Daxian squinted his eyes tightly, staring at Mountain Man thoughtfully. Gradually, a cold smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Interesting...too interesting..."

"Ah?" Mu Daxian's smile frightened Mao Feiyang, "Brother Xian, don't scare me, what's going on?"

Mu Daxian sneered: "It seems...some 'external forces' are also eyeing the school district..."

"Ah?" Mao Feiyang was stunned, but suddenly held his breath.

Because he saw Mountain Man move.

He saw Mountain Man open the bag, and also opened the zipper of the backpack, and then spread out all the things in the two bags, and then assembled them with extremely skilled movements...

Because the distance was too far, Lin Yi couldn't see what Mountain Man was doing, he could only see that the backpack was full of strange-shaped parts. When these parts were assembled, they gradually turned into a skeleton-like thing...

【I wouldn't be surprised if he took an RPG out of the bag...】 Lin Yi suddenly had this sentence in his mind, but from now on, Mountain Man was obviously doing something even more outrageous than making an RPG by hand...

He saw Mountain Man put the assembled thing on his body, then put away the two bags, identified the direction, and then ran through the mountains like Tarzan, disappearing from their sight in a few steps.

"Brother Xian, he...turned into Tarzan?"

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