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Chapter 466: The Source of Darkness, Lin Yi…?

Just as he was struggling with how to extract the limbs and torso from the body, Wei Liang, who had been waiting for too long, seemed unable to bear it any longer.

“Aiya!” he muttered, standing up and dusting off the dirt from his behind, while urging, “Old Lin, what are you dawdling about trying to do?”

“Aiya!”

“I'm not watching, I'm not watching!”

“Making puppets and stuff, doesn't it sound pretty much the same as playing with models?”

“Such a big radish, without any boundaries, just mess around with it.”

“Do you need to space out for so long?”

“Hey, I was originally going to watch… I'm leaving, I'm leaving, going back to the classroom to enjoy my manga.”

With that, he scurried off, like a passerby who leaves when the play isn't interesting anymore.

But Lin Yi began to ponder Wei Liang's words.

“Playing with models? Mess around with it? Is Liangzi trying to give me a hint?”

He repeatedly muttered Wei Liang's words, and suddenly a flash of inspiration struck him. Could the focus of Wei Liang's hint be 'without any boundaries'?

He was fixated on a meticulous approach like a skilled butcher, trying to feel out the boundaries of the corpse, then find the parts closest to his envisioned creation, and then extract them. But Wei Liang's 'suggestion' seemed to be telling him to ignore the boundaries and just get started?

Ignore the boundaries… is that possible?

He pondered for a while, then casually gestured in the void.

And when he gestured to a certain point, a brilliant light suddenly burst out in his eyes.

“It's really feasible!”

“As expected of Liangzi!”

He realized that if his initial idea was like extracting a bracelet from a rough stone, then Wei Liang's approach was like boldly splitting and chiseling the rough stone.

There was no need to consider the boundaries at all. The so-called boundaries could be created when needed!

The moment he understood, he clenched his right hand in the air. Secret runes appeared under the skin of his palm like glowing fireflies, and then countless sky-blue auras surged out, interweaving into a kitchen knife emitting a blue light.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, grasped the handle of the knife, and plunged the kitchen knife fiercely into the root system.

“Clang!”

A dull chopping sound rang out, as if a failed work from a forging competition had hit a piece of dead pork, almost getting stuck.

Lin Yi didn't pull out the knife, but directly canceled the kitchen knife, and then re-condensed the kitchen knife before chopping again.

He repeatedly chopped at the same position, one knife after another, and finally, after chopping more than ten times, he completely broke through the flesh and blood, and with a 'thump' sound, chopped onto the core spine.

“This root system isn't as easy to chop as I thought, but those green skins do it so easily… What's going on?”

“Could it be related to the direction of the pollution?”

He secretly pondered, and then tried to create some artistic green aura – this was his first attempt to condense green aura, but the effect was surprisingly good.

Almost with just a thought, his body instinctively mobilized the original pollution flowing through his body, and then transformed it into a lush emerald green, directly attached to the blade of the kitchen knife.

Lin Yi was secretly delighted, and he wielded the kitchen knife again, and this time he chopped in almost without any resistance.

He began to work boldly, but the situation of this root system was far more complicated than he imagined, and his workload far exceeded the chef in a green apron's method of cutting off a few slices of meat.

After all, the chef in the green apron's job was just picking grapes, while he had to not only pick them, but also decompose the glucose vines.

The root system formed by the fusion and growth of corpses, shimmered with a little oily sheen in the dim sunlight. Countless spinal bones were entangled like the roots of a mutated banyan tree. As the flesh and blood were removed, the calcified hyphae that grew in the gaps of the distorted ribs were also exposed, looking like some kind of connector organ of the Zerg or Aliens, bonding the collarbone and pelvis into a bizarre branch-like structure.

Lin Yi was a little hesitant for a moment, should this part of the bone be taken out as a collarbone… or a pelvis?

If he constructed a Kabuterimon after a round of operating, it would be too funny.

The thought of complaining was only a flash in the pan. Lin Yi's focus continued to exert force. He wielded the kitchen knife and directly followed his perception to start carving bones, one knife after another, directly removing the flesh and blood from the root system one by one.

What Lin Yi found interesting was that even in the same 'root system', the properties between the flesh and blood were actually quite different.

Those parts exposed on the outermost layer had already shown a tendency to petrify on the way he carried them, like the surface of a ham, but once opened, the internal flesh and blood was still very 'fresh'.

When most of the flesh and blood was removed, the root system began to show some unknown changes…

“Gle le le le…”

“Gle le le le…”

The flesh and blood at the end of the bone were soft and a bit semi-liquefied in a viscous state. When the blade scraped there, the bone made a sound similar to the friction of oyster shells. Every time a part of the flesh and blood was removed, some black viscous liquid like petroleum would seep out from the depths of the bone.

When such a liquid dripped on the ground, it seemed to be corrosive, steaming out strange mists like faces, as if some souls were mourning.

“Gle le le le…”

“Gle le le le…”

Lin Yi kept scraping, and when all the bones were exposed, the bones of the entire root system suddenly emitted a pipe organ-like hum.

“Da da da da da…”

“Da da da da da…”

Lin Yi felt like he was carrying a string of super-large wind chimes made of bones, or some kind of bizarre mutated arthropod…

The vertebral group twisted as if it had life, giving Lin Yi a feeling of baring its fangs and brandishing its claws. Lin Yi found that the bone actually began to derive mist on its own!

No, to be more precise, it should be those viscous, petroleum-like liquids that converted and evaporated gas when they came into contact with matter, hovering around the vertebral group, looking like they had derived mist.

Lin Yi frowned. He felt that the initial project was coming to an end, and the next step was to select suitable bones as the foundation.

It's just that this vertebral group grew very disgusting, which really made people unable to sort out the clues.

Wait a minute… sort out the clues?

Why sort out the clues again!

Wei Liang's 'stupid teachings' were still in his ears, why did he go back to sorting out the clues again?

So he directly selected a few relatively standard bones, and then directly chopped them up.

“Thump!”

“Thump!”

“Thump!”

Every time a knife was chopped down, it was as if a majestic giant was hammering on a large drum made of the hide of an ancient beast, bursting out with a heavy drum sound that impacted people's minds.

Zhao Lingxiao, who had been observing Lin Yi all the time, had vaguely noticed a strange smell when Lin Yi chopped out the first knife, but she did not give up observing, and it was not until Lin Yi began to chop out the 'thump thump thump' sound that she suddenly felt that the vision in front of her collapsed suddenly. The cloister in front of her seemed to be pierced by the thunder that shattered the darkness, and disintegrated on the spot!

In the next moment, the distorted space began to fill with endless darkness. Terrifying figures wandered within the darkness. Lin Yi's figure seemed to be swallowed by the darkness, leaving only an indescribable, unobservable, evil outline. The outline resembled a human shape, yet it was unlike any human form. It could only be defined as a "shadow"...

The "shadow" waved its arms, and with each wave, the entire world trembled.

"Thump..."

"Thump!"

The heavy thumping sound resembled the heartbeat of some ancient, slumbering beast. With each beat, reality itself seemed on the verge of collapse.

"Thump..."

"Thump!"

A strong tremor spread from the abyss, continuously extending across the floor of the teaching building. Terrifying shockwaves rippled out like invisible waves.

Zhao Lingxiao's pupils dilated uncontrollably. Green energy, like writhing, bizarre tentacles, continuously wrapped around her body from the void...

As the ripples spread, the floor of the teaching building seemed to twist and distort, and this distortion continued to spread further!

Countless experimental students in the classrooms of Building B faintly sensed the tremors passing through the floor beneath their feet. A strange flicker began to appear in their hollow, lifeless eyes, but most of them immediately lowered their heads, continuing to numbly flip through the books in their hands.

The door to the office of Class 2, Group B, opened, and the homeroom teacher - 040 stepped out.

Her face was grave as she looked towards the direction where Lin Yi was. After hesitating for a moment, she left the office, closing the door behind her and quickening her pace towards the source of the tremors.

She stealthily touched the secret-纹 dagger with one hand, while placing the other hand a few centimeters below her collarbone.

At the slightest sign of trouble, she would instantly switch into her combat suit and enter a stealth combat stance.

Just then, the door to the office of Class 3, Group B, also opened, and a somewhat burly male teacher walked out.

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As soon as he came out, he happened to see the homeroom teacher - 040. They exchanged a glance, and without needing to say much, they both understood the seriousness of the situation.

"Together?" the male teacher asked.

"This pollution appeared without any warning... it's truly too strange," the homeroom teacher - 040's gaze never left the direction of the corridor bridge. "Teacher 033, please retreat behind me."

Homeroom teacher - 033 said solemnly, "As a gentleman, how can I let a lady step forward...?"

"Alright," the homeroom teacher - 040 interrupted him. "Just listen obediently, and we'll still be colleagues with the same 'homeroom teacher' status. You wouldn't want me to bring up the old days at the camp, would you?"

Upon hearing this, homeroom teacher - 033's expression changed drastically. He quickly stood up straight: "Yes, Instructor Lin, uh, I mean, Teacher 040..."

"Shut up."

"Yes, Instructor Lin."

Homeroom teacher - 040: "..."

Speechless as she was, she didn't have time to reprimand homeroom teacher - 033, and could only cautiously advance, then feel her way to the location of the stairwell.

This place was no more than ten meters away from the intersection of Building B and the corridor bridge. Looking over with the naked eye, it was still a perfectly normal teaching building environment. The only strange thing was that Zhao Lingxiao had collapsed on the ground ahead in a somewhat bizarre manner.

The posture was generally like a child's sleeping position, with knees bent and drawn up to the chest, and buttocks sticking up high, but the details were very strange. Zhao Lingxiao's hands and spine seemed to be twisted in an anti-human way, looking awkward no matter how you looked at it.

"That girl seems to be trapped by a distorted layer!" Homeroom teacher - 033's voice was low as he tried to sense the changes ahead, but the next moment he stumbled backward two steps, leaning against the wall, his face turning pale.

"What a terrifying depth of pollution! I was almost drawn in!"

"In broad daylight, what kind of power could distort the layers to this extent? Could it be Grey...?"

Homeroom teacher - 040 shook her head slightly, directly interrupting: "First, rule out the units on the Grey Mist side."

She gently adjusted her glasses. In her bright eyes, all traces of gentleness faded away, replaced by a faint, cold golden glow.

The field of vision expanded, and the distorted layers, along with the "real picture" ahead, slowly emerged in her eyes.

"Ah? Why?" Homeroom teacher - 033 asked, puzzled.

"Have you returned everything I taught you to me?" Homeroom teacher - 040's tone carried some reproach. "The three essential elements of layer distortion, the most core one, is the polarity of the pollution."

"The pollution from the Grey Mist side wouldn't only cause this kind of commotion. There's definitely just a 'unit' inside."

"Only one unit?!" Homeroom teacher - 033's face was full of surprise.

"Yes," Homeroom teacher - 040 replied calmly. Her first guess was that this commotion was caused by Yuan Lijian's 'puppet,' but as she gradually discerned the truth of the layers, what she saw... was actually Lin Yi.

"How is it him?"

"What is he doing?"

She wanted to observe Lin Yi's actions further, but suddenly felt a slight sense of weightlessness.

She abruptly shuddered, quickly dispelling the idea of insight.

"No! Cannot be directly observed!"

"I can't directly observe him?!"

Her brows furrowed, her eyes full of horror.

She could vaguely see what Lin Yi was doing, but not specifically.

"Could it be related to that thing in his hand?"

"The real cause of the layer distortion... is that thing in his hand?"

"Teacher 040..." Just then, homeroom teacher - 033 asked in a low voice, "Did you find anything?"

Homeroom teacher - 040 bit her lip lightly, hesitated for a moment, then uttered four words: "Don't mind him!"

"Ah?" Homeroom teacher - 033 opened his mouth wide. "This flag can't be set, teacher!"

"I said! Don't mind him!" Homeroom teacher - 040 said through gritted teeth, "If it's him, you and I can only choose to believe."

"Why?" Homeroom teacher - 033 seemed unwilling.

"Because we can't beat him," Homeroom teacher - 040's tone was somewhat resentful.

Can't beat him.

What a simple and crude answer, simple enough to block a lot of nonsense.

After all, this world is about reasoning, and now, Lin Yi's reasoning is the greatest.

Homeroom teacher - 040 withdrew her gaze, took a deep look at Zhao Lingxiao, and then turned and returned to the office.

"I'm leaving."

"Then what about that girl?" Homeroom teacher - 033 asked, "Do you want to save her?"

"Homeroom teacher's rule... [Never be a saint at any time. Many times, students know what they are doing.]" Homeroom teacher - 040 glanced at him indifferently, "Let's go."

Homeroom teacher - 033 hesitated for a moment, then also turned and left.

If he continued to watch, he would also risk being polluted.