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Chapter 330: "Holy Well" and Solidified Extraordinary Power

What lies deep within the desolate earth?

Lin Yi's gaze slowly turned to the depths of the desolate earth, only to see that the ground there did not seem flat, nor was it uneven, but rather sloped towards a certain location.

Lin Yi was momentarily stunned by this sight.

It was because the sloping earth and these regularly arranged large gypsum bodies seemed to form a peculiar matrix, and the frenzied believers coming and going were like modules shuttling through the matrix, constantly editing the entire matrix.

If, if this really is a matrix, then it's not impossible.

After all, Lin Yi doesn't know whether the frenzied believers and the pseudo-artist students are the same thing with different names, or something at a deeper level of contamination than the pseudo-artist students.

And it is difficult to determine what these Stonehenge-like things arranged on the desolate earth are with just one observation.

Suddenly, Lin Yi's vision blurred, and then his vision quickly zoomed in on the depths of the desolate earth, as if triggering "Vision Insight".

His vision was blurred for a while, and everything around him turned into particle-like special effects, except for the scene in the center of the desolate earth, which became clear.

In the center of the desolate earth, Lin Yi saw a horizontal pit.

This pit was like a miniature meteorite crater, with jagged cracks at the edges spreading wildly in all directions like the claws of a demon.

These cracks varied in width, with the wider ones seemingly able to swallow a person's body, and the narrower ones still wide enough to fit a thick branch. They were deeply embedded in the earth, like wounds torn open when the earth struggled in pain, or like scars left on the surface by some ancient behemoth in anger.

In the center of this pit, a dark abyss was like a gate to hell leading to endless darkness, as if all light would be ruthlessly swallowed once it approached.

It had existed silently for countless years, filled with a chilling aura, making people unable to resist a terrifying thought, wondering if some ancient secret was hidden in the darkness, or some buried object of fear.

Suddenly, some frenzied believers entered his field of vision, and they lingered in the areas full of jagged cracks on the edge of the pit, holding those empty, peculiar vessels, kneeling there, like devout believers welcoming holy water from the sky.

However, there was no scene of holy water falling from the sky, only some viscous, milky white paste occasionally oozing out of the cracks like squeezing pimples.

The frenzied believers were overjoyed and used the vessels to collect this paste.

The speed at which this paste oozed out was not fast, flowing out like resin, accompanied by some very pure gray mist.

These gray mists lingered above the dark pit for a while, and then dissipated in all directions, slowly being diluted into the surrounding space.

And those frenzied believers, being close to the water, were the first to enjoy the first "mellow" breath before the gray mist was diluted.

They took a long breath, and under their hoods, a pale face, morbid, twisted, and frenzied, yet full of joy, faintly appeared.

When the vessels were almost full, the frenzied believers reluctantly gave up inhaling the gray mist, and then got up with the vessels, walking slowly towards the large gypsum bodies.

Lin Yi's vision was still changing constantly. He seemed to be attracted by the pit, and heard some strange sounds…

It was a kind of ethereal whistling sound. It had no clear direction, and seemed to be coming from all directions at the same time, as if an invisible vortex had been stuffed into the pit.

But at certain times, the ethereal sound became low and full of pressure, as if it wanted to engulf all life in it.

In the gaps between the wind and other sounds, it seemed that a faint whisper could be heard. The sound was very weak, as if someone was whispering something softly in a distant place, but upon closer listening, it felt as if the sound was right next to the ear.

Those whispers were vague, like an ancient and mysterious language, full of curses and resentment, making people's scalps tingle, but unable to escape the strange sounds lingering in their ears…

It was very similar to the painful wails mixed in distant flute sounds, but it seemed to be different from that sound, and the difference lay in the fact that the sound in the pit seemed to be more purposeful.

Lin Yi pondered in his heart: "The cracks in the pit seem to produce some kind of 'raw material'. Those large gypsum bodies seem to be the result of the continuous accumulation of those pasty substances…"

But if that's the case, what exactly exists under this pit that can produce gypsum?

"Wait… that's not right!"

What is gypsum?

Isn't gypsum just an unprocessed sculpture?

And sculptures… after "living" sculptures "die", they will annihilate into white powdery particles, and finally turn into breath and be diluted into the air…

"Wouldn't that mean that this pit is actually some kind of… 'instrument' that purifies and compresses the pollution in the air into a solid?"

At least in terms of function, that's how it is.

Therefore, that milky white pasty substance is actually some kind of solidified pollution, or rather, solidified extraordinary power.

And those large gypsum bodies scattered on the desolate earth gradually showed some patterns in Lin Yi's eyes. The way they were distributed seemed like the scene of an ancient ritual, exuding an atmosphere of evil and strangeness everywhere.

These large gypsum bodies, as they appear now, are like some kind of energy matrix, which, once "activated", will generate unparalleled energy.

However, because there was no watch in the dream, Lin Yi couldn't judge the passage of time. He didn't know how long had passed until the first frenzied believer had already taken the vessel to the pit to collect the solidified extraordinary power six times, when suddenly a wailing, whistle-like sound rang out from a corner deep in the dense forest.

"Woo—Woo—Woo—"

As the sound rang out, waves of air surged continuously, as if waves were pushing through the mist floating around, and circles of ripples surged through the large gypsum bodies, causing some of them to shake violently.

"Rumble, rumble…"

The large plaster bodies gradually began to shake, like neatly stacked eggs on a table suddenly being jostled. And the "thump, thump, thump" heartbeat inside the large plaster bodies grew louder and louder. Finally, the trembling large plaster bodies all "thumped! Thumped! Thumped!" and vibrated violently. Their outer shells rose and fell sharply, resembling petrified hearts.

Soon, the surfaces of the large plaster bodies completely petrified, but the heart-like throbbing rhythm did not stop with the petrification. On the contrary, the bulging sensation stretched open the petrified skin, making it look as if the cracked earth was covered with hideous cracks.

From those cracks, some blood-red aura began to gush out. As the blood-colored aura spurted out, the large plaster bodies actually shrank rapidly like balloons.

The cracks followed the shrinkage, turning into fish-scale-like patterns. Then the patterns slowly changed again, like a compressed bag with the air sucked out, forming a large number of folds.

These folds changed with the "thump, thump, thump" heartbeat, gradually turning into some smooth curves…

"That is…?!"

Lin Yi's heart trembled violently. The large plaster bodies, after shrinking, turned into spherical stones, and the patterns were extremely similar to the engravings of feathers!

The blood-red aura was still gushing out of the spherical stones, and Lin Yi became more and more alarmed. He had felt that the large plaster bodies were somewhat familiar from the beginning, but only now, after they were compressed, did he suddenly realize that these circular stones were very likely to be sculptures of the Wrathful Angel!

He remembered very clearly that when the Wrathful Angel first appeared, it was a sphere covered with patterns!

Then those patterns would manifest into the wings of the Wrathful Angel. When the wings spread out, the short but irritable Wrathful Angel would awaken and randomly lock onto a lucky unlucky person to launch an endless pursuit.

The gushing blood-colored steam was the best proof.

In the school district, he had only seen that kind of gushing blood-colored steam from the Wrathful Angel and the gym teacher.

So, if it's not a monkey that pops out of the stone, it's a Wrathful Angel?!

While Lin Yi was shocked, the whistle deep in the dense forest resounded again. Above the desolate land, as if with the changes of mist and light and shadow, a rough and abstract picture scroll was reflected by the shadows of the trees. The picture scroll seemed to have no rules, but Lin Yi felt that some "trajectories" inside it had a strangely familiar taste.

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At this moment, a point in the picture scroll was lit up.

Then, those large plaster bodies that had been compressed into spheres rolled out under the impetus of the blood-colored steam. In just a few breaths, they rolled into the dense forest and disappeared from Lin Yi's sight.

Lin Yi was secretly surprised: "These solidified extraordinary powers, suspected to be 'Wrathful Angels', have been dispatched?"

In fact, Lin Yi felt that his speculation was almost correct, because a large number of Wrathful Angels in the giant egg were inversely decomposed into countless pure extraordinary powers. Looking at it this way, it was really decomposed into what they were made of.

"So, does this time point correspond to the moment when the gymnasium became foggy?"

"A large number of Wrathful Angels invaded the gymnasium, and then were solved by the boss and the gym teachers, and strung together with iron chains, becoming food for the 'feast', and hung in the giant egg?"

"That is to say, Kuai Kuai's current time point is probably around 15:30…"

At 15:30, abnormal weather appeared outside the gymnasium, it rained, and some experimental students, such as Tian Bufan and Wei Shan, had time to escape the gymnasium area, while the remaining thousands of experimental students were trapped in the gymnasium and could only take refuge in the giant egg.

The time was accurate. Lin Yi became more and more curious about what purpose Kuai Hongji had in coming here.

Of course, he was also very curious about what was going on with Kuai Hongji, who was completely unaffected by the will-based influence of the pollution… You know, if it were him, well, at least if it were him, he would definitely have cognitive problems by now.

"I can only explain it by saying that Kuai Kuai's cognition is as outrageous as Tian Gongzi's…" Lin Yi smiled wryly and stopped thinking about this matter, focusing on observing the current situation was the real thing.

At this time, he seemed to suddenly hear a low murmur from Kuai Hongji, which seemed to be… said to him.

"Oh, another person ran over… really courting death."

Lin Yi was shocked and quickly turned his gaze, following the direction Kuai Hongji was facing, towards a certain place in the dense forest.

That place seemed to be the way Kuai Hongji came from, and now, there was a rustling sound, as if something was advancing through thorns.

The huge movement immediately attracted the attention of some cultists. Those cultists who had lost their large plaster bodies looked at each other and then moved towards the place where the sound came from.

"I said, those sculptures are good to look at but useless."

"They are just for guarding. Did you expect them to go into battle and kill enemies? It's good enough if they can delay for a while!"

"Stop talking nonsense, hurry up and go over there, don't let him get close to the 'Holy Well'!"

Some cultists moved and shouted. Don't look at how slow they are when holding up the instruments, like a group of numb, foolish, and fanatical morbid walking corpses, but now when an intruder appears, their figures are strangely fast. In this area without light and shrouded in mist, they move like ghosts…

"Bang—"

Unexpectedly, with a heavy thumping sound, the first cultist who rushed over was blasted out.

Lin Yi looked in surprise at the place where the fight broke out, and saw a figure leaping high from the dense forest. The figure was wrapped in thick steam, but quickly rushed out of the steam like a machine breaking through the clouds!

It was a person wearing a strangely shaped exoskeleton armor, like a mechanical ghost from the future…

His armor shimmered with a cold metallic luster, and the energy core at the joints emitted a faint blue halo, illuminating a small area of mist around him.

The lines of the exoskeleton armor were tough and smooth, and each component was precisely fitted together, as if it were a work of art born for battle. With his every movement, the armor made a slight mechanical operation sound, like a low roar, echoing in the silent forest.

Despite the long distance and the fleeting glimpse, when this thing appeared, Lin Yi recognized him at once. This person could not be anyone else, only—

"That is… 'Mountain Man'?!"