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Chapter 332 "Yin Bi" and... "Secret Rune Totem Studies"?

Sensing the commotion from afar, Kuai Hongji tapped his fingers lightly on his knee, seemingly calculating something.

Lin Yi was also curiously watching the location of the great commotion. He had witnessed Kuai Hongji's arrangements from beginning to end. It was nothing more than tampering with some vegetation, exposing some of the lampposts that had been covered by the overgrown plants.

However, he didn't see the red paint markings remaining on the lampposts, nor did he feel anything amiss about the appearance of the lampposts.

Now, Shan Nan wielded the lamppost with the valor of Lü Bu in his prime.

However, the expressions on the faces of those fanatical believers seemed very strange, as if it wasn't just fear, but also... disgust.

It was as if the lamppost Shan Nan was wielding had been soaked in a cesspool.

Shan Nan had activated his full combat mode. The reticle on his exoskeleton armor began to flash red. The previously suppressed, pent-up emotions were completely shattered at this moment. He swung the lamppost in a whirlwind, and bursts of substantial gale formed a field around him, causing the fanatical believers to retreat.

Occasionally, some fanatical believers who couldn't dodge in time were struck by the lamppost. After being hit, certain areas of their bodies would twitch violently and begin to emit bursts of smoke, as if their bodies were being corroded.

They decisively abandoned the affected parts of their bodies and retreated with great dread.

"Hahahaha..." Shan Nan fought more and more bravely, charging left and right with the lamppost. However, after he charged a certain distance, cracks began to appear on the lamppost.

Shan Nan noticed this problem, and a look of solemnity appeared in his eyes. He quickly retreated.

"Don't let him run!" the fanatical believers shouted.

"What a waste!" On the desolate land, several fanatical believers who seemed to hold some authority cursed. After applying all the solidified extraordinary power from the utensils in their hands onto the large plaster bodies, they put down the utensils, told the fanatical believer behind them, "Take it slow," and left the desolate land, transforming into a dark afterimage and rushing towards Shan Nan's location.

"Everyone who's finished, come with me, let's make a quick decision!"

He then took away a portion of the fanatical believers.

As the fanatical believers left one after another, Kuai Hongji seemed to sense that the time had come. He took out a tattered dark green cloth from somewhere and shook it open, draping it over his body.

This seemed to be one of the preparations he had made beforehand. Now, after putting it on and pulling up the hood, his entire appearance was almost indistinguishable from a fanatical believer.

He fell from the gnarled branches of the old tree and then infiltrated the desolate land under the cover of the mist.

Under the cover of the overlapping mist phantoms and large plaster bodies, he easily passed through this area, and at the same time, he conveniently grabbed a utensil that a fanatical believer had dropped on the ground before leaving.

Holding the utensil, he imitated the limbs, expressions, and gait of the fanatical believers, wandering like a ghost in front of the remaining large plaster bodies.

Fortunately, due to the departure of a large number of fanatical believers, and the remaining fanatical believers focusing on applying the large plaster bodies, coupled with the haziness of the mist environment and the existence of various complex factors, almost no fanatical believers noticed Kuai Hongji's existence. Some who noticed didn't suspect anything, simply regarding him as one of their own and continuing their own work.

Kuai Hongji seemed to be making some subtle changes to the marks on the large plaster bodies. Like an archaeologist who understood these mysterious symbols and strange marks, and also possessed the skills of a master sculptor, he merely modified the solidified extraordinary power that hadn't completely hardened, changing the meaning expressed by those symbols from the details...

After a while, Kuai Hongji entered the depths of the desolate land with the utensil, holding the utensil and acting like a true fanatical believer, arriving at the area filled with huge and hideous cracks, placing the utensil near the pit, and receiving the solidified extraordinary power.

At the same time, he also prostrated himself, making the action of sucking the gray mist like a fanatical believer.

Just when Lin Yi thought that Kuai Hongji was just acting, unexpectedly, Kuai Hongji actually started to suck the gray mist.

This scared Lin Yi quite a bit, but when he carefully observed Kuai Hongji's condition, he found that Kuai Hongji himself was still guiding the gray mist into his body like a transparent void, but when the gray mist flowed out of his body, it seemed to be missing something...

Sensing it, Lin Yi discovered that what Kuai Hongji was sucking was actually the pure "Primal Pollution" in the gray mist!

"Kuai Kuai actually has this ability?" Lin Yi was extremely shocked. Kuai Hongji's process of absorbing "Primal Pollution" was like installing a filter on the mouth of a cup. He didn't touch the tea leaves at all, and he didn't drink any less tea.

"How exactly is this operation done?!"

Lin Yi really couldn't understand it. It was like watching a top student solve problems or a master painter paint. Obviously, everyone's principles were similar, but how could adding a tiny bit of detail be like casting magic?!

Kuai Hongji sucked the Primal Pollution unhurriedly, without even attracting the attention of any fanatical believers, and the utensil beside him was still receiving the solidified extraordinary power bit by bit.

At this moment, some heavy vibrations came from outside the green belt, as if some ancient machinery had been activated.

This kind of fluctuation was transmitted along the earth and felt by Kuai Hongji.

"There seems to be some movement at the gymnasium..."

He didn't speak, but Lin Yi seemed to hear Kuai Hongji's voice.

And Kuai Hongji's inner voice also seemed to indicate that he had some kind of extremely strong perception.

"Young Master Tian and Fatty have left the gymnasium area..."

"Old Lin and Wei Liang are staying there..."

"So far, everything is according to plan... No."

Kuai Hongji glanced at Shan Nan's location, "With that moving target there, I'm much more relaxed..."

"The error tolerance is very high, wait a little longer, the effect will be better..."

Lin Yi listened to Kuai Hongji's inner voice and couldn't help but take another look at Shan Nan. Listening to Kuai Kuai's tone, Shan Nan's appearance seemed to be something "outside the plan", but he directly calculated it and turned it into a step in the plan?

"Could it be... Kuai Kuai originally intended to directly infiltrate here, but Shan Nan's appearance allowed him to add a plan to lure the tiger away from the mountain?"

No wonder Kuai Hongji specifically guided Shan Nan to the lamppost, just to prevent Shan Nan from being driven away by the fanatical believers so quickly, and to attract some more of the fanatical believers' attention, diverting some of the pressure he would receive here?

Before long, a glint flashed in Kuai Hongji's eyes.

"Very good, Old Lin has discovered the flaw in the 'city wall'…"

"According to estimations, he has a 60% chance of choosing to try to repair the cracks next…"

"Very good… he still chose this step."

"Since that's the case, let's begin here as well…"

"Relying solely on those second-hand extraordinary powers isn't enough to support him in repairing many cracks. Let me share some real stuff…"

Kuai Hongji picked up the peculiar, still-unfilled vessel and slowly walked towards a large plaster figure.

Sensing his arrival, the fanatic there smeared the last portion of solidified extraordinary power onto the large plaster figure, then "switched shifts" with Kuai Hongji, carrying the vessel towards the pit filled with cracks.

The entire process went smoother than Lin Yi could have imagined, without even a single hiccup along the way. The whole thing was so seamless, it was as if Kuai Hongji was truly a seasoned fanatic.

Every step he took showed no flaws, as if he had practiced countless times.

He arrived in front of the large plaster figure and then, using the solidified extraordinary power from the vessel in his hand, began to paint some mysterious symbols.

As these mysterious symbols were constructed, a faint power began to seep from within the large plaster figure into the ground, like pouring water into a channel. Soon, all the large plaster figures along the "channel" were activated by this power and slowly started to operate…

Some of the fanatics who were painting the large plaster figures sensed the unusual fluctuations inside the large plaster figures and immediately realized the problem, shouting loudly, "Something's wrong! The node on my side has been triggered by an unknown force!"

"Mine too!"

"Mine as well!"

The fanatics' voices rose and fell.

"Not good, something strange has invaded here!"

"Everyone, quickly find the abnormal 'glyphs' on the nodes and dismantle them!"

"Okay!"

"Hurry!"

All the fanatics perked up, focusing their minds like hackers responding to an intrusion, and began tinkering with the code in their hands, launching an invisible and mysterious contest.

Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly, obeying orders and increasing the speed at which he painted the symbols.

But his methods were not so simple.

When the fluctuation permeated the last large plaster figure around the "channel", the entire array of large plaster figures surrounding the barren land was activated. Various fluctuations intersected and merged, like a closed-loop chip, directly running!

"Crap!"

"Not just the nodes… the 'matrix'!"

"The entire 'matrix' has been activated!!"

"Someone has rewritten the glyphs of the entire 'matrix'!"

"Who is it?!"

"Everyone stop! Find the person who did it first!"

As soon as this voice rang out, a dissenting voice immediately rose several degrees: "Stop your ass! Are you brain-dead?! Everyone keep going, quickly find the problems on your own nodes, don't let the problem spread!"

"What are you doing? Why aren't you stopping?!"

"Idiot! We don't know where the opponent is or what they're doing. Are we giving him more opportunities by stopping? Tell me how to stop! Continue! Everyone continue!"

"Hurry up, find the flaws in the glyphs! Rewriting them is the key to reversing the situation!"

"Quick!"

Several fanatics who looked like leaders argued loudly. In the end, the fanatic who advocated continuing prevailed in theory, and all the fanatics continued to work.

Under the hood, Kuai Hongji's face showed no extra expression, as if everything was under his control.

In fact, from the moment the matrix closed, Kuai Hongji's open scheme had already succeeded. No matter what the fanatics did later, they could not have too much impact on his plan.

If the fanatics had no follow-up actions, then the matrix would continue to run.

If the fanatics continued to try to crack the follow-up, then Kuai Hongji would also have more opportunities to attack the large plaster figures.

When the entire matrix closed, Kuai Hongji broke through the surface with a point, and began to fight against all the fanatics in the glyphs with his own strength, launching an invisible glyph war…

Lin Yi's heart was pounding. What did he just hear?!

"'Glyphs'…?!!"

Just now, the fanatic seemed to repeatedly mention the word glyph?

Lin Yi's mind quickly flashed with what Li Huiyuan had said…

["Totem" is a very broad concept, from the initial text symbols to the later simple drawings, it looks like just a cultural symbol, but it is actually a special 'language'. Symbols are just a way to carry this language… ]

【It's so hard to learn.】

"Could it be… this is 'Glyph Totemology'?!!"

"Kuai Kuai has actually studied Glyph Totemology?"

"Wait… aren't we all architecture majors?"

This is like everyone is a martial artist, and everyone hangs up after a hundred years, but you have ascended.

How so weird…

Before he could recover, he heard Kuai Hongji's inner voice again:

"That's about it, it's time to give Old Lin some real stuff…"

The moment the inner voice sounded, Lin Yi was horrified to find that the extraordinary power in the matrix was pouring into Kuai Hongji's body in a bizarre form.

And just like his main body had directly devoured a large amount of aura in the "banquet" of the giant egg, compressed it into golden aura, and then made the golden aura disappear out of thin air, these extremely pure extraordinary powers also disappeared directly after entering Kuai Hongji's body, as if they had never appeared!

"This time node… is when I'm focused on repairing the cracks in the city wall!"

With an intuition, Lin Yi felt that some of the extraordinary power absorbed by Kuai Hongji was transmitted to his main body in an unknown way, and then through his main body, given to his consciousness body at that point in time.

"That is to say… at that moment, the reason why I could repair the city wall was not only because I absorbed the aura from the banquet, but also because of the help secretly provided by Kuai Kuai?"

"Even… the extraordinary power on Kuai Kuai's side is the main thing?"

At this moment, the fanatics also realized that something was wrong with the matrix and shouted:

"No, it won't work at all!!"

"There's no way to stop it!"

"The 'matrix' has closed! There is no way to terminate it!"