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Chapter 347 Lin Yi "Faceless Form"

Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to dodge, but he restrained himself.

After Old Mo's repeated kneading, the two scales had turned into something very soft and glutinous, and when applied to the face, they felt cool and refreshing like ice jelly.

Old Mo kept working, as if he was applying a facial mask for Lin Yi.

"Lou mou, gu wu gugu? (Old Mo, what is this?)" Lin Yi's mouth was being rubbed by Old Mo so he couldn't speak clearly.

"Stop squawking... it'll be done soon." Old Mo's movements became faster and faster, and gradually, the mask-like substance covered his entire head.

"Done." Old Mo withdrew his hand and looked Lin Yi up and down, nodding with satisfaction, "What did you say just now?"

Lin Yi took a breath: "I said... what is this?"

He touched his head. This "headgear" on his face didn't feel suffocating at all. On the contrary, it was very breathable, and even made him feel a cool sensation from time to time, as if he was wearing a layer of mint-scented... white stockings.

Thinking about it this way, it suddenly felt a little perverted.

Old Mo said: "I modified your appearance, so when you get to the art building, as long as you anchor your identity, those strange things won't be able to lock onto your identity."

"'No identity'?" Lin Yi touched his face, and then was shocked to find that even though his hand had touched his nose, he couldn't feel the existence of his nose at all, nor could he feel his facial features, nose, or even hair.

He repeatedly touched his face, as if he was rubbing a smooth meatball, his appearance comical and ridiculous...

"Old Mo, I, I, I... what am I now?!" Lin Yi became terrified.

「Am I now... have I become the appearance I once saw in the mirror?」

That appearance was the "Faceless" version of himself that only appeared in hallucinations!!!

Old Mo observed the situation of the storm in the distance, and said at the same time: "You can remove these things with extraordinary power, or wait for the sun to shine on them the next day... By the way, what time is it now?"

Lin Yi looked down at his wrist: "It's 23:04..."

Old Mo nodded slightly: "Not bad."

Although he said that, Old Mo's hand had already touched the handle of the pig-slaughtering knife, holding the handle, his index finger was tapping in a certain rhythm, as if he was planning something.

Lin Yi thought for a while and asked: "Old Mo, you said before that when we walk out of that road, you would tell me the real name of the 'Great Serpent'. Is it convenient to tell me now?"

Old Mo thought for a moment, then nodded, and slowly uttered a name: "「Fantom av rttene」, meaning... 'Shadow of the Root'."

"As the name suggests, it is the 'phantom of the root'."

"However, as the 'Shadow of the Root' lost its true name, it fell into the cracks of the layers, becoming a 'mysterious creature' that relies on instinct, or rather, underlying behavioral logic, and the fanatical believers gave it another alias - 'Shadow of Jormungandr'."

"Jor, 'Jormungandr'...?!" Lin Yi exclaimed in shock.

"Strictly speaking, add 'Shadow of'." Old Mo corrected, "Jormungandr is the giant serpent that surrounds Midgard in Norse mythology, also known as the World Serpent, but this is not that thing, nor is it saying that the 'Shadow of the Root' has become 'Jormungandr'."

Even so, Lin Yi was still quite shocked, because he knew that the more these names related to mythology were, the less likely it was to casually name them to some "real" things.

While observing the movement trajectory of the storm that enveloped the art building, Old Mo seized the time to popularize knowledge to Lin Yi: "Initially, a group of 'Apostles' entered the ocean and sailed out to explore the ocean, but in the end, they were defeated..."

"Those 'Apostles' who escaped back, based on their limited observations, used their understanding of the 'Root' to outline the initial concrete thing, which is the original version of the 'Shadow of the Root'..."

"The 'Fanatics' once tried to name it with various names, but in fact... according to the most credible classic 'Chronicles of the Root', no 'Apostle' has ever truly touched the 'Root'. Everything is just a crude depiction of an ant's leg."

"'Jormungandr', 'Quetzalcoatl', 'Hydra', 'Xiangliu', and even 'Leviathan'... were all things that the 'Apostles' depicted based on the ocean.

"They are very likely the forms of the 'Root' observed in different times and spaces, and the mythological creatures derived after being recorded by the 'Apostles'..."

"The original 'Shadow of the Root' was annihilated when the Day of Destruction broke out, but the fanatical believers still used the secret scriptures passed down by the 'Apostles', plus the notes left by Da Vinci, Michelangelo, and others, to use solidified extraordinary power to carry out 'super-conceptual' sculpting methods, to outline and reshape the prototype of 'It'... which is the 'Great Serpent' you see now."

"It is the 'Shadow of the Root', and also the 'Shadow of Jormungandr', and even has multiple names, but no matter which name it is, it is not as simple and crude as calling it 'Great Serpent'."

"Never call its real name in the 'Forest of Bones' and the Matrix, and it's best not to call it the 'Shadow of Jormungandr', but it doesn't matter when you leave."

Lin Yi's mind was churning. He took a deep breath and then said: "Since that 'Shadow of Jormungandr' is still called 'Great Serpent', is it because its appearance is also like a great serpent?"

Old Mo nodded: "From the appearance point of view, it can generally be said to be the appearance of a 'snake'…"

"Aww..." Lin Yi instantly felt awe for Old Mo. He didn't expect that Old Mo had directly faced the existence of the 'Great Serpent' level. He deserved to be the 'Black Chef' who was feared by the fanatical believers!

"Don't look at me with that adoring look, I can't stand it." Old Mo seemed to see through Lin Yi's thoughts and explained, "I haven't seen it, that appearance is just heard from others."

"Others? Is it the convenience store owner?" Lin Yi asked.

"Sort of." Old Mo nodded, "The ones who can deal with existences of their level are the convenience store owner and the others... Don't ask me more, I don't know. If I knew, I wouldn't have to take this road."

Seeing this, Lin Yi didn't ask any more questions, but repeatedly thought about the creatures such as "Jormungandr", "Hydra", and "Leviathan" that Old Mo had mentioned. It seemed that the origins of these mythological creatures were all related to the root...

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but develop a strong interest in Li Huiyuan's "Mysterious Genealogy".

"Could it be that Li Huiyuan's major is related to this thing?"

Li Huiyuan's "Mysterious Genealogy" seems more like an art-related field, but she ended up becoming a sports student by accident. The world is truly unpredictable.

Lin Yi then chatted with Lao Mo for a while.

Then, at some moment, a huge wave crashed heavily on the rocks on the shore, emitting a thunderous sound.

"Boom—Bang!"

The broken waves splashed and scattered, instantly attracting Lin Yi's attention.

He looked over and suddenly discovered that the already turbulent waves had become crazy and distorted, starting from some unknown time.

The madness of the sea seemed to be influenced by the art building, becoming terrifying and chilling. The gale howled across the sea, like countless invisible hands, fiercely stirring the seawater.

Black waves surged crazily, like towering black mountains, almost obscuring the sky. These waves were bigger and fiercer than the last. They overlapped and collided, and the splashing water was like a gray curtain, flying wildly in the air, and then being swept by the gale, smashing hard onto the sea surface.

Within the waves, there seemed to be some black shadows, wandering like ghosts, and shuttling back and forth like schools of fish, rushing towards the location of the art building like all swords returning to their origin.

The scope of the storm's devastation was expanding, like a huge vortex, beginning to engulf everything around it. The sea was so black that it was bottomless, and every trough of the wave was like an entrance to an endless abyss.

Huge waves crashed against the rocks on the shore, and the rocks trembled painfully under the fierce impact of the waves. White foam surged crazily around the rocks, and the coastline seemed to tremble.

"It's starting!" Lao Mo's eyes were fixed on Stormy Cape where the art building was located, and his gray eyes began to spark like sparks ignited by flint.

"This storm has some similarities with the tide, just like the rising and falling tide. It has been rising just now, and now it is receding... In this periodic change, there will inevitably be a moment when the receding tide collides with the rising tide..."

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"At that moment, the gap will open!"

"I will use this effect to 'surf' at that moment, directly using the power of the tide to take us to the art building."

"At that time, I will forcibly borrow your power. Be prepared and don't resist, otherwise, I'm afraid it will cause you some damage."

"Okay!" Lin Yi nodded heavily. He knew that this was the meaning of Lao Mo bringing him along.

As a mobile energy supply station, his awareness was very high, so he said the most conscious sentence: "As long as you don't kill me, you can go all out..."

The corners of Lao Mo's mouth twitched fiercely: "Don't worry, I won't kill you."

「Hey, this sentence seems to have two interpretations...」 Lin Yi complained in his heart, but it would inevitably ruin the atmosphere if he said that at this moment.

At this moment, Lao Mo suddenly exclaimed: "Here it comes!"

A dazzling light burst out in his eyes.

Before he finished speaking, Lin Yi felt a brief stagnation in the surrounding atmosphere, and the next moment, a powerful gravity that got rid of inertia suddenly erupted, and then soared in a geometric progression, eventually stirring the surrounding atmosphere.

When these auras appeared around him, a strong sense of pushing back appeared. He felt that the ground under his feet began to tremble, and the sand on the beach began to slide as if it were being absorbed by a vacuum cleaner.

And at this moment, another aura appeared!

A nearly black, dark green aura rose from Lao Mo's body. In this dark green aura, faint strands of entangled golden aura could be seen.

Lao Mo, entangled in the dark green aura and the golden aura, had a feeling of evil mixed with some holiness. Two completely opposite contradictory auras coexisted harmoniously on his body.

The appearance of this aura even broke through the sense of pushing back that Lin Yi felt.

Immediately afterward, he felt the extraordinary power in his body surge uncontrollably, and a feeling of permeating outward from his body appeared.

This feeling was like being soul-extracted by a heretical demon.

Lin Yi immediately reacted. This should be the manifestation of Lao Mo requisitioning his power!

So he tried his best to calm down, but his instinct was unwilling to accept this kind of blessing from an external will.

"Lin Yi, relax!"

"I... I'm relaxing!" Lin Yi wanted to cry without tears in his heart, saying that I am very honest, but my body has its own ideas, brother...

"Lin Yi, what's going on with you?" Lao Mo extracted some extraordinary power for a while, but felt that something was wrong. It seemed that the taste was not pure, so he gritted his teeth and shifted his attention locked on the art building to Lin Yi's body.

Seeing Lin Yi's moment now, Lao Mo's gaze subconsciously drifted to behind Lin Yi, as if some kind of strange phantom appeared behind him.

Lao Mo opened his mouth, a rare look of astonishment flashed in his eyes, and then he figured out something like lightning, and changed his words: "Like this... You sense my power, follow my power, time is running out, only success is allowed, no failure!"

Lin Yi's expression froze when he heard the words, and he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay!"

Sensing Lao Mo's power is not a difficult task for Lin Yi, especially under Lao Mo's guidance, it is as smooth as being led into a room.

The extraordinary power in Lao Mo's body is both mixed and pure.

Speaking of mixed, Lao Mo's body has all colors of extraordinary power, comparable to an angel sculpture.

Speaking of pure, the power of any color in Lao Mo's body has formed its own "circle" according to its own trajectory. They do not violate each other, and all of them are mixed in different proportions according to Lao Mo's mobilization to produce various qualitative changes.

And now, he found that the extraordinary power in Lao Mo's body was pouring out of his body like a torrent, affecting the spatial fluctuations within a certain range around him!

This kind of fluctuation was extremely violent at the beginning, but soon began to coordinate with the surrounding storm, as if looking for some kind of common frequency.

「Could this be... 'Domain'?!」 Lin Yi reacted instantly, 「Lao Mo has unfolded his domain!」