Tokyo underground city

Chapter 183 Crow-faced Doctor

Lin Huai'en woke up, held on to the wall of the wooden house, and breathed deeply.

Yuan Ximu patted his shoulder from behind, but he was speechless.

He calmed down for a while before coming back to his senses——

At least he felt like he had "come back to his senses."

"How...how do you feel? You just...fainted..."

Yuan Ximu's voice sounded very vague to him, hidden in the buzzing tinnitus.

The girl in front of him was shrouded in a thin layer of white mist, and the originally clear and warm world in the house had completely changed in his eyes.

He saw that his and Yuan Ximu's faces were covered with vines, their fingers and skin had become dry, and their eyes turned white upward, as if they were the living dead who had lost consciousness.

However, on the other hand, he could feel Yuan Ximu's expression, voice, and the meaning he was trying to convey.

The wooden house around him had already become riddled with holes, pierced by vines spreading from the window.

Only the golden tuberose on the ground still shone with a faint golden light.

But compared to the "forest" floating on the surface, he was more afraid of these "golden flower fields" that shone with inexplicable brilliance.

He couldn't even explain clearly where this strangeness came from, and as the memory of the coma quickly dissipated in his mind, only the strangeness of the "golden flower field" remained in his heart.

Therefore, he stood up, almost with a strong step, rushed to Ziyuan's side, pulled the "tuberose pendant" off her neck, and threw it out with all his strength!

"What are you doing?!"

He heard Yuan Ximu scream loudly, and he was pushed from behind and fell out.

And when he touched his back, the black feather was pierced, and the sword blade that penetrated the armor scratched his waist.

He looked up again and saw that Yuan Ximu was holding the "Martyr Sword" he had given her in her hand, guarding Shion with a vigilant look on her face.

He felt an inexplicable anger and humiliation.

He stood up, ignoring the pain all over his body, walked quickly towards Yuan Ximu, and raised the Gray Fury high——

However, at the moment when Yuan Ximu closed her eyes and raised the martyr's sword to her head, there was suddenly a quiet knock on the door from outside the wooden house.

This knock on the door was like a basin of cold water poured on Lin Huaien's head, causing him to wake up instantly.

Putting down his gray-green anger, Lin Huai'en covered his mouth and spit out half of the bloody liquid. Almost as soon as it touched the golden flower field, the bloody liquid began to sizzle and was quickly ablated. Almost exhausted.

But it's clear that he was at least half successful.

Lin Huaien resisted the urge to feel dizzy, opened his attribute panel, and looked at the experience bar——

They did go up by about a tenth or so.

There are seven or eight [Alienation Crystal Ingots] obtained by killing monsters yesterday. Eating all these [Alienation Crystal Ingots] is enough for him to reach level 26 - provided that he can bear to eat the [Alienation Crystal Ingots]. Come with side effects.

Dong dong dong——

At this moment, there was another knock on the door outside the wooden house.

Lin Huai'en looked at Yuan Ximu and Ziyuan, who were still looking at him warily.

He knew that it would not be possible to explain his situation clearly in a short while.

In order not to keep the visitors outside the door waiting——

(What kind of visitor?)

He was thinking subconsciously, feeling a little regretful just now, but his right hand had unconsciously opened the door.

After fighting off the late-night monsters, the door was not closed, but only ajar, so the visitors outside the wooden door were just waiting outside the door in a very gentlemanly manner.

"Yoho - living people, I am very happy to see you."

Standing outside the door was a dirty man wearing a raven-mouthed mask and a brown soft felt hat.

He was covered in foul-smelling crow feathers, carrying a backpack at his feet, and looked at Lin Huaien with interest from behind the mask.

"who are you……"

Lin Huai'en looked at the strange man in front of him, took a step back warily, and clenched the long sword in his hand.

"Dead people, or people who are not completely dead."

The crow-faced monster turned his body slightly and squeezed in through the crack in the door: "Actually, I have been here since the morning, but you didn't notice me until just now -"

The Crow Man breathed and pointed to the cooking pot on Lin Huai'en's left side: "I admire your courage, because you can't see me without this method."

"Are you a monster in the spiritual world? "Subordinate"?" Lin Huai'en became even more vigilant after realizing what the Crow Man said.

However, the Crow Man shook his head: ""Subordinate"? No, you can think that I am an ordinary person disguised as "Subordinate".

The Crow Man squinted his eyes through the mask and looked at Lin Huaien and said: "You can think of me as a 'rebel'. The "Abnormal Body" you encountered is called "Dark Forest". It swallowed up my hometown. . Like you, I am just a poor person who was swallowed by the "Dark Forest" but did not succumb to it."

As he said that, the Crow Man lifted the Crow Feathers on his body: "I use this dress to disguise myself as a monster, so that "Shadow Forest" cannot tell whether I am an outsider or someone who has been corrupted by him. Monsters——that is, the "Subordinates"."

"Outsiders...are you a native of the underground city?"

Lin Huai'en frowned, already doubtful. After all, after entering the illusion, this was the first non-crew member he met who could communicate with him.

"Are you a native of the underground city... But before our hometown was swallowed up by the "Dark Forest", I was also an 'outsider', but I came from a different world than you."

The crow-faced man spread his arms and said with some helplessness: "In your terms, I am a 'doctor' from another world. The level of civilization in our world is almost equal to yours in the Middle Ages, so I am here at this moment. The image in your eyes should be the equivalent of a medieval doctor from your world wearing a protective mask."

"In my heart?" Lin Huai'en was a little confused.

But the crow-faced man nodded: "Yes, this is the spiritual world, a subjective world that is transcended from the objective world. The image in my heart is not necessarily the same as the image in your heart, but the image between us must be the most beautiful. It makes it easier for us to communicate - just like why we can speak the same language even though we are from two different worlds.”

"Because we do not communicate through 'dialogue', but through 'consciousness', integrating into one body."

After introducing himself, the crow-faced man began to tell his purpose: "You are not very accustomed to your own mental operations, so you can only see my 'concrete' body."

The crow-faced man pointed at Yuan Ximu next to him: "She is very afraid of you now, otherwise she would have asked you why you were talking to the air."

"Afraid of me..." Lin Huai'en was silent for a moment. He was dubious about the crow-faced man's statement, but he decided to let the conversation continue first: "How are you going to help me?"

"It's very simple." The crow-faced man said lightly. He took out a complete set of distillation devices from the backpack at his feet: "I will copy part of the knowledge on how to purify [alienation crystal ingots] from my spiritual body. With this knowledge, you can refine the [Alienation Crystal Ingot] and improve your level more safely."

"But this method is not absolutely safe." Seeing the surprise on Lin Huai'en's face, the crow-faced man immediately added: "First of all, how much experience it can extract depends on your mastery of this knowledge - that is, extraction Spend."

"Besides, no matter how you extract it, this is the world of "Dark Forest" after all."

"So as long as you level up, no matter what, you will be contaminated by "Dark Forest". All I can do is help you and be as little affected by it as possible."

The crow-faced man said lightly, looking at the silent Lin Huai'en, he shook his head: "So, what you have to do is to find the core of your personal consciousness and destroy it before it is swallowed by the "Dark Forest" it."

"And regardless of whether you continue to increase your experience levels, once the contamination starts, you can't reverse it."

"After 30 days, you will become a part of "Dark Forest"."

"At that time, whether you solve the "Dark Forest", or you will be swallowed up by the "Dark Forest" like other outsiders I support-"

"I'll have to wait and see."

[After a day of adjustment, I sorted out the ideas for the upcoming plot, and my body felt much better. 】

[Finally, people with depression and appetite imbalance (too thin or too fat) can try two boiled eggs a day. If you can’t eat it, you can pair it with some milk or Thousand Island salad dressing. 】

[It mainly depends on adjusting the state. 】

[9000 words today, I will continue to revise the text tomorrow, and it will be revised to Chapter 31 of Volume 2]