AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1013 - 473: Ignite! Eye Within the Bone! (Moon request for monthly tickets)

Chapter 1013: Chapter 473: Ignite! Eye Within the Bone! (Moon request for monthly tickets)

The eerie art teacher patted his shoulder, looking deeply at him, her voice unusually grave, "You’ve been a student... for a long time, haven’t you?"

"Yes..." Ren Jianxiong slightly lowered his eyebrows. Despite the zealots flaunting the banner of "Glorious Evolution", the ones truly enjoying the first bite of the cake are always those at the top.

"I’ve been a teacher for a long time too... a very, very long time..." the eerie art teacher spoke slowly, with a certain persuasive allure, "As the old saying goes, opportunity is for those who are prepared. Yet, after preparing for many years, I discovered... opportunities only appear once or twice, or perhaps, as just a single ray of light."

"Right now, this ray of light is before you and me."

"Let’s go, proceed first."

Ren Jianxiong was in an internal struggle, but his breath grew increasingly rapid, his penguin-like bloated body trembling slightly.

The eerie art teacher’s words held more temptation than any pie, and having been a hound for so many years, he deeply understood that opportunity... indeed needed to be grasped by oneself.

Resources too.

Powerful capital isn’t capital; it requires being "powerful" first.

Ren Jianxiong took a deep breath and nodded heavily, "Alright."

...

At the same time, the nocturnal species lurking within the layers almost immediately perceived the presence of "Ashes" at the moment the ripples spread, rushing towards the location of Class 18, Group C.

"Shush shush shush... shush shush shush..."

From afar, within the swirling mist, a dense swarm of nocturnal species emerged from dark corners like countless crawlers, morphing into a wriggling torrent, crawling effortlessly along the outer wall of the Teaching Building, surging towards the source of the ashes...

...

May 10th, X023, 13:59, Teaching Building, Class 18, Group C.

The whole classroom was filled with blazing light, centering around Ah-Gui, as the folded tables and chairs in the tiered classroom were distorted by the torrent. The ashes, which weren’t supposed to burn non-living things, after exploding, merged with other supernatural power characteristics, filled with destructive and physical temperature. Everything around was seared, and beehive-like holes began to appear on the walls...

Ah-Gui’s flesh had been entirely melted by Zhang Lingzhen, leaving only a rough skull framework, while Zhang Lingzhen’s condition was even more dire. Despite his physical body being shaped and strengthened by the "Burial Body", he couldn’t fully escape the constraints of "mortal things", leaving only some framework under the extreme burning of the ashes.

Nonetheless, the framework remained tightly coiled around Ah-Gui’s skeleton like snake bones, with the spinal columns spirally twisted together, firelight continually interwoven between the bone joints, seemingly emanating an air of depravity.

"What a perfect creation..."

The consciousness of the "Burial Body" exclaimed in admiration, oblivious to Zhang Lingzhen’s body’s demise or the fact that it hadn’t fully seized control of the skeleton, quietly integrating Zhang Lingzhen’s framework into Ah-Gui’s, seemingly attempting a welding-like art using the power of the ashes.

Lin Yi almost couldn’t hold it together.

"Architect" is already here, forming one of the "Burial Body" corpses; could it be that it’s actually his mom, the "electric welding expert"?

But tossing electric welding into the occult surely lowers the dignity of mystique somewhat...

A momentary jest flashed by, Lin Yi’s attention quickly drawn to the last few bones of Zhang Lingzhen.

Zhang Lingzhen’s body had been thoroughly incinerated, even including his framework. During this process, the illusion of Zhang Lingzhen once appeared, but never again, and Lin Yi didn’t hear "help, help" or similar cries — perhaps Zhang Lingzhen’s original will had been annihilated from the start.

Yet, Zhang Lingzhen’s framework was burnt away but left a few remnants — these remnants were sections of a fractured spine connected to some unspeakably variegated bones, extending outward, resembling some kind of backward-spiked wing bones.

The skeletal remnants bore intricate cracks, which, under the scorching ashes, exuded a sinister essence, with molten gold-red glow flowing through the cracks like some flowing inscription...

These remnants intertwined with Ah-Gui’s framework, and from afar, resembled a humanoid entity with demon wings, the two roughest bones faintly forming a cross, lending a religious and depraved aura to the whole framework.

Only at this moment, Lin Yi understood why the Convenience Store Owner said that bone spurs were necessary to eliminate Zhang Lingzhen — the "Zhang Lingzhen" spoken of wasn’t Zhang Lingzhen himself, but Zhang Lingzhen controlled by the "Burial Body" consciousness.

Similarly, even though Zhang Lingzhen himself was thoroughly dead, the corpse continued to persist.

That remnant, originating from the "Burial Body", imprinted with mysterious secret marks, couldn’t be entirely burnt even by ashes, perhaps truly could only be obliterated by using spears against shields — deploying bone spurs with matching secret marks for mutual destruction.

The "Burial Body" consciousness had no intention of wasting words with Lin Yi, mistakenly perceiving him as some more mysterious entity, hence avoiding dialogue altogether, merely basking in appreciation of the framework, intermittently giving some compliments.