AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1025 - 479 What is She Afraid of?

Chapter 1025: Chapter 479 What is She Afraid of?

"I..." Lin Yi opened his mouth, but couldn’t refute for a moment, so he shrugged and said, "You may not believe it, but it seems like I found some technique. When it came to that step, it happened naturally..."

"So you’re saying... you relied on intuition to select the best components from that pile of ’materials’, then removed the useless parts, and finally built the basic framework of the ’puppet’?"

"Mm-hmm." Lin Yi nodded.

"...Then, you covered it with flesh to complete the ’puppet’s’ body?"

"Mm-hmm." Lin Yi continued nodding.

"And then you used the extraordinary material as an adhesive to coat the whole thing?"

"Mm-hmm... Ah, no no," Lin Yi shook his head, denying Director-040’s guess at the last step, "the adhesive is actually needed at every step, just like building a Gundam model requires glue."

"..." Director-040 paused for a moment, then pursed her lips and said, "Do you expect me to believe your innate talent allows you to build a ’puppet’ by hand just by hearing my rough principles once, or do you expect me to believe you are Emperor Qin Shi Huang?"

I must have found some kind of memory fragment... Lin Yi thought to himself, but outwardly he only used "did it by intuition" as an excuse: "I just followed the Gundam model building method... really, if you don’t believe me, I can build it for you—if you can get some materials."

Director-040 crossed her arms in front of her chest, sneering, "Your abacus beads have rolled right onto my face, and you still want me to get materials for you? Dream on!"

"I just want to prove myself." Lin Yi argued, "If you don’t believe me, I can make a vow to curse my good buddy to be single for twenty years."

Director-040 was speechless, letting go of that topic. She initially wanted to dig deeper, but everyone has their secrets, and the first time asking Lin Yi didn’t reveal anything. So, whether it was Lin Yi’s secret or he really couldn’t tell, she knew she shouldn’t continue probing.

Although back when Lin Yi was splitting the ’root’ spine bone, he exhibited a certain terrifying dark and evil ambiance, and a kind of indescribable, unobservable wicked phantom appeared around, but... secrets are secrets, and as allies, it’s vital to maintain the proper distance between herself and Lin Yi.

"Can you talk about... what happened after you finished constructing the ’puppet’?" Director-040 found another topic, "Where did the ’puppet’ go? Was coming to me related to these questions?"

Director-040’s quick thinking led her to make some guesses, though apart from these, she couldn’t think of any other reason why Lin Yi would come knocking on her door on his own.

Lin Yi nodded, "I took Ah-Gui, which is the name of that ’puppet’, to the area above the 5th floor again."

Director-040 thought to herself that you’re quite careful, even giving puppets names.

Yet in this way, she could hardly imagine, someone who knows to overwrite a ’puppet’s’ name would not know how a puppet is constructed, would not know the way to the 5th floor and above...

Lin Yi carried a sense of contradiction; you say he’s powerful, yet he lacks many basic esoteric knowledge, but you say he’s weak, yet he can craft by hand something like the ’puppet’, which even officially is not possible to produce in batches, based on verbal principles alone.

This kind of contradiction feels like Ichiraku, who could only make ramen in hundreds of episodes of Naruto Shippuden, suddenly stood up during Pei En’s Earth Bursting Sky Star, single-handedly suppressed it and said with a helpless face, look here Changmen, this is how true power is used...

Abstract.

God damn abstract.

"I saw Zhang Lingzhen... who entered school in the same batch as me but was lured away by the female teacher zealot, one of that batch. Her body was also modified, becoming an ’Ashen Apostle’..."

"Moreover..."

Lin Yi narrated slowly.

"Then that ’Original Type Ash Apostle’, also known as the ’Angel’ by Teacher-039, appeared... right, this name was given by the convenience store owner, so let’s use this to refer to it..."

"Later, the puppet constructed by Mountain Man was also attracted over... Strangely, the fire person burned to ashes before even getting near us, and about this, there are still some doubts that I haven’t figured out yet..."

"Then there’s the ’Original Type Ash Apostle’... It absorbed a large amount of ashes, causing the entire layer to undergo fierce disturbances, attracting a large number of nocturnal species and sneering angels..."

The cause of attraction was that he detonated ashes, but he reworded it, attributing all the "credit" to the ’Original Type Ash Apostle’, hiding the accomplishment and fame.

"Then..."

"Finally... so on... Aba aba..."

"...then Ah-Gui and Zhang Lingzhen were also burned to nothing, my will stealthily infiltrated the layers and returned to my body."

"Wait a minute...?!" Director-040 suddenly picked up on some key points.

Lin Yi looked at her, somewhat puzzled.

She asked him with utmost seriousness, "Are you saying... you used your will to control that puppet, traversed the layers, entered the area above the 5th floor... then, after the puppet was burnt to ashes, your will could follow the original path and escape back through the cracks in the layers?"

Director-040 grew more and more fantastical as she spoke, looking at Lin Yi increasingly as if not facing a "human".

"Uh... didn’t I clarify earlier?" Lin Yi was startled, then realized he might not have been clear, so he explained, "The area above the 5th floor is so dangerous, of course I let the puppet go it alone, if I had to follow closely, why wouldn’t I go myself? Going there with the puppet means going to die together, right?"