AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 494 - 221: Petrified Light Bulb and... Mountain Man?

Chapter 494: Chapter 221: Petrified Light Bulb and... Mountain Man?

A gust of wind blew through, the leaves rustled, and within the surges of mist, there seemed to emanate a certain chilling breath.

Lin Yi had climbed mountains before, experiencing the rhythmic sensation of the wind sweeping through the forests at the mountains and peaks—that was the breath of the mountain forests, imbued with the vitality of the mountain.

But in this dense forest, shrouded in mist, Lin Yi felt as if he were cut off from the world. Apart from the deathly stillness and the chilling scent, he felt no other "living" breath.

This mountain... was just like it was dead.

"Shasha shasha..."

He caught a trace of noise hidden among the forest rustle.

It was a Nocturnal species!

Deep in the mist, the thick layers of lush leaves meshed together like nets, finally blocking out the sunlight. In that region, there certainly lurked some sneaky beings, perennially entrenched here...

As if feeling their domain had been invaded, they slowly wriggled out, their bodies rubbing against the dry leaves and damp old tree bark, creating a rustling sound.

Following his instinct, Lin Yi looked through the ethereal miasma and dense fog and saw those creatures’ forms.

Wait a second...

Were those... Nocturnal species?

Lin Yi focused his gaze, having just spied some of the internal situation.

It appeared to be some creatures indistinguishable between human or large snake, nor could it be seen whether they were made of the material of a sculpture or a Pseudo-Human. They could only be described as a type of flowing solid-liquid hybrid lifeform...

Like a pool of thick liquid, they were slowly oozing and crawling out.

Lin Yi didn’t know whether to call it "it" or "them," but the thing, seemed like countless Nocturnal species and Pseudo-Humans fused together into one entity.

"Xian, Brother Xian..." Mao Feiyang couldn’t help but reach for Mu Daxian’s garment, he naturally had also sensed their presence.

When they appeared, Mao Feiyang had the terrifying feeling of having accidentally fallen into the mouth of some underground snake lair and being locked onto by the horror snakes inside.

He felt all the hair on his body stand on end.

The dense forest was like a cave, and the cave seemed to be inhabited by a large number of Nocturnal species and Pseudo-Humans!

If Ge Qing and Nie Yun were newborn Pseudo-Humans, then the ones here were all old folk among the Pseudo-Humans, even, some were old enough to be considered demonic if not dead!

"Ignore them." Mu Daxian had already grown accustomed to this and seemed to be able to perceive the fine line between light and darkness deep in the forest, always managing to keep Mao Feiyang right on the edge as they moved.

"Really, just ignore them? Let them keep watching us?" Mao Feiyang whispered nervously.

"What else?" Mu Daxian glanced at him, "You planning to jump in there and start a massacre?"

Mao Feiyang pursed his lips: "I can’t do that..."

"If you can’t, then just follow me obediently." Mu Daxian was speaking when suddenly his eyes lit up, his tone also brightened a lot, "Aha, found one!"

Mao Feiyang immediately looked where Mu Daxian was pointing, only to see a streetlamp pole right in front of Mu Daxian.

However, it was a streetlamp pole without any number on it.

Moreover, next to that streetlamp pole, there were two completely petrified Human Sculptures.

These two sculptures were in agonizing poses, as if someone had sculptured the last moments of drowning victims and then placed them here.

"Are those... dead newborn Pseudo-Humans?" Lin Yi’s eyes brightened, seemingly thinking of something.

"Brother Xian, there’s no number on the streetlamp!" Mao Feiyang said anxiously.

Mu Daxian’s voice came from ahead: "What we’re looking for is the unnumbered streetlamp poles."

Mao Feiyang paused, also seeming to understand something, and quickly followed.

Seeing Mu Daxian reach the base of the streetlamp, he first moved the two Human Sculptures aside, then crouched down to sweep the accumulated dry leaves away from the base, confirmed the number on the base, and then stood up again, looking towards the lampshade.

"Very good, very good, the bulb is still there."

Mu Daxian immediately broke an arm off one of the Human Sculptures, then using the sculpture’s arm, climbed up the streetlamp pole, broke the lampshade with the arm, and reached inside to pull out the bulb.

Lin Yi quickly looked, seeing in Mu Daxian’s hands an orb the size of a billiard ball, completely petrified, resembling the stone orbs held in the mouths of stone lions at the entrance of municipal buildings.

However, the orb’s surface displayed simple concentric circular patterns, really looking like a stone-carved billiard ball.

Mu Daxian placed the petrified bulb into a cloth bag he carried, then holding the sculpture’s arm, continued onward.

"Brother Xian, those two...?" Mao Feiyang followed, gesturing at the two Human Sculptures, especially the one from which Mu Daxian had unceremoniously fashioned half an arm into a makeshift hammer...

"Exactly, they were newborn Pseudo-Humans." Mu Daxian declared, "Only they can approach the streetlamp poles, gradually absorbing the Supernatural Power of the lamp, and finally achieving an exchange with the lamp."

"To be precise, according to experience, the power of four newborn Pseudo-Humans can perfectly drain the Supernatural Power from an aging bulb."

"Aging bulb? Can that thing even age?" Mao Feiyang widened his eyes, "Isn’t that just a rock imbued with Supernatural Power?"

Mu Daxian stopped, swept his hand as if to envelop all the surrounding Phalanx of sculptures: "Don’t forget, they’re all ’stone’, and..."