AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 526 - 236 Beneath the Cobblestone

Chapter 526: Chapter 236 Beneath the Cobblestone

He discovered that there seemed to be a mixture of red and white substances flowing within the crevices of the cobblestones. In order to observe more carefully, he slowly bent over and brought his face closer to the cobblestones.

At this moment, the cobblestones, much like taffy, were undergoing some indescribable distortion along with the changes in layers, but the rate was not fast; thus, at first glance, there wasn’t that explosive sensation of cognition unable to keep up.

He found that the gaps between the cobblestones, along with their different degrees of distortion, seemed to have widened somewhat.

In these blank areas, there seemed to flow a magma-like substance.

"Eh... what’s this?"

Just as this question arose, a faint scent entered his nostrils.

"...?!" Lin Yi’s pupils suddenly constricted, and he reflexively sprang up from the ground.

"The scent of blood!"

He smelled a blood scent masked by the earthy stench of soil and the breath of plants!

However, this blood scent had not started off as a blood scent, but rather as the smell emitted by fresh tomatoes once cut open.

Because it was the scent of tomatoes, Lin Yi hadn’t noticed anything at first and merely considered it a natural breath mixed with the air, finding nothing strange about it.

But as the blood scent within the tomatoes was gradually parsed out by Lin Yi’s sense of smell, that somewhat nauseating breath enveloped him slowly like pervasive droplets of rain.

Initially, he hadn’t felt anything, but upon noticing, it meant he was already submerged in the storm.

Just then, he surprisingly found that as the cobblestone path twisted, the magma-like blood had not turned into a white plaster-like substance under the sun but continued to flow, as if veiled with a layer of golden shimmer.

This layer of golden shimmer began to display another color in Lin Yi’s "vision"—

"Blue... what?!"

He had seen tomato sauce emit green mist several times, which then transformed into white powder-like particles that dissipated in the wind; but... he had never before witnessed tomato sauce emitting blue vapor!

And this blue and golden gleam produced in response to the sunlight easily conjured the image of a character playing with grass.

The tomato sauce, carrying sky-blue vapor, had not been sculptured by the sunlight; on the contrary, this flowing sensation looked much like magma, or even like molten gold.

This scene dumbfounded Lin Yi, yet what shocked him even more came later.

He found that as the tomato sauce flowed, it seemed to be conscientiously surging towards certain points of contact; there were several such points, and in his "vision," he saw three, with the nearest one right beside him...?

"What’s that...?"

What did Lin Yi see?!

He saw that the touchpoint... was actually a streetlamp post!

The tomato sauce, having been replenished with supernatural power by sunlight, poured into the streetlamp post, then crawled up along it and, in the end... all that sky-blue breath was infused into the light bulb beneath the lampshade!

"Could it be... that ’light’ is the source of energy?!"

"The sun... contains supernatural power?"

And the blue supernatural power... it was astonishingly similar to the performance of power on the Sports Student’s side, no, it might be of the same origin or of similar nature!

"The daytime is our home ground."

Xu Shunkang’s words, like a boomerang shot out on May 7th, drew an arc in the sky and then struck Lin Yi at this very moment with precision.

"’Tomato sauce’ is the form manifested after ’blood’ had its cognition overwritten... So it seems that the same tomato sauce, depending on the traits of the supernatural power it contains, would exhibit ’repression by sunlight’ and ’absorption of sunlight’—two different directions!"

Could it be that the Sports Student was truly a superman, capable of recharging with solar power?

But from a scientific standpoint... isn’t moonlight also reflected sunlight?

Why then does nighttime become the realm of Nocturnal species?

While Lin Yi found temporary answers, he also uncovered new questions.

It’s like how sunlight, once reflected by mirrors, loses much of its aggressiveness against Nocturnal species; could the intermediary truly be vampires, capable of draining so much of the supernatural traits in a single stroke?

Lin Yi also observed that the initial "malice" had become extremely diffuse at this moment, feeling as though it was covered with a comforter.

"That surge of malice... came abruptly and vanished just as quickly, like a squall. Now I can no longer feel it."

Lin Yi pondered, not understanding the reason.

"Could it be the ’napkin effect’? That malice, originating from another layer? And the ’place’ I sensed, it has been covered by tomato sauce emitting sky-blue mist, so that malice can’t invade?"

"The ’blue’ representing supernatural power is indeed something that can suppress sinister atmospheres in the campus more positively..."

With that realization, he looked around.

Upon looking, he indeed discovered that with the twisting and stretching of the layers, the magma-like tomato sauce exposed within the gaps of the cobblestone path increased in visible area.

And as the exposed area increased, what had been an almost imperceptible breath turned into sky-blue vapor, which at a level beyond ordinary observation, permeated the entire path and continuously expanded its territory.