AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 615 - 279 "Primordial Pollution" _2

Chapter 615: Chapter 279 "Primordial Pollution" _2

Beside Ke Linyi, Li Huiyuan also transformed into an image resembling heat induction, only her translucent body contained drifting blue microparticles, which were clearly observable. Li Huiyuan’s body functioned like a switchboard, continuously absorbing the ambient, drifting white essence from the air, along with portions of blue vapor—then, within her body, after an inexplicable set of swap reactions, eventually expelled sky-blue vapor...

Absorbing air-borne pollution that’s invisible to the naked eye (Supernatural Power), then converting it into sky-blue vapor, part of which accumulates within the body, and part is expelled out.

This is the Sports Student’s assimilative power over Contamination.

Ke Linyi, apart from having similar changes, also took in the Primordial Pollution, that is, the white essence, into his body and expelled part of it unchanged, as if his body was just a channel, no matter how much came through...

Unlike Li Huiyuan, who absorbs as much Primordial Pollution as she exchanges, Lin Yi is constantly absorbing ’Primordial Pollution’, but... he selectively swaps out what he needs.

Furthermore, the Boss discovered that Lin Yi seemed to be able to increase his conversion amount when needed, leading to... the ashes never being able to completely burn the sky-blue vapor in Lin Yi’s body!

"His body... is way too strange..." the Boss massaged her temples, "No wonder he lasted so long in the hands of the Angel Sculpture..."

Avoiding the Rage Angel is one thing, but against the Bizarre Angel, which purely devours the Supernatural Power within the Polluter, even the Pseudo-Human Art Student couldn’t withstand its absorption, yet Ke Linyi managed to survive that long, and there must be a reason for it.

And now, the Boss had found that reason.

It’s like having a Vampire constantly feeding on your blood—you would die once drained, but while your blood is being siphoned, you let your body openly absorb energy from your surroundings, allowing your body to eternally regenerate blood, thus continually replenishing what the Vampire consumes, thereby preventing the state of "exsanguinated demise."

"No wonder the Contamination in his body can never be completely removed, external forces have a minimal effect on the increase or decrease of his internal contamination..."

"Is he still human...?"

Suddenly, the Boss harbored an inappropriate thought; for a moment, she entertained the idea of dissecting Lin Yi to study the structure of his body...

Of course, this horrific thought was fleeting.

As expected, when the sky-blue vapor surrounding Lin Yi was burned by the ashes to below a certain concentration, his body would subconsciously speed up the absorption of ’Primordial Pollution’, thereby exchanging more sky-blue vapor, in order to maintain his most fundamental strength—the capacity to carry a burden...

In this way, within the extreme range allowed by Lin Yi’s physical strength, the amount of burden he could carry is defined by his bodily endurance. As long as it does not exceed the limit, he can shoulder it through ’Adaptation.’

What’s interesting is, in Lin Yi’s ’cognition’, he seems to be a person with ’very normal physical fitness’.

"However... if he’s not given enough ’Adaptation’ time, even a load within his body’s physical capacity should be able to crush him..." the Boss made the final judgment.

This is like a manual transmission car, you can’t directly floor the accelerator, you have to step on it bit by bit, giving the car an adequate adaptation range.

Otherwise, it only backfires, making the car jitter, puff black smoke, and then break down.

The Boss crossed her arms, continuing to observe.

Meanwhile, Lin Yi, unaware of the specifics, was incrementally increasing his load through ’Adaptation’, an efficiency in adaptation that even Li Huiyuan beside him found astonishing.

But aside from the Boss, no one noticed that the layer of ashes floating upon Lin Yi’s shadow, while continuously igniting the sky-blue vapor, was also gradually worn down by the sky-blue vapor. Following Lin Yi’s ingestion and expulsion of the white particles, traces of the ash subtly permeated into his body...

Of course, the amount of ashes worn away was far less than that of the ignited sky-blue vapor, which felt akin to a droplet of water melting on an ice sheet...

The irresistible attraction Li Huiyuan felt towards Lin Yi’s sweat was mainly because, when Lin Yi’s body absorbed the white microparticles mixed with ash dust, some ash particles were not completely taken in through one exchange, intermingling in the sweat vaporized out of his body, forming some crystals.

These crystals, containing traces of ash essence, were still a rather pure... ’Resource.’

If it weren’t for Li Huiyuan wiping Lin Yi’s sweat, it would be impossible to sense the existence of this ash essence.

After Lin Yi, carrying the cloth bag, passed her position, she looked at the hand that touched Lin Yi’s sweat with a complex expression. Her gaze flickered a few times as though she was struggling for a while, then she carefully brought her palm close to her nose, her delicate nose slightly wrinkled, and she sniffed the scent of the sweat...

Ashes-scented breath entered through Li Huiyuan’s nostrils, traveling down the respiratory tract into her body, transforming into threads of faint golden light that quickly dissolved inside her.

Her eyes lit up, and the pupils that already had a faint golden halo deepened with a layer of slightly darker gold...

She moved just a bit closer to Lin Yi, then carefully sniffed his scent. Her eyebrows twitched up and down like a girl who smells the aroma of cake, her lips pursed to reveal a small canine tooth, and her eyes and brows were filled with pleasure and delight.

Next, Lin Yi had a strange illusion—he couldn’t understand what came over Li Huiyuan, suddenly she became much more proactive, wiping away his sweat before it even trickled down, as eager as a little maid.

...

May 9, year X023, 13:02, Gymnastics Hall, Shower Area.

"Whoosh— Whoosh—"

Inside the shower area, the sound of water echoed, and steam diffused on the anti-slip flooring, creating a misty and ethereal atmosphere.

"Little Li, are you done yet? Hurry up, it’s my turn after you!" In front of a shower curtain, a Sports Student wrapped in a towel impatiently knocked on the waterproof curtain.

"I’m almost done!" Inside the shower, Li Kai was bending over washing his hair with his eyes closed, "Stop rushing me! I bet you take just as long to wash your hair!"

"Ah well, keep washing, who can wash more than you!" The student outside the bathroom curled his lips in resignation.

At that moment, an eerie draft blew in through the shower area’s entrance without warning, and the nearby water vapor seemed to be stirred up, scattering to both sides like reversing waves...

"Crack, crack..."

A chill silently crept in, and transparent ice crystals spread across the anti-slip flooring like a spiderweb, inching closer to the back of that Sports Student.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

A rigid green-aproned Chef entered the shower area, moving like a zombie doing the moonwalk, but the "whoosh" of the water and the chatting of the two Sports Students drowned out the rustling noise of the movement.

By the time the Sports Student outside the shower realized the icy chill behind him, it was too late.

"Classmate..." the Chef in the green apron called out softly.

The Sports Student’s pupils contracted sharply, and his entire body shuddered violently.

"Damn!"

His perception ability was lacking, but his reflexes were top-notch. In that instant, he launched a reflexive blind elbow strike, hitting hard!

"Thud!"

With a heavy collision sound, the Chef in the green apron’s body, stiff as an ice block, was forcefully elbowed away, and the Sports Student felt a sharp pain shooting through his elbow joint.

He realized something was terribly wrong, and his face turned ugly.