AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 646 - 294 Almost "Time Stop"_2

Chapter 646: Chapter 294 Almost "Time Stop"_2

Having completed this move, the waterproof curtain was also fully drawn aside, revealing Pseudo-Human Li Kai’s current form in full display before Lin Yi!

Despite having braced himself through the shadow on the waterproof curtain, seeing Li Kai’s current state with his own eyes still inevitably caused a wave of nausea.

Pseudo-Human Li Kai resembled a chunk of flesh-colored rubber melting under high temperatures. Most features of his body no longer had any resemblance to a "human." His face seemed torn open, half of it dragging on the ground, extending all the way to the curtain...

It was imaginable that the body wrapping the big eyeball had split directly from his head.

His torso had split open even more. Aside from the near-melted legs still rooted to the ground, his upper body bloomed like a flower, and that flesh tendril shooting towards Lin Yi was one of the split appendages.

The present Pseudo-Human Li Kai looked just like an upside-down octopus planted in the ground.

Lin Yi took a careful look, but in reality, this did not take much time.

He dashed out of the bathroom, rapidly surveyed the surroundings, estimated the range of movement for Pseudo-Human Li Kai, and then charged towards another nearby bathroom.

"Lin Yi... I’ve been waiting for you for so long!" roared Pseudo-Human Li Kai, sounding incredibly angry, yet its face bore no expression, just a wooden appearance completely incongruous with its current emotion.

Lin Yi grabbed the showerhead in the bathroom, turned it on and burst forth.

"Sorry for that, seems I’ve made you ’wilt’ in wait!"

Lin Yi’s tone was casual as if chatting with a friend, but his actions were decisive, brandishing the showerhead and spraying straight into the remaining eye of Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

Pseudo-Human Li Kai’s multiple flesh tendrils flailed, shielding its face like an umbrella from the water, while other tendrils lunged at Lin Yi like spearing lances.

Lin Yi swiftly dodged, and the tendril lances thudded into the non-slip rubber floor, breaking off for no apparent reason possibly due to the tiles beneath the gym’s non-slip flooring.

Lin Yi moved to another bathroom, pulled off the showerhead, and tossed it in a similar manner.

He didn’t need to strike precisely; by simply opening enough showerheads, it would be forced into a passive defense.

When the third showerhead was turned on and thrown, Lin Yi heard a pained whimper from Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

Some water drops passed through the network of tendrils, dropping onto its soft flesh exposed from the previously split tendrils, which then began to effuse white steam as if doused with sulfuric acid.

A light bulb went off in Lin Yi’s mind.

It could be like this?

He yanked off the bath towel around his body, dodged the ensuing tendril attacks, and flung it over Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

The bath towel, already soaked by the water, sprawled open upon being thrown, covering Pseudo-Human Li Kai like a net.

In that moment, Pseudo-Human Li Kai retracted all of its tendrils, neatly pulling them back.

Lin Yi grabbed one tendril, taking advantage of the retracting inertia to charge towards the core of Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

He pulled off the last piece of his bath towel and stuffed it fiercely into its body just as the tendrils were closing like petals.

This drenched bath towel, like a wedge, jammed the process of it reverting to human form, preventing the final step of closing.

As the other tendrils retracted, the internal pressure squeezed out all the water absorbed by the towel, eroding its internal soft flesh.

"Hiss—"

Clouds of white steam burst forth from its body, like a giant humanoid humidifier, its body convulsing violently as if it had suffered serious injuries.

But in that moment, the tendril Lin Yi held turned and wound tightly around his arm.

"Damn!"

The tendril, thick as a hefty steel cable, wound tightly around Lin Yi, despite his struggles, he couldn’t shift it in the slightest.

The remaining tendrils also began to peel away from Pseudo-Human Li Kai’s body, opening slowly like a giant man-eating flower with a mouth full of sharp fangs.

Sprays of water covered this area of the shower zone, and the surrounding space seemed to be filled with steam and a misty haze. The light from the incandescent bulbs was distorted, making everything appear as though transformed.

Pseudo-Human Li Kai opened its body within the resisting veil of water, its interior tender flesh already eroded by the shower’s streams, leaving it riddled with scars and covered with hard, petrified spots.

It appeared... to have given up resistance.

"What a pity... Originally... you should have... become one... of us..."

Pseudo-Human Li Kai’s visage bore a cyan-gray hue, like ancient stone sculpture, and its presence was accompanied by waves of nauseating rot, constantly invading Lin Yi’s nostrils.

The single eye left on its face had turned into a stone-like bead, yet still ’rolled’ to focus on Lin Yi.

"If not for our kind... then be... our kind’s feast..."

"You can only... become... my nourishment..."

"Tomato... I need... Tomato..."

"No..."

"I want... everything..."

It lunged at Lin Yi for a consuming bite.

A black shadow enveloped Lin Yi, the scent of death impossible to mask with fear.

The continuously struggling Lin Yi seemed to foresee death at this moment.

But suddenly, his vision began to flicker at an almost insane frequency, and he found Pseudo-Human Li Kai’s opened body seemingly frozen in time, the light surrounding it turning dully uncomfortable...

In his eyes, Pseudo-Human Li Kai began to blur into a nearly transparent outline, and he could see the blue, gray, and some pale red breath moving inside it...

These breaths converged into a stream of power, centralizing in its heart, flowing into the countless tendrils, particularly the one binding his arm, which turned a shade of crimson, like a branding iron.

Everything around him slowed down, and Lin Yi, having pushed his ’High-Order Sensing’ to the limit, seemed enveloped by the Godspeed force akin to Barry Allen, possessing more ’Time’ than Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

He even had a moment to glance at his wristwatch.

The time on the watch was 14:32, with the second hand frozen at the 47-second mark, inching slowly towards 48 seconds.

Lin Yi tried to struggle free from the tendril’s grip, but the flesh’s inner walls seemed to sprout suckers, latching fiercely onto his skin.

He appeared to see some ’Primordial Contamination’ and sky-blue breath drain from his arm into the tendril, becoming food for Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

In the face of absolute binding, he had the speed but not the means to save himself.

This pale and powerless acceleration was like a time-stop cheat riddled with side effects—the cheat’s effect being "able to stop time," and the side effect, "unable to act while cheating."

However, this was only a semblance of a ’Time Stop’; time still marched on.

As Lin Yi observed it and frantically calculated and theorized, the tendrils it had opened formed a spherical enclosure, like a flytrap covering directly in front of him, gradually devouring his last escape route...

If he were to be consumed by it, God only knows what terrible situation might ensue...

Lin Yi had no understanding of the Pseudo-Human’s ’digestive system,’ and had no intention of being optimistic about it.

Under his absolute rationality, Lin Yi looked at his tightly bound arm, a ludicrous and terrifying thought popping up like a scrollbar.

This might be... the only way to break free!