AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 714 - 328: Dream, Kuai Hongji, Dense Forest, and... "Zealot" _2

Chapter 714: Chapter 328: Dream, Kuai Hongji, Dense Forest, and... "Zealot" _2

"Isn’t it... Am I the only one who knows nothing?"

In Lin Yi’s cognition, Tian Bufan was the most knowledgeable, but now it seemed that Kuai Hongji was the most bizarre one. His behavior logic was like carrying out a specific task.

His purpose was too clear.

What made Lin Yi even more unbelievable was that he tried to use Vision to observe Kuai Hongji, only to find that Kuai Hongji was like an invisible person, traversing this place filled with mist and contamination, yet all the breath passed through him.

This was somewhat similar to his previous method of allowing ’Primordial Pollution’ to move in and out of his body.

But at that time, he was still selectively absorbing it in small amounts, but Kuai Hongji didn’t seem to be affected at all, as if he didn’t exist.

"Wait... Doesn’t exist?"

"Could it be that in the ’cognition’ of these Non-human Units, Kuai Kuai currently does not exist?"

Like the initial Pseudo-Human Sculpture, could it be that they determine each other’s location through mutual perception and then proceed with Void Target Search? These Human Sculptures couldn’t perceive Kuai Hongji at all, therefore, they couldn’t find him?

This skill was like a very clever "Stealth," even reaching the level of "Invisibility."

Lin Yi didn’t know how Kuai Hongji managed to do this.

The cold breath felt almost tangible as it surged from All Directions, and even though it was just a dream, it made Lin Yi empathize as if it were invading every pore of his body, causing his blood to almost freeze.

He was not breathing, yet he could feel every breath Kuai Hongji took seemed to inhale the surrounding chill into his heart and lungs, making people shiver involuntarily.

Lin Yi faintly remembered that deep in the dense forest, there was a line where light and shadow divided, a place even Mu Daxian had not taken Maozi.

However, Kuai Hongji had been traversing the depths of the forest for a long time, yet Lin Yi had not seen such a dividing line.

Not only had he not seen such a dividing line, but he hadn’t even seen those abandoned lampposts.

"Have we not reached that boundary yet?" Lin Yi harbored some doubts, but looking at this increasingly bizarre and unfamiliar environment, he suddenly realized that maybe it was quite the opposite!

It wasn’t that Kuai Hongji hadn’t crossed that boundary; he had already gone beyond it!

Then Lin Yi followed Kuai Hongji, moving like a ghost through the depths of the dense forest, passing through multiple layers of Human Sculpture patrols, finally arriving at a dimly lit world completely shrouded by lush leaves.

The ancient trees here had been felled in a certain pattern, with some areas turned into completely desolate and cracked land, the vegetation growing from the dense forest towards the cracked land seemed to be melting away like snow.

It was extremely abnormal for such a land border to appear in such a damp and deep part of the forest.

It was a desolate land as if forgotten by the world, with several large milky-white stones scattered across the land, these stones from a distance hard to define what material they were made of, but Lin Yi’s first impression was that they seemed like something that could be used for sculpture.

However, compared to traditional stone material, the stones in front of him seemed much harder.

Kuai Hongji stopped at the edge of the Desolate Land, his slender body agilely climbing up the twisted branches of the ancient tree, merging with the surrounding environment like a stick insect.

At that moment, he resembled a patient Hunter hidden among the serpentine branches, his slightly sinister eyes fixed on those scattered giant stones, observing something unknown, but presumably waiting for some kind of opportunity.

Lin Yi then also began observing the large stone-like stones, his gaze piercing through the floating mist, faintly spotting some moving figures.

"Are there actually creatures here?!"

Lin Yi was startled; those figures were still human-shaped, but compared to Human Sculptures, they seemed to have an extra special... "rhythm."

Suddenly, he noticed that behind a large piece of stone not far from him, another figure also emerged.

Due to the relatively close distance, combined with the drifting layers of mist, he could clearly see the appearance of the nearest figure this time.

It was a person clad in a dark green cloak with a hood, holding some strange utensils in their hands, and seemingly had axes and chisels hanging around their waist, appearing like a somewhat deranged combination of a plasterer and a carpenter.

In the utensil he held, there was also some sticky, milky-white paste.

Due to the severely obstructed view, Lin Yi couldn’t clearly see the expression on the figure’s face, but even from a great distance, Lin Yi could feel the wild fervor, the morbid devotion, and the churning greed and madness emanating from him...

"Zealot...?!"

At this moment, the word spontaneously popped into Lin Yi’s mind, unsure if it was his intuition or derived from a slight fluctuation in Kuai Hongji’s consciousness.

Setting aside whether it had anything to do with Kuai Hongji, his gut told him that this person was a zealot, and those behind him were also zealots.

Lin Yi remembered that the first time he heard the term "zealot" was from Mu Daxian.

And now, seeing such a scene, the first term that came to his mind was "zealot."

These people seemed to have characteristics of the Art Department, but they lacked the green aura of artistry, instead carrying a mixed gray-green aura.

The dark green robes they were wearing had also become tattered cloaks.

The style of those cloaks was just like the robes worn by the Art Students, as if they had been torn to shreds by a swarm of bats in a bat cave.

This zealot was gesturing devotedly in front of a large gypsum form, occasionally scooping up some paste from the utensil and smearing it onto the gypsum, all the while muttering something unintelligible, buzzing in a way that discomforted one’s mind.

Once the zealot had finished applying the paste, he reluctantly left with the utensil, then immediately, as if gears were turning, another zealot emerged from the depths of the mist-covered Desolate Land, taking over his task and continued manipulating the large gypsum form.

He observed the other large gypsum forms again; in this observation, he immediately discovered that in front of each gypsum form he observed, there was at least one zealot performing some kind of ritual.

Lin Yi instantly realized that these zealots were partaking in some organized, disciplined secret activity.

As he continued observing the large gypsum forms, he discovered that they seemed not to be... "inanimate objects."

Once he realized this, the images of these large gypsum forms within his "Perception" somehow became vivid; he could see slight undulations on the surface of the gypsum forms, similar to a cocoon of some creature.

"Thump... thump... thump..."

He thought he could hear some subtle sounds, and even the surrounding mist seemed to be affected by these sounds, pushing out ripples in a highly rhythmic pattern toward all directions...

A sharp light flashed in Lin Yi’s eyes: "The way these ripples move through the mist, how similar are they to the Grey Mist ripples on the Giant Dome field?!"

"Could these gypsum forms be the source of the Grey Mist ripples?!"

"Did Kuai Kuai come here alone because of these large gypsum forms?"

"Or... is it related to some activity that the zealots are engaged in?"

With this thought, Lin Yi increasingly felt that everyone in the dormitory seemed to have come here with mysterious missions, and only he truly came to "experience seven days."

No.

From now on, his experience as an Experience Student seemed to have already veered off the normal track...

However, just as this thought emerged, he noticed that Kuai Hongji’s attention, at some unknown point, had shifted to the depths of the Desolate Land.

It seemed that something there was truly related to Kuai Hongji’s purpose for coming here.