AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 720 - 331 "Yin Bi" and... "Secret Mark Totem Studies"?_2

Chapter 720: Chapter 331 "Yin Bi" and... "Secret Mark Totem Studies"?_2

Just at this moment, a series of heavy vibrations came from outside the Green Forest Belt, as if some ancient machinery had been activated.

The fluctuations traveled through the land and were perceived by Kuai Hongji.

"There seems to be some action at the Gymnasium..."

He did not speak, but Lin Yi seemed to hear Kuai Hongji’s voice.

And the inner voice of Kuai Hongji seemed to indicate that he possessed an extraordinarily strong power of induction.

"Young Master Tian and the Fatso have left the Gymnasium area..."

"Old Lin and Wei Liang stayed there..."

"So far, everything is going according to plan... No, wait." Kuai Hongji glanced towards the Mountain Man’s position, "With that moving target there, my job has become a lot easier..."

"The margin for error is quite high, let’s wait a bit longer; the effect should be better..."

Listening to Kuai Hongji’s thoughts, Lin Yi couldn’t help but take another look at the Mountain Man, judging from Kuai Kuai’s tone, it seemed like the Mountain Man’s appearance was an "unplanned" factor, but he was directly incorporated into the plan, becoming a chess piece within it?

"Could it be that... Kuai Kuai originally planned to infiltrate this place directly, but with the arrival of the Mountain Man, he added a step to lead the tiger away from the mountain to his strategy?"

No wonder Kuai Hongji purposely guided the Mountain Man towards the light poles, was it to keep the Mountain Man from being driven away by the Zealots too quickly and to simultaneously attract more Zealots’ attention to reduce the pressure he would face?

Before long, a gleam of sharpness flashed in Kuai Hongji’s eyes.

"Good, Old Lin has discovered the flaw in ’The City Wall’..."

"Based on estimates, he has a sixty percent chance of attempting to repair the crack next..."

"Good... he chose that option after all."

"With that being the case, let’s start over here too..."

"Just relying on those second-hand Supernatural Powers is not enough to support him fixing many cracks, let me send over a bit of the real deal..."

Kuai Hongji picked up the curious vessel that was not yet filled and strolled toward a large gypsum figure.

Sensing his arrival, the Zealots there finished applying the last part of the solidified Supernatural Power onto the large gypsum figure and then "switched shifts" with Kuai Hongji, carrying the vessel towards the pits covered with cracks.

The whole process went more smoothly than Lin Yi had imagined, not even a slight hiccup occurred along the way, the event was silky smooth as if Kuai Hongji truly was a veteran Zealot.

There was no sign of any flaws in his every move, as if he had rehearsed it countless times before.

He approached the large gypsum figure and began to apply some mysterious symbols using the solidified Supernatural Power from the vessel beside him.

As these mysterious symbols formed, a subtle force began to seep from the inside of the large gypsum figure into the ground below, like pouring water into a Water Channel, very soon all of the large gypsum figures along the "Water Channel" were pulled by this force and slowly activated...

Some Zealots applying the material to the large gypsum figures felt an abnormal fluctuation within them and immediately realized there was an issue, shouting out loud: "There’s a problem! An unknown force has triggered the node here!"

"Mine too!"

"Same here!"

Voices of the Zealots rose and fell.

"No good, something strange has invaded!"

"Everyone, find the abnormal ’Secret Mark’ on your nodes and neutralize it!"

"Alright!"

"Quickly!"

All the Zealots were on high alert, fiddling with the codes in their hands like hackers responding to an Invasion, engaging in an invisible and mysterious contest.

Kuai Hongji chuckled malevolently and conveniently picked up the pace in applying the symbols.

But could his methods be so simple?

When that wave of force permeated the last of the gypsum figures around the "Water Channel", the array of large gypsum figures around the Desolate Land was activated, with different vibrations interlocking perfectly as if a chip had formed a closed circuit, directly starting to operate!

"This is bad!"

"Not just the node... The ’Matrix’!!"

"The entire ’Matrix’ has been activated!!"

"Somebody rewrote the entire ’Matrix’s secret mark!"

"Who?!"

"Everybody stop! Find the person who did this first!"

As this voice rose up, the voices of denial immediately grew more intense: "Stop my ass! Are you out of your freaking mind?! Nobody stop, keep searching for the issue on your node quickly, don’t let the problems spread!"

"What are you doing? Why aren’t you stopping?!"

"Idiot! We have no clue where our opponent is or what they are doing, and you want us to stop and give them more chances? Tell me how to stop! Continue! Everyone keep going!"

"Hurry up, find the flaw in the secret mark! Rewriting it back is the key to turning the situation around!"

"Quick!"

Several leaders among the Zealots were loudly arguing, and in the end, the one advocating to keep going won the theoretical upper ground, and all the Zealots went back to work.

Beneath the hood, Kuai Hongji’s face remained expressionless, as if everything was under his control.

In fact, from the moment the Matrix was closed, Kuai Hongji’s open conspiracy had already succeeded, and no matter what the Zealots did afterward, it wouldn’t have much impact on his plan.

If the Zealots had no follow-up actions, then the Matrix would continue to operate;

If the Zealots continued to try and crack it, then Kuai Hongji would have even more opportunities to tamper with the large gypsum bodies.

Once the entire Matrix closed, Kuai Hongji began to puncture from point to plane, he single-handedly confronted all the Zealots on the secret mark, and an invisible war of secret marks began...

Lin Yi’s heart was pounding; what did he just hear?!

"’Secret mark’...?!"

The Zealots seemed to have repeatedly mentioned the term ’secret mark’ just now?

The words Li Huiyuan had once said rapidly surfaced in Lin Yi’s mind...

[’Totem’ is a very broad concept, ranging from some initial written symbols to later simple drawings, they seem to be just cultural symbols, but in fact, they are a specific ’language’, with symbols merely being a conduit for this language...]

[It’s really hard to learn.]

"Could this be... ’Secret Mark Totem Studies’?!"

"Kuai Kuai... he actually studied Secret Mark Totem Studies?"

"It can’t be... aren’t we all in the field of architecture?"

It’s as if everyone practices martial arts, and after a century everyone is gone, but you alone have ascended.

How strange...

Before he had time to recover, he heard Kuai Hongji’s inner voice again:

"It’s about time to give Old Lin that guy some solid information..."

The moment this inner voice sounded, Lin Yi was shocked to discover that the supernatural power within the Matrix was pouring into Kuai Hongji in an eerie form.

And just like how his real body had directly swallowed and condensed a massive amount of Breath into a golden aura which then vanished into thin air at the Banquet in the Giant Dome, the highly pure supernatural power that entered Kuai Hongji’s body also disappeared without a trace as if it had never appeared!

"This time node... it’s when I was focused on repairing The City Wall’s cracks!"

Using some instinct, Lin Yi felt that some of the supernatural power absorbed by Kuai Hongji was transferred to his real body in some unknown way, and then from his real body, it was given to the consciousness within him at that time point.

"So this means... that the reason I could repair The City Wall wasn’t just because I absorbed the Breath from the Banquet, but also related to the covert assistance from Kuai Kuai?"

"Even... the supernatural power from Kuai Kuai’s side is the main focus?"

Just then, the Zealots also realized something was wrong with the Matrix and cried out one after another:

"It’s not working, not at all!!"

"There’s no way to stop it!"

"The ’Matrix’ has already closed its loop! It’s completely unstoppable!"