AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 742 - 342 Old Mo Draws the Sword_2

Chapter 742: Chapter 342 Old Mo Draws the Sword_2

"I know now, it’s its scales!"

Lin Yi instantly realized, the scale in his hand came from this mysterious creature hidden within the mist and darkness!

"Huff, puff... huff, puff..."

A massive wind sounded in the darkness, like the breathing of that mysterious creature, and amidst the violent wind, there seemed to be some calling voices.

"Lin Yi! Lin Yi! Lin Yi!!"

The voice grew louder and louder. Initially, Lin Yi thought it was the mysterious creature calling him, but soon he realized it wasn’t; the timbre... it was Old Mo!

He looked towards Old Mo in front of him.

Old Mo, who seemed to have been frozen in time, was now shouting at him. No matter how loudly Old Mo called, he couldn’t hear any sound coming from Old Mo’s mouth. Instead, the calls seemed as if many intermediaries had relayed them around before finally reaching his ears through the wind, filled with the static and distortion of a broadcaster’s microphone!

"Lin Yi! Lin Yi!"

Lin Yi looked at Old Mo and responded without replying, "Old Mo, I hear you!"

Upon hearing this, a trace of joy immediately surged across Old Mo’s face.

The next moment, Old Mo let go of the scale and turned around on the rippling dark lake’s surface. He turned his back towards Lin Yi, facing the mysterious creature that loomed like a mountain in the darkness.

Then, he reached for the pig-killing knife attached to his waist and slowly drew it from its leather sheath.

"Hum—"

Without any fancy and superfluous movements, once the pig-killing knife was drawn, the whole pitch-black space trembled along with it.

It seemed that the pig-killing knife was Old Mo’s true form, and now... its edge was fully revealed.

Lin Yi’s pupils shrunk at that moment, while Old Mo’s aura began to skyrocket as if riding on a rocket.

"Hum—"

Along with the roar like a dragon’s chant, the entire void shook, and the pitch-black lake’s surface churned with countless beads of water as if boiling.

The next moment, a brilliant white light appeared in the dark void, like someone had cut through black paper with a craft knife, revealing the pristine sky behind it.

The appearance of the white light was like an invisible chasm falling into the lake, cutting off the ripples that were spreading over, and even the darkness ahead was torn apart.

"Huff, puff... huff, puff..."

In the darkness, the enormous mysterious creature slowly retreated, and the ’clang clang clang’ sounds of metallic clash faded away...

The darkness receded like the tide, disappearing as if ink was being drained away, and the twisting ancient trees shrouded in mist around became gradually visible as if emerging from the water’s surface.

Phantom Vision shattered, and Lin Yi’s thoughts returned to reality.

Old Mo was right in front of him, his hand already having released the two scales. However, the pig-killing knife was still in its leather sheath, as if it was never drawn.

"Old, Old Mo... just now..." Lin Yi felt somewhat guilty, the perilous scene just then seemed to have been brought about by his arrogance. If he hadn’t insisted on taking another look, perhaps that wouldn’t have happened.

And had it not been for Old Mo, he might have been in grave danger.

Yet Old Mo’s expression was still as calm as ever: "Good thing."

Lin Yi was completely perplexed, like a monk bewildered by a conundrum: "Huh? A ’good thing’? Old Mo, you’re not joking, right?"

Old Mo said, "Is there a need for me to joke with you? Although what you encountered just now was not part of the plan, getting to know it beforehand is at least better than being caught off guard."

"Of course, this kind of thing happened because I underestimated your intuition... although I have already estimated it quite highly, I never expected it still wasn’t high enough. Thankfully, I had made preparations beforehand, otherwise I would have to suffer through another ordeal with you."

"What... what do you mean?" Lin Yi still looked utterly confused.

"Don’t rush, let me explain as we go." Old Mo pointed to the distance, "First, put the scales away, one piece in your bag, and the other... just keep it with your Identity Credential."

"Uh, okay!" Lin Yi was secretly shocked; anything related to "Identity Credential" was never simple, so he quickly complied with the instructions.

Afterward, the two of them began to make their way through the dense forest, one after another.

Old Mo explained, "Any intelligent being, upon their first contact with those scales, would be imprinted by the Secret Mark contained within them, forming a varying degree of telepathic connection with the original owner of the scales..."

’Telepathy’?! Lin Yi was startled, ’Could it be an induction with that mysterious creature?’

"However, most beings would only vaguely develop some sensations, such as boundless darkness, floating fog, and those with higher intuition might faintly sense something exists deep in the void..."

"Those with even higher intuition might also vaguely see some silhouette of that entity..."

"This induction is to allow the holder of the scales to willingly accept some of the Breath imprinting from it, thereby avoiding attracting the attention of ’Angels’ on the path ahead..."

"But what I didn’t expect was, your intuition is so strong that it caught its attention..."

"The good news is, now you are most likely not going to be targeted by ’Angels’."

"But the bad news is, you may have been briefly seen by that entity... I acted quickly, but I cannot guarantee that you weren’t seen by it at all."

Lin Yi shivered and could not help but say: "It’s both ’Angels’ and ’it’? You still haven’t clarified what it is, how did ’Angels’ come into the picture, what is this all about?"

Old Mo waved his hand, "Don’t be impatient. According to the original plan, after I give you the scales, I would explain those things to you. Now everything is still within the plan, it’s just that there’s been a minor, harmless twist."

Lin Yi wiped off a bead of sweat, thinking to himself, of course you’re "unharmed," because it’s me who’s getting hurt here...

Although Old Mo put it that way, Lin Yi could still sense from his observation of Old Mo’s poker face that things were not that simple.

Because, at this moment, Old Mo’s face showed an unnatural hue...

Old Mo sorted out his thoughts, then began to speak slowly, "Regarding the origin of ’it,’ we have to start from the Angel Envoys..."

"The Angel Envoys observed the Root and gradually depicted its image, and with various Secret Marks, totems, and symbols, they engraved it onto the Observatory in The Outpost."

"These observations and studies had a certain impact on the cultural origins around the world... resulting in similar forms of worship everywhere, and that image later evolved into many mysteries in the legends, ’Big Snake’, or rather... ’Dragon’."

"This is ’Dragon Scale’?!" Lin Yi’s mouth fell open as he subconsciously reached for the scale in his pocket.

"I’ve only said a few words, why are you in such a hurry again?" Old Mo gave him a sidelong glance, "It’s only an image, or rather, it’s the Angel Envoys and the ancients’ overwritten cognition of the Root or ’It’, the real situation is still unclear."

"The Angel Envoys conducted the initial ’creation’... attempting to forcibly outline and impress the image of ’It’ in a world ’incapable of bearing its divinity’..."

"Later due to the arrival of Doomsday, this ’project’ which had advanced to a certain degree was interrupted, and even the ruins were buried in an unknown location."

"But the Zealots of later generations, after relentless efforts and exploration, finally based on the clues left by the Angel Envoys and combined with the manuscripts left by Da Vinci and Michelangelo, carried out a secondary creation, and eventually created...’it’."