AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 829 - 383 "Final Payment" and Extra Gifts

Chapter 829: Chapter 383 "Final Payment" and Extra Gifts

"I must have seen him somewhere!"

"Wait...he said ’little girl’? Li Huiyuan? Convenience Store? Was he in the Convenience Store at the time?"

Lin Yi’s mind quickly flashed back to the scene, but no matter how he tried to recall, he couldn’t find any trace of the Convenience Store Owner ever existing in his memory.

However, since he couldn’t figure it out, he gave up trying to and then remembered what Old Mo had entrusted to him before being obliterated, saying, "Old Mo said... Mu Daxian is there, he hopes you can save him..."

"Mu Daxian?" The Convenience Store Owner lazily smiled, "I can’t save him, better let ’Night Watchman 02’ handle it."

He said this and leisurely walked over to the side of ’Night Watchman 02,’ slippers flopping, and then reached out and touched ’Night Watchman 02.’

"Wake up, if you don’t, the Bell Tower will fall."

Before the words were finished, ’Night Watchman 02’ suddenly opened his eyes with a ’boom.’

At that moment, storm clouds gathered, and above the head of ’Night Watchman 02,’ it was as if a terrifying storm had formed.

And this storm, upon seeing the Convenience Store Owner, disappeared without a trace.

"You...why are you here?" ’Night Watchman 02’s indifferent voice carried a tinge of surprise.

"Why am I here? That’s a question for you." The Convenience Store Owner’s voice was always lazy, yet it carried an indefinable seriousness.

’Night Watchman 02’ was taken aback for a moment, then quickly turned to Lin Yi, and seeing Lin Yi’s current state, he immediately felt a sense of foreboding, "Let’s not talk now, Repeater kid, how much time has passed now?"

A difficult-to-understand look of bitter smile appeared on Lin Yi’s skeletal head, "It’s 2:58 AM..."

"It’s been that long?! The Bell...?"

"I struck it three times... the boss just bumped his head against it..."

"I didn’t strike it; don’t talk nonsense, I just accidentally tripped and bumped it!" The Convenience Store Owner emphasized.

But ’Night Watchman 02’s’ expression drastically changed, "Three times...? And you’re still alive?"

"Yes, I’m surprised myself, to be honest..."

’Night Watchman 02’ quickly took over ’Holy Hall’, then apologized with shame, "Sorry, Repeater kid...I must have been lost just now, didn’t hear the Bell Sound."

"I guessed as much," Lin Yi said, "Did you get the ’Quartermaster’?"

’Night Watchman 02’ shook his head, "Failed... I can’t get the ’Quartermaster’ by consciousness alone. Once the Invasion is over, I’ll have to go in person."

"Oh...you found the ’Quartermaster’?" The Convenience Store Owner’s smile emerged.

’Night Watchman 02’ angrily replied, "Don’t even think about it."

"I haven’t said anything yet..."

"How could I not know what you’re thinking?"

"Fair’s fair, you can’t consume it all yourself, share some with me! Or why don’t you tell me where it is, and I’ll take it off that kid’s hands for you? The kid looks sturdy enough, probably can take the strain." The Convenience Store Owner said cheerily, his gaze on Lin Yi carrying a sinister gleam, chilling Lin Yi to the bone.

"Stop targeting him," ’Night Watchman 02’ said, "I need to ensure his safety and get him out of here."

"Oh..."

"What ’oh’? With that tone, you’re really asking for a beating, you know?"

"That’s still better than you looking so lugubrious all the time, isn’t it?"

"The Root is surging, Angels are circling, Nocturnal species are lurking, I can’t be happy at all."

"Aw, come on, look at you being all dull... how about..."

"Shut up!" ’Night Watchman 02’ cut off coldly, "Of all the ’Supreme Judgment,’ you talk the most nonsense. I’ll get the Repeater kid to safety, then talk to you!"

Time was approaching 3 AM, and ’Night Watchman 02’ knew it was time to send Lin Yi away.

’Night Watchman 02’ knocked on the ’Holy Hall.’ While the airwaves of ’Holy Hall’ were washing out, he followed a distorted spatial circuit to a fragmented world in the Bell Tower World, then reached out and grabbed something from it. He was about to return the same way but then, as if remembering something, went to another place similar to a Mirror World, took something else, and then returned to Lin Yi.

He handed Lin Yi a small box that seemed to be carved out of stone, covered with Secret Marks and mysterious symbols.

"This is the ’Final payment’ we agreed on before..."

At the words "Final payment," Lin Yi’s eyes lit up; he hastily reached out to receive it, carefully examining the stone box.

The surface of the stone box was very rough, like something cast in concrete and then crudely polished, and it was covered in mysterious symbols and Secret Marks that Lin Yi couldn’t understand. But beyond that, there was one pattern, interlinked end-to-end, resembling an Ouroboros.

"Inside the box is an Extraordinary Creation called the ’Ouroboros Ring’... positioned at number 101 in the Extraordinary Creation Lineage, belonging to the ’Dream’ auxiliary category. Wear it around your neck or on your hand, and when you’re Dream Building, it will enhance your willpower, allowing you to enter deeper Layers of the Dream.">

"However, its side effects can cause the user to be unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, and the probability of getting lost in Dream Building exponentially increases with the depth of the Dream."

"A self-destruct item?" Lin Yi was stunned.

’Night Watchman 02’ was noncommittal, "Well, it’s a power-up. It depends on when it’s used. If used at the right time, the side effects aren’t that important."

"So it’s basically an unavoidable risk?"