AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 951 - 441: The Fruit is Ripe, Everyone Gets a Share_2

Chapter 951: Chapter 441: The Fruit is Ripe, Everyone Gets a Share_2

First, returning by the original path, although cumbersome, is the most reliable route.

Second, when the fruit is ripe, everyone gets a share.

Before leaving, he thought briefly and then chose to close the door of Class 13, Group B.

Because the windows of that classroom were shattered, something might crawl in from there. If the door is closed, at least some filthy things will be blocked by the "door" attribute.

Walking along the corridor for a distance, Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan discovered charred stones ahead in the corridor, resembling the Taihu stones commonly seen in gardens, but much smaller, overall presenting a charred black color, like small black charcoal left after wood is burnt out.

On the surface of the black charcoal, there are many cracks, and within those cracks, one can vaguely see some crimson, lava-like flowing substances.

Those lava-like substances, combined with the rugged mini Taihu stones, look like stone walls where Blood Bodhi grows in a storm.

Those lava substances exuded a captivating fragrance, and as soon as Lin Yi saw them, he subconsciously developed a strong sense of possession.

"Gulp!"

He swallowed deeply, but the longing in his eyes seemed about to overflow.

"Are these... the collected ’Ashes’?" he marveled.

Li Huiyuan asked puzzled, "Lin Linzi, how did these things come about?"

They weren’t here just now, but now there are so many more.

"Could it be related to that ’Ashen Apostle’?" she speculated.

Lin Yi shook his head and said, "No, these people... are what happens after the zealots and Sneering Angels are burned!"

"What?!" Li Huiyuan showed a shocked expression, "Are you saying they are those ordered by zealot teachers to stay behind and attract Sneering Angel fire?"

Lin Yi quickly approached the "Blood Bodhi Stone Pillar," explaining as he went, "They absorbed the falling ashes and then self-immolated, and the flames after burning were passed onto the Sneering Angels, burning the Sneering Angels into ashes too."

"And these solidified things should be what ’ashes’ look like after being refined."

He slowly approached the stone pillar, and before he could react, the ashes inside him became suddenly active, and before he knew it, the lava-like substances in the Blood Bodhi stone pillar seemed attracted, transforming into a pure crimson-gold airflow, flying toward him.

"Watch out!" Li Huiyuan exclaimed, instinctively wanting to pull Lin Yi away.

But Lin Yi waved his hand to stop her: "Don’t worry, let me handle this."

When this breath appeared, Lin Yi also felt a strange sensation in his heart, looking at this ash as if seeing a fruit within reach, he reached out to pick, and this breath merged into his body...

"This...?!" Li Huiyuan was dumbfounded, her mouth agape in speechless surprise.

Within a few breaths, Lin Yi absorbed all the ashes refined from the Blood Bodhi Stone Pillar in front of him.

Unfortunately, the amount of ash was really too little.

He glanced around with a wicked grin.

He first released his perception, extending to the corner of the stairwell, to sense the layers’ fluctuations.

Then, he began sweeping through these Blood Bodhi Stone Pillars.

Back then, he vaguely guessed the purpose of the weird art teacher when he sensed the Sneering Angels burning with ashes. Now seeing these Blood Bodhi Stone Pillars, he naturally confirmed his speculation.

He didn’t know how the infiltration force collected ashes, but the zealots’ way of collecting ashes was to use zealots and Sneering Angels as carriers for the ashes, making them refining carriers, eventually forming such stone pillars.

By then, they just need to figure out how to move the whole stone pillar away, and how many zealots get secondarily infected by the ashes inside the pillars during transport, then burned to ashes, is anyone’s guess.

In short, the zealots’ method of collecting ashes is to fill it with lives...

No wonder they kept sending Bu Ze... the high-quality ones are called "Glorious Evolution" companions, the lower quality ones are just fodder that must be consumed to collect ashes.

And now, Lin Yi actually felt compassionate, unable to bear seeing zealots consume so many companions for refining ashes, then consume some more for transporting ashes, so out of a "if I don’t descend to hell, who will" mindset, he tearfully helped them reduce some ash stock...

In a corner of the Teaching Building, as Lin Yi collected ash, the "Ashen Apostle·Fireman" grasping a Sneering Angel by the neck seemed to sniff the scent of that pure ash, suddenly turned its head, and looked in a certain direction.

["The scent of ’Ashes’..."]

Its figure flickered, carrying the Sneering Angel as it rushed towards Lin Yi’s location, leaving a blazing tail behind it with remarkable speed.

On the other side, Lin Yi felt a prickling sensation on his scalp, instinctively generating a strong sense of crisis.

Before he could reverse his perception, the perception he extended into the stairwell had already captured the fluctuation of the layers.

So he decisively abandoned absorbing the ashes, grabbed Li Huiyuan’s hand, and rushed into the stairwell.

But just after he ran a few steps, he seemed to think of something, then casually broke off a Blood Bodhi Stone Pillar, grabbing it like a wolf fang club in his hand.

"Go, go, go! Return to the campus!"

He led Li Huiyuan into the stairwell, not forgetting to head downstairs along the right-side direction, but after only a few steps, a swarm of Nocturnal Species "shasha" began to congregate.

Lin Yi couldn’t even be bothered to use his cautions this time, directly raising the Blood Bodhi Stone Pillar.

"Boom..."

The Nocturnal Species closest to him burst into flames, burning into powder instantaneously.

Other Nocturnal Species who sensed the aura of the ashes in the pillars also recoiled in fear, as if seeing sunlight.

For such low-level beings, the destructive power of ashes and sunlight is not much different.

With the stone pillar clearing the way, going downstairs became much easier.

He took Li Huiyuan by the arm, turned a corner, and quickly found themselves one step away from the scene on the 4th floor of the Teaching Building.

Lin Yi then crushed the stone pillar, absorbed all the ashes, and before the Nocturnal Species could react, he and Li Huiyuan traversed the last layer.

Just as their figures disappeared between the layers of the fourth and fifth floors of the Teaching Building, the Ashen Apostle·Fireman arrived at the corridor.

It looked at the Blood Bodhi Stone Pillars, harvested by Lin Yi like the first crop of leeks, without much disappointment in its inhuman expression, but somewhat blankly surveying around, apparently failing to find the presence of ashes...

Clearly, the ashes were right in the stone pillars beside it, yet it couldn’t perceive them.

In its world, this was just a rugged mini-rock forest, nothing more.

It followed a blurred memory to where Lin Yi was previously, touched the stone pillar, eyes showing some confusion.

Just when it found nothing and was about to leave, it inadvertently touched a Blood Bodhi Stone Pillar yet to be picked by Lin Yi, and with some coincidence, contacted the lava-like substance.

Its eyes suddenly exploded with a spark of intent, then it smashed that stone pillar forcefully.

When the pillar shattered, the refined ashes about to turn to dust only became perceptible at this moment.

Getting instantly interested, it started methodically demolishing all the stone pillars it could "see," destroying one, absorbing the ashes within it. Nothing came from those already picked by Lin Yi, but it wasn’t disappointed, just continued slowly destroying and absorbing.

As it kept absorbing more ashes, the vein-like fiery paths within its body, akin to red-hot cast iron, became increasingly striking...