AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 975 - 453 "Convenience Store Owner -003"_2

Chapter 975: Chapter 453 "Convenience Store Owner -003"_2

Lin Yi asked, "So you’ve always been in the convenience store?"

"Of course." The Convenience Store Owner -003 replied, "But I was too busy. If your perception hadn’t penetrated to the ’Burial Body’, I really wouldn’t have noticed."

Lin Yi smirked, "So if I just left, it would be for nothing?"

The Convenience Store Owner -003 smiled mysteriously, "The convenience store... isn’t a place you can leave at will."

"Hiss..." Lin Yi drew a breath, "You can come in but not go out? Were you planning to stop me when I tried to leave?"

"Technically, I should have just waited for you." The Convenience Store Owner -003 said, "But standing idle is also... After all, yesterday’s big guy still needs some handling."

"What big guy? The ’Ashen Apostle’?"

The Convenience Store Owner -003 shook his head slightly, "Not that one, you might consider it... a trophy plucked from the ’Angel’."

"Plucked from the ’Angel’?!" Lin Yi’s eyes widened, "You projected yourself to the Art Building yesterday and injured the ’Angel’? That’s amazing!"

The Convenience Store Owner -003 lowered his gaze slightly, casting a glance at the secret mark on Lin Yi’s left arm, invisible to ordinary people, "In theory, I only picked up what was ready-made..."

"’02’ took some tools from the ’Quartermaster’, barely managed to ambush the ’Angel’ as it was leaving, and got a little trinket out of it... barely counts as a plucked feather."

"Did Old Mo’s heart come along?"

"Yes, it’s right here." Lin Yi took off his backpack and handed it to the Convenience Store Owner -003.

The Convenience Store Owner took the backpack and unzipped it a little, immediately refracting a rainbow glow.

He quickly zipped it back up.

"Well done."

He patted Lin Yi on the shoulder.

Lin Yi quickly asked with concern, "How do you plan to save Old Mo? Can he be ’resurrected’?"

The Convenience Store Owner -003 said, "He’s already dead, what ’resurrection’ are you talking about?"

"Then what do you mean by ’there’s still hope’?" Lin Yi asked, "Can he return to... the way he was last night?"

"Pretty much." The Convenience Store Owner’s response warmed Lin Yi’s heart.

"Great, he can really ’come back’!"

The state of last night, for Old Mo, is basically resurrection!

"Don’t get too excited yet." The Convenience Store Owner -003 saw Lin Yi’s smile and mercilessly added, "Recovering is one thing, but to what extent is another."

"If you want to see, follow me."

After saying this, the Convenience Store Owner -003 didn’t wait for Lin Yi and headed directly toward the pile of corpses.

Lin Yi glanced at the time on his watch, 11:28, then quickly followed. _{fre.eweb novel\.c om}

He still had many questions for the Convenience Store Owner -003. As of now, the Convenience Store Owner -003 seemed quite approachable, so he couldn’t miss this opportunity. Besides, he was very interested in the process of the Convenience Store Owner -003 saving Old Mo.

Soon, Lin Yi reached the depths of the bookshelf area.

In front of him was a dark zone not illuminated by the store’s lights, as eerie as hell.

And on the border of light and dark, the mound of corpses was slowly writhing, as if breathing.

"This is the ’Burial Body’." The Convenience Store Owner -003 introduced, "It’s made of the corpses of all extraordinary creatures that invaded the convenience store, plus some that threatened campus safety, piled together with some other bits and pieces..."

"Isn’t that the ’Alien Angel’?" Lin Yi realized.

"Sort of..." The Convenience Store Owner -003 said.

Among the three Angel Sculptures, the ’Alien Angel’ was the most unique, not only because it was the strangest, but also because it encompassed a very wide range of varieties. For instance, the ’Graveyard of the Deceased’ and the ’Snake Nest’ belonged to different levels of ’Alien Angels’, and now the ’Burial Body’ was one among them.

What Lin Yi didn’t expect was that the convenience store actually housed a type of ’Alien Angel’.

He looked at the light-shadow boundary and asked, "Does this ’Burial Body’ have a domain that petrifies living things?"

The last time he came with Li Huiyuan, she stepped into the shadowy area and her foot was turned to stone.

He never understood why, but later when he heard Old Mo mention "Domain", he thought that might be it, and Li Huiyuan accidentally stepped into it.

The Convenience Store Owner -003 didn’t expect Lin Yi to ask suddenly, but still answered, "’Burial Body’s’ trait is ’Sacrificial Burial’. It can absorb the supernatural traits of surrounding creatures, fast or slow, without a pattern."

"The chef’s power isn’t at the level to handle it, so the convenience store shelters it, dealing with it slowly."

Lin Yi was a bit surprised, "Even the Black Chef can’t handle it? Then I... would it be dangerous for me to approach it?"

He originally wanted to say ’we’, but realizing that ’we’ referred to him and the owner, he silently swallowed the ’we’.

The Convenience Store Owner said, "It’s not that the Black Chef can’t handle it, but they’ve already dealt with a part of it. The rest are some tough ’hard bones’, processing it would be inefficient and not cost-effective, so I bring it into the convenience store to gradually erase it."

"As for you..." The Convenience Store Owner -003 glanced at him, "Even ashes can’t burn you to death, the ’Burial Body’s’ effect on you is negligible."

"Oh, so you know what happened at the entrance?" Lin Yi naturally referred to the ash scattered at the entrance, "How are you so sure the ashes won’t burn me to death?"

The Convenience Store Owner -003 said, "Your body has been tempered by the ’Holy Hall’, though it’s just bones, they’re enough to resist the ashes."

"And with your will, enduring the ashes’ entanglement is only a matter of time, I just didn’t expect it to take you much less time than I thought."

Lin Yi couldn’t help but ask, "So it was indeed a test you set for me?"

He had multiple guesses, one of which was a test, but after breaking through and not seeing the Convenience Store Owner, he dismissed that guess.

The Convenience Store Owner -003 denied his guess, "I wasn’t that bored... It was just a random small measure I designed. Whether it was you or that ’Ashen Apostle’ that bumped into it, there would have been some reaction, allowing me to respond timely."

"But I didn’t expect you to cause no commotion and just came through."

"If the ’Ashen Apostle’ had come, the commotion would have been much bigger."

Lin Yi thought to himself, you don’t know what I did...

But he understood now, the Convenience Store Owner -003 anticipated a violent breakthrough.

He couldn’t help but squint, in the Convenience Store Owner -003’s perspective, the ’Ashen Apostle’ possessed the ability to violently break through.

And he had tried but couldn’t achieve a violent breakthrough, indicating a significant gap between him and the ’Ashen Apostle’.

"I originally planned to finish some preparations by the ’Burial Body’, then come to the door to fetch you."

"But your method was beyond my expectations, no commotion was understandable, and moreover, you... let me put it this way, you arrived earlier than planned, understood?"

The Convenience Store Owner -003 revealed a gentle yet cold smile, speaking as they had already reached the ’Burial Body’.

As he spoke, he busied himself preparing something, then unzipped the backpack and took out Old Mo’s heart.

Originally, Lin Yi wanted to ask the Convenience Store Owner -003 about the characteristics of the ashes and why the contrast before and after mastering it was so great, but upon seeing the Convenience Store Owner -003 beginning the operation, he closed his mouth, watching intently and seriously.

Upon the appearance of Old Mo’s heart, a golden mist began emanating a holy and sacred aura, like a rainbow lamp, dispelling some of the cold aura around.