AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 996 - 463 Everything Is Ready_2

Chapter 996: Chapter 463 Everything Is Ready_2

Tian Bufan examined the roots, nodding slightly: "It does seem quite unusual... Did you steal it from the chef in the green apron?"

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched slightly: "You guys knew from the start that there was something wrong with that chef, didn’t you?"

"Which decent chef comes to find you on their own?" Tian Bufan retorted, "Materials from the chef in the green apron are indeed of better quality than those from the pseudo-human sculptures."

Lin Yi said: "But this isn’t from the chef in the green apron..."

As he put it down, he recounted the situations in the other passages.

"I suspect..." He paused, glancing at Zhao Lingxiao.

Zhao Lingxiao looked eager to learn, her mouth tightly shut, her eyes full of anticipation.

Lin Yi no longer took her into account, after all, he had already advised Zhao Lingxiao twice, but she was stubborn, and once affected by cognitive contamination, she could only resign to fate.

"I suspect this is part of the ’Burial Body’. Although the convenience store has contained the ’Burial Body’, its capacity might be limited, unable to house the whole ’Burial Body’..."

"The rest is at the base of the chef in the green apron."

"Moreover, the burial body there is like a giant old tree root, countless roots hanging down, filling the entire cavern."

He briefly mentioned it, then spoke about the discoveries at the No. 10 dining window and the cooking ingredients.

"I controlled the chef in the green apron to cut off two of its tips and transported them out."

"I think this thing, by its essence, should be some sort of raw material. If I break down the useful parts, it should be possible to assemble a ’puppet’."

Tian Bufan nodded: "Then you should try it quickly while they haven’t started petrifying."

These two roots, although stolen from the main body of the ’Burial Body’, cannot avoid the fate of petrification under the sunlight, albeit with greater resistance, petrifying more slowly.

Kuai Hongji also stepped forward, pulling out a rust-covered bronze vessel.

This bronze vessel was somewhat damaged, about the size of a foot warmer—maybe it was once used to warm feet, but after losing its lid and handle, it was pulled out from some unknown corner by a zealot to hold extraordinary material.

The basin of extraordinary material appeared like a non-Newtonian fluid in daylight, exhibiting a somewhat grayish, milky white texture.

When the vessel was taken out, Lin Yi keenly felt the surrounding temperature drop considerably.

In the dark area of the Teaching Building, a series of "swoosh, swoosh" sounds echoed, and in a trance, there seemed to be some murmuring whispers.

Kuai Hongji glanced around with a slight cold smile.

He said nothing, but the agitated noises seemed to perceive something and gradually quieted down.

Zhao Lingxiao looked at the gluey, almost paste-like extraordinary material in the vessel, a faint golden glow flickered in her eyes, she lowered her head and adjusted her glasses with effort, taking quite a while to calm her mind down.

But even so, she looked over again.

The light in her eyes continued to flicker, her tongue slipped from the corner of her lips, gently licking her lips.

The desire in her eyes was uncontrollable, almost as if it was about to overflow.

She was well aware that this sort of solid-liquid mixed state extraordinary material was a ’materialized extraordinary material’, something she had only seen in textbook illustrations, never in real life.

Let alone such a large basin of extraordinary material.

Where did he get it from?

In an instant, Zhao Lingxiao envisioned many future possibilities—if she could acquire extraordinary material, even just a tiny bit, perhaps it could change her life!

She could use the extraordinary material to secure a place in Master Matthew’s academic course "On the Enlightenment of Star Secret Patterns on the Desolate Present World". No, perhaps much more than that, maybe even Master Matthew would be willing to come pick her up personally!

Hard-to-acquire extraordinary materials are valuable treasures in the world, not to mention already materialized extraordinary material!

The desire in Zhao Lingxiao’s heart was gradually ignited, but suddenly, a sinister cold laugh echoed in her ears.

That laugh was like a cold splash down her head, extinguishing her desire completely in an instant. She fearfully lowered her gaze, not daring to look at anyone except Lin Yi.

"Kuai Kuai."

She knew, it was definitely that man called "Kuai Kuai" watching her.

That gaze was icy cold, like a venomous serpent lurking in the rainforest, more terrifying than a snake—that great sea serpent beneath the sea, watching her from beneath the black ice pool, ready to jump out and devour her.

How did Lin Yi get involved with them? Could he be controlled, forced into doing something? Or, were they in it together?

Zhao Lingxiao’s thoughts surged, with an uncanny emotion spreading in her heart.

This emotion seemed to be... regret?

Regret?

Regretting getting tangled in this?

No, she did not regret it.

More than "regret", she seemed to feel "frustration".

Frustrated at her inability to intervene at this moment, to forcibly "requisition" the extraordinary material in that entire vessel.

Lin Yi, beside her, picked up on Zhao Lingxiao’s emotional shifts, clearly perceiving her desire and impulsiveness, but he didn’t say much because he knew Kuai Kuai had already given Zhao Lingxiao some warnings.

In such a situation, if Zhao Lingxiao dared to affect him, he wouldn’t hesitate. _{fr.e ewe.bno.vel .com}

Looking at the vessel, he opened his mouth in surprise: "How did you take someone else’s stuff?"

Kuai Hongji replied with indifference: "Otherwise, what would I use to hold it?"

His response was so natural, with an expression that seemed to denote "such is the way of things, there’s no need for further discussion".

Lin Yi pursed his lips, silently accepting the foot-warmer-sized vessel, placing it at his feet, then tossing the two sections of ’roots’ aside.

He silently adjusted his breathing as if refining his spirit to prepare a grand feast.

Tian Bufan watched him with keen interest, seemingly looking forward to what he would do next.

Wei Liang also curiously looked over, examining those two large "carrots".

Zhao Lingxiao, in truth, didn’t know what the ’roots’ were, even the ’Burial Body’ mentioned by Lin Yi was completely foreign to her, but she had a vague sense that this odd thing was probably some kind of invaluable material, perhaps even surpassing the value of extraordinary material.

It’s truly incredible... So many people entering the campus struggle even to uncover some information, yet how could he harvest special resources from the campus? Zhao Lingxiao was filled with a restless thirst for knowledge, with a slight twinge of regret; if only she hadn’t deceived Lin Yi, would their relationship not be so strained?

Or... should her deceit have been more discreet, at least not letting Lin Yi discover it.

If that were the case, could she ask Lin Yi for some scraps? Would Lin Yi possibly give them to her?

While she grappled with these internal conflicts, Lin Yi had already adjusted his state, recalling the chef in the green apron’s butcher-like knife skills, gradually perceiving the ’roots’, striving to sort out the boundaries of each broken corpse constituting it.

Yet, as his perception deepened, he gradually frowned; all these bodies had grown together in ways that defy human understanding, some bones connected to spine bones, some with arms attached to another corpse’s sternum, like ribs blossoming.

Handling them into a ’human shape’ indeed tested his dissection skills and techniques thoroughly.