Deities Are All Just My Food
Chapter 1016 - 477: Pollution Outbreak, Lin Reaches Out_2

Chapter 1016: Chapter 477: Pollution Outbreak, Lin Reaches Out_2

This place is Luoyang Seven Towns, and with so many God Hunters around, who knows who might possess top-tier Divine Prohibitions. Lin Baici definitely couldn’t go around killing and plundering.

"Who do you think can qualify?"

An Yi Xian’s topic finally returned to the candidates.

"I don’t know!"

Lin Baici glanced at his watch, why was he getting hungrier and hungrier, wishing he could eat something filling immediately.

"There’s still an hour and a half to go, just endure it!"

An Yi Xian left, "I’ll do a round of inspection, you rest here!"

"Mhm!"

Lin Baici looked towards Fang Mingyuan, but the next second, his gaze suddenly returned to An Yi Xian.

Why was there something off about the way she walked?

Lin Baici frowned, unable to figure out what was wrong, and the troubling part was that his thinking was very slow, like when running a high fever, completely unable to use one’s brain.

Even calculating one plus one felt like the CPU would burn out, unbearably slow.

Wait?

Could it be rule pollution?

Lin Baici startled, immediately activated Mantra Buddha Resound, and began to chant the Diamond Sutra in a low voice.

After three lines, his brain throbbed with pain, as if a steel rod had been stabbed forcefully into his skull, but this pain also dizzied him and brought him back to clarity.

In his eyes,

inside the storeroom, everyone’s movements were as if a slow-motion key had been pressed, turning heads, looking around, taking steps...

All were extremely slow.

An Yi Xian, who had just left, took three seconds for each step.

"Xian... sister!"

Lin Baici called out, but was startled because each word took a second to shout.

"Red... Medicine!"

Lin Baici tried again, and indeed it was so.

An Yi Xian and Xia Hongyao, hearing Lin Baici’s shout, turned their heads, and this simple action took five seconds.

"Why is there a rule pollution outbreak here?"

Lin Baici was completely numb, how was the Safety Bureau’s preparation for this assessment done?

Although distracted by Qin Palace, it shouldn’t be this poor, right?

"Something... happened!"

Lin Baici shouted, though he figured it was not too helpful, as the people outside might have been contaminated too.

Go out?

Lin Baici turned his head to look at the door,

he didn’t dare!

What if he went out and the pollution worsened?

The most pressing matter was to search this storeroom.

Lin Baici hurried, but under the rule pollution, every action he took was several beats slower than normal.

Cough, cough!

Lin Baici coughed and began to chant the Diamond Sutra.

"What’s wrong?"

An Yi Xian asked, what was Lin Baici doing? But as soon as she finished speaking, she noticed her speech slowing down a lot, and her limbs were becoming stiff.

"Rule pollution?"

Xia Hongyao was not panicked but instead looked delighted, looking around, "Little Linzi, did you find anything?"

Lin Baici did not answer her, continuing to chant.

Under the influence of Mantra Buddha Resound, the candidates gradually regained their self-awareness, or rather, realized their every action was slowing down.

"Little Linzi, try to notify Captain Yuan!"

An Yi Xian urged.

She was now terribly frightened, thanking Lin Baici for his actions, or else everyone would have been unknowingly contaminated to death.

"What’s happening to me?"

"Is there a mishap?"

"Is this rule pollution? Could this also be part of the examination?"

The examiners discussed with one another, their speaking speed considerably reduced.

"Everyone shut up, keep quiet!"

An Yi Xian scolded, but due to the slower speech, there wasn’t as much authority.

"Miaomiao, how do you feel?"

Fang Mingyuan worried, feeling very uncomfortable in his body, too stiff, as if rusted.

"Uncomfortable!"

Long Miaomiao took out a lollipop.

Smart candidates like Xu Wei and He Zi’ang had already figured out the seriousness of the situation from the somber expressions on the faces of Lin Baici and the others, realizing this was an unexpected crisis.

"Trouble!"

Xia Hongyao, with her strong combat abilities and deep understanding of her body, could feel every minute her muscles, heart rate, and vocal cords stiffening a bit.

Even her thinking was gradually slowing down.

...

Outside the air-raid shelter, everyone sat silently waiting for the first group’s assessment to end.

Suddenly,

Zhang Hao turned his head, looking toward the air-raid shelter, then at Pan Yunxiang.

Pan Yunxiang had also noticed something amiss; he who was sitting drinking tea stood up all of a sudden and walked to the entrance of the shelter, peering down.

Xie Yangchun locked his tablet and came over, "Seems like rule pollution has erupted?"

"It’s not a matter of seems, it’s certain!"

Wang Lei had a smirk in his eyes, wasn’t that kid called Lin Baici just too unfortunate?

But I enjoy watching arrogant people getting taken down a notch.

Pan Yunxiang turned around, sweeping his gaze over the examiners and candidates—many wearing puzzled expressions, unaware of what had happened. Still, a few had solemn looks, deep in thought.

"Shen Nan, what do you think?"

Wang Lei inquired, wanting to give his subordinate a chance to perform.

"Wait!"

Shen Nan was succinct.

"How can we wait?"

Xie Yangchun disagreed, if candidates were polluted within the Luoyang Seven Towns, that was their lack of strength, and no one else could be blamed. But being polluted during the second round was the examiners’ negligence.

Because such rule pollution erupts abruptly, the examiners had the responsibility to deal with it immediately.

"What’s the situation below, we have no idea, rashly entering would be meaningless!"

Shen Nan explained, "We wait!"

The examiners fell silent, in fact, everyone understood Shen Nan’s intention, to use the situation of the cannon fodder to find the key to purify the rule pollution below.

If there were no candidates below, the examiners would never act hastily or recklessly.