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Chapter 607 Training is over
“The mourner…” The eldest brother narrowed his eyes, as if lost in some kind of memory.

Her eyes flickered, as if she had thought of something: "'Mourners'... is a general term for a group, like 'sports students' or 'art students.' How could a mysterious creature call itself 'Mourners'?"

"It's a general term? But that makes sense..." Lin Yi pondered, then thought of that admonition.

The eldest brother added, "That kind of thing shouldn't be a 'mourner.' Theoretically speaking, a 'mourner' should be something more like a sculpture..."

"Could it be that it was sculpted and left as a crystal skeleton?" Lin Yi asked.

"It's hard to say," the leader asked. "What happened between you two?"

Lin Yi then recounted his conversation with the "mourner".

Upon hearing the last part, the boss's expression suddenly turned strange.

"What's wrong, boss?" Lin Yi rarely saw such an expression on his boss's face.

The general feeling is like seeing a somewhat adorable and innocent expression on the face of a cold and aloof female boss in the workplace.

The leader slowly said, "In the year X999... at the beginning of a global cataclysm, our little world was attacked by the 'Snake Nest'."

"At that time, the appearance of the 'Snake Nest' was tantamount to a national catastrophe for an island nation..."

"These are all recorded in historical materials."

The leader paused here, then continued, "But why, when only dark zones were appearing globally, did Little Life seem to have encountered some insurmountable obstacle, becoming the first country to experience a 'Snake Nest' outbreak? That remains a mystery."

"But I feel like I'm very close to the answer..."

Lin Yi's lips twitched violently. He was a little scared by his boss's gaze, and at the same time, the description of the Möbius strip time paradox flashed through his mind: "Boss... you don't mean to say that Little Days was destroyed because I swear and exposed its 'coordinates', do you?"

Li Huiyuan, who was standing to the side, was still listening to the conversation between Lin Yi and the boss in a daze. Although she didn't understand what they were talking about, as Lin Yi's subordinate "first-generation Ash Bloodline", her understanding of the will was not deep enough, but her physical corruption was deep enough.

She didn't understand much of what else was being said, but when she heard that the destruction of Xiao Rizi's country might be related to Lin Yi, her mouth dropped open.

The old man said, "I can only say, it's possible."

"Because just now, your will has sunk into an infinite layer, a layer that is different from the boundary of a dream... You will come into contact with other wills there, and perhaps some wills have infiltrated 'time,' establishing certain things at a certain point in time..."

"Then I suddenly felt so guilty..." Lin Yi said, feeling a little sad.

"When you're upset, can you at least put your damn mouth down a little?!" Li Huiyuan was so angry she wanted to stomp on Lin Yi's mouth. If her boss hadn't been there, she would have stomped on it.

If she does this now, it will seem very presumptuous.

So all he could do was imagine the scene of him trampling Lin Yi in his mind and fantasize about it on his own.

Lin Yi couldn't suppress the smirk on his face. If he had known, he would have definitely given more information, even revealing Amelieken's existence, or perhaps even inviting "Snake's Nest" to drink a mouthful of Ganges water...

It wasn't that he had any selfish motives; he genuinely wanted to share the good stuff with them, since Emily Ken loved researching these things.

“But regardless, one thing is certain: most of the ‘mourners’ you’ve encountered are fake,” the old man said. “The real ‘mourners’ are actually on our side.”

"On our side?" Lin Yi asked curiously. "What do you mean?"

Legend has it that the "First Apostles" set sail several times to explore the unknown, and the "Mourners" were their followers.

"The 'quartermaster' that Xiao Er has been searching for is actually one of the 'mourners' responsible for carrying the equipment depot."

"According to the code, the 'Quartermaster' left this set of equipment relatively intact at Black Moon Outpost, and then went to sea for some reason. The equipment depot he left behind, because it still has a humanoid form, is also called the 'Quartermaster,' thus inheriting his title."

"I see..." Lin Yi's expression changed to one of realization. "Then the skeleton I encountered might actually be the quartermaster. That mysterious creature that called itself the 'Mourner' was tightly bound by the 'quartermaster's' skeleton. Perhaps he was making his final efforts to restrain that thing before he died?"

The eldest brother said, "That's possible. I can't confirm the accuracy of that skeleton either, right?"

"Besides the so-called 'mourners,' what else did you encounter?"

Lin Yi said, "There is also a very large ash crystal. I can't even describe how big it is. I can only say that when I tried to extend my senses, I couldn't reach its boundaries at all."

"Let alone its boundaries, I can't even see a small part of it."

"However, when I channeled my will downwards, I saw..."

Lin Yi paused abruptly at this point, a look of confusion appearing in his eyes: "Huh, what did I just see...?"

Because "time" was stretched infinitely, the "angel" in his perception did not fully focus on him at all, which is why he can't remember the "thing that has not yet happened".

"Strange, I can't quite remember... I vaguely remember encountering something, but I can't recall it, and then... you brought me back here, boss."

"Don't you remember? That's interesting." The leader seemed to remember some things that Lin Yi didn't. "There's something I need to remind you of. Before I brought you back, you were the one who called for help, which is why I took action. Otherwise, I might have waited a little longer."

"I think I should have called for help... but I can't quite remember." Lin Yi scratched the back of his head.

"Since you can't remember, then I won't force you to recall." The eldest brother shook his head slightly and changed the subject, saying, "Judging from your appearance, it seems you've improved quite well."

Lin Yi frowned slightly: "Boss, did you see anything when you saved me?"

He thought that if his boss told him, he would definitely remember it.

The eldest brother refused, saying, "You cut off the time yourself, there must be a reason. Wait until you remember it. Right now, you might as well see how much your spirit has improved."

"'Enhancement'?" Lin Yi was taken aback when he heard the word "enhancement." He did know that he had been enhanced, after all, his skeletal golden body had become a glass body, but the spiritual enhancement that Boss You mentioned... he didn't seem to feel anything at all!

"How can I see how much I've improved?" Lin Yi asked. "Or... Boss, could you give me another kick?"

The eldest brother shook his head slightly: "At most, I can only test your physical properties. Besides, even if I shattered your bones, you could recover completely now."

"Physical attacks on you are unlikely to be effective."

“Your recovery properties are already at a high level in the sequence.” Her long eyelashes trembled slightly as she looked down at Lin Yi, as if she were looking down at a perfect body.

She was no longer curious about how Lin Yi had made these improvements—Lin Yi had definitely not improved from nothing in the past few days, but rather he was already a polluter of some level, and in the past few days he had gradually tidied up his characteristics, which led to his current level.

"As for the spiritual aspect... there isn't really a clear definition, but judging from the situation when you last called for help, you should be doing alright now."

"What does 'not bad' mean in terms of intensity?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled.

The eldest sister frowned slightly, as Lin Yi's question was indeed a bit difficult to answer: "I think it should be no problem to carry out a leap of will at a certain level."

Looking at his boss's intimidating face, Lin Yi suddenly felt a bit absurd... This boss who only said he was okay at the physical level seemed to have just torn apart that black sea and pulled him directly from the bottom of the sea!
Speaking of combat power at the layer level... the boss must be quite formidable, right?

It's just... not that outstanding?

Seeing Lin Yi frowning thoughtfully, the eldest brother said, "But to know exactly how far you've reached, we might have to have the waiter test you to find out."

"Uh, never mind then..." Lin Yi said weakly.

The night watchman was in the art building; there was no way he would go there specifically to test himself.

But judging from the leader's tone, even if he's not good enough to go toe-to-toe with the Night's Watch, he shouldn't be so easily defeated by them...

After all, as Tian Bufan mentioned at the beginning, if any unexpected situation were to occur tonight, he would have to use his willpower to leap over and defend the Night People alone, creating some opportunities for Mao Feiyang to explore the Observatory.

Lin Yi thought for a moment and then asked, "By the way, boss, what was I like during training just now? Did I turn into anything strange?"

After all, he was dismembered in the black sea layer, and even his skeletal golden body was shattered.

The eldest brother glanced at Li Huiyuan and said, "Huihui, tell Lin Yi what you see from your perspective."

Lin Yi then looked at Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan thought for a moment and then said, "I saw you swimming at that time. After swimming for a while, when you were probably in the middle of the pool, I saw you slowly sink."

"However, the way you sank was very strange. It was as if your body was being eaten by nano-sized insects, and you quickly turned into a skeleton, which startled me. But the boss said that was normal, so I continued watching."

"But immediately, your skeleton became transparent, and then, as if it had been corroded, it completely disappeared into the pool."

"Later, the boss and I waited for you on the shore until we heard you calling for help just now. That's when the boss went down and rescued you."

"That's all I saw..."

After Li Huiyuan finished speaking, she didn't look at Lin Yi, but instead looked at the boss with an innocent expression, like someone who had been called on by the teacher to answer a question and was waiting for the teacher's reply after answering.

The eldest brother said, "From a conventional perspective, what Huihuizi just described is the change in your body."

Li Huiyuan glanced weakly at her boss, feeling "so offended that she didn't know whether to speak up or not."

"So, I actually just vanished completely?" Lin Yi asked thoughtfully.

“The real loss of layers is when the entire person disappears,” the leader said candidly. “Otherwise, why do you think the Smiling Angel can become a physical entity?”

Lin Yi was taken aback: "Because they were originally physical entities? It's just that after becoming the Grimace of Smiles, they transformed from physical entities into that ghost-like state?"

The eldest brother nodded and said, "That's right."

"Wait a minute, boss, wasn't the Smirking Angel transformed from a Dream Weaver after losing their way?"

"A dreamer who is lost, is it just a dream from which he cannot wake up? You are too naive." The leader said mercilessly, "You can swim until a person disappears, just like a dreamer can do it while sleeping."

"Some people die in their dreams, while others, along with their bodies, are trapped in layers of dreams."

"So some of the 'Grinning Angels' can be saved, but others cannot."

Lin Yi then realized that there seemed to be a great deal of knowledge involved in categorizing the same kind of eerie smiling angels.

"Then did I really fall into the black sea just now?"

"Yes."

"If I die, am I really dead?"

"That's understandable."

"Hiss—" Upon receiving the boss's reply, Lin Yi gasped sharply, his mouth agape in shock.

Boss, aren't you just using my life to show off your micro-management skills?!
"What, you've already lost faith in me after I just saved you?" The eldest brother's lips curled up slightly, revealing a sneer.

"Uh...no, no." Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck.

The boss said, "As long as you sink in the swimming pool, I can save you, because your anchor point is connected to the stadium the moment you sink. As long as you believe, I can retrieve you through the anchor point. The only difference is the depth of the layer."

A scene flashed through Lin Yi's mind, and suddenly the cursor above the boss's head, which he had previously been unable to remember, became clear.

"By the way, boss, what's that crown-like cursor above your head?" Lin Yi asked.

Upon hearing this, the eldest sister paused for a moment, a rare look of surprise flashing in her usually cold eyes, but she quickly concealed it: "It's nothing, you'll have it too in the future."

Seeing that his boss intended to end the conversation, Lin Yi wisely refrained from pressing the matter further.

"So, boss, how do we proceed with this 'boiling frog' training method you mentioned?"

The leader glanced at him: "Training is over, what's next?"

(End of this chapter)