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Chapter 608 The Boss's "Tea Bag"

"Huh? That's it?" Lin Yi was a little surprised.

Perhaps because he didn't experience any post-training assessments, he felt that the results of this training were somewhat vague!

"If you want, you can remove the layers again, but I can't guarantee I can get you out again," the leader said hastily.

After all, Haidilao's success also depends on its current situation.

"Oh, then I'll go ashore," Lin Yi said.

"No going ashore!!!"

"Let's soak a little longer..."

At almost the same time, the eldest brother and Li Huiyuan spoke simultaneously.

Li Huiyuan quickly shut her mouth and looked at her boss in surprise.

The leader continued, "Soak a little longer. You've just regenerated, and your body is still radiating pure, primal pollution. These things, when distributed in the pool, are quite helpful for the training of the others."

The boss is treating him like a tea bag, using the whole pool to soak him, adding some... flavor.

Thinking about this, he couldn't help but laugh and cry. After being called "Old Mo's power bank," he now had another nickname that made him feel a little embarrassed—"the boss's tea bag."

"I want to soak in it for a while too~" Li Huiyuan said earnestly with a stern little face.

"Go if you want to. Soak for a while, get used to it, and then go swimming," the old man said.

Li Huiyuan was, after all, Lin Yi's first bloodline, and she was the one most likely to receive his favor after Lin Yi's advancement.

Especially since Li Huiyuan had already absorbed Lin Yi's aura before Lin Yi "grew up," even if Lin Yi improves significantly now, he can still help her.

Otherwise, if someone else were to come, they might turn into a statue just from absorbing even a little bit of that aura.

After saying that, the eldest brother strode over to a recliner and lay down lazily.

Lin Yi was still looking at his boss. He wasn't sure if it was just his imagination, but he felt that his boss seemed to have a slight sense of fatigue.

Could it be because he used up too much energy while saving him?

Or perhaps that seemingly effortless rescue was actually anything but easy?
Just as he was about to look away, two slender legs stood right in front of him.

"Huh? Li Hui glug... glug..." He was stunned for a moment, and just as he raised his head, he saw a fair and delicate foot rapidly enlarging in front of him, stepping squarely on his face and shoving him into the swimming pool.

Li Huiyuan's mischievous nature kicked in, and she stepped on Lin Yi to dive into the pool.

Since Lin Yi no longer needed swimming caps and goggles, she had nothing to worry about, especially since—

I've put up with you for too long, Hagilin!
All you ever do is watch the boss, all you ever do is watch the boss. If you like watching him so much, then give him to me!

"What are you doing, glug glug... glug glug..." Lin Yi had barely surfaced when he was stomped back down. In his panic, he instinctively grabbed the ankle of the leg that was stepping on his face and pulled her into the pool as well.

"Gah...?!" Li Huiyuan lost her balance and was immediately pulled down into the pool. "Ouch, Lin glug glug... cough cough cough!!"

The two struggled for a while before finally emerging from the water.

"Cough cough cough... cough cough cough... Lin Yi, you... cough cough... you've gone too far!" Li Huiyuan cried out, her face flushed. Her hair, still wet from being out of the water, hung down on her face, and her already resentful eyes became even more so.

Although she was allowed to swim in the pool without goggles and a swim cap because she was a sports student, she still swallowed every last drop of water.

"No...you stepped on me first!" Lin Yi thought to himself, "Luckily I sensed it was you beforehand, otherwise I would have broken anyone else's leg."

"I see you're eyeing the boss's long legs, but what, my legs aren't bad either! You'd be unhappy if it were me?" Li Huiyuan sneered repeatedly after adjusting her breathing.

Lin Yi muttered under his breath, "How can your legs compare to the boss's?"

"You!!" Li Huiyuan gritted her teeth, making a crunching sound. "Fine, fine! I'll let it go since you drank my foot bath water!"

If Wei Liang heard this, he would praise the tea and then scold Lin Yi, saying, "You're drinking this top-quality glutinous rice lemon tea all by yourself?!"

But upon hearing this, Lin Yi suddenly said in a cheeky, dog-like tone, "Hmph, then you drank my bathwater!"

"Eee ...

Of course, Lin Yi was mainly the one who took the punches. He had just created his glass body and flesh and blood, and he didn't know how to hold back when he attacked, so he didn't dare to fight back.

Otherwise, it would be better if Li Huiyuan had bruises all over her body; it would be worse if she had bruises all over her body.

However, the two of them ended up choking on several more mouthfuls of the fine tea.

Listening to Li Huiyuan's feigned anger and the hazy lights and water caused by their playful fighting, Lin Yi vaguely recalled the image of the broken sculpture, and he suddenly realized something.

"A broken sculpture!"

Yes, after all that commotion, why didn't that dilapidated sculpture, which has been haunting him relentlessly, join in?
Lin Yi frowned slightly, and four words floated into his mind: "I understand."

Has he been wrong all along? Does the damaged sculpture have no direct relationship with the layers?

But this was clearly something at the layer level from the very beginning!
"Could it be... that the broken sculpture is only targeting... me?"

"Only I can see them, so even the boss doesn't know?"

"but……"

"That's it!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. He knew how to tell his boss!

"The library! Yes, the library!!"

Back then, Lee Zidan and his art teacher were engraving information into the imperial edict in a certain layer of the library. The layout of that floor was like a huge black and white chessboard, with Doric columns that stretched as far as the eye could see. On the columns were sculptures of white angels and black demons!

And a broken sculpture... is like the form that appears only after a sculpture has become extremely broken!
"Yeah, that way we can tell the boss!"

Seeing Lin Yi lost in thought, Li Huiyuan stopped her playful antics and instead quietly absorbed extraordinary power beside him.

Of course, even though she didn't actually do anything, she still puffed out her cheeks, which were a little flushed, like an angry little pufferfish.

After absorbing the fumes for a while, Li Huiyuan's already flushed face turned even redder, as if she were about to be ignited by the pollution emanating from Lin Yi.

At first, Li Huiyuan was just a little surprised, but as her body temperature rose higher and higher, she gradually realized that something was wrong.

"Lin, Linlinzi... Lin Yi! Lin Yi!!" she called out to Lin Yi in a panic, "I think I'm about to catch fire!" Hearing Li Huiyuan's shouts, Lin Yi quickly came back to his senses.

"Holy crap, what's going on here?" Lin Yi was shocked when he saw Li Huiyuan. He could clearly sense a large amount of ash from Li Huiyuan's body. No wonder it was burning!

But these ashes... why do they feel so familiar?

Of course, these ashes definitely came from him, but the sense of familiarity didn't mean that. Rather, it was... how could he sense that flocculent aura, like that of a black sea, in the ashes inside Li Huiyuan's body?

"Don't be afraid! I'll absorb some of the ashes!" Lin Yi said, then reached out and pressed his hand on Li Huiyuan's chest... her shoulder and collarbone above her chest.

He originally intended to absorb the ash from Li Huiyuan's heart, the focal point of her body, but that location was somewhat delicate, and given that it wasn't exactly an emergency, he compromised.

The moment he touched Li Huiyuan, the ashes within her body began to boil rapidly, becoming more active than ever before.

With a single thought, he began to suck up Li Huiyuan like a water pump.

The rapid reduction of the ashes put Li Huiyuan at ease, but problems soon followed. Although the ashes in Li Huiyuan's body were plentiful for her, they were not enough for Lin Yi. In just a few breaths, the ashes in Li Huiyuan's body were almost completely drained, leaving only a few drops.

Li Huiyuan's body began to spasm and convulse rapidly: "Enough, enough, enough... Wait, wait, wait, I'm going to be drained dry... Stop, stop! Ugh, ahh..."

Lin Yi quickly stopped and secretly added some more ash to her. Li Huiyuan, who was initially like a candle flickering in the wind, has recovered somewhat now.

Her eyes grew even more resentful: "I almost rolled my eyes and died just now..."

"This is my first time using it too... who would have thought I'd be drained dry in no time..." Lin Yi scratched the back of his head, his face showing sincere apology.

He had never done something like this before.

Just like when he absorbed pollution and regenerated flesh and blood in the Black Sea before, he siphoned it all up. This time, he restrained himself to take care of Li Huiyuan. But even so, his rate of extraction was still too much for Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips, somewhat discouraged: "All my ashes, to you... is it just a tiny bit?"

Lin Yi felt a little embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

If he said it wasn't even enough to fill a tooth gap, he figured Li Huiyuan would jump up and down in a whimper again...

To protect Li Huiyuan's mental well-being, he chose to remain silent.

Seeing this, Li Huiyuan sighed softly.

She suddenly understood what her boss had told her:
[You're still just a beginner in physical education. Your level of study in physical education courses and your understanding of the world are both still shallow... People feel fearless when they are "ignorant," and the more knowledge they gain, the more fear and insignificance they will feel.]

Meanwhile, Lin Yi, on the other side, also understood why Lao Mo had specifically sought him out back then—a good power bank is really crucial for emergency preparedness!

"I just don't know if my current pollution level is high enough to qualify me as a power bank for the boss?"

This thought popped into Lin Yi's mind.

He's definitely not at the same level as when he was with Lao Mo. Now, he might actually be qualified to recharge the boss.

Of course, given his tendency to underestimate his boss's combat strength, it's possible that his boss might drain him dry just as much as he drained Li Huiyuan.

If the boss exerts his strength, he might be left with nothing.

"Are you alright?" He asked Li Huiyuan with concern as he regained his composure.

Li Huiyuan was still a little angry, but she was much better now, and nodded in a muffled voice upon hearing this.

"Why don't you soak in the water first? I need to talk to the boss about something," Lin Yi said in a low voice.

Li Huiyuan's face contorted in surprise, but seeing Lin Yi's serious expression, she nodded.

"Just say what you want to say, let it soak in the water for a while longer." The eldest brother, well-versed in the art of tea brewing, was now truly treating Lin Yi like a tea bag.

After saying that, she got up and came to Lin Yi's side, bent down to the edge of the pool, reached out and splashed some water on her legs.

She was sensing the purity of the original pollution in the pool water, but this action left Lin Yi stunned.

Li Huiyuan, who was watching Lin Yi, was also filled with murderous intent.

Sensing the murderous aura emanating from him, Lin Yi quickly said, "Boss, I know how to tell you about that broken sculpture."

He then shifted his focus to the library and told his boss about seeing the black and white chessboard through Lee Zi-dan.

"...The broken sculpture I'm talking about looks similar to those white angel sculptures and black demon sculptures after they've decayed," Lin Yi said.

Upon hearing this, the eldest brother frowned: "The library... I haven't been there yet, and I don't know much about the things you're talking about."

"Let me think about it first."

Lin Yi asked in surprise, "Boss, you've never been to the library?!"

With the boss's strength, this shouldn't be the case!
Is there another secret?

Lin Yi's eyes flickered.

The eldest brother frankly admitted, "I actually rarely leave the stadium, and even when I'm there to support the arts building, I rarely go inside the arts building."

Lin Yi was startled. Was there really another hidden story?
"Well... if you haven't seen it before, how am I supposed to explain it to you... this... this is a bit tricky."

Lin Yi scratched his head, looking conflicted.

The eldest brother was still thinking: "It's really strange... I didn't pay much attention to it when you didn't mention it. I just knew there was a library and I knew what it looked like."

"But when I think about it carefully, my mind goes blank... like there's a blank memory."

People always remember what they seem to have seen somewhere, but the more carefully they think about it, the less they can remember.

This seems to be the state of the eldest brother now.

Seeing his boss like this, Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. His boss's memory problem seemed to be different from his own.

His memories don't exist, but the eldest brother's memories are like a storage cabinet full of boxes. The cabinet is there, the boxes are there, but when you open the boxes, they are empty.

Lin Yi was taken aback. He suddenly felt that the situation seemed to be different from what he had understood!
He quickly asked, "How could this happen? Boss, didn't you go to the art building last night?"

(End of this chapter)