Chapter 542: Little Tune

The mechanical compass turned with a sound.

It emitted a zi-zi electromagnetic noise.

Inside the barrier that isolated the three Huang's five senses, Lin An strained to maintain the Separate Spirit effect.

Cannot let them see the Kite Hero, otherwise all will be for naught.

In the Heavenly Human form, vast amounts of battle data like garbled code surged into consciousness.

But facing this thing, the analyzed battle data is utterly useless.

The attack was reduced by more than half.

The only thing that could cause an obstruction was the Withering effect that erupted one second prior.

The Death God phantom faded, and its final blow before dissipating split the death-white giant face in half, yet it quickly healed in a short time.

The synchronized compass calculations also continuously transmitted dangerous warnings.

(Deduction failed, target expected to break through in 3 seconds..)

(Deduction failed, target expected to break through in 5 seconds..)

(Deduction failed, target expected to break through in 1 second..)

Through repeated adjustments of mental power output, barely maintaining the Separate Spirit isolation effect.

"How much longer!"

"Throw the corpse up!!"

His expression was cold and stern.

The mechanically controlled compass, operated telekinetically, gradually failed, forcing him to physically control its rotation with his left hand, locking the trigrams in place under the ongoing effect.

His fingers inserted into the compass's grooves, constantly twisting as the Kite Hero broke through.

"Ka-cha"

Fingertips twisted, then broke.

Like a monster trying to open a door, Lin An could only endure the pain, watching helplessly as his wrist twisted into a horrifying angle.

The first time directly confronting a Meme attack, he felt it was too taxing.

Such things, indeed, cannot be resisted head-on.

In just four seconds, each second bore immense pressure.

That rotting, giant-like colossal face had opened its black-hole-like maw, trying to swallow him whole.

"Damn it! This ghost thing is as heavy as a mountain!"

At the bottom of the well, Xiong Hanzi's face was full of shock, desperately dragging the corpse into his arms while suppressing fear.

Although the woman appeared to weigh less than a hundred catties, though swollen considerably, at this moment in his hands she felt like dragging a mountain.

Chill piercing the marrow continually drained his body's heat.

His lips froze and trembled.

Fortunately, having fused with the Indestructible Asura physique, he was quickly adapting to this indescribable cold.

"Get up, Laozi..."

A roar of anger.

Seeing Lin An's deteriorating condition, Zhang Tie almost exhausted his sucking strength, frantically dragging the female corpse out of the well.

Veins bulged, his face flushed red from strain.

Under continuous exertion, the female corpse was slowly pulled up, its drooping head facing away from him.

Not minding the numb, slippery feel of the female corpse's abdomen, Xiong Hanzi, seeing he couldn't exert force, resolutely clenched his jaws on her hair with a struggling expression and let out a wailing roar as he leapt out of the well.

Beside the shattered pagoda, Lin An gasped, his whole body bathed in rich spiritual energy.

The spiritual energy in the stillness was like the sole light in darkness.

"I am clearing your name..."

"I will make them pay blood for blood."

"Stop!"

"Do you intend to remain forever unable to transcend in this form?!"

The white giant face was right before his eyes.

That which represents absolute terror, capable of overwhelming all reason, the Kite Hero was gradually breaking through the Separate Spirit effect.

God knows how many times he had consecutively activated Separate Spirit.

If not for his ample mental power, the moment he saw the Kite Hero, the mechanical compass's Separate Spirit effect would have already been broken.

The Meme Kite Hero before him seemed to want to engrave its face into the consciousness of the three Huang.

"She wants them to see herself."

"She wants them to be trapped in eternal fear, becoming a vector for the Meme's spread."

Looking at the unresponsive ghost-face Kite Hero.

Lin An silently cursed nonstop in his heart.

"In movies, it's all a lie, damn it."

"It seems my earlier excuse was completely useless!"

Deceiving a meme doll that retains childlike thinking might still work fairly well.

But facing the Kite Hero meme.

"Hoping a 'mouth cannon' could stop it is no different from sweet-talking a ghost."

The wrist physically controlling the compass with the left hand had already rotated 270 degrees, the broken bones constantly healing then breaking again.

Blood flowed freely, yet Lin An had no intention of giving up.

Zhang Tie! Drag faster!

Anxious as if on fire.

Lin An never expected that dragging the corpse up, which seemed the simplest task, would actually be the trickiest part of the whole affair.

Seeing the three members of the Huang family, whose eyes were tightly shut under the control of the Separation God, struggling to open their eyelids, Lin An felt his heart sink.

They must not see the Kite Hero, otherwise it would only deepen their fear of the Meme.

Just like a tug-of-war match.

He used the Separation God's hallucinatory effect on the three Huang family members, while the Kite Hero used a special ability to force them to open their eyes and face her.

In the clash between one person and one Meme, the most mentally fragile Huang Youwei kept his eyes shut, his whole body trembling as if on the brink of death.

A line of blood tears streamed down his face.

"Kite... Hero.."

"Lin Dui! She's too slippery!! I can't grab hold of her!!"

Stuck below the well opening, Zhang Tie felt like crying but had no tears.

Both startled and panicked.

The waterlogged, rotting female corpse in his hand was heavy enough, but it was also slippery as a loach, damn it.

No matter how much strength he mustered, he could only lift it to this position.

Exerting force was so difficult that he even feared that if he loosened his grip, the female corpse would fall back down to the bottom of the well.

That would be the end of everything!

His veins bulged.

Lin An instantly erupted into a dual form, and he had no time to nurture the Cain's Blade in his right hand within the Soul-Consoling Sword Sheath.

Having exhausted all his trump cards, his left hand controlling the compass had already been broken and repaired dozens of times.

"Slash!"

He couldn't bother considering whether physical attacks were useful; now he could only think of every possible way to hinder the Kite Hero.

Beneath him, Huang Youwei had already opened a slit in his eyes.

"Hook her eye sockets! Drag her up for me!"

He slashed sword after sword at super speed, large patches of white, mushroom-like flesh were shaved off the Kite Hero's huge face.

Like cutting pork fat, the vengeful intent on that twisted huge face grew even stronger.

The effect was terrible, but at least it still had some effect.

Inside the well opening, Xiong Hanzi heard Lin An's command and was suddenly stunned.

In an instant, he gritted his teeth, then roared and fiercely jabbed his carrot-thick fingers into the female corpse's eye sockets.

"Get lost!"

Instantly hooked in.

With a point to exert force, Zhang Tie mustered all his strength and hurled the female corpse out of the well with a bang, landing it in front of Huang Youwei.

"Now!"

Lin An's heart jolted; he exerted all his strength, frantically bursting forth a massive mental shock that blasted the Kite Hero's huge face to pieces.

"Open your eyes!"

On the ground.

The three Huang family members, in the hallucinatory Separation God state, were instantly stimulated awake.

With the Separation God effect lifted, they were able to regain their five senses.

Seeing the familiar yet unfamiliar rotting female corpse before them, the three turned deathly pale in unison and screamed.

"Ahhhhh!!"

"Kite Hero! It's the Kite Hero!"

Noticing that the huge face, shattered by the full-force blast, was rapidly healing.

Lin An seized the last instant, speaking at lightning speed. He decisively used his mental power to blast the sound into the three people's consciousness:

"A life for a life!"

"Look closely! She's human, not a ghost! You killed the Kite Hero!"

Having said that, Lin An's expression turned stern, and he directly slashed out with his sword once more.

The sword light was icy and sharp.

Three huge heads rolled off their necks with a gurgling sound.

Before death, the eyes of the three Huang family members were filled with terror and a hint of regret.

... It turns out... we were the ones who went mad...

The Kite Hero isn't... a ghost, is she?

He slew the three Huang family members.

The notion that the Kite Hero was human was deeply etched into their final memories.

"Ding, special Meme task completed: 【Kite Hero (Resentful Infant)】"

"Earned 150 Secret Realm points, redeemable for items after the Secret Realm ends."

"Obtained the Kite Hero's pre-death memories; effect unknown."

In midair, that white huge face had just condensed.

At the moment the system prompt arrived, it shattered like broken stone, turning into sky‑filled paper ash.

On the vanishing ghostly face, a flicker of relief flashed.

Mission completed.

Just after hearing the mission name clearly, Lin An felt a strong chill rise in his heart.

Meme Kite Hero...

It's not the mission of the old corpse in the deserted village!!!?

It was almost at the same time.

A boundless grudge devoured everything.

Lin An only felt that behind him was very heavy... very heavy.

「Lin... squad... 」

「Behind you... 」

His teeth chattered.

Zhang Tie's fingers trembled, his eyes filled with shock and fear.

All that could be seen was a woman in a blue long dress lying on Lin An's back.

「Meeting is hard, parting is easy... 」

「All now regret, it's too late... 」

The little Cantonese melody 'ee-yah ee-yah' began to play.

That was the little tune Chu Renmei loved most before her death.