Chapter 666: The Mystery of the Ink Spirit

He spoke in a gentle, flowing manner.

Chu An took off his glasses and placed them on the control panel.

The overflowing spiritual energy cast a shadow over his side profile.

As if he were organizing his words.

After a long while, he slowly spoke:

"Let's start from Baiyang Town first..."

"Once I finish, you'll understand I wasn't lying to you."

His voice was soft, Chu An's eyes showed memories:

"Do you still remember how you got the Apocalypse Ring?"

"Exactly, I went through the same thing as you."

He smiled.

"On the eve of the Apocalypse outbreak, the real world already showed various strange nodes."

"One week before the outbreak, I was ordered to go to Baiyang Town to handle a special event."

"There, I encountered a spatial rift dug out by sandworms."

"The military imposed an emergency blockade, so we were stationed there."

"Weren't you curious before? Wondering why a large force was stationed around a town?"

Chu An rubbed his brow, looking somewhat fatigued.

Lin An was taken aback upon hearing that; he hadn't expected this to be the reason.

The voice continued.

"We, encountering this situation for the first time, were also greatly shocked."

"Actually, if you paid attention, you could notice it."

"The granary (Rat King) - Baiyang Town - back hill of Linjiang Academy; they lie on a straight line."

"The first appearance of the sandworms in the real world was not at the back hill."

He paused briefly, then moved on.

"Using the sealing props we found before the Apocalypse, we barely managed to seal the sandworms."

"But at the moment the Apocalypse officially broke out, the sandworms escaped."

"It took that sealing gem and fled (Blinked) to the academy's back hill."

"Along the way, the spatial rifts it created transported the soldiers of Baiyang Town to the granary."

"That is the source of the pile of soldier corpses you saw."

"Actually, those soldiers had been there all along, which is why you saw so few military vehicles."

"The military vehicles were sent later by our pursuing forces."

"And the sealing gem ended up in the hands of those students."

Lin An's eyes flickered as he recalled the sealing gem that Deng Lian had shattered.

At that time he was still wondering where those students got the gem.

Without interrupting Chu An's narration, he lightly nodded, signaling Chu An to continue.

"Then what?"

Chu An picked up his glasses and put them back on:

"Then?"

"Then I was sucked into the spatial rift and entered the Secret Realm."

"The place I appeared happened to be the blood corpse base, i. e., the Visitor Center."

"There, I encountered the first Ascetic Practitioner."

"We... talked a lot... from him I learned of another world also undergoing an Apocalypse disaster."

"Therefore, I know a lot of Apocalypse information."

"After all, the structure of the Apocalypse is actually quite similar."

He smiled, and Chu An rarely gave Lin An a light pat on the shoulder:

"So, you don't need to worry that I've been spying on your memories."

"I'm not that perverted."

The conversation reached the crucial point.

Lin An looked at Colonel Chu somewhat unexpectedly and asked directly:

"What did you talk about with him?"

"Did he help you take the Causal Sequence?"

"Pretty much."

Chu An nodded, and suddenly a grain of sand appeared in his hand.

"He hopes I can help him, as he feels there's no hope left."

"After learning I am a human from another world, he placed his hope in me."

"And the reward is the Causal Sequence."

"The subsequent events are roughly as you guessed."

"Actually, there's nothing special; I merely stumbled into the Secret Realm by accident."

"After subsequently meeting you, I guided you to the weapons testing facility, where we encountered the Indestructible Shura."

"Actually, many things are just coincidences, adapting as we go."

Lin An's gaze tightened, his heart jolted.

The first ascetic practitioner's plan was actually also Chu An's scheme!?

Chu An, indeed was secretly guiding himself.

No wonder the first ascetic practitioner's style of doing things is so like Chu An's manner.

Just that.

Brows furrowed tightly.

A white flash flashed through Lin An's mind, and he suddenly spoke out in question:

"No!"

"Ghost infant, where are you!!"

"You said you were in White Yang Town because of the sand worm, so what's the deal with the ghost infant!!"

Lin An certainly hasn't forgotten, when he first saw Chu An.

That person was actually a dry corpse, evading the ghost infant's pursuit.

Chu An shook his head slightly, showing no reaction to his questioning at all.

He put on his glasses and walked down from the control console.

With his back to Lin An, he slowly straightened up.

His voice was faint and echoing.

"Lin An."

"Don't you think the ghost infant looks a lot like Yin Ying?"

"It..."

"It's just that child in the well..."

"In the well, there's only Chu Renmei."

He turned around.

Chu An tilted his head slightly without expression, tapping his own head.

"The infant who drowned was a female infant."

"Since I would think of helping Zhang Tie replace the body of the Undying Asura..."

"Then naturally I would also replace Mo Ling's body with that of a resentful infant...."

As he spoke, Chu An smiled slightly, turning his head to look at the tightly shut alloy door.

"That Mo Ling child."

"But he is my most satisfactory masterpiece..."

On the control console, Lin An's pupils contracted slightly, and under ultra-efficient thinking, he instantly understood the hidden meaning in Chu An's words.

Modify memory, history!?

The sand worm's shuttling ability, the ghost infant's transmission...

"You stitched the sand worm's memory onto the resentful infant's body!?"

"That meme is your creation!?"

Upon realizing this, Lin An's heart was greatly shaken.

Opposite him, Chu An nodded slightly, a flicker of frenzy appearing in his eyes:

"The source of the meme's power is actually memory..."

"Mo Ling, who simultaneously possesses the resentful infant (spiritual), the sand worm (space), the ghost infant (meme), and the symbiotic body..."

"Will be your greatest help...."

"So I helped her... change her body."

Outside the base, Mo Ling sat on the shoulder of a blood corpse, her little feet twitching up and down.

She dragged her chin expressionlessly, gazing blankly into the distance.

"Why... am I so weak..."

"I don't know how to increase my strength."

Everyone else has reached the second level, but she's still pitifully at the first level.

Also, inside the base, Zhang Tie constantly nags at her, telling her not to run around aimlessly when she's fine.

Why not play with Youwei for a while?

Looking at Xiong Hanzi like coaxing a child, he pulled out a glowing fairy wand, then.

Mo Ling was so angry she almost bit her teeth to pieces.

Lin An hasn't been bringing me along lately, just because I'm weak.

Mo Ling feels really bad.

In a moment of thought.

A tender little hand slapped the heartless puppet's head with a cold snort.

"Hurry up and eat!"

"I don't believe you can't reach the third level!"

"Hmph, by then I'll flatten that silly bear!"

Having received the order, the heartless puppet with blank eyes instantly charged into the corpse horde, gulping it down as if enjoying a feast.