Chapter 907: Old Acquaintance

907. Old Acquaintance

"Do you really not need me to lend you a hand?"

Lin Ye used Alienation to create a pistol made of flesh and threw it in front of Anton.

"...Thank you."

Anton picked up the pistol and pressed the muzzle against his temple.

"Phew, this feels much better. If you don't die, something always feels off, like a job half done, not completely finished."

Lin Ye watched Anton with expectant eyes, as if encouraging him to pull the trigger already.

Anton suddenly realized what he was doing. If he died, this Plane would be completely finished.

"Many thanks. I will live well."

Anton put down the pistol and looked at Lin Ye gratefully.

"...Why thank me? If I weren't forbidden from killing the ritual initiator, I would have acted long ago."

Lin Ye ended the ritual, somewhat speechless.

After Lin Ye left, the giant rat lay on the ground, happily gnawing on the roasted meat.

Anton hesitated for a moment, then still fired a shot into the sea.

Thud!

The bullet left a massive ripple on the surface.

Just as Lin Ye had said, this was a suicide method that felt no pain.

Lin Ye returned to the confession booth and continued completing commissions.

Most of the commissions were not simple, but for Lin Ye, completing them was not difficult.

Of course, commissions like Anton's were something Lin Ye could do nothing about. He couldn't exactly dispose of the Red Sea tributary.

After completing over a dozen commissions, Lin Ye ran into an old acquaintance.

"This really is... I always end up running into you in the strangest places."

Lin Ye sensed a familiar spiritual fluctuation and sent back a spiritual imprint.

"...Mr. Lin Ye? Why is it you? Is this also a System enterprise?"

Ayla sent back an extremely surprised spiritual imprint.

"I'm just a temp worker. Next time it won't be me. You'd better not use this ritual. Do you have flesh materials on your side? I'll come over and we can talk then."

Lin Ye was gentler when dealing with acquaintances.

"I'm already prepared."

Ayla pushed forward with the ritual and opened the mental passageway.

Lin Ye followed the mental passageway into the interior of a body.

This was a fairly normal Alienated Body, though its alienation level was average.

Ayla was the same as always, except she had advanced to become a high-level spiritual energy user.

"What is this place?"

Lin Ye looked around. They were inside a blood-red space, surrounded by walls built from stacking blood-colored cubes.

Mental energy could not penetrate the blood-colored cubes. This seemed to be a corner of some building.

"This is a deity's temple. I was taken by those cultists as a backup sacrificial offering. Can you get me out...?"

Ayla lowered her head and saw an arm piercing through her chest.

"...Why?"

"I haven't attacked an enemy like this in a long time. Unless necessary, I usually use more 'civilized' attack methods, but today I decided to be rough, because you people really pissed me off."

Lin Ye leaned close to 'Ayla's' ear and spoke softly with a smile.

"How did you find out? I shouldn't have any flaws..."

Ayla asked, extremely unwilling to accept it.

"You did fool me, but you shouldn't have appeared in front of me. How could I possibly fail to recognize my own friend?"

The other party had indeed acted very convincingly, but in Lin Ye's eyes, whether in movement or expression, there were slight discrepancies. Combined together, those factors made the difference very significant.

"I never thought someone like you would have friends..."

Ayla's eyes went blank as she became part of the Parasitism Network.

Lin Ye withdrew his right hand. Actually, there was another flaw here, which was that the ritual initiator was not Ayla, but someone else.

Ayla was merely a relay station for the ritual. This kind of manipulation could fool an ordinary person, but it couldn't fool Lin Ye, a Master of Ritual Studies.

Lin Ye wanted to return to the confession booth, but discovered the ritual still hadn't ended, so he couldn't return.

'Troublesome. I should have known better than to use that Exploration Mission Card.'

Lin Ye moved between the narrow walls. Since the blood-colored cubes interfered with Spiritual Perception, he couldn't sense the terrain structure of this area.

'Is this a maze built from stacking blood-colored cubes? Or some kind of alternative prison?'

Lin Ye thought of the cube of flesh that imprisoned a deity. This place gave him a similar feeling.

After walking forward a few steps, Lin Ye encountered a Humanoid Figure composed of blood-colored cubes. The moment the Humanoid Figure saw Lin Ye, it charged at him.

Spiritual energy was abundant in this environment, so Lin Ye directly used Spiritual Energy Vibration, shattering the cube-man into a scattering of smaller cubes on the ground.

'Hm?'

Lin Ye discovered that controlling spiritual energy here consumed a large amount of mental energy, and the more precise the operation, the more mental energy it consumed.

He had thrust his hand into Ayla's body earlier for the alienation operation, which was why he hadn't noticed this problem.

The small cubes on the ground were slowly gathering, as if about to reassemble into a whole.

Lin Ye did not approach those blood-colored cubes. If this cube-man had also been a prisoner before, then contact with the blood-colored cubes could cause his Alienated Body to cube-ify.

Just as Lin Ye was pondering this problem, another cube-man walked over from the distance.

This time, Lin Ye did not completely shatter the cube-man, but instead probed the cube-man's body structure bit by bit.

Before long, Lin Ye had figured out the basic situation of these cube-men. He stopped paying attention to the cube-men gathering toward him and began analyzing the terrain structure of this area.

The cube-men could not be killed. As long as there were blood-colored cubes nearby, they would continuously reassemble.

Unless Lin Ye could destroy the entire building, at most he could only shatter the cube-men into smaller cubes.

'There can't be only cube-men here, right?'

Lin Ye wandered for half an hour without encountering a single normal human.

He wasn't sure why the other side had brought him here. Was this really some deity's temple?

After walking a while longer, Lin Ye suddenly stopped. He turned to look behind him and spoke:

"Come out. I've found you."

Behind him, apart from Ayla, there was no one.

"If you won't come out, fine, but don't keep following me. I'm in a bad mood right now and might just beat you to death."

Lin Ye turned to continue exploring this cube space.

"Wait! I mean no harm. I just don't want to be here alone."

A girl who looked to be only in her teens appeared behind Lin Ye. She looked extremely bedraggled, like a Savage who had been in the wilderness for several months.

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"Who are you? What is this place?"

Lin Ye turned to look at the girl. He had already been prepared to act.

If the other party continued to secretly follow behind him, he would treat the girl as alienation material and dispose of her.

"This is a temple. I don't know what kind of temple either. I was captured by the temple's believers as a sacrificial offering."

The girl answered Lin Ye's question.