Rules of the Uncanny: 4016
Chapter 465

Convenience Store Owner-003

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In a daze, Lin Yi seemed to feel cold, sinister breaths rushing past his arm. The chill in those breaths made his hair stand on end and his soul tremble.

Some strange plants also seemed to grow around the pile of corpses. Their roots sank deep into the bodies, drawing nutrients from them. Their leaves were a sickly purple and gave off a faint glow, like some profoundly evil flowers, or eerie crops growing straight out of the corpse pile.

The other end of that writhing body seemed to stretch all the way to the edge of the deep abyss in the depths of the Convenience Store, finally disappearing into the fog until neither the naked eye nor Perception could detect it.

Lin Yi watched the enormous corpse pile expand and contract as though breathing. As flesh rubbed and collided, it sent the viscous fluid quivering in the air like thick snot. Spine-chilling whispers drifted from the corpse pile into Lin Yi's ears, only this time, the call came in another set of obscure syllables...

[...store stjerner...]

[store stjerner...]

He felt a powerful call, one that made him long to throw himself into the corpse pile's embrace and become part of it.

But his will quickly gained the upper hand, forcefully rejecting the call...

Of course, that was mainly because the corpse pile felt far too wrong.

I just zipped right over here... Am I that fast? Or did my soul leave my body, and I'm in the "Minecraft" state now?

At that thought, Lin Yi glanced down at his watch.

11:26.

Time was flowing, but the second hand moved very slowly.

Go back.

He would know whether it was "Minecraft" with a simple test.

With a thought, the surroundings really did begin to warp.

Immediately afterward, his view returned

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