Chu Ran is not yet able to perfectly conceal her superpower activation.
So I have to stay in the apartment.
My daily activities revolve around the living room, bedroom, and kitchen – a monotonous routine.
Bai Suzhen chatted with her and taught her how to control her supernatural powers.
Occasionally, the White Bone would transform into various forms to go out and buy food and daily necessities.
Chu Ran used this time to continue cracking the encrypted files on the USB drive.
By June 15th, she had cracked about 60 percent of the files.
One document in particular caught Ling Yi's attention.
This document is the latest one, brought back by the White Bone a few days ago.
It is an internal communication record file of the Kami God Cult, sent by the Holy Envoy, White Night.
The content is very short, only one sentence:
[The aerial attack failed; Purification time is pending. All branches are entering a silent state, awaiting further instructions.]
Time to be determined.
Ling Yi stared at those four words, his fingers tapping lightly on the table.
Bai Ye did not immediately start the Purification process.
He's waiting.
What are we waiting for?
Ling Yi didn't know.
But fragmented memories kept flashing through his mind.
In the image, a man in a white robe stands on the top floor of a tall building, overlooking the city.
This is the White Night.
The moment this image appeared, information about this person automatically surfaced in Ling Yi's mind.
Bai Ye held a black Crystal in his hand, and a faint light was flashing inside the Crystal.
He was waiting for the light inside the Crystal to transform into a specific color.
The moment the light turned blood-red cesium, he crushed the Crystal.
Then, the earth began to shake.
At this moment, the scene suddenly disappeared.
Ling Yi opened his eyes.
What is Crystal? What do the signals it sends mean?
He didn't know.
But he knew that his time was running out.
June 16th, late at night.
Apartment living room.
Chu Ran stood in the middle of the living room, her arms outstretched, her body enveloped in a thick layer of dark Shadow.
The Shadow were no longer the thin, translucent mist they once were, but rather a thick, almost liquid black cesium substance.
It flowed, surged, and changed shape around her as if it were alive.
Bai Suzhen sat on the sofa, intently observing Chu Ran's Changes.
"Her superpower reserves are growing rapidly," Bai Suzhen whispered to Ling Yi.
"Her Shadow abilities have undergone a qualitative Changes in the past week."
"It changed from a gaseous state to a liquid state, increasing its density by at least three times."
Ling Yi nodded.
Pinnacle of the Second Tier, about to break through to the Third Tier.
That's not slow.
"Watch closely."
Chu Ran's voice came from the Shadow, carrying a hint of suppressed excitement.
Her hands clenched together abruptly.
The Shadow coalesced before her, Hua Wei a massive black shield, two meters in diameter, its surface covered with intricate patterns.
Then she spread her hands apart, and the shield shattered into dozens of black cesium spikes, which rained down on the living room walls.
The spikes embedded themselves in the wall, making a dull thud.
Each spike penetrates at least five centimeters into the wall.
Bai Suzhen raised an eyebrow slightly. "Their attack power is not weak."
Chu Ran withdrew her Shadow, took a breath, and turned around.
Her face showed a hint of fatigue, but even more so, excitement.
" Sister Bai, I can feel it."
"My superpower reserves are increasing rapidly; it's like... it's like something has been unlocked."
"You should be breaking through soon." Bai Suzhen nodded.
"Your Shadow abilities are evolving from Second Tier to Third Tier."
"If all goes well, we should be able to achieve a breakthrough in the next few days."
Chu Ran's eyes lit up.
Second Tier Pinnacle.
It's just one step away from the Third Tier.
Ling Yi smiled slightly as he observed Chu Ran's Changes.
Chu Ran's rapid progress is partly due to her inherent potential.
S-level aptitude was specially marked on the Kami God Sect's roster.
On the other hand, it was because of Bai Suzhen's treatment and teachings that the efficiency of cultivation was greatly improved.
Bai Suzhen's energy has been Hua Wei the supernatural abilities of this world.
But there are differences after all.
It is more refined and of a higher quality.
It greatly helps Chu Ran's special ability.
If Chu Ran can break through to the Third Tier, her combat power will increase significantly.
A Third Tier Shadow Transformer is even more valuable than the White Bone Demon's Technique of Changes in terms of Concealment and reconnaissance.
Because Shadow can penetrate into any place where there is a shadow.
In the city, shadows are everywhere.
June 17th, 3:00 AM.
Ling Yi, who was sleeping, suddenly opened his eyes.
"A dream?" Ling Yi sat up and shook his head.
Ling Yi had a dream.
In his dream, he stood on the rooftop of Dafeng City No. 3 Middle School.
The railings along the edge of the rooftop were rusted, and broken bricks and withered leaves were scattered on the ground.
The sky was a dark red, as if it had been stained with blood.
The city is on fire.
Buildings in the distance collapsed one after another, flames soared into the sky, and thick smoke billowed. The streets were filled with Keep Running crowds, screams, explosions, and the roars of monsters all mixed together.
He turned his head.
A person was standing on the rooftop.
It's another version of yourself.
Ling Yi was wearing the same school uniform as him, but his face was more mature, and his eyes held something he had never seen on his own face before.
despair.
"You've come." Ling Yi from his past life looked at him, his voice hoarse and weary!
I've been waiting for you for a long time.
Ling Yi tried to speak, but found that he couldn't make a sound.
"This world has been reset," said Ling Yi from his previous life.
"I am a product of the reset."
"We went through this once before, we failed, so the world was reset, and I had to start over."
"But resetting isn't a panacea."
Ling Yi from his past life gave a bitter smile.
"The major events will not change, the Skyfall Plan will be restarted, the Purification process will be executed again, and the Rift will Heaven Splitter once more. The only thing that will change is you."
You have one more thing than me.
The Ling Yi from his past life pointed to Ling Yi's head.
"System, I don't have a system."
"Furthermore, Bai Ye is not alone."
"Behind him lies a deeper darkness."
The figure of Ling Yi from his past life began to blur, like a watercolor painting soaked by rain.
"Remember!" his voice faded into the distance, "Don't believe..."
Before he could finish speaking, his figure vanished completely.
The bedroom was pitch black, and there was no moonlight outside the window.
"Don't believe it?"
Damn it, don't believe anything?
My past self didn't finish saying that sentence.
Ling Yi sat in the darkness, closed his eyes, and tried to recall every detail of his dream.
My past self said that major events will not change.
This means that the Skyfall Plan, the Purification process, and the opening of the Rift are all major events.
No matter what he does, these events will happen in some form.
The only thing he can change is the process.
My past self said that Bai Ye is not alone; there is a deeper darkness behind him.
A deeper darkness.
What is it?
Is it the headmaster of the Kami Cult?
Or is it something that exists on the other side of the spatial Rift?
What should we not believe?
Don't trust the system?
The person in their past life didn't finish saying those words, like a book with its last page torn out—the most crucial information is forever missing.
He took a deep breath, got up, walked to his desk, and turned on the desk lamp.
Then he took out a piece of paper and began to write.
He wrote down all his fragmented memories, one by one!
A security camera at the school gate, a plan from the sky, bloodstains in the alley, a past life lying in a pool of blood, Bai Ye, the Holy Envoy of the Kami God Cult, city-wide anomalies, the Purification program activated...
And, the warning I gave myself in my previous life.