Rules-related weird stories: 4016

But Lao Mo reached out and gently placed his hand on Lin Yi's shoulder, calmly saying, "Take it easy, I'm here."

Lin Yi immediately calmed down a bit, and then immediately realized that there was something going on here.

After reassuring Lin Yi, Lao Mo quietly waited.

Lin Yi also began to sense things.

He had personally witnessed the entire process of Kuai Hongji "hacking into" the matrix from Kuai Hongji's perspective, but at that time he was only experiencing it as an observer.

Now, relying on Lao Mo being by his side, he began a little… "peeking" into this matrix composed of a large number of large plaster bodies.

«Vision Insight», activate!

Lin Yi originally just casually called out in his heart, but he didn't expect this thought to actually trigger some kind of "switch."

With his order, some sporadic sparks burst out from his eyes, like a lighter igniting.

Immediately afterward, he seemed to hear a "poof" sound in his heart, and a golden flame suddenly burned in the depths of his eyes…

«Buzz—»

Lin Yi felt that everything around him had become dim—although, the desolate land was already dim and chaotic, filled with misty fog everywhere, under the observation of «Vision Insight», even the gray fog had a filter applied…

Some things floating on the surface were brushed away by his vision, while the traces of some deep transcendent powers were slowly outlined in his vision.

Those invisible grid lines distributed inside the giant egg once again slowly emerged in his current vision, and began to spread out from him as the center, like ripples…

Lao Mo, who was closest to Lin Yi, had a sharp glint flash in the depths of his eyes.

He slightly turned his head and focused his attention on Lin Yi.

"Hmm…? !"

An auxiliary "domain"?

A thought appeared in Lao Mo's mind, but immediately he realized a more serious problem—no, this kind of domain…!

He didn't say much, just quietly reached out and placed his hand on the pig-slaughtering knife.

As Lin Yi observed, some terrifying waves rolled back from the desolate land as if echoing from an empty valley, like the boundaries of two domains colliding and creating a tide-like counter wave, and then surging back towards Lin Yi.

Just when this wave appeared, a faint aura flashed from the blade of the pig-slaughtering knife, directly overturning the returning wave like a second wave…

Lin Yi, who was spreading his vision, also felt a sense of progress being suppressed in the previous moment, but in the next moment, he found that Lao Mo seemed to have pushed him, so that his vision could continue to spread smoothly…

The grid lines of the vision slowly unfolded, but as they unfolded, he began to discover that this desolate land was not a flat layer, but a constantly wriggling, constantly rippling surface.

If you stick a plastic film on the sea surface, when the sea breeze blows across the water surface, the plastic film will fluctuate accordingly, this desolate land is like this.

And what's even more strange is that the deeper into the desolate land, the denser the grid lines become.

This immediately reminded Lin Yi of the gravity model, that pit was like a celestial body generating gravity, constantly contracting everything around it.

He naturally knew what was in the depths of the desolate land—that strange deep pit, which would emit rhythmic breathing sounds, and would also squeeze out solidified transcendent power from the cracks like producing rubber.

And those large plaster bodies distributed on the desolate land, like chess pieces scattered on the grid lines, according to some special arrangement rules, like electronic components, make those grid lines form more complex transcendent power flow trajectories, and these trajectories, like particle accelerators, make the entire matrix a kind of engine…

It's just that now, the flow of transcendent power in it is not stable, just like a stream being dammed in places where it shouldn't be, and widening the opening in places where it should be dammed, making the originally stable flow area a dangerous area.

And in some places, some characteristics in the large plaster bodies seem to have been destroyed, directly playing a counterproductive role.

As for that fanatic little leader, after opening the matrix, he began to "divert" with great fanfare, seemingly wanting to dredge out a relatively stable flow area in it…

Lin Yi understood the behavior of that fanatic little leader a little.

He guessed that after this fanatic little leader sorted out such a stable flow area, he would abandon the other large plaster bodies, and the part that was abandoned might be the "bad debts" that Lao Mo was asked to deal with?

At this moment, Lao Mo's voice rang in his ear: "That's enough… I can't stop people if you keep peeking."

Lin Yi was激灵, his vision suddenly shattered, and the golden light in his eyes also extinguished.

He recovered and called out: "Lao Mo."

Lao Mo nodded slightly, quietly leaned closer, and then whispered: "It's almost enough to strip off the underwear, you still want to pat people's butts, I can't protect you if you get discovered."

Lin Yi shrank his neck.

Before long, the entire matrix trembled, and even more rumbling sounds rang out under the desolate land, as if magma was roaring, about to collapse the mountains and crack the earth.

Feeling this just change, some fanatics were frightened, and that strange art female teacher also looked around, and some flustered expressions appeared on that grayish face under the斗篷.

On the contrary, Lao Mo laughed out loud after sensing the change in the matrix: "Did you guys break this matrix?"

The strange art female teacher angrily said: "What nonsense are you talking about?"

Lao Mo smiled: "It seems you don't know, either… after all, you were also 'voluntarily sent over'."

"You!"

The strange art female teacher immediately turned red with anger, but she didn't dare to explode because the fanatic little leader was nearby doing serious business.

And that fanatic little leader's face also changed, but he didn't have the mind to pay attention to Lao Mo's ridicule, just continued to mobilize the power of the matrix.

Lao Mo let go of the pig-slaughtering knife, folded his arms in front of his chest, and looked at the funny scene in front of him with great interest.

And not knowing whether it was thanks to having observed the general "appearance" of the desolate land with «Vision Insight» before, now Lin Yi can easily sense some underground changes even in the normal state.

Under his current perception, this entire matrix is like an engine using diluted fuel, trembling non-stop, even black smoke is burning, but there is no way to start it completely.

No wonder Lao Mo would say that this matrix was broken by them.

The eerie art teacher also kept a sullen face and remained silent. It would be an utter disgrace to reveal this matter. A group of fanatical believers gathered together, only to have their home stolen, the matrix tampered with right before their eyes.

Tampering would have been one thing, but in the end, the matrix was detonated. Many of them, beneath their cloaks, were actually a picture of injury and disability. If they hadn't relied on their clothes to conceal their injuries, they would have been in an extremely sorry state right now.

What frustrated them the most was that, even now, they didn't know when the other party had completed the tampering, let alone find the instigator.

Lin Yi had only discovered it when he activated "Vision Domain Insight" just now. This matrix, "hacked" by Kuai Hongji, was something the fanatical believers had no way to repair, and had already become a complete mess. The leader of the fanatical believers was currently trying to sort out the "relatively problem-free" part of the mess.

But judging from the current situation, it seemed that just sorting out the problem-free part was enough to make him feel overwhelmed.

"Is it going to work… If it doesn't, forget it. I'll just wipe out the entire matrix for you," Lao Mo said, stroking his pig-slaughtering knife, with a hint of eagerness.

The leader of the fanatical believers immediately panicked upon hearing this. He had asked you to balance the books, why were you thinking of such dangerous ideas as tearing up the ledger?

"Don't, don't, don't… Creating a matrix is not easy. Can't you take into account our efforts?"

Lao Mo sneered, "How many lives were harmed to build this matrix? Do I need to repeat it to you? And you talk about 'efforts'? Heh heh, I'm afraid it's not 'your efforts', is it?"

"I reiterate, these were all necessary sacrifices!" the leader of the fanatical believers said angrily.

"Oh, you're raising your voice? Are you trying to reason with me?" Lao Mo reflexively gripped the handle of the pig-slaughtering knife at his waist.

At that moment, Lin Yi clearly sensed that all the fanatical believers around him had perked up, and the eerie art teacher and the leader of the fanatical believers subconsciously took a step back.

"Don't, don't, don't… You have the better argument, I'll listen to you, okay?" the leader of the fanatical believers quickly relented, "Let's talk nicely, it's not right for you to pull out your weapon at every turn, is it? Let's just leave it at that…"

As he spoke, he slowly withdrew his hand from the large plaster figure in front of him.

"I've tried my best to preserve part of the matrix… The rest that are still running are out of control. You 'balance' them for me. If the higher-ups ask, I'll say you did it, we tried our best to stop you but couldn't," the leader of the fanatical believers weakly pleaded.

Lao Mo glanced at him, "It's not okay for me to take the blame every time. Let's stick to the old rules, and say it was a lost security guard who chased an enraged angel all the way here, and then… you make something up."

As soon as Lin Yi heard the words "old rules", his eyelids twitched fiercely. What a smooth and familiar way to frame someone…

Was the Security Guard Emperor the real scapegoat all along?!

Looking at the leader of the fanatical believers, Lin Yi seemed to foresee the scene of the leader of the fanatical believers and the surrounding fanatical believers colluding with each other and responding to the higher-ups.

"Anyway, it can't be repaired, so let's not repair it…"

"If the higher-ups ask, just say it was destroyed."

"What? Could it be that we originally messed it up?"

"How is that possible!"

"It was directly captured by the enemy!"

"We tried hard too, but it was useless, we couldn't stop them…"

"You also know, security guard! A security guard!"

"Such a big security guard! Holding a lamp in his left hand and a baseball bat in his right hand, he chased this enraged angel and hacked at him directly. If our matrix hadn't been activated in time, we would have been wiped out!"

"What? How could a security guard come to our place?"

"If I had known, I would have prepared in advance, would we have ended up like this?"

"This last part is what we managed to preserve with great effort."

"Ah, yes, yes, that's right, we also suffered heavy losses…"

"Ah, no trouble, no trouble, it's our duty, ah yes, yes… Right, right… It's okay, it's okay, we can make more…"

…

That scene vividly appeared in Lin Yi's mind. He even imagined the eerie art teacher changing back into that professional attire and following the leader of the fanatical believers like a secretary, nodding and bowing to the BOSS above.

Damn it, the economy is sluggish, even the workplace of fanatical believers is so smoggy?

On the other side, the leader of the fanatical believers also wiped away a handful of sweat and pondered, "Security guard… It's not impossible, it's almost the same anyway."

Lao Mo was very satisfied with this answer, "The matter of the scapegoat, oh no, the person responsible, is settled, let's talk about the reward now?"

"This time you have a lot of mess, the reward… needs to be increased a bit."

"Will it be up to you to 'discretion'?" Lao Mo sneered, stretched out his hand, "Pay half first."

The corner of the leader of the fanatical believers' mouth twitched, "We've cooperated so many times, are you still afraid I'll default on the debt?"

"In the past, it was small-scale, but now that there's so much debt, I'm really afraid."

"You…" The leader of the fanatical believers bared his teeth, "Fine!"

He gritted his teeth and reached into the cloak, groping around inside.

As he groped, his originally somewhat unnatural grayish complexion suddenly darkened like dead ashes. Those who didn't know would have thought he had his kidneys cut out.

Lin Yi watched with horror, his intuition telling him that there seemed to be a different "style" under the cloak of this leader of the fanatical believers, and this process of taking things out was not as simple as just taking something out.

Finally, the leader of the fanatical believers slowly took out a few strange stone chips from under the cloak.

These stone chips as a whole presented a milky white color like mutton fat jade, and the whole body was rhomboid, a bit like a shuttle, with some slight protrusions in the middle, like fragments of some kind of sculpture.

But if you look closely, you will find that the edges of the "fragments" are surprisingly smooth, without any cracks.

「Those are not fragments… That is a complete whole.」 Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, trying to see more clearly, 「Huh, how does this thing look like… some kind of scale?」

"Three pieces?" Lao Mo raised his eyebrows.

The leader of the fanatical believers gritted his teeth, "I only have four pieces on me, I can't give you all of them."

Lao Mo sized him up, then said with a smile that was not a smile, and also not like a joke, "Knowing this, wouldn't it be better for me to just kill you?"