69novels Chapter 73 The Stinking Outsider
Chapter 73 The Stinking Outsider
The Star Giant stands in the depths of space.
He looked down at the immortal divine entity that was busy intercepting the gray wind nanomachines.
The amber tears of the grieving mother surged among the stars, and while she had blocked most of the gray-blue engulfing storm, many still lingered outside.
It seems that He won't be able to bother Luo Lan anytime soon.
The Star Giant withdrew its gaze and did not pursue.
Focusing his attention on the tiny, desolate, semi-transparent entity he held in his palm—Luo Lan's soul after he fell into [Eternal Stasis].
The Star Giant's fingertips trembled slightly.
A thin, ghostly blue soul flame was detached from the giant's fingertip, leaving a long trail in the vacuum, silently burning towards Luo Lan's stagnant soul.
Luo Lan's translucent soul suddenly lit up the moment it touched the ghostly blue soul fire.
The eerie blue flames meandered along the subtle veins of the soul, and under precise manipulation, they resembled an extremely accurate scalpel.
The remaining evil thoughts of the grieving mother were peeled away bit by bit.
That evil thought, like a living thing, curled up into tiny, dark red, fluffy things in the vacuum, just like a newly born evil thought slime, desperately writhing and trying to reattach itself to the surface of Luo Lan's soul.
But the Soulfire gave them no chance. With a swirling blue flame, the remaining evil thoughts were burned into nothingness.
[Psionic reserves...are about to run out.]
At the same moment the purification was completed, the Star Giant's body began to disintegrate.
The outermost silicate shell was the first to loosen and shatter into countless fragments of the asteroid, which then spun and drifted back to their original orbits under the pull of gravity.
The viscous stellar blood within the body burst open, transforming into a vast and dazzling nebula that coalesced into new star clusters in space.
The hydrogen and helium of the gas giant planet are released again, and the hydrogen and helium gas escapes from the chest cavity and expands again to form the atmosphere of the gas giant planet.
The fragments of the ice giant condensed back into cold blue ice crystals, peeled off the heat dissipation layer on the surface of the skull, crystallized in the low-temperature vacuum, and drifted into the distance.
Matter and antimatter vanished at his fingertips, and the ghostly blue soul flame was extinguished.
The wormhole ring binding device overhead collapsed into a flickering point of light before dissipating, thanks to the gravitational lens.
The entire disintegration process was extremely fast and quiet.
In the end, the enormous star-corpse giant transformed into a cloud of pale blue spiritual light, which then reformed into the shape of a small cat spirit.
The kitten leaped onto Luo Lan's soul shoulder, its tail wrapping around Luo Lan's translucent arm to hold it in place.
A cold blue subspace channel cracked open beneath Luo Lan's soul.
The distance of hundreds of millions of light-years was folded into a thin layer in subspace, and the cat spirit accelerated along with Luo Lan's soul.
Through regions crisscrossed by battlefields of nanomachines and amber-colored lights, through the edges of still-singing galaxies, through vast expanses of empty darkness…
The "Colorful Star Barrier" enveloping Akquad lights up ahead.
The moment the kitten's spirit and Luo Lan's soul passed through the "Stars," the constraints were lifted once more.
The eerie blue flames dancing on the kitten's spirit body suddenly dimmed. From dazzling to dim, from starlight-like brightness to the level of a candle.
Stars streaked by, the silver moon streaked by, clouds streaked by, mountains streaked by…
They returned with Luo Lan in the same way they left.
……
……
In the Holy Kingdom, in the border mountains, in the ruins of the three-tiered passageway of the collapsed Rift Ruins.
Amidst the ruins and rubble, Luo Lan's body remained in the same position as when his soul departed.
Meanwhile, Luo Lan's soul, still in [Eternal Sleep Stasis], passed through the thick limestone dome and silently fell back into the pale white bone claw of the left hand.
The stars twinkled for a moment once more.
The stars are always twinkling.
It's just that most of the time no one notices.
As the "stars" twinkled, Victor's last remaining power completely faded away.
The cat spirit, composed of pure psionic energy, disintegrated, and Victor's consciousness was reinjected into the skeleton cat corpse that lay paralyzed in a pile of rubble a thousand meters away from Luo Lan's body.
The brief resurgence of power dissipated, and Victor's [Life Skill: Eternal Sleep Stasis] was also dispelled.
Luo Lan suddenly sat up from the ground, her chest heaving violently.
"Uh! Cough cough—"
Before fainting, Luo Lan felt as if something was blocking her throat. As soon as she woke up, she instinctively coughed a few times, but nothing came out.
Luo Lan rubbed her temples with her fingers, her vision gradually clearing as she saw the ruins before her.
The ground was littered with charcoal and rubble, the air thick with the stench of blood and burnt earth. In the distance, fine white dust still drifted from the ashes left behind by the collapsed skeletal giant.
Luo Lan felt as if she had a dream, a very long dream.
I don't know if it was a nightmare or a pleasant dream, but I vaguely remember dreaming about the whole of Akquaid, and even my mother.
In my dream, I felt the familiar warmth of my childhood, heard my mother's voice, and heard a bowl of steaming soup.
Luo Lan couldn't remember the details of Ke Meng.
After the [casting-assembly] process, the memory is like a film strip that has been cut in half, leaving only a black screen behind.
[Oh right! Assembly...]
What did I spell again?
Luo Lan lowered his head, focused his mind, and activated [True Sight Lv.1] to introspect himself:
[Assembled: The slime of a flesh-and-slime aggregate]
[Rank: Gold]
[Attribute: Constitution +1]
Specialties: Semi-liquid, physical resistance
[Skill: Self-Healing Lv.2]
[Semi-liquid state: The entire body has been replaced by a semi-liquid biological form. This allows for some alteration of the organism's external shape or the morphology of its internal organs, and enhances the body's adaptability to various chaotic environments.]
[Physical Resistance: The semi-liquid fluid skin provides high resistance to conventional physical attacks such as blunt force, slashing, and impact (Diamond rank and below)]
[Self-Healing Lv.2: Consumes biomass energy to quickly restore physical damage. The ratio of restoration effect to biomass energy consumption increases with skill level.]
I quickly went through the updates to my own "panel".
Luo Lan's nerves, which had been tense due to amnesia, relaxed slightly.
Once the slime's mucus properties are integrated into the body, it significantly increases the slime's ability to withstand damage in melee combat.
But upon closer inspection, Luo Lan immediately noticed something amiss:
[A composite of flesh and blood slime? Shouldn't it be... a composite of evil thoughts slime?]
The name of the assembled extraordinary demonic organ should definitely not be this; this is something Luo Lan is certain of.
Having fought the mountain of slimes for a long time while piloting the Bone Gundam, Luo Lan personally shattered its core, so it was impossible for him to have forgotten its name.
That thing is called "Evil Thought Slime Aggregate".
Evil thoughts, not just flesh and blood.
[What's changed?]
As Luo Lan was frowning in thought, a soft, rustling sound came from the side.
The little Ragdoll cat, its fur now covered in optical camouflage and soft white fur, was taking unsteady little steps, stepping over the pebbles and charcoal slag scattered on the ground, as it slowly walked towards Luo Lan.
[Shouldn't Victor, whose consciousness resides within the Soul Stone, know things he himself doesn't remember?]
Luo Lan turned her head to look at the kitten, her expression serious:
"Victor, what just happened?"
The kitten stopped and tilted its head to lick its paw.
"To reiterate: Your soul level is still too weak to know about the existence beyond the 'starry sky'."
This was the second time Luo Lan had heard this; the first time was in the underground palace tomb.
However, Victor's tone was so calm and even that it left no room for rebuttal.
Luo Lan was unwilling to give up and pressed on, asking:
"Uh, Ah Cat, can't you put it another way? Don't be so direct, avoid the things I can't hear right now, and give me a general explanation?"
"Okay. Please wait a moment while the translation is in progress..."
A series of data streams flashed in the kitten's blue pupils, seemingly performing some extremely complex translation calculation.
Many streams of data flashed and disappeared in my pupils, as if I were searching through countless corpora:
"I am about to tell you in the most straightforward, objective, concise, direct, incisive, easy-to-understand, and suspenseful way..."
After a moment, as if it had finally found a "voice pack" that Luo Lan could understand and that was harmless, the kitten slowly opened its mouth and let out a series of meows:
"You stinking outsider, you've come all the way to Akquay to beg for food."
"ah??"