"… You really should have listened to her."
In an instant, the universe, the stars, and the flight faded away like a dream. Not even a ripple was left behind. Now, she could feel her body again. Her back was pressed against the weeds, and the gauze was pressed against her forehead. Her fingertips were wet and cold from the night dew. Her vision was still pitch-black. However, she could feel the thin layer of eyelids covering her eyeballs trembling. She just couldn't open them. The cat doctor was snuggling next to her. His furry body was curled up and warm. They were so close to each other, but she couldn't tell Meowie Hu what kind of state she was in.
That man's voice didn't come from her ears.
He seemed to have replaced Mrs. Manas' position. It was like an auditory hallucination caused by schizophrenia. He was mumbling from the depths of Lin Sanjiu's mind. His voice was trembling due to extreme excitement, "Of course, a lot of people would run around like a headless chicken when they were panicking and didn't know what to do. In the end, I was lured into their minds. You don't have to blame yourself. You are no different from them … However, I really didn't expect you to be a Growth-type. "
His tone was like a glutton sitting at the dining table waiting for his dinner.
"What is going on?" Lin Sanjiu couldn't speak. She could only repeat her thoughts over and over again, hoping that the man could hear her.
"My attachment condition, baby!" The man laughed in her mind. It was a very uncomfortable feeling.
[Nonsense, don't you think I don't know that this is your attachment condition?]
Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that the man could hear her thoughts again. She couldn't help feeling a chill run down her spine when she realized this.
"I'm a generous and fair person. If you want to use all your Potential Growth Value to exchange for some information from me, I will reluctantly agree to it." He laughed, feeling that he was being very humorous. His laughter was laced with sharp malice, "Let me ask you. How long do you think has passed since you opened your eyes in the Astral Plane? Let me make this clear. In my attachment condition, the flow of time is the same as in the outside world. "
As he spoke, an image appeared in Lin Sanjiu's mind.
It was a slippery, black leech, attached to her skin with its suckers. Somehow, she knew it was her skin. It was biting open her skin and sucking blood vigorously, its body gradually swelling up.
Of course, this could not be the real situation in her mind. Perhaps her sea of consciousness had felt threatened and was desperately warning the surface of her consciousness.
That pig-eyed man was lying in his brain … like a leech sucking blood, sucking on his consciousness?
"Leech?" The man snorted in a low voice and said in annoyance, "I don't care what you say. In any case, you are about to retire and become an ordinary evolver. But let me tell you, I'm not absorbing your Potential Value through the low-level leech-like method that you think it is! Do you know how rare and amazing it is for my Willpower to activate the attachment condition in your brain?! "
"Why is your Higher Consciousness in my body?" Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat as she hurriedly asked.
"Weren't you the one who brought me in?" Talking did not stop the man from absorbing her potential value. From just now, she could clearly feel that there was something fading away in her body. It was like a sand tower standing in the wind, being blown away by the wind, slowly melting away in the wind.
Now that things had come to this, she started to miss the Nuwa genome that she had expelled from her body. Even if she still had the spores, she still had a way to fight back.
"You said I brought you in?" Lin Sanjiu feigned ignorance, "But I didn't!"
Deep in her mind, the man's voice was silent for a few seconds. Just when she was worried that he would not answer her, the man suddenly let out a long sigh, "Wow, I didn't expect this … Even though your Higher Consciousness has been used up, your Potential Value is still so amazing … Unbelievable, it will continue to grow! This is my first time absorbing a Growth-type. I wonder if I will become a Growth-type after I finish absorbing it … I don't think you deserve such an amazing Potential Value. If you give it to me, I can still use it to my full potential. "
Just like how it was difficult to wear silk clothes at night, even the pig-eyed man found it hard to resist the urge to show off at this moment.
"But I didn't bring you in …"
"If you want to know, just answer my question. How long do you think you have been in the Astral Plane? "
Even when she was trapped in his attachment condition, she was still in the Astral Plane. Lin Sanjiu thought for a moment, "... Maybe 30 to 40 minutes?"
"Wrong!" The pig-eyed man said proudly, "Let me tell you, you have actually been in the Astral Plane for at least 50 minutes. Fifty minutes ago, you and your friend appeared in the Astral Plane, and I found you. "
A few questions popped up in Lin Sanjiu's mind, but after some thought, she felt that something was wrong. Just then, she heard the rustling of clothes outside. Then, she heard Bohemia's voice clearly, "She hasn't woken up yet?"
Apparently, the pig-eyed man had sensed the situation through her consciousness, so he immediately shut his mouth.
The cat doctor asked curiously, "Why did you come back alone?"
"Sh * t!" Bohemia cursed under her breath. Then, Lin Sanjiu felt someone slapping her face a few times. The cold fingertips stung her skin as if they were burning. Recalling that she had slapped Puppeteer's face the same way, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but admit that karma came fast. "Damn it," Bohemia cursed under her breath.
Of course, she couldn't react at all. From the cat doctor and Bohemia's point of view, she was no different from a vegetable right now.
The pig-eyed man held his breath and observed Lin Sanjiu for a while. When he realized that Bohemia was just running around in circles and panicking for no reason, he relaxed and chuckled, "How pitiful. You can only be anxious outside!" "Hah!
"Tell me, I entered the Astral Plane with her 50 minutes ago. What happened after that?"
"I observed the both of you from afar for some time. You exchanged a few words at the beginning, then your friend hid in your starlight. She even pointed to the place where you were at that time. "
In other words, the memory she had after she opened her eyes really happened?
"I couldn't hear it clearly at that time. I only knew that you were going somewhere, but I guess it should be the branch of the Concretion World. The branch of the Concretion World had disappeared for quite some time. Many posthumans didn't know about it, so they went there empty-handed … Sure enough, I was right. Both of you started to wander around the area like headless flies. "
When he said that, he laughed again. Half of his Potential Growth Value had been sucked away, so of course he was in a good mood.
"Forty minutes ago, ten minutes after you entered the Astral Plane, when you were about to find someone to ask, I rushed over and used the attachment condition on you. Unfortunately, my condition can only hold one person at a time. Otherwise, I could lock her in here as well. That would be great … Do you know what is the name of my condition? "
Lin Sanjiu only hoped that he could finish his sentence before he finished absorbing all of her Potential Growth Value.
"'Sphere of Deceit'. What do you think? Not a bad name, right? From the moment you entered the Astral Plane, it changed your perception … "Lin Sanjiu didn't know if it was because he was proud of his ability or because the battle was too fruitful, but the pig-eyed man was so excited that he started talking faster," You can think of it as my condition doing surgery on your perception. You opened your eyes, talked to your friend, tried to find the branch of the Concretion World … This series of real events was intercepted by my 'Sphere of Deceit'. I used it to replace the moment when you were attacked and fell into my hands. In other words, in your mind, you thought that you entered the Astral Plane 40 minutes ago, and the memory of the previous 10 minutes was blank … Because I removed that part of your memory and moved it back to 10 minutes later. "
Lin Sanjiu couldn't believe that he could explain so fluently. After thinking for a few seconds, she finally understood what he was doing.
If her memory was a ribbon, then he had cut off the second last segment of her memory and replaced the end of the ribbon with it. As a result, there was a gap in the ribbon. Unfortunately, she had been sleeping before she entered the Astral Plane, so the gap in her memory had always been empty! No wonder she couldn't figure out when she had been tricked. Because what she had felt was her own real experience.
"I understand now. I didn't expect that there would be such a condition … It's really impressive. But what happened after I entered your Sphere of Deceit? How could I hear my friend's voice? " Lin Sanjiu carefully avoided mentioning Bohemia's name and asked, "She also reminded me that I was locked in the condition … Oh, not only that, I even talked to a red star!"
"I've never seen anyone as curious as you."
The pig-eyed man hesitated for a few seconds before he mumbled. "In order to know the answer, you are willing to accept that you are going to become a normal person …? If you think that I will expose my weakness if I talk too much, you are wrong. "
Lin Sanjiu didn't plan to do that.
"After you entered the Sphere of Deceit, there is nothing new. You heard your friend's voice because she kept chasing after you outside, shouting and screaming … Sometimes, I didn't stop her and she passed into the ball. Then, because of the influence in the Ball of Vanity, your consciousness will reprocess this external information and turn it into a plot that is actually happening. "
The pig-eyed man explained patiently, "You have a dream before. It's like a dream. If someone dips your feet into water, you will dream that you are walking into a river … It's the same logic. The red star is also something you imagined. Otherwise, why would there be a market or a gas station? "
"So that's how it is …" Lin Sanjiu nodded in her heart. She could hear Bohemia and the cat doctor whispering to each other beside her body. They sounded anxious, but they still couldn't come up with a proper solution.
"I think my Potential Growth Value is going to be sucked dry soon."
Lin Sanjiu would be lying if she said she wasn't worried. However, she tried her best to maintain her composure and asked, "I have one last question. I was clearly attacked in the Astral Plane of Willpower. How did I somehow leave the Astral Plane of Willpower and return to my own body? Why did I bring you in? I didn't leave. "
"You are really not smart." The pig-eyed man clicked his tongue and replied, "When you are trapped in my sphere, you will run in a certain direction, and my sphere will follow you. Of course, I don't mean follow randomly. My attachment condition is very special. As long as you run far enough, your higher consciousness will bring my sphere out of the Astral Plane and back into your mind. It's the same as when you leave the Astral Plane, but this time, you were tricked into leaving. "
"Then, why are you here?"
"Why don't you have any common sense about higher consciousness? The attachment condition is a part of my higher consciousness. Once it enters, doesn't it mean that my higher consciousness will enter as well? "
"Oh, it's because my Potential Growth Value is about to run out, so I panicked a little and forgot. So, the thing in my mind right now is just a part of your higher consciousness? "
The pig-eyed man sighed, disappointed that Lin Sanjiu didn't live up to his expectations.
"Sigh, what's wrong with you? You are a person who can enter the Astral Plane, so why are you asking me for basic knowledge?" He seemed to want to concentrate on absorbing the remaining Potential Growth Value. He said a little irritably, "This is the final form of my higher consciousness. It is the star you see in the Astral Plane! In other words, a star has entered my body. Do you understand? "
Realization finally dawned on Lin Sanjiu.
"I understand," she said sincerely. "You are really patient. Thank you."
The pig-eyed man didn't say anything for a long time. He was probably wondering if he had misheard her or if she had lost her mind.
"I don't care what you are planning," he said after a while. He was wary and excited at the same time, "I have already absorbed all of your Potential Growth Value! I didn't even leave a bit of your higher consciousness behind. "
Lin Sanjiu wasn't angry. Instead, she was very considerate.
"Then, how are you going to return to the Astral Plane? Your higher consciousness has been disconnected from your brain. You can't return to the Astral Plane using your cultivation method, right? "
If she were to use Magus' analogy, everyone's body was like a computer, and the cultivation method of higher consciousness was like a network cable. In the end, the information about higher consciousness, which varied from person to person, would be uploaded to the World Wide Web known as the Astral Plane.
If that was the case, the pig-eyed man's condition was a bit like a computer virus. Like a virus, it entered the "computer" through the "network" and even affected Lin Sanjiu's computer to the point that it couldn't work.
Since everyone's condition was different, the "network cable" was also different. Logically speaking, since Bohemia couldn't open the [School of Higher Consciousness], Lin Sanjiu couldn't enter the Astral Plane through the [Garden of the Intersecting Pathway]. However, the pig-eyed man clicked his tongue and said, "Why are you so stupid? Do you think I can trap myself? Even though I can't use my own cultivation method, I can use yours. "
"Use mine?"
"Yes, you haven't forgotten, right? I've absorbed a bit of your higher consciousness. Just like how every piece of your skin contains all your genes, even if it's just a drop of higher consciousness, as long as I have it, I can find the cultivation method of higher consciousness from it … "The pig-eyed man didn't waste any time. He must have attacked Lin Sanjiu while he was talking because his voice was cut off abruptly.
If she could smile, she really wanted to.
Lin Sanjiu waited quietly for a while without any thoughts in her mind. Bohemia and the cat doctor seemed to have reached an agreement. They decided to sit at the side and observe Lin Sanjiu's condition. This was exactly what Lin Sanjiu wanted.
After an unknown amount of time, when the pig-eyed voice suddenly tore through the silence, almost mournfully ringing in her mind, she almost couldn't control herself and wanted to laugh out loud.
"What's going on?" The pig-eyed man screamed in disbelief, "How is this possible? This, this isn't right. This is impossible! "
Lin Sanjiu waited for his next words with satisfaction.
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