"Did I become smaller? Or is this factory too big?"
Lin Sanjiu sat face up on a black rubber track. For a few seconds, she didn't know where to look. She looked around blankly.
The track was covered with white scratches, and it was still warm from the Dynamo Core's operation. It buzzed slightly as it carried her forward. Other than the fact that it was as wide as four roads, it was no different from a normal track.
No, there was one more important difference.
At this time, there were people sitting on the tracks that were moving smoothly in front of them. When she looked around, she saw a few familiar figures. They were the ordinary people who had traveled with her just now. Behind two motionless figures, she also saw the skinny man — or rather, the back of the skinny man's bloodied head.
So, regardless of whether they were dead or alive, they had all come to the same place...
All of a sudden, a silver metal clip the size of a crane descended from the sky and pierced into her field of vision. It clamped down on the track in front of her. When it rose again, Lin Sanjiu looked up at it in a daze.
The skinny man's lifeless body was clamped limply in the metal clamp. His limbs were dangling from his body. The items that he had hidden in his jacket fell to the ground. The Swiss Army knife, the fog ball, the canned food … All of them fell on the track and rolled down from both sides. The items that he treasured a moment ago had fallen into the abyss on both sides of the track, but no one paid any attention to them anymore.
Lin Sanjiu watched as the skinny man's body was moved out of the track. The clamp loosened its grip, and the body fell to the bottom of the track with a faint thud.
When the track brought her past the spot where the skinny man had fallen, she crawled a few steps to the edge of the track and looked down. She saw another track moving in a different direction about ten meters below her, but the skinny man was nowhere to be seen. The track was stained with blood. Layers of red and black intertwined. As Lin Sanjiu was being carried further and further away, she saw another corpse with a pale face being carried out of the track. It was pushed in the opposite direction and quickly disappeared from her sight.
If one were to look down, they would only see even more gigantic machinery, pipes, tracks, and gears. It was so deep that one could not even see the bottom. It was so deep that even one's gaze could be swallowed. Lin Sanjiu was like a raw material that had shrunk to the size of a palm. She had just fallen into the belly of a giant factory and was about to go through a series of complicated processes. She had no idea what she would become in the end.
What was going on between the old woman and this factory?
Lin Sanjiu raised her head. One after another, the same tracks intertwined like ribbons hanging in the sky. Their cold, smooth, long silvery luster crossed each other, and under the steady sound of the mechanical core, they moved forward in an orderly manner.
When she looked back, she saw the place where she fell. It was a plastic cylinder with a diameter of at least twenty to thirty meters. The opening at the end was in mid-air. It seemed like all the people who fell from the old lady's sack had fallen into this plastic cylinder and hit the tracks.
Her questions were like a vast ocean, enough to drown herself.
"You should take off your [Facial Hair] first," Mrs. Manas reminded her, "This place is very strange. You better be careful. It's weird. Those normal people in front of you seem to have lost their souls. They haven't moved for a long time … "
It was possible that the old woman had done something to them.
It seemed like only her group of people had lost their souls. If Lin Sanjiu listened carefully, she could make out the faint sounds of human voices coming from afar. However, as the voices were too far away, they had lost most of their original form. Only a thread of fear remained in the voice, and it was still able to touch Lin Sanjiu's nerves.
Even she was shocked and confused, let alone those normal people who lived a peaceful life and didn't even have to fight.
She raised her hand as she thought, and when she touched her eyebrows, she was shocked. She had never felt so much hair on her face before. It was like a mass of squirrel tails, and even her fingertips were swallowed up.
"How much hair is there?" When she touched it with her hand, she couldn't even feel where her eyes were.
Lin Sanjiu plucked the [Facial Hair] from her right eyebrow. She immediately felt the energy in her body surging. It was as if she had been suppressed under the water for too long and couldn't wait to come up for a breath of fresh air.
"So, removing a part of your hair can help you regain some of your combat power," Mrs. Manas sighed.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was about to pluck her left eyebrow, a sharp electronic voice suddenly rang out. It shocked her so much that she trembled. "Posthuman detected!" The urgent and sharp voice instantly filled the entire factory. It was accompanied by a series of alarms, "Posthuman detected! A04 detected! A04 detected! "
Lin Sanjiu cursed inwardly. Then, she understood.
The track that she was on now should be A04 detected.
Before the [Facial Hair] could warm up, Lin Sanjiu quickly pressed it back into her eyebrow. For a moment, she was so nervous that she held her breath. The item description only mentioned that she could only remove her eyebrow every eight hours to try to change to a weakened state. As for whether part of her eyebrow would remain the same after repeatedly removing her eyebrow for a short period of time, it was unclear.
"Ah, thank goodness, thank goodness."
When the feeling of helplessness once again loosened her muscles and strength, she heard Mrs. Manas let out a sigh of relief. "You're lucky. You've recovered to a weakened state of 94%."
This time, Mrs. Manas was very sincere.
There were always some ambiguities in the usage of Special Items. Perhaps, it was because Special Items were "alive" that there was room for them to grow. Lin Sanjiu sat on the track and held her breath for a few seconds. After the alarm rang for the first time, it stopped ringing. Now, there was only an echo. Lin Sanjiu couldn't help feeling a little scared, "So, 6% of my combat power … is coincidentally at a level that this factory can't detect?"
"It should be," Mrs. Manas answered, "Don't the detection range usually have a margin of error?"
"Hmm," Lin Sanjiu replied. Then, both of them fell silent.
The track was still moving at a steady and slow speed. It sent the people in front of it into a square-shaped metal dome in the distance. The moment the people got close, they were swallowed by the shadows. After the alarm disappeared completely, nothing seemed to have happened in the factory. Everything was running according to plan. Perhaps it was because Lin Sanjiu reacted quickly that the alarm ended early.
"Speaking of combat power …" Mrs. Manas was the first to speak, "Did you figure it out?"
Lin Sanjiu let out a long sigh.
It was such an obvious mistake. How could she not figure it out until now?
Lin Sanjiu had always thought that when she was in danger, all she needed to do was to wipe her hand, and the [Planar World] would retract her [Facial Hair]. Just now, she had removed her [Facial Hair] because she wasn't in a hurry. However, now that she thought about it, she realized that converting her [Facial Hair] into a card might not work.
Wasn't the [Planar World] part of her combat power?
If it was a part of her combat power, wouldn't it be weakened by 94%?
Lin Sanjiu could understand 6% of her combat power, but the real problem was, what should she do when her [Planar World], her [Mosaic Censorship], and her [Air Vortex] were at 6%?
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