"No wonder the rumor said that this wall could be opened. It wasn't a wall at all!"
Lin Sanjiu's eyes lit up. Just as the words on the card in her hand became a blurry image in her field of vision, her gaze fell on the large space behind the wall that suddenly opened up.
Her reaction at that moment was so fast that she couldn't believe it. Almost at the same time, she waved her hand and the wall returned to its original position, blocking the entrance of the storeroom.
It was only then that the people in the storeroom began to shout out. The wall disappeared and reappeared too quickly. As long as one wasn't looking at it, he or she would only see a flash of light in front of their eyes before it dimmed again.
"What happened just now?"
"Light — there's light. Did the wall open …?"
"Am I seeing things?"
As the crowd rushed forward, Lin Sanjiu retreated a few steps from the wall and squeezed back into the crowd. The wall only disappeared after she placed her hand on it. However, as everyone's attention was drawn to the wall, she was the only one in the dark. After she retreated for a while, someone pulled her back and asked, "Did you see it clearly?"
Not only did Lin Sanjiu see it clearly, she even recognized it.
She had thought about the location of the factory many times. She had thought about how far it was from Fanjia City. She was also shocked by the old woman's ability to travel through space. However, Lin Sanjiu had never thought that the factory would be on a small spaceship.
Among the crowd, some people rushed forward and punched the thick wall. Their voices echoed through the ceiling. Obviously, everyone wanted to get out of the warehouse as soon as possible.
However, they didn't know that even if they got out of the factory, there would be no place for them outside.
In that split second, Lin Sanjiu realized that after she removed one of the walls, there was a single-sized lookout station on the wing of the airship. It was tall, wide, and connected to the river at the back. On the wall of the observation post, there was a typical rectangular window of the spaceship. Outside the window was a pale blue sky, as if they were flying in the sky.
What caught Lin Sanjiu's attention was that the single-sized observation post wasn't a small one. It stood in contrast to the huge warehouse. It wasn't enlarged, and its platform could only accommodate one adult. However, the boundary of the warehouse was tightly integrated with the single lookout station.
People always use themselves to measure space and size. However, when Lin Sanjiu was in the storeroom, she judged the size of the storeroom to be very large. When she looked outside, she felt a little dizzy because she knew that it was indeed a one-man lookout station. Just by looking across the border, she even felt a little dizzy.
However, the dizziness was not the reason why she hurriedly put the wall back.
"You glanced at the card too quickly just now," Mrs. Manas said anxiously. "Even I'm not sure what's written on the card. But there are a few words that I still remember. Something about 'connection', 'door' … "
Lin Sanjiu ran against the crowd that was rushing toward the gray wall and quickly hid behind a corner. When she saw that no one was paying attention to her, she quickly summoned her [Facial Hair] again. This time, she didn't have the time to add more hair to her eyebrows and eyelashes. She slapped her forehead with a "pa" sound, and the hair was connected to her hairline. Most of her forehead was gone.
Lin Sanjiu smiled bitterly when she heard what Mrs. Manas said.
If Mrs. Manas wasn't mistaken, Lin Sanjiu knew what was going on. The entire factory was made up of several subspaces.
There was an unfathomably high and bottomless assembly line, a pitch-black space that resembled the universe, a river and a sky in between a pocket dimension … Each subspace had its own set of rules of space. In addition, they were pieced together by several subspaces. They might not be similar to the outside world, and they might not be similar to each other either. That was why the interior of each subspace had such a strange and varied feeling of space.
Someone had pieced together the "Factory" subspace and installed it in the airship. They had also set up a few entrances and exits. The wall that Lin Sanjiu had put away was actually a one-way door that the mastermind had specially made for the "Factory" subspace. They would never have imagined that a group of ordinary people would be able to put away an entire one-way door.
"This time, it was weakened by 19% …" Mrs. Manas muttered, "Your luck is really … terrible."
She didn't want the effect to come.
Leaning against another wall, Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes and took a deep breath. Almost everyone had rushed to that crucial wall. Lin Sanjiu was alone at the back of the crowd. She was neither too close nor too far away from the wall. Perhaps, she could hide herself and not attract any attention.
She thought back to the scene she saw in the blink of an eye. Before she could purse her lips tightly, she saw a flash of light from the corner of her eye.
The wall disappeared again.
Lin Sanjiu's heart leaped into her throat. She slowly turned her head.
The tumult of voices in the storeroom, which for the moment was still humming, was beginning to die away as more and more feet retreated and mouths closed. The crowd gradually moved back from the wall, and made a large space for her. Although Lin Sanjiu couldn't see the empty space from the gap between her head and shoulders, she knew what the crowd had seen.
After all, everyone in the warehouse had been temporarily bestowed with an evolved ability by the old lady. Perhaps, she had personally captured some of them. Perhaps, none of them had forgotten that blurry face.
"It's … it's you …" someone said with a trembling voice.
Lin Sanjiu's heart was pounding. She clenched her fists tightly. After removing the wall, Lin Sanjiu took a quick glance and saw a head slowly rising from the floor. Lin Sanjiu had engraved the appearance of the old woman into her bones, so even if she only saw the back of the head with a white bun, she immediately recognized the old woman.
There was only one destination for the old lady, which was formed by Higher Consciousness, to emerge from the floor. It was the warehouse that held the high "credibility" ordinary people.
"Don't go out."
Her voice was dry and hoarse. Although it wasn't loud, everyone was focused on it. The commotion from the crowd had already died down. Only a soft, trembling voice could be heard, echoing like an undercurrent. Lin Sanjiu couldn't see the skinny old lady through the crowd. She could only see the shoulders of some of the people trembling uncontrollably.
Someone suddenly sucked in a breath and said, "It's that watch —"
He seemed to be startled by his own words and immediately stopped talking. Lin Sanjiu understood. The old lady must have opened the list of [Concept Mishmash] in the air.
"There are so many people … Can she target so many people at once?"
In other words, when facing the old lady, she couldn't even use the human wave tactic —
A female voice near the corner of the wall suddenly screamed, "There's more!"
"What?"
Lin Sanjiu quickly walked toward the direction of the voice. She scanned the area where the crowd was thinner and almost cried out in surprise.
One after another, the old women rose from the floor of the single observation deck. Each of them was a duplicate of the old woman in black pants, black clothes, hair, and wrinkles. Without any expression on their faces, they strode across the observation deck and into the storeroom. The ordinary people did not even have the courage to stand still. Instead, they staggered backward in panic and sobbing.
A list of words floated in the air beside each old lady. Every old lady formed by Higher Consciousness could activate [Concept Mishmash].
Lin Sanjiu felt her scalp go numb. She couldn't even feel her hands and feet.
Just what kind of person was she? Just what kind of combat power did she have to be able to divide countless Willpower as she pleased? Moreover, she was able to transform these countless Willpower into an old woman with high combat power and special abilities that could not be resisted. She was able to defeat almost all of the evolved humans.
The real owner of [Concept Mishmash] should be almost invincible, right?
Even if it was Silvan, Puppeteer, or Hei Zeji, the outcome would be the same. No matter how strong or fast they were, how could they resist when faced with countless [Concept Mishmash]?
If she wanted to fight with that person, how could she fight? Who could fight her?
She could only hope that her [Facial Hair] could disguise herself as a normal person so that she wouldn't be noticed by the old ladies. However, she still had 80% of her combat power left. If anyone were to check her combat power, they would realize that she was like a tower among a group of 1.5 meters tall people. No wonder Mrs. Manas said that she was unlucky.
"No, no, calm down. The reason why there are so many old ladies is because there are too many targets in the storeroom. They need to distribute the targets." Lin Sanjiu's eyes darted back and forth. Which one of them was "in charge" of her?
Which old lady will activate [Concept Mishmash] on me? "
"Anyone with a temporary ability to evolve."
"Anyone with a temporary ability to evolve."
There were more than a dozen old women, and they said the same thing one after another. Some of them only started talking when the others were halfway through their sentences, and some of them only started talking after they had finished their sentences. It sounded confusing, and it made people dizzy. However, it was obvious that this was the prerequisite for the [Concept Collision].
Everyone in the storeroom, including Lin Sanjiu, could not escape its range. "So, the temporary ability I gave them was actually such a deep trap."
"Found it!" Lin Sanjiu's heart skipped a beat. She aimed at the old lady who had just finished her sentence and activated the ability she chose from the screen.
"You will listen to my instructions and do one thing."
The dozen old ladies spoke one after another.
"Well, I didn't go back on my words. I managed to update a chapter today. I've been frustrated lately, so I treated all of you like trash cans. It's quite embarrassing … Let me put it in a lighter way. "
There is a saying that a person who doesn't study doesn't know the ways of the world. For example, I bet that none of you know that Liang Shiqiu once wrote the word "eat shit" in his prose … and the target was a human, not a dog.
(End of this chapter)
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