The person did not seem to notice that Lin Sanjiu had woken up.
The sound of heavy and rapid breathing, accompanied by a low hiss, hovered above her for a second or two. Then she heard someone's mouth open. There was a loud stirring of liquid between the lips and teeth. Suddenly, a voice with the sound of water began to sing a song against her ear.
It was a tuneless song. The lyrics and pitch were random and unpleasant, "La, la, la … Scalp and hair … Piece after piece, I've collected them all. Now, I need scalp and hair …"
Before the last word of the song faded away, Lin Sanjiu suddenly raised her arm and threw a towel imbued with [Level 6 Divine Power] at the person's head. She did not have much divine power left in the [Salvation of God], and this was her last and most powerful "towel". The Level Six divine power hit the ground with a loud bang, and it was as if half of a mountain had crashed into the ground. For a moment, the earth shook and the sky shook, and the sound was shocking.
The moment she felt the force on her hair being released, she immediately leaped into the air. The towel landed on the broken wall with a thud. The ground outside the broken wall sank into a deep trench. Dirt, rocks, and weeds tumbled into the trench. The Level 6 Divine Power had forcefully gouged out a long gash in the ground. The gash was so wide that it could fit a few grown men lying side by side.
However, the person who grabbed her hair was nowhere to be seen.
Divine Power was formless and colorless, so Lin Sanjiu could see the ground and the deep trench in her eyes. The person who grabbed her hair must not have been hit because there was not a single drop of blood at the bottom of the trench. However, there were only a few scattered ruins in the empty wasteland. In the blink of an eye, the person seemed to have evaporated into thin air.
"Who is it?" Even though she knew it was useless, she still shouted.
A gust of wind blew across the flat ground, and the weeds bent in its wake. When the wind hit her face, the low and hoarse voice suddenly rang out, "Scalp and hair, can I have them?"
Lin Sanjiu hurriedly took a few steps back. She felt the wind carrying the voice past her shoulder and disappear behind her. She could not tell where the speaker was. It sounded like a speck of dust blown by the wind.
She quietly held the [All Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix] in her hand and shouted, "You want my scalp and hair? Then why don't you come out and get it? "
The empty field answered her with silence.
"Which persona are you?" Lin Sanjiu sneered, "You guys sure put in a lot of effort just to kill me. Did Septimus expose my location? "
She had to lure him into saying at least one more sentence before she could determine his location.
"20 centimeters by 20 centimeters … Cut it neatly …"
It sounded like a song, but it also sounded like a speech. Sure enough, the voice rang out again. Lin Sanjiu twisted her body, and with a thought, a force of gravity pulled the air around her, creating a shrill sound. A black shadow rose from the direction where the voice came from. With a strong suction force, the shadow covered Lin Sanjiu's face in the blink of an eye.
It was only when Lin Sanjiu pressed both her hands on the shadow that she realized it was just a rock half the size of a human.
Shards of rock flew in all directions like a sharp rain of pebbles. Lin Sanjiu quickly curled up and shielded her face with her hands. The pebbles cut her palms and arms painfully. Before she could figure out why the [All Birds Pay Homage to the Phoenix] attracted a rock instead of a person, she suddenly felt her hair being grabbed by the back of her head.
"Hair and scalp …" The same voice brushed past her ear. It sounded like the rustling of a bug's feet or the rustling of a snake's abdomen against a rock. "One piece after another. I still need half more …"
Lin Sanjiu reached for the back of her head. Her [Mosaic Censorship] was still active, but her hands were in the air. She didn't grab anything.
"There is no one behind you!"
Mrs. Manas let out a loud cry.
"What?"
Lin Sanjiu asked reflexively, but she knew that Mrs. Manas was right. She could feel her hair sticking straight up in the air as if someone was grabbing it. She tried to grab it, but she couldn't touch anything except the tip of her hair.
It was as if the thing grabbing her hair was air.
"What's going on?" Lin Sanjiu gritted her teeth and yelled in her mind, "Try using your higher consciousness!"
Without waiting for Mrs. Manas's response, the higher consciousness that had helped her once in the hotel surged out and hit the air behind her. She could clearly hear the sound of the higher consciousness breaking through the weeds, breaking the wall and the rocks, but the force that was grabbing her hair became even stronger.
"Hair and scalp … Just a little bit more, just a little bit more …"
Lin Sanjiu was afraid that cutting off her hair wouldn't help her. The thing still wanted her scalp.
Lin Sanjiu felt a sharp pain in her scalp. She felt as if her hair was about to be torn off from her skull. She quickly deactivated her ability and held onto the roots of her hair as she yelled, "What the hell are you? Why do you want my scalp and hair? "
Lin Sanjiu's words were just an attempt to buy herself some time, but she didn't expect it to work. The force on her scalp suddenly stopped and stopped pulling her hair back.
"Because I … I don't have it … but you do." Lin Sanjiu calmed herself down and got closer to listen. The voice was neither male nor female. It sounded like the sound of rocks rubbing against each other. It didn't sound like it came from a human's vocal cords. "I … I need it …"
This thing had no form. No matter how many offensive abilities and items a posthuman had, they were useless if they couldn't land on it.
Since it had no form, what was it using to grab onto her hair?
Could it really be the air?
If it was really the air, then she had something that could deal with it …
"Oh? Why do you need it? "Lin Sanjiu panted as she asked.
"I … I want to … use a human …" The thing didn't finish its sentence before it was interrupted. The [Tornado Whip] whipped up a gust of wind from the bottom up. The gust of wind whistled through the air like a tornado rising from the ground. Lin Sanjiu felt a sharp pain at the roots of her hair, and tears streamed down her cheeks reflexively. Lin Sanjiu suddenly felt the grip on the back of her head loosen. The force that was grabbing onto her hair had finally been released.
Since she was too close to the [Tornado Whip], her feet were caught by the wind. She stumbled and fell forward, and it took her a lot of effort to stabilize herself.
"Use a human form … Leave, go somewhere else …"
She could still vaguely hear the voice through the howling wind, "So, I want your scalp!"
Lin Sanjiu held her hair tightly as she tried to find the source of the voice. It didn't seem like one of the 12 personalities that were after her, but other than the 12 personalities, who else in the Heaven Underworld wanted to hurt her?
"I want blonde, reddish-brown, or black hair, and a greenish-white scalp …"
Even after the howling wind stopped, the voice still continued. However, it was like a handful of ashes that had been blown away by the wind. It floated in the air and was everywhere. Lin Sanjiu circled around the area, but she couldn't find the source of the voice.
"If you don't give it to me, I will have to use the old way. Ah, the old way. Come and get it …"
"The old way?"
Just as the doubt rose in her mind, the voice suddenly disappeared. It was as if nothing had happened. The wilderness became quiet again. Even the wind stopped its footsteps on the remaining brick walls of the humans.
The silence between heaven and earth was oppressive.
Lin Sanjiu activated her hypersensory, but for the first time, she didn't feel anything. There was no wind, no airflow, no birds flying across the sky in the distance … Even the clouds above were motionless and motionless for a long time.
From the direction of the Mokugyo Forum, she could occasionally see hot air balloons, aircrafts, and other strange things floating into the sky. However, the empty space where she was standing seemed to have been swallowed into another dimension, and there was only a pool of dead silence.
"Where did that thing go?" she asked in a low voice as she cautiously took two steps forward. She didn't know if she should breathe a sigh of relief. Nothing happened.
She used her [Higher Consciousness Scan], [Hypersensory Perception], and her own eyes to scan the empty space over and over again. Apart from the quietness, she did not find anything out of the ordinary.
"Since it has run away, I don't have to stay here anymore." Lin Sanjiu looked at the grass that she had stepped on when she arrived. She said in a low voice. She pressed her head with one hand and slowly, tentatively, took a step in that direction.
One step, two steps … Lin Sanjiu's heart was beating faster and faster with each step she took. However, it seemed that the thing was really going to let her go. She walked for almost a hundred meters, but nothing happened.
"What's going on …"
Just as Lin Sanjiu raised her doubts, she suddenly felt the ground beneath her feet shake. Like a dog trying to shake off fleas, the ground trembled, and the weeds and vines fell to the ground, revealing an incomplete cement floor.
Steel bars were exposed to the air, and half of the wall was filled with cracks. It seemed that this was once a human building. However, the upper part of the building and most of the walls had collapsed during the apocalypse, and eventually disappeared. All that was left was the cement floor under Lin Sanjiu's feet and the occasional broken wall that was knee-high.
"What's going on?"
She hurriedly stopped and looked around.
The voice that he had heard several times just now suddenly broke the silence. It was still a voice that was neither male nor female. It sounded like rocks rubbing against each other, but this time, it sounded much clearer and smoother. Compared to the previous time, the difference was like a recorded advertisement and the ravings of a lunatic. "Welcome to the Chamber of Secrets."
For a moment, Lin Sanjiu was stunned. She didn't know how to react.
"Chamber? Escape? Do I even need it? "
Lin Sanjiu could see far away from the broken wall as there was no wall taller than her thighs. Even the cement floor under her feet was intermittent. It was struggling to survive among the weeds and sand...
"No, that's not the most important thing.
The most important thing is … "
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