Beating Instances through Words Left by the Dead

Chapter 336: Chapter 197: Calamity Fog_3

The old man put on his glasses and sized up Wu Chang behind He Yun, asking, ”Who is he?”

He Yun hesitated for a moment, reluctantly saying, ”A friend.”

After speaking, she entered the equipment room and began to change into the repair mecha needed for checking the power station.

The old man took the opportunity to pull Wu Chang aside and asked quietly, ”Kid, honestly, what exactly is your relationship?”

Wu Chang replied just as softly, ”Just like she said, we’re still just friends for now. I was just allowed to go to her house yesterday.”

The old man clicked his tongue twice, sneaked a glance at the equipment room, and said:

”Whew, I’m relieved that she can resume normal life. Kid, if possible, have her switch jobs. There’s no need for repairs here, or rather, she doesn’t need to be the one doing them.”

”This place isn’t suitable for her. The longer she stays here, the more trapped in the past she’ll become. I promised her brother that I’d take care of her, but obviously, an old guy like me can’t influence her much. Maybe you can help her move on.”

Wu Chang was about to ask what the old man meant when He Yun, who had changed into her repair mecha, came out and urged:

”Don’t listen to his nonsense, let’s go!”

The area He Yun needed to focus on for repairs was in the underground circuit passage. As they took the elevator down, He Yun asked:

”Did that old man babble and tell you something he shouldn’t have?”

Wu Chang, always loyal and never lying to friends, immediately sold out the old man.

”He told me you shouldn’t continue to stay here and mentioned something happened here.”

He Yun furrowed her brows slightly and muttered a curse of him being nosy.

Wu Chang: ”Mind talking about what happened here?”

He Yun was quite resistant, coldly saying, ”There’s nothing to talk about.”

As the elevator stopped, they descended at least another hundred meters, reaching the underground beyond the underground.

He Yun unlocked a heavy metal door with facial recognition and then led Wu Chang into the circuit passage.

The scene behind the metal door surprised Wu Chang. Through the Eye of Breaking Technique, he could see that this space was filled with energy, continuously being conveyed to the circuit passage interfaces.

No wonder there are so few people at the power station, and there’s no sound of the generation facilities operating. It turns out it’s not because the Underground Shelter’s technology is too advanced; rather, the Underground Shelter doesn’t need electricity generation at all.

What era are we in that we’re still playing with traditional electricity generation? Here in the Underground Shelter, the air generates electricity on its own!

The circuit passage sounded like a dedicated space for transmitting circuits, but it was more like a passage leading underground.

Following behind He Yun, Wu Chang asked, ”What’s the situation here? Why do I feel like this passage is constantly generating energy?”

He Yun, inspecting the passage walls with a specialized maintenance mecha, replied:

”Your feeling is correct. The energy supplying the entire Underground Shelter doesn’t come from the power plant, but from here. However, the energy isn’t produced here but is spreading up from even deeper underground regions.”

”In the deeper underground space, there’s endless energy that can sustain the constant operation of the Underground Shelter, allowing reckless consumption.”

Hearing this, Wu Chang instantly became tense. Such words shouldn’t be spoken lightly. If the White Tower hears about it, won’t the mold invade in droves?

Pure natural unlimited energy, isn’t this stuff more appealing than oil?

Apart from the unlimited energy, what Wu Chang was more concerned about was that these energies came from deeper underground layers.

The Pillar of the Present World’s special attribute, combined with He Yun’s statement, made it hard not to think whether the deeper layers from where energy continuously transmitted were actually the Abyss Second Layer.

”Are we going to enter even deeper underground regions now?”

He Yun shook her head and replied, ”That’s a sealed-off area and is forbidden to enter. We just need to patrol the perimeter to ensure the fog hasn’t leaked out.”

Wu Chang: ”Fog?”

Just as Wu Chang was puzzled, he noticed a long crack, over ten centimeters, appearing on the wall of the passage in the distance, with faint white mist seeping out.

Through the Eye of Breaking Method, he saw the shadow of Mysticism within these mists, but the Mysticism contained in the mist surpassed the limits of the Desolate Realm, making it impossible to fully decode. He could only vaguely sense that it was a sinister Power.

It seemed to entice people to indulge in desires, while simultaneously releasing the monsters in the affected person’s heart.

He Yun avoided the white mist like the plague. The moment she saw it, she pulled Wu Chang back sharply.

”Don’t touch that thing at all!”

After speaking, He Yun switched her maintenance armor to fully enclosed mode, resolutely walked into the white mist, and squeezed out a special paste from the maintenance mecha to mend the crack on the wall.

Her actions were very skilled, taking only a dozen seconds to completely repair the crack.

The next step was to wait for the patch material to completely dry and the leaking mist to disperse.

Due to the troublesome nature of the white mist, this process usually takes several tens of minutes.

However, today seemed different. The white mist dispersed much faster than before, actively flowing toward the back.

Curious, He Yun turned to look back and instantly shivered, ”You’re crazy! What are you doing!”

Behind her, Wu Chang, ignoring her advice, walked into the white mist and took deep breaths of it.

No wonder the mist was dissipating so quickly, with him acting as a living air filter, how couldn’t it disappear quickly?

Seeing He Yun approaching quickly, Wu Chang raised his hand to indicate he was okay, then, like savoring a fragrance, carefully savored it for a moment before exhaling all the mist he had inhaled.

He couldn’t absorb these mists.

”This scent has a mix of sweat and pheromones, definitely R-rated, but you don’t have to be so scared, do you?”

He Yun, standing at a distance with caution, watched for a while and confirmed Wu Chang showed no reaction. She became confused, pointing at Wu Chang in astonishment:

”The Calamity Fog is ineffective against you?!”

Wu Chang shrugged and said, ”What effect should it have had?”

He Yun: ”Under normal circumstances, people who inhale the Calamity Fog would have their internal desires twisted into monsters, which then manifest in reality. The stronger the desire, the more Calamity Fog inhaled, the stronger the manifested monsters.”

Wu Chang innocently said, ”It seems they are indeed ineffective against me.”

Upon detecting the Mystical structure within the fog, although he couldn’t fully decode it, he could discern that the mist posed no threat to him.

There are many ways to analyze Mystical Ceremonies, and apart from using the Eye of Breaking Method to forcibly break them, personally experiencing them is also a significant method.

Fully experiencing the Mystical Energy within the mist allowed him to perceive its effects without fully deciphering the Mystical structure of the mist.

After all, one of his talents for reincarnation is called ”Mystical Mastery.”

Regarding Mysticism, even if it surpasses the limits of his Desolate Realm, he can quickly learn and master it.

The idea was good, but there was a small hiccup.

Due to his high Will, the white mist’s judgment failed, unable to have any effect on him.

With a Will as high as 153, not to mention in a dream, even if Leman descended, using His eyes as a medium, and performed a pole dance as the Evil God’s real form in front of him, Wu Chang’s heart wouldn’t waver in the slightest.

”What a pity, I originally wanted to further analyze the abilities of these Calamity Fogs through practical experience, but it seems that’s not feasible.”

Wu Chang was full of regret, while He Yun’s face of surprise could not be concealed.

She looked at the newcomer who suddenly appeared before her, and at that moment, she suddenly understood those believers a little better.

Believers once told her that at a certain moment, people suddenly feel the existence of fate, realizing that all occurrences are the arrangement of God. From then on, people start believing in God.

At this moment, she indeed felt the so-called destiny.

Previously, she was indifferent to Wu Chang, even considered his persistent advances a nuisance, but now it seemed maybe this was a destined encounter.

”You wanted to know what happened deeper underground, right? I’ll tell you now.”