Chapter 225: Telephone Booth
Zhou Yi: I've brought him into the room.
Lin Ye: How's his condition? Can he recover before the alarm ends?
Truso: I have emergency medication that can restore most of his injuries after use.
Lin Ye: That's great. There's a green portal on the ninth floor. Let's meet on the ninth floor later.
Zhou Yi: Won't the ninth floor be too dangerous?
Lin Ye: Then we'll split up. You two adapt on the seventh floor for a while, and I'll explore the ninth floor.
Zhou Yi: Then let's go together. I just think it's better to proceed step by step.
Lin Ye: If there's only one white portal here, then we really don't have much time, because two people need to explore other areas.
Truso: That's right. Although there's still some time before the train arrives, we'd better find the white portal early.
Zhou Yi: Alright. If we find the green portal first, will you stay here or leave through the portal? Lin Ye: Either is fine with me. It's best if only one person stays here.
Truso: I don't want to stay. With my current luck, I might not be able to find a portal even if I keep trying until next month.
Zhou Yi: Then I'll stay. I hope the white portal isn't on a higher floor.
Lin Ye: ...I suggest you leave immediately if you encounter a green portal, because there might not be any white portal here at all.
Zhou Yi: Why?
Lin Ye: This place seems like a transit station between various zones, and transit stations might only connect to zones. Of course, this is just my speculation. You decide what to do yourself.
Lin Ye left the bathhouse and dried his body. The alarm was about to stop.
"How was your rest?"
Lin Ye put on his clothes and left the room. Number 43 sat on the lounge chair in the corner, looking dazed.
"...The bath was very comfortable."
This was the first time Number 43 had bathed with hot water.
"That's good. Remember to bathe regularly in the future."
Lin Ye left the room with Number 43.
Not long after, Zhou Yi and Truso arrived on the seventh floor.
Zhou Yi: Why did you get yourself a follower?
Lin Ye: Found her in the underground tunnels. I couldn't just leave her there.
Truso: You plan to take an ordinary person outside?
Lin Ye: Yes, it's no trouble.
Zhou Yi: Can you take me along too, boss?
Lin Ye: I can take ordinary people through portals together. She'll be judged as my accessory by the portal, but you won't qualify. We can only pass through portals one by one, which is why we need to find three portals.
Zhou Yi: Alright.
The four of them quickly reached the ninth floor. There were no more explorers on the ninth floor platform.
Lin Ye: I have an item that can perform charged attacks, but I need to rest for a while after using it. Please keep watch around me.
Zhou Yi: Okay, which room should we choose?
Truso: Just don't let me choose.
Lin Ye: I'll do it.
Lin Ye took out the Cross Scepter and injected a small amount of compressed spiritual energy into it, then pushed open the nearest door.
The room was lined with neat stone tombstones. In the center of the cemetery stood a pitch-black portal.
Dozens of rotting limbs burst from the ground, and numerous corpses crawled out of the graves, moving so fast they looked like frame-skipped images.
Without hesitation, Lin Ye injected a large amount of compressed spiritual energy into the Cross Scepter, then shot the energy inside into the room.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
A series of spiritual energy explosions occurred in the room, tearing those corpses into pieces with violent spiritual energy.
But this wasn't the end. One rotting limb after another burst from the ground, and more corpses crawled out.
Truso hurriedly forced the door closed with strength. After the door closed, the commotion inside quickly disappeared.
Lin Ye absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy. Just now, the Cross Scepter had forcibly drawn spiritual energy from him again, but this time Lin Ye was prepared, and only most of the spiritual energy in his body was drawn out.
"Are you okay?"
Zhou Yi was keeping watch nearby. Seeing Lin Ye's pale face, he asked with concern.
"I'm fine, just lacking spiritual energy."
Lin Ye rested for only five minutes, then moved to the room two doors away from the cemetery room and pushed open the door.
There was a green portal in the center of the room, but the area around the portal was piled with abandoned phone booths.
Before Lin Ye could close the door, the phone rang in the room.
"I'll answer it. You've all helped me, now it's time for me to do something."
Truso said this and was about to enter the room.
"No need, I'll handle this room. After I answer the phone, I'll leave directly through the portal. You don't need to wait for me, just go find portals in other rooms."
Lin Ye entered the room with Number 43 and closed the door. He didn't try to escape the room through the portal, but instead entered a phone booth and picked up the receiver.
"Hello?"
Lin Ye held the receiver without bringing it close to his ear. From this distance, he could hear perfectly clearly.
"Why do you always go to such strange places?"
Little Ye's voice came from the receiver.
"It's you? I thought it would connect to some dangerous planes. I was nervous for nothing."
Lin Ye breathed a sigh of relief. He had really been afraid that the Lord of Emerald Capital would be on the other end.
"That's the function of phone booths. They prioritize connecting to your acquaintances, so I suggest you don't answer calls randomly. Next time, it might not be me calling."
Little Ye didn't tell Lin Ye that using phone booths wasn't cheap, because she didn't need to pay the bill herself.
"Perfect timing. I have something to ask you. My body has been transformed by God's Blood. How can I avoid being influenced by the Abyssal Evil God?"
Lin Ye had been thinking about how to contact Little Ye earlier, and didn't expect to receive her call so soon.
"I don't know much about physical body issues. If you're willing to abandon your physical body, I can help you solve the problem."
Little Ye didn't have a physical body at all. She was born from mental energy, a natural mental entity, so she didn't understand knowledge related to physical bodies.
"However, if your mental energy becomes strong enough, you can use mental energy to influence your physical body and change its essence."
"How strong does my mental energy need to be? Can I do it now?"
Lin Ye's eyes lit up. He knew Little Ye would have a way.
"Wait until you reach the tenth tier. At that time, if I help you, it should be about enough."
Little Ye thought for a moment before speaking.
"...I thought my mental energy was already quite strong."
Lin Ye didn't expect the gap to be so large.
"The physical body limits the growth speed of the mind. Of course, this isn't a bad thing, but a kind of mutual growth. You're already very strong."
Little Ye comforted him.
"Alright, let's set that aside for now. I obtained a batch of Waste Stones. Can you sense what's inside them?"
Lin Ye asked.
"Waste Stones are special products of the Waste Zone. Even I cannot sense what's inside Waste Stones, which is why they're so expensive."
Little Ye paused before continuing:
"However, I can tell you which Waste Stones contain good things. This is my unique skill. Your mentally ill friends can't do anything similar."
"I knew you had a way. It's always best to rely on yourself."
Lin Ye said happily.