Chapter 227: Sayo Mask
"You've never seen me before, but you dug up my waste stones, a lot of waste stones."
The eyeball monster didn't actually care about those stones. This was the Waste Zone, the place with the most waste stones among all Planes. It simply couldn't allow anyone to touch its belongings, including that slave used for cultivating eyeballs.
"You used your ability to affect me first. Even if I didn't dig up waste stones, you wouldn't let me leave, right?"
Lin Ye saw right through the eyeball monster in front of him. This had nothing to do with waste stones.
"Correct, I like your body. It happens to be perfect for storing my favorite eyeballs."
The eyeball monster said excitedly.
"I hate eyeballs. They have an unpleasant texture when eaten."
Lin Ye absorbed the surrounding spiritual energy. Although the roots above kept absorbing spiritual energy, the concentration in the underground space was still quite good due to the previous explosion of the Compressed Spiritual Energy Bomb.
"These eyeballs can affect your five senses and mental perception. Do you know what that means? It means every piece of information you receive could be wrong. For example, I might not actually be here right now, but standing behind you instead."
The eyeball monster below suddenly disappeared, while another one appeared above the hanging ladder, less than a meter behind Lin Ye. They were within reach of each other.
"This is indeed a troublesome ability, but it's not without countermeasures."
Lin Ye extended his right hand forward, palm facing upward, as if holding something.
"You're not going to say there's something there, are you?"
The eyeball monster was certain there was nothing there.
"Mask Brother, do me a favor, come out and let me use you."
Lin Ye muttered quietly.
Yet there was nothing in his hand.
"Alright, I admit you made me laugh. Give up struggling, you no longer have the ability to resist. I hope to preserve a complete body."
The eyeball monster disappeared from behind Lin Ye and reappeared on the ground.
"Do I need to make up a story? That would be too troublesome. Or do I need to determine the imitation target for the mask? Can it imitate Little Ye?"
Before Lin Ye finished speaking, a blood-red smiling mask appeared in his hand.
The eyeball monster watched in surprise as Lin Ye placed that suddenly appearing mask onto his face, but it wasn't worried because no one could break its ability, at least not low-level spiritual energy users.
After putting on the mask, Lin Ye wanted to use it because the mask and he were equivalent to two different entities, which might affect the effectiveness of the opponent's ability. But he didn't expect this mask could actually simulate other people's abilities.
After donning the mask, Lin Ye gained a large number of brand new abilities.
These abilities seemed very advanced, but most could only be used in the mental world. As for the remaining ones, Lin Ye couldn't figure out how to use them either. Compared to Little Ye, the Mask-Wearing Killer's abilities were much simpler, so simple that even an idiot could use them freely.
This was like the difference between a laptop computer and a paper notebook.
"If I'd known earlier, I would have simulated someone else."
Lin Ye felt those complex abilities, feeling like his head was about to explode.
"You can't simulate others either. The usage conditions for this mask are quite complex, requiring correspondence between history and reality, plus obtaining others' recognition. If our relationship wasn't special, and you hadn't just contacted me, it couldn't have simulated my abilities at all."
Little Ye's voice suddenly sounded in Lin Ye's mind.
"Are you simulated Little Ye or the real Little Ye?"
Lin Ye asked.
"The real one. I'm contacting you through the mask. If it wants to borrow my abilities, it must obtain my permission."
Little Ye replied.
"Great! Your abilities are too complex. Can you use my body to deal with those disgusting eyeballs around us?"
Lin Ye wanted to slack off appropriately.
"Of course not. Through an unstable channel like the mask, I can only chat with you for a couple of sentences at most. If I exert even slight force, this connection will break."
Little Ye rejected Lin Ye's slacking off application.
"Then what should I do now? I don't know where the enemy is located."
Lin Ye rarely relied on others. Only when facing 'himself' would he relax slightly.
"You know what to do. Even if I didn't come, you could still deal with those disgusting eyeballs. I came only to take advantage of this rare opportunity to teach you some mental energy usage techniques."
Although Little Ye really wanted to help Lin Ye solve the problem, she understood clearly that Lin Ye didn't need her help at all.
"What techniques?"
Lin Ye didn't expect such good fortune.
"Just some very simple techniques. The difficult ones can't be used in the material world anyway. For example, consuming mental energy to increase reaction speed to achieve the effect of slowing time flow, compressing spiritual energy with mental energy, and dismantling spiritual energy with mental energy, etc."
Little Ye spoke at an unhurried pace, but this was only Lin Ye's perception. Time had been stretched to nearly infinite length. Unlike creatures living in the material world, mental entities could live in the cracks of time.
"I think I've used similar techniques before. When I concentrate my mind, the world seems to pause."
Lin Ye perceived his surroundings. The roots above his head were frozen mid-air, the eyeball monster stood there like a specimen, and Number 43 was clutching her stomach in pain.
Everything had solidified within the cracks of time.
"Yes, exactly that technique. But you must completely control the time flow speed and manage the consumption rate of mental energy, rather than exhausting all your mental energy at once."
Little Ye projected some mental energy usage techniques into Lin Ye's consciousness through the mask. Actually, using abilities through the mask didn't need to be this complicated. The mask could convert techniques into skills that even idiots could use and deliver them to the wearer, but Little Ye stopped this step, letting Lin Ye experience the joyful process of learning techniques from scratch.
"Ouch, I can't take it anymore. My head's going to explode."
Lin Ye felt deceived. Every one of those 'simple' mental techniques Little Ye mentioned was at least ten times more complex than basic runes.
"It's fine. I've compressed those mental techniques. Unless you actively trigger them, they won't have any impact. You can learn a little bit each day when you have time."
Little Ye unceremoniously stuffed those techniques into Lin Ye's brain.
"...You were lying about not being able to use force, weren't you? You used quite a bit of force just now."
Lin Ye said painfully.
"I didn't lie to you. If I want to maintain a stable connection, I truly can't use force. So it's time to say goodbye again. Those disgusting eyeballs will have to be handled by you alone."
Little Ye said with a laugh.
"Alright, goodbye."
Little Ye's voice disappeared from Lin Ye's mind, and then, time began to accelerate.
Lin Ye rubbed his head and looked at the eyeball monster that had already moved in front of him. The opponent was affecting Lin Ye's five senses, which had nothing to do with the Little Ye mask.
So Lin Ye directly used his cross-shaped greatsword to stab and burst the eyeball monster's largest eyeball.