Chapter 301: Basic Combat Levels
Basic Combat Level
'...Is this a simulation?'
Lin Ye didn't act rashly. His current body was only first-tier, and the parts that had contacted the red liquid were undergoing Alienation.
'Could this be a simulation about red pigment application? Isn't first-tier a bit too low for that?'
Lin Ye was somewhat puzzled. Before he could fully think it through, a sharp object in the distance invaded his perception range at incredible speed.
Before he could react, that sharp object pierced through the metal wall.
Lin Ye's pupils contracted sharply. His mental energy ignited, and the entire world instantly approached stillness.
But that sharp object continued advancing slowly through the frozen world, now less than half a meter from Lin Ye's head. Lin Ye could only see the gradually approaching tip and smooth black slope.
'Blood Manipulation!'
Lin Ye forcibly controlled and ignited the blood in the left half of his body. The violent energy tore through his body, but also blasted him away. His head just barely grazed past the smooth slope of that sharp object! Lin Ye sketched the mutation rune in mid-air. When he fell into the red liquid, the part marked with the mutation rune just happened to make contact with the red liquid.
Alien limbs rapidly grew. Lin Ye used the energy eruption from Blood Burning to roll through the liquid, forcibly dodging the sharp object's secondary attack.
Lin Ye just happened to roll near the metal door - this was within his calculations. Going to the ceiling might encounter whatever had destroyed the ceiling, opening the door would waste time, and the hallway might not be safe either, but he had to choose one.
Lin Ye opened the door to reveal a metal hallway outside. The moment he entered the hallway, he sensed sharp tips thrusting toward him from three directions: both sides of the hallway and from inside the room he'd just left.
The three sharp tips completely eliminated Lin Ye's survival space. His base speed wasn't fast enough - only by relying on explosive skills like Blood Burning to forcibly change direction could he dodge the sharp tips' attacks. This method of direction-changing didn't allow for fine control, so he had very few directional options.
Even so, Lin Ye still didn't give up. He forcibly erected an unstable spiritual energy shield, attempting to deflect one of the sharp tips.
The sharp tip directly pierced through the spiritual energy shield. The spinning force on it couldn't deflect the tip even slightly. What got pierced along with the shield was Lin Ye's head.
Lin Ye tore off the helmet from his head, rubbing his head with clear displeasure. In just that short time, the simulation had consumed half of his mental energy.
"What garbage combat instruction! Wasting mental energy like that - I'd be better off going to the classroom to study!"
Lin Ye felt he'd been scammed. This wasn't combat instruction at all, but rather slaughter of students.
"...You call this a basic level?! That sharp tip was stronger than the garbage seventh-tier spiritual energy users I encountered before! The garbage body inside is only first-tier - tell me how I'm supposed to clear this level?"
[Would you like to give up this combat instruction?]
Lin Ye didn't like admitting defeat, nor did he like giving up - especially when playing games.
After receiving Lin Ye's response, the helmet once again covered Lin Ye's head. Lin Ye's vision went dark as he lost control of his body.
A few seconds later, Lin Ye was back in the metal room. This time he didn't waste time, directly climbing through the ceiling gap to reach the room's top.
The room's top was a very strange interstitial space. It wasn't just this single room's top - the entire area's room tops had nothing on them. Lin Ye couldn't even see the end of this interstitial space, as if someone had removed everything that was here.
The room's top was a very strange interstitial space. It wasn't just this single room's top - the entire area's room tops had nothing on them. Lin Ye couldn't even see the end of this interstitial space, as if someone had taken away everything that was here.
The ground of the interstitial space was carved with complex dark red patterns, with dark red liquid everywhere around.
Lin Ye stood motionless. This time those sharp tips didn't attack him, nor did they pierce through the metal walls below.
'Is it because they can't sense me? Those sharp tips can't sense things in the interstitial space?'
'These patterns can fuse humans and objects?'
Lin Ye sensed his lower body. The body structure of his lower body was undergoing changes, and this alteration was spreading upward.
'Is this some kind of large rune formation? If I destroy part of the patterns, can I affect the rune formation's effects?'
Lin Ye tried to clear the runes beneath his feet. The moment his mental energy contacted the rune formation, it was affected somehow and began consuming rapidly. The runes there also became more distinct.
Lin Ye could only carve the mutation rune on his own legs and attempt to restore mobility by mutating his own body.
The mutation process went very unsmoothly. The rune formation's power mixed with Lin Ye's mutation rune, and this power mixture severely affected Lin Ye's mutation speed of his body.
Not only that, the rune formation's power was intensifying. If Lin Ye couldn't leave here quickly, he would be mutated by the rune formation beneath his feet into a mutated monster completely losing thinking ability.
Lin Ye directly used Blood Burning to blast off his legs, then used the released energy to roll back through the gap into the metal room.
After returning to the metal room, Lin Ye rolled into the red liquid, using the red liquid to rapidly mutate his legs.
Lin Ye quickly mutated several shorter legs of varying lengths on his lower body. These legs supported Lin Ye's body, carrying him as he swayed left and right out of the metal room.
'Last time both sides of the hallway had sharp tips, meaning there's possibility of encountering sharp tips whichever way I go.'
Lin Ye directly chose to head left down the hallway. The first sharp tip had come from this direction, and since the sharp tip clearly wasn't currently in a position to sense Lin Ye, he chose to go to the area where it had previously been.
The rooms on both sides of the hallway didn't contain anything special either - only some ordinary utensils and decorations.
Lin Ye suddenly stopped, looking at the liquid on the ground, deep in thought.
