Chapter 361: Shallow Sea Area
"So you're saying she doesn't intend to leave this place?"
Lin Ye hadn't expected the nun to have such a complicated situation.
"Correct, so you can just leave directly from here. Do you want to stay a little longer, or leave right now?"
Dr. Hill seemed to not want Lin Ye to linger for long.
"...I'll leave now."
Lin Ye had a premonition that if he didn't leave now, it wouldn't be so easy to leave later.
"Then close your eyes. I'll take you out of here."
Dr. Hill grabbed Lin Ye's right hand and pulled him towards her bedroom.
Lin Ye closed his eyes. He vaguely sensed that the so-called 'bedroom' wasn't that of a normal woman's bedroom.
But this had nothing to do with Lin Ye. Dr. Hill harbored no hostility towards him, which was why he chose to leave this place as soon as possible. Lin Ye was pulled along by Dr. Hill for a very long distance. At the end of the path, Dr. Hill stopped and spoke:
"Farewell, Mr. Lin Ye."
"Farewell, Dr. Hill."
By the time Lin Ye regained his senses, he was already back beside the sickbed, still holding that book with the colorful cover in his hand.
"I didn't expect you to return so quickly. It seems Dr. Hill likes you quite a bit."
The young girl handed Lin Ye a plate of peeled fruit, on which were many creatures with strange appearances.
"How long was I gone? Do you know Dr. Hill?"
Lin Ye speared a creature with a deer head and human legs, watching it struggle on the fork.
"Time flows faster over there. Less than three hours have passed here. Dr. Hill was once my attending physician."
The young girl revealed a subtle expression.
"So there's that connection... I need to get back quickly. There are still many matters to handle over there."
Lin Ye took a bite and bit off the deer head, leaving only the struggling human legs on the fork.
The taste of the deer head was quite bizarre. The juice inside was like some kind of sweet blood, giving an indescribable, cloyingly sweet sensation.
"Then, until next time."
The young girl smiled and bid farewell to Lin Ye.
Lin Ye, holding the white flower, chose to return to the Shelter.
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After returning to the Shelter, Lin Ye used the white flower to touch all the Waste Stones in the storage room one by one. In the end, only four Waste Stones caused the flower petals to change color. Two of the Waste Stones turned the petals black, while the remaining two turned deep blue and bright gold respectively.
After using it, Lin Ye placed the white flower in the concentrated nutrient solution, nurturing it beside the Mind Flower.
The two Waste Stones that turned the flower black were stored by Lin Ye in a corner of the miscellaneous items area. The other two Waste Stones of different colors were casually cut open by Lin Ye.
The deep blue Waste Stone yielded an irregular, aqua-blue material.
[Blue Impurity]
[A special type of spiritual energy material]
[Note: This is an impurity expelled by a certain deep-sea creature. It is extremely rare.]
'...Not bad.'
The bright gold Waste Stone yielded some golden powder, roughly around five hundred grams.
[Golden Time]
[Consuming Golden Time can transport the consumer back to the most precious memory in their recollection]
[Note: Consuming large quantities of Golden Time can trap the consumer's consciousness within that memory until death]
'This stuff must be quite valuable, right?'
Although Lin Ye wouldn't consume this powder, he was well aware of its value.
Furthermore, this material also held some research value.
Lin Ye stored both materials safely and used the Rest Area invitation along with his pets.
The Rest Area was the same as always. Xiao Bai was still standing by the bed watching Lin Ye, as if she had been standing there the whole time.
Lin Ye pushed the pets off him. Recently, the number of pets in the Shelter had gradually increased, and Little Black's appetite was getting bigger and bigger. Fortunately, the Rest Area offered free food;
otherwise, these pets would eventually eat Lin Ye into bankruptcy.
Little Black, carrying a bug in its mouth, hopped out of the bedroom. The little deer and the little dogs followed behind them. Only the Scapegoat stayed obediently by Lin Ye's side, not rushing off to the bathroom.
Lin Ye went to the bathroom to take a shower and changed into a fresh set of clothes. Afterwards, he followed Xiao Bai to the reserved Restaurant for a meal.
After finishing lunch, Lin Ye took his pets to browse the supermarket for a while before returning to the hotel bed and going back to the Shelter.
Even during his rest time, Lin Ye wasn't idle. He carefully pondered every step of the Abyssal Eye Control Method and, upon returning to the Shelter, preliminarily completed the control method.
Simply put, the Abyssal Eye Control Method involves using mental energy to seal the Abyssal Eye. This is a very delicate technique for utilizing mental energy.
This technique can not only seal the Abyssal Eye but also other similar spiritual entities within the body. However, as developed by Dr. Hill, this control method is especially effective against the Abyssal Eye.
After setting up the Mental Lockdown, Lin Ye went to the Game Room to complete his daily spiritual energy circulation.
Returning to the Shelter, Lin Ye petted his pets for a while before starting to prepare dinner for both the pets and himself.
After preparing dinner, Lin Ye turned on the Music Box and the Group Chat and began to eat.
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"Brothers, it's time to guess the Nighttime Activity again."
"I want to go to the red maze to scavenge and then upgrade the Shelter."
"Station Mission is good too. I want to collect a batch of basic supplies."
"I hope it's not a personal random mission. The risk is too high alone;
it's easy to fail if you're not careful."
"Even the big shots can fail?"
"Oh, they absolutely can. Personal random missions have the highest mortality rate among Nighttime Activities."
[Nighttime Activity Starting]
[Tonight's Activity: Station Mission]
[Will you join?]
"Join."
[09:59]
"Great! It's a Station Mission!"
"Praying for reliable teammates."
"Zero-dollar shopping spree, activate!"
"Sigh, another personal random mission."
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For the last bit of time, Lin Ye, fully armed, sat by the bed petting the deer head. The little deer obediently lay on Lin Ye's lap, emitting soft calls.
[00:01]
[00:00]
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The familiar start with the old-fashioned train, but unlike before, outside the train window wasn't a closed tunnel but a seemingly endless expanse of shallow sea.
Four Survivors were sitting in the private room, matching the avatars in the chat room perfectly.
Sitting opposite Lin Ye was a white woman in her twenties named Anna. She wore an exquisite emerald green full-length dress, had platinum blonde medium-length hair, and a sweet smile.
To Anna's left sat a yellow-skinned young man named Kumar. He wore a black leather jacket and exuded a strong scent of spices.
Opposite Kumar sat an old black man named Lucas. He wore a flashy black-patterned shirt and a pair of sunglasses on his head, looking quite trendy.
Kumar: This isn't the Shallow Sea Area, is it?
Lucas: Even a fool knows this is definitely the Shallow Sea Area. As one of the top-tier experts of all humanity, can you not ask such idiotic questions?