Samsara Paradise: Dream Weaver of Connections.

[Phantom Binding Spirit Satin]

Quality: Epic
Type: Consumables
Effect: Throw a ribbon at the target, immediately restraining the enemy, making it unable to move or use displacement skills (but can release non-limb-dependent abilities), the restraint time is 3-15 seconds (determined according to the enemy's attribute values).

As Lin Yi swung out the ribbon, countless translucent magic chains suddenly emerged from all directions and wrapped around the limbs and torso of the white-haired woman.

These star-shining chains emit a subtle hum, firmly fixing the target in place.

Just when Lin Yi was hesitating whether to strike the woman with a sword before leaving, he saw the white-haired woman's bound hands suddenly emit a gray-black light.

The chains extending from the void made a teeth-grinding creaking sound, as if they would break in the next second.

A stream of energy flew out directly through the woman's fingertips and accurately pierced Su Xiao's chest.

Su Xiao spat out a mouthful of blood, but relied on his amazing willpower to stabilize his body.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yi no longer considered anything else. He grabbed Ataya and ran away without saying a word.

After a few leaps, the two disappeared in the intricate urban area.

Su Xiao endured the severe pain in his chest and activated the accompanying Dragon Shadow Flash skill, which allowed him to penetrate the space barrier directly and escape into the underground space.

After five seconds, the Void Chain finally couldn't bear the weight and made a crisp breaking sound.

All the transparent chains on the white-haired woman's body broke. The moment the chains disappeared, the white-haired woman instantly came to the city wall in the central area to search for traces of several people.

But these few seconds were enough for several people to find a good hiding place.

There is no need to say much about Di Ya and Veroni. With Veroni around, it is not easy for the white-haired woman to track the two of them.

At the same time, Lin Yi and Attaya were hiding in a stone house in the middle area.

Ataya's black hair spread like a living thing, completely wrapping Lin Yi's body, not only obscuring his figure, but also blocking all the breath of life on him.

Under the guidance of Bubu Wang, Su Xiao sneaked into a hidden secret room underground.

In order to ensure that the white-haired woman's attention was completely distracted, Bubuwang also specially set up several traps in the empty house on the upper floor - the slight sound of the mechanism, the faint residual breath, and even the occasional swaying shadow, all became the perfect bait to confuse her.

Soon, there were bursts of loud rumbling noises coming from the ground. It was obvious that the white-haired woman was completely furious after failing to hit her target many times, and began to frantically destroy the surrounding buildings to vent her anger.

Bubuwang's tactics were more cunning than she had imagined - in just five minutes, it took the white-haired woman for seven laps in the building complex like walking a dog!
Sometimes there was a slight collision sound coming from an empty room, and sometimes there was the sound of a chair suddenly falling over at the end of the corridor.

The white-haired woman was fooled around and rushed around angrily, but she couldn't even catch the shadow of Bubuwang.

Finally, after blasting a stone house to pieces in vain, she completely lost her patience, and left the central area with gritted teeth, choosing to turn a blind eye.

For the next half hour, all team members remained silent tacitly.

It’s not that Lin Yi and Su Xiao didn’t want to contact each other, but there was a serious problem with the communication system.

Ever since entering the central area, the team channel seemed to have been strongly disturbed, and all messages fell into oblivion.

Lin Yi tried to send a message in the team channel, but unfortunately, the message could not be sent at all. There was no way, Lin Yi could only close the chat channel.

Most of the buildings in the central area of ​​Dead Silence City are empty - or rather, those who are qualified to live here are the former powerful people of Dead Silence City, and each of them is a boss-level existence that is enough to scare people.

The entire central area is about five kilometers in diameter. Although the area is not small, the buildings are very sparse.

Every building has a unique seal engraved on its lintel or exterior wall, which seems to silently tell the power and status of its former owners.

The diameter of the entire central area is about five kilometers, which is not small, but there are not many buildings here. There is an emblem on each building, which should have a unique meaning.

Lin Yi was hiding in a stone house with a pattern of flying birds printed on it. The house was full of dust, and although the gorgeous decoration still vaguely showed its former grandeur, it had long since become dilapidated under the erosion of time.

The furniture was rotten and deformed, the tapestries on the walls were faded and peeling, and the whole space was filled with a suffocating sense of desolation.

"Do you know that woman just now?"

After making sure the surroundings were safe, Lin Yi lowered his voice and leaned close to Ataya's ear and asked.

"You mean the Moon Girl? Of course I know her. Or rather, there is no resident in the Dead Silence City who doesn't know her."

"She is different from me. I am dead, and she is alive."

"Living people? Are there still living people in the Dead Silence City?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi was stunned. You have to know how great the hatred of Dead Silence City towards the living is. He saw it clearly on the way here. Even the irrational lower-class residents like Shu Shi would rush up regardless of everything after sensing the breath of the living.

In this cursed city, residents have very different attitudes towards the living: either they remain neutral and do not interfere with each other; or they are hostile to each other and fight to the death when they meet.

"Are you wondering why she can live here? She is indeed different from outsiders like you. The Moon Girl was born in the heart of the Dead City. She has been marked by this city since she was born."

At this point, Attaya's tone revealed an unconcealable loneliness.

Although both were born in the City of Death, her and the Moon Girl's fates were completely different.

The Moon Girl has been loved by the entire city since she was born. Those residents who hate the living see this girl as the only light of hope in the darkness.

Ataya's fingertips unconsciously stroked her pale arm, which had long been eroded by the power of death and became cold and stiff.

From the moment she was born, she was assimilated by the curse of this city and became a true resident of the City of Death.

For hundreds of years, she had fought openly and covertly with the Moon Girl countless times, and the mixed battles gradually turned into a one-sided defeat as the opponent grew stronger.

Ataya clenched her teeth, and a hint of gloom flashed in her eyes.

The hatred towards the Moon Girl had been deeply ingrained into her bones after repeated defeats.

"The power of dead silence? The living?"

Lin Yi repeated these two words in a low voice, but his thoughts drifted back to the second-level war world.

During the second-level war world, Hal Adam of the Dragon Empire relied on the power of death to reverse life and death and return from the kingdom of the dead.

This made him realize that the power of death and silence was not simply a destructive force, but contained some deeper rules.

However, this power is too dangerous. Ordinary people simply cannot withstand its erosion. If they are not careful, they will completely become dead puppets.

The old charlatan is a living example. According to current intelligence, he was once a resident of the Dead City, but now when he walks in the outside world, he is no different from an ordinary person.

This means that he may have mastered some secret technique of "reincarnation from death", but the price... is probably extremely heavy.

Afterwards, Lin Yi took out the map that the old charlatan had thrown to him before.

"In that case, let's go to the altar and check the situation first." Lin Yi made a decision in his mind.

The source of darkness he had obtained before had reminded him that only by going to the altar could he further improve his talent.

Moreover, judging from the name alone, it is very likely related to the hidden mission "The Sorrow of the Gods".

"Let's go."

Lin Yi stood up and reached out to push open the door in front of him.

With a rotting creaking sound, the grayish-white flocs floated before the eyes again - these strange substances were everywhere like the breath of the dead city, sometimes floating like mist, sometimes settling like dust. No one knew where they came from and why they were always floating in this cursed city.

According to the map, Lin Yi and Attaya are not far from the altar, but they have to pass through the treatment center, so they just need to be careful at that time.

From a distance, the treatment center looks like a ghost building that has walked out of history - the exterior walls of the three-story stone building are severely weathered, and the rock surface is covered with honeycomb-like erosion marks. The edges and corners that have been rounded by time appear fragile, but are actually as sharp as blades.

Lin Yi could even see traces of dark red seeping out of some of the cracks in the stones, and he didn't know whether it was rust or dried blood.

Just when Lin Yi was about to take a detour, the window on the second floor of the treatment center suddenly shattered, and then Su Xiao jumped down with the Dragon Flash. At the same time, a doctor wearing a crow mask appeared in front of the second-floor window.

The attire of these doctors instantly reminded him of the Night Doctors—the same crow masks, the same black uniforms.

The only difference is that these people lack the bronze medal unique to Night Doctors on their chests.

Seeing this scene, Lin Yi immediately changed his decision to take a detour.

He walked quickly towards the main entrance of the treatment center, and his boots made a teeth-grinding crunching sound as they crushed the gray-white flocs on the ground.

Through the shattered stained glass windows, the scene on the first floor of the treatment center was like a nightmare incarnation - the rubber infusion bags hanging from the ceiling were surging with turbid liquid, the metal trays were neatly arranged with barbed bone saws, and the instruments that looked like medieval torture instruments still had suspicious dark red stains on their surfaces. The most horrifying thing was the iron craniotomy placed in the corner, with a few strands of gray hair stuck in the lining.

Those who know this place think it is a treatment center, while those who don’t think this is a slaughterhouse for some perverted murderer.

After seeing Lin Yi, Su Xiao drew out the Dragon Slayer and leaped in front of Lin Yi.

The five Crow doctors gave Su Xiao a very strange feeling. Those five residents of Dead Silence City obviously had very strong bodies, but they were not good at fighting.

After one of them was kicked by Su Xiao and crashed into the brick wall, his body embedded in the crack of the wall strangely remained still for a few seconds, and his eyes under the mask blinked blankly through the round lenses.

"Be careful of the old charlatan."

Su Xiao said as he threw a piece of parchment to Lin Yi. It was covered with densely written ancient characters that were widely circulated on the continent.

'Are we really hopeless? The king of the living will never die out, and the bloodline of Ardgesh will never die out... Once a new king appears, we will have to wait for another three hundred years, and then another three hundred years, endlessly! Ardgesh - this traitor who deserves to be in hell! Without us, he is just a drifter on the sea! This despicable traitor, he is obviously one of us... Don't we, the dead, have the right to breathe the air on the continent? We... don't have the right to live? '

The text became increasingly frantic as it went on, and the handwriting even tore through the parchment.

Further down, the recorded content becomes fragmented.

"Success! This little thing actually has the characteristics of being alive... But why does it have tree roots? Why not call it 'Tree Eclipse'."

'Success again! We have lived up to the high hopes of the Supreme Sanctuary... She was born a woman, and her living characteristics are stronger. But why is her hair white? But it doesn't matter... She was born 17 days ago, and she was able to lift the Tree Eclipse. She also wanted to bully Attaya, and was finally beaten and cried by Attaya. After the five of us agreed, we named her "Moon Girl" - the silver moon that illuminates the Dead City. The little girl seemed a little unhappy, and she smashed half of my head with one punch... What a cute little girl.'

The last paragraph was written in shaky handwriting and smudged ink, as if the writer was losing his mind.

'Time is running out... The remaining sanity is gradually disappearing. Am I going to be assimilated? In the end, we still failed... Lahan, you chose to stand on the side of the Black King, but one day you will come back... I hope you... can heal the Dead City. The residents here are innocent, they just want to survive... Is this a crime?'

In addition to these texts, there are also a large number of complex biological array diagrams attached to the bottom of the parchment.

Lin Yi could barely make out a small part of it - it was the training records of Shadow Snake, Tree Eclipse and Moon Girl, of which the records of Moon Girl accounted for more than 80%.

However, Lin Yi's attention was now fixed on a name - Kenrahan.

The old charlatan's name appeared prominently on this parchment.

At the same time, five Crow doctors stood stiffly at the entrance of the hospital like puppets, their pale masks gleaming with a cold luster in the dim light.

Their eyes were mechanically locked on Lin Yi and Su Xiao. Even the rise and fall of their breathing was completely synchronized, as if they were five bodies controlled by the same nerve.

Seeing what these crows meant, Lin Yi took out the badge of Night Doctor. At this moment, the gears of the five puppets seemed to be stuck suddenly.

"People from the outside world."

"No wonder."

"That makes sense."

The moment they saw the Night Doctor Badge in Lin Yi's hand, five Crow doctors instantly appeared beside Lin Yi.

There was no movement track, no air fluctuations, it was like being teleported directly to that location.

"Found you, the living!"

The Moon Girl leaped down from the top of the towering tower and appeared beside Lin Yi. Her pale palm condensed with terrifying power and went straight for Lin Yi's head.

At this critical moment, a Crow doctor calmly raised his right arm, and his wide sleeves spread out like wings, and he easily took the fatal blow from the Moon Girl.

The Moon Girl's attack was like a punch on a sandbag, without causing any ripples.

"Huh? Why are you guys protecting these living people?" Her voice was mixed with confusion and anger.

Over the past hundreds of years, the Moon Girl and the Crow Doctors have had countless clashes. Those figures wearing bird-beak masks are always immersed in their own world - either fiddling with strange potions in a dark laboratory, or performing creepy treatments for residents in the streets of the Dead City.

They are like a group of emotionless puppets, indifferent to everything around them.

The Moon Girl clearly remembered that no matter how she provoked them, those Crow Doctors seemed to ignore her.

They mechanically repeated the established procedures, not even bothering to give a single glance.

But now, this Crow Doctor had not only shown up, but had intervened for the first time in her long memory.

"Moon Girl! You're looking for death!"

At this moment, Attaya became angry.

Countless black hairs appeared beside the Moon Girl and attacked her.

"Ataya, you are no match for me right now."

The Moon Girl ignored the hair rushing up around her. Hundreds of years of fighting had already made her very familiar with Ataya's attacks.

The Moon Girl just pulled lightly, and all the hair wrapped around her arms was pulled off.

Ataya's eyes were filled with more rage and murderous intent. She was about to rush forward to fight the Moon Girl regardless of everything, but Lin Yi grabbed her arm.

She turned around and glared at Lin Yi, but was slightly stunned when she met his eyes.

Finally, she snorted coldly, suppressed her anger, and stood in front of Lin Yi with a very tough attitude - if you want to touch him, you must get past her first!
"Interesting. Who is this guy? Is he worthy of your protection?"

"He is a fellow student of my master."

The leading crow doctor finally spoke. His vocal cords seemed to be injured and sounded extremely hoarse.

"That old man? Didn't he die over 200 years ago? No one knows where his body was thrown?"

Of course, the Moon Girl knew who the teacher Doctor Crow was referring to.

That crazy genius, the culprit who transformed the entire Dead City into what it is today.

Shadow Snake, Tree Eclipse, and even herself - they were all just successful products in that madman's laboratory.

Hundreds of years ago, the Dead City was a real hell on earth. The residents wandering on the streets had completely lost their minds. They were like a group of hungry beasts who would pounce crazily and kill as long as they smelled the breath of the living.

It wasn't until that madman developed new technology that these test subjects were able to barely retain a trace of self-awareness.

If not for this, according to the original rules of the Dead City, Lin Yi and his companions would probably be torn to pieces by hundreds of crazy residents the moment they stepped into the city gate.

"You can't touch him."

"Why! Why!"

The Moon Girl's voice suddenly rose in pitch, as shrill as the sound of shattering glass.

Her pale face was twisted with rage, and her silver hair danced wildly in the runaway energy.

Hundreds of years of resentment completely erupted at this moment - why should she be imprisoned in this tomb of the living dead since she was born?

Why can other creatures bathe in the real moonlight, while she can only wander in this twisted cage?

If this was destined to be the case, then why was she created in the first place?
"In that case! You all go to hell!"

Her eyes instantly lost all color and turned into two pale full moons.

Violent silver energy gushed out from her body, and the entire dead city began to tremble violently.

Countless rays of moonlight condensed into sharp blades, falling from the sky with a piercing scream.

The surrounding buildings fell apart like paper when the moonlight swept through them, and the rubble turned into powder in the silver light.

The Crow doctors standing at the front did not move at all. When the deadly moonlight approached them, it disappeared silently like a drop in the ocean.

At Ataya's feet, jet-black hair flowed out like a tide.

These hairs squirmed to form a strange black wave, which contrasted sharply with the silver energy of the Moon Girl.

Whenever moonlight hit Lin Yi, countless strands of hair would fly into the air, crushing him to pieces with the harsh sound of metal friction. (End of this chapter)