Decaying World

Chapter 190, Fallout II

Lin Hui then asked in detail about how he woke up on his own inside.

Hong Ling answered them one by one.

During the blissful period, everything in the environment and the outside world is the same; only the people who appear are different, and they are all the ones you want to appear.

"By the way, Brother Hong, do you know Sha Ye? That short, kind-hearted noble of the original bloodline?" After asking the key points, Lin Hui saw that Hong Ling was in a hurry to leave, so he quickly asked again.

"Her, Shaye, is the youngest newcomer among the nobles. She's genuinely kind-hearted and likes to meddle in other people's business, helping quite a few. However, her family is very dissatisfied with her because they think her thinking is not orthodox enough and that she doesn't consider things from the perspective of the family's own interests," Hong Ling said simply. "You just ran into her? You're lucky. Alright, I have to go back now. We'll talk again tomorrow morning. You're the only one staying in this building tonight. Goodnight!"

Hong Ling turned and ran away impatiently, as if afraid that Lin Hui would continue to ask questions and delay him.

*Poof.* The small building's main door closed automatically.

The entire lobby was empty, with no one in sight except Lin Hui standing alone in the middle.

He looked around and found a high-backed chair against the wall to sit down.

I hadn't even been sitting for half a minute.

Suddenly, a clear and melodious bell rang out from outside the building.

The bell rang three times, then fell silent.

There was nothing changing around him. Ever since Hong Ling left, Lin Hui had been paying close attention to his surroundings, but he hadn't noticed anything.

He wanted to observe how one enters blissful time.

But nothing seemed to have happened.
He sat in a chair, looking out at the spacious hall paved with black stone slabs.

The landscape paintings hanging on the white walls on both sides still emitted a faint yellow light, illuminating the surroundings instead of lamplight.

On the ceiling is a huge white dragon turtle relief. The dragon turtle's huge, ferocious eyes are golden lighting fixtures, emitting a yellow light brighter than that of a landscape painting.

Apart from that, there was no one, no sound, only himself.

"Didn't we agree that whatever I want will appear?" Lin Hui asked, slightly surprised.

He remained seated, his mind wandering to the women he had met and the countless delicacies he had tasted, yet the surroundings remained completely silent.

Nothing.

Feeling puzzled, Lin Hui got up and slowly walked to the front door.

As he drew closer, his expression suddenly froze, and he faintly heard a slight sound coming from outside the door.

The black wooden door was right in front of me. Through the window above, through the window lattice and white paper, I could vaguely see a bright red light flashing outside.

I hesitated for a moment.

He had a vague feeling that something was wrong, so he reached out and grabbed the doorknob, pushing it outwards.

hiss.

Amidst the subtle friction sounds.

The door opened.

Outside was an endless expanse of pristine white ice.

In the heart of the ice field, some distance away from him, stood an enormous trapezoidal red-glowing stone gate.

The stone door frame was carved with the faces of hideous, unidentified monsters. The entire stone door itself was made of black stone, but the rock now seemed to be glowing red-hot from the intense heat, constantly radiating astonishing heat radiation to the surroundings.

At the center of the stone gate, between the two doors, a tiny crack had opened, through which a blinding red light could be seen.

The pure red light gave people an extremely uncomfortable feeling of nausea. After just a few glances, Lin Hui felt nauseous, dizzy, and wanted to vomit.

"Want to achieve immortality? Come. Come closer and open it. Open this door that can bring hope to the world."

A thunderous voice slowly rang in his ears.

"Untie it, and you will gain immortal divinity. You will become a member of the Purgatory Rulers; as long as Purgatory exists, so will you!"

The voice kept seducing him, so loud that Lin Hui's ears went numb.

He involuntarily took two steps back, trying to create some distance. But the next moment, the deep voice continued, and a new voice quietly emerged.

"All things will eventually freeze. Burning is consumption, but stillness is ultimate eternity. Do you wish to attain ultimate peace? Come, come here."

This time, a cold, hoarse female voice replaced it.

Lin Hui looked in the direction of the sound, but saw no source at all.

Until the voice came again.

Only then did he notice that directly in front of the burning gate, on the pristine white ice plain, the entire white ice surface was actually a huge female face, at least several hundred meters in diameter.

At that moment, the mouth of that giant human face became the source of the sound.

"Draw the sword of beginning. You will end all tragedy and usher in a new era of new hope." The female voice was cold, but it was clearer than the previous thunderous sound, and even drowned out the thunder.

"This is hell and extreme cold!?" Lin Hui recognized the source of the two voices and felt a chill run down his spine.

He saw that a giant sword made of dark blue crystal spikes was stuck in the forehead of the huge female face of the ice plains.

The sword was like a work of art, crystal clear throughout. The hilt and guard had layers of flame-like patterns, each pattern glowing with a faint blue light, flickering as if a heart was beating.

Boom!

A thunderous roar snapped Lin Hui back to his senses from shock.

He subconsciously looked up at the sky.

"!!"

The entire sky was a pale gray. There were no stars, no night, only endless gray clouds forming a huge gray vortex, slowly rotating.

Faint black arcs of electricity occasionally flashed across the surface of the giant vortex, its center deep and dark, its destination unknown.

But none of these were the key factors that shocked Lin Hui.

The key point is...
He lowered his head and looked behind him with a puzzled expression.

Behind him, wisps of gray clouds were continuously descending from the sky, silently merging into his back.

This is a very strange scene.

From a distance, it looked as if a large amount of gray cloud was evaporating from his body, drifting into the sky, and merging into a huge vortex.

But upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that everything is upside down.

The sounds of purgatory and extreme cold still echoed in my mind.

At this moment, in Lin Hui's vision, the gates of Purgatory and the human face on the Frozen Ice Plains, compared to the huge gray cloud vortex that occupied the entire sky, were like ants, insignificant.

'Is this... a typhoon?' Lin Hui suddenly remembered the result of his previous examination using the blood seal.

The results explicitly mentioned the term "typhoon disaster" for the first time.

Without any seduction, the power of the windstorm, like everything else, pressed down on him, the gates of purgatory, and the face of the extreme cold heavenly beings.

The enormous vortex was high above, ancient and heavy, as if it had been spinning like this since the very beginning of time.

Gazing at the massive vortex of gray clouds, Lin Hui unconsciously forgot his distracting thoughts and naturally immersed himself in the body-tempering experience of the Typhoon Sword Technique.

Just looking at that enormous vortex, countless insights and inspirations vaguely surfaced in his mind.

'Was that a typhoon?' A realization dawned on him.

'By summoning purgatory, I might gain immortal divinity; by drawing the sword from the frigid heavens, I might gain the power to end everything. But what about the calamity of wind? What if I summon it and it descends upon reality?'

The moment this thought crossed his mind, a mysterious message naturally flooded into his head.

'It will destroy everything.'

puff.

Suddenly, Lin Hui opened his eyes, sat in the high-backed chair, and let out a long breath.

The image of bloodstains appeared in his vision.

'Warning: You have acquired the special effect: Wind Disaster Affinity. Practicing related martial arts will grant you the power of wind disaster to amplify your destructive strength.'

'Warning: Once triggered, a typhoon is extremely difficult to extinguish. It can destroy all stable structures, reducing everything to particles and leaving it in a perpetual state of infinite flow.'

Looking at the blood-red warning lettering on the bloodstain, Lin Hui took a deep breath and finally understood what the storm he had seen before represented.

He closed his eyes and sensed that the body tempering of the Typhoon Sword Technique had strangely reached its full potential and was about to enter the next rank, sixth grade.

Clearly, just a few glances at him saved him at least several months of body tempering time.

Not only that, Lin Hui raised his head, and his gaze strangely gained X-ray vision, passing through countless moon towers to see the night sky, and above that sky, a huge vortex of slowly rotating gray clouds.

'Although I don't know what happened, it seems like there's something seriously wrong with me.'

He let out a long sigh.

Three terrifying forces converged upon him. And what he had always considered the most insignificant wind disaster turned out to be the strongest.
"Where's the promised bliss? Wasn't it supposed to let me experience bliss?"

Lin Hui looked at his hands and tried to close his eyes again to enter the same state, but no matter how he closed his eyes, he couldn't get back into that state.

He carefully examined his own condition and was surprised to find that the Purgatory Power and Extreme Cold Power that he had worried about were now being suppressed by an invisible aura, without leaking out even a trace of their power.

To be precise, this aura wasn't suppression, but rather decomposition. It continuously decomposed and absorbed the auras of Purgatory and Extreme Cold as soon as they emerged, thus strengthening itself.

Thus, the problem that Lin Hui had been worried about was inexplicably solved at this moment.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already daylight outside.

Lin Hui stretched out his hand, and a little bit of white internal energy lit up at his fingertips.

Unlike before, the purgatory power and extreme cold air within his inner force have completely disappeared, replaced by an invisible, transparent power mixed in.

That force was the very force of the wind disaster that Lin Hui had just directly experienced.

It is continuously decomposing and devouring the power of Purgatory and Extreme Cold, fusing it into its own part, and driving Lin Hui's body tempering progress forward.

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Xinyu Town.

Lin Shunhe stood with his hands behind his back, looking at an investigation document on the table.

"The Black Fog period has only just begun this year, and so many mysterious disappearances have already occurred. Has the government still not given an explanation? I don't care about others, but the families of our branch members have also suddenly disappeared overnight. This matter must be thoroughly investigated!" His voice was low and firm.

"This is probably going to be very difficult," Old Du said helplessly.

"No matter how difficult it is, we have to do it. This is Xinyu Town, the core area of ​​my Lin family. We cannot afford to lose it!" Lin Shunhe said firmly.

"Our preliminary investigation suggests that some powerful clans in the inner city may have started using people for testing again," Elder Du said in a low voice.

“I can’t and don’t want to interfere in other places. But in Xinyu Town, this kind of situation is not allowed!”

Old Du hesitated, as if he wanted to say something, but ultimately said nothing.

"Let's go. Let's go see the scene of this latest Zhang family case. Zhang Jihua was my old manager in the caravan. I simply don't believe he would commit suicide. The government's investigation conclusion is utter nonsense!"

"Okay, should we report to the higher-ups before we set off?" Old Du asked tentatively.

"Isn't that obvious?!"

(End of this chapter)