Decaying World

Chapter 198, Risk 198

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The child stopped. He raised his hand and pointed forward.

"See? That's the wooden door. Once we get rid of it, everything will be over."

Lin Hui looked ahead in the direction he was pointing.

Amidst the gray mist ahead, a solitary white wooden door stood forlornly.

The wooden door has a black handle and a rectangular pattern in the center.

At this moment, the wooden door had been opened a crack by someone.

Inside the crevice, a steady stream of bloody liquid was slowly flowing out from the ground.

"How should we handle this?"

Lin Hui looked at the child, Xia Si.

"Think of a way to close the door," the child replied in a low voice.

"Can we just destroy it?" Lin Hui asked.

"You can try, but I've never heard of anyone who's ever done it. I've never heard of it since I was born," Xia Si shrugged.

Lin Hui nodded, drew his sword, and slowly walked towards the wooden door.

He walked around the wooden door and found that it stood alone with no connecting objects around it.

There are no walls around it, no corners to the ground below, and the entire door is suspended in mid-air with a gap of about one or two centimeters above the ground.

He walked behind the door and saw the main entrance; he walked to the front and still saw the main entrance.

This strange discomfort made Lin Huiyue's expressions more cautious.

"Let's try it first and see if we can destroy it directly."

He raised his sword, and suddenly his figure blurred.

clang!
A piercing crash rang out.

The door frame, though made of wood, produced an extremely hard metallic clanging sound when cut by Ruyi.

The wooden door was completely undamaged, but Lin Hui's hands went numb from the impact, and he was forcefully bounced back.

'So hard!?' He was shocked.

You have to understand, with his current speed and strength, that sword strike just now could probably have instantly shattered a stone house.

But the wooden door didn't look like it had a single mark on it.

"You'd better not bother, just close the door quickly." Xia Si's voice came from not far away.

Xia Si had never heard of anyone being able to destroy these strange things that could appear in the wild at any time.

All the humanoid races living in the fog zone refer to these things collectively as indestructible objects.

Wooden doors are one of them.

When Xia Si was very young, she heard her parents, who had escaped from the city, say that the top adults who came from the city had tried to destroy indestructible things by various means, but to no avail.

It is said that they even tried the most powerful force, the Evil Insect Codex, but it was still ineffective.

Ultimately, the only option was to expel all indestructible objects from the safe fog zone and build a boundary wall to isolate them.

"I'll try again." Lin Hui refused to believe it and secretly activated the wind disaster affinity effect this time.

Suddenly, invisible gusts of wind emanating from his body began to carry with them a terrifying, brutal, and destructive force.

laugh.

He swung his sword again.

Lin Hui watched as the Ruyi landed on the wooden door frame, but this time, even the invincible power of the wind disaster failed to work.

"Wait, there seems to be a mark." Lin Hui looked closely and found that where the wooden door had been slashed by the sword, there was an extremely fine mark, about the thickness of a hair.

If you don't look closely, your fingerprints might easily cover the area if you wipe it with your hand.

Lin Hui was speechless and could only try to step forward and use his Ruyi to hook the doorknob toward himself.

The seemingly small gap in the wooden door felt like an extremely heavy metal block when hooked up. Even Lin Hui felt a bit strained and was slightly out of breath before he finally managed to close the gap completely.

A snap.

As the wooden door closed completely, a cold wind howled through the surroundings.

The wooden door began to silently shatter into countless white particles from top to bottom and disappear.

"Alright. It's finally over!" Xia Si breathed a sigh of relief and clapped his hands. "Boss, your strength is a bit freakish." He said, looking at Lin Hui.

"It's alright. As long as I study and practice diligently every day, there are plenty of people in the city with my skills," Lin Hui said modestly.

"Do adults like to coax children like this?" Xia Si asked helplessly.

"Perhaps. Tell me more about the situation in this foggy area outside. This is my first time out here, and I don't know anything about it," Lin Hui said sincerely.

"You dare to ask me questions without even knowing anything about me? Aren't you afraid I'll rip you off?!" Xia Si said speechlessly.

"It's alright, I'm fast. If you try to trick me, I'll kill you," Lin Hui said with a smile.

“...Terrible adults.” Xia Si sighed helplessly and shivered.

"Let's go back to my burrow. There's nowhere safe enough around here." He turned and walked back.

Lin Hui followed curiously.

The two entered the cave. Inside was a rectangular room, nine meters long and wide, and three meters high, filled with all sorts of wooden barrels of various sizes.

Some of the wooden barrels had their lids wide open, revealing rice and flour inside, while others contained dried meat.

"Sorry, the environment is a bit dirty, please understand," Xia Si said.

"It's alright, tell me. What's going on around here?" Lin Hui casually found a spot, crossed his legs to control the wind, and supported his body, actually sitting cross-legged in mid-air, floating motionless.

Xia Si's eyes widened at the sight, a deep envy flashing in them.

"It's exactly what you just saw. The fog zone has always been like this, full of historical ruins. Normal people like us can only live in various cracks and tunnels."

Only those mutated beings dared to roam freely outside, relying on the protection of the Mist God and the behemoths, completely dedicating themselves to the unknown. They became neither human nor ghost, but in doing so, they gained immense power.

"What about the people in the city who are mutants? Compared to these mutants?" Lin Hui had only just begun when Xia Si interrupted him.

“We generally refer to people living in urban areas as natural people. Although there are some dangers, you are much happier than those in the foggy areas outside. There is nowhere to grow food outside, so you can only rely on hunting monsters. But monsters are not so easy to kill. Moreover, eating too much monster meat will cause people to undergo all sorts of strange changes. That’s probably how the python clan, eagle clan, lion-man, and so on came about,” Xia Si shrugged.

"Do you have any other relatives still alive? If they live nearby, I can take you there," Lin Hui asked again.

“Thank you, sir. You may not know, but my name wasn’t always this. It used to be Xia Shishi,” Xia Si replied.

"Then why change the name?" Lin Hui asked casually.

“Because my parents died the year before last,” Xia Si replied. “They were scared to death, so I changed my name to remember that day forever.”

Lin Hui glanced at the wooden barrels on the ground. He saw that stacked on top of each other, there were more than ten large barrels piled up. That should be enough for the child to eat for a long time, provided they didn't get moldy.

"So what are your plans for the future?" he continued.

"May I follow you?" Xia Si asked in a deep voice.

"I don't need it, after all, you can't keep up with my pace," Lin Hui answered frankly.

"Then you don't need to worry about me. Go and do your own thing." Xia Si wasn't disappointed, as if she had expected it, and smiled faintly.

"Okay, by the way, you've been living here alone for two years?" Lin Hui asked.

"Hmm, it feels alright." Xia Si nodded.

"Aren't you afraid to be alone? Is all this food from the village's previous stock?" Lin Hui asked again.

"I'm not scared, not really. If I really can't sleep at night, there are human faces on the wall to keep me company. As for food, rice and noodles are from my stockpile, and the dried meat is from my own hunting," Xia Si answered honestly.

"???" Lin Hui glanced at the other person, who was only up to his thigh.

Hunt it yourself!?

He suspected that he had heard wrongly.

"Don't let my short stature fool you, I'm actually quite capable," Xia Si said earnestly. "By studying the movement patterns of some monsters, I've mastered a special method of movement that allows me to move without being detected by them."

"!?" Lin Hui had maintained a calm and composed expression, as if everything was under his control.

But at this moment, he truly couldn't hold back anymore.

Seeing Xia Si's serious explanation, he couldn't help but ask another question.

"How old did you just say you were?"

“About eight years old,” Xia Si replied.

"I'll teach you a move. If you can learn it, you'll be my personal disciple!" Lin Hui made a decisive decision.

Ignoring his surroundings, he immediately stood up, gripped his sword, and practiced the perfect version of the Seven-Section Fast Sword technique.

Xia Si finished reading and pondered for a moment.

Then he stood up abruptly, grabbed a chopstick to use as a sword, and, with practiced ease, actually began to demonstrate the perfect version of the Seven-Section Fast Sword technique!

"!!??" Lin Hui tried hard to find any mistakes, but it was no use.

With each move, his opponent almost perfectly replicated his previous action.

He had only ever heard of such geniuses in stories before.

And now, I'm seeing it with my own eyes.

At only eight years old, with such a small head, he was able to learn the perfect version of the Seven-Section Fast Sword technique after watching it just once!?
"Kneel down and call me Master," Lin Hui said in a low voice, turning around with his eyes closed.

Xia Si blinked, then immediately knelt down and kowtowed to him repeatedly.

"master!!"

"From now on, you will be my second personal disciple. Your senior brother is currently away and it's inconvenient for him to come back and acknowledge you. We'll talk about it when we have the chance. Get up." Lin Hui exhaled, turned around, and with a flick of his wrist, his inner force instantly formed an invisible hand that lifted Xia Si up.

But this discovery led him to a new one.

Xia Si is actually a girl!?

Feeling emotional, he suddenly thought of a question.

"By the way, you just said that you have faces on the wall keeping you company at night? What did you mean by that?"

"It means exactly what it says?" Xia Si asked, puzzled. "If a person sleeps in one place for a long time, talking and singing human faces will grow on the wall next to the bed."

They sing in a language we can't understand; it's noisy, annoying, and impossible to destroy. Because they are indestructible, and they mysteriously disappear during the day,” Xia Si replied.

"What are all these strange things!" Lin Hui was a little confused; the fog outside was truly indescribable.

"Oh, right, Master, this is a gift from your disciple to show my respect to you." Suddenly, Xia Si pulled out a long, black, metallic-looking hair from his pocket.

"I found it before, left behind by a huge guy who was passing by," Xia Si described.

(End of this chapter)