Under the sunlight, the body of the nocturnal species emitted white mist while visibly hardening at a speed visible to the naked eye.
This process lasted only a minute before the nocturnal species completely hardened into a pure white, plaster-like sculptural form.
Just as Lin Yi thought everything was over, he suddenly felt dizzy. Following that, his vision once again entered a state similar to an overexposed film strip,
In this vision, he could clearly see the green mist inside the nocturnal species furiously escaping like floodgates opening; in the real world, it evaporated like white mist, but in this vision, it appeared green.
But this time, Lin Yi caught a new change in the green mist—it gradually condensed into green powdery particles and floated toward him like snowflakes!
"Hmm...?!" Lin Yi’s eyes flashed a warning sign, and his body instinctively dodged.
But those green powdery particles became "excited," they sped up as if pulled by some force, curving towards his chest directly!
"Damn, it comes with tracking?" Lin Yi’s scalp tingled, a sense they were locked on him emerged in his subconscious—he couldn’t dodge, just couldn’t!
The next moment, the green powdery particles hit his chest like a swarm of micro-missiles and burst into a thin green mist with a series of ’puff puff puff...’ sounds, clinging to his skin!
"Damn it!" Lin Yi quickly touched his chest and then pulled open his collar to peek inside.
Upon looking, he instantly bristled; he saw a green mark the size of a fingernail on the area where the green mist had adhered. He tried to scratch it off but realized it was different from the nail marks left on Li Huiyuan’s back from the attack by Green Hat.
The marks on Li Huiyuan could be scraped off, but his seemed ingrained, like a tattoo...
And his vision also returned to normal at that moment, like the early irregular functioning of Duan Yu’s Six Meridian Divine Swords...
Once normal, he found he couldn’t see the fingernail-sized green mark on his chest at all, as if it was suddenly no problem.
But not seeing the problem doesn’t mean the problem was gone; his expression immediately turned ugly.
In times like these, not being able to find the problem is the biggest problem.
"Shit, what the hell is this?"
Lin Yi subconsciously clenched his teeth, and the muscles around his jaw immediately tensed.
"Calm down, calm down, calm down..."
"This green mark, although it looks different from Li Huiyuan’s, it must be some kind of contamination mark..."
The green powdery particles seemed different from the white ones; he remembered those strange art students and art teachers, who absorbed white powdery particles and then released green powdery particles...
It was like contamination with depth; Lin Yi suspected that these marks might also have a ’class’ distinction, and his mark was clearly more troublesome than Li Huiyuan’s...
"Let’s call it ’Green Mist Mark’... No, goddamn Green Mist Mark!" Lin Yi suddenly felt sheepish; when had he subconsciously started getting into the habit of naming these things?
But to be fair, the name seemed damn fitting.
But now was obviously not the time to be pleased with his naming skills; first, he had to think about how to get rid of this Green Mist Mark...
Lin Yi wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and then tried to step back from his role as the affected party, looking at the situation from an outsider’s perspective. He wanted to replay the events to find any clue he might have missed.
If the Green Mist Mark had to mark someone, there was him and Li Huiyuan; why didn’t it indiscriminately fly towards both him and Li Huiyuan, but specifically targeted him?
Could it be because it disliked him?
"There must be some logic to it."
"Like... is it because I used the mirror to kill that nocturnal species? So, the green powdery particles inside it turned into the Green Mist Mark that clung to me?"
"But if that’s the case, when I previously used the mirror to scorch that nocturnal species in the stairwell, why didn’t... no wait, there was!"
Lin Yi recalled the scene at that time; he certainly attacked the nocturnal species, but the species wasn’t killed by him; instead, the outermost part of the shell petrified, but a vein-like structure was preserved in the deepest part. If Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang hadn’t come to "finish the job," that nocturnal species might not have died completely.
And when Xie Huayang smashed it with the bat, his vision didn’t turn into an exposed image, so even if there was a mark, he wouldn’t have seen it, and logically... the mark from that nocturnal species should have been for Xie Huayang!
Lin Yi pondered, could the Green Mist Mark actually be a kind of marker left by a nocturnal species at the time of death to identify the ’killer’?
But wasn’t it already dead?
So, was it used to signal others?