Even though Xiao Putao directly surpassed in the Pupil Skill and instantly killed a pilgrim’s corpse,
Yi Chen did not rush to continue climbing but returned to regroup with the squad.
“Reagan, what’s your take?”
His slightly chubby fingers scratched at his cheek, giving his analysis:
“A corpse is still a corpse; those eyes are merely the abnormal combination that occurred under the effect of the Grey Zone when the worm eyes were ingested into the body. They are pieced together using this corpse to affect passing organisms.
At its essence, it belongs to an abnormal variant primarily of animals, insects, and the like, having lost the attribute of being human.
As long as we’re prepared in advance, they are not highly threatening.
It also explains why animal eyes and insect eyes don’t have much of an effect on the pilgrims themselves… What they need may only be the “human eye.”
The pilgrims who had their eyes gouged out died with a smile perhaps because they achieved some purpose, allowing someone to carry on with their eyeballs and complete this pilgrimage.”
“Unless on the level of eyes, it transcends me, the Patient also with the Eye as its core attribute, infinitely close to Open Source, and might have even reached the level of Open Source.
Now we’re done for. The truly terrifying thing about spiritual Patients is right here… As long as they surpass us in level, we won’t even know how we died.
If we don’t know how we got trapped, the same might happen afterward.
Perhaps while walking along the mountain path, you would suddenly fall from a several-hundred-meter-high mountain and only realize you’re going to die the moment your body is smashed to pieces.
Or maybe you think you found your teammates and you’re gathering with them, but then the next thing you know, they’re eating off your head and devouring your body.”
Yi Chen took a deep breath and wasn’t influenced by Grape’s negative talk.
“Hey! Grape~ If you want to survive, bring out your best skills. Starting now, turn your visual enhancement to the max, and don’t let up for a moment.”
“Easy for you to say, maintaining high concentration for a long time will make my eyes bloodshot and damage them.”
“Didn’t you just get the essence of Cold Lake Cemetery? Wash your eyes with Cold Lake water from time to time. You should be able to hold up for a while, right? Let me know if you really can’t.”
Grape gritted his teeth, “Alright~”
“Wait…” Yi Chen suddenly stopped Grape in his tracks and posed a question, “Where did we first meet? Which gravesite number was it?”
Grape didn’t answer verbally but instead stretched out all six fingers, indicating the largest number.
“Do you suspect I’m fake?”
“Just eliminating any possible risks. Come on… Full Vision, activate!”
Although Grape was somewhat annoyed, considering the current dangerous situation, he performed a standard diving motion and submerged into Yi Chen’s body.
The soft black sphere rapidly moved through the blood vessels to the inside of the skull, where the black hair adhered to the brain and slowly fused with it.
“First off, it’s my first time ‘combining’ with you . Your vision might change drastically, and the burden on your brain’s nerves will also increase several times.
If you can’t handle it, disengage on your own. Be careful not to push too hard, or you might risk brain explosion.
Once your brain shatters, even if your body is taken back to the cemetery, it’s pretty much useless.”
As Grape’s body completely merged with the brain,
Whirr! A moist and lustrous eyeball slowly opened in the center of the brain.
At that moment, Yi Chen was also stunned.
Strands of black thread emerged on the surface of his two facial eyeballs, sewing a ring of hair-like pupils on the surface of the eyeballs, like threading a needle.
Hiss~ Even a whiff of corpse energy leaked from the eyeballs, and black blood streaks filled the whites of the eyes.
a more colorful, intricate, and complex world unfolded before him,
every hidden Stone Eye Worm in the shadows was pinpointedly captured, and he also noticed an abnormally reflective surface on a mountainside.
Yi Chen stepped towards the spot on the mountainside wall that was no more than half a meter wide and reached out to touch it.
His hand felt nothing,
and after a display of dazzling colors, the wall astonishingly vanished, revealing a hidden passageway into the heart of the mountain.
Yi Chen did not enter it immediately but returned to the pilgrimage path he had been on before, to revisit the perilous mountain route with his current visual condition… The sight captured by his Field of View left him utterly shocked.
The previously solitary pilgrim’s mountain path had now turned into a labyrinthine maze with a myriad of forks every few steps.
And there weren’t as many pilgrims’ corpses as there seemed initially. The corpses were mostly concentrated around the forks, their outstretched hands pointing in different directions, creating a misleading effect.
Among the mountains were also strewn various small stone Sick Objects that functioned like natural Watchers, or rather carriers of Illusions, influencing and altering the visual scenery for passersby as they cooperated with each other.
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