Xiao Lin found it hard to describe the scene before him.
First, a hand reached out from the bloody hole. Then a second hand.
These hands gripped the edges of the hole, and then the owner of the arms slowly crawled out from the center.
It was an extremely bizarre visual experience: a one-meter-tall monster slowly crawling out of a fist-sized hole. First the head, then the shoulders, then the body and legs, until it was completely out.
Its form was similar to a human's, wearing a white lab coat, but its body was gray and extremely emaciated.
And what was even more bizarre was its head. It was a red leather hardcover book. Standing upright and open on the creature's neck cavity, its inner pages were densely packed with eyes.
Those eyes were staring fixedly at Xiao Lin right now. Without much judgment, Xiao Lin already knew what this thing was.
The Wisdom Demon. Although he knew this guy would most likely find him, this method of making an entrance was truly beyond his expectations.
Xiao Lin didn't dare to be negligent, yet he didn't dare to act rashly either.
He unfastened the straps of his backpack, letting it slide to the ground, and then slowly drew the Tang sword from his waist. The smooth white blade glinted with a soft, even light.
This knife was no ordinary prop. It was made in the materials science laboratory last night.
It wasn't forged using traditional techniques, but rather printed as a whole using two-photon polymerization 3D printing technology. It was a kind of ultra-high-precision micro-nano 3D printing technology.
The material used was an advanced high-entropy ceramic, with a hardness of up to 40GPa. Although it was relatively brittle, it was much sharper than ordinary metal blades.
Wait... why was he thinking about these things?
Xiao Lin raised his head. In the next instant, everything around him flooded into his mind: the building ruins, the plants, the abandoned vehicles. Their colors, appearances, and shapes all flooded into Xiao Lin's mind.
He realized that he... had become smarter. He could think of a lot of information just by seeing an object. And right now he was seeing many things. Those things were flooding into his mind all at once, starting to generate new information.
This process wasn't linear; it was happening simultaneously. Everything was chaotically stirring in his mind, growing wildly.
Even some knowledge he had never known before began to emerge.
A tingling sensation came from the back of his hand. Xiao Lin looked down to see dense black symbols and numbers emerging from under his skin. What exactly is this...
I...
Numbers...
Compounds...
Xiao Lin found that he couldn't stop thinking, nor could he control what he was thinking about.
His brain was constantly receiving information, growing exponentially every second. The situation was bad, very bad!
Xiao Lin could feel that his Essence was being wildly consumed at this moment, but the wave of information blocked his danger perception.
Not good. If this continued, he would really be finished.
He had to find... a way to fight back...
Just then, a pair of emaciated hands rested on his shoulders. Xiao Lin raised his head, locking eyes perfectly with the dense eyes of the Wisdom Demon.
Unknowingly, the Wisdom Demon had already reached him.
The pages of the book on its head tilted towards Xiao Lin, then flipped rapidly. Black symbols surged out like a black flood, pouring down onto Xiao Lin's face.
Xiao Lin couldn't react at all. The excessive thinking left him standing there motionless, until the black numbers and symbols almost covered his entire body. His hair began to fall out, quickly replaced by dense text and symbols. The fine hair on his body also began to fall out. His eyes quickly lost their luster, becoming exactly like the Calamity-corrupted creature from just now.
The Wisdom Demon slowly let go of him, stepped back a few paces, and the pages of the book on its head flapped lightly. Its eyes kept rolling, watching the prey in front of it.
It seemed to be checking if this prey in front of it had truly been dealt with.
Then it turned around, preparing to leave. In the next instant, Xiao Lin struck without any warning. His body suddenly stepped forward, and the Tang sword in his hand slashed down from above with an extremely fierce motion!
This attack was swift and sudden. The Wisdom Demon was completely unprepared, and the hardness and craftsmanship of this ceramic Tang sword gave it extremely strong sharpness.
It encountered almost no resistance at all. The blade of the Tang sword split the Wisdom Demon's head in half.
This bizarre Calamity-corrupted creature didn't die just yet. It let out a piercing and fierce screech, loud enough to tear a person's eardrums.
It violently broke free from the blade, whirled around, and more black floods surged towards Xiao Lin.
But Xiao Lin didn't dodge at all. Instead, he went against the flood, striding forward. He gripped the knife with his right hand, used his left hand to push the hilt, and thrust forward with the power of his whole body. The blade instantly pierced through the Wisdom Demon's heart.
This blow interrupted the Wisdom Demon's attack. This bizarre creature's eyes revealed a look of terror, but it was too late.
Xiao Lin violently pulled out the knife and swung it horizontally at its neck!
This slash was swift and fierce. He felt almost no resistance when swinging it, and the Wisdom Demon's head fell to the ground with a thud, followed by the collapse of its body.
However, this thing seemed unwilling to die just yet. The body on the ground began to convulse violently and mechanically.
Xiao Lin quickly stepped forward and stomped on its chest with one foot, then stabbed the knife down at its heart, pinning it to the ground.
The body finally slowly stopped struggling.
Is it dead? Xiao Lin thought, but he felt a vague sense of unease.
In the next instant, a flash of red light streaked across his peripheral vision! It was the Wisdom Demon's head, that leather book!
It suddenly jumped up and slammed onto Xiao Lin's face. The pages wrapped tightly around his head, blocking his breathing, and the pages began to fuse with his skin.
But Xiao Lin was in no way nervous. This kind of death throes was meaningless to him. He turned the Tang sword around and violently stabbed it into his own head.
Whoosh!
The book and Xiao Lin's head were both pierced by the Tang sword. Blood splattered, but not a single drop was Xiao Lin's.
Xiao Lin reached out and grabbed the leather book, pulled it off, and threw it to the ground. Then, Xiao Lin became as motionless as a statue.
The reason was simple: his consciousness was not in his body right now, but on the Deep Space Pupil.
When he was just controlled by the Wisdom Demon, he performed a consciousness transfer before completely losing control, moving his consciousness to the satellite.
This battle was fought by him through remote control from a third-person perspective.
No matter how powerful the Wisdom Demon's mental pollution was, it had no way to pollute an empty shell with no consciousness.
However, even so, Xiao Lin still felt some fear, because his Essence had already been worn down by nearly half.
Even though he performed a consciousness transfer, if his body died, he would still be hard-pressed to escape death.
And looking at the bizarre appearance of his own body, Xiao Lin sighed silently. For the time being, he didn't dare to return.