Chapter 875: Abnormal Incident
Abnormal Incident
"There's a faint trace of rule power here, this should be the place where that deity was imprisoned."
Lin Ye sighed, he had guessed this might be the situation.
"That deity was locked up here by the organization, and our ritual released Him?"
Natalie asked with a somewhat guilty conscience.
"No, this isn't the organization's base, but the city above is the organization's city."
This was the situation Lin Ye least wanted to encounter.
"...What do you mean?"
Natalie still hadn't realized the severity of the problem.
"The attack on your side destroyed the organization's city, the ritual that should have collapsed in the rune-filled deep pit connected to the mysterious space imprisoning the deity, and we entered a passageway that doesn't belong to the city above... just where exactly are we right now?"
Lin Ye had finally figured out all those earlier questions, this city had already separated from the Plane where the organization was located, the abnormal incident had already occurred, which was why the organization couldn't handle the abnormal incident in advance.
The organization had used some method to send them inside the city, and because the risk was too great, the organization hadn't sent overseers over.
The biggest problem now was that this space imprisoning the deity had already swapped positions with the organization's base, and Lin Ye had to find the organization's base to complete the simulation mission.
"...So we have to go search for that organization's base in some unknown Plane?"
Natalie had finally realized the severity of the problem.
"No, there's no way now, this kind of abnormal phenomenon will only get worse and worse, we've already arrived too late, who knows how many Planes have already been drawn into the abnormal incident, it's already very difficult for us to find the source of that problem again."
Moreover, this city couldn't use spiritual energy, and Lin Ye didn't think they could move to other Planes anymore.
If he wasn't wrong, moving between various Planes probably required satisfying some different conditions, like driving a car and getting blown to pieces by a bomb on the battlefield, conditions like that.
"This place has merged with the city above, is it possible that every Plane will split off a portion and eventually merge into a new Plane?
If that's really the case, we don't have to resolve the abnormal incident, right?"
Natalie forced out a somewhat strained smile.
"If we let the abnormal incident develop, it might eventually affect other locations in these Planes, and I absolutely have to resolve the abnormal incident... I'm sorry."
Lin Ye usually only apologized to enemies, and it was usually filled with malice, but this time was different.
"Why apologize? It's not because of you... this abnormal incident wasn't caused by you, was it?"
Natalie looked at Lin Ye nervously.
"What are you thinking? You know about rule power, right? I have an ability related to time rules, after I die, I'll rewind to a period before, of course, the number of rewinds is limited.
I'm planning to go back and handle this incident anew, but this time, I should go directly to deal with the source of the abnormal incident, which means, I won't be able to go help you over there anymore."
Lin Ye usually didn't abandon people who had helped him in simulations, but this situation was different, he had to get to the underground factory to handle the source of the abnormal incident as quickly as possible, and whether he could still enter the battlefield Plane after that was hard to say.
"...There's nothing we can do about that, is there?
Please don't worry about me, I'm actually pretty strong, even if you don't go help me, I'll find a way to survive."
Natalie suppressed her fear and answered with a smile.
She knew very well what this meant, without Lin Ye's help, she would definitely die on that battlefield and become several corpse fragments in that deep pit.
"If there's a chance, I'll go give you a hand, but I might not make it in time."
Lin Ye had to make a choice, if he couldn't resolve the abnormal incident, after ten simulations, he had no idea what would happen.
"At critical moments, you can only rely on yourself, right?"
Natalie really wished the 'next her' could hear those words too.
"...You're right, I hope you survive."
Lin Ye was preparing to kill himself, he had been ready for suicide ever since he figured out the abnormal incident.
"Wait! Does your ability have a time limit?"
Natalie spoke up to interrupt Lin Ye's actions.
"No, do you want to stay a while longer?"
Only the final simulation would consume time, no matter how long the previous simulations lasted, it wasn't a problem... at least Lin Ye had never encountered a problem.
He also didn't waste too much time in simulations, so there might be a time limit to simulations, he just had never encountered one.
"We can go up top and stay a bit longer, maybe we'll encounter spaces from other Planes and can collect some information."
Natalie just wanted to stay a little longer, because soon, she would revert back to that student who knew nothing.
"Up to you, but this body is about to reach its limit, if you run a bit faster, I can probably still accompany you for lunch."
Lin Ye could feel his body breaking down, the environment outside was very unfriendly to him.
Natalie rushed toward the ground in a panic, she ran very fast, it only took her twenty minutes to get back to the surface, the white glow still shone in the sky, and the dust in the air seemed to have decreased a bit.
"Cough cough, there's a supermarket over there, we can go get something to eat."
Lin Ye barely held up his body, he was just about done for.
Natalie climbed through the gap into the second floor of the supermarket and grabbed some bagged food and drinks from the shelf.
"Let's go to the rooftop and collect some intelligence while we're at it."
Lin Ye lay on Natalie's shoulder and said with difficulty.
Natalie jumped up to the supermarket's rooftop, only a small patch of space remained on the rooftop, the rest had collapsed.
"You're not making up a story to put my mind at ease, are you? If time doesn't rewind after you die later, I'm going to be in real trouble."
Natalie opened the snack bag and set Lin Ye down beside her.
"You're overthinking it, I'm not that boring... alright, I do occasionally do boring things, but I wouldn't make up a story that would be seen through so quickly, this world will disappear after I die, you shouldn't feel anything at all."
Lin Ye didn't think a new world appeared every simulation, the system didn't have that many resources to waste.
"Well that's great, at least it's much better than being cut into corpse fragments."
Natalie tossed a snack into her mouth, she loved the taste of snacks, unfortunately she would soon no longer know this taste.
"I'll try my best to help you out."
Lin Ye's eyes had already been blinded by the white glow, he could only see white shadows of light now.
"Thanks.
Oh right, I don't think I've asked your name yet, my name is Natalie, what about you?"
Even though it held no meaning, Natalie still asked the question.
"My name is Lin Ye."
Lin Ye slowly closed his eyes.