161: Chapter 162 Time-Space Erosion, Grayish-White Figure

The The Woodcutter gave a bitter smile upon hearing this: "Naturally I have thought about it, but I cannot get out."

"I have tried walking out of the village countless times, but every time I cannot go more than two miles before being pushed back by an invisible force."

"Slowly, I just stopped thinking about leaving."

"Living is living anywhere; as long as one doesn't touch the taboos, life here is quite nice, isn't it?"

Lin Ye glanced at him and did not continue asking.

"Understood, thank you for the warning!"

After saying this, he helped Captain Zhang leave the house.

The person before him was too eerie; he instinctively wanted to get away.

The The Woodcutter stood at the doorway, watching them gradually walk away, a meaningful expression appearing on his face.

"Another person not affected by the spacetime erosion; I hope you won't be assimilated by them..."

Shaking his head, the The Woodcutter turned and went back inside.

Lin Ye helped Captain Zhang into the village. Wisps of cooking smoke rose all around, and the sounds of chickens crowing and dogs barking came from afar; everything looked so normal.

"Do you believe what he said?" Captain Zhang suddenly spoke.

"Not entirely." Lin Ye shook his head.

"However, the precautions he mentioned align with your experience last night."

"Then what do you plan to do? Do you intend to go and make contact with the other villagers?" Captain Zhang glanced at the group of villagers working in the fields in the distance.

Lin Ye looked over as well.

"No rush. With the strength of the two of us, even if we discovered something, it would be difficult to resolve this anomaly. It is better to just keep waiting."

"It won't be too late to make plans once we find the Commander and the others."

After saying this, he turned to look at Captain Zhang: "Besides, your current state is not suitable for fighting; let's get your injuries healed first."

Captain Zhang nodded, agreeing with Lin Ye's plan.

The two found a quiet corner to sit, and Lin Ye closed his eyes to continue to Cultivate the Mind Ape Visualization Method.

Captain Zhang took a blood-red Medicinal Pill, then circulated his own Qi and blood, silently recovering from his injuries.

Time ticked by, second by second. The sun gradually rose from the horizon to directly overhead, then slid to the west.

The villagers, who had been busy all day, all returned to their houses one after another and closed their doors.

Twilight descended like a great net, covering the entire village, and everything returned to calm.

Lin Ye opened his eyes and checked the sky.

Captain Zhang also stopped Cultivating at this moment.

His complexion was much better than during the day, though his face still looked somewhat haggard.

For some reason, Lin Ye felt that Captain Zhang had aged a bit more.

Suddenly, Lin Ye's expression changed.

He saw that a figure had appeared at the village entrance, though he didn't know when it had arrived.

The figure stood in the shadows of a row of houses; the face could not be seen, only a blurred silhouette.

No aura fluctuations came from the other party, and no light spots appeared in his Slaughter Vision.

This indicated that the thing was not a living creature.

"Is it the strange beast that Captain Zhang encountered last night?"

Lin Ye frowned, subconsciously wanting to verify this with Captain Zhang.

But when he turned his head to look, there was no one there.

"Disappeared again? Or does it mean that as soon as night falls, everyone gets isolated?"

However, this was not the time to think about these things. He refocused his attention on the black shadow.

The other party had not moved, and Lin Ye did not know if this was good or bad.

After all, according to Captain Zhang, that strange beast had attacked him as soon as they met.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Ye steadied his mind and grasped the black iron heavy staff stuck in the ground beside him.

He held it with both hands, placing it horizontally in front of him.

The staff body shimmered with a dull metallic luster under the moonlight, bringing him a measure of security.

It was at this moment that the figure finally moved.

It walked out of the shadows, its pace very slow, yet it carried a sense of oppression.

The moonlight shone on the figure, and Lin Ye finally saw what it looked like.

It was a thing that possessed the shape of a human.

The reason he called it a "thing" was because although it had a human outline, it lacked human texture.

The other party's skin was a grayish-white color, like parched earth, covered in fine cracks.

Its facial features could barely be distinguished, but all characteristics had been smoothed over by some force, as if seen through a layer of mist, making it impossible to see its specific appearance.

And what made one's heart crawl the most were its eyes!

They were a pair of eyes completely filled with gray-white mist; there were no whites of the eyes, nor pupils, just like two gray-white vortexes slowly rotating within the eye sockets.

Lin Ye's heart sank abruptly.

Not because of fear, but because he recognized the thing in those eyes.

Gray mist!

Only, compared to the gray mist that had enveloped them before, the gray mist in this thing's eyes seemed alive, giving one the feeling that it would devour everything.

"Is this the strange beast Captain Zhang encountered?"

Lin Ye felt that something was not quite right.

The feeling this thing gave him had nothing to do with a "strange beast."

Rather than a beast, it was more like a person.

Lin Ye took another step back, while his brain began to race.

There were two possibilities now: First, this thing was the special strange beast that Captain Zhang said grew stronger the more it was fought, just with a different appearance.

Second, this thing was something completely different from a strange beast, perhaps some powerful Demon.

Regardless of which possibility it was, it was not good news for Lin Ye.

Suddenly, the figure stopped when it was about ten zhang away from Lin Ye.

It just tilted its head like that, observing Lin Ye with a posture that was almost curious.

Being stared at by those gray-white pupils, Lin Ye inexplicably broke out in goosebumps.

The feeling this thing gave him was becoming increasingly strange.

And for some reason, looking at it, Lin Ye had an indescribable sense of familiarity, as if he had seen it somewhere before, but he just couldn't recall where.

"Who are you?" Lin Ye finally spoke.

The voice was not loud, but it sounded exceptionally clear in the silent night.

The figure's lips moved upon hearing this, but it made no sound.

Lin Ye frowned and was about to speak again when he caught sight of his arm in his peripheral vision.

On the surface of his skin, a layer of extremely faint gray had appeared at some point.

The color was so faint that it was almost invisible; if the moonlight hadn't happened to shine on it, he wouldn't even have noticed.

"When?!"

Lin Ye subconsciously activated the Thunder Tiger Vajra Body. As purple electric arcs emerged from his skin, the speed at which the grayish-white color was spreading slowed down significantly, but it did not stop completely.

However, as long as it worked, it meant this thing was not an unsolvable power.

Lin Ye felt slightly reassured and began to calculate a countermeasure.

Fighting was definitely not something to be done lightly.

Captain Zhang's experience was already right before his eyes.

This thing not only could not be killed, but it would also grow stronger the more it was fought.

He had no interest in risking his own life to verify whether or not this resurrection mechanism had a limit.

So there was only one choice, and that was to run!

As long as he could drag it out until dawn, all crises would be resolved.

Lin Ye remembered the The Woodcutter saying that the village was safe during the day.

Regardless of whether this information was reliable or not, at least from the current situation, nothing extraordinary appeared during the day except for the villagers who had already turned into Demons.

Having made up his mind, Lin Ye began to retreat slowly.

But the next second, the figure vanished from where it stood in an instant!

Lin Ye's pupils constricted sharply; he finally understood where that sense of familiarity came from!