Crystal Palace from Infinite Anime

“Woo, woo, woo…”

Outside the dilapidated house that could neither shelter them from the wind nor from the rain, the two men saw, without even entering the house, a pale man in red clothes, slumped weakly on a chair, with his face up and weeping heartbrokenly.

Looking at this sad and crying man, Lin Zhiyu stood outside the house and said sweetly:

"There's an explosion outside, the fire's right in front of you, and you're still crying? You disgusting old bug, die!"

As Lin Zhiyu finished speaking, the man in the dilapidated house stopped crying temporarily and looked at Lin Zhiyu with a puzzled look.

At this time, Lin Zhiyu raised his hand and shot out a flaming arrow.

The man sitting on the chair in the dilapidated house was caught off guard and was hit on the head by the flaming arrow. His head exploded instantly and he died on the chair with his head on fire.

It was the first time that Li Meifeng saw Lin Zhiyu kill someone without any explanation. She was asking Lin Zhiyu what was going on.

Lin Zhiyu spoke first and said to her:

"Check if this old guy is faking his death."

How could this person not be dead?

Li Meifeng showed a look of surprise, then turned her head to look at the dead man on the chair again.

Then, before Li Meifeng could reply to Lin Zhiyu, the man in red who looked dead on the chair couldn't help but reveal his true form. He changed from a human to a centipede-like insect that could stand up, that is, the corrupt follower.

Chapter 32: There was a lover before, but it was sad (supplement)

It turned out that the fact was just as Lin Zhiyu said, the man in the room was not dead!

Even its appearance has changed?

Surprised, Li Meifeng was about to take action.

Lin Zhiyu, who was standing next to her, had anticipated this and immediately rushed forward, swinging his sword at the "old bug" who had just revealed his true form.

It's as easy as mowing the lawn.

Lin Zhiyu's first move was a thundering blow, bursting out with all his strength!

With a "click" sound of the sword in his hand, he cut the corrupt follower in the broken house, which could disguise itself as a human, into two parts.

"Tap! Squeak, squeak, squeak..."

After being split into two and falling to the ground, the corrupt centipede-like creature made a creepy and unpleasant sound, and its dense and ugly legs kicked back and forth.

But all these movements dissipated as its vitality quickly dissipated.

As strands of golden light symbolizing Rune poured into Lin Zhiyu's body, Lin Zhiyu was immediately certain that this disgusting old bug was really dead.

"Master, may I ask how you could tell this guy was actually a bug?"

Thinking of how Lin Zhiyu had already called the corrupt follower in the house an old bug before it showed its true form, Li Meifeng couldn't help but look at Lin Zhiyu with curiosity.

Lin Zhiyu and Li Meifeng looked at each other and said calmly:

"I have eyes of fire and golden pupils."

This answer made Li Meifeng grin and smile awkwardly.

Obviously she also knew that Lin Zhiyu didn't want to answer her question.

The reason why Lin Zhiyu knew that the crying man in the house was an old bug was, of course, because Lin Zhiyu had played the game and knew the plot!

The old bug that is now dead in this dilapidated house disguises himself as a human being and calls himself "Gwei" in the game plot. When the Faded One controlled by the player first sees him, he will see him crying in grief.

If asked why he is crying, he will tell the player that it is because a girl he adopted named Millicent is suffering from the Crimson Corruption and may die soon.

Then a task will appear here. Gwei will mention the golden needle that can suppress the scarlet corruption, and ask the player to go to the center of the Ionian Swamp to obtain the golden needle.

However, the golden needle had already broken into two sections. After the player got the damaged golden needle, he had to hand it over to Gwei for repair. It was here that Gwei made some moves and directly led to a tragedy that was destined to happen to Millicent.

Because Gwei is a follower of corruption - he deeply believes in corruption and looks forward to the birth of a new generation of goddess of corruption.

And Millicent is the person who, in Gwei's mind, is most likely to become the new generation of corruption goddess.

So Gwei's crying was not acting, but he was really heartbroken.

He didn't want Millicent to die from the torture of scarlet corruption before she transformed into the Goddess of Corruption!

Fortunately, there was the golden needle - by tampering with the golden needle, he created the illusion that he had successfully helped Millicent prolong her life, but in fact he was using the tampered golden needle to deepen the influence of the scarlet corruption on Millicent.

In the end, Millicent realized the truth and, even though she could choose to merge with the Scarlet Corruption and transform into the Flower of Ionia to continue living...

I chose to pull out the golden needles!

She would rather die in the company of the player in an outbreak of scarlet corruption than bloom!

Corruption threatens her with pain and death.

But she would rather die in great pain than compromise!

It's funny that after knowing all this, Gwei was still deeply confused and didn't understand why Millicent would rather die than accept corruption.

Perhaps for the corrupted followers, scarlet corruption is truly an incomparably beautiful and great existence.

But for Millicent, this is the source of her pain.

"Old bug, you can't control the fate of others, and this time, you won't have the chance to carry out your schemes again!"

After saying these last words to Ge Wei's body, Lin Zhiyu pulled Li Meifeng away.

The two returned to the road. The town of Selia was not far ahead and it would only take a short ride to get there.

Looking at the magical town called Selia from afar, Lin Zhiyu knew that Selia was a place full of secrets. To get through this magical town, he would need to go through a lot of trouble and solve a series of puzzles.

However, Lin Zhiyu came out to find Millicent and had no intention of exploring the town of Selia for the time being.

"Oh no! How could I have forgotten that if you can't complete the puzzle in Selia Town in the game, you won't be able to open the road from Selia Town to other places!"

"If we don't go through Ceria Town, we'll have to take a long detour to reach the Corruption Church where Millicent is..."

"Fuck you! It turns out it's not just in the game, now the game has become reality, I'm still going to get lost!"

I didn't expect that this problem would once cause me trouble in the game.

It actually happened again in reality!

Lin Zhiyu was a little annoyed, but only a little.

Because he knew that the corrupt church where Millicent was was actually on the cliff next to Gwei's dilapidated house.

Then Lin Zhiyu pointed at the cliff and said to Li Meifeng:

"Can you use your Heaven and Earth Magic to get us both to that cliff?"

Although she didn't understand why Lin Zhiyu suddenly wanted to climb the mountain again, Li Meifeng nodded and told Lin Zhiyu that it was no problem.

Then, two giant yellow and white pythons appeared behind Li Meifeng. They seemed to be alive, first crawling on the ground, waiting for Lin Zhiyu and Li Meifeng to climb onto them and cling to them.

After the two were ready, two giant pythons, each one-third the height of the cliff, crawled to the bottom of the cliff and suddenly jumped upward like rockets. Although they did not directly jump into the sky, they still relied on their unparalleled explosive power to successfully hang their upper bodies on the top of the cliff.

As countless pieces of stone fell from the cliff, the two giant pythons hanging on the cliff carried Lin Zhiyu and Li Meifeng, and soon climbed up the cliff with their whole bodies.

After everything was over, the two giant pythons quickly disappeared. Li Meifeng's face turned noticeably paler and she looked a little listless.

"It seems that you can only use this move for a short time. If you maintain it for a little longer, it will be very exhausting for you?" Lin Zhiyu said, holding one of Li Meifeng's hands.

Li Meifeng nodded and said, "It's mainly because I'm mentally exhausted. I feel very sleepy now, and I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to concentrate for a while."

"It's okay. We shouldn't encounter any difficult enemies next time." Lin Zhiyu patted Li Meifeng's shoulder, and then summoned Torret again.

Following the direction they remembered, the two men rode on horseback and headed north.

Soon, a dilapidated church appeared in the sight of Lin Zhiyu and Li Meifeng.

At the entrance of the church, one can see corrupt followers holding spears standing guard on both sides.

These corrupt followers worship the severe scarlet corruption in Millicent's body as a god.

So this must be the Church of Corruption - the ugly corrupt followers, claiming to be the guardians of God, are standing guard for their God outside the church which is filled with the breath of God (corruption) and holiness (destruction)!

The author says:

Author's words: I cannot accept that a good girl who accompanied me through almost the entire border area and helped me defeat bosses several times, finally died in front of me in such an irreversible way!

Miyazaki Hidetaka, you deserve to die! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!

Chapter 33: The Legend of the Prosthetic Swordsman

The sky was gloomy and the cold wind was howling.

It's raining……

Drops of cold rain fell into the dilapidated church.

Next to the statue of the Eternal Queen Marika, beneath the mottled and dilapidated wall, a red-haired, armless girl sat slumped against the wall with her head lowered. Her body trembled in immense pain, and heartbreaking sobs emanated from her throat from time to time.

Tormented by the scarlet corruption, her current condition was extremely bad, and her perception of the outside world was reduced to the extreme. She didn't even hear the noise made by Li Meifeng outside when she dealt with the two corrupt followers guarding the church entrance.

Until Lin Zhiyu walked into the church step by step, getting closer and closer to her, until he was only ten feet away from her.

"who……"

The red-haired girl finally noticed someone approaching and saw Lin Zhiyu's feet and the hem of his clothes. She asked inquiringly and then slowly and with great effort, she finally raised her head and saw Lin Zhiyu's face clearly.

She didn't know Lin Zhiyu.

Then he slowly said:

"No matter who you are... well... you'd better stay away from me. The scarlet corruption is wriggling in my body. This is not something that ordinary people should touch, so, even for your own safety..."

The girl's voice was heavy with breath, and just the sound of it was enough to make people feel her weakness.

Maybe in the next second, she will wither here.

At this time, Lin Zhiyu did not explain anything first, but squatted directly in front of the girl, stretched out his right hand and spread his palm. A small ball of fire ignited in his palm that was not affected by the rain. He said to the girl directly:

"I can help you fight the crimson corruption in your body."

Listening to Lin Zhiyu's words and looking at the fireworks burning in Lin Zhiyu's palm, the girl was stunned at first, then subconsciously shrank back.

She... is actually very afraid of fire.

But at the same time, she knew that the reason she was afraid of fire was more because of the influence of the scarlet corruption in her body.

Scarlet corruption is weak to fire, and the scarlet corruption in her body is too serious, so she and the scarlet corruption have almost become one, so fear of fire has almost become her instinct.

However, the girl quickly overcame this instinctive fear and looked back into Lin Zhiyu's eyes and said:

"Why would you want to help me... Who are you? And... Will this really work... Haha, well, rather than continue to suffer from the scarlet corruption and wait for death, I would rather choose to trust you."

The girl's pale yellow eyes were filled with confusion as she looked at Lin Zhiyu. But who exactly was Lin Zhiyu, and was he really that important to her?

If she couldn't eliminate or suppress the crimson corruption in her body, she would be a dying person. What's the point of knowing more when someone is about to die?

The girl, who had figured it all out in a flash, chuckled self-deprecatingly. Perhaps, in her opinion, even being burned to death was better than dying from the eruption of crimson corruption within her body. Therefore, she was willing to believe Lin Zhiyu, even though she didn't hold the slightest hope in her heart.

"hold my hand."

Seeing that the girl did not reject him, the flame in Lin Zhiyu's palm immediately turned into a layer of orange-red light covering her palm.

The girl hesitated for only a second or two, then tremblingly raised her only left hand and placed her cold hand on Lin Zhiyu's large, hot palm.

As the physical contact took place, Lin Zhiyu began to control the power of the flames and transmit them into the girl's body.

The rain keeps falling and the wind keeps blowing.

The girl felt so cold before.

At this moment, she seemed to have fallen into a huge pot of fire.

Although Lin Zhiyu was very cautious and controlled the firepower at a very conservative level.

However, the girl's resistance to fire is extremely low.

At this moment, Lin Zhiyu could feel that the scarlet corruption that had been wriggling in the girl's body had become docile because it was suppressed by the power of fire controlled by him, and it could even be said that it had shrunk to a certain extent.

But at the same time, the girl herself suffered greatly under the influence of the flames. Even though the crimson corruption that had been wriggling within her body had been suppressed, her pain remained undiminished and seemed to have even intensified.

"Well……!"

The so-called burning body in a raging fire, those who have not experienced it cannot imagine the pain. The girl was currently enduring this kind of torture, but she did not wail because of it. Instead, she kept gritting her teeth, and at most she groaned.

She was very strong. Even if the scorching energy was about to burn her in the next second, she would not cowardly ask Lin Zhiyu to stop it immediately.