Chapter 688: The Similarity Between The Highest God And Rabbit
[Pygmalion Choker] had cooled down.
There was also a similarly huge metal wall that was riddled with rows of holes in the sky above the Olympics. It was just that it was not connected to a "hall" like the one in the Salvation of God. Wrapped in a powerful air thrust, Lin Sanjiu and her two companions were thrown into the deep blue cosmos like three bullets. As they landed, their momentum came to a sudden halt, and they floated about in the deep space.
At long last, they finally returned to this place that all of them had been longing for.
Still, the starry sky was filled with layers upon layers of white cords that flickered with a silvery brilliance. Together, they intertwined to form a meshwork of intricate patterns that cut the entire space into many segments.
All of them returned to their human forms. They looked at each other, but none of them spoke.
The glitter encircling Puppeteer's eyes turned darker and darker, looking like two patches of dried blood. A dark heavy fog descended and crowded around his ectomorph body as a hostile expression crawled upon his face. Lin Sanjiu and Soulsqn quickly averted their eyes away from him. The horrible gaping wound that crossed half of his body was startling, with overturned flesh and patches of dried blood lined around the edge.
"Where is that freak?"
The way the flesh worm twisted her body around to check their surroundings was a scene that one could only find in horror movies. She looked like a blob of flesh made of countless strips of muscle. Lin Sanjiu felt that she should go and find the Veda to give her a whole new look instead of looking for a full pack of reproductive systems.
"Remember," before they split up to look for the highest god, Lin Sanjiu reminded them again, "You must avoid those white cords at all cost. Those are the channels the Veda used to transmit their information and move around. The instant we step into it, they will know we are here."
Generally, whenever she was giving some advice or telling them what they should or should not do, Puppeteer was always the first one to get annoyed. However, this time, he said nothing at all, which surprised Lin Sanjiu greatly. He turned around and walked away.
After roaming aimlessly around the void for a while, Lin Sanjiu stopped. She peered into the endless layers of white cords ahead, her jaw set tight and brows creased. She suddenly had a brainwave. As there was nothing to obstruct their line of vision in the Data Stream Library, she found that there was no need for them to wander around to look for the highest god. All they had to do was turn their heads around and they would get a panoramic view of the entire space. Be that as it may, there wasn't any sign of the highest god. While Lin Sanjiu was wondering about the whereabouts of the young deity, Soulsqn's voice appeared in her mind. "There is nowhere here that he could hide. He must have gotten away."
'Could it be we're too late and the highest god has gone into one of those white cords?'
If that really happened, then they were in huge trouble. Once the highest god successfully met up with the Veda, he would surely lead the Veda to them, and it would only be a matter of time before they were caught.
"Why don't we seize the chance and return to the Salvation of God?" Soulsqn asked as she slithered closer to Lin Sanjiu. "Why must we mess around with the Veda? Isn't the most important thing for us to do right now is to go back to the Salvation of God as soon as possible?"
Like Lin Sanjiu, who was worried sick about the cat doctor and Hu Changzai, Soulsqn was concerned about the wellbeing of her clansmen.
"You can leave if you want," Puppeteer said without turning his head. "After all, when the fight begins, you two will just be in my way."
The only one amongst them who had no attachment to anything was Puppeteer.
The flesh worm froze. She did not know that the Veda had made Puppeteer go through his days in Mistral again. Hence, when she was about to say something, Puppeteer interjected, his words cutting into her flesh like an icy blade. "I will blow this place up, or I will die here. Either way, there is nothing you could do to stop me. Get lost now before I change my mind."
Lin Sanjiu and Soulsqn exchanged glances.
"Since Lord Puppeteer has said so," a big, fleshy red tendril extruded from the flesh worm's massive trunk, and she waved it, "then I'll gladly take the…"
However, before the flesh worm could finish her sentence, she felt a tug at the nape of her neck as she was lifted from the ground.
She turned her head around to see that the culprit was none other than Lin Sanjiu.
"No, that won't do." Lin Sanjiu ignored the slimy texture beneath her palm and pinched Soulsqn's mouth closed. "Who knows where you hid the cat doctor? I'm staying here if you are not going back with us."
"I can tell you where I hid them."
Lin Sanjiu cocked her head. She pondered in silence for a moment before she began speaking again.
"What if you are lying to me? Besides, I'm now very disgusted by that expression of yours. What do you think you are doing? Playing the hero game? Trying to save the world by yourself?" Lin Sanjiu tried to make herself sound as sarcastic as possible. "Do you think you are the strongest? And that you are the greatest among us all, and you can wipe out the entire Veda all by yourself?"
Puppeteer wheeled his head around to face Lin Sanjiu. No sooner had the glitter around his eyes darkened than it lightened up again and turned back to light gray.
Puppeteer said those words to her all the time and so often that she'd become accustomed to them till they felt like a breeze to her. Right now, she just tweaked the sentences a bit and returned them to him. She had no idea how he would react, perhaps he would even kill her out of rage. But she had to try.
She could feel the trembling of Soulsqn through her hand. She was very certain that if she were to release her now, the damn flesh worm would surely draw a line with her.
Puppeteer stood as stiff as a pole. If it weren't for his chalky skin, he would have merged with the pitch-black space in the distance.
"If you want to die, there is nothing I can do to stop you." He sneered coldly. "Of course, it's none of my business if you have a death wish, and I would never stop you from trying to die."
Soulsqn was stunned. She had never seen this side of Puppeteer before. "Erm, guys," the flesh worm unplucked her mouth from Lin Sanjiu's grip, "It's good that you guys have plenty of fight in you, but what should we use to fight against the Veda? They know about every single one of your abilities and Special Items, and my pheromones can do nothing but trap them for a little while. Under the circumstance where the Veda know how to tackle every one of our attacks, can you guys please enlighten me on how we should defeat them?"
"Well, I think you don't have to worry about that."
All three of them jumped when that sentence popped up in their minds. Lin Sanjiu turned her head to look at the metal wall behind her. Understanding instantly dawned upon her. "The highest god is still inside the metal wall! No wonder why we couldn't find him anywhere. He has been waiting in the hole the entire time!"
"Bingo! That's right!"
All of them zeroed in on one particular hole in the metal wall. They all had no idea whether it was their eyes playing tricks on them or if it was other things, but there seemed to be something shifting inside the hole. Suddenly, a shadow whizzed across their eyes. And the next thing they knew, a tall man was standing in front of the metal wall. He had an eye-catching appearance, and he had no clothes on his body.
Moving as fast as the gale in the night, Puppeteer soon vanished from his standing spot.
One of the most annoying aspects that they found in the Data Stream Library was that no matter how fast they could go, they would not be able to achieve the same speed as when they were on the ground. The only one who was excluded from this law was the highest god. He tapped his feet on the invisible ground and leaped up, evading Puppeteer's forceful ambush with feline grace. He stretched his arms open and anchored himself on the metal wall. He stared them down. A wide beam blossomed across his face.
"You want to turn me into your puppet, too?" The young deity's voice was full of the joy of spring. It was as if he was playing a game right now. "You couldn't do it in the Olympics, so do you think you could do it here?"
"What is so special about this place?" asked Lin Sanjiu.
"Don't you guys know it already?" The highest god nodded his chin towards the white cord in the distance. His emerald eyes glimmered with excitement. "This place is the Data Steam Library, the heaven for code writing and analyzing."
"Since you are so good at creating things with the so-called code writing ability, can't you create some pants and put them on?" Soulsqn snarled. "Stop swinging over there! Come down now!"
With those words, the highest god released his grip. Since there was no gravity here, he descended slowly from the metal wall. As he fell, he looked at Puppeteer and showed him a wide grin, giving him a chance to peek at his row of pearly white teeth. "You guys are the most interesting posthumans I have ever seen in the Olympics. I have the proud feeling of being a father right now…"
"Hang on," said Lin Sanjiu as she halted Puppeteer. She studied the highest god's face meticulously as a strange feeling stirred inside of her heart. She seemed to have realized something and quickly said, "You… you are not on good terms with the Veda, aren't you?"
The highest god finally landed in front of them.
His ever-smiling face dropped. He asked, "Oh? What makes you say that?"
"You came in earlier than we did, and you can even move faster than us here. However, you did not go to meet up with the Veda, but instead hid inside the hole and eavesdropped on our conversation." Lin Sanjiu paused for a moment before continuing. "Besides, you only came out of hiding when you heard that we are devising a plan on how to fight the Veda. This is not really hard to guess."
"Yeah, it is not hard to guess," Soulsqn chimed in.
The highest god yawned. He scratched his short, puffy golden hair and said, "Well, you do make a point. Daddy was really relieved when I heard you guys have a strained relationship with the Veda."
"Cut the crap. Who the hell are you?" Lin Sanjiu growled. "How are you related to the Veda?"
"And I thought you were pretty smart. How can you ask this kind of stupid question?" The highest god sighed. "Why should I tell you?" He looked Lin Sanjiu in the eye and smiled, forming two dimples on his cheeks. "Why don't you guess what I am going to do next? If you guess it right, I will tell you."
This was not what Lin Sanjiu had expected. As her brows knitted in confusion, the naked man in front of them spun around and lunged towards the metal wall behind him. This time, his target was not only the metal wall. In the blink of an eye, he caught the edge of a hole.
However, somebody was faster than him.
The highest god hung by the edge of a hole. Before he could go inside, he suddenly sensed something and withdrew his hand. As he slid down the metal wall, he raised his head to see that what should have been a row of holes was now replaced by a large swath of greyish white. It seemed as if somebody had erased the hole with an eraser, and if it weren't for his quick response, he was certain that his hand would share the same fate as those holes.
This was by far the first time Lin Sanjiu saw the highest god have a change of expression. He turned around and looked at the group. Half of Puppeteer's face scrunched up as a sinister smile tugged at the corner of his lips.
"There are a lot of limitations to this Special Item of mine. However. you're lucky. Its cooling time has just finished."
His soft and icy tone rang in Lin Sanjiu's mind. "You shouldn't have shown yourself. I'm currently in need of puppets. I wonder what it would be like to have a god as my puppet."