Whose Nirvana (VI)

"Boss, boss, are you okay?"

These days, why do I keep hearing people ask her this question...

She opened her eyes and saw countless faces in front of her. Linyin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "What's wrong with me? I'm just a little tired from the competition." She wasn't really that delicate.

"Rinyin, the way you looked just now..." was a little scary.

Han Jiangxue's hesitant look aroused Lin Yin's curiosity. She looked up and saw the holographic projection replaying her game clips.

In the picture, her boxing moves were extremely fierce and lasted for a long time, with no loss of speed or strength at all, like a specially built killing machine.

A close-up of her eyes showed, at first, only slightly bloodshot, a hint of the redness of exhaustion. With each punch, the red deepened, until, like glass beads soaked in blood, they had an eerie, inhuman quality.

Ah, at that time she was already lost in memories, her hands didn't stop moving...

"It's okay. I guess too much has happened recently, and my memory is a little confused." Seeing that Linyin was a little at a loss, Belle decisively cut off the topic, "Let's go to the second half of the game. We can still catch up for a while to rest."

Lin Yin nodded, but when she came to her senses, she found that the Wuji Qi was rushing around in her meridians with great excitement, chasing some tiny black filaments and trying to drive them out.

——What is that strange thing?

Oh, whatever, anything's fine. As long as she's still breathing and can keep going, that's all that matters.

"Rinyin, don't worry. With me here, no phantom beast dares to reach the finish line." The kitten watched Rinyin the whole time, its little heart aching. It placed its paw on Rinyin's knee, "I'm very useful, even more useful than before! I will help you get more points! You...don't put too much pressure on yourself, okay..."

Linyin lowered her head, looking at the furry little paws on her knees, and reached out to rub the kitten's head. She let her palm sink into the soft fur, and her tense nerves finally relaxed a little.

Sure enough, in the second half of the Mythical Beast Match, the kitten meowed a few times, and the Black Swamp Firefly refused to move forward, preferring only to hover near the entrance. The three Swamp Mushrooms also followed, seemingly guarding it, and circled around the entrance.

The Skeleton Mantis, the only one that was not affected by the kitten, was entangled by Snake and the Stone Man near the exit of the maze. It was unable to cross the finish line until the end of the race thirty minutes later.

…

After a full day of competition, Rin led the team out of the contestant tunnel, and flash lights immediately poured down on them like a rainstorm.

"Player Rin! There are rumors that you missed the game yesterday because you had a food allergy? Can you tell me specifically what the allergy was? It's rare to hear such symptoms in players in the ladder competition." A reporter smiled maliciously.

She didn't have sunglasses, but Rin had already gotten used to the intensity of the flashes. She glanced at the questioner expressionlessly: "I'm allergic to stupidity."

The crowd erupted in laughter. This move attracted more reporters, making it difficult for them to escape.

"Contestant Rinne!" A female reporter with a ponytail excitedly squeezed to the front. "In your match with Kuronuma, that last combo was so cool! A lot of people say you have violent tendencies, but I think that's just—the aesthetics of violence!"

Rinyin didn't think so, but she couldn't explain her behavior in this situation.

"Yes, yes, yes! Very impressive!"

The voice that joined later sounded familiar. Linyin looked in the direction of the voice and saw the young assistant struggling to hold two sets of equipment, one labeled "Leyton Peripherals" and the other labeled "Fantasy Beast Weekly".

Linyin waved at her as a greeting, "Are you...changing jobs?"

"Ah... no no no, I'm just helping a sister look after the equipment. She went to the bathroom." The little assistant was a little shy. Hehe, it seemed that Rinone remembered her.

Linyin nodded with a smile, and began to break through in small steps.

"Contestant Rinne, I can see that you are very strong in combat. May I ask why you chose a yellow-level mythical beast?"

Someone saw through Rin's intentions and, while blocking her way, turned the topic to Koneko.

"Kitty is very good, you can continue to follow our game." Crystal saw that Rin was very tired and helped to answer.

The thorn flower has been a hot topic lately, and Yuzhu's surroundings are equally lively. A sports reporter excitedly explained to the camera, "I think Lin Yuzhu's roundhouse kick is one of the ten most difficult moves in this year's ladder competition! By the way, Yuzhu, many viewers are curious—why did you choose to shave your head?"

"Because..." Yuzhu touched her hair, "Because this is a perfect hairstyle."

Han Jiangxue was also surrounded by several reporters from academic journals. "Could you please tell me where the idea for the 'Cloud Shadow Thousand Splits' move came from?"

Even Belle, with her poker face, couldn't stop the reporters from interviewing her.

Amidst the noise, a sharp question pierced the relatively friendly and harmonious atmosphere.

"Excuse me, why did Song Baiyue suddenly withdraw from the competition?"

Linyin paused. She slowly turned to face the questioner. For some reason, the reporters around her unconsciously took a half step back.

The entire area near the exit gradually became quiet.

"he……"

Belle grabbed Rinyin's wrist and gestured for her to calm down, "He has some personal reasons that he can't disclose."

"So, Rinne, have you been contacted privately by Aisen? Is your love triangle real?"

This is probably what it's like for reporters covering this kind of event. As soon as you drop the slightest hint that there's news to be dug up, they'll be like sharks smelling blood, staring intently at you, ready to take advantage of the situation and rush over.

Linyin's eyes were cold, "A triangle relationship?"

Belle looked at Rin with great concern.

"There's no triangle relationship." She shook her head slowly but firmly. "Song Baiyue and I have a stable one-on-one relationship. If there's any further questions about whether it's a triangle or not, I suggest you ask... the extra person."

…

Back in the dormitory building, everyone, although still unclear about what exactly happened, accompanied Linyin and tacitly avoided the corner of the stairs.

After Linyin returned to the room, she sat down on the edge of the bed alone.

She took a deep breath, but failed. Everything here reminded her of Song Baiyue.

An abnormal dark red tinge began to appear around the edges of her pupils. Linyin noticed that some black, gossamer-like strands of energy had reappeared within her meridians. Wuji Zhenqi spontaneously mobilized, clearing the meridians.

However, this time, the black gossamer was even more stubborn than before. With both sides in a tense situation, the Qi that normally protected the meridians in the head also joined in the battle to expel it. Linyin's head, deprived of the Qi's nourishment, was in intense pain.

"here we go again……"

She could only clutch the bed sheet tightly.

The pain, as if countless steel bars were piercing her head, only intensified the power of the black thread. For a moment, all sorts of images flashed through Rin's mind like a revolving lantern, and her eyes grew redder and redder...

Knock knock.

Someone is knocking on the door.

Linyin no longer had the strength to stand up.

After a few seconds, the entire dormitory door was blown away.

A huge snow-white tiger appeared in her room, almost filling the entire room.

Is this... Yunmeng Tiger?

It is the principal's mythical beast.

"You... just know how to hold on." Ms. Li Wanran, the principal of Thorn Flower, one of the top ten masters, and owner of the legendary Earth-level mythical beast Yunmeng Tiger, suddenly appeared at the door. "Mengmeng, give her a dozen pain-relieving energy beams first."

Linyin's head was pinned down by Yunmenghu's claws. Gentle healing energy continued to flow into her body, but the pain remained, showing no sign of relief.

"...Strange." Seeing Rinyin still in pain, the principal's expression became serious, "Even Mengmeng's pain-relieving energy technique can't calm the pain..."

Mengmeng's analgesic ability is the main reason for the extinction of its species. In the era before the birth of fantasy beasts, many people hunted them, extracted their spinal cords to produce energy beams, and made them into painkillers and hallucinogens, which directly changed the mental outlook of people of an era.

At that time, even if their lower bodies were cut off, as long as they were injected with some Yunmeng Tiger spinal cord, they would be able to talk and laugh like normal people, even more excited than usual. How intense would the pain be to make such a painkiller ineffective?

Green air currents appeared between her fingers. As her palms moved, they attracted the infinite true energy in Linyin's body like a magnet.

Lin Yin's consciousness sank into her body, and she felt a cool force dancing outside her body. The chaotic Wuji Qi suddenly seemed to have found a leader and gradually became unified.

A cyan air current passed over the pinky finger of Linyin's left hand, "Dirty thing, come out!"

A golden light chased the black hairline, radiating from the tip of the finger and condensing into a translucent chain in the air.

The chain searched for its target in the air for a while, but couldn't find it, and gradually turned into starlight and disappeared.

"The Seven Emotions Lock has appeared... This child has mastered the Heart Sutra."

He was indeed a promising young man that she had spotted at first sight. Not long after he had initially developed the Wuji True Qi, it had already reached the lung meridian, stomach meridian, and spleen meridian. Now, with just a little guidance, it had already reached the heart meridian.

When all twelve meridians are connected, perhaps fighting will return to this world.

The combing process continued. A cyan stream of air passed through Linyin's right index finger, expelling the black gossamer from her body while a golden light flowed through the entire large intestine meridian.

bass.

A tiny crack appeared in the air, and in the illusion it was as if a string was plucked. A corner of the bedside table was cut off, and the cross-section was as smooth as a mirror.

"This... Liuyunzhe."

Seeing Wuji Zhenqi's ultimate killing skills appear as if they were free, the principal was overwhelmed with emotions.

She thought of the Martial Alliance's refusal to burn the inheritance materials related to true qi, and the peerless woman who fought Electra alone to protect the children who were still practicing in the Martial Alliance on the day they were besieged by the Fantasy Beast Palace.

The fighting spirit is immortal, even if the body perishes, the will to fight remains.

Cecilius, your persistence paid off. Someone actually did it...

Lin Yin slowly opened her eyes, the Qi in her body flowing freely like spring water. In the two newly opened meridians, the Wuji Qi also flowed smoothly.

"Awake?" The principal was originally sitting cross-legged. Seeing that she woke up, he patted his side and motioned her to sit over.

Linyin sat down a little uncomfortably, behaving very well, like a primary school student.

Duang.

The principal flicked her forehead.

"Why are you like Song Baiyue, always taking on everything yourself?" She was so disappointed. "Flora is from our generation. If she attacks you, she's bullying. Do you understand?"

Linyin nodded ignorantly.

"The child got beaten, but didn't he come back to call an adult?" The principal ruffled her hair.

Linyin was speechless. She...had never had such an experience.

When she was very young, before she even learned to ask for help, she was already protecting others who were weaker than her.

"Come on," the principal opened the terminal, "bring the kitten with you, and let's go get Song Baiyue back."