Lin Yuan arrived at the foot of the white building. When he got closer, he realized how tall it was.

Lin Yuan stood at the wall and looked up, but could hardly see the roof.

Here, the starry sky above is even more brilliant, with colorful streams of light slowly spinning in the sky, converging into tiny vortices.

The pure white high walls, set against the starry sky, glow with a bone china-like luster, giving off a holy and solemn feeling.

The little cat, which had been lying obediently in Lin Yuan's arms, seemed to be frightened by something in front of the building. Its fur stood on end and it started struggling wildly in Lin Yuan's arms.

Lin Yuan put it down on the ground and let it leave on its own.

It was very quiet here, without any living creatures. Lin Yuan's spirit body explored out and found that the wall in front of her blocked her.

This was the first time that Lin Yuan experienced this feeling, as if there was a barrier that could block the entry and exit of spiritual bodies.

It was not a solid obstacle. The tentacles seemed to be stuck in a sticky gel, moving forward very slowly and with difficulty. Even their perception became chaotic.

But Lin Yuan could still vaguely feel that there was a huge existence inside, an extremely huge spiritual body.

It stayed inside this building, and seemed to have sensed Lin Yuan's attempt, and it vaguely moved a little through the thick walls.

Lin Yuan reached out and gently touched the porcelain white wall, as if to say hello.

There is a tightly closed door on the wall, with many ancient pictures engraved on it.

Those are some murals about the ocean, with simple lines outlining the ocean, ships, monsters and gods. They seem to record mysterious stories that happened in the ocean in ancient times.

The door lock is a very high-tech sensor lock.

Lin Yuan took out the round thin piece that Ni Ji handed her and gently touched the door lock.

The pure white door made a ticking sound and slowly opened a crack, revealing a dark and dark world inside.

The tentacles rushed in first. They were very courageous and fearless.

Lin Yuan was not afraid either. She pushed open the heavy door with her bare hands and walked slowly into the dark and mysterious place.

Behind the door was a staircase that slowly extended upwards. Lin Yuan walked up the stairs, feeling the cold wall.

She suddenly felt that this place was a bit like the White Tower. There were countless crisscrossing stairs like this inside the White Tower, extending endlessly towards the top of the tower, layer by layer.

But the White Pagoda is much larger, covers a vast area, and has a top so high that almost no one has ever climbed up to it.

Lin Yuan walked up the stairs for a while before he could vaguely see a little light.

The round dome is made of glass, and starlight shines in from the high roof, illuminating the hazy scene inside the entire building.

The interior is hollow, and apart from the crisscrossing stairs, there is only a huge "tree", or a huge "pillar".

Lin Yuan didn't know how to describe this creature.

In short, when Lin Yuan saw it for the first time, he understood what Xiaomu meant by "standing tall and straight, extremely huge, and you can understand it at a glance."

There was no doubt that the "pillar" she was looking for was right before her eyes.

It was like a very tall pillar supporting this world, and the pillar was made up of countless pure white arms entwined with each other.

Downwards, pale hands spread out and dug deep into the earth. Upwards, countless hands entangled and extended, longing for the sky.

Lin Yuan remembered what the sentinels said.

Whether it is an arm, hair, or an eye, anything taken from the pillar can open the door to the contaminated area.

At first, he didn't quite understand, but now seeing those densely intertwined arms, Lin Yuan finally understood what it meant to steal part of the pillar's body.

She began to climb down along the inner side of some stairs. This was a little difficult for Lin Yuan, but she finally reached the bottom floor.

Approaching the huge, pale pillar bathed in starlight.

In the huge body of the "Pillar", there is a giant human face melted in it.

The features on her face were gentle, her expression was serene, it was hard to tell whether she was male or female, her eyelashes were drooping as if she was asleep.

She or he has thick, curly silver-white hair. The long hair falls loosely, blending perfectly with the tall column. Looking closely, those hairs are actually made up of countless long white arms.

The light of the stars gathered on that fair face, revealing a kind of stunning beauty in the weirdness.

Lin Yuan stood at the very bottom of the pillar, looking up at this huge object that seemed to support the heaven and earth, and the person who was sleeping embedded in the pillar.

A faint sigh came from somewhere.

The long, silver eyelashes on the giant human face slowly opened, and her eyes were as bright and colorful as the starry sky above the dome.

She lowered her head and looked at the small forest garden standing on the ground.

"Ah, it's actually a guide." The beautiful face smiled, and there seemed to be a gentle look in the colorful eyes.

"It's been so many years since I last saw the guide. I really miss him."

Lin Yuan felt some long silver arms reaching out to her and lightly touching her tentacles.

They touched each other politely, as if saying hello.

With just a slight touch, the two spirits quickly exchanged each other's superficial consciousness and had a basic understanding of each other.

They were like two powerful beings, testing each other superficially while both maintaining their own strong shields, not allowing the other side to easily break through their defenses.

"Young, yet very powerful. So cute." The silver-haired man smiled gently. "It turned out that your arrival woke her up early. I was wondering why she suddenly woke up early."

"After so much time has passed, there are still people like you in this world. I don't know if I should feel relieved or not."

After she finished speaking some incomprehensible words, she asked again, "What brings you here?"

"I want the key," Lin Yuan said to her, "the key to leave here."

The beautiful face lowered its silver eyelashes and looked at Lin Yuan tolerantly for a while.

A strand of silvery white hair stretched out and was held in front of Lin Yuan. The strand of hair was a long, soft arm with a moving hand at the front.

The hair broke by itself in front of Lin Yuan, and the small pure white hand at the top broke off and rolled to Lin Yuan's feet.

It was a beautiful hand, just like the millions of arms on the "pillar", slender and beautiful.

After the hand broke off, it solidified into something as solid and smooth as jade, like a small piece of ceramic art. It was shaped like an orchid, pure white jade, and lay quietly at Lin Yuan's feet.

Lin Yuan picked up the "hand" that was as beautiful as jade and held it in his hand.

It feels cool to the touch and sparkles with radiance.

"Thank you." Lin Yuan said. She opened her mouth and felt that she still had a lot to say to the person in front of her.

But the tentacles became alert at that moment and surged forward in defensive postures.

At some point, a layer of black seeped up from the base of the "pillar". The thick black spread out, rapidly invading upwards.

"She's coming," the huge human face showed a shy smile, "You need to run faster, otherwise..."

Before she finished her words, her eyes closed, the colorful light in her pupils was covered, her whole face became silent, turning into a still sculpture, with a gentle smile still on the corners of her mouth.

It seemed as if the person who was about to appear was just one of her naughty sisters. It seemed as if her last instructions to run faster were just an insignificant joke.

But Lin Yuan knew that something very dangerous had happened and he had to leave and escape from here immediately.

Without saying a word, she turned around and ran away.

Sometimes, Lin Yuan feels that his logical thinking ability is far less sharp than his intuition.

Before she knew what was happening, her feet were already running.

Behind her, a black color as thick as ink seeped up from all directions, slowly dyeing the pure white arms of the "pillar" into dirty black.

Lin Yuan ran very fast holding the "key" in his arms, without even looking back.

She knew that there were countless black hands chasing after her.

Soft black hands that could extend infinitely fell off the huge column one by one.

At first it was like a person just waking up from a deep sleep, and its movements were slow, but soon it became agile and surging, covering the ground, flooding up the stairs, and catching up like a tide.

They were laughing, each one was running and laughing happily, conveying an infinite joyful mood.

Lin Yuan's touch can feel their genuine and strong emotions.

The desire to catch her, to get her, to keep herself by their side was so strong and pure.

Lin Yuan ran very fast. She could feel her feet running fast, the blood rushing through her veins, and her heart beating violently.

It seemed that when she was very young, she had experienced this feeling of accelerated heartbeat and fast running somewhere.

More tentacles belonging to Lin Yuan gradually awakened from their mysterious habitats.

The tentacles surged out from behind Lin Yuan and came into contact with the black arms that caught up first.

There was a painful feeling, and the tentacles were injured.

At the same time, they also hurt each other. Many chaotic and indescribable memory fragments were mixed in and transmitted to Lin Yuan's mind in a chaotic and fragmented manner.

Lin Yuan ran all the way, his feet running down the spiral staircase.

Behind her and behind her, a thick darkness was surging towards her, trying madly to grab her and cover her.

Finally, a ray of light appeared before my eyes. It was the exit. The pure white door was still open.

Lin Yuan felt that the black hand behind her was about to reach her face and touch her shoulders.

She struggled forward and rolled towards the bright gap.

The vision was chaotic, dust was flying, and the surroundings became bright.

came out.

After catching his breath, Lin Yuan found himself lying on the ground with the "key" in the shape of a man's hand in his arms.

The pure white door was slowly closing before my eyes. Countless black hands were unwillingly surging inside, seemingly unable to get out.

Fortunately, he was not too far from the gate, and fortunately he ran in time, and finally he managed to roll out of the pure white door at the last moment before he was caught by the black hands that were surging up like an overwhelming force.

Lin Yuan lay on the ground, looking at the door that had closed to the last bit of a gap. He licked his lips and thought how amazing he was.

The Black Hands were imprisoned, and Lin Yuan felt that they might have another way out.

But at least I win now.

All the spirits that Lin Yuan had met in the past were small and cute compared to himself.

They made Lin Yuan feel somewhat lonely, and he could not arouse any great interest, except for the boundless deep sea and the big fish in it.

This is the first time that I encounter a spiritual being that is stronger and bigger than myself.

And he won, by making a breakthrough in its home turf.

In the moment of close combat with those black arms, she vaguely glimpsed a wider and more vast world.

It turns out that there are even broader things in this world.

I will become even stronger in the future, Lin Yuan thought.

[Overstimulation]

[They seem to want to eat us]

[What? I thought I wanted to eat them]

【You want to eat everything】

[I don’t know if I will die]

[Don't rest, it's not safe yet]

The black arm did not chase out, but a sharp alarm sounded throughout the entire huge palace.

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Someone has stolen the king's arm."

"Alarm! Alarm!"

"Someone has stolen your Majesty's arm."

So "she" is His Majesty the King? I thought he was a prisoner trapped in the pillar.

Countless metal heads appeared one after another, the single eye on their heads glowing red, and they searched around the jungle and buildings anxiously.

Inside the huge palace, there are dense gemstone vegetation and countless rooms and terraces.

Lin Yuan, holding the backpack containing "His Majesty's Arm", climbed out from the crystal clear leaves of a bush and slipped into a building with countless crisscrossing corridors.

"Must catch that thief!"

"Must catch that thief!"

"It hurts your majesty."

"It hurts your majesty."

A team of heavily armed guards ran quickly down the corridor.

Lin Yuan hid behind a porch and avoided them.

There are such metal guards everywhere, upstairs and downstairs.

They acted quickly, with anger and focus, and were determined to catch the "thief".

Not so easy to avoid.

There were several times when Lin Yuan felt that he might not be able to escape.

She has understood one thing since she was young: most things in the world are like this, and not everything can go as you wish just because you work hard.

Just like she didn't like living in the white tower when she was a child, but she could only sneak out for a while to make some noise, and eventually she had to go back.

It was like she had always wanted to be a normal person and had tried her best, but others still treated her like a monster, and the emotions conveyed were still filled with dark disgust.

Lin Yuan fled all the way, hiding here and there. The tentacles sent warnings from all directions. There were enemies everywhere, up and down, left and right, covering the sky and the earth.

What would happen if we were caught and trapped here?

Lin Yuan thought about this question.

Maybe be given those black arms and become a monster.

Fortunately, she is a monster.

So it doesn't matter. Life is the same wherever you live, and maybe it's the same here too.

It's just a slight regret.

She thought that after experiencing such a crisis and dangerous situation, she should at least be able to experience a little fear like a normal person.

She doesn't know what fear is yet.

I really hope that when I am still human, I can experience more normal human emotions.

Lin Yuan felt hungry again. The hunger burned her stomach and made her unable to move her hands and feet.

Excessive consumption of mental energy always makes the body prone to hunger.

I have no strength left, Lin Yuan thought.

Another team of metal guards came around the corner with hurried footsteps, approaching very quickly.

At this moment, an arm reached out from behind, covered her mouth and pulled her back.

The hand was big and was wearing a black glove.

Lin Yuan did not resist.

Without looking back, the tentacles had already recognized who the person was. They were so tired that they even began to try to scratch the person's body.

When the half-corroded metal head appeared at the corner, Lin Yuan was pulled into a room full of miscellaneous items by someone behind him.

The door closed quietly, and the sentry in tight combat uniform turned around and made a silencing gesture with his fingers in tactical gloves.

It's the sentinel. The big fish.

Ni Ji.

I don't know how he found the Forest Garden in such a vast palace when so many mutants couldn't find it.

The sentry stuck to the door and listened for a long time, until the footsteps of the metal-headed guards disappeared completely. Then he turned around and looked at Lin Yuan.

"You..." the sentry said to Lin Yuan.

The mutant fishbone suit he had worn on his head had been discarded. He was now wearing a tight black combat suit, which made him look tall, long-legged, and strong in core strength.

Ni Ji's voice was low, but there was a hint of embarrassment on his face.

"What's wrong with it?" he finally said, very tactfully.

I thought he would ask about the key first. But he asked about a certain tentacle.

A tentacle emerged from the ground, took shape, and entwined itself around the sentinel's straight calf.

Lin Yuan squatted on the ground, exhausted.

I really don't want to care about those spirits that are trying to emerge to the ground, but I have to hold them down.

"Do you have any food? I'm hungry." She asked without much hope.

She heard that the sentinels were in very good physical condition and could even go without food for several days when completing their latent missions.

The sentry on the other side was wearing a tight-fitting tactical uniform, strapped with a dagger, gun, ammunition, and various combat supplies. It didn't look like he was carrying any food.

Unexpectedly, the sentry reached into one of his pockets and took out two candies wrapped in tin foil.

He held two exquisite little candies with his black-gloved fingers and handed them to Lin Yuan.

"Refill your sugar intake first," he said, "and I'll think of a solution."

Then he tilted his ear to listen to the movement outside the house, but did not pull out the tentacle that was grabbing one of his legs and refused to let go.

Lin Yuan peeled a piece of candy, put it in his mouth, and rolled it on the tip of his tongue.

Very rich sweetness.

【It’s sugar! 】

[So sweet.]

[I have a little more strength now]

[Small fish is better]

[Small fish is the best]

[More reliable than a pyramid]

[How does he know that I like sweets?]

[Come down, let me climb up]