Master of Kaidan-Chapter 547: Transformation

Ominous signs were not unfamiliar to Feng Xue, or rather, ever since he became part of the Infinite, he had often dealt with them.

However, the ominous signs he had encountered were invariably living creatures, or at the very least, undead beings like Suture creatures or bone maidens.

But the ominous sign before him was a model of a house.

He drew out an Indescribable Stick and carefully probed into the paper-shred landscape, immediately sensing a strange texture.

Pushing aside the paper shreds, finger-sized roots appeared before his eyes.

These roots didn’t look like the withered roots of plants but were instead plump and slippery like worms, yet they completely lacked the vitality typical of animals. Even when poked repeatedly with the Indescribable Stick, they showed no reaction.

"But this style looks about right, hmm, could it be a rare plant-type ominous sign? Then what’s this house model for? Mimicry? Or is it like a hermit crab’s shell?"

Feng Xue gently exerted force, and the Indescribable Stick sank slightly. After confirming the elasticity and texture, he stabbed the stick towards the building above.

Although it appeared to be plastic or stone, the contact felt as flexible and springy as the roots below, reminding Feng Xue of the Underworld’s art style, which was entirely adorned with corpses and bones.

As if confirming something, Feng Xue looked up again at the mosaic above, constantly evading the rolling stone pedestal, his expression growing more nuanced.

The amount of this mosaic, even if a real person died in the Infinite City’s super-scale ominous signs, wouldn’t compare.

However, considering that the number of players who might have died in this level was perhaps in the hundreds or thousands, this quantity seemed not so difficult to accept.

But in such a situation, was it deliberate, or some sort of accident?

Feng Xue focused his gaze on the educational building, suddenly noticing a flash of light. With his Eye Power, it was naturally impossible for him to be seen wrong, so he immediately chased the rapidly disappearing flash. He saw in the educational building a tiny figure, less than two millimeters tall, holding a flashlight smaller than the tip of a needle.

"It’s a Security Guard doing night patrols!"

At that moment, Feng Xue felt his hair stand on end. He immediately turned his head to look at the side of the educational building and sure enough, found the rusted iron door.

"Don’t do this!" Feng Xue shouted continuously in his heart, yet his hands did not slow down. Various materials were released from his pack, transformed under his Cleverly Crafted hands into a slender pinhole camera.

Associating the camera with the phantom drone for live streaming, Feng Xue carefully slipped the camera through the iron door. The night vision camera swept through the identical hallway where he had walked and once again saw that Secret Keeping Automatic Door.

"Phew..."

After several deep breaths, Feng Xue finally calmed down, turned around, holding the drone’s display port, and approached the automatic door.

As the stone pedestal rolled and rumbled, the automatic door slowly opened, and the small door on the display also opened in kind.

"Phew..."

Looking at the empty room on the screen, Feng Xue finally sighed in relief. There wasn’t the expected matryoshka, nor another himself, nor was there a giant pinhole camera outside the folding door.

This instantaneously released the suppressed feelings in his heart. If his resolve wasn’t strong, he might have jumped and laughed heartily.

Bringing the stone pedestal back to the school model, Feng Xue directed his attention to the dormitory building.

Compared to the educational building, which currently housed very few people, the dormitory was evidently more lively. Although there were no lights, his night vision allowed him to see clearly the figures sleeping in each window.

No, there were not only sleeping figures, but also those leaning on window sills, gazing outward, and those sitting by the bed, boosting their own attack and special attack (self-motivation). Amongst all these, Feng Xue even recognized many familiar faces, like the classmate Lin Shu, who re-enrolled without changing his pseudonym after being expelled, the classmate Dazhuang, tricked so thoroughly with Yang Wei’s linguistic tactics that he didn’t dare play basketball at lunch, and his deskmate who viewed money as dirt.

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"The occupancy rate of these dormitories doesn’t seem too high!"

Yes, the school had one dormitory each for males and females, and the student number was around four to five hundred, which meant each dormitory should house over two hundred students, even without considering the teachers.

But currently, many dormitories were under-occupied. The number of students in both buildings barely exceeded three hundred.

Simultaneously, the ghosts like Long-necked Ghosts, which should have been ubiquitous, were also absent in the sand table’s mapping. This linked many of Feng Xue’s prior associations—

"The students appearing in the sand table are those wholly merged with the ominous sign? Then the rest would be the players still alive and the ghosts who died but didn’t merge?"

Faced with this situation, Feng Xue’s first thought was the Infinity within the Infinite City, yet considering they bore no tags or elements, he dismissed this idea.

Yet, another thought forcibly surfaced in his mind.

"Ominous signs and Kaidan can be mutually transformed, so how about phantasms? Can a phantasm transform into a Kaidan?"

This notion, once emerged, spread like proliferating G, because he vaguely grasped a key piece of information.

The essence of phantasms is fantasy crystals, universal as long as the rule of Identity exists in the world, while Kaidan are manifestations of cognition, with Power sourced only in worlds that recognize them.

From this perspective, phantasms are undoubtedly superior to Kaidan.

But here’s the issue: In Feng Xue’s Golden Finger analysis, phantasms are made of elements, whereas Kaidan consists of elements forming tags, and then tags condense entries.

Thus, in terms of both information volume and level, Kaidan should be higher than phantasms.

Instead, the ominous sign, being essentially massive dirty data mixed with elements, does not align completely but is indeed an intermediate state between phantasms and Kaidan.

From the Ke family’s young mistress’s case, it’s evident that ominous signs, driven by time, might, under certain coincidences, reorder and purify their cognition, thus transforming into Kaidan.

So is it possible for phantasms to, having integrated numerous dirty data, utilize ominous signs as a stepping stone and become a more advanced phantasm composed of tags?

Or perhaps... ignite the Kaidan Fire directly, becoming Kaidan?

If that’s possible...

At this thought, Feng Xue’s expression turned peculiar because as the logic untangled, a name naturally surfaced in his mind—

"Infinite City."

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