The Gentleman at the End-Chapter 290 - 289 The Plan
Chapter 290: Chapter 289: The Plan
Chapter 290: Chapter 289: The Plan
“Wearing your emotions right on your face isn’t like you at all, William.”
“Besides, this is the main city of your humans, where there should be many powerful beings, right? Since you’ve come out, you shouldn’t have anything to worry about, should you?”
“If it were that simple, I wouldn’t have needed to ‘Gaze at the Moon’… Lorrian, you seem to be just a projection?”
“That’s correct. My physical body is adrift thousands of kilometers away in the ocean, following the ‘Path’ that the Duke pointed out to me.
As much as I’d like to come over and see what trouble you’ve gotten yourself into, it’s really hard to get away under the gaze of the sea.”
Lorrian’s body appeared to be sitting by the tree, but in reality, it was just a human projection formed by moonlight.
Though realistic, Yi Chen could easily see through it and felt that most of Lorrian’s mind wasn’t focused here.
“Hmm~ William, have you broken through? The scent of your brain is completely different from before… Come, stand under the moonlight so I can have a look.”
As Yi Chen approached the roadside tree where Lorrian’s projection was located, and stepped into the spotlight-like moonlight,
for a moment, Lorrian, who should have only been a projection, actually took on physical form.
His face drew close,
The waning moon left eye and the full moon right eye almost pressed against Yi Chen’s temple, piercing through scalp and skull to peek directly at the Black Insane Brain within.
“How beautiful~ It’s a pity that I can’t perform a more detailed ‘Deep Feeling’ right now. From what I can observe at the moment, William, the structure of your pathogen is just stunning, a wonder to behold.
You should be able to easily solve quite a few problems now, shouldn’t you? Tell me what happened that’s got you so flustered.”
The two stood leaning against the same thick tree trunk,
Yi Chen in his black suit with hands in pockets, and Lorrian in his patient clothes with arms crossed over his chest, shoulders touching, bathed in the moonlight that enveloped them both.
As Yi Chen recounted the entire ordeal with the nightmare and his own experience with it,
a drop of silver saliva trickled down from the corner of Lorrian’s mouth, he even shifted a portion of his attention from his main body, showing a keen interest in the nightmare incident.
Even when hearing about the nightmare girl – Catherine’s suggestion to play a game, he thought about sailing back to participate in the nightmare incident from the midst of the sea.
But in the end, reason triumphed over impulse, as he was close to reaching the endpoint of the ‘Path’.
“So interesting, there is such a disease that implants the most common thoughts as nightmares as the carrier, undetectable and hard to eradicate, truly an intriguing illness system.
I’ve been away for so long, visiting plenty of human cities and illness strongholds, but I’ve never encountered such a disease.
It’s a shame I can’t directly participate. Just wait until we meet again, then share this memory with me in its entirety for my observation.
And moreover,
Your organization is also very interesting, using the brains of death row inmates as ‘carriers’ to take part in it. Could my good friend, Doctor Macaul of the Twilight Clinic, be involved in it?”
“He might be, but I’m not sure about the details. I’ve already pulled out of the nightmare project in the open.”
“William, I can help you~ but if you encounter Doctor Macaul’s consciousness projection in the nightmare, you’ll need to kill him for me, and you must do it in your Moon Transformation state.
The next time we meet, I’ll check thoroughly, you know.
How much time do you have left?”
“One day, I need to return by tomorrow evening at the latest.”
“That’s soon~ I wonder if you can make it in time.”
Yi Chen was somewhat puzzled, “Isn’t your physical body unable to make it? How can you still help?”
“The moon is everywhere, even if my physical body isn’t here, you can still bath in its glory… If you feel the bath is not enough, you can also go and actively plunder some glory.
Do you remember when you and your buddy first came to the Twilight Clinic?
The initial generation of Moon People affected by the double moons, aside from the little mouse you killed and the theater owner I temporarily combined with, quite a few escaped.
They, being the first generation and having been influenced by my Complete Body, continue to grow by drawing nutrition from moonlight, and there is a certain connection between them.”
“You mean…”
“Take out that axe you fashioned from a rat, remove the rat core from the tail, and swallow it.
This way, you can follow the sensing to find the location of other lunar kin, and see if any are close enough that you can reach them and return within a little more than a day.”
Yi Chen took out ‘Moon of Slaughter’, the silver Hand Axe that had grown with him and resolved countless crises,
The mouse structure at the end of the axe handle was the core of the axe, inseparable.
If forcibly removed, this perfectly forged weapon would be completely wasted.
Crack! The Moon Crystal Core made from a mouse was directly snapped off by Yi Chen.
Although it was a crystalline structure, it became increasingly soft under the current moonlight, as if he was holding a real rat in his hand.
Under Lorrian’s gaze, he popped it into his mouth, closed his eyes to feel the crystal dissolving.
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When he opened his eyes again,
The moon, hidden behind thick fog and clouds, seemed to come right in front of him on its own. On closer inspection, this moon appeared more like a living thing, with biological veins visible beneath its cratered surface, and even spinal structures.
Gaze at the moon, sensing the nearest original lunar inhabitants.
“Buzz! There’s one… two lunar kin at a suitable distance, but time might be tight.”
Once Yi Chen fully determined the direction and his thoughts returned,
Under the moonlight spotlight, only he remained; Lorrian had disappeared without a trace.
Without hesitation,
The Black Insane Brain between Yi Chen’s skull issued orders to all his muscle cells.
It conveyed the core information of ‘Long-term Running’ to each piece of core muscle, and the brain tissue contained within the muscles began decoding the orders, then altered the muscle shapes, even allowing some muscles to attach to the skeletal system, temporarily changing the body’s structure.
The spine curved,
The arms thickened and supported on the ground,
And through total physical adjustment, his body was transformed into a quadrupedal running form,
The gentleman’s clothes also changed along with the body, the original black suit sprouted numerous thin threads, imitating animal fur to cover every part of the body, even adding a pad structure to the hands and feet.
This made Yi Chen look like a black beast, with his right arm still maintaining a metal armor modification.
Buzz!
He darted into the woods, rushing towards the nearest lunar kin in the shortest path between two points.
While running, his suit also helped Yi Chen to breathe, effectively replenishing the oxygen needed by the cells throughout his body.
This speed was even faster than Zion’s carriage.
Meanwhile, Little Grape provided a panoramic view while commenting,
“William… If you absorb more Moon Transformation pathogens, the likelihood of being assimilated by Lorrian will increase. According to him, he is undergoing some kind of ‘Path’ in the sea.
Once this path is completed, Lorrian could potentially break through Open Source and reach an even more terrifying level.
When that time comes, if he wants to occupy and Combine, turning you into his second personality, resisting would practically be impossible.”
“Mmm… I’ll consider it. But in this situation, if I don’t find a way, I’ll become completely a puppet to the nightmare. Compared to that, I’d rather fuse with the moonlight.
I still have the chance to coordinate slowly with Lorrian, maybe we can find an optimal solution that doesn’t require fusion.
Don’t you think? Little Grape.
Moreover, these original lunar inhabitants might have grown completely, and their grapes may very well suit your taste.”
“Just stop, and remember to bring them all to me when the time comes.”
