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Chapter 607
The decayed tree trunks and the pure, beautiful ice crystals formed a rare and dissonant beauty.
Lin Jue twirled the small knife in his hand so fast it made people dizzy, then casually threw it. The blade scraped against the seemingly fragile white ice crystal, producing a crisp metallic sound.
“Ding!”
Golden light scattered and the knife bounced back several meters.
Lin Jue’s fingers moved in the air, and the knife embedded in the snow seemed to come to life. With a “swish”, it drilled out and landed back in Lin Jue’s hand.
His movements were fluid and seamless.
Even wearing a thick and funny down jacket didn’t diminish the man’s coolness when playing with the knife.
Samael couldn’t help but whistle, “Brother, after all these years, you still play with knives in that flashy manner. It’s really a waste of your talent to work in the Sand Sea Guild. How about we get you to head a circus troupe instead?”
Lin Jue: “Heh, if you don’t take the top spot, no one dares take the second. Don’t you know that ‘What Does Samael Look Like’ is the number two hottest topic on the Horror Game Forum? As for the number one…”
The two tacitly looked at Bai Lixin.
“Bai Lixin’s Unlucky Moments” was the number one hottest topic on the Horror Game Forum.
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘You guys are fighting, what does it have to do with me?’
‘Believe it or not, today’s top trending topic on the Horror Game Forum will be “Discord Between The Vice Presidents of Sand Sea Guild”.’
S419M: [Sister System, today I’ll teach you a new idiom, ‘When the city gate catches fire, the fish in the moat suffer.’]
Bai Lixin: “…”
No matter how much they messed around, they had to get back to business.
Lin Jue flipped the knife over, with the blade facing himself.
He brushed his thick glove over it, then walked to the spot where the knife had been thrown at the tree trunk.
“Heh, Bai Lixin, this ice crystal is really something.” He casually tossed the knife towards Bai Lixin.
Bai Lixin swept his index and middle fingers in the air, and the knife was firmly grasped between his fingers.
There was a noticeable nick on the razor-sharp blade, but the ice crystal it struck remained unscathed, smooth as ever.
“My knives are carbon-treated at high temperatures, they are as hard as diamonds. Moreover, I was the attacker, and it was the receiver, but the result was my knife being damaged. These ice crystals are harder than diamonds.” Lin Jue patted the transparent ice crystal trunk. “It’s really hard.”
Despite his words, Lin Jue’s tone showed no frustration. Instead, he sounded excited. “If these ice crystals could be made into knives, I wonder how they’d feel.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
Samael: “I’m more interested in the trees inside the ice crystals. Come here and take a close look.”
The tall figure in a black down jacket stood before the largest tree trunk. Bai Lixin and Lin Jue walked over to Samael and looked in the direction he pointed.
Deep within the crisscrossing blackened tree trunk, there was a faint glimmer of golden-red.
The golden-red was not static but flowing, with the color changing gradually, as smooth as running water.
The golden-red flashed before them, and the black crevices dimmed.
Lin Jue’s voice was filled with surprise, “Is that fire?”
The next second, he exclaimed excitedly, “This tree is still burning! Wrapped in such cold ice crystals, without combustible oxygen, without suitable temperature, it’s still burning! Heh, if there’s fire inside this tree, why can’t I use my fire skill? Bai Lixin, no wonder you said it’s like a cruise ship with airplane wings attached to it. It’s amazing.”
“The cold ice crystals sealed the burning banyan tree.”
“The scorching banyan tree weakens the extreme cold of the copy.”
“Ice and fire are incompatible, yet they coexist.”
“They mutually restrain each other, achieving a delicate balance.”
Lin Jue slapped the ice crystal heavily, “What to do, I want these ice crystals even more now.”
Samael: “A banyan tree that continues to burn under such cold ice crystals, I want it too.”
Bai Lixin: “…”
‘This is the first time I’ve seen someone greedier than me.’
‘And there are two of them at once.’
‘Doesn’t your Guild President Song Yuantian feed you?’
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In the live broadcast room.
[I’ve seen a lunatic.]
[There are three such lunatics.]
[Ice and fire are incompatible, yet they coexist. The cold ice prevents the fire from burning, and the fire counteracts some of the cold. Isn’t this a win-win situation? Why does God Xin and the others still want to split the copy apart?]
[Because neither side is happy? The trees can’t burn freely, and the cold can’t freeze thoroughly. Two inherently conflicting elements, even if now in a delicate balance, are still incompatible. It’s like in martial arts novels where the protagonist goes into qi deviation and has two clashing energies inside. The one who suffers is still the protagonist.]
[So the question is, how do they plan to separate the two copies? Can anyone get into their mindset?]
[Now the two copies are tightly connected. If the balance is broken, they should find a loophole to dismantle the two copies.]
[That brings up another question, how to break the balance?]
[If the banyan tree is extinguished, or the ice crystals melt, will the balance be broken?]
[How to extinguish the banyan tree? How to melt the ice crystals?]
[Uh, good question…]
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Lin Jue stubbornly hacked at the ice crystal tree trunk several more times. Two or three of his knives were broken, but the ice crystal tree trunk remained unscathed.
He had to give up.
They had also considered finding a breakthrough from the ground, but after digging several dozen centimeters into the snow, they discovered that the ground was also covered with a layer of ice crystals.
The ice crystals had completely sealed the tree trunks inside.
“Let’s leave this for now and move on to the next place,” Bai Lixin didn’t linger too long here.
Lin Jue kept playing with his throwing knife to keep his fingers active, “Where do you want to go now?”
Bai Lixin: “Of course, to the place we originally intended to go, that dark wooden house.”
Lin Jue: “Did you detour to the ruins midway to shake off those three tails?”
Bai Lixin: “Not entirely, it was on the way anyway, so I took a look. Otherwise, we wouldn’t have made this discovery, right?”
Lin Jue: “Tch.”
This place was closer to the wooden house, only a ten-minute walk.
Familiarity made Bai Lixin much quicker in finding the wooden house’s location this time.
The glacier forest gradually disappeared behind them, and a vast expanse of white unfolded before their eyes.
Heaven and earth became pale and desolate.
In the next moment, an evil wind blew, and white snow swirled.
When the wind stopped and the snow settled, the eerie dark wooden house reappeared.
Bai Lixin gripped the bell inscribed with the character “Chen” and led Lin Jue and Samael into the wooden house.
Nothing had changed inside the wooden house, there was only cold wind and dark gloom.
The little monster on the beam was still there. When it heard the noise, it quickly hid itself and didn’t attack, just lurking in the darkness and spying on the newcomers.
It was Lin Jue and Samael’s first time entering. Lin Jue’s throwing knife was always ready. Upon sensing a presence in the room, his body’s instincts acted faster than his consciousness, and he threw the knife immediately.
Halfway through, Lin Jue remembered Bai Lixin’s instruction not long ago.
His fingers jerked back, and the knife that was about to hit the target stopped mid air, then it wobbled back into Lin Jue’s hand.
The little monster huddled in the darkest part of the beam, with only its eyes shining frighteningly, like two night pearls.
Bai Lixin: “Lin Jue, try using your fire skill.”
Bai Lixin had seen him become exhausted after using his fire skill before. Now that he was asked to use it, Lin Jue hesitated for a second, but ultimately chose to trust Bai Lixin’s judgment
He put the knife back in his backpack, removed his right glove, and snapped his fingers.
A small flame slowly rose from his fingertip, its warm glow instantly illuminating the three of them.
The little monster above them suddenly shrieked, darting around the beam in a panic before curling up in a corner.
Lin Jue was puzzled. He glanced at the little monster, then at the flame in his hand. Finally, he removed his goggles and gave Bai Lixin a questioning look.
‘The fire skill can now be used?’
“I guessed right, this wooden house is the key to breaking the balance,” Bai Lixin stretched out his index finger and thumb and gently picked the flame in Lin Jue’s hand. The small flame was strangled in the bud.
Lin Jue: ?
‘Give me back my flame!’
Bai Lixin: “Two copies, one hot and one cold, are fused together. Cold seals heat, and heat suppresses cold.”
“The cold copy rejects fire, and the hot copy possesses fire.”
Lin Jue pondered, “So this wooden house belongs to the burning banyan tree copy? You had me test if I could ignite a flame here to determine which copy this wooden house belongs to?”
“Fuck,” he cursed, “what if it didn’t work?”
‘You bastard, no wonder you insisted on bringing me here! It turns out that you are waiting for me here!’
Bai Lixin gave Lin Jue a thumbs-up, “If it didn’t work, I’d carry you back.”
Lin Jue was instantly speechless.
Samael asked seriously, “Bai Lixin, what’s your plan?”
“Set the wooden house on fire and lead the flames to the forest. Use the fire to create slight spatial cracks and give the banyan tree a chance to melt the ice crystals. The two copies will then become unstable and separate.”
Lin Jue: “The forest is several hundred meters away from the wooden house. How do we transfer the fire, are we supposed to carry the wooden house over?”
Bai Lixin: “It would be ideal if we could, but I’m afraid that’s not possible.”
Lin Jue: “It’s good that you know that.”
Bai Lixin shook his backpack, and a small mountain of tree branches appeared in the room: “Although we can’t carry it, we have a fuse. Use these branches to connect to the biggest banyan tree in the middle, and the fire will naturally spread over.”
Lin Jue and Samael were speechless as they looked at the pile of branches.
Samael: “Where did these branches come from…?”
Bai Lixin smiled slightly: “It was a gift from a former copy boss.”
Lin Jue & Samael: “…”
‘A gift? How dare you say that! You stole them!!!’
Otherwise, who would go around picking up firewood and stuff it in their backpack for no reason?’
In a distant copy in another time and space, the tree of resentment sneezed, and its not-yet-grown ugly branches trembled three times in the air.
‘I suddenly feel a little cold, what’s going on?’
When the flame died out, the little monster emerged from the shadows again, curiously peering down at them from above.
Bai Lixin waved his hand over the mound of branches, and they all went back into his backpack.
Bai Lixin: “Now there’s only one problem left to solve.”
Lin Jue: “What problem?”
Bai Lixin: “To determine if releasing the burning banyan tree is the right decision.”