svetikya Chapter 38 Those eyes, without a doubt!
Chapter 38 Those eyes, without a doubt!
The air inside the tomb scraped past the filter membrane of the third lobe of the lung, and a slightly dry, ionized smell entered the nasal cavity.
Luo Lan stood in the center of the tomb and looked around.
The all-metal structure unfolds beneath your feet, the silver-gray walls seamlessly joined together, revealing no visible construction gaps. The entire space adheres to a deliberately regular geometric proportion.
The entire space was precisely divided into a standard cube structure. The distance to either wall was exactly the same, centered on the point where Luo Lan fell from the light curtain.
On the front wall, non-Euclidean geometric patterns are arranged at precise equidistant intervals. Tiny points of light, which light up and then disappear, move and recombine along the wall, as if performing some kind of continuous calculation.
In front of the remaining three metal walls, each stood a huge container. They resembled both stone coffins and high-tech incubation chambers.
Unable to understand the ever-changing geometric patterns on the front wall, Luo Lan turned to face the square, coffin-like container behind her.
I tentatively reached out and touched it. The material my fingertips touched felt like an alloy, but it wasn't as cold as metal. It was slightly warmer than my palm.
He bent his knuckles and tapped twice, the echo clear and resonant.
Is it empty inside...?
Unable to find out anything, Luo Lan turned and walked towards the cabin on the left.
He had only taken a few steps, and was still about two meters away, when a six-sided sensor suddenly rose from the top of his body. A blue arc-shaped scanning beam shot out from the facets, fanning out and scanning Luo Lan's entire body from head to toe.
The process was extremely fast; the light and shadow swept across the stitched-up corpse's surface in an instant. By the time Luo Lan reacted and tried to back away, the scan was already over.
"Zheng—"
The eight spider spears on her back sprang up in a flash, their sharp edges pointing forward. Luo Lan hunched over, adopting a defensive stance.
One second. Ten seconds.
Half a minute passed.
Luo Lan remained locked in a stalemate with the air for a long time, but nothing happened.
[...Just a simple scan, no follow-up??]
The "coffin" stood there quietly, the six-sided sensor on top of the capsule not lighting up again. The eerie blue fluorescent circuits on the surrounding walls continued to flow at a fixed frequency.
Four of the spider spears slowly retracted, leaving the remaining four on guard. Luo Lan walked towards the last pod on the right.
This pod did not actively scan Luo Lan and, like the first empty pod, stood motionless in front of the wall.
Luo Lan lowered his center of gravity, manipulating the longest spider spear, and pressed the tip against the edge of the cabin, tentatively poking it lightly.
A burst of light instantly rose against the current, and blue symbols lit up one by one along the silver-gray metal surface from the edge of the cabin, arranging themselves into a sequence that Luo Lan could not understand at all.
The side of the cabin facing Luo Lan gradually became transparent as symbols flowed.
"Whoosh. Ding—"
With a piercing whistling sound, the hard [Bone Spike Burst Lv.2] shot out from the palm, the cone-shaped projectile spinning and piercing the transparent bulkhead, leaving not a mark after splashing a string of blue and white light spots.
Taking advantage of the gap in activating his skill, Luo Lan leaped back several meters into the air, his eight spider spears supporting him on the floor behind him, allowing him to slide and dissipate his momentum.
He lowered his body, his single pupil shrinking to the size of a pinhead, and launched [Terror Lv.3] directly in front of him.
The whole set of movements was fluid and smooth, but it didn't seem to have much effect.
It's no wonder Luo Lan reacted so strongly, because after the "coffin" became transparent, Luo Lan could see what was inside.
Inside this container, which resembles a vertical coffin, is filled to the brim with a faintly glowing blue stasis fluid.
And in the very center of that viscous liquid, a young human was suspended.
Completely naked, with a well-proportioned and powerful physique, and clean, sharp muscle lines.
A head of messy white short hair spread out in an unknown blue liquid, drifting slowly.
Under cool lighting, his facial features are well-defined, his face is handsome, and his facial features are distinct, making him look no more than twenty years old.
But what terrified Luo Lan was that his eyes were open!
A pair of deep blue pupils, gleaming faintly, stared straight ahead.
[Holy crap, wasn't it supposed to... go into hibernation only after death?!]
[This doesn't look like it's dead at all! Its eyes are still open!]
Maintaining a vigilant posture, Luo Lan almost wanted to turn around and run away, leaping upwards to the tomb exit and escaping back into the underground river.
Are you kidding me? This white-haired guy is a suspected "hero," even the old mage Ers, the former master of the dungeon, couldn't defeat him.
If he were still alive and conscious... and discovered that someone was robbing his grave, Luo Lan couldn't think of any possibility that he could survive.
However, just like when Luo Lan was inexplicably scanned earlier, they waited on guard for a full half minute.
Nothing happened.
Apart from the unchanging ionizing buzzing sound inside the tomb, the white-haired youth's body, with his eyes open, remained unchanged inside the capsule.
The white-haired youth remained motionless, suspended silently in the blue liquid, his handsome face maintaining a deathly expressionless countenance.
[It seems... he really is dead?]
The young man's deep blue eyes, though wide open, showed absolutely no sense of focus from a living person.
Luo Lan activates [Thermal Vision].
The hull in front of them, including the young man inside, immediately turned into a single, deathly dark gray-blue heat source reaction zone.
Every inch of the young man's skin, every vein, was a lifeless, icy blue. There wasn't even a trace of the body temperature a living person should have.
With renewed courage, Luo Lan dispersed the bone spurs that had reformed on her palm. She took two cautious steps forward, her movements heavy and slow.
The scarlet eye remained fixed on the youth's deep blue pupils, showing no reaction. Two more steps were taken, but still no reaction.
Luo Lan finally stopped one meter in front of the hibernation pod.
Deep within the stitched-together corpse body [Dark Gold Skeleton], Luo Lan's bone hand, which was wrapped in layers, suddenly began to tremble wildly.
A deep resonance within the chest cavity spread throughout the limbs and bones along the [Dark Gold Skeleton].
Luo Lan's skeletal hand was yearning for this physical body.
More precisely, it was a longing for the white-haired youth's eyes, which quietly radiated a deep blue light.
Driven by an inexplicable longing, Luo Lan approached the transparent "coffin" hibernation pod.
The young man's face was less than half a meter away.
His open eyes shone with a steady, deep blue light, not very bright, but extremely dazzling.
Luo Lan's scarlet single eye met those pupils.
Staring into those deep blue eyes for a while, Luo Lan actually saw her own reflection deep within them.
Red muscles, dark gold skeleton, half-drawn spider spears on the back, a single demonic eye on the head... all too clear.
Even the green algae residue that had gotten on Luo Lan's body from diving earlier was clearly visible in the light.
But the reflection only lasted for a moment.
A faint blue light began to flow deep within the youth's pupils.
The world reflected in those azure eyes suddenly transformed.
The dense non-Euclidean geometric patterns on the wall that Luo Lan couldn't understand before were no longer meaningless flashing patterns.
Each point of light trailed a long, thin trail of information, extending in all directions and weaving together in mid-air to form a dense and complex information network.
It's not just this wall.
The shimmering floor beneath my feet, the textured outer shell of the hibernation pod, the eerie blue solution inside…
all.
Everything.
The eyes of a young person are not so much "seeing" as they are "analyzing".
The entire world is broken down into its most fundamental components.
An immense amount of information flooded into Luo Lan's mind.