kingnovel Chapter 1457 Climbing Over the Wall
Chapter 1457 Climbing Over the Wall
"despair--"
After Lin Yu learned almost everything he wanted to know from Medalo and figured out his strategy for going to Night Valley again in the future...
A strange noise came from above his head.
It was a faint sound that lingered and echoed throughout the entire "eternal cage," yet it was so clear that it could be heard from every corner.
It looked like some kind of switch had been pressed.
Although Lin Yu didn't understand the meaning of the sound, he could roughly guess what it meant based on the current time.
Standing beside him, Medalo, a veteran prisoner of the "Eternal Cage," spoke softly, giving the answer that Lin Yu had guessed.
"Night has fallen, Your Excellency."
The light from the "Celestial Ring" hanging directly overhead gradually dimmed, and within a few seconds, all the light that had illuminated the entire "Eternal Cage" vanished.
Just by looking at the changes in light intensity, it's as if you've crossed "afternoon," "dusk," and "evening" in just a few seconds, and jumped directly from "noon" to "late at night."
This scene made Lin Yu feel somewhat emotional...
He had previously felt that even though the place was divided into areas, each area was a bit too spacious—plus, the high walls were not topped off, which made Lin Yu feel that the place didn't really look like a prison or a cage.
He felt this even more strongly when he heard that all living beings in Central were free to move around—in the Outer Ring, at least during non-free time, prisoners still had to stay in their cells.
Although the living conditions in Central are harsher, Lin Yu always felt that it lacked the characteristics of a "prison".
But now, the extinguishing of the "Celestial Ring" made Lin Yu suddenly and clearly feel the "manipulated," "unnatural," and "limited" characteristics of this space.
This place is indeed... a complete "cage".
These seemingly minor subjective differences can sometimes lead to drastically different feelings and experiences for the people involved.
After realizing this, Lin Yu couldn't help but feel fortunate.
"Luckily, I'm only here for a 'trial'."
After the entire "Celestial Ring" went out, the whole world lost all light sources, and vision lost all meaning.
Although Lin Yu still has "mental perception"... the function of mental perception is greatly limited here.
Moreover, with the arrival of "night," the restrictions on extraordinary powers become even more pronounced.
Lin Yu can only confirm the situation within a two-meter radius around himself now, which hasn't changed.
But beyond this range, the already vague perception becomes even less precise, almost to the point of being of little reference value—in other words, if there is anything two meters away, Lin Yu can only rely on his hearing and smell to determine what is there.
Now, if someone were lying on the ground two meters away, mimicking a dog's barking and smearing something that smells like a dog on their body, Lin Yu would have a hard time distinguishing whether there was a large dog or a person imitating a dog's bark.
Of course, since he didn't know the extent to which the great sage Medalo's perception had been limited, in order to maintain his mystery and "high-ranking" status, Lin Yu did not reveal that he could no longer distinguish between humans and animals from two meters away.
He simply nodded slightly to Medalo and began to speak.
Night has fallen, and it's time for me to climb over the 'wall of separation'.
“I have taken all of what you have told me to heart… My previous promises remain valid.”
Lin Yu said goodbye to Medalo and left.
During the six-hour conversation, although Lin Yu mainly brushed up on his knowledge of the ancient times of Night Valley Realm, he also gained a lot of common knowledge about this "eternal cage".
For example, the duration of both "night" and "day" is about six hundred heartbeats for Medalo.
Medalo's heartbeat takes an average of about one minute and twenty seconds.
So, in other words... a "day" here is still twenty-four hours.
Considering that the mission conditions mentioned "seven days," Lin Yu felt that if it dragged on, at the latest in four or five days, there was a certain possibility that he would encounter some particularly troublesome things...
Therefore, Lin Yu still needs to make the most of the night and explore as much of the area as possible.
Even seven days wouldn't be enough to fulfill the latter two conditions; at the very least, it would be necessary to deepen one's understanding of this "eternal cage."
With this mindset, Lin Yu naturally had to start climbing the "wall of separation" immediately.
Lin Yu even felt...
I hope I can try to cross the "border wall" tonight and find a way to get to Central as soon as possible.
Although he couldn't sense the distance of two meters, Lin Yu, with his excellent memory, was still able to move steadily toward the original "dividing wall".
Of course, this is not a difficult task—after all, it is an open space with no obstacles or obstructions.
As long as you keep walking in one direction, you will eventually reach the base of the "wall of separation".
About five minutes later.
Lin Yu then sensed a thick wall appearing two meters in front of him, blocking his detection.
Although Lin Yu's mental perception had been weakened to the extreme, perhaps due to the mechanism of "mental power," his perception was still relatively clear at least within two meters.
Therefore, Lin Yu was able to deduce...
"This wall seems to possess some kind of 'general' level of 'complete magic suppression' effect, capable of almost completely cutting off any supernatural perception..."
Lin Yu muttered.
"No, it might not be just about perception."
He approached the wall, solidified his mental energy, and transformed his perception into a means of "attack," striking the wall with his mental energy.
And just as Lin Yu had predicted...
The attack is invalid.
Although mental energy is inherently ineffective against inanimate objects, the complete absence of any "feedback" and the energy dissipating almost out of thin air is still considered abnormal.
Moreover, Lin Yu doesn't only have mental power as a means.
Lin Yu immediately used the magic power of the Night Valley Realm to release it, but it was still ineffective.
The spiritual power and magical energy of the soul began to dissipate on their own before they even got close to the wall.
This wall is virtually immune to the power of any "supernatural system" and is unaffected by any energy.
Lin Yu reached out and touched it; its material was similar to the ground, a very hard material.
Compared to the ground, the material of this "dividing wall" is just a bit rougher; if you press it hard, you can feel a slight stinging sensation on your palm.
"Without the aid of any extraordinary technology, relying solely on physical abilities and passive buffs that have been suppressed to the extreme, to scale a wall more than a hundred meters high perpendicular to the ground in the dark... That's interesting."
Lin Yu sighed, then slowly began to walk along the base of the wall.
From a "climbing" perspective, the wall was perfectly smooth—although the surface was rough, Lin Yu couldn't find any protrusions, depressions, or even a single crack that could serve as a "handle."
The mountaineers who actually come here will probably be disappointed—although the wall is very high, it is just an ordinary wall, not a rock face at all.
Therefore, if you look for the starting point and the path to the top from the perspective of "rock climbing", you probably won't find it even if you walk the entire circle along the "dividing wall".
Therefore, after walking horizontally for several hundred meters, Lin Yu concluded that most of the wall should be free of any protrusions or cracks.
and so……
"If I don't have sticky hands or Spider-Man-like physique, the best way to climb a vertical wall is still... 'break the wall'."
There are no protrusions or cracks that can act as grippers?
Then let's create it ourselves!
A realization dawned on Lin Yu's mind.
Although this is a "cage" built by the gods, and these high walls don't seem to be able to be destroyed...
But upon closer reflection, neither Mans, the "guardian," nor Medalo, the "prisoner" who summarized numerous patterns of this place, ever explicitly told themselves that destroying the "wall of separation" was forbidden and that doing so would come at a heavy price.
And this means...
If I damage this wall, as long as I don't make a hole through it, I probably won't be held accountable, and there might not even be any bad consequences.
So Lin Yu placed his hand on the wall and applied slight pressure with his fingers.
next moment……
Nothing happened.
"As expected, under these weakened conditions, it's still too difficult to destroy this wall that looks like it's made of cement and concrete with my own physical strength."
Lin Yu sighed, then lowered his hand.
This doesn't mean he's ready to give up; rather, he's realized that he still needs to use some tools.
Lin Yu also didn't plan to start by trying out the conventional weapons and items one by one.
Since we're going to use it anyway, let's go all out and get something that's guaranteed to be effective.
It's still the [Limit-Breaking Jade Kitchen Knife].
Lin Yu held the kitchen knife, raised it above his head, and pointed it at the wall.
"puff--"
The next moment, as easily as cutting tofu, the kitchen knife sliced into the wall.
Then, Lin Yu exerted force with his wrist, and a piece of the wall was ripped off and fell to the ground.
With a slight tremor in the wall, a space appeared where he had just made the cut, allowing him to reach in and grab.
“Great, now all we need to do is… keep repeating this.”
Lin Yu threw the [Limit-Breaking Jade Chef's Knife] upwards, jumped up, grabbed the knife stuck high in the ground with one hand, reached into the hole he had cut with the other, and began to climb the hundred-meter wall with both feet off the ground.