Chapter 51: Chapter 51
Musk's account was blocked for three months starting the next day.
He wasn't the only one who got blocked either, the anchors who came along for the ride, didn't listen, and didn't delete the videos and recordings in question got blocked to a greater or lesser extent. Less than a month, long as a year, a long time those accounts are basically ruined. At the same time the major platforms finally began to respond, the video, the topic of the discussion, either deleted, or downgraded heat. There are also some similar videos with scientific explanations or counterfeiting information attached to them, which have also been reissued. In short, it's all about blurring out what's going on here at Wild Lake from people's view.
Musk was a bit defiant when he was first blocked. He held himself up as having been up the mountain many times and wanted to go up some other wild road and around Wild Lake. Middendorffi's black mist, which was released by Middendorffi to 'patrol' the mountain, caught Musk, and Middendorffi excused himself to go to the woods.
When Musk saw him, he knew that he was going to be caught, and raised his mobile phone a few metres away, thinking to take a few photos and then escape. Who knows that the mobile phone camera function just turned on, the lens went black.
Musk:?
Middendorffi's black fog blinded his lens, followed by raising his own mobile phone, to Musk is video, but also recorded while saying: 'found an unauthorised entry into the cordon within the scope of the person, is the anchor, named Musk ...'
Once Musk heard these words, which sounded like a law enforcement deposition, he got hot-headed and instead of running, he charged at Middendorffi! He splits his hand to grab Middendorffi's mobile phone, but Middendorffi dodges it with a flick of the wrist. The still-steady footage of Musk's attack on the official is faithfully recorded, and Musk, angry and confused, turns to grab it again, 'Stop filming!'
Before he could grab this one, his wrist was firmly clamped down.
'What do you want?'
Eli's voice was cold, grabbing Musk's wrist and twisting it, Musk almost fell to his knees with an alas, and his mobile phone fell to the ground.Middendorffi picked up his mobile phone and checked it from the shortcut function of taking pictures, and then he said, 'We have to check him out.'
Musk struggled, 'Who are you to check my phone ...!'
'I said why did you run so fast, so you noticed something happened on Bear's side.' Henry also arrived at this time, he then heard half of Musk's yelling, coldly said, 'Trespassing on the cordon trying to steal confidentiality, if not to check you check who?'
With those words, he stepped forward and took Musk's mobile phone, and also grabbed Musk's hand, 'Come on, give it to me, I'll send him down the mountain. First off the town police station, then to the city, they'll take care of it.'
With that, he chastised Musk, who was still struggling, 'I could have had the recorder on, you want a few more submissions, don't you?'
As soon as this came out, Middendorffi said, 'I took a video of him trying to hit me, send it to you too.'
'Drink, how dare you hit someone huh!' Henry sneered, using his grip on him to push him forward, 'Go away, still want me to drag you?'
Henry was visually tall and imposing, Musk, a single young man, couldn't stand up to him and had to follow him.
Middendorffi and Eli watched them walk away before Eli said, 'I knew you wouldn't just say you needed to go to the bathroom somehow. You've pretended to have regular hours before.'
Middendorffi said, 'I was going to sense the changes within this mountain throughout the day to see if the energy might be bubbling up elsewhere as well, and then I noticed Musk coming up. He's always been interested in you and giving you trouble.'
Eli says, 'You caught him for me?'
Middendorffi nodded, 'I don't really care about human laws, and the actions of others are of little concern to me.'
Eli smiles softly, 'So, if I hadn't come, you might have still swallowed him right up?'
Middendorffi shook his head, 'There's no need for that, a normal human doesn't have much energy. Just give him to the others.'
Eli tried, 'What if I wanted him to disappear completely?'
Middendorffi thought for a moment, 'Then I'll go down there now.'
Followed by going down to the town and finding Musk fallen and swallowed.Middendorffi's plan was just so Musk.
'No need.' Eli felt like a child begging to be coaxed, but was indeed coaxed, pleasure bubbling up in the back of his mind, 'I'm kidding.'
Middendorffi didn't quite get his joke, but since he didn't have to go, Middendorffi didn't ask any more questions. He walked with Eli back to the temporary campsite and asked, 'Can you feel how much I've spread my fog this wide?'
'Sure.' Eli glanced at his feet, 'But you can spread it so thin that you can no longer see your colour with the naked eye. Would this thin layer of mist be enough for you to resist if you ran into a threat?'
'I can partially coalesce quickly.' Middendorffi said as he coalesced a ball of black mist in front of Eli before dispersing it, 'If I'm not sure, I'll abandon the part that's being attacked and retrieve the rest of the perimeter.'
'... Why do I get the impression that you have about the same tactics as those who have mastered the domain?' Eli said, 'It can be fully mastered at a certain range, coalescing, attacking, escaping and cutting off at any time. You also have spatial mastery in training, so maybe soon you're going to be better than me.'
Middendorffi was unimpressed, 'I won't be better than you.'
'How can that be said. The way you're growing so Musk, swallow a few more powerful beings and maybe you'll surpass.' Eli said, 'Anymore, you don't have a lifespan limit. As long as you continue to grow indefinitely, you will one day be more powerful than me.'
Middendorffi stopped in his tracks.
Eli stopped with him, and craned his head to look at him, 'What?'
Middendorffi looked at him, 'Are you going to die?'
Eli was honest about that, 'I will. I've lived a long time, and I should live a long time yet. But as far as you are concerned, my 'long' is even longer, and there is an end to it. As for now, I myself don't know when that end will come. I am a 'mighty one' in the mouths of others, and no information has ever been recorded as to how long I will live.'
Middendorffi asked, 'So, when you die, will you be able to have your soul continue to exist, or will you be reincarnated as the legends say?'
'I don't know.' Eli thought hard, 'If my genjutsu is strong enough, then it's likely that the soul survives and I can continue to cultivate, similar to a ghost cultivator? But it's also possible to just go reincarnate, it's hard to say.'
Speaking of which, Eli asked, 'If I reincarnate, will you look for me?'
Middendorffi was silent.
Eli thought he was going to answer 'I don't know' again, but Middendorffi finally replied, 'No.'
Eli was really surprised: 'You ... don't want to find me?
Obviously I've been looking for so long before.
'I don't think that's you anymore. Without your memories, your looks, your abilities, your demeanour, it wouldn't be you to me. That's what I rely on to locate a person. I don't know about souls, not that I have one anyway.' Middendorffi said, 'Even if you were reincarnated, I think the person "Eli", is gone.'
After a pause, Middendorffi added, 'In that case, I'm going to eat your remains.'
Eli listened to his words, unable to tell what emotions were bubbling up inside him, and simply asked, 'Why do you want to eat it?'
If the question was about the corpse of another great power, then surely the black mist would devour it because of the amount of energy.
But for Eli's remains, Middendorffi's response was, 'Because the body is decaying and weathering, that is something else eating the body. I will not let something else eat your body.'
Eli's heart fluttered lightly as he reminded, 'My body might actually be able to be refined into something good, kept from rotting, or even refined into a golem. A golem could also walk alongside you, and protect you.'
'But that's not you either, I don't need it.' Middendorffi said, 'Just eat it. If you die, let you end up with me for good.'
'And after you eat it? What do you want to do?'
'I don't know.' Middendorffi finally said the answer Eli had predicted before, 'So far out, I'm not sure.'
He had only thought about what was relevant to Eli, what wasn't relevant later wasn't in his thoughts.
'Fine, then if it comes to that, you'll eat me.'
Instead of finding the subject grotesque and obscure, Eli moved. He squeezed Middendorffi's hand and whispered intimately with the youth, 'Even if I can turn into a ghost cultivator, if my body is useless, I'll eat it for you. Don't let other cats and dogs touch me.'
'Good.' Middendorffi nodded, 'Won't let anyone else touch you.'
Eli thought he was too good to be true, and discerning those possessive attitudes in his words made Eli's heart flake out without a care in the world.
It was true that Middendorffi was incapable of emotion, but he wasn't completely devoid of it. His greatest displays of emotion were all due to Eli.
Eli couldn't help but let go of his hand, then with one reach, he gathered the man in his arms and closed his eyes.
Middendorffi wondered, 'What?'
'Nothing, suddenly I want to hug you.' Eli returned, 'You hug me too.'
Middendorffi had no doubt about the command and reached out to hug him back.
Eli knew full well that his body was simulated, his body temperature was simulated, even the strength of the hug was mimicked. But what did it matter; Middendorffi's willingness to embrace himself was Middendorffi's own.
The two just hugged for a while. They could sense everything around them, not worrying that someone would suddenly appear.
But even if someone showed up and saw them, they didn't care.
From this day on, the two, who slept in the same tent, seemed to get a little closer together at night. To be precise, it was Eli who came to squeeze Middendorffi, and Middendorffi didn't ask, since his essence didn't care about the size of the sleeping space anyway. Eventually Middendorffi was squeezed to the side by Eli, who then decided that the bullying was a bit much and pulled him back into the middle to lie together.
After four days of this, and with the rest of the Collectors camped out in the mountains sighing in frustration, the unusual energy fluctuations reappeared.
Middendorffi was standing on the shore.
As the strange 'door' flashed, the black mist silently seeped into the place where the energy was coming from!
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