Transcendent Dawn

ꨡ[6Ba~oN{8: Chapter 0818: Eyes Chapter 818: Chapter 0818: Eyes “So…

I think the cylinder wall should be separated from the condenser and add an air pump…”

Jenny said tentatively in front of Su Lu, presenting her design.

Immediately, she saw her tutor’s expressionless face melt away like a glacier.

“A stroke of genius!

I think this marks the epochal difference between the old-fashioned steam engine and the modern steam engine!” Su Lu was not stingy with his praise.

The fact that she had come this far without much guidance from him proved that Jenny indeed possessed a considerable mechanical talent.

‘Perhaps…

this has also got to do with her not having received much formal education, so her thinking is not solidified?’

Su Lu nodded with a faint smile: “Clever design, a perfect work!

I hope you can produce the finished product soon.

Of course, I will fund you with a sum of money, push for your nomination in this year’s Invention Award, and help you secure the patent for the new steam engine…”

“Thank you, Teacher.”

Jenny’s cheeks flushed with excitement.

It was clear that she truly loved the study of mechanics.

However, this female student had not yet realized the changes that a new type of steam engine could bring to the entire world once it delivered powerful propulsion.

At this point, Su Lu’s face carried an indescribable smile: “How about we call the improved steam engine the ‘Jenny Steam Engine’?”

…

On her way home, Jenny’s steps were exceptionally light.

‘Jenny, you’ve already become a fine ‘craftsman,’ and now you should pursue the secrets of transcendency…’ she told herself.

‘It’s a pity…

Tutor Turing still has no intention of taking me as an apprentice of mysticism…’

In Tutor Turing’s bookshelf, though there were books introducing mysticism, not a single one contained the method of obtaining Saint Marks.

‘Maybe I should look elsewhere?

No, no…

that’s too dangerous, not now, and I don’t have the financial means…’ A thought emerged and was quickly dismissed by Jenny: “I’ll wait until I’m a famous mechanical scholar and have accumulated some funds.

Then, I’ll have more channels…”

Jenny didn’t notice the subtle changes happening to the scenery on both sides of her path.

Waves of fog spread continuously, making the buildings around her look hazy, as if she had arrived at the junction of two worlds.

Boom!

An explosion sounded.

Jenny was startled and suddenly found that the world she was in had reduced to only black and white.

“Is this…

an anomalous event?”

Jenny’s heart was heavy: “Why did I have to run into this again?”

She glanced around, wanting to flee backwards, but found that there was no way to retreat.

“Damn it…”

Jenny clenched her teeth and found a shadow to hide in.

In the eerie silence, the explosions drew closer.

She watched in shock as the surrounding buildings rapidly decayed, aged, and the ground turned to a muddy mess, emitting a foul smell, turning into an indistinguishable mass of rot.

Pale hands emerged from the soil like thriving plants.

“Followers of the Evil God!”

A voice thundered, as though it were lightning striking in the decaying city’s sky: “In the name of the Mother of Nature, Purification!”

Boom!

Another loud noise reverberated.

Flesh scattered and splattered in every direction, as if a shower of blood and tissue had fallen.

And what was even more nauseating were the pieces of flesh that, upon hitting the ground, moved rapidly, growing tentacles and scurrying away in all directions.

“Ah!”

Jenny gasped.

An eye with tentacles brushed past her, burrowing into the hem of her pants.

A tearing pain came from her calf.

Jenny collapsed to the ground, feeling the eyeball pierce directly beneath her skin, devouring her flesh as it made its way upward, eventually settling on her forehead.

Zzzt!

Her forehead split open and a sinister eye, black and red intermingled, popped out.

It swiveled left and right with an eerie color, as if surveying the surroundings.

The intense pain subsided.

Jenny leaned against the wall and stood up, finding that her vision had greatly improved.

She saw through the rotten buildings, the Natural Church Priests casting a wide net in their search to eradicate the mutated flesh, and she also saw where she was.

The black-and-white world suddenly became illusory, overlapping with reality, and she seemed to have found a path for leaving.

‘If I get caught now…’

Jenny touched the third eye that had formed between her brows, ‘I will definitely be treated as a beast.’

She quietly moved backward, leaving the world of black and white behind.

“Can’t go home, teacher…

I must find the teacher…”

Jenny pulled her hat down low, covering the eye on her forehead, and hastily fled back to the Mechanical College, pounding on Su Lu’s door: “Teacher, teacher!”

“What is it?”

Su Lu opened the door, asking with a hint of curiosity.

Jenny darted inside, shutting the door behind her: “I’ve run into trouble, I’m sorry, you were the only one I could think of…”

Even the strongest of girls had a slight whimper in their voice at that moment.

“Come…

have a cup of hot cocoa.”

Su Lu had Jenny sit down, watching as the girl held the cup in both hands, sipping the beverage in small gulps: “What exactly happened?”

Jenny shuddered, removing her hat to reveal the third eye on her forehead.

“Oh?

Poor little thing, did you encounter a mystical event again?”

Su Lu sighed.

“Yes, teacher…” Jenny recounted everything that had happened to her.

Su Lu pondered for a moment: “Flesh resurrection…

what you encountered was likely a round-up; the guardians of nature hunting down the followers of the Evil God ‘God of Resurrection’!

The devotees of this evil deity are all lunatics who believe that people can be resurrected after death…”

“That world…” Jenny still had many questions.

“That was a wide-ranging domain, probably the effect of some Marvel, separating the battlefield from reality…

Of course, you were a bit unlucky, slipping right into it!”

Su Lu looked at the eye on Jenny’s forehead.

The eye seemed to possess its own thoughts, scanning around it: “This eye bestowed upon you a certain Super Ability, allowing you to escape out again…

However, once tainted by such strangeness, there’s virtually no chance of returning to the life of an ordinary person again…”

That is the tragedy of ordinary people, once touched by ‘Mysterious’, it is hard to turn back.

“So, is there a way to solve this?” Jenny, being no ordinary person, asked in a relatively calm manner.

“Two paths.

One is to turn yourself in to the Natural Church; they might ‘Purify’ you, or they might absorb you and help you suppress this strangeness…

The second is to become an ‘Apostle’ yourself, and suppress the eye…”

Su Lu said with a sigh.

“The first path could lead to ‘Purification’?” Jenny trembled, knowing it wasn’t an ordinary purification, but a complete obliteration of both soul and body.

“I choose the second one!”