Chapter 89 Sculpture and Exit
From the spiral staircase of the Fibonacci sequence, to a straight upward stone path like an ancient European castle, to the mountain stone path with winding peaks, and finally to the cave stone path in front of you with water flowing like stalactites. ...
If it were purely from the stairwell passage to the cave stone passage, then he would definitely be able to react, but the several transitions he experienced in front of him could be called silky smoothness, going all the way to the bottom, and he suddenly woke up when he hit the bottom.
It was as if there was something beyond common sense that pressed the "ins" key and then entered text, replacing the original information bit by bit. By the time the owner of the text realized it, the information displayed in front of him was already something completely different from before.
「‘Overwriting cognition’!”
Lin Yi's heart trembled violently. Mao Feiyang's fear was rapidly amplified in his perception, instantly filling Lin Yi's heart and making him tremble subconsciously.
But Lin Yi quickly found the source of Mao Feiyang's trembling - the shadow.
When "they" looked back at the way they came, a humanoid creature appeared behind Mao Feiyang. The light of the old kerosene lamp cast its shadow onto the world in front of them, stretching it very long.
The humanoid creatures opened their hands and slowly extended their claws to "their" backs like a sneaky demon...
Mao Feiyang, driven by fear, subconsciously looked at the thing behind him. Lin Yi, as the first perspective, also took it into account.
A sculpture.
A pure white female sculpture wearing a gauze silk scarf.
It was doing the action of opening its arms to sneak up on Feifei Yang, but it was in a completely still state. It seemed that it did not come here by itself at all, but was suddenly placed here by someone.
This sculpture is completely different from the sculpture that invaded the classroom that Lin Yi encountered from Tian Bufan's perspective. It looks like a pure plaster sculpture, but the weird thing about it is that the silk scarf on it is forever fixed in a state of fluttering in the wind.
Mao Feiyang didn't stop for a moment and ran away instinctively - [Leave immediately when you see the sculpture standing at the top of the stairs. 】
「Stairs, this is the stairs!」
Mao Feiyang roared as he walked around the sculpture, and actually saw a door on the stone wall not far behind the sculpture.
"There really is a way!" Mao Feiyang was ecstatic, bottomed out in the trough of despair, and was about to shed tears for a moment.
"Is there really a door?!" Lin Yi felt extremely shocked, but suddenly realized that the style of this door was extremely familiar.
This is not an isolated fire door, but a dark brown alloy door that looks like a hotel room door.
That door was hidden in the pitted stone wall, and there was even a layer of flowing water on the door. If you didn't look carefully, you wouldn't be able to see it. However, Mao Feiyang locked the door at a glance, as if it was the only door left in the world.
Lin Yi's perspective also followed Mao Feiyang's actions and kept moving closer to the door. Just as "they" rushed towards the door, he took the opportunity to take a look around the surrounding environment.
Just like when you entered the stairwell before, the isolation fire doors are all Fibonacci spiral stairs going up and down, and now this door, all the way up and down are all stalactite-like cave stone paths...
However, Lin Yi just glanced at the top of the mountain stone path, and his whole body seemed to be hit by an indescribable horror. His whole body was stiff, his limbs were cold, and his scalp seemed to have been lifted open. It was sore and numb, as if struck by lightning, and even his soul seemed to be overwhelmed by fear at this moment.
He saw densely packed sculptures scattered in the stone passage of the stalactite cave with gurgling water. They were either hanging upside down from the ceiling of the cave like bats, or twisting and crawling on the ground as if they had suffered great pain, or standing there indifferently, with their heads lowered, like little cursed creatures. Like a boy, he was looking at the direction of the stone path...
These sculptures are not only human-shaped, but also in the form of some unknown beast. What's even more frightening is that most of them are incomplete and look like a garbage dump full of garbage.
Lin Yi's vision quickly moved, and he knew that it was Mao Feiyang who opened the door.
Just when Mao Feiyang's hand reached into the water curtain and grasped the door handle, the familiar feeling of the grip flashed across the back of his head like thunder, and he suddenly remembered why he felt a strong sense of familiarity with this door!
"This feeling of grip...?!" Just as he was shocked, the door was opened. Mao Feiyang rushed to the back without hesitation, and then slammed the door back with a bang.
"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! Hoo..." Mao Feiyang was soaked in cold sweat all over his body. He leaned behind the door with his eyes closed and panted violently, relying on the wind around him to calm down his emotions.
But Lin Yi had already turned back to look at the door with an extremely strong desire to verify, for no other reason than because both the feel of the handle and the style of the door were very similar to the door in his memory!
House number...2820!
Lin Yi's pupils shrank sharply, and then expanded rapidly. His brain couldn't get around it anyway, but his subconscious had already guessed where this place was!
"The 28th floor of the dormitory building! Dormitory No. 20!"
“This door!”
This Corridor! ”
“This is actually a fucking... dormitory?!”
Countless thoughts surged into Lin Yi’s heart at once, each one carrying a strong emotion.
The strongest emotion, far beyond fear, is called...shock.
"The stairs on the first floor of the teaching building. After going upstairs in the opposite direction, you will reach the dormitory building?!"
"How could this happen?!"
"Doesn't this mean that the teaching building and the dormitory building are the same building?!"
Lin Yi's eyes kept rolling.
"The teaching building has a total of four floors. After the layers fell, floors above five began to appear... If this "stairwell" is inside the teaching building, then in other words, the floors above five are actually the dormitory building, or... at the layer level, at least there is an "overlapping" relationship?!"
"Then if I go up the stairs of the teaching building when it's foggy, will I end up in the dormitory building?!"
"This, this, this, this..."
An extremely absurd idea arose in Lin Yi's heart, which felt incredible but seemed to contain some kind of evil law.
He couldn't help but pull his hair and think about it.
"Is this really the case?"
"It is forbidden to leave the classroom after 21:00 in the teaching building, but the incandescent light is always on."
"But the lights in the dormitory building are completely turned off after 22:20!"
"If they overlap, how do you explain the lighting?"
"Wait a minute...?!"
"The lights in the teaching building are delayed!"
"The lights in the teaching building are flashing!"
"Could there be...what's the connection here?!"
"The teaching building after the lights are turned off... overlaps with the dormitory building? After the lights are on, they don't overlap?"
"But...does the concept of "overlapping" layers really exist?"
Lin Yi thought of this and couldn't help but take a look at the shoes on his feet.
The sneakers he changed into in the dormitory had thick, dense, and moist moss on the soles that was completely different from the moss on campus. Is there really a "space overlap" situation that causes different layers to superpose quantum states under some special circumstances?
Lin Yi felt that in the dream he seemed to have "surpassed" his own IQ. He didn't know whether it was because the dream was too outrageous or his own thoughts were too outrageous...
It is a pity that this idea can only remain at the level of speculation and cannot be verified at this stage.
Wait a moment..."
"If the spaces are not overlapping, is there another interpretation?"
"If we think about it from the perspective of layers..."
Lin Yi thought of what Tian Bufan said - "A single, closed spiral passage is really suitable for making an article about." 】
"A 'separate, closed spiral passage'!"
He chewed these words repeatedly. This is Tian Bufan's summary of the stairwell, describing the characteristics of the stairwell very directly.
Independence and closure.
But after following Mao Feiyang's perspective and going upstairs for four hours or more, Lin Yi had a completely different view of "independence and isolation".
That is not independence, but "infinity".
It is infinite upward and infinite downward, with no starting point and no end.
Compared to a closed environment, its characteristics are to some extent more like... a non-existent road.
The things in the stairwell are like the terrain that unfolded when the layers of the stairwell fell.
Just like when he accidentally walked on the non-existent road, Mao Feiyang followed the guidance of the notice board in the teaching building and walked into the "folds" of the layers, and then walked into the folds of the dormitory building like a train changing tracks. After the lights in the dormitory building were turned off and the layers in the dormitory building began to fall, he seamlessly walked through the dormitory door and walked into the dormitory...
"Is this true?"
Lin Yi deduced such a conclusion, and then he was slightly stunned, thinking that if Tian Bufan was here, he would probably draw such a conclusion, right?
He thought about the crumpled piece of paper, and thought about the two points marked on the top of the paper. Maybe there would be some special path connection after unfolding?
After being shocked, Lin Yi suddenly realized something.
"Wait... doesn't that mean that Mao Zi arrived at the dormitory yesterday?!"
"But he doesn't know this is a dormitory at all!"
"No, no, no, he doesn't even know anything about this!"
"So far" Mao Feiyang only has the student rules and the notice board in front of the teaching building, and he knows nothing else!
"He only knew that he would meet an art teacher and "start an artistic journey"!"
"Theoretically, he would become an art student after leaving the stairwell on the first floor of the negative floor. He promised to reach the legendary "art building that does not exist on the map", but, No matter what, he shouldn't have gone to the dormitory! "
Lin Yi's heart suddenly became a mess. He felt that what Mao Feiyang had encountered had gone beyond his cognitive scope - this was how he felt when he dreamed back to yesterday after experiencing what happened for one more day!
God knows what Mao Feiyang went through last night!
Lin Yi took a deep breath and tried to keep himself calm. Now that the matter was at this point, his random thoughts were not the solution to the problem. Instead of doing this, it was better to calm down and take a good look at the situation in front of him. After all, there was not much time left for him. Who knows when he would wake up from this dream, and whether he would continue this dream after waking up.
However, he was no longer thinking wildly, but Mao Feiyang kept thinking wildly.
He hugged his legs and huddled behind the door of dormitory No. 2820. He leaned against the door and kept exhaling breath after breath of cold air. While thinking about the scene just now, he muttered something in his mouth as if he was dreaming.
Lin Yi discovered that all the issues Mao Feiyang was thinking about were all things he subconsciously thought about when he was in the teaching building yesterday.
He also saw Mao Feiyang absorbing the dark-white powder particles that filled the dormitory corridor like a vacuum cleaner, and then those powder particles left his body, like following an invisible infusion tube, split into four, and extended into the air...
Lin Yi remained silent, but there was a huge wave in his heart. He looked at these four lines, which he had "seen with his own eyes" before. Now he knew without a doubt where they extended to--Tian Gongzi, Wei Sang, Kuai Kuai, and him!
h "So... Maozi has become a huge source of pollution from the moment he separated from us, and the rest of us are still uncontrollably absorbing the pollution sources he transported?"
h "But I have never felt that there was any problem?"
"No, no...I...I seem to have had a problem from the beginning!"
A layer of cold sweat slowly appeared on Lin Yi's forehead.
Those heartfelt thoughts he had in the teaching building last night - the things he was thinking about were almost the same as what Mao Feiyang was muttering now!
While in the gymnasium today, Tian Bufan emphasized that he needed to take time to "adapt" first.
He never knew what he needed to adapt to. It was not until this moment that he knew that Tian Bufan wanted him to "adapt to pollution."
And this is not the pollution he received, but the pollution from Mao Feiyang!
After he was infected, he began to be contaminated to a greater or lesser extent, but the root cause turned out to be Mao Feiyang? !
The most critical point is that he doesn't even know that he is being polluted, and he doesn't feel that there is any interference from other people's will when he is subconsciously thinking about problems. Everything seems to come from his heart...
"What on earth is going on...?"
Mao Feiyang's state has begun to interfere with his current mood swings!
He felt that the world around him was distorted indescribably and irregularly. He seemed to see cracks and collapsed corridors in the world.
Thanks to the book friend "Ling Xinxi Oh" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)