Chapter 172 Time is affected (4600 words added!)
There is an extra person here? !
When did it appear? !
It was obviously a journey of two people, but how did it become a story of three people? !
As if sensing Lin Yi's gaze, the "person" lying on Wei Liang's back squirmed slightly, and then slowly... raised his head:
【Hehehehehe... you... finally... saw... me! ! 】
He raised his head, revealing an abstract face with scattered features.
This face was first made out of plasticine, and the person who made it was extremely immature, so the facial features were distorted. However, Lin Yi soon discovered that these facial features were not completely finalized, and were still squirming, as if they were looking for their place.
And one of the mouths was still talking while it was squirming to shape its mouth. The words were originally an obscure cry of pain, but gradually they turned into a voice that Lin Yi could understand:
[Hey hey hey...I am Lin Yi, my student number is 0230506098...]
【Hehe hey hey...】
【Hehe hey...】
【I am Lin Yi...】
As it made a sound, the scattered facial features on its face also began to reset. After a few seconds, Lin Yi's outline actually appeared!
And its arms began to elongate like noodles, turning into plaster-like tentacles that were a mixture of solid and liquid. They spread toward Lin Yi's school uniform pocket, as if it wanted to forcibly search for his student ID card from his pocket!
But just when its tentacle was about to touch the corner of Lin Yi's clothes, a hand wrapped in a sheet slapped the tentacle away like a slap in the face.
Immediately afterwards, Lin Yi pushed himself up from being pressed to the ground as if he had exploded with potential, and used the inertia to directly shake Wei Liang and the unknown alien sculpture off his back, and used another part of the sheet to stabilize Wei Liang so that he would not roll to the ground.
At the same time, Lin Yi freed up half of his body and kicked away the tentacle that was making a comeback.
Hello."
Him He raised the corners of his mouth slightly and looked at the alien sculpture that was imitating his own appearance.
The latter tilted half of his head and looked at him with a stiff and standardized smile on his face.
But the next moment.
A fist hit it hard on the face, bending half of its tilted head over ninety degrees, and one of the plaster-like teeth in its mouth popped out.
The alien sculpture was a little unresponsive and could not help but look at Lin Yi in confusion.
Lin Yi worked hard, finding an opportunity to step on the tentacles that extended from the shoulders of the alien sculpture with his two feet, and then punched it in the face with his fist that was partially wrapped in a sheet.
“You can’t take what I don’t want to give you by force!!!”
“Bang! Bang! Bang!”
“You still want to steal my account?!”
"Bang! Bang!"
"What I fucking hate the most is the hacking dog!!"
"Bang! Bang!"
Lin Yi hit him harder and harder, his blood boiling in his body, but the alien sculpture became more and more confused.
It wanted to fight back, but what it faced was Lin Yi's pair of red-gold eyes that were like the blazing sun. They were firm, tenacious, and... extremely manic and furious!
It was suppressed by such a pair of eyes, and could only let Lin Yi beat it like a sandbag.
Punch after punch, bang, bang, bang, bang...
Lin Yi gritted his teeth, clenched his arms with all his strength, and waved his fists fiercely to serve.
He himself did not notice that the muscle lines on his arms became more and more obvious, and the ferocious veins were exposed on his arms, which already looked somewhat similar to Xu Shunchang when he held a bat and attacked the green bib chef.
Finally, the alien sculpture gradually lost its characteristics during the beating and became stiffer and stiffer. Finally, Lin Yi forcibly beat it from a "squirming plaster-like alien sculpture" to a "hardened plaster-like alien sculpture."
The eyes of Lin Yi, who was punched, seemed to be burning with golden flames. The flames were like an energy source that continuously provided him with power, allowing him to continue to swing such terrifying fists. The hardened plaster-like alien sculpture was filled with cracks in a "clicking sound", and broken plaster-like fragments continued to fly out.
In the end, with a "bang——" sound, the hardened plaster-like sculpture was blasted through by Lin Yi and shattered into pieces of plaster on the ground.
Lin Yi's chest heaved violently, and he collapsed on the ground again, but this time he kept kneeling on one knee and used his last strength to support Wei Liang's body.
"Liangzi, Liangzi... I really can't survive... Do you really want to die with me? Hey, it's still too late to save yourself now..."
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch, but he was stunned. Even the fatigue and weakness in his heart could not catch up with the strange feeling of being born in the void at this moment.
The time on the watch in my hand was fixed at 21:26.
He killed an alien sculpture during this period, but the watch actually... didn't move?
This is a quartz watch, not an electronic watch. Why is the time on the dial still stuck? !
At this moment, a set of double images suddenly appeared in front of his eyes like a frame skip!
He saw that his arm seemed to have become illusory and transparent, and in that transparent visual effect, there was another illusory wrist with a watch. On that watch, the hands of the quartz watch were still moving regularly, and the time was——
20:58.
To be more precise, it should be -
20:58:23, 20:58:24...
Time is moving, it’s just 20:58, not 21:26!
Just like that, Lin Yi's surroundings began to appear more collapsed and full of strong contrast pictures...
One is a picture of a cult choir shaking its head and slender singing, and the time on the dial is frozen at 21:26;
The other is nothing, only a watch that is moving the time, the time is 20:58:45, and it is still moving.
With the appearance of the frame skipping, Lin Yi's ears heard the kind of "ku tut tut tug" sound that only occurs when a train passes by in a tunnel. However, just like the train churning past, the sound soon disappeared with the disappearance of the frame skipping picture.
Lin Yi's eyes returned to the layer environment where the cult choir was located.
He slumped to the ground and let Wei Liang lean on his knee. He didn't even have the slightest energy to think about the watch in the other scene.
He was really too tired, too tired, too tired...
He glanced at Wei Liang. At this moment, Wei Liang was in a very strange state, like a blue-gray sculpture-like state, warm and cold, but his heart was still beating, but at an extremely slow speed, as if he was dead.
∣ He panted slowly, feeling that he might have been able to burst out with that kind of power because of a flashback just now...
∣ Various thoughts were beating in his mind, like many bullets scrolling through a popular video, each of which had been thought through in his mind, because he really tried his best.
「Huh...huh...is it finally...over..."
The imagined scene of Wei Liang's divine soldiers descending from the sky did not appear. Wei Liang may not have the trump card he guessed...
He did not feel disappointed either. Instead, he was terrifyingly calm at this moment. He probably didn't want to think about anything, and the blazing golden flames in his eyes, It also began to extinguish at a speed visible to the naked eye...
Darkness swept in like a tide, and the demonic chants of the cult choir became louder and louder against the gray mist and strong wind, becoming more and more shocking:
["I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome"! 】
This time, they began to move, and they began to approach Lin Yi step by step. They were as dark and dense as a forest of long and straight human-shaped tombstones covered with moss, so oppressive that they could bury Lin Yi on the spot.
Lin Qi wanted to struggle, but he had no strength.
Lin Qi wanted to fight, but his body was no longer strong enough.
He was exhausted physically and mentally.
He has passed the stage of exhaustion and is now about to run out of energy.
However, just when the sound of the cult choir was about to drown out Lin Yi, the watch on Lin Yi's wrist suddenly started to swing again... 20:59……
21:26, 20:59……
Time started to jump repeatedly.
Suddenly, the cult choir seemed to sense something, and it quickly dispersed around like a herd of beasts in the night encountering an open flame...
But there was something that dispersed faster than them...
"Bang——"
Something tore through the darkness and ran over the humanoid sculptures, nocturnal species and other inhuman units that made up the cult choir.
Lin Yi forced himself to gather some energy and looked over following the sound, but the golden flame in his eyes had gone out, and the thick and turbid gray fog blocked his vision. His visibility here was even less than two meters. Coupled with the blessing of fatigue and weakness, his current vision clarity was no different from the cloudy old eyes of a seventy-year-old or eighty-year-old.
But he could still hear the sound, clearly.
The evening wind seemed to be torn apart by something heavy, and it stirred up a heavy breaking sound like a dancing battle flag, and then rolled over many bodies.
It was like something was broken, and it was a series of broken pieces, with a sense of crushing destruction...
The sound of the cult choir was dissipating at a terrifying speed, and the fierce roar of the sea wind and the sound of the waves were also leaving him at a terrifying speed...
That Even the world where light and shadow had collapsed began to return to calm. The broken Rubik's Cube-like ground and space under his feet had been replaced at some point. The nocturnal viscous substance as thick as white pastry also disappeared. Gradually, only the twisted road like shaking ramen was left in front of him...
However, the gray fog was still there.
Finally, the sound of "bang" also dissipated, and there was only one sound left in Lin Yi's ears——
"Boom!"
Some dim yellow light and shadow gradually appeared in the gray fog. The light and shadow gradually approached him and slowly turned into orange.
In the orange light and shadow, a vague figure could be vaguely seen, and with the heavy sound of "dong, dong, dong", the figure got closer and closer to Lin Yi...
Finally, the mist seemed like It dispersed a little, and the blurry figure gradually became clearer. Finally, a burly figure like an iron tower slowly appeared in front of Lin Yi like an ancient giant bear. That tall and majestic body looked like a mountain in the gray fog, like... a god.
Security.
It is a security guard.
Lin Yi stared blankly at the security guard standing in front of him like an ancient sacred mountain. "Gulu..." he swallowed.
The security guard was wearing a black coat, holding the iconic old kerosene lamp in his left hand and a mace in his right hand. Just standing in the gray fog made Lin Yi feel a sense of oppression coming towards his face.
The mace in the security guard's hand was covered with dark red tomato paste mixed with white powder particles. Some of the tomato paste was still dripping on the ground, but before it dripped, it evaporated into white powder particles...
The old kerosene lamp in his hand was, as always, a curtain of light spread out with radiance, opening up an absolute realm of warmth and safety.
The security guard looked down at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi looked up at the security guard.
Time and space seem to be stationary, with only the flowing mist and dripping tomato sauce indicating the passage of time.
The whole atmosphere was eerily quiet.
Until the security guard spoke slowly, he issued a deep, smooth and powerful voice:
"You... are very good."
Hah...? Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, but he didn't have the energy to reply, so he could only say: "Thank you..."
The security guard didn't say much, and looked at him quietly. Then, as if he had thought of something, he lifted the old kerosene lamp and slowly handed it to Lin Yi's side.
The old kerosene lamp exuded a warm glow, which dispelled Lin Yi's physical and psychological fatigue like a recharger, and made him feel refreshed.
It didn't take long for him to feel full of strength again.
· Seeing that Lin Yi had recovered, the security guard took back the old kerosene lamp, and then turned around coolly: "Follow me."
· Lin Yi quickly carried Wei Liang on his back and followed the security guard.
"Well, security guard... It's past 21:00, can we still go back to the dormitory now?" Lin Yi found that the direction the security guard was walking seemed to be different from the direction of the street light pole in "dormitory building-096". Although he followed the rules and absolutely trusted the security guard, it was okay to ask...
Although the security guard looks like a Terminator who can carry a coffin and shoot cool Gatling shots with one hand, the rules do not say that you cannot talk to the security guard. Besides, maybe you can get some other clues from the security guard's mouth.
"Yes." The security guard affirmed, "Although the time has just passed 21:00, it does not affect me from sending you there."
"Oh, okay, wait...just, just after 21:00?" Lin Yi's eyes widened and he glanced down at his watch.
21:02…
"21:02?! Not 21:26? Time has gone backwards?!" He exclaimed.
This time... seems to be the time on the watch that I saw when I skipped the frame just now, wait...? ! Is that the real time?
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The security guard suddenly looked back, his eyes falling on Lin Yi's wrist, and there were some subtle waves in his sun-like eyes.
Immediately afterwards, he slowly leaned down and slowly brought his face closer like a beast lowering its head. At the same time, he frowned slightly and flapped his nose gently, as if he was smelling something.
Lin Yi was stunned at first, and then suddenly looked around as if he thought of something. At the same time, he whispered softly: "Are you here..."Me after I fall asleep tonight"? 》
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The light of the old kerosene lamp began to flicker, the security guard's eyes gradually narrowed, and the atmosphere at the scene gradually became heavier.
!!!」
The ham-sized mace was hit hard on the ground by the security guard. The strong shock wave almost made Lin Yi lose his balance.
"I understand." The security guard slowly stood up straight, "The environment has polluted your perception of the flow of time."
"Huh?" Lin Yiruo had some realization.
"'21:26'?" After the security guard said this, he continued to lead Lin Yi forward, "That's just the 'time' in your perception."
After being pointed out by the security guard, Lin Yi felt as if he had woken up from a dream, and something seemed to explode in his head.
“The pollution from the layers has affected my perception of time! From the time I left the classroom to now, I thought I had experienced an hour and a half, but in fact... only one hour has passed.”
And this hour even includes the part of the time when he persevered in the falling layers, waiting for the security to arrive.
The period of time when he struggled desperately at the level of the abyss of pain may not actually be very long, but that time scale was continuously lengthened because of his sinking!
So he was most likely really heading towards the dormitory building. That step that he couldn't take was not because he couldn't move, but because the original one-second step was stretched into ten or twenty seconds by his perception...?
What trapped him was not the layers, but... "time"? !
Lin Yi followed the security guard in a daze, his mind constantly flashing back to the street lights he passed along the way...
In a normal campus, it takes twenty or thirty minutes to get from the teaching building to the dormitory building.
Even if you start to drop layers, in Xu Shunkang’s words at the time, leaving the classroom at 20:15 is enough to return to the dormitory at 21:00.
The class teacher entered the classroom after 19:00 and asked them to leave the classroom after 20:00. Regardless of the fact that there are security patrols, does it mean that even in the falling layer, as long as there is no accident, one hour of traveling time is enough?
In the extended time scale, he mistakenly thought that the time had passed 21:00. While using his "tenacious will" to resist the erosion of layer pollution, his will was constantly being worn away, and a long and difficult tug-of-war of will began.
But looking at it now, perhaps the origin of this tug of war of wills was the psychological hint given to him by layer pollution, causing him to continue to sink in self-confrontation.
It's like fighting each other and consuming oneself.
Psychologically, he thinks that time has passed and he will be swallowed up by the layers, so pollution can find holes in it. In the final analysis, flies don’t bite seamless eggs, and he exposes holes, and all-pervasive pollution seeps in.
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X May 8, 2023, 21:05.
In the thick and dense gray fog, the security guard moved forward slowly, his dark trench coat swaying gently with the evening breeze. From the back, he looked like a burly version of Batman.
While walking, Lin Yi found that the security guard did not seem to have the thick, cold iron chain wrapped around him.
His eyes flashed with doubt, and at this moment, the security guard stopped.
"We're here."
Lin Yi was startled. How many steps have we already arrived?
He looked up and saw that the light pole of "dormitory building-096" was ten meters away from him. He even distracted himself from thinking about something along the way, but it went smoothly as if he were playing.
Is this the sense of security that security brings? Love it, love it...
"I won't go through, the lights will illuminate your last stretch of the road." The security guard's calm voice revealed a sense of stability that was enough to soothe people. "Also, leave that sheet and don't bring it into the dormitory."
"Ah? Okay, thank you." Lin Yi took off the sheet on his body, handed it to the security guard and thanked him, then slowly walked towards the "dormitory building-096" street light pole with Wei Liang on his back.
The security guard slightly raised the old kerosene lamp, letting the orange light shine on Lin Yi's back, and escorted him towards the "dormitory building-096" street light pole.
Under the illumination of the street lights, Lin Yi felt the uneven texture gradually appear on the ground under his feet. He knew that he was back on the "cobblestone road to the dormitory building" again.
Gradually, the light of the "dormitory building-096" streetlight pole replaced the light of the old kerosene lamp to continue Lin Yi's path. This was the old kerosene lamp that the security guard slowly put down and raised. As the light changed, his figure gradually disappeared into the mist.
I saw him crumpling the sheet into a ball, and then throwing it into the gray fog.
The sheet was like a plane crashing into the clouds, making a hole in the gray mist with a roar, and then rolled down into a dark area.
"Swiss, swiss, swish, swish, swish..." The inhuman units rushed over one after another as if they smelled some kind of attractive smell.
The security guard waited for five seconds, and then threw the mace in his hand towards the sheet with an expressionless expression.
The mace was shot out like a mortar, making the ground seem to tremble.
The security guard glanced at Lin Yi and saw that he had arrived under the street light pole of "dormitory building-096". He turned around coldly, smashed through the gray fog like an icebreaker, and merged into the vast night.
As more and more students were around, Lin Yi knew that the two-player copy of [Returning to the Dormitory Building from the Teaching Building] had finally been completed.
He breathed a long sigh of relief and glanced at his watch.
21:08.
"Liangzi, we are here." He patted Wei Liang's hand, but found that Wei Liang's palm had returned to temperature. He glanced at Wei Liang and found that Wei Liang had recovered from the "living dead" state.
"You...have recovered?" Lin Yi curled his lips.
Wei Liang nodded excitedly: "Old Lin, you have indeed done it again."
Lin Yi sighed: "A narrow escape from death."
"Holy shit, Even if you narrowly escape death, you won't wake me up?" Wei Liang became anxious when he heard this, "You really don't regard me as a brother, do you really think that my words of "I have a trump card" are nonsense? You wake me up, and I will use my best trump card, Kaka Kaka, and all problems will be solved!"
Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang dancing, as if he was dancing like a master, and opened his mouth again and again, but he was stunned and couldn't say a word.
Come on, my fucking brains are almost blown away by you, you can’t wake up!
"Hey..." Wei Liang sighed, and then said seriously, "Old Lin, actually I heard your call."
"Huh?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then squinted, "Damn it, you heard it and why are you so stupid?"
"I seemed to be a little awake at first, but I suddenly heard you say, 'Liangzi, if you have any trump card, don't use it, don't use it'..." Wei Liang said nonsense seriously.
"Wait a minute, are you sure that's what you heard?" Lin Yi said, "That's not what I said at all..."
"Hey, never mind, it's safe now." Liang waved his hands repeatedly, "Hey, it's getting late. Let's go back to the dormitory first. Damn, I always feel so scared when I stay here!" Wei Liang rubbed his sleeves and felt that there was an indescribable coldness in the evening here.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed the flow of other students and lined up to enter the dormitory building.
The lighting hours for the corridors of the dormitory building are 6:00~7:40 and 21:00~22:00 every day. At this point, many experience students who have arrived in the dormitory building have already begun to enter the elevator one after another.
Just as Lin Yi climbed the steps and was about to enter the corridor on the first floor, he suddenly thought of something, and stood under the lights of the dormitory building and glanced outside the dormitory building.
It is dark and gloomy outside the light, with floating mist. The outline of the mountain and the layers of gray fog seem to blend into one.
Lin Yi frowned, wondering if some of his feelings had not yet been extracted from the abstract painting with a broken style. He always felt that the world under the gray mist tonight had a bit of the charm of looking at the black sea shrouded in mist in the castle.
Especially the roaring sound made by the evening wind blowing through the invisible mountains. At a certain moment, it sounded somewhat similar to the sound made by the rough sea tide.
In such gray fog, from time to time, some figures appeared from the hazy light and shadow as if emerging from the water. Using the "dormitory building-096" street light pole as a stop, they crossed the field formed by the lights, stepped on the steps, passed by him, and entered the corridor on the first floor of the dormitory building.
"Old Lin, are you okay?" Wei Liang stretched out his hand and waved it in front of his eyes.
Lin Yi came back to his senses, shook his head and said: "Well, it's okay, just look back, let's go."
"Hmm." Wei Liang nodded.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or something, but when Lin Yi stepped into the corridor of the dormitory building with his front foot, a dull thunder roared in the hazy night sky with his back foot.
When Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered the dormitory elevator, the moment the door closed.
A thunder tore through the night sky, and the dark world seemed like day.
The experience students who climbed up the stairs from the thick fog were so brightly illuminated by the Jingzhe that they looked as pale...as if they were sculptures.
As the elevator door closed, the feeling of being cut off from the outside world slowly spread in Lin Yi's heart, making him gradually feel uncomfortable.
The elevator number this time was "Elevator-12". Lin Yi simply remembered it, then reached out and pressed the button for the "14th" floor. Then he and Wei Liang stood in the corner of the elevator car, silently waiting for the elevator to start.
Huddled in a corner and looking out would make him feel better. Looking at the spacious interior of the elevator and the small number of passengers, the sense of isolation in his subconscious was somewhat relieved. However, as the elevator started and continued to accelerate, the manic wind continued to tear the outer wall of the elevator car, and a strong earthquake sensation began to pass along the car body. Lin Yi's subconscious desire to break out of the cage became stronger again.
The elevator car became more and more shaky, and Lin Yi also subconsciously shrank into the corner of the elevator car, as if he wanted to embed himself in the corner.
His eyes began to wander, and finally fell on the small yellow speaker on the top of the button row and the plastic cover with a big "×" on it.
Under the plastic cover, there is a red "↑" button. Lin Yi guessed that the dormitory manager must have pressed this button before the elevator broke through the shackles of the floor and reached the floor of the Art Building.
He looked at the button to distract himself. In an extreme period of time, the elevator started and stopped several times, just like a racing car with superior performance repeatedly pulling to the highest horsepower and then stopping, which made Lin Yi feel a little uncomfortable in his stomach.
But fortunately not long after, the elevator stopped again.
「Ding!」
With a crisp beep, the running elevator suddenly stopped.
Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at the monitor on the floor.
14.
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and a light flashed between his eyes.
"Here we are."
"Clang...Cang!"
The elevator door slowly opened, and the orange light in the corridor slowly flowed in with a cold breath from the crack in the door, which made Lin Yi feel refreshed.
"Huh..." He breathed out slowly, and then walked out of the elevator with Wei Liang under the gaze of other passengers.
"Buzz buzz... buzz buzz..." When he stepped out of the elevator, he seemed to feel that the elevator that had stopped very smoothly a moment ago was trembling slightly again. The slight friction sound caused by the whistling wind rubbing against the elevator car seemed to flow into the soles of his feet...
He raised his feet.
That shaking feeling instantly dissipated without a trace.
bang!」
Lin Yi's body gradually became tense, and he was not excited about successfully reaching the 14th floor...Wait a minute, didn't this journey go smoothly?
It's just a matter of taking an elevator, and it's a hammer.
So Lin Yi did not relax his vigilance, but became more cautious.
Seeing Lin Yi's expression as if he was facing an enemy, Wei Liang pursed his lips, and then said: "Let's go to the dormitory, I feel like it's not as weird here today as yesterday..."
"Liangzi, you're not in a good state today, don't be careless." Lin Yi said warily, carefully leading Wei Liang along the curved corridor, towards the "1414" dormitory.
However, what made Lin Yi feel something was wrong was that this time when he was walking in the corridor of the dormitory building, it went so smoothly that it seemed unusual.
1401, 1402, 1403, 1404...1410, 1411...
1414.
Lin Yi looked at Dormitory No. 1414 in front of him and felt a strong sense of dreaminess. He had the urge to slap himself in the mouth to see if he was dreaming.
Happily I restrained myself.
But his body still trembled subconsciously.
Seeing that Lin Yidu had arrived at the door of the dormitory and started to tremble, Wei Liang's expression suddenly changed, and he hurriedly came up, shaking his body with concern: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Lao Lin, we're all at the door of the dormitory, don't fucking lose your mind at this time!"
It turned out that nothing happened to Lin Yi at all, he just... was trembling his lips in disbelief.
"It's too, too unreal..." Lin Yi's voice kept trembling, revealing an unknown touch, "This is the first time since I entered school that I have enjoyed such a normal journey..."
Just when he was about to take out his student ID card and swipe his card, he didn't know what he thought of, and he slowly pulled his hand out of his trouser pocket.
Wei Liang was puzzled for a while, but then he heard Lin Yida: "Liangzi, please swipe your card first, let me be moved for a while..."
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