Chapter 361 Stairs in the left direction
The sound of the wind was accompanied by some water vapor that rushed out from the crack in the door and kept hitting Lin Yi's face. There was an indescribable fishy smell in the wind, which subconsciously reminded people of a sea surface filled with freshly dead deep-sea fish.
The corridor behind the door was filled with the roar of the wind, like countless ghosts crying. Lao Mo used a lot of strength to push the iron door open by one person, and then he could no longer push it open any further.
"You first!" Lao Mo growled. The muscles in his arms bulged, like old tree trunks twisted together. They looked full of explosive power, but even so, it seemed that they could not open the iron door.
Lin Yi did not hesitate and got in decisively.
When he walked through the door, he could clearly feel that the iron door was vibrating at a terrifying frequency, and he felt like his skin was about to be cut open even though he was several centimeters away.
It is hard to imagine that Lao Mo, who directly opened the iron door with his hands, had a monster-level body.
When Lin Yi passed through, Lao Mo roared angrily, suddenly opened the door a little more, and then passed through like a flexible swordfish.
Even so, as soon as he released his hand against the iron door, the iron door closed with a terrifying potential energy, as if a pair of invisible big hands appeared behind the door, pushing hard on the door leaves, trying to crush him.
Seeing that he was about to be beheaded by the iron gate, Lao Mo snorted coldly. Everything around him instantly slowed down. The scale of the space began to undergo some weird and distorted changes, and he passed through the gap in the iron gate like a rubber man.
「Layer jump」.
When he landed again, he had already appeared beside Lin Yi.
The strange thing is that what happens on this map level will be a different scene with the naked eye, but Lin Yi actually takes it all in.
Seeing such a scene, Lin Yi couldn't help but point at the iron door and opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.
Lao Mo patted Lin Yi on the shoulder and said, "Why, a little trick has shocked you for ten thousand years?"
"That's not..." Lin Yi smacked his lips, "I just thought of one thing..."
"What thing?"
"The matter of "returning the same way"..."
"Hmm? What's the problem with that?"
Lin Yi said quietly: "Let's not talk about going to the bell tower later. Which way to go, just "return the same way", I mean, what you mean is...come down from the clock tower again later, and then use violence to open the door and return to the corridor..."
"Even if I can open the door violently, after leaving the corridor, as soon as I open the door, I will have to break through the nocturnal species all over the wall, and then crawl back to the gallery..."
"Even if I am lucky enough to return to the gallery, I still have to pretend that I can't hear the sound of "Amon's Music Box" and leave the gallery..."
"Even if I really leave the gallery..."
Lin Yi's voice became weaker and weaker until there was no sound.
Lao Mo was silent for a while: "What you said... does seem to be a bit difficult..."
"Old Mo...ahem!" Lin Yi said awkwardly, "I feel that this difficulty is no less difficult than that of a pirate rowing a famous small wooden boat to rob with a revolver. Aircraft carrier..."
Lao Mo pursed his lips: "There is a difference... To pirates to rob an aircraft carrier, you need to be able to drive it, but you don't need to master the method, just follow the instructions..."
"My point is not that, Lao Mo..."
“What do you want to say?” Let's go back alive together? "
"I'm just a backup hidden energy source, killing people in darkness is definitely not relevant to me..." There was a look of dejection on his face, and he spread his hands helplessly.
Lao Mo was stunned for a moment. He originally thought that Lin Yi was worried about his retreat, but unexpectedly, he actually started to care about him.
He smiled bitterly: "I'll try my best."
Lin Yi sighed quietly in his heart, Lao Mo's reply had already given him the answer.
He turned his head and looked at the corridor entrance in front of him.
After passing through the iron gate, the wind in the corridor was not so strong, but the cold and damp atmosphere became more intense.
The corridors of the bell tower are usually spiral upward, narrow and long, but the passage in front of Lin Yi turned out to be spiral downward.
The walls of the corridor are made of heavy stones, which are covered with traces of erosion over time. Moss is spreading and growing at the corners. On a stormy night like today, part of the rainwater flows down the outer wall of the bell tower and seeps into the gaps in the corridor, making the wall look wet, as if blood is flowing.
The light in the corridor was dim, with only a few candlesticks holding up a faint light.
On stormy nights, the sea breeze mixed with pollution seemed to squeeze in from the cracks in the wall, making the candlelight flicker.
When lightning flashes across the night sky, the entire corridor will rumble, and the walls will tremble slightly, as if they will fall apart at any time.
The thing that puzzled Lin Yi was always the staircase in front of him.
"Why does this staircase go down?"
He once saw the outline of the bell tower from a distance outside the Art Building. That thing should be at the highest point of the Art Building, so why doesn't this staircase go up?
"Is there another way?"
Lao Mo walked to the entrance of the corridor and said: "All the rules on campus tell you that you need to walk on the right side when going up and down the stairs, and you will know why soon."
Lin Yi thought of a lot at once, but did not answer. In fact, he was not ignorant about "going up the stairs on the left hand side", because as early as May 7, when he went to bed, he had followed Mao Zi up the stairs of the teaching building through dreams, and at that time, Mao Zi went up the stairs on the left hand side!
But the road that was supposed to be "returning to the original route" ended up in a completely different stairwell because Maozi went up the stairs on the left hand side, and finally passed through those weird areas and reached the dormitory building.
"Does every building in turn break into other layer paths?"
Lao Mo stretched out his hand to Lin Yi.
"There will be a "layer jump" road next, you may feel very uncomfortable, hold my hand, no matter what happens, I will pull you to that side of the bell tower. "
Lin Yi held Lao Mo's hand.
Lao Mo's palm was like a stiff artificial human being, cold and without any warmth.
"Following."
Lao Mo said something softly, then stepped onto the steps at the entrance of the corridor, and then took steps in the direction to the left.
One step, two steps...
The stairs of the clock tower are made of the same kind of stone as the yellow-brown stones on the wall, like some kind of limestone. The surface is generally smooth, but there are still some pitted marks, and there is a solid feedback feeling when stepping on it.
When he first took two steps with Lao Mo, Lin Yi felt quite normal. Apart from some indescribable awkward feelings, he felt almost nothing else.
However, on the third step out, Lin Yi suddenly felt that the ground under his feet became a little uneven, and even his center of gravity began to shift...
He wanted to observe the changes around him, but he couldn't.
It is very difficult to maintain such a focus and move forward.
If you are distracted, you may fall down.
This sense of fluctuation is indeed somewhat similar to "layer jump", and Lin Yi has received the guidance of Lao Mo, and now he can't say that he is comfortable in adapting to it, but he is somewhat familiar with it.
Of course, if you want to achieve this step, you need to concentrate on it. Looking around will definitely not work.
But soon, he stopped observing the environment, and the environment came to him on its own.
His perspective began to undergo a strange twisting and stretching shift uncontrollably. This shift had no logic at all, just like a novice pastry chef kneading dough. The strength of his hands was indifferent, and every move could be called "happy strength."
And this sense of random and illogical spatial fluctuations began to have an impact on his vision and spatial perception, giving him a nauseating feeling similar to motion sickness.
They shuttled through these layers for a while. When the feeling of a pastry chef kneading dough had almost disappeared, Lin Yi suddenly discovered that they had changed from going downstairs to going upstairs...
"This...?!"
Lin Yi now had time to observe his surroundings. He looked at the surrounding environment and was shocked in his heart.
I saw that the stairs were still the same, and the candlelight on the wall was still there, but the steps that should have been spiraling downwards have turned into spiraling upwards!
Lao Mo explained: "Remember the concept of "precision instrument" I mentioned before? Now imagine two meshing screw rods, or the gear of a pulverizer. When the first screw rod rotates, the other meshed screw rod rotates. It will be transmitted, thus starting to create a mirror-image movement with it. "
"But in this case, the other way around, we should also mirror it downward, right?" Lin Yi majored in architectural design, and this kind of problem did not trouble him at all.
Lao Mo glanced at him: "What if... one of the screw rods is fixed?"
"Fixed? Wait... you mean...?! Lin Yi calculated in his mind, "Once a single point is fixed, the side walking in the opposite direction will be lifted or lowered by the other screw at twice the speed!"
"But Lao Mo...how do you make sure that the other screw is fixed?"
Lao Mo pointed to his head: "Anchor one layer with absolute will as a reference...and then climb up."
"Absolute Will"
Lin Yi secretly took a breath. He almost forgot that Lao Mo was a ruthless man who relied on his will to lock himself to the last drop of blood to survive, and then held on until the canteen owner came back to kill him!
It is indeed an absolute will.
"That's it... no wonder the experience students are not allowed to go up and down the stairs along the left hand side." Lin Yi suddenly realized.
Lao Mo nodded and said: "They don't have such willpower. Wandering around will only make themselves involved in the unknown layer cracks, and eventually get lost in the endless stairwell, and die with fear and mental collapse..."
"Once they die, they will be like red numbered street lights. Like a pole, it "drifts" to a blind corner and becomes a member of the pile of dead sculptures..."
"'Dead sculptures'?" Lin Yi was startled, and instantly thought of the stalactite grotto that Maozi saw at the end of the stairs. The grotto was full of ferocious sculptures. Could those be dead sculptures?
"What does the dead body sculpture mean?"
"They are completely dead sculptures." Lao Mo said, "There are many pseudo-human beings hidden in the green forest belt of the campus. During the day, the extraordinary power in their bodies will be dissipated, turning into a substance that is similar to a sculpture but is not actually a sculpture... That kind of person is essentially a pseudo-human, but in order to distinguish whether it can move, it is named 'sculpture'."
The purpose of writing about sculpture in the code is essentially to prevent experiencers from knowing the concept of "pseudo-human".
Because of the pseudo-human sculpture, the life form is closer to a nocturnal species.
As for the dead body sculpture, it seems that it is the kind of thing that can never die again. There is absolutely no possibility of human beings transforming into nocturnal species or pseudo-human beings.
Lin Yi pondered: "So...the sculptures of dead bodies are the real death?"
"You can think of it in general terms for the time being, but there are always exceptions... Don't think that sculptures of dead bodies are not threatening just because they are dead bodies, and don't take it lightly at any time." Lao Mo warned.
Lin Yi nodded, keeping in mind Lao Mo's teachings.
Perhaps the original Mu Daxian also quickly acquired a lot of "theoretical knowledge" in this area in this way?
Lin Yi raised his head and looked at the steps above. The stairs spiraled up, like the Fibonacci sequence without end. A few more glances would make people feel slightly trance-like.
He withdrew his gaze in time and continued walking upward.
The more he walked up, the more he felt that the stone steps under his feet were a little unstable. From time to time, there would be some "skeleton" noises, just like the stone bridge over the river in the old village. When there are more people walking, it always makes some strange noises.
And above the dark Fibonacci steps above the head, some "dong-dong-dong" sounds began to fall, like the sound of raindrops hitting some kind of steady heavy metal.
Lao Mo suddenly reminded in a deep voice: "Be careful where you step, don't slip. After entering the fog, it will become very difficult. Don't be attracted by the Laughing Angel."
"The fog area... the Laughing Angel? Didn't it say that there is a night watchman's domain here?" Lin Yi asked confused.
“The night watchman used all his strength to fight against the coming of the “angel”. His back was still empty, and the angel sculpture would attack him at this time. "Lao Mo said, "Mosquitoes can't kill humans, but in the face of that kind of top-level game, any slight impact may cause a butterfly effect, thus triggering a complete collapse of the war situation."
(End of this chapter)