Chapter 368 Heading towards the Night Watch
What made Lin Yi's scalp tingle even more was something looming in its silhouette... There seemed to be some irregular sarcomas bulging out strangely on both sides. These sarcomas seemed to have a life of their own, squirming and shrinking from time to time, like some special scales, like some weird feathers, or... like there were countless pairs of small eyes hidden to peer into each layer!
The dark frenzy distorts the entire world outside the bell tower. Its body winds endlessly, and its head seems to be entangled in the body. The end of each shadow looks like its head, or it is not its head. It seems to be some kind of more terrifying collection...
After looking at it for a few times, Lin Yi immediately felt a biting cold feeling. It was a cold that penetrated into the bone marrow. It was not just a drop in temperature, but more like a freezing of the soul.
"Wait!"
"Is that the "angel" that Lao Mo said?!"
After all, "angel" is just a title, who can say that it is not that snake-like?
He immediately thought of the night watchman standing on the edge of the cliff holding an ancient green lantern in his hand, and the almost frozen "tsunami" in front of him. Could it be that the three night watchmen were fighting against the invasion of gray fog in different positions?
And these three night watchmen are in charge of the ancient green lantern, the giant quantum clock, and some unknown extraordinary creation?
Thinking about it this way, are these night watchmen the ones who protect the three realms and six realms in myths and legends?
After all, there seemed to have been six night watchmen...?
The vacant night watchman position...
His——
Mu Daxian wants to become an immortal? !
Lin Yi's thoughts became more and more outrageous, and his thoughts gradually became enlightened...
At this moment, the night watchman's low and shuddering voice also reached his ears:
"Young man... you came up as expected."
"'Sure enough'?" Lin Yi's eyelids twitched hard, what does "Sure enough" mean? Could it be that the night watchman didn't think he could come up at all?
He coughed dryly and didn't know what to say to the night watchman, so he imitated the words that the protagonist often said in novels, clasped his hands and said, "Uh... luckily, I passed your test."
"'Test'?" The night watchman's voice paused slightly, "What test?" What are you looking forward to?!" Lin Yi felt that his expectations were severely stepped on by the night watchman, but he couldn't say anything, but he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart... It turns out that the night watchman's words "Only if you come up" mean the same thing as the fight between classmates when he was a child...
Hit me if you can!
Do you think I dare not!
Come if you dare!
Come just come!
Come on!
bang!
Woooooooo, do you really dare to hit me?
These scenes flashed by, but Lin Yi felt even more sad. He felt that if he were a little kid, his ears would be drooped by now.
The voice of the night watchman continued to sound: "Don't think so, I just think you are interesting, so I want to see if you are qualified to come up."
Lin Yi felt better when he heard the word "qualification", because this is more or less an informal test, but it was not given by the night watchman, but...that giant quantum clock?
After all, the wind and waves seemed to be coming from the giant quantum clock.
Come here.
"Come closer and let me see."
The voice of the night watchman sounded again, and the mind-shaking feeling was much weakened.
In this way, Lin Yi no longer had the feeling of Hong Zhongda Lu roaring in his ears.
"Okay, I'll do it..."
He was about to speak, but found that his body was already walking towards the night watchman uncontrollably, like a machine that was out of control of his subjective will.
He was startled and tried to regain control of his body, but found that he was not under control at all!
"It's not instinct, but... the night watchman directly gave an "order" to my body?!"
Lin Yi was shocked. For example, the "orders" given by the physical education teacher had the flavor of a decree, but after all, the physical education teacher still had to give orders in a relatively fixed format, while the night watchman already felt like he was following his words.
Speaking of coercion, Lin Yi couldn't help but think of Lao Mo... When Lao Mo took his layer to jump, there seemed to be some similar elements in it.
Perhaps this is some common characteristic that only appears after the depth of pollution reaches a certain level?
"Then I will be like this in the future?" Lin Yi subconsciously had this idea in his mind, but instinctively did not consider that this meant that his pollution had reached a level that was far from being an "experience student"...
For some reason, just when he began to accept this idea subconsciously, as if a certain mechanism was triggered, Wei Liang's mean look appeared in his mind for no reason.
"If you can really give orders like that, wouldn't Ryoko be able to realize the plot of the H-comic wherever he goes?"
"Forget it, I don't want to think about it so much..."
Lin Yi adjusted his mood and focused on the environment in front of him.
He still had no control over his body. He was like a person who was remotely controlled by the screen, and could only watch everything happening in front of him.
And he quickly understood why the night watchman did this - because the pattern on the top of the clock tower was not constant.
Just like what he saw when he first arrived here, the environment on the entire top floor was constantly changing. The stones under his feet were constantly extending and twisting, and disappeared as if they were suddenly folded ninety degrees. The surroundings and the top were constantly evolving like the stamens of a flower blooming.
Of course, the same is true when moving, and due to the addition of the variable "movement", the distortion of the entire space has been aggravated. Just the change in the space he perceives makes him feel dizzy.
This kind of counterintuitive change will subvert the human body's perception of space and environment, causing people to lose many of the most basic characteristics, such as...the sense of spatial distance and center of gravity.
He feels top-heavy now, but fortunately, he is not in control of his body at all... Wait! The Night Watchman took over his body with just one sentence? !
「This...?!」
This is so weird!
But Lin Yi had no time to pay attention to this weirdness, because all his attention was focused on observing the surrounding environment.
With the night watchman around, what else is he afraid of?
Must see enough!
I saw that everything around me seemed to be scaled by an invisible force. The floating walls were spliced together at strange angles, and some even overlapped each other, forming an intricate maze-like structure.
He found that after he had walked a few steps, the originally straight stone slab suddenly tilted up and connected to a side wall next to it. He walked on it as if he was walking on a slope that defied gravity...
He found that the color tone of the whole world tended to be cold, mainly purple, with a faint golden light, giving the whole world a mysterious and cold atmosphere.
The light that I don’t know where it originated from has become thin and weird in this world, far less bright and warm than the sunlight in the real world.
As he moved, he would see fragments of light from time to time. They seemed to be emanating from some unknown places, such as the folds of space or some unknown layer cracks. They were scattered, forming blue or purple light bands, casting long, weird-shaped shadows in the twisted space.
When the air waves surge, the color of these lights will also change drastically. Whenever the night watchman hits the giant quantum clock, a golden light will glow around the giant clock. This light is in sharp contrast with the cold background, like the ray of light at dawn in the dark night, with a mysterious sense of oppression.
The golden light will spread along the folds and contours of the entire space, outlining the outline of an unknown building or creature. In the air close to the quantum clock, the golden ripples seem to interweave some kind of mysterious and complex totem pattern in the space...
The matter here seems to be in an extremely unstable state. The walls and ground look like they are solidified by flowing liquid, with irregular textures on the surface, like traces of water flow frozen instantly. Some wall fragments will flicker from time to time, as if they may disappear or change form at any time.
There are candlesticks with burning candles on several walls, but the candlesticks change into other materials from time to time, and then return to their original appearance.
In this strange world, the only things that remain unchanged seem to be the night watchman and the quantum clock.
They are located at the center of the entire world, and everything that changes seems to surround them, like an asteroid belt.
At this moment, Lin Yi's body was controlled and he jumped from a stone slab that was vertical to the ground to a stone slab that was almost turned over and facing the ground.
He landed steadily over there, like an upside-down Spider-Man...
The rules of gravity seemed to be completely absent, and the boards of Newton's coffin were overturned.
But perhaps Newton had seen this phenomenon during his lifetime. After all, he might have been studying these things in his later years.
·Lin has been constantly moving. He originally thought that he needed to adapt to this unconventional way of moving again, but he found that he was wrong - he did not need to adapt at all.
In other words, with his body's current "adaptability", the "mere" feeling of disobedience is simply a waste of time.
At this time, he jumped to a stone slab not far ahead that was completely impossible to reach with the "naked eye".
When he jumped out, an illusory path seemed to appear in the space, like an invisible slide, guiding him to the landing point.
Here, the height and distance of the jump are no longer limited by muscle strength and gravity in the real world, but more determined by the logical rules within the space...
If Lin Yi were to walk by himself, there would be no chance of getting close to the night watchman!
The only thing he could be sure of was that no matter which way he walked, he would eventually close the distance between him and the Night Watchman - even if sometimes it seemed that he was running in a direction away from the Night Watchman.
He subconsciously glanced at his hand and found that the time on the dial was still moving, but the intervals between minutes and seconds seemed to be different...
The time here also seemed to be distorted, not linear, but somewhat intermittent. This caused his watch to be subject to fluctuations in time, resulting in some acceleration or slowdown of time that could not be explained by science.
If he didn't look at his watch, Lin Yi had lost his sense of time, because in his opinion, as long as his eyes looked at the Night Watchman and the Quantum Clock, they seemed to always remain in a static relationship when he looked over. But when he looked away and looked back, the Night Watchman and the Quantum Clock had changed to "another set" of still movements.
There is an invisible time fluctuation that is dominating the speed of the entire top floor of the clock tower.
He thought of the stationary tsunami. Perhaps the logic here and there was the same.
After about three minutes like this, Lin Yi finally arrived at a place less than ten meters away from the night watchman while "going around in circles".
It was not until this moment that he saw Lao Mo who had come up from the "corner" of a certain space.
"Hey, Lao Mo!" He frowned with joy. He wanted to speak but couldn't make a sound. However, when he got closer, he realized that a terrifying and strange change had occurred in Lao Mo's body!
Now Lao Mo has countless moth-eaten holes in his body, and some particles float out from the holes, and then dissipate in the air waves.
"Old Mo's body is being annihilated!" Lin Yi's heart was beating wildly.
At this moment, Lao Mo also saw him, but when Lao Mo saw him, he clearly noticed that there was a strong look of surprise in Lao Mo's eyes. Then Lao Mo seemed to have thought of something, and the look of surprise turned into a look of understanding.
But that look in his eyes was still very complicated.
Then, I saw Lao Mo raising his scarred hand, holding something that looked like an hourglass or an oil lamp, and motioned to him.
After that, he started playing with the thing on his own.
That thing is the hourglass in the hand of the dormitory. Now the petrified shell has almost peeled off, revealing the appearance of an old kerosene lamp, and in the glass cover with oil stains, the weak wick is slowly swaying.
Humbling around Lao Mo, you can still clearly see some flowing golden aura in the form of particles. They are like clouds, constantly gathering into the glass cover, as if charging the wick.
It's just that Lin Yi saw Lao Mo, but not Mu Daxian.
If I remember correctly, Lao Mo came to save Mu Daxian, but where is Mu Daxian?
While he was walking along, he didn't see Mu Daxian's figure. Could it be that he was in the folds of a certain layer?
After all, Lao Mo only saw it after he came here.
At this moment, he noticed a piece of debris floating next to Lao Mo.
A fragment is like an independent layer.
He looked at the fragment as if looking at the world in the mirror through a broken mirror.
"Wait!! That's...Mu Daxian?!"
(End of this chapter)