Chapter 382 Danger! ! The night watchman hasn't returned yet!
There seemed to be only the last barrier left between him and the "angel"—the boundless black tsunami!
However, before the existence of such persons as "angels", the thickness of the "tsunami" seemed ridiculously thin!
Lin Yi's soul kept trembling. He once had a simple fantasy, imagining what it would be like for a "mortal" to face an "angel", but when he faced it himself, he realized that he had no reaction at all.
He only had the most primitive trembling, and his mind was blank, and he didn't even know what fear was.
Or—even the emotion of fear, from its birth to spreading throughout his consciousness, did not come to his cognition first like the blankness at this moment.
Overwrite.
His instinct overwrote all the emotions he had at this moment.
Or...delay? !
He suddenly realized something and looked at his wrist.
The watch on the wrist shows that the time at this moment is——
2:52.
But the pointer was swinging back and forth between the 7th second and the 8th second.
Different from the previous swing that struggled from one second to the next, this time the swing is actually reversed! !
The hands on his watch seemed to have reached the 8th second countless times, but they seemed to be pushed back by an invisible force, reaching a moment that was infinitely close to "2:52:08, May 10, 2023"! !
"Time...is constantly reversing?!"
"No, it's not reversal, but...extension!!"
"Achilles Paradox?!"
The hand is about to reach 2 hours, 52 minutes and 08 seconds countless times, but every time the time is about to arrive, the time that has not been completed stretches a little!
In other words, at this moment, he is in a layer where time is extended infinitely!
"I...am "building a dream"?!"
Just like "Inception", he is now falling deeper and deeper into dreams, and his perception of time in the outside world is getting slower and slower!
Build a dream!
Lost!
If he repeats this indefinitely, he will die!
No, he will not die here, he will become... a laughing angel? !
If he didn’t have the watch, he would indeed have sunk, but now that he knows it, he won’t!
"Got back! Must go back!"
"The night watchman just taught me "Backtracking"!"
Lin Yixin learned how to use it now, and in front of the "angel", he traced back the fluctuations of the air waves, and then this ray of consciousness disappeared here...
At 2:52:08, "Angel" arrived at the boundary of the chaotic void. Outside the void, in the black wave, endless gray mist rolled endlessly. In the gray mist, the squirming, twisted, scalp-numbing evil figure shrank irregularly...
"Angel" looked at the place where Lin Yi's consciousness disappeared, and did not move for a long time.
It was already muddy and nothing could be heard clearly, only two rough syllables were left, which sounded like...
May 10, 2023, 2:52.
The world in front of Lin Yi fell apart. When he regained his vision, there was only a certain surface of the "Temple" with secret patterns floating in front of him.
And his consciousness has regained control of his body.
"Is it fun? You have to vent your anger, please let me watch the revolving door of life, right?" Lin Yi seemed to be talking to his own instinct, but on second thought, he was teasing himself, it was really weird...
He clearly remembered that he had just "faced an "angel"", but he only remembered that he had "faced an "angel"", and he could not remember any details related to this.
This feeling is like losing this memory directly.
I know that I went on a spring outing yesterday, but I only know that I went on a spring outing. Where did I go and what did I do? I have no idea at all.
Forget it if you don’t know, not even a little detail.
It's like playing a word game.
"Could it be "I" that blocked "my" memory?"
He tried to recall it, but found that he felt nothing but a trembling feeling.
The delayed fear also disappeared because of his "amnesia".
If you don’t know what it is, you won’t be afraid of nothingness.
The only thing he remembers is time, because time has nothing to do with other worlds when "building dreams"!
"By the way! Time!!"
He quickly glanced at his watch.
It has been more than ten seconds since he woke up.
The moment he saw the dial, his mind suddenly became clear. His IQ seemed to appear, and he instantly understood why the time at that time was always so close to "2:52:08"!
Because it was at 2;58:08 that the “angel” really saw him.
In other words, the fact that "an 'angel' looked at him" itself is the result of his cognition through logical reasoning of details. However, both Lao Mo and the night watchman have mentioned that once you face an angel directly, you will truly fall into the commandment of "lost souls chasing phantoms in the abyss of fog and darkness".
His instinct and cognition, through the continuously stretched time scale of one second, allowed him to avoid this matter before it became an established fact.
And now, the Titanic, which was supposed to hit the iceberg, missed it.
Is this a kind of...reversal of the future?
Lin Yi was slightly startled.
Humans are three-dimensional creatures and cannot perceive the changes in reality caused by the time dimension. But if the scale of time can really interfere with and modify certain futures, would he have just encountered a more complex experience...
A certain period of the future has been modified by him spending countless energy, but this All the modifications over time have disappeared, which means that he may have experienced a timeline that was created after facing the angel, and finally interfered with that node due to something, thus avoiding the event. And because what should have happened did not happen at all, so... he does not have that part of the memory?
Hit, what is this...?
Grandfather paradox?
His head was a little numb, because this was obviously a very simple thing, but his intuition kept telling him that it was not that simple.
"Is it possible that I have lost some memory under my nose?"
Lin Yi would rather believe that it exists than that it does not exist.
"If that's the case... Is there anything that can transcend time... Wait!!"
"Dream!"
While dreaming, his consciousness seems to be able to go back to the past, and then have some kind of intersection!
The security guard seemed to have discovered some clues, and he had vaguely guessed something!
While repairing the city wall, he seemed to have vaguely foreseen a bad future.
“Future me, are you here?” He murmured quietly, as if he wanted to get some kind of answer.
It must be "I" who faced the "angel", which produced irreversible horrific consequences, and then that "I" arrived just now through the dream, preventing the current "I" from facing the "angel"!
This kind of thing goes against the laws of the world, but Lin Yi is no longer the staunch materialist warrior.
· Joke, when you see the whole world like a dough in twisted layers, no firm heart can withstand the high temperature and melt, and then be shaped by the flames into various shapes.
He looked up at the world outside the bell tower. Through the floating walls of the bell tower, he could see the chaotic void of the bell tower. But unlike the situation just now, when he looked out from inside the bell tower, he seemed to be protected by the bell tower itself and would not be attracted by the "angels", which greatly reduced the risk of becoming a "mist-chasing light".
But once you leave the bell tower and lose your shelter, there will be no safety at all when facing the "angel".
The bells sounded melodiously, and the air waves pushed out. After a while, the air waves began to weaken again, but the night watchman had not woken up yet.
Lin Yi secretly thought something was wrong, why hasn't the night watchman come back yet?
02！ 「02」! "
He looked anxiously at the night watchman beside him, but the night watchman stood there as quietly as a stone, completely unmoved.
"Oops... I agreed to ring the bell once at most. Now the lingering sound has almost disappeared, why haven't you come back yet?"
Lin Yi looked at his current appearance of a gilded mummy and wondered if he should ring it again?
When these four words appeared in his mind, he didn't feel any resistance. It seemed that after he rang the bell once, he felt that the difficulty of ringing the "Temple" was just that?
"Am I drifting?"
But now, no matter whether it's drifting or not, the bells can't seem to stop...
As soon as Lin Yi gritted his teeth, the teeth on his bones made a "rattling" sound.
"Knock it!"
When the aftermath of the air wave was about to completely subside, Lin Yi learned the posture when his body was controlled by instinct, trying to use his majestic extraordinary power to hit the "Holy Saint" However, he did swing his fist, but the fist did not carry any power...
He hammered the "Temple" easily, so easily that he felt an ominous premonition.
"No! There's a problem!"
The problem is big.
The "Temple" was not struck.
The next moment, that baptism of terror enveloped Lin Yi, and he was about to reenact the scene of being sucked dry by the "Temple".
"Instinct can save me!"
Lin Yi roared in his heart and chose "trusteeship" with ease.
· In times of crisis, his instinct lived up to expectations and directly took over his "remnant body" as if shouting "I'm here to help you."
Him, who was about to be sucked to the bell body, suddenly stopped being pulled. At the same time, the three-color aura entangled again, tightly wrapped his body, and then struck the "Temple" again with overwhelming force.
"Duang——!!"
Everything seemed to be the same as last time, but Lin Yi felt a hint of uneasiness.
Almost out of some strange feeling, he looked at the hand that struck the bell body.
His senses penetrated the three-color aura entangled in his body, and found that there was a layer of fine cracks quietly creeping up on his golden arm bones at some point.
The starting point of the crack is a certain layer of secret patterns on the surface of the "Temple" bell.
"Is this the side effect of ringing the bell?! My body... can only withstand the impact of ringing the bell once, is that what you mean?!"
Lin Yi thought that when the night watchman struck the bell, some particles would seem to be annihilated from his body. Now he suddenly understood that even the night watchman could not withstand the endless frequency of ringing the bell!
It is unimaginable that when the gray fog invades, the night watchman who rings the bell alone is suffering from the erosion of what kind of terrifying power!
However, the second sound disappeared soon, but there was still no response from the night watchman!
「不是吧大哥！！！说好的敲一下，我第二下都敲完了啊！你要不要回来了啊！」
感受着逐渐消逝的钟声，林异的一颗心缓缓沉入了谷底。
"What should I do...?"
After the second knock, the "golden body" was cracked!
This "golden body" that is strong enough to withstand the impact of the "Temple's" air waves seems not as strong as expected...
If he keeps knocking like this, will he die?
"Why don't you... give up?" An idea came to Lin Yi's mind.
He glanced at the old kerosene lamp not far away, and couldn't help but retreat in his heart...
He was originally here to buy a package, but now buy one, get one free, he has done his best, there is no need to fill in his life, right?
How about... take that damn old kerosene lamp and get out of the night watchman's clock tower?
Just when Lin Yi was hesitating, he saw Lao Mo from the corner of his eye from the old kerosene lamp...
Lao Mo seemed to be attracted by the second bell and was looking at him at the moment.
When Lao Mo found Lin Yi looking at the old kerosene lamp, he knew what Lin Yi was thinking.
"You go away...boy..."
Lao Mo's voice sounded slowly, calm and sincere, but also revealing endless helplessness and bitterness.
"This is...not...a battle for you alone..."
"Being able to knock...once...you're already...very good..."
"If you want to leave, just...go...don't sacrifice...in vain..."
"Did I hear you right? Lao Mo actually let himself run?" Lin Yi was startled, but when he looked at Lao Mo, it didn't seem like he was trying to provoke him...
But Lao Mo's words undoubtedly played into his hands, and he really wanted to run away...
He then slowly let go of the skeleton hand that was close to the "Temple".
But at that time, just like the scene where he saw the city wall shattered, the gymnasium collapsed, and the boss and physical education teachers died one after another before repairing the city wall, this time, he also had a quick flashback vision before his eyes...
He saw The "angel" broke through the black wave. The figures were covered with scaly substances engraved with evil marks and shining with dark luster, and covered with eye-like tumors. They flooded the art building like iron chains...
(End of this chapter)