Chapter 385 The stairwell is a well
But Lin Yi doesn’t know that. He wears a watch and will look at the time on the watch from time to time.
Only three minutes away, he looked back at the iron door of the bell tower and found that the iron door was no longer visible. There was only a spiral staircase above the stairs that extended into the Fibonacci sequence. At the end was a dark mist and floating smoke clouds, like the entrance to an abyss.
Below him, there is the same realm. Walking here, it is easy to feel a sense of loneliness, being isolated from the world, and a sense of fear with no end in sight.
He continued walking down, glancing at the time on his watch from time to time.
According to Lao Mo and the night watchman, one hour is "theoretically" enough for him to start here and arrive at the observation deck. According to his understanding of this road, there are four stages from the observation deck to the bell tower, namely the stone bridge area, the art building hall and cloister area, the gallery area, and the passage and stairwell area.
The Stone Bridge area and the Art Building area are both very short. In total, he only needs about 10 minutes to complete the run. The most critical areas are the stairwell and the gallery, but if you give it all, 40 minutes is still very generous...
"Don't be anxious, be calm, don't be impatient at all..." Lin Yi was a little impatient, but at this moment he had to convince himself that he was not in a hurry.
Suddenly, an illusive and transparent hand of a smiling angel poked out from the wall and grabbed Lin Yi's old kerosene lamp.
Lin Yi was startled, but he dodged it like a reflex. When he dodged, he found that there was an extra bat in his hand, as if he was about to smash the wall with the painting of the Laughing Angel in the next moment...
Lin Yi shivered, quickly dismissed the bat, and then recited a few words silently in his mind: "Don't do it, instinct...I am just a dormitory manager now, and I have to go back to the dormitory step by step, that's all..."
Although I also know that I have become very powerful now, but please keep a low profile.
He collected his thoughts and walked down quickly.
But as he walked, some untimely calls began to appear in his ears. He heard the sound of the rushing wind accompanied by the heavy rain constantly seeping through the cracks in the wall bricks. He heard some rustling sounds that were not quite right, but he couldn't tell where they were. Something wasn't quite right...
He instinctively felt a sense of discomfort, but he carefully observed that the stairs were indeed stairs...
He looked at his watch again, the time was 3:05.
It was about 3:00 when he left the clock tower, or maybe 2:59. Generally speaking, this time is still very normal.
But his heart immediately became cold.
Because the time on the watch became slower, and faintly stopped at 3:05 and 23 seconds.
"Hey..." He rubbed his temples, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
The moth did indeed appear, but the strange thing is why he was not surprised at all by the appearance of the moth!
Have you really accepted the fact that you are bad?
"The time remains unchanged, which means that I am "building a dream", and the depth of the dream is still deepening..." Lin Yi thought about it calmly.
Of course, it is not so much that he is brave as an artist, but rather that he has raised his fear threshold. These "little things" are no longer enough to make him panic, or in other words, things that can make him feel scared have not yet appeared.
But just when he was comforting himself in this way, a change that sent chills down his spine occurred "as expected"...
The sound of the wind in his ears turned into the sound of gurgling water at some point, and the weak water seeping out of the cracks in the wall bricks also turned into a Wisps of water flowed through the dark green moss on the wall, and flowed into the completely invisible dark abyss below the stairwell... When Lin Yi stared at the abyss, there seemed to be layers of mist floating in the abyss, as if the human faces were looking at Lin Yi.
There seemed to be a breath floating in the air, salty, wet, rotten, dirty...
Lin Yi suddenly shuddered, he thought of it!
"Is it... that "well"?!"
This layer is the layer where the well is located!
His vision, no, he did have a dream, and his consciousness ended up in that well somehow!
He looked at the surrounding walls and couldn't help but find that the walls had changed. What was around him was no longer the stairwell, but the inner wall of the deep well!
The walls of the well are covered with damp and sticky moss, and the low sound of waves surges from the bottom of the well, mixed with the breath of the sea breeze, like the roar of some unknown giant, which makes people tremble.
"Swiss, swish... swish..."
The walls of the well trembled slightly, and some black viscous liquid mixed with sand crawled upward from the mist...
And this time , Lin Yi seemed to have noticed something. Those viscous liquid trajectories looked like the natural slide of some kind of viscous liquid after gravity was reversed...
Like some kind of black, fishy, sticky... blood?
Is it blood?
That cold, terrifying and chilling feeling slowly eroded into his mind.
His ears were filled with the sound of the sea breeze whistling and echoing in the cave, the sound of the waves constantly lapping against the walls of the well, and the sound of the viscous liquid slowly squirming...
In these mixed, soul-crushing sounds, there seems to be a deeper flow of information that is slowly passed on...
That sound is long and ethereal, as if coming from the abyss. The weird syllables are hoarse, dry, and elusive, but when it falls in Lin Yi's ears, it seems to be calling his name...
With with the sound coming.
Lin Yi suddenly felt the steps under his feet loosening. He looked down and found to his surprise that there were no steps under his feet at all. He reached out to grab the void like a reflex, but he couldn't catch anything, and his body began to fall helplessly towards the surging mist!
The mist below flowed slowly in the darkness, as thick as a ball of ink, as if it was alive and wanted to swallow him.
As he fell, the sound of the waves seemed to change, as if there was an invisible vortex hidden under the abyss of the ancient well, and a pair of invisible hands were stirring the vortex.
In the surging mist, intermittent voices came, as if they were calling his name and talking to him!
One section of the iron chain was nailed into the inner wall of the deep well, and something unknown was locked at the other end, which extended into the sea water.
The entire iron chain was chiseled with mysterious mysterious patterns by a hammer, and some areas, such as the contact surface between the iron chain and the seawater, were already stained with rust.
There seemed to be something surging under the turbulent waves, like a snake head, a tentacle of an "angel", or something else...
That weird call came from it.
Lin Yi's mind trembled violently. His narrowed vision suddenly came out of the fog, and his brain suddenly became clear.
"I am not Lin Yi, I am not Lin Yi, I am "House Manager-33-X0221119003"! "
"I'm in the stairwell! I'm in the stairwell!"
He tried to hold on to the card from the dormitory, but he couldn't hold anything at all during "Dream Building".
"By the way! Dream building... dreams can be traced back to the source!"
"As long as I can go back, I can go back!"
He thought of the method taught to him by Night Watchman "02", and quickly felt the fluctuations of extraordinary power in the dream layer.
Although the original way of backtracking was for him to go back to the "Temple" through the fluctuations of the air waves, and now he cannot use "Temple" as the point of retracement, don't forget that his watch can reflect the passage of time.
The closer to the surface dream layer, the more normal the flow of time, so as long as he finds that the hands on the watch are moving at a speed close to reality, it means that his consciousness is also closer to reality.
This is the benefit of "anchor", which can help Lin Yi eliminate some wrong options.
As expected, as he retraced his steps, he quickly stopped his downward trend and began to float up.
"It works! Good!"
When he saw the initial results, Lin Yi felt happy at first, but then he immediately suppressed his joy and quickly went back.
Gradually, he found that the surrounding well walls were becoming more and more blurry, while the environment in the stairwell began to become clearer little by little.
The wall around him seemed to begin to split and repeat, changing from the well wall to the stairwell.
And he suddenly discovered that the source of his recollection did not seem to have changed at all...
In other words, at this moment, he was on a certain step down the stairs, but suddenly it seemed as if he had stopped, and his consciousness fell down.
If you go back, you will go back to that point.
After realizing this, he suddenly thought of another question:
"There should be a certain pattern in the sinking and rising of the layers... If my current situation is different from that in the bell tower, then that is to say, my consciousness is not transmitted along with the waves at all, but only sinks here..."
These are two completely different situations. The one in the bell tower was when his consciousness followed the air waves of the "Temple" and shuttled through the layers of the Art Building. At this time, if Lin Yi's guess was correct, his consciousness did not leave, but the layers changed!
This means——
This stairwell is a well.
When he first came to this inference, Lin Yi instantly felt his scalp numb, and his whole body was numb as if he had been electrocuted.
[The stairwell is a well], this initial impact on cognition was no less than when he first came to the inference that [tomatoes are hearts].
"The deep well...is the unfolding of layers!"
"Like a dome to a city wall...?!"
"If I fall, will I really fall into the sea?"
As if to reward him for answering the question correctly, The surrounding temperature suddenly dropped, the surging mist turned white, and the walls that were originally well-divided also stopped changing. Fine frost spread on the walls little by little, making a "click... click..." sound.
【You...why...stopped...】
Lin Yi's ear sounded a creepy sound.
His pupils shrank sharply.
"This voice..."
"I...didn't I float up?!"
His mind was shaken, and the corner of his eye slowly moved, and he suddenly found that his shoulder was stained with a piece of viscous liquid at some point - the kind of black viscous liquid that was spreading upwards on the inner wall of the deep well and exuded a fishy smell!
He did not dare to look or pursue the traces of the sound, but his perception expanded uncontrollably.
So he saw...
He saw the disintegrated wall, the deep well wall, and the moss intermittently connected between the layers like a spider web.
He saw the most terrifying scene - an iron chain appeared on his back, one end of the iron chain was connected to the inner wall of the deep well, and the other end of the iron chain was connected to his spine.
His body is flowing with the smelly black viscous liquid. It is not that they are spreading to his body along the wall, but that his body is constantly secreting and seeping this black viscous liquid, and then the liquid flows along the iron chain to the wall of the well, seeping out little by little...
"How, how could this happen...?!"
"I...'I'...?!"
「What’s going on?!」
ulatingdielves\' voice to be heard, like a call from a distant place. Instead, it was from within his body, from his bones, that the resentful whispers resounded like wind coming from a hole...
His heart was trembling, and his whole body seemed to be buried here. He could not understand or accept this scene at all.
(End of this chapter)