Chapter 386 Extraordinary Creation, Sequence 101 "Ouroboros Ring"
At the critical moment, he saw something shining with a dark light in front of him.
The appearance of that light faintly calmed the hesitation and panic in his heart.
His mind was slightly dazed, and he subconsciously forgot about the fear caused by the iron chains and the black viscous liquid. He tried to look for the light, but found that the source of the light was right in front of him.
He opened his palms.
When he was dreaming, he could not see himself, but as the "palm" in his consciousness opened, a small snake appeared in front of him.
The snake was smelted from some unknown metal, and its eyes were inlaid with gypsum-like gems. There was a layer of dark but colorful brilliance floating in this layer.
It opened its mouth and bit its tail, forming a ring the size of a thumb. A black-gold rope was tied to the ring, and now it was floating so quietly in front of Lin Yi.
"Ouroboros Ring".
Almost subconsciously, Lin Yi knew what it was.
It must have been his body that opened the stone box containing the "Ouroboros Ring".
The Night Watchman said that the "Ouroboros Ring" can enhance his willpower when dreaming, allowing him to enter deeper layers of dreams.
As soon as the "Ouroboros Ring" appeared, the dark radiance was like cold fire, expelling the black viscous liquid attached to Lin Yi's body, and also made the walls and well walls that were almost static move again.
【...You will...come back...】
【I will...wait for...you...】
【Waiting for you...to come in person...ask...me...】
【...Lin...】
【...different...】
The sound faded slowly, but it was different from the decisive disappearance of the "vision" in the past. This time it seemed to dissipate particularly slowly, as if someone was unwillingly twisting the volume control knob until it was completely silent.
When the sound completely disappeared, the changing walls around him finally completely replaced the well wall, and steps appeared under his feet...
He opened his eyes——
He had not closed his eyes, but he felt as if he had opened his eyes at this moment.
He heard the faint sound of wind echoing in the stairwell, heard the sound of water seeping through the cracks in the bricks of the wall, and felt the slightly moist breath in the air. He reached out and touched the back.
Behind the back is the backpack containing Lao Mo's heart and tomatoes.
He breathed a deep sigh of relief. It was only at this moment that he was finally sure that he was back in reality.
He glanced at his watch. The time was now 3:07.
But at the same time, he also felt what he was holding in his hands.
He turned around and opened his palm, and he saw the "Ouroboros Ring".
"I thought it was just an auxiliary tool, but I didn't expect to use it so quickly... and it happened to save my life." Looking at the "Ouroboros Ring" in his palm, Lin Yi felt lucky to have survived the disaster.
Looking at the "Ouroboros Ring" in his hand, Lin Yi suddenly felt that it was very different from what he saw when he was building his dream.
Compared to the rough appearance in the dream, the main body of the ring in the hand is obviously much more refined. It is tempered from some kind of black-gold metal with built-in texture. It exudes a low-key and calm luster, like an ancient treasure that has been rubbed by the years.
its shape is not lifelike at all, it only has a rough line shape. It looks almost the same as the Tushan Longyu unearthed in China, but the overall style is smaller.
It connects end to end, with no beginning or end, as if symbolizing an eternal cycle.
There are no scales on the surface of this "Ouroboros Ring", but it is engraved with numerous large and small secret patterns. Miraculously, these secret patterns look very messy when put together, but if you look at them from a distance, you will find that they are virtual and real, and they just form the texture of the scales of the "Ouroboros Ring".
Its snake pupil was made of a plaster-like substance and looked like it had been dotted with white paint. But when Lin Yi looked at the snake pupil, at a certain moment he had a terrifying feeling of being glanced at.
There seemed to be a flash of golden light in the snake's eyes.
He was so frightened that his hand shook and he almost lost his grip on the ring.
He looked at the "Ouroboros Ring" again and had a strange feeling, as if the ring was a mysterious microcosm, and now it was quietly entrenched in the palm of his hand... He shivered and quickly put it back into the stone box.
He originally wanted to put the stone box back into his backpack, but then he thought about it and put it in his pants pocket.
His school uniform has long been in tatters. The impact of the air wave almost annihilated his body. Naturally, the school uniform he was wearing was also destroyed. Now there are only a few strips of cloth left, as well as in many places. Faint X-ray...
His school uniform is worse than a beggar now, and it seems a bit luxurious to describe it as ragged. Fortunately, the pockets are still very strong, and his student ID card is well protected.
After packing up the "Ouroboros Ring", Lin Yi walked down some more steps, and then came to the corridor within a few steps and saw the closed iron door not far away.
He left the stairwell and stepped onto the flat stone floor.
Before leaving, he looked back at the stairs that were still rotating downwards in a Fibonacci sequence, and frowned slightly, thinking about everything.
But he didn’t think about it any more, and pushed open the iron door decisively.
I pushed it but couldn’t move it.
He was stunned for a moment, then thought that the door opened from the inside, so he pulled the door.
——
Amidst a sharp metal friction sound that made your teeth ache, he opened the heavy iron door.
The iron on the door clanked, and the quiet passage behind the door appeared in front of him, exactly the same as the way he came.
But out of caution, he still glanced at the back of the iron door, which was the side where the door was opened when he came in.
He saw the iron piece on the door. The iron piece hung quietly over there, as if the clanging sound just now was not caused by it.
There are secret patterns on the iron piece that are extremely rusty, and the motto from "The Iron Rule of the Night Watch" is written on it: "A tower without a bell shines brightly, and the sound is so loud that it shakes the world."
Lin Yi reached out and touched the iron piece.
The familiar taste, the familiar formula, the familiar figure of the thin figure wielding a hammer and hammering the utensils appeared in my mind like a CG cutscene, and then the figure quickly disappeared.
"The taste is very good...the road is right!"
Lin Yi stepped into the iron gate without hesitation.
Just when he was about to turn around and close the iron door, as soon as he turned around, a surging force rushed out, like a mud car made of air suddenly appeared, and hit him unexpectedly, knocking him over.
Lin Yi couldn't avoid it and was knocked to the ground. However, before he could react, the heavy iron door closed automatically.
That terrifying momentum was like catching a sword with bare hands. If he was still standing there, he would be directly beaten to pieces.
Looking at such a door, Lin Yi couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and what was even more dumbfounded was that he heard the rushing wind behind the door. The wind was filled with moist water vapor and kept seeping through the cracks in the door. When it blew onto Lin Yi's face, it was accompanied by a fishy smell...
This scene was exactly the same as the scene when Lao Mo brought him to the door and opened the door.
Later, when he was walking down the stairs, he often felt the uncomfortable smell and the damp and cold water vapor. But when he thought about it carefully, he found that he did not seem to feel any similar scene during the whole process of going down the stairs.
He came to the iron gate, stretched out his hand and touched the iron gate personally.
The iron door seemed to be stationary, but in fact it was vibrating at a terrifying frequency. As soon as his palm touched it, the palm of his hand was already bloody. It was just because he had been destroyed by the air waves of the "Temple" countless times, so he was used to this kind of pain.
He felt the fragmentation and reorganization of the flesh and blood on his hands, felt the tearing and repair of every inch of muscle fiber, as if he had captured a certain rhythm, the fluctuation caused by the howling wind on the other side of the door...
He seemed to have realized something.
"Behind this door is not a stairwell, but... a well?!"
It's that well!
Isn’t that bloody, dirty smell the smell of the well? !
The "screw theory" that Lao Mo told him suddenly appeared in his mind. The deep well and the stairwell were two screw rods moving with each other!
"This is the truth why Lao Mo worked so hard to open the door!"
"The door that Lao Mo opened is a field with the attribute of "door", layer jump! Yes, layer jump! This is the feeling back then!!"
"Also, when I went to the clock tower, I walked "downward" at the beginning, but when I came back, I was still going "downward"!"
"The left-hand side and the right-hand side..."
"Interaction of layers..."
Lin Yi seemed to have caught some kind of inspiration. His eyes flickered, and a large number of calculations seemed to have occurred in his mind.
But he immediately stopped this calculation.
He simply jotted down a few keywords, then immediately put the note pad away and stuffed it back into his trouser pocket. He reached into his backpack and grabbed two tomatoes. He gnawed on them while seizing the time to run towards the other end of the passage.
This passage is the only safe area in the whole journey. He can use it to replenish his own consumption and kill two tomatoes by the way.
While chewing the tomato, he glanced at his hands.
The hand that was bruised and bruised by the iron door has long since recovered.
Looking at such hands, he suddenly felt a little strange.
"I...I'm used to that kind of pain from time to time?"
It's really strange...
How can a person easily get used to the pain of recovering from a serious physical injury?
Lin Yi himself felt it was a bit absurd.
Recalling the scene when he was washed away by the air waves of the "Temple" and only a skeleton was left, he realized that he relied on some strange will and instinct to persevere. But now when he looked back, he found that it was completely unreasonable.
With all flesh and blood gone, how can a person still be alive?
Is the power of will really so powerful?
He shook his head helplessly. He found that he had unknowingly upgraded from accepting that he was "different from ordinary people" to accepting that he was "different from ordinary people."
He quickly shook his head. In this regard, for some reason, he didn't dare to think about it...
He had already acquiesced that there was something wrong with his memory. Now if you tell him that there is something wrong with him, he feels that his cognitive span cannot catch up...
He suppressed these thoughts, but as soon as this thought was suppressed, another thought came up. So he could only run and think: "But speaking of that deep well, '02' said that part of the 'original apostle' was buried there... Could it be that the person who pulled me just now was the one buried?"
“Mage Ji” killed several of the “original apostles” and then buried their bodies everywhere in the Black Moon Outpost. Coupled with what he had just experienced, it is difficult to associate these things together.
· Thinking about it, he thought he had been successfully ascending, but in fact, the pollution emanating from the "corpse" penetrated the layers and affected his cognition, and he passively entered the state of "dream building".
Even the vision he had just now was most likely because he saw the chain hanging down into the sea and imagined something locked, and then that scene was substituted into his body when he was dreaming.
Living people will continue to absorb pollution, let alone unconscious dead things.
"As long as you are within the range of extraordinary power, you will continue to be polluted..." Lin Yi sighed and muttered to himself, "Hey... I don't know what it will be like after these seven days..."
"There are still three days left, I hope nothing bad will happen..."
Lin Yi thought of the fantasy novels he had read by a certain Emperor Chen Tian. There was often a plot in which the corpse of a certain powerful creature underwent various changes after death and then its spiritual intelligence reopened, and then the area became a restricted area. Could it be that the "corpse" in the deep well also underwent similar changes?
“Is the ‘corpse’ really mutated... and then because of some special mechanism, such as the characteristics of the iron chain or some characteristics of the Black Moon Outpost, or some restrictions set by the ‘Mage’ when burying it, it cannot leave, so it can be rescued by constantly calling the creatures it senses?”
This speculation gave Lin Yi an inexplicably familiar feeling. Then he thought about it, wasn't this how the "Exiled Mage" who was "exiled by time" called the Dream Builder?
"This Black Moon Outpost, the Art Building... is really terrible."
A building built before the birth of human civilization, it seems like nothing at ordinary times, but when its heavy heritage and deep dark history pass by, it really makes people feel a sense of suffocation.
(End of this chapter)