Chapter 393 Stone Bridge and Fog
Lin Yi changed his mind and the secret pattern on his right hand floated, condensing the butcher knife again.
He controlled the azure aura that penetrated his arm, then gritted his teeth and cut off a large piece of flesh and blood on his hand.
"Hiss..." Lin Yi took a breath, and the pain made him more awake.
"Don't you like to swallow pollution?" He raised the piece of meat, "Go ahead if you like it!"
He mustered up his strength and threw the piece of flesh and blood toward the depths of the corridor. At the same time, he restrained his breath and let his own flesh and blood become the bait instead of himself.
——)
The Laughing Angels who were walking towards the light fell into the trap and chased after his piece of flesh, while he quickly escaped from the corridor.
It took him 4 minutes to go back and forth, but the good news is that he really killed most of the Laughing Angels, and he is worthy of the title of Leeroy.
"I don't know how it is outside... without the interference of the Laughing Angels, I hope they can be more effective!"
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X May 10, 2023, 3:40, Exit of "Obsession Sculpture Corridor" in the lobby of the Art Building.
Lin Yi rushed out dragging his bloody arm. In order to prevent his own pollution from attracting the attention of more obsessive sculptures and the Laughing Angel, he suppressed the sky-blue aura in his body so that the flesh and blood on his arm would not regenerate immediately.
He took a look at the current state of the art student hall. All the smiling angels in the hall had been seduced into the "Obsession Sculpture Corridor." The art students were already able to cope with this crisis.
"It's time to withdraw..."
Lin Yi settled on his idea and quickly started walking while dragging his arm that was still leaking thick blood. This was the result of self-suppression, but even so, the blood scabbed directly after it seeped out.
Watching Lin Yi dragging his "seriously injured body" out of the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, some art students who happened to be facing the Obsession Sculpture Corridor opened their mouths as if they had seen a ghost.
The Obsession Sculpture Corridor is one of the restricted areas in the Art Building, unlike the gallery. After being attacked by the Laughing Angel, you can follow the "Art Student Code" and run to the gallery. The Obsession Sculpture Corridor is not mentioned in the "Art Student Code", nor in the "Art Building Code".
Hence, no mention was made of it. Even the wooden road sign did not indicate its direction, as if it was intentionally hidden.
But the "boarder" not only went in but also escaped. How could this not shock them?
After escaping, Lin Yi glanced at his watch and after confirming the time, he also felt the eyes of several art students. He looked at them without saying much, just nodded to them, and then ran towards the exit of the art building hall.
Looking at Lin Yi's back, the art student's heart was still full of shock, but he said nothing and quickly adjusted himself to cover the wound on the dome window.
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The process of escaping from the art building lobby was very smooth, almost no different from what Lin Yi predicted.
However, as we got closer to the exit, the majestic water vapor began to mix with the strong wind and sweep over.
Lin Yi remembered that there was an invisible cover on the outside of the art building.
That cover is the field formed when the air waves of the "Temple" are pushed forward. The existence of this field means that the Laughing Angel can only break through to the art building area by force, or enter through this entrance.
Now that the dome of the art building hall is broken, many Laughing Angels chose to break through directly from there, and some invaded directly from the outside towards the bell tower. On the contrary, there were very few Laughing Angels who walked through the main entrance.
But Lin Yi was not thinking about this issue, but the water vapor that filled the corridor.
This water vapor is naturally formed after a storm is torn apart by strong winds.
In the Art Building layer, there are actually two sources of strong wind.
One is the power formed after the air wave of the "Temple" is embodied. This air wave hits all nocturnal species almost indiscriminately. The closer to the bell tower, the greater the lethality. Those black sticky glue-like nocturnal species clinging to the outer wall of the art building were directly annihilated by the air wave.
The other type originates from the storms blowing from the black sky and ocean outside the art building area. They tear the waves and heavy rain into countless water vapor, and then allow them to penetrate into every corner of the art building area along with the gray fog.
The second kind of storm is undoubtedly the one that is most encountered in the art building hall with its broken dome.
In addition, the wind pressure in the duct effect also comes from this.
But when Lin Yi came, the storm would have been blocked by the cover, but now it had penetrated into the entrance corridor.
"The territory of the 'Temple' has become weaker?" Lin Yi felt bad.
There are two possibilities for the weakening of the "Temple" field. One is that something happened to the "Temple", and the other is that something happened to the Night Watchman "02".
In the current situation, there is a high probability that Night Watchman "02" needs to mobilize more power from "Temple" to fight against "Angel". When the power is concentrated, the power at the edge of the diffusion will obviously become weaker.
Of course, this is Lin Yi's conjecture, and it is also the best situation among all emergencies.
While there was no Smiling Angel here, Lin Yi tore off the blood scab on his arm. The sky-blue breath quickly regenerated the flesh and blood, and the muscle fibers were woven out bit by bit like nanomaterials and covered his arm.
The whole process was itchy, and he could clearly feel the regeneration of each muscle fiber, but the texture of the muscle fibers did not seem like a flesh and blood body...
"Did my arm also start to transform into a "golden body"?"
Muscle golden body?
Why does this title have an indescribable weird meaning, like a certain muscular golden wheel in Wuhu?
his arm quickly returned to its original state, and then he walked towards the exit of the Art Building against the mist and moisture in the corridor.
【fan……Tome…… fRa…… for……RidEn……】
Just as he was about to walk out of the art building, the strange call sounded in his ears. He ignored it and rushed out of the art building door.
At the moment when Lin Yi rushed out of the art building, it was as if he had gotten out of the cabin and reached the deck. Oncoming were raindrops as big as soybeans and dense, and in his ears was the sound of wind howling like a ghost crying and a wolf howling.
The storm and rain blew so hard that he could hardly open his eyes. The gray fog and storm had enveloped the entire world, and the visibility was horribly low. He could only see a small part of the stone bridge behind the stone vault and could no longer see the situation behind it.
The stone bridge was hidden in the depths of the fog, and only a whirling shadow was left on the observation deck at the end. Lin Yi could not even distinguish it from the shadow produced by the overlapping fog.
A bolt of thunder tore through the night sky, and pure white light illuminated the world. The art building was pale, but behind the fog of the stone bridge, it still looked hazy, only making the shadow of the observation tower more solid.
But in that brief flash of white world, an afterimage caught Lin Yi's attention.
He lowered his head and looked at his feet - on the slate floor at that location, there was a pattern. This was originally a pattern on a window in the Art Building. It was projected onto the ground after being illuminated by the candlelight in the room. However, at this moment, the pattern seemed to come alive and actually emitted some floating light.
But it is obviously just projected, but it can still shine like a light source?
"Wait, this is it!"
Lin Yi looked at his watch. The time at the moment was 3:42, but his focus was not on the watch, but on the textures and patterns on the dial...
He suddenly discovered that the texture on his watch was, at a certain moment, very similar to the pattern on the ground in front of him, except that the pattern in front of him was many times more complicated and had countless details.
That pattern... looked like a totem or secret pattern that needed to be arranged for some ancient ritual. It also looked like an extremely complex star map in the dark, but now to Lin Yi, it looked like... a dial.
Just when Lin Yi stopped, there were scattered sounds all around. Those purebred nocturnal species of the lowest level, which had not been able to break through the shield of the art building so far, were sneaking close to Lin Yi in the dark corners, afraid of light but walking towards the light, fearful and unscrupulous.
Lin Yi shook his head, raised his foot and crossed the pattern, walking towards the stone vault and stone bridge.
Under the fog, outside the main area of the art building, there is no protection from the "sacred church". All he can rely on is his identity as the dormitory manager and the old kerosene lamp in his hand.
When passing the stone vault, Lin Yi discovered that the secret patterns and hieroglyphs carved on the vault were all shining with a dark light. These lights were weak and dim, like the light of fireflies on a summer night. They were the precepts imprinted on the Black Moon Outpost by the "original apostles" countless years ago. They spanned a long time and were still guarding the world.
Time seemed to become concrete at this moment, and Lin Yi had the idea to touch those patterns in his heart, not to admire or pay tribute, but a very pure... desire for contact.
He didn't know where such an idea came from, it was like some kind of instinctive desire.
But he still suppressed this feeling, and then came to the stone bridge.
At the starting point of the stone bridge, he could finally vaguely see the lighthouse on the observation deck. Under the storm and the forest-white fog, the light of the searchlight flickered like an anti-aircraft gun.
Lin Yi took a deep breath, pulled off his torn school uniform and backpack, and walked onto the stone bridge.
Today's stone bridge, some of the candles on the candlesticks on both sides have been completely extinguished. They are like small animals trapped in the snow. After all, they could not survive the long cold night.
The stone bridge is now filled with purebred nocturnal species. They are huddled together like a group of mice, squirming among each other. That kind of shape makes people feel sick and nauseated.
Not only the stone bridge, but also the bridge and the pillars were covered with nocturnal species. The terrifying number was like a tide. If it poured into the campus, it would be enough to submerge the campus.
Lin Yi carried the old kerosene lamp and moved forward slowly. Wherever the bright boundary reached, the pure nocturnal species would run away, not daring to infringe on the boundary of the light.
After they dodged, they pushed other pure night creatures, causing some units that could not grasp the bridge to fall into the sea.
The cold breath penetrated Lin Yi's flesh, but this time it could not make him feel any tingling sensation. His body experienced the baptism of the "Temple", to a certain extent, it was like Logan who had Adamantium injected into his bones. It was a "hard bone" that could be regenerated by the flesh.
In the mist, the Laughing Angels were wandering around, but few of them attacked Lin Yi. Logically speaking, the pure nocturnal species was afraid of the light of the old kerosene lamp, so it was right not to attack Lin Yi, but why didn't the Laughing Angels pounce on him?
Lin Yi quickly found out the reason - all the laughing angels wandering around the stone bridge are all angels carrying lanterns, and some are holding hourglasses. In terms of the depth of pollution, they are all the kind of dormitory caretakers who can still be saved, and they are also the first-level laughing angels who are afraid of the light of old kerosene lamps.
As for those high-ranking Laughing Angels, they must have invaded the Art Building or the Bell Tower at this moment.
The sound of the waves came one after another, constantly hitting the reefs and the pillars of the stone bridge. The terrifying vibrations were even transmitted to the soles of Lin Yi's feet, allowing him to faintly feel the pulse of the black sea through such vibrations.
As we continued to go deeper, the stone bridge behind Lin Yi was also shrouded in fog. The area of the old kerosene lamp was very limited. It was difficult to break through the fog, casting a narrow field.
The salty sea breeze gradually mixed with some rancid smell, and the weird humming sound began to sound, like an evil priest holding a secret book and singing a song:
"I... AvgruNnen av... tKe og mrke... jaGer... forTa...pte Sjeler fanTome..."
With the sound of whispers, the stone bridge that had always remained motionless began to vibrate slightly, as if something was climbing up the pillars.
A strange wave surged like ripples, pushing through Lin Yi's body, followed by a desolate aura that was different from the weird and cold feeling, slowly seeping into the storm, shrouding Lin Yi in it...
"I AvgruNnen av tKe og... mrke jaGer... for... Tapte Sjeler... fanTome..."
The song was getting closer and louder. Suddenly, in the mist, there was a huge shadow rising from the black tide, standing like a giant around the stone bridge, like two rows of mountains.
Immediately afterwards, a terrifying pressure that seemed like the sky and the earth were splitting and the sky falling slowly came down, pressing heavily on Lin Yi's body, making his spine unsteady.
The fog seemed to be pushed aside by an invisible force, and the terrifying shapes on both sides of the stone bridge were slowly revealed...
(End of this chapter)