Chapter 398 Arrival at the Library
It was past 4 o'clock on the campus, and the elevator entrance of the teaching building was dark. When there was no light, the puppet students appeared in the state of sculptures.
When the light of the old kerosene lamp fell on them, their light-facing surfaces emitted white smoke as if they were placed on a barbecue grill, and transformed into the puppet classmates. However, perhaps the light of the old kerosene lamp was too strong for them, and their somewhat "corporeal" bodies immediately began to shake off many white powder particles.
At the same time, the dummy sculptures all made low low sounds like cows, instinctively covering their eyes with their hands, as if hoping not to be shined.
They pushed back, but were pushed back by the unknown puppet sculptures behind them. After a few breaths, they turned into sculptures without any breath.
The light spread out, and the dummy sculptures around the elevator were directly killed.
Lin Yi suddenly remembered that when he was in the dream, he had used Mao Zi's perspective to see the puppet sculptures coming out of the classroom one after another around 4 o'clock in the morning, and then lining up along the corridor towards the stairwell. Now when he looked again, he saw that they were actually running to take the elevator!
"Wait...4 o'clock!"
【Be sure to take the elevator and leave the art building before 4:00, otherwise you will have to wait until the next day. 】
Lao Mo's words also appeared in his mind.
4 o'clock, does this time point correspond to the puppet sculpture leaving the teaching building?
Lin Yi initially thought that the puppet sculptures would leave the campus through the green forest and pursue the art building, but now it seems that they will leave collectively through the elevator at 4 o'clock, and only when they cannot leave, will they choose to escape to the green forest.
"Is this the reason why you don't take the elevator after 4 o'clock?"
"Or... are there more other reasons?"
If it was just for this reason, then he could just get out of the elevator in the teaching building. Why did Lao Mo specifically emphasize that he must go to the library?
Isn’t this the normal “layer” of the campus?
He seemed to have guessed some reasons.
After all, if it is just a puppet sculpture, then he will be fine as long as he has an old kerosene lamp. Even without the old kerosene lamp, with his physical strength, just like Mu Daxian and Maozi parkour in the teaching building, he can still use up until the sun comes out at six o'clock.
"Is it... related to that conceptual sculpture?"
It seemed that there was a connection between the two minds. Just when Lin Yi thought about this, a strange light came from the unknown void, exuding a supernatural feeling. The colorful colors that are beyond ordinary people's cognition are so gorgeous that it makes people feel fascinated...
Somewhere in the teaching building, a floating light group that was wandering irregularly suddenly felt something, and then floated towards Building B of the teaching building.
There was a vague figure inside the ball of light. Lin Yi could only detect the outline of a "person" with his perception. Other than that, it was nothingness. But outside its outline, there seemed to be some familiar aura floating around - "ashes" to Lin Yi.
"It's...a conceptual sculpture!!"
Sensing the approach of the conceptual sculpture, Lin Yi used his muscle memory to touch the button panel and frantically pressed the only button - the "↓" key.
Finally, when the hazy ball of light was about to appear in front of the elevator, the elevator trembled slightly, and then closed with a series of "clang" sounds.
The elevator started slowly.
Sensing the departure of the elevator, Lin Yi breathed a long sigh of relief and sat limply on the ground.
He hadn't had this feeling of life and death at an extremely fast pace for a long time, and he was sweating profusely.
The sense of oppression given to him by the conceptual sculpture did not decrease at all because of his deepening of knowledge. On the contrary, after he came back from the art building, his understanding of the conceptual sculpture also deepened because his understanding had deepened.
Its terror is introverted. The ball of light and the colorful colors are just its self-protection. It lurks in the campus and seems to have an unknown purpose.
"Wait a minute..." Lin Yi was suddenly startled, "That ball of light... is a conceptual sculpture?"
"Doesn't that mean that Mu Daxian was so enthusiastic back then that he wanted to take a look even if he died, and it was this conceptual sculpture?"
"Then..." Lin Yi rested and thought quickly. "The person who expelled the concept-level sculpture is the so-called canteen owner who returned after disappearing...?"
Everything seems to be on point!
But Lin Yi always felt that there seemed to be something missing.
The owner of the canteen seemed to have returned in the early morning of May 8th, but this conceptual sculpture was already wandering around the campus on the evening of May 6th...
That’s right!
It is "ashes"!
This conceptual sculpture is stained with "ashes"!
And "Ashes"...that's something only "angels" have!
"It's because "Ashes" belongs to "angels", so the teacher at the time thought it was an "angel"!"
It can be seen that class teacher-039 must have established relevant cognition when receiving official training. It is because of this that she can confirm the other party's "identity".
"Then here's the problem... The teacher said that she was also fighting on the night of the 6th, and the conceptual sculpture entered the classroom because she didn't stop her..."
"She is How could you stop it? "
It's not that Lin Yi looked down on the head teacher-039, but the owner of the canteen only expelled it. How could he do it with the power of a "head teacher"?
Furthermore, it seems that the security also took it out of the classroom...?
Lin Yi was a little confused. The combat power of this concept-level sculpture seemed to be a mystery. Could it be an anti-Sha Monk?
"Perhaps it is not reflected in the visual performance of combat power... maybe it is the pollution it carries, which is very high-level?"
This is possible, after all, it is "Ashes", and the boss will drink a pot when he comes, let alone others.
Looking at it this way, Homeroom Teacher-039 is most likely contaminated by ashes, and the food delivered from the canteen is not the root cause.
The elevator continued to run, and Lin Yi continued to think.
He thought that maybe the existence of that conceptual sculpture was the reason why Lao Mo didn't want him to appear in the teaching building.
That thing is much more difficult to deal with than the Laughing Angel. If you are targeted by it, shouting warnings with vibranium mouth until you are dumb may not be of any use.
The female hostess looked at the elevator door with lingering fear, patted her chest gently, and exhaled: "It scares me to death... It's so scary every time... The teaching building is so dangerous at night..."
She glanced at Lin Yi secretly, and found that Lin Yi was also sweating, and he was much more mentally balanced.
“That ball of light, didn’t you see it?” Lin Yi asked.
The face of the female dormitory manager changed: "Senior...you, you just looked outside?"
"Gah...?" Lin Yi was startled, secretly thinking something was wrong, there seems to be some explanation, could it be that the "Resident Rules" stipulates that you need to do this when staying in the teaching building, and then you are not allowed to look outside?
In order to protect cognition, it is entirely possible.
But the supervisor is like that, do we still need to protect our cognition?
Lin Yi thought briefly, and then spoke: "Be patient. My senior told me that after I understand the underlying logic of the code, I can be flexible to a certain extent. You haven't reached this level yet, and you still need to work hard!"
"Ouch..." The female dormitory opened her mouth, and then whispered, "I don't want to be a dormitory, I must leave the campus..."
"Come on, you can definitely do it." Lin Yidao.
The female dormitory pursed her lips and said nothing, okay? She actually already knew something about it, but she was just not willing to accept it.
There was silence for a while, and the elevator began to slow down again.
When the elevator came to a stop, Lin Yi quickly locked his eyes on the floor panel and gradually became nervous.
Don’t let anything happen again...
"Ding!"
"The library is here!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out the name badge of the dormitory manager from his trouser pocket and threw it away. At the same time, he grabbed his student ID card in his hand, and grabbed his face with the other hand. The sky blue aura surged in his hand, and it quickly evaporated, turning his appearance into a milky white gelatinous substance that wrote "dormitory supervisor-0X0221119003".
"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098. I took the elevator to the library..."
"I am Lin Yi, my student number is..."
He re-anchored his identity in his mind over and over again. The gelatin on his face quickly petrified, then turned into powder and shook it off, as if rubbing a large amount of dead skin off his face.
And his appearance also returned to his own appearance.
He knew that time was short, so he wiped it quickly.
The female hostess was frightened by Lin Yi's actions. She looked at this senior who suddenly behaved strangely in horror. As soon as the elevator door opened, she quickly led the boy out of the elevator.
Lin Yi wiped it for a while, until the elevator began to close. Regardless of the fact that he still had some white gelatin that had not yet been removed, he quickly threw the old kerosene lamp into the corner of the elevator, and then rushed out with a diving jump holding his backpack.
As soon as I rushed out, the elevator door closed.
Lin Yi glanced at the elevator behind him and saw the sign on the side of the elevator saying: "Library-Prohibited-056"
He stared at the word "forbidden", frowning thoughtfully.
He got up from the ground, then took off the pair of worn sneakers with holes in his toes, took out the clean pair of sneakers from his backpack and put them on.
This pair of sneakers was something Wei Liang specially asked him to put in on the morning of the 9th. Unexpectedly, they finally came in handy at this time.
"Hey!" Lin Yi was pleasantly surprised and almost forgot that there was food and water in this schoolbag.
He quickly took out a roll of bread and a bottle of water, then put the bag on his back, and also moved the bag of Lao Mo that had been placed on his chest before.
While eating, he looked at the environment of the library.
However, he just glanced out and his whole body stood still in shock.
"This... is this the technology that should be available in this era?!"
What Lin Yi faces now is a science fiction creation that far exceeds his understanding of existing technology!
This is a building that can only be seen in science fiction movies, very similar to the one the male protagonist saw at the end of "Interstellar" when he returned to the Murphy Space Station.
What appeared in front of him was a huge curved building, with countless bookshelves growing like hair on the curved surface. They were subjected to gravitational forces of different dimensions but all perpendicular to the ground below them.
He is like an ant entering the interior of a huge sphere covered with bookshelves. If he keeps walking along the straight line in front, he can reach the bookshelf area above his head!
On this curved surface, no, spherical building, there are still many circular holes. Through the holes, Lin Yi saw the world on the lower level. The lower level... turned out to be similar to this level.
And in that hollow, there is actually... a staircase!
At this moment, the long-lost content of the "Student Code of Conduct" appeared in his mind:
[You can only take the stairs to go up and down the teaching building, and you can only take the elevator in the library. If you see an elevator in the teaching building or stairs in the library, please pretend you haven't seen it, even if you see classmates using them. 】
【When a classmate invites you to take the elevator in the teaching building, or advises you to take the stairs in the library, please ignore them and stay away from them immediately. They are not your classmates. 】
In the "Student Code of Conduct", the overview of the library is as simple as "the library can only take the elevator", but I didn't expect that the library would be like this!
He suddenly felt that the student code was more reasonable than ever before. However, when reflected on the actual situation, the simple sentence turned out to be so absurd and weird.
Who would have thought that the floors of this library are actually in the shape of concentric circles, one layer inside another?
This is simply an ivory multi-layered carved ball set!
What’s outrageous is that in this “ivory multi-layered carved ball set”, the gravity distribution of each one is so uniform and incredible.
This is not the level of technology that X023 should have at all!
Lin Yi had already felt a little outrageous when he saw the exoskeleton armor before, but now when he saw this library, he suddenly felt that the exoskeleton armor was just childish.
"This... how on earth was this built?"
Lin Yi was shocked and dumbfounded, but compared to the strange scene that occupied his heart when he saw the art building, he was more shocked now, as if he had traveled through a science fiction movie.
There is no fear, and there is no collapse of cognition. Perhaps boys' romance with science fiction dilutes the weirdness caused by irrationality?
Lin Yi didn't know, but at least he didn't feel weird.
At this moment, an exclamation interrupted his initial recognition and observation of the library's environment.
(End of this chapter)