Chapter 403 The Fanatic and the Female Dormitory
Gradually, a strange music came from the depths of the mist. The sound was like a song coming from the other side of the sea, or like some fragments drifting from the depths of distant memory.
He walked involuntarily in the direction of the music, with a confused expectation in every step.
The music seemed to be a thread, pulling him deeper and deeper into the edge of this dream.
His eyes began to become hollow, and the originally shining expectation was gradually replaced by a kind of numbness.
He saw broken pictures opening and closing in front of his eyes. They were not his memories, nor the memories of "Dream Builder-HX-S-023". They seemed to be fragments of the painful experiences of some sinking people, and those painful experiences turned into some kind of visual memories, like raging tides in the boundary where matter and time were lost, hitting him wave after wave, drowning him in the abyss of despair.
He saw diseases, terror, weirdness, and even some evil things that could not be described in words sneak into the world of life like ghosts, swallowing up the original fresh power bit by bit...
Then the world began to decay, and its functions were like aging machines that gradually stopped running...
His breathing became heavier unconsciously, as if he was also experiencing the painful process of death in this life.
He could feel the heat of life slowly disappearing, and his consciousness was gradually shrouded in darkness, just like the last ray of light at sunset being mercilessly swallowed by the night...
At the boundary of this dream, he witnessed the cold face of death. Death is no longer an abstract concept, but a kind of silence, an end, the disappearance of all sounds and colors...
"I tried to wake myself up, tried to tell myself that this was just a dream, But my consciousness seemed to be trapped in a strong cage, which I could not break through no matter how hard I struggled..."
"I shouted loudly, but my voice was swallowed up by the endless fog, without a trace of echo..."
"My body began to become heavier and heavier..."
"The moment I was about to collapse completely, I saw a faint light. The light was like a beacon in the darkness. I used all my strength to crawl towards the light, and my fingers dug out traces on the illusory ground... However, the light was always aloof, as if it was deliberately teasing me..."
..."
He was immersed in this despair, but At the end of despair, he seemed to see a new ray of light, which rose from the ruins of death, like the rekindled embers of the soul...
That brilliance, like the afterglow of the sun, the ashes of angels, lingered in the blurred boundary between life and death at the border of the dream, like ice flowers that bloomed and withered, gorgeous but weird...
"'Ashes'...?!"
“At the border of dreams, there are countless withered ‘ashes’!”
Ashes are like dust, floating in the chaotic void, like eternal flowers that only fall in dreams.
Lin Yi continued to sink, the surrounding mist began to pour into his mouth and nose, and his breathing became difficult. He felt that his soul was being pulled away from the dream, and his consciousness became more and more blurred...
"Dream Builder-HX -S-023"'s consciousness collapsed, but Lin Yi's didn't. He felt like he was leaving...
"On the edge of the infinite dream, I constantly feel the reincarnation evolution of "life" and "death"... My reason has become chaotic and unclear, and I feel like I am being abandoned by the world..."
"I seem to have traveled through unspeakable dimensions of space, until limited matter seems to have turned into infinity, and infinite time has become a visual fragment..."
"No...everything has lost its form, matter and time have stopped evolving, and only infinite chaos is left..."
"There seems to be some kind of murmuring sound in the chaos..."
"It's an aria. …”
ˆ “It’s the spirit of speech...”
ˆ “Or it’s just the snoring sound of some terrifying existence sleeping at the edge of the dream world...”
——"Moon-III" survey team, Gu Fangqing, "Dream Builder-HX-S-023"
March 5, 2002"
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May 10, 2023, 4:42, on the first floor of the library, in the [Dreamology (Drmmelre)] sector.
Lin Yi leaned against an old bookshelf, holding a book in his hand and turning the pages dully. The gentle light fell on him through the glass of the lampshade, making him look like a sculpture from a distance.
The words in the book seemed to float with a misty light under such light, as if they had more meaning due to Lin Yi's caressing and flipping through them. The words were like symbols, rising and falling in the floating light, as if opening the entrance to another world.
As time goes by, the phantom in the floating light gradually takes on a terrifying color, and the portal of that world looks more and more like a whirlpool connecting to the abyss...
While Lin Yi was fascinated by the book, he didn't notice at all that some strange figures had gathered around him.
They stood upright like tombstones, surrounding Lin Yi. Some of their eyes were full of fanaticism, and some were empty and lifeless. But no matter which type they were, the corners of their mouths were very big, not as terrifying as the grin reaching to the ears, but still very abnormal.
They are very similar to the puppet sculptures, but the difference is that they wear dark green and somewhat shabby clothes.
That is the dress of an art student.
But they are not art students.
They are art students who have become fanatical believers.
They looked at Lin Yi at this moment, not as if they were looking at a person, but as if they were looking at an artifact or a work of art.
“What a perfect light…born in the soul…”
"The living light..."
"This is the real...'Creation'!!!"
"Too perfect..."
A fanatic believer approached Lin Yi and took a deep breath, as if he had inhaled some kind of stimulating breath, his eyebrows relaxed, and his face was full of joy.
"Everyone has their share, let's eat and drink. No one knows what happened!"
"No! You can't eat here!"
"There will be a lot of noise...it will attract the attention of the administrator!"
"Administrator...?! Yes! Administrator! Administrator!"
The mental state of fanatic believers fluctuates greatly, and some rational communication is only possible after they suppress themselves.
And these fanatic believers are different from those that Lin Yi saw in the green forest belt. Compared with those fanatic believers, the ones in the library now seem to be abnormal...
Maybe they have been cursed by knowledge, or maybe they have sunk in the ocean of knowledge and capsized...
At the mention of "Librarian", the ferocious-looking fanatic believers around him all calmed down and seemed extremely fearful.
"Can't be discovered by the administrator... otherwise the delicious food you get will become a new administrator!!"
"Not only will it be noticed by the administrator, but also by the guys at the top!"
"Can't give them a chance!"
"He can only be eaten by us! Or..."
"Why don't we let him join the ranks of our "Glorious Evolution"! "
"No, eat him! Eat him!"
The fanatical believers quarreled like a flock of sparrows, and different opinions began to divide, merge, divide, and merge again...
"Head, torso... delicious pancreas... heart... blood... I want them all!"
When he is completely sunken, we will introduce him to a dark area and eat him! "
"Yes! Share and eat him!"
They seem to be drooling, and their smelly breath looks like they have been gargling with seawater soaked in dead fish and shrimps every day.
But at this moment, a figure carrying an old kerosene lamp slowly walked out from behind the bookshelf.
The female dormitory manager is here.
The appearance of old kerosene lamps burned the eyes of fanatics like dazzling sunlight, but it did not seem to cause any special damage to them.
The fanatical believers narrowed their eyes and spread out in fear.
"'Housekeeper'?" Some fanatical believers identified the identity of the female boarder.
"You shouldn't be here...Housemaster! You shouldn't!"
"Get out! Get away!"
The female dormitory seemed not to see them, or she simply abided by the "Library Rules" and chose to ignore them. She held up an old kerosene lamp and scanned the books on the shelf bit by bit, but did not take off any of them.
Finally, she broke through the crowd of fanatical believers who were dispersed by the light of the old kerosene lamp and came to Lin Yi's side.
She stopped next to Lin Yi, gently lowered the old kerosene lamp, letting its light envelope both herself and Lin Yi, and then pretended to read the title on the book cover on the bookshelf.
"We remember you... one day you no longer have the status of "House Manager", we won't even give you the chance of "Glorious Evolution"! "One of the fanatics issued a threat.
The female dormitory did not respond to him, her slender pale fingers lightly brushed a certain book on the bookshelf, and she murmured something in a strange foreign language that seemed to be in the title of the book, but the pronunciation sounded like:
The fanatical believers slowly retreated behind the bookshelf, their vicious, resentful and longing eyes constantly wandering between her and Lin Yi, reluctant to let go, but not daring to act rashly.
They are not as afraid of old kerosene lamps as nocturnal species and pseudo-human sculptures, but their lack of fear does not mean that old kerosene lamps will not harm them.
A blazing fire will not hurt you as long as you don’t touch it.
"Wait for the buzzer!" the fanatics communicated in a low voice.
We can eat him before he wakes up!"
"How can it be so easy to escape from the dream book?"
"Okay! Okay!"
"If you bear with it longer...it's all ours! Bear with it longer!!"
"If that doesn't work, let's go to the upper floor and call for help!"
"Get out! We can't go to the upper floor!!"
"If we call, we can only drink soup!!" br/>
"Seeing those bastards on the upper floor eating too much is more uncomfortable than me not being able to drink!!"
"Wait! Just wait for me!"
The fanatic believers were chattering and arguing, but a few still shrank and left the Dreamlandology sector.
"Damn traitor!!"
The fanatic believer cursed the guy who went to move the reinforcements, extremely fiercely, but did not stop him.
Because Lin Yi woke up.
Lin Yi closed the book.
――"Moon-III" survey team, Gu Fangqing, "Dream Builder-HX-S-023", March 5, X002..."
He was recollecting those last words in his heart.
"Gu Fangqing..."Dream Builder-HX-S-023"..."
"March 5, X002..."
"March 5, X002..." He muttered to himself, turned his head, and suddenly found a leg on the side.
He was startled, almost thinking that there was a sculpture standing there, but he immediately realized that it was not the texture of a sculpture.
After all, the texture is somewhat flexible. Wearing those stockings, there is a special sensuality under the light of the old kerosene lamp.
Just when he subconsciously wanted to test the authenticity of this leg.
"Don't even think about touching my legs, you perverted exhibitionist!"
A sentence floated above his head, and the familiar voice instantly cheered him up, who had not yet come out of the book "Dream Border: The Cycle of Life and Death".
Lin Yi's hands moved his legs like lightning, touched the bookshelf compartment next to his legs, and then stood up holding the bookshelf...
Lin Yi looked at his eyes, nose, arms and mind: "What are you talking about? I just stood up by holding on to the bookshelf."
Having said that, I still felt a little guilty...
“You know better than me whether you should support the bookshelf or the legs.” The female dormitory sneered.
Lin Yi's face remained unchanged and he silently put "Dream Border: The Cycle of Life and Death" back on the bookshelf.
"Hold the bookshelf."
"Tough talk!"
"Don't think that every man can't resist stockings, I am a gentleman."
The female dormitory gave him a look. , with a look of disdain on his face: "A gentleman wouldn't run around in the middle of the night, and he wouldn't even be able to distinguish the bare socks I'm wearing. It's strange that LSP can't distinguish this kind of light."
I never thought that one day he would lose due to lack of detail!
“I would like to emphasize again, running away is not my original intention. If you knew what I went through, you would be surprised that I am still ‘just’ running away now.” Lin Yi said seriously.
"You have also experienced more perverted... ah no, more extreme things?" The female dormitory opened her mouth wide, and her eyes changed when she looked at Lin Yi.
Lin Yixin said something bad. He had only seen such a look in Liangzi's eyes when he was looking at H and thinking about it.
This is because he met a heroine...
He silently swept up the book next to him, trying to see if he could read something before the red light came on.
He suddenly thought of something and looked down at his watch.
4:46.
The book just now...he read it for more than ten minutes.
The book was actually quite thick, and what he was reading was actually the dream-building narrative of the "Dream Builder-HX-S-023". Being immersed in the situation, it was normal to read it for more than ten minutes. After that, there were some academic, systematic, and professional things, and he had no time to read it carefully.
"You still want to find books?" The hostess stopped him.
(End of this chapter)