Chapter 501 "The Faceless Crime"
"'Abyss Walker'...'Walker'..."
Lin Yi's eyes fell on the last signature, looking at the crossed out and twisted words "Abyss Walker", thoughtfully...
"August X2000..."
In Lin Yi's memory, this is a sensitive time point, a millennium, of great significance... and the content of this book is also at this time point.
The collision between the two periods gave him an unprecedented sense of absurdity and conflict.
Such a strong sense of conflict is like sitting in a shop window eating a candlelight dinner and seeing through the glass a homeless man huddled on a dark street corner. Two completely different worlds, with stories simultaneously presented on both sides of the transparent glass...
"If I am not crazy, then the world is crazy..."
Lin Yi gritted his teeth and began to feel a little shaken by the world he was in.
Why doesn’t everyone around me remember the “normal” world—except Ryoko and her roommates?
Why do both the boss and Li Huiyuan, or these books, vaguely indicate that the world view is related to the mysterious side?
Could my wrong memory be related to this?
99 years……
That's it...99 years!
The turning point of everything seems to be 1999!
After the incident in 1999, everything changed!
In my impression, Lin Yi's understanding of the world seems to have become different from what is recorded in the book since 1999!
Think about it carefully, why does he feel like he has been on an abnormal timeline since 1999?
No, that’s not right, it should be exactly the opposite!
Why does the whole world seem to be on an abnormal timeline after 1999? And he was like a remnant soul, entangled in a timeline that no one else knew about!
What is going on?
If the whole world is different from what he knows, then what's the point of escaping from the campus?
That’s not right!
Before he came to campus, wasn't it a normal world outside? !
Mr. Tian and the others are all normal, and Liangzi is also normal... No... wait, it seems, it seems... in the whole bus, they are the only ones who are normal? !
The other people in that car were all taken directly to the Art Building like Zhang Lingzhen!
Zhang Lingzhen also knows the anomalies in the world!
No, it shouldn’t be expressed that way. It should be said that the world in Zhang Lingzhen’s cognition and the world in Li Huiyuan’s cognition seem to be the same, but they seem to be different from the world in his cognition!
what is going on?
What the hell is going on? !
Lin Yi felt that his mind was suddenly confused, and his breathing began to become heavy...
At this moment, the sound of laughter sounded in his ears, and the broken sculptures came to him hanging upside down, and the broken faces with weird smiles were swinging around him.
【Lin Yi, Lin Yi...】
【Lin Yi, ah, Lin Yi...where are you going...】
Some of them were laughing, some were humming evil nursery rhymes, and some were just laughing around Lin Yi without doing anything.
Countless sounds surrounded Lin Yi's ears from far and near, piercing into his brain like venomous snakes, making his breathing become faster...
"咒咒咒...咒咒咒..."
His throat rolled slightly, hot breath began to spit out from the gaps between his teeth, and his whole body began to breathe out like a beast.
He leaned his back against the bookshelf and slowly slid to a squatting position on the ground.
ceddie ceddie ceddie weapons Pretend |
With the appearance of those pictures, he felt that his will was clearer than ever, but his thinking was more confused than ever.
He could completely see the pictures - the pictures were all things he had never seen before, but the pictures were blurry and the sound was completely inaudible. It was as if someone had been put into a completely soundproof place and then performed a show for him through the transparent glass of the box.
But forget it, there is a large amount of foggy water vapor attached to the transparent glass, which makes the picture completely unclear.
Such a scene that cannot be seen or heard clearly, it is better not to know about it!
But the weird thing was that he couldn't touch the scene, but the laughter of the broken sculpture kept getting into his head.
"It's so noisy... it's so noisy!"
Lin Yi reached out and hit his head, rubbing his hair constantly, trying to scare away the broken sculptures, but his embarrassment only made the broken sculptures more excited.
【That's it...that's it...】
【You said you were going to take us away...】
【You forgot... Have you forgotten? 】
kovdie !
He seemed to have remembered something, but he couldn't think of anything clearly.
His mouth began to make slight collisions, and certain syllables seemed to come out of his throat.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came over again -
"Old Lin!"
Lin Yi was startled slightly.
This is Wei Liang's voice.
When he heard Wei Liang's call, the sound of the broken sculpture naturally faded a lot.
"Old Lin!"
Wei Liang's voice sounded again.
"What's wrong?" Lin Yi responded in the bookshelf area.
Oddly enough, the faint aura that was originally entangled around him dissipated at this moment, as if it had never existed at all, and Lin Yi also became normal in an instant, as if the weird state before had died yesterday.
"Help me get another comic! "Hokkaido's 26-year-old Female Tenant" by Hojo Kotaka!" Wei Liang's shameless voice echoed in the classroom.
Hōjo Kotaka... Lin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth. It is said that the "Eagle Group" in his childhood has two divine hands. One is Kato-san who claims to be able to help people bless "moisture", and the other is the famous fast penman Hojo-san who claims to draw a chapter in three days.
Liangzi really has a wide range of interests...
"I know, I know!" Lin Yi responded speechlessly, but as soon as he said the words, he suddenly realized. Did Liangzi kill two birds with one stone, waking him up in time and letting him find comics for him?
Although, he himself is about to pull himself back to the normal layer.
Lin Yi thought about it for a moment and looked at the place where the figure appeared just now, thoughtfully.
· Traveler...
· Year X000...
· He thought of the book he saw in the library, the book written by "Dream Builder-HX-S-023".
"Speaking of which, there does seem to be some connection..."
The Dream Builders went to the "Black Moon Outpost" in 1999, while the Travelers went to the "Black Moon Outpost" in 2000, which was only one year apart. However, judging from the Travelers' records, it seems that the Northern Alliance did not allow China's intervention at the beginning. They should have almost completed the investigation, or evacuated after the investigation failed, before allowing China's intervention.
It’s no wonder that there is not a single “foreigner” on the floor of the Art Building today.
The traveler died behind the arch, but he saw several similar figures, heard the ringing of bells, and saw the flames. Coupled with the information about the "Night Watch" he recorded later, Lin Yi speculated that the figures the traveler saw behind the arch were the night watchmen in charge of the giant quantum clock "Temple", the ancient blue lantern "Mingzhao" and the time compass "Time Zero".
It can be seen that in the year 2000, the night watchman who holds the compass of time has not yet fallen.
Lin Yi thought for a while, put the book back on the bookshelf, and then turned around and walked to other areas.
But after he left, "Echoes of the Black Mist" on the bookshelf quickly dimmed, turning into a stone-like tile.
And Jin Jiuyao came here somehow. He groped around here and finally found "Echo of the Black Mist" and took it off.
However, when "Echoes of the Black Mist" fell into Jin Jiuyao's hands, the weird aura had disappeared, and overall it turned into a book that looked extremely normal.
Jin Jiuyao opened the book, and a large amount of dirt suddenly rushed out of the pages. When he looked at the pages intently, his brows could not help but frown.
"Why isn't there a word?" "Echoes of the Black Mist" in Jin Jiuyao's hand is blank.
He looked at the book cover again.
In his eyes, there is actually no writing on the book cover at all.
"Strange..."
He thought about it and followed Lin Yi silently.
In the lecture theater, Chen Xue asked in a low voice: "Lao Lu, is it really okay for Jin Jiuyao to do this?"
At this moment, Lu Zhao began to compare the campus map with the drawing he had brought. Hearing this, without raising his head, he said calmly: "He just went to the bookshelf area to 'pick books'. It happened to be somewhat similar to Xiao Zi's path. There is nothing to worry about."
Chen Xue had some worry in her eyes and couldn't help but frown.
Suddenly, she felt some discomfort in her arm, so she subconsciously shook her hand.
Just after getting rid of it, the discomfort still did not disappear.
She looked at her hand - this hand was exactly the one that had been clinging to the feather pupil secret pattern before. Now that hand also had the invisible carvings of the faintly smiling angel frame, but in her eyes, there was nothing unusual about that hand.
After some fruitless observation, she lowered her arms. However, she didn't notice it. When she wasn't paying attention, her fingers twitched uncontrollably a few times.
And in her shadow, some kind of illusory outline also flashed by...
The time is nearly 18:00, and there are still 5 minutes left before the street lights in the campus come on.
Although this was already the fifth day that Lin Yi had spent on campus, he was fully prepared and the fifth day in the strict sense would not begin until five minutes later.
Although Lin Yi didn't know why this information suddenly popped up in his mind, he still enjoyed it.
When browsing the bookshelf, Lin Yi also flipped through the book twice as before, but he never had the same feeling as when he read "Echoes of the Black Mist", nor did he have the same vision again.
Interestingly, he actually encountered the book "The 26-Year-Old Female Tenant in Hokkaido" that Wei Liang asked for on the way, and when he reached out to pick it off, a nearby book attracted his attention.
Intuition told him that there was something wrong with this book, so he took it off.
On the cover of the book is a man who looks very much like the world-famous painting "The Scream". His face is distorted, as if it has turned into a whirlpool, and the surrounding background is also extremely weird, with the atmosphere of a cult everywhere.
The author of the book is a person named "Painter No. 3". When he opened the cover, the words on the title page immediately caught Lin Yi's attention.
, bringing my will back to that terrifying mountain..."
"I cannot describe the horror I experienced in words. I can only use my brushstrokes to store the terror in my heart on the paper..."
"——"Painter No. 3". 》
beyond Lin Yi’s expectation, this is a collection of paintings.
The pages are very thick, but there don't seem to be many paintings.
One of the paintings is called "Watcher in the Clouds", which is an extremely depressing scene.
· The Gothic bell tower in the heavy rain dominates the picture at a distorted elevation. A blurry pale human figure appears in each arched glass window. The rain washes out dark red lines on the stone wall like blood vessels...
· In the leaden clouds pierced by the tower tip, half of a torn leather mask is vaguely visible floating in the air. Two counter-rotating bronze gears are embedded in the pupils of the mask.
In the reflection of the puddles on the ground, countless blue-grey palms are scratching upwards at the glass, but the actual foundation of the bell tower is a black vortex of nothingness...
Hesitant Lin Yi had already read a lot of books, so he could guess at a glance that the buildings in this painting were probably related to the bell tower in the art building layer. Of course, from a certain perspective, this bell tower might also be related to the bell tower that he had been looking for, which was on the campus but did not exist on the campus...
He did not do too much research, but continued to flip through the album.
Painter No. 3’s paintings contain more or less information, some are just messy graffiti, and some are so abstract that they are completely incomprehensible, but overall, each one is very depressing.
Lin Yi suddenly stopped. The painting in front of him was different from the previous ones, adopting a double-layered nested composition.
The upper layer of the picture is a violent seascape with huge waves crashing against the cliff, with thousands of faceless broken sculptures floating among the wave crests; the lower layer is a maze made of weird roots, with dark green salty slime oozing out from the walls of the maze, and in some places, some octopus tentacles covered with barnacles extend out.
Based on the perspective of Painter No. 3’s painting, the observer is forced to sink along the walls of the entire maze, and finally focuses on the center of the painting—a super huge eyeball soaked in seawater.
(End of this chapter)