Chapter 503 Round Table Conference in the Skull
Painter No. 3, when his mental will collapsed and the chaos reached the extreme, used disorderly and mixed lines to draw the outline of Ryoko? !
This...?
How is that possible!
Is it my imagination?
Lin Yi couldn't believe it. It felt very absurd no matter how he thought about it. You must know that "Faceless Crime" was created by Painter No. 3 in the year X000. At that time, both he and Wei Liang had just been born!
Lin Yi looked at the side that had turned into a white board and was in a daze, his eyes slowly losing focus due to thinking.
He slowly closed the book and put it back on the bookshelf silently. Then, he glanced at the watch on his wrist. It was now 18:12, and the elevator in the dormitory opened at 21:00... There was nothing else to do for more than an hour during this period, and the time was relatively sufficient, so he did not choose to continue reading. Instead, he stood still and thought about it with his cheek in his hand.
Although he can indeed do two or even three things at once, his alertness will also drop when he is distracted and thinking, and he can easily fall off the level due to various unpredictable accidents.
Joking aside, even when Lin Yi is concentrating, he may fall off the layer at some point, or he may lose consciousness and start dreaming without even realizing it, let alone being distracted by his thoughts.
At this time, if something goes wrong, you really don’t know how you will die.
Compared to when he first entered school and dropped layers whenever he thought about it, he is much better now.
Hence, he gently held the bookshelf to build a simple space anchor, and then began to think about this issue.
The first thing to distinguish is the authenticity of this fleeting scene.
Either it is true or it is false.
If it is false, then the reason is very simple. He saw it wrong.
· A chaotic painting, at a certain fading moment, a familiar picture appeared to him, and he mistakenly recognized it as an acquaintance.
Just like clouds flowing in the sky, they become familiar to the observer at a certain moment.
What if it is true?
Then it will be derived from an established fact - Painter No. 3 painted Wei Liang dressed as he is now in the year X000.
"How is it possible?!" This idea appeared subconsciously in Lin Yi's mind, but another person immediately suppressed the doubt, "No, the question we are thinking about now is not whether it is possible, but if it is possible, what would be the reason?"
Lin Yi's breathing stagnated slightly. If the future can be foreseen, does that mean it can be changed?
Besides, Painter No. 3 foresees the future 20 years later in X000?
Then, drew what he saw?
Theoretically speaking, this is impossible, but now Lin Yi is "theoretically".
"If that is really Ryoko, then this seems to be the only explanation."
I know that it is impossible to predict the future... But if there is no other idea that can explain this matter, then this is the only truth.
He suddenly muttered to himself in a daze: "Foreseeing the future..."
"Is it possible?"
"Is it impossible?"
"...Is it possible?"
His tone is strange, rising and falling, urgent and slow.
He slowly put away his thoughts, refocused his eyes in front of him, and his expression became very solemn.
This issue is like a paradox that cannot be effectively discussed due to insufficient conditions, and it is not worthy of in-depth thinking here.
He gave up thinking for the time being and planned to stay and discuss with Tian Bufan.
He let go of the bookshelf and continued walking forward.
Suddenly, he was inspired by some books on the bookshelf, and a light suddenly appeared in his mind.
"Wait! We have it!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up, "Can you say——!"
He thought of one thing. When he participated in the "feast" in the gymnasium, there was a scene in front of him of the gymnasium collapsing and the boss, physical education teacher, etc. falling one after another. If there are countless possibilities in the future, is that scene one of them?
ˆ “Really?”
ˆ “Yes!”
ˆ So Painter No. 3 also predicted the future in this way and saw Wei Liang?
"It seems like this... right?"
"Le... is this really like this?"
Lin Yi seemed to have a round table in his mind. He was the only person on the round table. Some frowned and listened silently, some lightly tapped the table without knowing what they were thinking about, some were discussing something intensely, and some banged the table with "clang" to signal others to listen to what he said.
"No! This is wrong!"
"I could foresee the scene where the boss and the PE teacher had an accident before, largely because I was in the gym, and the people who appeared in that scene were all people I knew, and they were all A scene that already exists for me. "
"Artist No. 3 doesn't know Ryoko, so why did he draw Ryoko?"
"Even if he knew Ryoko at that time, he shouldn't be what he looked like in the painting? He should be a baby!"
"Why did you draw it?"
"It's totally unreasonable!"
"You're not right either!" On the round table in my mind, "myself" slammed on the table again.
"Yes, right..."
"No, no, no..."
Lin Yi, who was arguing fiercely at the round table, could not convince the others. They were arguing with red faces, like a group of forklift engines whining. The noise of the dispute made Lin Yi's brain swollen and his whole person became irritable.
"That's not right!" Finally, Lin Yi made the final decision, "None of these conjectures are right!"
"If you just purely meet a corner of the future, then you don't necessarily need to know each other. It only needs that scene to impress Painter No. 3."
"If I had a nightmare, would I want to understand it before recording it? No! I will only record it directly! As for whether I can understand it, that is not something that can be figured out in a short time!"
"In fact, this situation is different from the boss's death, the collapse of the gymnasium, and the overturning of the campus!"
"My prediction was based on the circumstances at the time, with a strong conjecture that led to some kind of speculation... It was not a 'foreknowledge' at all..."
"But Painter No. 3 is different..."
"He entered that weird valley, and then was haunted by nightmares. Maybe...his dream transcended time? Or did it penetrate time?"
The Mage who was "exiled by time" can also penetrate time outside of time. Painter No. 3 may not have had a similar experience... Maybe he got a glimpse of the future by accident!
Or is that not the future, but one of the points on countless timeline branches in the future?
But if that's the case, the futuristic painting that contains infinite horror is mixed with the vague outline of Wei Liang... This kind of contrast is like adding a series of politically correct characters to a 3A masterpiece game, or a good fairy tale film has to include some Kuroyukihime and the dreadlocked mermaid. Isn't the sense of violation too strong?
Lin Yi no longer wasted time here. After picking up "The 26-year-old Female Tenant in Hokkaido", he continued to walk around the bookshelf area.
Next, in the vast sea of people, he discovered a series of so-called "novels" or some curious "picture albums" such as "The Bell from the Doomsday", "Investigative Notes of a Underworld Detective", "Dark Walker", "Sea of Fog", etc. The contents of the books were also full of mixed, chaotic and weird elements.
Especially in a seemingly normal book full of fantasy called "Starry Sky Fantasy", Lin Yi turned to an evil matrix sequence that made him lose the layer as soon as he saw it...
That was A secret pattern matrix that doesn't look right at first glance. The matrix sounds like a magic circle, with a triple nested inverted seven-pointed star forming the base. Each star tip pierces a raven skull carved by an unknown gemstone, and the eye sockets of the skull are inlaid with eyeball-shaped beads.
At the outermost layer of the matrix, there is a row of twisted patterns that are unclear whether they are symbols or words, like some kind of ancient writing, which are constantly intertwined and eventually become like thorn flower vines being woven together.
That matrix seemed to be just a pattern that carried extraordinary traces. When he saw it, his will seemed to be drawn out of the body with just one glance...
Even though he restrained it at the first time, he was still pulled out of a wave of layers later.
There is also a book called "Night Eclipse", which is recorded by an adventurer who calls herself a "martyr" about her "experience" after being polluted by the "black sea", being eroded by the night bit by bit, and gradually sinking into a monster that made her even feel terrible.
Most of the descriptions in "Night Eclipse" are like descriptions in fragments, but when Lin Yi read through most of it, he discovered the problem. This book is not a so-called "narration" at all, but a trap, a scam, and a guide!
The "martyr" was already deeply polluted when she wrote these words. She herself clearly understood this problem, so she used her description to guide readers step by step to follow her description to accept pollution and become an existence like her.
An evil preacher!
A martyr!
The reason why Lin Yi is clearly aware of this problem is because the pollution he endures now has far exceeded the pollution the "martyr" endured when he recorded these words.
When he watched "Eclipse," he was like a circus king watching the clown's poor performance in front of him.
Speaking of it... I'm pretty damn proud.
No, I'm so proud... Another voice from the intracranial conference sounded speechlessly.
Lin Yi searched and searched.
At a certain moment, he suddenly came up with an inspiration based on the books he had seen before—an inspiration about the boundaries of dreams.
He suddenly realized that at the boundary of the dream, life and death were not simple oppositions, but a cycle, an eternal alternation.
Just like the dawn must come after the dark night, death may be just the beginning of another form. When he was flipping through the books, it was as if he had fallen into someone else's dream, and when he closed the page, he slowly pulled away from the peeping dream boundary. Just going back and forth, his new understanding of life and death was imprinted in his heart...
Time passed quietly, and at 19:40, Lin Yi left the bookshelf area on time with several H comics.
Lin Yi left, but his words were divided into two parts, and Jin Jiuyao on the other side was unlucky.
Jin Jiuyao followed Lin Yi all the way through the books. Basically, he read what Lin Yi read. Except for some one-time books that he didn't read, he flipped through all the others.
When Lin Yi left the bookshelf area, he randomly picked up a few books and took them out of the bookshelf area.
When he returned to Lu Zhao and the others, even Lu Zhao put down what he was doing and looked at him expectantly: "What did you find?"
"I found a hammer." Jin Jiuyao curled his lips.
"Oh, what kind of hammer? Take it out and have a look." Lu Zhao's attention was drawn away from the map. He did not realize Jin Jiuyao's self-mockery at first. It was not until the words came out and his eyes fell on Jin Jiuyao's hand that he realized that what he said was wrong. He immediately coughed dryly and continued to ask, "How about you say it first?"
Jin Jiuyao pursed his lips, placed a few books in front of Lu Zhao, and then took away the book on top.
“Why did you bring back a pile of bricks?” Chen Xue looked at the remaining books and asked in confusion.
After Jin Jiuyao took away the first book, the other books were clearly the "disposable books" that Lin Yi had read.
Jin Jiuyao told the strange situation he saw.
After hearing this, Lu Zhao frowned slightly, and then he did not rush to a conclusion. Instead, he picked up a book and read it carefully.
Chen Bing and Chen Xue each picked up a book and started reading.
Chen Xue said in confusion: "It's really strange, not to mention there is not a word on the paper, there is no written record on the book cover."
Lu Zhao asked: "Remember what happened when Xiao Zi read these books."
Jin Jiuyao was in a hurry to take off his clothes. The words came out of his mouth, but looking at Lu Zhao's serious eyes, he immediately closed his mouth. After some careful consideration, he slowly spoke: "I don't know if there is something really wrong with Xiao Zi, or if there is something wrong with this thing, but I can't tell. At that time, his eyes were looking straight at the page. That look was straighter than the captain going to a nightclub and whistling to a stripper..."
"And his expression was very changeable. His eyes widened for a while, and then narrowed to a slit, and the corners of his mouth showed that crazy expression from time to time. I don't know what was going on. Anyway, it didn't look like he was acting..."
Jin Jiuyao told the truth.
"Tsk...huh——" Lu Zhao rubbed his brows and let out a long breath.
Chen Bing and Chen Xue looked over quickly. They knew that even though Lu Zhao had a frown on his face, he must have discovered something when he showed such an expression.
(End of this chapter)