Chapter 538 The way from the gymnasium to the art building
"If you master the time compass, can you not get lost in dreams?"
"Time compass... time compass..."
He murmured, silently looking at the watch on his wrist.
His watch keeps accurate time and can even be taken into a dream. Needless to say, it is extraordinary.
"It would be great if it were you..."
He sighed quietly. Although his watch is already extraordinary, it is unlikely to be the time compass "Hour Zero"...otherwise "Night Watch-02" would recognize it, right?
Night Watchman-02 said that it belonged to Night Watchman-01, and Night Watchman-01 had already died.
Even if Night Watchman-02 didn't recognize it for a while, he didn't believe it. The canteen owner couldn't recognize it.
Since they can't recognize it, it can only mean that although his watch is extraordinary, it is not extraordinary enough.
At this moment, whether because he became distracted or something else, Lin Yi suddenly found that the surrounding environment seemed to have become illusory, and even the surrounding pictures began to become blurry and hazy.
Everything around him suddenly became unstable, as if the speed was doubled and the frame dropped. Now it turned into this picture, and now it turned into that picture. In the flashing animations, he saw the death of Song Rentou, the end of the "feast" and the gradual dispersal of the people...
The picture became blurry, and then slowly became clear...
He suddenly realized a problem...
Damn it, it was not a problem with the quality of the dream image, but a problem with the "signal tower" - he was too far away from Maozi!
He quickly floated back to Mao Zi, and sure enough, as he got closer to Mao Zi, everything around him became clearer.
The dream perspective is like this. He cannot deviate too far from the main perspective with his own perspective, otherwise he will be marginalized.
Not long after, the art students began to withdraw from the dome in an orderly manner, and Lin Yi's will followed Mao Zi and Yan Jingming into the passage.
He didn't pay attention when he came just now, so now he is very curious about the way the art students leave the stadium dome.
After all, there is no spatial connection between the gymnasium and the art building. The only explanation is that there is a connection at the layer level.
This is not the first time he has come across the concept of "layer jump", but he is really interested in how such a huge population jump is achieved.
The light in the passage was a little dim. After walking a few steps, the feeling of the passage changed to that of the sewers of an old New York street. There was a cold and damp atmosphere everywhere, and from time to time there was some wind noise coming from unknown sources...
After the "feast", each of the art students has become much calmer. However, this calmness may not be due to personality, but because many people have not been able to fully digest the concentrated and pure extraordinary power, and they are still immersed in the process of carefully experiencing the changes brought about by the extraordinary power.
The sound of people was no longer loud, and Lin Yi's will feedback became much better, and he was able to feel everything around him more carefully.
He looked at the end of the passage - the end seemed to be shrouded in fog and could not be seen clearly at all.
He tried to fly over to see what was going on, but very suddenly, the whole team suddenly walked towards a corner, and then the perspective flickered, and they appeared in a stairwell...
"This...?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and quickly looked back, only to see a portal appearing behind him. On both sides of the portal were two candlesticks full of artistic style. The candles on the candlesticks swayed slightly, illuminating a very limited area.
But behind the door, it seems to be shrouded in a hazy mist. This mist feels like the door from the canteen to the canteen, lightly separating the two worlds.
He quickly adjusted his state and re-observed the surrounding environment.
The corridors filled with the European style of the art building are filled with an eerie atmosphere. The cold and humid air is like a sticky mist, clinging tightly to the walls and the ground, making every step feel like stepping into an icy quagmire...
"It smells right. It looks like we have reached the Art Building layer... But why is there no feeling of "layer jump"? Did it happen quietly, or... it hasn't started at all?"
Lin Yi muttered in his heart and continued to observe.
The swaying candlestick emits a faint and strange light. The bean-like candlelight flickers in the darkness, as if it is the eye of a mysterious power in the darkness, peering at the art students walking among them.
In a trance, Lin Yi felt as if the place where the candlesticks were connected to the wall was grasped by some kind of hand. The shadow of the candlelight twisted and danced on the wall. In the dark area under the lamp, there was the outline of some weird creature crawling. That creature looked very much like an obsession sculpture. But when Lin Yi looked at it again, he found that the outline of the obsession sculpture had disappeared again.
Only the walls with peeling paint and the old yellow-brown square masonry exposed behind the walls were left.
The ceiling is very high, and the corners are covered with spider webs. The slender spider silk shimmers with a mysterious silver light under the weak candlelight...
"Why are there still spider webs?" Lin Yi was surprised.
Those dark and sneaky mysterious creatures will crawl around like spiders, and if there are any spider webs, they will definitely be removed.
The only explanation is that no nocturnal species has arrived in this place at all...
Moisture seems to be faintly seeping out from the gaps between the stone slabs on the ground, carrying a rotten smell.
Occasionally, a drop of water will drip from the cracks in the stone slabs under your feet. It will fly up against gravity like floating, which looks extremely weird.
The corridor below is shrouded in darkness, as if it is a portal to another world. Only the vague outline of the steps and some figures submerged in the darkness can be seen. The wind trembles inside and outside the walls, like a low roar or a plaintive cry, which makes people feel heartbroken. Mao...
Only the messy footsteps of the art students were left in the corridor. The whole world seemed to be immersed in a kind of eerie silence and fear. On the other side of the wall, there seemed to be countless invisible laughing angels hiding, waiting for opportunities to attack them.
Lin Yi suddenly thought of something.
"By the way! This stairway...why don't I have any impression at all?"
He was a little confused, not that he must have an impression of this place, but that he had pushed his consciousness throughout the entire art building under the influence of the quantum clock "Temple", but he had not seen a similar area in his impression... "Weird, really strange..." With doubts in his heart, Lin Yi observed more curiously.
Suddenly, some water stains on the stairs caught his attention.
ulating hand in hand| The moisture has penetrated into the corridor through the yellow-brown square stones, forming damp tracks like spreading roots. However, such tracks should have been spreading downwards, but now they are spreading upwards in reverse, as if dead trees are growing and flowers are blooming.
Lin Yi was thoughtful, and suddenly seemed to understand something. He lowered his head and looked at the stone slab under his feet, and more importantly, at the water droplets floating against gravity... "Hiss... wait, can you say...?!"
"It's true!"
He discovered the problem.
The whole corridor is upside down.
These art students are walking on the back of the stairs.
From their perspective, everyone is going downstairs, but in real spatial terms, they are going upstairs.
"Inverted space..."
Lin Yi suddenly felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity. How could this absurd and contrary logic seem familiar to him?
"Wait...in the dormitory!!"
A strange light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes.
In the dormitory building at a certain time after 0 o'clock, the rules of gravity are also reversed, which is very similar to the situation here.
And... after all, the dormitory building actually has an infinite Fibonacci sequence of stairs.
It is also an infinite staircase. Is it possible that it is similar to the steps here?
In the dormitory...the art building...the gymnasium...
Is there some strange connection between these three buildings?
Or, on a certain layer, there is a certain... logical overlap between these three types of architecture? !
Wait a minute, if you insist on saying so, it seems that even the teaching buildings can be connected?
Lin Yi felt that his head was itching, as if he was about to grow a brain.
A huge spider web diagram appeared in his mind. Some buildings on the campus were located at different locations in the spider web diagram, and there were various strange connections between them due to the existence of steps.
At this moment, Yan Jingming’s voice sounded: "Cheer up! You are all so damn sleepy. Do you want to die? Go back to the art building immediately, and everyone returns to the classroom! Remember, it’s everyone!"
"Keep your eyes on the back of the person in front of you and don't look around!"
"No matter what you hear, don't care, let alone respond!"
"No matter what happens, you don't need to deal with it!"
"Remember, it's everything! You don't need to think about it!"
"Go faster! Things are starting to go wrong!"
"If an accident happens because of disobedience, don't blame me for not warning you!"
"There will be some unevenness on the road ahead, please pay attention to them! Let's go!"
Lin Yi's thinking was also interrupted by Yan Shengming, and he returned his attention to the corridor.
As expected, the corridor in front became a little twisted and uneven. This section of the road was exactly the part that Lin Yi had not seen before, and he also caught a trace of anomaly in it.
The distortion of this road is very weak, and it looks like an uneven road section. When combined with the steps of the corridor, its weirdness is diluted a lot. However, as the coverage of Lin Yi's perception increases, the distortion of the corridor is gradually amplified. When the overall trend is pieced together, it gradually presents a geometric structure similar to surrealism.
And this structure is like...
"'Mobius strip'...?"
Infinite cycle, beginning and end...
"I understand!"
An inspiration flashed in Lin Yi's mind, and he suddenly understood the logic of the existence of this corridor!
The entire corridor is not only a part of a staircase inside the art building, but also the expansion and storage of certain areas of the art building. When it is necessary to take this road, this road will appear...or perhaps at a fixed point in time, this road will appear!
A hidden path appears at a specific time and contains a certain law, but this law itself violates the laws of physics.
However, just when Lin Yi thought he had discovered the secret, the real "layer jump" road had just begun!
As the art student continues to move forward in the Möbius strip-like corridor, problems gradually begin to appear in the surrounding layers.
Art students follow strict instructions to stare at the back of the person in front of them, but Lin Yi doesn't need to, so he can clearly observe the changes that occur at this layer level.
He saw that the corridor under the feet of the art students was beginning to become dilapidated. This dilapidation was completely different from the actual dilapidation of cultural relics and the old and disrepair of city walls. The dilapidation of the corridor in front of him was like the dilapidation of a mulberry leaf after being eaten by silkworms.
A kind of incompleteness at the layer level, just like the corridor being gnawed by some kind of space force after it was built. The architectural structure itself still exists, but some areas have become nothing but nothingness, as if the nothingness has been constantly corroding the boundaries, and finally turned into the incomplete appearance we see today.
But this kind of collapsed and incomplete corridors is not surprising to some veteran art students such as Yan Jingming. They led the team through the corridors without making any sound in an extremely tacit understanding, as if they were worried about disturbing some kind of strange existence in the void.
The idea of "there might be something in the void" just appeared in his mind, and Lin Yi's consciousness seemed to have touched some weak electric current, catching some kind of low calling...
[Sorgens... skygge...]
"What...?" Lin Yi was startled.
【Min skygge……】
【Gi opp……】
But the more he cared about it, the deeper the call in his ear became. But when he tried to find the source of the sound, he couldn't find it at all...
After hearing too many commanding chants and distant songs, Lin Yi began to be confused about what the pronunciations were. Admonitions, those calls with strange pronunciations, can only rely on a most basic feeling to judge whether the calls carry malice towards oneself...
This seems to be the only way to distinguish - at least for now, he can only distinguish this way.
While Lin Yi was searching for the source of the sound, in a daze, he seemed to have captured the tracks of some creatures in the void.
“That’s...?”
Lin Yi looked intently, and in a trance he saw some shimmering mirror fragments appearing in the corridor that was eaten away by nothingness...
"It seems like... a mirror world?"
(End of this chapter)