Chapter 539 The exit of that path...
In Lin Yi's impression, he had only seen the mirror world in two places, no, strictly speaking, two situations. The first was when he first arrived on the second floor of the bell tower. "Nightwatch-02" was in charge of the quantum clock "Temple", and was surrounded by fragments of the bell tower wall that had disintegrated with unknown and extraordinary power. Part of those fragments was the mirror-like mirror world.
Another situation is... deep in the corridor of "Obsession Sculpture"!
When he entered the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, he saw many obsession sculptures of various shapes in the mirror world... Wait, what are those...? !
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly.
Just now in a mirror world, he seemed to see the shadow of the obsession sculpture!
No, it’s not “seems”, it’s “certain”!
When he saw the obsession sculptures, the obsession sculptures solidified in the mirror world, and there was quite a sense of hide-and-seek that was no longer hidden after being seen...
The bodies of those obsession sculptures were full of cracks, as if they had suffered some great pain, their bodies were broken by unknown forces, and they were broken into what they look like now.
In addition to cracks, their surfaces seem to be carved with strange lines, like ancient runes of some evil ritual.
On the static sculpture of obsession, those evil runes are like squirming insects and tadpoles, making people feel uncomfortable and have goosebumps all over their bodies.
"Could this be...part of the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, right? The end point of the layer jump...could it be the Obsession Sculpture Corridor?"
Lin Yi had such a conjecture in his mind.
At the same time, a cold wind blew in the corridor, and the wind blew through the mirror world, and all the mirror worlds made a whining sound, like the sad howl of the imprisoned soul in the obsession sculpture.
"Ah...ah?! What is that...what is that...?!
An art student could not withstand the interference of the call and looked around uncontrollably. When he saw the collapsed and empty corridors around him, his whole cognition collapsed. He swung his limbs and arms uncontrollably as if he had been inexplicably stimulated, and let out a crazy roar, as if to resonate with those weird calls.
"Damn!" Yan Jingming spat, and came directly to the art student's side, kicking him out of the team.
He lowered his voice and said: "Those behind, keep up!"
At the end, he couldn't help but muttered: "Fucking pests!"
Further forward, the corridors around the art students began to split, floating in the dim corridor like countless suspended stone slabs that were not affected by gravity.
The originally dim corridor seemed to be pulled apart by an invisible force and appeared in fragments. Even the candlesticks were floating there, as if full of magic.
But those fragments, as if implying some kind of rules, were arranged into a path under the art student's feet.
As the path continued to extend, a huge whirlpool appeared in front of everyone. Lin Yi looked intently, and his vision expanded. He soon penetrated the vortex and saw a strange and mysterious path, surrounded by whirlpools...
"That is the path of "layer jump"!" Lin Yi was so excited that he finally discovered the secret of layer jump.
Sure enough, Yan Jingming and other veteran art students quickly led the art students into the vortex through the suspended debris path. The moment they passed through the vortex, their vision and cognition began to distort, and the debris corridor suddenly turned into rough lines in their cognition. The figures were stretched into strange shapes, but it seemed to be based on a certain rule. Through Mao Feiyang's perspective, Lin Yi found that although the person in front was twisted into a seaweed-like appearance, the texture of the clothes on the back still showed a certain "human appearance".
And this little bit of "human appearance" has become their only anchor point for traveling on this path.
Lin Yi looked around and saw that the passage was filled with unknown light sources. Countless light sources were independent of each other, each twisted into white lines, and slowly rotated into endless spiral turbines.
"This is the road when the layer jumps!"
Lin Yiran remembered that when Lao Mo took him to layer jump, through the Corpse Forest and the Returning Sea Tide, to the Art Building layer, he had experienced such a scene on the way.
Different from the art students, Lao Mo even let him experience the changes in layers and taught him some theoretical knowledge about layer transitions.
It is precisely based on this part of knowledge and a small part of practical skills that he can so easily master the scenes he sees today.
Suddenly, Lin Yi had an idea.
「I remembered it!」
"Back then in the depths of the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, I saw a similar vortex. I wondered whether the existence of the vortex and the white light was related to the "Starry Night", but I didn't think about whether it was related to the layer jump!"
"It seems that the other end of this road is the Obsession Sculpture Corridor."
Lin Yi is now a person who has finished answering the questions and is waiting for the answer to be revealed.
After walking for a while, the surrounding whirlpools gradually disappeared, and the mirror world-like fragments gradually gathered together.
Lin Yi knew that this was a sign that the "layer jump" was about to end, just like a sin function crossing the crest and starting to move closer to the X-axis.
Lin Yi watched as the world around him returned to normal little by little, the road under his feet recovered from distortion little by little, and the suspended stone slabs slowly returned to their original positions, becoming like nothingness encroaching, and then returned to normal little by little.
At the end, the art students passed through a portal with candlesticks on both sides and floating light mist, and arrived at the exit of a certain passage...
When passing the exit, Lin Yi felt a sense of the wind duct effect. As his vision changed and recovered, he saw at a glance some sculptures with various postures standing on both sides of the corridor.
"Obsession Sculpture..." Lin Yi nodded secretly. What was in front of him was indeed the Obsession Sculpture, which indicated that this was indeed the Obsession Sculpture Corridor.
His answer is correct.
This corridor is filled with a decaying atmosphere. The obsession sculptures are curled up and praying, with despair and pain on their faces. Some of them are frozen in the movement of grabbing something, as if they are longing for some kind of salvation...
The only difference between this obsession sculpture corridor and when he first entered is that all the obsession sculptures at this moment are still.
But even if it is still, the strange aura exuding from its shape, appearance and body still makes art students feel an unprecedented sense of oppression.
Walking there, one feels like walking in an ancient cult temple with hideous murals, facing a sky full of evil Buddhas and painful acolytes.
Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to look at the watch on his wrist, but as soon as he lowered his head, he immediately stopped his behavior.
He remembered that there was something wrong with the time in the obsessive sculpture corridor. The closer he got to the corridor full of whirlpools, the slower the flow of time became, so he subconsciously wanted to check the time, but he also suddenly remembered that his time was wrong.
The time on his watch was only the time when "he was at a certain time in the early morning of May 11th", not the time when Maozi was in the art building on the afternoon of May 9th.
If you want to know the accurate time, it is best to see the time on the pendulum clock in the Art Building.
He remembered that he had time outside the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, and maybe he could take a look after leaving.
There are candlesticks in the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, but the light is still extremely dim. The darkness is like mist and tide permeating the top of the corridor, covering the Obsession Sculpture huddled on the walls and corners.
While deep in the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, he could feel a strong sense of expulsion, as if a strong will was expelling them. At the same time, there was also a sense of uneasiness, as if he was being targeted by some unknown and terrifying creature, like a awn on his back.
As they left, the feeling of expulsion and uneasiness gradually faded away.
He tried to re-infiltrate his will into the portal deep in the obsessive sculpture corridor, but when he penetrated it, what he saw was a corner of the interior that was collapsed and messy. The path taken by the art students had completely lost all traces of its existence.
Lin Yi was somewhat aware that the passage itself did not seem to exist and would only appear at specific times.
The team of art students soon arrived at the exit of the Obsessed Sculpture Corridor. As the first art student left, the rest of the art students followed, and soon it was Mao Feiyang’s turn.
When everyone left the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, Yan Jingming's voice slowly sounded: "We have returned to the art building, everyone is lining up to return to the classroom!"
"Don't be too nervous, we are safe for the time being."
Hearing Yan Jingming's words, there were sighs in the art student team, and many people seemed to be relieved.
Lin Yi also immediately looked at somewhere in the lobby of the Art Building.
At that location, he vaguely remembered a large European-style pendulum clock full of classical atmosphere.
He found the clock and saw the time at this moment.
18:23.
「18:23」Lin Yi thought about it for a moment. He remembered that it was around 16:40~16:50 when he went to the "dome" of the stadium. The "feast" started around 17:00 and lasted for a while. He wasn't very sure how long it lasted, because he spent too much effort repairing the city wall at that time. When he woke up, it was almost 20:00. When he left, he met Lao Mo. At that time, it was about 20:30.
After that, he followed Lao Mo to the Art Building...
In other words, in the next two hours, the Art Building will change from its current calm appearance into a doomsday battlefield with howling winds and unstable layers.
He looked back at the hall of the Art Building, his eyes swept across the calm hall and came to the dome.
But the next moment, he was stunned for a moment.
"Hey, where's that gap?"
He clearly remembered that on the map level, there was a ferocious gap in the position of the dome, like a hole in the hall of the art building. But when he looked over now, he found that the dome was intact and there was no gap at all.
He couldn't help gathering his energy and looked again, but no matter how he looked, the dome was intact at the layer level.
“What’s going on…?”
Today's hall may not have changed much in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Lin Yi's eyes, there was a sense of a storm approaching and black clouds threatening to destroy the city.
But again, the feeling of weirdness is also full, and the dome is intact.
If Lin Yi was not mistaken, it must be because the layers of the dome were intact before he and Lao Mo arrived at the Art Building on May 9!
In other words, the dome will be breached within 2 hours from now!
At this time, Yan Jingming gently patted Mao Feiyang and said in a low voice: "Continue to follow the large group, there will be others to guide you back to the classroom. I have some other things to deal with, so I won't go with you."
"Just stay in the classroom and stay until tomorrow. Generally speaking, there is no danger."
Mao Feiyang nodded quickly: "Okay, Brother Yan."
"Go." Yan Jingming patted Mao Feiyang's shoulder.
Lin Yi saw the sad look on Yan Jinming's eyebrows. Thinking of the situation two hours later, he speculated that Yan Jinming might have sensed the approach of a fierce battle.
Mao Feiyang didn't pay too much attention, he turned around and walked into the exit.
When Mao Feiyang left, Yan Jingming sighed quietly.
"I'm going to join the war next, I hope you don't run around, otherwise if something happens, I won't be able to explain it to Brother Xian..."
At this moment, suddenly——
"Bang!"
The outer wall of the art building seemed to have been hit by some force, and then the entire building began to tremble with a "rumbling, rumbling, rumbling..." sound, and the doors and windows trembled with a "clang, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack, clack.
· Yan Jingming’s face suddenly changed: "No! Why did it start so early?!"
· "What’s the difference between early and late?" Another veteran art student next to Yan Jingming said in a low voice, "After 18:00, any moment may be the beginning of the invasion."
"Everyone is on alert! Yan Jingming, a few of you will escort the freshmen back to the classroom first, everyone else! Get into their respective positions as quickly as possible!!"
"Okay!" Yan Jingming roared, speeding up to catch up with the group of new art students such as Mao Feiyang.
…
May 9, 2023, 18:25, Art Building Corridor.
"Ah!"
I don't know which art student screamed first, which suddenly caused a commotion among the art students.
In the panic, the originally neat team of art students suddenly became loose. Some art students accidentally stepped into the dark area that was not illuminated by the light, and the next moment there was no movement.