Chapter 72 The Standing Ocean and Sky
Chapter 72 The Standing Ocean and Sky
This is not an exaggeration, but literally means "not a single hair".
In front of Lin Yi was a pure white "blank" world.
Just like when Neo entered the room where the prophet was in The Matrix, there was nothing in his vision, and because there was nothing, it was all blank.
Lin Yi felt like his spiritual faith was a little broken. He was only a few steps away from dormitory 1414, but in the end he had to go through this.
Are you going to spell DD here?
I am only one cent short of withdrawing 100, do I really have to come out and make an order to get a bargain?
After cutting 90%, I cut ingots, after cutting ingots, I cut diamonds, after cutting diamonds, I tell you that you need to bring people to continue cutting...
"You're not the only one in the dormitory, how the hell... is this how you play?!"
Lin Yi's inner drama is very rich, but no matter how rich it is, he can't get himself back on track by complaining.
There was still a blank area of nothingness in front of his eyes.
He swallowed slowly.
“Gulp…”
The sound was clearly audible, and the whole world seemed to be silent.
He didn't even dare to look back, for he was afraid that if he did, he would see nothingness in the world behind him...
If that were to happen, he would really be in trouble.
“Wait… that’s not right!”
A light bulb went off in his head.
"Behind?!"
He took a deep breath, slowly raised his right foot, and took a tentative step back.
The toes touched the ground...
His expression brightened.
It seems that there is no blank space behind!
Slowly, his heels touched the ground.
But he suddenly realized something, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead - his body kept moving back and stepped on something, and froze in place as if petrified.
He did step on something, but he didn't step on the floor that was supposed to be in the hallway.
It was a hard, slippery stone slab with some bumps and uneven surfaces.
A thought popped up in his subconscious mind, and this thought popped up from his shoulder like a little devil, desperately telling him:
[This is not a dormitory building, this is not a dormitory building...]
But his rationality emerged from one shoulder like a little angel, and he pressed the little devil to the ground and rubbed him, and uttered Lin Yi's voice:
"This is the dormitory building... This is the dormitory building..."
Cold sweat slowly flowed down Lin Yi's nose.
I don’t know how long it took, but there was a hint of looseness in the empty, blank world.
Lin Yi originally thought that it was because of his strong self-restraint that the world around him seemed to have reached some kind of resonance with his will...
But he soon discovered that this was just his pale fantasy.
There is no resonance at all, only a... predetermined trajectory.
This slight vibration became stronger and stronger, and soon this empty and blank world began to change.
His senses began to work.
First, his hearing.
The sound of wind as sharp as a knife rang in his ears, like the sound of a high-speed moving object rubbing against the air...
“Huff, huff, huff—huff—”
Immediately afterwards, a strong breath of wind mixed with some indescribable smell blew towards him and penetrated into his mouth and nose!
This smell reminded him of a scene where mud was being stir-fried in a pot as if it were a dish;
It's like putting rotten fish and shrimp in a jar and marinating it for more than half a month, and then the first breath of dusty and foul air comes out the moment the mud seal is removed...
This smell was beyond the range of his sense of smell and his brain's ability to respond. In the end, only a pale and powerless message was transmitted to his mind.
This information told him that it was colorless, tasteless, indescribable, imperceptible, and horrifying...
The second is his vision.
He saw that there was finally a slight fluctuation in the empty space, and the empty and void area seemed like a strong and dazzling white light.
He knew that the unknown nothingness would definitely not be a white light like this at the beginning.
But now it is.
The white light invaded his vision, and the whistling sound of wind in his ears made him feel as if he was in some kind of dark and damp wind tunnel!
What comes with this is a powerful feeling of being pushed back.
This feeling can be called a push on the back or not.
Because the white light suddenly began to rapidly expand in his field of vision, as if it was rushing towards him, and as if he was being pushed towards it.
All in all, he could feel that he was breaking free of some shackles.
A pure, passive breakthrough.
“Hoo—boom—”
The white light exploded and then gradually dimmed.
This change in vision gave him a strong sense of déjà vu.
He felt like he had rushed out of a tunnel, just like in the movie "Roller Coaster Murders" when he rushed out of the dark cave on a roller coaster and saw the bright white light.
Because of the parallax of light, he saw a white light at first, and then as his adaptability improved, he was gradually able to see the environment in front of him clearly.
It seemed to be... a sky.
The sky is pitch black.
Thick clouds covered the sky like a cotton-padded jacket, and above the sea of clouds, there was a clear yet blurry outline of the sun.
It is said to be blurry because this sun is an extremely pure black sun, as if it has merged into the dark sky.
The reason why it is clear is that there is a golden outline around it, which makes it impossible not to see.
It was as if the gods were painting with the heaven and earth, using red-gold wax to draw a circle on the black sky.
And this circle is the black sun.
Lin Yi felt that it looked familiar. This black sun gave him a sense of déjà vu...
"I think I've seen this somewhere before?"
Before he could react, the sound of waves hitting the rocks rang in his ears again.
The sound came from behind him and entered his ears along with the sound of the wind...
"Ocean waves?"
He was slightly startled, and gradually caught a glimpse of an absurd and ridiculous scene from the corner of his eye.
He saw an ocean.
one slice……
The fucking ocean stood up.
“?!!!!”
A feeling of being pressed to the ground and rubbed wildly eroded his brain, so that his mind was blank at this moment.
He turned sideways somewhat numbly and faced the ocean.
At this moment, a very subversive abstract picture appeared before his eyes.
To his left is the ocean, to his right is the sky.
The boundary between the ocean and the sky lay before him like a surging wave.
“…” “…”
He stared at the scene in a daze, as if he was petrified.
He looked to the right.
A dark, golden-rimmed sun hung high in the dark sky.
He looked to his left again.
The dark water hits the dark rocks.
He looked at his feet.
That piece of stone wall that was covered with scratches, pitch black, and full of holes.
The stone walls are covered with moss.
His subconscious mind had already realized a problem, but he numbed himself with his numb will, and his mind was still repeating that sentence over and over again -
【I am in the dormitory building.】
[Fuck me... in the dormitory building!!!]
But it was clear that he was not there, he was in an unknown world.
And he is not normal.
It's not just ordinary abnormality, but extremely outrageous abnormality.
That dividing line is indeed the dividing line between the ocean and the sky.
The ocean is not actually standing up.
He came sideways.
He was also standing on a sheer mountain face that dropped perpendicular to the horizon—in a gravity-defying way, like fucking Spider-Man.
He remembered.
This place...he had really been here.
While in the gymnasium, he was looking at the ancient green lamp in the swimming pool area and accidentally had a vision.
In that vision, he was standing on the edge of a cliff. In front of the cliff was a world shrouded in fog, and there was a sea extending into the thick fog.
At that time, there was a security guard holding an ancient green lamp on the edge of the cliff.
And now… he was having such visions again.
But there was a subtle change in his position, he moved from the cliff to "above" the cliff.
Finally, his reason could no longer overcome his perception, and he began to feel the force of gravity on his body.
He... is about to fall off the cliff!!!
When he no longer believed that he was in the dormitory building, illusion began to replace reality, true and false were no longer important, and hallucinations and truth were no longer important.
Everything began to distort, leaving only the most primitive "belief" anchoring his position!
But now, there is a problem with the anchor too.
His anchor was fixed on the cliff!
As gravity began to wrap around him, dragging him down the cliff, the sense of crisis of death entangled him like countless tentacles, trying to kill him in one breath.
“What should I do?! What should I do?!”
Facing the breath of death, his brain started working frantically again.
He went over the "Dormitory Rules and Regulations" again and again in his mind, and found that none of them applied to the current situation.
At the critical moment, he thought of his class teacher.
【A steely will is key to fighting pollution.】
"A will of steel...
Lin Yi was like a drowning man who grabbed a life-saving straw, and a gleam of brilliance suddenly flashed in his eyes.
"Yes! Will!!"
"I was in the dormitory building just now!"
"Dormitory building, dormitory building, dormitory building..."
He tried desperately to imagine in his mind the scene before he "came" here!
He is in the dormitory building.
He had just taken Wei Liang past dormitory 1412 and was about to reach dormitory 1413 and dormitory 1414!
He kept reinforcing this perception in his mind, and he kept imagining himself in the corridor of the dormitory building.
"I'm in the hallway! I'm in the hallway! I'm in the hallway..."
Gradually, the sense of gravity that had originally enveloped him began to fade a little.
"It works! This method works!!!"
He was so overjoyed that he almost shouted out loud.
Since hallucinations will appear after his will is loosened, and hallucinations will cause problems with his anchor, why can't he do the opposite and re-anchor in the original area?
But…anchoring requires a reference frame.
So he needed to find a reference point again, an anchor point that could be distinguished from this strange place!
He continued to gather his willpower - this was no longer a matter of concentration, it was a battle of wills!
Finally, something flashed before his eyes!
He captured this scene, it seemed to be... a wall!
An illusory wall!
White walls, brown-yellow layers, with relief-like patterns on the walls, that is...
That’s the pattern in the dormitory corridor!
That's the wall of the dormitory building!
Phantom wall!
Unreal dormitory building!
It's like an illusion!
"Dormitory building! Dormitory building!!"
Lin Yi roared in his heart, but along with the fleeting shadow of the dormitory wall, the feeling of being blessed by gravity suddenly appeared again and slowly wrapped him up!
The loosening of his cognition of the world at the current level awakens the "anchor" based on this level!
The slowly increasing gravity, the whimpering cold sea breeze, and the thin mist slowly enveloped him. These things, which could not be distinguished as false or real, were constantly strengthening his cognition, trying to squeeze out the influence of the dormitory building in his mind!
At this moment, the dormitory building seemed like an illusion. The illusory walls became even more illusory, and the patterns in the corridor, which he had not remembered clearly to begin with, began to become more blurred!
Lin Yi gritted his teeth, but his will eventually began to lose.
Disasters came one after another, and just when his will was suppressed, another kind of cry that did not belong to this world at all was suddenly mixed in the sea breeze.
This was the second time he heard a scream of pain in that short night, but this time the sound was enhanced by this world and became even more terrifying than the last time.
That distant era seemed to be returning to time from the depths of the sea shrouded in thick fog. In a trance, there seemed to be a group of ancient and strange priests waving their canes, dancing around the bonfire in some kind of cult-like dance, chanting a chilling prayer that was filled with evil and could not be pronounced accurately by humans:
"I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome"
No will can resist such a voice. Even a will as strong as steel seems as thin as a cicada's wing in front of it!
This unreasonable voice drilled into Lin Yi's brain like a drill and began to tear his spirit apart.
"Dormitory building... dormitory building... dormitory building..."
These three words were the only ones left in Lin Yi's mind.
But even these last three words became extremely unfamiliar under the impact of this voice...
Just when he was about to be enveloped by darkness, a clear yellow light poured down from the cliff.
It's like a person drowning in the shallow sea, looking up and seeing the sunlight seeping through the sea surface.
Wisps and wisps of warmth, so warm that they seem to reflect the blue sky.
The source of the light seemed to be a lamp, an ancient green lamp.
The iron tower-like figure stood on the cliff, holding a green lantern and looking at the ocean, like a last watcher.
The light from the ancient green lamp enveloped Lin Yi, and the darkness dissipated, and the strange sounds and sea breeze disappeared.
Lin Yi stared at him blankly, his mouth slightly open but unable to utter any words.
He lowered his head and looked at Lin Yi, his pair of red-gold eyes looked more like the sun than the dark sun.
(End of this chapter)