Chapter 170 "Monkey Steps on a Stick to View the Sea Map"
Chapter 170 "Monkey Steps on a Stick to View the Sea Map" (3000 words added!)
It was a solid sphere. Lin Yi couldn't tell with his naked eyes whether it was pure white, grayish white, or even some other color. He also had no way of determining what its material was. He could only judge from his first impression that it was probably a kind of stone.
On the stone, there are several concentric circles carved, which look like eagle eyes, and in the center of the eagle eyes, there seems to be some kind of symbol that seems to be cast with boiling gold.
And what truly shines with light is actually this piece of stone.
"This is the 'light bulb'?!"
Lin Yi took a breath of cold air, feeling an indescribable feeling in his heart. It was not until this moment that he realized that he seemed to have some huge misunderstanding about the street lights in this campus.
"Are all the lights on campus caused by this magical stone?"
"Wait!!" Lin Yi's pupils trembled instantly, "That's why conventional lighting equipment can't achieve the effect of expelling non-human students!"
The little genius's flashlight had no effect after the lights in the classroom went out. It turned out that what could be used to drive away the non-human classmates was not light, but the "light" emitted by this magical stone?
"Hey wait a minute..."
Speaking of lights…?
Lin Yi subconsciously thought of the stone bridge that led from the watchtower to the castle. On the piers of the stone bridge, there were candles like shrines. Those candles... seemed to be of the same nature as this magical stone?
There are also old kerosene lamps!
"Hiss..." Lin Yi took a deep breath and instantly thought of four words, "Extraordinary Characteristics."
The light emitted by objects with extraordinary properties is the key to expelling inhuman classmates!
"The energy that powers some of the facilities on campus is not 'electricity', but something with extraordinary properties!"
“That makes sense!”
"How else can we lay out the circuits to overcome the effects of layer distortion and deliver 'electricity' to the entire campus?"
"Because street lights don't use electricity at all, but a special energy source!"
Maybe it's a reactor like the one in Iron Man, or some special energy source, but no matter what it is, it's unlikely to be the power grid!
The moment he thought of this scene, Lin Yi felt as if an invisible shackle in his mind had been opened, and his "cognition" seemed to have touched a brand new realm.
But before he could think about this, the street lamp suddenly flickered like an eye...
Just this flash of the light caused the feeling of uneasiness to surge violently in Lin Yi's heart.
"Fuck, even street lights can flicker?!"
"How many unstable places are there on campus?"
"Wait a moment……"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and looked at the mist not far away with a vigilant look, not knowing whether it was an illusion or something else, but he felt that the outline of the human-shaped sculpture in the mist seemed to be clearer, and there was a strange trend that it was about to break through the mist and kill him...
And at the moment he hesitated, the street lamp flickered again.
This time the flash lasted for half a second. When the lights came on again, three hideous human-shaped sculptures suddenly appeared in front of him!
Lin Yi's pupils contracted violently, and he subconsciously took a half step back. But he suddenly thought of something, and when he turned around, he really saw several human-shaped sculptures three body lengths behind him!
These human-shaped sculptures remained completely still under the light, yet maintained a posture of pouncing forward with fangs and claws bared, only a few body lengths away from Lin Yi and Wei Liang!
When they were illuminated by the light, dark white mist began to sizzle out of their bodies. However, unlike the humanoid sculptures that transformed into non-human beings, these sculptures did not seem to have the ability to transform. As the mist erupted from their bodies, their bodies began to harden, and their texture became increasingly close to a pure white plaster-like substance.
Rather than the process of "human-shaped sculptures transforming into non-human classmates", what happened to them was more like "nocturnal species being dried into stinky mud sculptures under the sun"!
Without having time to think about the difference, Lin Yi felt an urge to kick them back into the fog, but his reason suppressed his impulse and told him that the light was toxic to them, and the fog was what could restore their vitality.
"Not only can we not move them, we have to keep them illuminated by the light!"
Lin Yi was frightened by the human-shaped sculpture and broke out in a cold sweat, but he had to admit that the more such moments occurred, the faster his emergency thinking became.
But he also realized a problem. These two consecutive lights indicated an extremely serious problem -
"The lights are failing!"
He looked at the street lamp again, and saw that the street lamp in the lampshade seemed to be running out of oil, with only a last bit of afterglow left.
What he didn't notice was that the white painted number on the lamppost was also fading as the light dimmed...
At this moment, the light in the bulb suddenly flickered...
"Fuck! Again?!"
Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and his eyes swept across the human-shaped sculptures in the mist like a sharp sword, then he took a deep breath.
“Bo…”
The lights went out instantly!
After a full second, the lights came back on!
When the lights came on, an extremely strange scene was captured under the streetlights——
The thirteen human-shaped sculptures surrounded the street lamp from all directions, almost filling up the limited lighting area of the street lamp.
They are frozen in various movements, some are crawling on the ground almost like humanoid beasts, while others have come under the street lights, with their arms raised high in a posture of strangling people's throats. Their faces are hideous and terrifying, as if they were created by a vengeful and psychologically twisted sculptor.
No matter from which angle they invade the light of the street lamp, all of them are targeting the street lamp, and the position where each sculpture's hand points is the lampshade of the street lamp!
Their target is the light bulb?
No, it's Lin Yi and Wei Liang.
Because in this almost frozen picture, there is a more abstract picture than the thirteen human-shaped sculptures besieging the street lamp pole - Lin Yi carried Wei Liang on his back and climbed up the street lamp pole. He used a sheet to stabilize Wei Liang's body with one hand, and held the street lamp pole tightly with the other hand. His left foot stepped on the protruding teeth of the street lamp pole base, and his right foot directly stepped on the forehead of a certain unlucky human-shaped sculpture...
But looking at the trinity of Lin Yi, Wei Liang and the lamppost, it looks just like an abstract painting of "Monkeys Stepping on Sticks and Watching the Sea". If you add the thirteen human sculptures below, it is immediately full of the colors of Western cult art.
Not only is it abstract, it also makes your brain go crazy.
Lin Yi was also a little slow to react. No, this operation was done by me?!
It's even more sexy than some weird tricks!
Especially the time when he remained calm and used his kick on the face of the human-shaped sculpture to "borrow the force", which was quite similar to the grace of the boss when he stepped on him and pushed him into the swimming pool!
To be honest, he keenly captured the movement trends of the human-shaped sculptures at the moment the street lights went out, simulated their attack trajectories in his mind, and calculated some escape routes, but at the last moment he saw the figures ready to move in the fog, and he overturned all the routes at once and chose this one that looked the most dangerous and the most exciting.
What even he himself did not realize was that at this moment, his eyes were shining brightly, shocking the world like the blazing sun.
It was at this moment that he, who had "climbed to a high place", used his bright golden eyes to identify the direction in the vast darkness, and saw a large area of lamp posts emitting sporadic afterglow!
“I saw it!”
“I saw it all!”
The vision that was originally blocked by thick fog suddenly became much clearer. He felt that his eyes seemed to have a kind of night vision ability at this moment. To be honest, this vision was similar to his previous uncontrollable black and white exposure quality, but it was even more powerful than that effect. It was like an enhanced version of black and white vision.
In this perspective, he saw a twisting road of nothingness. This road was wriggling slowly like a snake, emitting ripple-like waves around it from time to time. And at the key nodes of the "snake", there were street lamps one after another.
The end point of the "snake" seemed to be stared at something. Needless to say, Lin Yi knew that place was the location of the dormitory building!
He counted quickly and found that there were indeed only four street lamps ahead, and the fourth one was the first lamp pole in front of the dormitory building - "Dormitory Building-096"!
But he also discovered a problem, that is, in front of the lamp posts of "Dormitory Building-094" and "Dormitory Building-095", there were inhuman classmates who were facing the wall!
Lin Yi knew that these inhuman classmates were definitely not simply facing the wall. The dimming of street lights was basically related to them. However, he simply did not have time to think about so much now. The most important thing was to get back to the dormitory building first!
"Old Lin... let's go... let's go quickly..." Lin Yi seemed to hear Wei Liang's weak voice, but he was sure that Wei Liang would not speak at this time.
Feeling Wei Liang's increasingly cold palm, Lin Yi gritted his teeth, nodded heavily, and said in his heart: "I have to leave immediately!"
He had to leave. The street lights could go out at any time and the human-shaped sculpture could move again at any time. He didn't have much time left!
He held his breath and looked into the distance, his sight passed over the several lamp posts in the middle, and simply deduced the twisting trajectory of this "snake" shaped route in his mind, and finally locked onto the "Dormitory Building-096" lamp post!
The trajectory is worth watching, but the only thing that is truly trustworthy is the unchanging destination.
He took a deep breath, checked the time, then carried Wei Liang on his back and used the solidified human-shaped sculptures as steps to land on the ground, then rushed straight to the lamppost of "Dormitory Building-096".
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X023年5月8日，21：13，雾气逐渐变成灰色的宿舍楼区域。
Lin Yi rushed into the gray fog with Wei Liang on his back. The thick fog blocked the light like a quilt and ruthlessly covered Lin Yi's figure.
Not long after he left the "Dormitory Building-092" lamppost, the lamp number written in white paint completely faded and disappeared. Then, the light bulb in the lampshade went out completely, turning into a round stone ball with some concentric circles.
“Swish…”
“Swish…”
When Lin Yi entered the thick fog, countless nocturnal species and humanoid sculptures began to move in the darkness. All the inhuman units near and far began to surround him, just like a large group of zombies catching the scent of a living person and swarming towards him.
Lin Yi could naturally hear such sounds, but he no longer cared about that. He was now racing against a human-shaped sculpture that looked like the god of death.
One human-shaped sculpture is not scary, but what about ten, a hundred, or more?
There are human-shaped sculptures all over the mountains, so many that they could crush a person to death!
Lin Yi maintained a rhythmic breathing and pace as he ran on a ground that he couldn't tell whether it was a cobblestone road or some soft sand. He himself didn't know where he got the strength from, as he could run so fast while carrying Wei Liang, who weighed almost as much as he did.
You know, a person who is almost unconscious will not adjust his center of gravity, so carrying someone on your back is not as easy as it is shown on TV. What's more, on TV, people are carrying some pretty little princess, and the plot is that they are running away to a dilapidated temple in a deserted mountain, and then they build a bonfire, and the camera shows the scene of drying clothes, and then there are actually some healing scenes that require payment to unlock and require hundreds of millions of skills. So when people run, they are full of passion and motivation.
It’s completely different from what he is doing now!
Lin Yi was not sprinting straight towards the "Dormitory Building-096" street lamp pole, but was running as close as possible to the route of "Dormitory Building-093", "Dormitory Building-094", and "Dormitory Building-095" twisting and fluctuating in the dark according to his mental deduction. In this way, although the lights of those street lamp poles were also shaky, he could at least get some of the afterglow of those street lamp poles and relieve a little pressure.
This time, it took him only 25 seconds to rush to the illumination range of the "Dormitory Building-093" street lamp pole. When he arrived under the street light, the inhuman units that were originally surrounding him quickly dispersed in all directions, and no one dared to follow him close to the illuminated area.
Even though the light from the street lamp looked extremely dim.
"Dormitory Building-093" There was no inhuman classmate facing the wall in front of the lamppost. Lin Yi and Wei Liang took a few breaths and then continued to sprint.
As soon as he left the illuminated area, those units that did not dare to approach the non-humans surrounded him again.
In the darkness and gray fog, these inhuman units seemed to form a ripple with their huge numbers.
It was like someone reached a hand into the pile of soybeans and pushed forward. Lin Yi, who was carrying Wei Liang on his back, was like that hand, and the ripples formed by the non-human unit were the wrinkle-like ripples caused by the palm pushing the soybeans. They seemed to have surrounded Lin Yi, but he had never had the chance to take that last step and completely close the loop before the encirclement.
30 seconds later, the "Dormitory Building-094" lamppost finally appeared in front of Lin Yi.
And those inhuman students who were facing the wall seemed to have sensed something. They slowly turned their heads like puppets on a turntable, and then stood there silently, their eyes falling on Lin Yi from afar, with an abstract expression on their cold faces that said "I want you to feel that I'm nervous and scared."
"Classmates...classmates! Come quickly! Come here quickly!" One of the inhuman classmates waved and shouted loudly to Lin Yi and the others.
Lin Yi seemed not to hear its call. He gritted his teeth and continued to sprint. After a few seconds, he broke through the fog and entered the lighting range of the "Dormitory Building-094" street lamp pole.
He knew that the other party was deliberately luring him over, but what could he do? He really needed these few opportunities to catch his breath and that tiny gap in the bathing light.
Although the light at this time could no longer make him feel any warmth, when he came under the light feeling a little tired, he still felt like being recharged.
This feeling is not obvious at normal times, but when he is tired to a certain extent, it becomes clear.
"Classmates, are you okay?" A non-human classmate spoke with concern, and the other non-human classmates slowly approached them and surrounded the two of them invisibly.
"It's not safe over there, come over to the lamppost." Another inhuman classmate wanted to go over and help Lin Yi.
Lin Yi held the sheets tightly with one hand to steady Wei Liang, and supported his knees with the other hand. He stared at the ground and relaxed like a person who had run several kilometers with a weight, completely ignoring the intentions of these inhuman classmates.
They were obviously almost reaching him, but he seemed to be still immersed in his own world.
21:15:43, the non-human classmate was only two body lengths away from Lin Yi.
21:15:48, the toes of the non-human classmate who was closest to him had appeared in Lin Yi’s field of vision.
"Classmate, come here." The inhuman classmate slowly extended his hand towards Lin Yi.
"Oh..." Lin Yi let out a long sigh, supported himself on his knees and stood up, and slowly loosened the hand that was holding the quilt tightly, as if he was going to reach out to grab the hand of his inhuman classmate.
"Yes, yes, that's it..." The corners of the non-human classmate's mouth slowly opened up, and soon it would crack from the normal arc to become a weird smile that stretched from ear to ear. The sound that came out of its mouth became more and more confusing, from dry and hoarse to gentle and peaceful, as if it could soothe people's hearts.
"Come on, come on...you are safe..."
"It's safe..."
Seeing Lin Yi's hand slowly raised, the non-human classmate couldn't help but reveal a smile of success: "Come on... Come on..."
It tried to grab Lin Yi's palm, but at this moment, Lin Yi grabbed the sheet, pulled it off, and threw it towards the inhuman classmate in front of him.
Non-human classmate: "Huh?"
It was stunned for a moment, and the next moment, a fist hit its face hard through two layers of sheets!
"Bang!"
The non-human classmate stumbled, stumbled back two steps and fell to the ground. The corners of his mouth, which were already cracked, collapsed a little due to the heavy punch. More cracks spread, making his already hideous face even more terrifying.
It stood up from the ground with stars in its eyes, and its slightly deformed head was full of question marks, like a stupid Buddha.
Right in front of it, Lin Yi swung his arms and rolled up the sheet, like a child wrapping clothes around his arms as boxing gloves, forming a trap of some size. He lifted up the remaining part and threw it behind him, just covering Wei Liang.
"So Wei Shan feels so good?" Lin Yi looked at the sheets wrapped around his hands. There was some ketchup on the sheets, but you have to admit, it felt really good when he punched him hard.
Lin Yi felt his feet were a little itchy, and subconsciously he wanted to take small steps and hop around, and his neck also wanted to shake.
Although he hadn't moved yet, an illusory little man seemed to have jumped out of his little head. The little man was shaking his head and jumping around like a boxer doing warm-up exercises, and he looked like he really wanted a beating. But combined with the expression on Lin Yi's face, as if the door to a new world had been opened, it looked very interesting.
This time, Lin Yi couldn't deal with the non-human classmate. He said, "We are not the big brother, and we haven't revealed our true identity. Why did you come up and start punching us?"
But Lin Yi decided to go all out and punched the nearest non-human classmate. The punch was so fast and accurate that it made his face dent.
The remaining non-human classmates all pounced over with ferocious looks on their faces, but they thought they were very fast. However, in fact, that speed was "relative". In Lin Yi's eyes, they were actually a few stiff zombie-like creatures.
They didn't even feel like they weren't human, but apart from the brainwashing magic sound, they didn't look like normal people at all, including their facial expressions that were either absent or exaggerated, their body movements that were stiff and unnatural, their voices that were dry and hoarse, etc...
It's just that they themselves are completely unaware of it.
So the situation under the lights turned into Lin Yi surrounding several non-human classmates alone. Even though he was carrying Wei Liang on his back, he was much more agile than the non-human classmates. In addition, with the help of the lamppost, he was able to dodge and move around, making the non-human classmates unable to resist.
Lin Yi thought thoughtfully: "Light has a strong 'sterilization' effect on most humanoid sculptures and nocturnal species, and it also has a strong suppressive effect on things that have transformed into non-human classmates..."
"However, these non-human classmates are different from the non-human classmates I observed in my dream through Mr. Tian's perspective... Their flexibility and IQ performance seem to be between 'non-human classmates illuminated by the classroom lights' and 'non-human classmates after the lights are turned off'..."
"It seems to be a problem of the lighting intensity..."
Lin Yi began to adjust his output rhythm, so that he could save energy as much as possible while also inflicting damage to these inhuman classmates, preventing them from getting close to him.
Just as his rhythm was getting better, the light from the street lamp suddenly flickered like a candle...
Lin Yi suddenly felt a little uneasy, he knew he couldn't stay here any longer.
So he did not linger any longer, and after using his fists to open up the blocked path, he rushed out of the lighting range of "Dormitory Building-094" with Wei Liang and rushed towards "Dormitory Building-095".
With the precedent of a one-on-one kill in "Dormitory Building-094", Lin Yi felt very confident about his future. However, what he didn't realize was that even after he left the lighted area of "Dormitory Building-094", the inhuman classmates he had attacked did not get up again, but fell to the ground, gradually turning into a lifeless, pure white plaster-like substance...
Some light mist floated from their bodies. The mist was as thin as cooking smoke and merged into the surrounding thick fog with the evening breeze. Then, as if it could track the target, it lingered around Lin Yi like a tarsalgia and was inhaled into his body bit by bit along with the rhythm of his breathing.
Then, the fog in the dark night was like a myriad of strands of hair, and it was impossible to distinguish the difference between them. Coupled with the dim light and the slightly distorted space, these strands of fog mixed in and could not be seen at all.
Lin Yi was also completely unaware of this problem, but for some reason the humanoid sculptures that had been biting him tightly relaxed a little towards him. Although they were still chasing him, they kept a distance from him.
This was a good thing. Lin Yi had neither the mind nor the time to think about why, so he just seized the opportunity and continued running.
But gradually, problems began to arise...
As he ran, the ground beneath his feet suddenly turned into something that was neither cobblestone nor soft sand, and began to make fine "cracking" sounds, giving him a feeling of walking on thin ice.
He looked down at his feet and immediately discovered that there was a dense, spider-web-like crack extending outward from the junction of his feet and the ground.
"Tsk... again?"
This was the scene last night, I didn’t expect it to happen again now.
Is this a layer of falling, or is this...every time I get close to the dormitory building in abnormal weather, I'll encounter this situation? !
"Don't do it... Time is running out..."
Lin Yi gritted his teeth and stepped on this strange road full of cracks.
But suddenly, he found that the space in front of him suddenly swayed.
That's right, it was that kind... the whole road seemed to be picked up and swung by some force, feeling like ramen.
As a result, Lin Yi, who was walking on this road, was in great trouble.
The road surface, which was originally covered with cracks, began to blend with a strong sense of contrast and collapse with the appearance of ramen special effects. Lin Yi stepped on a thin and brittle layer of ice with one foot, and landed on some soft and sticky road surface with the next foot.
He felt that his body balance was being destroyed and damaged by the layers, and he almost fell down several times.
And around him, the shadows of the human-shaped sculptures surged up and down as if they were stepping on the waves, and the sound of "rustling, rustling..." was endless.
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