Chapter 171: Cult Choir
Chapter 171: Cult Choir (2500 words added!)
In a trance, Lin Yi seemed to be able to hear some dirty gossip, like ridicule and mockery, bewitching and harassing, like a swarm of insects buzzing around that head, constantly disturbing his mind...
He clenched his teeth tightly, and his breathing gradually became heavy.
This road was not easy to walk on, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult.
He stared closely at two dim street lights in the distance. One was the "Dormitory Building-095" street light, which was his next stop, and the other was the more distant "Dormitory Building-096" street light, which represented his destination.
However, after running for more than a minute this time, Lin Yi still could not get close to "Dormitory Building-095". He felt as if the ground under his feet was infinitely stretched, and no matter how he ran, it was like he was standing still.
What bothered him the most was not that he was standing still, but that this road, which was swinging like ramen noodles, seemed to violate some physical rules, and some places even flipped 180 degrees!
No, not somewhere, but... but under his feet!
The place where he was, had actually flipped over 90°!!
The reason why some of the human-shaped sculptures that rose and fell could not catch up was because the road he was on was twisted and flipped. The human-shaped sculptures were not "rising and falling" at all, but because his position was not stable, which made the human-shaped sculptures that had been moving on a certain flat surface appear to be "rising and falling" to him!
What was rising and falling was not the sculpture, but... his position!
Blast!
Extremely explosive!
"If there isn't some supernatural phenomenon that violates the laws of gravity here, then there must be something wrong with my perception of the surrounding space!"
There is something wrong with cognition!
But when did this problem start to arise?
What the eyes see, what the body touches, what the ears hear, what the nose smells...all the information captured, and the results processed by the brain, or the collapse of logic, lead to this problem?
In other words, each part of the body does its own thing, which is why he has the current problems?
Lin Yi couldn't tell the difference.
He couldn't find the standard for judgment. At this time, he urgently needed to find a reference system in the layer, but now even the reference system seemed to be problematic!
"damn it……"
“What the hell…”
Lin Yi's breathing became heavier, and a feeling of physical and mental exhaustion began to slowly spread in his heart.
The crisis is not terrible. What is terrible is that he has no idea to solve the problem at this critical moment.
The layers are fluctuating, the space is distorted, the people are ups and downs, the light and shadow are blurred, the street lights are swaying...
There was no reference system, and no coordinates to be found. Even the lamppost at the end of the "Dormitory Building-096" seemed to start shaking and trembling...
"call……"
"call……"
"call……"
A stream of hot air began to spew out from his mouth and nose, and a low roar began to come from his throat. The whole person looked like a steam locomotive.
He slowed down his pace, not because he couldn't walk anymore, but because the problem now couldn't be solved by just taking a few steps.
He now seemed to be traveling through a world painted by an immature child with a monotonous and complex brush. There were a few street lights and messy lines distributed in the layers without any regular pattern, and he was being toyed with like an ant in this scroll of absurd and bizarre abstract style.
He didn't know when problems began to arise. Maybe it was when the layers began to distort, or when he encountered the inhuman classmate facing the wall, or when he encountered the flickering street lights... and so on. There were too many doubts and it was impossible to find a clue!
What is even more unreasonable is that even though he was sinking and degenerating in the layers, he actually subjectively acknowledged that "there was something wrong with the layers" and "there was something wrong with self-cognition".
This feeling of powerlessness, "I know I'm making mistakes but I don't know where the boundaries of the mistakes are, so I can't change them even if I want to," is the real source of mental torture.
His sight moved back and forth between the "Dormitory Building-095" lamppost in front of him and the "Dormitory Building-096" lamppost further away, moving bit by bit on this shaking road, like a ship pushed back and forth by the wind and waves, struggling to move towards the buoy ahead.
“Hu…Hu…ho…ho…”
A rough yet firm growl gradually came from his throat, as if the sleeping beast in his body was slowly waking up.
It was from this moment that the gray-white fog around began to roll violently, and some strange figures began to emerge in the shapeless fog with their fangs and claws bared, twisting non-stop in the hazy and dimly lit area.
The ramen road, the winding and twisting space, and the layers of gray fog gave Lin Yi a strange sense of "space" as he ran through the strange painting.
His eyes grew brighter as the pollution worsened, and the hot golden color slowly carved out golden rings in his pupils like tree rings, making his eyes look like an eagle's eyes.
But at the same time, his brain became increasingly drowsy, his thinking began to become sluggish, and he gradually became unable to rely on "reason" to observe the world around him, and his "primitive instinct" gradually took over...
Slowly, through his red-gold pupils, he discovered that the space depicted by the strange and abstract painting where he was now was like a special Rubik's Cube, cut into irregular pieces by those intricate lines.
The ramen-like road was sticking to a part of it, and the rest was entangled in a grayish-white sticky mist like wall powder...
He also discovered that among these irregular fragments there was something like chewing gum, which stuck to his feet, so that he was walking in the same place with every step!
On all sides, overlapping fog was trying to reach him and Wei Liang's bodies like strange tentacles. They themselves did not exist, but in Lin Yi's eyes they were extremely real. This incomprehensible and strange thing that could not be described in words was hidden in the gray fog and entangled on his body like a spider web, rice cake, and snot!
“Swish…”
“Swish…”
“Swish…”
Under the thick fog, sculptures with strange shapes were moving slowly along this substance. When they moved through the broken areas, their bodies rubbed against it, shaking off white powder particles like falling ashes. This was the source of their rustling sound, not simply dragging their bodies on the ground!
"Oh no..." The moment he "saw" this scene, Lin Yi's scalp went numb and he suddenly realized a horrible truth - if he was in the state of "swimming with half of his body exposed on the water" before, now he was completely submerged under the water!
He fell off the glass walkway!
Because he lost his anchor, no, because he didn’t have an anchor in the beginning, so he couldn’t anchor the layer, so the layer he was in now fell into the layer he saw and felt, and reached the same layer as these non-human units, strange sculptures and shapeless nocturnal creatures!!!
[Hehehe… smells so good…]
【smell good……】
Lin Yi seemed to have become the most delicious thing. In this layer, he attracted them like the brightest star in the night sky. One after another, those undisguised, greedy, evil, and murderous gazes filled with pure malice and desire fell on Lin Yi unscrupulously!
“Hoo—Hoo—”
The night wind was cold and the gray fog was like waves, sweeping in from all directions like a violent storm.
"My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is X0230506098! I'm on the cobblestone road to the dormitory!"
"My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is..."
Although he knew it had no effect, he still tried to repeat these "basic operations" in his mind.
But a horrifying scene appeared, and Lin Yi heard some sounds...
He was stunned, he stood there in a daze.
What did he hear?
He heard it...
[My name is Lin Yi...]
[My name is Lin Yi, and my student ID is...]
The voice became clearer and clearer, it turned out to be——
[My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is X0230506098! I am walking on the cobblestone road to the dormitory building! ]
[My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is...]
[My name is Lin Yi, hahahaha——]
It was the weird sculptures, the twisted nocturnal creatures, the gray mist, the sticky liquid... They had captured Lin Yi's voice, and then followed suit and chanted it out loud without restraint!
Lin Yi seemed to be in a dark cave, surrounded by strange figures, whose faces could not be seen clearly, only their bloody crescent eyes and clown-like smiles. They stood neatly beside Lin Yi like a choir, swaying like reeds swaying in the wind, laughing and humming in uneven layers. And these chants were none other than -
[My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is X0230506098! I am walking on the cobblestone road to the dormitory building! ]
They capture the information that Lin Yi uses to anchor his identity, and now whenever Lin Yi loses his student ID, a lucky cult choir member will be randomly selected to inherit his identity.
"Damn it! This damn sense of humor comes at a really bad time."
"Wait a moment!"
Lin Yi suddenly discovered a problem - I had clearly fallen into the same layer as them, so why wasn't I attacked by them? !
Those inhuman units were right beside him, even though they were not in the same "broken and collapsed cube" as him, but that didn't affect their attack on him at all! Why didn't they attack him, but just swayed and sang his identity information over there like a dark choir of evil troupes?
If the previous encirclement could be explained by the fact that there was some street light sprinkled on his escape route, then the current situation is completely different!
This is totally their home ground, but what did they choose - they chose the most annoying method!
Lin Yi's mind was a little confused. This confusion was not his subjective confusion, but the "chaos" caused by the impact of the magic sound of the "choir" and the collapsed layer space environment around him, just like a person cannot read a palm-sized notebook on a bumpy mountain path.
You want to read, but the environment and physical conditions do not allow it.
Lin Yi quickly took another new step in this "sticky" layer, but when he took this step, he suddenly found that the ground under his feet was a piece of soft mud...
He was stunned for a moment, and then he realized that this was not mud, but... nocturnal species.
He... stepped on a road that was pieced together by who knows how many nocturnal species. The texture of this ramen was partly because the feedback of the space was indeed broken, and partly because... these were the bodies of the nocturnal species with the texture of fucking dough!
Lin Yi's entire body began to tremble. A "sanity" bar that looked like a blood bar popped up on his head and was now dropping down...
His body kept shaking. The shock brought by the nocturnal species when he was startled by the ground under his feet exceeded the limit of his cognition at the moment, causing a dark terror to grow in his heart, and then spread endlessly, almost swallowing him up.
He felt his body swaying slightly, uncontrollably following the rhythm and demonic cadence of the choir.
Lin Yi's will had become stronger after being tempered, and his cognitive strength was no longer comparable to that of the day before. He guessed something, and he also foresaw something, but even so, as the saying goes, "The higher the virtue, the higher the evil." The layers falling under abnormal weather conditions could always bring him a new version of horror.
Suddenly, some fine particles like sand hit his face along with the mist, just like someone was rubbing a piece of sandpaper soaked in water on his face.
Not just his face, but his entire skin, the gritty feeling seeped through his school uniform and made him feel sick.
But before he could adjust his mentality and adapt to the change in environment, the ground beneath his feet became even worse, sticking to his feet like asphalt, gradually making it difficult for him to move.
It was becoming increasingly difficult for him to move, like Elder Tang trapped in the Spider Cave. However, what greeted him were not seven little goblins who could play spider silk with their belly buttons, but seventy, seven hundred, or even more non-human units who wanted to play sculpture with him.
However, the situation did not stop there. Even worse changes continued to occur. The temperature around Lin Yi began to drop, and the texture of the gravel gradually turned into the texture of ice. An icy cold wind blowing from somewhere unknown intervened in this layer, whistling and swirling, as if there was a hole in the tunnel of the air-raid shelter, and the wind from the ice and snow poured into it, making a humming sound non-stop.
The confusing demonic voice of the "evil choir" chanting Lin Yi's identity information was affected by the cold wind and became rapid and hoarse. The voice began to distort and change...
At this time, the sound of swirling air currents began to swirl in the whistling wind, and a faint slapping sound seeped through the cyclone, like the sound made by the broken waves in the Arctic glacier washing over the dark reefs and breaking into countless pieces of ice flowers.
In the sound waves that shattered into pieces, the choir's voice was filled with an indescribable demonic quality. They were clearly reciting Lin Yi's identity information, but they tore each syllable in the voice into pieces and reassembled them, then crushed them into a completely new, discontinuous, evil noise.
Lin Yi hadn't heard such a voice for a long time. It was a voice that seemed to come from some extremely distant, abandoned and ruined world. It was a dull, dry, ancient voice that could not be described in words. It was like an evil witch chanting a ritual that was causing mental breakdown and madness in a secluded and desolate place:
【「I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome」! ! ! 】
【"I Avgr...uNnen av tKe og mrke... jaGer forTapte Sjeler... fanTome"! ! ! 】
The evil choir shook their heads and swayed their bodies like noodle makers, and swayed like Indian snake dancers. They had pious smiles on their faces, and stood there hand in hand like rows of human tombstones, singing wildly in the frenzy of gray fog, exuding a strong sense of weird, manic, crazy and broken cult ritual.
These crazy sounds made Lin Yi feel collapsed and irritable. The hot blood in his body began to boil uncontrollably. He slightly hunched his body, and like a barbarian who was under great threat, he clenched his teeth and let out a low roar of "ho ho ho... ho ho..." between his teeth. The steam began to spew out from his mouth and nose more and more strongly.
However, the steam did not make him feel warm. On the contrary, as he entered this state, his whole body began to fall into a strange state of two-level reversal. His internal organs seemed to be burning, but his body was quickly losing temperature in the cold wind of the layer.
He felt his bones turning red, his flesh turning cold, and his skin beginning to turn into a bluish-gray texture similar to Wei Liang's current state, looking like an iron embryo that was being quenched.
He looked at the lampposts ahead. "Dormitory Building 095" and "Dormitory Building 096" were no longer straight, but had turned into two vertical wavy lines. The sobbing sea breeze roared in his ears, and the distorted layers seemed to devour his soul. He knew that he was about to die, because now even the last lamppost that could help him locate it had lost its original appearance...
“I’m so tired…”
“Damn… I’m so tired…”
"Don't stop... Keep going, keep going! If you stop, you'll be doomed..." In a trance, a voice rang in Lin Yi's ears. It sounded like Wei Shan's, like Tian Bufan's, and it sounded like he was mumbling to himself, giving himself psychological hints...
“Ha… huh… ha… huh…”
Lin Yi felt that his body had reached its limit and he could no longer move forward even one more step in this layer of collapse.
He kept panting, his whole body was sweating, and beads of sweat fell from his forehead like raindrops.
"Go, Lin Yi...keep going! Don't stop..."
But soon, the voices of the evil choir mixed with the storm and drowned out his whispers.
"I Avgr...uNnen av..." Lin Yi began to murmur these syllables subconsciously. The light in his eyes began to fade, but soon the golden flames rekindled in his eyes. He shook his head, "No...can't do this..."
"fanTome..."
"Do not……"
"Huh...huh..."
He was dragging the Wei Liang version of the iron plow like an ox plowing the field, moving forward with difficulty. The light in his eyes flickered, and from his perspective, the whole world was shaking and on the verge of collapse.
“Ugh…Ah-ah! Ah! Ah!!”
Lin Yi felt his body becoming heavier and heavier, as if the whole world was pressing down on him along with Wei Liang, slowly bending his spine until he finally knelt on the ground. He felt his eyelids were heavy, but he still gritted his teeth and crawled towards the street lamp with his hands on the ground. When he couldn't crawl anymore, he lay on the ground like a cricket pupa, even if it meant he could only get a little closer to the street lamp.
Gradually, Lin Yi's mind began to become unclear. He felt as if he was swimming in the ocean. The cold water surrounded his body, making a "Hua-Hua-Hua" sound, which gave people who heard it a strange sense of calm...
Beside him, countless ghostly shadows swam in the sea like a group of tadpoles, shaking black afterimages that were not sure if they were tails, creating ripples in the sea water, and swam towards the location of the street lamp one after another...
"Are these... nocturnal species?"
"Strange...why didn't they attack me?"
“How strange…”
Lin Yi's mind was in a daze. He felt as if he had become a member of the nocturnal species, but he soon discovered that this was not the case...
It was true that there were nocturnal species around him, but none of them dared to get close to him. They all hovered around him like satellites orbiting planets. However, those nocturnal species that he saw would quickly dodge away, as if they were afraid of being seen by him.
He was a little confused but still tried to look here and there. It turned out that wherever he went, it was as if a sharp blade swept out, and those nocturnal creatures all tried to avoid it.
"It's really weird. Isn't void-seeking their mechanism? Why... they seem to be afraid of being targeted by me?" Lin Yi's eyes, as bright as the golden sun, couldn't help but show confusion.
But this is a good thing, at least... it can keep him temporarily safe in this layer.
"Liangzi, can you still hold on? I can't hold on any longer. If you have any trump cards, just bring them out. At least... protect yourself first..." He growled and touched the hand that Wei Liang had placed on his shoulder.
However, Wei Liang's hands were cold and there was no sound in response, as if he had been disconnected from the game.
Lin Yi gritted his teeth. He actually didn't expect Wei Liang to suddenly burst out at this time and make a miracle-like opening. He just hoped that Wei Liang could have some tricks to protect himself.
Because Lin Yi felt that his road was really coming to an end.
He was like a ship that encountered a storm before it dropped anchor and was now taken out of the safe harbor. Even if he tried his best to sail towards the safe harbor, he could only barely offset the impact of the wind and waves and keep himself standing still.
There is simply no way or ability for him to get close to the safe haven at this time!
Once he has exhausted his last bit of strength, he will be swept away by this storm to an unknown place.
"Liangzi, Liangzi...if you can really hear me, hurry up and come up with some tricks to protect yourself...now is still not too late..." Lin Yi said with difficulty, then looked down at his watch.
21: 26.
There are only two street lights left to the dormitory building. If Wei Liang really has some tricks that allow him to cross this distance and return to the dormitory, then that would be fine.
After all, if two people are in danger, the one who survives is the one who survives.
When speaking to Wei Liang, Lin Yi couldn't help but look at Wei Liang inadvertently. However, it was this half-glance that made him see a dark object behind him out of the corner of his eye.
In order to see more clearly, he barely supported his body and turned his head. The next moment, what he saw created an extremely strong visual impact for him.
It was true that Wei Liang was lying on his back the entire time, but——
But there was actually a fucking person lying on Wei Liang's back? !
Added 2500 words for the leader "chltchu", still owes 4500 words!!
Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "琳skylark" for their tips!!
(End of this chapter)