Chapter 207: Stormy Street Lamps, and Fake People!
Chapter 207: Stormy Street Lamps, and...Fake People!
"We are getting closer. We can walk slower." Mu Da slowed down his pace. "If we get any closer, we will die."
"I'm already feeling very uncomfortable." Mao Feiyang said with difficulty.
"When we get close to His realm, we will also feel like moths flying into a flame." Mu Daxian said, "Flames can provide light in the dark night, but if we throw ourselves into the flames, we will only destroy ourselves."
Mao Feiyang nodded as if he understood, and thought to himself, Brother, stop being so romantic, just tell me what you are going to do next.
At this moment, he found that some illusory human figures gradually emerged in the fog surrounding him.
These figures looked like the rocks and trees in the distance, which were refracted by the light and shadow of thunder into the distorted fog. They also looked like ghosts between reality and illusion in horror movies. When the wind blew up the curtains, their outlines would be outlined by the curtains.
But Mao Feiyang soon realized that this was not just the change of overlapping and surging fog under the light and shadow, but... an angel sculpture!
As he and Mu Daxian approached His realm, the angel sculptures that were originally on another layer absorbing the extraordinary power in his body seemed to be pulled into this layer little by little.
The fog still outlines them, and the thunder traps them here.
"What's the current situation of the student commemorative coins?" Mu Daxian asked in a deep voice.
Mao Feiyang took a look.
The student commemorative coin seemed to be dragged into the flesh by the scarlet blood. The original spider-web-like tiny cracks had now turned into hideous blood vessels, which looked shocking.
"What would it take to be good?" Mao Feiyang asked with difficulty.
"Just wait until it's full of blood!"
"What does it take to be full?"
"After it's full, it will fall off like a fruit!"
“Like a tomato?”
"almost."
"Then...how about a cherry tomato? I feel like a cherry tomato now!"
"Not even close!"
"Depend on!"
Despite this, Mao Feiyang still felt that there was an indescribable force in his body that was being frantically drawn away by the student commemorative coins. Especially when he approached His domain, the blood in his body seemed to become agitated and flowed away even faster.
"Where are the purebred nocturnal species that followed us before? Why can't we see them?" Mao Feiyang asked.
"They've been driven out!"
"what?"
"They are not 'qualified' to get close to the angel statue!"
"That's great!" Mao Feiyang thought that he had finally gotten rid of those purebred nocturnal creatures that were like a mudslide.
"What's good? Do you want to face nine angel sculptures, or a mudslide that can't catch up with you?"
"I don't even want to face a mudslide... As of yesterday, I was still a person who came here with my roommates to play a few games and make a little money!"
"And let me reiterate, it's not nine, it's eleven!"
"These two student commemorative coins are real vampires!"
Mu Daxian used the conversation to hold Mao Feiyang's will in place in case he really couldn't withstand the absorption of the angel sculpture.
"What would happen if I was sucked dry by the angel sculpture?" Mao Feiyang suddenly asked.
"Nothing will happen." Mu Daxian thought for a moment and said in a deep voice, "You won't even be aware of your own death. Until you turn into a sculpture and become a fake person, you may not even feel what has happened."
"This...?" Mao Feiyang's heart trembled violently, "I can't even feel death? If even I don't know that I'm dead, and I can still move, am I alive or dead?"
Mu Daxian was stunned for a moment, as if he was stumped by Mao Feiyang's question. He thought seriously for a while before saying, "Being alive means you feel you are still alive, and being dead means others think you are dead."
"Huh? Brother, I'm not taking the postgraduate entrance exam. Can you please speak in layman's terms?"
"Perception." Mu Daxian said, "It depends on perception."
"Just like fake people, it is usually difficult for us to distinguish whether they can be transformed back, so we should just cut them off without hesitation and kill them when it is time to do so."
"You mean... only when you know you can't live anymore, you know you are really dead?"
The pseudo-human state is an alternative form of "living", and the dead do not die according to their will. What a cruel and bizarre dialectical question this is!
"Why can I sense the malice of the angel statue, but not his own?"
"The angel statue really wants to kill you, but He doesn't care about you at all."
"When you walk, you don't care about stepping on a few ants."
"He is not on the same level as us. If you want to attract his attention, you must at least raise your life level to that of an angel statue..."
"But if you do that, you're no longer considered a 'human'."
"Forget it, don't think too much. This is not something you have the opportunity to get in touch with now." Mu Daxian shook his head and glanced at the direction of Building C of the teaching building. "Let's find a way to get through the current predicament first."
He was in Building C of the teaching building, so the lights in almost the entire area of Building C were off.
A little further out, the lights flickered, sometimes bright and sometimes dim. A little further out, the incandescent lamps were relatively dim but on. Then, further out, the lights in the teaching building were always on.
Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang were wandering in the areas where the lights were always on and those where the lights were slightly dimmer.
To use a simple and vivid metaphor, the two of them are like the jungler and support duo who take the initiative to take advantage of Yang Yuhuan's second skill.
"He will rarely attack us on his own initiative, but there are exceptions to everything."
"We won't be that unlucky, right?" Mao Feiyang asked.
Mu Daxian's mouth twitched slightly: "You don't think we will be lucky, do you?"
Mao Feiyang: “…”
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. Through observation of the area, he calculated that the range of "His" domain should be above fifty meters, but no more than one hundred meters...
If he was in the area, he would be drawn there completely out of control, just like he was before.
"Come to think of it, the image captured by Pan Jian's digital camera should be the scene of Him opening the classroom door, right?"
Judging from the location where the digital camera fell, it should have been within fifty meters of the door of the lecture hall...
"Within fifty meters... the image captured by the digital camera has already turned into snowflakes..."
"No, you can't understand it that way... 'shooting' with a digital camera is just a way of recording. When recording, you may capture something, but no matter what you capture, after the electronic image is formed, it will appear as snowflakes..."
"That is to say, the influence it produces should have penetrated the known laws of physics...completely beyond common sense."
Lin Yi didn't know whether it would be effective if he threw cold weapons at him from outside his domain, or attacked him from a distance with hot weapons.
"If it were possible... the school should have solved this hidden danger long ago, right?"
If the school doesn't work, there's still that mysterious company. If the company doesn't work, there's still the country...
Even if something like "Him" does not actively cause harm, the best way to deal with a time bomb is not to stay away from it, but to find a way to defuse it in advance. So even if He does not show any human emotions and motives, His existence itself is a threat, and the country cannot just ignore it.
The only explanation is that it cannot be solved.
Perhaps, just as Mu Daxian said, it is impossible to eliminate it, so we can only contain it and try to keep it in a stable range. Even if we step on a landmine, we must hold on to it and don't let it explode until we find a solution.
However, apart from the seemingly limited area, the radiation range of His strange fluctuations is very far, spreading around in a regular manner like ripples. The fluctuation range is too large, so it is difficult to say the range.
While Lin Yi was observing His domain, Mu Daxian took Mao Feiyang and slowly left the area of the corridor bridge. Then, when Lin Yi came back to his senses... Mao Feiyang had already followed Mu Daxian down the stairs and plunged into the storm filled with thick fog!
X023年5月8日,0:35,教学楼区域。
On this cold night, the storm not only failed to wash away the fog that permeated the entire world, but also made a thick light fog float on the surface.
The fog wandered in the air like a ghost, making the vision blurry. The scenery ten meters away was completely submerged in the fog, and even the vague outlines could not be seen.
The wind began to howl like an angry giant, shaking the trees constantly, and there was a violent rustling sound in the green forest belt. In the fog and heavy rain, it was impossible to tell whether it was the sound of the forest or the sound of the waves.
The raindrops fell as densely as soybeans, hitting Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang's bodies obliquely like a hail of bullets, making crackling sounds.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, as if the sky was torn open, and endless rain poured down, forming curtains of water, wrapping the world in a wet light mist.
Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang were running in the rain. Mao Feiyang wanted to ask, "What are we going to do?", but his voice was quickly drowned out by the wind and rain and could not be heard at all.
The heavy rain quickly soaked all of Mao Feiyang's clothes, and the cold and damp feeling quickly penetrated his yellow sweater and invaded his body.
Thick green mist was emanating from his entire body, and he looked like Dr. Banna who had been ingested by gamma rays, and it seemed as if he would turn into the Hulk at any moment.
The cold feeling was like countless poisonous snakes trying to penetrate into Mao Feiyang's pores, and some of them actually succeeded in merging into his body.
As the extraordinary power in the rain entered his body, the weak Mao Feiyang felt as if he had been injected with several shots of adrenaline. He seemed to be reborn. At this time, he even had a sense of expansion.
So what if nine Black Mountain demons devour my yang energy?
Nine more please, I can handle it!
However, at this moment, Mu Daxian's voice seemed to be full of some kind of magic, piercing through the rainy night and reaching his ears: "Don't actively absorb rain water!!!"
"Ah?!" Mao Feiyang was shocked, "What?! Don't absorb it?!"
I just took a big fucking bite!
"Resist it!!!" Mu Daxian roared like thunder, "We can't resist the erosion of rain, so use your resistance to weaken the erosion speed of rain, so that we can achieve a temporary balance of extraordinary power in the body!!"
"You want Kuku to eat as much as you can. You'll be turned into a sculpture before I can do anything to you!!!"
Mao Feiyang shuddered violently, and his body shook as if true energy was bursting out of his body, dispersing a large amount of rain.
"Brother, why didn't you tell me about this earlier?!"
"What the hell?! A normal person wouldn't have enough time to resist, who would be as hungry as you?!"
"I was so tired, it felt like I was being recharged, and I couldn't help but absorb it!"
"It's not too late to resist now! We're almost there!"
"Where the hell are we going?!"
"It's only a few steps away. You'll know when the lightning strikes you!"
"Are you going to hit me or you? Brother, I don't have any lightning resistance!"
"Strike your sister, I mean wait for the thunder!"
“Ahhhhh…”
As soon as the words fell, a thunder exploded in the depths of the distant sky.
I saw lightning streaking across the night sky, briefly and quickly illuminating everything around, and then quickly disappearing, leaving behind an even deeper darkness.
There are a variety of light and shadows between heaven and earth, and light and darkness are intertwined. The rough and chaotic lines depict the violent world under the rain.
Lin Yi suddenly understood why he always had the black and white exposure perspective on May 5th.
It has something to do with this stormy night.
"Rumble--"
Thunder roared, and the whole world suddenly turned white again.
A strong and ominous premonition suddenly arose in Lin Yi's heart.
The world around me... is wrong!
There is something wrong on this thunderstorm night!
There is a big problem! !
"Rumble--"
Another bolt of thunder tore through the night sky, and the entire world turned into a frozen picture of black lines on a white background.
Lin Yi finally discovered the problem. In this violent and chaotic world, nine angel sculptures surrounded them with their fangs and claws bared. Not far away stood a lamppost, which was the only "straight line" in the entire world.
"Found it!" Mu Daxian shouted, "Go, go to the lamppost!"
After the thunder died down, the whole world was shrouded in darkness again, but Mu Daxian had already found the location of the lamppost and locked onto that route based on his momentary remaining vision.
"Hey, stop and don't run!"
Mu Daxian pointed at the lamppost from afar, like an immortal pointing the way.
Mao Feiyang yelled, "Fuck, is the lamp post a spirit? And it can run?"
But he immediately realized that he was wrong. Mu Daxian was not talking about the lamppost, but about the fake person standing under the lamppost!
That’s right, there is a fake person under the lamppost, licking the white painted number on the lamppost in the storm.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched violently. These fake people... started to act on May 5th? !
Or, could it be that they had already started on May 5th? !
But judging from the situation in the Art Building, the Night Watch issued the warning and rang the bell of Doomsday on May 5. How could the warning be issued after the campus had already encountered a wave of crises?
Mu Daxian moved very fast, and in a few flashes of lightning, he crossed the distance and arrived under the lamppost!
"Classmate, I..." The fake man's reaction was not slow. When he saw Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang coming, he immediately started to fool people.
But its logical thinking is almost zero. How could it be a normal student if it rushed towards the street lamp in this kind of weather?
But Mu Daxian acted even faster. Before it could even open its mouth, he pulled it off the lamppost and pressed it to the ground.
Looking at the fake person who said "I can't breathe", Mao Feiyang's eyelids twitched slightly, and he suddenly felt a little sympathy for it.
Before the fake person could react, Mu Daxian said directly: "Isn't this Mao Feiyang? Why are you here? It's so hard to find you!"
Mao Feiyang: “???”
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