Chapter 305: Shipwreck, Castle, Sea, and Night Watchman

Chapter 305: Shipwreck, Castle, Sea, and Night Watchman

Chapter 305: Shipwreck, Castle, Sea, and... Night Watchman
"Eh... No! That's not a wooden board!"

Lin Yi opened his eyes wide, and saw that the thing was emitting some cold aura under the scattered light spots. At least compared to the wooden board, it was more like some kind of rough, hard, yellowish-brown large square stone.

"Is it a stone?"

"Is it... that kind of stone?!"

Lin Yi was not unfamiliar with this kind of stone. It was exactly the large yellowish-brown stone in the stairwell of the Art Building!
Square, yellowish-brown stones, half the size of a person, were piled at the bottom of the swimming pool. No one knew how much time had passed.

This place seems to be formed after a passage was flooded. There seem to be some abstract symbols and words carved on the stone wall, but now it is covered by growing moss. The moss is like a thick green velvet carpet, as if covering up the history.

However, the sound of the chain did not disappear. Deep in the dark passage, the strange figure still existed. It must be moving, otherwise how could it drag the chain that sounded so heavy?

That must be a thick iron chain, like... the kind attached to an anchor!
【Lin Yi...】

【come over……】

[Come here…]

The voice floated out from the deep darkness like a bubble, accompanied by the "gurgling" sound of bubbles, like the last call of someone who was about to drown.

Lin Yi shook his head violently.

There was a voice in his heart - "Vision! Everything is a vision! This is just a swimming pool! It's just a swimming pool!"

He swam upwards, passing the area covered with buoyant light, getting closer and closer to the water surface.

He seemed to see lights on the water. The lights swaying in the ripples were like broken reflections of the moon, as if calling him.

Just as he approached the water, a sinister, eerie laugh seemed to appear behind his head...

[Haha… hehehehe…]

The next moment, he broke through the water with a "puff" and his head emerged from the water!
"Hoo, hoo, hoo..."

He tried hard to breathe in the fresh air, feeling the unique scent of the swimming pool in the air... Hmm?

Why... isn't there that smell from the swimming pool?
There was a fishy smell in the air, accompanied by a foul odor. The water was surging. The waves were not big, but the momentum was not small. He was swept along by the waves like a small boat.

"This...is not a swimming pool!"

here it is……

"The sea?!"

"Wow——"

"Wow——"

"Wow——"

Black waves surged in from the mist, one after another, and there were dense raindrops in the sky, falling like soybeans, hitting his cheeks and the skin exposed on the water surface, causing burning pain, and completely blocking the vision of his swimming goggles.

He seemed to see endless fog, but he couldn't tell whether it was fog on the sea, water vapor on his goggles, or both.

He vaguely saw overlapping peaks, but he couldn't tell whether it was the appearance of fog in light and shadow, a real coastline, or some kind of mirage.

【Lin Yi...】

[Where are you going this time...]

[Where are we going…]

Intermittent calls came from the depths of the fog...

And within this sound, there seems to be another sound...

That was not human language, but a low hum mixed with a storm of pain, like the evil syllables chanted by the witches of ancient tribes during rituals. It was also the complete version of that sentence that Lin Yi had not heard for a long time.

【I Avgru...Nnen av tKe... og mrke jaGer for...Tapte Sjeler... fanTome】

【fanTome……】

【……fanTome……】

【I Avgru...Nnen av tKe... og mrke...】

Such sounds soon drowned out the sound of the roaring waves and the sound of the heavy rain hitting the sea surface, and turned into a torrent of sound waves, echoing again and again under the gray fog!
Lin Yi felt a turbulent undercurrent beneath him. He lowered his head and saw that his goggles were soaked with water, so he could see the underwater scene clearly!
I saw a torrent of fish appearing in the deep water. They made uneven calls and rushed towards a certain direction.

He raised his head in that direction, and suddenly... his vision flickered at a terrifying frequency.

There was a loud "boom" in his mind, and then his vision suddenly crossed an unknown distance and he saw a coastline!

There are undulating mountains along the coastline, but there is only one cliff, as if it was forcibly placed there by someone.

On top of the cliff, there is a magnificent castle.

The castle was shrouded in a storm, and thick clouds obscured the sky, leaving only a black sun, hovering above the side of the castle's bell tower like a roulette wheel.

In front of a cliff somewhere in the castle, a black figure like an iron tower, with his windbreaker rustling, was holding an ancient green lantern and quietly looking at the gray fog that covered the sky.

Night watchman.

"'Night Watch'!"

Lin Yi naturally knew who that was, but when he saw the night watchman from this "perspective", seeing him standing alone in the endless darkness, standing alone in front of the castle, while feeling infinite respect in his heart, he also felt an inexplicable sadness and grief.

It was as if the fate of the entire world rested on the shoulders of the Night Watchman alone.

Just as he "saw" the night watchman, the night watchman also saw him.

At this moment, a cluster of red-gold flames suddenly rose above the night watchman's face, which was shrouded in darkness, as if the golden sun had ignited the long night.

With just this one glance, Lin Yi felt like he was about to melt. He wanted to turn his head, but found that he had no ability to control his body at all.

After staring at each other for a few seconds, Lin Yi felt that he could no longer see anything else. It seemed that the only thing left in his eyes was the night watchman's pair of sun-like eyes.

Suddenly, the night watchman's tightly pursed and slightly bent lips finally loosened, and he slowly spoke with a low, heavy, and majestic voice, like the sound of an ancient bell that had lasted for thousands of years, transcending the constraints of time and space, forming some kind of terrifying admonition, shattering the waves and storms, and resounding across the gray foggy sea:
"De som jager lyset i tke blir til slutt fantomer!"

He raised the ancient green lamp, and thunder tore through the night sky.

“Boom—Kaa!!!”

The world seemed to be torn apart, and endless light surged in like a torrent.

In Lin Yi's "lens", he felt like he had caught a wave of Ultraman's beams with his face, and the whole world turned into a blinding white...

“Lin Yi…Lin Yi…” “Lin Yi!”

He felt someone shaking his shoulders.

As the white light faded, his vision gradually returned.

He saw the water and tiles filled with light, the soft light of the incandescent lamp, and the buoy right in front of him.

The voice became clearer and clearer. He turned his head and saw Li Huiyuan's face full of anxiety.

When he saw Li Huiyuan, an expression of tears of joy immediately appeared on Li Huiyuan's face. There was a layer of mist floating under her swimming goggles, and it was unclear whether it was water vapor or mist swirling in her eye sockets.

She shouted to the side in surprise: "Boss, Boss, Lin Yi has come back to his senses!"

"Boss?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then he realized that the boss had walked to the edge of the swimming pool beside him without him knowing.

Seeing that he had come to his senses, the boss's eyes immediately returned to their cold look, and the remaining concern disappeared completely.

"The Ashes were cleared out in no time, but you have to tell me exactly what happened this time." The boss said coldly on the shore, his cold eyes filled with an unquestionable look.

Li Huiyuan also said: "Yes, Lin Yi, I just told you not to go to the deep water area, how did you swim here with a flick of your tail? I wanted to stop you, but you pushed me away!"

Her tone was very dissatisfied, but still revealed a bit of worry. While speaking, she even rubbed her... well, chest.

Lin Yi's eyebrows twitched subconsciously.

Could it be that……?
No way……?
I...have no impression at all!
But he didn't have time to think about these things. He looked at the buoy in front of him and immediately fell silent.

He was right in front of the buoy.

But... he was not on the shallow water side, but on the deep water side!
Li Huiyuan said, "You dived down immediately. I waited for you for a while but you didn't come up. When I was about to come down to see how you were doing, you came out of the water again, but you had passed the buoy and were in the deep water. You were motionless as if you had lost your soul. I thought you were possessed by a ghost!"

"I..." Lin Yi's eyes flickered, and the scenes just now flashed through his mind.

Vision of a shipwreck in the water...

Vision of a flooded castle passageway…

A vision of a sea shrouded in storm and fog...

And... a vision that looked directly into the eyes of the Night's Watch...

And for some reason, his intuition told him that this time he did not escape from the Vision by his own strength, but the Night Watchman shattered the Vision and sent him back to reality.

In other words, because he made eye contact with the Night Watchman in his vision, all the visions around him disappeared into thin air.

Then the question arises——"Shipwrecks, castles, the sea...what are these all about?"

"Is it a nesting doll vision like multiple dreams or Inception?"

"And the abyss! And the haunting chained figure in the abyss!"

"Except for the last sea where no sound of the chain was heard, the other layers of illusion seemed to be penetrated by its sound!"

And the other key question is, what on earth is going on with him?

Why are the hallucinations becoming more and more frequent, and... appearing more and more smoothly, appearing without any warning?
Moreover, in the most recent vision, he knew clearly that it was a hallucination, but it was as if his mind was under a hard control, as if there was an invisible force pressing him into the hallucination!
"Could it be... a swimming pool?"

"Hello, hey, hey, are you okay? I'm talking to you, why are you just staring blankly?" Li Huiyuan stretched out her hand and waved it in front of him again and again.

Lin Yi quickly recovered.

The boss at the poolside said, "If you have nothing to do, come up first."

Lin Yi then climbed onto the shore, then looked back at the swimming pool with lingering fear.

The water in the pool was calm, with only a few ripples.

Broken incandescent lights and some LED lights were reflected on the water, but there was no weird or uncomfortable feeling, as if nothing had happened.

"Boss, you just said... all the 'ashes' in my body are gone?" Lin Yi looked at the boss.

Hello, hello, hello, are you experiencing network delay? Where are the words I said to you? Why don't you reply to me? Is the boss' words the only thing on your mind? Li Huiyuan put her hands on her hips, but of course she didn't say this.

She was able to distinguish between priorities, so she translated all these words with her eyes. Of course, Lin Yi would not be able to decipher them.

"Yes, it's a very strange phenomenon." The old man said, "Although there is only one tenth of the 'ashes' left in your body, the last part should not have been absorbed all at once. What did you do?"

"Could it really be related to the Night Watch?" Lin Yi muttered to himself.

"Night Watchman?" The boss narrowed his eyes. "What's going on?"

Lin Yi then told the new version of the vision that had just occurred to him, including the final eye contact.

"Maybe it's because of that eye contact." Lin Yi said.

The boss hesitated and said, "An illusion... after all, it is an illusion. Those things are just reflections of your brain. How can they be effective?"

Lin Yi was stumped by the question.

He suddenly felt a little bit eager to have Master Tian here.

If Tian Bufan were here, he would be able to come up with a more reasonable inference about this kind of problem.

But his words can only be speculated to this level: "Could it be that... because of some channels in my position, I really had a look at the Night Watchman on some level?"

The boss looked a little unnatural: "I've never heard of this kind of operation... Have you ever had such an experience before?"

"Uh... this is the first time." Lin Yi confessed.

The boss fell silent.

After a moment, she shook her head slightly: "Then it is not of reference value, but if there is such a situation in the future, you can write it down and look for the pattern."

"If that's the case, it might become your most powerful life-saving trump card."

"Okay... then I'll pay attention to it." Lin Yi scratched his head. Although what the boss said made him very excited, this thing was not real after all. Even if it was true, there were too many random factors.

"And, you..." As he was speaking, the boss's body suddenly paused for no reason, and the words on the tip of his tongue also stopped abruptly.

The boss seemed to sense something and spat secretly: "Not good!"

"What..." Lin Yi was about to ask, but his heart seemed to be grabbed tightly, and his whole body trembled violently!
He saw that a layer of... fog had floated on the surface of the swimming pool without him noticing at some point!
(End of this chapter)