Chapter 346 Arriving at the Coastline

"No." Lao Mo shook his head. "The 'Apostles' speculated that Van Gogh did not 'leave something at the coordinates', but 'used these coordinates to locate something'. The 'Apostles' firmly believed that these might be the coordinates of 'Him''s location, or the location of the 'Source' in the sea."

"After all these years, no one has cracked it, and all those who study "Starry Night" have become fanatics, so "Starry Night" has become one of the most polluting representative works."

"Some people even used old kerosene lamps to study the "Starry Night"..."

Lin Yi asked: "How did it end?"

"The ending is... the lights go out, but he's still there." Lao Mo said, "The Starry Night won't hurt anyone, but no one can resist the contamination from in-depth research."

"The observatory was therefore closed, and the "Starry Night" was never shown again."

"But Van Gogh had thought of this scene long ago, so he left the normal-sized "Starry Night" and let it circulate... like throwing out a copy of a treasure map."

Lin Yi asked: "Does the painting "Starry Night" have the same effect?"

"Of course not. Otherwise, how could it be spread out... The pollution characteristics carried by a picture of a starry night are enough to transform an area into a "dark zone". No one dares to take this risk..."

"Some people call that painting "Starry Sky", while others keep the name "Starry Night". It does not have any extraordinary characteristics, but the "charm" contained in it is enough for people to study."

"Some people are touched by this and will go out of their way to look for the original."

"Of course, only a small number of people who have passed the official evaluation are eligible to watch "Starry Night." "

Lin Yi looked at Lao Mo and asked curiously, "Have you seen it?"

Lao Mo shook his head: "I haven't seen it."

Although Lin Yi thought it was normal whether Lao Mo had watched "Starry Night" or not, he still felt a little regretful when he heard Lao Mo say that he had not watched it.

Lao Mo hasn't even seen it, so it seems like it's not easy to watch Starry Night.

Lin Yi observed the surrounding environment curiously. These whirlpools, one after another, looked extremely interesting, as if they had permeated the space.

After walking for a while, Lin Yi found that the whirlpools around him seemed to become looser, and those tightly entangled lines also became looser.

He understood that these vortices were gradually returning to their distorted state. In other words, he was "floating up" in the layer, returning from that strange world to a relatively normal layer...

He glanced at his watch, trying to check the time, only to find that the hands on the watch kept swinging between the 22th and 48th seconds of 15:16...

"What's going on...Why isn't my watch working?"

When he thought of the "precise timing" he had boasted to Lao Mo just a moment ago, he felt a burning pain on his face, but fortunately, Lao Mo didn't notice his situation at all and was still concentrating on moving forward.

This process lasted for a while, and then the watch returned to normal, but Lin Yi always felt that it seemed to be "stuck" for a few minutes for some reason.

On May 023, X5, at 9:22, Lin Yi was surrounded by ancient trees with twisted branches that were twisting irregularly like seaweed and thick fog. The "Forest of Bones" was no longer visible, and only a foggy forest environment similar to that near the desolate land remained.

Lao Mo's voice came from the front: "Keep up this pace, we're almost there!"

"Okay!" Lin Yi responded quickly.

Soon, the distorted environment around him gradually returned to normal, but the ground under his feet became inconsistent with his pace.

Lin Yi was secretly frightened. At this moment, Lao Mo's voice of instruction sounded at the right time: "Don't panic, this is a normal phenomenon, just like when an airplane lands, it will lower its landing gear and adapt to the runway. It will pass quickly. It doesn't matter if you are not used to it. Just wait a while."

Lin Yi calmed down immediately after hearing this. After all, as a poor guy with rich experience in crawling in the dark on a twisted road, it was easy for him to adapt to this change.

The reason why he was frightened at first was because he thought something new had happened.

After walking for a few more minutes, the twisted feeling on the road disappeared, and the dense forest around it returned to its original state of tangled branches and roots.

Lin Yi began to feel some loose feedback under his feet. He found that the fog in the dense forest seemed to become extremely thin. Only some fog above his ankles was still floating on the ground, like a stage filled with dry ice.

“Huh…Huh…”

Ahead on the road, there were faint sounds of wind blowing and the sound of waves rushing towards the shore.

Lin Yi asked in surprise: "Are we going out?"

Lao Mo nodded: "Yes... it went smoothly."

Lin Yi couldn't help but smile when he heard that, but Lao Mo immediately poured cold water on him: "Don't be too happy too soon... The next thing is the serious business."

Lin Yi immediately understood that the Art Building was probably being attacked by the Nocturnal Species and the Laughing Angels at this moment, and the Art Building itself was also the building closest to the source in the entire campus.

As the sea breeze and the sound of waves grew stronger, a white light faintly appeared in front of Lin Yi.

He had seen this light in several visions, and he knew that was the exit of the dense forest.

Under Lao Mo's leadership, they were getting closer and closer to the white light...

Finally, they rushed into the white light!

"boom--"

The moment he passed through the white light, Lin Yi's vision and hearing were impacted to a certain extent. His field of vision was filled with a dazzling white light, and a sharp, piercing, hair-raising "hissing" sound rang in his ears, as if he had fallen into another world.

Fortunately, the discomfort soon disappeared, and his vision and hearing began to recover quickly.

While his vision was still blurry, he felt the salty and wet sea breeze blowing on his cheeks, and in his ears he could hear the sound of waves crashing against the rocks.

“Wow—Bang!!”

"Wow--" His blurry vision quickly became clear, and he found that he was somewhere on the coastline.

Behind him was a dense forest, and in front of him was another gloomy, depressing and terrifying picture.

The sky was like a thick quilt filled with water, pressing heavily on the coastline. Dark clouds piled up like mountains, crowded and rolling, filling the entire sky, and some of them had a tendency to spread below the horizon, as if wrapping the entire world tightly.

There were a few faint, almost imperceptible rays of light deep in the clouds, pale as if a light touch of an eraser had been made on a drawing board covered with carbon powder.

The entire coastline presents a cold and rugged appearance. The jagged reefs protrude abruptly from the sea level. The dark brown surface is covered with traces of erosion by time and is bumpy and uneven, like the wrinkles on the face of an old man who has experienced many vicissitudes of life.

There were still some white sea salt crystals remaining on the reef, flickering in the dim light like frost flowers condensed on dead branches on a winter morning.

The gray sand on the beach was rough and cold, blown wildly by the sea breeze, forming irregular lines, like cracked wounds on the earth. Some things that could not be identified as seaweed or some other plants, mixed with the corpses of some unknown creatures, were washed ashore by the waves. They were scattered wetly on the beach, emitting a salty and decayed smell.

The black ocean seemed to be boiling, raising wave after wave, rushing towards the shore. Each wave carried enormous power, and hit the reefs and beaches as if venting its anger, making a dull roar, like the roar of the ocean.

White foam rolled and broke on the crest of the waves, and then was quickly swallowed up by new waves.

The sea breeze whistled past, like a sharp knife, cutting across the face, bringing biting cold. The wind was mixed with fine raindrops, which were cold and wet. When they hit the body, they could penetrate the clothes in an instant, making people feel a chill that penetrates deep into the bone marrow.

However, after looking around, Lin Yi did not see the art building.

"Where is the Art Building?" He couldn't help but ask, looking at Lao Mo who was not far from him.

Lao Mo's already ugly expression became even uglier: "There were some deviations. We didn't reach the Art Building."

"Ah? What should we do then?" Lin Yi asked anxiously.

"It should be that the storm affected the stability of the layer port, and coupled with the influence of some other factors, our exit was deviated... It seems that the situation over there is worse than I imagined..."

"That……"

Lao Mo waved his hand: "Don't talk yet, let me 'lock' the position... Then we will go straight to the point."

After Lao Mo finished speaking, he fell silent.

"Straight to the point?"

Lin Yi was startled for a moment, and then he realized that Lao Mo seemed to have focused his attention somewhere on the coastline.

“Eh, there…!!”

In that direction, the celestial phenomena seem to be different from here!

"Bo~"

A cluster of golden flames appeared in Lin Yi's eyes, and then his vision quickly zoomed in towards the direction of the coastline as if he had turned on a telescope...

Soon, he saw a huge and terrifying storm!

The dark clouds in the sky were like enraged beasts, rushing in with overwhelming force. They squeezed and collided with each other, making low roars, and the heavy colors seemed to pile up black soil high in the sky, pushing it continuously.

In the clouds, lightning flashed across the sky like a sharp sword, and deafening thunder rumbled between heaven and earth.

Every roar of thunder and lightning tore the dark clouds into countless pieces. The white light illuminated the earth, and the nearby world turned into pure white for a short time.

In that pure white world, a cliff that is higher than the coastline is particularly eye-catching. What is even more eye-catching is the castle standing on the cliff, piercing through the clouds like a sharp blade!
"Art Building!" Lin Yi's pupils contracted and expanded fiercely.

"Lao Mo!!!" He suddenly came back to his senses, and the zoomed-in vision shattered, "Over there is the Art Building!!"

At this moment, Lao Mo was firmly locking onto that location, but because of the storm he could not be completely sure whether there was an art building there. When he heard Lin Yi's call, a hint of surprise appeared in his eyes.

"Are you sure...?" Lao Mo couldn't help but ask.

Lin Yi nodded vigorously: "Absolutely, I saw it!"

“You… saw it?” This was the first time that Lao Mo was stunned. He looked at Lin Yi strangely, “You mean… you can see through that storm?”

"Yeah..." Lin Yi was a little uncertain at first, but he immediately felt certain about what he had "seen with his own eyes", "I saw it, a castle, and an observation tower, isn't that the art building?"

Lao Mo was shocked in his heart, but he restrained himself and didn't show it too much on his face. He just said calmly: "I understand you a little bit. If it were me, I wouldn't want you to take risks with me..."

"Ah?" Lin Yi was confused by Lao Mo's sudden change of attitude. Wasn't it just the art building? What was there to be surprised about?
Besides, wasn’t it Lao Mo who observed it first?

Lin Yi didn't know that even if Lao Mo was 70% sure that it was the Art Building, he wouldn't dare to bet on the 30% possibility that it wasn't.

"In that case, then go over there." Lao Mo believed Lin Yi's words, "Come to me!"

"Oh, here it comes!" Lin Yi didn't understand what Lao Mo meant, but did as he was told.

Because in his opinion, if he rushed over such a long distance, the daylilies would be cold, right? Lao Mo must have some special means of traveling, otherwise it would definitely not work.

However, Lao Mo did not rush to move. Instead, he took out the scale first and then crushed it with his hands.

After the scales were crushed, they did not turn into countless pieces as Lin Yi had imagined, but were broken on the surface like xylitol, but inside there was a layer of soft and extremely flexible milky white gelatinous substance.

Lao Mo started fiddling with the scale like a maltose artist, and then said, "Give me yours too, and squeeze out the surplus value."

Lin Yi was a little anxious at first, but when he saw that Lao Mo had calmed down strangely, he couldn't help but wonder, "Lao Mo, aren't we leaving yet?"

"Now that we've confirmed it, we're not in such a hurry. There will be a gap in the storm, and we'll go through then." Lao Mo added, "Originally, I could only wait for the gap to appear before I had a chance to peek inside, and then I'd have a chance to decide whether to leave or not, but now... it doesn't have to be so complicated."

"I'll get you something to save your life first." Lao Mo said, and began to throw the maltose-like substance onto Lin Yi's face...

(End of this chapter)

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