Chapter 353: The Overwritten Art Building Lobby

Chapter 353: The Overwritten Art Building Lobby

Chapter 353: The Overwritten Art Building Lobby (Additional 1000 Words)
"Lao Mo... I feel like something is spying on us..." Lin Yi felt a little uncomfortable. Walking through here, he did not feel nauseous because of the dark and depressing environment, but he felt a creepy chill because of the feeling of being spied on.

It is hard to imagine how difficult their situation would have become if he had not followed Lao Mo, and if Lao Mo did not have a prop similar to a kerosene lamp in his hand.

"A sense of being watched..." Lao Mo hesitated for a moment, "I didn't sense it... Yes, your sense is better than mine, and you even determined the location of the art building. What kind of feeling is that? Is it a threat?"

Something that even Lao Mo didn't sense? Lin Yi was immediately shocked and quickly expressed his feeling.

However, Lao Mo frowned after hearing this and did not speak for a while. After a long silence, he said, "It's possible... it's a sculpture."

"Sculpture..." It was such a long time since I last heard this word that Lin Yi felt a little unfamiliar. "What kind of sculpture is it? It's not an ordinary sculpture, right?"

If it was an ordinary sculpture, Lao Mo would not have shown such a solemn expression.

Lao Mo shook his head and said, "It's a very ancient sculpture. Or rather, the concept of 'sculpture' didn't exist at that time. You have to know that many conceptual definitions are the reinforcement of cognition by people in later generations."

Lao Mo added: "Let's go, you will see them soon... The situation will be a little complicated, just ignore their existence."

Soon, a white light appeared in front of the two of them. This was the inevitable visual difference when looking from a dark place to a bright place. Lin Yi knew that over there should be the lobby of the art building filled with candlesticks and chandeliers.

As we approached the hall, the wind became stronger. This was the duct effect, but it also indirectly showed that there was an air vent, or even multiple air vents, inside the art building, which was supposed to be closed.

"The situation doesn't seem optimistic..." Lin Yi's ominous premonition became stronger and stronger. The last time the Russians came, the weather was also abnormal, with wind and rain, but it was not as bad as it is now.

But then again, so far, he has only seen purebred nocturnal creatures and laughing angels. Could the gray fog invasion be just that?
"Lao Mo...what exactly is this gray fog invasion?" Lin Yi couldn't help but ask.

Lao Mo was stunned for a moment: "What you saw is not part of the gray fog invasion?"

"Is that all?"

"'Just'?" Lao Mo couldn't help but sneer, "Don't forget that you are still a frog just because you are used to seeing the sky. The frog that left the deep well is just a frog that has changed from a frog at the bottom of the well to a frog outside. In essence, it is still a frog..."

"You feel it is simple because I am here, and it is here..."

Lao Mo raised the string of big eyeballs in his hand.

"If not..."

He casually threw the string of big eyeballs away.

The glowing big eyeball pushed forward like a signal gun thrown into a deep well, and the light along the way dispersed all the pure nocturnal species hiding in the darkness. But as the big eyeball left its hand, the dim environment instantly closed in like a quagmire, and those pure nocturnal species hiding in the shadows finally revealed their greedy desires and strong murderous intent towards Lin Yi and Lao Mo...

“Rustle… rustle… rustle…”

They moved quickly on the walls of the corridor like humanoid spiders, rushing towards Lao Mo and Lin Yi.

"Old Mo!" Lin Yi exclaimed.

"Don't be impatient."

As Lao Mo's dry voice sounded, the invisible domain expanded. Lin Yi, who was at the center of the domain, suddenly felt the discomfort of an extraordinary power being forcibly drawn out of his body. The purebred nocturnal creatures who had originally rushed over were also suddenly given an extremely strong gravity and were pressed heavily to the ground.

“Knock, knock, knock…”

A large number of pure nocturnal creatures fell to the ground, and green powder particles continued to emerge from their bodies, and then all poured into Lao Mo's body...

Lao Mo walked forward and picked up the big eyeball that was thrown away.

The warm light enveloped them again, but a layer of sweat had already appeared on Lin Yi's back.

"Did you see that?" Lao Mo said with a wry smile, "Relative safety... is based on absolute strength."

“Gurgle…”

Lin Yi glanced at the shriveled sculpture that seemed to have been drained of blood, which had almost fallen at his feet. He swallowed silently and nodded.

Old Mo glanced at the illusory, smiling angels that ignored the walls of the art building corridors and muttered, "I didn't trick them... It seems they have learned their lesson."

"Ah?" Lin Yi was startled. "What do you mean?"

"I just spotted a smiling angel holding a lamp."

"A smiling angel holding a lamp? Is there any explanation for this?" Lin Yi knew that it was the dormitory manager who was transformed into a smiling angel.

Lao Mo said: "That is the key to your return to campus."

Lin Yi was stunned. He could not help but guess, "Do you want to transform them back into the dormitory manager and let the dormitory manager take me away?"

Lao Mo looked at Lin Yi in surprise. His eyes looked so strange for the first time. It was as if he was saying, "Chang Wei, you still say you don't know martial arts." "Don't you... know too much?"

Even Lao Mo couldn't help but swear.

"Uh... I... wasn't..." Lin Yi quickly told the story of how he was chased by the Laughing Angel in the gymnasium, and then Teacher Wang beat it back to its original form, "... so that's how it was, so I know!"

Lao Mo breathed a sigh of relief: "That's not bad... I thought you had been the dormitory manager these days... In that case, you were targeted by the Laughing Angel during the day, probably because you were contaminated by the 'ashes'."

"'Should', 'just'?!" Lin Yi's eyelids twitched fiercely: "Is there another reason?"

"These are not very important to you right now." Lao Mo said, "Let's go first. If you can't catch the Laughing Angel with a Lantern, you can only spend some time to actively hunt one..."

Lin Yi asked: "The smiling angel holding the lamp is the dormitory manager, right?"

Lao Mo nodded and said, "Yes... After the kerosene lamps failed to protect the dormitory managers, the excessive supernatural power began to infiltrate the dormitory managers' identities, and eventually transformed them into the Laughing Angels."

"So the Laughing Angel was actually formed by excessive pollution?"

"You can't just look at the surface. It's like when you study chemistry, the same substance will produce completely different reactions under different catalytic conditions."

“An old kerosene lamp… is it a catalytic condition?”

"This is an analogy. Not all Laughing Angels are born in this way, but one of the ways they are born is that the lantern becomes ineffective and causes more pollution..."

"Will an old, broken kerosene lamp produce a kind of supernatural power that is different from the characteristics of 'light', similar to the dark side of supernatural power?"

"I don't know. Whatever you want to understand, the dangers of 'forcibly using an old, ineffective kerosene lamp' are more unpredictable than 'not having an old, ineffective kerosene lamp at all'."

"Then...why didn't the dormitory manager throw it away?"

"I can't tell you the answer. If you have the chance, you might be able to find the answer through the Dormitory Management Rules... But you'd better not have this opportunity."

"why?"

"Idiot, of course it's because I'm afraid that you might accidentally turn into a smiling angel."

Hearing this, the corners of Lin Yi's mouth twitched fiercely. If the flying kick from the boss before was a joke, then if he really became a laughing angel, he would probably be crushed by the boss...

"Nima... please don't let that day ever come..."

Lin Yi shuddered violently, but he immediately realized something: "Hey, Lao Mo, what you just said was... hunting down the Laughing Angels? Are you hunting down the Laughing Angels that can be transformed back into dormitory managers?"

"Yes."

"If we hunt them, what will happen to the dormitory manager? Will he die?"

When Lao Mo heard this, his face turned dark: "After you hunted and killed something, is it possible that thing can still survive?"

"The dormitory manager..."

"When they become Laughing Angels, they have already gained some power over life and death, and at the same time, they have also become the object of life and death." Lao Mo said coldly, "If your friends become Laughing Angels, then they are no longer the people you know... I understand..."

"Ah?" "You've been to the gymnasium... and you've seen the dorm manager being stripped from the layers, so you think there's a chance that the Laughing Angel can be saved, right?"

Lin Yi nodded: "Yes..."

"That's just survivor bias." Lao Mo said, "Only those smiling angels that appeared in the gymnasium have a certain chance to be transformed back. And even for the 'people' that have been separated, the probability of regaining cognition and becoming 'people' is very low..."

"During the time I've been a black bib chef, I've only met a limited number of them..."

Lin Yi pursed his lips. He knew that one of them might be Mu Daxian.

Mu Daxian's secrets are so many and complicated.

Lin Yi stopped asking about the dormitory manager because the corridor had come to an end.

He tugged at his wet school uniform. Miraculously, such a strong wind was unable to take away all his body temperature. The blue energy in his body was like a heater that maintained his body's vitality. The wet clothes did not affect his movements at all except for some physical discomfort.

“Hoo—hoo—hoo—”

The wind duct effect was stretched to its maximum the moment Lin Yi walked out of the corridor. The strong wind made it almost impossible for him to take a step, as if the place in front of him was not the lobby of the art building, but a cliff by the sea.

White light enveloped Lin Yi, and the strong wind made his clothes rustle. At that moment, he seemed to hear some sounds that he shouldn't have heard.

The strong wind created a strong echo in his ears, and the wind duct effect also brought a more rapid wind sound. In such a whistling and sharp wind, any extra sounds should not be audible, but another sound independent of the wind sound began to appear in Lin Yi's ears... the sound of iron chains!

“Clatter, clatter, clatter…”

It's the sound of an iron chain being dragged slowly across the ground!
The sound came from somewhere, as if it was in the wind, but also as if it was not in the wind. It seemed to have reached Lin Yi's ears through some completely independent channel.

From deep within the chains, there rang out a low, eerie, strange, and chilly echo. The sound had no origin, and no one knew where it came from. It seemed to have landed directly on his heart.

The voice said...

[Lin Yi...you are finally here...]

Right now.

"boom--"

Something seemed to explode in Lin Yi's mind, and the white light in front of his eyes dimmed at a rapid speed...

The scene of the lobby of the Art Building began to appear in his field of vision, and a slightly heavy feeling appeared on his shoulder - Lao Mo's palm was resting there.

"What happened?" Lao Mo asked, "Your body temperature dropped to freezing point in about three seconds. Even the blue aura of the sports department has no effect at all."

"Ah? This...!" Lin Yi said in a lost voice, "I... I just heard some kind of calling..."

When he heard the word "calling", a cold golden light flashed across Lao Mo's somewhat dark eyes: "'Calling...calling...'? What does it mean?"

"Just...just calling my name."

Lao Mo looked Lin Yi up and down strangely and said, "What's the point of calling your name? Besides, you have no identity now. What can ignore the effect of the Root Shadow scales and directly see your identity?"

"I don't know either..." Lin Yi said with a sad face, "Isn't this going to be a burden to you?"

"Should be... no way?" Lao Mo twitched the corner of his mouth. He originally thought he just brought a power bank, but turned out to be a nuclear power plant. Now he realized that the problem is even bigger.

Lin Yi is not only a nuclear power plant, but also a nuclear power plant with nuclear leakage.

"How long has this been going on for? Did you hear it as soon as you got to the art building?"

"Well...if I must say it, it feels like this has been going on for a few days..."

"How many days?!" Lao Mo was no longer calm. "How many days have you been in school?"

"Today is the fourth day..."

"..." Lao Mo was silent. It took him a long time to calm down and say, "This guy...is definitely not your first time here."

"This is my first time..." Lin Yi said weakly.

"Okay, if I say it's not true, then it's not true. It's useless for you to say it is true." Lao Mo interrupted, "Memory is something that can be easily tampered with by today's means... If I'm not wrong, your memory must be abnormal, right?"

"Uh..." Lin Yi pursed his lips and said nothing.

Lao Mo took a look and immediately showed a look of deep agreement: "Okay, I may know..."

"What do you know? Why don't you tell me? I actually... know nothing." Lin Yi said.

Lao Mo looked at him deeply and said, "I can't say...at least, I can't say it."

"No, Lao Mo, why did you start being a riddle man?"

"It's not that I want to get rid of the Riddler, but I've seen your situation before... You have to know that memory tampering is a kind of 'overwrite', but even if it's an 'overwrite' by an artist, it still requires a constant supply of overwrites to maintain the overwrite state... And, this situation will weaken over time."

"You don't need me to guess. You will know everything in no time."

Hearing what Lao Mo said, Lin Yi couldn't help but be stunned. What Tian Bufan said to him rang in his ears like thunder.

The Fifth Day

Just wait until the fifth day and I will tell him everything.

"Could it be that Mr. Tian overwrote my memory, and this overwriting will disappear on the fifth day?"

"Then let's wait... until Mr. Tian reveals the 'truth'."

Lin Yi let out a long breath and began to focus his attention on the hall.

What was strange was that the wind was extremely strong in the corridor, but there was no wind at all in the lobby of the art building, as if they were two completely different worlds.

There are large chandeliers hanging from the curved dome in the lobby of the Art Building, which is carved with exquisite patterns. The whole hall is filled with a sense of mystery and majesty.

Lao Mo looked around and said thoughtfully, "This place has indeed been invaded..."

"What?" Lin Yi suspected that he had heard it wrong. "This place has also been invaded? How is it possible? Isn't everything normal here?"

"Normal? This is just what you see..." Lao Mo said in a low voice, "There is already a river of blood and a mountain of corpses here, but you just can't see it..."

Lin Yi suddenly realized: "It's 'overwrite'! The art student overwrote this?!"

Lao Mo focused his sight on some strange places. As he looked, he said, "The art students have overwritten the layout of the hall. This is a huge trap, the first checkpoint to intercept the pure nocturnal species!"

Hearing Lao Mo's words, Lin Yi was like a person who had been deceived by a lie and was suddenly awakened. He sensed something awkward in the seemingly normal environment before him.

It's like observing a photo taken with a visual error. If no one tells you the problem in the photo, you will only be immersed in the initial cognitive bias.

But now, Lin Yi gradually sees the truth.

A cluster of light golden flames rose up in the bottom of his eyes, and with the appearance of light and shadow, everything he saw in front of him became distorted.

As the horizon changed, everything changed like fading. The things that were overwritten on the surface gradually disappeared, and the chilling and terrifying scenes at the bottom slowly emerged...

His school uniform began to flutter again, and the wind in the layers finally blew towards him.

This was the wind in the corridor, mixed with a hint of blood, filling the entire hall.

Patches of blood red began to appear in Lin Yi's vision. This was not the bloody aura of the angry angel, but... blood mist!
(End of this chapter)