Chapter 368 Going to the Night Watch

Chapter 368 Going to the Night Watch

Chapter 368 Going to the Night Watch
What made Lin Yi's scalp tingle even more was something vaguely visible in its outline... There seemed to be some irregular tumors bulging on its sides. These tumors seemed to have their own lives, wriggling and shrinking from time to time, like some special scales, some strange feathers, or... like hiding countless pairs of small eyes peeking at each layer!

The dark tide distorted the entire world outside the clock tower. Its body was winding endlessly, and its head seemed to be entangled in its body. The end of each shadow looked like its head, or maybe it was not its head at all. It seemed to be some kind of more terrifying collective...

After looking at it for a few seconds, Lin Yi immediately felt a bone-chilling coldness, a coldness that penetrated deep into his bones. It was not just a drop in temperature, but more like a freezing of the soul.

"etc!"

"Could that be the 'angel' that Lao Mo mentioned?!"

After all, "angel" is just a title. Who can say that it is not like a snake?
He immediately thought of the night watchman standing on the edge of the cliff with an ancient green lamp in his hand, and the almost frozen "tsunami" in front of him. Could it be that the three night watchmen were fighting against the invasion of gray fog in different positions?
And these three night watchmen are respectively in charge of the ancient green lamp, the giant quantum clock, and some unknown extraordinary creation?

Thinking about it this way, could it be that these are the night watchmen who guard the three realms and six paths in myths and legends... ?
After all, there seemed to be six night watchmen in the past... ?
The vacant Night Watchman position...

hiss--

Mu Daxian wants to become an immortal? !
The more Lin Yi thought about it, the more outrageous it became, and his thoughts gradually became confused...

At this moment, the low and terrifying voice of the night watchman also reached his ears:

"Young man... you really came up."

"'As expected'?" Lin Yi's eyelids twitched violently. What did he mean by "as expected"? Could it be that the night watchman didn't think he could come up at all?
He coughed dryly, not knowing how to tell the night watchman, so he imitated what the protagonists in novels often said, clasped his hands together and said, "Uh... Fortunately, I have fulfilled my mission and passed your test."

"'Test'?" The night watchman paused. "What test?"

"What the hell am I expecting?!" Lin Yi felt that his expectations were trampled under the feet of the night watchman, but he couldn't say anything. He just felt uncomfortable in his heart... It turned out that the meaning of the night watchman's words "Only if you come up" was the same as the fights between classmates when they were in school...

Hit me if you can!
You think I don't dare?
Come if you dare!
Come on now!

come!

Snapped!
Woo woo woo, do you really dare to hit me?

These scenes flashed by, but Lin Yi felt even more sad. He felt that if he were a puppy, his ears would be drooping now.

The night watchman's voice continued, "Don't think so. I just thought you were interesting, so I wanted to see if you were qualified to come up."

When Lin Yi heard the word "qualification", he felt better, because this was more or less an informal test. However, it was not given by the Night Watchman, but... that giant quantum bell?
After all, the wind and waves seemed to be caused by the vibration of the giant quantum clock.

"come over."

"Come closer and let me see."

The voice of the night watchman sounded again, and the shocking feeling was weakened a lot.

In this way, Lin Yi no longer had the feeling of a huge bell roaring in his ears.

"Okay, I'll do it..."

Just as he was about to speak, he found that his body had uncontrollably moved towards the night watchman, like a machine out of control of his subjective will.

He was startled and tried to regain control of his body, but found that he had no control over it at all!

"It's not instinct, but... the Night Watchman directly gave 'orders' to my body?!"

Lin Yi was shocked. For example, the PE teacher's "order" had some flavor of imperial decree in it. But after all, the PE teacher still needed to give orders in a relatively fixed format, while the night watchman already had a feeling that his words were law.

Speaking of coercion, Lin Yi couldn't help but think of Lao Mo... When Lao Mo took him to jump through layers, there seemed to be some similar elements involved.

Perhaps this is some common characteristic that only appears when the pollution depth reaches a certain level?
"Will I be like this in the future?" Lin Yi subconsciously had this thought in his mind, but he instinctively did not consider that this meant that his pollution had already reached a level far beyond that of an "experiencer"...

For some reason, just as he began to accept this idea subconsciously, as if some mechanism was triggered, Wei Liang's despicable look suddenly appeared in his mind for no reason.

"If we can really give orders like that, then Ryoko can realize the plot of H-manga wherever she goes, right?"

"Forget it, forget it. I don't want to think about it anymore..."

Lin Yi adjusted his mood and focused his attention on the environment in front of him.

He still had no control over his own body. He was like a person whose screen was remotely controlled and he could only watch everything that happened in front of him.

And he soon understood why the night watchman did this - because the layout of the top floor of this clock tower was not constant.

Just like what he saw when he first arrived here, the environment of the entire top floor was constantly changing. The stones under his feet were constantly extending and twisting, and suddenly disappeared as if they had bent ninety degrees. The surroundings and the top were constantly evolving like a blooming flower.

Of course, the same was true when he moved, and because of the addition of the variable "movement", the distortion of the entire space was aggravated a lot. The mere change in perceived space made him feel dizzy.

This counterintuitive change will overturn the human body's perception of space and environment, causing people to lose many of their most basic characteristics, such as...sense of spatial distance and center of gravity.

He felt dizzy now, but fortunately he was not in control of his body... Wait! The Night Watchman took over his body with just one sentence?!
"this……?!"

This is so weird!
But Lin Yi had no time to care about this weirdness, because all his attention was focused on observing the surrounding environment.

With the night watchman around, what is he afraid of?
You must watch it enough!
Everything around seemed to be scaled by an invisible force. The floating walls were connected at some strange angles, and some even overlapped with each other, forming an intricate maze-like structure.

He found that after he had walked a few steps, the originally straight stone slab suddenly tilted upwards and connected to a side wall. When he walked on it, it was as if he was walking on a slope that defied gravity...

The color tone of the whole world tends to be cold, mainly purple, with a faint golden light, making the whole world have a mysterious and cold atmosphere. The light that originated from nowhere has become thin and strange in this world, far less bright and warm than the sunlight in the real world.

As he moved, he would occasionally see some fragmented lights. They seemed to be emanating from some unknown places, like the folds of space or cracks in some unknown layers. They were scattered, forming blue or purple light bands, casting long, strangely shaped shadows in the distorted space.

When the air waves surge, the colors of these lights will also change dramatically. Every time the night watchman strikes the quantum bell, a golden light will appear around the bell. This light forms a sharp contrast with the cold background, like a ray of dawn at dawn in the dark night, carrying a mysterious sense of oppression.

The golden light will spread along the folds and contours of the entire space, outlining the outline of an unknown building or creature. In the air close to the quantum giant clock, the golden ripples seem to interweave some mysterious and complex totem patterns in the space...

The materials here seem to be in an extremely unstable state. The walls and the ground look like they are made of solidified flowing liquid. There are irregular textures on the surface, as if the traces of water flow are instantly frozen. Some wall fragments will flash from time to time, as if they may disappear or change shape at any time.

There were candlesticks with burning candles on several walls, but the candlesticks would change into other materials from time to time and then return to their original appearance.

In this strange world, the only things that remain unchanged seem to be the night watchman and the quantum clock.

They were at the center of the world, and everything that changed seemed to surround them like an asteroid belt.

At this moment, Lin Yi's body was controlled to jump from a stone slab that was perpendicular to the ground to a stone slab that was almost turned over and facing the ground.

"Snapped!"

He landed there steadily, like an upside-down Spider-Man...

The rules of gravity seemed to be completely off, and Newton's coffin was overturned.

But perhaps Newton had seen this phenomenon during his lifetime. After all, in his later years... he might have been studying these things.

Lin was constantly moving, and he originally thought that he needed to get used to this unconventional way of movement, but he found that he was wrong - he didn't need to adapt at all.

In other words, with his body's current "adaptability", the "minor" sense of discomfort is nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

At this time, he jumped onto a stone slab not far ahead, which was completely impossible to reach with the "naked eye".

When he jumped out, an illusory path seemed to appear in the space, like an invisible slide, guiding him to the landing point.

Here, the height and distance of jumping are no longer limited by muscle strength and gravity in the real world, but more by the logical rules within the space...

If Lin Yi were to walk on his own, there would be no chance for him to get close to the Night Watchman!

The only thing he could be sure of was that no matter how he walked, he would eventually get closer to the Night's Watch - even if sometimes he seemed to be running in a direction away from the Night's Watch.

He subconsciously glanced at his hand and found that the time on the dial was still moving, but the intervals between the minutes and seconds seemed to be different...

The time here seemed to be distorted. It was not linear but intermittent. This caused his watch to constantly experience time fluctuations, resulting in some phenomena of time acceleration or delay that could not be explained by science.

If he didn't look at his watch, Lin Yi would have lost his sense of time, because in his opinion, as long as his eyes were looking at the night watchman and the quantum clock, they seemed to always remain in a certain static relationship when he looked over there, but when he looked away and looked over there again, the night watchman and the quantum clock had switched to "another set" of static movements.

There is an invisible time fluctuation that is dominating the operating speed of the entire top floor of the clock tower.

He thought of the stationary tsunami; perhaps the same logic applied here as there.

About three minutes passed like this, and after going around in circles, Lin Yi finally arrived at a place less than ten meters away from the night watchman.

It was not until this moment that he saw Lao Mo who had come up earlier from the "corner" of a certain space.

"Hey, Lao Mo!" He was overjoyed and wanted to speak but no sound came out. However, when he got closer, he discovered that a horrifying and strange change had taken place in Lao Mo's body!
Now, there are countless worm-like holes on Lao Mo's body. Some particles float out of the holes and then dissipate in the air waves.

"Lao Mo's body is being destroyed!" Lin Yi's heart was pounding.

At this moment, Lao Mo also saw him, but when Lao Mo saw him, he clearly found a hint of strong surprise in Lao Mo's eyes. Then Lao Mo seemed to have thought of something, and the surprise turned into enlightenment.

But that look was still very complicated.

Then, Lao Mo raised his battered hand, holding something that looked like an hourglass or an oil lamp, and gestured to him.

Then he started fiddling with the thing on his own.

That thing was exactly the hourglass in the dormitory manager's hand. Now the petrified shell had almost peeled off, revealing the appearance of an old kerosene lamp. Inside the oil-stained glass cover, the weak wick was swaying slowly.

Around Lao Mo, one could clearly see some flowing, particle-like golden auras. They were like clouds, constantly gathering into the glass cover, as if charging the wick.

However, Lin Yi saw Lao Mo but not Mu Daxian.

If I remember correctly, Lao Mo came to save Mu Daxian, but where is Mu Daxian?

As he walked along, he didn't see Mu Daxian. Could he be in the folds of some layer?
After all, Lao Mo only saw it after he came here.

At this moment, he noticed a piece of debris floating next to Lao Mo.

A fragment is like an independent layer.

He looked at the fragment as if he was looking at the world in a mirror through a broken surface.

“Wait!! That’s… Maki Daishin?!”

(End of this chapter)