Chapter 370: The Holy Temple and Time

Chapter 370: The Holy Temple and Time

Chapter 370: "The Holy Temple", "The Dark Light", and "Time Zero"

“They are obsessed with the mortal world because it is their world. They crave extraordinary power because it makes their limited journey home more durable... If you get lost in the endless time loop, you will return to the world in the form of a laughing angel.”

"A Laughing Angel...?!" Lin Yi's pupils shrank sharply, "Is this the essence of a Laughing Angel?"

"But their number... Dream Builder is too large, right? Is it because they can't be completely killed?"

"The Laughing Angels cannot be completely killed, they are a manifestation of the penetration of supernatural powers" - he thought of the original words that Lao Mo had said, and this was the general idea. It turned out that this was what the Night Watchman said to Lao Mo.

"There aren't that many of them." The Night Watchman denied. "In many cases, they are the same one, or the same group. They just have their souls infiltrated into the layers and possess the bodies of people in this world. They themselves cannot come back at all."

"Just like a network terminal? No, WiFi? Descending?" Lin Yi's eyes lit up.

The night watchman didn't know what WiFi was, but when he heard the séance, he nodded slightly.

The souls of the dreamers were trapped in different dimensions. They came to the world in the form of laughing angels, using the bodies of dormitory managers or other people as a medium... just like the dead souls who fell in a foreign land want to come back...

For some reason, thinking this way, I actually felt a kind of compassion for the smiling angel.

They were also people who sacrificed themselves to fight against the invasion of gray fog, but now they have become the "enemy" party.

"So the same goes for the dorm managers who became the Laughing Angels..."

The night watchman said: "The lost souls attach themselves to the people of this world, and the extraordinary power forms their armor. Those people in this world become the possession of the dreamer's soul. As time goes by, the possessed people will be assimilated and die in the pollution."

"The young man that Mo has his eyes on..." The night watchman pointed to the mirror-like wall, where the shattered Mu Daxian was in one of the layers. "I remember he was becoming a 'Black Moon Apostle'... Oh no, what's that called in their terms..."

“Oh, “art student.”

"Before he became an art student, he was a 'dormitory manager'. However, during his time as a dormitory manager, he exhausted the extraordinary power of the kerosene lamp that was used to maintain his safety. As a result, he was infiltrated by the soul of the dream builder and became a smiling angel."

"But he was lucky. Not only was he saved by the sports student, but he was also successfully brought here by Mo Xiaozi and became an 'art student'."

"However, perhaps because he was once the vessel of the Smirking Angel, his desire and thirst for the extraordinary is extremely strong... He has pursued my companions to fight against the gray fog several times. His will is extremely firm, but the direction of his determination is wrong."

"He wants to pursue a deeper level of 'pollution'..."

"I can see that he actually enjoys the power of the 'Laughing Angel'. He himself is a soul chasing after phantoms. His fanaticism is no different from that group of fanatics. The only difference is that he still retains his humanity."

"It is precisely because of this that I gave him the opportunity to pursue our 'Holy Icon'... but now it seems that he has failed."

"Maybe Mo can save him, or maybe he can't."

"But this has nothing to do with you anymore."

It really has nothing to do with him now. He is now in a difficult situation...

Lin Yi took a breath and said, "If I am 'Dream Builder', how can I know the passage of time? If I don't know, will I die in my dream as well?"

"Yes." The Night Watchman said, "This is a risk that any dream builder needs to take, but I will infiltrate your perception through the "Sanctuary" to ensure that your perception characteristics are amplified to a level sufficient to match that item."

"Then...can I refuse your request? I don't want to die yet..." Faced with absolute authority, Lin Yi chose to confess. After all, he only had one life, and he was not prepared to hand it over to the great cause mentioned by the Night Watchman.

“People will remember your sacrifice.”

"But I don't have the awareness of sacrifice yet..." Lin Yi wanted to say that since he first entered the school, he had been thinking about how to leave, not how to sacrifice...

If he had known that his life was in danger, he would never have come here.

The night watchman was silent for a moment, and the young dreamer in front of him seemed to be different from the person "he" mentioned.

Could it be a mistake?

But now the arrow has been drawn and has to be shot, and he has no other choice except Lin Yi.

"If you don't want to die, then why are you here?"

"Lao Mo brought me here..."

“That’s not your answer.”

Lin Yi: “…”

"You wanted to come, so he brought you here."

Lin Yi pursed his lips and said, "I, of course, also want to see the legendary art building..."

"I understand..." the night watchman said, "You have been called by the Art Building, just like the dream builders of all ages... So how do you feel now that you have seen the Art Building?"

“It’s incredible…”

"What you see is just the tip of the iceberg... Do you want to see the world under the ice?"

When Lin Yi heard this, his heart began to beat violently.

"The world...under the ice? What is that?"

"The Black Moon Outpost, and even the current invasion..." The night watchman raised his lips slightly.

From this moment on, he knew that he had captured Lin Yi.

A person who dares to break into the art building like this is, to a certain extent, no different from the "light chaser in the fog". They were unmoved before only because they had not seen the "light" that was enough to drive him crazy.

The world was like a huge scroll covered with gray cloth. The night watchman handed a corner of the gray cloth to Lin Yi.

He wanted to peel off the canvas, and his soul and body trembled with excitement.

The night watchman said nothing. The flame had already been thrown into the explosive. All he had to wait for was a brilliant explosion.

However, although Lin Yi's body was shaking and trembling, his instinct had begun to look forward to it, but he gritted his teeth with willpower and drove every muscle in his body to restrain his desire.

Finally, he spoke slowly:
"I... don't want to see it."

When he said this, he seemed to have exhausted all his strength.

He could hear the bewitching voice constantly echoing in his ears, like the whisper of a devil, tempting him to sign an indenture from hell.

The night watchman was slightly stunned.

The imagined explosion did not happen. It seemed that a little boy's urine extinguished the fuse.

Lin Yi's face was extremely pale. What was more tiring than the battle between himself and others was defeating himself.

At this moment, he was like a cultivator who was the first to stand in front of the immortal gate when the gate to ascension first opened, but refused the opportunity to ascend to heaven.

He tried his best to lower his head, then looked at the quartz watch on his wrist: "It's already 2:14... I don't think there is much time... I... I should go back soon..."

He looked down at his watch. The time was 2:14. After getting the old kerosene lamp from Lao Mo, he should go back... Although the Night Watchmen had many secrets, the risks of obtaining them were too great. Tian Bufan also had a lot of secrets, so he could get them the next time he returned to the dormitory.

Comparing the two, he would naturally choose to avoid risks.

And as for the Night Watch...his instinct told him that he should agree to the Night Watch's request, but his reason told him...he would die.

He will definitely die.

Hearing the word "time", the night watchman's eyes, which were fixed on the outside of the clock tower, slowly turned back, and then followed Lin Yi's line of sight and fell on Lin Yi's wrist...

"Boom——"

At this moment, whether it was the thunder that drowned everything or the huge waves that rose in the heart of the night watchman, Lin Yi actually felt that the entire space trembled violently.

"That is……?!"

The voices of the Night Watchmen were stirred as never before.

He looked at Lin Yi.

This was also the first time that Lin Yi looked into the eyes of the Night Watchman in this sense.

He saw an outline as firm as rock. The night watchman's face seemed full of cracks, like a scorched earth where the water had dried up for countless years. In such a scorched earth, the pair of golden eyes were burning like two flames.

This terrifying feeling of oppression was as if he was looking into the eyes of the lord of hell. Lin Yi felt as if his soul was about to be ignited. The wrist that was being stared at by the night watchman felt an intense burning sensation, as if it was about to be burned through.

"I understand..." The night watchman's voice was filled with mixed emotions, "I see... so that's it... is this really the only step left?"

Lin Yi's heart was slightly shaken, not understanding what the night watchman had understood.

The night watchman finally looked at him and said, "Since you brought it here... you have to help me."

"However, you don't need to worry too much. I only need to borrow 'one hour' of your time. If we cannot find the location of the item within one hour, you can return immediately."

"It'll be an hour later, just after 3 o'clock. You'll have plenty of time to leave the art building."

"how?"

Lin Yi pursed his lips. For some reason, he felt that the night watchman was going to force him to work. The reason why his tone was so gentle seemed to be related to his watch...

This watch... can show the time in dreams, it seems to be really extraordinary. Could it be that the night watchman saw the mystery of the watch at a glance, so - wait! This watch can show the real time in dreams!
That means, as long as I wear it, I can solve the problem of losing the time scale when building dreams?

In this way, you won’t be exiled because of the “time” issue?

"I... don't seem to have the qualifications to refuse." Lin Yi responded bitterly.

Perhaps he had no right to refuse from the beginning.

In the face of absolute power and authority, negotiation is only a manifestation of kindness.

That's it.

"Come to my side." The night watchman waved his hand. "The aura of the Holy Temple will allow you to perceive the entire Art Building, but don't just follow the crowd... I will give you some guidance, and you can use this guidance to perceive the world. Once the fluctuations of that object appear, I will stop you in time."

"The Holy Temple..." Lin Yi walked towards the location pointed by the Night Watchman, and followed the Night Watchman's movements to look at... the "Quantum Giant Clock".

"Is this thing called... 'Sanctuary'?"

“How strange…”

"This bell, called the Holy Temple, is one of the three extraordinary creations made by the Godcrafter. It is used to stabilize the layer where the Black Moon Outpost is located..."

"The other two items are the ancient green lamp 'Mingzhao', which is used to stabilize space, and the one that stabilizes time..."

He took a deep look at the quartz watch on Lin Yi's wrist.

"Time compass 'Time Zero'."

"Gudong..." Lin Yi swallowed secretly.

So the name of the ancient green lamp held by the night watchman standing on the cliff is called "Ming Zhao"?

And the remaining time compass called "Time Zero"...

"Why is he staring at my watch like that? Could it be that my watch also has extraordinary properties similar to a time compass?"

"But this watch is just... just..."

This watch was just given to him by his father, but for some reason, every time Lin Yi recalled his "family" in his mind, he felt it was unusually empty.

This feeling of emptiness has been getting worse recently.

It seems that once you enter the campus, you will really be forgotten by the outside world.

He sat down where the night watchman pointed out - right below the quantum giant clock "The Temple".

"This matter...is there anything else that needs attention?" He looked at the night watchman and asked.

The night watchman said: "There is only one thing you need to remember... Trust me and give me your absolute trust."

"'Absolute...trust'?" Lin Yi murmured, thoughtfully.

"In a dream, identity is extremely important. You need an identity to communicate with me, so from now on, I will call you 'Repeater'." The night watchman said, "And you can call me... "02"."

"'02'?" Lin Yi's mouth twitched, thinking to himself, I'm still "01"...

But he could never say such words to elevate himself.

"Are you ready?" The night watchman's voice sounded in his ears.

Lin Yi took a deep breath: "I'm ready."

"Okay." The night watchman responded, and then, just like last time, he brought out a powerful and extraordinary force and slammed it hard on the body of the quantum giant bell "The Temple".

“Duang——!!!”

A terrifying wave of air surged out, and the body of the nearest night watchman was temporarily out of frame. Lin Yi, who was located right below the giant quantum clock, felt a heavy feeling that was indescribable, as if the sky had collapsed and hit his spine hard!

That wave of air fell on him like a sound wave!

At that moment, Lin Yi felt like he was about to be shattered into pieces!

(End of this chapter)