Chapter 377: The Master's Bedroom
Chapter 377: The Bedroom of the Master of Magic
Everything about "home" flashed through his mind...
In the spacious living room, the TV was playing the plot from the TV series "Water Moon Cave" where Doudou smashed the Blood Ruyi and then the entire Water Moon Cave was frozen.
In the tidy kitchen, clean dishes are neatly placed in the cupboard.
In the cozy bedroom, the bedding was neatly folded and the computer on the bedside desk was playing the scene in "Happy Planet" when Lele entered the Happy Planet.
There are a lot of clothes hanging on the clothesline outside the balcony, swaying gently in the wind...
It was a very normal and ordinary home, but he always felt that there was an indescribable sense of disharmony...
He quickly realized that there seemed to be no one in this house except him. There were all kinds of kitchen utensils and dishes in the kitchen, but no vegetables, not even a bag of rice. The clothes hanging outside the balcony had been drying for who knows how long, and the texture of the fabric had lost under the wind and sun. The TV playing in the living room and bedroom seemed to be creating an illusion of "someone".
He seemed to feel the indifference of this house. He felt lost and confused, watching all this like a lost child.
His eyes were slightly moist, and a sour feeling spread in his heart, but it was at this moment that he suddenly understood the source of the sense of incongruity - there is a home here, at least it looks like a home, but there is no one!
Compared to "home", this place is more like a cage, a prison, a kind of... exile isolated from the world!
"boom--"
The flashing image in his mind disappeared, and his attention fell on the rusty iron door in front of him again. The rust marks on the door looked like a face that was both crying and laughing, sneering, crying, and looking at something madly...
[Children, play hide and seek~Hide one by one~]
[The small yard is a good place~ Brothers and sisters hide...]
Lin Yi heard the tender nasal voice of a little girl humming a nursery rhyme. He suddenly felt a touch on the back of his hand, as if a cold little hand was gently placed on his hand...
The next moment, his hand, which was suspended in front of the iron gate, was gently pushed against the door.
During the whole process, Lin Yi's mind was in a daze. He was like a passerby, watching his palm being pushed against the door by this invisible force.
When his palm touched the door, his consciousness seemed to have turned into countless tiny pieces of quicksand, penetrating into the world behind the door through the non-existent "gap" in the iron door...
As soon as he entered the door, a low roar sounded in his ears. At the same time, the image of a terrifying giant bear suddenly flashed in front of Lin Yi in a close-range manner!
[Ah——!!!]
The giant bear's fur was like rough white armor, emitting a cold luster in front of him.
Its body was so huge that it was beyond imagination. Every muscle was like a huge rock rolling under its skin, containing enough power to destroy everything. Its eyes were small but flashed with a fierce and crazy light. It opened its bloody mouth towards Lin Yi, revealing a row of sharp yellow fangs. Saliva kept dripping from between its teeth, and its fishy breath blew onto Lin Yi's face like a blower...
But just as it was about to rush to Lin Yi, a golden wave of air surged out like an overwhelming tidal wave, suppressing the image of the giant snow-white bear.
"Don't be afraid, I'm here." The voice of the night watchman sounded in Lin Yi's ears in real time, but Lin Yi could not find the location of the night watchman, and those golden air waves also gushed out from his body.
"My will is retained in your consciousness through the power of the "Sanctuary" along with the air waves... Go and look at this room."
As the image of the giant snow-white bear disappeared, an oversized white plush bear doll appeared in Lin Yi's eyes on the chair beside the bed.
"That thing just now...could it be this stuffed bear?"
"It's hard to say no. Everything in this bedroom requires extra care." The voice of the night watchman sounded in his mind.
Lin Yi pursed his lips and remained silent. He subconsciously touched the back of his hand. It was cold, as if he had just applied an ice pack.
"02, did you notice anything unusual when I walked in?"
"Abnormal? I thought you were 'invited' in? Could it be that...?"
Lin Yi was silent for a moment, then confessed: "I don't know either..."
But he thought of the feeling of being guided by "someone" to push the door open before entering, and subconsciously muttered: "Maybe... it can barely be considered as such, right? Forget it, never mind, here..."
"It's the 'bedroom' I told you about before. Take a look and see if it's the one you're looking for?"
Lin Yi's premonition at the door was correct. Behind the rusty iron door, there was indeed a bedroom decorated in pink and blue that looked very cozy.
The last time he appeared here, he saw the stuffed bear and the photo frame. Before he could take a closer look, the night watchman, who had sensed a crisis, pulled him out of this layer.
"Yes... it's right here." The night watchman's tone was similar to the "Oh~that's it~" voice of the doctor who often dies in tomb exploration movies when he sees some treasure.
After receiving the affirmation from the night watchman, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but ask in a mean way, "In that case, then what about the compensation we agreed on before, ah no, the 'balance'...?"
The night watchman couldn't help but laugh and cry: "Paperback kid... at this time, why are you still thinking about these things? Oh, okay, okay, when you leave, I will give you the remaining 'balance' as soon as possible to fulfill my agreement with that guy, okay?"
Lin Yi chuckled: "As long as you still remember it..."
The night watchman was somewhat helpless, thinking that you look like a very human guy, but you don't look like the kind of person who needs to use "interests" as an anchor to anchor "humanity"...
But when he thought about how Lin Yi mentioned his ideals and pursuits, the first thing he said was "beautiful legs in stockings", he felt that things were not that simple...
After all, that guy was the one who kept talking about stockings and beautiful legs, and he also said things like "What apostles, what roots, only stockings and beautiful legs are absolute justice", and he even said that he proposed to reform the uniforms of the relevant staff of the school.
Is it true that the more special the race, the more unconventional they are?
Also, what exactly is “human nature”?
The night watchman stopped talking and silently followed Lin Yi's "perspective" to observe the bedroom.
"「02」...Did you see what you were looking for?" Lin Yi asked in a low voice. Putting aside concepts like space folding and hidden layers, this room is only this big at most, so it shouldn't be difficult to find it.
The night watchman said, "Don't worry, let's wait and see..."
Lin Yi glanced at his watch.
2:33. "There's still half an hour left... If you say it's not urgent, then it's not urgent."
Suddenly, Lin Yi saw a face on the ceiling from the reflection of his watch case...
"What the hell?! 「02」! The ceiling! "
He shouted, and in order to provide the night watchman with a "perspective", he looked up!
However, there was nothing on the ceiling, which was painted sky blue.
"Nothing, what did you see just now?" asked the night watchman.
"I saw a blurry face in the reflection of my watch..."
"Could it be that I saw it wrong? Maybe it was you? Your current appearance is quite scary, it's hard to say if I was wrong."
When reminded by the night watchman, Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. He still looked "faceless" with some irrelevant outlines. He gave people a sense of déjà vu of the King Wuxiang in "Forbidden City Cop 00 Rounds". Anyone who saw him would say he was confused.
"I……"
"Well, you must have 'seen it wrong'." The night watchman's tone was a little heavy, as if he was emphasizing something.
Lin Yi's heart trembled, as if he understood something, and he quickly responded: "Then I must have seen it wrong... After all, the light here is really not very good..."
He continued to observe, but the more he observed, the more weird and unnatural it felt.
I don’t know if there are windows in the bedroom, but there are light blue curtains hanging where the windows should be. It seems that some light is shining through the gaps in the curtains, forming spots of light on the ground.
Next to the window there is an exquisite little bookshelf filled with colorful fairy tale books. The gold-plated letters on the spines of the books gleam in the light.
The edges of some pages were slightly yellowed and curled, as if they had been repeatedly rubbed by something, and when he got closer, he could smell a faint stench that seemed to be emanating from the gaps between the pages.
However, as Lin Yi observed carefully, he found something strange. There was a rabbit painted on the bed sheet, and the stitching of the rabbit's eyes seemed a little messy, making the rabbit's eyes reveal an indescribable madness. The smile of the plush bear doll was a little too exaggerated, as if it was forcibly pulled apart, and its small black eyeballs seemed to be secretly spying on every corner of the room from certain angles...
Moreover, the cartoon pattern of the snow-white rabbit made it difficult to tell whether it was a rabbit or a white bear.
The pink paint on the wall has some irregular dark stains near the corners, as if hiding some unspeakable secret.
The small carpet beside the bed had its soft fluff tangled together in some places, forming small swirls that looked like hidden entrances to the depths of darkness.
The chandelier above the head is the only one in use in the entire art building, but from time to time a slight rustling sound can be heard from the lampshade, as if something is moving restlessly inside.
On the dressing table in the bedroom, Lin Yi found an exquisite music box...
"Amon's Music Box".
The music box was closed and the spring stopped turning, as if it had always been there and had never left.
"It is indeed "Amon's Music Box", but don't be afraid..."
"How can this not be scary?"
"If you think about it carefully, there aren't many normal things in this bedroom. For example, if you have to give them names, the ones over there are 'Mage's Bear Doll', 'Mage's Cute Little Bed', 'Mage's Lolita Outfit'..."
"Hey, I won't be sleepy anymore when you mention Lolita!"
Lin Yi wanted to cry but had no tears, so he forced himself to smile. He finally understood that the night watchman's way of comforting people was not to say "Don't be afraid", but to say "Don't be afraid of this thing, most of the things here are no worse than it"...
Because there are many more terrifying things, so in comparison, what was originally terrifying is relatively not that terrifying... No, this logic is flawed. 02 You really don’t know it!
Lin Yi became even more panicked, because this room was full of forbidden supernatural creations!
It's been polished by the "first apostle", right?
It really feels like the belt of Laozi is made of golden rope!
His eyes moved and were suddenly attracted by the gap in the curtains. Then he couldn't help wondering why he didn't look at the gap carefully just now. There seemed to be a painting behind it... Wait, that's the painting mentioned by the night watchman, right?
"That painting...is it related to the item you are looking for?" Lin Yi asked weakly.
"Don't take me with you if you want to die." The night watchman replied coldly.
Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck.
The Night Watchman explained: "That 'painting' is the prison where the Mage was exiled. The 'painting' is just a re-established cognition. In fact, it is an abyssal world with countless layers, and her true body is imprisoned in one of the layers."
"Once, an adult said that it would be okay to take a look, but considering that the adult was the one with the worst tongue among the "original apostles" and liked to tell the worst jokes about hell, I didn't believe what he said..."
Lin Yi's mouth twitched, and he suddenly felt that the guy mentioned by the night watchman had somewhat lowered the status of the "first apostle"...
"Oh yes, there's a picture frame! I wonder if that helps you?"
"Where is the photo frame?" asked the night watchman.
"It's on the desk!" Lin Yi said, and slowly approached the desk next to the bookshelf. However, at this moment, his expression suddenly changed and he took a breath.
"What? Don't be so startled. I saw the photo frame. Is that it?" Here, the night watchman's perception seemed to be very limited. Most of the time, he needed to rely on Lin Yi's perspective to observe.
"That's right, that's right..." Lin Yi stared at the photo frame on the desk as if he had seen a ghost, his tone was a little dry and trembling, "But if I remember correctly, the last time I came here, the photo frame was not facing away from us!"
On the desk, a photo frame was facing away from Lin Yi's view, as if someone didn't want him to see it, so they deliberately turned it away.
The atmosphere in the bedroom slowly dropped to freezing point at this moment, and a chilling feeling quietly spread...
(End of this chapter)