Chapter 382 Danger! ! The night watchman has not returned yet!
Chapter 382 Danger! ! The night watchman has not returned yet!
It seemed that there was only one last barrier left between him and the "Angel" - the boundless black tsunami!
However, before the existence of the person of "angel", the thickness of the "tsunami" seems ridiculously thin!
Lin Yi's soul kept trembling. He once had a simple fantasy, imagining what the scene would be like when a "mortal" faced an "angel", but when he faced it himself, he found that he had no reaction at all.
He only felt the most primitive tremor, and his brain was blank, and he didn't even know what fear was.
Or maybe - even the emotion of fear, from its birth to its spread throughout his consciousness, did not enter his cognition as quickly as the blankness at this moment.
Overwrite.
His instincts overrode all the emotions he had at the moment.
Or...delay?!
He suddenly realized something and looked at his wrist abruptly.
The watch on my wrist shows the time is——
2: 52.
And the pointer swung back and forth between the 7th second and the 8th second.
Unlike the previous swing from one second to the next, this time the swing was actually the other way around!!
The hands on his watch seemed to have reached the 8th second countless times, but they were all pulled back by an invisible force, and were at a time infinitely close to "023:5:10, May 2, X52"! !
"Time...is constantly going backwards?!"
"No, it's not a reversal, it's... an extension!!"
"Achilles Paradox?!"
The pointer was about to reach 2:52:08 countless times, but every time it was about to reach it, the time that had not yet elapsed would stretch a little!
In other words, at this moment, he is in a layer where time is infinitely extended!
"I am... building a dream?!"
Just like in "Inception", he is now falling deeper and deeper into dreams, and his perception of time in the outside world is becoming slower and slower!
Build a dream!
Lost!
If this continues infinitely, he will die!
No, he won't die here, he will become... a laughing angel?!
If it weren't for the watch, he would have really been ruined, but now that he knows, he won't do that anymore!
"We have to go back! We have to go back!"
"The Night's Watch just taught me 'Backtracking'!"
Lin Yi learned and applied it immediately. In front of the "Angel", he traced back the fluctuations of the air wave, and then this trace of consciousness disappeared here...
2:52:08, the "Angel" arrived at the border of the chaotic void. Outside the void, in the black waves, endless gray fog rolled endlessly. In the gray fog, the evil figure that was wriggling, twisting, and making people's scalps numb was shrinking without any rules...
The "Angel" looked at the place where Lin Yi's consciousness disappeared for a long time without moving.
【…】
The "angel" seemed to utter some obscure ancient syllables. The sound was blocked by countless layers of layers, as if it had been separated by countless ages. When the sound came through, it was already turbid and nothing could be heard clearly. Only two rough syllables remained, which sounded like...
【……0……】
【……1……】
……
X023年5月10日，2:52。
The world before Lin Yi's eyes fell apart. When he regained his vision, all that was left was the surface of the "Holy Temple" with the secret patterns floating on it.
And his consciousness regained control of his body.
"Isn't it fun? You really want to vent your anger and ask me to watch the revolving lantern of life, right?" Lin Yi seemed to be talking to his instinct, but then he thought, it's really weird to make fun of yourself...
He clearly remembered that he seemed to have "faced the angel" just now, but he only remembered the fact that he "faced the angel", but he could not remember any details related to it.
This feeling is like losing this memory directly.
I know I went on a spring outing yesterday, but I only know that I went on a spring outing. I have no idea where I went or what I did.
Forget about it, there is not even a single detail.
It's like playing a word game.
"Could it be that 'I' blocked 'my' memories?"
He tried to recall it without any effort, but found that he had nothing but a shudder.
The delayed feeling of fear also disappeared because of his "amnesia".
If you don’t know what it is, you won’t be afraid of nothingness.
The only thing he remembered was time, because time had nothing to do with the other worlds when he was "building dreams"!
"Right! Time!!"
He quickly glanced at his watch.
At this moment, more than ten seconds had passed since he woke up.
The moment he saw the watch face, his mind suddenly became clear, and his IQ seemed to emerge. He also instantly understood why the time at that time was always infinitely close to "2:52:08"!
Because at 2;58:08, the "angel" actually saw him.
In other words, the fact that "the 'angel' looked at him" was the result of his cognition through logical reasoning of details. However, both Lao Mo and the Night Watchman mentioned that once one faces the angel directly, one will truly fall into the warning of "lost souls chasing phantoms in the abyss of fog and darkness."
His instinct and cognition, by constantly stretching the time scale of that second, enabled him to avoid the incident before it became an established fact.
And now, the Titanic, which was supposed to hit the iceberg, has just missed it.
Is this a kind of... reversal of the future?
Lin Yi was slightly stunned.
Humans are three-dimensional creatures and cannot perceive the changes that the time dimension brings to reality. But if the scale of time can really interfere with and modify certain futures, could he have just encountered some more complicated experience...
He spent countless efforts to modify a certain part of the future, but all these modifications disappeared over time. That is to say, he may have experienced a timeline that was produced after facing an angel, and ultimately something interfered with that node, thus avoiding the occurrence of the incident. And because what should have happened did not happen at all, so... he has no memory of that part?
Wait, what is this…?
Grandfather paradox?
His head felt a little numb because this was obviously a very simple matter, but his intuition kept telling him that things were not that simple.
"Could it be possible that I have lost some memory right under my nose?"
Lin Yi would rather believe it exists than believe it does not.
"If that's the case...if there's something I can cross over...wait!!" "Dream!"
When dreaming, his consciousness seemed to be able to go back to the past and then have some kind of intersection!
The security guard at that time seemed to have discovered some clues, and he had also vaguely guessed something!
When he was repairing the city wall, he seemed to have vaguely foreseen a bad future.
"Future me, are you here?" He murmured softly, as if wanting to get some kind of answer.
It must be that "I" faced the "angel" directly, resulting in irreversible and horrific consequences, and then that "I" arrived at the moment through the dream and prevented the current "I" from facing the "angel" directly!
This kind of thing violates the laws of the world, but Lin Yi is no longer the staunch materialist fighter he once was.
What a joke! When you see the whole world like a dough in twisted layers, any firm heart cannot resist melting under the high temperature, and then being molded into various shapes by the flames.
He looked up at the world outside the bell tower. Through the floating walls of the bell tower, he could see the chaotic void of the bell tower. But unlike the situation just now, when he looked out from inside the bell tower, it seemed that he was protected by the bell tower field and would not be attracted by "angels", which greatly reduced the risk of becoming a "light chaser in the fog".
But once you leave the bell tower and lose its protection, you will have no safety when facing the "angel".
The sound of the bell was melodious, and a wave of air was pushed out. After a while, the wave of air began to weaken, but the night watchman had not woken up yet.
Lin Yi thought to himself that something was wrong. Why hadn’t the night watchman returned yet?
“02! 02!”
He looked anxiously at the night watchman beside him, but the night watchman stood there like a stone, completely unmoved.
"This is terrible... We agreed to ring the bell only once, and now the sound is almost gone, why hasn't it come back yet?"
Lin Yi looked at himself now like a gilded mummy, and wondered if he should knock again.
Knock Again
When these four words appeared in his mind, he did not feel any resistance at all. It seemed that after ringing the bell once, he felt that ringing the "Holy Church" was not that difficult?
"Am I drifting?"
But now, regardless of whether it floats or not, the bell sounds can’t seem to stop…
When Lin Yi gritted his teeth, the teeth on the bone made a "crackling" sound.
“Knock!”
When the aftermath of the air wave was about to completely subside, Lin Yi imitated the posture when his body was controlled by instinct, trying to use his powerful extraordinary power to hit the "Holy Temple". However, he did swing his fist, but there was no power in that fist...
He hammered the "temple" so easily that it gave him a sense of foreboding.
"No! There's something wrong!"
The problem is huge.
The church bell was not knocked.
The next moment, that horrifying baptism enveloped Lin Yi, and he was about to relive the scene of being sucked dry by the "Holy Temple".
"Instinct save me!"
Lin Yi roared in his heart and chose "entrustment" with ease.
In the moment of crisis, his instincts did not disappoint him, and it took over his "broken body" as if shouting "I'm here to help you".
"He" who was about to be sucked onto the bell suddenly stopped being pulled. At the same time, the three-color aura entangled him again, tightly wrapped his body, and then struck the "Holy Hall" again with unstoppable force.
“Duang——!!”
Everything seemed to be the same as last time, but Lin Yi felt a sense of uneasiness.
Almost out of some strange feeling, he looked at the hand that hit the bell.
His senses penetrated the three-colored aura entangled in his body, and he discovered that a layer of fine cracks had quietly appeared on his golden arm bones.
The starting point of the crack is a layer of secret patterns on the surface of the "Church" bell.
“Is this the side effect of ringing the bell?! My body… can only withstand the impact of ringing the bell once, is that what you mean?!”
Lin Yi thought about how when the night watchman rang the bell, some particles seemed to be annihilated out of his body. Now he suddenly understood that even the night watchman could not withstand the endless frequency of ringing the bell!
It is impossible to imagine what kind of horrible force the night watchman who rang the bell alone must be under when the gray fog invaded!
However, as the second sound was about to fade away, there was still no response from the Night Watchman!
"No way, big brother! You said you would knock once, but I've already knocked the second time! Do you want to come back?"
Feeling the gradually fading bell sound, Lin Yi's heart slowly sank to the bottom of the valley.
"what to do……?"
After the second knock, cracks appeared on the "golden body"!
This "golden body" that was shaped to withstand the impact of the "holy temple" seems not as strong as imagined...
If he keeps knocking like this, will he die?
"Or... give up?" A thought popped up in Lin Yi's mind.
He glanced at the old kerosene lamp not far away, and couldn't help but want to back out...
He came here to take the blame in the first place, and now it's a buy one get one free deal, he's already done the most he can, there's no need to risk his life as well, right?
Or... take that damn old kerosene lamp and get out of the night watchman's bell tower?
Just as Lin Yi was hesitating, he saw Lao Mo from the corner of his eye over the old kerosene lamp...
Lao Mo seemed to be attracted by the second bell and was looking at him at this moment.
When Lao Mo found Lin Yi looking at the old kerosene lamp, he knew what Lin Yi was thinking.
"Go away...boy..."
Lao Mo's voice sounded slowly, frank and sincere, but also revealed endless helplessness and bitterness.
"This is not... a battle you fight alone..."
"You are already...very good...for being able to knock...once..."
"If you want to leave, then... go ahead... don't sacrifice in vain..."
"Did I hear correctly? Lao Mo actually asked me to run?" Lin Yi was stunned, but when he looked at Lao Mo, he didn't think he was trying to provoke him...
But what Lao Mo said was undoubtedly what he wanted. He really wanted to run away...
He then slowly released the skeleton hand that was pressed against the "temple".
But at that moment, just like when he saw the city wall shattered, the gymnasium collapsed, and the boss and the physical education teachers died in battle before repairing the city wall, this time he also had a quick flashback vision in front of his eyes...
He saw the "angels" breaking through the black waves. The scaly substances engraved with evil marks and shining with dark luster, and the figures covered with eye-like tumors, one after another, submerged the art building like iron chains...
(End of this chapter)