Chapter 383 I have an agreement with the store owner
Chapter 383 I have an agreement with the store owner
He saw the lonely art building under the black sky and in the black waves, like the last outpost in the world. The sharp blade pointing to the sky could not escape the end of collapse...
He saw the clock tower collapse into countless pieces, the quantum giant clock "Church" was sunk into the depths of the ocean by the "Angel", and the night watchman who lost his consciousness in the bedroom was torn into pieces by the power of the "Angel"...
He saw the night watchman in front of the cliff holding up the ancient green lamp to resist the terrifying wind and waves, but he was still suppressed by the "angel". Then, an endless army of super nocturnal creatures mixed with alien sculptures such as the "Snake Nest" surged over and completely submerged him. Finally, the ancient green lamp fell powerlessly to the mossy ground and fell into eternal loneliness...
He saw the art teachers desperately rushing into the army of nocturnal creatures, their bodies being eaten away as they rushed towards the ancient green lantern. He saw countless people sacrificed themselves before they transported the ancient green lantern back to the art building, but the art building was overturned right before their eyes...
He saw the art teachers on the observation deck laughing wildly as they burned up the last of their extraordinary substances, and then were drowned and swallowed by the night creatures. Countless art students poured into the observation deck from the art building, and the light continued to bloom, but in the end the light still went out...
He saw countless artists staring at their drawing boards in the collapsed art building. In the flying dust, huge rocks fell one after another. Art students died with their eyes open. The hands exposed everywhere in the ruins were tightly grasping their paintbrushes...
He saw the collapse of the art building's layers, and the endless gray fog rolled up the black tide that penetrated one layer after another and poured into the campus' layers...
He saw the tide crashing onto the city walls. The huge city finally couldn't bear the weight and continued to shatter...
He saw an "angel" descend, and the world fell apart because it could not bear its form...
His world flickered faster and faster, and he seemed to see the end of the world through some kind of butterfly effect...
Finally, the whole world was filled with white light, and his vision returned to the "temple" in front of him.
“Gulp…”
He swallowed deeply, and his skull was coated with a layer of light, as if he was sweating coldly.
"No... this is a lie, right?"
"Just because I ran away... the whole world is destroyed?"
"Is there any mistake?"
Lin Yi had never felt that he had the power to decide the fate of a world, but those images were linked together, as if telling him some kind of irreversible reincarnation and predetermined fate...
In that moment of vision, he foresaw the tragic death of two night watchmen in the gray fog, the fall of the entire art department, and even the art building ceased to exist...
He wanted to run, but the idea was only a thought.
His gaze shifted from the "temple" to the night watchman.
He sensed his instinct fading, and it seemed to tell him that this was enough.
He regained control of his body, but this time, he gritted his teeth, with a conflicting feeling in his heart. Finally, as if after a century-long decision, he suddenly grabbed the air around him!
But this time it was different. All those extraordinary powers that he was unable to control before were now within his control!
"call--"
It was like grabbing a handful into the mud and stirring up the sticky substance.
At this moment, three colors of aura flowed continuously between Lin Yi's fingers. The terrifying supernatural power was wrapped up by him and then slammed into the bell body!
""0——2——"! ! "
Lin Yi roared:
"I'm going to risk my life to give you extra time!"
“This time, you have to give me more money!!!”
“Duang——!!”
The bell rang three times, and the air was filled with overwhelming force!
A terrifying air wave surged out, and Lin Yi was blown away. Shocking cracks spread rapidly on his arms, as if they were sugarcane that was violently broken!
Lin Yi fell heavily to the side and stood up with difficulty, but his arm was broken and he fell face first to the ground again.
“Cough… cough cough!!”
Lin Yi coughed violently several times, but nothing came out.
There was no blood left in his body.
He stared at the night watchman and murmured, "Fuck you...if you don't come back...I won't be able to knock on the door anymore..."
However, when the third bell rang, the night watchman remained unmoved.
“Shit… it’s over…”
Lin Yi's heart sank. He knew that he might be able to ring the fourth bell, but the price would be a high probability that he would be sacrificed.
But at this time, what was more terrifying than sacrifice was that after he rang the fourth bell, the night watchman still did not come back.
It is better to live in disgrace than to die in vain.
Just as he hesitated, the entire bell tower began to shake.
Lin Yi initially thought it was the aura brought by the returning Night Watchman, but he soon discovered that the Night Watchman had not changed, and this vibration came from... outside the bell tower!
"It's an 'Angel'?!"
He looked up at the dome of the bell tower, and through the cracks in the wall, he saw the chaotic void filled with gray fog.
In the chaos, a black wave covered the sky and the earth, and enveloped the entire art building like a sphere...
In the waves, the shadows of the "angels" appeared and disappeared, as if countless giant snakes were swimming in the deep water, making a terrifying sound.
Its outline is like an evil stone statue crawling out from the darkest abyss and nightmare. It comes from the end of the darkness and no one knows where it is heading. Its body is slender and winding, with many branches, full of irrational distortions, which makes people feel a trembling and terror from the depths of their souls.
Through the dark tide, one can vaguely see its strange scales floating with a dark luster. They look like scales, feathers, blinking balls of flesh, or some kind of totem with illusory secret patterns floating on them...
The void is shaking, the world is trembling, and the art building is crumbling!
At this moment, a black tide was surging in front of the cliff, and the sky over the lookout tower was about to collapse!
"It's not good... It's very bad!" On the observation deck, the art teacher "Big Golden Retriever"'s voice was filled with bitterness. Looking at the clock tower that was about to collapse, he took out the pipe from his pocket and put it to his lips.
The storm extinguished the tobacco in his pipe, but he still struggled to take a last puff.
It seems that after this bite, there will be death.
On the top floor of the clock tower, Lin Yi's body was trembling. At this moment, the shadow of the "angel" was already within reach!
It is about to break through the shackles of the layers and penetrate into this world!
"Uh-"
Lin Yi roared unwillingly. He forced himself to stand up, but was unable to get close to the quantum giant bell "The Holy Temple".
He thought he still had the strength to ring the fourth bell, but the fact was, when the "angel" began to infiltrate, all the despair was not enough to describe the helplessness at the moment.
"Is this the end?"
Lin Yi was suffocated by the pressure that seeped through the layers and the air waves of the "Holy Temple". "It's... not over yet... don't give up!" Lao Mo shouted weakly.
He glanced at Mu Daxian, who was about to be rescued from the mirror world by him, and then resolutely gave up this step and instead reached his other hand into his chest.
“Bang…”
His sternum was broken, and he grabbed his heart, which was flowing with colorful colors, then pulled it out and threw it towards Lin Yi.
"Put the heart in the bag...zip it up and zip it back up! Quick! Quick!! Quick!!!"
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, but Lao Mo's three consecutive shouts made him react immediately. Then he dragged his body to grab Lao Mo's heart and stuffed it into the backpack containing tomatoes.
Although he didn't understand what Lao Mo meant, he did it anyway.
He zipped it up, making sure the backpack was fully closed before unzipping it again.
There seemed to be nothing unusual during the whole process. The only difference was that when he opened it again, there seemed to be a flash of cold breath from the backpack. However, at such a moment, such a subtle breath was really difficult to distinguish.
"Haha...good...well done..." Lao Mo watched Lin Yi complete this step, and a look of relief appeared on his ugly and handsome face.
A pale bone color quickly emerged from his remains and began to petrify him.
"It's okay... kid... don't panic... nothing will happen..."
"This is... an agreement between me and... my boss..."
"What?" Lin Yi was puzzled, but after Lao Mo lost his heart, his body turned into stone at a speed visible to the naked eye.
"If there's a chance... please tell him... to rescue Mu Daxian... for me..."
The air waves surged, and Old Mo, who had no heart and was petrified, was annihilated into countless powders with a "bang" and scattered in the air.
The next moment, a large amount of golden-gray mist suddenly gushed out of the backpack as if dry ice was vaporizing. A terrifying aura that could not be described in words rose from the ground like a divine peak reaching the sky!
"Buzz——"
The whole world began to hum. The surging gray-gold mist seemed to become some kind of light curtain, and within that constantly surging light curtain, some kind of picture seemed to appear...
Lin Yi was actually not unfamiliar with the scene in that picture!
“That’s…?!”
It was an arc-shaped passage, like some kind of air-raid shelter, with rows of shelves displayed there and red lights flashing throughout the space.
Commissary.
On the light screen is the scene of the convenience store!
I have an agreement with the store owner
What the hell... Could it be that after sacrificing the heart, the store owner will be summoned out? !
This bizarre thought popped up in Lin Yi’s mind, but what was even more absurd than bizarre was that this thought seemed... ?
An illusory and thin figure slowly emerged from the mist. The next moment, a foot wearing flip-flops and with hairy legs like a beard stepped out from the mist...
"Oh... you're really embarrassed..."
A lazy and somewhat magnetic voice sounded. Even before seeing the person, one could feel that the person who said such words must be a frustrated and decadent middle-aged man who had achieved nothing.
The next moment, a pair of Playboy shorts that would only be worn on vacation in Hawaii were revealed, followed by a perfect waistline and open-chested pajamas...
Then there was a head with a hat. This guy's cheeks were about the same size as his legs, and he had a scruffy look. However, his face seemed to be backlit and could not be seen clearly. He looked a bit like Urahara Kisuke, but from the overall temperament, he looked more like Wei Liang who was taking a shower and came in pajamas and flip-flops...
Lin Yi shook his head and discarded this unrealistic idea.
Although this guy looked unreliable, the fact was that with his appearance, the clock tower, which had been shaking, suddenly stabilized...
The sense of doomsday, as if the sky was about to fall, also seemed to disappear.
"Store...Boss...?" Lin Yi said in a lost voice. He seemed to see the guy's name tag, which was pinned on his chest very carelessly. From the wrinkles on it, it seemed to be "...-003"...
When the decadent man in pajamas heard this, he took a very unreliable look at his chest, then breathed a sigh of relief, as if he was not very sure of his identity.
After appearing, he didn't seem to be in a hurry at all. He just looked around and muttered:
"I already owe so much debt, and now I have to add another one..."
"Let me do the math... your ashes have all been scattered... it will take a lot of time and effort to save them for you..."
"We are so familiar with each other... I will only charge you a personal fee..."
He swept the area around and complained about the decoration of the clock tower: "This design, this decoration... it's so boring... it hasn't changed in a year in all these years..."
He saw the motionless watchman again.
"02, something strange has happened..."
He took a step forward, and was accidentally tripped by Lin Yi who fell to the ground. He stumbled forward and accidentally hit his head on the "Church"...
“Duang——!!”
The bell of the "Church" rang, and this time, it seemed as if a great peace had begun, directly calming down all the restlessness...
The "Angel" that had been so close to the clock tower also quietly retreated a little...
In complete contrast was the howling of the convenience store owner.
"It hurts, it hurts, it hurts..." He held his head with both hands, jumped up and down in pain, and cursed, "Who threw the clothes hanger around? I'm a human being..."
He squatted down and took a closer look at Lin Yi, then suddenly smiled: "Hey, isn't this the young man who came in with a little girl..."
Even though Lin Yi is now just a skeleton and his identity has been concealed by Lao Mo, he seems to have no secrets at all in front of the convenience store owner.
The strange thing is that even though the store owner had clearly come close to Lin Yi, Lin Yi still couldn't see his face clearly.
But the aura around him made Lin Yi feel more and more familiar.
(End of this chapter)