Chapter 384 "Final Payment" and Extra Gifts
Chapter 384 "Final Payment" and Extra Gifts
"I must have seen him somewhere!"
"Wait... He said 'little girl'? Li Huiyuan? The canteen? He was in the canteen at the time?"
The scene at that time quickly emerged in Lin Yi's mind, but no matter how hard he tried to recall, he could not think of any trace of the convenience store owner in his memory.
But since he couldn't figure it out, he simply gave up thinking about it. Then, not forgetting what Lao Mo had told him before, he said, "Lao Mo said... Mu Daxian is there, and he hopes you can save him..."
"Mu Daxian?" The shop owner smiled lazily, "I can't save him, so let "02" save him."
As he spoke, he walked slowly to the side of Night Watchman "02" in flip-flops, then reached out and touched Night Watchman "02".
"Wake up! If you don't wake up, the bell tower will be lost."
Before he finished speaking, the night watchman "02" suddenly opened his eyes.
At that moment, the wind and clouds came together, and a terrible storm seemed to form above the head of Night Watchman "02".
And this storm disappeared when he saw the owner of the convenience store.
"Why... are you here?" There was a hint of surprise in the cold voice of the night watchman "02".
"Why am I here? I have to ask you." The store owner's voice is always lazy, but it reveals an indescribable seriousness.
Night Watchman "02" was stunned for a moment, then immediately found Lin Yi. Looking at Lin Yi's current state, he immediately felt something was wrong: "I won't talk to you for now, repeater boy, how long has it been now?"
Lin Yi's skull showed a bitter smile that was hard for others to understand: "It's 2:58..."
"It's been so long?! That clock...?"
"I knocked three times... The boss just hit me with his head..."
"I didn't knock, don't talk nonsense, I just accidentally fell and bumped into someone!" the convenience store owner emphasized.
The Night Watchman "02"'s expression changed drastically: "Three times...? You are still alive?"
"Yes, to be honest, I was also surprised..."
Night Watchman "02" quickly took over the "Church" and then said ashamedly: "Sorry, repeater boy... I must have been lost just now and didn't hear the bell."
"I guessed it." Lin Yi said, "Did you get the Quartermaster?"
Night Watchman "02" shook his head and said, "Failed... I can't get the "Quartermaster" by consciousness alone. After the invasion is over, I have to go there in person."
"Hey...you found the Quartermaster?" the store owner smiled.
Night Watchman [02] said angrily: "Don't even think about it."
"I haven't said anything yet..."
"How can I not know what you are planning?"
"Everyone who listens gets a share. You can't finish it all by yourself, so give me some!" The shop owner said with a smile, "How about you tell me where it is and I'll go pick it for you from that guy's body? That guy looks pretty strong, so he should be able to afford it."
He looked at Lin Yi with ill intention, and there was a wicked light flashing in the shadow of his face, which made Lin Yi feel a chill down his spine.
"Don't think about him." Night Watchman "02" said, "I have to ensure his safety and make him leave."
"Yo..."
"What are you talking about? You really deserve a beating with this tone, you know that?"
"It's not bad, it's better than the bitter and resentful look you have all day long, right?"
"With the roots surging, the angels watching, and the night creatures all around, I can't be happy at all."
"Oh, look at this... this is too boring, how about..."
"Shut up!" Night Watchman "02" said coldly, "You are the one who talks the most nonsense among all the "Supreme Judges". Wait until I send that repeater away, and then I'll talk to you again!"
The time was about to reach 3 a.m., and the night watchman "02" knew that it was time to send Lin Yi away.
The night watchman "02" knocked on the "Church". When the air wave from the "Church" rushed out, he followed a twisted space loop and came to a fragmented world in the clock tower world. Then he reached out and grabbed something from it. He wanted to return along the same route, but suddenly he thought of something and went to another place similar to the mirror world. He took something else and then returned to Lin Yi.
He handed Lin Yi a small box that looked like it was carved out of stone and was covered with secret patterns and mysterious symbols.
"This is the 'balance' that we agreed on before..."
When Lin Yi heard the word "balance payment", his eyes lit up. He quickly reached out to take it and looked at the stone box carefully.
The surface of the stone box was very rough, like something cast with cement and formed after simple polishing. The stone box was covered with mysterious symbols and secret patterns that Lin Yi could not understand, but in addition to that there was another pattern. The pattern was connected from beginning to end and looked like an Ouroboros.
"Inside the box is a supernatural artifact called the Ouroboros Ring... It is number 101 in the supernatural genealogy and belongs to the auxiliary category of the Dream System. Hang it around your neck or wear it on your hand. When you dream, it can enhance your willpower and enable you to dream at a deeper level."
"And its side effect is that it makes the user unable to distinguish between reality and dreams, and the probability of getting lost in the dream will increase exponentially with the depth of the dream."
"Self-destructive props?" Lin Yi was stunned.
Night Watchman "02" was noncommittal: "As for special medicine, it depends on when to use it. If you use it at the right time, the side effects are not that important."
"It's a risk that can't be avoided anyway?"
"Paraphraser boy, don't be so naive. Powerful things are bound to bring stronger negative effects. But having a sword in your hand and choosing not to use it, and not having the sword when you want to use it are two completely different things." Night Watchman "02" smiled and patted his shoulder.
"By the way, what is this "Genealogy of Extraordinary Creation"? "
"I don't have time to explain to you." The night watchman "02" shook his head slightly, and handed the thing he took out from another mirror world to Lin Yi, "This thing is not considered the 'final payment', it's my compensation to you..."
"What is this?" Lin Yi looked at the thing handed over curiously. It seemed to be an illusory floating secret pattern, with a sense of unreality like a virtual image.
"This is a relic of a more prominent Dawn Walker."
"Relics?!" Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaimed.
"You can think of it as a piece of equipment. It has no side effects and you can use it right away. It's good to have it with you on your way back. If it breaks, you can still repair it or throw it away." The night watchman motioned Lin Yi to reach out and grab it, "Try to catch it." Although Lin Yi didn't understand yet, he still followed the night watchman's instructions and reached out to grab the illusory secret pattern.
When his palm touched the secret pattern, a sky blue aura immediately entangled with it, forming a kind of concrete extraordinary power similar to "Qi" on his hand.
"Damn it, I'm going to become an immortal!" Lin Yi exclaimed.
Night Watchman「02」: “…”
"Don't act like an inexperienced person..." The shop owner was picking up the night watchman "02" and said, "Just give the toy away and send him away. Don't waste our time here."
Night watchman "02" glanced at the shop owner and said bluntly: "If you really want to reminisce, there are plenty of opportunities. Why wait till now?"
"Paperback kid, I don't have time to explain the principle of this secret pattern to you. Simply put, you can use the power of this secret pattern through your subjective will to condense extraordinary power into a weapon..."
"To put it simply, you can anchor a weapon. The closer the weapon is to your knowledge, the more stable the anchor will be. The simplest way is to anchor something that is lethal and often used in daily life, such as a kitchen knife."
Anchored weapons?!
Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he immediately thought of Xu Shunkang's baseball bat!
"Yeah, the Sports Department, isn't that the Dawn Walker system?!"
At this moment, Lin Yi seemed to understand where the baseball bats that almost everyone in the Physical Education Department had came from!
That’s how it came about!
He then made up his mind, and the "Qi" gathered in his hands suddenly became active, and then turned into countless blue and white light particles that gathered together to form a baseball bat with a floating blue aura.
At first glance, it really looks exactly like a sports student's baseball bat!
"Wow, this is so handy!" Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaimed.
"As you like." The night watchman said, "It's getting late. Take the lantern and you should leave."
"Okay." Lin Yi put away the Ouroboros Ring, dismissed the baseball bat, and picked up the old kerosene lamp.
"Oh, right, "02"... before Lao Mo died, he told me to ask you to save Mu Daxian."
"I understand. You can go without worry. I promise to bring Mu Daxian back."
"Okay...thank you." Lin Yi thanked Lao Mo on behalf of him.
Just as he was about to turn around and leave, the voice of the store owner suddenly rang out: "Hey, that chicken-bellied kid...don't forget your bag."
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and looked at the backpack emitting light mist: "If I take it away...will it affect you?"
"It doesn't matter." The store owner said, "Take the bag to the store and give it to me..."
"Ah? Aren't you going to take it away yourself?" Lin Yi asked puzzled.
Night Watchman "02" said: "Just take him with you. The one you saw is not the real him. He just used Mo's heart and this bag to set up a trap, using the 'door' attribute to open a stable infiltration path for him..."
"I think his real body is still half-dead and hiding in that corner...right?"
"Go away!" The shop owner waved his hands repeatedly, "Can you please let me maintain a respectable image in front of the little guy?"
"If you want to be great and glorious, you wouldn't have to infiltrate us with this image." The night watchman "02" taunted mercilessly, then turned to look at Lin Yi and began to order him to leave, "Take your things and leave quickly. It's too late to come back."
"On the way back, no matter what happens, don't stop. Try not to attack nocturnal species unless necessary. Killing them will accumulate pollution and make you a target for super nocturnal species."
Lin Yi didn't hesitate to hear that. He picked up his backpack and went downstairs.
As he continued to move away from the "Holy Temple", the sky blue aura began to move on his golden bones like nanorobots, regenerating his flesh and blood bit by bit.
Now, golden light was pulsating in his eyes, and the spatial folds in the clock tower world were also clearly reflected in his vision. He walked along the spatial folds to the stairs, looked back at the night watchman "02" and the store owner in the depths of the distorted space, and then walked down the stairs without looking back.
By the time he got down the stairs, his body had completely returned to normal.
He clenched his fists, feeling the power flowing through every muscle fiber. He felt as if he had been reborn, as if he had a new body.
Without time to savor it, he quickly found the iron gate, but before going through it, Lao Mo's instructions to him echoed in his mind.
He did not act in a hurry, but went over everything that Lao Mo had told him in his mind, and then he fished out the dormitory manager's identity credentials from his clothes.
From now on, he will no longer be a kid with no identity but... the dormitory manager on the 33rd floor of the dormitory: "Dormitory Manager-33-X0221119003".
Lin Yi took a deep breath, closed his eyes, slowly placed the old kerosene lamp at his feet, clamped it with his feet to prevent it from being lost, and then repeated in his mind: "I am "Dormitory Manager-33-X0231119003", I am returning to the dormitory from the Art Building..."
"I'm "Dormitory Manager-33-X0231119003", I'm returning to the dormitory from the Art Building..."
"I am "Dorm Manager-33-X0231119003"..."
While silently reciting the mantra, he repeatedly rubbed his face with his hands. Gradually, his face began to change from "faceless" to have a human look, and his body shape also continued to change with the appearance of his face.
In the end, he turned into the appearance of "Dormitory Manager-X0221119003", and even his body shape became that.
He slowly opened his eyes, his gaze was firm: "I am "Dormitory Manager-33-X0221119003", I am now returning to the dormitory. "
He bent down, picked up the old kerosene lamp, then opened the door of the bell tower, and endless steps appeared in front of him.
[Any stairs on campus are to go up and down along the right-hand side].
He went down the stairs, closed the door, and then followed the rules carefully, holding up the old kerosene lamp, and started to walk down along the wall on the right.
“Da…da…da…da…da…”
In the empty stairwell, only the sound of footsteps echoed in this dead silent environment.
On the walls of the stairs, the paintings that sealed the laughing angels seemed to have found the light of the old kerosene lamp and began to struggle hard, trying to break through the walls.
Lin Yi followed Lao Mo up the entire staircase, knowing full well that whether he could finish walking up the entire staircase had nothing to do with speed, so he was not affected by the paintings, but maintained his own pace, walking down slowly and steadily.
This is an agonizing process. While going through it, it is easy to lose the sense of time in the endless boredom and repetitiveness.
(End of this chapter)