Chapter 386 Extraordinary Creation, Sequence 101 Ouroboros Ring

Chapter 386 Extraordinary Creation, Sequence 101 Ouroboros Ring

Chapter 386 Extraordinary Creation, Sequence 101 "Ouroboros Ring"

At the critical moment, he saw something flashing a dim light in front of him.

The appearance of that light calmed the confusion and fear in his heart.

He was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously forgot the fear brought by the chains and the black viscous liquid. He tried to find the light, but found that the source of the light was right in front of him.

He opened his palms.

When he was dreaming, he couldn't see himself, but as the "palm" in his consciousness opened, a small snake appeared in front of him.

The snake was made of some unknown metal, and its eyes were inlaid with plaster-like gems. A layer of dark but colorful light floated in this layer.

It opened its mouth and bit its tail, forming a thumb-sized ring with a dark gold rope tied to it. Now it was floating quietly in front of Lin Yi.

"Ouroboros Ring".

Almost subconsciously, Lin Yi knew what it was.

It must have been his body that opened the stone box containing the Ouroboros Ring.

The Night Watchman said that the Ouroboros Ring could enhance his willpower when building dreams, allowing him to enter deeper levels of dreams.

As soon as the Ouroboros Ring appeared, the dim light drove away the black sticky liquid attached to Lin Yi's body like a cold fire, and also made the walls and well walls that were originally almost still move again.

[…You will…come back…]

[I will...wait...for you...]

[Wait for you... to come... in person... to beg... me...]

【……Forest……】

【……different……】

The sound faded away slowly, but unlike the previous "visions" that disappeared decisively, this time it seemed to disappear particularly slowly, as if someone was unwillingly turning the volume knob until it was completely muted.

When the sound completely disappeared, the walls around him finally replaced the well wall, and steps appeared under his feet...

He opened his eyes.

He had never closed his eyes, but at this moment he felt as if he had opened his eyes.

He heard the faint sound of wind echoing in the stairwell, the sound of water seeping through the cracks in the bricks of the wall, and felt the slightly moist scent in the air. He reached out and touched behind him.

Behind him is the backpack containing Lao Mo's heart and tomatoes.

He breathed a sigh of relief. It was only at this moment that he was finally sure that he had returned to reality.

He glanced at his watch and saw that the time was 3:07.

But at the same time, he also felt what he was holding in his hand.

He turned around and opened his palm, and indeed he saw the Ouroboros Ring.

"I thought it was just an auxiliary device, but I didn't expect to use it so soon... and it just happened to save my life." Looking at the "Ouroboros Ring" in his palm, Lin Yi felt a sense of relief for surviving a calamity.

Looking at the "Ouroboros Ring" in his hand, Lin Yi suddenly felt that it was quite different from what he had seen when he was building his dream.

Compared to the rough appearance in the dream, the main body of the ring in his hand was obviously much more delicate. It was hammered from some kind of black gold metal with built-in textures, exuding a low-key and calm luster, like an ancient treasure caressed by time.

Its shape is not realistic at all, with only a rough line shape. It looks almost the same as the Tushan dragon jade unearthed in China, except that the overall style is smaller.

It connects from beginning to end, with no beginning and no end, as if symbolizing an eternal cycle.

The surface of this "Ouroboros Ring" has no marks of scales, but is engraved with countless large and small secret patterns. It is magical that these secret patterns look very messy when put together, but if you look at them from a distance, you will find that they are virtual and real, and they just form the texture of the scales of the "Ouroboros Ring".

Its snake pupils were made of a plaster-like substance and looked as if they were dotted with white paint. However, when Lin Yi observed the snake pupils, he suddenly felt a sense of terror as if he was being glanced at.

A hint of golden light seemed to flash in the snake's pupils.

He was so frightened that his hands shook and he almost lost his grip on the ring.

He re-examined the Ouroboros Ring and had a strange feeling, as if the ring was a mysterious microcosmic universe, quietly hovering in his palm...

He shivered and quickly put it back into the stone box.

He wanted to put the stone box back into his backpack, but then he changed his mind and put it in his trouser pocket.

His school uniform was already in tatters. The impact of the air wave almost destroyed his body. Naturally, the school uniform he was wearing was also damaged. Now only some strips of cloth were left, and many places were faintly X-rayed...

His school uniform is now worse than that of a beggar. Even describing it as ragged seems a bit luxurious. Fortunately, the pockets are still very strong and protect his student ID well.

After packing up the Ouroboros Ring, Lin Yi walked down some stairs and soon arrived at the corridor, where he saw a tightly closed iron door not far away.

He left the stairwell and stepped onto the smooth stone floor.

Before leaving, he looked back at the stairs that were still spiraling downward in the Fibonacci sequence, his brows slightly furrowed, and he was thinking about everything.

"..."

But he didn't think any more and decisively pushed open the iron gate.

I pushed it, but it wouldn't move.

He was stunned for a moment, then remembered that the door opened inwards, so he pulled the door.

“Squeak—”

With a sharp metal friction sound that made one's teeth ache, he pulled open the heavy iron door.

The iron door clanged, and a quiet passage behind the door appeared in front of him, exactly the same as the way he came.

But out of caution, he still took a look at the back of the iron gate, which was the side where the door was opened when he came in.

He saw the iron sheet on the door, which was hanging there quietly, and it seemed that the clanging sound just now did not come from it.

There were rusty secret patterns on the iron sheet, and written on it were the motto from "The Iron Law of the Night Watch": "A tower without a bell, shining brightly in the dark, with a loud sound that shakes the nine seas and eight wildernesses."

Lin Yi reached out and touched the iron sheet.

"bite……"

Familiar taste, familiar recipe, familiar mind. The thin figure swinging a hammer to forge an object appeared in my mind like a CG cutscene, and then disappeared quickly. "It tastes great... We're on the right track!"

Lin Yi stepped into the iron gate without hesitation.

Just as he was about to turn around to close the iron gate, as soon as he turned around, a surge of force rushed towards him, like a mud truck made of air suddenly appeared, hitting him unexpectedly and knocking him out.

Lin Yi was unable to dodge and was knocked to the ground. However, before he could react, the heavy iron door closed automatically.

The terrifying momentum was like catching a blade with bare hands. If he was still standing there, he would probably be beaten into pieces.

"boom!"

The iron door slammed shut, and the powerful impact even caused the surrounding ground to shake.

Looking at such a door, Lin Yi couldn't help but be dumbfounded. What was even more dumbfounded was that he heard the sound of a rushing wind behind the door. The wind was wrapped in humid water vapor and kept penetrating through the crack of the door. When it blew on Lin Yi's face, it was accompanied by a fishy smell...

This scene was exactly the same as the one when Lao Mo brought him to the door and opened it.

Later, when he walked down the stairs, he often felt that uncomfortable breath and damp, cold water vapor. But when he thought about it carefully, he found that he did not seem to feel anything similar during the whole process of going down the stairs.

He came to the iron gate and reached out to touch it affectionately.

The iron gate seemed still, but it was actually vibrating at a horrifying frequency. As soon as he put his hand on it, the palm of his hand was already bloody. However, since he had been ravaged by the air waves of the "Holy Temple" countless times, he had already become accustomed to this kind of pain.

He felt the flesh and blood on his hands breaking and reorganizing, felt every inch of muscle fiber being torn and repaired, as if he had caught a certain rhythm, the fluctuations caused by the whistling wind blowing on the other side of the door...

He seemed to have realized something.

"Behind this door, there's not a stairwell, but... a well?!"

It's that well!

Isn't that bloody, foul smell the smell from the well? !
The "screw rod theory" that Lao Mo had told him suddenly emerged in his mind. The deep well and the stairwell were two screw rods moving against each other!

"This is the truth behind why Lao Mo had to work so hard to open the door!"

"The door that Lao Mo opened is actually a field with the attribute of 'door'. Layer transition! Yes, layer transition! This is the feeling I had back then!!"

"Also, when I went to the clock tower, I started out going 'downwards', but when I came back, I was still going 'downwards'!"

"The left and right sides..."

"Interaction of layers..."

Lin Yi seemed to have caught some inspiration. His eyes flickered and a huge amount of calculations seemed to be occurring in his mind.

But he immediately stopped this operation.

"Not the right time!"

"Now is not the time!"

He rationally suppressed the thought that kept coming, then took out the notepad from his pocket, hurriedly opened a page, and wrote down in scribbled handwriting:
"The screw... goes down..."

"The stairwell is a well..."

He simply wrote down a few key words, then immediately put the notepad away and stuffed it back into his trouser pocket. He reached into his backpack and grabbed two tomatoes, and while eating them he ran to the other end of the passage.

This passage is the only safe area along the way. He can use it to replenish his own supplies and kill two tomatoes at the same time.

As he munched on a tomato, he glanced at his hands.

The hand that was shattered into a bloody mess by the iron gate has now recovered.

Looking at such a hand, he suddenly felt a little strange.

"I...I've gotten used to that kind of pain from time to time?"

It's so weird...

How can a person easily get used to the pain of recovering from a serious injury?
Lin Yi himself found it a little absurd.

Recalling the scene when he was washed away by the air waves of the "Holy Temple" and only a skeleton was left, he realized that he had relied on some strange will and instinct to persevere at that time, but now looking back, he found it completely unreasonable.

How can a person still be alive without any flesh and blood?

Is the power of will really so strong?

Or……

"The changes that have taken place in me have made me less and less like a 'human'?"

He shook his head helplessly. He found that he had unconsciously upgraded from accepting that he was "different from ordinary people" to accepting that he was "different from others".

He quickly shook his head. For some reason, he didn't dare to think about this...

He has already admitted that there is something wrong with his memory. If you tell him now that there is something wrong with him, he feels that his cognitive span cannot catch up...

He suppressed these thoughts, but as soon as he suppressed one thought, another thought came up. So he could only think while running: "But speaking of that deep well, '02' said that part of the 'first apostle' was buried there... Could it be that the one who pulled me just now was the one buried there?"

The "Master" killed several "original apostles" and buried their bodies in various places in the Black Moon Outpost. Combined with what he had just experienced, it was difficult to connect these things together.

He probably thought he was successfully floating up, but in fact, the pollution emitted from the "corpse" had penetrated his body and affected his cognition, so he passively entered the "dream building" state.

Even the hallucination he had just had was most likely because after he saw the chain hanging down into the sea, he imagined something was locked up, and then that scene occurred to him when he was dreaming.

Even living people will constantly absorb pollution, let alone unconscious dead things.

"As long as it is within the range of supernatural power, it will continue to be polluted..." Lin Yi sighed and muttered self-deprecatingly, "Ah... I wonder what it will become after these seven days..."

"There are only three days left. I hope nothing bad will happen..."

Lin Yi thought of a fantasy novel by an Emperor Chen Tian that he had read. In the novel, there was often a plot in which the corpse of some powerful creature would undergo various changes after death and then its intelligence would be restored, and then the area would become a restricted area. Could it be that the "corpse" in the deep well had also undergone similar changes?

"Then could it be that the 'corpse' has really undergone some changes... and because of some special mechanism, such as the characteristics of the iron chain or some characteristics of the Black Moon Outpost, or some restrictions set by the 'Mage' when burying it, it cannot leave, so it keeps calling on the creatures it senses to rescue it?"

This speculation gave Lin Yi an inexplicably familiar feeling. On second thought, wasn't the "Mage" who was "exiled in time" calling out to the Dream Builder in this way?
"This Black Moon Outpost and the Art Building... are so scary."

Buildings built before the birth of human civilization may seem ordinary at ordinary times, but when you come across their heavy heritage and deep dark history, you will really feel a sense of suffocation.

(End of this chapter)