Chapter 393: Stone Bridge and Strange Mist

Chapter 393: Stone Bridge and Strange Mist

Chapter 393: Stone Bridge and Strange Mist
Lin Yi's thoughts turned, and the secret pattern on his right hand floated, condensing into the butcher knife again.

He controlled the sky blue aura to penetrate into his arm, then he gritted his teeth and cut off a large piece of flesh from his hand.

"Hiss..." Lin Yi took a breath of cold air. The pain made him more awake.

"Don't you like to devour pollution?" He raised the piece of meat, "Go ahead if you like!"

He gathered his strength and threw the piece of flesh and blood into the depths of the corridor. At the same time, he restrained his breath and let his flesh and blood become bait instead of himself.

[Howl——]

The smiling angels who were walking towards the light fell into the trap and chased after his piece of flesh, while he quickly escaped from the corridor.

It took him 4 minutes to go back and forth, but the good news is that he really killed most of the Laughing Angels, and he deserves the title of Train King.

“I don’t know what’s going on outside… Without the interference of the Laughing Angel, I hope they can be more powerful!”

……

X023 May 5, 10:3, Art Building Lobby, "Obsession Sculpture Corridor" exit.

Lin Yi rushed out dragging his bloody arm. In order to avoid contaminating himself and attracting more attention from the obsession sculptures and the smiling angels, he suppressed the sky blue aura in his body so that the flesh on his arm would not regenerate immediately.

He took a look at the current state of the art hall. All the smiling angels in the hall had been lured into the "Obsession Sculpture Corridor". The art students were now capable of dealing with this crisis.

"It's time to retreat..."

Lin Yi made up his mind and quickly walked around, dragging his arm, which was still oozing sticky blood. This was the consequence of self-suppression, but even so, the blood would form a scab directly after it seeped out.

Seeing Lin Yi escaping from the Obsession Sculpture Corridor dragging his "seriously injured body", some art students who were facing the Obsession Sculpture Corridor opened their mouths wide, as if they had seen a ghost.

The Obsession Sculpture Corridor is one of the restricted areas of the Art Building. Unlike the Art Gallery, where you can follow the "Art Student Guidelines" and run to the gallery after being attacked by the Laughing Angel, the Obsession Sculpture Corridor is not mentioned in the "Art Student Guidelines" or the "Art Building Guidelines".

Not only was no one mentioned at all, even the wooden signpost did not indicate its direction, as if it was intentionally hidden.

But that "dormitory manager" not only went in but also escaped. How could they not be shocked?

After escaping, Lin Yi glanced at his watch and confirmed the time. He also felt the gazes of several art students. He looked at them without saying much, just nodded at them, and then ran towards the exit of the art building lobby.

Looking at Lin Yi's back, the art student was still shocked, but he said nothing. He quickly adjusted his state to cover the wound on the dome window.

……

The process of escaping from the lobby of the Art Building went very smoothly, almost exactly as Lin Yi had predicted.

However, as they got closer to the exit, the vast amount of water vapor began to mix with the strong wind and swept over.

Lin Yi remembered that there was an invisible cover on the outside of the art building.

The cover is the field formed when the air waves of the "Holy Temple" are pushed. The existence of this field means that if the Smiley Angel wants to break through to the art building area, it can only use force or enter through this entrance.

Now that the dome of the lobby of the Art Building was broken, many Laughing Angels chose to break through directly from there, while others directly invaded the clock tower from the outside. On the contrary, very few Laughing Angels went through the main entrance.

But Lin Yi was not thinking about this problem, but the water vapor that filled the corridor.

These water vapors are naturally formed after being torn apart by strong winds during a storm.

In the art floor layer, strong winds actually come from two sources.

One is the power formed after the air wave of the "Holy Temple" was materialized. This air wave hit all nocturnal species almost indiscriminately. The closer to the bell tower, the greater the lethality. Those nocturnal species that were clinging to the outer walls of the art building and that were like black sticky glue were directly annihilated by the air wave.

The other type comes from storms outside the art building area, blowing in from the black sky and ocean. They tear the waves and rainstorms into countless water vapors, which then penetrate into every corner of the art building area little by little along with the gray fog.

The second type of wind and rain is what most often happens to the lobby of the Art Building, whose dome is now in ruins.

In addition, the wind pressure in the duct effect also comes from this.

But when Lin Yi arrived, the storm would have been blocked by the cover, but now it has penetrated into the corridor at the entrance.

"The territory of the 'Holy Temple' has become weaker?" Lin Yi felt something was wrong.

There are two possibilities for the weakening of the "Temple" area. One is that something happened in the "Temple", and the other is that something happened to the Night Watchman "02".

In the current situation, it is highly likely that Night Watchman "02" needs to mobilize more power from the "Sanctuary" to fight against the "Angels". When the power is concentrated, the power at the edge of the spread will obviously become weak.

Of course, this is Lin Yi's guess, and it is also the best possible scenario among all emergencies.

Taking advantage of the fact that there was no Smirking Angel here, Lin Yi tore off the blood scab on his arm. The sky blue aura quickly regenerated his flesh and blood. Muscle fibers were woven out bit by bit like nanomaterials and covered his arm.

The whole process was tingling and numb, and he could clearly feel the regeneration of every muscle fiber, but the texture of the muscle fibers did not seem to be that of flesh and blood...

"Could it be that my arm has also begun to transform into a 'golden body'?"

Muscular body?

Why does this name have an indescribable strange meaning, like a certain muscular man from Wuhu?

His arm quickly recovered and he walked towards the exit of the art building against the mist and vapor in the corridor.

[fan…Tome…fRa…for…RidEn…] Just as he was about to walk out of the art building, he heard the strange calling voice in his ears. He ignored it and rushed out of the door of the art building.

“Hoo—Hoo—”

The moment he rushed out of the art building, Lin Yi felt like he had crawled out of a cabin and reached the deck. There were dense raindrops the size of soybeans heading towards him, and in his ears there was the whistling sound of the wind like the howling of ghosts and wolves.

The violent wind and rain made it almost impossible for him to open his eyes. Gray fog and storm had enveloped the entire world, and visibility was terribly low. He could only see a small section of the stone bridge behind the stone arch and could no longer see what was behind it.

The stone bridge disappeared into the depths of the fog, and only a swaying shadow remained on the observation deck at the end. Lin Yi couldn't even distinguish it from the shadow created by the overlapping fog.

"Rumble--"

A bolt of lightning tore through the night sky, and pure white light illuminated the world. The art building was pale, but behind the mist of the stone bridge, it was still hazy, only making the shadow of the observation deck more solid.

But in that brief flash of white world, an afterimage caught Lin Yi's attention.

He lowered his head and looked at his feet - there was a pattern on the stone floor at that location. This was originally a pattern on a window of the art building, and it was projected onto the ground after being illuminated by the candlelight in the room. But at this moment, the pattern seemed to come alive and was emitting some floating light.

But it is clearly just projected, yet it can still glow like a light source?
“Wait, this is!”

Lin Yi looked at his watch. The time was 3:42, but his focus was not on the watch, but on the texture and pattern on the dial...

He suddenly discovered that the texture on his watch actually looked very much like the pattern on the ground in front of him at some point, except that the pattern in front of him was many times more complicated and had countless details.

That pattern... looked like a totem or secret pattern required for some ancient ritual, or like an extremely complex star map in the darkness, but now to Lin Yi, it actually looked like... a watch dial.

“Rustle… rustle…”

At the moment Lin Yi stopped, there were sudden noises all around. Those lowest-grade purebred nocturnal species that had so far been unable to break through the shield of the Art Building were sneaking towards Lin Yi in the dark corners, afraid of the light but walking towards it, cautious but also unscrupulous.

Lin Yi shook his head, stepped over the pattern, and walked towards the stone arch and the stone bridge.

Under the fog, outside the main area of ​​the art building, he was not protected by the "Holy Temple". All he could rely on was his identity as a dormitory manager and the old kerosene lamp in his hand.

When passing the stone arch, Lin Yi discovered that the secret patterns and hieroglyphs carved on the arch were all flashing with dim lights. These lights were faint and dim, like the light of fireflies in the summer night. They were the commandments imprinted in the Black Moon Outpost by the "original apostles" countless years ago. They have spanned a long period of time and are still guarding the world.

Time seemed to become concrete at this moment, and Lin Yi had an urge to touch those patterns. It was not for the purpose of admiring or paying homage, but a very pure desire to touch.

He didn't know where this thought came from, it was like some kind of instinctive desire.

But he suppressed this feeling and came to the stone bridge.

At the starting point of the stone bridge, he could finally vaguely see the lighthouse on the observation tower. Under the storm and the thick white fog, the searchlight flickered like an anti-aircraft gun.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, tugged at his torn school uniform and backpack, and walked onto the stone bridge.

Today, some of the candles on the candlesticks on both sides of the stone bridge have been completely extinguished. They are like small animals trapped in the snow and ultimately could not survive that long cold night.

The stone bridge is now filled with pure nocturnal species. They huddle together like a group of mice, wriggling against each other. Their forms make people feel nauseous and disgusted.

Not only the stone bridge, but also the bridge body and the pillars are covered with nocturnal species. The terrifying number is like a tide. If they rush into the campus, they will be enough to submerge the campus.

Lin Yi moved forward slowly with an old kerosene lamp in his hand. Wherever the boundary of the light reached, the purebred nocturnal creatures there would flee away, not daring to violate the boundary of the light at all.

And when they dodged, they pushed the other pure nocturnal species, causing some units that were unable to hold on to the bridge to fall into the sea.

The cold air permeated Lin Yi's flesh, but this time he couldn't feel any stinging pain. His body had experienced the baptism of the "Holy Temple". To some extent, it was like Logan whose bones were injected with adamantium, which was a "hard bone" with regenerative flesh.

In the fog, the Laughing Angels were wandering around, but few of them attacked Lin Yi. Logically speaking, the pure nocturnal creatures were afraid of the light of the old kerosene lamp, so it was right for them not to attack Lin Yi, but why didn't the Laughing Angels pounce on him?
Lin Yi quickly found the reason - the Laughing Angels now wandering around the stone bridge were all angels holding lanterns, and some were holding hourglasses. Judging from the depth of the pollution, they were all the kind of dormitory managers who could still be saved, and they were also the kind of beginner Laughing Angels who were afraid of the light of old kerosene lamps.

As for those high-ranking smiling angels, they should have already invaded the art building or the clock tower by now.

“Whew—Whew—Whew—”

The sound of waves came one after another, constantly hitting the reefs and the pillars of the stone bridge. The terrifying vibration even reached Lin Yi's feet, allowing him to faintly feel the pulse of the black sea through such vibrations.

As they continued to go deeper, the stone bridge behind Lin Yi was also shrouded in fog. The old kerosene lamp had a very limited range and it struggled to break through the fog, casting a narrow area.

The salty and wet sea breeze gradually mixed with some rancid smells, and the strange humming sound began to sound, like an evil priest holding a secret book and singing a ballad:

"I... AvgruNnen av... tKe og mrke... jaGer... forTa...pte Sjeler fanTome..."

As the whispers rang out, the stone bridge, which had always been motionless, began to shake slightly, as if something was climbing up along the pillars.

A strange wave surged like ripples, pushing through Lin Yi's body, and then a desolate atmosphere that was different from the strange and cold feeling slowly permeated the storm and enveloped Lin Yi...

"I AvgruNnen av tKe og... mrke jaGer... for... Tapte Sjeler... fanTome..."

The singing was getting closer and louder. Suddenly, in the fog, a huge shadow rose from the black tide and stood around the stone bridge like a giant, like two rows of mountains.

Immediately afterwards, a terrifying pressure that seemed as if the heaven and earth were splitting and the sky was falling slowly descended, pressing heavily on Lin Yi, making his spine somewhat unsteady.

"call--"

The fog seemed to be pushed aside by an invisible force, and the terrifying shapes on both sides of the stone bridge slowly appeared...

(End of this chapter)