Chapter 403: Fanatics and the Female Dormitory Manager
Chapter 403: Fanatics and the Female Dormitory Manager
Gradually, a strange music was heard faintly from the depths of the fog. The sound was like a song coming from the other side of the sea, or like some fragments floating from the depths of distant memories.
He walked in the direction of the music involuntarily, with a kind of confused expectation in every step.
The music seemed like a silk thread, pulling him deeper and deeper into the edge of this dream.
His eyes began to become empty, and the originally flickering expectation was gradually replaced by numbness.
He saw a series of broken pictures opening and closing before his eyes. Those were not his memories, nor were they the memories of "Dream Builder-HX-S-023". They seemed to be fragments of the painful experiences of some fallen people, and those painful experiences became some kind of visualized memories, which came to him like a surging tide in the lost boundary of matter and time, wave after wave, drowning him in the abyss of despair.
He saw diseases, terrors, weirdness, and even some evil things that could not be described in words sneaking into this world of life like ghosts, devouring the original vitality bit by bit...
Then the world began to decay, its functions gradually stopping like an aging machine...
His breathing unconsciously became heavy, as if he was also experiencing the painful process of life moving towards death.
He could feel the warmth of life slowly fading away, and his consciousness was gradually shrouded in darkness, just like the last rays of light at sunset being mercilessly swallowed by the night...
At the edge of this dream, he witnessed the cold face of death. Death was no longer an abstract concept, but a kind of silence, an end, and the disappearance of all sounds and colors...
"I tried to wake myself up, tried to tell myself that this was just a dream, but my consciousness seemed to be trapped in a solid cage, and no matter how hard I struggled, I couldn't break free..."
"I shouted loudly, but my voice was swallowed by the endless fog, without a single echo..."
"My body started to feel heavier..."
"At the moment when I was about to fall down, I saw a faint light. The light was like a beacon in the darkness. I crawled towards the light with all my strength, and my fingers left traces on the illusory ground... However, the light was always elusive, as if it was deliberately teasing me..."
"..."
He was immersed in this despair, but at the end of despair, he seemed to see a ray of new light, which rose from the ruins of death, like the embers of the soul rekindled...
That radiance, like the afterglow of the sun, the ashes of an angel, lingered and diffused in the blurred boundary between life and death at the border of dreams, like an ice flower that bloomed and withered continuously, gorgeous yet strange...
"'ash'……?!"
"At the border of the dream, there are countless withered 'ashes'!"
The ashes are like dust, floating in the chaotic void, like eternal flowers that only fall in dreams.
Lin Yi continued to sink, the surrounding fog began to flow into his mouth and nose, and his breathing became difficult. He felt that his soul was being pulled away by this dream bit by bit, and his consciousness became more and more blurred...
The consciousness of "Dream Builder-HX-S-023" fell, but Lin Yi's did not. He felt that he was leaving...
"On the edge of an infinite dream, I constantly feel the cycle of life and death... My mind becomes confused, and I feel like I am being abandoned by the world..."
"I seemed to be traveling through unspeakable dimensions, until finite matter seemed to become infinite, and infinite time became visible fragments..."
"No... Everything has lost its form. Matter and time no longer evolve. Only infinite chaos remains..."
"There seems to be some kind of whispering sound in the chaos..."
"It's an aria..."
"It's the Word Spirit..."
"Or maybe it's just the sound of some terrifying being sleeping at the edge of the dream world..."
"——"Moon-III" Survey Team, Gu Fangqing, "Dream Builder-HX-S-023"
March 002, X3"
……
May 023, X5, 10:4, first floor of the library, [Drmmelre] sector.
Lin Yi leaned against an old bookshelf, holding a book in his hand and flipping through the pages woodenly. The gentle light shone on him through the glass of the lampshade, and from a distance he looked like a sculpture.
The words on the book seemed to float with a hazy light under such light, as if they had more profound meaning because of Lin Yi's caressing and flipping through the pages. Those words were like symbols, rising and falling in the floating light, as if opening a portal to another world.
As time went by, the phantom in the floating light gradually took on a layer of horror, and the portal to that world looked more and more like a whirlpool connected to the abyss...
While Lin Yi was absorbed in reading a book, he did not notice that some strange figures had gathered around him at some point.
They stood like tombstones, surrounding Lin Yi. Some had fanaticism in their eyes, while others were lifeless. But no matter which one they were, the corners of their mouths were wide open. Not as scary as grinning from ear to ear, but still very abnormal.
They are very similar to the pseudo-human sculptures, but the difference is that they are wearing dark green and somewhat tattered robes.
That's the attire of an art student.
But they are not art students.
They are art students turned fanatics.
When they looked at Lin Yi at this moment, they didn't seem to be looking at a person, but rather at an object or a work of art.
"What a perfect light... born from the soul..."
"The living light..."
"This is the real...'creation'!!!"
"Too perfect..."
A fanatic came close to Lin Yi and took a deep breath. As if he had inhaled some kind of stimulating breath, his brows relaxed and his face was full of joy.
"Everything is a treasure..."
"Take him away..."
"We must take him away!"
"No! We can't take him away! If we take him away, he won't belong to us anymore... We should eat him!"
"Yes! Eat him! Eat him now!"
"Everyone who saw it will get a share. Let's eat it all up and no one will know what happened!"
"No! You can't eat here!"
"It will make a lot of noise...it will attract the attention of the administrators!"
"Administrator...?! Yes! Administrator! Administrator!"
The fanatics' mental states fluctuate greatly, and any rational communication they have is only possible after they have suppressed themselves.
These fanatics were also different from the ones Lin Yi had seen in the Green Forest Belt. Compared to those fanatics, the ones in the library now seemed a little abnormal...
Perhaps I was cursed by knowledge, or perhaps I was drowned in the ocean of knowledge and capsized...
As soon as the word "librarian" was mentioned, the surrounding fanatics with ferocious expressions became quiet, as if they were extremely fearful.
"We can't let the administrator find us... otherwise the delicious food we get will become the new administrator!!"
"Not only will it be noticed by the administrators, but also by those guys at the top!"
"We can't give them a chance!"
"We can only eat him! Or..."
"Why not let him join our "Glorious Evolution"! "
"No, eat him! Eat him!"
The fanatics began to chatter and argue like a flock of sparrows. Different opinions began to split and merge, split and merge again...
"The head, the torso... the delicious pancreas... the heart... the blood... I want them all!"
"We found him... so he should be ours alone!"
"Wait until he sinks!" "Wait until he sinks completely, then we will lead him into the dark area and eat him up!!"
"Yes! Divide and eat!"
They seemed to be drooling, and their fishy breath sounded like they were gargling with seawater that had been soaked in dead fish and rotten shrimp every day.
But at this moment, a figure carrying an old kerosene lamp slowly walked out from behind the bookshelf.
The female dormitory manager came.
The appearance of the old kerosene lamp burned the eyes of the fanatics like glaring sunlight, but did not seem to cause any special damage to them.
The fanatics narrowed their eyes and dispersed somewhat fearfully.
"'Dormitory manager'?" A fanatic figured out the identity of the female dormitory manager.
"You shouldn't be here... Dormitory Manager! You shouldn't!"
"Get away! Get away!"
The female dormitory manager seemed not to see them, or simply chose to ignore them in accordance with the "Library Regulations". She held up an old kerosene lamp and scanned the books on the bookshelf one by one, but did not take any of them off.
Finally, she cut her way through the crowd of fanatics who were dispersed by the light of the old kerosene lamp and came to Lin Yi's side.
She stopped beside Lin Yi, gently lowered the old kerosene lamp so that its light enveloped both herself and Lin Yi, and then pretended to look at the titles of books on the covers on the bookshelf.
"We'll remember you... If you lose your status as a 'dormitory manager' one day, we won't even give you the chance to 'gloriously evolve'!" One of the fanatics threatened.
The female dormitory manager did not respond to him. Her slender pale fingers gently brushed over a book on the bookshelf, and she murmured something that sounded like the strange foreign language in the title of the book. But the pronunciation sounded like she was saying:
"【roll】."
The fanatics slowly retreated behind the bookshelf, their complex gazes filled with viciousness, resentment, and desire constantly moving between her and Lin Yi, reluctant to let go but not daring to act rashly.
They are not as afraid of old kerosene lamps as the nocturnal creatures and the pseudo-human sculptures, but not being afraid does not mean that old kerosene lamps will not harm them.
If you don't touch the blazing fire, you won't get hurt.
"Wait for the buzzer!" the fanatics talked in low voices.
"The red light is flashing, she will definitely leave!"
"The dormitory manager's lights are different from others... She won't be able to last that long!"
"We wait. As long as the man hasn't woken up when she leaves, we can eat him!"
"How can it be so easy to get out of a book that builds dreams?"
"Good! Good!"
"Hold on a little longer... All of this is ours! Hold on a little longer!!"
"If it doesn't work, let's go upstairs and call for help!"
"Get out! You can't go to the upper floors!!"
"If you call, we can only drink soup!!"
"Either you eat to your heart's content! Or, you don't eat anything at all!"
"Seeing those bastards at the top gluttonously eating is more painful than not being able to drink!!"
"Wait! Just wait!"
The fanatics kept chattering, but a few of them still retreated and left the dream study sector.
"Damn traitor!!"
The fanatic cursed the guy who went to get help, and was extremely ferocious, but he did not try to stop him.
Because Lin Yi woke up.
"Snapped……"
Lin Yi closed the book.
"——"Moon-III" Survey Team, Gu Fangqing, "Dream Builder-HX-S-023", March 002, X3..."
He pondered over those last words in his mind.
"Gu Fangqing... "Dream Builder-HX-S-023"..."
"March 002, X3..."
"X002..." he muttered to himself, turned his head, and suddenly found a leg beside him.
He was startled and almost thought there was a sculpture standing there, but he immediately realized that this was not the texture of a sculpture.
After all, the texture is somewhat flexible, and wearing that kind of stockings, there is a special fleshy feeling under the light of the old kerosene lamp.
Just when he subconsciously wanted to test the authenticity of this leg.
"Don't even think about touching my legs, you perverted exhibitionist!"
A voice floated over his head. The familiar voice instantly cheered him up even though he had not yet gotten over the book "Boundary of Dreams: The Cycle of Life and Death".
Lin Yi's hand moved quickly between his legs and touched the bookshelf compartment beside his legs, then he stood up by holding onto the bookshelf...
Lin Yi looked at his nose and arms, and said, "What are you talking about? I just stood up with the help of the bookshelf."
Having said that, I still feel a little guilty...
"Whether to hold the bookshelf or the legs? You know it better than me." The female dormitory manager sneered.
Lin Yi remained calm and silently put "Boundary of Dreams: The Cycle of Life and Death" back on the bookshelf.
"Hold the bookshelf."
"Tough mouth!"
"Don't think every man can't resist stockings. I'm a gentleman."
The female dormitory manager squinted at him with a look of disdain on her face: "A gentleman wouldn't run around naked in the middle of the night, and he wouldn't be able to tell that I'm wearing bare leg socks. In this kind of light, it would be strange if it wasn't for LSP."
Lin Yi's expression changed slightly, and he thought to himself, this female dormitory manager is too meticulous!
I didn't expect that one day he would lose because of not being careful enough!
"Let me emphasize again, running around naked was not my intention. If you knew what I've been through, you'd be amazed that I've only been running around naked until now." Lin Yi said seriously.
"Have you experienced something even more perverted... no, more outrageous?" The female dormitory manager opened her mouth wide, and the look in her eyes when she looked at Lin Yi changed a little.
Lin Yixin said that something bad had happened. He had only seen such a look in Liangzi's eyes when he was fantasizing about something while reading H comics.
This is a case of encountering a female leader...
He silently glanced at the books beside him, trying to see if he could flip through one before the red light came on.
He suddenly thought of something and looked down at his watch.
4: 46.
He read the book just now for more than ten minutes.
The book was actually quite thick, and what he read was actually just the dream-building autobiography of the "Dream Builder - HX-S-023". It was normal to read it for more than ten minutes when immersed in the story. At the end, there were some academic, systematic and professional things, which he did not have time to read in detail.
"Do you still want to find a book?" the female dormitory manager stopped him.
(End of this chapter)