Chapter 494: Observing the Dead Body of the Laughing Angel Sculpture
Chapter 494: Observing the Dead Body of the Laughing Angel Sculpture
He smiled.
It turns out that people really laugh when they are speechless.
“What a huge gap…”
He sat on the steps, shaking his head helplessly.
Just when his will was somewhat slackening, the shadow beneath him seemed to come alive, slowly squirming and twisting...
Invisible auras emerged from his shadow and slowly moved upward along his body...
“Lin Yi…”
A faint calling sound appeared in his ear, like a breeze from a ghost's mouth tickling his earlobe.
“Lin Yi…”
The sound kept coming.
"Get lost." Lin Yi was not affected and just uttered this word lightly.
The calling voice disappeared in an instant, and the distorted shadow returned to normal at once.
Lin Yi stood up from the steps and glanced down at the shadow.
The shadow is normal.
But as he looked, the normal shadow immediately became abnormal. At a certain moment, he found that the shadow became like a smooth mirror, and through the mirror, he could see the countless smiling angels crowded and climbing on the cliff.
The gray world was filled with violent storms. Countless smiling angels looked at him with wide eyes like seagulls hiding on the mast of a ghost ship.
There are too many of them... It seems endless, as if they can never be killed.
As he stared at the shadow, the smiling angel in the shadow was smiling at him.
But he was not afraid - at least now he was fearless.
Because he clearly understood that the only unit that could make the Laughing Angel afraid was one that was proficient in using the golden aura, and the Laughing Angel itself was not afraid of light.
Well, judging from the current environment, there is nothing around that can stop their actions. In this situation, they still choose to hide in his shadow and not come out, which is enough to illustrate a problem.
There are beings here that can threaten them.
Is it Liangzi?
Or...something else?
If his guess was true, Wei Liang was the creature that killed the Laughing Angels in an instant, then it was reasonable for these Laughing Angels to hide in his shadow.
After all, since it’s an instant kill, there’s not much difference between killing one and killing a large number of people.
If his guess was not true, then it meant that there were other factors that affected their arrival, and the dead body of the smiling angel in the bookshelf area was a lesson for them.
Its death made the Laughing Angel, who originally wanted to come out, give up.
In any case, the Laughing Angel who cannot leave his shadow is no different from a beast in a cage.
I just looked at you, what's wrong with me? Are you going to hit me? Are you going to hit me? !
Lin Yi retracted his gaze, composed himself, and continued walking towards the bookshelf area.
"I can't be too eager for success and rush into things. Compared to when I first entered the school, I am now a completely different person. Once I get more 'adapted', maybe I can really touch it..." He comforted himself and encouraged himself.
"Adaptive" characteristics, no upper limit.
He does have the confidence and qualifications.
When his attention left the shadow, the shadow returned to normal.
But Lin Yi didn't realize one thing. If his vision could change, the vision of those smiling angels in the shadows might also change...
Perhaps when those smiling angels looked at him through the shadows, what they saw was... a different scene... ?
……
Just as Lin Yi staggered and fell on the steps, Wei Liang, who was reading a comic book, suddenly raised his head and turned to look over.
His brows furrowed slightly, but quickly relaxed. He rubbed the muscles on his neck, moved his arms briefly, and then continued reading the comic at hand.
……
X023年5月10日，16:23。
Lin Yi came to the bookshelf where he and Wei Liang had hidden before, looked at the eerily laughing angel sculpture that had turned into a dead body, and walked closer.
"That's strange...it's always been here, why didn't I notice its existence just now?" No matter how many times he looked at it, the doubts in Lin Yi's heart could not be alleviated.
He still remembered that the lights in the classroom flashed first, and then Wei Liang pulled him back to his seat.
Logically speaking, he should be able to spot this smiling angel once the light flashes...unless this smiling angel was killed before the light flashed.
Because it has never been sensed, the time of appearance and death of this eerie laughing angel has become a mystery.
"But...if I put Ryoko in the picture, everything seems to make sense..."
Wei Liang sensed in advance that the Laughing Angel was about to emerge from his shadow, so he pulled him to the bookshelf area and killed the Laughing Angel?
If you think this way, things will become much simpler. But in that case, is there too much Wei Liang from Dihua? And speculation without any evidence is no different from delusion.
"Never mind... let's observe this thing for a while."
Lin Yi carefully observed the dead body of the Smile Angel statue in front of him, hoping to get some information from it. This was his first time observing the Smile Angel so closely. Before, he was either chased around by the Smile Angel after taking a look, or watched Lao Mo slaughter the Smile Angel like a chicken. He had no chance to observe statically.
The dead body of the eerily smiling angel sculpture in front of me is generally blue-gray in color, and it emits an eerie cold light under the incandescent light of the classroom. If you ignore the hideous expression on its face, the dead body of this sculpture is still quite artistic overall.
And on its face, there seemed to be that symbolic and weird smile, revealing a strong cult aura.
It has no eyebrows, and there are tear-like marks on its brow bones. A crescent-shaped crack at the brow arch meanders to the corner of the forehead. When the light shifts, a trace of white light flashes in the crack, like the traces of a snail crawling, or as if it is some strange secret pattern.
What's even more strange is that Lin Yi discovered that there were traces of moss on the surface of the dead body of the sculpture of the eerie laughing angel.
"what?"
It’s not surprising, actually, as almost all the sculptures on campus have more or less traces of moss.
However, it is really strange, because the Laughing Angel sculpture is different from ordinary sculptures. It is illusory in itself and only becomes real at certain times. Logically speaking, even if it is a sculpture, it should not be covered with moss.
Lin Yi pondered for a long time but could not figure it out. The only guess he came up with was that the sculpture shape of the Angel of Evil Laughing might be different from what he had imagined. Its entry into reality from the layer might not be as simple as a simple materialization.
He turned his attention to the wings of the Laughing Angel...
Although the wings of the Smirking Angel looked like a large piece of stone, they could actually be divided into many layers. The feathers were solidified in different forms. The outer feathers were as straight as swords, while the inner feathers were curled into the shape of a baby's palm...
But when he looked at the inner feathers, he found some subtle traces of lines, like a closed eye.
He suddenly remembered that the wings of the Laughing Angel were big eyeballs that looked like bunches of grapes, but in the perception of others, they were just wings.
And when he re-established this kind of cognition, he found that the wings of the laughing angel began to show another sense of lines, and the original feather shape began to change into the shape of big eyeballs while wriggling.
Although he knew clearly in his heart that it was a dead body, as the big eyeballs appeared, Lin Yi's hair stood on end - not because of fear, but because his trypophobia was acting up.
He shook his head slightly, the big eyeballs disappeared, and the wings returned to feathery shape.
Suddenly, Lin Yi noticed that the broken parts of the Hima Pure Pendulum exposed an inner part with a strange texture. Tiny particles similar to quartz were flashing in the cracks. Whenever the light was slightly deflected, the grains would create ripples.
In a trance, Lin Yi could sense a trace of abnormal fluctuations from the dead body of the eerie laughing angel sculpture. It seemed like some kind of lingering evil energy, like a momentary dynamic remnant that seeped out from a layer or a certain dimension...
Lin Yi didn't notice that when he stared at the dead body of the Laughing Angel, the atmosphere around him seemed to become stagnant. The straight bookshelves were losing their original sense of order. The whole space seemed to be sucked into a vortex...
The dead body of the eerily laughing angel sculpture suddenly trembled slightly. The tip of one of its petrified wings suddenly trembled slightly. The folds of Himachun's skirt seemed to have turned into the wave shape blown by the wind at some previous moment.
There were some tiny debris left in its blue-gray fingertips, like grave soil from a certain place in the past...
Lin Yi didn't notice the abnormality displayed by the dead body of the Laughing Angel sculpture at all. His attention was completely immersed in observing its shape.
Under his observation, the snail-like traces on the body of the Smile Angel sculpture became more and more obvious. In comparison, the original blue-gray stone surface of the Smile Angel sculpture seemed a little difficult to detect. The entire Smile Angel sculpture seemed like a pile of stones firmly glued together by the secret pattern.
"The sculpture is just a deceptive appearance, and that secret pattern is the real body of the Laughing Angel?!
"Could it be that the Laughing Angel is also a product of some kind of secret pattern? Isn't it the result of the dreamer's will sinking into the layers and finally deforming?"
Lin Yi felt more and more that the origin of the Laughing Angel was not simple, or rather... the secret pattern that constructed the Laughing Angel like a framework was the one that had a real big problem.
Lin Yi kept pondering the secret of the smiling angel. His eyes gradually widened like bells, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved into an arc that he didn't even notice...
In that distorted world, he would occasionally be overjoyed by some small discovery, as if the old scholar had seen something new...
Not far away, Lu Zhao, who had just climbed the stairs, suddenly stopped. He was horrified to find that at this moment, Lin Yi's face was almost touching the dead body of the sculpture of the eerie laughing angel.
Lin Yi approached the secret pattern on the dead body of the Smile Angel statue, and gently touched the body of the Smile Angel statue with his hands, like a fanatical scholar studying a mysterious stone tablet that had just been unearthed...
That rational yet extremely fanatical look made Lu Zhao and Chen Xue tremble with fear.
"Old Lu...he..." Chen Xue couldn't believe it at all. Lin Yi, who seemed very normal when they were communicating just a moment ago, turned into such a crazy person, like a mad scientist in just a few minutes.
Lu Zhao shook his head slightly, his face solemn: "The layers around him are already distorted... What we see is only what we perceive, the real situation may be completely different from what we 'see'..."
"I sensed an invisible field. Could it be that the angel with the weird smile is not dead?!" Chen Xue felt some fear in her heart.
"I don't know, but when I explored it just now, I clearly couldn't sense its 'alive' breath..." Lu Zhao's face looked a little ugly. A living, smiling angel was enough to turn all the pseudo-human students in the classroom into "fog-chasing light-seekers" and could easily kill everyone here...
Faced with the existence of such a high level, they are simply unable to resist with their existing means. Once they are locked, they will not even have a chance to escape.
Chen Xue was silent for a moment, then said, "I'll go call my sister and Jin Jiuyao."
"Go..." Lu Zhao sighed. Everything should be prioritized. Compared to dealing with these fake classmates in the classroom, the problem in front of him is the one that really needs to be solved urgently.
After Chen Xue turned and left, Lu Zhao held the mountaineering bag in front of him and put one hand into it, so that he could respond promptly if there were any unusual situations.
Soon, Chen Xue came over with Chen Bing and the pale-looking Jin Jiuyao.
As soon as Jin Jiuyao arrived here, his face turned pale, and he almost blurted out: "The breath of the laughing angel! That sculpture is obviously dead, how can it still have a breath? Did Xiao Zi do something?"
"Chen Bing and Chen Xue, how about you..." Jin Jiuyao looked at the twins.
Chen Xue narrowed her eyes and did not object.
Chen Bing, who was always silent, spoke coldly at this time: "Agreement three, eliminate all threats, Lao Lu, wait for your order."
As she spoke, she held hands with Chen Xue. When they held hands, some pure white aura appeared where their palms met. The aura spread out, forming sky blue lines, along the palms of the two people to their forearms, and soon extended to their shoulders, and then disappeared at the shoulder straps of their clothes...
With the appearance of this secret pattern, the aura of the two women suddenly changed from cold to much holier, as if they were a mobile turret, aiming at Lin Yi, waiting for Lu Zhao's order to launch some kind of attack.
Wei Liang, who was not far away, suddenly threw the H comic out and cursed: "What a rubbish plot! I am really sick of it. The beautiful heroines are all wiped out. Why should I watch more comics? Even the suffering of the witch hunter should not be drawn so sloppily, right?"
(End of this chapter)