Chapter 501: The Faceless Sin
Chapter 501: The Faceless Sin
"'Abyss Walker'... 'Walker'..."
Lin Yi's eyes fell on the last signature, looking at the crossed out and distorted words "Abyss Walker", thinking...
"August X000..."
In Lin Yi's memory, this is a sensitive time point, the millennium, which is of great significance... and the content of this book is also set at this time point.
The collision of the two periods of time created an unprecedented sense of absurdity and conflict in his heart.
This strong sense of conflict is like you are having a candlelight dinner in a window shop, and you see a homeless person curled up in a dark street corner through the glass. Two completely different worlds are simultaneously presenting stories on both sides of the transparent glass...
"If I'm not crazy, then this world is crazy..."
Lin Yi gritted his teeth, and began to feel a little shaken about the world he was in.
Why does everyone around him forget about that "normal" world - except Liangzi and his roommates?
Why is it that whether it is the eldest brother or Li Huiyuan, or these books, they all vaguely indicate that the world view is related to the mysterious side?
Could it be that my faulty memory has something to do with this?
99...
Yes...99 years!
The turning point of everything seems to be 99!
After the incident in 99, everything changed!
From my impression, Lin Yi's understanding of the world seemed to have become different from what was recorded in the book since 99!
If he thought about it carefully, why did he feel like he was on an abnormal timeline starting from 99?
No, that's not right, it's quite the opposite!
Why did the whole world seem to be on an abnormal timeline after 99 years? And he was like a residual soul, entangled in a timeline that no one else knew about!
What exactly is going on?
If the whole world is different from what he knows, then what is the point of him escaping from the campus?
its not right!
Before he came to the campus, wasn't the outside world still a normal world? !
Mr. Tian and the others are all normal, Liangzi is also normal... No... Wait, it seems, it seems... They are the only normal ones in the entire bus?!
The other people in that car were taken directly to the Art Building just like Zhang Lingzhen!
Zhang Lingzhen also knows about the abnormalities in the world!
No, it shouldn’t be expressed like that. It should be said that the world in Zhang Lingzhen’s cognition seems to be the same as the world in Li Huiyuan’s cognition, but it seems to be different from the world in his cognition!
what is the problem?
What's going on. !
Lin Yi felt his mind suddenly become confused, and his breathing began to become heavy...
At this moment, he heard laughter in his ears, and the broken sculptures came to his side hanging upside down. Broken faces with weird smiles swayed around him.
【Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...】
[Lin Yi, Lin Yi...where are you going...]
Some of them were laughing, some were humming evil nursery rhymes, and some were doing nothing but standing there surrounding Lin Yi and making laughter.
Countless sounds, near and far, high and low, surrounded Lin Yi's ears, drilling into his brain like a venomous snake, causing his breathing to become rapid...
“咈咈咈……咈咈咈……”
His throat rolled slightly, hot breath began to spew out from between his teeth, and his whole body began to emit low breaths like a wild beast.
He leaned his back against the bookshelf and slowly slid down to sit on the ground.
"Huh...huh...huh..."
He breathed heavily, clutching his hair with both hands, and countless blurry fragments began to flash in his mind.
As those images appeared, he felt that his will was clearer than ever, but his thinking was more confused than ever.
He could clearly see the images - all the images contained in them were things he had never seen before, but the images were extremely blurry and the sounds were completely inaudible, as if someone had put him in a completely soundproof place and was performing a show for him through the transparent glass of the box.
But that would have been fine, but there was a large patch of foggy water vapor clinging to the transparent glass, making the picture completely unclear.
It would be better not to know about this scene which you can neither see nor hear clearly!
But the weird thing was that he could not touch the scene, while the laughter of the broken sculpture kept drilling into his head.
“It’s so noisy… so noisy!”
Lin Yi reached out and knocked his head, rubbing his hair continuously, trying to drive away the broken sculptures, but his embarrassment made the broken sculptures even more excited.
[That’s it… That’s it…]
[You said you would take us away...]
[You forgot... Have you forgotten? ]
【Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...】
[Remember it…Remember it…]
【Lin Yi ah Lin Yi...】
"Huff, huff, huff..." A wisp of red steam began to spew out from Lin Yi's mouth and nose. Golden light shone from his eyes, and the space around him began to tremble slightly.
He seemed to remember something, but he couldn't figure it out.
There were some slight collisions between his teeth, and certain syllables seemed to be coming out of his throat.
At this moment, a voice suddenly came again——
"Old Lin!"
Lin Yi was slightly startled.
This is Wei Liang's voice.
When Wei Liang's call was heard, the sound of the broken sculpture naturally faded a lot.
"Old Lin!"
Wei Liang's voice sounded again.
"What's the matter?" Lin Yi responded in the bookshelf area.
Oddly enough, the faint aura that had been lingering around him suddenly dissipated at this moment, as if it had never existed at all, and Lin Yi also became normal in an instant, as if the strange state before had died yesterday.
"Please help me get another comic! Hojo Kotaka's "The 26-Year-Old Female Tenant in Hokkaido"!" Wei Liang's shameless voice echoed in the classroom.
Hojo Kotaka... Lin Yi's mouth twitched. It was said that the "Eagle Group" of Xiao Ri had two divine hands. One was Kato-san, who was said to be able to bless people with "moisture", and the other was Hojo-san, a famous quick writer who was said to draw a chapter of anime in three days.
Liangzi really has a wide range of interests...
"I know, I know!" Lin Yi responded speechlessly, but as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he suddenly realized that Liangzi had killed two birds with one stone, waking him up in time and asking him to find comics for him?
Although, he was about to pull himself back to the normal level. Lin Yi pondered for a moment, looking at the place where the figure appeared just now, thinking.
Traveler...
Year X000...
He thought of the book he saw in the library, the book written by "Dream Builder-HX-S-023".
"Come to think of it, there does seem to be some connection here..."
The Dream Builder went to the "Black Moon Outpost" in 99, and the Traveler went there in 00, just one year apart. But judging from the Traveler's records, it seems that the Northern Alliance did not allow China's intervention at the beginning. They must have allowed China's intervention only after they had completed the investigation, or evacuated because the investigation failed.
No wonder, there is not a single "foreigner" to be seen on the art floor these days.
The traveler died behind the arch, but he saw several similar figures, heard bells, and saw flames. Combined with the information about the "Night Watchmen" he recorded later, Lin Yi speculated that the figures the traveler saw behind the arch were the night watchmen who were in charge of the quantum giant bell "Sanctuary", the ancient green lamp "Mingzhao" and the time compass "Shi Zero".
From this we can see that in the year 00, the Night Watchman who controlled the time compass had not yet fallen.
Lin Yi thought for a while, put the book back on the bookshelf, then turned and walked towards other areas.
But after he left, "Echoes of the Black Mist" on the bookshelf quickly dimmed and turned into a stone-like brick.
Jin Jiuyao didn't know how he came here. He fumbled around here and finally found "Echoes of the Black Mist" and took it off.
However, when "Echoes of the Black Mist" fell into Jin Jiuyao's hands, the strange aura had disappeared, and it turned into a book that looked extremely normal.
Jin Jiuyao opened the book, and a lot of dust suddenly rushed out of the pages. When he looked at the pages carefully, his brows couldn't help but frowned.
"Why is there not a single word?" The "Echoes of the Black Mist" in Jin Jiuyao's hand was blank.
He looked at the cover again.
In his eyes, there was actually no text on the book cover at all.
"strangeness……"
He pondered over it and followed Lin Yi silently.
In the lecture hall, Chen Xue asked in a low voice: "Old Lu, is it really okay for Jin Jiuyao to do this?"
At this moment, Lu Zhao began to compare the campus map with the blueprint he brought with him. Hearing this, without even looking up, he said calmly, "He just went to the bookshelf area to 'pick books'. It just happened that his path was somewhat similar to Xiao Zi's. There's nothing to worry about."
There was some worry in Chen Xue's eyes, and she couldn't help but frowned.
Suddenly, she felt some discomfort in her arm, so she shook her hand subconsciously.
But after shaking it off, the uncomfortable feeling still did not disappear.
She looked at her own hand - this hand was the one that had been clinging to the Feather Eye Secret Mark before. Now there was also an invisible mark of the angel frame with a faint eerie smile on that hand, but in her eyes, there was nothing abnormal about that hand.
After some fruitless observation, she dropped her arms, but she herself did not notice that her fingers twitched uncontrollably a few times while she was not paying attention.
And in her shadow, a certain illusory outline also flashed by...
……
X023年5月10日，17:55。
It was almost 18:00, and there were still 5 minutes before the street lights on campus came on.
Even though this was already Lin Yi's fifth day on campus, strictly speaking, the fifth day would only begin five minutes later.
Although Lin Yi didn't know why this information suddenly popped up in his mind, he still paid attention.
When browsing the bookshelf later, Lin Yi picked up the book and flipped through it as he did before, but he never had the same feeling as when he read "Echoes of the Black Mist", nor did he have such hallucinations again.
Interestingly, on the way he really came across the book "The 26-Year-Old Female Tenant in Hokkaido" that Wei Liang wanted, and just as he reached out to pick up the book, a nearby book caught his attention.
The Faceless Sin
His intuition told him that there was something wrong with the book, so he took it off.
The cover of the book features a person who looks very much like the one in the world-famous painting "The Scream". His face is distorted and he seems to have turned into a whirlpool. The background around him is also extremely strange, and there is a cult atmosphere everywhere.
The author of the book is a man called "Painter No. 3". When Lin Yi opened the cover, the words on the title page immediately caught his attention.
"I can't remember how many nights I've had this nightmare over and over again..."
"Ever since I escaped from that valley three years ago, nightmares have haunted me like a ghost. Whenever I fall asleep, darkness envelops my soul and brings my will back to that terrifying mountain range..."
"I cannot describe the horror I have experienced in words. I can only use my pen to express the horror in my heart on paper..."
"——"Painter No. 3"
To Lin Yi's surprise, this was a collection of paintings.
The pages are thick, but there don't seem to be many pictures in it.
One of the paintings, titled "Peeker in the Clouds," depicts an extremely depressing scene.
The Gothic bell tower in the rainstorm occupies the picture with a distorted upward angle. A vague pale human figure emerges in each arched glass window. The rain washes out dark red lines on the stone wall like blood vessels...
In the lead-gray clouds pierced by the spire, a half-torn leather mask could be vaguely seen floating, with two bronze gears rotating in opposite directions embedded in the pupils of the mask.
In the reflection of the puddle on the ground, countless blue-grey hands were scratching the glass upwards, while the actual foundation of the clock tower was a black vortex of nothingness...
Since Lin Yi had read a lot of books, he could guess that the building in this painting was probably related to the clock tower in the art layer. Of course, from a certain perspective, this clock tower might also be related to the clock tower he had been looking for, which was on the campus but did not exist...
He did not do much research but continued to flip through the collection of paintings.
The paintings of Artist No. 3 contain more or less information. Some are just messy scribbles, while others are so abstract that they are completely incomprehensible. But overall, each one is very depressing.
Lin Yi suddenly stopped. The painting in front of him was different from the previous ones. It used a double-layer nested composition.
The upper layer of the picture is a violent seascape of huge waves hitting the cliffs, with thousands of faceless and broken sculptures floating between the wave crests; the lower layer is a maze formed by the entanglement of strange roots, with dark green fishy and salty mucus oozing out of the walls of the maze, and in some places even extending some octopus tentacles covered with barnacles.
Due to the perspective problem of Painter No. 3, the observer is forced to sink along the barriers of the entire maze and finally focus on the center of the painting - a super huge eyeball immersed in sea water.
(End of this chapter)