Chapter 519 The target of public criticism
Chapter 519 The target of public criticism
"Umbrella?" Lin Yi was startled and quickly looked up at the umbrella. He saw that the originally taut umbrella was now covered with downward bulges, and the distorted faces seemed to be on the verge of breaking, as if they would shatter in the next moment.
“Swish, swish, swish—swish, swish—”
The storm intensified, and for a moment the whistling sound made it impossible to distinguish whether it was the sound of wind and rain, or the sound of leaves swaying in the green belts on both sides of the cobblestone road.
In the distance, the dim street lamp was swaying in the wind and rain, emitting a weak and strange light, like a kerosene lamp, barely illuminating the rugged cobblestone road underfoot.
The nocturnal species and pseudo-human sculptures in the green forest belt began to approach them with rustling sounds, but the strange thing was that Lin Yi now felt that the nocturnal species and pseudo-human sculptures were so familiar.
The reason is very simple. This type of lowest-level polluter has the characteristics of "light-chasing people shrouded in fog". When they appear, it means that there are no high-level angel sculptures around, which is equivalent to an alternative safety sign.
Thinking of this, the trees in the green belts beside the road that were constantly twisted by the raging wind seemed much more acceptable.
Lin Yi didn’t know if this could be considered an alternative form of “adaptation”, but he himself had never thought that one day he would be able to adapt to this kind of thing.
It turns out that when one's psychopathy reaches a certain level, one will find the world more pleasing to the eye.
Suddenly, a scream rang in Lin Yi's ears. Before he could react, the umbrella above his head suddenly broke. The rain that had accumulated for a long time poured down on them all at once, soaking them completely.
Wei Shan threw away his umbrella, wrapped his clothes tightly, and grabbed Lin Yi's arm.
"The road ahead is going to be difficult!" Wei Shan's tone was very low, his teeth were faintly clenched together, and a faint white steam began to spew out from between his teeth again.
Although the umbrella did not provide much protection, when the umbrella was gone, the rain quickly blocked Lin Yi's vision.
After Wei Shan threw away the umbrella, it was blown everywhere by the storm and soon got stuck on a tree branch.
A strange scene followed. Where the umbrella was stuck, the surrounding pseudo-human sculptures retreated at a terrifying speed, as if the umbrella cover was some horrible thing that would contaminate them.
The entire umbrella soon began to undergo strange changes, splitting into twisted pieces of skin, and the umbrella pole also kept loosening, turning into countless threads. After absorbing the rain, the threads continued to expand and turned into a strange substance like bones, blood and flesh...
【Come quickly... come quickly...】
Those faces began to make weak sounds in unison, as if calling for some distant salvation.
Soon, a black shadow began to wriggle in the green forest belt, and a pitch-black figure came over with a rustling sound. When the figure came in front of the umbrella, the thunder just tore through the night sky. The world alternated between black and white, lighting up the face of the figure - the Forest of Steles of the Dead.
That was actually the Forest of Dead Men’s Steles!
Soon, a certain human-shaped tombstone on the dead tombstone forest was suddenly torn apart like scales, and a series of slimy tendrils slowly extended out, connecting to the broken umbrella like a needle...
The umbrella gradually changed, and eventually turned into a dozen fake classmates...
[I know his first and last name...]
[It’s time to go find him… go find him…]
Let Him Become a Part of Us...
The countless faces in the Forest of Dead Steles suddenly seemed to have intelligence, each speaking their own words, as if they were communicating with each other, but it didn't seem like...
[His name is Lin Xiaozi...]
[No...his name is Song Rentou! ]
【Lin Xiaozi! 】
【Song Rentou! 】
【Lin Xiaozi! 】
[Song Rentou...]
The same forest of tombstones for the dead actually started arguing with itself.
[Damn it... Don't you even know who the other party is? ]
As the voice rang out, a human face actually emerged in the Forest of Dead Steles. But the strange thing was that the face had only one outline. It looked like a human face and it felt like a human face, but when you looked closely, you would find that it was not a normal human face at all, but a faceless face with the outline of a human face.
The faceless face kept moving, its eye sockets and mouth were empty, but the voice echoed inside the Forest of Dead Steles:
[Sad! I really feel sad for you! ]
【Go find them! 】
【go! 】
[Before someone else gets there first...devour him! ]
[Swallow him! Swallow him! ]
【ash!】
【I want ashes! 】
The Forest of Dead Steles was wriggling, moving slowly like a wriggling bamboo forest, following the direction of Lin Yi and the other two.
【I want ashes!!!】
Ashes, ashes...
When the Forest of Dead Steles began to move, some eerily laughing angels in the black sky also spotted Lin Yi and his group, and actually floated over as well...
……
X023年5月10日，20:56，宿舍楼区域。
The diffuse mist floated in the air like a veil, lingering around Lin Yi in the wind, as if it would turn into a sharp blade to cut his skin at any time. The rain kept hitting his face, like countless tiny insects gnawing at his face, causing waves of stinging pain.
But he had no mind to care about anything. The only thing in front of him was the lamppost.
"Weisang, are you still there?"
"Lao Lin, I'm here." Wei Shan's deep voice sounded like a security guard's, but it was less profound.
"What time is it, Lao Lin..." Wei Shan asked.
Lin Yi glanced at his watch. He didn't know from when on, the time on his watch had never been wrong again: "20:56, there are still 4 minutes before the elevator opens... but I feel like I'm too late."
"Forget about getting into the elevator on time." Wei Shan shook his head. "It's good enough if we can get back to the dormitory before 22:00."
Lin Yi nodded slightly, and then said: "This street lamp pole seems to have been there for quite a long time..."
"You suspect something is wrong?" Wei Shan gritted his teeth, and his mouth was filled with heat. "But I don't smell any danger for the time being..." "But I feel something is wrong..." Lin Yi lowered his voice and pointed at the lamppost in front. "We have been walking for a minute... and we are not there yet."
Upon hearing this, Wei Shan gradually frowned. He seemed to have thought of something and squatted down gently.
"Lao Lin, wait for me."
Wei Shan put his palm on the ground, as if he was feeling the pulse of the earth.
Lin Yi looked at Wei Shan curiously. In fact, he had tried to release his perception a long time ago, but in such extreme abnormal weather, his perception could not extend far at all, and his head felt a little dizzy.
He therefore concluded that pure perception could not obtain effective yet accurate feedback under abnormal weather conditions.
But if he didn't consider any consequences, he felt that he could still transform into a demon and forcibly sense the world - but what was the point of doing this?
Lin Yi still focused his attention on Wei Shan. With continuous perception, Wei Shan's breathing gradually became heavier, and the breath between his mouth and nose was like streams of steam. The whole person looked like the front of a steam engine that had already started.
Wei Shan's eyes became brighter and brighter, and a sky blue aura began to surround him. In the sky blue aura, there seemed to be a vague, illusory and burly figure that looked like a security guard.
He had seen such a figure before when Wei Shan was throwing garbage at the trash can on the other side of the canteen.
Gradually, Lin Yi discovered that the cobblestone road under his feet seemed to have undergone some strange changes. He didn't know if it was related to Wei Shan's operation, but Lin Yi watched helplessly as the cobblestone road under his feet lost its uneven characteristics and turned into a soft ground with floral patterns...
A vague sense of excitement passed through the soft ground to the soles of his feet, and he felt as if the earth had come alive.
“Swish, swish, swish…”
The rainstorm washed over the ground, and the entire ground suddenly became shiny, and the floral pattern gradually faded away. In the end, only another dark shadow remained...
The shadow became extremely smooth under the rain, like a mirror.
Just as he was beginning to feel a faint sense of familiarity with the mirror, the figure of the smiling angel gradually appeared under the mirror...
Lin Yi was startled and reacted immediately. The campus was losing its layer of color, the cobblestone road disappeared, and the part of the "ground" that was supporting him after it disappeared, began to penetrate and blend with his shadow!
[Howl…]
The strange and ethereal laughter of the laughing angel came into Lin Yi's ears very clearly through the rain.
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and before he could pull his eyes away from the shadow, he suddenly noticed a figure suddenly appeared beside him out of the corner of his eye.
It was a sculpture of an angel with a strange smile. The laughter just now came from here. It was not "as if it sounded in his ears", but "came to his ears and spoke"...
When his gaze fell back into the shadow, there suddenly appeared in front of him a sculpture of an eerily smiling angel with half of its body having crawled out of the shadow!
"What the hell?! Wei Sang!" Lin Yi yelled.
Wei Shan was still beside him, his whole body covered in steam.
Hearing Lin Yi's call, he suddenly came to his senses and said quickly: "Something is wrong, Lao Lin! I was wrong! The road is still the road! But the distance has been lengthened!"
"The ground beneath our feet is being stretched. I can't tell if the entire campus is being stretched, or just the road beneath our feet!"
"But I hope... the entire campus is stretched! Otherwise, it means that we..."
Lin Yi's pupils trembled slightly, and he took over the conversation and said, "Does it mean that we... are being targeted?!"
[Howl——]
The smiling angel let out a cold laugh and slowly crawled out from the shadows.
Their movements were very strange. When Lin Yi noticed them, they were static, but when Lin Yi didn't pay attention, they were moving slowly.
Those smiling angels that were crawling out from the shadows were like more advanced nocturnal species, while the smiling angel sculpture next to him covered its face with its hands and assumed the most common posture. It had not yet changed from a sculpture to a translucent angel form, and seemed not to have awakened yet.
But Lin Yi knew that they were not sleeping at all.
The reason why they seem to have not awakened yet is because they themselves have not yet "started up".
But what Lin Yi couldn't understand was that this time, the laughing angels didn't grab him and climb out.
Since the Laughing Angel didn't need the help of his legs to walk out of the shadows, why did he go to so much trouble just now?
While he was still thinking about this problem subconsciously, Wei Shan suddenly took out two hooks and smashed them hard on the ground.
"Qiang!"
The seemingly stretched soft ground was actually extremely hard. The hook made from the broken arm of the Laughing Angel fell down, but only caused some sparks to splash on the ground!
"Run! Lao Lin, run! Take Wei Liang with you!!"
Wei Shan's low growl rang in his ears. At the same time, Wei Shan's figure rushed out from the corner of his eye.
After confirming that it was the real Wei Shan, Lin Yi decisively carried the zombie-like Wei Liang on his back.
But at the moment when he was carrying Wei Liang on his back, he suddenly had a burst of inspiration, and used the simplest comparison method to find the similarities and differences when the Laughing Angel appeared several times!
The similarities are that the smiling angel in the bookshelf area of Class 2, Group B, the smiling angel whose arm he had just sawed off, and these smiling angels now, all crawled out of his shadow, and all came from the smiling angels in the art floor layer.
The difference lies in——Wei Liang!
When the Laughing Angel crawled out just now, Wei Liang was still conscious. At that time, the Laughing Angel could only crawl out through his body; but now, Wei Liang has become a walking corpse...
In other words, the Laughing Angel was under some kind of strong suppression when Wei Liang was awake?
Have it?
Yes, it seems that there are...
Because, assuming that Wei Liang's threat to the Laughing Angel was true, then the scene in the bookshelf area seemed to be able to be explained as the Laughing Angel suddenly emerged from his shadow, but was killed by Wei Liang in seconds.
Therefore, the subsequent weird laughing angels did not dare to do that, and could only use some medium, such as walking out along his limbs...
Now, Wei Liang temporarily lost consciousness, so the Angel of Smile was able to let go again.
Just like a group of naughty students studying in a self-study class without a teacher watching them.
Fusheng Weiliang Tianzun really has something!
But time was running out, and Lin Yi had no time to think about anything, so he quickly raised his foot and ran forward.
The current road is just a longer distance, and the penetration and blending of the layers are not complete. Once the penetration is completed, it will be a real desperate situation.
Some of the current problems can still be solved by relying on legs.
(End of this chapter)