Chapter 538: The route from the gymnasium to the art building

Chapter 538: The route from the gymnasium to the art building

Chapter 538: The route from the gymnasium to the art building
"If I master the time compass, I will no longer get lost in dreams?"

"Time compass... Time compass..."

He muttered to himself and silently looked at the watch on his wrist.

His watch keeps accurate time and can even be brought into dreams. Its extraordinaryness needs no further explanation.

"It would be nice if it was you..."

He sighed quietly. Although his watch was already extraordinary, it was unlikely to be the time compass "Zero"... Otherwise, "Night Watchman-02" would be recognizable, right?
Night Watchman-02 said that it was Night Watchman-01's thing, but Night Watchman-01 had already died.

Even if Night Watchman-02 didn't recognize him at first, he didn't believe that the store owner couldn't recognize him.

Since they couldn't recognize it, it only meant that his watch was extraordinary, but not extraordinary enough.

At this moment, perhaps because he was distracted or something else, Lin Yi suddenly found that the surrounding environment seemed to become unreal, and even the surrounding scenes began to become blurred and hazy.

Everything around him suddenly became unstable, as if the speed was turned up and the frames were dropped. It changed into this picture one moment, then into that picture the next. In the flickering animated pictures, he saw Song Rentou's death, the end of the "feast", and the gradual dispersal of the people...

The picture became blurry, and then slowly became clear...

He suddenly realized a problem...

Damn it, it wasn’t a problem with the dream quality, but a problem with the “signal tower”—he was too far away from the Russians!
He quickly floated back to Maozi's side. Sure enough, as he got closer to Maozi, everything around him became clearer.

This is how the perspective in a dream works. He cannot stray too far away from the main perspective with his own perspective, otherwise he will be marginalized.

Soon, the art students began to evacuate from the dome in an orderly manner, and Lin Yi's will followed Maozi and Yan Jinming into that passage.

He hadn't paid attention when he came just now, so now he was very curious about the way the art students left the stadium dome.

After all, there is no spatial connection between the gymnasium and the art building. The only explanation is that there is a connection at the map level.

This was not the first time he had come across the concept of "layer transition", but he was really interested in how such a large population transition was achieved.

The light in the passage was a little dim. After walking a few steps, the passage gave people the feeling of turning into the sewer of an old street in New York. It was filled with cold and damp air, and from time to time there were some leaking wind sounds from somewhere unknown...

After enjoying the "feast", each of the art students has become much calmer, but this calmness may not come from their personality, but because many people have not been able to fully digest the concentrated and pure extraordinary power, and are still immersed in the process of carefully feeling the changes brought about by the extraordinary power.

The noise of people was gone, and Lin Yi felt much better. He could feel everything around him more carefully.

He looked at the end of the passage - the end seemed to be shrouded in fog and could not be seen clearly.

He tried to fly over to see what was going on, but suddenly, the entire team turned a corner, and then the view flickered, and they appeared in a stairwell...

"This...?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and quickly turned around to look, only to see a portal appear behind him. On both sides of the portal were two artistic candlesticks. The candles on the candlesticks were slightly swaying, illuminating a very limited area.

But behind the portal, it seemed to be shrouded in a hazy mist. The mist felt very much like the door from the cafeteria to the canteen, which lightly separated the two worlds.

He quickly adjusted his state and began to observe the surrounding environment again.

The European-style corridor of the art building was filled with a gloomy atmosphere. The cold and damp air was like a sticky fog, clinging tightly to the walls and the ground, making people feel like they were stepping into an icy quagmire with every step they took...

"It smells right. It looks like we have reached the Art Building layer... But why is there no sense of 'layer transition'? Did it happen silently, or... has it not started at all?"

Lin Yi muttered to himself and continued to observe.

The swaying candlesticks emit a faint and eerie light. The bean-sized candlelight flickers in the darkness, as if it is the eye of a mysterious force in the darkness, spying on the art students walking in it.

In a trance, Lin Yi felt that the places where the candlesticks were connected to the wall seemed to be grasped by some kind of hand. The shadows of the candlelight twisted and danced on the wall. In the dark area under the light, the outline of some strange creature was wriggling. That creature looked very much like an obsession sculpture. But when Lin Yi looked over again, he found that the outline of the obsession sculpture had disappeared again.

All that was left were the walls with peeling paint and the old yellowish-brown square bricks exposed behind them.

The ceiling was high, and the corners were covered with spider webs. The thin spider silk shone with a mysterious silver light under the weak candlelight...

"Why are there still spider webs?" Lin Yi was surprised.

Those dark, sneaky creatures crawl around like spiders, and if there are any spider webs, they will definitely destroy them.

The only explanation is that no nocturnal species have arrived at this place...

There seemed to be moisture seeping out from the cracks in the stone slabs on the ground, bringing with it a rotten smell.

Occasionally, a drop of water would drip up from the cracks in the stone slabs under your feet, and it would fly up against gravity as if floating, which looked extremely strange.

The corridor below was shrouded in darkness, as if it was a portal to another world. One could only see the vague outline of the stairs and some figures submerged in the darkness. The sound of wind trembled inside and outside the walls, like a low roar, or a plaintive cry, which made people feel creepy...

The only sounds left in the corridor were the art students' messy footsteps, and the whole world seemed immersed in a creepy silence and fear. On the other side of the wall, there seemed to be countless invisible angels with strange smiles, waiting for an opportunity to attack them.

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something.

"Oh yeah! This staircase... why don't I have any impression of it?"

He was a little confused. It wasn't that he had to have an impression of this place, but he had once pushed his consciousness throughout the entire art building under the influence of the quantum giant clock "Church", but he didn't remember seeing a similar area...

"Strange, really strange..."

Feeling puzzled, Lin Yi began to observe more curiously.

Suddenly, some water stains on the stairs caught his attention.

"How come this water stain is the other way around?"

The moisture seeped into the corridor through the yellow-brown square stones, forming a series of damp tracks that spread like roots. However, such tracks should have spread continuously downwards, but now they spread upwards instead, like dead trees growing and flowers blooming.

Lin Yi was thoughtful, and suddenly seemed to understand something. He lowered his head to look at the stone slab under his feet, and more importantly, at the water droplets floating against gravity...

“Hmm… Wait, could it be…?!”

Lin Yi slowly released that perception, spreading it out little by little with Mao Feiyang as the center. As the perception spread, everything around him was fed back into his mind in every detail.

"That's what I see!" He discovered the problem.

The entire corridor is turned upside down.

These art students are walking on the back of the stairs.

From their perspective, everyone was going downstairs, but from a real spatial perspective, they were going upstairs.

"Inverted space..."

Lin Yi suddenly had an inexplicable sense of familiarity. How could this absurd and illogical logic seem so familiar?

"Wait... In the dormitory!!"

A strange light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes.

In the dormitory building during a certain period of time after midnight, the rules of gravity are also reversed, which is extremely similar to the situation here.

And...the dormitory building actually has an infinite Fibonacci sequence staircase.

It is also an infinite staircase, so could it be similar to the steps here?

In the dormitory... the art building... the gymnasium...

Is there some mysterious connection between these three buildings?
Or, on a certain level, there is a certain... logical overlap between these three types of buildings? !
Wait, if I have to say it, it seems that even the teaching building can be connected?
Lin Yi felt his head itchy, as if he was about to grow a brain.

A huge spider web diagram appeared in his mind. Some buildings on the campus were located in different positions of the spider web diagram, and various strange connections were formed between them because of the existence of the steps.

At this moment, Yan Jinming's voice rang out: "Come on! You are all so sleepy, you want to die? Go back to the Art Building immediately, everyone return to the classroom! Remember, everyone!"

"Next, just follow us. Everyone just needs to follow the person in front of you!"

"Keep your eyes on the back of the person in front of you, don't look around!"

"No matter what you hear, don't care about it, and don't respond!"

"No matter what happens, you don't need to deal with it!"

"Remember, this is everything! You don't need to think about anything!"

"Hurry up! Things are starting to get weird!"

"If something unexpected happens because you don't obey, don't blame me for not warning you!"

"The road ahead will be a little bumpy, so be careful! Go!"

Lin Yi's thoughts were interrupted by Yan Jinming, so he turned his attention back to the corridor.

The corridor ahead had indeed become a little twisted and looked a little uneven. This section of the road was exactly the part that Lin Yi had not seen before, and he also caught a hint of abnormality in it.

The road's distortion was very slight, and it looked like an uneven section of road. When combined with the stairs in the corridor, its weirdness was diluted a lot. However, as Lin Yi's perception coverage increased, the distortion of the corridor was gradually magnified. When the overall trend was pieced together, it gradually presented a surreal geometric structure.

This structure is like...

"'Mobius strip'...?"

Infinite cycle, beginning and end...

"I see!"

An inspiration flashed through Lin Yi's mind, and he suddenly understood the logic behind the existence of this corridor!

The entire corridor is not only a part of a certain staircase inside the art building, but also the expansion and storage of certain areas of the art building. When you need to take this road, this road will appear... or this road will only appear at a fixed time!
A hidden path appears at a specific time and contains a certain law, but this law itself violates the laws of physics.

However, just when Lin Yi thought he had figured out the secret, the real journey of "layer transition" had just begun!
As the art student continued to move forward in the Möbius strip-like corridor, problems gradually began to appear in the surrounding layers.

The art students followed the strict and clear orders and stared at the backs of the people in front of them, but Lin Yi didn't need to, so he was able to clearly observe the changes occurring at this layer level.

He saw that the corridor under the feet of the art students was beginning to become dilapidated. This dilapidated appearance was completely different from the dilapidated cultural relics and the old and dilapidated city walls in the real sense. The dilapidated state of the corridor before him was like the dilapidated state of a mulberry leaf after being eaten by silkworms.

A kind of incompleteness at the layer level is like a corridor that was built and then eaten away by some kind of spatial force. The building structure itself still exists, but some areas have become nothingness, as if the borders have been continuously corroded by nothingness, and finally became the incomplete appearance we see today.

However, this kind of dilapidated corridor is nothing new to some veteran art students like Yan Jinming. They lead teams in the corridor, and they tacitly do not make any sound, as if they are afraid of disturbing some strange existence in the void.

As soon as the thought of "what might exist in the void" appeared in his mind, Lin Yi's consciousness seemed to have touched some weak electric current and caught a low call...

【Sorgens... skygge...】

"What...?" Lin Yi was stunned.

【Min skygge……】

【Gi opp……】

But the more he cared, the deeper the voice in his ear became. But when he tried to find the source of the voice, he couldn't find it at all...

After hearing so many warning-like chants and distant songs, Lin Yi began to lose track of which ones were warnings and which ones were strange calls. He could only rely on the most basic feeling to judge whether the calls carried any malice towards him...

This seems to be the only way to distinguish them - at least it is the only way he can distinguish them for now.

While Lin Yi was searching for the source of the sound, he seemed to have caught the traces of some creatures in the void in a trance.

“That’s…?”

Lin Yi looked intently, and vaguely saw some mirror fragments gleaming with crystal light appearing in the corridor that was devoured by nothingness...

"It seems to be... a mirror world?"

(End of this chapter)