Chapter 539 The Exit of That Path

Chapter 539 The Exit of That Path

Chapter 539 The exit of that path...

In Lin Yi's impression, he has only seen the mirror world in two places, no, strictly speaking, in two situations. The first was when he first arrived at the second floor of the clock tower. "Night Watchman-02" was in charge of the quantum giant clock "The Holy Temple", and all around him were fragments of the clock tower wall that had fallen apart due to an unknown and extraordinary force. Part of those fragments was the mirror-like mirror world.

Another situation is... deep in the corridor of the "Obsession Sculpture"!

When he entered the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, he had seen many obsession sculptures of various shapes in the mirror world... Wait, what are those...? !

Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly.

Just now in a certain mirror world, he seemed to see the shadow of the obsession sculpture!

No, it’s not “seems”, but “definitely”!
When he saw the obsession sculpture, it solidified in the mirror world, giving him a feeling of playing hide-and-seek and no longer hiding after being seen...

Those obsession sculptures were covered with cracks, as if they had suffered some kind of tremendous pain, and had been torn apart by an unknown force, shattering into the form we see today.

In addition to the cracks, their surfaces seemed to be engraved with strange patterns, like ancient runes of some evil ritual.

On the static obsession sculpture, those evil runes look like wriggling little bugs and tadpoles, making people feel uncomfortable and get goose bumps all over their body.

"Could this be... part of the Obsession Sculpture Corridor? Could it be that the end point of the layer jump... is in the Obsession Sculpture Corridor?"

This guess arose in Lin Yi's mind.

At the same time, a cold wind blew in the corridor. The wind blew through the mirror world, and all the mirror worlds made a humming sound, like the sad howling of the soul imprisoned in the obsession sculpture.

“Ah…Ah?! What is that…what is that…?!

An art student could not withstand the interference of the calls and looked around uncontrollably. When he saw the collapsed and empty corridor around him, his entire cognition collapsed. He swung his limbs and arms uncontrollably as if he was stimulated inexplicably and let out crazy roars, as if he wanted to resonate with those strange calls.

"Damn it!" Yan Jinming spat, walked straight to the art student, and kicked him out of the team.

He lowered his voice and said, "Those behind, keep following!"

At the end, he couldn't help but mutter: "What a damn evildoer!"

Going further, the corridors around the art students began to split, as if countless suspended stone slabs were floating in the dim corridors, unaffected by gravity.

The originally dim corridor seemed to be pulled apart by an invisible force, and appeared in fragments. Even the candlesticks were floating there, as if full of magic.

And those fragments seemed to imply some kind of rules, forming a path under the feet of the art student.

As the path continued to extend, a huge vortex appeared in front of everyone. Lin Yi looked intently, and his vision extended. Soon he penetrated the vortex and saw a bizarre and mysterious path, which was surrounded by whirlpools...

"That's the path to 'layer transition'!" Lin Yi was excited, and finally discovered the secret of layer transition.

Sure enough, Yan Jinming and other veteran art students quickly led the art students into the vortex through the suspended debris road. The moment they passed through the vortex, their vision and cognition began to distort. The fragmented corridors suddenly became rough lines in their cognition, and the human figures were stretched into strange shapes. But it seemed based on some rules. Lin Yi, through Mao Feiyang's perspective, found that the person in front was distorted into a seaweed-like shape, but the texture of the clothes on the back still showed a certain "human appearance".

And this tiny bit of "human appearance" has become the only anchor for them to travel along this path.

Lin Yi looked around and saw that the passage was filled with unknown light sources. Countless light sources were independent of each other, each twisted into white lines, slowly spinning into endless spiral turbines.

"This is the path we took when we jumped through layers!"

Lin Yi naturally remembered that when Lao Mo took him to jump through the layers, through the forest of corpses and the returning sea tide, and headed to the art building layer, he had experienced such a scene on the way.

What was different from the art students was that Lao Mo even let him feel the changes in layers and taught him some theoretical knowledge about layer transitions.

It is based on this part of knowledge and a small part of practical skills that he can easily get the picture you see now.

Suddenly, Lin Yi had an idea.

“I remember now!”

"Back then, I saw a similar vortex deep in the Obsession Sculpture Corridor. I wondered if the existence of the vortex and the white light was related to the 'Starry Night', but I never thought about whether it was related to the layer transition!"

"Oh, what an idiot I am!"

But fortunately, he has faced it now, and it is not too late.

"It seems that the other end of this road is the Obsession Sculpture Corridor."

Lin Yi is now a person who has finished answering the questions and is waiting for the answers to be revealed.

After walking for a while, the surrounding whirlpools gradually disappeared, and the fragments of the mirror world gradually gathered together.

Lin Yi knew that this was a sign that the "layer transition" was about to end, just like a sin function passing the peak and starting to move closer to the X-axis.

Lin Yi watched as the world around him gradually returned to normal. The road under his feet gradually recovered from its distortion. The suspended stone slabs slowly returned to their original positions, becoming as if being eroded by nothingness, and then gradually returned to normal.

In the end, the art students passed through a portal with candlesticks on both sides and floating light mist, and arrived at the exit of a certain passage...

When passing the exit, Lin Yi felt a slight duct effect. As his vision changed and recovered, he saw at a glance some sculptures with strange postures standing on both sides of the corridor.

"Obsession sculpture..." Lin Yi nodded secretly. What was in front of him was indeed an obsession sculpture, which meant that this was indeed the Obsession Sculpture Corridor.

His answer is correct.

This corridor was filled with a rotten smell. The obsessive sculptures were curled up and praying, their faces full of despair and pain. Some of them were frozen in the action of grasping something, as if they were longing for some kind of salvation...

The only difference between this obsession sculpture corridor and the first time he entered it was that now all the obsession sculptures were still.

But even when it is still, the eerie aura emanating from its shape, face and limbs still makes the art students feel an unprecedented sense of oppression.

Walking through it, one feels like walking in an ancient cult temple with hideous murals, facing evil Buddhas and suffering monks everywhere.

Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to check the watch on his wrist, but he immediately stopped himself when he lowered his head.

He remembered that there was something wrong with the time in the Obsession Sculpture Corridor. The closer he got to the corridor full of whirlpools, the slower the flow of time, so he subconsciously wanted to check the time, but he suddenly remembered that his time was wrong.

The time on his watch was simply the time "when he was at a certain moment in the early morning of May 5th," not the time when Maozi was in the art building on the afternoon of May 11th.

If he wanted to know the exact time, he would have to check the time on the clock in the Art Building. He remembered that there was a timer outside the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, so maybe he could check it out after he left.

There are candlesticks in the corridor of obsession sculptures, but the light is still dim. The darkness spreads above the corridor like fog and tide, covering the obsession sculptures curled up in the walls and corners.

When he was deep in the corridor of the Sculpture of Obsession, he could feel a strong sense of expulsion, as if there was a strong will that was expelling them. At the same time, there was also a sense of uneasiness, as if he was being stared at by some unknown and terrifying creature, and felt like a thorn in his back.

As they left, the feeling of expulsion and uneasiness gradually faded.

He tried to infiltrate the portal deep in the corridor of the obsession sculpture with his will again, but when he penetrated through, what he saw was a dilapidated and messy corner of the interior. The path that the art students had taken had completely lost all traces of its existence.

Lin Yi realized that this passage itself did not seem to exist and would only appear at a specific time.

The team of art students soon arrived at the exit of the Obsession Sculpture Corridor. As the first art student walked away, the rest of the art students followed, and soon it was Mao Feiyang's turn.

After everyone had left the Obsession Sculpture Corridor, Yan Jinming's voice slowly rang out: "We have returned to the Art Building. Everyone line up and return to the classroom!"

"No need to be too nervous, we are safe for now."

After hearing Yan Jinming's words, there were sighs one after another among the art students, and many of them seemed to be relieved.

Lin Yi also immediately looked towards a certain place in the lobby of the Art Building.

In that direction, he vaguely remembered there was a large European pendulum clock full of classical atmosphere.

He found the clock and saw the time.

18: 23.

"18:23" Lin Yi thought back. He remembered that he went to the stadium "Dome" at around 16:40~16:50. The "feast" started at around 17:00. He was not sure how long it lasted because he spent too much energy repairing the city wall. When he woke up, it was almost 20:00. When he left, he met Lao Mo. At that time, it was about 20:30.

After that, he followed Lao Mo to the Art Building...

In other words, in the next two hours, the Art Building will change from its current calm state to a doomsday battlefield with howling winds and unstable layers.

He looked back at the lobby of the Art Building again, his eyes sweeping across the quiet hall to the dome.

But the next moment, he was stunned.

"Hey, where's that gap?"

He clearly remembered that at the layer level, there was a hideous gap on the dome, as if a hole had been opened in the lobby of the art building. But when he looked over there now, he found that the dome was intact and there was no gap at all.

He couldn't help but concentrate and look again, but no matter how he observed, the dome was intact at the layer level.

“What’s going on…?”

The hall today may not have changed much in the eyes of ordinary people, but in Lin Yi's eyes, there is a sense of impending storm and dark clouds pressing down on the city, ready to destroy it.

But at the same time, the weirdness is maximized, and the dome is intact.

If Lin Yi had not seen it wrong, then it must be because the dome's coating was intact before he and Lao Mo arrived at the Art Building on May 5!

In other words, the dome will be breached within 2 hours from now!

At this time, Yan Jinming gently patted Mao Feiyang and whispered, "Continue to follow the main group. Others will guide you back to the classroom. I have some other things to take care of, so I won't go with you."

"Just stay in the classroom until tomorrow. Generally speaking, there will be no danger."

Mao Feiyang nodded quickly: "Okay, Brother Yan."

"Go." Yan Jinming patted Mao Feiyang on the shoulder.

Lin Yi saw the worry on Yan Jinming's brow and thought about the situation two hours later. He guessed that Yan Jinming might also feel that a fierce battle was approaching.

Mao Feiyang didn't pay much attention to it. He turned around and walked into the exit.

After Mao Feiyang left, Yan Jinming sighed softly.

"I'm going to join the battle next. I hope you don't run around. Otherwise, if something goes wrong, I won't be able to explain to Brother Xian..."

At this moment, suddenly——

"Bang!"

The outer wall of the art building seemed to be hit by some force, and then the entire building began to shake "boom, boom, boom..." and the doors and windows began to shake "bang, bang, bang" as if they had encountered a low-altitude sonic boom.

Yan Jinming's expression suddenly changed: "Oh no! Why did it start so early?!"

"What's the difference between early and late?" Another veteran art student next to Yan Jinming said in a low voice, "After 18:00, any moment could be the beginning of an invasion."

"Everyone on alert! Yan Jinming, you guys go and escort the new students back to the classroom first, and everyone else! Get to your respective positions as quickly as possible!!"

"Okay!" Yan Jinming growled, speeding up to catch up with the team of freshmen art students including Mao Feiyang.

……

X023年5月9日，18:25，艺术楼走廊。

"call……"

A sudden gust of cold wind blew, and the flames of the candlesticks on both sides of the corridor flickered. The cast light stretched the shadows of some people long and distorted, like demons with bared fangs and claws.

"what!"

I don’t know which art student shouted first, but it immediately caused a commotion among the other art students.

In the panic, the originally neat team of art students suddenly became loose. Some art students accidentally stepped into the dark area that was not illuminated by the lights, and there was no movement the next moment.

(End of this chapter)