Chapter 559 [Why not follow us through the fog and chase the light]
Chapter 559 [Why not follow us... Chasing the light through the fog...]
Today, on the afternoon of May 5, he built a "puppet" and "placed" it on the 10th floor of Building C of the teaching building. When the construction was completed, he found that Zhao Lingxiao was looking at him, or at something else. In short, she was looking at herself so much that she fell off the layer.
If he had intervened forcefully at that time, he might have had a chance to save her, but he chose not to waste that energy.
But he didn't know why he didn't save Zhao Lingxiao and let her enter his dream.
Come on, I'm dreaming, even the boss hasn't dreamed of it, what gives you the right? !
Lin Yi was unwilling to give in.
But the next moment, he intervened here from his vision, as if he had passed through a layer of bubbles and appeared in this perspective...
He seemed to have a God's perspective, floating here, quietly looking down at Zhao Lingxiao.
He saw ripples appearing in the world again, and every time a ripple spread out, another picture began to appear in his field of vision.
These two images are like the surface and bottom layer of a glass bridge. Whenever the ripples spread, the image changes, the surface disappears, and the bottom layer can be observed.
The surface and the bottom layers are generally similar, the only difference is Zhao Lingxiao.
The Zhao Lingxiao shown in the picture at the bottom was not slumped over there, but was crawling on the ground with difficulty.
She seemed very tired, breathing heavily as she crawled towards the place where he had built the puppet.
Zhao Lingxiao looked like he was sick.
Very ill.
She seemed to have lost her sight, and was crawling forward bit by bit, relying only on her sense of touch and the rough bricks and stones with her hands.
She used so much force with her hands that her fingers were quickly rubbed raw, becoming bloody and covered in dust and dirt, which made Lin Yi subconsciously feel uncomfortable.
But Zhao Lingxiao seemed to feel no pain at all, and he groped forward mechanically and numbly.
Zhao Lingxiao's eyes became more and more distracted, and her pupils began to dilate gradually. When her pupils dilated to a certain extent, they began to become very dim. Finally, the black part of the eyeball became less and less, and the white part occupied more and more area, making her look like a dull human sculpture.
Lin Yi saw her lips moving, and when he focused his attention on her, his hearing caught her voice.
She kept mumbling: "Where...where..."
The voice was hoarse and rapid, and it made people feel that their throats became very dry and uncomfortable.
Gradually, Lin Yi discovered that Zhao Lingxiao groped and crawled in front of "him" - to below "his" current perspective.
"this……!"
Zhao Lingxiao's breathing suddenly became rapid. She raised her head abruptly, and her gray eyes, whose pupils could not be seen, actually looked straight at Lin Yi!
"Here! Found it! Found it!!"
Lin Yi was startled and looked around again and again, but found that there was no one here except "him"!
“This…? What…?!”
"She can see me?!"
"How did she see me?!"
He tentatively moved to the side, but unexpectedly Zhao Lingxiao groped his way through the gaps in the bricks and stones and slowly found his position.
"Can she really see me?"
"What's going on?" Lin Yi's scalp tingled, but an idea suddenly occurred to him, "Did I accidentally penetrate the boundary of the dream?"
"But even if it's the border of a dream, there still needs to be a perspective, right? Where does this perspective come from?"
Flying Thunder God should at least have a mark!
What is his mark?
and many more……
Could it be...? !
That pool of material that was removed when the "puppet" was constructed?
But didn't that pool of stuff disappear long ago? !
His eyes focused, and "Visual Insight" was activated on the spot. Then, he really found some remnants of extraordinary power in the cracks of the bricks and stones after the "Burial Roots" were cut into pieces. Zhao Lingxiao was obviously licking those remaining traces and traced his current location little by little.
His perspective "mark" also seems to be here.
Zhao Lingxiao's fingers scraped faster and faster on the ground, and the blood from her fingertips began to seep into the bricks and stones below, merging with the dust and ashes that still contained some extraordinary power, and slowly entered her body...
The next moment, under Lin Yi's shocked gaze, she began to lick the residue on the ground like a dog. While licking, she crawled forward. The originally loose school uniform was stretched into a certain curve that fits her body due to the changes in her body, making her look both graceful and evil.
Sometimes she looked in pain, and sometimes she looked almost crazy, as if she was terminally ill.
"More... I need more..."
She devoured it greedily, gobbling it up in no time.
The remnants of the "burial roots" here are not even scraps, they are all the dregs left over by Lin Yi. However, to Zhao Lingxiao, they are as sweet as can be, as if they are the most delicious food in the world.
In Lin Yi's field of vision, these residues had already been turned into petrified sculpture fragments by the sunlight, with only some scattered dust left that had not been blown away by the wind.
Zhao Lingxiao captured these dregs and ate them frantically.
She greedily sucked on these extraordinary substances that had almost lost their properties, and the fanaticism in her eyes was almost insane.
“Delicious… So delicious…”
Looking at Zhao Lingxiao's appearance, Lin Yi's face was full of speechlessness, unable to say anything. At this moment, Zhao Lingxiao was almost the same as a nocturnal creature, even crazier and more perverted.
But for some reason, or perhaps because Zhao Lingxiao's madness had something to do with him, he didn't find Zhao Lingxiao's appearance disgusting. Instead, he felt that she looked a little... weird and weird... "pious".
But it's not right...
The logic is wrong...
"The dregs of the 'Burial Body Root System' that Zhao Lingxiao devoured, it doesn't seem to have much to do with me, right?"
Lin Yi was a little confused.
"Could it be that... Zhao Lingxiao essentially 'ate the food I cooked' instead of 'eating the food from the field'?"
Because it has been "cooked", this "dish" has the flavor of the chef. In essence, it is the chef's dish, not raw vegetables.
This is the only explanation. Lin Yi thought to himself, but couldn't help but sigh.
He always thought that Jin Jiuyao was the first unlucky bastard to be corrupted by him, but he didn't expect that Zhao Lingxiao was before Jin Jiuyao.
"Hey... why are you doing this?" He sighed silently, "I really should write the sentence 'Those who chase the light in the fog will eventually become illusions' in the textbooks..."
At this moment, he discovered that a hazy light began to float on Zhao Lingxiao's body. In that mist of light, green, blue, and some gray and mixed lights were all filled together, interweaving there like a net.
Then, the light fog seemed to be affected by him, and began to form some ancient text symbols in the distortion. Originally, those text symbols were extremely fuzzy, and even had some outlines. However, as Lin Yi understood, learned and mastered the commandments, those fuzzy text symbols became clear, and the sentence was nothing else but "Those who chase light in the fog will eventually become illusions" -
"De som jager lyset i tke blir til slutt fantomer."
When this warning appeared, Zhao Lingxiao's body began to tremble with excitement. He raised his hands and faced him, his voice trembling wildly with excitement: "I saw it... I saw it...!!!"
"The secret pattern of the starry sky...!"
"reality!"
"The real secret pattern!!!"
She seemed to have seen something, like a devout believer who had caught a glimpse of God, and her eyes became moist.
"Teacher... I finally saw... the secret of the world..."
As Zhao Lingxiao "awoke", her gray eyes gradually recovered. They first showed golden vertical pupils like a beast, and then after a few blinks, they turned into normal human pupils.
But for some reason, at this moment, Zhao Lingxiao's vision seemed to penetrate the secret patterns of the commandments and the layers in a trance, and he vaguely saw... Lin Yi in the state of boundary of dreams.
"You...you are...the shadow of the god...who depicts the secret pattern?"
Zhao Lingxiao opened his mouth wide.
“No…you…you are…you are…?!”
Seeing that he was about to be recognized, Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat and he quickly ran away.
If he still thinks that he has not penetrated the boundary of dreams at this moment, then his IQ is problematic. He also knows clearly that once he penetrates the boundary of dreams, it will definitely have some impact on the "past" that has already happened. This impact can be big or small, but the flapping of butterfly wings can still cause an effect. How big an impact a ripple outside the plan can have is really too difficult to control.
So he quickly fled out.
It happened in a flash. As soon as Lin Yi had a thought, he disappeared from the spot with a "pop".
And in Zhao Lingxiao's vision, his illusory outline disappeared in an instant, as if blown away by the wind.
Zhao Lingxiao widened his eyes. It seemed that Lin Yi's "shadow" was still lingering on his retina. The light on her body began to grow stronger, and then quickly dissipated, like a flash in the pan.
When all the light faded, the ripples of the layer also faded. Under the fluctuations of the layer, the hideous and disheveled Zhao Lingxiao with worn fingers and bleeding nails disappeared. In his place was a calm and helpless girl-like Zhao Lingxiao who sat on the ground.
Soon, her eyesight recovered and she even looked energetic, as if she was reborn.
"I...I just...what happened?"
She looked at herself in a daze, then looked around. Her memory was very fragmented at the moment, and she had a vague recollection of her state under the fluctuation of the layer.
She sat there, and gradually, she heard something in her ears...
【Hehehe…Hehehe…】
A series of ethereal and strange laughter came from somewhere and fell into her ears.
The voice seemed to be singing some kind of song, and there were also some "clang clang clang" sounds from the shaking and rubbing of iron chains, as if they were keeping the beat for the eerie and empty laughter.
[Life is like a dream... it's all in vain...]
[Why not follow us... Chasing the light through the fog...]
【Hey hey hey...】
【Hee hee hee……】
【Follow us...】
[He will come and take us away...]
[He is coming...]
[He has come...]
[You are so lucky...]
[Don’t be like us…]
[Waiting until... the time of withering...]
【Hee hee hee……】
【Hee hee hee……】
Such a voice did not make Zhao Lingxiao feel at ease. On the contrary, it made her feel boundless fear and panic. She looked around but could not find the source of the voice no matter what.
Her eyes were filled with fear.
But suddenly her scalp felt tingling, and then she raised her head as if by telepathy.
She saw... "her".
A broken sculpture was hung upside down above her head, tied with iron chains. The end of the chain extended into the dark dome and no trace could be seen clearly.
Although the head of the broken sculpture was incomplete, one could vaguely tell that it was "her".
Zhao Lingxiao touched his face in horror, but the moment his fingers touched his cheek, he moved away as if he had been electrocuted.
Her face...her face had become featureless!
She turned into a faceless person!
[Hehehe…hahahaha…]
The broken sculpture dangled upside down above her head, swinging its chains and emitting an indecipherable laugh.
Zhao Lingxiao felt as if struck by lightning, but he still touched his face again in disbelief.
This time, she touched her facial features again.
But the broken sculpture disappeared.
The ethereal laughter and the sound of the chains swinging also disappeared, as if they had never appeared.
But Zhao Lingxiao broke out in a cold sweat. She touched her face again, making sure that her appearance was still there, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
At this moment, perhaps influenced by the broken sculpture, her mind began to reappear memories of the chaotic layers...
"Lin Yi...is it him...?"
She seemed to remember everything. She subconsciously felt her body and could even sense an extremely subtle scent of...ashes coming from Lin Yi.
She tried hard to recall the broken starry sky and the secret patterns, and in a trance, she actually felt a familiar smell in the secret patterns.
She took off her glasses, wiped them and put them back on her nose. Behind the lenses, a hint of fanaticism emerged in her deep eyes.
She licked the corner of her mouth and narrowed her eyes:
“Lin Yi…Lin Yi…”
"You smell... so good..."
(End of this chapter)