Chapter 561: The bells sound the signal of doom

Chapter 561: The bells sound the signal of doom

Chapter 561: The bells sound the signal of doom
"'Ta'? Which 'ta'?" Lin Yi felt a little panicked when he heard the pronunciation, "'Root'?"

"'Root'?" Tian Bufan smiled helplessly and said self-deprecatingly, "You overestimate yourself. The 'First Apostle' spent so many years exploring the Black Sea, but was unable to touch the 'Root'. How could we, a few newcomers, possibly attract the attention of 'Him'?"

"So what are you talking about?"

""Angel"."

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat: "The 'angel' who attacked the Art Building and was blocked by the night watchmen in the tsunami?"

"It is 'Him'," Tian Bufan nodded solemnly, "but there is one thing I need to correct you. 'Him' was not blocked by the Night Watchmen in the tsunami, but 'Him's' real body was not there. What you saw was just 'Him's' breath permeating over, and it manifested in the 'cognition' woven by the Night Watchmen and even the past apostles."

"For us, whether it's the 'Root' or the 'Angel', they are all things that are far beyond our reach, so sadly speaking, no matter what they are, for us, they are existences that will explode at the first sight."

"For a moth, as long as it is burned to death by flames, it doesn't matter whether it is a fire from a gas tank or a flame from a fighter jet."

The "root" is like a fighter jet, and the "angel" is like a gas tank, but no matter what it is, as long as it exceeds a certain threshold, it makes no difference to them.

"But, I don't understand." Lin Yi was a little unwilling and confused, "Why should we be noticed by 'Him'... Wait, is it that my memory problems are just to avoid the 'angel'?"

Tian Bufan looked at him meaningfully and asked, "What else?"

"Really?" Lin Yi didn't believe it. "Isn't our mission to get the principal's notebook? Why do you look at us and make us look like we are trying to avoid the angel's radar and carry explosives to blow up the Root?"

Lin Yi never thought about how he could be so worthy of being associated with an "angel"!
Stop it!

Tian Bufan pursed his lips: "It's just a safe move."

"And I can assure you that there is absolutely no such thing as 'asking you to carry explosives' in the plan."

"So that means 'one of us has to carry it'?" Lin Yi insisted.

Tian Bufan was speechless: "None of us will go, okay."

"But what we are going to do will definitely have something to do with 'Him'... Don't forget, the principal is out at sea, and we are going to get his notebook."

"And the 'Angel' guy has penetrated countless dimensions, and it is very likely that he has penetrated the present through our future selves."

"Don't think that the dream boundary belongs to one person."

"Countless dream builders weave the dream boundary together, just like a huge virtual network, and we appear in the dream boundary at different time points like coordinates. If you lose your memory, you will not have coordinates in the dream boundary, and even the "angels" of the future cannot penetrate."

“It’s an insurance policy.”

“And now it seems that the insurance is worth it.”

"Moreover, from the current situation, we can see that one of the reasons for the situation you are experiencing now may be that as you continue to 'adapt', your coordinates have been exposed to the dimension at the border of the dream."

"So the Gray Mist invasion escalated."

"The night watchman who also observed the abnormal fluctuations rang the 'bell of doom' as early as the day we entered the school, when Maozi arrived at the art building."

Tian Bufan spoke slowly, sorting out the logic behind everything, and Lin Yi was sweating profusely after hearing this: "The bell of Doomsday...! That's right, it was rung not long after Maozi arrived at the Art Building!"

"Compared to the angels, the night watchmen must be closer to the Maozi, so they can naturally sense some problems and give early warnings. This is very reasonable." Tian Bufan pondered, "In this way, everything makes sense."

"Besides, you must have done something big, otherwise the Angel wouldn't have come to snipe you in advance."

"But unfortunately, even if the art layer completely descended on the campus and covered reality, 'He' might not be able to find us, let alone in this situation."

Tian Bufan said self-deprecatingly: "It is actually very difficult to find a specific book on a bookshelf and tear out a specific page from it."

"Unless you just knock the bookshelf over."

Lin Yi was startled by Tian Bufan's words: "You'd better not say the last sentence, I'm a little scared."

"It's right to be afraid." Tian Bufan patted his shoulder, "Appropriate pressure will give you enough motivation."

"I think we should be careful about those things." Tian Bufan pointed outside the window.

Lin Yi immediately followed Tian Bufan's instructions and looked, only to see that at the boundary where the sky and the sea interacted and dissolved into each other, there was actually a twisted line in the spatial dimension.

The twisted line looks like an art student who has just started learning composition, using a rough charcoal pencil to casually draw a pattern on the spatial canvas.

On that twisted line, a smiling angel would emerge from time to time, and from time to time, a drop of black water would squeeze out.

After the eerily smiling angel appeared, it immediately landed on the campus and merged into the endless forest.

Compared to last night, the arrival of the Laughing Angels at this moment seemed much safer. During the infiltration process, the Laughing Angels did not suffer any harm. Unlike last night, most of them were crushed by the cracks in the layer, and only a very small number of Laughing Angels were able to sneak in safely.

This shows that the interaction between the art building layer and the campus layer has become stable to a certain extent.

"Are you talking about the Laughing Angel, or... that black teardrop-shaped thing?" Lin Yi frowned. This was not a good sign.

The stability of layer interaction means the emergence of round-trip paths.

But when the object of this round trip is not a "human", it means disaster is coming.

The Laughing Angel will pay a price much lighter than "death" to reach the campus, which will cause the Laughing Angel's injuries to increase exponentially on the campus. It is unknown whether their actions today will have an impact from quantitative change to qualitative change.

No one knows what the black liquid is, but one thing is certain, it is not a good thing that has seeped in from there.

"The Laughing Angel is nothing to be afraid of." Kuai Hongji suddenly came over and said coolly, "That black liquid is the dangerous thing."

"What on earth is that?" Lin Yi asked, "Hey, hey, hey, why did you leave?"

Kuai Hongji floated over like a ghost, said something, and then floated away, leaving Lin Yi speechless.

Tian Bufan took over the conversation and said, "It is a complex supernatural substance. The main component is the seawater from the Black Sea, mixed with some mud and sand, the remains of creatures that died in the Black Sea, and even some substances secreted by supernatural creatures..."

"In short, you know the taste of the sea after taking a bite."

Hearing this, Lin Yi had no intention of complaining about Tian Bufan's rare black humor. He just looked at the twisted line drawn in the thick clouds in the sky, his expression becoming more solemn.

The black droplets of matter squeezed out from the twisted line and dripped into reality. When they dripped, they did not break into water vapor as the height difference did with regular water drops, but fell in a cohesive state and then disappeared strangely into the air.

"No." Tian Bufan said suddenly.

"What?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, "What's wrong? What did you find?"

"Open the window again and have a look." Tian Bufan said.

"Open the window?" Lin Yi's heart moved. After being reminded by Tian Bufan, he seemed to have guessed something, so he pushed open the window.

However, no matter how you look at it, the view outside the window is still the same, except that the reflection of the artistic floor plan, the smiling angel, the lines and the black water droplets are missing.

"There's still no sun..." he muttered.

Wei Liang appeared out of nowhere and took another look: "It's a mountainous area. It's due to the geographical environment... It's normal to have clouds and fog!"

"Strictly speaking, the sun is there, but it is covered by clouds. I remember there is a very rigorous explanation for this astronomical phenomenon. What is it called..."

Wei Liang touched the bridge of his nose, looking as if he was thinking carefully.

"There is indeed a saying... You are worthy of being the Lord of Blessings Wei Liang!" Lin Yi looked stern.

"Oh, I remember now!" Wei Liang snapped his fingers, "It's called 'Cloudy'!"

"..." The stern look on Lin Yi's face collapsed, "Liangzi, I really want to stuff my slippers in your mouth."

Wei Liang quickly made an ugly refusal gesture: "I don't have your fetish, so I'd better decline."

"Ahhhh, I'm going to fight you!" Lin Yi was furious and was about to pounce on Wei Liang to fight him, but the bathroom door next to him was suddenly opened.

Wei Shan poked his head out and said, "You look so energetic, how about you two take over for a while?"

"Forget it, forget it. I'll leave the physical work to you. How can a skinny guy like me do it?" Wei Liang quickly shut his mouth when he heard Wei Shan's invitation. After smiling flatteringly twice, he shrank back to pack his backpack.

After observing for a while without any results, Lin Yi also turned his attention to the bathroom: "What's wrong with the bathroom?"

Wei Shan opened the door and showed the bathroom: "I don't know where some moss came from. Mr. Tian told me it was a bit weird and asked me to clean it up."

Lin Yi looked over quickly and found moss with very mottled signs of growth on the inner wall of the bathroom.

"Moss growing in the bathroom? Isn't moss formed when nocturnal plants are dried by sunlight? But... since the sun set yesterday, there has been no sunlight on the campus until now. How did the nocturnal plants die?"

"I don't know." Tian Bufan said, "But I guess they entered the bathroom through the drainage system in the dormitory... Otherwise, they alone would not be able to pass through the bathroom with the 'door attribute'."

"Then...how did they die?" Lin Yi fell into deep thought.

"There's no time to think about that." Tian Bufan said, "Let Wei Sang clean up first, then we should leave, it's getting late."

"Let's talk on the way."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi nodded silently, then went to pack his backpack.

"Why do you hide so many tomatoes in your bag?" Wei Liang looked at the tomatoes on the desk and picked one up to play with it.

"Are you not afraid of tomatoes now?" Lin Yi asked back.

Wei Liang curled his lips and threw the tomato to Lin Yi: "Who is afraid of vegetables and fruits? But I don't eat tomatoes, so I give it to you."

As he said this, he took out two umbrellas from the bottom of the locker and handed one to Lin Yi.

"I've almost packed your bag for you. Check it out for yourself to see if you're missing anything. Here, hold the umbrella. It might be useful."

Lin Yi took it silently, checked his backpack, and put the tomatoes on the table back one by one.

After he had almost finished cleaning up, he looked up at the pendulum clock on the wall and then checked his watch.

6: 32.

I left the dormitory a little later today than last time.

By the time Wei Shan had completely cleaned up the moss in the bathroom, it was already 6:40.

Everyone got ready to set off, opening the dormitory door while chatting and laughing.

But the next moment after their dormitory door was opened, the sounds of "click, click, click..." were heard one after another in the corridor of the dormitory building.

With their dormitory No. 1414 as the midpoint, the door handles of the dormitories on both sides were pressed down one by one, as if they had rehearsed in advance...

Lin Yi's expression changed slightly: "What's going on?"

"I know!" Tian Bufan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and he exclaimed, "Quick! Elevator! Let's go to the elevator first!!"

He didn't explain much and just led the charge.

The tacit understanding was fully demonstrated at this moment. None of Lin Yi and the others raised any objections. They all followed Tian Bufan out of the dormitory. Wei Liang, who left last, closed the door behind him. Then everyone ran along the corridor of the dormitory building and ran towards the direction of dormitory No. 1414 - the elevator room was next to dormitory No. 1401!

In the area near dormitory No. 1401, some doors in the corridor were opened. Several people who were about to leave were startled by the movement of Lin Yi and his group, and panic suddenly appeared on their faces.

Soon after, they discovered something unusual in other dormitories. All the door handles were pressed down, and were making "click, click, click..." sounds, as if something behind the door was violently opening it and trying to break out.

"Hurry up and follow us if you don't want to die!" Kuai Hongji's voice came from the front, startling these people. They quickly ran after Lin Yi and his group.

Lin Yi glanced at Kuai Hongji.

He knew that Kuai Hongji was not such a kind person.

At this time, Tian Bufan's voice rang in his ears: "Lao Lin, give me two tomatoes."

(End of this chapter)