Chapter 385 The stairwell is a well
But Lin Yi wouldn't. He was wearing a watch and would look at the time on the watch from time to time.
Only three minutes away, he looked back at the iron door of the bell tower and found that the iron door was no longer visible. There was only a spiral staircase above the stairs that extended into the Fibonacci sequence, and at the end was the dark mist and darkness. The floating clouds of smoke look like the entrance to the abyss.
Below him, there is the same realm. Walking here, it is easy to feel a sense of loneliness that is isolated from the world, and a sense of fear that there is no end in sight.
He continued descending, glancing at the time on his watch every now and then.
According to Lao Mo and the night watchman, one hour is "theoretically" enough for him to start from here and arrive at the observation tower. According to his understanding of this road, it takes a total of 20 minutes from the observation tower to the bell tower. There are four stages, namely the stone bridge area, the art building lobby and cloister area, the gallery area, and the passage and stairwell area.
The Stone Bridge area and the Art Building area are both very short. It only takes about 10 minutes to complete the run. The most important areas are the stairwell and the gallery, but with all the calculations, 40 minutes is still very rich...< br>
"Don't be anxious, be calm, don't be anxious at all..." Lin Yi was a little impatient, but at this moment he had to convince himself that he was not in a hurry.
Suddenly, an illusive and transparent hand of a smiling angel poked out from the wall and grabbed Lin Yi's old kerosene lamp.
Lin Yi was startled, but he still dodged it like a reflex. When he dodged, he found that an extra bat had appeared in his hand, as if the wall was about to be sealed in the next moment. The paintings of the Laughing Angel were smashed together...
Lin Yi trembled, quickly dismissed the bat, and then recited a few words in his heart: "Don't do it, instinct... I am just a dormitory manager now, and I have to go back to the dormitory step by step, that's all... 》
Although I also know that I have become very powerful now, please keep a low profile.
He collected his thoughts and walked down quickly.
But as he walked, some untimely calls began to appear in his ears. He heard the sound of the rushing wind accompanied by the heavy rain constantly seeping through the cracks in the wall bricks. He also heard some rustling sounds, which didn't feel right. , but I can’t tell what’s wrong...
He instinctively felt a sense of discomfort, but he carefully observed that the stairs were indeed stairs...
He looked at his watch again. The time was 3:05.
It was probably 3:00 when he left the clock tower, or maybe 2:59. Generally speaking, this time is still very normal.
But his heart immediately became cold.
Because the time on the watch became sluggish, and it faintly stopped at 3:05 and 23 seconds.
"Hey..." He rubbed his temples, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Yao Mozi did appear, but the strange thing is why he was not surprised at all by the appearance of Yao Mozi!
Sure enough, has Shai Zai accepted the fact that he is bad?
"The time has not changed, which means that I am 'building a dream', and the depth of the dream is still deepening..." Lin Yi thought about it calmly.
Of course, it is not so much that he is brave as a talented artist, but rather that he has raised his fear threshold. These "little things" are no longer enough to make him panic, or in other words, things that can make him feel scared now. , has not appeared yet.
But just when he was comforting himself like this, a change that sent chills down his spine happened "as expected"...
The rustling wind in his ears turned into the sound of gurgling water at some point. The weak water seeping out of the cracks in the wall bricks also turned into wisps of water, which streaked across the wall. Dark green moss flows down into the completely invisible dark abyss below the stairwell...
When Lin Yi stared at the abyss, there seemed to be layers of mist floating in the abyss, as if the human faces were looking at Lin Yi.
"Wow..."
"Wow..."
"Wow..."
Below, there seems to be some sound of water...
There seems to be a breath floating in the air, salty, wet, rotten, dirty...
Lin Yi shuddered suddenly, he thought of it!
"Is it...that 'well'?!"
This layer is the layer where the well is located!
His vision, no, he did have a dream, and his consciousness ended up in that well somehow!
He looked at the surrounding walls and couldn't help but find that the walls had changed. What was around him was no longer the stairwell, but the inner wall of the deep well!
The walls of the well were covered with damp and sticky moss, and the low sound of waves surging at the bottom of the well, mixed with the breath of the sea breeze, was like the roar of some unknown giant, which made people tremble.
"Swish, swish... swish, swish..."
The walls of the well trembled slightly, and some black viscous liquid mixed with mud and sand squirmed upwards from the mist...
But this time, Lin Yi seemed to have noticed something. Those viscous liquid trajectories looked like the natural downward movement of some viscous liquid after gravity was reversed...
Like some kind of black, fishy, sticky... blood?
Is it blood?
That cold, terrifying, chilling feeling slowly eroded into his mind.
His ears were filled with the sound of the sea breeze whistling and echoing in the cave, the sound of the waves constantly lapping against the walls of the well, and the sound of the viscous liquid slowly squirming...
In these mixed, soul-crushing sounds, there seems to be a deeper flow of information that is slowly passed on...
That sound was long and ethereal, as if coming from the abyss. The strange syllables were hoarse, dry, and unpredictable, but when it fell on Lin Yi's ears, it seemed to be calling his name. ……
【......Lin......Yi......】
【......Lin Yi......】
"Wow...wow...wow..."
"Swish, swish... swish, swish..."
The sound kept coming, like some kind of call.
Lin Yi suddenly felt that the steps under his feet were loose. He looked down and found that there were no steps at all. He reached out to grab the void like a reflex, but he couldn't catch anything, and his body began to fall helplessly. Falling, falling towards the surging mist!
The mist below flowed slowly in the darkness, as thick as a ball of ink, as if it was alive and wanted to swallow him.
As he fell, the sound of the waves seemed to change, as if there was an invisible vortex hidden under the abyss of the ancient well, and a pair of invisible hands were stirring the vortex.
【...Lin Yi...you are back...】
【I...want to...】
【...I'll kill you...】
In the surging mist, intermittent voices came, as if they were calling his name and talking to him!
"哐哐哐——哐哐哐——"
Lin Yi's vision flashed rapidly, and his vision zoomed in on the floating mist at a speed that exceeded the speed of falling. He seemed to see the sea at the bottom of the well, and a large section of water emerged from the sea. Iron chains with black light.
A section of the chain was nailed into the inner wall of the deep well, and something unknown was locked at the other end, which extended into the sea water.
The entire iron chain was chiseled with mysterious mysterious patterns by a hammer, and some areas, such as the contact surface between the iron chain and the seawater, were already stained with rust. Under the turbulent waves, there seemed to be something surging, like a snake head, a tentacle, or something else...
That weird calling sound came from it.
【Lin...yi...】
【...take...me...away...】
【With...】
The gray mist surged more and more terrifyingly, like a huge face blending into the wind and sand. It was ferocious and evil, exuding a soul-depressing aura.
Lin Yi's mind trembled violently. His narrowed vision suddenly came out of the fog, and his brain suddenly became clear.
"I'm not Lin Yi, I'm not Lin Yi, I'm "House Manager-33-X0221119003"! ”
"I'm in the stairwell! I'm in the stairwell!"
He tried to hold on to the card from his dormitory manager, but he couldn't hold anything at all during "Building Dreams."
"That's right! Dream building... dreams can be traced back to the source!"
"As long as I go back, I can go back!"
He thought of the method taught to him by Night Watchman "02", and quickly felt the fluctuation of extraordinary power in the dream layer.
Although the original method of backtracking was to allow him to go back to the "Temple" through the fluctuations of the air waves, and now he cannot use the "Temple" as the point of retracement, don't forget that his watch can reflect The passage of time.
The closer to the surface dream layer, the more normal the flow of time, so as long as he finds that the hands on the watch are moving at a speed close to reality, it means that his consciousness is closer to reality.
This is the benefit of "anchor", which can help Lin Yi eliminate some wrong options.
Sure enough, as he retraced his steps, he quickly stopped his downward trend and began to float.
"It works! Good!"
When he saw the first results, Lin Yi felt happy at first, but then he immediately suppressed his joy and quickly went back.
Gradually, he found that the surrounding well walls became increasingly blurry, while the environment in the stairwell began to become clearer little by little.
The walls around him seemed to begin to split and repeat, turning from the walls of the well into the stairwell.
And he suddenly discovered that the source of his regression did not seem to have changed at all...
In other words, at this moment, he was on a certain step going down the stairs, but suddenly he seemed to be still, and his consciousness fell down.
If we go back, we will go back to that point.
After realizing this, he suddenly thought of another question:
"There should be a certain pattern in the sinking and rising of the layers... If my current situation is different from when I was in the bell tower, then in other words, my consciousness is not transmitted along with the fluctuations at all, but Just sinking here..."
These are two completely different situations. The one in the bell tower was when his consciousness followed the air waves of the "Temple" and shuttled through the layers of the art building. At this time, if Lin Yi's guess was correct, he The consciousness has not left, but the layer has changed!
This means——
"This stairwell...is a deep well?!"
The stairwell is a well.
When he first came to this inference, Lin Yi instantly felt his scalp numb, and his whole body was numb as if he had been electrocuted.
[The stairwell is a well], this initial impact on cognition is no less than when he first came to the inference [tomatoes are hearts].
"A deep well...is the unfolding of layers!"
"Like a dome to a city wall...?!"
"If I fall, will I really fall into the sea?"
As if to reward him for answering the question correctly, the surrounding temperature suddenly dropped, the surging mist turned white, and the walls that were originally well-divided also stopped changing, and fine frost covered the walls bit by bit. It spreads upward and makes a "click...click..." sound.
【Why...you...stopped...】
Lin Yi's ears heard a voice that made his hair stand on end.
His pupils shrank violently.
"This voice..."
"I...didn't I float?!"
His mind was shaken, and the corner of his eye slowly moved, and he suddenly found that his shoulder had been stained with a piece of viscous liquid at some point - the kind of stinking liquid that was spreading upwards on the inner wall of the deep well. Black viscous liquid!
"This...?!"
【......Lin Yi......】
【Take me...away...】
The deep voice was floating, very close, as if it was right next to his ear, and yet so far away, as if it were separated by thousands of mountains.
He didn't dare to look or follow the traces of the sound, but his perception expanded uncontrollably.
So he saw...
He saw the disintegrated wall, the deep well wall, and the moss intermittently connected between the layers like a spider web.
He saw the most terrifying scene - an iron chain appeared on his back, one end of the iron chain was connected to the inner wall of the deep well, and the other end of the iron chain was connected to his spine.
There was that smelly black viscous liquid flowing on his body. It wasn't that it spread to his body along the wall, but that his body was constantly secreting and infiltrating this black viscous liquid, and then the liquid flowed along the iron chain. It flowed to the well wall and seeped out little by little...
"How, how could this happen...?!"
"I...'I'...?!"
"What's going on?!"
【Let's go...why don't you go...】
The voice is still ringing, low and resentful, intermittent, rampant and crazy...
However, at this moment, Lin Yiqi also discovered that the voice was not a call drifting from a distant place, but a resentful whisper that echoed from his body, from his bones, like wind coming back from a hole. ……
"Crashing... crashing..."
Lin Yi's body trembled, the chains swayed, and the light flickered.
His heart was trembling, and his whole body seemed to be buried here. He could not understand and accept this scene at all.
(End of chapter)