Chapter 386 Extraordinary Creation, Sequence 101 "Ouroboros Ring"
At the critical moment, he saw something shining dimly in front of him.
The appearance of that brilliance faintly calmed the hesitation and panic in his heart.
He was stunned, subconsciously forgetting the fear caused by the iron chains and the black viscous liquid. He tried to look for the light, but found that the source of the light was right in front of him.
He opened his palms.
When he was dreaming, he couldn't see himself, but as the "palm" in his consciousness opened, a small snake appeared in front of him.
The snake was smelted from some unknown metal, and its eyes were inlaid with plaster-like gems. A layer of dark but colorful brilliance floated in this layer.
It opened its mouth and bit its tail, forming a ring the size of a thumb. A black-gold rope was tied to the ring, and now it was floating quietly in front of Lin Yi.
"Ouroboros Ring".
Almost subconsciously, Lin Yi knew what it was.
It must have been his body that opened the stone box containing the "Ouroboros Ring".
The Night Watchman said that the "Ouroboros Ring" can enhance his willpower when dreaming, allowing him to enter deeper layers of dreams.
As soon as the "Ouroboros Ring" appeared, the dark radiance was like cold fire, expelling the black viscous liquid attached to Lin Yi's body, and also caused the walls and well walls that were almost static to move again.
【...You will...come back...】
【I will...wait...for you...】
[Waiting for you...to come in person...please...me...]
【......Lin......】
【…different…】
The sound slowly faded away, but unlike the decisive disappearance of the "vision" in the past, this time it seemed to dissipate particularly slowly, as if someone was unwillingly twisting the volume control knob until it was completely silent.
When the sound completely disappeared, the changing walls around him finally completely replaced the well wall, and steps appeared under his feet...
He opened his eyes——
He had never closed his eyes, but he felt as if he had opened them at this moment.
He heard the faint sound of wind echoing in the stairwell, heard the sound of water seeping through the cracks in the bricks of the wall, and felt the slightly moist breath in the air. He reached out and touched the back.
Behind him is the backpack containing Lao Mo's heart and tomatoes.
He breathed a deep sigh of relief, and until this moment, he was finally sure that he was back to reality.
He glanced at his watch. The time was now 3:07.
But at the same time, he also felt what he was holding in his hands.
He turned around and opened his palm, and he saw the "Ouroboros Ring".
"I thought it was just an auxiliary tool, but I didn't expect to use it so quickly... and it happened to save my life." Looking at the "Ouroboros Ring" in his palm, Lin Yi felt lucky to have survived the disaster. .
Looking at the "Ouroboros Ring" in his hand, Lin Yi suddenly felt that it was very different from what he saw when he was building his dream.
Compared with the rough appearance in the dream, the main body of the ring in the hand is obviously much more refined. It is made of some kind of black-gold metal with built-in texture. It exudes a low-key and calm luster, as if it has been rubbed by time. Ancient treasure.
Its shape is not lifelike at all, it only has a rough line shape. It looks almost the same as the Tushan Longyu unearthed in China, but the overall style is smaller.
It connects end to end with no beginning or end, as if symbolizing an eternal cycle.
There are no scales on the surface of this "Ouroboros Ring", but it is engraved with countless secret patterns, large and small. It is magical. When these secret patterns are put together, they look very messy, but if you zoom out, If you look at it, you will find that they are virtual and real, and they just form the texture of the scales of the "Ouroboros Ring".
Its snake pupil was made of plaster-like material and looked like it was dotted with white paint. But when Lin Yi looked at the snake pupil, he felt a terrifying feeling of being glanced at at a certain moment.
There seemed to be a flash of golden light in the snake's eyes.
He was so frightened that his hand shook and he almost lost his grip on the ring.
He re-examined the "Ouroboros Ring" and had a strange feeling, as if the ring was a mysterious microscopic universe, and now it was quietly entrenched in the palm of his hand...
He shivered and quickly put it back into the stone box.
He originally wanted to put the stone box back into his backpack, but then he thought about it and put it in his pants pocket.
His school uniform was already in tatters, and the impact of the air wave almost annihilated his body. Naturally, the school uniform he was wearing was also destroyed. Now there are only some strips of cloth left, and many places are faintly X-rayed...
Nowadays, his school uniform is worse than a beggar's. It seems a bit luxurious to describe it as ragged. Fortunately, the pockets are still very strong, protecting his student ID card very well.
After packing up the "Ouroboros Ring", Lin Yi walked down some more steps, and then came to the corridor within a few steps and saw the closed iron door not far away.
He left the stairwell and stepped onto the flat stone floor.
Before leaving, he looked back at the steps that were still rotating downwards in a Fibonacci sequence, his brows slightly furrowed as he thought about everything.
"..."
But he didn't think any more and pushed open the iron door decisively.
I pushed it but couldn't move it.
He was stunned for a moment, then thought that the door opened from the inside, so he pulled the door.
"Zhiqua——"
Amidst a sharp metal friction sound that made one's teeth feel sour, the heavy iron door was pulled open by him.
The iron on the door clanked, and the quiet passage behind the door appeared in front of him, exactly the same as the way he came.
But out of caution, he still glanced at the back of the iron door, which was the side where the door was opened when he came in.
He saw the iron piece on the door. The iron piece hung quietly over there, as if the clanging sound just now was not caused by it.
There are secret patterns on the iron sheet that are extremely rusty, and the motto from "The Iron Law of the Night Watch" is written on it: "A tower without a bell shines brightly, and the sound is so loud that it shakes the world."
Lin Yi reached out and touched the iron piece.
"Ding..."
The familiar taste, the familiar formula, the familiar figure of the thin figure wielding a hammer and hammering the utensils appeared in my mind like a CG cutscene, and then the figure quickly disappeared. "The taste is very good...you are on the right track!"
Lin Yi stepped into the iron gate without hesitation.
Just when he was about to turn around and close the iron door, as soon as he turned around, a surging force rushed out, like a mud car made of air suddenly appeared, and hit him unexpectedly. body, knocking him over directly.
Lin Yi couldn't avoid it and was knocked to the ground. However, before he could react, the heavy iron door closed automatically.
The terrifying momentum was like catching a sword with bare hands. If he were still standing there, he would probably be shot to pieces.
"Boom!"
The iron door slammed shut, and the powerful impact even made the surrounding ground tremble.
Looking at such a door, Lin Yi couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded. What was even more dumbfounded was that he heard the rapid sound of wind behind the door. The wind was filled with moist water vapor and continuously penetrated from the cracks in the door, blowing to Lin Yi. The strange face was accompanied by the fishy smell...
This scene was exactly the same as when Lao Mo brought him to the door and opened the door.
Later, when he was walking down the stairs, he often felt the uncomfortable smell and the damp and cold water vapor. But when he thought about it carefully, he found that during the whole process of going down the stairs, he didn't seem to feel anything. I felt a similar scene.
He came to the iron gate and stretched out his hand to touch the iron gate personally.
The iron door seemed to be stationary, but in fact it was vibrating at a terrifying frequency. As soon as his palm touched it, the palm of his hand was already bloody and bloody. This was just because he had already been destroyed countless times by the air waves of the "Temple". times, so I have become accustomed to this kind of pain.
He felt the shattering and reorganization of the flesh and blood on his hands, felt the tearing and repairing of every inch of muscle fiber, as if he had captured a certain rhythm, the fluctuation caused by the howling wind blowing on the other side of the door...
He seemed to have realized something.
"Behind this door is not a stairwell, but...a well?!"
It's that well!
Isn't that bloody, dirty smell the smell of the well? !
The "screw theory" that Lao Mo told him suddenly appeared in his mind. The deep well and the stairwell were two screw rods moving with each other!
"This is the truth why Lao Mo worked so hard to open the door!"
"The door that Lao Mo opened is a field with the attribute of 'door', layer jump! Yes, layer jump! This is the feeling back then!!"
"Moreover, when I went to the clock tower, I walked 'downward' at first, but when I came back, I was still 'downward'!"
"The left hand side and the right hand side..."
"Interaction of layers..."
Lin Yi seemed to have caught some kind of inspiration. His eyes flickered, and a huge amount of calculations seemed to be happening in his mind.
But he immediately stopped the calculation.
"Not the time!"
"Now is not the time!"
He rationally suppressed his constant thoughts, then took out the note pad from his pocket, hurriedly opened a page, and wrote in scrawled handwriting:
"Screw...down..."
"The stairwell is a well..."
He simply memorized a few keywords, then immediately put the note pad away and stuffed it back into his trouser pocket. He reached into his backpack and grabbed two tomatoes. He gnawed on them while seizing the time to run towards the other end of the passage.
This passage is the only safe area in the whole journey. He can use it to replenish his own consumption and kill two tomatoes by the way.
As he gnawed on the tomato, he glanced at his hands.
The bloody palm that was shaken by the iron gate has now recovered to its original state.
Looking at such hands, he suddenly felt a little strange.
"I...I'm used to that kind of pain from time to time?"
How strange...
How could a person easily get used to the pain of recovering from a serious physical injury?
Lin Yi himself felt a little ridiculous.
Recalling the scene when he was washed away by the air waves of the "Temple" and only a skeleton was left, he realized that he relied on some strange will and instinct to persevere, but now when he looked back, he realized Found completely unreasonable.
How can people still live when their flesh and blood are gone?
Is the power of will really so powerful?
Or...
"The changes that have taken place in my body make me look less and less like a 'human' person?"
He shook his head helplessly, and found that he had unknowingly upgraded from accepting that he was "different from ordinary people" to accepting that he was "different from ordinary people."
He quickly shook his head. In this regard, for some reason, he didn't dare to think about it...
He has already acquiesced that there is something wrong with his memory. If you tell him now that there is something wrong with him, he feels that his cognitive span cannot catch up...
He suppressed these thoughts, but as soon as he suppressed this thought, another thought came up, so he could only think while running: "But speaking of that deep well, '02' said that the 'original apostle' was buried there. Part of it... Could it be that the one who pulled me just now is the one buried?"
"Mage Ji" killed several of the "original apostles" and then buried their bodies everywhere in the Black Moon Outpost. Coupled with what he had just experienced, it was difficult to associate these things together.
Thinking about it, he thought he had been successfully ascending, but in fact, the pollution emanating from the "corpse" penetrated the layers and affected his cognition, and he passively entered the "dream-building" state.
Even the vision he had just now was most likely because he imagined something locked after seeing the chain hanging down into the sea, and then that scene was substituted into his dream. On to myself.
Living people will continue to absorb pollution, let alone unconscious dead things.
"As long as you are within the range of extraordinary power, you will continue to be polluted..." Lin Yi sighed and muttered in a self-deprecating tone, "Hey... I don't know what it will be like after these seven days... …”
"There are only the last three days, I hope nothing bad will happen..."
Lin Yi thought of the fantasy novels he had read by a certain Emperor Chentian. There were often plots in which the body of a powerful creature underwent various changes after death, and then its intelligence reopened, and then the territory became a restricted area. Could it be that the "corpse" in the deep well also underwent similar changes?
"Did the 'corpse' really mutate...and then because of some special mechanism, such as the characteristics of the iron chain or some characteristics of the Black Moon Outpost, or maybe the 'Mage' buried it? There is some kind of restriction set by it, so it can't leave, so you should save it by constantly calling the creatures it perceives?"
This speculation gave Lin Yi an inexplicably familiar feeling. Then he thought about it, wasn't this how the "Exiled Mage" who was "exiled by time" called the Dream Builder?
"This Black Moon Outpost and Art Building... are really scary."
A building built before the birth of human civilization may look like nothing at ordinary times, but when you pass by its rich heritage and deep dark history, it really makes people feel a rush. Feeling of suffocation.
(End of chapter)