Chapter 398 Arriving at the Library
It’s past 4 o’clock on campus, and the elevator entrance of the teaching building is dark. When there is no light, the puppet students appear in the state of sculptures.
And when the light of the old kerosene lamp fell on them, their light-facing surfaces emitted white smoke as if they were placed on a barbecue grill, and transformed into the pseudo-human classmates. However, perhaps the light of the old kerosene lamp was too strong for them, and their somewhat "corporeal" bodies immediately began to "wash" off a lot of white powder particles.
At the same time, the dummy sculptures made low-pitched noises like cows, and instinctively covered their eyes with their hands, as if hoping not to be shined.
They pushed back, but were pushed back by the unknown puppet sculptures behind them. After a few breaths, they turned into sculptures without any breath.
The light spread out and the dummy sculptures around the elevator were directly killed.
Lin Yi suddenly remembered that when he was in the dream, he had used Mao Zi's perspective to see the puppet sculptures coming out of the classroom one after another around 4 a.m., and then lining up along the corridor towards the stairs. On the other side of the room, when I looked again, I saw that they were actually running over to take the elevator!
"Wait...4 o'clock!"
[Be sure to take the elevator and leave the art building before 4 o'clock, otherwise you will have to wait until the next day. 】
Lao Mo's words also appeared in his mind.
4 o'clock, does this time point correspond to the dummy sculpture leaving the teaching building?
Lin Yi initially thought that the puppet sculptures would leave the campus through the green forest and pursue the art building. But now it seems that they will leave collectively through the elevator at 4 o'clock and wait until they can't leave. When the time comes, he will choose to escape to the green forest belt.
"Is this the reason why you don't take the elevator after 4 o'clock?"
"Or...are there more other reasons?"
If it was just for this reason, then he could have just exited the elevator in the teaching building. Why did Old Merter emphasize that he had to go to the library?
Isn't this the normal "layer" of the campus?
He seemed to have guessed some reasons.
After all, if it were just a dummy sculpture, then he would be fine as long as he had an old kerosene lamp. Even without the old kerosene lamp, with his physical strength, he could be like Mu Daxian and Maozi parkouring in the teaching building. , it can still take until the sun comes out at six o'clock.
"Is it... related to that conceptual sculpture?"
As if there was a connection between the two minds, just when Lin Yi thought of this, a strange light came from the unknown void, exuding a colorful color beyond ordinary people's perception, so gorgeous that it made people feel fascinated...
Somewhere in the teaching building, a floating light group that was wandering irregularly suddenly felt something, and then floated towards Building B of the teaching building.
There was a vague figure inside the light ball. Lin Yi's perception could only detect that it looked like the outline of a "person". Other than that, there was nothingness, except that outside its outline, it seemed to be floating. There was something familiar to Lin Yi - "ashes".
"It's...a conceptual sculpture!!"
Sensing the approach of the conceptual sculpture, Lin Yi used his muscle memory to touch the button panel and frantically pressed the only button - the "↓" key.
Finally, just when the hazy ball of light was about to appear in front of the elevator, the elevator trembled slightly, and then closed with a series of "clang" sounds.
The elevator started slowly.
Sensing the departure of the elevator, Lin Yi breathed a long sigh of relief and sat limply on the ground.
He hadn't had this feeling of life and death at an extremely fast speed for a long time, and he was sweating profusely.
The sense of oppression that the conceptual sculpture gave him did not decrease at all because of his deepening of knowledge. On the contrary, after he came back from the art building, his understanding of the conceptual sculpture also deepened because his understanding had deepened. .
Its terror is introverted. The ball of light and the colorful colors are just its self-protection. It lurks in the campus and seems to have an unknown purpose.
"Wait..." Lin Yi was suddenly startled, "That ball of light... is it a conceptual sculpture?"
"Doesn't that mean that Mu Daxian was so enthusiastic back then that he wanted to take a look at it even if he died? It was this conceptual sculpture?"
"Then..." Lin Yi rested and thought quickly. "The person who expelled the conceptual sculpture is the so-called canteen owner who returned after disappearing...?"
Everything seems to be falling into place!
But Lin Yi always felt that there seemed to be something missing here.
The canteen owner seemed to have returned in the early morning of May 8th, but this conceptual sculpture was already wandering around the campus on the evening of May 6th...
That’s right!
It's "Ashes"!
This conceptual sculpture is stained with "ashes"!
And "Ashes"...that's something only "Angels" have!
"It's because 'Ashes' belongs to 'Angel', that's why the original teacher thought it was 'Angel'!"
It can be seen that class teacher-039 must have established relevant knowledge when receiving official training. Because of this, she can confirm the "identity" of the other party.
"Then here's the question... According to the teacher, she was also fighting on the night of the 6th, and the conceptual sculpture entered the classroom because she didn't stop her..."
"How did she stop it?"
It's not that Lin Yi looks down on the head teacher-039, but the owner of the canteen only expelled that thing when he came. How could he do it with the power of a "head teacher"?
Moreover, it seems that the security guard also took it out of the classroom...?
Lin Yi was a little confused. The combat power of this concept-level sculpture seemed to be a mystery. Could it be an anti-Sha Seng? The combat power was a mystery, and he became weak when he was weak.
"Perhaps it is not reflected in the intuitive performance of combat power...perhaps it is because of the very high level of pollution it carries?"
This is possible, after all, it is "Ashes". When the boss comes, he will drink a pot, let alone others.
Looking at it this way, it is very likely that Homeroom Teacher-039 was contaminated by ashes, and the food delivered from the cafeteria was not the root cause.
The elevator continued to run, and Lin Yi continued to think.
He thought that maybe the existence of that conceptual sculpture was the reason why Lao Mo didn't want him to appear in the teaching building.
That thing is much more difficult to deal with than the Laughing Angel. If it is targeted, it may not be of any use to shout the commandments from the vibranium mouth until you are dumb.
The female hostel looked at the elevator door with lingering fear, patted her chest gently, and exhaled: "It scares me to death... It's so scary every time... The teaching building is really dangerous at night..."
She secretly glanced at Lin Yi and found that Lin Yi was also sweating profusely and felt much more mentally balanced.
"Senior, are you weak?"
"Ahem..." Lin Yi stood up holding the inner wall of the elevator and corrected, "Strictly speaking, I'm just a little tired, so I took a rest. Damn, it's a good thing I slammed the elevator shut, otherwise I would have been squeezed in by that thing. We are both done.”
"What the hell?" The hostess was slightly startled.
"That ball of light, didn't you see it?" Lin Yi asked. The face of the female hostess changed: "Senior...you, did you look outside just now?"
"Gah...?" Lin Yi was startled and thought to himself that something was not right. There seemed to be some explanation. Could it be that the "House Management Code" stipulates that when staying in the teaching building, you need to do this, and then you are not allowed to look outside?
In order to protect cognition, this is entirely possible.
But the dormitory manager is like that, do we still need to protect our cognition?
Lin Yi thought briefly, and then spoke: "Be patient. My senior told me that after I understand the underlying logic of the code, I can be flexible to a certain extent. You haven't reached this level yet. It takes effort!”
"Ouch..." The female dormitory opened her mouth, and then whispered, "I don't want to be a dormitory, I must leave the campus..."
"Come on, you can definitely do it." Lin Yida said.
The female dormitory pursed her lips and said nothing, okay? She actually already knew something about it, but she was just not willing to accept it.
There was silence for a while, and then the elevator began to slow down again.
When the elevator came to a stop, Lin Yi quickly locked his eyes on the floor panel and gradually became nervous.
But don’t let anything happen again...
"Ding!"
A voice sounded, and words popped up on the floor panel:
「Library-1F」
"The library is here!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly took out the dormitory manager's name tag from his trouser pocket and threw it away. At the same time, he grabbed his student ID card in his hand, and grabbed his face with the other hand. The sky-blue aura surged on his hand and quickly evaporated, turning his appearance into a milky-white gelatinous substance called "House Manager-0X0221119003".
"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I took the elevator to the library..."
"I am Lin Yi, my student ID is..."
He re-anchored his identity in his mind over and over again. The gelatin on his face quickly petrified, then turned into powder and shook it off, as if rubbing a lot of dead skin off his face. .
And his appearance also returned to his own appearance.
He knew that time was short, so he wiped it quickly.
The female hostess was frightened by Lin Yi's actions. She looked at this senior who suddenly behaved strangely in horror. As soon as the elevator door opened, she quickly led the boy out of the elevator.
Lin Yi wiped it for a while, until the elevator began to close. Regardless of the fact that he still had some white gelatin that he had not yet completely eliminated, he quickly threw the old kerosene lamp into the corner of the elevator, and then rushed out with a diving jump holding his backpack. go out.
As soon as I rushed out, the elevator door closed.
Lin Yi glanced at the elevator behind him and saw the sign on the side of the elevator saying: "Library-Forbidden-056"
He stared at the word "forbidden", frowning, thoughtfully.
He got up from the ground, then took off the pair of worn sneakers with holes in his toes, took out the clean pair of sneakers from his backpack and put them on.
Wei Liang specifically asked him to put these sneakers in on the morning of the 9th. Unexpectedly, they finally came in handy at this time.
"Hey!" Lin Yi was surprised and almost forgot that there was food and water in this schoolbag.
He quickly took out a roll of bread and a bottle of water, then put his bag on his back and moved Lao Mo's bag that he had kept on his chest before.
While he was eating, he looked at the environment of the library.
However, he just looked out and his whole body stood frozen in shock.
"This...is this the technology that should be available in this era?!"
What Lin Yi was facing now was a science fiction creation that far exceeded his understanding of existing technology!
This is a building that can only be seen in science fiction movies, very similar to the one the hero saw in "Interstellar" when he returned to the Murphy Space Station at the end.
What appeared in front of him was a huge curved building, with countless bookshelves growing on the curved surface like hair. They withstood each other's gravitational pull from different directions but all perpendicular to the ground below.
He was like an ant entering the interior of a huge sphere covered with bookshelves. If he kept walking along the straight line in front, he could reach the bookshelf area above his head!
On this curved surface, no, spherical building, there are still many circular holes. Through the holes, Lin Yi saw the world on the lower level. The lower level... turned out to be similar to this level.
And in that hollow, there is actually... a staircase!
At this moment, the long-lost content of the "Student Code" appeared in his mind:
[You can only take the stairs to go up and down the teaching building, and you can only take the elevator in the library. If you see an elevator in the teaching building or stairs in the library, please pretend you didn't see it, even if you see some students using them. 】
[When a classmate invites you to take the elevator in the teaching building or advises you to take the stairs in the library, please ignore them and stay away from them immediately. They are not your classmates. 】
In the "Student Code of Conduct", the summary of the library is as simple as "the library can only take the elevator." But I didn't expect that the library would be like this!
He suddenly felt that the student code was more reasonable than ever before, but when it was reflected on the actual situation, it turned out to be so absurd and weird.
Who would have thought that the floors of this library are actually shaped like concentric circles, one layer inside another?
This is simply an ivory multi-layered carved ball set!
What is outrageous is that in this "ivory multi-layered carved ball set", the gravity distribution of each one is so uniform and incredible.
This is not the level of technology that X023 should have at all!
Lin Yi had already thought it was outrageous when he saw the exoskeleton armor before, but now that he saw this library, he suddenly felt that the exoskeleton armor was just childish.
"This...how was this built?"
Lin Yi was shocked and dumbfounded, but compared to the strange scene that occupied his heart when he saw the art building, he was more shocked now, as if he had traveled through a science fiction movie.
There is no fear, and there is no collapse of cognition. Perhaps boys' romance with science fiction dilutes the weirdness caused by irrationality?
Lin Yi didn't know, but at least he didn't feel weird.
At this moment, an exclamation interrupted his initial recognition and observation of the library's environment.
"Ah——"
(End of chapter)