Chapter 403 Fanatic Believer and Female Hostel
Gradually, a strange music came faintly from the depths of the mist. The sound was like a song coming from the other side of the sea, or like some fragments drifting from the depths of distant memory.
He walked involuntarily in the direction of the music, with a confused expectation in every step.
The music seemed like a thread, pulling him deeper and deeper into the edge of this dream.
His eyes began to become hollow, and the flickering expectation was gradually replaced by a kind of numbness.
He saw broken pictures unfolding and closing in front of his eyes. They were not his memory, nor the memory of "Dream Builder-HX-S-023". They seemed to be fragments of the painful experiences of some sinking people. , and those painful experiences turned into some kind of visual memories, like raging tides in the boundary where matter and time were lost, hitting him wave after wave, drowning him in the abyss of despair. .
He saw diseases, terror, weirdness, and even some evil things that could not be described in words, sneaking into this world of life like ghosts, swallowing up the original fresh power bit by bit...
Then the world began to decay, and its functions gradually stopped functioning like an aging machine...
His breathing became heavier unconsciously, as if he was also experiencing the painful process of life leading to death.
He could feel the heat of life slowly disappearing, and his consciousness was gradually shrouded in darkness, just like the last ray of light at sunset being mercilessly swallowed by the night...
At the edge of this dream, he witnessed the cold face of death. Death was no longer an abstract concept, but a kind of silence, an end, the disappearance of all sounds and colors...
"I tried to wake myself up, trying to tell myself that this was just a dream, but my consciousness seemed to be trapped in a solid cage, and I couldn't break out no matter how hard I struggled..."
"I shouted loudly, but my voice was swallowed up by the endless fog, without a trace of echo..."
"My body started to feel heavier and heavier..."
"The moment I was about to collapse completely, I saw a faint light. The light was like a beacon in the darkness. I used all my strength to crawl towards the light, and my fingers dug out lines on the illusory ground. Traces...However, the light is always distant, as if it is deliberately teasing me..."
"..."
He was immersed in this kind of despair, but at the end of despair, he seemed to see a new light, which rose from the ruins of death, like the embers of the soul rekindled...
That brilliance, like the afterglow of the sun and the ashes of angels, lingers in the blurred boundary between life and death at the boundary of dreams, like ice flowers that bloom and wither, gorgeous but weird...
"'Ashes'...?!"
"At the border of the dream, there are countless withering 'ashes'!"
Ashes are like dust, floating in the chaotic void, like eternal flowers that only fall in dreams.
Lin Yi continued to sink. The surrounding mist began to pour into his mouth and nose, and his breathing began to become difficult. He felt that his soul was being pulled away from the dream little by little, and his consciousness became more and more blurred...
"Dream Builder-HX-S-023"'s consciousness fell, but Lin Yi's did not. He felt that he was leaving...
"On the edge of the infinite dream, I constantly feel the reincarnation evolution of 'life' and 'death'... My reason has become chaotic and unclear, and I feel that I am being abandoned by the world..."
"I seem to have traveled through unspeakable dimensional spaces, until limited matter seems to have turned into infinity, and infinite time has turned into visual fragments..."
"No...everything has lost its form, matter and time have stopped evolving, and only infinite chaos remains..."
"There seems to be some kind of whispering sound in the chaos..."
"It's an aria..."
"It's Yanling..."
"Or it's just the sound of the snoring sound of some terrifying existence sleeping at the edge of the dreamland..."
"——"Moon-III" survey team, Gu Fangqing, "Dream Builder-HX-S-023"
XMarch 5, 2002"
……
X023, May 10, 4:42, on the first floor of the library, [Dreamology (Drmmelre)] sector.
Lin Yi leaned against an old bookshelf, holding a book in his hands and turning the pages dully. The gentle light fell on him through the glass of the lampshade, making him look like a sculpture from a distance.
The words on the book seemed to float in a misty light under such light, as if they had more meaning because of Lin Yi's caressing and flipping through them. The words were like symbols, rising and falling in the floating light, like It opens the door to another world.
As time goes by, the phantom in the floating light gradually takes on a terrifying color, and the portal of that world looks more and more like a whirlpool connecting to the abyss...
While Lin Yi was fascinated by the book, he didn't notice at all that some strange figures had gathered around him.
They stood upright like tombstones, surrounding Lin Yi. Some of their eyes were full of fanaticism, while others were empty and lifeless, but no matter which type they were, the corners of their mouths were very big, not as scary as grinning to the top of the ears. But it's also very abnormal.
They are very similar to the puppet sculptures, but the difference is that they wear dark green and somewhat shabby clothes.
That's what an art student wears.
But they are not art students.
They are art students transformed into fanatics.
They looked at Lin Yi at this moment, not as if they were looking at a person, but as if they were looking at an artifact or a work of art.
"What a perfect light...produced in the soul..."
"The living light..."
"This is the real...'creation'!!!"
"Too perfect..."
A fanatical believer approached Lin Yi and took a deep breath, as if he had inhaled some kind of stimulating breath. His brows relaxed and his face was full of joy.
"Every body is full of treasures..."
"Take him away..."
"We must take him away!"
"No! You can't take him away! If you take him away, he won't belong to us... We should eat him!"
"Yes! Eat it! Eat him now!"
"Everyone has a share in seeing each other. Let's eat everything and wipe it clean. No one knows what happened!"
"No! You can't eat here!"
"The noise will be loud...it will attract the administrator's attention!"
"Administrator...?! Yes! Administrator! Administrator!"
The mental state of fanatic believers fluctuates greatly, and some rational communication is only possible after they suppress themselves.
And these fanatics are different from the fanatics Lin Yi saw in the green forest belt. Compared with those fanatics, the ones in the library now seem to be abnormal...
Maybe I was cursed by knowledge, maybe I sunk in the ocean of knowledge and capsized...
As soon as the "librarian" was mentioned, the ferocious-looking fanatic believers around him all calmed down and seemed extremely fearful.
"Can't be discovered by the administrator... otherwise the delicious food you get will become the new administrator!!"
"Not only will it be noticed by the administrators, but also by the guys at the top!"
"Can't give them a chance!"
"He can only be eaten by us! Or..."
"It's better to let him join our ranks of "Glorious Evolution"! ”
"No, eat him! Eat him!"
The fanatics quarreled like a flock of sparrows, and different opinions began to divide, merge, divide, and merge again...
"Head, torso...delicious pancreas...heart...blood...I want them all!"
"We discovered him... he should be ours alone!"
"Wait until he sinks!" "When he sinks completely, we will lead him into a lightless area and eat him in pieces!!"
"Yes! Divide and eat!"
Their saliva seemed to be drooling, and their smelly breath seemed like they had been gargling their mouths with seawater soaked in dead fish and shrimps every day.
But at this moment, a figure carrying an old kerosene lamp slowly walked out from behind the bookshelf.
The female dormitory manager is here.
The appearance of the old kerosene lamp burned the eyes of the fanatics like dazzling sunlight, but it did not seem to cause any special damage to them.
The fanatical believers narrowed their eyes and dispersed in fear.
"'Housekeeper'?" A fanatic believer identified the female boarder.
"You shouldn't be here...the dormitory manager! You shouldn't be!"
"Get away! Get away!"
The female dormitory didn't seem to see them, or maybe she simply followed the "Library Rules" and chose to ignore them. She held up an old kerosene lamp and scanned the books on the bookshelf little by little, but did not take off any of them.
Finally, she broke through the crowd of fanatic believers who were dispersed by the light of the old kerosene lamp and came to Lin Yi's side.
She stopped next to Lin Yi, gently lowered the old kerosene lamp, letting its light envelope both herself and Lin Yi, and then pretended to read the title on the book cover on the bookshelf.
"We remember you... one day you no longer have the status of "House Manager", we won't even give you the opportunity to "glorious evolution"! "One of the fanatics issued a threat.
The female dormitory didn't respond to him. She gently brushed a certain book on the bookshelf with her slender, pale fingers, and murmured in her mouth the weird foreign language in the title of the book, but the pronunciation sounded like:
"[Scroll]."
The fanatical believers slowly retreated behind the bookshelf, their vicious, resentful and longing eyes constantly wandering between her and Lin Yi, reluctant to let go, but not daring to act rashly.
They are not as afraid of old kerosene lamps as nocturnal species and pseudo-human sculptures, but their lack of fear does not mean that old kerosene lamps will not harm them.
A blazing fire will not hurt you as long as you don't touch it.
"Wait for the buzzer!" the fanatics exchanged in low voices.
"The red light is flashing, she will definitely leave!"
"The lights in the dormitory are different from others...she can't last that long!"
"We wait, as long as the man doesn't wake up when she leaves, we can eat him!"
"How can it be so easy to break away from a book about building dreams?"
"Okay! Okay!"
"Keep it up...it's all ours! Keep it up!!"
"If it doesn't work, let's go to the upper level and call someone!"
"Get out! You can't go to the upper level!!"
"If you scream, we can only drink soup!!"
"Either have a great meal! Or, have nothing to eat at all!"
"Seeing those bastards at the top eating too much makes me feel worse than not being able to drink!!"
"Wait! Just wait for me!"
The fanatical believers were chattering non-stop, but a few still shrank and left the dream science sector.
"Damn traitor!!"
The fanatical believer cursed the guy who went to move the reinforcements, extremely fiercely, but did not stop him.
Because Lin Yi woke up.
"Pa..."
Lin Yi closed the book.
"——"Moon-III" survey team, Gu Fangqing, "Dream Builder-HX-S-023", March 5, X002..."
Those last words were lingering in his mind.
"Gu Fangqing..."Dream Builder-HX-S-023"..."
"XMarch 5, 2002..."
"X002..." He murmured to himself, turned his head, and suddenly found a leg beside him.
He was startled, almost thinking that there was a sculpture standing there, but he immediately realized that it was not the texture of a sculpture.
After all, the texture is somewhat flexible, and wearing those stockings has a special sensual feel under the light of an old kerosene lamp.
Just when he subconsciously wanted to test the authenticity of this leg.
"Don't even try to touch my legs, you perverted exhibitionist!"
A word floated above his head, and the familiar voice instantly cheered him up, who had not yet escaped from the book "Dream Border: The Cycle of Life and Death".
Lin Yi moved his legs like lightning, touched the bookshelf compartment next to his legs, and then stood up holding the bookshelf...
Lin Yi looked at his nose, arms and mind: "What are you talking about? I just held the bookshelf and stood up."
Having said that, I still feel a little guilty...
"Whether you hold the bookshelf or the legs, you know better than me." The female dormitory sneered.
Lin Yi didn't change his expression and silently put "Dream Border: The Cycle of Life and Death" back on the bookshelf.
"Hold the bookshelf."
"Tough talk!"
"Don't think that every man can't resist stockings. I'm a gentleman."
The hostess glanced at him with a look of disdain on her face: "A gentleman wouldn't run around in the middle of the night, and he wouldn't be able to distinguish the bare-leg socks I'm wearing. In this kind of light, not LSP can distinguish it." That’s weird.”
Lin Yi's expression changed slightly, but he couldn't believe it, this female dormitory manager was too careful!
He didn't expect that one day he would lose due to lack of detail!
"I would like to emphasize again, running away is not my original intention. If you knew what I went through, you would be surprised that I am still 'just' running away until now." Lin Yi said seriously.
"Have you experienced something more perverted... ah no, something more extreme?" The female dormitory opened her mouth wide, and her eyes changed slightly when she looked at Lin Yi.
Lin Yixin said something bad. He had only seen this look in Liangzi's eyes when he was looking at H and thinking about it.
This is when I met a heroine...
He silently swept up the books next to him, trying to see if he could read something before the red light came on.
He suddenly thought of something and looked down at his watch.
4:46.
The book just now... He read it for more than ten minutes.
The book was actually quite thick, and what he was reading was actually the dream-building narrative of the "Dream Builder-HX-S-023". Being immersed in the situation, it was normal to read it for more than ten minutes. Later, there were some academic, systematic, and professional things, and he didn't have time to look at them carefully.
"Do you still want to find books?" the hostess stopped him.
(End of chapter)