Chapter 169 The Disturbing Street Light Pole (600 words added)
Probably because his awareness has reached this level, Lin Yi, who is leaning against the street light pole, has vaguely sensed their existence. , these dirty things moved obediently in the darkness, only daring to linger in the darkness, like a school of fish looking up at the blue sky but not daring to approach the water, but the inexplicable greed and desire revealed in their eyes were far away. The distance is greater than the color of fear...
They are afraid of the light, they are close to the light, they wander in the fog, constantly driving away the fog, eating away at the power of the light...
"21 When :00 arrived, there were no security guards left, and there was no time to delay.”
Lin Yi looked at the area that had been flooded by fog at the boundary between light and darkness, and saw that part of the cobblestone road had been damaged by the rain. Distorted by the effects of layers.
In the mist, there seemed to be an invisible pressure slowly exerting on him.
He didn’t know if other experiencers had encountered any difficulties now, but it was obvious that the abnormal weather this time was far from as simple as imagined.
"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock..."
Time passed by seconds, Lin Yi breathed while staring closely at the quartz watch on his wrist.
20:59:02……30……50……
20:59:57, 20:59:58, 20:59:59...
21:00:00! !
"Time's up!" Lin Yi suddenly raised his head, scanning the surroundings with a sharp gaze like an eagle, but the light in his eyes quickly extinguished.
"I didn't see the security guard... I really didn't see it."
Although he had been prepared in his heart, when the thing actually happened, Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart. One breath.
"Damn! There really aren't any security guards!" Wei Liang hammered the ground hard, and then felt a huge pain from the cobblestones. He twisted his mouth and bared his teeth and screamed, "Oh shit, it hurts a little..."
While rubbing his fists, he carefully looked around: "Old Lin, run?"
"We can only run." Lin Yi looked solemn.
The fog has suppressed the range of the lights, and countless humanoid sculptures in the darkness are already staring at them. Once the light of the street lights dims, he cannot guarantee that everyone will still maintain this "respectful attitude towards each other." ” sense of boundaries.
However, when the two stood up slowly holding on to the street lamp pole and looking for the next street lamp, Wei Liang's expression suddenly changed: "It's terrible!"
"Old Lin, look at that road... is it starting to twist?"
Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat and he quickly stared ahead. It was better not to look. When he looked, he really found the cobblestone road ahead. It is twisting and stretching in a state that goes against common sense...
The street lamps scattered on the cobblestone road are like buoys floating on the sea, starting to float left and right.
Lin Yi held on to the street light pole and took a few deep breaths, then carefully looked ahead. At this moment, the twisting feeling of the cobblestone road disappeared again, but the street light pole actually drifted a certain distance...
"Oh, the situation is not good..."
He supported Wei Liang and said in a deep voice: "Just like yesterday, you put your hand on my shoulder and I will take you back to the dormitory!"
"Old Lin, are you okay? I seem to be able to hold on. For a moment..." Wei Liang gritted his teeth and said seriously.
Lin Yi glanced at him and scolded in a low voice: "You hold up the hammer and leave it to me! I was able to go back to the dormitory yesterday, so I can do it today!"
He said Regardless of what Wei Liang wanted to say, he grabbed Wei Liang's hand and put it on his shoulder: "Hold on, trust me."
"Okay..." Wei Liang nodded without hesitation. , and added at the end, "If it doesn't work, just call me. I have a few tricks up my sleeve, maybe they will help..."
Lin Yi's eyes lit up when he heard this: "Damn it, why didn't you tell me earlier that you had such a trump card? In fact, I can't do it now. How about you show off your power and say the 'Mighty Heavenly Dragon World Honored Ksitigarbha'? I'm here Are you applauding? "
"Old Lin, I just heard someone barking," Wei Liang said seriously.
“I guess, damn it, didn’t you say you had a trump card?”
“Oh my gosh, isn’t this how normal scripts are written? I said, ‘I still have a trump card? You have a trump card that you can use,' you said, 'How can I use my adoptive father's advice for such a trivial matter', and then show off all my courage and lead me out of the siege..."
"Liangzi, are you taking advantage of me now?"
"We are each other's adoptive fathers, why should we care about trivial details?"
"If I hadn't seen you watching H comics with my own eyes, I would have thought that all you were watching were Brothers comics!"
"Hot blood and bloody battles are almost the same to a certain extent. They are essentially sweaty battles! Don't worry about those details!"
"So do you have any trump cards?"
"'If so'!"
"What the hell..."
The two of them talked to each other, slowly walked out of the "dormitory building-087" street light pole, and walked towards the light pole in front of them.
It’s just that Wei Liang didn’t see Lin Yi’s increasingly pale and ugly face.
Just when Lin Yi grabbed Wei Liang's hand and put it on his shoulder, he felt that Wei Liang's hand was terribly cold. The temperature was like a brick placed in ice water. It's like picking it up and carrying it on your shoulders.
However, when he saw Wei Liang, he didn't show anything unusual, as if he had even deceived himself.
Such a scene immediately reminded him of the scene in the novel Fengshen after Bigan was disemboweled. Bigan, who was walking home, asked the vegetable seller if he had no heart to live, what would happen if he had no heart? The vegetable seller said that of course one will die if one is careless, so Bigan died on the spot.
As for Wei Liang's current state, Lin Yi feels that he is similar to Bigan. He can't remind Wei Liang what happened. Wei Liang can only maintain his current understanding of himself and slice through time like a slice of time. If you are stuck at this stage, wait until it is safe to pull yourself back out.
But Lin Yi simply couldn't understand the logic behind Wei Liang's actions, and he couldn't ask yet, for fear that asking would break Wei Liang's weird state.
There are a total of 96 street light poles in the dormitory area. If you try your best, you can reach the front of the dormitory by walking nine more light poles. However, Lin Yi did not relax at all. In the final analysis, it was still because of him I had no idea about the journey to campus in unusual weather conditions.
And based on his last experience of walking through the fog, as long as he does not reach the "dormitory building-096" street light pole, it is impossible to see the dormitory building no matter how close it is.
...
Under the thick fog, the two figures moved forward slowly with the help of dim street lights, like hunters walking in the snowy field with the wind and snow above their heads.
While walking, Lin Yi began to realize that something was wrong.
He found that the cobblestone road under his feet gradually lost its rounded geometric shape and began to become soft and waxy, like bubbles rising from the mud, losing the hardness it should have.
He looked down at his feet and saw that the cobblestone road still existed in his "vision", but judging from the tactile feedback from the soles of his feet, it was simply a soft road. His feet stepped on it. There may even be some stumbling and slipping sensations on it.
"The falling layers are affecting my perception, but because I firmly believe that I am still on the cobblestone road, what I 'see' is what I believe, but what I 'feel' is after the layers have fallen." Now is the real road!"
Suddenly, a flash of light flashed across Lin Yi's eyes, and the hairs on his arms stood up instantly. He clearly felt something...
It feels like... thick fog? !
He suddenly found that the thick fog had come to him at some point, like a shaken sheet falling slowly, about to cover him, and outside the thick fog, Countless human sculptures swarmed in, seemingly waiting for the moment he was swallowed by the thick fog!
"Swiss, swiss, swish..."
"Shashasha..."
There are also some nocturnal species crawling on the ground like hungry hyenas, greedily watching his every move... "Layers!"
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"I'm...stuck between two layers?!"
He is like a drowning person now, maybe his chest is still struggling on the water, but the rest It has fallen into the water.
The water surface is the boundary between the layers. Once he sinks completely, he will be swallowed by the piranhas below the water surface, not even the bones and dregs will be left!
"What I 'see' is the water surface and things under the water surface, but what I come into contact with is already the things under the water surface... I have to paddle to the street light in front before sinking! 》
Lin Yi had to use analogies to weaken the impact of the layers. Even if he imagined that he was swimming or shuttling in the swamp, it would be better than acknowledging that he was fighting against a group of flesh-and-blood people who were hostile to him. Appetizing humanoid sculptures go together better.
His eyes were fixed on the dimly lit street light pole in front of him. He led Wei Liang to struggle under the street light, and then looked up at the street light pole.
"dormitory building-090".
"He mlgb...jumped over two lampposts, no wonder it looks so far away!"
He adjusted his breath slightly, and then took a look at the time.
21:06.
Three street light poles, six minutes, this speed is much slower than he expected...
The lights in the dormitory corridor start to turn off at 22:00, and it will be completely dark until 22:20, but it can really The time for them to return to the dormitory can only be before 22:00.
There are six street light poles...
There are also dormitory corridors...
The seemingly short journey is as serious as two battles. Lin Yi even starts to worry a little. The 54 minutes were enough for them to finish these two battles.
He took a deep breath and led Wei Liang into the fog. He continued to "swim" in the fog as hard as a dog crawling, gradually closing the distance between him and the dormitory building. distance.
……
As Lin Yi walked through the fog, he told himself repeatedly in his heart, "I am Lin Yi, my student number is This was used to roughly estimate the distance traveled...
At 21:09, Lin Yi stretched out his hand to push aside the thick fog in front of him, and saw clearly the dimly lit street light pole in front of him.
"Dormitory Building-092".
At first glance, there is nothing wrong with the straight street light pole with orange light. There is also a street light number written in white paint on the light pole. However, Lin Yi always felt that there was something weird about it at first glance. feel.
He couldn't tell for a while whether it was because he had been "dog crawling" in the fog for a long time and his mind became crazy, or because he doubted the safety of the street light pole, or because the light pole really appeared. Some changes that I don't know about.
But he didn't think too much. Wei Liang's cold hands were already a little blue and were gradually turning into the same bluish-gray state before. He had to accept the light of the street lamp and take a breath before he could continue to move forward.
There is not much time left for him.
He then took a deep breath, gritted his teeth and led Wei Liang to the "dormitory building-092" street light pole.
When he broke through the thick fog and entered the light range of the street lamp pole, the strong discomfort in his heart became more intense, impacting him like the violent rolling lava before a volcanic eruption. His heart was beating loudly.
An incomprehensible and unpredictable sense of crisis seemed to envelope him like a net from the void, leaving him feeling confused and overwhelmed.
"What's going on?"
"What's going on with this strong sense of crisis?"
He looked around carefully, but couldn't find any weird place at all. Don’t the orange-yellow street lamps on the cobblestone road represent a safe state in the thick fog?
He still has a student ID card and has not violated the rules. There is absolutely no way that the security status will fail. So where does the crisis come from? !
Lin Yi was running around anxiously, and the instinct in his heart urged him to escape immediately, but he had not yet found the location of the next street lamp pole, and Wei Liang's body had not recovered enough body temperature under the street lamp!
Without direction, rushing out of the light range is really a life-threatening situation.
However, the sense of crisis did not weaken in the slightest because Lin Yi did not leave the range of the street lamp. Lin Yi, who was leaning against the street lamp pole, felt more and more weird. The shadows on his body seemed to be crawling with thousands of ants, which made him feel uncomfortable. He was restless.
"What is wrong?"
Lin Yi has no way of knowing whether this feeling of something wrong comes from the psychological hints given to him by the surrounding environment, or whether cracks have begun to appear in his cognition , is being quietly polluted by this falling layer.
He felt that he was somewhat unable to distinguish "right from wrong", and he began to doubt whether the area he was in was really safe...
He felt the metallic texture coming from the cold street light pole, felt the biting cold, and suddenly shivered violently.
"No! Was I confused just now?"
"My will has slackened!"
The night wind was bone-chilling, chilling Lin Yi physically and mentally.
The traceless pollution was like boiling a frog in warm water, which made him shudder.
He realized that he was being affected by the layer, just like a person who has been swimming for a long time, his skin will always become loose due to water soaking. No matter how determined he is, if he cannot log in, then exhaustion will be the only thing waiting for him. Then drowned.
The street light is a beacon, but it is not the shore. Only the dormitory building is the shore!
He held on to the lamppost and kept panting, trying his best to keep his mind calm, or to maintain "what he thought was a very calm state", and then continued to look for the next lamppost. Location.
He glanced sideways at Wei Liang's hand. Under the light, Wei Liang's hand still remained pale and blue-gray in a cold state. The light could no longer warm it up, but only warmed Wei Liang's body. It remained in this state without further deterioration.
He slowly retracted his gaze - but just as he retracted his gaze, he suddenly found that the cobblestone ground under his feet had disappeared at some point, and only wet and soft sand was left under his feet. The cobblestones that should be laid under the feet - no, at least the ground that looked like "pebbles" from the "visual" perspective, have completely disappeared!
He looked at the streetlight at hand again.
The street lamp was still there, and the light was still dim, but he finally noticed something. He stretched his neck and got close to the white paint on the surface of the street lamp pole, and touched it gently...
He He immediately discovered that the numbers written in white paint had become much faded as if they had been ravaged by wind, frost, rain and snow for countless years. He looked up at the street lamp and found that the light bulbs in the lampshades had also become dimmer.
His pupils dilated slightly, as if he wanted to take more light into his eyes.
But just then he discovered that the thing in the lampshade of the street lamp pole seemed not to be a light bulb, but... some kind of stone that exuded brilliance! !
The light was originally bright, coupled with the presence of the lampshade and some water mist, and the fact that Lin Yi had not carefully observed the street light bulb before, he subconsciously assumed that the light bulb was the traditional pear-shaped glass body. wick.
However, as the light faded, the shape of the light bulb gradually appeared in front of him.
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