Chapter 354 Flesh Mural "Obsession Sculpture" (2000 additional words added)
The strong smell of blood mixed with the smell of rust stains filled the strong wind. As the blood mist floated everywhere, it seemed that the lights in the hall were painted with a terrifying blood color.
Seeing Lin Yi's reaction, Lao Mo knew that Lin Yi really knew everything, and he immediately pulled his horizon layer to the most realistic side of the art building hall.
He nodded slightly and commented: "It seems that you have a self-protective covering layer on your body... so at any time, you will first see the picture that you think 'should be' , and then you will discover what 'should be'."
"It's like...a gradual process of 'adaptation'...it's really magical."
"'Adapt'?"
"'Adaptation' again?!"
The value of adapting to these two is so high?
Almost everyone Lin Yi met would say the word "adapt" after learning about his situation, making Lin Yi seem to have something similar to "Batman's super power is to be rich." Same label.
"What are your superpowers?" 》
"I can adapt to many environments..."
Is it Darwin the mutant?
Lin Yi had no intention of complaining more because he had found the source of the strong wind - a hole above the dome!
Above the dome of the hall, there is a glass painting made up of countless stained glass windows. This glass painting is very similar to the glass paintings that tell religious secrets in every church. But now, the glass window is broken, like It was full of cracks as if it had been beaten by something terrifying.
It was also missing a corner, as if it had been damaged in that whipping. Violent winds and heavy rain poured into the hall through the flaw. After the rainwater entered the hall, it was quickly shattered by the strong wind, and mixed with those The blood and gas mixed together to form the current blood mist.
On the walls around the hall, those murals that seemed to depict some kind of legends about believers and gods, but there was a mysterious brilliance faintly emerging in the blood mist, some extraordinary power with a mysterious atmosphere, from those complex and broken walls. Graphic symbols permeated the air, guarding the hall of the art building like water waves, preventing the blood mist from penetrating into the murals...
"The mural...?" The moment he looked at the wall, Lin Yi's heart was severely affected - in his distorted perspective, the mural was actually squirming slightly, forming a part of the mural. The line thing is nothing else, it seems to be... the body?
More strictly and horribly speaking, it is the human body. Each body seems to be integrated into the wall like a mosaic. The lines of the limbs faintly outline the traces of the murals. They seem to be integrated with the art building, and their bodies are all It grew into the wall rocks, and then kept growing slowly in a strange and evil way.
Everything about them seems to be integrated with the art building.
"They... who are those people? Why do they look... like alien sculptures or forest of dead monuments? But that kind of smell... is not evil?"
"The mural in the lobby of the art building blocks the penetration of blood mist. Could it be related to them? But...but what is their situation?"
In the hall below the mural, there are many art students wearing dark green loose cloaks. They hold paintbrushes and are spread out in the hall without any formation. They don't know what they are doing.
Their hands were raised, like scholars who didn't know what to write, but there was no drawing board in front of them.
All the art students were frozen there, as if they had been cursed by some kind of vicious curse and turned into motionless sculptures. Green breath was constantly coming out of their bodies, and accompanied by the green breath. Appeared, some blood mist also drifted out from their bodies as if annihilated - all those blood mist came from the bodies of the art students!
"They...what happened to them?" For some reason, Lin Yi felt an indescribable sadness in his heart when he saw such a scene. This was an emotion he sensed through "perception".
Lao Mo sighed, and then said: "They are preventing the wounds in the hall from expanding."
He pointed to the hole in the dome's glass.
Lin Yi was shocked: "'Prevent expansion'? Is it impossible to repair it?"
Lao Mo explained: "The art building is not built by conventional construction methods, and repairs cannot be repaired by conventional methods...Only architects have the ability to build at the layer level, but for some reasons , the official no longer bothers to focus on the training of architects... and the Art Building, although it is still trying to find ways to cultivate architects, in fact, it has indeed been a long time since such talents were born. In fact, even some seedlings with 'architectural' talents have not appeared..."
"Old Mo, you know so much about the art department?"
"Big Golden Retriever told me." Old Mo said calmly, and then added, "The holes you see are just what appears on the surface. They are holes on the layer level, but they were eventually folded into The extent of what you can observe.”
Lin Yi immediately thought of the "city wall form" of the gymnasium. Cracks on the layer level would be extremely difficult to repair. If the art building was like that, then it would be completely understandable.
What Lin Yi didn't expect was that the art student was actually related to the architect.
"Old Mo, art students can become architects. I mean... is there a way for art students to become so-called 'architects', just like the dormitory manager turned into a smiling angel?"< br>
"'Path'?" Lao Mo was stunned for a moment, "It's an interesting term. You can understand it that way...but in fact, 'architect' is not a fixed profession. Anyone with that ability can do it. Architects do not need to be recognized by others or the government.”
"The drawing ability learned by art students is related to the 'design major' that must be mastered in architecture. Only by mastering the ability to 'expand design drawings' can we further start the construction project from 'paper' to 'reality'."< br>
"Unfortunately, the consumption of 'spiritual will' and one's own 'extraordinary power' often far exceeds the limit that the body can bear... All of them together can only barely prevent the gray mist from destroying the art building. ”
"Follow me... let's go to the bell tower to find Mu Daxian. That kid is used to doing random things. I'm really afraid that he'll get lost in his mischief."
Lao Mo withdrew his eyes from these art students, then took a step forward, leading Lin Yi into the hall of the art building, and began to slowly shuttle through the hall.
"Don't touch them. They are now a whole, just like a living 'Matrix'. If you, with your nuclear power plant physique, accidentally inject power into them that you shouldn't inject, it might make the situation develop in an uncontrollable direction." .”
Lin Yi's heart trembled, and he quickly and carefully avoided the art students.
But as he continued to move in the hall, he began to discover that the blood mist was not simple. It did not look like it was formed after blood seeped out of the body, but more like an art student's body was undergoing something similar to annihilation. change.
This change is very similar to the way the angry angel was decomposed by the old kerosene lamp in "The Feast".
"Old Mo, I seem to see their bodies decomposing. Will they... die?" Lin Yi couldn't help but ask.
"Not for the time being." Lao Mo said, "This is an 'interaction' process. Their bodies are constantly being replaced with extraordinary power. Within a certain range, it is an effective gain."
As he walked slowly, Lin Yi began to feel the surrounding environment exerting a slight pull on him. This feeling was completely different from the strong wind blowing on his body.
Rather than wind, it was more like countless threads clinging to his skin, pulling him in a certain direction.
This feeling didn't feel like much at first, but gradually, goosebumps appeared on his skin and he began to feel a strong discomfort.
Gradually, he found that some blood mist began to appear in his body. The blood seemed to seep out from his pores, being shattered by the strong wind and blending into the environment.
"Old Mo, look at my hands!" Lin Yi looked at his hands in horror. He saw that the skin on his hands was broken down like dry grass ash, turning into white powder particles that were annihilated in the wind.
Lao Mo glanced at Lin Yi and turned his attention to the front: "Have you begun to forcibly recruit the extraordinary powers of everyone who steps into the hall of the art building... It seems that they can't last long."
"Forcibly requisitioned?" Lin Yi's face looked a little ugly, and he thought to himself that damn power banks are everywhere everywhere. After charging Lao Mo, the art building automatically inserted it into the USB port?
You have to pay for the bus after all...
Lin Yi quickly quickened his pace. It was not that he was selfish, but that he himself was also a mud bodhisattva crossing the river. The so-called poverty means being alone. To be kind at this time is to be irresponsible for your own life.
Just as he quickened his pace, he suddenly discovered from the corner of his eye that in the dark, cramped corners that were almost ignored around the hall, there were actually sculptures with different expressions and shapes hidden one after another.
These sculptures are huddled in the corner like living people, maintaining a sneaky attitude of peeping out from the darkness, with dark, stone-carved eyes filled with longing.
They greedily sucked the blood mist, as if it was the most delicious thing in the world, and they looked at the broken hole from time to time, as if the world outside the hole was the place they longed for.
Some of them stared at the art students in the hall, their eyes filled with pity, sympathy, greed, killing, hatred...all kinds of complex and contradictory emotions.
Others were looking at the center of the hall, where the most perfect work of art in the art building, "Living Towards Death," was located.
In addition, when Lin Yi noticed them, they all seemed to have some kind of reaction and turned to look at Lin Yi.
"They...?!"
When he saw these sculptures, Lin Yi's first feeling was one of terror. The terrifying feeling of being peeked at by the cold sculptures hiding in the dark could penetrate people's spiritual defenses at any time, but soon he A sudden tremor!
"Wait...this feeling?!" He suddenly thought that this feeling of peeping was exactly what he felt when he walked in the corridor!
right! That sense of voyeurism!
They made no secret of their desire for Lin Yi, as if Lin Yi was a moving cake, and the "aroma" exuding stimulated them all the time...
"This is the kind of special sculpture that Lao Mo said!"
"They...want to eat me?"
But it seems that not all sculptures give him that feeling, which is really strange.
While Lin Yi moved with Lao Mo, he devoted part of his attention to observing them from time to time. Lao Mo noticed Lin Yi's behavior, but did not stop him or remind him of anything.
It wasn't until they came to the "Born to Death" in the center of the hall of the art building that Lao Mo slowly spoke: "Those sculptures... do you know what they are?"
"Huh?" Lin Yi was confused by this unreasonable question. He couldn't understand the meaning of Lao Mo's words for a while, but he knew that Lao Mo would not speak for no reason, so he thought for a moment before answering. , and then said tentatively, "Is it... related to art students?"
Lao Mo said something shocking: "You just asked, will the art students here die? They are the answer you want."
"What?!!!"
Lao Mo said calmly: "Here, in this hall, all the art students you see now may become one of them..."
"Normally, the relationship between extraordinary power and art students is equivalent to the relationship between trace elements and the human body. When excess extraordinary power begins to wash their bodies, their bodies will begin to undergo irreversible changes, and eventually become that kind of ...a sculptural monster.”
"Then...are they still considered "art students"? ”
"No more." Lao Mo shook his head, "They are no longer even humans, sculptures, nocturnal species, or even fanatical believers... They are 'victims' with strong obsessions. , you can think of them as a kind of "obsession body", or to use another definition... "obsession sculpture". ”
"'Obsessed Sculpture'?!" Lin Yi murmured to himself, an emotion called sadness gradually spreading in his heart, "Fighting for the art building, and finally dying like this?"< br>
Lao Mo was silent for a moment: "We will remember their sacrifice and continue to fight."
"Their behavior is driven by 'obsession'. Until the moment their body dies, they are thinking about repairing the hole."
"They may still remember why they exist, but they only exist for this obsession..."
"The reason why you feel like you are being spied on is because the extraordinary power in your body has attracted their attention..."
"Their obsession drives them to constantly pursue and devour more powerful extraordinary powers, and then use them to repair the hole..."
"They are dead, but their obsession is firmer and purer than their will..."
"I can't describe them in terms of right, wrong, good and evil... because their obsession has surpassed 'reason'. As long as units carrying extraordinary power are targeted by them, they will kill them at all costs - even if they are My former art student classmates are no exception.”
"If you have the same goal as them, then they won't hurt you, but if not, then they will attack you if they get the chance."
Lin Yi didn't speak, but the emotions in his heart became more and more complicated. He didn't know what to say. Maybe he couldn't accept the ending of the art student, or maybe he had some reverence because of this, or maybe he felt something else from here. sad and seemingly unavoidable tragedy.
Lao Mo said slowly: "I remember that there are some rules in the art building similar to 'Don't walk around in the art building'. One of the purposes of these rules is to prevent art students from being killed by the "Obsession Sculpture"... …”
"The existence of the obsession sculptures has actually become the 'defense' of the art building to a certain extent. They will not leave the scope of the lobby of the art building, but anything close to here will only appear within the range they can reach. , will be killed by them, especially the Laughing Angel.”
Lin Yi seemed to have thought of something: "They are to the lobby of the Art Building what the "Shadow of Roots" is to the campus? ”
From Lin Yi's point of view, "Obsession Sculpture" and "Shadow of Roots" are special units that exist based on a certain behavioral standard. Compared with NPCs on the map, they are more like giants in the restricted area. BOSS.
You have the possibility to interact with NPCs, such as security guards, but the BOSS only cares about whether you have hatred or not. If you attract their hatred, you will be attacked by them...
However, within the scope of S City University, whether it is NPC or BOSS, the combat power is a mystery.
Well, strictly speaking, the combat prowess of some people in S City University is also a mystery, such as the boss, Mu Daxian, and... Lao Mo in front of me.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly thought, is this the reason why the security guards don't enter the art building?
The king does not see the king. The two talents are basically fighting against the gray fog or the units in the gray fog. What should they do if they collide with each other and fight?
The "Obsession Sculpture" is uncontrollable. Are the security guards also uncontrollable?
Controlling one variable is enough to avoid these "internal frictions", right?
Lao Mo patted Lin Yi on the shoulder: "Don't be sad, kid. Indecisiveness will cost you your life here. Remember this road and the 'pits' on the road. When you turn around and run for your life, don't step on it." Tricked.”
"You have time to be sad now, so why not be more thoughtful? Don't wait until you turn around and step on the trap and be chased by the "Obsession Sculpture", and then start to regret that you are only focusing on being sad for the spring and autumn instead of learning more knowledge. ”
"Well..." Lin Yi pursed his lips and nodded. He did have an inappropriate feeling of compassion, because no matter who is faced with the deception of the victim, he cannot deal with it indifferently...
But when he mentioned the victim, he immediately thought of something and couldn't help but look at Lao Mo.
As the last drop of blood in the cafeteria, Lao Mo also had some kind of "obsession" and kept fighting, right?
He said that the "Obsession Sculpture" is a kind of "fortification", seems to be talking about himself?
However, Lao Mo's changes are obviously fundamentally different from "Obsessive Sculpture". The biggest difference is that Lao Mo has "human" characteristics.
"Let's go... don't be in a daze." Lao Mo urged, "There are still big problems ahead."
Lin Yi followed quickly, not forgetting to carefully avoid the art students so as not to accidentally affect their "battle".
Lao Mo started to lead him to walk close to the edge of the wall, and as soon as he got close to the wall, the countless bodies squirming on the wall began to impact his vision again, giving him some inner discomfort.
Some arms even stretched out to try to reach Lin Yi's limbs, and made some obscure calls that Lin Yi couldn't understand.
"They...could they also be transformed from 'art students'?" Lin Yi had a terrifying thought in his mind, but seeing that Lao Momo remained silent, he did not ask the question.
Some absurd thoughts gradually emerged in his mind. When he was in the gymnasium, he didn't think there was anything wrong with the physical education department and the art department. But now, looking at it, how come all the members of the art department are "consumables"? ……
Lin Yi tried his best to avoid observing them, but in the end he couldn't avoid it. He could only grit his teeth and think of a topic: "Old Mo... I have a question, can the "Obsession Sculpture" really fight against the Smiling Angel? ? ”
"Yes." Lao Mo affirmed, "Aside from pollution and crushing, the most effective way to deal with magic is to use magic."
"The extraordinary power of 'Obsession Sculpture' can also penetrate into the layers... The calling you heard in the corridor before should be a kind of pollution infiltration from them. ”
"Their penetration is similar to that of the Smiling Angel. The two can fight against each other. This is why art students only need to escape back to the art building when they are in danger, because the art building not only has art teachers, but also "obsession sculptures" . ”
Lin Yi suddenly understood: "I understand, so when you encounter the Smiling Angel, you can actually look for the "Obsession Sculpture". The reason why the art student code stipulates that you should find the "Night Watchman" instead of the "Obsession Sculpture" is because "Obsession Sculpture" has a BOSS attribute, but due to bad luck, the art student was also dealt with when dealing with the Smiling Angel. ”
Lao Mo nodded. He was about to say that your analysis makes sense, but for some reason, he always felt that Lin Yi had a strange feeling when he said this. After thinking about it, he realized - that's not right, Lin Yi When did this kid read Code for Artists?
He nodded halfway and his head froze, looking a bit weird.
He stared at Lin Yi for a while, then suddenly wiped the sweat silently in his heart, and couldn't help but sigh.
Forget it, it’s not important...
It is already a nuclear power plant with a nuclear leak anyway, so there is no point in discussing the amount of leakage.
(End of chapter)