Chapter 360 The Secret of the Music Box
"The original apostle...the "designer"...Amon? " Lin Yi murmured, as if he was chewing these words. What really shocked him was not the series of titles of the original apostle, but the real "results" -
"Constructors of more than 90% of the Black Moon Outpost?!"
Lao Mo said quietly: "Strictly speaking, all the Black Moon Outposts were designed by him, but according to the records in the code, during the actual construction stage, the "Star Builder", "Magic Craftsman" and other apostles made decisions based on certain circumstances. Minor adjustments were made that made Black Moon Outpost different from Amon's original design. ”
"That period of time was so long ago that we can only find fragments of records from the code, and there is no way to verify the true situation at that time."
"But objectively speaking, if we just say 'Amon is the designer of Black Moon Outpost,' there is no problem."
Lin Yi was even more shocked, but he didn't know why. Although it was the first time he heard the name "Star Builder", he felt an indescribable sense of familiarity, just like he was. I have known this name before.
"It's amazing. I never thought that this Black Moon Outpost would be designed by one person..." Lin Yi preconceived the idea that the Black Moon Outpost was designed by the concerted efforts of many apostles.
"The design was done by him, and the construction was done by many apostles. After all, his most important thing is 'design'." Lao Mo shook his head slightly, and continued without saying anything shocking, "But as 'Amon', as a 'designer', if you It would be a big mistake to think that this is just the case. Almost all the ships used by the apostles in the past to explore the sea were made by him. ”
"His design works include but are not limited to architecture, as well as some special works of art, such as..."
"That music box."
Lin Yi's mind moved slightly.
Lao Mo said: "That music box... from design to finished product, no one else was involved. It was designed and created by Amon himself."
The wind in the corridor was blowing "whooshing", and the candlelight was flickering, as if it was pulling out some strange and twisted shadows in the corridor. It seemed that just talking about Amon's existence was enough to cause some strange phenomena to occur in the art building.
"'Amon's Music Box' is not just a broadcast prop, it doesn't even play sound. It was installed on the ships that went out to sea and followed the apostles on several voyages. Every time after returning, Amon would Some upgrades and adjustments were made to it... But that's exactly what happened. The music box had a pollution tolerance beyond imagination. Later, it seemed that it was affected by the "root" and produced some unknown and extraordinary changes in characteristics. Gradually, it forged itself into a "forbidden weapon". ”
"No one has personally experienced Amon's 'terror', and his designs never have problems other than 'design'. Therefore, the people who compiled the code retained some conservative conjectures about the mutation of the music box, thinking that it might be a kind of 'Design' - Amon's design."
"Amon used his own way to collect some of the characteristics of the "roots"... Just like rubbings on stone tablets, each voyage will make the traces on the rubbings deeper. After several times, the existence of the music box has become far away. It cannot be understood with conventional cognition. ”
"The music box will run automatically from time to time, but there is no pattern."
"It made a sound just now when we got close... I hope it was just a coincidence."
Lin Yi pursed his lips subconsciously: "What if it's not a coincidence?"
Lao Mo turned around and glanced at him: "Your little mouth is like honey when it's critical..."
Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck.
The two of them walked deeper and deeper into the corridor, and a damp and cold air gradually floated in the air.
"By the way, Lao Mo..." Lin Yi suddenly asked.
"Huh?"
"Amon...is she a girl?"
"Huh?" Lao Mo was stunned again, "How could you ask such a thing?"
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then said: "I had a hallucination in the corridor. In the hallucination, I saw a dirty little girl holding a music box... You don't know, I often have some difficult problems." 'Visions' explained, I'll see some strange things..."
"For example, when I entered school on the first day, I saw the cliff just now in my vision, and saw the night watchman on the cliff..."
"I don't know if that little girl is Amon...and she is actually somewhere in the layer, looking at us..."
"Hiss..." Lao Mo shivered subconsciously and stretched out his hand to rub his arm, "Although I am a dead person, your words still gave me goosebumps on my dead body..."
"Stop saying things like this... In addition, there is no record in the code of whether Amon is a male, a female, or some other human or non-human thing..."
"He has a place in the code, and the code will not waste its limited words on recording his gender..."
"As for the little girl you mentioned..."
"I don't know..."
"Why don't you wait until the next time you meet again and ask for its contact information to maintain a pen pal relationship?"
"Old Mo..." Lin Yi's face darkened, "This is not humorous at all."
"You don't know how to be humorous!" Old Mo said seriously, "Boy, you already know what "Amon's music box" is, and now you tell me that you saw a little girl coming to you with that music box? ”
"I was just praying that the thing just happened to work, but now you tell me that the thing makes a sound because of you... You are not the fucking gray fog, are you?"
"Uh..." Lin Yi looked ugly and smiled bitterly, "Don't scare me, Lao Mo..."
"You..." Lao Mo wanted to say something several times, but he swallowed it all. "Forget it, your existence is beyond my awareness... When I go back later, , be careful yourself, although I don’t want to break my promise at all, but it seems that you have a big problem yourself.”
"If you see that little girl again, you might as well try to ask for some clues..."
Lin Yi couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this: "Is it really possible?"
Lao Mo nodded solemnly, and what he said next almost choked Lin Yi to death: "After asking, I tried every means to write it down so that latecomers can add it to the corresponding code in time after discovering the clues... ...so as not to trick anyone.”
Lin Yi's face darkened.
No, buddy, you are sure that I can’t survive, and you want me to maximize my value...
"What on earth is that little girl? So scary?"
"I said I don't know, but you have to know that what even I don't know... is the real terror." Lao Mo said, "I will meet the night watchman later. If there is a chance, I can help you. Ask about the situation.”
"Night watchman?" Lin Yi was shocked. The word "night watchman" appearing here was more powerful than a life-saving straw. In the art building area, the three words "night watchman" represented absolute safety.
Because once a situation arises that even the Night Watchman cannot guarantee, then it is really a matter of life and death. "Old Mo, you mean... there is a night watchman on the bell tower?"
"Otherwise, what do you think that guy Mu Daxian is doing on the bell tower? Isn't he just looking for death by going up to the bell tower?" Lao Mo asked back.
Lin Yixin said, didn't you say something like "Mu Daxian is looking for death" from the beginning, but he was naturally silent.
"That guy heard about things related to the "Night Watch" from somewhere, and has been trying to find a way to become a "Night Watch"... He probably went there with that purpose this time. ”
"'The way to become a night watchman', can art students become a night watchman?"
"Theoretically speaking, there is no way for the Night Watchman to descend. Even the security guards who are closest to the Night Watchman in terms of extraordinary characteristics actually have no intersection with the Night Watchman." Lao Mo shook his head and said, "The Night Watchman... is a complete It is an independent path. In theory, anyone can become a "night watchman" as long as he meets that path. A security guard can become a night watchman, but it does not mean that the security guard is the subordinate of the night watchman..."
"Any identity can be a subordinate of the Night Watch."
"But so far, only the old Night's Watch has fallen, and no new Night's Watch has ever been born..."
"In the history of the Black Moon Outpost, there have been a total of six Night Watchmen. During the same period, there were at most four Night Watchmen guarding the Black Moon Outpost. During that time, the Black Moon Outpost was indestructible."
"When the campus was established and the Black Moon Outpost was converted into an art building, the number of night watchmen was only three."
"Theoretically speaking, it's because there are three "Night Watcher" positions on campus that are vacant, so Mu Daxian went to look for them..."
"Speaking of which, just last year, there seemed to be a guy who wanted to get involved in this avenue, but he died miserably and implicated many sports students..."
"In the art building area, whenever the gray fog invades, the night watchman must use all his power to prevent the angel from coming..."
"The art teacher used 'light' to prevent the Laughing Angel and Nocturnal Species from penetrating into the art building..."
"The art students are divided into different teams. Some, like those in the hall, go to different areas of the art building to form matrix-reinforced layers, some lead the seedlings to escape, and some will fight against those A completely sick and twisted fanatic..."
"Of course, you won't encounter fanatic believers on this path I take you. The pollution level here is the lowest in the entire art building..."
"Because of the night watchman?" Lin Yi asked.
"Smart." Old Mo said, "Although the Night Watchman's domain does not cover this place, there are still not many dark and evil things that dare to offend here."
"No, Lao Mo, aren't there still many nocturnal species outside the door?" Lin Yi asked a question, "The moment I opened the door just now, those things swarmed in."
"They burrow into holes when they see them, and when they instinctively sense something is wrong, it's already too late to run away." Lao Mo explained, "Even if I don't kill them, they won't survive if they get in here, but if I don't kill them, they won't be able to survive." It’s quite annoying to pester us all the time.”
"We're almost there..." After Lao Mo said this, he turned his attention to the front.
Deep in the corridor, a claustrophobic iron door gradually appeared in the dim view.
The wind that penetrated through the door gently floated the sign hanging on the door, making a crisp "clang" sound from time to time. The reverberating wind raged in the world behind the door, making some "woo-woo" sounds. The sound sounded like someone was crying.
"Anyway, I'm not very clear about some things. If there's any danger, we'd better ask the night watchman. Of course, the night watchman may not know us." As Lao Mo spoke, he had already walked to the iron gate.
As he got closer, Lin Yi discovered that there were some chiseled lines on the iron piece, like some ancient symbols.
Lao Mo stretched out his hand and touched the iron piece lightly, and murmured in his mouth: "This is the motto in "The Iron Rule of the Night Watch". It probably means, "A tower without a bell shines brightly, and the sound is so loud that it shakes the world."
"'Tower without a Bell'?"
"No clock, no end, no beginning and no end... This is the creed that the Night Watchmen have adhered to for generations, from that unknown era when time was almost unrecorded, to a day in the future..."
"No beginning, no end..." Lin Yi murmured to himself, reaching out and gently touching the iron piece.
"Ding!"
When his palm touched the iron piece, a crisp sound sounded in his mind, then the second, and the third...
"Ding! Ding! Ding..."
It was like the sound of someone hitting some kind of iron piece with a hammer in a cave. It was so rhythmic that Lin Yi's fingers subconsciously clicked on the iron piece.
At this moment, the vision in front of him flickered without warning. In the interlaced vision of light and shadow, he seemed to see a picture...
He saw a thin figure forging something next to the stove. Every time he struck it, some marks appeared on the iron piece. His attention slowly drew closer to the iron piece, and he found that the scratches on the iron piece were gradually corroded. It's like it has been baptized for countless years.
Soon, the piece of iron in front of him became exactly the same as the piece he saw in front of him now.
He was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that he had escaped from the vision, and now he happened to have his face right next to the piece of iron...
"You are so close... Do you know this kind of writing?" Lao Mo asked.
Lin Yi shook his head: "I don't know."
He didn't say anything about the thin figure he saw blacksmithing. After all, that scene... seemed to be just a scene.
Lao Mo stopped asking any more questions and began to think of ways to open the door.
Lin Yi on the side was deep in thought. Among all the visions, this one had the least sense of crisis. Of course, it also had the least information content...
"It's really strange..."
At this moment, Lao Mo slowly opened the door.
"Squeak——"
Accompanied by a sharp scratching sound that made one's teeth sore, the thick, rusted iron door was slowly pushed open...
(End of chapter)