AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 746 - 344 "Corpse Bone Forest" and "Star Moon Night" _2

Chapter 746: Chapter 344 "Corpse Bone Forest" and "Star Moon Night" _2

Lin Yi thus tried to take a step forward.

With one foot stepping down, the ground seemed to come alive, ceaselessly writhing. The frequency was beyond what he could keep up with, yet golden light began to emerge from the depths of his eyes.

"High-Order Perception" activated, and everything around him began to slow down, even the wriggling of the earth itself.

Lin Yi started to carefully feel the changes and search for the so-called "unchanging point amid motion" mentioned by Old Mo.

Originally, Old Mo indeed wanted Lin Yi to explore slowly, but sensing something, he hurriedly spoke up: "A line is composed of numerous points, but the concept of a ’point’ is too subtle for you, broaden your observation scope a bit..."

"Imagine you are walking on an unstable suspension bridge, beneath your feet are planks shaking one after the other, but whether it’s the planks or something else, there is a pattern to them..."

"A pattern...plank bridge?" With Lin Yi’s swift understanding, he quickly grasped it, "You mean, don’t focus on the whole, but clarify the path beneath my feet first?!"

Seeing Lin Yi’s enlightenment, Old Mo quickly said, "The waves are endless, but we just need to find one wave and ride it to the other shore!"

Lin Yi exclaimed excitedly, "I understand!"

"Understanding alone is not enough, get moving!" Old Mo said, then sped up, leaving ample "chasing" space for Lin Yi.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, no longer focusing on the seaweed-like twisted environment around him, concentrating all his attention on the limited space in front of him.

He walked a step, felt the twist within three steps, observed the undulations within ten steps.

He walked awkwardly like a toddler, his movements very stiff, yet still managed to step within the safe range every time. The speed of his improvement was nothing short of explosive. Within minutes, he was already able to walk smoothly on the twisted ground.

By then, his observational distance had extended far enough to include Old Mo’s retreating figure.

Interestingly, the once incredibly distorted image of Old Mo now appeared undistorted to him. The path beneath his feet also no longer twisted as before; the feedback when stepping on it became much "normal."

And this "normal" sensation was becoming "even more normal"...

"It’s ’Overwriting’!" Lin Yi suddenly realized something, "I’ve overwritten the anomalies in my surroundings onto my cognition of the environment! It’s not that the environment has become normal, but that I have merged with this environment!"

According to Old Mo, he had aligned himself with the frequency of the swaying plank bridge.

"I switched my own ’channel’... to the same ’channel’ as the distorted frequency of this path?!"

In fact, there’s no need to talk about "channels," this is a change on the "Layers," soaking through from the first layer of a napkin to the second and even the third layer!

A few more minutes passed, the path under his feet was no longer distorted at all, and Old Mo’s figure also became extremely normal.

Old Mo sensed his change, turned around to look at him, and a very unappealing smile of satisfaction appeared on his deadpan face: "Not bad, not bad. The speed at which you adapt to the environment is truly too fast... I’m almost doubting if you’re some kind of chameleon."

Lin Yi chuckled: "You taught well."

"Barely passable, let’s end the mutual flattery here," Old Mo made a cross gesture and continued, "The path you are walking now is the third stage toward the Art Building."

"More precisely, only by reaching this path have you truly made contact with the... world where the Art Building resides."

Lin Yi was shockingly surprised and quickly looked at the surrounding environment.

"What... What is this?!"

"Take a good look, this is definitely a ’scenery’ you’ve never seen before."

What unfolded before Lin Yi’s eyes was truly an unprecedented world, one that he couldn’t even imagine.

The dense forest that originally grew around him transformed into dark, green-dominated, twisted, and rugged lines. The mist turned into streaks of white patterns, clustering here and there around various central points, forming spiral turbines one after another.

From afar, this world is filled with vortexes, originally just ordinary twists, but now they have formed vortexes of various sizes.

Such a world, which deeply shocks Lin Yi, also brings to mind a legendary masterpiece—

"Starry Moon Night?!"

Hearing Lin Yi’s exclamation, Old Mo is momentarily taken aback, and then he laughs: "Right?"

Lin Yi’s shock is indescribable, he feels as if he has been thrown into the Starry Moon Night; the star-filled sky resembles the current vortex!

"Is this... truly ’Starry Moon Night’?"

"Are you dreaming?" Old Mo bluntly denies, "It’s just a resemblance, observing the outside world from within this layer, this is the kind of image we see. It’s like umbrellas with different patterns; when folded up, the patterns exposed on the surface of the umbrella, as long as the color schemes are similar, are nearly identical."

"Ah..." Lin Yi seems to have an epiphany.

"To put it simply, you see, all chimpanzees look alike, but each one is actually different. If you’re not an expert, you wouldn’t notice any differences. It’s basically the same principle."

"Oh, I understand."

In this world full of vortexes, the path under their feet becomes the only straight staircase.

And this scenery, indeed, is quite spectacular, as if the world is displayed before him in another form.

Lin Yi can’t help but ask: "How was this formed?"

Old Mo shakes his head: "I don’t know. Maybe you can jot it down, save it for later when you have time to slowly appreciate. If you can unravel the mysteries here, you might also get some inspiration to decipher ’Starry Moon Night’."

Lin Yi, surprised, asks: "’Inspiration to decipher ’Starry Moon Night’’? Are you referring to the ’Starry Moon Night’ in the Art Building?"

"You know that too; are you sure you’re not an official figure?" Old Mo chuckles, "An Experience Student, knowing some things ’Experience Students aren’t supposed to know.’"

It’s difficult to explain, and Lin Yi can only muster a bitter smile in response.

Then, suddenly a thought strikes him: "Ah, right, could you tell me what ’Starry Moon Night’ is?"

Old Mo says: "Everyone knows it’s a painting Van Gogh left in the Art Building, but also that it’s not just a simple painting."

Uh, isn’t that stating the obvious?

Just as Lin Yi silently criticizes inside, Old Mo continues: "Then, on some accidental occasion, some people discovered the pattern of ’Layer Transition,’ what you are seeing now as this ’scenery’."

"The first ’Angel Envoy’ who stabilized their view of this layer saw such a scene and realized there were similarities with ’Starry Moon Night’..."

"After a lengthy exploration and fierce discussion about Layer Transition, the ’Angel Envoys’ reached a widely accepted viewpoint—that is, ’Coordinate’."

"’Coordinate’?!" Lin Yi’s pupils constrict slightly.

"Mm, Coordinate." Old Mo nods, then says completely, "’Starry Moon Night’ is very likely a coordinate, a coordinate that can only be found during Layer Transition, a coordinate that corresponds to endless mystery and transcendence!"

"So Van Gogh, he..."

"So Van Gogh left something at a particular location in the Great Sea Route, leaving behind a fixed coordinate, then saying ’I’ve left everything there, if you want it, go find it’? What the hell, a Transcendent OnePiece?!"

Vincent D. Van Gogh?!

While criticism stirs within him, under these circumstances, Lin Yi doesn’t utter a word, but continues: "So Van Gogh, he... left something behind?"