AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 778 - 357: That is the "Angel" (Add 1000 words)_3

Chapter 778: Chapter 357: That is the "Angel" (Add 1000 words)_3

As the searchlight moved, the nocturnal species clinging to the exterior of the Art Building let out terrified shrieks, scattering in all directions as if they were terribly afraid of being swept by the beam of light.

With the illumination by the light, the outer wall of the Art Building seemed to come to life with magic, undergoing strange changes on its surface, creating ripples that eventually all converged toward a certain location—a heavy iron gate on the external wall.

Eventually, the light stopped moving, as if firmly ensnared, and Old Mo understood immediately, rushing over to the gate with Lin Yi.

Open the door, enter, close the door.

All in one fluent motion.

Watching Old Mo’s figure disappear behind the iron door, The Art Teacher, "Big Golden Fur," silently withdrew the beam of the searchlight.

"Hang in there, Old Mo..."

"I hope to see you again someday..."

...

May 10, X023, 0:25, inside a passageway of the Art Building area.

Old Mo leaned against the passageway’s iron gate, slowly regaining his strength. Although his surroundings were filled with nocturnal species that had surged in the moment the gate was opened, he appeared completely unconcerned.

His domain slowly released, turning all the surrounding nocturnal species into dust before withdrawing it.

"A bit safer now." Old Mo picked up a petrified fragment of a nocturnal species, using it as a rag to wipe his pig-killing knife while it hadn’t completely disintegrated, "Since Big Golden Fur pointed out the way, it should be correct. If we follow this path, we will quickly reach the Bell Tower."

Seemingly reminded of something, Old Mo added, "Don’t worry, there are many Sneering Angels ahead, I will definitely help you handle one with a lantern."

Lin Yi hadn’t expected Old Mo to still remind him of this, so he replied with a wry smile, "I’m not exactly worrying about that..."

Right now, he had too many concerns, such as the Gallery. With his strength, could he truly make it through alone?

The initial offhand remark from Old Mo about "returning the way we came," upon reflection after these experiences, suddenly felt so weak and powerless...

Old Mo was slightly stunned, "Then... are you scared senseless by that ’tsunami’ earlier?"

Before being awakened by him, Lin Yi indeed trembled uncontrollably at the sight of the tsunami and the mysterious dark shadow within it, as if he was going to be directly drawn towards it.

Now that Old Mo had mentioned it, Lin Yi felt as though he had been thrust back into the emotion that had been so shocked by it, "That tsunami... could that be the ’Root’?!"

Old Mo said that the tsunami was merely a "cognition" based form, suggesting that before passing through the Layers, it had an even more terrifying true form. That’s why Lin Yi made such a speculation.

"How could that be the ’Root’?" Old Mo shook his head, "Haven’t you always been curious about ’Angels’? That’s what an ’Angel’ actually is."

"Or rather, that is ’the Angel in my cognition’..."

"Now you understand why I said there are no ’Angels’ in the campus, right?"

"Once such an entity descends, S City University simply cannot bear it, let alone ’contain’ it."

"What...?!" Lin Yi’s pupils contracted sharply, but upon thinking of the Night Watchman standing there confronting it, he subconsciously believed there was a chance to resist, "Can such an entity... truly be countered with ’human’ effort? What is the Night Watchman doing there?"

Old Mo replied, "I’ve said before... once that thing descends, so far only the ’Principal’ is capable of contending with it. However, I’ve never had the chance to face the Principal; my knowledge of the Principal is all from what the Convenience Store Owner told me."

"But I guess that’s probably the limit of what ’human’ ability can achieve. The contest on that level has nothing to do with the concept of ’numbers’... You’ve read novels about cultivating immortality, right? Below the saints, all are ants; that’s the idea. If you haven’t reached that level, even if you are just a hair’s breadth away, it’s a chasm of life that cannot be crossed."

"As for your so-called Night Watchman contending with it..."

"That’s just what your eyes ’see’."

"The Night Watchman... is merely preventing it from infiltrating the Layers, it’s because of this, it remains static."

While speaking, Old Mo sat on the ground and dragged his backpack over, beginning to pass tomatoes to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi looked at the tomatoes in Old Mo’s hand, stupefied for a moment.

"You eat tomatoes, I’ll absorb your Transcendent Power... to replenish what’s been consumed."

"This is the last place where strength can be replenished. Once we reach the Bell Tower, it will be a battle of life and death... Mu Daxian, that guy, has probably not completely died."

"Er...’completely died’?" Lin Yi was taken aback again.

Old Mo held up the tomato.

He hastily took it and bit into it.

Only at this moment did Lin Yi have the time to reminisce on the previous scenes, only to discover that along the way, Old Mo had used his domain to drain the Transcendent Power from numerous nocturnal species, without absorbing any to replenish his own energy.

Lin Yi recalled Old Mo’s previous words, that Transcendent Power was too heterogeneous and could not be absorbed.

Therefore, what Old Mo could absorb was his own Transcendent Power, but he...

"Wait, Old Mo, if you can’t absorb the Transcendent Power here, why can I?" Lin Yi asked while biting into the tomato.