AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 793 - 365: The Night Watchman’s Trial

Chapter 793: Chapter 365: The Night Watchman’s Trial

Lin Yi looked at the wall in horror, as if he could see the large pool of black gel-like substance behind it, seemingly licking its own mouth with a touch of pleasure—if it had a mouth, that is.

It must have a mouth! That was Lin Yi’s feeling.

He could clearly feel that the thing became excited after tasting his Perception Ability, yet it felt a pity that it only got a taste and didn’t get more, followed by a sense of frustration and anxiety for not obtaining what it desired, coupled with greed and longing...

It seemed to be squatting there, more and more viscous gel-like substance converging there like lying in wait for a rabbit, but soon, invisible ripples surged down from the upper levels of the Bell Tower, obliterating a part of them into nothingness.

"Kid! What’s happening?!" The commotion also caught the attention of someone on the upper levels of the Bell Tower, Old Mo’s anxious shout came down, "Are you alright?"

"I... I’m fine!" Lin Yi responded.

"Good, be careful, don’t get yourself hurt!" Old Mo said, "I don’t have the time to look after you now!"

A warmth filled Lin Yi’s heart, he hadn’t expected Old Mo to be so concerned about him.

At that moment, a feeling that Old Mo had brought him into a ’Layer Transition’ suddenly enveloped him...

Lin Yi’s body shook as if an Immobilization spell had been cast on him, making him rigidly stuck in place with no possibility of moving.

"This...?!"

Before he could react, he felt the layers around him bizarrely warping, a soul-shaking sense of suffocation quietly spreading in his heart.

He felt like he was going to go mad from the pressure, but being unable to resist, he could only bite down hard on his teeth.

He began to breathe heavily, the breath from his nose and mouth nearly turning into scorching streams, his throat started to emit a low ’growl,’ and his entire body was like a steam locomotive, beginning to release faint red waves of heat...

Just then, the terrifying sense of suffocation receded like a tide, and as the suffocation vanished, the distortion of the layers also calmed down, followed by a deep, oppressive voice floating down from above the Bell Tower.

"Young man, if you’re interested, you can come up to have a look..."

Lin Yi’s heart trembled; merely hearing that voice made his soul shiver uncontrollably.

"I... Can I really go up?" His voice was twisted by the excitement as if he received some form of ’permission’.

"You can..." The oppressive voice drawled, "provided that you can make it up."

The voice disappeared in an instant, and with it, the oppressive feeling faded away.

Lin Yi’s ’Field of View Insight’ collapsed, and he collapsed to the ground, breathing heavily, his uniform already soaked in the mist, but he clearly felt that just talking with ’the voice’s owner’ had made him drenched in sweat.

"Wait a minute!" Lin Yi belatedly awoke with realization; "That voice from the upper part of the Bell Tower!"

"Could it be... ’Night Watchman’?!"

The Night Watchman talked to me?!

For some reason, merely talking to the ’Night Watchman’ through the air, Lin Yi felt a surge of excitement...

Is this what it means to worship strength? The psychology of admiration for the powerful?

Lin Yi didn’t know, but he couldn’t hide the trembling of his body.

This tremor wasn’t out of fear, but out of excitement and fervor.

Instinct told him that there was a ’different scenery’ at the upper levels of the Bell Tower.

If following Mu Daxian up until now gave him the sensation of charging in and out of Changban Slope with Zhao Long, then ascending to the upper levels of the Bell Tower would definitely give him that feeling of Cao Cao standing atop a height, surveying the entire battlefield!

This Grey Mist Invasion, I’m going to see what it’s all about!

"I have to go see it!"

"I must go see it!"

Invisibly, even though he could only sit on the ground gasping for air right now, absorbing the surrounding Supernatural Power to recover his strength, Lin Yi was already filled with anticipation.

If Mao Feiyang was here, he would have noticed that Lin Yi’s behavior at this moment was almost identical to that of Mu Daxian chasing after ’what he perceived to be an Angel’ that night!

The instinctive excitement within his body couldn’t be concealed!

Neither could the fervor deep in his eyes!

He quickly restrained these emotions and then adjusted himself to the best condition; casually, he began to slowly approach the spiral staircase leading upstairs.

’The prerequisite is that you can make it up’

"So this staircase is the Night Watchman’s test for me," Lin Yi pondered. It made sense; if every Tom, Dick, and Harry could climb the Bell Tower, it wouldn’t be anything special.

With his mental preparations in place, Lin Yi tried to step onto the staircase; he tentatively stretched out his foot and slowly placed it on the first step.

One step up, firm and steady, seemingly no anomaly.

Lin Yi was slightly startled, yet his expression was very solemn.

Because previously when Old Mo stepped on the staircase, a gust of wind from the steps had sliced through his skin.

But now, there was no issue at all?

"Is it because there is no wind?"

"If that wind is the manifestation of some Supernatural Power fluctuation within this spatial layer, then it should have a certain periodicity..."

Lin Yi speculated, so he didn’t hurry to the second step.