AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 798 - 367 Going to the Night Watchman_2

Chapter 798: Chapter 367 Going to the Night Watchman_2

And of course, when he started to move, it was the same situation, and with the addition of the "move" variable, the sense of spatial distortion was greatly intensified; merely perceiving the changes in space made him feel dizzy and disoriented.

This kind of change, defying common sense, would overturn the body’s perception of space and environment, causing loss of many of the most basic features, such as... spatial distance and center of gravity.

Right now, he felt top-heavy and light-footed, but fortunately, his body wasn’t under his control... Wait a minute! The Night Watchman took over his body with just one sentence?!

"This...?!"

This was too bizarre!

But Lin Yi had no time to consider this strangeness, as his entire attention was devoted to observing his surroundings.

With the Night Watchman around, what was there to fear?

He was definitely going to have a good look!

All around him, everything seemed to be scaled by an invisible force, with floating walls pieced together at odd angles, some even overlapping each other, creating a complex maze-like structure.

He found that after only a few steps, the originally straight slabs of stone suddenly tilted upwards, connecting with a side wall nearby; walking on them felt like strolling on a slope defying gravity...

The whole world’s color tone was biased towards cold hues, dominated by purple, tinged with faint golden light, giving the entire world a mysterious and cold atmosphere.

The light, originating from no known source, became thin and eerie in this world, lacking the brightness and warmth of the sunlight in the real world.

As he moved, he would occasionally see scattered lights that seemed to emanate from some unknown places, like the folds of space or some unknown layer of cracks, scattering in blue or purple streaks, casting long, oddly shaped shadows in the distorted space.

When the gust of wind surged, the colors of these lights would also undergo violent changes. Whenever the Night Watchman struck the Quantum giant clock, a golden glow would ripple around it, contrasting starkly with the cold background, like the first light of dawn in the dark night, exuding a mysterious oppressive aura.

The golden light spread along the creases and contours of the entire space, outlining some unknown shapes of structures or creatures, and near the Quantum giant clock, the golden Ripples seemed to weave a mysterious and complex totem of Secret Marks in the space...

The materials here seemed to be in a highly unstable state. Walls and floors looked as if they were made of flowing liquid that had solidified, with irregular textures on their surfaces, like traces of water currents frozen in an instant, and fragments of some walls would flicker from time to time as if they could disappear or morph at any moment.

On several walls, there were candlesticks with burning candles, but these candlesticks would intermittently transform into different materials, then revert to their original form.

In this bizarre world, the only constants seemed to be the Night Watchman and the Quantum giant clock.

They were at the center of the whole world; everything that varied seemed to revolve around them, like an asteroid belt.

At that moment, Lin Yi’s body, being controlled, leaped from a vertically oriented slab of stone to another slab almost flipped over facing the ground.

"Snap!"

He landed steadily on the other side, like an upside-down Spider-Man...

The rules of gravity seemed to be completely absent, as if Newton’s coffin lid had been flipped open.

But perhaps Newton had witnessed these phenomena in his lifetime, as in his later years... he might have been researching these very things.

Lin Yi kept moving. He originally thought he would need to readapt to this unconventional way of moving, but he found he was wrong—he didn’t need to adapt at all.

Or more accurately, with his body’s current "Adaptability," a mere dissonance was nothing but a trifle.

At that moment, he jumped onto a slab of stone not far ahead which, by "naked eye" observation, seemed completely unreachable.

When he leaped, it was as if an illusory path appeared in the space, like an invisible slide, guiding him to that landing spot.

Here, the height and distance of jumps are no longer restricted by the muscle power and gravity of the real world; it is more dependent on the internal spatial logic...

Were Lin Yi to traverse this space on his own, he would never have the chance to approach the Night Watchman!

The only thing he could be certain of was that no matter how he moved, he was always closing in on the Night Watchman — even if sometimes he seemed to be running in a direction far away from the Night Watchman.

He subconsciously glanced at his watch, noticing that the time was still ticking, but the intervals between the seconds seemed to differ...

The time here appeared to be distorted, not linear, with intermittent breaks. This led to his watch continuously enduring time fluctuations, resulting in scientifically inexplicable phenomena of time acceleration or delay.

Without looking at his watch, Lin Yi had lost all sense of time, since to him, every time he set his eyes on the Night Watchman and the Quantum giant clock, they appeared to be frozen in a certain pose. However, when he shifted his gaze and looked back, the Night Watchman and the Quantum giant clock had adopted "another set" of frozen postures.

An invisible time fluctuation was dominating the pace at which everything in the Bell Tower’s top operated.

He thought of a frozen Tsunami; perhaps the logic here was the same as there.

After about three minutes like this, Lin Yi finally arrived within less than ten meters of the Night Watchman after "going round and round."

It was not until this moment that he caught a glimpse of Old Mo from around a "corner" of the space, who had come up before him.

"Eh, Old Mo!" His eyebrows lifted with joy. He wanted to speak but couldn’t make a sound. However, as he got a bit closer, he noticed a horrifying and bizarre change had occurred to Old Mo!

Old Mo’s body was riddled with countless worm-eaten-like holes, from which particles drifted out and then dissipated into the surge of air.

"Old Mo’s body is disintegrating!" Lin Yi’s heart pounded wildly.

At that moment, Old Mo saw him too, but when Old Mo looked his way, Lin Yi could clearly see a strong look of surprise in his eyes. Then it seemed as if Old Mo realized something, and his surprise turned into enlightenment.

But that look was still very complex.

Then, he saw Old Mo raise his riddled hand, holding something that at first glance couldn’t be distinguished as an hourglass or an oil lamp, and gestured to him.

After that, he went back to fiddling with the object on his own.

The object was the Dormitory Supervisor’s hourglass, whose petrified exterior had now mostly peeled off to reveal the appearance of an old oil lamp. Inside the greasy glass cover, a faint wick flickered gently.

Around Old Mo, one could clearly see particles of golden aura flowing around. Like clouds, they kept converging into the glass cover, as if recharging the wick.

However, Lin Yi saw Old Mo, but not Mu Daxian.

If he remembered correctly, Old Mo had come to rescue Mu Daxian, but where was Mu Daxian?

All the way here, he hadn’t caught a glimpse of Mu Daxian. Could he be in the folds of some layer?

After all, Old Mo had only appeared to him after he arrived.

It was at this time that he noticed a piece of debris floating beside Old Mo.

A piece of debris, as if it was an independent layer.

He looked at that fragment, as if peering through a broken mirror at the world inside.

"Wait!! Is that... Mu Daxian?!"