AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 804 - 370 Dream Building_2

Chapter 804: Chapter 370 Dream Building_2

"Rumble rumble rumble..."

Intense winds sounded by his ears again, and the distorted and bizarre scenes before his eyes seemed to be on the verge of collapse the moment he uttered the title Night Watchman. This eerie and somewhat extradimensional scenery started to reject his presence.

"It is me... but don’t focus on me... that will detach you from the ’Dream’..."

"Treat my voice as background music, now I need your ’consciousness’ to leave the Bell Tower and head to the Art Building..."

The Night Watchman’s voice now seemed infused with a kind of magic power, with a bewitching force that compelled Lin Yi to start moving.

He slowly stood up, glanced at his own distorted body sitting in the dimensions, and then flew out without looking back...

In his current state, he was very much like when he was repairing The City Wall of the "My World" at the Gymnasium, but this time, he left his physical body without having constructed a "World".

"When I was repairing The City Wall, even if I nearly exhausted myself, I never encountered a situation where I couldn’t return to my body. Could it be that the premise of ’Safe Dream Building’ is that you must construct a world similar to ’My World’?"

In the Dream, overlapping "My World" with the real world forms a map, allowing entry and exit without the risk of getting lost.

Lin Yi seemed to have discovered some secrets of Dream Building, but then he thought that even though he knew nothing, his Instinct had formed a Framework from the beginning, making him act within the Framework’s boundaries and not lose his way back.

With that thought, he broke out into a cold sweat.

Back when he had no cognition of "My World," during his first Awakening of that ability while exploring the Teaching Building with Li Huiyuan, he nearly Traverse the corridor and reached its other end.

At that time, a tendency for him to lose contact with his physical body had already faintly emerged.

If at that time he had not returned to his body but had walked to the other end of the corridor, might he have been lost within the Layers?

Another time, while looking into the Green Forest Belt, his consciousness kept delving into the Green Forest Belt, eventually reaching the junction of light and shadow, where he faintly saw the outline of the colossal being that lurked there.

It was not until recently that he found out that the colossal being might be the "Shadow of Origin," but at the time he was unaware and nearly lost his way. If it wasn’t for a Rage Angel that happened to intrude into his Perception, allowing him to exit the "Dream Building" state in time, he might have been lost...

His body shivered violently, not daring to think any further.

The journey thus far was fraught with peril... and many dangers had inadvertently been avoided by him.

Sometimes, just a few more steps might lead to a point of no return!

He refocused his thoughts and began to extend his Perception outward...

"Theoretically speaking, wherever the gusts from the ’Holy Hall’ reach should become an extension of your perception..."

The Night Watchman’s voice seemed like an echo in a valley, intermittent, and Lin Yi knew this was Night Watchman’s way of treating his own voice—’backgrounding’ it to avoid affecting the stability of his "Dream Building" state.

In the Dream Building Space, the rules and patterns completely lost their original forms. The clock face on the Bell Tower’s wall, once a perfect circle, was first stretched and pulled by an invisible hand, turning into a skewed ellipse. Then the center caved in, and the edges curled up as if it were a vortex being sucked into a black hole, mysterious symbols spinning wildly within it, as if the concept of Time had completely lost its meaning...

The four corners of the Bell Tower seemed as if they had melted from intense heat, the right angles becoming rounded. Then, as if struck by some powerful force, the walls bulged outward, forming peculiar arc shapes. The whole room looked like a grotesque balloon on the verge of exploding.

He couldn’t help but glance at his wrist, the wristwatch as sturdy as ever, seemingly the only item in the Dream Building Space that still possessed geometric shapes and basic logic.

He was moving, yet everything seen by his eyes was vastly different from what he perceived.

At that moment, the bell sound of the "Holy Hall" abruptly chimed, unleashing waves of pure white energy imbued with golden light throughout this twisted, crumbling dimension. As the energy expanded, the illogical dimensions were momentarily smoothed out as if by an invisible pair of hands ironing a wrinkled bedsheet, only to see the wrinkles revert to their original state right after being flattened.

Lin Yi seemed to realize something. If the Night Watchman both sought something and kept silent, then the only thing he could do was to find the corresponding logic within the layers of this dimension. To do so, he had to catch a certain "path" within the waves released by the "Holy Hall" and execute an articulated search.

And those waves... they didn’t rise with each strike of the bell but rather resonated wave after wave with a single strike, waiting for the final ripples to fade before the Night Watchman would strike the Quantum giant clock again.

"Since I don’t know what the Night Watchman is searching for, why not take this opportunity to explore the Art Building? When it’s 3 o’clock, I’ll come back here!" Lin Yi’s mind brightened. The waves from the Quantum giant clock radiated out centered on the Night Watchman. By that time, he only needed to trace back against the direction of the waves’ expansion to return.

Thus, on the next occurrence of the energy waves, he willed his consciousness to shift, and it drifted out, arriving beyond the walls of the Bell Tower!

There he saw the walls outside besmeared with sticky black gelatinous lifeforms. As the waves of energy spread, many of the black gelatinous materials were instantly eradicated, but those that had persisted until now became even more condensed...

Moreover, as his consciousness floated, it seemed as if the black gelatinous materials could sense him, continuously hissing towards his location, with some even baring jagged teeth in a mixture of solid and liquid states.

In the twisted layers, those small mouths resembled the mouthparts of aliens dripping with corrosive fluid.

Lin Yi could even perceive a sense of danger emanating from them, akin to a deep diver beholding a vast expanse of undulating seaweed on the sea floor.

"What on earth are those things...?"

The question inadvertently rose in Lin Yi’s mind.

The next moment, the Night Watchman’s "narration-like" background voice floated in the air: "They are the offspring of Purebred Nightwalkers that have gone through countless iterations... a nest-type Nocturnal species with potent contamination capabilities..."

"They are drastically different from traditional Nocturnal species. Their formation signifies the emergence of a ’nest’..."

"Could this be the ’Snake Nest’?" Lin Yi asked quietly.

The Night Watchman’s voice continued: "They are far from reaching the scale of the ’Snake Nest,’ and around the ’Angel,’ they stand no chance of becoming the ’Snake Nest.’ At most, they could reach the hazard level of the Angel Sculpture... You can regard them as one of the most dangerous ’Super Nocturnal Species’ or an Alien Angel."

"But isn’t the ’Snake Nest’ a type of Alien Angel? How come..."

"That’s beyond what you need to consider... I warn you, keep your will close to the Art Building. I can protect you when you’re near me, but if you wander while leaving the Bell Tower, you’ll be drawn to the ’Angel.’"

"While the ’Holy Hall’s wave might suppress the vitality of an Alien Angel, the further you are, the weaker the suppression. Be careful yourself..."

"Dream Building is not an invincible state. Once you leave the sanctuary’s protection, it’s like playing hide and seek with death."

"Never be complacent; dangers pertaining to ’Time’... are just one of the many perils you’ll face in the process of ’Dream Building.’"