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Chapter 812 - 374: The Little Girl’s Identity_2

Chapter 812: Chapter 374: The Little Girl’s Identity_2

"I’m getting a bit panicked too..." The Night Watchman made a gesture to wipe off sweat, "What did she...sing? Did you catch any distinctive lyrics?"

"It seemed like... something about playing hide and seek..." Lin Yi’s tone was somewhat hesitant, not because he couldn’t hear it clearly, but quite the contrary, he could hear it very well. It’s just that the Night Watchman’s reaction was too intense.

Please don’t be like this!

Can’t you go back to being the authoritative and indifferent cool guy you usually are? You looking like this... I feel like I’m gonna die!

"It’s over, you’re done for..." The Night Watchman let out a sigh.

"It’s not you... I... I’m freaking..." Lin Yi was about to cry because of the Night Watchman’s secretive demeanor. He simply stuck out his tongue in resignation, with an "yi xi te lei" expression.

"If you feel that way, why don’t you talk to me about it? They say that a man about to die speaks good words..."

"It’s you who’s going to die, not me! I don’t have any good words to say..." Lin Yi’s optimistic appearance left the Night Watchman dumbfounded, but of course, he also knew that Lin Yi was a typical case of "ignorance is bliss."

He then sighed: "As you seek, I’ll talk to you. Consider this sending you off..."

"..." Lin Yi pursed his lips, "If you can’t say anything auspicious, can you at least hold off on the ominous talk?"

"Sorry, sorry..." The Night Watchman’s tone became significantly more perfunctory, apparently adopting a "respect for the dying" attitude, "I’ve been here for many years, and even I am not qualified to hear the ’Soul Suppressing Song’... You really are something."

Lin Yi: "..."

"I..." He was about to speak when the surge from the Holy Hall entered him, infusing his being.

With a ’boom’, he felt his consciousness "ascend"...

This time it was better than the last; it wasn’t as forcefully tearing apart his consciousness but was much gentler, and his consciousness quickly appeared in that twisted world filled with white lines interwoven with a golden aura...

He began to navigate through this world anew, and the scenes he had seen before of Art Students battling the eerie entities in the Grey Mist started to re-emerge before his eyes...

And this time, the voice of the Night Watchman clearly shifted from that soothing background music, becoming much more normal.

"The scenes you’re seeing that appear almost still, aren’t truly motionless, but because the surge is momentary, it seems like there’s no change..."

"In fact, they are always in battle."

"Earlier you asked me what that bedroom was, and what was in the deep well... Now I can tell you."

"Inside that deep well, lies a part of the remains of some ’Angel Envoy’..."

"[Little children, playing hide and seek, one by one hiding away...]

[In this cozy courtyard, a good place to be~ brothers and sisters hide themselves away...]"

"What... this nursery rhyme?!" Lin Yi was startled, these were the lines whispered by the Night Watchman. Although the tune was different from the little girl’s, there was no difference in the lyrics.

It seemed that the Night Watchman had never heard this nursery rhyme before, but somehow knew some of the lyrics.

The Night Watchman specifically mentioned the deep well here, could it be because the remains of the Angel Envoy buried within have something to do with that little girl?!

All of a sudden, he remembered even more details, that ominous black nursery rhyme, the shovel, and the large saw next to the little girl...

"But she actually has the ability to kill an ’Angel Envoy’... Then doesn’t that make her?!"

The Night Watchman said: "Correct... But what I didn’t tell you is, the Envoy buried in the well is not an ordinary one, but one of the ’Original Apostles’..."

"It’s the remains of one of those adults..."

Lin Yi’s pupils shrank: "Doesn’t that mean... she too, no, she must be an existence like the ’Original Apostles’, could it be that she’s the soul of an ’Angel’ imprisoned here?!"

The Night Watchman let out a helpless chuckle: "You’ve actually guessed it already, you just don’t dare to think in that direction, right?"

"That little girl... she is... actually one of the ’Original Apostles’..."

"Inside the Art Building, I worried about bringing trouble upon you, so I won’t reveal her true name... But, I can tell you the honorific she once held—her former title..."

"Contractor..."

At the moment he heard these three words, Lin Yi felt a tingling sensation on his scalp, because the voice wasn’t that of the Night Watchman.

His consciousness detected a cold wind, carrying a slightly bloody breath, as if it was seeping through the waves of air in the ’Holy Hall,’ attempting to engrave itself into his mind.

Once again, he heard the ’ding ding dong dong’ sound of the music box, and it was as if he heard the voices of children singing black nursery rhymes.

He knew, the little girl had appeared...

This strange infiltration, seemed like the Soul of the Dream Builder penetrating time, descending in the form of the Sneering Angel from an unknown dimension of Layers, appearing beside him.

However, the existence of the little girl, her Position, seemed to far surpass those Dream Builders...

Lin Yi felt as if he was forcefully held in place, even the air around him seemed to solidify.

He looked at the watch on his wrist, the current time was 2:26:33, and it was frozen at the 33-second mark.

That one hand seemed to have exhausted all its strength trying to move to 34 seconds, yet it seemed to be held back by an invisible force field, completely unable to move.

In this moment, Layers wrapped around Lin Yi like a membrane, then as if a rolling pin kept rolling over this layer, Lin Yi was kneaded into all sorts of shapes, his head buzzing, leaving only chaotic noise by his ears...

[Lin Yi Lin Yi Lin Yi (sound echoing and becoming clearer)... you have come you have come you have...]

[Contractor Contractor Contractor... Mage...]

[Lin Yi Lin Yi Lin Yi... you have come you have come...]

[Contractor Contractor...]

[Lin Yi Lin Yi Lin Yi...]

[I just I just I just... know know... know...]

Black nursery rhymes resounded incessantly, lengthy, obscure, seemingly simple tunes yet as if they were strange notes seeping through the cracks of time...

In this bizarre, crumbling world, it seemed as though a path was slowly opening, and at the end of the path... was a door covered in rust.

On the door was a plaque, engraved with some incomprehensible and already damaged sinister symbols, like numbers, or perhaps some other kind of code...

He knew, the little girl was guiding the way to her bedroom...

His vision twisted again, becoming bizarre, making even direct gazing impossible.

But the air seemed to flow again, the disorderly and irritating noises that were messing with his head finally started to fade away slowly.

"Contractor..."

This time, the voice that appeared by his ear was that of the Night Watchman.

Time started to function normally again, and it was only now that the Night Watchman’s voice finally reached Lin Yi’s ears.

He lowered his head to glance at the watch, the hand on the watch, with great difficulty, moved from 2:26:33 to 2:26:34, like a warrior who had fought across countless fields of time...

"The events just now... did they really only happen within... a ’second’ of time?!"

"No, time is just the scale I perceive, just now... I couldn’t understand what was happening at all..."

Lin Yi felt a slight daze in his Spirit, his head was still muddled, his consciousness was in chaos, as if he was ’jet-lagged,’ only he wasn’t sure whether his own jet lag was an issue, or rather, what would it take for him to adjust back...