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Chapter 817 - 377: The Item that the Night Watchman is Looking For - "Quartermaster"!

Chapter 817: Chapter 377: The Item that the Night Watchman is Looking For - "Quartermaster"!

"Could it be... the ’Contractor’ has already escaped from the prison’s confinement?" Lin Yi asked, his voice trembling.

The Night Watchman fell silent for a while, then said: "It’s not possible... the world today no longer meets the conditions to lift the ’Time Exile’, she absolutely cannot return, but there is one possibility... Her will, which has penetrated time and layers, has ultimately influenced The Outpost’s layer."

"Your Phantom Visions and auditory hallucinations... are very likely related to her influence on the Art Building..."

Lin Yi stroked his arm, bristling with chill: "Do you mean to say... the ’call of the Art Building’ that I’ve been feeling all this time, is actually the ’call of the Contractor’?!"

"The call of the Contractor has penetrated the layers, finding me the moment I arrived on campus?!"

Calculating the time, he had heard the "call of the Art Building" on the afternoon of his second day in school, when clouds obscured the sun, and then he shared visions with Maozi, who had just reached the Art Building... It was precisely when Maozi had absorbed the first wave of green powder particles in ’Art Classroom-IV’!

According to the shared nature of the Contamination, indeed it was from that moment that he kept hearing the "call of the Art Building," and tonight was the first time he made it to the Art Building himself!

So when he had arrived at the Gallery, did the Contractor appear in his Phantom Vision holding a music box?!

It wasn’t that he had a Phantom Vision of the Contractor, but rather the Contractor’s will had penetrated through and made him see her?!

"This..."

"But why...? Why pick me out of the vast crowd, the perfect sucker? Can’t she go look for Liangzi instead, Liangzi is the lolicon damn it..."

The more Lin Yi thought, the more terrified he became. Being targeted by an ancient killer that existed before a civilization system was even established was a horror beyond words!

"’02’... am I being targeted by her?!" Lin Yi asked in panic.

"That’s good news," the Night Watchman said.

"Ah?"

"Of course, that’s from my perspective," the Night Watchman continued, "It means she won’t be focusing on me anymore... For you, of course, it’s the worst possible news."

"You’re not the ’Angel Envoy’ who messes up his words and likes to crack cold jokes, are you damn it?"

"How could you think that?" the Night Watchman, not catching the sarcasm in Lin Yi’s voice, seriously said, "We are created beings, how could we be ’Angel Envoys’?"

"I believe it must be the Contractor’s will persisting in a particular ’frequency’. She’s been releasing it for countless years, and only a few with extraordinary talents, possessing the ’Dream Building’ trait, can capture this encrypted message..."

"How does the saying go, you are... a mutual rush towards each other."

Lin Yi covered his face: "Mutual rush towards each other, my ass..."

As the saying goes, women hold up half the sky, women become immortal after reaching thirty...

Of course, Lin Yi was well aware, this "mutual rush towards each other" was not the same as that "mutual rush towards each other"...

The Night Watchman then said: "I think, the Contractor must have been trying to break free from ’Time Exile’ for countless years, and because time in higher dimensions is not linear, we cannot tell whether this call that has penetrated through time comes from the past or from some point in the future..."

Lin Yi said very seriously: "She must be calling for the person who can help break her out of prison! To open a door from outside, you need a key that matches the lock, but from the inside, you just need to press down gently on the handle... ’Time Exile’ has closed her off beyond the layers, and we are inside the door!"

"An apt metaphor," the Night Watchman nodded.

"So, after all this talk... do you want to take a look?" Lin Yi asked, then added, "In this bedroom, apart from the prison behind the curtains, the only thing left to look at is this picture frame..."

The Night Watchman’s voice fell silent for a while, as if delving into a certain choice.

After a while, as if he had made up his mind, he said: "Look!"

More than anything else, the Night Watchman would rather believe that this was the very item he had been searching for.

Lin Yi’s thoughts were silent; he also somewhat understood the Night Watchman’s feelings, harboring a slight expectation akin to "searching the crowd at length" then desperately hoping to "suddenly turn around, and finally find the item at the place where the lights are fading."

He then approached the desk, his consciousness slowly drifting, and brought the Night Watchman’s perspective to the front of the picture frame.

The photo in the frame was a cartoon painting of the Dark Forest, rendered in an extremely cute style yet depicting some kind of boundless terror...

"It’s it! It’s really here! Indeed!"

The dignified voice of the Night Watchman betrayed a clear emotional tumult, as though at that moment, he had gained some semblance of humanity.

Lin Yi initially felt that terror because of the cartoon painting inside this frame, but before his fear could spread, the Night Watchman had used the power of the Holy Hall to drag his consciousness away from here.

And at this moment, as he provided the perspective for the Night Watchman, he personally observed the content of this cartoon painting.

Just with one glance, a tingling sensation arose in his heart, as if something was sprouting within, and soon an endless fear spread across his heart...

He then understood, this thing sprouting within him was named ’Fear’.

As the fear spread, the world around him began to undergo violent shaking, no, not the world shaking, but the world inside the picture frame he was looking at!