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Chapter 825 - 381 Danger!! The Night Watchman Has Not Returned!

Chapter 825: Chapter 381 Danger!! The Night Watchman Has Not Returned!

Between him and the "Angel," there seemed to be only one last barrier left—the boundless black Tsunami!

However, in front of an existence with the Position of an "Angel," the thickness of that "Tsunami" seemed ridiculously thin!

Lin Yi’s Soul trembled ceaselessly. He had once naively fantasized about what it would be like for a "Mortal" to face an "Angel." But when he himself faced one, he found he had no reaction at all.

He experienced only the most primal trembling, his mind a blank, not even knowing what fear was.

Or perhaps— even the emotion of fear, from its birth to spreading across his cognition, was not as swift as the emptiness that arrived first in his Perception.

Overwriting.

His Instinct overwrote all the emotions he should have felt at this moment.

Or was it... a delay?!

He suddenly realized something and looked swiftly at his wrist.

The watch on his wrist showed the current Time to be—

2:52.

But the second hand was swinging back and forth between the 7th and the 8th second.

Unlike the hard swing from one second to the next, this time, the swinging was in reverse!!

The hand on his watch seemed to reach the 8th second countless times, yet it seemed to be pulled backwards by some invisible force, remaining at a moment infinitely close to "May 10th, X023, 2:52:08"!!

"Time... is continuously reversing?!"

"No, not reversing, but... elongating!!"

"The Achilles paradox?!"

The hand was about to reach 2:52:08 countless times, but each time it was about to get there, the remaining Time stretched out a bit!

In other words, he was currently in a Layer where Time was infinitely elongated!

"Am I... ’Dream Building’?!"

Like "Inception," he was falling deeper into a Dream, thereby perceiving the external World’s Time more and more slowly!

Dream Building!

Getting lost!

If this went on indefinitely, he would die!

No, here he wouldn’t die, he would become... the Sneering Angel?!

If he didn’t have the watch, he would indeed have been lost; but now that he knew, he wouldn’t!

"I must go back! I have to go back!"

"The Night Watchman just taught me ’Retrospect’!"

Lin Yi applied what he had just learned on the spot, facing the "Angel" as he Retrospected the waves of air, and then this wisp of consciousness vanished here...

At 2:52:08, the "Angel" reached the boundary of the chaotic Nihility, where, outside the void, the black tides roared endlessly, and within the Grey Mist, the writhing, twisting, scalp-tingling sinister silhouette contracted randomly...

The "Angel" looked at where Lin Yi’s consciousness had disappeared and remained motionless for a long time.

[...]

The "Angel" seemed to emit some obscure and ancient syllables, which were blocked by countless heavy Layers, as if through countless eras. When the sound reached here, it had become so muffled that it was unclear, leaving only two rough syllables, sounding like...

[...0...]

[...1...]

...

May 10th, X023, 2:52.

The World in front of Lin Yi crumbled apart, and when he regained his Vision, only the surface of the "Holy Hall" with floating Secret Marks remained.

And his consciousness also regained control of his body.

"Having fun, huh? Had to vent, and made me watch the flickering light show of life, didn’t you?" Lin Yi seemed to be talking to his own Instinct, but on second thought, joking with oneself was pretty bizarre...

He clearly remembered facing the "Angel," but only recalled the fact that he faced the "Angel." Details related to it, however, were completely forgotten.

It felt as though he’d lost that part of his memory.

I know I went on a spring outing yesterday, but I only know I went, not where or what I did.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t know, there isn’t even a bit of detail.

Just like playing a text based game.

"Could it be that ’I’ blocked ’my’ memories?"

He tried to recall, but besides a sensation of trembling, there was nothing else.

That delayed sense of fear also disappeared along with his "memory loss."

If you don’t know what it is, you won’t fear Nihility.

The only thing he remembered was Time, as Time had nothing to do with the World of "Dream Building"!

"Right! Time!!"

He hurriedly glanced at his watch.

More than ten seconds had passed since he had just awakened.

The moment he saw the dial, his mind became clear suddenly, an intelligence that didn’t seem to be his own appeared, and he instantly understood why the Time was always infinitely close to "2:52:08"!

Because at 2:58:08, the "Angel" truly saw him.

Or rather, the event of "the ’Angel’ locking eyes with him" was a conclusion he deduced from logical reasoning of details in his cognition, but, both Old Mo and the Night Watchman had mentioned that once you directly face an Angel, you fall into the Cautions of [chasing Phantoms in the Abyss of mist and darkness, lost Souls].

His Instinct and cognition exploited the stretching second of Time scale, allowing him to evade and prevent it from becoming an established fact.

And now, the Titanic that should have collided with the iceberg had narrowly missed it.