Rules-related weird stories: 4016

But what made Lin Yi's scalp tingle even more were the vague things within its silhouette... Its sides seemed to bulge with some irregular fleshy lumps. These lumps seemed to have their own life, wriggling and contracting from time to time, like some special scales, or some strange feathers, or perhaps... like countless small eyes hidden, peering into various layers!

The dark tide twisted the entire world outside the clock tower. Its body meandered endlessly, its head seemed to be entangled in its body, and the end of each phantom was like its head, or perhaps none of them were its head. It seemed to be some kind of more terrifying aggregate...

After looking at it a few times, Lin Yi immediately felt a chilling sensation, a coldness that penetrated deep into his bones, not just a drop in temperature, but more like a freezing of the soul.

"Wait!"

"Could that be the 'angel' Old Mo was talking about?!"

After all, "angel" is just a title. Who can say it's not that snake-like thing?

He immediately thought of the night watchman standing on the cliff, holding an ancient cyan lamp, and the almost solidified "tsunami" in front of him. Could it be that the three night watchmen were resisting the invasion of the gray mist in different positions?

And these three night watchmen each hold the ancient cyan lamp, the quantum giant clock, and some unknown extraordinary creation?

Thinking like this, could it be that the guardians of the Three Realms and Six Paths in myths and legends are these few night watchmen...?

After all, there seemed to have been six night watchmen in the past...?

That vacant position of the night watchman...

Hiss—

Mu Daxian wants to ascend to immortality?!

The more Lin Yi thought about it, the more outrageous it became, and his thoughts gradually deviated...

Just then, the night watchman's deep and chilling voice reached his ears:

"Young man... you really came up."

"'Really'?" Lin Yi's eyelids twitched violently. What does "really" mean? Could it be that the night watchman didn't think he could come up at all?

He coughed dryly, not knowing what to say to the night watchman, so he imitated the protagonist in novels and clasped his hands together, saying, "Uh... I was fortunate enough to pass your test."

"'Test'?" The night watchman's voice paused slightly, "What test?"

"Damn, what was I expecting?!" Lin Yi felt that his expectations were trampled under the night watchman's feet, but he couldn't say anything, just feeling a little uncomfortable in his heart... So, the night watchman's words "provided that you come up" meant the same thing as the jokes between classmates when going to school as a child...

If you have the ability, hit me!

Do you think I dare not!

If you dare, come on!

Come on!

Come on!

*Slap!*

Wuwuwu, you really dare to hit me?

These scenes flashed through his mind, but Lin Yi felt even more sad, feeling that if he were a puppy, his ears should be drooping now.

The night watchman's voice continued, "Don't think so much. I just think you're a bit interesting, so I wanted to see if you're qualified to come up."

When Lin Yi heard the word "qualified", he felt a little better, because this was at least an informal test, but not given by the night watchman, but... that quantum giant clock?

After all, that storm seemed to be oscillated from the quantum giant clock.

"Come over."

"Come closer and let me see."

The night watchman's voice sounded again, and the feeling of shaking the mind weakened a lot.

In this way, Lin Yi no longer had the feeling of Hong Zhong Da Lu roaring in his ears.

"Okay, I'll come..."

He was just about to speak, but found that his body was already moving uncontrollably towards the night watchman, like a machine that had lost control of its subjective will.

He was shocked and tried to regain control of his body, but found that his body was completely out of control!

"It's not instinct, but... the night watchman directly issued a 'command' to my body?!"

Lin Yi was shocked. For example, the physical education teacher's "command" had some flavor of imperial decree in it, but the physical education teacher still needed to issue orders in a relatively fixed format, while the night watchman already had a feeling of words following the law.

Speaking of coercion, Lin Yi couldn't help but think of Old Mo... When Old Mo took him to leap through the layers, there seemed to be some similar elements in it.

Could this be some common characteristic that appears after the depth of pollution reaches a certain level?

"Then wouldn't I be like this in the future?" Lin Yi subconsciously had this idea in his mind, but instinctively didn't consider that this would mean that his pollution had reached a level far beyond that of a "trainee"...

For some reason, just as he was subconsciously beginning to accept this idea, as if triggering some kind of mechanism, Wei Liang's cheap appearance appeared in his mind for no reason.

"If I could really issue commands like that, wouldn't Liangzi be able to realize H manga plots wherever he goes?"

"Forget it, forget it, don't think so much..."

Lin Yi adjusted his emotions and focused his attention on the environment in front of him.

He still didn't have control over his body, like a person whose screen was remotely controlled, and could only watch everything that happened in front of him.

And he soon knew why the night watchman wanted to do this—because the pattern of the top floor of the clock tower was not constant.

Just like the scene he saw when he first arrived here, the entire environment on the top floor was constantly changing. The stones under his feet were constantly extending and twisting, and disappeared as if suddenly folding ninety degrees. The surroundings and the top were constantly evolving like blooming flower buds.

And of course, when moving, the situation was the same, and because the variable of "movement" was added, the sense of distortion of the entire space was greatly increased, and the change of the space under perception alone made him feel dizzy.

This kind of counterintuitive change will subvert the human body's perception of space and environment, making people lose many of the most basic characteristics, such as... spatial distance and center of gravity.

He now felt top-heavy, but fortunately, the body was not completely under his control... Wait! The night watchman took over his body with one sentence?!

"This...? !"

This is too weird!

But Lin Yi had no time to take care of this weirdness, because he had all his attention on observing the surrounding environment.

With the night watchman around, what was he afraid of?

He definitely had to see enough!

I saw that everything around was being scaled by an invisible force, and the floating walls were pieced together at some strange angles, and some even overlapped each other, forming a complex maze-like structure.

He found that after walking a few steps, the originally straight stone slab suddenly翘upward and connected to a certain side wall next to it. Walking on it was like walking on a gravity-defying slope...

The color palette of the entire world leaned towards cool tones, dominated by purple, with a faint golden glow, giving the whole world a mysterious and somber atmosphere.

Light, originating from an unknown source, became thin and eerie in this world, far from the brightness and warmth of sunlight in the real world.

As he moved, he occasionally saw scattered fragments of light, seemingly emanating from unknown locations, like the folds of space or the cracks in some unknown layers, scattering and forming bands of blue or purple light, casting long, strangely shaped shadows in the distorted space.

When the surging air currents moved, the colors of these lights also changed dramatically. Whenever the Night Watcher struck the Quantum Bell, golden light rippled around the bell, contrasting sharply with the cool-toned background, like the dawn breaking in the darkness, carrying a mysterious sense of oppression.

Golden rays of light spread along the folds and contours of the entire space, outlining an unknown silhouette of what might be a building or a creature. In the air close to the Quantum Bell, golden ripples seemed to weave some mysterious and complex totem patterns in space…

The matter here seemed to be in an extremely unstable state. The walls and ground appeared to be solidified from flowing liquid, with irregular textures on the surface, like the traces of water flow frozen in an instant. Some fragments of the walls even flickered from time to time, as if they could disappear or transform at any moment.

On a few walls, there were candlesticks with burning candles, but the candlesticks occasionally changed into other materials, then reverted to their original appearance.

In this bizarre world, the only constants seemed to be the Night Watcher and the Quantum Bell.

They were located at the center of the world, and everything that changed seemed to revolve around them, like an asteroid belt.

Just then, Lin Yi's body, under control, leaped from a stone slab perpendicular to the ground to another that was almost flipped over, facing the ground.

"Clap!"

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

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The rules of gravity seemed to be completely absent, and Newton's coffin lid had been overturned.

But perhaps Newton had seen this phenomenon in his lifetime. After all, his later years… perhaps he was researching these things.

Lin Yi moved constantly. He originally thought he would need to readjust to this unconventional way of moving, but he realized he was wrong—he didn't need to adjust at all.

Or rather, with his body's current "adaptability," a "mere" sense of incongruity was nothing to him.

At that moment, he jumped to a stone slab not far ahead, one that was completely impossible to reach with the "naked eye".

As he jumped, a phantom path seemed to appear in the space, like an invisible slide, guiding him to that landing point.

Here, the height and distance of jumps were no longer limited by muscle strength and gravity in the real world, but rather depended on the logical rules within the space…

If Lin Yi had to navigate this himself, there would be no chance to get close to the Night Watcher!

The only thing he could be sure of was that no matter how he moved, he was ultimately closing the distance with the Night Watcher—even if sometimes it seemed like he was running in a direction away from the Night Watcher.

He subconsciously glanced at his wrist, and found that the time on the watch was still ticking, but the intervals between the seconds seemed to be different…

Time here also seemed to be distorted, not linear, but somewhat intermittent, which caused his watch to constantly experience fluctuations in time, resulting in some time acceleration or deceleration phenomena that could not be explained by science.

If he didn't look at his watch, Lin Yi would have lost his sense of time, because it seemed to him that as long as his eyes looked at the Night Watcher and the Quantum Bell, they seemed to always remain in some kind of static relationship when he looked over, but when he looked away and then looked back, the Night Watcher and the Quantum Bell had changed into "another set" of static actions.

An invisible time fluctuation was dominating the operational speed of the entire clock tower top floor.

He thought of the frozen tsunami; perhaps this place and that place shared the same logic.

After about three minutes, Lin Yi finally arrived within ten meters of the Night Watcher after "circling around."

It was not until this moment that he saw Old Mo, who had come up before, from a "corner" of a certain space.

"Oh, Old Mo!" He was overjoyed, wanting to speak but unable to make a sound. However, as he got closer, he realized that a terrifying and bizarre change had occurred in Old Mo's body!

Now, Old Mo's body had countless worm-eaten holes, and some particles floated out of the holes and dissipated into the air currents.

"Old Mo's body is annihilating!" Lin Yi's heart pounded.

At this moment, Old Mo also saw him, but when Old Mo saw him, he clearly noticed a strong look of astonishment in Old Mo's eyes, and then Old Mo seemed to have thought of something, and the astonishment turned into understanding.

But that look was still very complicated.

Then, he saw Old Mo raise his riddled hand, holding something that looked like an hourglass or an oil lamp, and gestured to him.

After that, he preoccupied himself with the object.

That thing was the hourglass in the hands of the dormitory manager. Now, the petrified shell had almost peeled off, revealing the appearance of an old kerosene lamp. Inside the oil-stained glass cover, a faint wick swayed slowly.

Around Old Mo, some flowing, particle-like golden auras could still be clearly seen. They gathered into the glass cover like clouds, as if charging the wick.

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

If he remembered correctly, Old Mo came to save Mu Daxian, but where was Mu Daxian?

He hadn't seen Mu Daxian's figure all the way here. Could it be in a fold of some layer?

After all, Old Mo was only seen after he arrived here.

Just then, he noticed a fragment floating beside Old Mo.

A fragment, as if it were an independent layer.

Looking at that fragment, he was like looking at the world in the mirror through a broken mirror.

"Wait!! That's… Mu Daxian?!"