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Chapter 377: The "Law-Weaver's" Bedroom

His mind flashed back to everything about "home"...

In the spacious living room, the TV was playing the scene from 《Shuiyue Dongtian》 where Doudou shattered the Blood Jade Ruyi, and the entire Shuiyue Dongtian was then frozen.

In the tidy kitchen, clean dishes were neatly arranged in the cabinets.

In the cozy bedroom, the bedding was folded neatly, and the computer on the bedside table was playing the scene from 《Happy Planet》 where Lele entered Happy Planet.

Outside on the balcony, many clothes hung on the clothesline, swaying gently in the wind...

A very normal and ordinary home, but he always felt a strange sense of disharmony...

He quickly realized that there seemed to be no one in this home except him. The kitchen was filled with various cooking utensils and dishes, but there was no food, not even a bag of rice. The clothes hanging outside on the balcony had long dried and had lost the texture of the fabric after being exposed to the sun and wind for who knows how long. The TV shows playing in the living room and bedroom seemed more like creating a false image of "someone being there."

He seemed to feel the indifference of this house. He felt lost and bewildered, looking at everything like a lost child.

His eyes were slightly moist, and a sour feeling spread in his heart, but it was at this moment that he suddenly understood the source of the disharmony—there was a home here, at least it looked like a home, but there wasn't a single person!

Compared to a "home", this place was more like a cage, a prison, a kind of... isolated exile!

「Boom—」

The flickering images in his mind disappeared, and his attention returned to the rusty iron door in front of him. The rust marks on the door resembled a face that was both crying and laughing, mocking, weeping, and watching something madly...

【Little friend, hide-and-seek~ One, two, hide away~】

【Small courtyard, good place~ Brothers and sisters, hide yourselves...】

Lin Yi heard the soft, childish nasal voice of a little girl humming a nursery rhyme. He suddenly felt a touch on the back of his hand, as if a cold little hand had gently been placed on his hand...

In the next moment, his hand, which was suspended in front of the iron door, was gently pushed onto the door.

Throughout the entire process, Lin Yi's mind was in a daze. He watched his palm being pushed onto the door by this invisible force like an outsider.

When his palm touched the door, his consciousness seemed to turn into countless fine grains of sand, penetrating the "gap" that did not exist in this iron door, and seeping into the world behind the door...

As soon as he entered, he heard a low roar in his ear. At the same time, the terrifying image of a giant bear suddenly flashed in front of Lin Yi's face in a close-up!

【Roar—!!】

The giant bear's fur was like rough white armor, emitting a cold, gloomy light in front of him.

Its body was unimaginably huge, and every muscle was like a boulder rolling under its skin, containing the power to destroy everything. Its eyes were small but flashed with a fierce and crazy light. It opened its bloody mouth towards Lin Yi, revealing a row of sharp, yellowed fangs. Saliva dripped continuously from between its teeth, and the stench of its breath blew on Lin Yi's face like a blower...

But just as it was about to rush towards Lin Yi, a golden wave of air surged out like a landslide, suppressing the image of the snow-white giant bear.

"Don't be afraid, I'm here." The Night Watcher's voice sounded in Lin Yi's ear in real time, but Lin Yi couldn't find the Night Watcher's location, and the golden waves of air also gushed out from his body.

"My will, through the power of the 「Sanctuary」, accompanies the waves of air and stays in your consciousness... Go and take a look at this room."

As the image of the snow-white giant bear dissipated, a super-sized white plush bear doll appeared in Lin Yi's eyes on a chair beside the bed.

"That just now... couldn't have been this stuffed bear, right?"

"It's hard to say it wasn't. Everything in this bedroom needs to be treated with extra caution." The Night Watcher's voice echoed in his mind.

Lin Yi pursed his lips and remained silent. He subconsciously touched the back of his hand, which was ice-cold, as if he had just applied an ice pack.

"「02」, when I entered, did you feel anything unusual?"

"Unusual? I thought you were 'invited' in? Isn't that so...?"

Lin Yi was silent for a moment, and then confessed: "I'm not sure either..."

But then he thought of the feeling of being guided by "someone" to push the door open before entering, and he subconsciously muttered: "Maybe... it can barely be considered that, right? Forget it, never mind, this is..."

"It's the 'bedroom' I told you about before. See if it's the one you're looking for?"

Lin Yi's premonition at the door was correct. Behind that rusty iron door, "indeed" was the pink and blue decorated, seemingly warm bedroom.

The last time he appeared here, he saw the stuffed bear and the photo frame, and before he could take a few more glances, the Night Watcher, who had sensed the danger, pulled him out of this layer.

"That's right... this is it." The Night Watcher's tone had the "Oh~ that's it~" tone of a doctor in a tomb exploration movie who often gets a lunch box when he sees some kind of treasure.

Having received the Night Watcher's confirmation, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but act like a cheapskate: "In that case, the reward we agreed on before, ah, no, that 'final payment'...?"

The Night Watcher couldn't help but laugh a little: "Repeating machine kid... how can you still be thinking about these things at this time? Sigh, okay, okay, when you leave, I'll give you all the remaining 'final payment' as soon as possible, fulfilling my agreement with that guy, is that okay?"

Lin Yi chuckled: "It's good that you still remember..."

The Night Watcher was a little helpless, thinking that you kid has so much human flavor, you don't look like the kind of person who needs to use "interests" as an anchor to anchor 「humanity」...

But when he thought of Lin Yi opening his mouth and saying "stockinged legs" when mentioning ideals and pursuits, he felt that things didn't seem so simple...

After all, that guy back then also talked about stockinged legs all the time, and even said "What apostles, what origins, only stockinged legs are absolute justice," and even reportedly proposed outrageous words such as reforming the uniforms of relevant staff at the school...

Could it be that the more special the race, the more unreliable they are?

Also, "humanity"... what exactly is it?

The Night Watcher stopped talking and silently followed Lin Yi's "perspective", observing the bedroom.

"[02]... Did you see what you're looking for?" Lin Yi asked softly. Setting aside concepts like space folding and hidden layers, this room was only so big, so it shouldn't be hard to find.

The Night Watchman said, "No rush, let's look again..."

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

2:33.

「There's still half an hour... If you say no rush, then no rush.」

Suddenly, Lin Yi saw a human face on the ceiling in the reflection of his watch case...

"Holy crap?! [02]! Ceiling!"

He shouted, and to provide the Night Watchman with a "view," he looked straight up!

However, there was nothing on the ceiling painted with sky-blue paint.

"Nothing there. What did you see just now?" the Night Watchman asked.

"I saw a blurry human face in the reflection of my watch..."

"Could you be mistaken? Maybe it was yourself? The way you look now is quite terrifying. It wouldn't be strange if you mistook yourself."

Reminded by the Night Watchman, Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. He still looked like the [Faceless] with some irrelevant contours. He had a sense of déjà vu like the Faceless King from *Forbidden City Cop*. Anyone who saw him would call him muddleheaded.

"I..."

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"Alright, you must have 'seen wrong'." The Night Watchman's tone was a little heavy, as if emphasizing something.

Lin Yi's heart trembled, as if he understood something, and he quickly replied, "Then I probably saw wrong... After all, the light here isn't very good..."

He continued to observe, but the more he observed, the more he felt eerie and unnatural.

He didn't know if the bedroom had windows, but light blue curtains hung where the windows should be. Some light seemed to shine through the gaps in the curtains, forming dappled spots of light on the floor.

Next to the window was a delicate little bookshelf filled with colorful fairy tale books. The gold-stamped letters on the spines shimmered in the light.

The edges of some pages were slightly yellowed and curled, as if they had been repeatedly rubbed by something, and when he approached, he could smell a faint stench, as if it was emanating from the gaps in the pages.

However, as Lin Yi observed carefully, he would discover the strangeness hidden within. The rabbit drawn on the bed sheet had messy embroidery on its eyes, giving the rabbit's eyes an indescribable madness. The smile of the plush bear doll had an arc that was too exaggerated, as if it had been forcibly pulled open, and its black little eyes seemed to be secretly spying on every corner of the room from certain angles...

Moreover, the snow-white rabbit cartoon pattern made it difficult to tell whether it was a rabbit or a polar bear.

The pink paint on the wall had some irregular dark stains near the corner, as if hiding some unspeakable secret.

On the small carpet by the bed, the originally soft fluff was tangled together in some places, forming small vortexes, like entrances to the depths of darkness.

The chandelier above was the only chandelier used in the entire art building, but there was a slight rustling sound from time to time in the lampshade, as if something was wriggling restlessly inside.

And on the bedroom's dressing table, Lin Yi found a delicate music box...

「Amon's Music Box」.

The music box's box was closed, and the wind-up key had stopped turning, as if it had always been placed there and had never left.

"It is indeed [Amon's Music Box], but don't be afraid..."

"How can I not be afraid?"

"Think about it carefully. There aren't many normal things in this bedroom. For example, if we had to give some names, that one over there would be [The Lawmaker's Bear Doll], [The Lawmaker's Cute Little Bed], [The Lawmaker's Lolita Outfit]..."

「Hey, I'm not sleepy anymore when you mention Lolita!」

Lin Yi wanted to cry but had no tears, forcing a smile. He understood. The Night Watchman's way of comforting people wasn't to say "Don't be afraid," but "Don't be afraid of this thing. Most of the things here are no worse than it..."

Because there are many more terrifying things, the original terrifying things are relatively not so terrifying... No, this logic is flawed. 02, don't you really know that yourself!

Lin Yi panicked even more. This room was full of forbidden transcendent creations!

Had they been polished by the [First Apostle] until they were covered in patina?

It really felt like even the Supreme Lord Lao-Tzu's belt was made of bewitching gold rope!

He moved his gaze and was suddenly attracted to the gap in the curtains again. Then he couldn't help but wonder why he hadn't looked at the gap properly just now. There seemed to be a painting behind it... Ah, wait, that was the painting the Night Watchman mentioned, right!

"That painting... Is it related to the item you're looking for?" Lin Yi asked weakly.

"Don't drag me into your suicide mission," the Night Watchman replied coldly.

Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck.

The Night Watchman explained, "That 'painting' is the prison that exiled the Lawmaker. 'Painting' is just a re-established perception. In reality, it is an abyss world with countless layers, and her true body is imprisoned in one of those layers."

"Once, an adult said that it was okay to take a look, but given that that adult is the one who is the most talkative and likes to tell hellish jokes among the [First Apostles], I don't believe what he said..."

The corners of Lin Yi's mouth twitched. He suddenly felt that this guy the Night Watchman was talking about had somewhat lowered the prestige of the [First Apostle] level of existence...

"Oh, right, there's a photo frame! I don't know if it will help you?"

"Photo frame, where is it?" the Night Watchman asked.

"It's on the desk!" Lin Yi said, slowly approaching the desk next to the bookshelf. However, at this moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he gasped.

"What? Don't be so alarmed. I see the photo frame. That's it, right?" Here, the Night Watchman's perception seemed to be very limited, and he often needed to use Lin Yi's perspective to observe.

"Yes, that's right..." Lin Yi's eyes stared at the photo frame on the desk as if he had seen a ghost. His tone was a little dry and trembling, "But if I remember correctly, the last time I 'came' here, that photo frame, it wasn't facing away from us!"

On the desk, a photo frame faced away from Lin Yi's perspective, as if someone didn't want him to see it, so they deliberately turned it away.

The atmosphere in the bedroom slowly dropped to freezing point at this moment, and a chilling feeling quietly spread...