Rules-related weird stories: 4016

"Night Watchman… … highly regards… … you… …"

"‘Icon’… … perhaps has a… … place for you… …"

"If… … there's a chance to inherit… … inherit ‘Icon’… … by all means do not… … refuse… …"

"There are not… … many… … opportunities left… … for this… … world… …"

"Be sure… … to seize… … it… …"

Lin Yi said anxiously, "Old Mo, just tell me, what can I do to help you reshape your body? What Icon, what inheritance, I haven't considered it! I don't want to consider it either!"

"You… … idiot… …" Old Mo gritted his teeth, and said with difficulty, "I… … won't completely dissipate… …"

"After I die… … my heart will remain… …"

"Before… … you leave the clock tower… … put… … my heart… … into… … that backpack… …"

"I and the boss… … have an… … agreement… … This is… … something that was decided… … from the start… …"

"Definitely… …"

"Definitely… … put my heart… … into… … the bag… … definitely… …"

"Hey! Old Mo! Old Mo! !" But this time, no matter how he called out, Old Mo turned a deaf ear, focusing all his attention on Mu Daxian in the mirror world.

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, somewhat confused as to what Old Mo was carrying on Mu Daxian's body, that would make Old Mo risk his life to save him.

At one point, he even felt some resentment towards Mu Daxian.

But as he focused his attention on Old Mo, he gradually noticed that Old Mo's "dissipation" seemed somewhat different from the dissipation he knew!

The "dissipation" that Lin Yi knew was undoubtedly the kind of dissipation he encountered when he stepped onto the stairs, where the shockwave affected his body, and a part of his body was washed away and dissipated.

The dissipation of the Wrathful Angel during the "Feast" in the stadium dome was also like that.

But now, as Lin Yi observed and sensed, he actually discovered that Old Mo's dissipation was not a pure dissipation, but more like… … a strange extension!

The powder particles that dissipated from his body did not disappear, but entered the mirror world that trapped Mu Daxian in some special trajectory!

From another perspective, Old Mo's state of dissipation was like the particles that made up his body walking out of his outline, and then, like layering, slowly infiltrating into the mirror world.

If Old Mo, who had dissipated into countless particles, were superimposed from a suitable perspective, it would be discovered that only a limited part of his body had dissipated.

He was like an anchor, the part that penetrated into the mirror world was the constantly sinking anchor, and his body was like the iron chain of the anchor, as the anchor sank, the iron chain left on the ship became less and less, and if it could not be recovered, then he would completely lose that part.

Old Mo's body was not dissipating because of the shockwave of the "Sanctum", but was using the power in the shockwave of the "Altar" to make his body undergo that kind of layering penetration in a form that seemed to be dissipation.

Perhaps because layer transition was not possible here, or for some other reason, Old Mo ultimately chose a way to save Mu Daxian.

And what really caused Old Mo's body to begin to dissipate and be permanently lost was the increasingly corrosive "sea water" as the anchor sank—the erosion and consumption from the layers.

Under Old Mo's rescue, Mu Daxian was also gradually moving away from the mirror world, and as he "floated up", his originally fragmented body gradually drew closer to each other, as if he was beginning to reconstruct his own body.

However, this process seemed to still take a while.

Gradually, Old Mo's torso also began to become riddled with holes as it dissipated, his appearance was like a castle built of sand, being blown away bit by bit by the wind.

His chest gradually dissipated, revealing his sternum.

His sternum… … seemed to have been fractured, and there were still unhealed cracks, and under that section of bone was a fresh and strange heart that was slowly beating.

A heart wrapped in a golden aura, faintly exuding a strange light.

《Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart》

When he saw this heart, such a thought came to Lin Yi's mind.

「If the 'Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart' in 《Investiture of the Gods》 really existed, it would probably look like this, right?」

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment. In 《Investiture of the Gods》, Bi Gan was described as having extraordinary insight and perception, and he even made them into clothes after destroying the fox demons in Xuanyuan Tomb… … Looking at these strange techniques, could it be that Bi Gan was also a black bib chef?

Thinking about it this way, the matter of Daji wanting Bi Gan's heart added a few more darker and more sinister interpretations… …

At the same time, the weakening of the "Sanctum" shockwave caught his attention.

He quickly looked at the Night Watchman and whispered, "「02」, are you back yet?"

Seeing that the Night Watchman had no reaction, Lin Yi couldn't help but take a deep breath.

He knew that it was time for him to "hold on for a while".

He reviewed in his mind what the Night Watchman had told him.

"Don't worry about anything, just transmit your golden aura to the "Sanctum"… …"

"If the aftershocks of the "Sanctum" are exhausted, then you can replace me in striking the "Sanctum", at most once… …"

"I don't ask for it to be loud, just need to make its fluctuations continue… …"

「'02' means I should do everything possible to maintain the operation of the 'Sanctum' and ensure that it is still releasing that shockwave… …」

After Lin Yi pondered, he took a deep breath, left the bottom of the "Sanctum", and slowly walked to the Night Watchman's side.

He once doubted whether he had the ability to exercise the Night Watchman's authority, but he did not doubt the Night Watchman's confidence in him.

The Night Watchman had said it so clearly, so if he operated it, there would definitely be no problem.

The pot is handed to you, but you don't need to cook, just flip it over at a critical moment, that's all, it shouldn't be difficult… … right?

He looked at the "Sanctum", this quantum giant bell was extremely huge, standing in front of it, the thought of striking this bell with a mortal body gave him a sense of awe of an ant shaking a tree.

Even for him, touching the "Sanctum" was already the limit, and wanting to shake it was simply a fool's dream.

「First, try replenishing the golden aura.」

Lin Yi made up his mind and began to approach the "Sanctum".

However, the "Sanctum" that was close at hand seemed to exude an aura that kept strangers away, and stubbornly blocked Lin Yi at a place only three meters away from it.

「How could this be? I don't even have the qualifications to approach it?」

A sense of frustration arose in Lin Yi's heart. The strange patterns on the surface of the "Sanctum" flowed with mysterious ripples, like the afterglow shimmering since the ancient times.

A feeling of defiance rose in his heart. He gritted his teeth and crashed towards the invisible field of the "Sanctum."

What a joke! If you can't even get the gas nozzle into the gas tank, what's the point of refueling?!

As soon as Lin Yi entered the invisible barrier, his body began to decompose at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if he had fallen into a pool of sulfuric acid.

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Pain that could not be expressed in words instantly eroded his soul, almost devouring his will. His body quickly became dilapidated, but he was still approaching the "Sanctum."

Sky-blue aura surged within his body, constantly repairing him.

The scene before Lin Yi's eyes was still collapsing and changing. He knew that this was not annihilation, but a kind of penetration!

The invisible barrier of the "Sanctum" impacted his body into many layers, and his collapsing perspective was a mixture of many layers.

He stared intently at the quantum giant clock in front of him, looking at the patterns on the clock, so that his will would not be affected by the "Sanctum."

In that space filled with a sense of collapse, a corner of the "Sanctum" floated quietly. The outline of that corner seemed to come from ancient memories. The clock face actually showed a deep and dark blue color that was not observed at first glance, as if it condensed the mysteries of the endless universe.

Engraved on the clock face were ancient and complex secret patterns. Outside the secret patterns, there was also a layer of non-material, illusory light and shadow…

He had seen these secret patterns before, but as the distance continued to shorten, he discovered that the illusory secret patterns floating on the surface of the "Sanctum" actually flowed with light, just like the circuit board of some mysterious technology whose technological level far surpassed the current world…

And one secret pattern after another echoed each other, forming a kind of highly logical halo. They rhythmically pulsated with the fluctuations of the aura at a stable but slow speed. Each halo seemed to represent an unknown time dimension or information frequency.

In the center of the "Sanctum", there was a core emitting a strange light. The space layer around the core seemed to be in a state of infinite collapse and repair. Along with this strange relationship of birth and death, layers of power were accumulated in the secret patterns on the clock face. Some of the power that seeped out radiated outward from the core, intertwined and mapped with the rotating halos, and from time to time burst out pulses of light, merging into the world of the clock tower.

The "Sanctum" itself was also extremely peculiar. It was sometimes solid and sometimes illusory, as if it were a dynamic structure woven from light and shadow. Part of the clock body was like a crystal that had been deconstructed and reassembled. Countless facets constantly refracted brilliant light in the process of rhythm, and these rays of light, like laser beams, projected complex and changeable geometric patterns on the ground below the "Sanctum", sometimes piecing together mysterious star maps, and sometimes turning into quantum matrices that were difficult to interpret.

And the position corresponding to that matrix was the place where Lin Yi had previously sat cross-legged.

From this perspective, the place where Lin Yi originally sat cross-legged seemed to be wrapped in a layer of faint energy field. Countless tiny auras flickered in the energy field, constantly jumping and flashing, as if it were some kind of signal that had penetrated from ancient times, writing its trajectory with the aura of the "Sanctum", transmitting some special information to the world.

"Is this the real appearance of the ‘Sanctum’?

"Or is it that even so, it's just the tip of the iceberg?"

Lin Yi was deeply shocked by this perfect and magnificent creation. He couldn't imagine that such a miraculous creation would be a transcendent creation created by the power of human civilization!

He couldn't help but wonder, those who were called the "First Apostles," what kind of beings were they?

Did they really still belong to the category of human beings?!

Or were they… "Gods"?

Lin Yi was deeply attracted by the secret patterns on the "Sanctum", and when he forgot that he was being attacked by the invisible barrier of the "Sanctum", his body no longer annihilated.

This was a magical process, as if it was "I understand, so I am no longer afraid, so I will not be hurt by you."

He finally crossed the space of about three meters and came to the front of the "Sanctum."

He stood there, and the aura of the "Sanctum" slowly pushed past his body, like a breeze passing through the treetops, blowing his clothes slightly.

"Sanctum…" he murmured to himself, with a trace of piety in his eyes. He just looked at the secret patterns, like a mortal attracted by light, looking at the miracle that suddenly descended in the sky.

He felt something, like a summoning, like a murmur, like an ancient greeting, finally crossing time and coming to his ears.

He trembled slightly and slowly touched the surface of the clock.

"Buzz…"

At the moment of touching the clock, the clock body trembled gently, accompanied by a touch as cold as the solid ice of the Arctic, and a mysterious wave was also released from the surface of the "Sanctum."

Lin Yi felt that the golden aura in his body seemed to have been opened a hole, and it poured into the "Sanctum" with a "crashing" sound.

Soon, a strong sense of weakness enveloped him.

"No way… Can this be called ‘just like being absorbed by Lao Mo back then’?!"

Lin Yi wanted to curse, but he couldn't even open his mouth. The suction of the "Sanctum" was extremely terrifying. If Lao Mo was drawing blood from a vein, then the "Sanctum" was sucking directly from his artery, and it wasn't just an ordinary suction, but like a vampire, biting directly on the strongest and most powerful carotid artery at the neck, and then drinking heartily!

Lao Mo was at least a “person” and knew his limits, but the "Sanctum" was not a person. It came up to replenish him, and Lin Yi turned into a skinny and sickly appearance in less than half a minute.

He pursed his lips tightly, and blue veins were exposed under his skin. He couldn't say a word except for the "humming" sound.

"If this continues… I will definitely die!"

"My body… what are you going to do?"

Lin Yi was very self-aware. He clearly knew that he couldn't control the golden aura as easily as his arms yet, but his body instinct could!