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Chapter 594 "Remember This Way" "Come This Way"

“But whenever I sense you or hear your voice calling me, the ashes within me become active.”

“Last night, when I heard your call, the ashes inside me seemed to ignite... So, I’m sure that was your call to me.”

"Then... I don't know what happened, I left the stadium in a daze, or as if I was out of control, following that feeling."

"This..." Lin Yi stroked his chin, frowned, and narrowed his eyes, his eyes full of doubt. "But I slept in the dormitory building last night! Hmm... when did you hear me calling? No, no, when you heard it doesn't seem to matter. The important thing is that I didn't call you at all!"

Li Huiyuan also said with a puzzled look, "I don't know what happened either. But when I heard you calling, it was probably around midnight, maybe past midnight... I remember that many classmates were asleep at that time. I tried to doze off for a while, but I was restless and couldn't fall asleep."

"When I first heard your voice, I thought I was hallucinating, but then the voice became clearer and clearer, and the ashes inside me grew hotter and hotter..."

Lin Yi was surprised that physical education students could sleep in the gymnasium, but thinking about it, it made sense. If physical education students didn't go back to their dormitories, they would definitely need to catch up on sleep, so it was perfectly reasonable for the gymnasium to have a special area for them to sleep.

But he had no interest in studying these things right now, and said with absolute certainty, "At midnight... I must have been asleep at that time."

He always enters his dream state precisely a few seconds before midnight.

After a pause, Lin Yi asked again, "Do you remember what the voice you heard said?"

Li Huiyuan nodded, then shook her head: "I can't remember the specifics anymore. What I do remember now is that you—no, that voice—kept telling me things like, 'Remember this road,' 'Come here'..."

"'Remember this road,' 'Come here'?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled. "Is there anything else? Or do you remember exactly where you're going?"

Li Huiyuan frowned: "At first, I didn't know what that place was. It was a black castle, seemingly built on a cliff. The sea was constantly crashing against the cliff, and the sky was black, as if it had been painted on... Later, the boss told me that it was the Art Building."

"That voice is coming from the castle inside the art building; it keeps calling to me..."

"So you just left the stadium like that?" Lin Yi pressed.

Li Huiyuan shook her head and said, "I didn't even know what happened. I felt like you were asking for my help, or that you wanted to help me with something. I felt like I lost my mind at the time. When I came to my senses, I found myself in a place full of turmoil..."

"Those vortexes were like millstones cutting into my body, but luckily the boss appeared just in time and brought me back."

Lin Yi's expression turned solemn, lost in thought: "Could the place filled with vortexes be the path from the 'layer jump'?"

“That’s the road,” Li Huiyuan said confidently. “The boss said that if I keep walking, I’ll end up at the art building.”

"It seems the boss led a team to reinforce the art building, and found yours when they came back..." Lin Yi nodded silently.

His brows were furrowed, twisting into a deep frown.

"But how could my voice come from the art building, and even summon you? This doesn't make any sense..."

“I don’t know either. After the boss took me back to the gymnasium, he took me to the school clinic. After the school doctor treated my injury, I’ve been staying with the boss ever since,” Li Huiyuan said. “The boss originally wanted to ask you what happened, but it seems you don’t know either.”

"Of course I don't know. If I did, I would definitely tell you," Lin Yi said solemnly, but a vague guess was actually forming in his mind.

"But, could it be...?"

First of all, since Li Huiyuan has that kind of connection with him, then regardless of whether it is the "Fog-Chasing-Light" effect or not, he must first assume that it is indeed "him" who is calling Li Huiyuan.

If the calling voice did indeed come from him, then there is only one explanation.

The Boundaries of Dreams!

At some point in the future, he penetrated the dimension of time through the boundaries of dreams and called out to Li Huiyuan at midnight yesterday.

but!

Penetrating the boundaries of dreams is not so easy. If it really was just about calling Li Huiyuan, why not go directly to the stadium to call her, instead of starting from the art building?
Could it be related to the Russians?
Last night he dreamed that he penetrated through the boundaries of the dream world into Mao Feiyang's body from the day before yesterday, and then went to Master Di's bedroom.

Could it be that tonight or sometime in the future, he infiltrated yesterday and summoned Li Huiyuan through Mao Feiyang?
But why did he summon Li Huiyuan?!

That doesn't make sense!
No, it's not illogical, it's just—there's no reason for it!

Damn it, even now, he has no reason whatsoever to summon Li Huiyuan, and not even the slightest thought of it arises in his mind.

"Can't you really remember any other details about that call?" Lin Yi asked, unwilling to give up.

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and nodded.

Since Li Huiyuan could no longer recall any more details, Lin Yi had no choice but to take another approach.

"Russians!" Lin Yi, lost in thought, kept calling out to himself.

He wanted to try contacting the Russians to see if they knew what was going on.

No matter how he called out, the Russian didn't respond.

It seems there's no way to contact the Russians.

Just then, a gentle breeze slowly entered his nostrils.

He was slightly taken aback, and suddenly realized that his boss had appeared in front of him.

"It seems that it was indeed you who summoned Huihuizi."

"I..." Lin Yi didn't know what to say, and could only scratch his head in frustration, "Although I don't know either, it's very likely that I summoned you..."

The eldest brother frowned imperceptibly.

Hearing Lin Yi's words, the person who had been feeling down suddenly cheered up as if they had eaten candy: "It's alright since it was you who summoned me! I love being summoned by you!"

“But, assuming it really is me summoning you, it’s not ‘me from yesterday’… but possibly me from the future,” Lin Yi said.

Li Huiyuan was initially confused, almost starting to count on her fingers, but then she suddenly realized what was happening, her eyes widening in disbelief as she exclaimed, "You mean the ability of 'Dream Boundary Studies'?!"

Li Huiyuan herself studied "Mystical Genealogy," and had some understanding of the framework and structure of most mystical systems, which allowed her to react immediately, making it a good fit for her major.

Lin Yi nodded: "Yes... Actually, although I am indeed an architecture major, I seem to also dream..."

"Wow, you're so amazing!" Li Huiyuan clung to Lin Yi's arm, swaying back and forth, her eyes sparkling with admiration. It was genuine worship.

Lin Yi smiled sheepishly, trying to quickly steer the conversation back on track, but the boss spoke up: "The one who built the city wall, it really was you."

In the past, Lin Yi would have pretended to be stupid and fooled them, but when he dreamed yesterday that his boss could actually sense him, he gave up the idea of ​​making excuses and simply admitted: "It was me... you found out."

"Why didn't you tell me about this on the day of the incident?" The eldest sister frowned slightly. "I really want to kick you right now so you can reflect on your actions."

Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck. He knew perfectly well that the kick his boss was talking about was no training-level kick.

If he takes a step, he will truly ascend to heaven.

Lin Yi was pondering how to explain to his boss when his boss spoke up: "One thing at a time. First, clarify what happened yesterday with Huihui before we talk about anything else."

"Okay, sure." Lin Yi nodded and looked at Li Huiyuan. "And then?"

"And then...? And then there was nothing more!" Li Huiyuan looked at her boss with a blank and innocent expression. "Boss, should I say anything?"

Seeing this, the eldest brother stopped talking and said, "Since that's the case, I'll tell you what I saw, and you and Lin Yi can see if you can think of any details."

As she spoke, she looked at Lin Yi, her lips slightly parted: "It's mainly you."

"There are some things that I doubt you can even remember what you did."

The boss's words startled Lin Yi.

What does this mean? There's a hidden meaning... But what should I remember?

Although his memory is impaired, it seems to have no connection to recent events, right?
"Come here first," the leader said, turning around and leading the two towards the training area.

“Last night, I took a group of people to the art building.” The leader said slowly as he walked. “I think I saw your figure over there, Lin Yi.”

"I initially thought it was because you went to the art building again last night, but according to you, it must be your future self that has infiltrated the boundaries of dreams."

Lin Yi was taken aback: "So I really called for Li Huiyuan in the art building?"

“I don’t know,” the old man said, “but I feel that ‘that you’ is not right… evil, eerie, like you, yet not like you.”

"Boss, what you said is quite a riddle..." Lin Yi frowned in distress.

The old man said, "I'm just recounting what I've seen. Perhaps you know more about some of the issues than I do."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, but he really had no clue about it.

"I had already penetrated deep into the art building when I suddenly sensed the aura of the 'Ashes Apostle,' and then I discovered Huihuizi on the layer near 'Returning Tide.'"

"That's right. At that time, Huihuizi had already detonated the ashes, becoming the 'Ash Apostle,' and she was still burning."

The leader glanced at Li Huiyuan: "I was just trying to see if you remembered anything, but I didn't expect you to have no memory of even this much... It seems you are gradually losing all your memories of last night."

She looked at Lin Yi: "When I discovered Huihuizi, her will was actually very clear. That burning state made me feel like a different person was controlling her body."

"However, her body was already trapped in the layers at that time, and even if she became an Ash Apostle, she could not get rid of it."

"What?! She actually caught a fire last night?" Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan in disbelief. "The Ash Apostle can actually recover after being ignited?"

The eldest brother said slowly, "It would definitely not work for someone else, but I can consume the ashes in Huihui's body."

"After she recovered from the exertion, she was in serious condition and fell unconscious. So we immediately left the art building and took her to the school clinic."

"Originally, I wanted to ask her about the situation after she woke up, but unfortunately, Huihuizi can't remember anything."

"It seems that even if the three of us get together, we won't be able to piece together much useful information."

Lin Yi scratched his head, not daring to mention again the fact that he knew nothing about it.

"Hey, boss, when you met Li Huiyuan, wasn't she still sober? Did she say anything to you?"

The eldest brother narrowed his phoenix eyes slightly, as if he had thought of something, and then shook his head: "He didn't say anything."

"Hiss...Really?" Lin Yi looked suspicious, as if he had caught a whiff of a secret.

"How dare you question me?" The eldest sister raised her eyebrows slightly, her lips curled up slightly, and she unconsciously exuded a cold queen-like aura that looked down on all living beings.

Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck: "I was wrong, I was wrong..."

"Hmph." The eldest brother gave a faint hum.

Lin Yi felt a chill run down his spine. Although his boss hadn't said anything, it was as if he had said everything. His expression just now seemed to convey a murderous intent that said, "If you have any last words, tell them to my feet."

The three of them didn't say a word for the next few steps.

Just as Lin Yi was hesitating about whether to ask his boss how the battle at the stadium went last night, his boss suddenly spoke up: "I'm actually quite curious about what kind of person you are in the future."

Lin Yi's heart stirred slightly, and Li Huiyuan, who was holding his wrist, also subconsciously tightened her grip, curiously pricking up her ears.

"Your progress has surpassed my understanding of everyone else."

"From the first time I met you until now, we've only met three times."

"When I first met you, you were just an ordinary intern burdened with pollution. At the very least, your performance was unremarkable and nothing special."

"The second time I saw you, you were already covered in ashes, and even while participating in the 'Feast,' you incidentally repaired the cracks in the city wall."

"Back then, you were already far more accomplished than the group of 'architects' I met back then, and you were completely different from the person I first met."

"And today... what are you like today?"

(End of this chapter)