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Chapter 635 Layer-by-Layer Infinite Infiltration! The Terror of the "High-Rank Alien Angel"!
"Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—"

The sound of waves crashing violently against the mountainside repeated monotonously, while the wind rubbed against the mountain walls like a dull, corroded blade cutting through a rough steel cable, producing an eerie melody that sent chills down one's spine.

Beneath the abyss, the "high-ranking alien angels" may descend in another form to attack.

It's also possible... that they'll infiltrate layer by layer in a completely unimaginable way.

Sure enough, a wisp of energy quickly seeped down from the night sky, and a sharp light suddenly burst out in Tian Bufan's pupils as he looked up.

Above the dome, countless strange ripples appeared in the spatial layers, like an angry child repeatedly pounding a ball of liquid mercury with his fist.

Those distorted ripples, like funhouse mirrors, made the night sky appear eerie, and also slightly affected the "Starry Night" projected onto the dome.

Lin Yi guided "Starry Night" from the circular stone wall onto the sky. It might not be visible in other areas, but from the observatory, one could see the vast, burning starry sky of "Starry Night" as clearly as if it were a projection of a night light.

However, only Lin Yi could truly observe the magnificent star trails displayed on the layers of the celestial globe, as well as the deeper world of "stars and night".

When Tian Bufan looked up at the night sky, he was surprised to notice that some scattered spots had appeared on the distorted night sky, which looked like a funhouse mirror. These spots and the distorted mirror-like sky formed a strong contrast in style.

One is a distorted and collapsing abstract style, and the other is a modern geometry with regular and concrete forms. When the two are combined, it is like a funhouse mirror covered with people suffering from trypophobia, which makes people feel psychologically resistant.

What's even more disgusting is that the sense of terror that distorts the logic of reality indirectly seeps into the "Starry Night" with countless hesitant eyes of varying sizes, making the scene of the "Starry Night" appear as if countless fleshy particles are sprouting out, and then forming dark honeycomb-like structures...

Those things kept growing and getting bigger, and the honeycomb kept twisting, like silkworms eating mulberry leaves, gradually corroding "Starry Night"!
"They actually abandoned the option of attacking from the foundation of the art building and chose to directly attack the layer? So, were all those previous attacks by the eerie nocturnal creatures just feints to attract attention?"

The reason Tian Bufan didn't consider this aspect at first was that attacking the "Starry Night" displayed above the dome was a meaningless act.

That's just a projection onto the layer. Even if it's eroded, it doesn't matter. It's like a monkey trying to catch the moon; it can't affect the "Starry Night" that's actually located on the circular stone wall.

"What is its purpose in doing this?" Tian Bufan couldn't help but ponder, slowly tightening his grip on the cloth banner in his hand.

He didn't rush to make a move because in a game at the layer level, you can't win just by having the biggest fist.

Finding the opponent's logic and neutralizing it or delivering a decisive blow is what a true chess player should do.

But gradually, as he continued to observe the chilling, trypophobic images, he seemed to realize something and touched his own face—he was supposed to be formless at the edge of the dream, but at this moment he had already materialized.

When his fingers touched his face, he shuddered as if struck by lightning!
His facial features had completely disappeared, replaced by a face full of fleshy eyes.

"I understand."

Tian Bufan spoke slowly, and as soon as he opened his mouth, all the eyes on his face began to roll around, and several eyes also appeared inside his mouth.

"They actually used my 'cognition' to indirectly attack 'Starry Night,' how clever... Even the 'High-Ranking Alien Angel' has learned its lesson!"

Despite his face being tainted by the "high-level alien angel's" eyes, turning into a grotesque and terrifying appearance, Tian Bufan's mind became increasingly clear.

When Mao Feiyang used the banner to collect the high-purity flocculent matter condensed from the extraordinary substance, he would devour the pure original pollution within it and peel off the other contaminants. The "High-Rank Alien Angel" took advantage of this, mixing its own pollution into the mixture, and then becoming one of the impurities that were peeled off.

Given its status, it was impossible for it to sneak into the illusory light barrier of the art building from the territory of the two night watchmen; it could only resort to some underhanded means to operate.

Other bizarre nocturnal creatures, once intercepted, would simply be annihilated, not devoured or "decomposed." Therefore, even if the "High-Rank Alien Angel" wanted to infiltrate before, it couldn't. However, Mao Feiyang's hearty meal gave it the opportunity, allowing it to spread its contamination.

In essence, allowing a "high-level alien angel" whose strength is shrouded in mystery but is by no means weak to infiltrate part of its will into the observatory is an extremely dangerous situation; one wrong move and it could lead to a wolf into the house.

Fortunately, the transmission of will requires a carrier or a clear target, and Tian Bufan became its carrier—or more accurately, its parasitic host.

In addition, Tian Bufan had taken precautions from the beginning, using the circular stone wall and the bluestone patterns on the ground of the observatory to seal off the entire observatory, turning it into a cage that could only be entered but not exited, so there was no chance for this will to escape.

After a portion of the will of the "High-Rank Alien Angel" parasitized Tian Bufan, it further observed "Starry Night" through Tian Bufan and thus devoured it.

The "High-Rank Alien Angel" had no idea what Tian Bufan and the others' plans were, but causing trouble was never a bad thing.

And so, the current situation has come to be.

However, instead of feeling threatened, Tian Bufan secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

He can accept this kind of attack.

He summoned the banner again, then grabbed it with one hand and used the other to grab the fleshy eyes on his face. These fleshy eyes were the distortions caused by the "high-ranking alien angels" corrupting his will. If they could not be eradicated, they would continue to haunt him, parasitizing him at the layer level. There was even a possibility that they could trace back to his original body through the boundaries of his dream.

The level of pollution that a creature as bizarre as a "high-ranking alien angel" can generate is far more complex than what one can perceive.

Tian Bufan grabbed a piece of fleshy eye and yanked it off hard. The eye made an unpleasant "squeak" sound, and the sticky blood vessels were covered with some yellowish-green pus.

Without hesitation, he took it off and threw it into the banner.

Upon contact with the naked eye, the cloth banner is immediately attracted to it.

Tian Bufan kept plucking off the eyeballs, one after another, until his head was riddled with holes, resembling a terrifying spherical honeycomb briquette, while the banner was also covered with deformed and abstract eyeballs...

The whole scene looked absolutely disgusting.

However, at the same time, the second contamination of "Starry Night" by the "High-Rank Alien Angel" finally caused the distortion of "Starry Night". Lin Yi, who was constantly searching for star trails through the armillary sphere, sensed the strong fluctuations in the layer. The originally stable "Starry Night" suddenly became like a raging sea under a storm.

Lin Yi's will was like a small boat, constantly being pushed and swayed in such a storm, almost collapsing.

"Oh no... what on earth happened?!" Lin Yi gripped one of the star trails tightly. As the saying goes, when gods fight, mortals suffer. If he weren't here, even if the storm raged and the sky was shattered, it wouldn't matter.

But he was right in the middle, so even the slightest disturbance could bring him to his doom!

On the other side, Tian Bufan was removing all the eyes from his head when suddenly his body trembled as if electrocuted. The next moment, he began to convulse violently. Then, a large amount of wriggling, viscous substance suddenly surged out of his honeycomb-like head. This viscous substance, like blackheads, filled the gaps left by the removal of the eyes, turning them into brand new eyes.

“Endless parasitism…until death do us part?” Tian Bufan murmured.

He seemed to understand something, and stopped removing his eyes. He simply held the cloth banner covered with eyes and floated there silently.

"Old Lin... hurry up, Old Lin..."

……

On Lin Yi's side, the situation showed no signs of improvement, but "Starry Night" was greatly affected, causing his perception screen to be greatly impacted as well.

Mao Feiyang, who had taken over the operation of the celestial globe from Tian Bufan, also took in everything. Seeing that Tian Bufan was in dire straits, he quickly said to Lin Yi, "Don't worry about it, Lao Lin!"

"Even if 'Starry Night' is wrinkled, it doesn't matter! First, find the intersection of the star trails! Hurry, hurry, hurry!!"

"Find the intersection first... Okay! Okay, okay!!" Hearing Mao Feiyang's voice at the crucial moment gave Lin Yi a glimmer of light amidst his confusion, and his thoughts immediately became clear.

While "Starry Night" was indeed affected, the armillary sphere was not part of "Starry Night"!

Lin Yi quickly traversed the star trails, his will body moving faster and faster, as if a signal was traveling through fiber optics. His perception became clearer and clearer, and everything around him seemed to slow down...

His perception far exceeded the limits of "advanced perception," and the entire world seemed to stand still at that moment.

Finally, he found it!
He found the star trail sequence that matched Tian Bufan's description, arranged in the order of "4", "0", "1", and "6"!
Coordinates: "Star Trail-4-0-1-6"!

"I found it! The Russians!! I found it!!" Lin Yi shouted, like a sailor standing on the mast in a storm, searching for pirates with binoculars, pointing the way to the helmsman!
"Good!! Good good!!!" Mao Feiyang let out an unprecedentedly hearty laugh, "I've got it locked on, come back quickly, Lao Lin!! Come back!!"

Without hesitation, Lin Yi withdrew from "Starry Night" and then disappeared into Mao Feiyang's body.

"rush--!!"

Mao Feiyang let out a long roar, and the armillary sphere instantly increased its operating power several times over. Countless dials and circular tracks spun wildly, like a tightly controlled time travel instrument!

“Buzz buzz buzz—”

The armillary sphere trembled incessantly, as if it were about to fall apart, and the golden-green patina gleamed with an eerie light.

Finally, when the celestial globe reached its zenith, it burst forth with a dazzling white light!

When the white light dimmed, Mao Feiyang had already disappeared from the celestial globe.

At the same time, Tian Bufan, who had been seemingly dead and vanished into the air below the dome, finally moved the moment Mao Feiyang disappeared.

"Chase—chase—faster—catch up!!"

Countless tiny, wriggling objects emitted a piercing friction sound, like the noise produced by squeezing large pieces of rubber together. And within that noise, a series of urging sounds suddenly appeared.

The "high-ranking alien angel" attempted to control Tian Bufan's will and make him take her there!

"Time... is almost up..." Tian Bufan muttered to himself, his physical form suddenly fading away...

"Hehehe—" A sinister laugh, seemingly produced by friction, echoed in the void.

A bizarre scene unfolded: the physical eyes that appeared to have grown on Tian Bufan's body faded away along with his will—as if they were a persistent, malignant growth, following him down some kind of path!

Some kind of way to penetrate the boundaries of dreams and return to reality!!!

……

X023年5月12日，0:13，宿舍楼，1414号宿舍。

The window next to the washbasin was already covered with condensation, and the dense raindrops were hitting it like machine gun fire.

The empty dormitory room, with its lights off, was not dark at all. A warm, golden light filled the space, illuminating the entire dormitory.

The source of this light was an old kerosene lamp.

An old kerosene lamp being carried in someone's hand.

A dormitory supervisor stood quietly in room 1414, his old kerosene lamp illuminating the entire room.

The light from the old kerosene lamp illuminated the dormitory manager's face, and this dormitory manager was none other than Kuai Hongji.

Kuai Hongji's gaze swept over his bed and then landed on Tian Bufan.

In the dormitory now, all six beds are empty, with only Tian Bufan sleeping soundly in his bed.

Suddenly, Tian Bufan's body began to tremble violently, and the entire bed shook.

Beneath Tian Bufan's skin, one bulge after another appeared, like countless beads rolling around, ready to burst out at any moment.

Kuai Hongji watched this scene expressionlessly, placed the old kerosene lamp on Tian Bufan, and then slowly spoke, his voice low and hoarse, as if he were chanting some kind of incantation:

"It's dawn, please open your eyes."

(End of this chapter)