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Chapter 667 Dislocation of Time and Space
"Boom—Crack!!"

The lightning struck the clock tower, the quantum clock "Sanctuary," and "Night Watchman-02"!

The screen flashes!
The art building is falling apart!
The surface of the quantum clock "Sanctuary" was charred, and "Night Watchman-02's" trench coat was torn and he was swept away by the tsunami like a piece of charred coal...

Deep in the sky, amidst the sea of ​​clouds, countless eyes appeared simultaneously. The "angel's" boundless and majestic form twisted and swirled within the clouds, and lightning cast its shadow upon the clouds, resembling countless one-eyed, human-headed pythons...

The image flashed again, shattering like glass. Before he could even recover, the next image slammed into him!

In the scene, there was a familiar figure...

Lin Yi, who was still in shock from the previous scene, suddenly snapped back to reality the moment he saw this figure!

"Boss?!"

The leader in the picture appears to be standing amidst a sea of ​​fire, surrounded by corpses.

Back then, the leader still wore the same yoga pants and sports jacket, but the supreme crown floating on his head was particularly eye-catching.

The supreme crown burned with blue-gold flames, as if thousands of stars were bestowed upon him, and the ponytail that stood up behind the eldest brother's head was loosened, but the original black and smooth texture had turned into a head of white hair flowing with starlight!
In the scene, the boss exudes an indescribable, profound, and terrifying aura, an aura that seems to proclaim two words to the world—"Supreme"!
The image shattered like glass, but just before it did, he heard a shocked voice say, "Boss, you...?!"

There were only three words, but he knew that it was... his voice!

"Bang!"

The image was shattered; he saw neither the cause nor the effect, but instead witnessed the boss's aloof and unassailable supreme demeanor!
The thought of Wei Liang's zombie horde saying "kill her" and Tian Bufan's statement that "the boss is the anchor point of the 'Supreme Heaven'" made Lin Yi's heart sink to the bottom!
"That supreme aura... could it be... that the anchor point for the boss's awakening into 'Supreme Heaven' is truly an unavoidable, terrible ending?!"

New visuals are here again...

He saw endless gales and torrential rain, mountains of corpses of unknown creatures, and rivers of viscous supernatural matter.

At the top of the pile of corpses, a figure knelt on the ground, seemingly already dead...

That is……

"Weisan?!"

Wei Shan looked like he was dead.

Like Xiang Yu, they died in battle among countless bizarre creatures.

The torrential rain lashed his body, but he remained motionless.

"No, no, no... Wei-san!! Wei-san!!!" Lin Yi shouted anxiously, but no matter how he shouted, it was no use. It was as if there was a world separating him and Wei-san!
"Bang—!"

The screen shattered again!

This time, he witnessed Kuai Hongji's death!
"Bang—!"

Mao Feiyang is dead!

"Bang—!"

Tian Bufan, die!
"Bang—!"

He... is dead!!!

The images rushed towards him faster and faster. He saw the destruction of the art building, the collapse of the campus, the deaths of countless familiar people, and even himself. Only the image of the boss remained standing!
There were many more scenes after that, but they all happened so fast, like an American Iaijutsu (traditional Japanese painting style). Before he could even react, it was over, and then the next scene, and the one after that…

Countless images shattered one after another, dazzling like fireworks on a summer night.

Suddenly, at a certain moment, a hazy mist appeared among the shattered light spots, and an extremely blurry figure seemed to appear from some other space-time, crossing into his world.

"Clang clang clang clang clang..."

As if a train were passing by, the silhouette of a tunnel appeared around the figure, like some kind of air-raid shelter, or perhaps... the boundary of a convenience store.

“Lin Yi Lin Yi Lin Yi linnnnn……yiiiiiii——”

"Listen...listen to me—"

The calls were long, low, and chaotic, only becoming relatively clearer after a long while.

A faceless figure loomed in and out of existence, its form fragmented and distorted, like a humanoid creature whose skin was constantly radiating bursts of egg white...

It looks like a giant Superman emerging from a quantum vortex, with its lower body stretched out by layers.

"Sacrifice is necessary..."

"No one can escape it...no one—"

"This is already the best path..."

"She wasn't there at all... but... now it's a necessary cycle... a necessary... paradoxical cycle...!!"

"You've already met her...you've actually already met her..."

"Remember it quickly... hurry... hurry..."

"Don't look closely... Once we arrive... run immediately..."

“Tell them…they know…they understand…”

"Run...run away quickly...!!!"

The "Faceless" face had a ferocious, roaring appearance, but Lin Yi recognized it at a glance as the image of himself he had seen in the mirror!
"This...he...? What is this...?!"

Before he could figure out what was going on, the hazy vortex began to collapse, and the "Faceless" Superman was suddenly pulled back into the depths of the vortex.

"remember--"

Even...until death...you must...believe...

"believe……"

"old……"

"Boss laoooodaaaaaa……——"

The vortex slowly disappeared, turning back into countless fragmented points of light, and then everything in front of me transformed back into a rapid display of countless images.

After an unknown amount of time, he finally heard another sound, an ancient chanting that sounded like a ballad or a poem:

【Rr ved mine dypbl pupiller……sprekker mitt stjerneskelett……forsyner min rmne……】

【Brenn min beinflammende ild……gjr min blgeornament uendelig……knuser min minnestav……】

【Bind min tidskokong……sluk min navn……begrav min uoppdrettede katastrofe……】

【…store stjerner…】

【…store stjerner…】

……

As the ancient song began to play, the countless rapidly unfolding images finally ceased, and he once again vanished into endless darkness…

"This is...?!" Lin Yi was taken aback. This folk song... why does it sound so familiar?

He quickly composed himself and began to listen carefully to each note. Gradually, these admonitory symbols began to appear in his mind, and he began to understand their meaning...

【Rr ved mine dypbl pupiller... sprekker mitt stjerneskelett... forsyner min rmne...】

(【Touch my abyssal gaze... tear my star's remains... corrode my decaying moon...】)
【Brenn min beinflammende ild, gjr min blgeornament uendelig, knuser min minnestav.】

(【Burn my bones with flames... Annihilate my tides... Shatter my monumental boundaries...】)
【Bind min tidskokong, sluk min navn, begrav min uoppdrettede katastrofe.】

(【Bound me in my cocoon...swallowed my name...buried my unfulfilled destiny...】)
【store stjerner——! ! 】

(【The Vast Starry Sky—!!】)
【store stjerner——! ! 】

(【The Vast Starry Sky—!!】)
【Nr den svarte mnen vissner...kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet! 】

(When the black moon fades... the mourners return from the endless depths of the sea!)
"This...this...?"

"Isn't this the admonition that the Russians once whispered?"

He heard the same song again when his boss was giving him his second swimming lesson!
However, he did not master all the poems back then!

"Touch my abyssal gaze, shatter my star-like remains, erode my decaying moon..."

Burn my bones with flames, extinguish my tides, shatter my monumental boundaries...

"Bound me in my cocoon, swallowed my name, buried my unfulfilled destiny..."

He couldn't understand the contents of the poems back then, and only felt that they were strange and terrifying. Now that he understands them, he understands them even less.

This poem seems to be describing an extremely cultish event, like the kind of scene in fantasy novels where an ancient emperor is dismembered and annihilated...

"But what does this mean?"

"If something was dismembered and buried, what does the return of the mourners from the endless depths of the sea have to do with that...?"

"Could those separated parts have been taken to the endless sea of ​​gray fog by the mourners?"

Countless thoughts raced through Lin Yi's mind, but he couldn't quite put them together. Each piece of information seemed to have something in it, but when put together, they left him confused and completely baffled by the logic.

……

As the song began, Lin Yi started to feel a strange sensation under his feet, and he began to feel sand rubbing against his skin...

The darkness receded like the tide, and he gradually heard Mao Feiyang's barking: "See, see... I only need to do one thing to break through the Heavenly Gate!"

"Alright, alright, I'll temporarily approve of your 'Opening the Heavenly Gate' technique."

“I’ll reiterate, it’s not ‘fuck open the heavenly gate,’ it’s ‘one fuck open the heavenly gate,’ the ‘fuck’ in ‘operation’,” Mao Feiyang barked earnestly.

"Otherwise, what do you think I'm talking about?" Kuai Hongji said sarcastically.

"You know what you're talking about." Mao Feiyang snorted. "By the way, where's Lao Lin? Lao Lin, Lao Lin, Lao Lin... are you keeping up?"

"Oh no, Old Lin might have tripped over a time warp!"

"I'm here..." Lin Yi said softly.

"Phew..." Hearing Lin Yi's voice, Mao Feiyang finally breathed a long sigh of relief, "You caught up, you caught up, that's good..."

But after saying "I'm here," Lin Yi remained silent, his mind filled with the images he had seen, the intense realism of which made him feel as if he had personally experienced death and terror again and again.

In reality, the images themselves weren't scary at all. What truly frightened and terrified him was the realization of those simple scenes from the images.

The deaths of loved ones, the destruction of the world, all efforts rendered futile...

"Phew..." He let out a long sigh, then silently glanced at the time on his watch.

3: 21.

From the moment Mao Feiyang stumbled in the darkness of the gallery, to his disorientation and confusion deep within the layers, being bumped by countless images, and finally returning here, only one minute had passed!

Considering that Mao Feiyang was still moving, plus the time he spent speaking, this 1 minute was almost the normal flow of time, and his experience of bumping into countless fragments deep in the layer took up almost no time in reality.

Lin Yi's attention was gradually drawn to his surroundings, and then he came to his senses.

Before he could even "share" his experience, Lin Yi was surprised to discover that this wasn't his first time here: "Huh, is this that cemetery?"

This cemetery was the very same layer that Lin Yi had passed along the way when he guided Mao Feiyang to find the "Principal's Office" through the "Dream Boundary".

According to Mao Feiyang's original statement, this place was a gathering place for countless lost "those who chase the light through the mist".

Of course, there was also that old cowboy who left a deep impression on him, with his amazing ability to make bubbly, phlegm-filled sounds.

"Yes." Mao Feiyang nodded noncommittally. "When I came here last time, I felt that there was something extraordinary about this place, so I set up some tricks. That's why I was able to find this place so accurately."

"When did you set this up? Was it while you were touching the tombstone?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled. He remembered that one of the tombstones had "PUDDING" written on it. Could it have been at that time?
"I guess so," Mao Feiyang said casually.

"Oh..." Lin Yi responded in a low voice.

"You seem a little down," Kuai Hongji said. "Did you see something when you were stuck in the time-space distortion just now?"

"'Misaligned time and space'...do those scenes even have professional terms?" Lin Yi murmured, then continued, "When I was traversing the layers just now...I saw a lot of unpleasant things. Didn't you see them?"

Kuai Hongji seemed to be deep in thought, then asked, "What did you see?"

"What you're seeing is probably something like the campus being destroyed," Mao Feiyang said. "Is there anything else?"

"Don't interrupt, I'm asking Lao Lin," Kuai Hongji said coldly.

“I…” Lin Yi squinted as he recalled, then said in a low voice, “I also saw our deaths, Kuai Kuai, you, Wei Sang, Young Master Tian… and me, we, we all died…”

Upon hearing this, Kuai Hongji and Mao Feiyang both fell silent.

"You mean, you saw yourself die too?" Kuai Hongji looked at Lin Yi. "No, you shouldn't be dead..."

"Huh? Wait, Kuai Kuai, what did you say?" Lin Yi was taken aback. "Are you really going to die?"

"..." Kuai Hongji hesitated for a moment, "No..."

But his answer made Lin Yi's heart sink.

"What...what will happen to you?" he asked through gritted teeth.

"We don't know either," Mao Feiyang said. "We're doing just fine now, but who knows what the future holds?"

“And Lao Lin…” He took a deep breath, “You must always remember that everything we are doing now is precisely to prevent the world from developing in that direction, isn’t it?”

"The future is yet to come, everything is still in the future."

"When something hasn't happened yet, there's always a chance for things to turn around."

(End of this chapter)