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Chapter 672 "The Creation of Law...? 'Angel'!!"

Lastly, and most importantly.

The "angels" permeate every aspect of reality and the layers. Even though they possess the paradox of time, the tolerance for error decreases as "time" alternates with the "angels" who can also permeate the time dimension.

This time, the die is cast and the arrow must be released.

He moved forward unhurriedly toward the call, in this dimension where "time" lost its meaning and was reduced to mere tangible scale.

As he continued his pursuit, another hazy figure gradually emerged within a distant framework.

It seemed to be a little girl, just like him, completely naked and shrouded in a hazy light and shadow...

"'Master Di'?" Lin Yi's heart trembled slightly as he slowly approached the figure.

The distance between them is getting closer and closer...

The hands of the watch on Lin Yi's left wrist began to jump wildly in place...

"Splash... splash..."

The sound of paper being blown by the wind began to fill the space.

Just as Lin Yi was about to reach the little girl's back...

“Clatter…”

A piece of paper floated down from the void.

Lin Yi reached out and grabbed the piece of paper.

This is the negative.

The negative that flew out after the frame broke was completely blurry and unclear.

But at this moment, there is a clear pattern on the blurry negative.

"This is……?!"

On the film, a little girl is hugging his neck from behind, and the two of them are laughing happily, like a photo taken with a Polaroid camera by siblings or a young couple in an amusement park.

"This is 'Master Di'...and...'me?!"

“What…what’s going on?”

"this……?!"

He suddenly stopped in his tracks as he approached the little girl in front of him.

Because when the image on the negative appeared, he had a feeling that "I can tell if it's you just by looking at it from afar."

But the little girl's back view in front of him gave him a feeling that was absolutely wrong!

But by then, it seemed a little too late.

The little girl slowly turned around...

Under the hazy light and shadow, the little girl's face gradually appeared before him.

eye.

A row of eyes...

Just by seeing the slightly turned outline, Lin Yi saw eyes that were almost connected as a line...

Then there was a patch of eyes...

The part of the little girl's body that was exposed after she turned around was also covered with eyes.

As she kept turning around, more and more eyes began to appear in Lin Yi's line of sight.

At the same time, from where the little girl had turned around, large, bloodshot eyes slowly emerged from her flawless, white jade-like body.

At the very last moment, Lin Yi was horrified to discover that the little girl who had been shrouded in a hazy interplay of light and shadow... was entirely covered in eyes!!

That wasn't a human at all, but a collection of countless large eyeballs!

One after another, the large eyeballs were like a job market during the peak season, densely packed together, like a bunch of human-shaped grapes, no, like a large patch of frog eggs, making people feel unprecedentedly disgusted and nauseous.

[Lin Yi, oh Lin Yi...]

I... finally...

Where her mouth should be, a mouth suddenly splits out between the clusters of eyes, and as she makes a sound, the crack-like mouth slowly moves.

[…Finally…we saw it…!!]

All her eyes were straining to see where Lin Yi was, making a "rolling, rolling" sound, as if an invisible hand was turning the beads of a Buddhist rosary.

A sense of terror that defied description instantly enveloped Lin Yi, and the "rolling" sound slowly echoed in his mind, as if a pair of hands had reached into his cerebral cortex and were gently playing with his brain.

A dense layer of goosebump-like ripples appeared on the surface of Lin Yi's will body. His will body was completely devoid of hair, yet it gave him the feeling that his hair stood on end, as if he were iron filings thrown into a magnetic field.

"A projection of 'angels'?!"

"No!! Run—!!!"

There was absolutely no time for any extraneous thoughts to arise; the single, and purest, thought burst forth from Lin Yi's subconscious!
【Hahahahaha...】

The "angel" laughed, and the entire materialized cage trembled. The flowing, dazzling light bands released intense light pollution, and everything around Lin Yi seemed to turn into a cyberpunk rainy night filled with neon and other light pollution.

I searched through history... and only found a fleeting glimpse of your presence in Tokyo in X999...

"You've been so hard to find... Lin Yi!"

Countless timelines... countless time loops... it's you who are always interfering with "time"!

Stay! Please stay!!

[When you appeared here, your existence permeated time; you can't leave!! You can't leave! Just like... me!!]

"What is it saying?! What does it mean?!" Lin Yi couldn't understand, only focusing on escaping. Another thought flashed wildly through his mind: "It's not an 'angel'! 'Angels' are beings at the rule level! They wouldn't possess humanity like this!!"

Just then, the time-materialized cage suddenly flickered, and large eyeballs emerged from the frame surrounding Lin Yi, looking as disgusting and terrifying as sores inside his body.

"What on earth is it?! What does it want to do?!"

"Run—! I'm not running fast enough!! Not fast enough!!"

Lin Yi fled desperately, only to find that the endless time seemed to bind him like a curse.

He fled?
He has absolutely no understanding of time in higher dimensions!

He has no chance of escaping now!
【Lin Yi, oh Lin Yi...where are you trying to escape to?】

Is it the Age of Black Mist? Is it the year X999? Or... the "age" you inhabit?

The "angel" smiled, and countless eyes gleamed with cunning.

"No! It is an 'angel'! It possesses 'humanity'!"

"Damn it!! The 'angel' has gained 'humanity'!!!"

"Ugh...!!" Lin Yi suddenly felt a sharp pain in his head. The brilliance and framework of the time-materialized cage were eroding his mind with light pollution, constantly slowing down his thinking speed and affecting his judgment.

Images began to appear before his eyes and in his mind...

"Whoosh—!" The image flashed by.

The image of him taking the blue bus to school flashed through his mind. He was jolted awake by the bus and pressed his face against the glass, looking out the window.

The car wasn't moving fast, but the distorted shadows of the trees around it were still faintly visible in the mist.

The bus drove by...

The shadows of the trees were distorted.

distortion.

Twisted again.

In the mist, each tree turned out to be a slowly writhing sculpture, and on each sculpture, a large eye slowly opened...

Countless large eyes were fixed on the blue bus...

"Whoosh—!"

The image flashed again, and a completely new image overlaid the previous one.

The image of them arriving at the teaching building and heading towards the basement level began to replay in his mind...

The white wall paint rippled slowly like skin, and a naked eye peeked out from the corner, silently watching them.

"Whoosh—!"

The screen flickered again, and a newer image appeared!

When he first went to the cafeteria, one of the incandescent light bulbs hanging on the inner wall of the student corridor suddenly turned into the shape of a big eyeball...

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—! ! !
One image after another flashed through his mind.

The first time he arrived at the cafeteria, the first time he entered the elevator, the first time he...

Countless scenes, countless past moments, all seemed to feature the "angel's" large eyes!

"It...it started paying attention to me even before I entered the school?!" The fear in Lin Yi's heart was like a huge rock being thrown into it, creating huge waves, and no matter how he thought about it, he could not calm down.

The "angel" was so terrifying, having seen everything about them from the very beginning?!

The enemy has almost omnipotent abilities and even has a god's-eye view, so what are they even doing...?
Let's just vote!

A strange negative emotion, like a virus, sprouted in his heart, but just like that, another thought emerged from his subconscious!
"No...that's not right!!"

"If it were truly invincible, it would have taken me down long ago. Why hasn't it made a move yet?!"

"Because it's not invincible! It's relatively invincible, with a glimmer of hope!"

"Or rather...it didn't discover me that early on!"

"Overwrite!!!"

"It's a copy!!!"

"It's spying on my memories! Then, through my memories, it finds past time points and overwrites those times!"

"Because time here is materialized, it can be directly anchored to these seven days of our plan through causality, and then... they'll kill us?!"

"In other words... it hasn't succeeded yet!"

Battles and struggles between higher dimensions are not physical fights, but directly involve time and causality!

That level of competition was something a mere kid like him, who had only just begun to observe the materialized prison of time, couldn't possibly participate in, much less resist!
What exactly happened in the past?

How exactly was the overwriting of "Angels" blocked?!

An "angel" invaded his memories, learning parts of his past and even some of their plans. But... with everything out in the open, how did he manage to survive the past unscathed?!

"etc……!"

"It seems not everyone is playing their cards open!"

Yes!

There was a person who played many cards from beginning to end. Each card was flashy and varied, but if you looked closely, you could see four words pried out from between the cards: "extraordinary skills and cunning tricks".

This person is Wei Liang!
"Liangzi never plays his cards openly!"

"Was it he who secretly resisted the 'angels' erosion of the timeline?!"

Upon closer reflection, Wei Liang's skin had turned a bluish-gray, plaster-like color for extended periods when he was in the dormitory area and student corridors. Could it be that he was the one who did the deed during those times?

He couldn't figure it out for a moment, but he was convinced that it was Wei Liang's doing!
"Damn it, Liangzi, you're really my unwitting father!"

Lin Yi was still frantically fleeing!

But there was no escape route for him inside the time-materialized cage!
At the most crucial moment, the negative was peeled off his body and fluttered like a butterfly in the time-materialized cage...

But at that very moment, the notes from the music box slowly began to play…

"Ding-dong ding-dong dong-dong..."

"Ding-dong... Ding-dong-dong-ding-dong..."

"Ding-dong..."

"'Amon's Music Box'?! Could it be that Kuai Kuai is helping me escape?"

But just then, a clear, crisp, bell-like voice slowly rang out, singing that eerie black nursery rhyme:
Kids, let's play hide-and-seek! Hide one or two!

[A lovely little courtyard~ where the older siblings hid~]

[Digging and digging, flipping and flipping~ My little back is aching~]

[Sister, sister, keep your voice down~ Don't let brother hear you~]

That tree is really nice~ I hid my sister's body there~

[Pull, pull, tug~ Little sister's little hands are numb~]

[Brother, brother, you're so mean! You're making fun of your sister's dull saw!]

That tree is really nice~ I hung my brother's branches separately~

Kids, let's play hide-and-seek! Hide one or two!

My older brother and sister hid separately~ We searched and searched but couldn't find them~

As the song continued, a thick, black, oily liquid slowly seeped out of the time-materialized cage. The flowing light bands writhed and formed an illusory pattern. These patterns intertwined and converged, then faintly outlined an illusory human figure...

A little girl with a gothic, dark Lolita style.

She was shrouded in light pollution, like a lonely little girl who had wandered into a cyberpunk city. Her clothes were filthy, as if stained with oil, and a thick, black liquid kept seeping from beneath the hem. This liquid, however, was constantly interfering with the "angel's" grasping at her...

"You...?!" Upon seeing the little girl again, Lin Yi felt a sense of familiarity he had never experienced before, whether it stemmed from his subconscious or from that fleeting glimpse of the clear content in the film.

The little girl hummed a black nursery rhyme as she descended upon him like a black swan feather.

She took his hand and gently rubbed it against her cheek, as if trying to transcend endless time and feel the warmth of Lin Yi's palm.

Although they were two strange quantum states distorted by higher dimensions, when the little girl's hand touched Lin Yi, Lin Yi still felt a tingling and trembling sensation as if an electric current had run through his body.

(End of this chapter)