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Chapter 378 The Item the Night Watchman Seeks — “Quartermaster”!

“Could it be… that the 'Law Weaver' has already escaped the prison's confinement?” Lin Yi asked, his voice trembling.

The Night Watchman was silent for a moment, then said, “Impossible… the current world can no longer satisfy the conditions for lifting 'Temporal Exile'. She absolutely cannot return, but we can't rule out one possibility… her will, which has permeated time and layers, has ultimately influenced this layer of the outpost.”

“Your visual and auditory hallucinations… are very likely related to her influence on the Arts Building…”

Lin Yi smoothed the goosebumps on his arm: “Are you saying… that the 'call of the Arts Building' I've been feeling all along is actually the 'call of the Law Weaver'?!"

“The Law Weaver's call permeated the layers and found me as soon as I arrived on campus?!”

Calculating the time, he heard the “call of the Arts Building” on the second afternoon after entering the school, when a cloud obscured the sunlight, and then he had a visual interaction with Maozi, who had arrived at the Arts Building… That was also the moment when Maozi absorbed the first wave of green powder particles in “Art Classroom - IV”!

According to the characteristic of shared pollution sources, he did indeed start hearing the “call of the Arts Building” at that time, and tonight is the first time he has arrived at the Arts Building!

So when he arrived at the gallery, the Law Weaver appeared in his hallucination holding the music box?!

It's not that he had a hallucination and saw the Law Weaver, but that the Law Weaver permeated her will, allowing him to see her?!

“This…”

“But why is this…?”

“In the vast sea of people, why did she have to find me, this sucker? Can't she go find Liangzi? Liangzi is the lolicon, damn it…”

The more Lin Yi thought about it, the more terrified he became. Being targeted by an ancient killer who existed before a civilization system was even established was a terror that couldn't be described in words!

“'02'… am I being targeted by her?!” Lin Yi asked in horror.

“This is good news,” the Night Watchman said.

“Huh?”

“Of course, this is good for me,” the Night Watchman said. “That way, she won't be staring at me… For you, of course, it's the worst news imaginable.”

“Are you saying that the 'Apostle' who mispeaks and loves to tell cold jokes is you? Seriously?”

“Why would you think that?” The Night Watchman didn't hear the resentment in Lin Yi's joking tone and said seriously, “We are created, how could we be 'Apostles'?”

“I believe that the will permeated by the Law Weaver has always been in a specific 'frequency band'. She has been releasing it for countless years, and only a few gifted people with the 'Dream Weaver' trait can capture this encrypted information…”

“How does that saying go? You belong to… a mutual attraction.”

Lin Yi covered his face: “Mutual attraction, my ass…”

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Of course, Lin Yi clearly knew that this “mutual attraction” was not that “mutual attraction”...

The Night Watchman continued: “I think that the Law Weaver has definitely been trying to break free from 'Temporal Exile' for countless years, and high-dimensional time is not linear, so we can't judge whether this time-permeated call comes from the past or some point in the future…”

Lin Yi said with utmost seriousness: “She must be calling out to the person who can help her break the prison! To open a door from the outside requires a key that matches the lock, but from inside the door, you only need to gently press the handle… 'Temporal Exile' has locked her outside the layers, and we are inside the door!”

“An apt analogy,” the Night Watchman nodded.

“So, after saying so much… do you want to take a look?” Lin Yi asked, then added, “In this bedroom, besides the prison behind the curtains, only this photo frame is worth looking at now…”

The Night Watchman's voice was silent for a while, as if he was caught in some kind of choice.

After waiting for a while, he seemed to have made some determination: “Look!”

Compared to anything else, the Night Watchman preferred to believe that it was the item he had been searching for.

Lin Yi's thoughts were silent. He also understood some of the Night Watchman's thoughts, a bit of “searching for her in the crowd a thousand times,” and then wishing that “suddenly looking back, that thing finally appeared in the dimly lit place.”

So he came to the desk, his consciousness slowly drifting, bringing the Night Watchman's perspective to the front of the photo frame.

The photo in the frame was a cartoon-like dark forest, using an extremely cute style to render some kind of infinite horror…

“It's it! It's it! It really is here! Really!”

The Night Watchman's dignified voice revealed distinct emotional fluctuations, as if at this moment, he possessed a certain humanity.

Lin Yi had initially felt that sense of terror because he saw the cartoon in this photo frame, but before his fear could spread, the Night Watchman used the power of the “Sanctum” to drag his consciousness away from here.

And at this moment, he also personally observed the content of this cartoon because he provided the Night Watchman with a perspective.

With just the first glance, a tingling sensation arose in his heart, as if something was breaking out of the ground in his heart. Soon, boundless fear spread in his heart…

He then understood that the thing that broke out of the ground was called “Fear”.

Accompanying the spread of fear, the world around him began to shake violently. No, it wasn't this world that was shaking, but the world inside the photo frame he saw!

That shaking sensation invaded the bedroom from the photo frame, like a trembling glass of water triggering a terrifying storm, stirring up the originally quiet bedroom.

“Clang clang clang clang…! Clang clang clang clang…!”

The books on the bookshelf scattered all over the floor in the shaking, the covers opened with a “snap”, and the old pages rustled like dried human skin hanging on branches. The smell of rotten flesh instantly invaded Lin Yi's nostrils.

Every mysterious symbol on the pages seemed to come alive, flying from the book into the air. They suddenly surrounded Lin Yi, making their own voices, like ancient shamans singing and dancing around a ghostly green flame, and lengthy ancient words floated closer and farther away, accompanied by syllables that did not conform to human pronunciation rules…

“Kong kong kong kong…!!”

“Kong kong kong kong…!!”

Heart-wrenching cracks spread out from the photo frame, and everything around Lin Yi began to collapse. A terrifying crack appeared under his feet, the ground shattered, and he fell into an abyss.

In the endless darkness, with a hint of light, he felt himself spinning, losing his sense of gravity and direction. He tried to call out the name of the Night Watcher "02", but only an endless howl answered him, whether from the wind, or from space, time, or some kind of layer...

He saw a huge mountain range, like a steamed bun made of countless flesh and blood. The strange lines were complex yet extremely simple, repeatedly switching between what could and could not be perceived. He suddenly realized that the thing seemed familiar, like a part of the cartoon pattern in the photo frame.

He understood that he seemed to be traversing something. He seemed to be swallowed into the world in the photo frame. The cartoon tore the layers and brought him into a deeper abyss!

He saw a dark forest, the branches in the forest intertwined like twisted arms. Deep in the forest, there were pairs of red eyes flickering, like wild beasts lurking in the dark, spying on their prey. The deeper he went, the thicker the fog became, almost obscuring the shadows of the trees...

When traversing the dark forest, Lin Yi only felt a chill rise from his spine, as if he was being stared at by countless eyes, and the surrounding darkness seemed to swallow him.

Endless cold wind blew against his consciousness, as if to freeze him here. A "rustling" sound appeared in the whole world, like a group of nocturnal species wriggling, but how could there be nocturnal species in this place?

The wind seemed to be mixed with a low whimper, the sound was faint, but enough to make his heart beat faster. In this strange world, it was always full of unknown fear, making him eager to escape, but he seemed to be bound by an invisible force, falling deeper into the abyss...

Suddenly, he crossed a mountain range outside the dark forest.

When crossing that mountain range, he saw the barren land in the mountains, with countless tombstones on the land. The cartoon painted the bright red sky, which now looked like thick clouds soaked with blood...

"Where is this...? !"

He remembered!

This scene was the last scene before his perspective repeatedly switched and returned to the bedroom!

"Could it be that... when my consciousness first came here, it first arrived there, and then entered the world in the cartoon, and finally crossed the photo frame to arrive in the bedroom?!"

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"No wonder I didn't get in the door the first time! Did I accidentally take a secret passage?"

He remembered!

He remembered everything!

He remembered that in the depths of this barren mountain range, there seemed to be a winding and twisting passage!

And at the end of that passage, there was also a huge humanoid statue!

He crossed the gate of darkness and finally arrived at the deepest passage of countless layers in the cartoon.

"Da..."

He stood still in the passage, under his feet were rotten wooden boards. As his center of gravity shifted, even without taking a step, the wooden boards would make a "creaking" sound...

The sides of this passage were full of sculptures, some twisted and painful, some manic and unrestrained, all of them were half-length sculptures, but none of them looked normal, like an exhibition hall of the dead who were brutally murdered by evil ghosts.

The huge humanoid statue at the end of the passage looked incomparably strange in the light and shadow. As the thin mist floated, the ferocious expression on its face seemed to be changing slightly, as if it had come alive.

That humanoid sculpture was the only complete sculpture in the entire passage. It stood there gracefully, like a humble and polite gentleman, but the strange patterns all over its body made it look more like a container that sealed an evil ghost.

There seemed to be something in its body that was about to break out, but it was firmly sealed in this sculptural body.

In front of this humanoid sculpture, in the darkness, there was now an additional figure.

He recognized it at a glance.

"02... ? How did you...?"

The will of the Night Watcher "02" actually arrived here before him, and changed from an ethereal and imperceptible state to some kind of conscious entity that could be perceived by him.

The Night Watcher's figure was already very tall, but in front of this huge humanoid sculpture, it still seemed a bit small.

"It's this..." The Night Watcher's voice was filled with undisguised excitement, "Found it! Finally found it!"

Lin Yi saw the Night Watcher in such a distraught state for the first time, and couldn't help but ask: "Is this the 'item' you have been looking for? Can you tell me what this is?"

"This is... the 'Quartermaster'."

"'Quartermaster'? !" Lin Yi's heart trembled, "Judging from this title, is it one of the 'Original Apostles'?"

Lin Yi suddenly had a terrifying fantasy. The Law Maker killed one of the "Original Apostles", calling him the "Quartermaster", and buried him in the depths of the layers.

The Night Watcher shook his head and said: "That's not the case... The 'Quartermaster' is not an Apostle, but a kind of 'Transcendent Creation'."

"This is the 'equipment' created by the 'Original Apostles' to match the 'Supreme Judgment' system."

"This sculpture you see is a collection of multiple transcendent creations, and I only need to obtain a key part of it to raise my position to a level sufficient to cope with more gray fog intrusions, or even to the extent that it can expel the 'Angel'."

"But... since it was created for you to use, why is it hidden in this kind of place?" Lin Yi asked puzzledly. Since it is tailor-made equipment, it must be equipped at all times, or at least in a place where it can be obtained in case of emergencies, right?

Just like a sports student's baseball bat, or a black bib chef's pig-slaying knife, it should be able to be sacrificed and used when needed, right?

Why is it like guarding against thieves, putting it here?

"You're mistaken." The Night Watcher shook his head and said, "You didn't hear clearly, I'm talking about the 'Supreme Judgment' system... not our 'Night Watcher' lineage, the difference between the two is very big."

"The 'Supreme Judgment' system?" Lin Yi was stunned. The words that the Night Watcher had mentioned before immediately appeared in his mind—

【The golden aura of the Supreme Judgment lineage...】

Lin Yi's heart trembled slightly. He seemed to have thought of something: "The symbol of 'Supreme Judgment' is a golden aura? So could it be...? !"

"That's right, repeater boy..." The Night Watcher slowly turned around in the darkness, his golden eyes like the blazing sun piercing through the world.

"As long as the time is right... you can also use them."