Rules-related weird stories: 4016

Sometimes the Night Watchman was right, his memory might have problems, but his body's instincts wouldn't fail, so—

"I'm leaving it to you! My body!"

At the critical moment, Lin Yi made a move similar to giving up resistance, and the "Sanctum" lived up to expectations, instantly draining him whole on the spot…

With a "bang…", Lin Yi was adsorbed onto the surface of the "Sanctum," his flesh and blood stripped away and absorbed by the altar, leaving only a golden skeleton that had been "forged" beforehand, and the brain, heart, and internal organs encased in the skeleton still standing firm, stubbornly supporting him.

Lin Yi was dumbfounded…

Wait, what about my instincts?

Not far away, Old Mo, who was still expending "life" to pull Mu Daxian out of the mirror world, with only a heart still "thump-thumping," was also dumbfounded. What was going on with Lin Yi? Damn, he's not dead?!

What… what kind of monster is he?

As the last drop of blood, Old Mo couldn't help but exclaim in horror at this moment.

Having received official training, he knew that ordinary contaminators could come into contact with some lower-level extraordinary creations, but those extraordinary creations that existed innately and those created by extraordinary beings were not something that ordinary life forms could touch.

Among them, the creations made by the "Last Apostle" were the most untouchable.

And this quantum giant clock, the "Sanctum," could be called some kind of artifact. For countless years, the Night Watchman had been in charge of the "Sanctum," guarding the art building, the sky, and the sea.

Ordinary art teachers didn't even have the qualification to ascend to the upper levels of the clock tower, let alone any creature other than the Night Watchman being able to approach the "Sanctum." But Lin Yi… actually approached it?

Approaching it was one thing, but he's not even dying?

Although Lin Yi's current appearance resembled an executed prisoner with only bones left, the vitality gushing out of his body was so vigorous that it made him marvel.

Could it be related to his previous "baptism" beneath the "Sanctum"? The thought popped into Old Mo's mind.

He didn't know what the Night Watchman and Lin Yi were doing before, after all, such experiences that crossed consciousness, time dimensions, and layers were simply invisible from Old Mo's perspective.

But an even more astonishing scene appeared to Old Mo. He saw that Lin Yi's golden skeleton was like a barbecue, constantly emitting golden aura, these auras, as if they were being squeezed out of his bones.

This… these auras… there are too many…

Lin Yi didn't have so many on the way here…

Old Mo watched in stunned silence, unable to imagine what Lin Yi had experienced in the process of climbing the stairs.

At this moment, Lin Yi, who was tightly attached to the "Sanctum," as the golden aura in his bones was gradually stripped away by the "Sanctum," also felt a sense of rapid loss of life. A strong sense of fatigue began to spread from the depths of his soul and soon infected his whole body.

He wanted to keep himself awake, wanted to suppress this sense of fatigue, but a strange sensation suddenly flowed through his body like an electric current!

He trembled violently!

This…?!

This is the feeling!!

His spirit shook, and he quickly gave up resisting.

Just now, he felt a feeling that belonged to him, but didn't belong to him!

Like a yawn before a beast awakens.

"It's coming!"

He opened his mind, letting his will be trampled upon by the feeling of weakness, while feeling the deadly gravity that the "Sanctum" was exerting on him, feeling that…

"The taste of death…" he uttered this sound uncontrollably.

His face had no flesh, and he couldn't make a sound with his organs at all, but a sound echoed around him.

Like his, and like someone else's, the sound overlapped, making it impossible to tell whether it belonged to one person, or… a whole.

"Fuffuffu…"

"This feeling…"

"Fuffuffu… This is the feeling!"

The bones of Lin Yi's face rubbed against the "Sanctum" with difficulty, and that smile became more and more ferocious and terrifying.

"The taste of death…"

"The long-lost… taste of death!"

"Fuffuffu… Fuffuffu…"

Those golden auras, which were originally being frantically devoured by the "Sanctum" after being squeezed out of Lin Yi's body, but at this moment, with his grin, the progress of that devouring suddenly slowed down, and even faintly showed a tendency to stagnate.

Gradually, the golden aura began to decompose in reverse, turning into a piece of scarlet blood and a stream of deep blue gas.

The three auras surrounded Lin Yi's skeleton, driving his arm bones to exert force, like a person doing push-ups, lifting his body away from the "Sanctum" bit by bit.

And between him and the "Sanctum," there were countless lotus root-like thin threads connected. These threads were not substantial. If you observed carefully, you would find that they were one of the channels for transmitting golden aura.

They were like capillaries connecting Lin Yi and the surface of the "Sanctum," causing the golden aura in Lin Yi's body to pour out like a levee breaking.

And as he now pushed himself away, the connection between these threads also loosened. When he pushed himself away, they finally snapped like resilient vermicelli.

At the fracture, the golden aura was still flowing, still being absorbed by the "Sanctum," but a part of it began to swirl around Lin Yi's skeleton like a thin mist, making it look like "clouds follow the dragon."

"Fuffuffu…"

Lin Yi's body was still making beast-like low roars, these sounds echoed and howled in his bones, like wind rushing through empty caves.

As he exerted force, the threads contracted into his bones, and the golden aura slowly disappeared, leaving only the scarlet aura and the deep blue aura, like flames wrapped around him.

The gray mist that rose after the flames burned replaced his original golden aura and was absorbed by the "Sanctum." Strangely, although it was not absorbing the golden aura, the "Sanctum" still seemed to be replenished, with a hazy light floating on its surface, and the mysterious secret patterns still fluctuating in bursts.

This scene, falling into Old Mo's eyes, once again made him re-examine Lin Yi's existence…

Lin Yi went from being a power bank to a nuclear power plant, then to a nuclear power plant with a nuclear leak, and now he has become a gas station for the "Sanctum"…

Giving gas to the "Sanctum" is one thing, but how… can he resist the "Sanctum"?

Such an extraordinary creation, others don't even have the qualification to touch it, and even approaching it would probably turn them into sculptures, but Lin Yi not only had "intimate contact" with it, but also completed a voluntary departure.

You must know that when facing a super source of pollution, compared to preventing oneself from being attracted, being able to actively break away after being attracted is the absolute test of will.

Chasers of light, shrouded in mist, ultimately become phantoms. This isn't just a warning against those corrupted by the so-called "light," but also a warning to the guardian system within the campus.

Betrayal from within is the most terrifying.

Lin Yi wasn't sure, but Lao Mo was very clear. After the campus was established, countless people had strayed from guarding the campus to pursuing the extraordinary. Otherwise, where did so many fanatical believers come from?

Saying they were pursuing a greater ideal was, in Lao Mo's view, nothing more than a sophistry, a way to justify "not being firm enough in their will to stand on the side of 'humanity'."

But what was up with Lin Yi?

Didn't the extraordinary hold any attraction for him at all?!

What belief supported him in getting this far?

Lao Mo didn't know.

But he thought, at the very least, it wasn't damn stockinged legs, was it?

Could something like that really become a person's lifelong pursuit and ideal?

Lao Mo increasingly felt that Lin Yi's motivations in many areas defied the behavioral logic of normal people, because no one relied on lust to drive their actions, just as no fat person truly had ketchup, cheese, and beer flowing through their veins.

Just then, Lin Yi, in front of the "Sanctum," was thickly enveloped by scarlet and deep blue auras. The auras merged, as if igniting him.

Within the raging flames, a burly figure seemed to appear. The figure wasn't particularly tall, but if one listened carefully, they would find that the low, "Feh, feh, feh," roar seemed to originate from it…

Driven by instinct, Lin Yi propped himself up. His jaw opened and closed, and although he had no vocal cords, he emitted a sound that mixed several different timbres.

"I've said it so many times…"

He slowly raised his fist, and the figure in the flames made the same motion.

"My things… given to you… then belong to you…"

"I don't give… you can't…"

"Forcefully—snatch…"

The word "forcefully" had barely appeared when his fist, wrapped in flame-like aura, crashed fiercely into the surface of the "Sanctum" with an unmatched force!

"Duang—!!"

Accompanied by a majestic and heavy chime, the quantum clock "Sanctum" was struck by Lin Yi!!

"What…?! This… This is impossible!!" At this moment, Lao Mo had been in a near-death state for a while. His form was incomplete, and his energy was rapidly declining, but upon seeing this scene, a glimmer of light suddenly burst out from his originally weak and dim eyes.

On the "Sanctum" side.

As if detonating a bomb, a terrifying shockwave surged out from within the "Sanctum" like an overwhelming avalanche. Lin Yi, who was closest, had the aura surrounding him directly collapse under the impact of this primal shockwave.

From afar, he looked like a desiccated corpse wrapped in tattered rags, the only difference being the faint flames flickering on his body…

"Whoosh—whoosh—"

The shockwave continued to surge out, and he continued the chime of the "Sanctum" with his rage!

Lin Yi was shocked, not expecting that after "losing his mind," his instincts would be so violent, striking the "Sanctum" at the slightest disagreement!

Wait, was this really striking the bell?

It was clearly venting a bellyful of anger, then pounding on the "Sanctum" to let off steam!

The "Sanctum's" shockwave recovered, and extraordinary power surged endlessly, no longer absorbing the extraordinary power from Lin Yi. Lin Yi also breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that if the Night Watcher returned at this moment, he could at least say, "I did not fail my mission."

But he had let go, but his instincts hadn't.

Seemingly determined to vent his anger, he reached out and pressed his hand against the surface of the "Sanctum."

"No…? What do you want to do?"

Lin Yi panicked inwardly, thinking something was wrong. Could he have been "hijacked" by his instincts?!

You're a power-leveling service that won't log off once you're on?

Just as Lin Yi was puzzled, the view before his eyes suddenly blurred again.

In the haze, he saw the surface of the "Sanctum" suddenly split open as if torn apart by an invisible giant hand, revealing a terrifying gash. Brilliant light poured down from it, like the purest liquid gold flowing, or like countless glittering stars crushed and scattered.

The light wasn't dazzling, but it had an irresistible majesty. Each ray of light seemed to consciously weave through the air, creating a dreamlike painting.

His bones seemed to be fixed, his feet as if rooted, deeply embedded in the ground beneath him, but his soul seemed to be ignited by the miraculous light, jumping and trembling madly within his shell…

"This is…?!"

Lin Yi's skull was illuminated by the light, appearing sacred. A transcendent beauty shone through the gaps between his bones, every wrinkle, every pore seemed to be telling of his awe for this miracle…

He unconsciously raised his head, looking towards the spectacle above the crack, his arm seemed to be slightly raised, as if to grasp the flowing light…

However, a low roar sounded within his body, completely contrary to the piety and worship his soul showed for the light!

"Heh heh heh…"

"Heh heh heh hahahahaha…"

He laughed somewhat crazily, clearly it was he who was laughing, yet it made his heart creep out.

Suddenly, his hazy vision began to clear, and as the light faded, he found that before him was no longer the surface of the "Sanctum" with its floating illusory secret patterns and symbols, but that pitch-black tide, that mountain-like tsunami, that which connected the sky and the ocean… the endless dark tide!

Within that dark tide, countless nocturnal species resembled swarms of locusts in the sea. Their twisted, massive, and infinitely terrifying figures slowly writhed in the sea. As Lin Yi's vision cleared, the figure seemed to slowly lower its head from the chaotic void, approaching the edge of the black tide bit by bit, slowly…

No matter what the figure looked like from afar, whether it resembled a giant snake or an octopus, or something else, at this moment, as it approached and magnified in Lin Yi's vision, the outline of its form had lost its original shape. All that remained before Lin Yi was an ever-enlarging black spot…

A mountain…

A meteorite bringing boundless and endless pressure…

A head…

A giant head…

Finally, he knew.

The "Angel" was watching him.