Chapter 1201: 567: Beneath the Teaching Building Area's Layers
Chapter 1201: Chapter 567: Beneath the Teaching Building Area’s Layers
The sky, which was already dim, suddenly became overcast, and the mist wafting from the Green Forest Belt made the entire world look as if it were wrapped in a translucent shroud, with a damp aura mixed with an indescribable scent of decay.
The entire scene exuded a horror akin to Silent Hill.
Shadowy figures moved about in the Green Forest Belt, all of them pseudo-human sculptures, yet they didn’t evoke any sense of terror in Lin Yi. On the contrary, there was only an endless aura of death left behind.
“Are those sculptures… pseudo-human sculptures?”
It doesn’t seem like it, because they didn’t give him the unique feeling of pseudo-human sculptures, nor did they make him feel targeted by Void Target Search.
Could it be because his current position is higher, and the pseudo-human sculptures dare not target him?
Impossible, right?
Void Target Search is the basic mechanism of pseudo-human sculptures, even a dog staring at them would be targeted, right?
He continued observing and enhanced parts of his perception. Gradually, with the flow of mist, more outlines emerged in the Green Forest Belt, like a silent army… no, like a silent… corpse group.
Hundreds of sculptures were solidified in various bizarre poses on the hillside, among the rocks, and even hanging from branches. Some were entangled by tree roots, some pierced by vines, while more were petrified in positions defying physical laws, among the Green Forest Belt.
He saw the faces of those sculptures clearly, most with expressions full of humanity, even frozen in moments of extreme terror, mouths agape, eyeballs almost bursting out of their sockets.
Some knelt on the ground looking up at the sky, stretching out their palms with fingers open, as if trying to grasp something unreal, faces filled with a sickly piety and fanaticism.
But regardless of the type of sculpture, they were all incomplete, as if they had experienced some force before or at the moment of petrification, which left them in such a state.
Dead body sculpture.
“Gulp…”
Lin Yi swallowed his saliva, listening carefully, but only the wind passed through the mountains, with no sound of singing.
No singing meant there weren’t even any high-grade contaminants in this layer; he couldn’t even hear the caution, “In the fog and the abyss of darkness, lost souls pursue phantoms,” which meant that there really were no nocturnal species here.
Yet, with pseudo-human sculptures all over the place, why was there not a person in sight?
Too eerie!
He moved slowly, his gaze sweeping across the hillside, and more unsettling details began entering his view.
He saw some sculptures “flowing” down from rocks like liquid, yet becoming solid in motion…
Some were half-buried in the soil, revealing only twisted faces…
Others seemed embedded within tree trunks, their petrified skin merging with the wood grain…
And then there were sculptures whose faces twisted into faceless forms, posing with expressions as if screaming.
“What did you see?” Tian Bufan’s voice came through from outside the layer.
Lin Yi was slightly startled; he hadn’t seen Tian Bufan around him. Where did this voice come from?
He was sure the voice wasn’t from his mind, but from somewhere around him.
“Here.” Tian Bufan knew Lin Yi was looking for him, so he spoke to remind him.
Lin Yi followed the voice and saw a faint ripple occasionally appear beside him, existing like a curtain; if he didn’t look carefully, he couldn’t see anything. But when he focused, he saw the surface world’s scene through this curtain.
Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji, and Wei Liang had actually been beside him all along; he just couldn’t see them without careful observation.
“I see a lot of dead body sculptures, but there are no people or even a silhouette of nocturnal species or pseudo-human sculptures.” Lin Yi spoke, “Hey, hey, can you hear me?”
“I can hear you.” Tian Bufan said, “It seems your perception has begun capturing a layer we couldn’t see before. Observe closely and see if you can find the lamp post in this layer.”
“Let me look for it.” he said, then searched a bit and indeed found a lamp post not far off, “I found it, but the lamp post is broken… Wait! It’s a lamp post painted red!”
Tian Bufan touched his chin: “Then I guess I was right… the layer you see might be a layer beneath the surface of the campus.”
“A layer?” Lin Yi was stunned.
“You’d better come back; don’t let your consciousness linger here too long.” Tian Bufan’s voice came from around him.
Lin Yi took a deep breath, wiped his eyes with his hand, the golden flame in his eyes extinguishing, and upon focussing again, he was back in the normal campus layer.
“What was that just now?” Lin Yi couldn’t help but ask.
Tian Bufan explained: “I think what you saw was likely a place in the campus’s layers where bodies are accumulated… like during the dinosaur age in ancient times, with tectonic movements continuously sinking, the sculptures, after death, might also sink continuously in the layers, eventually settling somewhere…”
Lin Yi’s expression was grim: “I seemed to see countless sculptures!”
Tian Bufan contemplated: “From the history of the campus, the number of people who died due to campus construction or exploration is beyond measure. Those who died after transforming into non-human units are also beyond measure; what you see might just be the tip of the iceberg…”