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Chapter 269: Not "My World," but…?!

What's certain is that no matter what, the safety distance left for him wouldn't be too long. The green belt was lurking with a large number of sculpture formations. They wouldn't move during the day, but as they went deeper into the mountains, they would also gain preliminary mobility, not to mention the dividing line deep in the mountains.

He tried hard to observe his surroundings, doing his best to capture some crazy images from the distorted field of vision. This was a dark and humid corner deep in the dense forest, as if it were a forgotten cursed land, permeated with an ominous aura.

"Sha sha sha…"

"Sha sha sha…"

Some rustling sounds suddenly appeared beside him, unlike the sound of sculptures moving. It was more like some kind of thick, long creature moving through the dense forest, the sound of scales rubbing against tree trunks and dry leaves…

A strong ominous premonition enveloped Lin Yi. He heard… he heard a heavy breathing sound coming. That kind of sound was like a steed exhaling through its nostrils, or like an amphibian with gills opening its gills and spraying water vapor.

He couldn't see anything. His field of vision had been distorted into a completely incomprehensible picture. All he could see were irregular spots of light. But at this moment, he could clearly feel something approaching in the area in front of him. The heavy breathing sound was getting closer and closer, and the "sha sha sha…" sound was also getting clearer and clearer…

Gradually, the "sha sha sha" sound became a "clang clang clang" sound, like metal scraping against a sharp knife rack, making Lin Yi feel a faint pain in his skin.

"Huff huff… huff huff…"

That thing came in front of him, maybe ten meters away, maybe twenty meters away, or even further. But the sense of oppression was like a tsunami, rushing towards him, blowing on him like a strong wind, making his clothes flutter, as if he were running against a strong wind.

The breath of living beings is always hot, but when this gust of wind blew on him, he felt a bone-chilling sensation. The breath seemed to carry ice shards, stimulating his skin with a burst of pain, as if he were being pricked by needles.

That thing seemed to be saying something, a low voice accompanied by ice shards covering Lin Yi:

["I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome…"]

"This sentence…?!" Lin Yi's body stiffened slightly. He had heard many similar sentences, but he had only heard this sentence pronounced by the Nightwalkers and the Heretical Choir!

The thing he was facing seemed to be some kind of unit on this side!

Boundless fear spread in his heart, but what puzzled him was that the behemoth didn't know why it stopped there and didn't continue to approach him.

Was it that the other party showed mercy… or was it curious about him, or… something else?

"No, no… it's definitely not like this…" Lin Yi immediately denied this idea. Beasts don't attack people because they are curious about what people taste like, but only because…

"The dividing line!!"

He tried hard to observe the distorted picture in front of him and found some subtle changes in the distortion.

"I've already walked into the deep forest! Not far ahead is the dividing line between the dense forest and the woods!"

He had already reached the deepest position where Mu Daxian had taken Maozi, and ahead was the depths of the mountains that even Mu Daxian was secretive about.

He remembered that after crossing the dividing line, the fog would be divided into many layers like substantive things and deposited there, and some of it would hang on the ancient trees like cloth. In that dark place that even light could not reach, it seemed that there was an entrance to the endless abyss underground…

And now, something in that abyss poked its head out and saw him?!

And under this visual pollution, he was clearly looking at it, but he couldn't see anything except broken spots of light, not even the outline!

How many cognitive depths was this short of, so that his brain didn't even give him a "humanoid outline made of broken glass" conceptual cognition, and directly gave him a string of garbled codes.

Gradually, Lin Yi found that the colorful spots of light in front of him gradually lost their luster and began to change to a gray luster, as if they were soaked in gray fog.

The shadows in the forest became heavier, and an invisible sense of oppression came over him, making Lin Yi feel that the existence within the boundary seemed to be manipulating this environment. It couldn't come out, but it couldn't control the fog to spread out.

Lin Yi felt that he might not be able to leave.

It wasn't that he didn't want to leave, it was just that he had no way to go.

Just as he was hesitating and at a loss, some movement appeared behind him…

"Crack… crack… crack…"

This was a very clear sound of stepping on dead leaves.

With the appearance of this sound, a scorching and manic aura gradually approached him, making his back feel like it was being roasted by high temperature.

The next moment, the entire forest swayed, as if it was divided into two by this aura. The towering trees shook violently, and the leaves rustled, like the sound of the forest listening to the waves. And the sunlight that was originally obscured by the dense forest also fell down a little because of this, but with the appearance of the sunlight, the raindrops also continued to fall.

Just as he was curious about what happened, he was shocked to find that a short figure passed through his body…

"No, this… what's going on?!"

Before he could see what the short figure was, he first looked at his hands in horror…

In this field of vision, his body was countless tadpole-shaped distorted spots of light. When he moved, the overall outline moved with the surrounding environment. But now, as that figure passed through him without him feeling anything, it seemed that he was… not a solid body at all!

How could he have been lost for so long, only to realize that he was a ghost?!

"No! This seems to be… 'My World'?!!"

Thinking of this, Lin Yi's heart was full of uncertainty, but he decided to try it. So he focused his attention on the short figure that had just passed through "himself"!

The underlying logic of Lin Yi's "My World" is that he uses his mental power to construct a controllable, self-programmed sandbox world in his mind. But on this basis, there is an "import," that is, the process of deconstructing the entire world into his mind!

In this process, he needs to consume a huge amount of mental power to complete the integration of the surrounding information elements!

And the point of collecting information… come to think of it, didn't it start when he fought the bandaged pseudo-art student!

But after dealing with the bandaged pseudo-artist, he subconsciously maintained that state of frantically collecting information elements, so… did he accidentally enter the state of "My World"?

Like… the state he was in on May 8th when collecting information about the teaching building's corridor bridge and the teaching building's architecture?

A bit… like his consciousness detached from his body?

"So, my sense of distortion towards the world is partly because my consciousness is too far away from myself?"

"The reason I can't see things clearly is also because my mental strength can't keep up with the consumption?"

"And the reason I can come here is because I once followed Mu Daxian and Maozi through the Green Forest Belt in a dream, so I have some 'impressions'!"

The further away from oneself, the weaker the connection becomes, and if one goes further, one will lose oneself!

And the key turning point of all this was that he realized his state at this moment—"cognition" determines a safe state!

"No need to consider what's going on around here. The top priority is to find a way to get the current 'me' back into my body!"

As for the method, it already existed when Lin Yi realized this situation!

He's not stupid; he just needs to understand the question.

So, based on this, he walked some distance forward, backward, left, and right, and then returned here. Because the front was very dangerous, he took fewer steps forward during the test.

According to the test, he indeed came to a conclusion—his body is to his right rear!

The basis for judgment is very simple: just observe the clarity of the light spots between oneself and the surrounding environment while moving. Because the farther away from the body, the worse the connection, so the direction where the clarity decreases and the visual distortion increases is the direction away from the body.

Conversely, that is where his body is located!

In this way, he has found the way back.

He was very excited because he had saved his own life again with his limited wisdom.

But he didn't get too happy too soon, because he hadn't completely escaped the danger.

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Just as he turned around to leave, he suddenly realized something and glanced back in the original direction.

"So… the thing within that boundary didn't go there because of 'me,' but because it sensed that small figure?"

"In the end, I overestimated myself."

He laughed self-deprecatingly and felt a little relieved for some reason.

So, he carefully returned from the distorted world and quickly left the depths of the Green Forest Belt, entering the shrub area.

When he arrived in this area, the surrounding wind finally picked up again, mixed with ice-like solar rain.

"It seems that solar rain really exists. It's just that I was affected much more than Liangzi, and then I accidentally entered 'My World'…"

"My Vision" is seeing, but "My World" is not. The consequence of confusing the two is that Lin Yi thought he had really arrived at the place he felt. If he hadn't reacted in time, the consequences would have been unimaginable once the connection was severed.

The world around him quickly recovered. The Green Forest Belt was still swaying in the wind, but it wasn't distorted so ridiculously. The solar rain was also there, but the tactile sensation wasn't clear. "My Vision" amplified his five senses, like a double-edged sword that almost took him away.

The world behind him was rapidly contracting, like a bulging curtain in the wind being sucked into a fist-sized hole in one breath. His return speed was getting faster and faster, like being accelerated by a gravity slingshot. He shot out with a "biu~~~" sound, directly passing through many trees along the way.

He quickly saw "himself," saw Wei Liang on the cobblestone road, as well as some lampposts. Further ahead, the gymnasium and the giant egg were also clearly visible.

"Gymnasium!"

Lin Yi was overjoyed. The moment he saw the gymnasium, it meant that he had fulfilled the requirement on the gymnasium's notice board: [If you are facing the gymnasium, please rush towards the gymnasium on the correct road at the fastest speed.]

"Although there have been many twists and turns, fortunately, nothing unexpected happened at this time!"

Like a gust of wind, he swept out in an arc, flying towards "himself."

But just then, a strong feeling of shock and terror slowly came from the front of the cobblestone road…

He quickly looked over, and the next moment, his eyes widened fiercely, and he felt a chill running down his spine!

He saw that on the cobblestone road leading to the Green Forest Belt, in the position where the shadows of the trees swayed under the shade, there stood a sculpture…

It was a small sculpture, less than half the height of a regular sculpture. Part of its body was hidden in the bushes of the Green Forest Belt, very inconspicuous, but as soon as you saw it, you would be shocked by its terrifying aura.

The most fatal thing was that Lin Yi saw a pair of wings behind this sculpture!

It was draped in the kind of himation of ancient Greece. Wings protruded from the himation, simply folded behind it. It hid there like playing hide-and-seek, revealing half of its head, curiously looking at everything around it.

Its ash-white wings, like accumulated dust, had a thin layer of gray-green, the same as the artificial rockery. A faint mist floated around it, and in that mist, there seemed to be a touch of crimson, like some tomato-flavored seasoning floating in the gray-green mist, revealing an ominous aura.

On the half of its face exposed behind the bushes, there was a look of anger that looked very terrifying. Its stone-carved eyes had no expression, but under the contrast of the facial expression, it seemed to have a feeling like magma before a volcanic eruption.

That anger was churning and roaring, as if it wanted to burn itself to ashes.

"Wrathful Angel!"

This was the title that popped into Lin Yi's mind in the first instance. Except for the "Wrathful Angel" among the three types of angel sculptures, no other sculpture could match what he saw!

But after just one glance, he returned to his body like a wisp of green smoke.

"Boom!"

Lin Yi's body trembled violently, and the hand he put on Wei Liang's shoulder tightened suddenly.

"Don't panic, Lao Lin. This rain doesn't seem to be getting heavier. We'll be fine when we get to the gymnasium," Wei Liang comforted, thinking that Lin Yi was worried about the weather. "It hasn't started to fog yet!"

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