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Chapter 366: The "Night Watchman's" Test

Lin Yi looked at the wall in horror, as if he saw a large pool of black, gelatinous liquid behind it, seemingly licking its lips and emitting some joyful emotions—if it had lips.

It definitely had lips! That was Lin Yi's feeling.

He could clearly feel that the thing had become excited after tasting his perception, but it also felt a little regretful for only taking one bite, followed by a sense of anger and anxiety, greed and desire…

It seemed to be squatting there, with more and more viscous, gelatinous liquid gathering like a rabbit waiting in its burrow, but soon, the invisible ripples surged down from the upper level of the clock tower, destroying a portion of them.

"Kid! What happened?!" The commotion here also attracted the attention of the upper level of the clock tower, and Old Mo's somewhat anxious shout came down, "Are you alright?"

"I… I'm alright!" Lin Yi responded.

"It's good that you're alright, be careful, don't get hurt!" Old Mo said, "I don't have time to worry about you right now!"

Lin Yi felt a warmth in his heart, not expecting Old Mo to care about him so much.

Just then, a feeling of being brought into "Layer Shifting" by Old Mo suddenly enveloped him…

Lin Yi's body shook, as if he had been petrified by a spell, frozen in place, without even the slightest possibility of movement.

"This…?!"

Before he could react, he felt the surrounding layers twisting strangely, and a sense of suffocation that reached the depths of his soul quietly spread in his heart.

He felt like he was going to be driven crazy by this pressure, but because he was unable to resist, he could only grit his teeth.

He gradually began to breathe heavily, the exhalations from his mouth and nose almost turning into scorching air currents, and a low roar of "Fuh, Fuh, Fuh" began to emanate from his throat, and his whole person began to release some light red heat waves like a steam locomotive…

Just then, the terrifying sense of suffocation suddenly receded like a tide, and with the disappearance of the suffocation, the distortion of the layers also returned to calm, followed by a low and oppressive voice that drifted down from above the clock tower.

"Young man, if you're interested, you can come up and take a look…"

Lin Yi's heart trembled, this voice, just hearing it, made his soul couldn't help but tremble.

"I… can I really go upstairs?" His voice was a little distorted because of excitement, as if he had received some kind of "permission."

"You can…" The oppressive voice slowly said, "Provided you can get up here."

The voice vanished in an instant, along with the oppressive feeling.

Lin Yi's "Vision Insight" directly collapsed, and he slumped to the ground, panting heavily, his school uniform was already soaked in the mist, but he still clearly felt that he was already drenched in sweat just from talking to "the owner of that voice."

"Wait!" Lin Yi belatedly woke up, "The voice from the upper level of the clock tower!"

"Could it be… the 'Night Watchman'?!"

The Night Watchman spoke to me?!

For some reason, even though he had only had a conversation with the "Night Watchman" from a distance, Lin Yi actually felt a sense of excitement…

Could this be hero worship? A desire for strength?

Lin Yi didn't know, but the trembling of his body couldn't deceive anyone.

This trembling was not fear, but excitement and fanaticism.

Intuition told him that the upper level of the clock tower held "a different kind of scenery."

If following Old Mo all the way had given him the feeling of being led by Zhao Yun, charging in and out seven times at Changban Slope, then ascending to the upper level of the clock tower would definitely give him the feeling of Cao Cao ascending to a high place and looking into the distance, taking in the entire battle situation!

This gray fog invasion, I must see what's going on!

"I have to go see!"

"I must go see!"

Imperceptibly, even though he could only slump on the ground at the moment, panting heavily and constantly absorbing the surrounding extraordinary power to recover his strength, Lin Yi was already looking forward to it.

If Mao Feiyang were here, he would definitely find that Lin Yi's performance at this moment was almost exactly the same as when Mu Daxian pursued "the existence that he perceived as an 'angel'" that night!

That kind of instinctive excitement in the body cannot be concealed!

That kind of fanaticism in the eyes cannot be concealed!

He quickly restrained these emotions, then adjusted himself to the best state, and then slowly came to the spiral staircase leading to the upper level.

《 Provided you can get up here 》

"So this staircase is the test the Night Watchman is giving me."

Lin Yi thought so too, if any Tom, Dick, or Harry could go up the clock tower, then the clock tower wouldn't be anything special.

With his mental preparation ready, Lin Yi tried to step onto the staircase, he tentatively stretched out his foot and slowly placed it on the first step.

He took a step up, steady and stable, seemingly without any abnormalities.

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, but his expression was very solemn.

Because when Old Mo went up the stairs before, a gust of wind blowing from the stairs directly cut his skin.

But now nothing happened?

"Could it be because there's no wind?"

"If that kind of wind is a manifestation of some kind of extraordinary power fluctuation in this spatial layer, then there should be a certain periodicity…"

Lin Yi had some guesses, so he didn't rush to step onto the second step.

The number of spiral steps was not large, at most twenty or thirty steps, walking slower wouldn't take much time, if he coveted a moment of speed and was knocked down by an unexpected danger, then it would be a greater loss than gain.

Moreover, the Night Watchman might still be watching!

If this was some kind of test, too many mistakes would definitely lower his evaluation in the Night Watchman's heart, right?

Just as he was thinking, his hair suddenly stood on end, and an invisible crisis suddenly appeared in the air in front of him.

"Buzz…"

The crisis appeared, Lin Yi's eyes suddenly turned golden, and the already dim light around him suddenly seemed to be covered with a special light film filter, and the flow of the mist also slowed down.

"High-Level Perception" was triggered, and his perception of "time" and the surrounding things suddenly became sharp.

He then concentrated all the mental power he had gathered on the void where the crisis appeared.

Sure enough, he quickly saw the form of that "wind"!

It was a hair-thin line, spreading out from the air in a circular arc slingshot shape, and behind it was a calm, without any problems.

Lin Yi's eyes lit up: "That gust of wind, it seems like it can be avoided?"

So when that gust of wind blew in front of him, he quickly ducked his head to dodge it.

"Whoosh—"

The sound of the wind swept past his head.

"As expected, I can dodge…" Lin Yi was ecstatic, but before he could finish celebrating, a heavy inertia slammed into him like a runaway truck.

"What…?!"

Lin Yi felt a chill in his heart, unable to maintain his footing, and was slammed down hard, his back hitting the wall outside the spiral staircase, his whole body "thwack" as if embedded in the wall.

In reality, he was just flattened a bit, and in that one blow, some of the vertebrae in his spine had already cracked.

Lin Yi slumped to the ground, his mouth twitching with a "hissing" sound, his face twisted in pain.

But despite the pain, the sky-blue aura began to rampage through his body, domineeringly restoring him.

As his body was being repaired, he recalled the impact just now and realized that the wind wasn't just a single line, but that the line he saw was just that, a line!

Just like when a big wave crashes, he saw the edge of the wave and thought there was only that edge, not knowing that behind the wave, there was a whole sea of water!

He did dodge the edge of the wave, but he ran headfirst into the rest of the wave.

Black and blue!

If his small frame wasn't sturdy enough, this impact might have shattered him into pieces!

Huh? Shattered into pieces?

He immediately thought of the black, viscous, glue-like substance constantly spreading on the outer wall of the clock tower, those things seemed to be shattered and annihilated by similar fluctuations?

Thinking about it, he didn't feel the pain as much.

Before long, his body had recovered, and he got up, thinking that the boss was indeed amazing, having given him recovery training in advance, otherwise, he really wouldn't have been able to adapt so quickly.

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Thinking of the boss, he couldn't help but think of the boss's smooth, snow-white flying kick.

This was painful, but compared to the boss's leg strength, it could only be considered light.

He looked at the stairs again.

"Since I can't dodge, then I can only take it head-on!"

Thinking of the hellish training the boss had put him through, he could only say that raising soldiers for a thousand days is for one battle, he didn't expect that he would use the self-healing skill he had just cultivated so quickly, it was really a coincidence.

He stood on the stairs again, then waited for the arrival of that wave of wind.

He took a deep breath, his muscles tensed, already prepared to take it head-on.

Soon, the invisible wind formed a line and appeared in his vision.

"It's coming!"

He concentrated and held his breath, waiting for the moment when the wind slammed into his body.

The next moment, the edge of the wind swept over his body, followed by an incomparably powerful airflow that rushed in like a raging wave.

The runaway truck crashed again, slamming into him, he was almost blown away, but this time his feet were like roots, firmly nailed to the stairs.

Under the constant scouring of the airflow, his body convulsed violently, at that moment he only felt that the bones in his body seemed to be shaken apart, every joint was emitting painful wails, every bone felt like it was about to crack, the muscles were even more like countless needles being inserted at the same time, the severe pain spread, his eyes faintly darkened, and his consciousness almost began to become blurred under this impact!

At the critical moment, he clenched his teeth tightly, maintaining the clarity of his will.

Gradually, countless cracks began to appear in his body, as if it had been cut by countless nano-fine threads, but his body did not shatter, the bones and flesh were tightly connected by extraordinary power, like a pile of blocks constantly shaking in the wind but not falling apart.

He kept shaking on this first step, but he didn't fall down no matter what, then, the air wave penetrated his body like a flood.

"Boom—"

The energy pierced through, entering from Lin Yi's front and gushing out from his back, a large amount of blood mist spewed out from his body and was immediately annihilated.

He clenched his teeth tightly, the blood vessels on his forehead were exposed, and the sweat flowing out immediately mixed with the blood mist and burst into the air wave.

The extraordinary power in his body kept surging, patching up his tattered body, barely offsetting the speed of annihilation, forming some kind of confrontation…

"Fuffuffu… fuffuffu…"

Lin Yi squeezed out a low hiss between his teeth, his golden eyes were filled with bloodshot, like hideous tentacles.

"Looks like… I withstood it!"

His body was very painful, probably because the perception was fully erupted, his perception of many things became sensitive, including the pain.

He could clearly feel the air wave raging in his body, the pain caused by cutting every muscle line, which made him feel the composition of every trace in this air wave incomparably deeply.

This air wave subsided, but its residual force was still raging on Lin Yi's body, making a mess of his body.

Before he could recover, the second wave of air came again.

"Whoosh—"

The air wave hit him, Lin Yi was like a small grass in the wind, almost blown down.

His body leaned back a lot, but he just held on and didn't fall.

As the air wave washed over, many of his flesh and blood were annihilated again.

The extraordinary power in the sky-blue aura was still constantly patching, but the patching at that level couldn't hold up against the consumption.

Lin Yi felt that he had lost a lot of things in his body, his internal organs seemed to be incomplete, but the extraordinary power was still urging these organs to regenerate.

His recovery speed became faster and faster, because if it wasn't fast enough, his body would be completely annihilated.

It's like a person drawing on white paper, and another person using an eraser, if the drawing isn't as fast as the erasing, the drawing will disappear before long.

But Lin Yi now feels that he is not drawing fast enough.

"Too slow!"

"It's really too slow!!!"

Lin Yi's heart roared with unwillingness.

"I'm going to die if this goes on! How can I talk about passing the Night Watchman's test!"

Wait!

Test?!

He suddenly had a flash of inspiration!

"Since it's a test, then there should be an 'answer'!"

"That's right!"

"There should be an answer!"

His first "exam" has already failed, he must answer well the second time!

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but perceive his body.

With this perception, the riddled body was depicted in his mind…

His current appearance is like a leaf full of holes eaten by insects.