Chapter 1164: Chapter 548: [At Least… Take Your… Bat…] (Part 2)
“In the abyss of fog and darkness, hunting wandering souls, phantoms!”
A pair of twisted hands reached out from the dense seaweed, aimlessly trying to grab in the general direction of Mao Feiyang.
Mao Feiyang slowly parted the seaweed in front of him and headed towards the original position of the tombstone.
However, as he parted the seaweed, the painful screams in his ears grew stronger: “In the abyss of fog and darkness, hunting wandering souls, phantoms!”
“In the abyss of fog and darkness, hunting wandering souls, phantoms!”
“In the abyss…”
But as he parted the seaweed, those chaotic, disorderly, evil painful screams seed to lower as if soone turned down a volu knob, gradually quieting until they disappeared entirely.
At that mont, what appeared before Mao Feiyang was not a tombstone, but rather… a dark, decayed ship cabin that had sunk to the sea bottom.
Mao Feiyang stepped over the seaweed and onto the cabin’s wooden planks.
“Creeeeak—”
The planks emitted a sharp, piercing sound, like the mocking laughter of so wicked witch.
“Where is this…?!” Lin Yi was both amazed and frightened; this place seed very similar to the Phantom Vision he had seen before!
While contemplating, a sound akin to dragging heavy chains on wooden planks faintly resonated from the depths of the cabin.
Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, recognizing that sound!
Just then, he indeed saw a silhouette deep in the cabin, an imposing yet indistinct form, and as those heavy footsteps sounded, the figure gradually erged from the shadows in the cabin, becoming clearer…
It was a gigantic humanoid sculpture, covered in bizarre patterns, as if corroded by so evil force, but within those marks, a rich golden aura seeped through, the golden and evil auras intertwined, making it appear both holy and evil, like a hybrid form of angel and demon.
Behind it, a huge, strong iron chain seed to connect to the end of a flesh-and-blood spine, dragging within the heavy cabin, clashing and making clanging sounds…
Lin Yi’s pupils contracted sharply: “What is that…?!”
“Quartermaster?!”
“The figure I saw many tis in my Phantom Vision… turned out to be the ‘Quartermaster’?!”
Lin Yi was shaken to his core, as if struck by lightning upon seeing the “Quartermaster”.
At this mont, Mao Feiyang’s voice echoed in his mind: “Don’t look too long… or ’02’ would know we’ve found it.”
“I don’t want to collect the final paynt, otherwise I’d waste energy handing it to you…”
Mao Feiyang was speaking slowly.
“Now is not the ti for us to et.”
“Thump, thump, thump…”
The “Quartermaster” trudged heavily, moving gradually within the cabin.
Though the cabin was dim, it wasn’t small, yet in front of the gigantic “Quartermaster”, it seed cramped and narrow.
“Clang, clang, clang…”
The iron chains clashed, sparking a series of fire sparks.
“You’ve co…”
“You finally arrived…”
“I kept the promise…”
“Waiting… for you…”
“Waiting for you…”
The “Quartermaster” spoke human language, its deep voice making the entire cabin tremble.
“Is it sentient…? Is it speaking to us?” Lin Yi was shocked.
“Shut up, Old Lin! Don’t mind its words! At least, not now!!” Mao Feiyang gritted his teeth, shouting low, “Let’s go Old Lin, it’s ti to leave!!”
Gray mist surged around, the cramped cabin gradually disintegrating, this wasn’t the collapsing of layers, but them transitioning to a deeper layer…
Seeing this, the “Quartermaster” halted silently, watching Mao Feiyang completely enveloped and subrged by the gray mist, its eyes flickering with a cold, moonlike golden glow.
A touch of human-like light flickered in those eyes, disappearing quickly.
“At least… take your… bat…”
An eerie sigh echoed in the dark cabin.
“Never mind… at least… you kept the promise… and ca…”
“You finally… returned…”
“Big stars…”
“When the black moon fades… the mourners return from the infinite deep sea…”
…
Gray mist…
Twisting, collapsing linear world…
Unknown ti…
Vortex…
As Mao Feiyang transitioned from the cabin, everything around turned into chaos, as if he was sinking into an Alpine primal broth…
Lin Yi suddenly thought of sothing, exclaiming: “I thought of sothing, Maozi!”
“What did you think of?”
“That ship cabin!” Lin Yi said, “That decayed wooden texture… I actually stepped on it at so point while moving through the Gallery!”
“Looks like that thing summoned you…”
“You an the quar…”
“Don’t ntion its na for now, or ’02’ will know.” Mao Feiyang interrupted, “Now you know why we made this deal with ’02’, right?”
“For countless years, the Night Watchn had always tried to find it, but it’s not that they can’t find it, it’s that it doesn’t want to be found by the Night Watchn, but now it’s different…”
“When you arrive, it will summon you, by then, the Night Watchn will also know its location.”
“Huh?” Lin Yi was puzzled, “Isn’t it created by the ‘Original Apostles’ for the Supre Judgnt Sequence’s equipnt depot? Why can’t the Night Watchn as part of the Supre Judgnt Sequence find it?”
“Moreover, why is it summoning us?”
Mao Feiyang sneered: “Now you know, ‘Supre Judgnt’ is just a collective term for a sequence, then you should understand, everything has its opposition, who told you it’s on the sa team as the ‘Night Watchn’?”
“What? This…” Lin Yi was shocked once more, and this ti he was even more confused, “Not on the sa team, why are the Night Watchn looking for… it?”
Mao Feiyang said slowly: “Probably because ‘brothers fight within the walls, external invasion unites them’… in the face of an absolute enemy, nothing is impossible to unite against.”
“Or perhaps… because at this ti point, or perhaps an even earlier ti point, like when you reach the Gymnasium, or I reach the Art Building, it sensed our arrival, so it began actively summoning us.”
“And when you and I bring the Night Watchn’s ‘trade’ here, it appears…”
Mao Feiyang said: “Who knows? Next ti you can ask it.”
“Don’t let its fearso appearance fool you, it’s actually quite gentle.”
“If we weren’t pressed for ti, we could have sat down for a chat with it.”
“It seems… it has a lot to tell us.”
Lin Yi pursed his lips: “Why does it sound like you’re very familiar with it? Given the tiline, we shouldn’t have any contact with it, right?”
Mao Feiyang replied: “We shouldn’t… but suppose in the future, you get caught up in a ti vortex due to so event, if you t it within the ti scale disparity, everything would be different…”
Lin Yi fell silent for a mont, then said: “Are you talking about so predetermined fact I’m unaware of?”
“In the future… will I be trapped in a ti paradox?” he asked, seeming to talk to himself, yet as if asking Mao Feiyang.
Mao Feiyang didn’t answer directly, only replying evasively: “Who knows what the future holds?”
“But the Dream Boundary… is an extrely dangerous proposition in itself.”
“Moreover, ‘Ti’… it’s only when it starts flowing between your fingers, that you’ll know whether it’s a gentle trickling stream, or an unfathomable, raging tide…”
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