818: Chapter 377 The Item the Night Watchman is Looking for—”Quartermaster”!_2 818: Chapter 377 The Item the Night Watchman is Looking for—”Quartermaster”!_2 The sensation of swaying invaded the bedroom from the picture fra, stirring the once tranquil room into disquiet like a cup of trembling water sparking a terrifying storm.
“Clang clang clang…
clang clang clang…”
Books fell from the shelves amidst the shaking, their covers snapped open with a “pop”, and page after page of ancient paper rustled like dried human skin hanging from branches, the stench of rotting flesh suddenly pervading Lin Yi’s nostrils.
Every mysterious symbol on the pages seed to co to life, fluttering into the air from the books, circling around Lin Yi, emitting their own sounds—as if ancient witch priests were dancing around green flas, long-forgotten verses drifting with syllables that didn’t conform to human phonetics, close one mont and distant the next…
“Void void void void…!!”
“Void void void void…!!”
Startling cracks spread from the picture fra, everything around Lin Yi began to shatter and splinter, a terrifying fissure opened beneath his feet, the ground broke away and he plumted into an abyss thousands of feet deep.
In the endless darkness with a hint of light, he felt a disorienting spin as he lost both balance and direction, desperately calling for the Night Watchman “02”, but the only response was an endless howl, whether it was from the wind, or space, or ti, or perhaps from so kind of layer…
He saw a massive mountain range, like a stead bun constructed from nurous pieces of flesh and blood, its eerie lines complex yet minimalist, leaping back and forth between human cognition and incomprehensibility—he abruptly realized it looked familiar, like a part of the cartoon drawing inside the picture fra.
He understood that he seed to be traversing sothing, as if he had been swallowed by the world inside the picture fra—the cartoon tore through the layers, dragging him into a deeper abyss!
He saw a dark forest where the branches intertwined like twisted arms, within its depths, pairs of red eyes flashed, like predators lurking in the shadows spying on their prey, the deeper one went, the thicker the mist beca, nearly obscuring the shadows of the trees…
Traversing the Dark Forest, Lin Yi felt a chill rise from his spine as though countless eyes were watching him, the surrounding darkness seed poised to engulf him.
An endless cold wind brushed his consciousness, as if intending to freeze him in place, the world filled with the “rustling ” sound of a swarm of Nocturnal species in motion, but how could Nocturnal species exist in such a place?
The wind also carried a low mournful sobbing that seed barely there, yet enough to make his heart rate soar, in this eerie world, every mont brimd with unknown fears, urging him to flee, yet he seed bound by an invisible force, plumting deeper into the abyss…
Suddenly, he crested a range of mountains beyond the Dark Forest.
Climbing that range, he saw a desolate landscape within the mountains, covered with countless gravestones, the cartoon sky painted a vivid red, now resembling thick clouds saturated with blood…
“What is this place…?!”
He rembered!
This scene, was the last glimpse before switching back to his bedroom his vision has been leaping over!
“Could it be…
the first ti my consciousness ca here, I arrived there first, then in reverse entered the world inside the cartoon, and finally passed through that picture fra into the bedroom?!”
“No wonder I didn’t enter the first ti!
Did I inadvertently take a secret passage?”
He rembered!
He rembered everything!
He recalled, deep in this barren mountain range, there seed to be a winding, twisting pathway!
And at the end of that pathway stood a giant Human Sculpture!
He traversed the Gate of Darkness, finally arriving at that pathway in the deepest layers of the countless cartoon drawings.
“Thud…”
He stood still in the corridor, the rotting wooden planks beneath his feet creaking loudly even though he hadn’t taken a step, with each shift of his weight…
Both sides of the corridor were filled with sculptures, so twisted in agony, so wild and unrestrained, all of them half-figures and none in a normal state, resembling a museum display of those killed by malevolent spirits.
At the end of the corridor stood a huge humanoid statue, bizarre in the interplay of light and shadow.
With the wafting of the thin mist, its ferocious facial expression seed to subtly change, as if it had co to life.
The humanoid sculpture at the center of the corridor was the only complete figure, standing elegantly like a humble and courteous gentleman, but it was covered with patterns so strange that it looked more like a container that sealed a malevolent spirit.
It seed as if sothing was about to break out of its body, yet was firmly sealed within by this sculpted form.
In front of this humanoid sculpture, a shadowy figure had now appeared out of the darkness.
He recognized it at a glance.
“’02’…?
How did you…?”
The will of the Night Watchman ’02’ had arrived before him, and from a state of nihility that was imperceptible, it had beco so kind of consciousness that he could now sense.
The Night Watchman was already quite tall, but even he seed rather small in front of the towering humanoid statue.
“It’s this…” The Night Watchman’s voice contained an excitent he couldn’t hide, “I found it!
Finally, I found it!”
Lin Yi, seeing the Night Watchman’s sowhat uncomposed deanor for the first ti, couldn’t help but ask, “Is this the ‘item’ you’ve been searching for?
Can you tell what it is?”
“This is…
‘the Quartermaster’.”
“‘The Quartermaster’?!” Lin Yi’s heart trembled, “Going by that na, could it be one of the ‘Original Apostles’?”
Lin Yi suddenly had a terrifying conjecture: the Contractor, in slaying the ‘Original Apostles’, had killed an apostle called ‘the Quartermaster’ and buried him deep within the Layers.
The Night Watchman shook his head and said, “That’s not it…
‘The Quartermaster’ is not an apostle, but an ‘Extraordinary Creation’.”
“This is the ‘equipnt’ created by the ‘Original Apostles’ to match the ‘Supre Judgnt’ system.”
“What you’re seeing here is a confluence of various extraordinary creations from which I only need to obtain a critical part to elevate my positioning to face more Grey Mist Invasions, or even to a level that can expel ‘Angels’.”
“But…
if it was made for you, why would it be hidden in such a place?” puzzled Lin Yi.
If it were tailor-made equipnt, surely it would be kept at hand, or at the very least, placed sowhere accessible in an ergency, right?
Like the Sports Student’s baseball bat or the Pocket Chef’s pig-killing knife, it should be readily summonable for use, shouldn’t it?
Why hide it here like it’s a theft prevention asure?
“You’ve got it wrong,” the Night Watchman shook his head.
“You didn’t hear clearly.
I spoke of the ‘Supre Judgnt’ system…
it is not ours, the Night Watch lineage, and the difference between the two is vast.”
“The ‘Supre Judgnt’ system?” Lin Yi was taken aback.
The phrase ntioned by the Night Watchman flashed through his mind—
[The golden aura of the Supre Judgnt lineage…]
Lin Yi’s heart quivered slightly, as he seed to have realized sothing: “The symbol of ‘Supre Judgnt’ is a golden aura?
So does this an…?!”
“Exactly, Repeater boy…” The Night Watchman turned slowly within the darkness, his golden eyes shining like a brilliant sun that could pierce through the world.
“Once the ti is right…
you too can make use of them.”
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