PDLP Chapter 318 World 3: Finding the Secret Under the Light 136
Chapter 318 World 3: Finding the Secret Under the Light 136
Lin Yi endured the headache and thought hard: "My head hurts. What's going on? If true is false and real is fake, then is it possible that what I heard is what it really wants to express?"
Lin Yi dug his fingers deep into his temples, cold sweat trickling down his spine. The vague ticking sound of a clock suddenly exploded in his ears, and he realized that the clock on the library wall had stopped long ago - but the continuous mechanical sound was clearly coming from his pocket.
"The pocket watch given by Shi Qi?" He took out the gilded antique watch with trembling hands. The surface glass was covered with spider-web-like cracks at some point.
When the ticking sound reached a certain critical point, ripples suddenly appeared in the air. Those dazed "people" suddenly turned their heads in unison, and their necks rotating 360 degrees made a teeth-grinding creaking sound.
"Why are you so restless, classmate Lin?" A sweet female voice came from behind. Shi Qi appeared behind the reading desk without knowing when, with bright red wax dripping from her fingertips. The bronze candlestick in front of her was burning with a faint blue flame, and countless tiny words were floating in the flames - exactly the missing content of the scroll.
The gears of the pocket watch suddenly spun in the opposite direction. Lin Yi caught fragments of time and space dislocation in his severe headache: "Three days ago," the hot cocoa cup that Shi Qi handed him had a mirror emblem printed on the bottom, last night when he was patrolling, he saw himself walking backwards in the glass curtain wall of the teaching building, and at this moment, the blue light of the chip was faintly visible on Shi Qi's neck...
"You've known for a long time that this is a world in the mirror!" Lin Yi flipped over the desk, and a hexagram array hidden in the floor was revealed amidst the flying ancient books.
Shi Qi's laughter suddenly became electronically cold, and the entire library began to disintegrate into pixels. Only the candle in her hand became clearer and clearer - it was not a candle at all, but a micro server wrapped in human skin.
The ground suddenly collapsed into a flood of data, and Lin Yi clutched the pocket watch tightly as he fell. When the cover popped open, he seemed to hear Shi Qi's distant voice: "Look at the reflection on the water!" In the surging ocean of code below, the ripple pattern of the lake of this school suddenly emerged - each water molecule was a mirror cage composed of 0 and 1.
Lin Yi's pupils suddenly contracted, and the pointer of the pocket watch drew a strange arc in the reverse rotation, as if the entire timeline was folded into a Möbius strip. He tightly grasped the gilded pocket watch, his fingertips deeply embedded in the cold metal, trying to draw some sense of reality from this only physical object.
"Mirror Emblem..." His hoarse voice echoed in the wreckage of the collapsed library, "Why is there a mirror emblem on the bottom of the hot cocoa cup?"
Shi Qi's laughter suddenly became mechanical and hollow, and the blue light from the chip on her neck became increasingly dazzling.
In the dark blue flames that should have been words, Lin Yi saw countless mirror images twisting and tumbling - they were reflections of all his memories, including the moment he first set foot in this place "three days ago".
"The pills you gave me..." Lin Yi suddenly realized something, "Those 'disease-curing pills' are not made by healing abilities at all, but some kind of stabilizer! Memory-confusing agent."
The pocket watch suddenly made a harsh sound of gears rubbing against each other, and Lin Yi was shocked to find that the inside of the dial was filled with densely packed reverse-written text at some point.
When he reflected the dial in his palm, the words instantly combined into a warning: \"Mirror erosion rate 73%, main consciousness will be completely mirrored in 47 minutes.\"