AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016-Chapter 1519 - 724: Traverse! Time Flow!
The Boss raised her slender fingers, gently covering half of her face. Her fingers parted the strands of hair on her forehead, and the cold eyes, like a quiet moon, suddenly revealed the imprints of stars. Her gaze fell upon Li Huiyuan, yet her perception penetrated through Li Huiyuan’s body, focusing intently on the shadow emerging from Li Huiyuan, akin to "Between Sin and Punishment".
"It’s really strange..."
"I’ve searched through fragments of memory, and I can’t find anything similar to you. If you say you’re a new structural form born after the Black Moon Blood Calamity, I wouldn’t say it’s impossible. However... this world seems to lack the nurturing conditions for that..."
"Huihuizi, oh Huihuizi... What exactly is your form?"
The Boss murmured softly. Even with her wide knowledge and sharp memory, she seemed unable to pinpoint the issue regarding Li Huiyuan at first glance.
...
On the other side, Lin Yi, after running tirelessly for a long time, gradually felt the environment around him start to change under the pressure of the Boss’s domain.
The rubber track beneath Lin Yi’s feet became narrower, and the whole world around him seemed to compress like a collapsing water pipe, squeezing toward him. Lin Yi kept running, with only the white light point at the end of the track before him, as if reaching it would fulfill some magical purpose.
He ran with abandon, but the track beneath him began to stretch. The more he ran, the farther away the light point seemed, as if it were forever unreachable.
On the walls of space-time surrounding him, shadows of people slowly appeared, and he saw countless faces, both familiar and unfamiliar—the majority were strangers, with only a few faces, like Wei Shan, Tian Bufan, and Li Huiyuan, being ones he recognized.
Gradually, he began hearing a distant song emanating from the barriers surrounding him. The singing was as if a "Contractor" was softly humming a chant, mingled with other voices...
But the content of the song turned out to be that black nursery rhyme:
[Little friends, playing hide and seek~ One or two, let’s hide~]
[A small courtyard is a good place~ Big brother and sister hide their bodies~]
[Digging and digging, flipping and flipping~ Little sister’s waist is sore~]
[Sister, sister, lower your voice~ Don’t let brother hear~]
[That tree is really nice~ I hide sister’s body~]
[Pulling and pulling, tugging and tugging~ Little sister’s hands are numb~]
[Brother, brother, you’re so mean~ Joking that my saw is dull~]
[That tree is really nice~ I split brother to hang apart~]
[Little friends, playing hide and seek~ One or two, let’s hide~]
[Elder brother and sister hide separately~ Searching and searching, can’t find~]
"Could that black nursery rhyme have other meanings? Death... might not be true death?" Lin Yi pondered, yet his steps didn’t show any signs of slowing.
He kept running, as everything around him seemed to flow by in radiant colors. The Contractor’s singing had completely vanished, and countless silhouettes began to reappear around him. Countless strands of aura seeped from his body, just and evil, bright and dark...
Strands of aura penetrated into the surrounding barriers, and those silhouettes began to undergo some changes.
They all transformed into the shape of Angel Sculptures, or rather, gradually took on the appearance of Angel Sculptures. But before they could wreak any havoc, the aura emanating from within Lin Yi bound them all like chains of order, slowly tying them up and dragging them to some unknown place...
Lin Yi continued to run. He did not respond to any calls, yet it seemed as if he was constantly responding to some calls. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎
He didn’t know how long he had been running when Lin Yi suddenly saw tiny fragments in the passage. These fragments, as small as wood chips, hadn’t known their source, but entered Lin Yi’s field of vision in this mist-impenetrable layer.
Having run an unknown distance, Lin Yi suddenly noticed that his swinging arm was losing flesh bit by bit...
Those wood chip-like fragments had peeled from his body—they were from his body of ashes!
He found his shell continuously crumbling in this layer, and new materials slowly generated, repeating in a cycle of destruction and rebirth.
Yet only that Glazed Body still flowed with an undying radiance...
As Lin Yi sprinted deeper into the layer, he moved further from reality, but no matter what, he seemed unable to reach that white light point, far yet near.
He plunged into the blood vessel of the layer like Barry Allen diving into the passage of time flow!
As he traversed continuously, he gradually realized that this was not just a passage at a map level but rather a vortex of time and light where reality, layers, and higher dimensions overlapped. Here, there was nothing belonging to the real world; everything, including the layer’s barriers, was in quantum states. What existed eternally were the congealed time flow and the despair-inducing "zzz" sound of the quantum flow.
Lin Yi’s body was continuously shattering and reassembling, his qi weaving like a network of blood vessels, permeating with the surrounding layers.
