Chapter 408 New Moon Calendar...
"The candles in the wizard's tower never go out."
The candlestick in Haywood's hand was pulled down from the wall.
"This sentence used to be the first rule in the apprentice's manual. Now it is the only rule. At night, the candle must never be extinguished."
Thor moved closer to the candlelight.
Soon after they entered the West Tower, it became completely dark.
It was unnaturally fast.
It made Thor feel that this was not the real world.
He looked around the messy room and felt a little stuffy.
"After nightfall, the atmosphere here becomes weird." Thor tugged at his collar. The air was too stuffy and he felt vaguely suffocated.
It was as if the air in the room was not enough for two people to breathe.
After nightfall, Heywood became less talkative.
He huddled in the corner, staring at the candlestick one meter away, as if afraid that it would go out at any time.
"I feel like someone is watching us." Thor walked towards the door.
The main door was temporarily assembled using the door of a dormitory. There was a big gap between the doors, and the cold wind blew in.
"Of course, there are a lot of people." Heywood moved and rarely responded to Thor, "Don't look around, wait until dawn."
But Thor was not as cautious as Heywood. He didn't plan to stay in this illusion for a hundred years.
The key to breaking the illusion is to break its rules.
Although this illusion is so real that Thor repeatedly doubts it, he is currently more inclined to believe that this is not the future.
But if he continues like this, I'm afraid his understanding of truth and falsehood will become increasingly blurred.
Now Thor has learned enough about this place, but he has not yet found a node that is enough to break through the illusion.
"Maybe the breakthrough is not in the wizard tower."
Thor leaned toward the crack in the door.
The door faces a patch of grass covered with skulls.
The strong wind was still howling, and the dark green grass branches were blown down.
A pale head appeared for a moment, but was quickly submerged again.
As he looked at them, Thor had an illusion that among those skulls there was a face of a flesh-and-blood person, staring at the people in the room through the crack in the door in front of him.
"Someone is watching me. This is not an illusion." Thor endured the feeling of his hair standing on end and scanned every head that was exposed above the grass, but still found nothing.
Thor raised his head slowly.
There was no moon tonight, but there were many stars. The stars twinkled in the sky, which was a little different from the sky he remembered.
"Are these stars... too densely distributed?"
Thor narrowed his eyes and looked more carefully.
As he looked, he was once again certain that these stars were not the ones he remembered.
There seems to be a small black dot in the middle of the stars here.
Each black dot was pointed in Thor's direction, like... the pupil of an eye.
Eyes?! Thor put his hand on the door and was about to go out.
"What are you going to do?" Heywood behind him suddenly spoke.
Thor turned around and saw Haywood also staring at him.
There is only a tiny bit of pupil in the large white of the eye.
Just like those stars.
Thor smiled, "I'll go out and take a look."
"You must never stay in a dark place." Heywood said gloomily.
"The stars outside are so bright, is this also considered a place without light?"
Heywood was suddenly stunned, "Where are the stars outside?"
He seemed to suddenly realize something and immediately took out more candles from the corner of the wall. He lit each one without caring about the consumption.
As he lit the candle, his hands holding the flint were shaking slightly.
Seeing Thor still standing at the door, he said angrily, "What are you standing there for? Come and help light the candles! You've attracted all that resentment! We need more candles to calm it down!"
Thor originally didn't want to pay attention to Heywood. He was eager to look at the stars, but at this moment, he suddenly felt the feeling of being watched more strongly.
A vague scream came from the crack in the door behind him. Thor turned around suddenly and was surprised to find that the crack outside the door had become completely dark. There was no grass, no heads facing the wizard tower, and no stars in the sky.
"Come here... come here quickly... if you stay in the dark... you will die!" Haywood's voice behind him became hoarse.
As soon as he finished speaking, Thor felt a dangerous murderous intent, quickly passing from his fingers to his back like an electric shock.
There is danger! His instinct warned him to dodge backwards immediately.
But Thor endured the biting cold and stood there without moving.
Then, he saw the diary in his spirit body suddenly open.
[On May 14, 317th year of the New Moon Calendar, you are looking at the scenery behind the door, and the people looking at the scenery are looking at you.
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No death reminder!
This is a crisis warning!
After reading the words in the diary, Thor took three steps back in an instant and stood directly beside Heywood.
The intuitive sense of crisis immediately weakened, but it has not been completely eliminated.
And as time went by, this sense of crisis intensified! Heywood had already lit a lot of candles on the floor, and he was holding two in his hand, but the fear on his face did not subside at all.
"They're coming! They're coming!"
"Who is it?" Thor turned his head to look at Haywood.
But Heywood just stared at the gate, the scar on his face twitching.
Thor, who didn't get an answer, looked at the door again, only to find that the gap in the door had gotten bigger! "No! It's not that the gap has gotten bigger, it's that the door is getting smaller!" Thor felt cold all over at this time, "It's the darkness that is swallowing up the door!"
The long-lost horror flowed through his blood throughout his body, but Thor found a familiar feeling in this fear.
He suddenly calmed down.
His eyes fell on the diary again.
"New Moon Calendar Year 317, haha, so now is exactly now!"
Thor deliberately slowed down his retreat after sensing the crisis, just to wait for the diary to issue a warning.
But there is a date on the diary!
"My initial analysis was correct. This is just an illusion. It is the attack effect of the black light!"
"This illusion is not complicated nor is it very dangerous. If I guess correctly, the darkness will not completely invade this room this time."
Thor was not as frightened as Haywood beside him, but he did not step forward to provoke the darkness again.
As expected, after a few minutes of confrontation between light and darkness, the dark shadow on the door slowly receded.
Heywood breathed a sigh of relief, and blew out the extra candles with great heartache, leaving only three just in case.
Then he said to Thor in a deeper voice: "Don't explore and observe at night. If you attract pollution again, we will be dead."
Unfortunately, Thor, who had just confirmed what he thought, did not listen.
"I guessed correctly. This illusion is not primarily about lethal aggression. Therefore, the diary only gives a crisis warning, not a death warning. But it takes advantage of people's suspicion. If it were someone else, after failing to find a way out in a short period of time, they would become more and more suspicious of their own guesses. When they see the correct logic hidden in the illusion of this world, they would become more and more suspicious of whether they have arrived a hundred years later."
"And the more you doubt, the harder it is to find a way out! You may even be hypnotized by yourself!"
In the end, I'm afraid I will convince myself that this is where I will be a hundred years later, and then I will be stuck in the mezzanine forever.
After confirming that this was an illusion, Thor also had some ideas about how to break the illusion.
Sol held his chin in his hand and thought, "This illusion should only be about a hundred meters around the wizard tower. If I want to leave, I will probably be in danger immediately. And those stars above my head are probably the eyes in the mezzanine. They are really powerful."
There are two ideas now. One is to go into the darkness and fight the pollution. However, judging from the warning in the diary, the battle may be difficult. The other is to kill Heywood here...kill the exporter of this world view."
Thor slowly turned his head and looked at the elderly Haywood who was in a daze.
The latter stared at the candle flame in a daze.
(End of this chapter)
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