As the saying goes, the alarm bell is ringing, and the bell has a warning function, just like the alarm today.
Many people feel panic for no reason when they hear the alarm.
It is the same when you hear this bell now.
In the room, Liu Gang pointed to his ears with a horrified expression, which meant that you all heard it, right? Lin Mo nodded.
He listened carefully, then immediately closed his eyes and fell asleep.
Not surprisingly, the bell was rung in the nightmare world.
After falling asleep, the sound of the bell became clearer. Before, it seemed as if there were several layers of paper between them, and the sound was a little dull, but now, it is much clearer.
Take out Liu Jia's doll. Without Lin Mo's words, Liu Jia, who heard the bell, had already torn through the cloth and cotton and appeared with a pair of scissors in hand.
She looked around with her eyes wide open.
"Ghost bell!"
Liu Jia is most familiar with the ghost bell.
She guarded the Ghost Pavilion for several years and went to ring the bell every day.
It can be said that no one is more familiar with the ghost clock than her.
Since Liu Jia said it was a ghost bell, it must be that.
"It's calling me!"
After saying that, Liu Jia immediately walked out, and Lin Mo hurriedly followed.
He wanted to go and see it too.
The sound of the bell is melodious and can be heard in Woniu City, whether big or small.
But no one could tell where the sound came from. It felt like the bell sound was everywhere. If one wanted to find the source of the sound, one could only run around trying one's luck.
But Liu Jia didn't run around.
She seemed to know some kind of method. After going out, she ran in one direction with a very clear purpose.
She runs very fast.
If Lin Mo didn’t have black leather shoes, he might not have been able to catch up.
After running for a long distance, Liu Jia suddenly stopped and crashed into a wall nearby.
Lin Mo thought she was crazy at first.
After all, who has nothing better to do than bang their head against the wall? But when Liu Jia rushed directly into the wall, Lin Mo reacted.
This wall is fake.
He followed suit and rushed in.
In an instant, it was like passing through a barrier like a water film.
Looking again, the surroundings are full of flowing light, making the entire space seem somewhat unrealistic, and all the flowing light sources are emitted from a bronze bell in front.
"Ghost bell!"
Lin Mo's eyes lit up when he saw it.
It’s true.
He had seen a replica similar to the Ghost Bell in the mirror world of the Ghost Pavilion, so he was able to recognize it.
At this moment, a man is ringing the bell over there.
This is a young man, dressed in ordinary clothes, holding a piece of wood and knocking it regularly.
But just as Liu Jia approached, the man who was ringing the bell immediately stopped, smiled at Liu Jia, dropped the wood, and stumbled out.
It was like he had lost his soul, or like he had completed some kind of work and retired successfully.
Lin Mo walked up to Liu Jia and asked what was going on.
"The ghost bell cannot be rung by ordinary people. If an ordinary person rings it once, it will damage and disrupt their original spirit and memory, and they will directly turn into a madman."
Hearing this, Lin Mo naturally thought of the six crazy people before.
It turns out that they were the ones who rang the bell six times before.
The man who just left was the seventh one.
At this moment, the ghost bell was hanging in the air, emitting soft light, and these lights were like randomly drawn lines, bending and spreading around in a certain arc.
It seems like a miracle has occurred.
"Why do they ring the bell?" Lin Mo asked again. These questions could only be answered by Liu Jia because she was the one who knew the ghost bell best.
Liu Jia shook her head: "It's not them who want to ring the bell, but the ghost bell that asks them to ring it. The ghost bell is asking for help."
"Help?"
Lin Mo didn't quite understand.
Asking for help means that something is threatening the safety of the ghost bell; or it may be to let people know of its existence. Of course, both possibilities may be true.
At this moment, Liu Jia had already walked forward, put his hand on the ghost bell, and then closed his eyes.
Buzz! At this moment, the ghost bell made a completely different buzzing sound from before, as if it was vibrating.
Lin Mo also wanted to try getting closer, but he found that there seemed to be an invisible wall around the ghost bell, isolating him from the outside.
It seems that Gui Zhong only recognizes Liu Jia.
At this moment, the man and the clock seem to be communicating on a spiritual level, which cannot be heard or seen.
Lin Mo spread his hands and strolled around.
It's pitch black here, and it doesn't look like a normal place. It should be a special space opened up by the ghost bell, hidden in the wall. You can only get in by finding a special position.
In other words, the ghost bell is indeed hiding.
Who is it hiding from?
Lin Mo began to speculate at this time.
Previously in the Ghost Pavilion, the ghost bell suddenly disappeared. Does that mean it was taken away by someone, or stolen? The ghost bell only exists in the nightmare world. It is not easy to get it here from the East Suburbs Abandoned Mine. From a physical location point of view, the East Suburbs Abandoned Mine in Luoyan City is 500 kilometers north of Woniu City. Did someone pull the ghost bell all the way here? If so, this person is not simple.
The other party's destination may not be Woniu City. He may just be passing by, but Gui Zhong found an opportunity to escape and then hid here.
Maybe they have been hiding for a long time before they began to tentatively control some ordinary people to ring the bell as a warning?
Lin Mo discovered that speculating on things based on clues was actually very interesting and it was easy for people to get deeply involved in it. Just like now, he particularly wanted to figure out the secret behind this matter.
Just as Liu Jia finished communicating with Gui Zhong and stepped back, Lin Mo came over and told him what he had deduced.
Liu Jia looked very surprised.
She said Lin Mo, you are very good. You can guess it almost right.
"What do you mean by blind guessing? I am making a reasonable inference. So, someone really stole the ghost bell?"
Liu Jia nodded.
"That person is no simple matter. He was able to sneak into the Ghost Pavilion silently and steal the Ghost Bell. I can't do this anyway." Liu Jia rarely feels inferior to himself.
Lin Mo asked her if she knew who did it.
Liu Jia shook his head.
Obviously, either Gui Zhong didn't tell her, or Gui Zhong himself didn't know.
There was one thing that Lin Mo was still a little confused about. He was the kind of person who would ask questions if he had something to ask, otherwise he would feel uncomfortable keeping it to himself.
"Jia Jia, this ghost bell is being struck in such a blatant way that the sound can be heard throughout Woniu City. Isn't it afraid of attracting the people who want to catch it?"
"Who said it's not afraid? Gui Zhong just said it was almost scared to death. It has been living in fear recently. It said if I don't come, it really can't hold on any longer."
"Does it really say that?" Lin Mo glanced at the big clock and expressed his doubt.
"Really? If you don't believe me, go ask yourself." As he said that, Liu Jia took Lin Mo's hand, dragged him to the ghost bell, and asked him to put his ear against the bell.
There was no obstruction this time and it was pasted on smoothly.
You know what, Lin Mo actually heard a voice.
This voice came directly from his mind, and the tone was quite crazy.
You are a piece of trash. If Jia Jia hadn't pulled you over, I wouldn't even bother talking to you. Then I would have started to curse you.
Because the criticism came so suddenly, Lin Mo was stunned.
His first reaction was that this ghost clock was really uncultured.
Lin Mo is a man who will take revenge if he has a grudge. If someone hits him, he will hit back; if someone scolds him, he will scold back twice as hard.
So he cursed at the ghost bell.
Liu Jia said, it can't hear you if you scold it like that, you have to use your mental power to scold it.
Mental strength? I can do that too.
Lin Mo is a serious mental patient. Not only did he undergo a period of mental training in a mental hospital on the other side of the ocean, but he was also cursed with "bewitching".
At that moment, he stared at the clock with his eyes wide open and his butt sticking out, and began to curse in the spiritual realm.
This kind of quarrel is obviously more harmonious. At least, except for the parties involved, other people's ears will not be forcibly polluted.
Liu Jia looked around at this time, walked out for a dozen steps, and then stopped.
In front of her at this moment, there was a barrier visible to the naked eye.
It's a bit like a car window with a film on it, so you can see the scenery outside.
At this moment, there was a figure standing outside.
The figure was very tall, about two meters tall, and he just stood there, motionless.
Liu Jia narrowed his eyes and stared at the other person.
She knew that if they didn't enter this special space, people outside would not be able to see what was going on inside.
From the outside, all you can see is a wall.
Although there was a barrier between them, Liu Jia could feel the terrifying figure outside. In the past, Liu Jia rarely had this feeling.
There are very few people who can make her feel so scared.
Except for Lin Mo’s elder brother Lin Yuan.
Then, there was this figure outside the barrier.
Liu Jia suddenly became nervous.
She held the scissors tightly. If the opponent discovered the entrance and wanted to come in, she would have to attack first.
It was just a few seconds, but she felt like more than ten minutes had passed.
The figure outside slowly walked away, as if he was looking for something. Liu Jia guessed that if the other party was the one who stole the Ghost Bell, then what he was looking for must be the Ghost Bell.
"We can't stay here any longer, otherwise we will be found sooner or later." Liu Jia walked back, but saw Lin Mo listless and a little depressed.
After asking, I found out that I lost the argument.
Liu Jia advised him to be more open-minded. It was no big deal that he just couldn't beat the other party in scolding. Besides, he only lost to a bell. Why bother with it?
Lin Mo waved his hand: "You don't understand."
After saying that, he turned around and communicated with Gui Zhong mentally, and probably started to say harsh words, such as "just wait" or something like that.
After the incident, Liu Jia asked him what he said. Lin Mo said that he asked the ghost clock to wait and he would scold it severely next time.
Liu Jia talked about what happened to the shadow just now.
"Why didn't that figure come in?" Lin Mo asked curiously.
"How can it be that easy?" Liu Jia smiled. "There is only one entrance here, and this entrance can be changed at will according to some special means. It will not stay in one place forever. Only those who understand some principles of formations can find the entrance."
Lin Mo glanced behind Liu Jia, pointed, and said that he must understand.
Just now, a tall and thin figure walked in from outside.
The moment the other party came in, the ghost bell made a buzzing sound. It seemed that he was scared to death, and even this special hiding space began to fall apart.
Liu Jia looked back and her pupils shrank to the size of a pinhole.
The tall and thin figure has dark skin and should be of South Asian race. He looks a bit like the ascetic monks over there, the kind who wear tattered clothes, never take a bath all year round, likes to smear ashes on his body, and do some performance art that ordinary people cannot understand.
"A foreign friend?" Lin Mo muttered.
Although he said it very relaxedly, Lin Mo knew that the other party had ill intentions. Seeing the cowardly look of the ghost bell, he knew that it must be this person who stole it.
That is the enemy.
Lin Mo drew out the tiger bone sickle and stared at the other party.
At the same time, be prepared to call out Xiaoyu and Sister Yue at any time for a big battle.
The strange ascetic-like man opposite was also looking at Lin Mo.
There was actually a hint of fear in his eyes, as well as some other emotions that were hard to describe. In short, it felt like meeting an acquaintance whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
"Lin, when did you come back?" the ascetic monk asked, his accent, standard Mandarin, very authentic.
If you close your eyes and listen, you might think it's a radio announcer.
Just a simple sentence, but it contains so much information.
Lin Mo reacted quickly.
"Did you steal the ghost bell?"
Rhetorical question.
In just a few seconds, Lin Mo analyzed the other party's words thoroughly.
This ascetic monk directly called himself "Lin", and it felt like meeting an acquaintance, but the problem was that Lin Mo was sure that he had never seen the other person and definitely did not know him.
That means you have recognized the wrong person.
But the probability of getting both the appearance and the surname wrong is very small.
In addition, Liu Jia just said that only people who know some special formations can enter this place, so you have to know the so-called formations, which you don't even know. Liu Jia knows, that was taught by her brother Lin Yuan, so naturally, she connected her brother Lin Yuan with the ascetic monk in front of her.
In addition, the other party recognized the wrong person, so Lin Mo instantly realized that the other party thought he was his brother Lin Yuan.
So he asked back, turning defense into offense, to see if he could get any clues out of him.
"What do you mean by stealing? You didn't ask me to take it..." Having said that, the ascetic monk suddenly realized something, then frowned and stared at Lin Mo carefully.
"You're not Lin!"
The truth is revealed.
But it doesn’t matter. With just two sentences from the other party, Lin Mo has already known a lot of secrets.
The other party knew my brother, and might even know where he was, otherwise he wouldn't have said something like "When did you come back?" Also, the other party took the ghost bell at my brother's request, which meant my brother sent him.
That's enough.
The next moment, the ascetic monk suddenly pushed through the air, and Lin Mo and Liu Jia fell backwards.
It felt like being pushed hard by the other party.
The strange thing is that after falling down, I didn't feel like I landed on solid ground, but I was actually falling all the time.
At the same time, everything went dark before my eyes, as if I was falling into a pitch-black abyss.
Lin Mo heard the sound of iron chains colliding, and then an iron chain fell rapidly and wrapped around his waist.
Only then did it stop falling.
It's a cursed chain.
Then the chain was pulled upwards, and Lin Mo felt as if a new light had suddenly appeared in front of his eyes, and he returned to his previous position.
What happened? Lin Mo took a look and saw that the ascetic monk on the opposite side was still in the same place and did not seem to move. On his side, Xiaoyu had already appeared on his own and confronted the ascetic monk.
Liu Jia glanced at Lin Mo and said, "Just now the other party pushed us into the second level of dream. It was Xiaoyu who pulled you out. Otherwise, you would be in trouble."
The second level of dream? This was the first time Lin Mo had heard of it.
"Jia Jia, how did you get out?"
"Me? I climbed out by myself. I've been to the second level of dreams before, so I'm quite familiar with it."
At this moment, Xiaoyu's black skirt had spread out in all directions. In addition to Xiaoyu, Sister Yue also broke away from her doll form and walked out from the darkness.
It looks like a war is about to break out.
Lin Mo waved his hand.
He said to the ascetic monk opposite: "Lin Yuan is my brother, where is he?"
The ascetic smiled and pushed again.
This time, it was not Lin Mo and the others who were pushed, but the ghost bell behind them.
There was a buzzing sound, and the ghost bell disappeared.
As if disappeared out of thin air.
The second person to disappear was the ascetic monk. Black air surged under his feet, and he suddenly sank, as if he had accidentally stepped into a deep well without a cover and fell into it.
Walking very fast.
Liu Jia was the first to react. She grabbed a pair of scissors and cut a strange hole in the air, then went straight in.
Lin Mo was quick and rushed over immediately, but he was still a step too slow.
The cut made by the scissors closed immediately.
Lin Mo's attack was in vain.
"Xiaoyu." Lin Mo called out, but the latter shook her head, indicating that she could do nothing.
"Sister Yue!" Lin Mo looked at Sister Yue, but Sister Yue also shook her head.
"The second level of dreams is more difficult to enter. I don't have the ability to do so."
Lin Mo was so angry that he jumped up and down when he heard this.
What a good opportunity, I missed it.
That ascetic monk must know the whereabouts of my brother, but he just won’t tell me.
So angry!
And Liu Jia, will you die if you take me with you?
However, Lin Mo knew that he couldn't really blame the other party for this. The situation was urgent at the time and Liu Jia reacted quickly, which was why she was able to catch up. If she had been a step slower, she would have lost the target.
In that situation, how could he have time to greet me?
But we can't just let this matter go.
Lin Mo walked back and forth twice, then suddenly had an idea. He quickly took out the paper crane and wrote Liu Jia's name on it.
Let the paper crane track it, maybe it will work.
But the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment.
The paper crane flew up, turned twice on the spot, and suddenly disappeared. But then, Lin Mo saw many pieces of paper appearing out of thin air.
The paper crane was crushed.
It seems that the paper crane cannot enter the second dream.
Lin Mo found that he was really at his wits' end at this moment.
The feeling of powerlessness is terrible.
All he could do now was wait there.
I waited for two full days.
During these two days, Lin Mo has been by her side all the time, but he did not wait for a miracle to happen.
Liu Jia didn't come back either.
He knew there was no point in waiting any longer.
I called Professor Xie and asked him about the second level of dreams. Professor Xie was very surprised and said that they have also been studying it recently, but have not achieved any results yet.
Instead, it explains the meaning of the second level of dreams from a scientific perspective.
"In other words, it's a dream within a dream, a kind of nested space concept. Theoretically, there is not only a second layer of dreams, but actually there is also a third layer, a fourth layer..."
Lin Mo hung up the phone.
He wasn't here for a science lecture.
He needs help.
Go back to the bird city and find dad and the others. Maybe dad and the neighbors in the community have a solution.
Of course, this is a last-ditch effort, a last-ditch measure.
(End of this chapter)
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