"The candle of the Wizard's Tower never goes out."

Heywood's candlestick had been plucked from the wall.

This sentence used to be the first article in the apprenticeship manual. Now it's the only one, and at night, the candle never goes out. ”

Thor approached the candle flame.

Soon after they entered the West Tower, it was completely dark.

It's a little unnaturally fast.

It also makes Thor feel that this is not the real world.

He looked around the messy room and felt a little depressed.

"At night, the atmosphere becomes weird." Thor tugged at his collar, the air was so dull that he felt a faint sense of suffocation.

It's as if the air in a room is not enough for two people to breathe.

After nightfall, Heywood didn't talk much.

He curled up in the corner, staring at the candlestick a meter away, as if afraid it would go out at any moment.

"I feel like someone is watching us." Thor walked to the door.

The door was improvised from the door of a dormitory, and the crack in the door was a little large, and the cold wind was blowing in it.

"Of course, a lot of people." Heywood moved, and rarely responded to Saul, "Don't look around, wait until dawn." ”

But Thor wasn't as cautious as Heywood, and he wasn't going to stay in this illusion for a hundred years.

The key to breaking the illusion is to break its laws.

Although the illusion was so real that Thor was suspicious, he preferred that it was not the future.

But if he stays like this any longer, I'm afraid his perception of truth and falsehood will become more and more blurred.

Thor knows enough about this place now, but he hasn't found enough nodes to break through the illusion.

"Maybe the breach isn't in the Wizard's Tower."

Thor leaned over to the crack in the door.

Outside the door was the skull-covered grass.

The wind was still howling, and the dark green grass branches were blown down.

The pale head was exposed, and it was quickly submerged.

Looking at it, Thor had the illusion that among those hordes of skulls, there was a flesh-and-blood human face hidden, staring through the crack in the door in front of Thor and staring at the people in the room.

"It's not an illusion that someone is watching me." Thor endured the feeling of handstand with his cold hair, and swept over every head that showed grass and trees, but still found nothing.

Thor looked up slowly.

There is no moon tonight, but there are many stars. The starlight twinkled in the sky, a little different from the sky he remembered.

"The stars are well distributed...... Isn't it too dense? ”

Thor narrowed his eyes and looked more carefully.

Looking at it, he was once again sure that these stars were not the stars he remembered.

There seems to be a small black dot in the middle of the stars here.

Each black dot was aimed in Thor's direction, like ...... The pupils of each eye.

Eye?!

Thor put his hand on the gate and was about to go out.

"What are you going to do?" Heywood, behind him, spoke suddenly.

Thor turned back to see Heywood staring at him as well.

There is only a small pupil in the whites of the eyes.

Like those stars.

Thor smiled, "I'll go out and have a look." ”

"You must not stay in a place without light." Heywood said gloomily.

"The stars outside are so bright, is it a place without light?"

Heywood was suddenly stunned, "Where are the stars out there?" ”

He seemed to react suddenly, and immediately turned out more candles from the corner, not caring about consumption, and lit each one.

As he lit the candle, his hand holding the flint trembled slightly.

Seeing that Thor was still standing at the door, he said a little angrily: "What are you doing in a daze, come and help light the candles!" You've brought in those resentments! We need more candles to quell our grievances! ”

Thor had not wanted to pay attention to Heywood, he was anxious to examine the stars, but at this time, he suddenly felt that the feeling of being watched was even stronger.

A faint scream came from the crack in the door behind him. Thor jerked back, shocked to find that the original door had become pitch black, and there was no grass to be seen, no head facing the wizard's tower, no stars in the sky.

"Come here...... Come on, come here...... Stay in the dark...... It's going to die! Heywood's voice behind him became hoarse.

As soon as his words fell, Thor felt a dangerous killing intent, which quickly passed from his fingers to his back like an electric shock.

There is danger!

Intuition was warning him to duck backwards.

But Thor stood still in the face of the biting coldness.

Then, he saw the diary in his spirit body suddenly open.

[New Moon 317 calendar, May 14,

You look at the scenery from behind the door,

People who see the scenery,

I'm looking at you.

】

No death tips!

This is a crisis warning!

After reading the words in the diary, Thor took three steps back in an instant, standing directly at Heywood's side.

The intuitive sense of crisis immediately waned, but it was not completely eliminated.

And as time goes on, this sense of crisis grows!

Heywood had lit a candle on the floor, and he still had two in his hand, but the horror on his face hadn't subsided in the slightest.

"They're coming, they're coming!"

"Who is it?" Thor looked sideways at Heywood.

But Heywood just stared at the door, the scars on his face twitching.

Thor, who couldn't get an answer, looked at the door again, only to find that the crack in the door had grown!

"Nope! It's not that the crack in the door is getting bigger, it's that the door is getting smaller! Thor also felt cold at this time, "It's the darkness that eats the gate!" ”

The long-lost horror runs through the blood, but Thor finds a familiar feeling in this fear.

He suddenly calmed down.

His gaze fell on the diary again.

"The year 317 of the New Moon Calendar, heh, so, now is simply now!"

Thor had just deliberately retreated slowly after feeling the crisis, just waiting for the diary to come out and give an early warning.

And on the diary, there is a date!

"My initial analysis is not wrong, this is an illusion, it is the attack effect of that black light!"

"This hallucination isn't complicated and there's no clear danger, and if I'm guessing right, the darkness won't completely invade this room."

Thor wasn't as scared as Heywood beside him, but he didn't step forward to provoke the darkness again.

Unsurprisingly, 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 in great distress he blew out the extra candles, leaving only three just in case.

He then said to Thor in a deeper voice, "Don't explore at night, if you bring in pollution again, we're dead." ”

It's a pity that Saul, who just confirmed what he thought, didn't listen.

"I guessed right, this illusion isn't about lethal aggression. Therefore, the diary only gives an early warning of crisis, not death. But it will take advantage of the suspiciousness of the human heart. If you change to someone else, after you can't find a way out in a short time, you will become more and more suspicious of your own guesses; When you see the correct logic hidden in the illusion of this world, you will wonder more and more whether you have come to a hundred years later. ”

And the more you doubt, the more you can't find a way out! I was even hypnotized by myself in reverse! ”

In the end, I'm afraid I'll convince myself that this is a hundred years from now, and then I will be left in the mezzanine forever.

After determining that this is the illusion, Thor also has a little idea about the node to solve the illusion.

Thor cupped his chin and thought, "This illusion should only be about a hundred meters away from the Wizard Tower, if I want to leave, I'm afraid I will immediately encounter the danger of approaching." And those stars above the head are probably the eyes in the mezzanine. They're really powerful. ”

Now there are two ideas, one is to go into the darkness and fight pollution, but judging from the warning in the diary, the battle is probably going to be difficult, and the other is to kill Heywood here...... Kill the exporter of this worldview. ”

Thor slowly tilted his head to look at the elderly Heywood, who was losing his mind.

The latter stared at the candle flame in a daze.

(End of chapter)