Shadow Egg

chapter1

Volume 1: Shadow Egg

Chapter 1: The Echo of the Abyss

1. The reality of lead gray: the last ten minutes

The rain did not fall from the sky, but oozed out of a jar of overturned lead-gray ink.

Lin Che stood by the semi-abandoned reservoir guardrail, and the smell of rust from his fingertips was mixed with the damp soil. His school uniform had already been soaked in the rain and pressed heavily on his shoulders, like a prison uniform that could not be taken off.

"Lin Che, you run, continue to run."

The footsteps behind him were slow, making a slimy squeezing sound on the slippery mud. Wang Hu, the star of the school basketball team, who is 1.85 meters tall, is now approaching from behind with his inseparable followers like a cat and a mouse. A metal bat in Wang Hu's hand knocked silently on the palm of his hand, making a dull rhythm.

"You were very brave when you went to complain to the head teacher the other day." Wang Hu's smile was a little distorted in the rain. "Why are you huddled here like a dog in the water now?"

Lin Che didn't look back, and his thin back swayed in the wind. Seal? He just couldn't stand those people throwing his textbook into the toilet and tearing up the only photo left by his mother. But in this kind of place, the rules are written by the strong, and the "spontanete order" that Hayek said is distorted into the law of the jungle here - the only meaning of the existence of the weak is to be the feed of the strong.

There was no fear in his heart, only an almost barren peace. This kind of calm comes from a long-term, high-pressure alienation. He felt that he was no longer a living person, but a glass bottle filled with negative emotions. With a light knock, it would explode into countless pieces of hurtful people.

"Hey, I'm talking to you!" One of Wang Hu's henchman rushed up and kicked Lin Che's waist.

Lin Che staggered, leaning forward, and holding the guardrail with his hands. The severe pain spread from the spine, but he didn't make any sound.

"Look, he can't even scream." The followers laughed.

Lin Che looked down at the water under the guardrail. The dark green pool water was covered with fine white foam under the impact of the rain, which was as deep as the eyes of a giant beast. Old people often say that the soul of the old era is pressed under this reservoir, which is the entrance to the underworld.

"Since you like to stay by the water so much, we will help you." Wang Hu stepped forward, and a trace of cruel excitement flashed in his eyes. He stretched out his strong arm and pushed it to Lin Che's shoulder.

At that moment, Lin Che did not resist. He even felt a sense of relief.

Gravity took over his body. He leaned back, and the last scene in his sight was Wang Hu's face, which began to turn pale because of fear, and the raindrops like lead bombs falling all over the sky.

2. The Collapse of Physical Limits: Mirror World

The process of falling was much longer than Lincher imagined.

According to the common sense of physics, it only takes two seconds to fall from a height of 20 meters. But in Lin Che's perception, time seemed to become a sticky glue.

He saw the raindrops stagnant in the air, and every drop of water reflected his distorted reflection. He saw that the dark green of the water gradually faded, replaced by a strange black with a faint purple light.

Something even more strange happened.

Lin Che looked at his feet. He should have hit the water directly, but he found that there was also a "Lin Che" in the depths of the water. The shadow is falling up at the same speed, as if the water is a huge mirror across two worlds.

When the fingertips of the two people touched the mirror, there was no water.

The black ink gushed out crazily from the "mirror". Lin Che felt that his shadow suddenly broke out of the ground at this moment, or, out of the b*****e of light. It was like a huge net with life, which suddenly opened up and wrapped Lin Che's whole body in it.

"I'm catching you."

A vague voice sounded in the depths of his consciousness, with a pathological sense of intimacy and a chill.

Lin Che let out a short scream, and then the feeling of suffocation came in an instant. He felt that the bones of his whole body were being squeezed by a huge force, as if he was about to be crushed from the three-dimensional shape into a two-dimensional projection. Every blood vessel is beating, and every nerve ending is screaming.

When he passed through the sticky, jelly-like "boundary wall", he heard countless fine whispers. Was it a fragment of the absolute spirit written by Hegel, or some kind of indescribable chaos? He has no way of knowing.

3. Gothic Sanctuary in the Mist: St. Erinius

"Bang!"

Lin Che hit the hard bluestone slab fiercely.

The impact was so real that he had a strong dizziness. He opened his mouth and took a deep breath of air, but he was choked by a smell mixed with a strong smell of sulfur and cold aroma and coughed repeatedly.

He opened his eyes.

No rain, no reservoir, no Wanghu.

There are eternal, thick purple-gray clouds above the head, and the thick fog is like a living creature, slowly flowing and peeping around. And less than a hundred meters in front of him, a breathtakingly magnificent building stood in the fog.

It is an extremely typical Gothic cathedral, but it is several times larger than any other church in reality. Countless sharp tower spikes pierced the sky, as if they were going to tear the cloud. The flying wall supports the gray-black wall like a huge rib, and there is a faint green light in each towering arch window.

"This...where is this?" Lin Che struggled to stand up, but found that his legs were as soft as noodles.

He looked down and his pupils contracted sharply.

On the bluestone slab under him, his shadow was squirming uneasily like boiling magma. It is no longer just the lack of light, but has a certain sense of reality, and even corroded a small white smoke on the slate.

"It is longing."

A female voice.

Lin Che turned his head in horror. Behind a marble pillar on the left, a girl in a silver-gray battle windbreaker walked out slowly. Her long hair is tied into a high ponytail, and her face is as delicate as an emotionless marble sculpture, but the most eye-catching thing is her right hand--

A chain with the thickness of a thumb and a dark golden light circled on her arm like a snake, and a diamond-shaped spike at the end of the chain scratched Mars on the ground.

"If you don't learn to control it, your shadow will eat your ankle in three minutes, and then your internal organs." The girl said coldly.

"Who are you? Where is this place?" Lin Che subconsciously retreated, but found that the shadow under his feet suddenly rushed up, like a black hand, pulling his heel.

"St. Erinius College, commonly known as the 'Ember Sanctuary'." The girl Erin raised her hand, and the chain in her hand made a crisp explosion. "I'm the duty student in charge of cleaning up 'illegal immigrants', Irene. As for you--"

Her wrist shook, and the golden chain came out of the hole like a dragon, instantly wrapping Lin Che tightly.

"You are the third accident to fall from the 'boundary c***k' today. Su Lian is right. The rules are getting more and more chaotic recently.