And this is just the beginning.
Lin Qiye looked at the wall full of knife marks and sentences with a complicated expression.
But in the end, he still raised the blade in his hand and carved on the wall with great determination!
After carving a few words, Lin Qiye put the knife back on the table, took a deep breath, turned around, pushed the door and left the ward.
"Thief! Blasphemer! Damn reptile!!"
As soon as I opened the door, [Chaos] was standing outside, cursing viciously!
Lin Qiye completely ignored His existence, passed through it directly, and walked straight down the stairs, while [Chaos] could only grit his teeth and follow behind him.
"So, what are you going to do now? Send him a letter?" Chaos walked to his side, his expression suddenly more serious than ever before, "Give up... He won't reply to you. While you were dreaming, I have already killed him! Hahahaha..."
[Chaos] Arrogant laughter echoed throughout the corridor, but Lin Qiye acted as if he didn't hear it. He walked across the yard with an expressionless face and came to the green mailbox next to the gate of the Gods Psychiatric Hospital.
It was an ordinary mailbox. It already existed when Lin Qiye first got this hospital. At that time, Lin Qiye just thought that this design was very useless. After all, no one would write to this hospital... What's more, this hospital is now in a higher-dimensional world.
But this time, Lin Qiye opened the mailbox and found a parchment letter lying quietly inside, with a bright red postmark printed on the surface.
In the lower right corner of the envelope, there is a string of beautiful medieval English fonts:
—Dear_Lin.
Upon seeing the letter, Chaos' face turned pale.
Amidst the cursing of [Chaos], Lin Qiye returned to the room with the letter, locked the door behind him, stopped [Chaos] outside, and then opened the envelope at the desk.
"Dear Lin, perhaps, you have completed your 112,290,017th dream?"
"I have returned to the 'Gray Layer'. I believe you have also awakened from your dream. Do you still remember who you are this time?"
"I don't think you will forget it. You have experienced so many dream cycles. Your strength has completely exceeded my imagination. Perhaps, the gap between you and Azathoth is very small?"
"Don't worry about me, my friend. I'm safe in the gray layer. If you're safe too, please write me a letter... After all, this is the promise we made after the first dream cycle ended."
"I wish you a safe start to the next dream cycle."
"—your friend, Yelland."
After reading the letter, Lin Qiye finally felt relieved. He turned the letter over, produced a feather pen out of thin air, and wrote on the back of the letter:
"Dear Yelland..."
"As you said, I have completed this dream cycle and successfully remembered everything."
"Besides, I am safe. In these hundreds of millions of dream cycles, Azathoth and I have been constantly repeating everything I have experienced. Under the power of the Instigator, I can feel that Azathoth's will is gradually being assimilated by me... He begins to think that he is me."
"I don't know how much of Azathoth's power I have assimilated. Anyway, the time I spend remembering who I am is getting shorter and shorter, which means that His will has been weakened a lot. But it should not be enough to defeat Him."
"This war of wills is far from over. Between Azathoth and I, there can only be one winner... The winner will become the sole ruler of the higher-dimensional world."
"I will soon start the next dream cycle. Since 100 million cycles still cannot defeat Him, I will wait for 200 million, 300 million... One day, I will reappear in the fifth universe."
"Looking forward to our official meeting."
"Your friend, Lin."
After Lin Qiye finished writing the last word, he stuffed it back into the envelope and walked towards the mailbox at the door.
In the first battle, Lin Qiye locked himself and the will of Azathoth into the sixth ward. At that time, under the powerful will of Azathoth, he really forgot who he was and completely regarded himself as Azathoth. Even when Azathoth discovered that the fifth universe was missing and his mind was a little fragmented, he was unable to awaken his memory and personality.
Thus, Azathoth was locked up in the hospital for a long time... Until one day, a parchment letter floated out of the mailbox at the entrance of the hospital.
The letter contained a piece of elegant English, which translated into:
"When you see this letter, all evil will retreat."
That is a covenant.
A covenant made by a powerful being who had reached a half-step "upward dimension"... Yelande.
The covenant in this letter briefly suppressed the will of Azathoth that was fighting against Lin Qiye's will and awakened Lin Qiye's memory. It was also from this letter that Lin Qiye learned of the existence of the "Gray Layer".
The so-called gray layer is a crack-like existence between the low-dimensional universe and this high-dimensional world.
In the fifth universe, creatures that have broken through half a step of "dimensional upgrading" will not disappear with the demise of the universe, but will be stuck in the cracks between low and high dimensions, as is the case with Yelande.
Yelande's soul was in the depths of the universe, witnessing the great battle between Lin Qiye and Azathoth, so he exhausted all his divine power and used the covenant to throw the letter from the gray layer into the mailbox of the higher-dimensional world, thus establishing contact with Lin Qiye for the first time.
It was this letter from Yelande that saved Lin Qiye from the brink of extinction.
After regaining consciousness, Lin Qiye thought of using the "Instigator" as a weapon to assimilate the will of Azathoth. He forcibly mobilized the power assimilated by Azathoth and created a "dream". For Azathoth, this was the creation of a brand new fifth universe...
In this created fifth universe, Lin Qiye replayed everything in his memory, directly replacing the will of Azathoth into his former self, completing an absolutely perfect "instigation"!
Not only Azathoth is trying to assimilate Lin Qiye... Lin Qiye is also trying to assimilate Azathoth!
This is a silent and invisible war in a mental hospital.
Lin Qiye put the letter into the mailbox, and looked through the huge iron door to the outside of the hospital...
Under the gray-black sky like lead stone, there is an empty and silent world. At this moment, the Gods Mental Hospital is the closest to this gray-black sky.
At this moment, right in front of the hospital, a huge black core that almost filled the entire space was floating silently, expanding and contracting at a slow frequency... like it was breathing.
That is the true form of Azathoth.