RPAGF Chapter 758 Gatekeeper
Chapter 758 Gatekeeper
"You're here." She didn't stand up, but just gently pushed up her glasses. The lenses reflected the pale moonlight, flickering a faint light in the darkness.
Chen Yile stood at the door, hesitating for a moment before walking in. He couldn't help but glance at the cloth bag that Teacher Li had placed on the table. It was an old canvas bag, the edges yellowed and worn, but judging by the weight of the bag, the contents were not light.
"Please sit down." Teacher Li pointed to the chair opposite.
After sitting down, Chen Yile realized his hands were still shaking. He forced himself to take a few deep breaths, trying to calm his inner panic.
"Do you know why I came to you?"
Teacher Li's voice was soft, but it carried an unquestionable seriousness.
Chen Yile shook his head.
"Because I'm a gatekeeper." Teacher Li looked out the window into the distance. "There are places that shouldn't exist hidden beneath the real world, like closed doors. We, the gatekeepers, are responsible for guarding these doors."
Chen Yile felt a chill on his back. He subconsciously touched the jade pendant in his pocket, but found that it was no longer there.
Only then did he remember that he was so flustered that he dropped the jade pendant in the classroom.
"There's something wrong with your jade pendant." Teacher Li's voice suddenly became stern. "It's not an ordinary jade artifact, but a key to open the gate."
"Boundary gate?" Chen Yile repeated the word subconsciously.
"Yes. A boundary gate."
Teacher Li took out a yellowed notebook from her bag and opened a page under the dim light.
The paper has become brittle and rustles when touched lightly.
This is a record from a hundred years ago, take a look."
Suddenly, all the lights in the reading room went out.
Chen Yile's heart suddenly contracted, and a faint buzzing sound came from the darkness, as if something was hovering at low altitude.
A sharp pain came from his arm, and the rune began to spread outward at a speed visible to the naked eye.
He heard Teacher Li exclaim.
At this moment, the jade pendant suddenly burst out with a dazzling red light.
Chen Yile felt a black screen in front of his eyes, and the next second he seemed to have fallen into a bottomless abyss.
Countless chaotic footsteps, screams, and crying sounds rang in my ears, rising and falling in the void.
When he opened his eyes again, he found himself standing in front of an ancient altar.
The air was filled with the smell of blood and decay. Moonlight poured down from above, casting strange shadows on the altar.
A man in ancient costume was kneeling in front of the altar, with a bronze dagger stuck in his forehead. Blood flowed down the blade and formed a dark red river on the ground.
When Chen Yile saw the man's face, he gasped.
It was actually him!
The man slowly raised his head, blood oozing from the corner of his mouth: "A thousand years later, the disaster is reborn..."
Before he finished speaking, the altar suddenly collapsed. Chen Yile felt dizzy and a long sigh rang in his ears: "The gate of the world will open, and disaster will be reborn."
When Chen Yile regained consciousness, he found himself lying on the library floor. Teacher Li was squatting beside him, his face as pale as paper.
"What did you see?" she asked eagerly.
Chen Yile opened his mouth, but found that he was completely unable to speak. A chill ran up his spine and spread throughout his body.
He lay on the floor, his shirt soaked with cold sweat.
He could feel his heart beating wildly in his chest, as if it would jump out of his throat at any second.
Teacher Li squatted beside him, holding the jade pendant in his hand, looking at him with complicated eyes.
"Well, do you remember everything you just saw?"
Chen Yile nodded. Those images were still vivid in his mind: the ancient altar, himself kneeling in a pool of blood, and the prophecy that "the gate to the world will open, and disaster will be reborn."
"The runes on the jade pendant are part of the curse." Teacher Li gently stroked the runes on the surface of the jade pendant. "It was the key used to seal the evil spirit a hundred years ago, but now it seems to be trying to reconnect with some kind of power."
Chen Yile sat up suddenly: "What about the rune on my arm?"
Teacher Li did not answer directly, but took out a worn notebook from his bag and handed it to him.
Turning to the first page, a yellowed photo came into view.
It was an old photo taken a hundred years ago. In the photo, there was a group of people standing. They were wearing ancient costumes and holding a jade pendant that was exactly the same as the one in Chen Yile's hand.
"This is the Gatekeeper Organization from a hundred years ago," Teacher Li explained. "They used this jade pendant to seal a door to hell, but as time passed, the seal's power gradually weakened. And you..." She gave Chen Yile a meaningful look, "seems to be the chosen one."
Chen Yile felt a chill on his back. He looked down at the rune on his arm. The dark red line was still clearly visible, as if a living thing was moving under his skin.
As they left the library, the night breeze was already a bit chilly. Chen Yile wrapped his coat tightly around him and walked quickly towards the teaching building.
His heart was filled with uneasiness - the strange changes in the jade pendant, the runes on his arm, and the strange prophecy.
Just then, his cell phone suddenly vibrated.
I took out my phone and saw a message from my classmate Lin Xiaoyu: "I saw something strange in the dark alley behind the school, come quickly!"
The message was posted two hours ago.
Chen Yile's heart suddenly jumped. Lin Xiaoyu was his classmate and good friend. She was cheerful and lively, and rarely went to such remote places alone.
He immediately called Lin Xiaoyu, but there was only a busy tone on the other end. He tried sending a few more messages, but again received no response.
"Nothing will happen, will it?"
Chen Yile couldn't help but quicken his pace.
He took a deep breath and walked quickly toward the back door of the school. The dark alley was located in a remote corner of the campus, rarely visited. The dim light from the street lamp overhead stretched his shadow.
There was a faint stench of decay in the air.
"Little Feather!"
He shouted as he walked, his voice echoing in the empty alley.
Suddenly, a cold wind blew from the depths of the alley. Chen Yile shivered and subconsciously wrapped his coat tightly.
There seemed to be some strange aura mixed in the wind, which made him feel tense all over.
At the end of the alley is a dilapidated brick wall with garbage bags and abandoned desks and chairs piled in the corners, which looks particularly eerie in the moonlight.
Chen Yile walked closer and found several keys and a student ID card scattered on the ground - it was Lin Xiaoyu's.
"Xiao Yu!" His voice trembled a little.
No response.
Just then, he noticed a vague black shadow in the corner of the wall.
The black shadow condensed from the air, slowly wriggling and gradually condensing into a human shape.