AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1003 - 468 [You Ultimately Cannot Escape...]

Chapter 1003: Chapter 468 [You Ultimately Cannot Escape...]

Lin Yi unexpectedly sensed a breath in the slime that had the same origin as "Ashes"!

He suddenly had a bad feeling, could it be that the nocturnal species here were all melted by ashes, then collected like being seared in a pot...?

Otherwise, how could this slime be so thick?

"What’s happening above?"

"No, can’t delay anymore!"

Upon sensing the breath of ashes, Lin Yi knew he didn’t need to resort to extraordinary means, so he directly guided Ah-Gui to forcibly absorb the remnants of ashes in the slime, and began to control Ah-Gui to advance upstairs.

But he hadn’t taken a few steps before he felt an indescribable strong resistance in the layers, like soft glue stopping him from moving forward.

The surrounding space seemed softened, all entangled with Ah-Gui’s body, at a moment it was unclear whether it was space or slime.

Lin Yi ignored everything else and solely controlled Ah-Gui to absorb the ashes in the slime, continuously advancing towards the 5th floor of the Teaching Building.

Not knowing how much time had passed, maybe three to five minutes, or maybe over ten minutes, the space on the 5th floor of the Teaching Building slightly rippled, and a fierce red hand broke through that space, followed by the head, then the upper body...

Ah-Gui was like a person trapped in a quagmire trying to pull himself out, except the quagmire was upright, and until he fully emerged, the slime stuck to him like mochi, stretching into long strands.

Ah-Gui tore off these slime strands and silently observed the environment here.

At the same time, Lin Yi’s perception centered on Ah-Gui, slowly radiating outward.

Upon probing, Lin Yi immediately sensed the scorching breath coming from the direction of Teaching Building B.

"What’s that...?!"

Lin Yi controlled Ah-Gui to quickly rush to the corridor bridge connected to Building B and C.

Ah-Gui’s eyes were fake, so Lin Yi could only use perception to observe everything around; in his eyes, the world was formed by countless crisscrossed grid lines, filled with myriad breaths, decorating the world little by little.

Through perception, he found that the side of the corridor bridge close to Building B seemed to have countless honeycomb-like holes melted by high temperature, with some cavities having some flowing liquid, but those liquids were now solidified into solid droplet-like substances.

Near the corridor bridge, there were also some burnt corpses, these bodies were broken, and the internal ash crystals seemed to have been hollowed out.

The entire world over there was just like the ancient city of Pompeii after a volcanic eruption, full of doomsday hell-like scenes.

"It’s really strange... when did those zealots die?"

"Did that guy fail to collect ashes, so he sent another batch of zealots as cannon fodder and sacrifices?"

Back then, when the ashes fell, indeed some of the zealots were sacrificed by the bizarre art teacher as sacrifices for the ashes, but he had almost stolen all those "fruits", and this batch was clearly newly dead.

But even so, what happened to the burnt walls and the world almost scorched by flames?

"Could it be that Fireman has undergone some kind of mutation again?"

Lin Yi pondered for a moment, just then, Ah-Gui’s body shook, with scorching airflow vaguely surging through the pores.

"Not good! Absorbed too much ashes while traversing the layers, about to burn!"

When constructing this puppet, Lin Yi had made sure to attract both zealots and the "Ashen Apostle·Fireman", stuffing enough "bait", infusing ashes into the muscle fibers as much as possible apart from the bones.

But the already saturated container drinking like a "bull" in the stairwell naturally reached the brink of explosion now.

Thus, he decisively abandoned further observation, controlled Ah-Gui to return to the stairwell, climbing to the higher floors.

As he went upstairs, an eerie wind seemed to blow through the stairwell, gently whispering his name in his ear:

[Lin Yi... Lin Yi...]

Ah-Gui’s movement suddenly stalled, and Lin Yi, controlling Ah-Gui, felt a tremor in his heart.

"Why is this voice still calling my name?"

[Lin Yi... Lin Yi...]

[Lin Yi... Lin Yi...]

The layers in the stairwell seemed to squirm, and the steps beneath Ah-Gui’s feet became crooked.

But such distortion couldn’t make an effective impact on the current Lin Yi — because he was not relying on sensory feedback to perceive the world, but on perception.

The grid formed by those lines kept twisting, but Ah-Gui could still step precisely on the grid.

Even if stepping out, the whole body underwent eerie changes.

[Lin Yi... Lin Yi...]

[You’ll never escape...]

The wall powder in the stairwell eerily squirmed, and the writhing trajectories seemed to seal countless grotesque faces within the wall.

Some were grinning hideously, some crying abstractly, while others seemed to be slyly laughing with peculiar sounds.

The countless ethereal voices sang an ancient hymn in some kind of prayer-like language, but the song was intermittently unclear, only a few words could be discerned, but gradually, more voices began to flood into Lin Yi’s ears...

[Destiny...]

[Ouroboros...]

[...Ring...]