AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1020 - 476: "I... Principal... speak to... Grey Mist World...

Chapter 1020: Chapter 476: "I... Principal... speak to... Grey Mist World...

Finally, he sensed a hint of something strange.

He quickly turned his head to look beside him, and saw the ominous little girl with a sullen face, tilting her head and giving him a chilling smile.

The little girl didn’t speak, but in the darkness, a series of musical notes sounded from afar, growing closer...

"The sound of the music box?! Damn!" Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, where the hell have I ended up now?!

This must be the layer of the Gallery in the Art Building!

He had thought the little girl had ignited the secret mark to melt the layer, giving him a chance to escape, but now he realized that the little girl actually used the hand of the Primordial Ash Apostle to capture him...

Out of the Dragon’s Pool and into the Tiger’s Den!

Lin Yi cursed inwardly, these two are bad news; he thought he was escaping, but now it seems he was just transferred from Kidney Harvest Park to Scam Park...

"That secret mark... has it penetrated into my will?"

No... rather than saying it followed and penetrated, it’s just that his soul was branded from the very start!

He felt delectable, as if he’d been drenched in salad dressing after visiting the Art Building; whether man or ghost, everything seemed to want to take a bite out of him.

"I gotta run! I gotta run now!"

Lin Yi was intensely anxious; even though the little girl wasn’t making any moves, he knew this kid just looked innocent on the surface, but when she got going, she was more terrifying than a dismemberment madman; if he didn’t run now, he’d have no chance.

No time for more thought, he quickly looked at his wrist, but there was no watch.

Almost forgot, his will was nihility, he didn’t even have a wrist, let alone a watch.

What to do?

Seeing the little girl sharpening her knives, and Amon’s music box sound growing louder, a desperate strategy appeared in his mind!

After a simple extrapolation, he felt a certain chance of success, so he went for it.

He immediately conjured up the image of the Primordial Ash Apostle in his mind!

"Come on! Come on!"

With his limited cognition, he couldn’t possibly depict the transcendent image of the Primordial Ash Apostle, even sketching a mere outline was difficult.

But just such a call did trigger an eerie resonance within the layer.

"Buzz..."

The layer slightly vibrated, black tides spread within, and the breath of burning ashes twisted the space, entering the gallery through the fissures of void.

The little girl’s sullen expression suddenly changed, initially wanting to devour Lin Yi with her gaze, now turning towards the source of the disturbance, she then looked back at Lin Yi, her slender brows furrowed, exuding a hint of mild resentment, as if saying: How rude you are.

But she didn’t speak, merely withdrew into the dark corners of the gallery, leaving behind a haunting black nursery rhyme and the music box notes accompanying each other, slowly dispersing into the darkness of the gallery.

The burning waves of the Primordial Ash Apostle once again twisted the layer and covered over, the hot air currents and the gloomy mist in the gallery seemed to form a convection, within which, Lin Yi felt the gaps between layers, and hurriedly jumped back and forth within these gaps relying on his instincts...

Successful! Lin Yi rejoiced internally.

His idea was very simple: since when he "thought" of the little girl, she could directly use the power of the secret mark to melt layers and pull his will, then conversely, he should also be able to use a "conception" method to call upon the Primordial Ash Apostle to counter the little girl’s layer domain...

The first time traversing the melted layers he lacked experience, got tricked by the little girl, the second time he wouldn’t make the same mistake, and really began to float towards the correct surface world...

Finally, the dark and scorching abyss layer left him, and in the illusory space began to appear one after another half-transparent humanoid outlines, their limbs like flowing liquid metal, arranged like tombstones in unison, identical faces, identical shapes, identical movements... like seaweed swaying under the waves, every mouth singing synchronously an ancient sinister chant—

[ "I AvgruNnen av tåKe og mørke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome" ...]

Though eerie, Lin Yi felt quite happy.

That was the "Graveyard of the Deceased", seeing the Graveyard of the Deceased, at least indicated that his will had escaped the abyss layer of the Primordial Ash Apostle, returning to the "normal zone" above the fifth floor of the Teaching Building—everything is relative, compared to the gallery layer and abyss layer, the fifth floor and above in the Teaching Building seemed so normal.

It was absurd to think about, Lin Yi never expected that seeing the Graveyard of the Deceased would bring him joy, even a sense of familiarity as if meeting a friend in a foreign land.

As for whether this "Graveyard of the Deceased" was the same he initially encountered, he had no idea.

The "Graveyard of the Deceased" was formed by countless pseudo-human sculptures and eerie creatures merging and coexisting, every "tombstone" seemed to be in a constant state of iteration, nothing unusual there.

Lin Yi’s will floated in the void, like a kite with a broken string searching for its thread...

This will was like a roaming wraith, continuously drifting in the crevice between reality and layers.

He conjured a strange thought: If my will cannot return to the body, could it evolve independently into a Sneering Angel?

He didn’t know, but felt it quite likely.

Although this was but a part of his will, the formation of a Sneering Angel was truly unconventional, under such unreasonable conditions, it wasn’t impossible for reasonable things to happen.

After all, one of S City University’s traits was the high likelihood of low-probability events occurring.

Yet, for a living person to have part of their will become a Sneering Angel... telling it feels kind of bizarre, like Lin Yi slaying three corpses to ascertain transcendence.

Three corpses correspond to three Angel Sculptures... the more he thought about it, the more far-fetched it became.

What fascinated Lin Yi truly was that upon return, his will did not attract the attention of the Graveyard of the Deceased, nor did it draw the gaze of the Primordial Ash Apostle; those fragmented glass-like humanoid outlines remained suspended quietly like gods outside the broken window of C group Class 18.

Nocturnal species crawled up the outer wall of the Teaching Building, emitting white smoke under the chant, even amidst the raging storm enveloping the world, the nocturnal species were gradually being steamed away, then, under Lin Yi’s horrified gaze, they turned into ashes, and their remnants sticking to the wall became a particular soft grainy substance, resembling... Moss.

"The Moss in the campus... are the remains of the nocturnal species’ bodies burned to ashes?!"

Nocturnal species like coral polyps, whose dead bodies turn into coral.

It’s somewhat eerie, though.

But thinking about the logic that nocturnal species’ bodies burn to ashes turning into Moss, suddenly he began to understand why the cliff where the Night Watchman dwells had so much Moss much quicker, surely formed from the transformation after nocturnal species’ deaths followed by accumulation.

So then, the Moss he saw on May 7th formed the same way!

Those purebred nocturnal species perished on the night of May 6th, wiped out by the light of the Primordial Ash Apostle!

No wonder upon first sight he sensed something eerie about the Moss, yet couldn’t comprehend its essence due to lack of cognition.

He could perceive the issue with Moss because his intuition was always high, but couldn’t see through the Moss due to his limited cognition at the time.

Campus, oh campus, how much more terror can you bring to me?

Lin Yi sighed.

At that moment, he noticed the Sneering Angel in the classroom seemed to be undergoing some sort of aberration as well...