AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1038 - 485: The Secret of Explosion-Proof Glass_2

Chapter 1038: Chapter 485: The Secret of Explosion-Proof Glass_2

As soon as a backpack was mentioned, Lin Yi instinctively thought of the Mountain Man, even more so believing that there might be some kind of exoskeleton armor parts hidden in that backpack.

"Portable tactical armor?" He squinted his eyes slightly, extending his perception quietly, but discovered an obstruction when his perception touched the backpack.

"The induction cannot penetrate... or rather, it’s very difficult to penetrate..."

Lin Yi retracted his perception, but from the vague perception, he sensed that something sharp was hidden inside, somewhat resembling a rune dagger. Perhaps it wasn’t armor, but a weapon of some kind.

The remaining pair of twins, Chen Bing and Chen Xue, were engaged in their own activities: one sat in a chair, using her hands to make frames like an art student sketching a composition, while the other stood in front of the window, observing the situation over by the Green Forest Belt.

One seemed indifferent while the other slightly less so? Lin Yi hesitated for a moment. Was there? They both looked cold as hell—particularly the one gesturing a composition, her expression was also very indifferent.

This pair of twins wore remarkably similar outfits: student-style brown uniforms with short skirts, loose socks over their ankles, and boots on their feet, seemingly harmless.

However, Lin Yi felt that this pair of twins was the strongest in combat, or rather, the most dangerous among the four people here.

Following his intuition, Lin Yi silently evaluated the situation, reaching a conclusion—these four were not simple. If he were to face them, exterminating the group might take a bit of effort...

"Hmm?"

"No..."

"Why am I having such strange thoughts?!"

Lin Yi was startled by his own thoughts. Out of nowhere, he’d conjure up imaginary adversaries like that?

Whether it was because he had been observing for too long, Lu Zhao, who was deeply engrossed in checking paper information against the campus map, suddenly glanced towards Lin Yi’s direction.

Lu Zhao’s eyes had the lost, exploratory look unique to pondering academic questions. He glanced at Lin Yi, saw an Experience Student who had just entered the classroom, and after pausing longer than usual, returned his attention to the papers in his hand.

The twin girl who was framing with her hands moved the "frame" to beside Lin Yi.

After a slight pause.

She furrowed her brows.

Lin Yi glanced at her, then silently withdrew his gaze, turning his attention to Wei Liang.

Wei Liang remained engrossed in his H comics. Ever since he enrolled, this guy truly followed his previous statement, like a robot only executing commands, doing nothing out of line at all.

He didn’t approach Wei Liang, but instead went towards the side of the classroom by the corridor, looking through the window glass to the world outside.

Looking from the corridor certainly provided a clearer view, but the waves of rainfall were no joke. Without the armor like the Mountain Man, Lin Yi couldn’t allow himself to turn into a drenched chicken prematurely.

However, the window glass was washed by the torrential rain into a distorted waterfall, and under the effect of temperature differences inside and out, a mist formed over the glass.

Lin Yi had to exhale a breath onto the glass, then press his palm against it to rub out a patch of blurry vision—

The once orderly columns of the corridor seemed twisted in the rain, the moss on the staircase appeared to emit a faint phosphorescence, and every gap between the bricks oozed a black tar-like substance, tracing bizarre branch totems across the walls.

The distant mountain region was swallowed by dense fog, with occasional lightning striking through the clouds without illuminating the ash-like fog, only casting the ridge’s silhouette as a dormant giant creature’s spine...

The limited world of the campus seemed to collapse into a chaotic geometric silhouette under the rain curtain.

"Crash—Crash—Crash—"

The rain curtain, like waves, came one after another.

"Crackle! Crackle! Crackle..."

The bean-sized raindrops persistently battered the shatterproof glass, and the more Lin Yi focused, the more he felt that the sound started to change...

At first, it was a dense drumbeat; later, it mixed with a faint calling sound... Lin Yi squinted, trying to capture that hidden sound in the rain, and soon, he felt a wavering sensation wash over his will...

"Not good!" Lin Yi was shocked, instinctively moving his face away from the glass.

The calling sound vanished with it.

"The calling sound just now... felt familiar, yet it wasn’t like the call of a nocturnal species..." Lin Yi’s face revealed surprise.

He leaned again toward the window glass.

But in that brief moment, the glass fogged up again, and Lin Yi had no choice but to exhale and wipe it once more.

With one wipe, a face clinging tightly to the glass behind it emerged.

"What the...!"

Lin Yi was startled by this horrifying, face-to-face terror, instinctively retreating slightly.

The face stuck to the glass held fast, its complexion showing a blue-gray skin texture, and its wet black hair compressed between its face and the glass, etched with twisted water trails along the distorted nose and the corners of the mouth stretched to the ear roots...

Its eyes were dark and hollow, resembling a zombie that suddenly emerged from darkness to slam into the train carriage window, its eerie face-to-face effect evoking thoughts of the film Train to Busan for Lin Yi.

Its mouth squirmed but didn’t exhale breath or make any sound, just closely adhering to the glass, observing something unknown.

"No, wait..."

Lin Yi contemplated for a moment, then walked to the door in two or three steps and grasped the door handle—not with the intention to push the door out, but simply to retain a basic anchor point.

He then closed his eyes tightly before reopening them, looking back at the glass from earlier.

Mist once again spread over the glass, but the eerie face had disappeared.

With a furrowed brow, Lin Yi first ruled out the possibility of it being his illusion.

"Could it be similar in principle to the cafeteria’s plastic wind curtain?"

The plastic wind curtain of the cafeteria separated two worlds, front and back.

The shatterproof glass in the classroom might conceal some strange mechanism?

For example, under normal weather, looking from within the classroom, it shows the normal world, but in such abnormal weather, it shows another ’real world’ from inside the classroom.

As for whether the wandering creatures outside could see inside, it was unknown...

A flash of insight sparked in Lin Yi’s mind. Speaking of which, such glass possessing a ’one-way mirror’ effect during special times, why did this feel so familiar...

What was it again?

Oh right! It seemed somewhat like that Japanese thing, codenamed ’Magic Mirror’ or ’SOD’?

Damn... The Magic Mirror, of all things...

Lin Yi mentally gave himself a couple of slaps, telling himself not to think of such things at this serious moment.

He returned to the shatterproof glass, simply wiped it, then began observing again. This time, everything seemed perfectly normal: the campus was still the campus, the torrential rain was still torrential rain, and the entire world remained just a normal campus shrouded in heavy rain.

Nevertheless, with continued observation, the ’crash’ of the rain and the ’crackle’ of raindrops began to change once again, and that calling sound returned.

Gradually, raindrops gathered along the window ledge into inverted crystal clusters, each bead encapsulating the projection of miniature sculptures, and the facets of the crystals started refracting enigmatic spectral-hued iridescence beyond the spectrum.

Lin Yi instinctively stepped back half a pace, and the iridescence seemed to move like a living thing, pursuing his pupils, etching wriggling inscriptions that lay somewhere between hieroglyphs and cuneiform onto his retina...

The campus before him began to warp and collapse once more, the face pressed against the other side of the shatterproof glass shifting from illusion to vivid clarity.

Such changes further corroborated Lin Yi’s assumptions about the shatterproof glass, also suggesting that there were some common points of convergence, or construction principles, in the design of buildings within the campus.

"Hey, hang on!" As this thought crossed his mind, a flash of inspiration suddenly illuminated Lin Yi’s brain, a magical logic mysteriously forming a closed loop in his mind!