AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 104 - 48 Dressing Room Horror_2

Chapter 104: Chapter 48 Dressing Room Horror_2

"I don’t recommend you wash your hair in the dorm like this."

After Boss had said that, he walked straight towards the direction of the women’s changing room.

Watching Boss disappear around the corner of the women’s corridor, Lin Yi slowly retracted his gaze.

He turned back to look at the swimming pool, where now only he was left in the Swimming Hall.

A chill breeze blew over, and he shivered suddenly.

...

X023 May 7, 15:53, first floor of the Gymnasium, Swimming Hall, shower area.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh——"

Lin Yi showered in the hot water, the steam spreading to his lower legs, turning his shower area into a misty haze.

After some consideration, he decided not to wash his hair first. His head felt somewhat uncomfortable, but it felt a bit better after scratching.

Although the changing room notice mentioned how one could wash their hair, Boss had suggested it was best to have a Sports Student keep watch, making him think there might be some nuances involved.

And since there were no Sports Students around, he just dismissed the idea.

Surely, he wasn’t about to ask Boss to keep watch while he washed his hair?

That would probably blow his apical bone off.

After brief contemplation, he decided that, once he was done showering, he would just wet a towel and use it to clean his head.

But while he was showering, he suddenly became sharply aware of a shift in the steam around the shower area...

The changing room was a relatively enclosed space, where the steam in the shower area was always naturally dispersing. As soon as one left the shower area, it would immediately dissipate.

And the feeling just now, it was like someone had slapped the seal off a wine jar, with fresh air backwashing into the jar, flushing out the original aroma of the wine.

"Did someone... come in from outside?"

A sharp light flickered involuntarily in his eyes.

Immediately after, a chill breeze skittered along the floor, making the hairs on his body stand on end instinctually.

He quickly flashed back through his memory.

If he remembered correctly, everyone in the pool had already left, a few people were still changing in the changing room, and there was almost no one left in the shower area...

And that recent sensation was like someone had pushed the door of the changing room, leaving, or entering, bringing the outside air in with them.

It seemed a very normal scene, but to Lin Yi, it felt quite odd.

Because...

"The yin energy is too strong!"

Such a cold, gloomy breath, he had only ever felt from those unsettling classmates!

"Could someone like that really come out in the Gymnasium?"

He didn’t believe it, but better safe than sorry.

He didn’t turn off the shower, but quietly grabbed his swimwear, changed into a towel in the adjacent shower area, rapidly dried his body and hair, clutching his changed clothes, and tiptoed out of the shower area.

As he exited the shower area, he vigilantly scanned the surroundings.

No one.

There was not a single person in the changing room, at least... not within his line of sight!

But the cold air was spreading along the non-slip rubber flooring, invisible, but he could feel it.

He quickened his pace towards his locker.

Many rules had mentioned the concept of "ignoring"; since so, if there was no one in his first field of vision, then that was fine, even ignoring was too lazy!

Now he just needed one thing—to get dressed and then leave.

Before leaving, just casually throw all the swimwear into the recycling bin.

Moreover, the rules of the Gymnasium had previously stated:

[You only need to follow the areas marked on the map, the Gymnasium is the most normal and safest place during your school years (bar none)].

With such a big amulet in front, there was no reason not to believe it.

He used his Student ID card to unlock the locker door, reached in to grab his clothes, but just at that moment, he suddenly felt a blast of cold air on his back...

It was as if something had closed the distance at an incredibly fast speed, then abruptly braked to a stop just behind him!

Though it had stopped, the wind it carried still hit Lin Yi’s back.

The shower area was still near, the warm steam was still spreading, but an icy chill that did not belong there pervaded the normally warm changing room.

A chill that penetrated the bones!

Freezing to the core of the soul!

"Fuck, what the hell is this?!"

"I’ve got my cup!"

Lin Yi cursed under his breath as the steam evaporated and the cold air enveloped him, causing his body to shudder slightly.

A phrase popped into his mind—

"Don’t look back!"

When in doubt, fix your gaze on a fixed reference point!

He wasn’t sure if this rule of staring at a streetlight was effective at a time like this, but since that eerie thing hadn’t attacked him yet, it probably behaved somewhat like the mist-wandering, suspected female teacher-like entity behind him...

He gritted his teeth and fixed his gaze deep into the locker.

Then, he tiptoed out his clothes, leaving a sleek, clean bare back, and briskly slipped into his clothes.

Soon, only a shoe and... a pile of socks were left.

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched fiercely.

"Damn it, no socks then!"

He gritted his teeth, stuffed all the socks into his pocket, and then tightly clutched his student ID card, taken out from its waterproof case.

Throughout this process, he could feel a cold breath spraying faintly onto his back.

His muscles trembled uncontrollably, and he could clearly sense the presence hovering around him.

A picture naturally formed in his mind—a block of ice, surveilling him menacingly.

"Gulp..."

He swallowed his saliva, struggling to suppress the fear inside him, and tremulously wrapped his swimsuit in a towel, then mentally rehearsed his exit route.

Having done all this, he took a deep breath and then...

Stepped back half a step.

The anti-slip rubber on the floor was slightly cool, but he stepped on it very solidly.

"Very safe, very safe..."

He kept his line of sight firmly fixed and continued to slowly retreat.

"Good good good, that’s the feelin—ow, fuck!"

His ankle bumped against a bench in the changing room, a painfully pleasant sourness.

"Damn it... didn’t consider the details..."

He adjusted his breath and kept retreating...

After stepping back about three to five meters, the feeling of being closely watched hadn’t abated but grew even more intense, yet he was never attacked.

He felt slightly more at ease, thinking that staying with Liangzi for so long hadn’t been pointless; at least he really could come up with some crafty tricks at critical moments...

Although it wasn’t to the level of Wei Liang’s craftiness, it was enough to be decently substantial.

But just as he was feeling slightly proud, suddenly...

"Thud!"

He felt his back hit something icy cold.

Like a rotten plank soaked in water for years, a smooth stone covered with wet moss, a sculpture constantly sliding off mud, like... an ice sculpture covered with thin ice?

Just then, there finally came a chillingly cold, bone-deep voice from behind him:

"Student... swimming burns a lot of energy, why not eat something to replenish yourself?"

A pale, bloodless thin hand quietly extended from over Lin Yi’s shoulder.

It held a vivid red tomato, slowly bringing it towards Lin Yi’s mouth.

"Just picked tomato... fresh, delicious, and tasty... want to try?"

The icy, demonic voice, with a seductive tone, swirled around Lin Yi’s ear like an ice wind.

Lin Yi still kept his eyes locked on the locker, but couldn’t resist as the object intentionally raised the tomato higher from his mouth to his eyes...

"Alright, alright, are you seriously doing this...?!"

Lin Yi gritted his teeth in fury, his mind racing frantically.

But he still saw the tomato.

"Fuck, this tomato... wait, is this actually a tomato?!"

He stared in disbelief at the pale hand holding the tomato whose surface, inexplicably, seemed to have a network of fine veins, the whole tomato still faintly throbbing...

Is this a fresh tomato? It clearly is...

"A... heart!!"