AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 111 - 52 "Other" Channels

Chapter 111: Chapter 52 "Other" Channels

But at this moment, he suddenly thought of something!

He stared intently at the notice board, and then, before his body could fully relax and lose its strength, he lunged at it like a madman.

"Thump..."

He fell heavily to the ground, his body unable to make even the final leap!

But he caught hold of the pole of the notice board.

"Caught... got it! Got it!!"

"Yes!"

With his last bit of energy, he dragged himself under the pole of the notice board.

With one hand, he clung tightly to the pole, and with the other hand, he reached into his pocket!

After groping around, he finally felt a thick booklet.

He tried to control his trembling hands, took the booklet out of his pocket, and shakily opened it to the last section—the school map.

Before his vision went completely dark, he found the positions of the notice board and the cafeteria on the map—

"Yes! That’s right!! The cafeteria is here. Right here!"

He slowly moved the map away from his face, as if scratching off the security ink on a lottery ticket.

The scenery behind the notice board reappeared in front of his eyes.

The cliff had vanished, and there, lying quietly in the sunset’s afterglow, was a square, proper cafeteria.

The cafeteria had always been there.

The cafeteria had never left.

And he was still holding onto the pole of the notice board.

Lin Yi’s tense body suddenly relaxed, feeling as if a heavy burden had been lifted off his shoulders.

He let go of the pole and lay down on the distinctly granular cobblestone path, looking at the normal world before him, one that inherently had order and logic, and he took a long, relieving breath.

He breathed deeply, letting the air, mixed with the scent of the earth, reassure him that the crazy, oppressive, and maliciously twisted world was just a phantom vision!

That indescribable sense of horror disappeared completely with his breaths.

Not until that feeling had entirely vanished did he become absolutely certain, he had returned, he really had returned.

"I found it! I found it!"

"My idea was right! It was correct!"

"Reference points are relative, the distorted cobblestones can no longer serve as reference points, but the only real and never distorted notice board is the absolutely correct reference!"

Under Wei Liang’s incomprehensible gaze, he covered his face and burst into laughter.

"Hahaha..."

He laughed out loud, so much that he tired himself.

Then he saw the golden sky and yellow clouds, and beneath them, Wei Liang’s face looking down at him, filled with deep confusion.

"Liang... zi?" he froze on the spot, blurting out these words.

Wei Liang looked down at him with a puzzled face: "Ah, it’s me, what the hell... just happened?"

"Uh... just now..." Lin Yi propped himself up to sit, took a deep breath, blew off the dust on the school map, carefully folded it and put it at the end of the student manual, then tucked it back into his pocket.

Then he turned to Wei Liang and said seriously, "You definitely wouldn’t want to know what I just went through."

He got up, using the pole of the notice board for support.

Observing Lin Yi’s disheveled and odd appearance and his strange actions, Wei Liang’s expression went from puzzled to very serious. After maintaining a serious expression for three seconds, he finally shrugged his shoulders, frowned with concern and asked:

"Old Lin, are you... okay?"

"Your actions just now, they were very strange."

"Oh?" Lin Yi also showed curiosity about his own behavior, "In your eyes, what did I just do?"

Wei Liang intended to crack a joke, but the atmosphere didn’t allow it, so he said seriously, "You fell behind me and then inexplicably crashed into that notice board."

"You scared me; if I hadn’t reacted quickly and stopped, you’d have gotten a taste of my combo today."

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched at the corners: "Uh... I was like that just now? No, I mean... just like that?"

Wei Liang facepalmed and said speechlessly, "Come on, you don’t even know what you were doing?"

Lin Yi lowered his gaze to the cobblestone path under his feet.

The path was normal.

He looked around.

The surroundings were also normal.

"So what exactly... happened just now?"

"Hey, never mind, never mind!" Wei Liang waved his hands and then thumped Lin Yi on the chest, breaking his train of thought, "Let’s go eat, let’s go eat!"

As he said this, Wei Liang walked to the shelf under the notice board, grabbed a copy of the cafeteria rules to pocket, then headed straight for the entrance of the Student Passage.

Lin Yi watched Wei Liang’s retreating figure, his brow furrowing gradually.

Suddenly, he thought of something and glanced down at his watch.

17:20.

"3 minutes..."

He narrowed his eyes.

Perhaps because he had been wandering at the edge of madness and confusion, he felt as if he had experienced an incredibly long and obscure period of time.

But that time lasted only 3 minutes.

"Too fleeting..."

Brief and extended, like... a slice of eternal time had been cut off, and he had fallen and sunk within that slice.

...

May 7, X023, 17:21, in front of the cafeteria notice board.

Lin Yi took a book of cafeteria rules from the shelf by the notice board and put it in his pocket, then stood in place and looked at the cafeteria again, focused and solemn, as if to imprint its image into his soul.