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Chapter 127 - 58: The Mist-Filled Student Passage (Additional 1100 Words)_2

Chapter 127: Chapter 58: The Mist-Filled Student Passage (Additional 1100 Words)_2

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X023 May 18, 18:20.

The moment Lin Yi entered the Student Passage, a cold breath enveloped him along with a thin mist, causing a faint sense of discomfort that gently pricked at every pore over his body, making him resist the idea of traversing the Student Passage.

At that moment, Lin Yi’s hair stood on end, and a chill ran down his spine; he felt as if he was being watched...

It was a cold, indifferent, emotionless gaze, like a lioness sprawled on the ground, idly staring at your silhouette, like some unimaginable entity accidentally glancing at you.

"Is it... that ’present yet not entirely present’ blue Pocket Chef?"

"Or is it something else...?"

As this thought surfaced in his mind, he developed an urge to turn around and look back.

No sooner had the thought appeared than it began to grow uncontrollably into a strong desire.

But almost immediately, an even stronger impulse to restrain himself arose:

"Don’t look back! Definitely! Definitely don’t look back!"

Clenching his teeth, he controlled the urge with his strong willpower, feeling the warmth of Wei Liang’s shoulder in the palm of his hand, maintaining even breaths, step by step descending the stairs of the Student Passage.

With each step, Lin Yi silently counted the number of stairs in his heart.

By the time he reached the thirty-sixth step, each subsequent step made everything seem even more silent.

This silence was abnormal, as if the whole world had turned down its volume, making certain subtle sounds stand out even louder...

"Creak... creak... creak..."

He could clearly hear the sound of his feet on each step, his own slow heartbeat, the mist slowly spreading, the sound of the cold air creeping along the cold walls of the Student Passage...

He heard an extremely faint sound of flowing water inside the walls of the Student Passage, like water seeping through cracks between the stones, sliding down the crevices, and then dripping onto... moss.

"Moss..."

Lin Yi’s pupils contracted slightly.

"Is this the environmental factor that nourishes the moss?"

"But that’s not right, where is the water coming from in the Student Passage?"

"Wait... could it be that non-existent water, taking advantage of the mist, seeping into the Student Passage?"

He flared his nostrils, and faintly, he smelled something in the Student Passage... a light, salty, and slightly fishy breath.

The breath of the sea.

"Damn! Here it comes again!"

He rubbed his temples fiercely, controlling himself not to overthink, focusing on following Wei Liang.

However, Wei Liang’s pace also started to slow down, as if each step he took was carefully calculated.

Silently following, he knew that getting lost in such a moment would spell doomed forever!

His world became quieter and quieter, but the sounds he could clearly hear became more and more numerous...

The extreme silence is noise, and at the end of that noise is like the whole world leaving you suddenly stuffing every tiny sound into your brain.

He heard the sound of his soles tapping on the stairs, Wei Liang’s ’squish squish squish’ footsteps from ill-fitting shoes, and his footsteps, slightly lighter...

He heard the faint sound of the wind blowing from a distant world, carrying a little sound of waves and the bubbling of surf washing over gravel...

He heard a ’rustle rustle rustle’—

Not behind him, but from all directions.

The sounds were coming from the inner walls of the Student Passage; beneath the thin mist, it seemed he could see a slight distortion of the walls, not only trickling streams, but also faintly presenting some abstract, bizarre relief contours...

Those contours... writhing and twisting as if performing some ancient ritual, merely catching sight of them incited a strong curiosity to get closer and take a look...

Lin Yi dared not look any more, quickly averting his gaze, and kept his eyes locked firmly on Wei Liang’s back.

The mist grew thicker, Lin Yi captured more and more sounds, but among these sounds there was nothing useful, as if the world’s cacophony was being stuffed into his brain.

He gradually found it hard to breathe; he felt suffocated by this emptiness.

The lights of the Student Passage became more blurred beneath the mist, and had he not believed that Wei Liang could lead him out of the passage, he might have already been lost in some dark corner, propped against the passage’s inner wall...

He continued to count the steps without pause, but he forgot whether he was on the seventies or the nineties.

All he remembered was that he kept going down the stairs.

His hand stayed on Wei Liang’s shoulder the whole time.

The fog became thicker, the sounds clearer, and the incandescent shadows cast by the fog twisted against the walls, sprawling into a chaotic cluster, like dancing claws that closely followed them from behind, seemingly ready to engulf them the moment they stopped moving.

Lin Yi felt his breathing become more difficult, the permeating mist rising like a gradually encroaching water level, eating away at his breathing space, prying at his will.

Just as he felt his will about to sink, the oncoming fog suddenly thinned like clouds dissipating, a gust of evening breeze brushed his face, and the once muddled view suddenly cleared...

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