AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 144 - 66: The Twisting, Stretching Road (Added 1100 words!)

Chapter 144: Chapter 66: The Twisting, Stretching Road (Added 1100 words!)

Lin Yi’s hair stood on end suddenly, the dormitory building gave him an unprecedented feeling, with no emotional fluctuations, neither goodwill nor malice, only a sense of being purely, indifferently looked down upon.

No, not even being looked down upon.

He suddenly became stunned...

"No... wait!"

"Why is my subconscious trying to personify the dormitory building?"

"Why do I feel like the dormitory is looking down on me?"

"Could it be just because my first impression was that it stood there like a giant? So, that’s why..."

The evening breeze was slightly cool, passing over his spine and instantly making him, already in a cold sweat, feel as if frost was invading him.

He shuddered, and his whole person snapped back to his senses instantly.

He focused his gaze with continuous blinking and then glanced at the time.

20:35.

"20:35..." he said solemnly, "So I was just distracted just now?"

Wei Liang spoke up from beside him: "What’s wrong?"

Lin Yi shook his head: "I’m fine."

"Oh." Wei Liang responded, and the two continued on to the dormitory.

As they walked, more and more students began to appear on the road, and Lin Yi guessed that they must have met up with people from other classes.

Theoretically, Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, and Kuai Hongji should be among these people, but Lin Yi had no intention of looking for them.

The true meeting should happen when they reached the dormitory, not starting to regroup halfway there.

Images of the Teaching Building within the phantom vision floated in Lin Yi’s mind, and what was incredible to him was that when he thought of the dormitory building, he didn’t have too much fear or horror, there was only an extreme shock and awe.

As they walked, the mist on the road gradually thickened, and the mist, as white as frost, rose to the level of their calves like a tide.

If it weren’t for the uneven sensation of cobblestones underfoot, he would really suspect he was walking on some sort of black stage covered with dry ice.

The cold evening breeze made the mist drift constantly, and from within the darkness beyond the streetlights came the rustling sound of Lin Ye being blown by the wind.

But a chill came, and Lin Yi’s footsteps suddenly halted.

His keen hearing caught a "rustling" noise different from the sound of Lin Ye swaying, this unfamiliar yet familiar sound revived his damned memories, instantly conjuring images of stones scraping against the cobblestone ground.

But the essence of this noise wasn’t that.

Lin Yi clearly remembered, those off-kilter students made such a noise when the lights in the classroom went out and they moved!

Those eerie characters in the Cafeteria, would produce such sounds following their movement.

So in other words...

"Beyond the streetlights, there are an unknown number of... off-kilter students?!"

"Wait... at this time, shouldn’t they be in the classroom?"

"Or is it... that the ones in the classrooms are just the tip of the iceberg of their huge number?"

He stood under the glow of the streetlight, looking into a patch of darkness.

Outside the domain formed by the light, wisps of thick mist could be seen looming like mountains, the mist constantly moving with the evening breeze, like river mist and glacial wind, concealing mysterious and enigmatic figures.

An intense sense of danger, unfathomable as the dark waters, invaded, as if a deep abyss was about to swallow Lin Yi whole.

But under the orange-yellow light, none of these terrifying atmospheric sensations could invade even a sliver.

Lin Yi averted his gaze and hurriedly walked forward.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

Within the surging mist, as though there were eerie figures slowly moving in pursuit of Lin Yi’s shadow...

...

May 7, X023, 20:40.

The frost-white mist grew denser, Lin Yi’s visibility was reduced to less than a hundred meters, and beyond the light was nothing but darkness, while the "rustling" sound became clearer and clearer.

"The mist... is getting thicker," Wei Liang’s voice sounded with a tremor.

"Liangzi, is this considered ’abnormal weather’ yet?" Lin Yi asked.

Wei Liang replied: "That’s hard to define, but it’s not abnormal enough yet... True ’anomalies’ are when you can clearly sense something is amiss."

"Like suddenly encountering a streetlight pole without any lights on, or the streetlight poles that should be on both sides of the road..."

"Only remaining on one side?" Lin Yi said this line.

Wei Liang was briefly shocked.

Then, as if he had a premonition, his face suddenly flooded with panic.

He looked ahead.

Only to see the orange-yellow light covering the cobblestone path, but the source of that light was... a single, solitary streetlight pole.

"This... this, this..." Wei Liang hurriedly rushed to the closest streetlight pole and then stretched out both hands to grasp it.

Lin Yi’s pupils constricted slightly, and his heart suddenly lurched: "This... when did it become like this?!"

"I don’t know." Wei Liang spoke lowly, "If only I knew... no, no, no, that’s wrong, knowing might be even worse."

Panic swirled in his eyes as he seemed to think of something but then desperately restrained himself from thinking too much.

"Liangzi, don’t panic," Lin Yi said, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Today’s situation is different from yesterday!"