AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 161 - 74: The Sensation of Being Watched from Outside the Window

Chapter 161: Chapter 74: The Sensation of Being Watched from Outside the Window

Lin Yi was somewhat taken aback, "Liangzi has already showered, what about it?"

Tian Bufan withdrew his gaze, "Nothing, you go shower too."

"Hmm." Lin Yi nodded, "The dormitory rules are behind you, after the shower... let’s have a good talk."

Tian Bufan nodded, "No problem."

Lin Yi furrowed his brow, feeling that Tian Bufan had something unsaid, but couldn’t quite grasp his meaning. Therefore, he no longer pressed the matter and headed straight into the bathroom.

...

Tian Bufan then turned around with his hands behind his back and began to look at the dormitory rules.

After reading through, Wei Liang hadn’t yet dried his hair.

He walked to the desk, pulled out a chair, and sat down facing Wei Liang.

Wei Liang felt uncomfortable under his gaze and hurriedly finished drying the last few strands of hair, then put on a cap and pulled the brim down a bit.

Seeing Tian Bufan, he seemed somewhat uneasy, his gaze somewhat evasive.

Tian Bufan opened his mouth to ask, "How’s your head teacher doing?"

"Huh?" Surprised that Tian Bufan was speaking to him, Wei Liang shook his head, "Head teacher? I don’t know..."

"You don’t know? That’s really a pity... I thought you knew more than Old Lin."

"Huh?" Wei Liang questioned, "Old Lin? What happened to him?"

Tian Bufan shook his head, "Nothing."

Wei Liang was stunned then shivered involuntarily, rubbing his arms that were covered in goosebumps.

Mom, is this Young Master Tian that Old Lin talked about... What is he talking about, I don’t understand any of it...

Tian Bufan smiled, got up from his seat, and walked toward Wei Liang.

As he passed by Lin Yi’s desk, he casually flipped Lin Yi’s notebook to a blank page, tore off a sheet, wrote a few strokes on it, then pushed it across the desk to Wei Liang.

"What..." Wei Liang glanced at it subconsciously, "...now?"

"You...?!"

Following that, the puzzlement in his eyes showed a strong fluctuation, as if some consciousness was struggling to break free...

Tian Bufan quietly watched his reactions, then glanced at the bathroom door.

Water sounds echoed from the bathroom.

"Alright."

After withdrawing his gaze, he calmly looked at Wei Liang.

"We don’t have much Time... Let’s chat briefly."

...

May 7, 2023, 21:36.

The mist in the shower area wafted about, Lin Yi maintained the backward hair washing pose he learned from Wei Liang, and anyone unaware would think he was doing something indescribable.

Feeling the warm water rush over his body, Lin Yi finally relaxed a bit after being tense all day.

He fixed his gaze on the ceiling of the shower area, washing while organizing his thoughts, preparing for his upcoming discussion with Tian Bufan.

Suddenly, he frowned.

He felt that the pattern on the ceiling... seemed somewhat familiar.

The dormitory bathroom had two incandescent lights, one on the ceiling of the shower area and another on the toilet side, designed so that the light wouldn’t be affected when the water curtain was drawn.

"Shower, shower, shower..."

With the mist spreading across the ceiling, the shower area’s incandescent light took on a blurry look, and with that haziness, the pattern on the ceiling also became blurred.

"Huh, this pattern...?"

Lin Yi suddenly realized something and shuddered subconsciously.

This pattern... was extremely similar to that strange relief in the Cafeteria Student Passage!

Lin Yi didn’t know if there was any connection, but setting aside construction design issues, his subconscious harbored some bad premonitions.

He hurried to finish washing his hair, then began rinsing his body.

But just then, he felt that the mist in the shower area moved in a very unnatural way.

It was as if something had blown a breath of air at the mist.

At that moment, a chill spread unannounced from Lin Yi’s heart, and no matter how warm the water from the shower head, it couldn’t wash it away.

He felt the mist before him churn like boiling hot water, something behind the mist watching him with bated breath.

"?!"

He immediately realized.

"It’s the window!"

"Outside the window... is there something peeping at me?"

Lin Yi’s pupils dilated, his scalp suddenly tightening.

[If you hear something tapping at your window, or calling your name from outside, do not doubt, there is indeed something outside.]

"But... it’s not time for the lights out yet, is it?"

He raised his wrist—his quartz watch was still on his wrist, something he hadn’t removed since entering the campus.

He wiped the mist off the watch face with his thumb and checked the Time.

21:40.

"It’s still within the safe period."

"Wait a minute..." he also realized something, "that thing outside the window hasn’t been knocking on the window or calling my name..."

Do not doubt, there is indeed something outside.

"Damn it..."

"So, there has always been something outside the window, but it can only act after the lights go out, right?"

Lin Yi shuddered involuntarily, immediately recalling that thing which had turned the door latch and entered the classroom after the lights were out!

According to the head teacher’s words, that thing was not her, but something even she couldn’t stop.

Now it seemed, these unidentifiable creatures had always been lingering within the campus, repelled by the light, yet attracted to it, chasing the light because they knew prey lay beneath it.