AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 191 - 88 Sculpture and Export_2

Chapter 191: Chapter 88 Sculpture and Export_2

At that moment, countless thoughts surged in Lin Yi’s heart, each carrying an intense emotion.

The strongest of these emotions, far surpassing fear, was called... awe.

"The staircase on the negative first floor of the Teaching Building, after ascending in reverse, actually leads to the Dormitory Building?!"

"How can this be?!"

"Does this not mean that the Teaching Building and the Dormitory Building are the same building?!"

Lin Yi’s eyes kept moving.

"The Teaching Building has four floors, and after the layer collapse, there appear to be five or more floors... If this ’stairwell’ is inside the Teaching Building, then it means that the floors above the fifth, are actually the Dormitory Building, or at least at the level of the ’overlap’?!"

"Then, if I walk up the stairs of the Teaching Building during a mist, will I end up in the Dormitory Building?!"

"This this this this..."

A supremely absurd idea rose in Lin Yi’s heart, feeling incredible yet as if it contained some sinister rule.

He couldn’t help but pull at his own hair, starting to think.

"Is it really like this?"

"The Teaching Building prohibits leaving the classroom after 9 PM, but the incandescent light is always on."

"But the lights in the Dormitory Building go out completely after 10:20 PM!"

"If there’s an overlap, how do we explain the lighting?"

"Wait a moment...?!"

"The Teaching Building’s lights go off late!"

"The lights of the Teaching Building flicker!"

"Could there be... some connection here?!"

"After the lights go out in the Teaching Building... does it overlap with the Dormitory Building? And when the lights are on, they don’t overlap?"

"But... does this concept of ’overlap’ really exist?"

Upon thinking this, Lin Yi couldn’t help but glance at the shoes on his feet.

The sports shoes he had changed out of in the Dormitory, the soles covered with a thick, dense, moist moss that was completely different from the moss around campus, could there really be a situation where "spatial overlap" occurs, allowing different layers to display a kind of quantum superposition under special circumstances?

Lin Yi felt like in his dream he had a kind of intelligence "beyond" his own, unsure if it was because the dream was too outlandish or because his own thoughts were too far-fetched...

Unfortunately, this idea could only remain at a speculative level, utterly unverifiable at this stage.

"Wait a second..."

"If it’s not spatial overlap, could there be another interpretation?"

"Thinking from the perspective of layers..."

Lin Yi recalled a phrase once said by Tian Bufan—"A single, enclosed spiral passage is really too suitable for making a point."

"A ’single, enclosed spiral passage’!"

He mulled over these words repeatedly, a summary Tian Bufan made of the stairwell, vividly describing its features.

Independent and enclosed.

However, after following Mao Feiyang’s perspective during their prolonged upward journey of four or even more hours, Lin Yi had a completely different view of "independent and enclosed."

It was not independent, but "infinite."

Infinite upwards, infinite downwards, with no visible beginning and no end.

Compared to a closed environment, its traits were more akin to... a road that didn’t exist.

The things in that staircase seemed like terrains that unfolded when the layers of the staircase collapsed.

Just as he had accidentally walked that nonexistent road, Mao Feiyang had followed the signs in the Teaching Building, ventured into the "fold" of the layer, and walked into the fold of the Dormitory building layer like a train changing tracks, seamlessly transitioning through the dormitory doors after the lights in the Dormitory building went out, which was when the Dormitory building’s layer began to collapse...

"Could it be this way?"

Lin Yi deduced such a conclusion, then he was slightly stunned, thinking that if it were Tian Bufan here, he might have made the same guess, right?

He thought of that crumpled piece of paper, wondering if the two points marked on it could unfold into some special path connecting them.

Amidst his shock, Lin Yi suddenly realized something.

"Wait... doesn’t that mean Maozi reached the Dormitory building yesterday?!"

"But he had no idea this was the Dormitory building!"

"No, no, no, he didn’t know anything at this point!"

So far, Mao Feiyang only knew about the student rules and the sign in front of the Teaching Building, he knew nothing else!

"He only knew he would meet the Art Teacher, and then ’start an Artistic Journey’!"

"Theoretically, after leaving the staircase of basement one, he would become an Art Student, he might reach that legendary ’Art Building not on the map’, but either way, he shouldn’t have ended up at the Dormitory building!"

Lin Yi’s mind suddenly became a mess; he felt that what Mao Feiyang had encountered already surpassed his comprehension—this was after experiencing the events of an additional day, feeling like reverting to yesterday’s dreams!

Heaven knew what Mao Feiyang experienced last night!

Lin Yi took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down. Since things had come to this, it did no good to speculate wildly. It would be better to calmly assess the situation given that he didn’t have much time left. Who knew when he would wake from this dream, or if he would continue this dream after waking.

However, he was not thinking wildly, but Mao Feiyang kept doing so relentlessly.

He hugged his legs and curled up behind the door of dorm ’2820’, back against the door, continually exhaling cold air, pondering the previous scenes while mumbling something like a sleep talk.

Lin Yi realized all the issues Mao Feiyang was pondering were the things he had subconsciously thought about yesterday in the Teaching Building.

He saw how Mao Feiyang was absorbing the dense white powder particles diffusing through the dorm corridors like a vacuum cleaner, and then how those particles left his body, dividing into four streams like invisible IV lines, extending into the air...

Lin Yi remained silent, but his heart was tumultuous; he watched these four lines, having "seen with his own eyes" the scene before, and now he undoubtedly knew where they extended to—Young Master Tian, Wei Sang, Kuai Kuai, and himself!

"So... since the moment he separated from us, Maozi became a massive source of absorbing Contamination, and we others were unconsciously receiving the Contamination he was emitting?"

"But I’ve never felt anything was wrong?"

"No, no... I... I seem to have had problems from the beginning!"

Sweat slowly appeared on Lin Yi’s forehead.

The thoughts that originated from deep within his heart last night in the Teaching Building—his musings now were almost identical to what Mao Feiyang was mumbling!

During the day today at the Gymnasium, Tian Bufan again emphasized that he needed time to "acclimatize."

He never knew what he had to acclimatize to, until this moment when he realized that Tian Bufan wanted him to "acclimatize to the Contamination."

And this wasn’t just any Contamination, but one emanating from Mao Feiyang!

After being infected, he started to become contaminated too, but the source was Mao Feiyang?!

The most crucial point was, he didn’t even know he was being contaminated; he didn’t feel like there was any external influence on his subconscious thoughts, everything seemed to be coming from within his heart...

"What in the world is going on...?"

Lin Yi’s heart became increasingly chaotic, his mind increasingly unclear, he felt he was losing the ability to think, his breathing becoming more rapid.

Mao Feiyang’s state began to affect his own emotional fluctuations!

He felt the world around him undergo indescribable and irregular distortions, he seemed to see the fissures in the world and the collapsing hallways.