AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 203 - 94 Transcending Cognition: Geometric Constructs_2

Chapter 203: Chapter 94 Transcending Cognition: Geometric Constructs_2

So it seems... perhaps in the Security Guard’s "judgment," all "Art Students" are considered hostile forces?

Lin Yi lightly shook his head, setting aside the question for the moment, thinking he might find the answer from the Sports Students.

If Tian Bufan saw the Art Student Rules, he would certainly remark that it was a particularly "interesting" thing.

Because, aside from the complex relations between Art Students, sculpture, Sports Students, and Security Guards, it also mentioned something very special.

A genuine method involving the traversal between layers—the Teaching Building elevator.

To investigate the Teaching Building elevator, one must first sort out the various traversal routes.

’Known... Maozi lost his chance to enter the Teacher’s Office on sub-level one of the Teaching Building after being contaminated by the green Pocket Chef. Then, he reversed through the staircase from sub-level one, arriving directly at the Dormitory Building... accomplishing a kind of layer traversal.’

’Then, via the Dormitory Building’s elevator and under the guidance of the Dormitory Supervisor, he reached another layer’s Art Building.’

’This indicates that during the layer collapse, the Teaching Building, the Dormitory Building, and the Art Building reveal a path that did not exist before.’

’This path is inaccessible to Art Students, but the Dorm Supervisor can use it to return to the Dormitory Building...’

That was one aspect, and another—

’According to the Art Student Rules, during the collapse of the layers, Art Students can traverse between the Teaching Building and the Art Building via the elevator. Evidently, these two structures are in an "overlapped state" at certain moments, much like the Dormitory Building’s corridor and a cliff...’

’Wait a second...’

In Lin Yi’s mind emerged an inverted, twisted geometric composition—a figure indescribable and bizarre, embodying a Michelangelo-like and Renaissance abstract stylistic composition, like a taut line of broken geometric images, rearranging and cutting at a visible speed, eventually forming a three-dimensional geometric construct that transcended cognition and subverted common sense...

On that construct, the Dormitory Building, Teaching Building, and Art Building seemed to take a dimensionality reduction hit and resembled "tin foil" sticking to the construct, then a line resembling an elevator pathway penetrated the construct...

’This...?’

He was stunned.

The structure of this thing subverted all architectural design principles from the Stone Age till now, both absurd and abstract, completely defying the conditions of spatial geometry.

It was utterly something that should not exist in this world, yet the various lines inside it were incredibly clear.

’Wait a second...,’ Lin Yi suddenly paused, realizing that the lines of the geometric body were moving, imperceptibly shifting from A to B. Seemingly unchanged, yet already completely different from a moment before.

And this change seemed to continue happening, yet he simply couldn’t recall any of its forms from before; he seemed to only possess a "read-only" right, and after seeing it, he would automatically forget...

’Even though it’s a scene my brain conjured up from nothing, why can’t I remember it?’

It seemed to be his way of self-protection, just as he couldn’t write down the information ’Tomato sauce is plasma’ until his cognition was completely overwritten...

But the good times were short, even though his brain "automatically deleted" the memory of this thing, as he visualized, his mind finally began to construct the appearance of this geometrical body like the light streaming through a chink in the heavens.

Yet it was only a moment before the geometric body began to shatter like blocks hit by a sledgehammer!

But its way of shattering was exceedingly peculiar, collapsing inwards from the edges towards the center...

It shattered into countless irregular but squarely-shaped blocks, being devoured by the void like pixels, and soon the location of the geometric body became a void...

At the same time, darkness spread from the void like a tide within Lin Yi’s mind, accompanied by the erosion of darkness, a humming chant resounded in his ears, as if a monk holding a cult scripture was chanting in Sanskrit some strange syllables, or as if some tribe was performing a ritual in the wild, emitting syllables...

Those indescribably bizarre sounds that could be described with various fantasies and visions bore a chillingly evil intent and a terrifying force of mental domination, as if seeping from the void, directly usurping Lin Yi’s mind...

In a trance, he heard some indescribable colossal entity in the depths of the mist, twisting its body, the cold, metallic-gleaming scales rubbing against each other, producing a ’sashasha’ sound...

The sea breeze howled and circled, and the waves lashed incessantly...

The sound surged from the depths of the mist, as if dancing in the waves, reaching his ears in waves:

「I AvgruNnen... av tåKe og... jaGer for...Tapte Sjeler... fanTome...」

「I... AvgruNnen av... tåKe og jaGer... forTapte Sjeler fanTome...」

"「I... Avg...ruNn...en av tåKe og Lin Yi’s throat moved slightly, and that dreamy voice emitted syllables extremely similar to anguished screams with great difficulty.

Boundless gray mist surged from the darkness, as if about to devour him then and there.

But at that moment, Lin Yi experienced an even stronger sensation—a feeling of "floating up" in the pool water!

It was the feeling of waking from a dream!

It was also a sense of self-preservation instinct, an ultimate safeguard that even Lin Yi himself was completely unaware of!

Just then, Lin Yi suddenly felt a weight on his shoulder.

「Snap!」

A hand rested on "his" shoulder, interrupting his dreamy, crumbling whisper...

The mist in his mind seemed to be dispersed by an invisible force, as a moonlight-soft beam of light cleaved through the mist, piercing before his eyes.

He shivered all over, instantly withdrawing from that illusion.

Immediately afterward, he realized that the Art Teacher had, at some unknown time, stood in front of "him" (Mao Feiyang), with his hand on Mao Feiyang’s shoulder, looking down at him.

The Art Teacher’s gaze was calm, his eyes flowing with a cold, moonlit golden glow...

"The change in perception isn’t an overnight affair, thinking is fine, just don’t overstep. When you feel darkness approaching, you should stop." The Art Teacher patted Mao Feiyang’s shoulder and passed the Student Souvenir Coin, "Take the Student Souvenir Coin and continue studying."

"Ah? Oh... okay." Mao Feiyang nodded blankly, subconsciously accepting the Commemorative coin.

Lin Yi felt bewildered; his subconscious felt like the Art Teacher was speaking to him, but he could also experience Mao Feiyang’s experiences and feelings—just when he had glimpsed that bizarre geometric body, Mao Feiyang had a similar phantom vision...

And it was for this reason that the Art Teacher had come over to pull Mao Feiyang out of that collapsing layer.

The sense of déjà vu was so strong, it was just like Wei Liang pulling him back yesterday...

「Liangzi...」 Lin Yi couldn’t help but squint his eyes, though Wei Liang looked fine at a glance, the recent series of events really made him wonder what Wei Liang had experienced during his last visit.

At least, it definitely wasn’t as simple as Wei Liang had described...

「Liangzi’s behavior, sometimes seems highly contaminated, but most of the time it seems as if there’s nothing wrong...」

「Really strange...」

He thought about Wei Liang’s earnest appearance while showing him the adult comics, suddenly perceiving a mysterious aura enveloping Wei Liang.

This aura seemed even more intense than that around Tian Bufan.

But these speculations were baseless.

He shook his head lightly and brought his thoughts back to the scene at hand.