AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 213 - 99: The Bell Sound of the Bell Tower_2

Chapter 213: Chapter 99: The Bell Sound of the Bell Tower_2

That sound...

That sound appeared again!

That kind of scream that might have swept through countless worlds before emerging, that kind of joyous cry as if someone on the gallows suddenly received salvation, those bewildered whispers filled with utter confusion, not knowing yesterday from tomorrow...

Countless voices merged together, spewing from the colorful mouth of the alien sculpture chilling prayers that sent shivers down the spine and tingled the scalp:

""I AvgruNnen av tåKe og jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome""!!!

""I AvgruNnen av tåKe og jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome""!!!

"Ah... Ah—— Ah——"

Lin Yi felt something drilling into his apical bone like a drill bit, causing him unbearable pain as if he did not know the current year; he also felt his ears buzzing, as if a dentist had clamped his teeth and was desperately pulling them out...

Mao Feiyang also felt extremely uncomfortable, leaning on his seat, with green powder particles incessantly burrowing into his body, his body convulsing, foaming at the mouth, his eyes rolling back as if he was about to die.

Just as he was about to lose consciousness...

"Dang——"

A deep and vigorous bell sound, like thunder from the nine heavens, echoed in the Art Building.

"Dang——"

The bell rang again, this time, all the prayers were utterly shattered.

"Dang——"

The dark clouds dispersed, and the scant moonlight penetrated the dim sky, shining through the dome of the Art Classroom onto the sculpture on the Central Stage.

The eerie Art Teacher suddenly thought of something, abruptly looking towards a certain location, only to see under the turbulent dull sky, a figure towering like a tower, holding an Ancient Lamp, dressed in a trench coat, standing atop a Bell Tower, methodically striking the ancient bell above.

"The Night Watchman...?!" Her face, bizarre and rigid with a smile, suddenly froze, then as if overwhelmed with emotion, she showed a look of horror.

She watched the Night Watchman, as if she had seen a ghost.

Especially upon hearing such a bell sound, she shook uncontrollably, her body uncontrollably shedding powder particles...

"’The bell of Doomsday’!"

"Not good... I had forgotten it was this day!"

"No wonder they are all here!"

"Let’s go!"

The Art Teacher snorted coldly, leading those eerie Art Students reluctantly out of the Art Classroom.

Before the door of the classroom was closed, she coldly glanced back, her tone icy and indifferent:

"The sun has already set, how much longer can the afterglow illuminate them? The Grey Mist is upon us, you are all meant to perish."

"Clang!"

The door of the Art Classroom slammed shut, and the sea breeze and fog were blocked in the corridor, sweeping past the corridor and the candlesticks, roaring like fierce beasts.

The Art Students stared at the door that had already closed for a long time before finally looking towards the group of girls in sailor uniforms.

Lin Yi also emerged from that eerie and shattered kaleidoscopic world, gasping for air as he reassessed the people in the Art Classroom.

What puzzled him was that although the Art Students expressed strong hostility towards those eerie Art Teacher and her group, they showed little hostility towards the "accomplices" who actively "invited" the eerie Art Teacher into the Art Classroom.

Not only did that initial Art Student show none, but none of the Art Students showed any hostility... it seemed that this situation was all too familiar.

In the depths of their eyes, Lin Yi sensed a subtle emotion.

When they looked at the group of girls in sailor uniforms, that emotion in their gaze was magnified many times over, to the extent that he could perceive it.

It was a mix of pity, sympathy, and regret. The moment Lin Yi saw it, he couldn’t help but think eight words: "Sad for their misfortune, angry at their lack of struggle."

"You guys stay in the classroom and don’t move, wait for the teacher to come and then we’ll talk," the art student instructed them indifferently, then walked over to the young man, reached out his hand, and pulled him up from the ground, "you too, find a spot to sit for now."

After speaking, the art student sat back down in his seat and stared at the mural, immersing himself back into the influence of art.

Lin Yi followed their gaze toward the mural, trying to experience the influence of art for himself.

Mao Feiyang was also looking at the mural and the relief.

But after a long time, Lin Yi had not felt what was so-called "the influence of art" until he closed his eyes, dubious...

As soon as he closed his eyes, his heart trembled instantly!

He saw moonlight filtering through the colored glass windows in the dome falling onto the mural and the relief, immediately causing countless white powder particles to float out of the mural and relief like dandelions, freed under the entire ceiling of the art classroom.

They gathered and dispersed, rose and sunk, like a brilliant, colorful river of stars, shuttling between the art classroom’s chandeliers and candlesticks.

The galaxy dropped starlight, trickling into the bodies of the art students like thin streams, causing their bodies to start showing a stone-like grayish hue, and even the temperature around them seemed to drop slightly.

Lin Yi’s pupils constricted slightly—this change, he had seen it before!

"Liangzi’s body... had undergone this change before!"

Indeed, whether it was when Wei Liang was lost in front of the dormitory building or while searching for room 1414 inside the dormitory hallway, Wei Liang’s body had undergone changes similar to those of the art students.

Having felt such changes before was why Lin Yi was shocked by the art students’ current transformation.

"Liangzi said he didn’t go to the cafeteria to eat the last two days, instead he stayed in his dorm room..."

"But the cafeteria food has some purification effect... Wait! Purification effect?!"

"The purification effect of the cafeteria food, could it mean ’purifying the white or that type of green powder particles’?"

"Liangzi didn’t eat for the last two days, so he never received the purification effect... so he was actually affected by some contamination, but because he used his crafty tricks to ’brain-supplement’ the abnormalities of the campus, he managed to survive in a ’pseudo-safe state’?"

"Also... There are clear rules about staying in the dormitory building in the Student Code and Dormitory Regulations..."

"So, if Liangzi really stayed in the dormitory building the last two days, that means... he already violated the rules?!"

"He violated the rules but managed to leave the campus safely?!"

"How did he do that?"

"Wait... not exactly a violation! The Dormitory Management Office! There’s also the Dormitory Management Office!"

"Liangzi might have followed that rule!"

The Student Code Article 6: [Please leave the dormitory before 7:40 AM and return before 10:00 PM.

If you do not leave the dormitory by 7:40 AM, please go to the Dormitory Supervisor’s office by any means necessary and stay there until after 12:00 PM; if you do not return to the dormitory by 10:00 PM, please return to your classroom by any means necessary, the classroom lights will not be turned off, please wait in the classroom until after 7:40 AM the next day.]

"So he didn’t leave the dormitory during the specified times and followed the regulations to reach the ’Dormitory Management Office’..."

But everything related to the Dormitory Management Office and the Dormitory Supervisor remains unknown; the only sure thing is: the Dormitory Supervisor can use the dormitory building’s elevator to cross layers and reach the Art Building!

"Could Liangzi have come to the Art Building and then left the campus through some means?"

"But he didn’t say anything...?"

"No, Liangzi actually said everything, he said he survived the last two days in his dorm, but he was dizzy and couldn’t remember the details..."

"If this is the influence of layer dropping, or if he had some kind of phantom vision, or else if he encountered some other unknown reason... and then he did something unexpected with his ridiculous ’brain-supplement’ and crafty tricks..."