AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 222 - 104: Leaving the Dormitory

Chapter 222: Chapter 104: Leaving the Dormitory

"Let’s leave the dorm first, we can talk while walking," Tian Bufan glanced at the time and spoke.

The elevator in the dormitory building was operational from 6:00 to 7:40 AM, and it was now 6:45 AM; it was prudent to leave the dorm now.

However, just as Lin Yi was about to pull open the dorm door, the moment his hand touched the doorknob, he suddenly flinched as if he had been shocked.

Before Lin Yi could speak, a deep voice suddenly emerged from behind him:

"What else is there?!"

"Old Lin, get behind me!"

As soon as the words were spoken, Wei Shan’s huge figure burst with a gust of wind to Lin Yi’s side, then he grabbed the doorknob and fiercely pulled it inward.

「Click... Bang!!!」

The door opened, and white gypsum powder flew all over the place.

It was as if someone had covered the door in flour; the moment the door moved, the powder flew everywhere under the orange-yellow light of the incandescent bulb.

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Wei Shan covered his mouth and nose, vigorously waving his hands to disperse the gypsum dust.

"Damn it... Yin Bi, this is all your doing!" Wei Shan turned and glared at Kuai Hongji, as if he wanted to grab him by the neck and pull him over.

Kuai Hongji sneered: "What does it have to do with me?"

"Heh," Wei Shan chuckled darkly.

"Alright, alright, let’s not start trouble so early in the morning," Lin Yi frowned slightly, patted Kuai Hongji on the shoulder, pushed Wei Shan aside, and then walked to the door.

For some reason, whenever Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji started arguing, he felt particularly irritable and often found himself subconsciously separating them.

When he had reached for the doorknob earlier, he had sensed that unpleasant aura, as if he had touched a corpse.

Unexpectedly, behind the door was a mass of gypsum powder, and even the doorknob was completely covered with a gypsum-like substance.

"Wait!" Lin Yi suddenly realized something, "Could these things be..."

"Wait, wait, just wait!" Wei Liang interrupted in a panic, stuffing some napkins into his ears and said, "Old Lin, damn it, wait a moment!"

He then covered his ears with both hands.

"Alright, continue, just keep talking."

"..." Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang oddly, thinking to himself you damn well know what I was about to say.

Kuai Hongji dismissively glanced at Wei Liang, Wei Shan scoffed, while only Tian Bufan remained expressionless.

Lin Yi looked at Tian Bufan and voiced his assessment: "This is blood, isn’t it?"

Tian Bufan nodded: "The blood turned into tomato sauce under the light, and at the moment of opening the door, it completely turned into gypsum powder."

Lin Yi’s expression changed slightly: "So, did someone get attacked here last night? Could it have been those who didn’t make it back to the dorm by 10 PM and couldn’t find the dormitory supervisor in time?"

Tian Bufan said, "There is no evidence to support that theory, your guess is just a theory, and perhaps there could be another explanation?"

Lin Yi glanced at Kuai Hongji, thought about what Wei Shan had said earlier, and although his expression didn’t change, he couldn’t help but harbor some doubts...

"Kuai Kuai, do you know something?"

Kuai Hongji scanned Wei Shan coldly, shrugged and was about to deny, but seeing Lin Yi’s interrogative gaze, he finally spoke:

"Last night, Fatty and I were woken up by someone shouting for help outside the door, banging loudly, but we ignored him."

"Maybe he was the one who was attacked, or maybe it was something else... who knows? Remember the rules written down? No matter who it is, you can’t open the door."

Watching Kuai Hongji’s evasive response, Lin Yi knew that this response was most likely made up by Kuai Hongji on the spot. If something really had happened, then it definitely wasn’t as simple as that, but since Kuai Hongji had given such a reply, he felt it wasn’t appropriate to press further.

Even Wei Shan had closed his mouth now.

At 6:47 AM, the door of suite 1414 in the dormitory was pushed open, and a group of people walked majestically out of the dorm and into the hallway of the dormitory building.

Lin Yi looked at the door of the dorm after the white gypsum-like powder had dissipated and discovered that there were no more traces related to gypsum, tomatoes, or blood, which made him sigh internally.

After 6:00 AM, the lights in the hallway of the dormitory building were again illuminated, and the group quickly reached the elevator hall between dorms 1401 and 1439 along the curved corridor.

Lin Yi observed the walls of the dormitory building hallway and noticed some traces of white gypsum-like powder on some walls, but without a closer look, it was almost impossible to spot anything.

As they passed by certain dorms, some residents came out, but upon seeing Lin Yi and his group, they consciously stayed a bit behind, keeping to their own dorms as groups.

Lin Yi pressed the button in the elevator hall and after a brief wait, accompanied by a roar resembling a train from inside, an elevator quickly stabilized internally.

「Clang... clang!」

The elevator doors opened, and the group walked inside.

Lin Yi’s gaze swept over the elevator buttons, lingered momentarily on the "↑" under the sealed transparent cover, then quietly moved away and finally pressed "1."

Then, just as the elevator doors began to close, as the doors started to come together, the compressed gap between them seemed to warp the space, even distorting the light and shadows in the hallway.

At this moment, Lin Yi experienced a bizarre phantom vision.

He saw, as if like dust, countless white powder particles floating freely in the hallway, which didn’t seem like the substance left after the gypsum material had crumbled, but rather... a contaminant that existed only within his "perception," capable of being absorbed!