AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 241 - 113 video 56 minutes and 34 seconds long_2

Chapter 241: Chapter 113 video 56 minutes and 34 seconds long_2

The camera focused on the non-human classmate as Pan Jian’s heavy breathing and angry cursing could be heard from off-screen, "I, I, I... I warn you! I’m recording now! Everything you’re doing will be uploaded to the internet!!"

"You... let go of me! Let go of... uh—"

The screen shook and swung as it followed Pan Jian flying out, and this time Pan Jian couldn’t hold the digital camera tightly. His grip loosened, and the camera clattered to the ground beside him.

Another non-human classmate appeared on the screen. They moved like zombies with their stiff bodies, as captured by the camera, but they were extremely fast when they acted. After just a few moves, Pan Jian was lying on the ground, motionless.

Gradually, a dark red liquid started to flow slowly from his body...

The non-human classmate drew close and took a deep breath, mumbling vague words like "Tomato" and "good." Then, it bent down, grabbed Pan Jian’s legs, and dragged his body slowly across the classroom.

As Pan Jian’s body was dragged, it bumped into the digital camera, causing the lens to shift to another angle that faced the classroom door perfectly.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes.

The screen paused intermittently, occasionally crackling with lines like electric currents, while the classroom occasionally echoed with sporadic screams...

Lin Yi pressed the fast-forward button, and soon the classroom door began to move.

A glimmer of awareness hit Lin Yi, and he quickly paused, glancing at the time displayed on the screen.

"22:53:04"

"The Conceptual Rank sculpture is coming!" Lin Yi thought to himself, eyes fixed on the screen, narrowed to slits.

Suddenly, the doorknob was pressed down, and the door slowly opened...

But just at that moment, the screen began crackling non-stop, and this time not with lines like electric currents. The entire screen turned into snow-like static.

"Is this... broken?"

Lin Yi fiddled with the digital camera, turned it over and over in his hands, and eventually pressed the fast-forward button out of helplessness.

He pressed it several times, reaching 32x speed without any significant changes.

Just as Lin Yi sighed with some disappointment, the screen suddenly came back to life.

He quickly pressed pause and rewound the footage a bit.

When the screen recovered from the static, the time displayed was "23:02:18." The screen remained almost unchanged until "23:04:08," when the classroom lights gradually came back on.

Once the lights were on, the scene was in disarray, with trails of tomato sauce on the floor. Under the incandescent light, the color of the sauce was deep and dark, almost indistinguishable against the dark floor tiles...

After that, there were nearly no changes in the footage, aside from a few classmates creeping out from under their desks, returning to their seats with panicked expressions.

Lin Yi set the speed to 32x, but the footage remained unchanged until the end of the video, which stopped at "23:44:05."

The entire video lasted 56 minutes and 34 seconds. Though it offered limited information, it at least filled in his impression of the classroom after the lights went out. This video also once again confirmed the reality of his dreams.

Regrettably, even the digital camera couldn’t capture the appearance of the "Conceptual Rank" sculpture. Even though it was known the Conceptual Rank sculpture had appeared, what the digital camera captured was just static.

"Static... white lines?" Lin Yi replayed the recording and observed the segments where the "zzt" sound coincided with the appearance of the lines.

He soon found a pattern: when the non-human classmates were caught moving slowly, like zombies, the footage was normal. But as soon as they showed their almost teleport-like bizarre mobility, the footage would display a line wavering like an electric current, accompanied by a "zzt" sound.

This unstable wave in the footage peaked when the Conceptual Rank sculpture pushed open the classroom door. The image in the digital camera that fluctuated like an electric current completely turned to static, just as if the signal on a television had vanished completely.

Lin Yi flipped through other contents in the gallery, but the only valuable item was a landscape photo taken on a blue bus on a mountain road.

The rest consisted of a few casually taken photos around the campus and several secretly filmed videos of a cosplayer dressed in pink. Beyond that, there was no valuable information.

While Lin Yi was browsing through the digital camera, the class teacher 040 had kept an eye on all his actions, from the moment he picked up the camera up to the present.

To be precise, she only started paying attention to Lin Yi’s behavior when he bent over to pick up the digital camera.

At that moment, her brow furrowed slightly, and then her gaze fell upon Lin Yi’s name in the folder. After staring at Lin Yi’s name for a few seconds, she fell into silence.

Then, propping her chin in her hand, she observed every move Lin Yi made, and throughout the process, she did not utter a word of warning to Lin Yi until he flipped through the album and set the digital camera aside.

During this time, a few more students pushed open the door and entered the classroom, and then she called them over to sign in for attendance.

...

After reviewing the photos and videos of the campus a few more times, Lin Yi set the digital camera beside him, furrowed his brows, and fell into deep thought.

The digital camera had failed to capture any clues about the Conceptual Rank sculpture, but... it seemed there were still some clues left.

In the 56-minute recording, there were indeed unexpected clues that caught his attention.

The biggest clue was a blurry frame in the footage—the fleeting shot had captured the shadow of someone lying outside the classroom window.

That window was not next to a corridor, but on the side facing the Green Forest Belt.

"Old Lin, what are you looking at?" Wei Liang stretched his neck and popped his head over, "You’ve been staring for a long time. Is there some secret resource in there?"

"Share it with a brother, will ya?"

Lin Yi passed the digital camera over: "Here, take a look if you want to, but are you sure this is something you should be viewing?"

Wei Liang curled his lip in disdain: "The way you pass it over so casually, it must be okay for me... Holy crap, get it away, get it away!!"

Wei Liang only glanced at the digital camera’s screen before covering his face: "I knew it wasn’t anything good! I’d rather stick to my treasure trove of comics!"

He pushed the digital camera back to Lin Yi, then picked up the H comic he had just finished reading and headed over to the bookshelf to return and borrow another.

Lin Yi looked at the screen of the digital camera and shook his head helplessly.

Wei Liang was putting on an act— the screen of the digital camera was actually black, showing nothing, but Wei Liang had correctly guessed that this was something he shouldn’t be looking at.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

8:50.

In fact, he had finished looking at 8:46, and the minutes that followed were purely spent flipping back and forth.

He stopped flipping through the album and looked again at the students in the lecture hall—the classroom had gained 4 more students, but the overall number was still small.

He glanced once more at the class monitor, 040—he could sense that class monitor 040 seemed to be observing him, but he didn’t mind.

He also dismissed the thought of continuing to observe the students in the lecture hall, as observing now was meaningless. To learn about casualties, one had to wait until almost everyone had gone through roll call.

"Eh? Roll call?"

He took another look at class monitor 040 and suddenly understood why the class monitor had been sitting on the podium all this time without returning to the office.

Class monitor 040 was compiling a headcount, wasn’t she?

The method of signing in made it quite simple to confirm the casualties over the night.

"The class monitor came early yesterday morning for roll call and left after completing it because the night before had been marked by abnormal weather. Except for the sports student who left forcefully before 9 PM in the mist, everyone else stayed in the classroom overnight. Thus she could easily know the situation of the Experience Students by doing roll call in the morning."

"But last night was different. Last night, they could return to their dormitories, so she needed to sit there and wait for everyone to come in order to confirm the casualty count."

That was the logic, and Lin Yi had thought of this yesterday morning, but judging by the way class monitor 040 clutched the roll call folder, signing in seemed to be about more than just that; the act itself appeared to harbor a deeper significance.

"That list... is definitely not just for tallying casualties," Lin Yi speculated, "But what could its purpose be?"