AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 279 - 129 Deception_2

Chapter 279: Chapter 129 Deception_2

A method that might or might not work, but at least counted as "a method"—hypnosis, suggestion, or perhaps... deception!

He took out a small notebook, tore a page from it, and folded it to give it a certain firmness; then he stuffed the piece of paper into Li Huiyuan’s hand, while continuously whispering in her ear, "You are Li Huiyuan, your student ID number is X0230507046," "You are Li Huiyuan, your student ID number is X0230507046"...

Gradually, Li Huiyuan seemed to hear his voice, and began to murmur in her sleep like a chant, "I am Li Huiyuan, my student ID number is X0230507046... I am Li Huiyuan..."

As she murmured, her body temperature also began to rise, and soon she had recovered. Then thinking of something, she looked down at her palm and saw the folded slip of paper from the notebook.

"This... isn’t my student ID card?" She knew it was impossible, but she harbored a glimmer of hope, only to let out a sigh when hope was dashed.

"Of course not, this is an extreme measure... try to understand," Lin Yi explained, while he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and hummed in acknowledgement, recalling the previous feeling of being consumed by an abyss. She still felt very frightened, now at least felt like she had saved her own life, and immediately said softly, "Thank you."

"You’re welcome," Lin Yi shook his head, and unobtrusively glanced in the direction of the women’s restroom, muttering four words in his mind—"memory gap."

Li Huiyuan had been frightened at the sink outside the women’s restroom, but she ended up in a corner deep inside the restroom. She had no idea what had happened in between.

Furthermore, she didn’t mention screaming in fright, so could that scream not have been hers?

Lin Yi couldn’t help but narrow his eyes...

"Li Huiyuan said she saw a fake version of herself, and I saw the fake Liangzi!"

"I was thinking about Liangzi, so that plaster-like humanoid creature took Liangzi’s shape; she must have been thinking about herself, so the creature took her shape!"

"The fake Wei Liang’s lips were also moving..."

"So... those plaster-like humanoid creatures anchor their forms through another person’s thoughts, then attempt to disguise themselves as the unit they have anchored through ’self-hypnosis’."

"Is it like an Immortal Fox gathering a seal, where once it and the other person both anchor that it’s the person being impersonated, it can then take over the identity of the person it pretends to be?"

"Is this the mechanism?"

"So when it ran toward me, as long as I acknowledged it was Li Huiyuan, it would have the opportunity to continue anchoring its form, but since I saw through its deception, it couldn’t anchor itself in my presence, and coupled with the ’Phobia of Light,’ it was done for?"

"Hiss..."

Lin Yi took a deep breath, feeling his speculation was very close to the truth. With no further leads, he couldn’t advance his reasoning any further.

He patted Li Huiyuan on the shoulder and asked, "Are you going back to the classroom?"

Li Huiyuan, who was still settling her emotions, gradually regained her composure. Startled by the question, she then realized something and countered, "Classmate Lin, aren’t you going back to the classroom?"

Wei Liang also looked at Lin Yi with some surprise. They had agreed to just use the restroom—was there another plan?

Lin Yi shook his head slightly, "Not for now. It’s still early, and I’m thinking of having a look around the Teaching Building."

He checked his watch. The time was 13:18. The afternoon was still a self-study period, and the Cafeteria dinner service started at 16:00. So from now until approximately 15:30, he had over two hours, conservatively estimated, which he could use to explore the Teaching Building.

Wei Liang couldn’t help frowning and said, "Are you ’just having a look around’? You’re seeking your own death, Old Lin! Why not head back to the classroom instead?"

After Wei Liang said this, he looked at Li Huiyuan, "Hey, you, quickly persuade him, will you?"

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and said nothing. Then, as if making up her mind, she said, "Take me with you when you look around."

"If I’m contaminated, then without my student ID card, staying in the classroom might not be safe... "

"Take me with you. Being with you feels... I feel like it might be a bit safer."

"Aren’t you in need of cannon fodder? Well, I’m your cannon fodder now... I’m in bad shape, very dangerous, I feel like something has its sights on me, so use me as you please, I’ll accept whatever happens."

She looked at Lin Yi calmly, like an enlightened Bodhisattva.

"Your enlightenment makes me feel a bit scared," Lin Yi couldn’t help saying.

Li Huiyuan’s eyelids drooped slightly, not answering his remark.

"Fine, fine, fine, you guys play like this, huh? So should I leave?" Wei Liang said speechlessly.

"Yeah, you go back to the classroom first, wait for me to come back, and then we’ll go to the cafeteria together," Lin Yi said.

Wei Liang rolled his eyes: "What if you don’t come back?"

"Damn, are you cursing me?" Lin Yi bared his teeth.

Wei Liang shrugged: "Hey, it’s not me, but I feel like you’re covered in flags right now! Do you still remember you’re here to supplement your grandma’s medical expenses?"

Lin Yi fell silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Remembering is good, so I’ll head back to the classroom and wait for you guys," said Wei Liang, waving his hand and heading towards class 2B of Group B around the corner.

Lin Yi wasn’t really worried about Wei Liang’s safety; after all, Wei Liang was someone who had managed to survive here for seven days, equipped with crafty tricks and moves Lin Yi didn’t even know about. Nothing would happen to him in broad daylight.

In fact, up to now, Wei Liang had only shown some oddities within the dormitory building area; otherwise, he really seemed like a great master disguised as a weakling, with a sort of profound foolishness—no, profound ignorance.

"Previously, Young Master Tian said that one of us had profound foolishness and the other had superficial wisdom. If Liangzi is the one with profound foolishness, does that make me the one with superficial wisdom? Damn... am I ’superficially wise’?"

"Emmm... probably just on the first day, right? I’m definitely not now."

"Li Huiyuan," Lin Yi suddenly spoke.

"Huh?" Li Huiyuan said.

"Do you think I’m ’superficially wise’?" Lin Yi asked.

"?"

Li Huiyuan was stunned and said with a weird expression: "You don’t seem stupid... I think you’re very smart..."

[Feels very smart.]

"Damn it, simplifying it down, isn’t that just ’superficially wise’?" Lin Yi’s mouth twitched, deciding to abandon the question.

"Let’s go check out the elevator first."

After parting with Wei Liang, that was his first decision.

Exploring the Teaching Building was a very vague concept, how to explore, what the path was, were all questions worth delving into, but Lin Yi didn’t have a specific plan.

After all, exploring the Teaching Building meant just walking through the areas within the building that were permitted for entry, and about where exactly in the Teaching Building one could go, you could actually tell from the rules of the building.

[The Teaching Building has only four floors, no basement, no elevator, much less a Building D. If you accidentally discover an area outside of the four floors of the Teaching Building, do not go there.]

[If anyone invites you to the aforementioned areas, please refuse. If you can’t refuse, seek help from the nearest sports student, PE teacher, or security guard when necessary.]

[Be wary of anyone who engages in the above actions, they are no longer the person you knew.]

[In the Teaching Building, nobody should appear apart from students, teachers, and patrolling security guards. If you encounter people who don’t fit these categories, please return to your classroom immediately, ignoring anything on your way, even if a teacher is calling you.]

The above is content related to daytime from the Teaching Building regulations and is applicable to the "Novice Village" meant for regular Experience Students.