AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 281 - 130 Inside the Elevator_2

Chapter 281: Chapter 130 Inside the Elevator_2

Half a minute passed, a minute passed, Li Huiyuan showed no abnormal reactions.

"All right," Lin Yi patted Li Huiyuan’s shoulder, "Did you notice anything? Green mist or seeing some strange things, or any hallucinations? Anything you feel is off, just tell me."

However, Li Huiyuan shook her head: "I didn’t notice anything."

"Oh... okay," Lin Yi dragged out his response, then said, "Now, you stand behind me, and I’ll observe."

"What should I do?" Li Huiyuan asked.

Lin Yi said, "You watch me, and if you feel I start to show any abnormalities, or your intuition gives you an ominous premonition, wake me up immediately."

"Wake up?"

"Yes, when that situation arises, you’ll know what to do," Lin Yi said without saying more, focusing his attention on the space in front of them and observing the area around the elevator.

His current position was about five meters directly in front of the elevator. Past this point, there was a completely dim corridor, and at the end of this corridor was a somewhat claustrophobic corner where the elevator was located.

He looked up at the ceiling where he was standing, which happened to be under the last light of the hallway.

That meant, the space ahead was purely lit by natural light reflected off the walls, and once night fell, even if the Teaching Building’s incandescent lights were all on after 18:00, they could not illuminate that area around the elevator.

It was as if there was a conceptual area of gloom, a corner that seemed even light could not reach.

Under abnormal weather conditions, Lin Yi would not give it a second glance and would turn around and leave, but now, he dared to take this step because it was the right time.

He quietly observed the elevator, but, like Li Huiyuan, saw nothing out of the ordinary.

He waited patiently for almost two minutes, but the captured image quality of his vision revealed nothing.

Li Huiyuan did not speak, quietly waiting for Lin Yi’s results.

In the end, Lin Yi shook his head, helplessly shaking his head: "We need to get closer for observation."

Actually, according to Tian Bufan’s suggestion, it would be best to directly press the "↑" on the elevator, wait for the doors to open, and then take a look inside.

Generally speaking, if one could see the inside of the elevator, especially the row of floor buttons, they could definitely gain a lot of information.

Lin Yi thought of Mao Feiyang’s predicament and after a series of mental brainstorming, he finally decided to press the "↑" button to see what would happen.

If he was going to press that button sooner or later, it made sense to do it while it was still light out.

Li Huiyuan noticed the change in Lin Yi’s gaze and hesitated for a moment before asking softly, "Do you need me to press it?"

"I’ll do it," Lin Yi shook his head; Li Huiyuan was not in a safe state; pressing that button could lead to unpredictable events, but he could handle it.

He took a deep breath and then slowly walked toward the elevator door.

This step felt exceptionally heavy; from the moment he set it forth, it meant he was joining Tian Bufan on the same front—a path of exploring the campus and braving all its eerie problems to rescue Mao Feiyang.

The five-meter distance, already a few steps away, and as Lin Yi stepped into that dark corner, even with sufficient mental preparation, despite his expanded cognition, and even though his will was firm, he still felt as though he was being swallowed by a giant abyssal maw...

The pitch-black shadows, like thick black glue, enveloped him from all directions, and the icy breath, as if mingling with the cold wind full of ice, rushed towards his face.

He unconsciously glanced at his watch.

13:30.

At this time, the Cafeteria had already closed its doors.

He glanced at his clothes again.

There was no frost.

So that sensation of coldness was merely a feeling he got from his surroundings, his layers hadn’t changed at all.

"I am in the Teaching Building," he steadied his will and then approached the elevator, extending his hand to press the "↑" button.

A faint feedback followed the texture of the "↑" arrow into Lin Yi’s hand, cold to the touch, very normal, not the slightest bit unusual.

"Ding!"

A crisp bell sound immediately rang out from inside the elevator.

Lin Yi was slightly startled.

Huh? The elevator was already waiting on this floor?

While he was caught off guard, a sequence of mechanical components began to operate inside the elevator, accompanied by a clanging sound, the elevator doors slid open to either side.

With the opening of the elevator doors, Lin Yi saw a horrifying sight that sent chills down his spine and would remain unforgettable for the rest of his life—within the extremely limited space inside the elevator, it was packed full with non-human classmates.

The reason it was so chilling was that this "packed" wasn’t the typical crowdedness one would associate with a bus, but rather a different kind of crowdedness that was shocking and nauseating at first glance, filled with an intense "tension."

These non-human classmates were like boneless chunks of flesh stuffed by an invisible force into the elevator, the entire cabin was filled with such "classmates," replete with bending, twisting, deformed, pulsating flesh filling his vision...

On the "cross-sectional" view right after the elevator doors opened, Lin Yi saw no fewer than twenty contorted hands, and distinguishing heads was even more difficult, only possible by identifying the bulging eyes protruding from the flesh to determine whether that part might actually be a head.

It was hard to imagine what kind of "storage genius" could fold such a vast number of non-human classmates together and stuff them into such a cramped and narrow elevator box.

And at this moment, the spot where Lin Yi stood was precisely about thirty centimeters from that "cross-section" after the elevator doors had opened...

He was like a person groping in the darkness, slowly moving forward, who suddenly opens the doors of a strange palace lurking in the Gloomy Abyss, and at the moment the palace’s doors opened, he was a common man facing the palace’s contents filled with ancient Heretic Sect art and abstract madness style "artwork."

This style, so different from the ordinary art of the world, rushed into his brain like a powerful hurricane, making him feel as though he was glimpsing an abstract, writhing mural...

Those abstract lines were familiar to him, resembling... the murals in the Art Building?!

Lin Yi was so shocked by the bizarre and mysterious scene before him that he couldn’t speak, his eyes gradually widening with terror.

Just then, within the squirming flesh, a few bloodshot eyeballs suddenly flipped open, glaringly wide, rolling around upon opening, as if searching for something.

Gradually, some of the eyeballs turned towards Lin Yi...

Just this alone made Lin Yi feel a horrifying sense of being noticed by countless individuals, his hair standing on end, his body involuntarily backing away...

Eerie, strange, mad, indifferent—countless emotions seemed to be ready to pour out from the darkness, as if to engulf him right then and there.

But he wasn’t engulfed; he simply retraced his steps to leave that dark corner, returning to the corridor bathed in sunlight.

Immediately after, Lin Yi noticed that those eyeballs didn’t continue to gaze at him, they were merely sweeping around, seemingly observing the time of day.

Suddenly, there was a sound in Lin Yi’s ears, like the trembling of a rattlesnake’s tail—

"Shasha... Shasha... Shasha..."