AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 294 - 136: The Mystery of Corridor Bridge

Chapter 294: Chapter 136: The Mystery of Corridor Bridge

Lin Yi looked at the Corridor Bridge, and after some observation, he found that the bridge seemed quite normal. It might be necessary to wait for something unexpected to happen in order to see its abnormal side.

Suddenly he realized why.

"Now the sun is in full swing, and it’s normal not to notice any problems... Maybe I’ll have to wait until the weather turns bad or go to those really dark corners to observe it?"

He shook his head slightly, planning to make the most of his time and move on to the next location.

But just as he was about to leave, gusts of wind swept through the woods, causing the leaves in the distant mountains and nearby fields to rustle loudly, much like the sound of a forest sea...

Something occurred to Lin Yi, and he quickly moved to the entrance of the Corridor Bridge to inspect the outer wall of the bridge.

"There really is a problem!" A gleam of sharpness flashed in Lin Yi’s eyes.

On the outer side of the Corridor Bridge, there was actually a layer of moss...

How could moss grow like this under the sunlight?

So the problem lies here.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch; it was 14:36. He then decisively walked towards the cloister, slowly heading for the Teaching Building C.

As he walked, he observed the environment around the Corridor Bridge.

There were incandescent lights on the Corridor Bridge ceiling, but they were not turned on during the day. He mainly began to observe the growth of the moss as he walked.

Three minutes later, he had crossed the Corridor Bridge and arrived at Teaching Building C.

Li Huiyuan silently followed him there, somewhat puzzled by his actions but didn’t say a word along the way.

Inside Teaching Building C, the students had already returned to the building and were currently in their afternoon self-study period. There were some shadows moving along the corridors, but not many. Seeing Lin Yi, they showed no particular expression.

Lin Yi stood at the Corridor Bridge exit of Teaching Building C, stroking his chin as he began to ponder.

"The moss on the Corridor Bridge is not distributed in a straight line but somewhat twisted... However, even considering the high and low path of the Corridor Bridge itself, the growth of the moss shouldn’t be so irregular, should it?"

As if he had caught some kind of inspiration, Lin Yi quickly followed this feeling and continued to reason further...

"I can’t think about the moss problem in the conventional way, I have to take into account the collapse of the graphic layers as well, along with the previous conjectures about the moss..."

The previous moss, of course, referred to the moss in the student passage of the Cafeteria, and the moss in front of the stairs of the Teaching Building, as well as the kind of moss that covered the mountain walls of the Cafeteria’s basement level...

"Let’s assume that the layer of graphics doesn’t collapse on this side of the Corridor Bridge. Then the moss’s growing environment may rely on the night mist and humidity from the mountains... But if so, it shouldn’t grow so unevenly. It should be covering the whole wall."

"So this assumption is not valid. What if the moss grows while the layer of graphics collapses?"

"If that’s the case..."

Lin Yi slowly narrowed his eyes, seemingly staring ahead, but had actually become somewhat lost in thought, immersed in some kind of contemplation...

The aligned trio of school buildings materialized in his mind, connected to one another by the Wolf Corridor Bridge, and then... Lin Yi imagined a mist emerging from the mountains and slowly spreading into the school building area...

As the mist arrived, the shape of the school building began to destabilize, manifesting a sense of distortion and stretching...

It was difficult to extrapolate this sensation in his mind, so he tried a different method, using the moss as a baseline in his mind and slowly straightening the twisted pattern into a horizontal line...

"Tch... This is tough..."

Trying to imaginatively distort the Teaching Building, which was a regularly structured building, through imagination was somewhat illogical. After attempting it, Lin Yi felt a bit of a headache.

"I need to break some fixed ways of thinking..."

Lin Yi scratched his head, then glanced at Li Huiyuan, "Li Huiyuan?"

"Ah? I’m here." Li Huiyuan suddenly stood up straight.

"I’m pondering a problem. Wait and watch over me. If anything seems off, shake me awake right away." Lin Yi ordered seriously, his face stern.

"Uh... Okay." Li Huiyuan nodded slightly, as if she had thought of something.

Lin Yi then took a deep breath and looked at his watch once more.

14:40.

So far, everything was normal...

He then violently shook his head, like a boxer warming up before a fight, and began to concentrate and hold his breath, imagining in his mind...

"I can’t imagine it’s the Teaching Building, it should be like... a Teaching Building made of playdough..."

"Squishy... Yes..."

Imagining the Teaching Building as a playdough-shaped building made it much simpler to knead at a moment’s notice.

Lin Yi felt a moment of elation, "Twisting solids in the mind, and imagining kneading playdough, truly have hell of a different difficulty!"

He then started to straighten the twisted pattern formed by the moss. As the line straightened, the originally square outline of the Teaching Building began to collapse, replaced by blocks of stone starting to reassemble like a Transformer...