AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 301 - 139 Building D Corridor Bridge?_2

Chapter 301: Chapter 139 Building D Corridor Bridge?_2

Lin Yi never thought that the contamination he suffered was lesser than Li Huiyuan’s. As someone who could fall through the layers of reality at any moment, he always felt like he was treading on thin ice.

It was just that in the past, he did not realize that he was standing on ice, whereas now he could detect the existence of cracks in the ice.

Despite this, the ice beneath his feet persisted.

After awakening on May 7th, he had realized that reality for him was riddled with holes, yet he still needed to search this world’s framework of collapsing layers of reality for a path and logic between normal and abnormal layers...

Otherwise, once Mao Feiyang completely succumbed, they would continuously receive the ultimate contamination from Mao Feiyang, and by then, no one would be able to escape.

Moreover, Lin Yi still had a question—if the contamination could be transmitted among a few of them, would the contamination he suffered also be transmitted to Tian Bufan and the others?

Would it be possible that not only Mao Feiyang was contaminating them, but after they received Mao Feiyang’s contamination and re-contaminated themselves, they might also become a new source of contamination, spreading it to others?

Originally, it was only Mao Feiyang who absorbed the contamination of five people, then distributed it evenly among them. But in reality, was it that each of them absorbed the contamination of five people, then redistributed it to the others?

That is to say, the contamination each of them suffered was actually equal to the sum of all individuals?

"Damn it... What kind of Nanfu Energy Gathering Ring logic is this?"

Of course, this was still just speculation, and Lin Yi had yet to find any evidence to prove this hypothesis.

He glanced down at his watch.

15:06.

The time he had left to use freely today was running short, but it was exceptionally fulfilling.

The two of them returned to Teaching Building B Block without incident and then headed straight for the stairwell.

The stairwell of the Teaching Building was on the way back from the Corridor Bridge to the restroom; it was just a few steps away.

But as Lin Yi returned to Teaching Building B Block, looking at the Corridor Bridge leading to Teaching Building A Block, and feeling the bridge behind him that led to Teaching Building C Block, his spine suddenly turned cold, a chill rushed up from his spine to his forehead, making his apical bone cool, and he couldn’t help shivering.

He suddenly realized he had overlooked something in the exposed visual quality of his vision!

It was the Corridor Bridge!

Teaching Building C Block had only one Corridor Bridge returning to Teaching Building B Block.

But!

While standing under the steps of Teaching Building C Block, from the image of a black-and-white exposed photo, he saw another Corridor Bridge extending out from Teaching Building C Block in a completely opposite direction to that leading to Teaching Building B Block—

"I saw it before... That Corridor Bridge leading to Teaching Building D Block?!"

"Fuck!!"

That bridge was indeed there, but under normal weather, it was invisible, only revealing itself from the layers when abnormal weather occurred!

"So... could the Nocturnal species possibly have come to Teaching Building C Block from Teaching Building D Block?"

This was yet another fresh speculation, but... Lin Yi felt he was somewhat touching upon the truth!

Because he had previously seen the silhouette of Teaching Building D Block in the School Building Area...

It was a building of extreme wildness and abstract style, standing at the boundary where moonlight met the grey mist, visually imparting a strong, dream-like sense of unreality.

Under that moonlight, he could faintly make out the outline of Teaching Building D Block, shadowed by a structure resembling a bell tower.

At that time, he had not yet returned to his dormitory, so he only felt a hint of difference due to the distinct architectural style. However, since he had once visited the Art Building in a dream, and had clearly recognized that the exterior of the Art Building was that of a castle, it was difficult not to associate Teaching Building D Block with the Art Building.

Ultimately, it was because—

"Teaching Building D Block looks too much like a castle! Could it be that Teaching Building D Block is actually the Art Building?!"

Until now, the only building in the campus related to a castle that Lin Yi knew of was precisely—the Art Building!

"But isn’t the Art Building by the sea?"

Moreover, according to the notice board in front of the Gymnasium, it read:

[If you look up and see a building other than this, especially a castle in Western architectural style, please look around until you find the Gymnasium or the Teaching Building.]

[Please firmly believe: there is no castle within the campus.]

Thinking of this, Lin Yi’s train of thought suddenly and consciously came to a halt, and then, he looked around.

"The layers are all normal."

He glanced at his watch again.

15:08.

"Time is also all normal."

He then stopped Li Huiyuan and asked her not to go up the stairs yet, letting him briefly sort out his thoughts before continuing.

Watching Lin Yi deep in thought, Li Huiyuan had no objections. She was now a bullet; wherever Lin Yi wanted her to shoot, she would shoot, and if he didn’t, she wouldn’t.

"No, no, no!" Lin Yi’s eyes suddenly lit up. He figured out the problem with that phrase on the Teaching Building’s notice board.

[If you look up and see a building other than this, especially a castle in Western architectural style, please look around until you find the Gymnasium or the Teaching Building.]

And on the notice board, the premise of this sentence was [If it starts raining on your way to the Gymnasium, decide your direction based on the first building you see...]

"’Decide your direction based on the first building you see’!"

"What it originally meant was, if you see the Gymnasium, head towards the Gymnasium, if you see the Teaching Building, go back to the Teaching Building, and if the castle is Teaching Building D Block, then... when you look towards the Teaching Building, might you also see D Block?"

"Wait, wait, wait... no, no..."

"In the direction from the Teaching Building towards the Gymnasium, the arrangement of buildings is D Block, C Block, B Block... which means, from that perspective, if you were really going to see something, it should be Teaching Building A Block, how could you see D Block?"

"Unless... the layer is distorted, twisting D Block around?"

Lin Yi squinted his eyes and took a slow, deep breath.

"Assuming Teaching Building D Block really is the Art Building, then there should be a sea nearby, and there should also be a mountain around it, wait... mountain?!"

He gazed out the Teaching Building, only to see the thin mist lingering on the edge of the Green Forest Belt. Looking deeper into the Green Forest Belt, the undulating mountains mingled with the dense fog, creating a masterful ink painting-like scene...

The mountain question was settled. Then the sea...?

Lin Yi recalled the image he saw in "My World", under the Corridor Bridge the fog billowed, and beneath the fog, it seemed like there were waves slowly undulating!

"Beneath the fog, could it really be an ocean?!"

"Damn..."

He remembered the scene from his dream, when he left the Art Office heading to the castle, he crossed a stone bridge lined with candelabras, under which was the shoreline.

If, after the layer collapse, the Corridor Bridge and the Stone Bridge underwent some sort of spatial overlap, then when an Art Student took the elevator to a sufficiently high floor in the Teaching Building, would it be like arriving at a lighthouse, and then could reach the Art Building, that is... Teaching Building D Block?

Lin Yi was stunned by his own deduction; if this assumption stood, then he was truly a genius!

But regretfully, his intuition told him that things were probably not so.

Because whenever he touched on the truth, the layer would collapse, but now everything was normal.

Even the sun warmed him delightfully.

Could it be that the campus environment, besides unconsciously triggering his thought process, also inversely affected him, making him doubt himself even if his deduction was correct but didn’t trigger a layer collapse?