AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 304 - 141: Gazing into the Void

Chapter 304: Chapter 141: Gazing into the Void

Because she hadn’t been exposed to light for a long time, the green scar on her back began to darken, changing from the thickness of a strand of hair to that of a black marker, and then it thickened like a green streak of tears...

The green mist began to emanate from her wound, swirling around her like armor.

At this moment, she took on an air of "dragons spawn clouds and tigers bring forth the wind" in Lin Yi’s "extrapolation"...

But this was not a good thing.

As the green mist seeped through, the tear-like wound continued to widen, and this time, the green mist that wafted out of the crack began to solidify, turning from drifting mist into an emission of green powder particles...

This was an image that could give anybody goosebumps, one that could kill someone with trypophobia instantly; Lin Yi felt like he was almost taken away by this damn scene right where he stood.

After these green powder particles appeared, Li Huiyuan’s body began to undergo a horrifying transformation; her skin tone started to change to a visible grayish-white at a visible speed, and her entire being resembled an ancient, grayish-white human sculpture, her eyes beginning to lose their last bit of luminance...

Her steps up the stairs grew more awkward and stiff until they completely solidified, turning her into a pure white human sculpture maintaining a stair-climbing pose.

Below her were still those spiral Fibonacci sequence stairs, above her head were also Fibonacci sequence stairs, and she herself seemed like nothing more than a lonely, insignificant speck of dust lost within the endless stairs...

The image that had been extrapolated in his mind completely froze at this moment, and right after, it exploded into countless shattered fragments with a "boom—".

"?!"

Lin Yi abruptly came back to his senses and looked down at the time.

15:14.

"One minute!"

"Only one minute has gone by?!"

But the extrapolation in his mind felt as if he had followed Li Huiyuan through a long passage of time!

He glanced at Li Huiyuan next to him, only to find that she was also looking at him with a curious expression, "Why are you suddenly staring at me like that?"

"It’s nothing," Lin Yi shook his head, thinking that the images that had floated in his mind were too real, as if they were actions completed by a Li Huiyuan in a parallel universe, and he had personally witnessed them in this dimension.

"Is it because I predicted this scene, so my brain imagined such a scenario based on my existing ’knowledge’?"

Lin Yi did not know.

But after what had just happened, he was suddenly reminded of something—a detail he had ignored for a long time.

Or rather... a basic operation that he had almost forgotten.

"Stay here and don’t move; I’ll be right back," Lin Yi turned around and looked at Li Huiyuan seriously, uttering a complex sentence.

As he was about to release Li Huiyuan’s hand and walk into the stairwell, she held on to him.

"It’s okay, I’m sure now," Lin Yi reassured her.

"I... take me with you," Li Huiyuan instead tightened her grip on his hand, like a stray cat afraid of being left behind.

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, but you’d better focus on me the entire time, and if you start to feel your consciousness slipping, tell me right away."

"Okay," Li Huiyuan nodded emphatically.

So, Lin Yi took Li Huiyuan’s hand in one and slipped the other into his pocket, clutching the Student ID card tightly, while he silently reminded himself:

"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am walking up from the first floor to the second floor inside the Teaching Building B’s staircase..."

"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am walking up from the first floor to the second floor inside the Teaching Building B’s staircase..."

"I am Lin Yi..."

Sure enough, when he forced his will to remain firm, the entire staircase reverted to normal, and then, the two symmetrical stairs he had seen in the twisted layer, centered around the stairwell’s axis, now became only the one on the right-hand side.

"Just as I thought! I fucking knew it!" Lin Yi rejoiced inwardly.

Having played too many high-stakes games where he relied on willpower to adjust his cognition, he had almost forgotten this simple and unadorned basic maneuver.

Lin Yi stepped onto the stair and, with Li Huiyuan’s hand in his, slowly made his way up along the right-hand wall, rounding the corner and finishing the remaining half-floor in the sunlight to reach the second floor of the Teaching Building B.

Seeing the architectural style nearly identical to the first floor, with its pillars and cloister design outside the staircase, Lin Yi suddenly had an eerie feeling—would forgetting the number of floors here result in a horror story?

This thought had barely surfaced before he smashed it with a metaphorical punch and then took a deep breath, continuing to remind himself:

"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am walking up from the second floor to the third floor inside the Teaching Building B’s staircase..."

"I am Lin Yi..."

...

"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am walking up from the third floor to the fourth floor inside the Teaching Building B’s staircase..."

"I am Lin Yi..."

...

He repeated the process, using this method to reach the fourth floor of the Teaching Building B.

Of course, once he reached the fourth floor, the staircase also came to its end.

He squinted at the final step of the stairwell, narrowing his eyes at that last stair.

"Lin, Classmate Lin..." Li Huiyuan suddenly called out to him with a trembling voice.