AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 316 - 147: Cafeteria Convenience Store

Chapter 316: Chapter 147: Cafeteria Convenience Store

It had dangled down from the incandescent light, its neck tilted facing Lin Yi, surrounded by a sinister breath in the darkness which made its already grotesque face resemble an elastic rubber, slowly swelling up before morphing into a face somewhat similar to Li Huiyuan’s.

Lin Yi ignored its presence, taking Li Huiyuan along as they continued running around the area.

At that moment, the area around window number 5 of the Student Cafeteria was already enveloped in darkness, a chilly breath gradually spreading from within the dark.

Using the sparse light available, Lin Yi caught a glimpse from the corner of his eye—a chilly air quietly spreading on the floor tiles, no, it wasn’t just cold air, it was... mist!

A frosty white mist!

As the lights went out, the first floor of the Student Cafeteria began to fall into a different layer, with the frosty white mist beginning to seep into reality from that layer!

No! Who says the original cafeteria was reality?!

Perhaps the original cafeteria itself was within a layer; it was just that the incandescent lights forcibly carved out a sanctuary in this region!

But no matter what the original situation was, the first floor of the Student Cafeteria was now overlapping with a dark abyssal realm!

Lin Yi looked at the Convenience Store, far on the horizon yet close in sight, veins throbbing on his forehead. At that moment, he desperately wished he could pull out an old kerosene lamp; sadly, it was the Security Guard’s item, and he could only imagine it.

"Wait!"

"There’s a pattern to how these incandescent lights are going out!"

Lin Yi suddenly realized something, within this Student Cafeteria, although the incandescent lights flickered uncertainly, when they actually began to go out, they did so starting from the area by window number 5, and if one observed even more, those extinguished lights formed a curve like...

"Ripples?"

A current seemed to shoot through Lin Yi’s brain, making his scalp tingle!

He imagined a stone dropping onto a calm lake surface, and then a ripple spreading out, the fan-shaped push extinguishing incandescent lights one by one!

"Could this be some creature’s ’domain,’ where its presence sends out a force field ahead of it, clearing obstacles?"

The first thing Lin Yi thought of was the Security Guard!

That Security Guard, walking with an old kerosene lamp in a fog-shrouded campus, where the old kerosene lamp opened up a mysterious domain that expelled the surrounding mist!

Thus, if there’s a "Unit" similar to the Security Guard approaching the Cafeteria, and its "domain" is the exact opposite of the Security Guard’s, could that cause the incandescent lights to extinguish?

"Is... it that kind of Conceptual Rank sculpture?"

The thought merely flashed through Lin Yi’s mind, giving him a terrifying sense of dread and oppression as heavy as mountains.

He took a deep breath, glanced again at the currently flickering lights, his agile mind forming a brainstorm within, the flickering lights were directly replicated in his brain, but their flickering frequency was much slower than their real counterparts.

He stopped in his tracks, standing hunched over like a lone wolf in the bichromatic student cafeteria, the tense atmosphere almost slicing the flickering reality into segments like Panda Magic Mapo Tofu.

Li Huiyuan could not understand why Lin Yi had suddenly stopped moving, but she didn’t believe Lin Yi was resigning himself to fate, so she pursed her lips, waiting for him to explode into action again.

Lin Yi quietly observed everything in front of him, the image of the flickering incandescent lights in his mind becoming clearer and clearer, their frequency slower and slower, until... those lights completely stopped flickering.

"Found it..." he murmured, "Stay focused, Li Huiyuan, from now on, follow my pace, don’t miss a step."

His tone was firm and icy, a cold golden glow flowing in his eyes, his entire persona calm as though he did not belong to this world.

No sooner had he spoken than he took the first step—walking out alongside the pitch-black light columns.

Li Huiyuan hurried to follow him.

No sooner had they left their original spot than the incandescent light hanging over their heads went out...

Li Huiyuan’s heart trembled; before she could react, Lin Yi took another step.

As she followed Lin Yi away, the incandescent light behind them went out too.

After walking through the area of three lights, Lin Yi suddenly stopped again, and then Li Huiyuan heard Lin Yi muttering, "Three, two, one..."

Upon finishing, he took another step.

As they walked out, the incandescent light above them went out just in time.

Li Huiyuan’s eyes widened, incredulously looking at Lin Yi, completely unable to comprehend how he had managed it.

In Lin Yi’s perspective, this was nothing but an "ordinary" scene, even exactly the same as what Li Huiyuan was seeing.

However, in Lin Yi’s mind, the pattern of the short-term flickering and extinguishing of those lights had already been "extrapolated" by him!

Lin Yi didn’t know how he did it, but since opening up "My World" at the Corridor Bridge, "Daydream Daytime" had seemingly become one of his skills.

But this so-called "Daydream Daytime" was actually a kind of simulation; only Lin Yi could calculate it with his mental capabilities, even to the extent of replicating reality within it, then incorporating the patterns he discovered, enabling a kind of calculation that was almost terrifying and even he himself could not understand.