AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 323 - 150: Mist Rushes In_2

Chapter 323: Chapter 150: Mist Rushes In_2

Lin Yi’s surroundings shook with a "clatter clatter clatter...", and a strong sense of crisis instantly filled his mind, accompanied by a swirl of dust.

"Snap..."

His ears twitched slightly, as if capturing a subtle fluctuation amidst the noisy clatter of shelves and the incandescent lights.

"Huff—huff..."

Then came a heavy breathing sound...

Lin Yi’s pupils suddenly contracted; this time, the sound was similar yet different from those in the darkness, instead coming from within the "normal" area of the Convenience Store, illuminated by lights.

Following that, he turned his head slightly and saw rows of shelves, but the intense sense of alertness constructed a mental image of a monster escaping its cage, as if by "induction"!

Meanwhile, a barely discernible golden brilliance flickered deep in his eyes. In that moment when the brilliance passed, his vision expanded rapidly like an 8x or 16x scope, piercing through rows and rows of shelves, finally resting upon a door behind them.

The door of the Convenience Store.

The source of that strange noise.

At this moment, within Lin Yi’s vision, a pallid mist merged with the darkness, having completely wiped out the area by the Convenience Store’s entrance that was once filled with an orange-yellow haze.

Ghostly shadows lingered in the mist. Despite the considerable distance, Lin Yi could clearly feel that a humanoid spider-shaped green Pocket Chef was lurking behind that door, eyeing them menacingly, seemingly ready to burst through the door along with the mist and invade the Convenience Store at any moment.

"No, no, no..."

Suddenly, Lin Yi heard a "whoosh" sound by his ear, like the wind breaking sound when a train rushes past, and his vision rapidly flashed through three different scenes, as if skipping frames.

The first was what he was currently seeing: the Convenience Store’s incandescent lights shaking, and the mist lingering and swirling outside its door;

The second was from Mao Feiyang’s perspective: the lights shaking, the mist already seeping into the Convenience Store, and a Nocturnal Species reaching out;

The third was a Convenience Store in an apocalyptic setting with incessant buzzing alarms and red lights...

In a second’s span of 24 frames, these three scenes flickered wildly, and amidst these flashing sequences, he seemingly foresaw the scene of the mist bursting through the Convenience Store’s door!

A strong sense of crisis surged from behind the door of the Convenience Store like a tide, rushing towards him!

"Whoosh..."

The whole process lasted no more than three seconds, and his vision returned to normal, but that prophetic feeling lingered in his mind like a haunting specter.

"Classmate Lin?" Li Huiyuan’s voice rang in his ear, tinged with a hint of confusion, "Is there something wrong?"

"Nothing for now..." Lin Yi diverted his gaze, the golden glow in his eyes had already faded away.

Yet as he slightly shook his head and said there was no problem, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed some pure white stains on the nearby floor tiles.

Those stains, they looked like someone had dipped a mop in white chocolate sauce and then flung it onto the floor where it dried and hardened.

"Wait, is this... Tomato sauce?"

This was something formed after tomato sauce had been plasterized!

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat.

The image of Mu Daxian exterminating the sinister Nocturnal Species flashed through his mind; the creatures’ stunted limbs splattered tomato sauce all over, eventually forming white, sculptural fragments, exactly like the stains in front of him!

"So, what I just saw, was it a scene being played out simultaneously in another layer?"

"Can two layers traverse to some extent? So, the tomato sauce splashed over?"

"Or, if it’s still this layer, did I see something that happened at another point in time?"

Mao Feiyang didn’t have a watch, and there were no clocks in the Convenience Store.

The only way he could make a judgement was to wait until he had a dream at night to see if he could traverse Mao Feiyang’s experiences once more through the dream.

But regardless of the guess, it all pointed to one thing—the Convenience Store was no longer safe!

"We need to leave here immediately!" Lin Yi’s face was filled with solemnity; he pointed toward the direction of the Convenience Store’s entrance, "That mist has already submerged the Student Cafeteria, and it’s about to seep in from the door of the Convenience Store!"

Li Huiyuan followed the direction Lin Yi pointed and glanced at the door of the Convenience Store. She didn’t know what she saw, but her pupils suddenly dilated, swirling with intense fear: "Lin, Classmate Lin... Run! Run fast!!!"

Lin Yi was already looking in the direction of the Convenience Store’s door and immediately glanced over upon hearing her words.

"Damn!"

With just one look, he felt as if a current of electricity had struck him from head to toe; his whole body tingled, and he quickly grabbed Li Huiyuan and started running toward the direction of the blue sign.

Where the door of the Convenience Store had been, there was now a spreading mass of dense white mist in its place.

The thick mist was dense like paste, and the incandescent lights flickered like a short circuit in the fog, eventually extinguishing weakly, causing the whole area to disappear into darkness.

’Shasha shasha...Shasha shasha...’

Nocturnal species and other non-human students moved like a swarm of insects through the mist, some of which had not yet transformed from their rubbery form into human shapes, crawled along the rounded ceiling of the Convenience Store like distorted human skins.

Among these non-human units, there were also some green Pocket Chefs mixed in.

They "harmoniously" merged into the same group, rustling and spreading through the Convenience Store with the surge of the mist, constantly pushing the darkness forward, continually tightening the encirclement.

The Convenience Store instantly turned into a desperate survival zone. If they couldn’t escape before the mist completely engulfed the Convenience Store, the consequences were unthinkable.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan stumbled, and in an instant, her weight shifted onto Lin Yi, causing him to nearly fall to the ground as well.

Lin Yi quickly grabbed Li Huiyuan, or else her knees would really be done for if they scraped the ground: "Are you okay?"

"My... My foot has gone numb..." Li Huiyuan’s face turned pale, and a dry, bitter smile appeared on her lips, "Classmate Lin... I don’t think I can run any further..."

"Since we didn’t find the Student Souvenir Coin, maybe... maybe it’s just meant to be like this."

"You run, just go on quickly... don’t worry about me anymore."

"Don’t forget, we agreed that I’d be the sacrificial one."

Lin Yi looked at her face, then back at the nightmarish mist that was closing in, and then he helped her sit down on the ground.

"Rest here for a bit."

Without looking back, he rushed out.

Watching Lin Yi’s retreating figure, despite Li Huiyuan preparing herself mentally in advance, as this scene unfolded before her eyes, a powerful wave of heartache surged uncontrollably within her.

Even though they had agreed earlier...

Even though...

Though she had strived so desperately to survive...

But still... it felt unbearably unjust...

She felt an unprecedented heartache; it turned out, more frightening than a slow death, was being abandoned alone by a partner she had barely begun to trust...

However, just as her tears were about to blur her vision, she suddenly saw a figure returning from afar.

Not only coming back, but he was also clutching a piece of cloth, running huffing and puffing like a Superman in a cape.

"Lin... Yi?"

Li Huiyuan watched incredulously as Lin Yi approached, still holding a sheet covered in big red flowers.