AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 326 - 152 - : The Fog Comes Like an Avalanche

Chapter 326: 152 Chapter: The Fog Comes Like an Avalanche

"No wonder it’s so familiar!"

"No wonder it’s so familiar!!"

"It’s actually the Student Passage!"

"The exit of the Convenience Store, connected to the Student Passage?!"

In the midst of his shock, Lin Yi also realized something—

Could this be like the time when walking from the Teaching Building to the Gymnasium, where within the path that seems straight, there are actually multiple hidden paths, and there’s a similar "nonexistent road" at the exit of the Convenience Store that brought them back onto this path of the Student Passage?!

Lin Yi, still in shock, descended the steps in the thin mist and stepped out of the Student Passage. He turned back to look at the sign of the passage, and sure enough, it was the damn "Student Passage"!

"So it really is the Student Passage? From what I can see, this is the only explanation that makes sense..."

In Lin Yi’s mind, the "classic saying" from the Cafeteria rules popped up again—["Due to its location, the Convenience Store can serve as a Student Passage when necessary for your departure."]

["Due to its location"], ["serve as a Student Passage"].

"So the exit of the Convenience Store leading to the Student Passage, is this the ’truth’?"

"I’ll be damned..."

Although it still wasn’t very reasonable, Lin Yi decided to not think too much of it for now. It’s better just to gloss over the matter with a "that’s just how it is."

With his extensive experience, he had already decided that after dark, no matter what issues arose, unless they were absolutely urgent, everything could wait until he got back to the dorm.

At that moment, he looked down at his watch; the time had reached 17:33.

It had taken a total of 4 minutes from the moment he arrived at the exit of the Convenience Store to leaving the Student Passage...

And the time required to walk through the entire Student Passage varied from 2 to 8 minutes.

The timing was also normal.

"Emmmm..." Lin Yi pondered for a moment before suddenly looking towards the western sky.

The sun, which had been quickly descending the western hills since 16:00, was still struggling on the horizon. The afterglow, unclear whether it was a clear yellow or a blood red, shone on the undulating mountains, much like a person about to fall off a cliff, desperately clinging to the edge, feet kicking against the rock face and muttering, "I feel like I can still save myself" in the same way.

Only a tiny bit of the sun’s edge remained above the horizon. Against the bloody sunset, the contours of the mountains were clearly visible, as beautiful as a silhouette.

A cool breeze brushed across the treetops filled with dense mist, carrying the fog out bit by bit from the Green Forest Belt and permeating it into the surroundings. The mist, tinged with the afterglow of the sunset and wandering like blood, gave the mountains a hazy sense of post-sunset slaughter.

"I’ve got to go!" Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and said with a solemn expression.

The sun seemed to be holding on, unwilling to set, but Lin Yi felt that the final sliver of sunlight wouldn’t last much longer. Now it was 17:34; the campus lights would turn on at 18:00. Once the sun set, before the lights were on, it would all be a dangerous area.

So they had two choices: one was to reach the Teaching Building before the sun completely set, and the other was to follow the Student Passage back to the Cafeteria and then head to the Teaching Building after the streetlights had come on.

As these two thoughts emerged in Lin Yi’s mind, he immediately weighed them up.

The time taken to return to the Teaching Building from the Cafeteria was usually between 15 and 20 minutes; normally, it could be done in 15 minutes without trouble.

The issue was, could the sun, which was down to its last glimmer, hold on for another 15 minutes of residual heat?

The second option seemed stable, but in reality, it was more hazardous.

Because theoretically, the Cafeteria in its current state is the highest risk with its lights off; returning there is no different from courting death.

Of course, before confirming whether or not the Cafeteria had its lights on, they could choose to not go in and just linger in the Student Passage, which was always lit with incandescent lights.

But the problem with doing so is, although the incandescent lights in the Student Passage are on now, when that white mist capable of obscuring light seeps out of the Student Cafeteria and enters the Student Passage, would there be any safety left here?

Furthermore, the weather today wasn’t very good. The fog that hovers perennially in the depth of the mountains was restless, with a tendency to spread from the Green Forest Belt.

Once the sun set, if the contaminating white fog coupled with the mountain mist flooded into the campus, it could very likely replicate the abnormal weather conditions experienced on May 6th when entering the school.

And what’s the first rule when abnormal weather arrives? It’s to head towards the nearest building at any cost or to stay under the lit streetlights waiting for patrolling Security Guards.

But the nearest building is the unlit Cafeteria, and the streetlights haven’t reached the time to turn on yet.

Although Lin Yi managed to navigate through the combination of [abnormal weather] + [no Student ID card] on his first day, times had changed. Back then, they could forcibly anchor themselves on the Cobblestone path, but now Li Huiyuan’s condition was too unstable—of course, even though he personally felt very stable, it was very likely that he was in the kind of state where "I think I’m stable, but in other’s eyes I’m like a gas canister."

He was now all too self-aware, even abnormally so.

So the combination of these two wildcard pilots could generate some ridiculous reactions when exposed to abnormal weather, possibly encountering unforeseen events.

Therefore, this second option, theoretically stable as it may seem, was actually a dead end under the current circumstances.