AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 327 - 152: The Fog Arrives Like an Avalanche Part 2

Chapter 327: Chapter 152: The Fog Arrives Like an Avalanche Part 2

They had only one choice left—to return to the Teaching Building with the utmost speed.

The thought process seemed to have many considerations, but in reality, it was completed within tens of seconds.

And during this process, the movements of Lin Yi’s hands didn’t pause, as he and Li Huiyuan continually checked each other for any traces of tomato sauce.

Fortunately, even though they had faced several crises in the Cafeteria, their clothes hadn’t been stained with tomato sauce, saving them the time it would have taken to discard their personal belongings at the Staff Passage.

"We’re heading back to the Teaching Building," Lin Yi whispered.

"Mm... okay!" Li Huiyuan nodded.

She didn’t know what kinds of measurements Lin Yi had taken, but his firm gaze was enough to persuade anyone at this moment.

The two then left the Cafeteria’s rules back on the shelf by the notice board and immediately walked along the cobblestone road towards the area of the Teaching Building.

...

May 8, X023, 17:43.

A faint mist lingered on the cobblestone road, seemingly sprinkled with golden sand in the afterglow of the setting sun.

Lin Yi, supporting Li Huiyuan, walked on the cobblestone road, the two of them cooperating better and better, steadily making their way towards the Teaching Building.

Lin Yi silently calculated the time as the sun finally sank into the west.

When the sun completely set, there was still a circle of brilliant sunset glow left in the sky, the last ashes of the sunlight blooming that day.

Lin Yi looked ahead, the outline of the Teaching Building was clearly visible.

But as the ashes burned, Li Huiyuan’s body temperature seemed to drop uncontrollably.

"Light."

Lin Yi knew that light could dispel some contamination, and Li Huiyuan needed light right now.

"Keep the rhythm, stay focused, watch the cobblestone under your feet, it’s just a few more steps, hold on!"

Lin Yi did his best to keep his voice steady, so as not to cause any emotional upheaval in Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan nodded faintly and, with Lin Yi’s support, continued toward the Teaching Building.

In truth, Lin Yi could carry or piggyback Li Huiyuan, just like he did in the Convenience Store, but now the situation was different.

Without light, he needed to ensure that Li Huiyuan’s attention remained sharp, and once he was carrying or holding her, she could easily become distracted by her thoughts.

In these 17 minutes of limited visibility without light or sunlight, this stretch of road was bound to be very long and arduous.

But in fact, if nothing unexpected happened, the rest of their journey should take about 5 to 8 minutes.

Mm... if nothing unexpected happened.

As night fell, the mist that had been seeping out bit by bit from the Green Forest Belt began to surge out in large swathes unabashedly.

It was as if there had been a transparent dam at the edge of the Green Forest Belt, and now it had suddenly breached, allowing the mist that had been held back to burst forth like an avalanche, flooding into the campus.

Lin Yi looked around in shock and noticed that the area behind the Cafeteria was the first to be engulfed by the mist.

He suddenly realized something—the Cafeteria was built on lower ground, indeed one of the buildings most susceptible to being inundated by mist!

This was something he had not taken into consideration during his earlier assessment!

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but be seized by waves of relief and simultaneously pleased with his own judgment.

Despite missing a condition in the early calculations, thankfully, missing this one aspect only cost a bit of a deduction, and the final result was still correct!

He only glanced around the surroundings briefly before redirecting his gaze, and without realizing it, he quickened his pace towards the Teaching Building.

As the mist thickened, he dared not let his gaze linger in it any longer.

For he knew that the Phalanx of sculptures spread across the Green Forest Belt had been driven into hiding by the sunlight, only able to curl up in the Green Forest Belt, but with the coming of night, they might well regain their mobility and merge into the mist, wandering within the campus.

The mist gradually thickened, and what was originally just a layer of smoke floating above the cobblestone road had now submerged Lin Yi’s ankles.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan’s expression changed, and her figure staggered.

"What’s wrong?" Lin Yi turned his head to look at her.

"I..." Li Huiyuan furrowed her brows, "My foot, it feels like it’s regained sensation... and... it seems to be very powerful."

She tiptoed and tried moving her ankle.

She should have been happy about regaining sensation in her foot, but her face was full of solemnity.

"Let’s get back to the Teaching Building for now!" Lin Yi released Li Huiyuan, "Run there?"

"Mm... okay."

"You run first, I’ll cover our rear."

"Okay." Li Huiyuan took a deep breath and immediately started running.

But after only a few steps, she stumbled due to the unexpected strength in her right foot. Fortunately, Li Huiyuan quickly adjusted her center of gravity and slowed down a bit, then she ran much more steadily.

Watching Li Huiyuan’s retreating figure, Lin Yi glanced at the mist at his feet and narrowed his eyes.

’Did the power of contamination heal Li Huiyuan’s foot?’

’Or...?’

He did not feel happy for Li Huiyuan; instead, he felt a sense of unease because the first thing that came to his mind was the green aproned Pocket Chef that looked like a human-shaped spider.

After its face was kicked apart by Wei Liang, the green aproned Pocket Chef slowly recovered in the mist.

And now they were walking in the mist...

If the mist imbued with contamination could heal the green aproned Pocket Chef, did that mean... Li Huiyuan now possessed some of the characteristics of the green aproned Pocket Chef?

Or to put it another way, did Li Huiyuan and the green aproned Pocket Chef share certain common traits... both belonging to Polluters?

’But if that’s the case... isn’t my contamination even worse?’

Strange indeed...

Lin Yi didn’t think any longer and hurried towards the Teaching Building.

The timing was very awkward, the western red clouds had turned purple, and beneath the night sky, the moonlight was not yet bright enough; the cobblestone road was lit only by a dim light. The students who had eaten dinner at the Cafeteria earlier had already fled the place when the lights flickered and headed back to the Teaching Building, so now this road appeared deserted, without a single person in sight.

The cool evening breeze picked up the mist, slapping it against the ankles like water splashes, the chilliness seeming to come to life as it desperately burrowed into the pant legs, the cool touch gave the sensation of stepping on shards of ice.

Suddenly, a gust of wind arose from the mountains, making the leaves all over the hills rustle with a "whirring" sound. The mist amongst the trees, like snow atop the branches, shook fiercely and fell in clumps.

’Rustle, rustle, rustle... rustle, rustle, rustle...’

The densely packed dark figures emerged in the Green Forest Belt, the neatly arranged Phalanx of sculptures appeared under the moonlight.

With the surge of the wind, clouds in the night sky mingled, and a huge dark cloud seemed to float over from somewhere, like a water-drenched quilt, layer upon layer covering the sky, sealing off the already dim moonlight completely, leaving no gaps.

Darkness spread like a tide, gradually enveloping the campus area; the mist spread unabashedly through the campus, quickly submerging vast areas.

Lin Yi watched as the stark white mist quickly rose past his ankles to cover his shins, then reached his knees, increasingly giving him the sensation of wading through a swamp.

The cobblestones on the road were no longer visible; the only landmarks were the unlit lampposts and the silhouette of the Teaching Building ahead.

But as the dense fog rose, the outline of the Teaching Building also became blurred.

From a distance, it looked as if the top of some building had emerged from a sea of clouds.

Lin Yi ran with heavy breaths, but he could not muster much speed due to his prior exhaustion.

As the outline of the Teaching Building grew hazier, Lin Yi grew increasingly anxious.

What made him even more restless was that because the mist diluted his vision, the distance between him and the Teaching Building also became unclear.