AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 333 - 155 Moths to the Flame_2

Chapter 333: Chapter 155 Moths to the Flame_2

As he shifted his focus to the light pole, the silhouette of the Teaching Building was completely submerged in the mist, and he could no longer search for a trace of its shadow.

He was not worried about this; as long as he could find the light pole, he would find his way back to the Teaching Building.

He stared at the nearest light pole, trying to see the blurred number on it, but the mist continuously floated in the evening breeze, preventing him from seeing clearly.

As he squinted and observed carefully, Li Huiyuan suddenly spoke next to him, "Teaching Building-106."

"Huh?" Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan with some surprise and suddenly noticed that her eyes had turned golden at some point.

It was a gold sheen that no colored contacts could emulate, like a pond reflecting the cold moonlight, exuding a sense of aloofness.

The gold quickly melted away like ice and snow, and then Li Huiyuan paused, a bit confused herself, and said, "I just wanted to see that number clearly, then my vision zoomed in like a telescope... It sounds incredible, but I feel like I didn’t see it wrong."

"I believe you, let’s head that way," Lin Yi said decisively, then led Li Huiyuan, walking toward "Light Pole-106" through the orange-yellow light domain.

"Did my vision expand..." Lin Yi muttered to himself.

He had previously experienced a similar situation to Li Huiyuan’s, and now he wondered if his eyes had also turned golden back then.

"When you use some abilities that aren’t normal, do your eyes turn golden...?"

Lin Yi had always thought that Golden Eyes was a sign of contamination, but now he might have guessed right; having Golden Eyes indeed suggested contamination, but perhaps at that moment, he was in a peculiar state.

He thought of those non-human classmates, coiled on the seats in the amphitheater classroom. Their eye colors were normal, but once the classroom lights went out, their eyes turned golden, and they began to hunt those Experience Students who fell between the layers upon seeing them.

As they walked, the mist around them also made a "sasha" sound, indicating that Human Sculptures were moving following their figures. Once Lin Yi understood what was in the mist and had a preliminary understanding of their mechanism, he was no longer afraid of them.

The unknown is what is fearful.

The two safely arrived at the second light pole and upon checking, it indeed was "Teaching Building-106."

Continuing in the direction from the "Teaching Building-106" light pole, there indeed was a light pole "Teaching Building-107," which confirmed that this path was correct.

"Let’s go, if nothing unexpected happens, we’ll be back at the Teaching Building very soon," Lin Yi said as he continued to help Li Huiyuan move forward.

Li Huiyuan’s lips suddenly puckered.

"What’s wrong?"

"Nothing... It’s just that I keep feeling like you seem like someone who is madly jinxing himself behind his back..."

"..."

...

On May 8, 2023, at 18:12, Lin Yi helped Li Huiyuan and they stopped in front of the light pole "Teaching Building-108."

Looking at the steps of Building B of the Teaching Building right in front of him, Lin Yi felt some surreal disbelief about the smoothness of this time.

He looked up at the Teaching Building.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven...

"Hmm, dammit, eight floors."

Lin Yi felt a strange calm inside, as if he was saying "I knew it," a far cry from how he felt on May 6.

"So the Teaching Building really folded four layers, which revealed themselves after the layers fell."

At that moment, he noticed Li Huiyuan’s body starting to chill, he glanced at her, and sure enough, he saw her pupils constricted as she stared at the Teaching Building in front of her, her face full of unsettled emotions, as if she had seen something mind-boggling.

"Li Huiyuan." Lin Yi shook her, bringing her back from her daze.

"Lin Yi, this...?!" Li Huiyuan pointed at the Teaching Building, hesitant, then suddenly realized that Lin Yi looked very calm, "You... knew about this all along?"

"That’s why I wanted to explore the Teaching Building," Lin Yi stated calmly, "As you see, the Teaching Building normally has only four floors, but when things are abnormal, the other floors under the glass Corridor Bridge emerge."

"Anyway... don’t think too much. Just assume ’this is how it should be.’

He believed Li Huiyuan still remembered the concept of the glass corridor bridge.

Li Huiyuan nodded with a look of half-understanding.

"Let’s go."

The glow of Teaching Building-108 halted at the steps, but beyond that, the hallway lights of Building B continued the illumination.

Lin Yi supported Li Huiyuan and they slowly moved forward, lifting their feet from the thick mist and stepping onto the steps of the Teaching Building.

When Lin Yi climbed the steps, he habitually looked down at his feet. When he lowered his head, he noticed that the mist, thick enough to cover the knees, barely covered some of the steps, reminiscent of the steam floating above a steamer.

Suddenly, an idea flashed in Lin Yi’s mind. It was only when he reached the hallway that he used the orange glow of the incandescent light to look at this segment of the steps.

The scene outside the Teaching Building gave him a surreal feeling as he saw the steps slowly extending downwards from his feet, then disappearing into the thick mist, akin to a pool’s escalator.

The far-off sky was completely overrun by the dense fog; the moonlight was invisible, and the outline of the mountains was also missing. It seemed as if the whole world consisted only of the building beneath his feet.

The evening wind swept through the mountains, and the entire world seemed steaming. With only the light from the Teaching Building and a few lampposts visible, submerged in the Misty World, Lin Yi felt bewilders as if he was in the world of the European Industrial Revolution, filled with chimneys constantly emitting sky-obscuring black smoke.

This lone Teaching Building, like an island built amidst the steel torrents of the Misty World.

"This mist..."

Lin Yi bent down, stretched his hand to the edge of the step, and brushed away some nearby mist as if stirring up water droplets.

"Just as I thought!"

Indeed, moss had grown on the steps beneath the mist.

"The moss in the Teaching Building and Cafeteria really did start to grow after the mist had spread!"

As the mist floated, sounds of water droplets seemed to echo by Lin Yi’s ears, as if his palm really stirred the mist, touching an invisible water surface beneath...

Lin Yi quickly withdrew his hand and checked his fingertips, finding nothing unusual. He then silently breathed a sigh of relief.

"We’re back inside the Teaching Building, we should be safe now," Lin Yi gently patted his chest, exhaling, "emmm... relatively safe, that is."

Li Huiyuan, somewhat apprehensively, looked back at the spreading dense fog and said with a trembling heart, "They... won’t chase us here, will they?"

"No," Lin Yi shook his head, his gaze firmly fixed on the rolling mist, "they fear the light; they dare not approach the Teaching Building until its lights go out."

Relieved by his words, Li Huiyuan also sighed.

But before Lin Yi could finish speaking, sinuous shadows lurking within the dark mist began slowly advancing towards the Teaching Building in the areas not covered by the streetlights, surrounding it like a horde of zombies besieging a city.

"Ah, this..."

Lin Yi had an ominous premonition.

"Go, go, go, go! Damn, something’s very wrong!" Lin Yi grabbed Li Huiyuan’s hand, located the position of Class 2 Group B, and then rushed over quickly.

The three classrooms of Building B on the first floor were on the same corridor. With Lin Yi’s knowledge, it was easy to find Class 2 Group B.

Not long after Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan had left, those eerie figures wandering in the mist became clearer and clearer...

In the end—

The mist surged.

"Huh..."

A pure white sculpture’s foot, like tearing through a silicon membrane, broke through the mist and heavily stepped onto the steps in front of the Teaching Building.