AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 337 - 157: Another Puzzle Piece on the Evening of May 6_2

Chapter 337: Chapter 157: Another Puzzle Piece on the Evening of May 6_2

The person emerging from the shadows was... Little Genius.

Lin Yi really wanted to say, "Weren’t you on the road to the seaside? Even if you hit a ghost wall, you end up dead in the gym, how the hell did you end up back here?"

If there were a BGM at this moment, it would definitely be "God damn fate bringing us together lightyears apart..."

"Don’t panic, don’t panic..." Lin Yi took a deep breath, reached into his pocket, feeling somewhat sober and aware that he hadn’t tried some basic things yet, so he reached into his pocket and grabbed his student ID...

"Huh?!"

"Wait... Student ID?!"

He felt a round card-like object, similar in material to a student ID, but... it was round!

A student ID would definitely not be round, so this was...

He yanked his hand out and saw he was holding a round coin engraved with the World Tree surrounded by thorny vines.

"Student Commemorative Coin...?!"

"Fuck me!"

His vision shifted, and he realized that the hand in front of him was not his own, but Mao Feiyang’s dark, slender hand.

He thumbed the edge of the Student Commemorative Coin and flipped it over, seeing the face of the coin indeed read "Yue-X02305070323."

"Yue-X02305070323," that’s Mao Feiyang’s Art Student number.

"Another vision shift to Maozi’s perspective! So at some point, did Maozi encounter Little Genius here?"

"Is it now, or...?"

Lin Yi watched Little Genius step out of the darkness, his heart suddenly tightened. The Little Genius’s head on his crooked neck was swaying, his form so twisted it resembled a congenital deformity, yet his eyes were staring straight at "Lin Yi."

In the shadows behind it, mist accompanied by that chaotic cluttered response advanced like a tide of snakes, the "shush shush shush" friction sound progressing along the floor, giving a strong sense of absurd and cultic vibes.

Little Genius reached out his hand, behind him seemingly appeared a pair of imaginary golden eyes, like some indescribable beings looking down on mere ants...

A piercing cold wind wrapped around swirling snowflakes, continually washing over the dark corridor. The pain-filled whispers not belonging to humans mixed with the eerie melodies of "sussuration" and "shush," all the sounds melding in a certain frequency, finally forming a sentence—

[I AvgruNnen av tåKe og jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome...]

Lin Yi felt as if he was in an ice cellar, his limbs suddenly chilled, his skin slowly turning a bluish-grey.

"Not good, am I sinking?!"

"Contamination is wrapping my body through Phantom Vision!"

"It’s just a shift in perspective, why is this happening?"

Last time he switched to Mao Feiyang’s perspective, it wasn’t like this.

Lin Yi’s heart jolted, suddenly realizing the reason—Time!

The last perspective switch was around 13:30 noon; though there were clouds in the sky, it was still broad daylight, but now... now it’s freaking abnormal weather!

He won’t absorb contamination in Mao Feiyang’s perspective, but... he’s still in the corridor!

Although the mist dissipated quickly after seeping in, there could be some residue left, and perhaps he could even absorb this residual contamination, like... a human-shaped vacuum cleaner?

"I’m really done for."

Looking at the Student Commemorative Coin in his hand, a struggle emerged in Lin Yi’s eyes.

He watched as Little Genius slowly approached him and his increasingly frigid body; the struggle in his eyes gradually solidified.

"No choice but to try our luck with this dying horse as if it’s alive!"

He stuffed the Student Commemorative Coin back into his pocket, then released his hand, took a deep breath, focused on the adjacent wall, and started muttering in his mind:

"My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, my student ID is in my pocket, I am now in the corridor of Teaching Building B, I am with Li Huiyuan, next to me is the Teacher’s Office..."

"My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I..."

He recited incessantly, and as he recited, his vision suddenly started to jerk and flicker as if controlled by someone else, with the wall beside him repeatedly oscillating between dim and normally lit under the bright incandescent lights.

Lin Yi’s heart leaped with joy as he exclaimed, "It’s working!"

"I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, my student ID card is in my pocket, I am currently in the corridor of Building B of the Teaching Building, I am with Li Huiyuan, and right next to me is the Teacher’s Office..."

He continued to recite, while Little Genius was still rapidly approaching. The jumping and switching of his vision gradually slowed down, and the scenes that lingered longer in his vision started to become the normal corridor illuminated by the incandescent lights...

"I am Lin Yi... my student ID, it’s in my pocket..."

"Right! Here!"

He reached fiercely into his pocket and grabbed a long, rectangular card that felt very familiar.

Student ID card!

He slowly pulled the student ID card out of his pocket, glanced downward, and then saw the numbers "098"...

"Indeed it’s the student ID card!"

"Phew..."

He put the student ID card back, then took a long breath, as if trying to expel all the stale air accumulated in his chest.

He looked at the wall and found that it had returned to normal, while the surrounding incandescent lights were constantly on.

Glancing toward where Little Genius had been, he saw that Little Genius had long since disappeared.

Elsewhere, Li Huiyuan had just finished reporting to the Class Teacher-040, seemingly unaware that Lin Yi had just taken a "spiritual journey."

"...that’s what happened, we escaped from the Convenience Store before it was engulfed by the mist."

After listening to Li Huiyuan’s report, the Teacher’s Office fell into a long silence, only the drifting mist reminding them of the passage of time.

"I understand," finally, Director-040’s voice came from behind the door, "You go back to the classroom first, I have some things to deal with, I’ll come and fetch you later."

"Fetch me?" Li Huiyuan paused, thought of the student regulation, "Where are you taking me? To see the school doctor?"

Director-040 said, "You’ll know when the time comes... soon."

Li Huiyuan looked down at the door gap, pursed her lips, and said nothing.

Director-040 didn’t continue, but simply clicked the door’s peephole shut.

Li Huiyuan cast an inquiring glance at Lin Yi.

"Let’s go back to the classroom." Since earlier, Lin Yi had been enveloped by a foreboding feeling that did not stem from Li Huiyuan, but had started to accumulate bit by bit since they entered the Cafeteria for dinner, and by now, it had grown into an oppressive sensation as if the clear sky were about to collapse.

He was a bit worried, worried that this evening they would be trapped in the Teaching Building by the mist.

Having understood some of the mechanisms of the Nocturnal Species, Non-human Classmates, and Human Sculptures, he was confident in dealing with them. However, behind all these, how many more formidable Severe Pollutants were there?

Especially those Conceptual Rank sculptures that seemed composed of countless fragments of shattered glass—an existence even the Sports Students faced with great dread. What should he do if once it entered the classroom, following the scent of contamination to find him?

After 21:00, even a Sports Student dared not stay in Class 2 Group B!

Who should he seek help from?

How should he escape?

In the face of absolute power imbalance, even running away became a pathetic joke.

Lin Yi gathered his thoughts, assisted Li Huiyuan, and walked toward Class 2 Group B, noticing that neither Li Huiyuan nor Director-040 seemed to have noticed his recent anomaly.

The recent episode, although fraught with peril, fortunately did not end badly, and concerning the Non-human Classmates, he seemed to have added another part to the logic chain!

The two soon arrived in front of Class 2 Group B. Lin Yi first glanced at the time.

18:29.

He then confirmed that there were no issues with the classroom’s door number before pushing the door open.

Upon entering the classroom, that familiar warmth enveloped Lin Yi again, like the purifying light of sanctity dispelling the chill from his body, but he immediately felt something wasn’t quite right.