AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 338 - 158: Message on the Blackboard

Chapter 338: Chapter 158: Message on the Blackboard

Despite the fact that some classmates instinctively looked their way as the two of them entered the classroom, like before, Ke Lin Yi felt an anxious and tense atmosphere pervading the room at this moment.

Especially when Lin Yi slowly pushed open the classroom door and stepped inside, the sensation of crossing a dividing line between worlds transmitted to him with striking clarity.

The clamor of argument began resounding by Lin Yi’s ears, no, not beginning to resound – those arguing voices were already present, but the door of the classroom seemed to be veiled by an invisible layer of gauze that muffled the sounds.

Despite the barrier to sound, Lin Yi’s intuition still caught the edginess of those collective arguments.

As he crossed the threshold into the classroom, that previously isolated sense of urgency gradually sharpened around him, creating the illusion of "stepping into a painting."

"Pushing open the door and entering the classroom," this simple act, felt to him at this moment as if it delineated the boundaries between spaces.

This strange sensation suddenly made him feel uncomfortable.

After entering, some of the arguing students paused to glance at them.

But these students merely cast them a glance before resuming their heated arguments.

A casual-dressed male student asserted, "I think this idea simply won’t work, we should find a better method!"

"A better method, then spit it out! Is there any point in just negating our suggestions?" another retorted.

Another student interjected, "Regardless, we can’t delay any longer, time is running out, we must act immediately!"

This student must have stayed overnight in the dorms last night, for he was dressed in the uniform S City University distributes in its dormitories.

Another student, also in uniform, anxiously chimed in, "Exactly, we’ve got to go back to the dorms now, we can’t dawdle anymore!"

"No, we can’t just wander around aimlessly!" a male student firmly countered, "We should report to our homeroom teacher! Listen to the homeroom teacher!"

"The hell with that, we just went to find the homeroom teacher, and she flat out ignored us!"

A student stood up, clenching his fists, and exclaimed, "The Sports Students have all taken off running, isn’t it even more dangerous for us to stay behind?"

"Sports Students are Sports Students, we are us! Maybe their rules aren’t the same as ours?"

"Exactly, they even take a ’different path’ to get meals, do you fucking dare to take that path? Zhou Yuting tried to take the other path, and she hasn’t returned to the classroom yet!"

"But the mist outside is too thick, it already meets the ’abnormal weather, seek refuge in the nearest building’ rule described in the student regulations. We don’t need to break the rules by listening to others," another student protested.

"If we venture out, we might disappear in the mist; if we stay in the classroom, at least it’s somewhat warm and sheltering."

Still another student persisted, "We should trust the homeroom teacher! She said she needed to think it over before responding to us. If we wander around everywhere, we might put ourselves in danger!"

"Staying in the classroom and behaving ourselves for a night’s self-study is the safest option!"

"Safe?"

"Pan Jian is dead, what’s safe? Your mom is safe!"

"I’m speaking nicely to you, you fucking dare to bring up my mom?"

"Stop fighting! Let’s discuss this properly. If we can’t agree, then let’s split up and each do our own thing!"

"To hell with that, if we were going to go our separate ways, would we still be arguing until now? Isn’t it precisely because splitting up is too dangerous that we want to stick together?"

In the midst of their aggressive argument, everyone was trying to defend their opinions, to persuade others; those who couldn’t persuade resorted to high levels of obscenity, as if this could lend their words greater force.

But whether or not it added any force, it certainly increased the aggression, with several students’ faces reddening and necks swelling as they debated, as if ready to add some punches and kicks to the argument.

Their voices intertwined, endlessly disputing.

The classroom was charged with a tense atmosphere, and Lin Yi realized that they seemed to be making a choice about one particular issue: whether to spend the night in the classroom or to leave it.

As Lin Yi observed their passionate debating, he understood something—the Experience Students, through questioning Pan Jian’s companions and the recent events, had accepted the campus reality and begun discussing within the permitted scope of the regulations.

And as they argued, their glances, whether intentional or not, kept drifting toward a certain direction in the classroom. Following their gaze, Lin Yi immediately noticed the source of their intense discussion—the blackboard.

A blackboard covered with writing.

"Lin Yi... what is that?!" Li Huiyuan naturally noticed there was something up with the blackboard too.

"Looks like someone’s message... Could it be the Sports Student?" Lin Yi quickly scanned the classroom and noticed there wasn’t a single Sports Student in sight.

He finally understood the eerie feeling upon entering the classroom—the classroom was devoid of Sports Students, leaving only the Experience Students and some non-human classmates, which made the atmosphere very heavy.

Especially after he learned that the non-human classmates were sculptures, the enclosed, oppressive environment became all the more disturbing to him.

A classroom without Sports Students resembled a giant, multileveled beast cage.

The non-human classmates coiled in their seats, like predators crouching on the outermost ring of the cage, casting greedy and frenzied looks over the completely oblivious lambs in the classroom.