AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 339 - 158 Message on the Blackboard_2

Chapter 339: Chapter 158 Message on the Blackboard_2

It was as if a bat was curled up at the top of the cave, observing the pedestrians walking inside through the darkness, just waiting for the right moment to kill them all.

The Sports Student was like a fire that could drive away wild beasts, deterring the Non-human Classmates in the darkness, but now the Sports Student was absent, and Class 2 of Group B did not even have an Art Student, so it directly became a gigantic octagonal cage where a ferocious beast lay in ambush.

Moreover, even if there were truly an Art Student here, according to the Art Student Rules, without the "summon" of a Sports Student, they could only watch indifferently.

He quickly closed the classroom door behind him, then glanced at the pendulum clock above the blackboard, confirmed that the time had just passed 18:30, and then slowly approached the blackboard while supporting Li Huiyuan, focusing his attention on the words on the blackboard.

The first were two huge chalk words with oversized exclamation marks:

[Run!!!]

Beneath were some slightly smaller chalk words:

[A storm is coming, everyone who remains in the classroom will die!]

[Leave the School Building Area before it starts raining, enter the dormitory area!]

[Run!!!]

"’Run’?!" Li Huiyuan murmured, her shock churning and impacting in her chest, rendering her mind unsettled for a long time.

However, Lin Yi’s focus was not just on these words; he leaned closer to the blackboard, looking at the chalk tray.

There were no chalks in the chalk tray, nor were there any on the lectern, not even a chalk eraser.

He narrowed his eyes, "These words..."

"Li Huiyuan, look, what color are these words?" he suddenly asked.

"Uh...white, no, off-green..." Li Huiyuan repeated in denial, "No, that’s not right, they are white, but it seems like they are emitting a greenish mist..."

"As I thought..." Lin Yi frowned.

"What is it, Lin Yi?" Li Huiyuan asked, puzzled.

Lin Yi pondered, "Whether these words were written by a Sports Student remains uncertain, but... these aren’t chalk words, they are plaster words, written with the blood of a Nocturnal species or a high-level Polluter."

"After being written, they were exposed to the light, the contamination was gradually dispersed, leaving behind a white plaster-like corpse, the remaining contamination hasn’t completely vanished but has turned into a green breath, dissipating bit by bit."

Lin Yi voiced his deductions.

"So..."

"So should we run?" Li Huiyuan asked.

Lin Yi slightly shook his head, "No, so first we need to confirm...who left these words."

"Whether they’re hints left by a Sports Student, or... traps set by others?"

Hearing Lin Yi’s words, Li Huiyuan shuddered slightly; she had never considered this aspect, always subconsciously believing that what others said was the correct clue, while ignoring the reliability of the source of information and the veracity of its content!

Lin Yi pondered, "In the campus, what we can always stick to is only the part of the rules that corresponds to our own occupation or identity, all other information, no matter how credible it seems, requires us to maintain enough caution."

For instance, the rules say, "unconditionally trust so-and-so," then the information attached to it is credible.

But all other information requires careful discernment on our own.

Some information is gathered based on other people’s experiences, and even if it comes from good intentions, it might not necessarily be correct for oneself.

This is exactly what Lin Yi was doing on his first day of school. Although he was simply criticized by Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang at the time, it later turned out that his approach was indeed the most correct for him back then.

As for the Sports Student, Lin Yi also chose to trust him only after discerning the situation. If the message on the blackboard was left by Xu Shunkang and his group, then the credibility was very high.

In other words, if it was a trap deliberately set by other evil units due to the abnormal weather, using the psychological suggestions that lean towards danger brought by the abnormal weather, combined with the previous night’s insecurity in the classroom, it could easily lure them to leave the classroom.

Leaving the Teaching Building rashly was indeed a very risky act.

Even more so, it was quite possible that it could cost them their lives on the spot, especially if the mist was used as a boundary to distinguish normal from abnormal weather, as this boundary is very blurred.

Therefore, the arguments of the Experience Students insisting on their points had their reasons.

The only certain thing was that rainy weather definitely counted as abnormal, but a lit classroom was a safe place according to the student rules, even if the lights went out, one could squat under the desk and stare at the table legs to preserve their life.

Furthermore, the student rules also instructed them to seek refuge in the nearest building during abnormal weather, and the Teaching Building was the nearest, so choosing not to leave was not unreasonable.

Lin Yi quickly understood the points of debate among the Experience Students, then turned around from in front of the blackboard, standing on the podium and surveyed the situation within the stepped classroom completely.

In today’s classroom, counting him, Wei Liang, and Li Huiyuan, there were a total of 70 units, including 32 Experience Students, with the remaining 38 units all being non-human.

Among these non-human units, 20 had expressionless faces, and 18 had their eyes wide open, their mouths stretched to their ears, stiff like deranged clowns.

Despite this, all their pupils were dilated, you could feel their gaze drifting, yet it was unclear whom they were looking at, but just seeing their faces brought a chilling, horrific, and bizarre feeling.

And at noon, there were altogether 90 people in the classroom, including 34 Experience Students, 18 Sports Students, and 38 non-human units...

Now, not one of the 18 Sports Students had returned to the classroom, so the possibility that they had left the message on the blackboard before evacuating was quite high.

But "quite possible" and "it is definitely them who left the message" are not the same.

In such a dire situation, almost everyone was walking on thin ice; one mistake and it was likely irrevocable, so being cautious was definitely correct.

Lin Yi’s gaze swept around the classroom, and finally, from memory, matched the number: "There are two people missing according to the Experience Students, one of them seems to be called ’Zhou Yuting’."

Moreover, she likely was the girl who begged the Sports Students to enter another passage during dinner—Pan Jian’s companion.

Lin Yi sighed; that girl named Zhou Yuting, ever since she witnessed Pan Jian’s death, had been speaking incoherently, her mental state gradually deteriorating.

He still remembered the last time he saw Zhou Yuting; she was obviously close to crumbling, and now with the mist rising outside and her not returning to the classroom, her chances of survival were slim.

Zhou Yuting not making it through the day was, to him, expected.

"And the other missing person..." Lin Yi squinted his eyes, "is that middle-aged man."

Among the new people who arrived this afternoon, that middle-aged Experience Student, although almost imperceptible, made a very deep impression on Lin Yi. The reason naturally being that a middle-aged person, amidst others, stood out far too much to go unnoticed.

What puzzled Lin Yi was that when the middle-aged Experience Student left the classroom, he took all his belongings with him.

Normally, when people go to the Cafeteria to eat, they just go themselves, but the middle-aged Experience Student left fully equipped, especially with his oversized backpack. Lin Yi felt goosebumps just thinking about it, having a nonsensical notion that the middle-aged Experience Student was some top agent who could pull out some bizarre gadgets from his bag and assemble an RPG...

And the remaining 29 Experience Students who managed to return to the classroom appeared to have escaped during the moment the cafeteria lights flickered, when the mist hadn’t yet risen, and the sun hadn’t set, so their safe return was rational.

He helped Li Huiyuan down from the podium and began walking towards Wei Liang, who was sitting in the back row of the classroom studying Hentai, but as he passed, he deliberately took a route from the other side of the podium and chose a path that conveniently went through the noisy area.