AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 349 - 163: Leaving the Classroom

Chapter 349: Chapter 163: Leaving the Classroom

[I am Lin Yi!]

[I am the real Lin Yi!]

[I am the real Lin Yi...]

They roared hysterically, screaming as if they had seized some chance to ascend.

Finally, one of the human sculptures got hold of that Student ID card, and immediately opened its mouth to swallow it.

[I am Lin Yi! I am truly Lin Yi!!]

It called out excitedly, its eyeballs bulging enormously, the smile stretching to its ears.

Bit by bit, it crept back into the light, under ’his’ terrified gaze. It began to emit countless strands of green smoke like steam rising from water. As the mist dissipated, the pure white form of the sculpture slowly writhed and reshaped itself, gradually taking on ’his’ appearance...

Finally, it transformed into an exact replica of ’him’.

[I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098...]

It tilted its head, revealing a chilling smile. Apart from the fierce, wild, and maniacal facial expression, it was almost identical to Lin Yi.

’Boom—’

The imagery in Lin Yi’s mind stopped abruptly there, frozen in a piece of intensely styled futuristic abstract art.

In the black sky hung the shadow of a black moon, and the land below was filled with overlapping layers of dark green mist. The blurred outline of the wild countryside was coiled like a serpent on the world’s edge, while dim streetlights, faint as stars, dotted this dark green world, flickering in and out of sight...

At the center of that painting, a dim streetlight cast a circular domain with its light, where ’he,’ with a look of terror on his face, backed away like a girl being approached by a demon...

The ’he’ that the human sculpture had become was enveloped in a green aura, holding a torn Student ID card, revealing a nightmare clown’s rampant smile.

That painting was reminiscent of Renaissance-era religious murals, as if blending the aura of da Vinci with the style of Monet’s Impressionism, yet the entire scene exuded an intense cultish ambience.

In the mist closest to the streetlight, a throng of human sculptures bustled about, each face bearing a grin akin to that of Judas in The Last Supper. They snickered and whispered to each other, their writhing lips as if singing some alien tune, seeming to celebrate the human sculpture’s theft of ’his’ identity, and as if praising some ceremonial descent:

[’I AvgruNnen av tåKe og jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome!’]

...

The sound waves surged, as if piercing through and flooding into Lin Yi’s brain.

The eerie, agonized cries seemed to transcend Lin Yi’s extrapolation, as if some form of quantum spell from causality itself. When Lin Yi ’knew’ it, it also ’knew’ Lin Yi.

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

...

Sitting in the classroom, Lin Yi was aware that he was inside the classroom, but like daydreaming during a lecture, his thoughts had already drifted to the painting in his mind, and no matter how he tried to extract himself from those thoughts, he just couldn’t manage it!

At this moment, he found himself in a state of ’I know I’m daydreaming, but I just can’t stop.’

And those anguished cries grew louder, like the endless sea breeze scraping against a cliffside, echoing in his mind, becoming increasingly violent, increasingly malicious, increasingly chaotic...

’Boom—’

Lin Yi felt like his head was about to explode; it was as if he was receiving knowledge that surpassed ’everything he had known,’ a mere fraction of which overloaded his mental capacity!

Just like a magician’s apprentice messing with magic he didn’t understand yet.

He realized that, facing such an extrapolation, everything he had adapted to so far was insufficient, and the cognition he had overwritten couldn’t support him in depicting this scene!

He had overstepped the boundaries of ’Novice Village’ before his domain had expanded enough to accommodate the image!

He even knew clearly that he had overstepped, yet he couldn’t return.

’External force! I need some external force!’

He needed some external force!

So he used his memory to locate Wei Liang and, like a stroke victim, used all his strength to elbow him fiercely!

’Ouch—’

A squeal like that of a slaughtered pig came from that direction.

’Old Lin, you trying to take out my kidney or something?!’

Wei Liang jumped three feet high, dodging with a side-step, as agile as a monkey from Huaguo Mountain.

But he quickly realized something was wrong with Lin Yi, and swiftly put a hand on his waist to pat Lin Yi’s shoulder.

’Damn, you’re so cold? Lin Yi, why are you sweating like this?’

He shook Lin Yi urgently, pulling him back from the agonizing cries.

Thanks to the external force, the painful cries in Lin Yi’s mind were interrupted as if casting spells had been disrupted, then they dissipated on the spot.

Lin Yi’s back was covered in a layer of cold sweat, and he slumped down, letting the weight of his body rest on the back of the chair.

’Huff...’

He exhaled a long breath.

’So it seems... human sculptures, nocturnal species, and these strange units attack us to take our Student ID cards.’

’Just like on the road when I walked back from the cafeteria, those human sculptures later exuded malice towards me, but despite that, Li Huiyuan did not feel threatened by them.’

’Because after losing her Student ID card, Li Huiyuan, to some extent, started to share some ’characteristics’ with them, being somewhat assimilated in their direction.’