AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 353 - 164: Beneath the Thick Fog (Extra 1100 words!)_3

Chapter 353: Chapter 164: Beneath the Thick Fog (Extra 1100 words!)_3

[I’m right behind you, hurry and pull me up! Quick!]

The voice grew more urgent, as if it could no longer wait.

After catching his breath, Nie Yun touched his still somewhat dazed head and slowly turned around...

Behind him was an area of darkness that not even the orange-yellow light could penetrate, with only intermittent cries emerging from the mist, like waves crashing onto the beach, reaching Nie Yun’s ears.

[Can you see me? Come and save me!]

[Yes... yes, yes, yes... that’s right... come save me...]

In the mist, it seemed as if someone was reaching out their hands, trying to grasp at Nie Yun’s location as if begging for help.

Nie Yun stumbled forward, step by step with stiff movements, and arrived at the edge of the mist.

Just as he reached the boundary between light and dark, a force suddenly parted the mist in front of him, and a figure, upright as a tombstone, suddenly flashed in front of him.

It was a true Human Sculpture, its rigid limbs looking unlikely to perform any significant movements and its entire face chiseled with sharp, distinct features. Its body was entwined with thick mist, making it hard to tell whether it was emanating from within it or connected to the surrounding mist...

It was facing straight at Nie Yun, the two separated only by a fist’s distance, with a boundary formed by light and mist between them, fragile as if it could break upon touch.

Human Sculpture’s stony eyeballs suddenly collapsed inward like a furnace, then burst into a cold golden fire as though it had been ignited. Its lips began to stretch slowly towards its ears, the plaster-like hard face unable to bear the force and cracking inch by inch; half of its face instantly covered with dark fissures.

Finally, its eyes erupted with golden light, and the corners of its mouth stretched towards its ears like a deranged clown, its mouth emitting sounds, and those sounds were unmistakably...

[Nie Yun, hurry, save me... hurry, save me... quick... quick hahaha—]

The voice trembled, as if tinged with some sort of fear, but it gradually became maniacal, and then wild and rampant, finally uncontrollably revealing a wicked, triumphant laughter:

[You... see me now!!]

Nie Yun was startled; his groggy mind suddenly clearing as if struck by lightning.

But before he could react, the Human Sculpture’s pale white hand shot through the grey mist like a bayonet, seizing his collar, then dragged him out of the range of the streetlight and into the darkness!

Frightened screams from Nie Yun echoed through the rolling mist.

A moment later, a weirdly shaped humanoid sculpture, swaying, broke through the boundary of light and darkness, entering the illuminated area under the "Teaching Building-067" streetlight.

Afterward, it started emitting dense white mist like a steam engine starting up; this mist then coiled around it like the band of breath that encircles the mountain peaks, and part of it formed a umbilical-like connection to the mist sunk in darkness behind it.

If Lin Yi were here, he would be shocked to find that this Human Sculpture was beginning to transform into a Non-human Classmate, just like the one who had earlier stepped onto the steps of the Teaching Building.

The mist continuously peeled off from its body, slowly merging into the mist behind it.

As the mist escaped, the pure white plaster-like appearance of the Human Sculpture began to slowly fade, gradually turning from pure white to ash white, then to ashy blue, and finally to a normal human skin tone, with the appearance of what looked like a standard uniform on its body.

"I... am Nie Yun..."

It tried to move its mouth, then emitted a somewhat hoarse voice.

Suddenly, it bent over, as if gagging, and opened its mouth wide.

Then, a tattered card dripping with saliva-like fluid was expelled from its mouth...

It was a Student ID card, but it had lost its original acrylic-white texture, resembling a wrinkled drawing on a piece of paper.

But the "Non-human Classmate," Nie Yun, seemed unperturbed as he picked it up, muttering:

"I am Nie Yun, my student number is X0230504032..."

"I am Nie Yun..."

It repeated this phrase while taking stiff steps, swaying from side to side like a drunken person, and slowly walked up to the lamppost, then stood there as if facing a wall.

Not long after, another humanoid-like sculpture emerged from the mist on the other side...

This sculpture, covered from head to foot in a virus-like white foam, gradually calmed down until it turned into a chalky substance, which writhed slowly, altering its form.

When it set, its facial contours were exactly like Ge Qing, previously pushed into the mist by Nie Yun.

[This went smoothly.] the Ge Qing "Sculpture" said, and as it spoke, white mist also began to emerge from its body, starting the same transformation as the Nie Yun "Non-human Classmate."

At last, transformed from "Sculpture" to "Non-human Classmate," Ge Qing also spit out a paper-like Student ID card.

"From now on, I am Ge Qing... my student number is X0230504049..."

[But this is far from enough...] Beyond the lamppost, the mist churned, and amid the "ssssh ssssh ssssh" sounds, mixed with chaotic noises, was a language seemingly identical to that of the Human Sculptures and Nocturnal species.

[We need more people!]