AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 368 - 170 Heretical Choir (Added 2500 words!)_2

Chapter 368: Chapter 170 Heretical Choir (Added 2500 words!)_2

Slowly, through his reddish-gold pupils, he realized that the space depicted in the strange, abstract painting he now found himself in resembled a special Rubik’s Cube, cut into irregular pieces by those complex, intertwined lines.

And the roads, like pulled noodles, were part of this connection, while the rest was entangled by a gray-white fog as thick as wall powder...

He also noticed something like chewing gum in these irregular fragments that stuck to his feet, so that he was merely treading water with every step!

And from all directions, the overlapping fog reached out like eerie tentacles, trying to touch him and Wei Liang. They didn’t actually exist, but in Lin Yi’s eyes, they were all too real, these indescribable, strange things hidden in the grey mist, clinging to his body like spider webs, rice cakes, and snot!

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

Beneath the dense fog, the bizarrely shaped sculptures moved slowly through the substance, rubbing against their shattered surroundings, shaking off white powder particles like falling ash, which were the source of the rustling sounds, not merely dragging their forms across the ground!

"Damn it..." The moment Lin Yi saw this scene, his scalp went numb. He suddenly realized a terrifying truth—if before he was in a "swimming with half his body exposed above the water" kind of situation, now he was completely submerged below the surface!

He had fallen off the Glass Plank Walkway!

Because he had lost his anchor, no, because he never had an anchor to begin with, he couldn’t anchor the layer. Therefore, the layer he was now in had fallen into this layer he saw and felt, joining these inhuman units, the bizarre sculptures, and the shapeless Nocturnal species in the same layer!!!

[Hehehe... how delicious...]

[So delicious...]

Lin Yi was like the most delectable treat, attracting them in this layer like the brightest star in the night sky, with unabashed, greedy, evil, purely malicious and desiring gazes of bloodlust focused unreservedly on Lin Yi!

"Huff—huff—"

The night breeze was cold, the grey mist surged like waves and tides, sweeping in from all directions like a sudden storm.

"My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is X0230506098! I’m on my way to the Dormitory building on the Cobblestone path!"

"My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is..."

Although he knew it was futile, he still tried to repeat these "basic operations" in his mind incessantly.

But a horrifying scene occurred. Lin Yi heard some voices...

He was stunned, frozen in place.

What did he hear?

He heard...

[My name is Lin Yi...]

[My name is Lin Yi, my student ID is...]

The voice became clearer and clearer, it was—

[My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is X0230506098! I’m on my way to the Dormitory building on the Cobblestone path!]

[My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is...]

[My name is Lin Yi, hahahaha—]

It was the bizarre sculptures, the twisted Nocturnal species, the grey mist, the viscous liquid... They had captured Lin Yi’s voice and were now shamelessly parroting it!

Lin Yi felt as if he was in a pitch-black cave, surrounded by strange silhouettes with indiscernible faces, only showing bloody crescent-shaped eyes and clown-like grins. They stood in neat rows like a choir beside Lin Yi, swaying like reeds in the wind, cackling, their mouths emitting uneven murmurs and chants, which were none other than—

[My name is Lin Yi! My student ID is X0230506098! I’m on my way to the Dormitory building on the Cobblestone path!]

They had captured Lin Yi’s anchor for his identity, and now, if Lin Yi were to lose his Student ID card, a random draw would select one lucky member of the Heretical Choir to inherit his identity.

"Damn it! This isn’t the time for this sick sense of humor."

"Wait a second!"

Lin Yi suddenly realized a problem—since I’ve already fallen into the same layer as them, why haven’t they attacked?!

The inhuman units were right by his side, and although from the perspective of the "fragmented Rubik’s Cube," they were not in the same piece as him, this did not stop them from making their move!

Why hadn’t they acted? Why were they shaking their bodies and chanting his identity information like a dark choir from some evil play?

If the previous encirclement could be explained by the fact that he had sprinkled a bit of streetlight illumination along his escape route, the current situation was completely different!

This was totally their home turf, yet they chose to do what—choose the most annoying method!

Lin Yi’s mind was in a mess, not a subjective confusion, but a chaos brought about by the "choir’s" devildom and the surrounding atmosphere of a collapsing layer of space, like someone unable to read a palm-sized book on a bumpy mountain trail.

You want to read, but the environment and physiological conditions don’t allow it.

Lin Yi soon took a fresh step in this "viscous" layer, but as he did so, he suddenly discovered... beneath his feet was a soft, sludgy ground...