AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 374 - 171: Time is Affected (Added 4600 words!)_4

Chapter 374: Chapter 171: Time is Affected (Added 4600 words!)_4

But looking back now, the origin of this mental tug-of-war might have been the psychological suggestion given by the layer contamination, which led him to continuously decline in self-confrontation.

It was like fighting against oneself, self-consuming all the same.

He psychologically believed that time had passed, and he was going to be swallowed by the layer, so the contamination could weave its way in. After all, flies do not sting an intact egg. He revealed a flaw, and the pervasive contamination infiltrated it.

...

X023, May 8th, 21:05.

Within the thick and dense grey mist, the Security Guard moved forward unhurriedly, his dark overcoat gently swaying in the evening breeze, making him look like a burly version of Batman from behind.

As he walked, Lin Yi noticed that the Security Guard did not seem to have the thick, cold iron chain wrapped around him.

A hint of doubt flashed in his eyes, and just then, the Security Guard stopped in his tracks.

"We’re here."

Lin Yi was startled. How could they have arrived in just a few steps?

He looked up and saw that the light pole bearing the sign ’Dormitory Building-096’ was only about ten meters away. He had even been distracted along the way, but he had followed along effortlessly, as if he were just playing around.

Was this the sense of security brought by the Security Guard? Loved it...

"I won’t go any further. The light will illuminate your last stretch of the road," the Security Guard’s calm voice had a kind of solid reassurance, "Also, leave that sheet behind. Don’t bring it into the dorm."

"Ah? Alright, thank you." Lin Yi took off the sheet draped over him, handed it to the Security Guard with thanks, and then started walking towards the light pole of ’Dormitory Building-096’ with Wei Liang on his back.

The Security Guard slightly lifted the old kerosene lamp, allowing its orange-yellow glow to shine upon Lin Yi’s retreating figure, escorting him towards the light pole of ’Dormitory Building-096’.

Under the bright light of the lamp pole, Lin Yi felt the ground beneath his feet gradually return to that uneven, cobbled texture as he knew he had come back to the "path leading to the Dormitory Building with cobblestones."

Gradually, the light from the pole of ’Dormitory Building-096’ took over from the glow of the old kerosene lamp, illuminating Lin Yi’s path. The Security Guard slowly lowered the kerosene lamp he had held up, and with the change in light, his figure gradually disappeared into the mist.

He balled up the sheet and threw it into the grey mist.

The sheet, like a plane entering a cloud, made a ’whoosh’ as it punched a hole in the mist and then tumbled into a dark area.

"Shhh... Shhh..." Non-human entities, as if they had caught a tantalizing scent, swarmed toward it.

The Security Guard waited five seconds, then emotionlessly hurled the mace in his hand toward the location of the sheet.

"Bang—"

The mace shot out like a mortar, the impact so strong it seemed to make the earth tremble.

The Security Guard glanced at Lin Yi, saw that he had reached the light pole of ’Dormitory Building-096’, then turned away coldly, breaking through the grey mist like an icebreaker ship before merging into the vast night.

...

As Lin Yi neared ’Dormitory Building-096’, the light began to reveal figures of other students, like a submarine slowly breaching the surface and then moving in parallel with the ships at sea to head for port.

As more students gathered around, Lin Yi knew that the two-person dungeon "from the Teaching Building to the Dormitory Building" had finally been cleared.

He took a deep breath and glanced at his watch.

21:08.

"Liangzi, we’ve made it," he said, patting Wei Liang’s hand. But then he found that Wei Liang’s palm had regained warmth. He glanced at Wei Liang and realized that the guy had already come back from that "living dead" state.

"You’re... back to normal?" Lin Yi raised an eyebrow.

Wei Liang nodded excitedly: "Old Lin, you did it again."

Lin Yi sighed deeply: "Nine deaths and one life."

"Damn, you went through nine deaths and one life and didn’t wake me up?" Wei Liang flew into a panic, "Don’t you see me as a brother at all? Did you really think I was just bluffing when I said ’I have a trump card’? If you had woken me up, I would have pulled out my mineral trump card with a bunch of clicks, and all problems would have been solved!"

Lin Yi watched Wei Liang gesticulate wildly, as if performing a ritual dance, and opened his mouth to speak, but he found he couldn’t utter a word.

Please, you didn’t wake up even when I almost shook your brains out!

"Ah..." Wei Liang sighed, and then said seriously, "Old Lin, actually, I heard your calling."

"What?" Lin Yi was taken aback, then glared sidelong, cursing inwardly—so you heard and still feigned sleep?

"I seemed to be slightly awake, but then I clearly heard you say ’Liangzi, if you’ve got any trump cards, don’t use them, please don’t use them’..." Wei Liang spouted pure nonsense with a straight face.

"Hold on, are you sure you heard that?" Lin Yi’s head was spinning, "That’s not at all what I seemed to be saying..."

"Ah, never mind, it’s safe now, that’s all that matters," Wei Liang waved it off, "Hey, it’s late, let’s go back to the dorm. Damn, staying out here just gives me the creeps!"

Wei Liang smoothed his sleeves, feeling a describable chill in the night air.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang followed the flow of other students and lined up to enter the Dormitory Building.

The hallways of the Dormitory Building were lit from 6:00 to 7:40 and from 21:00 to 22:00 each day. At this moment, many Experience Students who had reached the building were already heading for the elevators.

Just as Lin Yi stepped onto the stairs and was about to enter the first-floor hallway, something occurred to him, so he stood under the lights of the Dormitory Building and looked out into the night.