AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 377 - 172: A Group of... ’Fake·Wei Liang·Non-human Classmates’ _2

Chapter 377: Chapter 172: A Group of... ’Fake·Wei Liang·Non-human Classmates’ _2

As the mist dissipated and was sucked away, the body of the fake Wei Liang, which was already trembling severely, suddenly became even more violent. It struggled to crawl along the corridor in the direction it had come from, struggling as it crawled away.

Seeing its frenzied trembling, Lin Yi seriously doubted whether it could crawl a distance before just dropping dead on the spot.

But fortunately, with its departure, it took away a part of the fake Wei Liangs.

The remaining fake Wei Liangs began to approach Lin Yi. Unfortunately, their method of self-anchoring was so poor it couldn’t even be called anchoring. It was more akin to "self-deception," which, like an Immortal Fox seeking seals, was extremely susceptible to external factors.

Lin Yi took advantage of this and, after a war of words, directly disoriented these intellectually challenged non-human classmates, their facial features flying in disarray, as if they could no longer maintain the semblance of Wei Liang.

For those non-human classmates who were "uncooperative" and still tried to approach Dormitory 1414, Lin Yi did not hesitate to invite them to feast on his punches, as large as sandbags.

However, Lin Yi glanced at the end of the corridor and found that the fake Wei Liangs, which had been emerging endlessly from around the corner of the corridor, finally stopped coming out as if they had exhausted themselves. The remaining ones were pushing and shoving each other, cramming the already narrow corridor to the brink of impassability.

Lin Yi decided to give them a heavy dose of medicine.

He first glanced at the dormitory doorplate, confirming it read "1414," then he reached into his pocket to ensure the location of his Student ID card.

Then, he took a deep breath and began the wild ruse—he took off the school uniform jacket wrapped around his hand, set it aside, then took out a sheet of paper from the Death Note and folded it to the size of a Student ID card.

He started to envision in his mind the distorted features of Li Huiyuan, while muttering continuously, "I am Li Huiyuan, my student number is X0230507046, I’m outside the door of Dormitory 1401... I am Li Huiyuan, my student number is..."

As he recited this phrase, at first it was fine, but after he had said it over a dozen times, an absurd notion truly began to surface in his mind—"I am Li Huiyuan, I really am Li Huiyuan..."

Lin Yi’s pupils quivered slightly, and his rationality told him he couldn’t continue. If he did, his anchoring to his own identity would start to falter.

But it was at this moment that he also began to hear the voices repeating [I am Li Huiyuan, my student number is X0230507046, I’m at the door of Dormitory 1401], while the original voices claiming [I am Wei Liang, my student number is X0230506096, I am on my way back to the dormitory] were gradually being drowned out by this new mantra...

"It’s indeed working, but... not enough!" Lin Yi looked at the fake Wei Liangs and saw that a part of them, which had started chanting [I am Li Huiyuan], was actually beginning to transform into the distorted image of Li Huiyuan he had conjured in his mind, and Wei Liang’s original essence was also steadily fading...

It was like the teacher overseeing the exam saying, "That doesn’t look like Wei Liang at all; it’s clearly Li Huiyuan." So now, since these fake Wei Liangs couldn’t score as Wei Liang, but if they could be made to look like Li Huiyuan, they could still score...

"Useful... very useful!!!" Lin Yi thought excitedly, suppressing the distortion of his identity while continuing to roar the phrase in his mind. He also further abstracted and twisted the image of Li Huiyuan in his mind...

The Strategist stakes his own position in the game!

Gradually, almost all of the fake Wei Liangs began to turn unrecognizable, their shapes and forms inching closer to the description of Li Huiyuan that Lin Yi was outlining in his mind. Lin Yi’s own breathing became heavier. He could feel that something was going wrong with himself, but since it was "a problem that he could be aware of," the issue wasn’t too serious...

Finally, Lin Yi felt as if he were about to turn into the Li Huiyuan that he had convinced himself of. He let out a low growl and tossed out the school uniform wrapped around the paper while screaming, "Ah... my Student ID card!!!"

"Shua——"

All the non-human classmates, now unrecognizable, suddenly stood upright, their heads turning in unison to follow the school uniform bundle as if hamsters sniffing out food, darting out in a parabolic trajectory overhead. The next moment, they swarmed out, their limbs contorted and deformed, a dozen or more individuals in a tight corridor jostling and pushing against each other, rushing towards the bundle of the school uniform in a scrabble, each trying to snatch it as if truly believing that grabbing it would let them seize an identity.

But the school uniform was soon torn into countless pieces in the scuffle, and the slip of paper inside it vanished without a trace. Despite this, none of the fake Wei Liangs cared about the existence of the paper, instead, they all scrambled for the shreds of the uniform, as if they couldn’t even distinguish between the scraps of the uniform and the paper anymore.

[Where is it! Where is it?!]

[Mine!]

[No, mine!!]

They argued and snatched, beginning to wrestle with each other. As the scene grew more chaotic, Lin Yi, with a heavy breath, revealed a smug smile of a successful scheme, then suddenly said, "Hey, Wei Liang."

"Eh, I’m here playing!" The non-human classmates, who had originally been clamoring for pieces of the school uniform, suddenly answered but then they paused, their movements freezing.

Lin Yi quickly added fuel to the fire, "Aren’t you... Li Huiyuan?"

"I am Wei Liang, he is Li Huiyuan."

"No, I am Wei Liang, you are Li Huiyuan. Li Huiyuan doesn’t look like you!"

"Bullshit... Li Huiyuan doesn’t look like you either. Li Huiyuan should look like me, but... I seem to be Wei Liang, why do I look like Li Huiyuan?"

"You’re not Wei Liang, you are Li Huiyuan!"

"Bullshit, it’s not Wei Liang nor Li Huiyuan, it’s... it’s me! I am you! Heh heh heh, heh heh heh heh... so who are you?"

"Bullshit, you are me, I am him, it is it, and it is also it... so we are all it!"

The non-human classmates seemed to be trapped in a circle devoid of logic, squeezing out these dry words from their grotesquely twisted facial features. Their forms also became more and more disintegrated, losing any depiction of Wei Liang’s charm, and looking nothing like the real Li Huiyuan. The key point was that the Li Huiyuan Lin Yi imagined in his mind was initially drawn as decaying right from the start, with being as unlike a pig or a dog as the primary requirement...

Thus, these fake Wei Liangs’ recognition of their own identity wavered between Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan, ultimately collapsing completely.

This originally started when the exam invigilator said, "What you’ve drawn isn’t Wei Liang, it’s clearly Li Huiyuan," and so they began drawing Li Huiyuan, thinking that if they couldn’t score as Wei Liang, they might at least get points as Li Huiyuan. But as they drew, the figures on the paper turned into a tangled mess.

And the most brazen part was that due to Lin Yi’s manipulative actions that almost affected him too, it led to the moment when the students finished answering the questions and handed in their papers, the invigilator suddenly flipped the table and exclaimed, "Damn it, I made a mistake with the questions!"

No student at the scene scored any points.

So cunning!

So despicable!

And the non-human classmates, unable to maintain their forms any longer, turned into something resembling a pile of mush, as if they were about to blend into one another. In the end, they only had one thought left—[I am at the entrance of Dorm Room 1401], and so they squirmed and writhed, all surging toward the direction of Dorm Room 1401...

Watching one after another disintegrate, even the basic human form began to fail to anchor, slowly transforming from non-human classmates into something like boneless rubber people, Lin Yi excitedly felt like letting out a few non-human dog barks.