AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 381 - 174: The Slip of Paper in the Wardrobe_2

Chapter 381: Chapter 174: The Slip of Paper in the Wardrobe_2

He grasped a cold doorknob.

"I’m right in front of dormitory 1414..." he murmured with resolute eyes.

’Pop...’

The entire space violently fluctuated, like a placid lake surface suddenly disturbed, ripples emanating from Lin Yi’s hand on the doorknob, rapidly spreading outwards, tearing apart the reflected patterns on the lake’s surface bit by bit.

As the shattered reflected light sank beneath the lake’s surface, Lin Yi slowly raised the world that lay submerged.

That world seemed carved from ice, invisible when under water, but as it surfaced into the sunlight, its contours again became clear.

A door, a corridor, a building...

Lin Yi kept muttering, "My name is Lin Yi, my student ID number is X0230506098, I’m in front of dormitory 1414," like an ancient cultivator casting Qimen Dunjia, lifting an entire world.

Gradually, he was covered by the surging waves, his body, previously stuck in the layer’s gap, finally began to slowly emerge.

Below the cliff, the numerous Nocturnal species, sensing Lin Yi’s dimming breath, roared one after another, eventually overwhelming Lin Yi like a flood. However, when they engulfed Lin Yi, they passed through him one by one as if Lin Yi’s body was a Virtual Image projected there...

...

On May 8, X023 year, at 21:13, in front of dormitory 1414 on the 14th floor of the dormitory building, Lin Yi, like a statue, gripped the dormitory’s doorknob, his scattered attention slowly gathering.

"I’m in front of dormitory 1414..."

He slowly lifted his head, door number sign: ’1414’.

He glanced down at his feet, the dropped notepad splayed open on the floor, its pages limply hanging off the side, clearly untouched.

However, the lights in the dormitory corridor seemed to have dimmed somewhat.

Lin Yi bent down to pick up the notepad, dusted it off to clean it, then pulled out his Student ID card to unlock the door to the dormitory.

’Beep beep... ka-ka-ka...’

The latch turned, the door leaf opened.

Lin Yi quickly stepped through the door, then promptly shut it behind him and leaned against the door, sliding down powerlessly to sit on the floor.

’Huff, huff, huff...’

"Finally safe... Hahaha..." he laughed with difficulty. He then heard the sound of running water from the bathroom; it was unmistakable that Wei Liang was taking a shower.

He rested for a good while, then slowly got up, using the door for support, and walked over to his closet to prepare his change of clothes.

The uniforms in the closet were neatly stacked in individual packages, each wrapped in a nylon bag, and as Lin Yi took out a brand-new package, an inconspicuous little slip of paper fell from between the bags...

Lin Yi slightly startled, picked up the piece of paper.

On this not-so-large slip, there was scrawled handwriting, which from the start seemed a bit shaky and grew increasingly sloppy towards the end, until some words were completely illegible.

"I’ve killed someone... I’ve killed someone..."

"My roommate brought them here... I killed him... no, he killed himself..."

"They’re at the door... repeating my roommate’s name and student ID, then they took on the appearance of my roommate..."

"I don’t know why they can open the door at this time..."

"I saw them looking for my roommate..."

"My roommate was taking a shower..."

"They couldn’t find the bathroom door, becoming increasingly angry... I was afraid they’d harm me... I was terrified..."

"I opened the bathroom door..."

"They rushed in and took my roommate away..."

"It was me who caused my roommate’s death... no, it was them who killed my roommate, not me... not me..."

"It was him who attracted them, if I hadn’t done that, I would be the one dead..."

"They’re right at the door... Why won’t they leave... Why..."

"Could it be that it wasn’t my roommate who brought them here... but me..."

"No... it’s not that..."

"I have to figure out a way to lead them away, or make sure they don’t learn my name and student number..."

"It’s too late, too late..."

"My roommate’s dead, I have no other roommates left..."

"Why isn’t it enough..."

"It’s my turn next..."

"I feel like I can’t escape my fate..."

"My name is Song Rentou, my student number is X0230402017..."

"If you see this message, tell my class head about the incident where my roommate and I were killed, my class head is ’Class Head-B2-037’, she might be able to save me..."

"I’m so scared... what should I do... what should I do... who will come to save me..."

"They’re back again..."

"They’re knocking on the door..."

"They’ve started calling my name..."

"I’m not Song Rentou, don’t call me, don’t call me, I’m not Song Rentou, I’m not..."

Disjointed, scribbled handwriting, strokes here and there, but still vaguely constructing the framework of an incident. Lin Yi looked at the paper, and a narrative began to unfold in his mind...

A group of non-human classmates loitered at the door of this dormitory, repeatedly reciting [I am so-and-so, my student number is such-and-such], then began violently breaking in...

And this person named Song Rentou was huddled on the bed, shivering under the covers.

Then the dormitory door was violently opened, and several non-human classmates that looked just like Song Rentou’s roommate entered the dormitory, searching for his roommate’s figure, who had temporarily escaped disaster by being in the bathroom taking a shower.

However, the non-human classmates didn’t leave because they didn’t find the roommate. Instead, they stayed in the dormitory and didn’t leave. And Song Rentou must have felt them growing more and more irritable until finally, he couldn’t take the pressure any longer and opened the bathroom door, allowing the non-human classmates to find his roommate and drag him out of the room.

The incident should have ended there, but he, out of a sense of guilt for impulsively causing his roommate’s death or perhaps not feeling guilty at all but simply out of fear, recorded some things on this piece of paper. Indeed, some people need to write things down when they have no one to confide in, feeling like writing it down is like talking to a nonexistent self.

Whether it was for peace of mind or something else, it had some psychological effect anyway.

But what Song Rentou didn’t expect was that these non-human classmates didn’t leave because of this but instead became even more audacious, still loitering at the door of the dormitory, now targeting him.

This was the ’first version’ Lin Yi deduced after reading the paper, but even he himself felt it was too rough, lacking in details, and based largely on speculation.

However, aside from the incident that happened to Song Rentou, one thing was certain—the non-human classmates would forcefully enter by capturing the identity information of Experience Students and then drag out and kill that student whose name they had memorized.

"Wait a second... does that mean?!"

"Those ’fake·Wei Liang·non-human classmates’ who followed Liangzi and walked behind us just now, are they the ones who satisfied this mechanism?!"

"Hiss... Damn it!"

Lin Yi gasped in shock. He had just had a strong sense of foreboding while preparing to swipe his card and then realized those fake Wei Liangs.

His first instinct upon seeing the group of fake Wei Liangs was danger, extreme danger, and at the same time, his subconscious swiftly devised a countermeasure during that moment instead of advising him to flee.

Intuition told him that those fake Wei Liangs had imposed a mechanism on Wei Liang called ’Void Target Search’, and if he didn’t figure out a way to deal with them, Wei Liang would face a disaster.

But still, his decision to strike first was not made in the heat of the moment, but after careful consideration.

Because non-human classmates were greatly restricted by light, and since he had a precedent of reverse contamination strategy against non-human classmates, he made his decision.

Otherwise, if they were still lingering outside after the dormitory’s corridor lights went out at 22:00, that’s when it would truly be a life-and-death situation.

So does that mean... he coincidentally twisted the non-human classmates’ ’Fatal Pursuit’ of Wei Liang, and more than that, shattered their cognition?!