AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 409 - 184: Is the Library...? (Extra 3100 words)_3

Chapter 409: Chapter 184: Is the Library...? (Extra 3100 words)_3

"I suspect ’It’ is the entity deep within the mist. When ’It’ moves, the contamination spreads in the form of mist, radiating outward from its center, creating a domain similar to light... but this domain merges with the mist, so we can’t see it. However..."

Lin Yi shuddered, "But, it can be reflected by light in the form of ’waves’!"

"If the campus streetlights are constantly on between 18:00 and the next day 6:00, then the effect of the incandescent lamps is not just to drive away nocturnal species, but also to serve as an alert, warning of ’Its’ appearance with flickering lights, displaying ’Its’ presence and departure with lights turning on and off!"

"This is a way to visually portray ’Its’ movement route without having to face the danger ’It’ presents!"

"Moreover, security guards can also use this as a basis for judgment, quickly reaching dark areas!"

"But speaking of which... the security guards should be able to defeat ’It,’ right?"

The Security Emperor was the strongest unit Lin Yi had known of that appeared on campus. He had an almost blind trust in the security guardians, of course, he could only believe that the Security Emperor could suppress everything.

"The security guards holding the old kerosene lamps seem to have a similar domain too," Lin Yi said, "but for now, it’s hard to tell whether it’s the security guards’ own domain or the old kerosene lamps’..."

"It should be the security guard’s own," he said.

"How can you be so sure?" Lin Yi asked in surprise.

"The dormitory supervisor also carries old kerosene lamps, but they don’t have that kind of domain," Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi paused: "Wait... you’ve seen the dormitory supervisor?"

"Isn’t that what you described?"

"I... Even if it was what I described, did I describe it in such detail?" Lin Yi was a bit puzzled, thinking could it be that this guy didn’t sleep at night and pretended to sleep to observe the dormitory supervisor?

That would be preposterous, but highly fitting with Tian Bufan’s logical behavior.

However, looking at Tian Bufan’s appearance, he didn’t seem like someone who hadn’t slept for two days and nights!

"Maybe I added too much to my imagination then. The skinny dormitory supervisor with dark circles under his eyes that you described just doesn’t connect with the security guard for me," Tian Bufan added, trying to move past the topic.

Yet Lin Yi faintly realized something, Tian Bufan definitely had seen the dormitory supervisor.

But... with so little time, when exactly had he seen the dormitory supervisor?

"So, if the extinguishing of the lights truly follows this logic, then we could even calculate the range of ’Its’ domain based on ’Its’ movement speed in the layers and the time from when the lights flicker to when they go out completely, and then derive more data from that. Maybe this could help us avoid some dangers at critical times... perhaps it could have miraculous effects in desperate situations," Tian Bufan murmured to himself.

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi couldn’t help but give a thumbs up, dude, are you the data emperor? You could even derive calculations from this?

"But..." Tian Bufan negated himself again, "Our understanding of ’It’ is too shallow. These crude calculations are still too naive, a single variable could cause the entire thing to collapse, it’s not very reliable..."

"Hey." Tian Bufan stretched his hand over his own bedhead, patting Wei Liang’s bed.

"I’m asleep, I’m asleep, snore, snore..." Wei Liang muttered in his sleep, but his legs kept kicking as if trying to shake off Tian Bufan’s hand, which had already been withdrawn.

"Wei Liang, the last time you came, you went to the convenience store and bought stuff, right?" Tian Bufan asked.

Wei Liang jolted awake as if from a dream: "Nonsense, I definitely did not buy twelve loaves of bread, six rolls of cookies, and eighteen bottles of water continuously for four days from the convenience store!"

"..."

"No...? Liangzi, you damn well... know exactly where the convenience store is?" Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in disbelief, his eyes wide.

As he thought more about it, the situation seemed even more absurd.

Wei Liang claimed to have not left the dormitory for the last two days, while the twelve loaves of bread, six rolls of cookies, and eighteen bottles of water he bought amounted to thirty-six items, meaning, for four consecutive days, he went to the convenience store to buy three items for every meal!

With a total of seven days in the trial period, minus two days in the dormitory and four days buying things, that meant—good lord, did Wei Liang only take one day to get used to the campus, and by the second day, he was already freely going in and out of the convenience store?!

"It’s nonsense, listen to me make excuses!" Wei Liang quickly insisted, "Isn’t there a stack of goods at the entrance of the convenience store? I’ve always paid directly at the shopping terminal after buying, I’ve never actually gone in!"

"That convenience store... it’s pitch black inside, too creepy, I don’t even want to think about it again."

"Snore, snore—"

"Liangzi?"

"Snore, snore! Snore, snore! Can you hear me, how loud I snore!" Wei Liang turned over and covered his head with the blanket.

Tian Bufan shrugged: "Looks like he won’t be able to provide any useful information for now."

"Old Lin, just now you mentioned that you entered Maozi’s perspective in the convenience store, did you find anything?"

Lin Yi said gravely, "The perspective from that viewpoint was extremely limited. I only knew that Maozi had lost a Student Souvenir Coin and was buying Student Souvenir Coins with an art student named Mu Daxian at the convenience store... Oh, right, from that perspective, I saw the convenience store’s lights flickering, turning bright red, and then the entire store started ringing with a buzzing sound, just like those air raid alarms in movies!"