AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 511 - 229 "Cicada Shedding its Shell" Plan_2

Chapter 511: Chapter 229 "Cicada Shedding its Shell" Plan_2

Lin Yi initially thought that something had happened to Mao Feiyang, but he soon realized it wasn’t a person’s issue, but rather... a problem with his vision, or rather, a dream issue.

The entire dreamscape, when it reached this point, suddenly slowed down, as if even the flowing mist around him had slowed...

"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang..."

Noises suddenly bombarded Lin Yi’s ears, the kind one hears in tunnels when trains pass over with a clanking sound of metal chains and rails...

Following that, he noticed that his field of vision had started to flicker and skip, as if the whole world had turned into a sped-up slideshow...

"Let’s start the operation... just call it the ’Cicada Shedding its Shell’ plan, the code is..." in one flickering fragment, Mu Daxian said, "When I say ’Lin Daiyu is uprooting willows,’ you respond with ’Zhang Yide competes with Xi Shi in women’s wear’."

"Brother Xian, isn’t that code a bit off-color..."

"Clang, clang, clang..."

The fragments flickered.

Mu Daxian had already reached the side of Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang, who was now dressed in a dark green Art Student uniform.

"Wake up, Xiao Mao, you’ll catch a cold if you sleep here..."

Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang woke up in a daze from being shaken and said groggily, touching his head, "You are... I am... this... I..."

"Xiao Mao, you were attacked by the Sneering Angel yesterday, we barely escaped with our lives after nine deaths and one life, do you not remember?"

"Ah, look at that, you’ve gone and lost your Student Souvenir Coin again, how many times have I told you, you can’t just lose this anywhere, even if no one picks it up, dropping it among the flowers and plants isn’t good either..."

"Oh look, you’re still confused, let’s hurry back, it’s getting late!"

Mu Daxian stuffed the Student Souvenir Coin into the hands of Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang, who, previously confused, now brightened up at the feel of the coin, clutching it instinctively in his hand, and then began to chant its number incessantly...

"I am Mao Feiyang, my Art Student ID is ’Yue-X02305070323’..."

"Right right... I think I remember now... I am Mao Feiyang..."

"Then who are you...?"

"I’m your Brother Xian!" Mu Daxian squeezed his eyebrows and spoke a string of half-truths, apart from the things meant to overwrite the Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang’s cognition, every word was a mix of truth and lies, "I taught you how to draw tomatoes in sketching class, and taught you how to carve the beauty of human anatomy in sculpture class!"

"Tomatoes... sculpture..." Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang looked bewildered, seemingly roused by these keywords...

Mu Daxian continued: "Remember the time you didn’t bring a pen to class, and I helped you steal one from Old Du, which ended up getting your nose flattened by Old Du, remember now?"

"I seem... to remember some of it..."

"Hey, that’s enough, stop dawdling, let’s go, time waits for no one!"

He carried a cloth bag and confidently pulled Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang down off the Green Forest Belt.

The real Mao Feiyang quickly bowed his head and followed.

Watching their backs, Lin Yi’s vision flickered again in front of his eyes...

"Clang, clang, clang—clang, clang, clang—"

In this jumping vision, he felt as if he had sensed something, turned his head, and directly saw the half-tangible, half-illusory face of the Sneering Angel...

"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang..."

Before he could even express his shock, the wind was howling by his ears, and his vision began to flash rapidly; in the intervals of light and shadow, the outline of the Sneering Angel became more concrete!

Immediately after, this Sneering Angel, like a Wraith, flickered and pursued the direction in which Mu Daxian and the others had left...

"The Sneering Angel has appeared?! Is it nearly midnight already?" Lin Yi was profoundly shocked in his heart. Did his vision just "fast-forward" that much?

"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang..."

Vision continued to flicker; it was as if he saw billows of mist, like a breached dam’s floodwaters, surging from the depths of the dense forest, fast one moment and slow the next, resembling a videotape with its playback speed chaotically altered...

"Shh, shh, shh... Shh, shh, shh..."

Deep within the grey mist, there seemed to be a massive shadow, contoured like some ancient, massive, and elongated creature...

"Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang..."

Lin Yi’s vision changed abruptly once again, but this time, the sound of the wind finally stabilized somewhat...

After his vision returned, he found Mu Daxian leading Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang through the Teaching Building, with Mao Feiyang following closely behind.

"They’re already heading to the elevator! Looks like the timing is correct," Lin Yi thought to himself, guessing that it was now approaching zero o’clock.

"Wait, doesn’t that mean...?!"

He suddenly thought of something and instinctively looked toward the Dormitory building...

"This moment is tonight! In other words, I’m actually in a dream traversing back to a moment before the dorm lights out..."

"’Time’!"

"Putting aside the dream and reality, the ’me’ now and the ’me’ actually sleeping in the dormitory... only a time difference exists!"

A bizarre thought emerged in Lin Yi’s mind—if his viewpoint could leave Maozi and return to the Dormitory building, what would he see?

If he couldn’t distinguish between dream and reality, could it cause him to become lost in the dream, and his body to sink into an endless sleep...?

Just as this thought surfaced, Mu Daxian’s voice pulled him back.

"Xiao Mao, don’t look around, we’re almost at the elevator. Make sure you hold on tight to the Student Souvenir Coin; don’t lose it!"

Mu Daxian earnestly reminded Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang, and in doing so, also alerted Mao Feiyang, who was draped in a dark green Art Student uniform with a hood covering his face.

"Pfft... Hiss!"

The lights in the corridor of the Teaching Building fluttered intermittently, affected by Its presence.

In the interplay of light and shadow, the Sneering Angel drifted around Mu Daxian’s group like a ghostly apparition.

Oddly, up to now, they had only attracted two Sneering Angels, with one of them being the very same that had floated out from the Green Forest Belt in the beginning.

"Today we only attracted two Sneering Angels?" Thinking back to the nine Sneering Angels from last night plus two Student Souvenir Coins, and comparing it to now, Lin Yi suddenly felt the situation had improved quite a bit...

"Could it be because Maozi’s arm isn’t bleeding anymore, so it’s no longer attracting Sneering Angels?"

"That’s good news then!"

Lin Yi hadn’t noticed that while the healing of Mao Feiyang’s arm by Old Mo was one thing, what was more crucial was that Mu Daxian had opened a slit in the cloth bag, and an orange light burst forth from it like golden radiance, forming a domain as expansive as the range of a streetlamp’s glow.

With the corridor light as a backdrop, this domain was not easily noticeable, but when the light flickered, it became as distinctly visible as if an extra sheet of rice paper had been layered over it.

Due to the influence of the light, the contours of the Sneering Angels weren’t so clear during the alternation of light and darkness. Their own chilling, bizarre, and relentless vampiric traits also dissipated somewhat.

Mu Daxian used his voice to guide Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang forward while he himself stayed half a step behind, quietly trailing behind Mao Feiyang, who followed at the rear.

Around them, two Sneering Angels lingered by Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang’s side, their faces, whether petrified or naturally so, were filled with an expression of enjoyment and pleasure. With their eyes closed and eyebrows raised, they resembled mountain deities or spirits, reveling in the fireworks of the mortal world, floaty and lingering...

"Tap, tap, tap, tap..."

In the quiet hallway, only the sound of hurried footsteps remained. Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang dared not breathe too loudly as they invisibly pushed Pseudo-Human Mao Feiyang forward, adding a bizarre dynamic scene to the otherwise deathly still corridor...

After turning the corner of the hallway, the elevator and the restroom were just ahead in that somewhat dim corner.

But in that instant, Mao Feiyang seemed to be drawn by a certain aura, or as if he had suddenly heard a call. A strange induction rose in his heart. Then, as if compelled by an unseen force, he turned his gaze towards the direction where the restroom was located...