AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 525 - 235: Malice in the Cafeteria Area_2

Chapter 525: Chapter 235: Malice in the Cafeteria Area_2

Wei Shan thought for a moment and spat out two words, "Instinct."

"Uh... okay then."

Instinct, sixth sense... If Wei Shan said so, what else could Lin Yi say?

But if nobody else had this feeling, wouldn’t that mean there was something wrong with him?

"All I can feel is that there is a ’breath of death’ pervading this place, everything around us is dead and stagnant..." Tian Bufan lowered his voice, "it’s like we’ve entered a battlefield right after a battle has ended."

"A battle has just ended?!" Lin Yi’s eyes lit up.

Grey Mist Invasion? A deadly struggle in the darkness of night?

"Your feeling, it’s not without that possibility!"

After thinking for a while, Tian Bufan said, "Your intuition is the highest among us, I can perceive less than you can, so how about you try to feel it a bit? Then I can analyze it a little through your perception."

"Alright." Lin Yi nodded without hesitation, "But if I end up falling through the layers..."

"I’ll wake you up before you run into any trouble."

"Alright." Lin Yi nodded.

"Kuai Kuai, try to find a path with sunlight, let Old Lin try to trigger his ’Vision’."

"No problem." Kuai Hongji said calmly, "But to be honest, I’m not particularly fond of basking in the sun."

"Just walk when you’re told to, Yin Bi! What’s with all the chatter?" Wei Shan’s voice was low, lifting his clenched fist, his face was full of threatening intent.

If it weren’t for the greater situation at hand, he would have already offered Kuai Hongji a fist as big as a sandbag.

"Heh." Kuai Hongji smiled scornfully but still did as he was told.

Bathed in the sunlight, Lin Yi didn’t feel much warmer, but the discomfort in his heart was somewhat alleviated.

He focused his gaze on Wei Liang, watching Wei Liang’s heel move forward woodenly.

At the same time, his eyes began to turn empty, and he still concentrated on his hearing...

’My Vision’ was a skill he had not yet mastered, but there were special circumstances where it could be triggered.

That’s what he was doing.

He listened carefully to everything around him, the gentle footsteps of their group walking on the cobblestone path, the breeze blowing through the treetops, the sound of dew and rainwater sliding down the leaves, dropping to the ground...

He began to breathe in the scent of the wind, the fragrance of grass and plants, and the earthy smell of moist soil...

Everything was so natural until Lin Yi started to add some ’feelings’ onto this "plain and unadorned" base color.

These ’feelings’ were no longer very obvious now. They were clearest at the moment Lin Yi moved from the dormitory area into the cafeteria area, like the intense contrast of moving from cold water into hot, which only seemed especially strong against the backdrop.

It was a strange feeling that couldn’t easily be put into words.

It was like feeling unfamiliar with a painting you knew well, feeling nauseous after taking a bite of food you ate every day, or looking at an old friend but always sensing an unnatural chill in his smile...

It was a weird feeling, completely detached from the scene before his eyes, blandness filled with malice, as if... the entire cafeteria area was shrouded in a deceptive meal’s husk!

"It’s the layers!"

Lin Yi gradually realized what was happening.

The problem lay within the layers.

Upon ’entering’ the cafeteria area, the intersections of multiple layers coincided with the area’s boundaries, and they had entered the ’most normal’ layer by default based on ’cognition’.

But in that moment of entrance, they still felt the ’call’ from the other layers within the cafeteria area. That strong malice wasn’t the cafeteria area repelling them, but rather... the sinister layer was using malice to press down on this one, attempting to squeeze them out of this layer and cause them to fall into that one!

It was an unusual summoning!

I won’t let you stay there, so you can only stay here!

A plea from the layers, begging them to come in!

A call from the layers!

"Has the campus’s layers... come ’alive’?!"

As he pondered this question, he gradually felt a slight distortion in the cobblestone path under his feet.

"Hmm?"

Upon witnessing this scene, he was neither panicked nor afraid; instead, he first confirmed whether he was still following Wei Liang’s lead.

In front of him were Wei Liang’s heels, and beside Wei Liang was Kuai Hongji.

Without moving his eyeballs and relying solely on his senses, he knew Tian Bufan was still by his side, with Tian’s hand still resting on his own body.

"Good, good, I’m still on this path."

Both psychologically and physiologically present.

He then looked down at the cobblestone under his feet, indeed, the cobblestone was distorting... and moreover, it was distorting under the sun.

"Wait! No... The sun? Where’s the sunlight?!"

Lin Yi’s pupils shook.

The sunlight... had been obscured without him realizing it!?

At the same time, an urgent wind noise began to ring by Lin Yi’s ears, not like the kind blowing out from the Green Forest Belt that suddenly became swift, but more like... a gust surging through steep mountain gorges and howling after traversing the rock walls!

Lin Yi felt as if he had been struck by lightning, frozen on the spot in an instant.

"Thump!"

His heart pounded violently.

"Thump!"

He felt the world around him beginning to darken, and ghostly afterimages of his body started to appear.

"Thump!"

He felt as if he had been forcefully struck by an oncoming heavy truck, his heart stopping for a brief moment.

"Clang clang clang... hulelele—"

Rapid winds whistled in his ears, and he felt his soul being knocked out of his body.

Feeling unsteady, he instinctively stepped back, trying to stabilize his form at this moment...

An eerie scene unfolded at this instant.

When he stepped back, he discovered that his perspective had peeled away from "himself"!

"What...?!"

Lin Yi was shocked, looking down at his hands subconsciously.

Nothing there!

He couldn’t see his hands!

He then looked down at his body.

No body there!

This bizarre phenomenon was just like what he had experienced in his dreams!

"What the hell?! Am I still... not awake?!"

It was the first absurd and uncanny thought that sprang to Lin Yi’s mind.

But at this very moment, he suddenly felt as if his body was summoning him back, drawing him towards it, and then his perspective returned to his own body again.

It was like Doctor Strange being struck by Master Gu Yi’s Yuan Shen Chu Qiao Palm Technique, then being forcibly dragged back inside his body.

Only, there was no Master Gu Yi.

As his perspective returned to his body, his vision began to display that familiar, glitchy quality as if it were skipping frames.

The world he saw started to lose color, fading like an old photograph, gradually devoid of vibrant hues, leaving behind only the plain simplicity of black, white... and grey.

Compared to the primitive version of "My Vision," this time "My Vision" seemed to have gained vitality, transitioning from an overexposed quality to a black, white, and grey palette...

Wind noises still howled in Lin Yi’s ears, fluctuating between distant and near, as though he was traversing through a canyon.

He knew time was of the essence, and he had to make good use of this mysterious state with its uncertain duration to closely examine the cafeteria area for any discrepancies.

Therefore, without pondering the previous soul-separation experience, he quickly steadied his breathing, adjusted his steps, and began to observe his surroundings.

"Hmm?!" Sure enough, with careful observation, he immediately spotted something amiss.