AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 533 - 239: Gray Corridor_2

Chapter 533: Chapter 239: Gray Corridor_2

Wei Liang leaned in and upon seeing the content of the note, he was immediately startled, "Is this a message someone left for us, is something trying to catch up to us, telling us to leave the Cafeteria immediately?"

"It’s not... a message... how could it be pre-printed on paper?" Lin Yi pondered for a moment before denying it, "This should be... the Cafeteria regulation."

"Cafeteria regulation Article 11..."

[... Do not stop, do not turn back, do not respond to its call, even though you feel it about to catch up with you.

After leaving the Cafeteria, please remove your clothes at the first opportunity...]

Lin Yi stood up, thoughtfully walked around the notice board, and then said, "Exactly as I thought... Look, there was a heavy rain last night, there are fragments of the Cafeteria regulation on the ground around here, in the bushes..."

"Are you saying the Cafeteria regulation was washed away?" Wei Liang asked in surprise.

"No, this has definitely been done on purpose." Lin Yi spoke gravely, "The Cafeteria regulation and the Student ID card both contain some of the same materials, materials that wouldn’t be eroded by the heavy rain."

"I just took a round and couldn’t find that type of board around here."

Tian Bufan nodded and said, "Someone tore off the Cafeteria regulation, took away that kind of board, and casually discarded the middle paper part."

"Do you all still remember the content of the Cafeteria regulation?"

"I remember."

"I remember too."

"I..." Wei Shan hesitated, "I can’t quite remember..."

"Hmm... then shall I recite a copy for you?" Lin Yi said.

"There’s no rush for that." Wei Shan waved his hand, "I just need a rough idea, those things aren’t a big threat to me."

Lin Yi opened his mouth but still said, "Either way, better to prepare one for you, just in case."

"Alright, as you wish." Wei Shan did not refuse.

"Let’s go, time to eat."

"Alright."

The group immediately crossed in front of the Cafeteria’s notice board and slowly walked towards the Student Passage.

Just then, Lin Yi suddenly felt an eerie chill. He lowered his gaze to the ground.

The grass at his feet hadn’t moved at all; the dew was still on it.

He rubbed the back of his neck, feeling somewhat uncomfortable but couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

"This Cafeteria... always feels like there’s something wrong, not sure if it’s just my imagination..." Lin Yi muttered and walked into the Student Passage.

The steps inside the Student Passage were enveloped by a faint mist, and the moss, nourished by the overnight downpour, appeared more vivid than usual in this slightly gray environment, catching the eye distinctly.

The uneven patterns on the inner walls of the Student Passage looked like distorted, eerie runes, seemingly becoming much more ferocious.

The only constant were the incandescent lights hanging like stars from the top of the passage.

It seemed that as long as the incandescent lights were still shining, the safety of the Student Passage could be assured.

But gradually, Lin Yi couldn’t help stopping.

"Wait a moment."

The others promptly stopped in their tracks.

"What’s up, Old Lin?" Wei Liang asked, puzzled.

Seeing Lin Yi observing the incandescent lights, Tian Bufan couldn’t help asking, "Is there something wrong with the lights?"

"No." Lin Yi slightly shook his head, "The lighting is off... but it seems, it’s not the lights, but rather an issue with the ’layers’!"

Tian Bufan looked around and asked, "Which layer?"

"Did you notice that the entire passage is leaning more toward gray-white color..." Lin Yi lowered his voice, "This [Student Passage]’s lighting, why does it look a bit like [other passages]?"

"No way, I checked before I came in!" Wei Liang corrected, "Stop imagining things, could we all be wrong?"

"Exactly, Old Lin, don’t jump to conclusions... Don’t let your perception fluctuate!" Tian Bufan said, yet he didn’t deny Wei Liang’s words.

Lin Yi felt a sudden shock in his heart: "You’re right... Even if there are doubts, now is not the time to voice them! This must be the Student Passage!"

"Let’s go, eat first; we can talk about the rest later!" Tian Bufan said.

"Okay." Lin Yi responded.

They stepped up through the thin mist, no longer focusing on sensing their surroundings but instead looking ahead.

The exit of the Student Passage was right in front of them, pure white light pointing as if guiding them toward another world.

Looking at the white light of the exit, Lin Yi felt a certain comfort, but this sensation was like a fire in the wall, a candle in the light, unable to dispel the cold seeping from the passage walls.

Lin Yi suddenly shook.

「I’ve realized it, the light in this passage... it’s like moonlight! There’s light, but it’s not bright, chilling like ripples of water!」

Not sunlight, but moonlight.

Constantly lit... Could it be "moonlight quality" light?

If there is sunlight, there should be moonlight, right?

Lin Yi wasn’t sure, but he already had such an intuition in his mind.

They soon arrived at the exit of the Student Passage.

Looking at the familiar entrance of the Student Cafeteria, Wei Liang spoke: "Old Lin, see? We didn’t go the wrong way."

Lin Yi nodded.

"Stop being suspicious, let’s go." Wei Liang said with a smile, patting Lin Yi’s shoulder, then reached out to part the plastic curtain.

As the plastic curtain parted, a blue-pocketed chef appeared, standing stiff as if dead for a long time, like an ice sculpture, still emitting some mist...

Wei Liang, who had turned back to look at Lin Yi and the others, seemed not to have noticed anything, but everyone except him was frightened by this blue-pocketed chef.

At the same time, the blue-pocketed chef, as if sensing something, gently shook its stiff body, slowly raising its head, its pale eyes soullessly swirling, slowly turning toward Wei Liang’s position.

"What’s wrong, are you all frozen?"

With a puzzled look on his face, Wei Liang casually let the plastic curtain fall back into place just as the blue-pocketed chef was about to reach him, then he took a couple of steps toward Lin Yi, waving his hand in front of everyone.

"What are you looking at?"

He looked back, following Lin Yi’s gaze toward the plastic curtain, but the hanging curtain acted like a closed portal, sealing off the layer where the blue-pocketed chef was located, so from this angle, the Student Cafeteria looked just like the normal Student Cafeteria...

So, he saw nothing unusual.

"Just now...?" Lin Yi was about to say something else, but Tian Bufan had already walked over, parting the plastic curtain while interjecting, "It’s nothing, let’s go."

Behind the curtain Tian Bufan parted, the Student Cafeteria was filled with people queuing, and at the same time, as if Tian Bufan had flicked on some switch, a few Experience Students suddenly sprouted up like bamboo after rain in the usually quiet Student Passage.

These Experience Students, in groups of two and three, walked out of the Student Passage, naturally parting another section of the plastic curtain, and then entered the Student Cafeteria to queue for breakfast.

A vast haze flickered in Lin Yi’s eyes as he turned back to look at the Student Passage, only to find the incandescent light no longer looking as cold as what he had seen before, having gradually reverted back to that warm, gentle orange-yellow hue...

「This... what’s going on?」 Lin Yi touched his arm, feeling the warmth of the morning light, yet it gave him an unrealistic sensation.

"Old Lin, let’s go! Don’t space out!" Wei Liang’s urging voice came from ahead, and Wei Shan gently pushed his back.

Lin Yi snapped back to his senses and quickly followed the crowd into the Student Cafeteria.

Just as Wei Shan was following him in, Lin Yi felt like someone who had forgotten something then suddenly remembered it, a spark flashing through his mind.

He suddenly turned back, looking toward the exit of the Student Passage.

「Wait... Where’s Old Mo?」