AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 545 - 245 Moss Problem_2

Chapter 545: Chapter 245 Moss Problem_2

"Just as I thought!"

"The base of the lamp post, which should be the most suitable for moss growth, shows no signs that moss had ever been present!"

The distribution of moss growth across this campus completely defies its natural growth patterns!

Lin Yi was now eager to rush to the Corridor Bridge to check the moss there and see if the same changes had occurred.

If so, it would confirm that there’s a uniform pattern affecting all the moss within the entire campus!

And "pattern" was something extraordinarily valuable on this campus!

"And..."

Lin Yi walked back to the steps. Whether drawn by attraction or acting on a subjective impulse, he slowly bent down, turned his face and leaned closer to the moss...

"Huff—"

A seemingly spontaneous draft of cold breeze brushed past his ear.

He jolted up from the ground like an electrocuted spring, his face filled with terror as he looked towards the moss.

"The sound of the wind!"

"Indeed, there’s the sound of wind!"

But all around was silence; even the leaves in the Green Forest Belt didn’t stir, showing no signs of any wind blowing through.

Lin Yi slowly swallowed, as one of his theories was somewhat confirmed.

"The moss on campus... may not belong to this layer!"

The moss isn’t here, yet can be touched by people here... Why is that?

Could it be another form of "seepage"?

"But... what is this seepage all about?"

"What is its logic?"

"What are its origins?"

"What... does it represent?"

"Wait!"

"In this place where a tomato isn’t a tomato, could the moss also not be moss?"

"Could this moss be merely ’moss’ within cognition?"

"Is it actually not moss, but something from another layer, displaying characteristics of moss in this layer?!"

A three-dimensional sphere becomes just a circle in two dimensions; who knows what moss is in another layer?!

Lin Yi felt a bit disoriented. Just as this thought crossed his mind, the surrounding light seemed to dim in an imperceptible fashion, as though invisible hands were tweaking the world’s color settings, gradually shifting colors towards gray...

As the world’s colors changed, the moss’s color became even more dazzling. It twisted and grew like deep-sea weeds, the Sea Monster’s hair ribbon, swaying without wind, twisting, growing, transforming... Then, like tendrils, it moved closer, and finally, the ends split open like a carnivorous plant, slowly revealing its spiky maw...

Simultaneously, Lin Yi’s school uniform began to flutter as well, as if a sourceless breeze had stirred it, gently moving it.

"Sss... Sss..."

A sound like a gas leak came wafting in with the cold wind, twining around Lin Yi’s ear, intangible and utterly bizarre.

And because this sound was too faint, the subconscious would enhance the auditory output, so Lin Yi’s attention unwarily intensified a bit more. Within this sound of the wind, he seemed to hear a "rustle, rustle, rustle" sound, somewhat like waves lapping onto a beach, revealing a burst of bubbles...

Lin Yi’s pupils fiercely trembled, and his body almost reflexively shivered.

He violently pushed himself off the ground, extracting his body from the state of leaning over and listening, like a fitness fanatic jumping into action.

As he suddenly snapped back to reality, that eerie, cold breath clinging to him like liquid stretched and shattered, falling into an unknown void.

The invisible tentacles, like those of a carnivorous plant, also helplessly collapsed and then fell into the dark abyss below.

The faded world regained its luster, the silent world was reborn with some noisy sounds, the cold feeling went away, and the warm sunlight enveloped him again.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Having regained his composure, Lin Yi slowly gasped for air, his brows knitted with a solemn expression.

"Old Lin, are you okay?" Wei Liang waved his hand in front of Lin Yi’s eyes and said speechlessly, "Even if you haven’t eaten enough, you didn’t have to squat down to eat Moss, right? Besides, don’t you have food in your bag? Are you already considering backup ingredients?"

Lin Yi: "..."

Lin Yi glanced at him: "I’m fine, let’s go back to the classroom."

Seeing this, Wei Liang smiled and climbed the steps, then headed towards the classroom.

Lin Yi followed suit. Watching Wei Liang’s back, he couldn’t help but narrow his eyes.

"Liangzi... exactly how much does he know?"

From leaving the dormitory to returning to the Teaching Building, Lin Yi’s two major discoveries were both related to Wei Liang.

One was on the way to the Cafeteria, which drew his attention to a lamp post without a number, leading him to discover the sculpture-like black Pocket Chef, the dead Pseudo-Human Experience Student, and the sculpture-like Angel feathers.

The other was just now, using the method of slipping down the steps, he was guided to notice the Moss.

What a "slippery" guy!

For Lin Yi, Wei Liang, this once so familiar classmate, had now gradually become a mystery.

His knowledge base was a mystery; you didn’t know what he knew, but he always managed to open up new discoveries for you at critical moments in a way that seemed somewhat self-deprecating and out of tune;

His operations were a mystery; you didn’t know what he would do next, but even when faced with the interception by the green Pocket Chef, he seemed to be able to cleverly resolve it with a move that appeared completely irrelevant to the reality;

And also, how many Crafty Tricks he had was a mystery; with just the flick of a plastic wind curtain, he nearly disabled the humanoid spider-like green Pocket Chef, and with the lift of a tray, he had brought a washing machine and directly shaved the Pseudo-Human blue Pocket Chef bald...

Most crucially, he could always keep himself restricted within an "ignorant" concept.

"Pretending to be a fool despite being wise."

At the doorway to Class 2B, Wei Liang paused before opening the door and asked, "Do you want to find Teacher Lin first, or go into the classroom first?"

"Teacher Lin?" Lin Yi was startled at first, then quickly realized it was the Class Teacher-040, Lin Shiling, and said, "At this time... she should be in the classroom waiting for us to sign in, right?"

"Oh, right! Let’s go in then!" Wei Liang slapped his head and "suddenly" said.

"Wait a moment Liangzi, wait a moment!" Lin Yi quickly grabbed Wei Liang, then under Wei Liang’s puzzled gaze, pondered over his words, wondering if there was any deeper meaning...

Wei Liang: "..."

"Damn, Old Lin, are you trying to oppose the natural order?" Wei Liang curled his lips and pushed open the door forcefully, "I’ll emphasize again, it’s me clinging to you, not you clinging to me, ojbk?"

Lin Yi’s gaze through the door crack spotted Class Teacher-040 indeed sitting in front of the lectern. It seemed he had really overthought it.

Then the two of them entered the classroom one after the other.

As he stepped over the threshold into the classroom, Lin Yi finally felt that long-missed sense of warmth.

This kind of warmth... it was like the heating was turned on, yet entirely different, as if this classroom was the one exposed to the sun.

Class Teacher-040 sat in front of the lectern, idly supporting her somewhat rosy cheeks with one hand, puffing a cheek with air, shifting left and right.

Today, she had not tied her hair into a bun, letting her slightly wavy long hair fall along her cheeks, the slightly curled eyelashes casting a frost silk-like beauty in the morning light outside the window.

When the door opened, Class Teacher-040’s gaze drifted over, and the black marker in her fingers paused slightly.

"Come sign in."

Class Teacher-040 spoke gently, her voice drifting slowly.

Hearing this, Lin Yi and Wei Liang closed the classroom door and prepared to walk towards the lectern, but at that moment, Lin Yi felt a premonition of sorts and glanced over the stepped classroom.

The next moment, Lin Yi’s expression changed, and his heart skipped a beat.