AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 546 - 246: The Eerie Feeling of "Familiarity

Chapter 546: Chapter 246: The Eerie Feeling of "Familiarity

Inside the lecture hall... there was not a single person!

Lin Yi still remembered that on May 8th, there were a total of 90 people in the classroom. Since he hadn’t seen the sports students in the evening, he counted during the day, at which time there were 18 sports students in total. After dinner, including him and Wei Liang, there were 34 experience students, and 38 pseudo-human students.

In this count, Li Huiyuan was already excluded.

During the evening roll call, Class Teacher-040 called the names of eight people with high inspiration, who then went to the dormitory building.

Among these eight people were him, Wei Liang, Mountain Man, and... Song Rentou. He couldn’t remember the other four; he vaguely remembered one was called Liu Jingning, but he couldn’t match the face.

Not everyone fell out of line after Class Teacher-040 finished calling names; some of the people went back to the dormitories with the experience students.

That day, in addition to the eight whose names were called, another four people followed them back to the dormitory.

That is to say, the eight names corresponded to twelve people; there was no way to match them.

After twelve of the thirty-four experience students left, there were only twenty-two left in the classroom...

But now, not a single one was left!

"Could they have been wiped out?" A rather terrifying thought flashed through Lin Yi’s mind.

Under the influence of "It-I," the pseudo-humans had a limited range of activity, but this did not mean that the experience students were absolutely safe. After witnessing the horror of the Sneering Angel and the revulsion of that nightwalker tide, Lin Yi wouldn’t find it strange if all the experience students in the classroom were wiped out.

Thinking this, Lin Yi was suddenly startled. Had he become so numb to others?

The idea "Even if they all died, I would not find it strange" had actually surfaced in his mind!

"This...?"

"Could a disaster really change a person’s worldview?"

Lin Yi never considered himself indifferent to life, until... he realized he had inadvertently expressed a disregard for life.

He felt a bit scared, as if he had unwittingly become somewhat unlike himself...

Yet on further thought, why had the idea "I am no longer like myself" even come to him?

What was the old him like?

Just as that thought crossed his mind, Wei Liang patted his shoulder from behind, "Old Lin, what are you spacing out about?"

Jolted from his thoughts, Lin Yi shuddered and quickly came to his senses, "Ah? Oh! Nothing, just spaced out..."

After calming down, he thought maybe things weren’t as dark as he feared. It was after 8 AM; perhaps those people had gone to the cafeteria for breakfast when the time came. To understand the situation, he would have to wait a little while longer.

He walked up to the podium and then squinted at the chest of Class Teacher-040 from a distance, attempting to observe the class teacher’s badge.

But just like the day before, Class Teacher-040’s sitting posture was somewhat lazy, and the badge on the chest was barely visible.

Class Teacher-040, naturally aware of Lin Yi’s intentions, adjusted seating posture, sat up straight, and made the badge on the chest clear.

Seeing the badge made of white acrylic material bearing the thorny wreath and the inscription "Class Teacher-B2-040," Lin Yi finally felt at ease.

"Lin Yi, student number X0230506098," Lin Yi spoke out, then stared at the blue folder in the hands of the class teacher, trying to see something within it.

Class Teacher-040 opened the folder, found Lin Yi’s name, and then checked it off.

Lin Yi kept his focus on the list; at a certain moment, he noticed that Class Teacher-040’s movements slowed down, and his eyes, like focusing lenses, began to discern the details more clearly.

He saw that on the list next to his name was his student number, followed by a cell divided into top and bottom rows, and there was another row of cells in the middle, apparently for each day’s morning and evening.

Among these, he noticed that the cell marked "5/6" had a "√" underneath, "5/7," "5/8" had a "√" in both the top and bottom cells, and now, Class Teacher-040 had marked a "√" in the top half of the "5/9" cell.

It was the same for Wei Liang.

Taking advantage of this time, he quickly swept over the symbols by other people’s names.

On the entire list, there were four types of symbols: "〇," "√," "×," and "/."

However, "〇" was placed on the name of the student, not in the roll call boxes, and so was "/"; this symbol crossed out the name.

"√" is something he, as someone alive, could understand; "×" indicated those who had not come to roll call, which he could also understand.

But what "〇" and "/" represented, he didn’t know.

Because he noticed the names Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang were circled, he could roughly infer that this was a marker for sports students or those staying at school, but... he was not sure which symbol represented art students.

He couldn’t determine if the strikethrough was for art students or pseudo-humans or if it meant something else entirely.

Because he found quite a few names with strikethroughs, and some had a line underneath after being crossed out. In the roll call boxes for these people, there were both "√" and "×," looking very disordered, just like an ordinary school’s attendance list, where students sometimes show up and sometimes don’t.

But this was S City University, so this attendance list was surely of great significance.

He didn’t have time to ponder too much, so he quickly noted down some details.