AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 547 - 246: The Eerie Feeling of "Familiarity"_2

Chapter 547: Chapter 246: The Eerie Feeling of "Familiarity"_2

"Alright, you guys go find a seat." After the signing-in was complete, Class Teacher-040 smiled warmly.

"Okay, Teacher..." Lin Yi replied, but did not leave. He reached into his pocket and touched the piece of paper from Song Rentou.

There weren’t many people in the classroom now; it might be a good opportunity to hand in the paper.

But just as he was about to take out the note, the classroom door was opened by someone.

Those faces looked somewhat familiar, seemingly one of the ten others who had left the classroom for the dormitory yesterday.

"Come here and sign in, give me your name and student number." Class Teacher-040 said.

"Uh... Hu Chuanzhang, student number is..." Hu Chuanzhang, somewhat wary, glanced at Lin Yi and Wei Liang, hesitating whether to wait a moment before speaking.

"What’s the student number? It’s okay, just report the number, just don’t take out your student ID card carelessly." Class Teacher-040 noticed Hu Chuanzhang’s concerns and said.

So Hu Chuanzhang said, "Okay, my student number is X0230507044."

Lin Yi glanced at him and thought, "Is he one of Li Huiyuan’s group?"

Li Huiyuan’s student number was X0230507046; this Hu Chuanzhang with 0507044 must have entered the B Group 2nd Class office one after the other.

After Class Teacher-040 marked a "√", before Lin Yi could figure out whether to take out the note at this moment, another person came in succession, pushing open the classroom door and heading to the lectern to sign in.

Lin Yi sighed quietly to himself, thinking there was no chance now and he’d better just go back to his seat.

So he followed Hu Chuanzhang off the lectern, but just as he turned around, he suddenly heard a voice behind him.

"Teacher, I am Song Rentou."

Lin Yi’s footsteps paused slightly, and in that instant his mind buzzed, and many thoughts popped up in his head.

He quickly came up with a temporary plan!

"Liangzi, I’m going to the restroom, you go back to your seat." He told Wei Liang, then turned around and headed back, covering up the potential attention from Song Rentou that the pause in his steps might have caused.

Wei Liang opened his mouth, about to say that he had already used the "Initial Release" before leaving the dormitory, and now he was going again? But noticing something, he didn’t say it out loud and just nodded his head before stepping up.

Wei Liang’s reaction surprised Lin Yi a bit. According to Wei Liang’s style, he would usually throw out a comment like "Do you have a frequent urination problem?" at this time, but of course, Lin Yi wasn’t in the mood to care about such things.

He let Wei Liang go first on purpose, while he switched his position to behind the lectern.

At this time, he heard Song Rentou reporting his student number: "...30503075."

He pretended to look at the clock on the blackboard, while his ears caught the sound of Class Teacher-040 turning pages. When Class Teacher-040 started writing, he naturally withdrew his gaze from the clock and casually glanced over the list.

He didn’t search for Song Rentou’s name on a page full of names, but instead looked straight at the tip of the pen in Class Teacher-040’s hand, then backtracked to check Song Rentou’s attendance record.

After one glance, he’d memorized Song Rentou’s name, student number, and attendance record like a human printer.

Then, passing behind Class Teacher-040, he casually moved his gaze towards the classroom door.

In this process, he quickly noted down Song Rentou’s appearance.

However, just as his gaze landed on Song Rentou, everything around him seemed to slow down...

A miraculous transformation, ineffably, occurred within Lin Yi, as if he could sense the world growing much quieter, and the footsteps of Wei Liang and Hu Chuanzhang seemed to be in slow motion...

Whistling winds that only appeared in dreams faintly emerged by his ears, and his vision began to flicker and jump, as if it were highly unstable...

At this moment, his gaze settled on Song Rentou.

Song Rentou had opened his clothes, revealing a hoodie underneath and a loose school uniform over it. His build was slightly above average, similar to Lin Yi and Wei Liang in appearance.

What caught Lin Yi’s attention, however, was that there seemed to be something off with Song Rentou’s facial muscles. The muscles at the corners of his eyes and mouth twitched from time to time, like symptoms of a nervous tic.

His school uniform was very clean, but the clothes underneath seemed dirty, as if they hadn’t been washed.

And what made Lin Yi feel eerie was that upon seeing Song Rentou’s face, even though he was certain he had never seen him before, he felt a faint sense of familiarity!

However, if it were truly "familiarity," it wouldn’t make sense to feel nothing at first glance.

If there was indeed some "familiarity," then... where had he seen him before?

At the same time, an even more bizarre scene unfolded...

The flickering in Lin Yi’s vision became more frequent, and the "clang clang clang" sound of the wind by his ears grew more urgent. When he looked at Song Rentou, the whole world seemed to destabilize, the light and shadow began to warp, and behind Song Rentou, he thought he saw a distorted shadow...

It was a pure black human silhouette, like the shadow of a giant in the mist of a snow mountain, vague and elusive, yet the sockets of the eyes emitted a pure white glare akin to car headlights...

The black silhouette twisted gently like seaweed, swaying, its mouth corners faintly revealing a crescent moon-like grin that reached toward the ears.

Its appearance seemed to be accompanied by violent wind and a sharp howling, as if one were in the midst of a fierce storm.

Lin Yi’s field of vision kept flashing rapidly, his eyeballs also trembling nonstop from side to side, like a water balloon on the verge of bursting. Then, his gaze unintentionally slipped, and he saw that shadow behind Song Rentou...

The moment Lin Yi’s trembling eyes saw that shadow, they suddenly stopped jumping, but his pupils involuntarily focused abruptly, filled with fierce blood vessels in the whites.

And that shadow, as if shocked, instantly ceased its unnatural eerie swaying.

In this instant, Lin Yi’s "Vision" was filled with a jumble of light and shadows, black and white lines scattered like an unordered chaotic grid covering his sight, with dazzling colors filling each square and constantly switching places. His "Vision" detected a massive, meaningless or perhaps momentarily unused, or maybe even cognitively surpassing stream of information. They surged tumultuously, as if intent on boring into his brain through his "Vision"!

Lin Yi subconsciously shook his head, blinked, and in that instant, the shadow, swift as an eel, "slipped" back into Song Rentou’s body. At the same time, the urgent whistling Lin Yi heard by his ears began to rapidly fade, and his flickering vision abruptly reverted to normal.

He rubbed his somewhat dry eyes, Lin Yi passed by Song Rentou and walked towards the classroom door.

But just then, a voice suddenly called out from behind him.

"Classmate."

Lin Yi, who had just reached for the doorknob, paused abruptly.

He knew someone was calling him.

It was Song Rentou calling him.

So he discreetly took a half breath and then slowly turned around.

In the interval of turning, a flurry of thoughts crossed his mind, but by the time he faced Song Rentou, his expression was already one of natural and ordinary "confusion," his eyebrows slightly curved and his eyes slightly widened as if to say: Huh, is someone calling me?

Sure enough, it was Song Rentou.

Having signed in, Song Rentou stepped down from the podium and approached Lin Yi, eyeing him unabashedly. Then hesitantly, with furrowed brows, he said, "Fellow student, have we... met somewhere before?"