AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 549 - 247 [Run! Lin Yi!! Run!!]_2

Chapter 549: Chapter 247 [Run! Lin Yi!! Run!!]_2

He took a deep breath, cupped some water in his palm, and planned to wash his face, but the sound of the water running made him involuntarily think of the rule "Do not close your eyes while showering in the bathroom" and the glorious achievement of getting lost on the way to the Gymnasium and crawling back. He couldn’t help but freeze for a moment.

"Forget it... With one open and one closed eye while washing my face, who knows where it might fall off to..."

"Just wash my eyes then..."

So he kept one eye open and one closed, scooping up some water to rub his eyes.

But as soon as the water touched his eye, he immediately felt a burning, stinging sensation.

"Hiss—"

He shook his head vigorously, quickly rubbed his eye with the back of his hand, and looked at the stream of water with residual fear on his face.

"What’s going on... Is that water or fire?"

He swallowed and then slowly approached the mirror.

If one didn’t look carefully, his eyes still appeared quite normal.

But when he used his fingers to pull apart his eyelids, he could immediately see the bloodshot edges around his eyeball, which were retracting slowly like spider webs.

The ferocious blood vessels, already similar to tentacles, made one’s heart palpitate. As they began to move, they induced nausea and disgust, as if there were bugs burrowing in his eyes.

"Ah?! What’s this..."

He couldn’t help but pry his eyelids open even more, but at that moment, he had a strange illusion that he didn’t feel any obstruction or discomfort while doing so. Continuing like this, would his eyeballs fall out?

He rolled his eyes and could clearly see the tender flesh at the junction of the eye socket and eyeball, and the blood vessels that had been there before had retreated somewhere out of sight.

However, just then, he suddenly caught a glimpse of a stroke of golden light flashing in his eyes from the mirror reflection...

"Huh?"

Strangely, when that gold light surged, he did not feel any discomfort in his eyes. Instead, there was a refreshing sensation.

He widened his eyes and leaned in close to the mirror for a better look, but now he could no longer see anything out of the ordinary.

"What’s happening..."

Although Lin Yi had previously experienced many instances of crimson-gold light emanating from his eyes, he was unaware of them, so at this moment, he was more perplexed than anything else.

"Sigh..."

Setting it aside for now, he exhaled and decided to head back to the classroom. He turned off the faucet and prepared to leave.

Yet, although he had tightened the faucet, the sound of the water still lingered by his ear.

He twisted the faucet again and found it was definitely tight.

"?"

Confusion flickered in his eyes.

Just then, a strange call faintly echoed in his ear...

[Lin Yi... Lin Yi...]

His body shuddered, and he apprehensively located the source of the voice...

It was the mirror.

The voice coming from the mirror reflection!

He looked up sharply and saw his reflection in the mirror...

"This?!!" He felt goosebumps rise, and a chill circulated around his apical bone.

His own reflection in the mirror had no face, the muscles around the sunken eye sockets writhed as if mimicking his own expression of fright, and the mouthless part seemed to make speaking motions...

The contours of that face were both foreign and familiar, looking like his own faceless self, but since he had never seen himself in that state, it seemed both absurd and unfamiliar.

[Lin Yi, run!]

[Run now!!]

[Get out of the campus! Run now!]

[Hurry... Hurry and run!]

[Run!]

The faceless figure in the mirror violently pounded on the glass as if trying to shatter it and crawl out, scaring Lin Yi so much that he felt as if he was immobilized on the spot, completely unable to move!

The faceless face in the mirror seemed to press against my own face, getting closer and closer, and the roaring sound grew louder and louder!

"They are all deceiving you!"

"They are using you!!!"

"Kill Wei Liang!!"

"Kill him!!!"

"Run! Run!!"

"Run, Lin Yi! Run!!"

Lin Yi’s breathing became heavier, and hot air started to burst from his nose and mouth. He felt an intensely agitated power awakening inside him. He didn’t want to run. He wanted to...

Smash the mirror!

Suddenly, a hand landed on Lin Yi’s shoulder.

"Grr!"

Lin Yi growled, his shoulder shook, and with one hand, he pushed the hand away, but in the next instant, the other person twisted their arm and precisely grabbed his wrist like the Cloud Hands in Tai Chi.

Lin Yi instinctively struggled, but he couldn’t break free at all.

The other person was very strong.

"Hey, Lin Yi, are you okay?" At that moment, a calm and somewhat familiar voice reached his ear, causing him to pause.

Lin Yi turned to look.

"Xu Shunkang?"

"It’s me." Xu Shunkang released the hand that had been gripping Lin Yi’s wrist and gave it a shake, displaying his teeth, "You’re pretty strong."

Strong but still didn’t get away... Lin Yi curled his lips, hesitantly asked, "What are you doing here?"

"Checking for injuries and then leaving." Xu Shunkang said blandly, "What about you, why are you pushing against the mirror like that? Are you feeling unwell?"

"Pushing against the mirror?" Lin Yi paused for a moment, then suddenly realized he didn’t know when he had ended up pressed against the mirror...

"Just now...?!" Lin Yi’s gaze flickered. Just now, the faceless version of himself in the mirror had rushed up, trying to break through, which had scared him into stepping back a bit, but... how did he end up leaning on the mirror instead?

Could it be... that he approached the mirror, which made it look like his reflection was actually hitting the mirror?!

He glanced at the mirror with some panic. The reflection of his face was pale with the shock, but no longer faceless.

He looked over at the faucet. The tightened faucet didn’t make any other sound.

Everything seemed extraordinarily normal, except for him, who seemed a bit abnormal somewhere.

"Are you really okay?" Xu Shunkang asked with some concern.

"I... should be fine for now," Lin Yi said hesitantly.

Xu Shunkang nodded, "All right, as long as you’re fine. Remember to attend the sports class this afternoon. Shall we go back to the classroom together?"

"Uh... okay," Lin Yi replied.

On the way back to the classroom, Lin Yi suddenly asked, "By the way, what about Xie Huayang?"

"He got hurt," Xu Shunkang said, "Pretty normal."

"Did he get hurt last night? Is it related to the ’Grey Mist Invasion’?" Lin Yi added, inquiring, "Is it?"

Xu Shunkang’s steps abruptly halted, and an invisible aura seemed to gather around him. Lin Yi felt as if he saw a stream of sky-blue energy swirling around Xu Shunkang for a moment...

Xu Shunkang slowly glanced over, narrowing his eyes, and spoke in a low voice, "How do you know about that?"

Feeling the nearly tangible pressure from Xu Shunkang, Lin Yi raised his hands, "Don’t worry... it’s just... I overheard it by accident..."

"Impossible, don’t lie to me." Xu Shunkang was intimidating, the matter regarding the Grey Mist Invasion left him with no amiable demeanor.

Lin Yi had already thought of an excuse and quickly said, "It was a person wearing a teal uniform, carrying a drawing board... something about ’Pseudo-Humans’ and ’Bell Sound’ too... I didn’t hear it very clearly... It seemed related to the ’Art Building,’ not sure if it’s that mysterious Art Building mentioned in the rules..."

"’Teal uniform,’ ’carrying a drawing board’..." Xu Shunkang mulled over these keywords, and the pressure on Lin Yi gradually lessened.

Lin Yi let out a silent sigh of relief, knowing it had worked—Sports Students and Art Students were inherently tied, just in charge of different sections and certain "cognitive" domains.

And he also noticed a detail that truly reassured Xu Shunkang, not the mention of the "Art Building," but "carrying a drawing board."