AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 561 - 253 Decipher! The Information in the Comics! Part 2

Chapter 561: Chapter 253 Decipher! The Information in the Comics! Part 2

X023, May 9, 9:05, Teacher’s Office "Group B Class 2".

Class Teacher-040 returned to her desk, pulled open the drawer, and took out a letter. She caressed the letter and glanced at the place where Lin Yi had been sitting, muttering, "039... your judgment was not wrong; this Lin Yi really poses a big problem..."

"Why did the company let him in... what are they really after?"

"Even if there was a plan, why is there no hint of it at all?"

"With his instincts, he shouldn’t have made it through last night..."

"If it weren’t for the security guard arriving in time, he would have already sunk... a contamination case with such a threshold of sensitivity..." Class Teacher-040’s gaze flickered, she could hardly imagine what situation would have unfolded if that scenario had occurred.

"Does the company trust him enough to let him in alone? Without any control measures?"

"What are they thinking?"

She sighed deeply.

"Nevermind, since there are no instructions, I have to act from the ’Class Teacher’ layer. Do what needs to be done, maybe that’s their plan? Respond unwaveringly to all changes..."

She held her cheek, thinking for a long time, then opened Song Rentou’s identity information and compared it back and forth between two pages before picking up a piece of paper to read.

Gradually, her brow furrowed tighter, and her eyes narrowed.

"April..."

"Song Rentou’s admission time to the school was in April, not during the Grey Mist invasion. Why would there be such feedback...so strange?"

"The last Grey Mist invasion was, if I remember correctly, in March..."

She stood up and went to the bookshelf, her slender fingers sliding along the spines, eventually stopping in front of a book with a black cover.

"Found it."

She took out the book and indeed found a document tucked inside.

"HX-S1·72·X023.3.2"

...

X023, May 9, 9:25, Group B Class 2.

Lin Yi continually flipped through the adult comic book, unable to find any clues.

After about ten minutes of reading, he stretched his neck to relieve the irritation from not making any progress while looking for clues in the comic book and then he sighed helplessly.

At this moment, Wei Liang was not at his seat but had already gone to the bookshelf area to swap for a second round of books...

Wei Liang, carrying the books back, looked at Lin Yi who had spread out a comic book and hardly flipped through a few pages, said with a curled lip, speechless, "Old Lin, you’re really nitpicking, aren’t you? Half an hour and you’ve only flipped through these few pages?"

Wei Liang set down his books, grabbed Lin Yi’s book, and riffled through the pages, the pages flipping rapidly like a cascade of bouncing images.

"There’s so much left, at the rate you’re reading, when will you ever finish?"

He speechlessly dropped the book, but noticed Lin Yi was dumbstruck in place.

Before Lin Yi’s eyes flashed countless pages; while Wei Liang riffled through rapidly, Lin Yi didn’t see any illustrations, but the lines added to the pages seemed like virtual images leaping from the pages. With the pages whipping through with a "whoosh," the lines, through visual persistence, seemed to sketch out some scene...

It was as if a firecracker exploded in Lin Yi’s mind, blasting him into a world of clear blankness.

He seemed to have an epiphany!

He picked up the comic book and shoved it back to Wei Liang.

"What the heck?" Wei Liang asked, incredulous.

"Flip it again."

"What?"

"Flip it again!"

"Are you quantum reading or what?" Wei Liang said, doubly incredulous, "If you want to quantum read, do it yourself. I still have a few books left to read!"

Lin Yi gradually recovered his senses. "Right, right, right... You’re right, I should do it myself..."

He almost forgot; his own hands were also hands.

He quickly riffled through the pages.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

Between the fluttering lines, it seemed truly as if some information was being deciphered, twisting and emerging in front of him.

But this message was still too fragmented.

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in surprise, thinking, was it Liangzi reminding him again?

"But since the clue could only be seen by rapidly flipping through, why did Liangzi look at it so slowly?"

"Could there be a technique?"

He then stopped reading the book.

He watched Wei Liang.

He watched every movement of Wei Liang’s body while he flipped through the H-manga, followed every point of his gaze, and memorized the intervals of flipping the pages, stitching together the memories as if he were a human camera, "photographing" every action of Wei Liang.

When Wei Liang finished the book, Lin Yi spoke up, "Let me see it."

"Huh?" Wei Liang paused, glanced at the stack of unread books Lin Yi had, and curled his lips, "Alright, alright, if you want to see it, here you go."

As he spoke, he handed it to Lin Yi.

After taking the book, Lin Yi activated the "photographed" memory of Wei Liang flipping through the book in his mind, and, like a copying ninja, perfectly replicated Wei Liang’s methods, reading the H-manga.

Something eerie happened.

Lin Yi seemed to have opened the correct deciphering technique, and while the first few pages were nothing special, as he ingrained the subsequent pages of handwriting into his mind, a dynamic ink painting appeared before his eyes...

In the ink painting, there was a mountain and the silhouette of a building, which Lin Yi recognized as the scene from the layer where the Art Building was located...

He seemed to be looking at a scene of a siege, where people on the fortress kept throwing things down at the strange creatures that were climbing up from somewhere...

The scene quickly vanished, and a line of text appeared before Lin Yi’s eyes, and at the same time, a voice seemed to read the content of the text:

"March 3, X023...we failed...but fortunately...they succeeded..."

The image "popped" and shattered, disappearing entirely.

Lin Yi realized he had finished reading the book.

He looked up at the time.

9:42.

"That was fast?!"

"Time is passing like it’s being flushed down a toilet..."

Suddenly, it was as if he had an epiphany, and the lines he had seen in the previous book immediately came to mind, then, like connecting dots, he combined them together...

"Pop!" In front of him appeared some ink-like stuff again, but this time there were no images, only a line of text:

"March 9...they seem to be looking for...that road...it must not be found by them...it must not..."

The text faded away, and Lin Yi glanced at the time.

9:43.

"Only one minute this time?"

"Wait, I think I’ve got it!"

Lin Yi opened a brand new book, carefully looking for every clue within the pages, and after finding all the lines, his gaze settled on a particular page, then like zoning out, he started fusing the information in his mind...

Sure enough, this time he obtained new clues.

"May 2, X023...things look bad...I can feel...their aura...you must be careful...the invasion seems about to begin..."

Now mastering the technique, Lin Yi immediately started flipping through other books.

"May 4, X023...last night there was a heavy rain...the Night Watchman stood in front of the cliff all night...he seemed to have discovered something..."

"May 5, X023...the pseudo-human art teacher went to the campus...has not returned..."

"..."

Each book contained information that did not exceed one sentence, and it seemed like a complete sentence, but each hinted at something without clearly pointing it out, as if the pages had limited capacity, or as if...there was still some information that had not been deciphered.

"May 3, X023...the rain was heavy...many nocturnal species...we defended again..."

"Snap!"

Lin Yi closed the last book he had beside him and leaned back heavily in his chair, staring at the ceiling where the white incandescent lights had already gone out, feeling his eyesight blurring a bit.