AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 564 - 255 "This world... is broken and incomplete...

Chapter 564: Chapter 255 "This world... is broken and incomplete...

Lin Yi suddenly realized — "I can’t expose my student ID!"

So he trembled his lips, took a deep breath, and rapidly imagined any kind of memory that could be quickly invoked, one that was anchored to his self...

But no matter how hard he tried to recall, those sinister and rampant laughs haunted his ears, sounding like bandages floating in the air around him, not tightening yet waiting for him to crash into them.

He couldn’t crash into them.

Touching this thing would trap him like a snare, tightening more and more until it finally choked him to death.

He tried to recall the countless H-manga he had just flipped through, but he hadn’t paid close attention; the rough lines were useless.

He began to understand why Wei Liang still bothered to peek through the gaps — because peeping can deeply impress the content of H-manga on one’s mind, preventing situations like his current predicament of helplessness.

"Eh, wait... Liangzi?!"

At the critical moment, Lin Yi found inspiration from Wei Liang!

"Liangzi, Liangzi... classroom... classmates, Sports Student... PE class, PE class, PE class... swimming pool... Boss!"

"Boss!!"

In Lin Yi’s mind, an image of Boss Leo’s flying kick suddenly emerged...

In that dire situation, he still had to believe in the Boss!

But it wasn’t enough, he only had the image in his mind while the eerie laughter still hadn’t faded...

So Lin Yi realized.

The H-manga frames that had briefly flashed before his eyes, especially the battle scenes from "Ikkitousen" which he had seriously looked at before, were now superimposed onto Boss...

Damn... the feeling is coming...

Lin Yi instantly felt his blood boiling — no, it was his qi surging; the explosive fighting frames between the beautiful girls and mature ladies filled his mind, displacing all the sinister laughter and the sounds of the wind, leaving only the image of the Boss with the Erupting Qi, his clothes bursting, holding the Green Dragon Crescent Blade and fighting against five...

Gradually, Lin Yi felt the timing was right and hastily added a "Phantom Vision."

He controlled his imagination to shift the perspective to the front of "Boss," and then, he saw "Boss" deliver a flying kick to an opponent, followed by an aerial spin kick taking down two more, and then the cool twist of a profile...

"Liangzi, lend me a hand!!!"

Lin Yi roared inside, and as "Boss" turned around... it was Wei Liang’s face.

"I—pfft—"

The stark contrast shattered Lin Yi’s fantasies, but it also swept away the terrifying Phantom Vision that was unbearably uncomfortable and inescapable...

Lin Yi saw everything around him opening up slowly like peeling petals, revealing the real classroom bookshelf bit by bit as if peeling an onion.

Back... truly back...

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Lin Yi dropped the book beside him and sat on the ground, gasping heavily. He was drenched in sweat, and his back was icy cold; he didn’t know whether it was the aftermath of being nearly trapped in that daunting Phantom Vision or the shock of seeing the Devil’s figure of Boss with Wei Liang’s face on it...

But it must be said, such imagination was indeed extremely imaginative and explosively intense.

"Such a sneaky trick... can only be used once. If Liangzi finds out, my innocence will truly not hold up..."

Not to mention how Boss would view him...

Would Boss crush his face?

"Hiss..."

Lin Yi suddenly shuddered and stopped thinking about these things.

"Speaking of which... the clues in these H-manga need to be combined to be readable... like putting together a puzzle."

No, maybe it’s more apt to describe it as assembling a motorized toy.

Missing some parts, it can’t move, but if assembled completely, or as much as possible, it can start to move or run!

And when the information from a certain day is complete enough, a Phantom Vision like the one he just experienced can occur.

But to prevent going too deep into the Phantom Vision, one needs to anchor oneself in advance, so... that’s why they need H-manga, something that can invoke Human desires.

"Perhaps that’s exactly why they chose to use this for communication... otherwise, if they were to use all kinds of strange books, geography or whatever to record information, it would be really easy to have problems in the anchoring step."

Lin Yi realized.

He glanced at his watch.

10:12.

Time didn’t seem to have been used much, but he had no intention of continuing to look at H-manga.

The other reasons were secondary; the main issue was that the consumption was too much to keep up with.

He then reached out for the H-manga, but a sudden gust of wind flipped the pages and landed on the title page.

The title page of the H-manga displayed a pure black background in the style of Fujimoto Y*shihiro, adorned with several pure white speech bubbles containing discontinuous sentences.

"This world... is broken beyond repair..."

"The time left for you..."

"Isn’t much..."

This was a cyber-style H-manga, probably titled "Cyber Utopia Battle Delight," with a protagonist who was a mechanically-augmented girl with a somewhat unstable spirit.

The story within roughly tells of how the girl fights and loves concurrently, gathering loot to strengthen herself, and in the name of love, obliterates all kinds of bizarre creatures in the cyber world, subtly promoting a highly avant-garde philosophy akin to an apocalyptic Platonic view of cybernetic love...

"Become a part of me, fight alongside me!"

"Revive as a part of my body in the form of spare parts! My—lover!!"