AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 565 - 255 "This world... is broken and incomplete..."_2

Chapter 565: Chapter 255 "This world... is broken and incomplete..."_2

Of course, this was just the story on the cover of the comic book, and Lin Yi didn’t pay much attention to the content. He just slid it back into the bookshelf.

By the time Lin Yi left the bookshelf area, there were very few Experience Students left in the classroom; most had hurried off to the cafeteria for a meal.

Among those Experience Students, there were actually a few who had survived along with Li Huiyuan’s batch, but compared to their carefree laughter on the afternoon of May 7th when they entered the school and their ignorance of the severity of the situation on May 8th, the light had long vanished from their eyes today, turning into a closed-off, numb-looking expression.

What Lin Yi found incredible, however, was that Song Rentou was still sitting in the corner of the classroom, stretching his neck to look at the landscape outside the window as if there was some uniquely beautiful scenery there.

Mountain Man, on the other hand, was fiddling with some small parts of something, as if he was assembling some kind of precision electronic instrument.

This made him even more puzzled; there were almost no electronic signals within the campus area. What was Mountain Man tinkering with?

But he quickly retracted his gaze. As for Mountain Man, who could casually produce a set of exoskeleton armor, with his current understanding of technology, he truly couldn’t predict what kind of gadget Mountain Man would pull out next.

One thing was certain, though: the thing he was assembling was surely a key piece of equipment in his plan.

It seemed as if Mountain Man felt someone watching him; he lifted his head and glanced over at Lin Yi’s direction. By then, Lin Yi had already walked over to Wei Liang’s side.

"..." Mountain Man pondered thoughtfully. Although he had only entered the school the day before, he was curious about Lin Yi and Wei Liang, who had entered the school before him and still had a spark in their eyes after several days of life there.

Normally, anyone’s spirit would become abnormal once they entered the campus area; on the contrary, Experience Students whose spirits remained constantly normal seemed to be in particularly bad shape.

However, his curiosity was limited. He lowered his head and started to tinker with the parts in his hands again, then he took out something that resembled a piece of glass and assembled it onto the device.

On the other side, Wei Liang, watching Lin Yi packing his schoolbag, asked in surprise, "Old Lin, it’s just a meal. Why are you packing your bag?"

Lin Yi didn’t hide his intentions and replied, "Teacher Lin told me I’m done for and to head to the gymnasium after I finish eating."

"So you’re having your last supper then?" Wei Liang responded.

"..." Lin Yi was momentarily at a loss for words, "So, do you want to join me on this journey or not?"

"Of course, I’ll join! You invited me, after all. I’ve been waiting to bask in your glory and find the Boss at the gymnasium!" Wei Liang had already returned his book while waiting for Lin Yi and immediately snatched up his backpack and slung it over his shoulder.

"Then let’s go," Lin Yi said with a smile, and for some reason, he felt much safer with Wei Liang joining him.

As he pushed open the classroom door, the inside and outside air exchanged, creating a gust of cool wind that blew past Lin Yi’s ears.

[Lin Yi...]

In the wind, it seemed like there was a voice calling him.

He jerked in realization but found that everything around him was normal.

The sunlight outside was brilliant, casting directly into the hallway, slicing his shadow into the classroom.

"What’s wrong?" Wei Liang asked.

Lin Yi uncertainly said, "I thought I heard someone calling me just now..."

"That was me calling, handsome!" Wei Liang said incredulously, "Come on, let’s go eat!"

"Oh... Okay," Lin Yi replied, closing the door behind him, but felt eerily as if his shadow had lagged half a beat behind.

He quickly looked back.

The shadow was normal.

"Jeez, Old Lin, are you okay? Don’t startle me like that!" Wei Liang couldn’t help but look around in fear.

Lin Yi let out a sigh of relief and explained, "Ah... my bad. Teacher Lin said I’ve been touched by something unclean, that’s why she told me to go to the gymnasium right after eating."

"Could it be... you stepped in dog poop?" Wei Liang asked hesitantly.

"..." Lin Yi was at a loss for words for a moment and hurriedly said, "Not like that, it’s kind of more... metaphysical."

"Dude, are you okay? Aren’t you the one who believes in science?" Wei Liang retorted.

"Can’t I be converted?" Lin Yi spread his hands and said, "After all this time, whoever talks science to me, I’ll give them a couple of knocks on the head."

Wei Liang pursed his lips and teased, "It’s hard to imagine a staunch materialist like you getting turned so quickly."

Lin Yi thought to himself, I don’t want this either... but do you know what I’ve been through these days? You’ve also played parkour in the cafeteria with me, haven’t you?

"Hey, seeing is believing, right?" he said weakly. "So, you knew from the start?"

"Knew what?" Wei Liang widened his eyes in confusion.

"Knew this place is unscientific!" Lin Yi said.

"Hahahahaha..." Wei Liang let out a maniacal laugh resembling that of Gymnasium Director Jin and then said, "Sigh, the real world is even crazier, right? A classmate a year younger than you could end up being your stepmother, is that scientific?"

"Uh... you can’t really compare the two, can you?"

"Whether it’s scientific or not doesn’t really matter!" Wei Liang waved his hand dismissively, "No matter what happens, I am always mentally prepared. Just think about it, what kind of school pays you thirty thousand for a week’s experience?"

"Even haunted houses charge you to get in! But this school pays you to come in!"

Lin Yi’s expression turned grave as he thought to himself, Could it be that Liangzi has changed his tune and is about to lay his cards on the table?

As expected, Wei Liang continued, "So, there must be something dirty here..."

"Have you ever heard that some places are just naturally bad Feng Shui, heavy with yin energy, a stronghold of the dead? So they need some fresh and lively people to suppress it. This school... look around, it’s surrounded by mountains, isolated from villages and shops... definitely something fishy!"

"Then you still dare to be a repeat customer? And you didn’t even warn me?" Lin Yi said.

Wei Liang smirked: "Have you forgotten? Young Master Tian wanted to have some fun, and you wanted to earn some cash. The rest felt that being idle was being idle, so they came along! As for me... I just came to show off!"

"Who would’ve thought that last time nothing happened, but this time something did?"

Lin Yi was stunned by Wei Liang’s words.

No way, what happened to laying the cards on the table? Why veer off again? Liangzi, did you just Tai Chi your way back to "you know nothing"?

Indeed, Wei Liang took several deep breaths, then patted Lin Yi’s shoulder and said, "Don’t worry! With the great Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial here, we will definitely turn misfortune into fortune!"

"I believe you, Liangzi, how about I cling to your coattails instead?" Lin Yi ventured.

"Scram, scram, scram! I’ll cling to your coattails, and then, with my lucky charm attribute, we’ll double the negatives into a positive, won’t that be perfect?" Wei Liang clapped his hands.

Lin Yi: "..."

Well... actually Wei Liang was not wrong about one thing, both he and Lin Yi were ’negatives’.

Lin Yi sighed deeply. Liangzi’s words were a mixture of truth and bluster, always skirting the edge of the truth, then blasting it away with nitrous oxide for a close-quarters drift diverting the topic... truly maddening.

The two walked along the cobblestone path, and soon they were about to leave the Teaching Building area.

[Lin Yi...]

Suddenly, Lin Yi heard that sound in his ear again, that ethereal sensation, as if coming from some enclosed space with an inexplicable wind wafting and drifting toward him...

It was like... the wind blowing from that place full of old bookshelves and broken windows...

Those things, hung dead with chains, yet not dead, seemed to entangle him.

"Gulp..."

He swallowed his saliva, slowly turned around following the direction of that inexplicable wind, and looked back at the Teaching Building.

The Teaching Building was still there, neither far nor near.

The intermingling light and shadow of the Green Forest Belt, whether touched by the sun or not, whether faintly visible or shrouded in mist, layered upon each other like multiple layers of gauze.

The sound of the wind approached, and the Green Forest Belt rustled as if stirred by a forest wave.

But at this moment, the seemingly unrelated Green Forest Belt and Teaching Building merged with each other, displaying an extremely odd juxtaposition of dynamism and stillness.

The Teaching Building stood there, but the Green Forest Belt around it began to sway like seaweed, and the clouds deep in the sky had thickened at some point, casting a gloom over the sunlight, which had suddenly become much more somber.

From a distance, the immobile Teaching Building gave the impression it had sunk into the seabed.

The sunlight in the cloud sea above was like the sparkle of waves, and those drooping beams of light were like glimmers entering the surface of the sea.

The farther down, the more fragmented the light became. By the time it reached the Teaching Building, all that remained was a repressive, gloomy, and deathly still atmosphere...