AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 568 - 257: Shocking Change in the Passage

Chapter 568: Chapter 257: Shocking Change in the Passage

The Penguin Pseudo-Human Art Student’s deep-set eyes suddenly flashed with a chill, golden light: "Could he be one of those who escaped Teacher Bu Ze’s people?"

"It’s him," nodded Zhang Lingzhen.

"Seems like a tough nut to crack," the Penguin Pseudo-Human Art Student muttered thoughtfully, "We need to prepare for the ’Physical Blessing’."

The Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student nodded slightly: "I handle things, you can count on me."

Strangely, as the Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student nodded, there was a stiff motion, as if slightly bowing.

The figures of these individuals gradually disappeared into the other passages.

...

When the threat-filled atmosphere disappeared from Lin Yi’s perception, he lifted his head again, looking toward the other passages.

As he watched the scattered entrance of "people" into them, his eyes gradually narrowed, thoughtful.

"The people taking the other passages seem unusually numerous today," Wei Liang remarked beside him.

Lin Yi nodded: "Indeed..."

"It seems they all lost their Student ID cards," Wei Liang said.

Lin Yi suddenly turned to look at Wei Liang, as if reminded of something.

Wei Liang, confused, widened his eyes and spread his hands: "What’s wrong, did I say something incorrect?"

"You didn’t say anything wrong, it was my mistake," Lin Yi murmured.

He had made a mistake, one that Wei Liang had inadvertently reminded him of just then.

Due to expanded awareness, he had assumed the people entering the other passages were Sports Students, Art Students, and Pseudo-Human Art Students, but he had forgotten about the group that had "lost their Student ID cards."

Was Zhou Yuting that day someone who lost her Student ID card and, afraid of whatever took it, begged Xu Shun to lead her through the other passage?

Did this mean another Pseudo-Human Zhou Yuting was born?

The birth of a pseudo-human, after all, is based on someone losing their identity or... their life.

He looked down at his watch.

10:39.

"Time’s about right; shall we wait at the entrance of the Student Cafeteria?" he glanced at Wei Liang.

"Sure, I’ll follow your lead."

A minute later, after confirming the sign for the Student Passage, Lin Yi stepped into the passage with Wei Liang.

Just as his body traversed the boundary between the passage entrance and the outside, whether due to the structure of the passage or something else, a gust charged down the stairs from within the passage, making his body sway slightly.

The wind circled around his ears before, like a ghost, a strange, deep call emerged:

[Lin Yi... hehehe...]

[Lin Yi...]

Lin Yi’s step faltered suddenly, but by the time he realized it, the sound had drifted away, as though it was just a vortex that had brushed past him and then whirled away...

Yet, despite this, a seed of eeriness seemed to have been deeply planted; Lin Yi began to feel a bizarre itch in his heart, an uncomfortable sensation though he couldn’t pinpoint why.

Looking at the Student Passage he had just entered, something seemed increasingly amiss.

Indeed, he had always felt that the most serious problems were hidden in the cafeteria area, whether it was from the perspective of its existing units, its internal hidden areas, or... its layer aspects.

Especially from the layer perspective.

If entering each door of the Teaching Building felt like traversing through a layer, then in the cafeteria area, aside from things like the plastic air curtains that act like "doors" marking the boundaries between layers, things like the Student Passage that inherently do not have a door also seemed to carry the attribute of a "door."

Just as he realized this, he suddenly felt as if he figured out something—’That’s right!’

’Layered stratification!’

’It’s because there are different layers, even at the same spatial point there are countless branches... Which is why when Liangzi and I ’teamed up’ to enter the Student Passage, there were only the two of us in the whole passage!’

He looked around; the crowd that had been there before now seemed blurred, completely invisible!

And as he realized this, he seemed to see shadows next to him, each shadow a different Experience Student, yet these Experience Students and Lin Yi seemed like people from different dimensions.

These people only had vague outlines, passing by Lin Yi and Wei Liang, the whole scene resembling that cinematic technique used to highlight a slow-motion movement of the protagonist through a bustling crowd.

Lin Yi instantly understood: ’Actually, everyone is inside here, but due to recognition or other dimensional issues... everyone only has their own ’copy’!’

Wei Liang seemed not to have noticed that Lin Yi had stopped and was silently continuing forward.

Seeing this, Lin Yi hurriedly followed.

But as he caught up, he found Wei Liang was always a step ahead, and although it seemed he caught up, he never really could!

[Hehehe... Lin Yi...]

A chilling wind struck, hitting the back of his neck, causing his hair to stand on end; his whole body shivered, his scalp tingling.

"Liangzi!" Lin Yi called out to Wei Liang, but Wei Liang seemed to not hear him at all and continued walking forward.

Just then, a fierce wind suddenly swept through from the Student Passage, rushing down as if it had accelerated through some rugged highland terrain in a gorge, enveloping the figure of Wei Liang ahead and striking Lin Yi!