AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 571 - 258 "Sorry, Time’s Up."_2

Chapter 571: Chapter 258 "Sorry, Time’s Up."_2

"I don’t care how long your staircase is, I’m absolutely ’certain’ that I only need to walk up a hundred floors to get out."

If that’s not enough, then add another time anchor.

To Lin Yi, these were the conditions for leaving.

But for those human sculptures that had been trapped in the layers for who knows how long, they absolutely couldn’t grasp Lin Yi’s idea, so they could only watch helplessly as Lin Yi disappeared.

It’s too subtle...just too subtle...

Wei Liang’s offhand remark had unexpectedly become the key clue Lin Yi needed to break the situation.

"Damn..." Lin Yi suddenly paused, "Come to think of it, why does Liangzi know the exact number of steps here?"

"Could it be... Is this also experience Liangzi summed up from his first visit here?"

"Or... has he encountered the same crisis I just did?"

If Wei Liang had merely counted the steps out of boredom that would be one thing, but if he had faced such a crisis... Lin Yi drew a sharp breath. He certainly wouldn’t have known this method back then, so how did he get out?!

Lin Yi’s thoughts were in turmoil, observing Wei Liang next to him, his mind racing with one idea after another.

Suddenly, Wei Liang burst into "pfft" of laughter.

"Damn...hahaha...hahahaha—Old Lin, you, you you you..." Wei Liang pointed at Lin Yi, shaking with laughter, unable to contain himself, "What’s up with your hair? Did someone slap your face with a mop? Hahahaha...cough cough...cough cough cough..."

Wei Liang was holding his belly, bent over, laughing like crazy.

Lin Yi was speechless, but he didn’t have the time to retort Wei Liang, he just kept gasping for air, his gaze fixed on the exit of the Student Passage, silently watching the Experience Students coming out one by one.

Suddenly, a chill ran down Lin Yi’s spine, and an inexplicable sensation of his hair standing on end emerged.

Almost subconsciously, he quickly glanced behind him.

But, there was nothing behind him.

"You again?" Wei Liang was startled by Lin Yi, "Did you get a bad night’s sleep? Why are you so paranoid?"

"You’re not developing some kind of persecution complex, are you?"

Lin Yi fell silent for a moment, then shook his head: "I’m fine."

"Alright, you know yourself best. If you say you’re fine, then you’re fine." Wei Liang shrugged, "But if you have any problems, remember to tell me in advance...okay?"

"Yeah..." Lin Yi’s heart warmed, touched, he nodded, not expecting Wei Liang’s next words: "I’d better go and report to Teacher Lin for you, and also get a taste of your ’lovey-dovey’ ten minutes..."

Lin Yi: "..."

I treat you like a brother, and you treat me like a stepping stone???

That’s too much!

Just then, someone emerged from the Student Passage—it was Tian Bufan.

As soon as Tian Bufan appeared, he greeted Lin Yi.

Lin Yi quickly approached him and said, "Now we’re only waiting for Wei Sang and Kuai Kuai."

"Don’t worry about Kuai Kuai, just wait for Wei Sang."

"Alright, shall we talk for a bit first?"

"No problem, what progress have you made?" Tian Bufan immediately asked.

Lin Yi quickly responded, "Let’s not talk about that now, I’ve got a question."

"What do you want to ask?"

"I remember you took a digital camera last night, and I’m curious what you captured with it?"

Upon hearing this, Tian Bufan sighed helplessly: "You’re asking about that...sigh..."

"What’s wrong?"

"As soon as I woke up, I checked it out, but unfortunately, I didn’t see much key information," Tian Bufan said, "In order to get a more complete shot, I even changed the battery before starting, but I still miscalculated a bit... The camera’s memory was limited, so it only recorded about 40 minutes before automatically stopping."

"That Pan Jian had already used up part of the memory before entering the school."

On hearing this, Lin Yi also sighed regretfully, "Then... how much did you capture?"

"I aimed the digital camera at the dormitory door, wanting to capture the dormitory supervisor... but it stopped before I got the chance," Tian Bufan said somewhat speechlessly.

"However, the dormitory supervisor didn’t enter the dorm until around 2 am, so even if the camera had enough memory, it probably couldn’t have recorded that long," Lin Yi consoled, "Did you capture anything else?"

"I did capture the moment when the dormitory flipped, almost exactly as Wei Sang described it, and if you turn the volume up to the max, you can hear some strange... noises."

"Noises?" Lin Yi’s eyes lit up, "Do you have it with you, show me."

Tian Bufan reached into his pocket and tossed a digital camera to Lin Yi, "I left the package in the dorm, only brought this camera. However, I don’t recommend you look at it now, let’s go back to the classroom after dinner and take your time."

"The homeroom teacher told me to go straight to the gymnasium as soon as I finished eating," Lin Yi said while putting away the digital camera, obediently giving up on the idea of watching it right now.

"Oh?" Tian Bufan couldn’t help but narrow his eyes, but then he nodded slightly, "This could be a good opportunity to explore the gym... At least, it adds some chances for exploration."

"I’ll do my best..." Lin Yi pursed his lips.

Tian Bufan then asked, "What happened to you that the homeroom teacher would make such a suggestion?"

Lin Yi explained, "The homeroom teacher suspects that I’ve attracted the attention of something. I’ve been pondering, and maybe Maozi was marked by ’It-I’, and then passed a portion of the ’effect’ onto me."

"When you consider contamination transmission, it’s not impossible, but if that were the case, we should all have that kind of problem," Tian Bufan mused.

"Right!" Lin Yi’s eyes brightened, "Did you encounter any problems?"

"Not yet... maybe it’s a cognitive domain issue?"

"Or perhaps some other reason... like the mark transferred wasn’t strong enough, or it dissipated, and wasn’t enough to affect me?"

"We don’t have enough information to make a precise judgment," Tian Bufan shook his head.

"Alright then... But, the homeroom teacher seems to call ’It-I’ an ’Angel’, which seems different from Mu Daxian’s description...," Lin Yi noted.

"Just like we refer to those three levels of It as ’It-I’, ’It-II’, and ’It-III’, other people surely have different names for them," Tian Bufan said.

"Moreover, this actually illustrates a point..."

The consideration that Tian Bufan brought up was something Lin Yi hadn’t thought of. He inquired curiously, "What point?"

"That is, perhaps the homeroom teacher and the art students’ understanding of the concept of ’Angel’ isn’t clear. What exactly is an ’Angel’?"

"What does its observable form look like?"

"And what is its form of existence?"

"The fact that the homeroom teacher and art students have different descriptions of ’Angel’ could very well be because... the boundaries of ’Angel’ are very ambiguous, and to some extent, what we consider ’It-I’, might be the ’Angel’..."

Reminded by Tian Bufan, Lin Yi was also invigorated, "You make sense! Just as each person’s physique is different, ’It-I’ might also have a pollution range! And the lower limit of this range could be the ’Angel’!"

"I totally get that!" Wei Liang couldn’t help but interject, "’Black B*ast’ has a dark fairy that sometimes can’t handle a 1V1 with a lord but can sometimes take on a whole screen’s worth of male units plus those from the shadows that haven’t appeared yet! Her pollution range is extremely broad!"

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched, and his forehead was covered in black lines, "Can’t you use an example from the human world?"

"Huh? Is there a problem?" Wei Liang was puzzled.

"Never mind... no problem," Lin Yi said while rubbing his forehead, yet started thinking deeply.

As a small group, many of their concepts were named by themselves. They were lucky if one or two names matched those given by the campus and that mysterious company, but most of their concepts remained undefined.

Thus, whether it’s ’non-human classmates’ or ’It-I’, they first came up with definitions within their small group, and only after these terms became ’well-known’ would they consider replacing them,

Unaware of Lin Yi’s thoughts, Tian Bufan asked, "What about you, did you discover anything this morning?"

After thinking for a bit, Lin Yi nodded, "I gave the note to the homeroom teacher, and he showed me Song Rentou’s sign-in record from the last visit."

"Does that sign-in record have any clues?" Tian Bufan inquired.

Lin Yi shook his head slightly, "There are few clues... but it’s not devoid of them."