AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 581 - 263 Ambush_2

Chapter 581: Chapter 263 Ambush_2

Even the gym ahead seemed to have an inexplicable eeriness.

"Liangzi, do you think we might have taken the wrong turn?" Lin Yi asked in a low voice.

Wei Liang shook his head and replied, "Oh, don’t be so paranoid. How could we take a wrong turn? It’s just the weather that’s a bit off. Let’s hurry to the gym!"

Convinced by Wei Liang’s words, Lin Yi also understood a bit. Indeed... conscious "doubt" and wavering "doubt" are essentially the same questioning feeling, which can easily undermine impregnable cognitive defenses.

Thus, Lin Yi calmed down a bit and continued walking towards the gym with Wei Liang on the cobblestone path.

The path wasn’t long; it was just a bit winding. All they needed to do was keep heading towards the gym to arrive.

Yet, after walking for a while, Lin Yi felt something was off again and hurriedly called out to Wei Liang, "Liangzi, wait a moment!"

He quickly knelt down to look at the cobblestone path beneath his feet, and this look truly filled him with a form of intangible terror!

The cobblestones... were distorted!

"I knew something was wrong!" Lin Yi’s face turned sour instantly, "Liangzi, come over here, there’s something wrong with this path!"

When he looked up, however, he saw Wei Liang continuing to walk ahead as if he hadn’t heard him at all.

"Tch!" Lin Yi muttered under his breath and hurriedly ran forward, shouting as he did, "Liangzi, Liangzi! Don’t go ahead! Wait up!"

But Wei Liang couldn’t hear him at all and kept walking forward steadily.

Lin Yi became increasingly anxious and couldn’t help but speed up his pace, but he was completely unaware that the entire world around him seemed to twist and tremble.

After running just a few steps, he realized something was very wrong and quickly looked around. But the world around him was as if wrapped in a distortion mirror, expanding, contracting, and twisting in a way that defied logic...

The green forest belt nearby was stretched out in some parts like an inflated balloon and in other parts, it dented as if it had been tapped on glass.

And the cobblestone road under Lin Yi’s feet became as smooth as Dove chocolate ribbons, each stone changing its shape, stretching like rubber gum, filling up all the gaps in the path...

Even more bizarre, when Lin Yi’s gaze reached the sky, he noticed that even the sky turned into abstract cartoon drawings, with thick clouds floating like bubbles...

But if it had been clear skies and white clouds, it would have been tolerable. Instead, the sky was a gloomy, oppressive blanket, resembling a horror film set.

Lin Yi realized he seemed to have fallen into a painting!

No—not fallen, but rather, he was already inside!

"Cognitive Overwrite!" The skin on Lin Yi’s head tingled as he realized his predicament and instantly reacted, "Art Student’s trick!"

At the same time, an intense sense of crisis enveloped him like Death swinging its massive scythe, his subconscious began reacting, he heard a train-like roaring in his ears, and his vision began flickering rapidly...

His brain felt overloaded, frantically processing all environmental factors around him, while his body, unable to keep up with the brain’s expenditure, was eroded by fatigue and then he knelt on the ground on one knee.

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Lin Yi propped himself up on his hands, breathing becoming labored, while in the corner of his eye, he faintly saw a blurry figure emerging from a patch of the green forest belt by the cobblestone path, slowly pressing towards him.

It was a person entirely wrapped in bandages, carrying an indistinct object on his back, ambiguous if it was a cylinder or a gourd.

"Huff, huff... Pseudo-human... Art Student... huff..."

Sweat emerged finely on Lin Yi’s forehead, his vision somewhat blurred, but his will was strangely clear.

"Being targeted... even came all the way here to deal with me..."

"Really appreciates me, huh..."

The Bandage Pseudo-human Art Student approached not too far from Lin Yi, looking at him, somewhat ragged, as if suffering from split personalities, muttering non-stop in two different tones:

"Bu Ze is such a hassle... I kind of don’t want to Bu Ze him anymore... maybe just kill him..."

"Don’t disobey Old Ren’s orders!"

"Old Ren is at the convenience store with Zhang Lingzhen, how could he possibly know what this guy is really like?"

"Hmm..."

"Also, I haven’t eaten enough... just look at him again."

"His physical condition really is excellent..."

"His flesh, his heart..."

"Slurp—"

"It looks really delicious... Let’s eat the tasty parts first, the rest can be recycled to create a top-quality sculpture embryo..."

"Hehehe... What do you think?"

"This..."

"Don’t hesitate now, how about this: I’ll give you ten percent... no, thirty-five percent! How about that?"

"This..."

"Forty percent!"

"Deal!"

"That’s right! Let’s skip the tedious ’Purification’ process and start the ’Physical Blessing’ immediately!"

"Hahahahaha..."

It gradually approached Lin Yi, the bandage around its mouth loosening to reveal a ghastly pale mouth brimming with sharp teeth.

The bandages on its body began to unravel like ribbons, mutating into something resembling iron chains, dragging behind them a trail of sparks...

Lin Yi seemed unable to move, yet he saw everything clearly; his knowledge about Art Students was too limited, the only reference he had was Mu Daxian...

Of course, if this Pseudo-Human Art Student truly possessed skills like those of Mu Daxian’s, then unless Lin Yi somehow cheated death on the spot, he was undeniably doomed.

Lin Yi quickly surveyed his surroundings. Everything was distorted, including him, but the Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student seemed wholly unaffected.

"It has adapted to its overwritten environment, and I am essentially within its domain..."

"What to do... what to do?!"

"It has overwritten reality, and except for the ground under my feet which I can confirm is still cobblestone, I know nothing else!"

"If I run blindly, the least of my worries would be crashing into the Green Forest Belt. If I chance to step into emptiness, tumble down a slope, or get lost in the Green Forest or deeper woods, even if I managed to escape, it would be out of the Dragon’s Pool and into the Tiger’s Den..."

Just then, Lin Yi heard the "rushing" sound next to his ear, the chain-like bandages slithering over like flexible snakes, attempting to coil around him.

He quickly dodged a bit.

"Oh, you still have the ability to move?" a hint of surprise appeared at the corner of the Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student’s mouth, "Senses are normal... cognition hasn’t got much problem... pretty good."

It seemed that within such a domain, an Experience Student should theoretically be utterly powerless.

The palm under its bandage was unnaturally pale as it spoke; yet, one of its fingers unnaturally bent ninety degrees as if triggering a mechanism, causing the bandage to agilely lash out and immediately entwined Lin Yi’s calf.

With a gentle tug, it pulled Lin Yi back, and he fell backward onto the ground, the backpack absorbing some of the impact that would have otherwise been much harder.

Even so, the shoes in his backpack jabbed painfully into his lower back.

"Ugh!"

Lin Yi clenched his teeth in pain, instinctively reaching out to grab a cobblestone from the ground; unfortunately, the current ground was slicker than hair washed with shampoo, the pebbles as if smoothed over, leaving no trace to grasp.

Not even breaking fingernails would help!

At that moment, several more bandages tangled over, binding his arms and legs, then slowly dragged him in front of the Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student.

"I’m a bit regretful... maybe I should have used ’Bu Ze’..."

However, it clearly looked appreciative, yet the next moment, its sharp, ferocious mouth curved into a cruel arc: "’Bu Ze’ whatever ’Bu Ze’? I don’t agree now, I must eat! Absolutely must!"

"At the very least... let’s eat its heart, we’ll draw a fake one, Old Ren won’t notice anyways!"

Looking down at Lin Yi lying beneath it, under its somewhat slackened bandages, a pair of eyes appeared on the lower half of its face, starkly contrasting the ferocious expression above, devoid of any emotion, nearly petrified and gray-white.

Despite the hopelessness of escape, Lin Yi still struggled continuously, and in the midst of his struggles, his gaze inadvertently fell upon this Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student’s face, and at that moment, his heart suddenly jolted!

This face of the Bandage Pseudo-Human Art Student... oddly felt familiar!