AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 588 - 267: Buff Maxed Out, Layers Dropped and Shifted

Chapter 588: Chapter 267: Buff Maxed Out, Layers Dropped and Shifted

At the same time, the content on the signboard in front of the gymnasium surfaced in his mind:

"[The construction location of the gymnasium is somewhat special, the wind may be a bit strong, don’t worry, it’s normal as long as there’s no rain or mist.]"

"[If you find it raining on your way to the gymnasium, please base your direction on the first building you see:

1. If you are facing the gymnasium, rush towards it at full speed on the correct path...]"

These messages kept surfacing, but Lin Yi no longer paid attention to them, as they had lost much of their meaning.

The Green Forest Belt that blocked out the sky completely obstructed his vision, making it impossible to see anything else, let alone decide based on the first building he saw!

"Wait! I think I’ve figured it out!" Lin Yi’s eyes lit up.

"The ’discovering it’s raining’ and the ’first building’ mentioned on the signboard are not referring to the same point in time!"

"The rain is one thing!"

"Discovering it’s raining, I can still keep moving until I see the streetlamp and choose to hold onto it to wait for the Security Emperor to rescue me."

"However, during the movement, I can also decide to follow one of the subsequent rules based on the first building I see!"

"If the path is correct, I will see the gymnasium!"

"If the path is wrong, I will leave the gymnasium area and head back to the Teaching Building!"

"If I’m lost, I’ll see that non-existent castle..."

"And that castle is essentially the Art Building! And according to the ’Student Rules’, if I see it, I need to mark it on the map, not enter it, and then report to the teacher afterwards!"

"The most important thing now... is to find the first building to use as a reference!"

Lin Yi, in a moment of quick thinking, looked to Wei Liang beside him: "Liangzi... How old do you think these trees are?"

Wei Liang was taken aback: "Huh? Why do you ask this? I’m no expert in this area, I can’t tell the age of trees, but they look naturally grown, after all, they’re so tall..."

Hearing Wei Liang’s words, Lin Yi calculated "the height of the trees as seen by Wei Liang," determining that Wei Liang must be seeing the normal Green Forest Belt, not the towering trees he was seeing.

With this certainty in his heart, he then said: "Liangzi, you start running first, I’ll follow you... Just like when we left the Student Passage before."

"Run just like this?" Wei Liang was obviously puzzled, but recalling the scene of carrying Lin Yi down the stairs, he couldn’t help but worry and asked, "Do you need me to give you a hand?"

Lin Yi was subject to pressure from the Layers that was completely different from Wei Liang, feeling the wind and raindrops like bullets growing stronger, he knew time was running out. So he reached out to Wei Liang and then gritted his teeth and shouted, "Let’s go! Hurry! While I can still withstand it!"

"Er... Alright, alright, alright! I got it, I got it!" Wei Liang quickly agreed, muttering softly under his breath, "Why shout so loudly... I’m not hard of hearing."

But muttering aside, his actions were decisive, he took off towards the direction where the gymnasium was located.

Lin Yi took a deep breath and hurried after him, braving the wind and rain, moving forward.

From time to time, he gritted his teeth to glance at the surroundings, seeing only scant sunlight penetrating through this abnormal curtain of rain, yet unable to disperse the gloom it brought.

The light twisted in the droplets, refracting into bizarre and brilliant colors, as if a portal to another dimension was slowly opening...

It seemed as though there were children’s laughter in the wind, but behind those laughs was a shrill and piercing sensation, Lin Yi’s distorted Vision also trembled with it. He tried to capture these beyond-normal images, but could only record a blur of confusion.

Raindrops fell to the ground, into the surrounding trees, making a low and strange noise, as if it were the echoing footsteps of some creature.

That head-on gale carried a hard-to-describe scent, both familiar and foreign, prompting thoughts of dried rotten fish from the deep sea, or of long-forgotten creatures dying in ancient forests and slowly decaying over time...

"Sea breeze carrying the rain... buff stacked to the max!" Lin Yi clenched his teeth, hoping to escape this area before his cognition collapsed and Spirit plummeted.

Strangely enough, even under such distorted visual feedback and cognition rewriting, his spirit was as clear as if it had been steeped in mint juice.

He looked at Wei Liang and noticed that some raindrops passed through Wei Liang’s body while others did not.

It seemed there was rain in both the reality Layers and the abnormal Layers, just like when night falls, real mountain mist and Layer-carrying heavily Contaminated Mist flooded into the campus together.

"Even curious entities need to rely on reality’s medium to invade the campus!"

"Even sunlight rain can’t directly alter the existence of sunlight!"

"Xu Shunkang was right, sunlight is indeed the biggest reliance during the day!"

"It’s not that sunlight rain hasn’t Contaminated us, but because it’s sunlight rain, that’s why it hasn’t completely Contaminated us!"

"Getting drenched is okay, just rush for a quick shower."

In his mind, he thought of what Wei Liang had said on the way back to the Teaching Building.