AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 640 - 291: Experience in the Basement_2

Chapter 640: Chapter 291: Experience in the Basement_2

"My mentor calls them ’Pioneers’... some things that have been influenced by transcendent or unknown forces and have taken a step ahead on the biological evolution chart..."

"I feel like I might have heard the call of such creatures... or experienced something similar to auditory illusions... because I wasn’t sure if I had a clear cognition at that time... the only thought left in me was to silently repeat my name, blindly recording the passage of time..."

"About ten more minutes passed, and I heard some heavy sounds coming from the corridor outside the room... like a massive crowd pressing against the walls, scraping and crawling forward..."

"That vibrating sensation traveled along the walls to the chains on me... like a butcher sharpening his knife nearby, the grating sounds gave me goosebumps all over..."

"That feeling persisted, until around 22:30... It seemed like a strange fluctuation swept over my body."

"That sensation, it was like... when swimming, being pushed slightly by the waves created by someone nearby..."

"Then, the spherical stone left behind by the teacher before leaving started to glow..."

"When the light first appeared, the room felt as hot as a fire, like lighting up a fireball, I felt like I was going to be burned to death..."

"Later, I gradually lost consciousness, and when I came to, Boss was standing in front of me..."

...

May 9, X023, 6:13, in the basement of the Gymnasium.

In the dim room filled with straw, the spider-web-like chains suddenly trembled, and Li Huiyuan slowly opened her sleepy eyes...

"Umm..."

As her blurred vision gradually became clear, a figure in a black tight suit with blue and white stripes, wearing a loose blue and white school uniform, gradually appeared in front of her...

"Are you... a teacher?"

"Call me... ’Boss’." Boss slowly spoke, "Do you remember your name?"

"I... I am..." Li Huiyuan’s gaze was distant, seemingly caught in a long reminiscence, "I am Hui... Hui... Li... Li Hui..."

"I... I..."

She stuttered, seemingly lost.

"If you can’t remember, from today on, they’ll call you...’Huihuizi’..."

"’Hui... Huihuizi’...?" Li Huiyuan murmured, "It sounds... a bit ugly..."

"Then call yourself ’Huihuizi’."

"I... I seem to remember... my name... I... I am called... Li Hui... Li Hui... Yuan..."

The moment she spoke her name, a light seemed to flash in Li Huiyuan’s eyes, and she suddenly became alert.

"I am Li Huiyuan! Boss, my name is Li Huiyuan!"

"But you can also call me ’Huihuizi’... hehe..."

...

"I later found out that, initially, using ’Huihuizi’, Boss vaguely anchored my confused consciousness. If I truly couldn’t remember my name, I would become an athlete named ’Huihuizi’, but fortunately, I managed to anchor back to my own thoughts..."

Li Huiyuan said with a chuckle.

"So, if you ever find yourself in this situation, if I call you ’Lin Linzi’, you must remember your name!"

"Your own anchor works best, others’ anchors... need to be ’maintained’ from time to time, otherwise, there’s a risk they might not work."

"Then, I obtained the ’Athlete’s Certificate’, officially becoming a Sports Student, and Boss handed me the responsibilities of a Sports Student."

"Athlete’s Certificate?" Lin Yi exclaimed, "Aren’t Sports Students supposed to have no Student ID card? Ah, I get it! Student ID cards are exclusively for Experience Students, while Athlete’s Certificate is a form of identity proof called ’Athlete’s Certificate’... I was confused."

Lin Yi did not inquire further about the Athlete’s Certificate.

He pondered in silence... Li Huiyuan has mentioned "Mystical Genealogy" quite seriously several times, and now it seems to be true indeed.

However, regarding "time," perhaps there was an error in Li Huiyuan’s calculations.

"Is the stone left in the room by the teacher a fist-sized stone, with some concentric circle patterns on it?" Lin Yi asked while gesturing.

Li Huiyuan responded with surprise, "Huh, how did you know?"

"Indeed it’s a light bulb!" Lin Yi trembled inwardly and said, "I’ve seen it, that thing, it’s somewhat similar to the light bulbs around the campus..."

"Light bulb?" Li Huiyuan was stunned and puzzled, her eyes clouded with confusion, but she quickly regained clarity.

Lin Yi immediately regretted the words he had spoken, fearing that his indiscriminate babbling might shatter Li Huiyuan’s cognition, but seeing her quickly recover, he breathed a sigh of relief...

"It seems that the wave Li Huiyuan perceived is very likely the fluctuation produced when the dormitory light is turned off at midnight..."

The dormitory light turns off at midnight, releasing a peculiar wave, and then the elevator in the Teaching Building can access the Art Building...

Lin Yi was not sure, but he guessed that this was most likely the case.

"If that’s the case..."

"Li Huiyuan started timing from 20:00, her perceived 22:30 is the real-world midnight... that means she arrived at the Gymnasium around 9:30..."

"The path by the Security Guard, walking through every floor after class 2B of Teaching Building B, then passing through Building D Library, and walking through the Green Forest Belt of the campus to the Gymnasium... took a total of one and a half hours."

Lin Yi silently noted this time value.

In fact, there were many more details in the experience described by Li Huiyuan, but he doesn’t have time to delve deeply now.

Because he was running out of time; he hadn’t even watched the video captured on his digital camera yet!

At this moment, Boss came out from the direction of the changing room and approached them.

"How’s the conversation going?" Boss said lightly, "If you’re about done, go take a shower and then head to swimming class."

"I’ve already found the student who’ll supervise you during the shower, you’ll see him once you go in... Li Kai, you should have met already."

"Uh... okay, Boss." Lin Yi hesitated a moment, then nodded.

"Seems like there’s still something left unsaid?" Boss glanced at both of them.

Setting aside the experience, Lin Yi actually wanted to ask Li Huiyuan about some details regarding the School Doctor and the basement, of course, including the most crucial point—

"Boss, I’d like to take a look at the ’Sports Student Code’... Is that possible?"

"It’s fine." Boss said indifferently, a response that actually took Lin Yi by surprise.

"Huh?"

"So it’s this easily granted?"

Boss glanced at him, "Now, aside from your ’identity’ not being a Sports Student and lacking an Athlete’s Certificate, your overall qualifications are no less than a Sports Student, and in some respects, you’ve even surpassed the stage of Sports Students like Huihuizi..."

"So, I’ll give you a copy of the ’Sports Student Code’. You can treat it as a more detailed and broadly scoped code, and when the situation is appropriate, you can also refer to it to guide your actions."

"However, other than in the Gymnasium, I still recommend you choose relatively conservative actions..."

"Uh... the kind where you don’t retaliate when hit?" Lin Yi asked.

Boss shook his head slightly, "’Being hit’ is too one-sided. Real dangers are often not from an individual entity but from the environment, layers, or even the silent spiritual level contaminations that can infiltrate..."

"Let’s go, have a shower and then swim, absorb the remaining ’Ashes’."

As Boss turned to walk away, Lin Yi remembered Wei Liang and quickly said, "Boss, Liangzi also wants to join the swimming class..."