AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 642 - 292 Old Yan’s Last Words_2

Chapter 642: Chapter 292 Old Yan’s Last Words_2

"This time there’s a problem with the changing room, and the root of the problem... is this ’Li Kai’!"

Lin Yi felt somewhat melancholic.

He could be certain that the Li Kai in front of him was no longer the Li Kai he had met for the first time.

The current Li Kai emitted an aura that made him uncomfortable, much like a rotten apple among a garden of blooming flowers—distinct and nauseating.

"He is not ’Li Kai’..."

Intuition told Lin Yi that this was not just Li Kai in a deeply contaminated state, but more like a Nocturnal species that had taken over Li Kai’s appearance.

"Has Li Kai been harmed?"

"Did he encounter the Chef in the green apron?"

"Or was it some other emergency..."

"No no no... now’s not the time to think about that!"

"With the Boss’s abilities, she could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with this Li Kai, yet not only did she not expose him, but she specially arranged for this Li Kai to be the one to watch over me while I bathe..."

"Why would the Boss arrange things this way?"

"Is it to have me deal with it? Then why didn’t she just take it out instantly?"

The Boss certainly could have taken it out instantly, but she didn’t. Instead, she went through all this trouble of arranging this roundabout plan, which can only mean...

"Could this be a form of training?"

"To have me eliminate it?"

"Or perhaps... to have me interact with it?"

"But if that’s the case, why didn’t the Boss tell me directly?"

He silently took down the items hanging up, one by one, his mind recalling the corresponding content in the "Gymnasium Rules."

[Inside the gymnasium, you can unconditionally trust the Physical Education Teacher and Sports Students...

But please remember, Sports Students are those wearing blue and white sportswear without a Student ID card.

If you encounter Physical Education Teachers or Sports Students who do not fit the above description, please strictly use the following approach:

...

If they come to you, maintain normal communication with them, you may follow their arrangements, but never follow them out of the experience area.

During this process, try to remember as much as possible the information on the Physical Education Teacher’s badge, the names of the Sports Students, and their physical features, and after separating from them, report the incident to the nearest Physical Education Teacher or Sports Student.]

"The only useful part of the rules for my current situation is ’never follow them out of the experience area’, the rest about remembering names, telling the Sports Students, I don’t need to do any of that! The Boss already knows!"

Lin Yi exhaled and touched his chin.

"So, this particular rule is not that significant to me anymore..."

"Eliminating all the other possibilities, what remains is that this must have been arranged by the Boss deliberately..."

"The Boss didn’t tell me, is it so that I would have to figure everything out on my own from the beginning?"

"I understand, what remains now is to adapt to the situation as it unfolds..."

Just then, Lin Yi suddenly heard a deep voice coming abruptly from behind.

"Lin Yi, I’ve been waiting for you for a long time, why aren’t you ready yet?"

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat; with a glance at the changing room locker with very poor reflectivity, he immediately saw, in the reflection of the incandescent light, the eerie figure standing behind him.

Pseudo-Human Li Kai.

"All set, all set!" Lin Yi grabbed the towel in his hand and gently closed the locker door, "I’m off to take a shower."

He turned around, brushed past Pseudo-Human Li Kai, and then walked into the shower area.

The temperature in the shower area was much higher than in the changing room; even though there was no one there right now, it still looked steamy.

Upon entering the shower area, Lin Yi felt the ominous sensations grow stronger. Flickering images began to emerge before his eyes—spots of Tomato sauce stains were now visible on what had been the clean and tidy non-slip floor...

They clung to the anti-slip floor mat, as if no amount of scrubbing could ever clean them.

But in his normal vision, he still saw a clean surface.

An uncontrollable thought emerged in his mind:

"Someone died here... the breath hasn’t dissipated!"

He tried to keep himself calm, avoiding any intense emotional fluctuations, and then looked around the shower area as if casually.

"That one will do."

He walked into the bathroom and closed the waterproof curtain behind him.

Only at this moment did his body, tense since the locker, slightly relax.

He moved the showerhead to the side, directing it towards the wall of the bathroom before turning on the taps.

"Hiss—"

Water sprayed out, and mist slowly filled the air.

Lin Yi’s attention was drawn to the waterproof curtain.

This was the very reason he had chosen this shower—a sky blue aura he had sensed right here!

And after he entered, he finally found the object emitting the sky blue aura—the waterproof curtain!

A sports student had once left a message on this waterproof curtain using the sky blue aura!

That person was Old Yan.

Old Yan, with a resolve for certain death, had rushed into the bathroom and, while being drenched by the shower, left his last words on the waterproof curtain.

"I am Yan Bujiao..."

"A green skin has revived..."

"I will deal with it..."

"Quickly search for the root..."

"Beware of Li Kai..."

The message was very brief, the sentences extremely short, which illustrated how urgent the situation was; this sports student named Yan Bujiao didn’t even have the time to elaborate.

"’I will deal with it’..."

Piecing some details together, Lin Yi quickly surmised the truth of the matter with his current mind.

"Definitely, Li Kai was showering, and Yan Bujiao was keeping watch for him..."

"While on watch, he encountered the attack of a chef in the green apron... just like what happened to me last time."

"But he didn’t run; perhaps because you can’t leave while keeping watch, or maybe his intent at the time was to eliminate the chef in the green apron..."

Sports students should be able to take down a chef in the green apron; that was Lin Yi’s cognition of sports students. Of course, now it seemed that reference point was Boss, so there was a bit of a discrepancy in the estimation of combat power...

"Yan Bujiao probably perished alongside that green-aproned chef... the tomato sauce on the ground was left from their bodies..."

"Without Yan Bujiao’s watch, Li Kai likely ran into trouble, which led to the ’Pseudo-Human Li Kai’ I am encountering now..."

"If that is the case, the time when they fell victim... should be not long after I arrived at the locker room?!"

Lin Yi didn’t anticipate that while he was warming up with the sandbag, such a chilling event was unfolding so close by in the locker room...

And even Boss didn’t sense the incident happening.

"So... If Li Kai was in the middle of showering, there shouldn’t have been any issues; the only explanation is that he broke a rule that must be followed while showering."

Lin Yi pondered for a while and, seeing that he still hadn’t sensed any malice from Pseudo-Human Li Kai, he untied his bath towel, placed it aside, and took the handheld shower, washing himself deliberately and unhurriedly.

His mind began to recall the rules of the Gymnasium area, precisely filtering and pinpointing the ones related to showering...

Considering the rigor, he thought the rules for sports students might be more detailed, but he couldn’t see those now and had to make deductions based on the limited information he had.

And since the showering rules were directly posted at the entrance of the Gymnastics Hall, they should be highly universal.