AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 658 - 300: Lin Yi’s Illusion_2

Chapter 658: Chapter 300: Lin Yi’s Illusion_2

"Are you squatting down?"

"Really squatting down!"

He had just seen his "Faceless self" in the reflection of the pool squat down, but in reality... it was more bizarre than his "Faceless self" squatting down, it mirrored his own actions!

He squatted, then the shadow squatted.

But he didn’t know he had squatted.

"Could it be the same with Class 18 of Group C...?"

"I have been there, but I did not know I had been, even when I recall it, initially in the mirror it was the faceless version of me, then it became Young Master Tian’s face!"

"Even Young Master Tian’s face... was an illusion produced by my brain to protect cognition, just like... the glassy humanoid outline I saw that seemed like an Angel or ’He-I’?"

A bewildered hue emerged in his eyes, he was somewhat unclear.

Really unclear.

His thoughts should be becoming clearer, so why the more he understood, the more chaotic it seemed?!

Boss looked at the perplexity and struggle emerging in his eyes and spoke, "Lin Yi."

Lin Yi was jolted.

"Boss?"

"Get in the water."

"Uh... okay."

Lin Yi numbly responded, then followed down the side of the pool into the water.

Just as he entered the water, it was slightly cool, stimulating and making his brain much clearer, and he felt a breath of fresh air.

He felt the "Primordial Pollution" flowing through his body seemed to have become active, and at the same time, it seemed as if a part of the "Aura" within him was awakened, as if there was a strange disturbance occurring deep within his soul...

He subconsciously tried to feel this aura, and immediately discovered that some greenish aura was emerging within his body...

These auras, like some kind of smoke, permeated in his body and merged into his bones and flesh where one could feel the Sky Blue Aura instantly, these green mists seemed to lurk in some deeper place in his body, only to be awakened when he entered the pool.

This green mist felt very chilling, just like wearing shorts from the peak of summer when it was already early autumn.

Boss then asked, "When did those illusions you mentioned start to appear?"

Lin Yi thought for a moment, "It should have been the second day after entering the school..."

"Little Xuzi mentioned, you entered the school on May 6th, so, you started having these issues on May 7th?"

"Maybe it’s related to my not being able to return to the dormitory that night?" He actually had seen the areas above the fifth floor of the Teaching Building on the first night which looked more like "seen with his own eyes" than Phantom Vision, so he didn’t mention it.

"External factors are part of the reason, but more could definitely be related to your true nature, a pheasant inherently can’t climb trees."

Lin Yi fell silent.

"I’m a bit curious, what all have you seen in those illusions?" Boss spoke again.

Lin Yi instinctively wanted to speak, but suddenly recalled the last time the word "sea" had just reached his lips when Boss kicked him into the pool...

So this time he tentatively asked back, "Boss, am I allowed to speak about this?"

"This time you can speak," Boss said blandly.

"Uh... then you probably won’t physically interrupt me again, right? Like, suddenly kicking me into the water or something..." he weakly asked.

Seeming to have been predicted, a hint of embarrassment flashed across Boss’ face, but he quickly returned to normal: "I will consider the circumstances."

Lin Yi:"..."

"Alright, it seems there are still risks..."

He tucked his neck into the water, resembling a crocodile with its nostrils poking out from the surface.

"Go on, I’m listening." Boss said, noticing Lin Yi’s hesitation, then explained, "I interrupted you last time because I had my reasons... The situation is different now."

"Did I give you training last time you came?"

"Gurgle gurgle... Ah yes, well then." Lin Yi slowly emerged from the water.

He briefly reminisced, then started off defensively, "I... Sometimes I can’t tell whether what I saw was real, or just a figment of my illusion. I’ll try to speak more slowly, if you are going to interrupt, please gesture beforehand, I’m good at reading expressions and will stop on my own..."

Boss leaned forward, sitting by the pool, and glanced at Li Huiyuan.

"Huihuizi, why don’t you come into the water too."

"Ah? Oh!" Li Huiyuan was so engrossed, it took her a moment. Feeling eager, her feet tingled with anticipation.

She then took a step towards the pool and plunged in like a needle, barely causing a splash.

When Lin Yi’s recollections were sufficiently gathered, he began, "Aside from what I mentioned earlier about class C Group 18 and the ruined sculpture hanging from the ceiling, I seemed to also have seen a path from Building C of the Teaching Building leading to Building D... but later it was gone."

"Later, I also saw stairs inside the Teaching Building leading from the fourth floor upwards, but it seemed like these stairs were blocked by some Nocturnal species..."

"Then, I saw a piece of the sky in the corridor of the Dormitory building..."

"It was a black sky veiled in mist, seemingly with a black sun and black seas as well; it was too dark, everything looked pitch black..."

"Then, I felt like I had never been to the Green Forest Belt of the campus, but from time to time, I would get visions of running through the Green Forest Belt... Ah, right, this started happening today."

"Then... I think I saw something huge in the depths of the Green Forest Belt. It was hiding among the trees, and when it moved, it made a heavy sound of metal scraping against other things..."

"I also saw a light in the furthest part of the Green Forest Belt, and behind the light, there seemed to be a sea..."

He carefully observed Boss’s reactions and, seeing no interruption, continued, "...the coastline, and on the coast, there seemed to be a mountain with a castle on it..."

"In different visions, I saw many details within the castle..."

"The castle had no lights, only candlesticks... The candles on the candlesticks were very short, as if they were almost burnt out, but they never quite burned down."

"There were also some murals... Unusual patterns..."

"In the great hall of the castle, there appeared to be a model of the ’World Tree’... There was also a spiral staircase leading upwards..."

"I also saw a person... a person standing on the edge of a cliff!"

"That person was wearing a trench coat, standing in a storm, holding what seemed to be... an old brass lamp..."

If previously Lin Yi’s descriptions caused only a slight solemnity in Boss’s expression, at this moment, when Lin Yi spoke these words, Boss’s face showed waves of emotion for the first time, and a flash of light suddenly gleamed in her eyes.

"But this is actually not the first time I’ve seen him, no, the first time in an illusion, I actually saw him back on May 7th."

"It was the last time during the class, right here, by this pool!"

"I was gazing at the far end of the pool, I seemed to see a deep black hole, and heard a very urgent wind sound by my ear, and then... I saw him."

"That was the first time, and the second time..."

"There’s a second time?" Boss couldn’t help but ask.

"The second time was on the night I was returning to the Dormitory, I had an illusion in the corridor, seeing the black sky and the sun again, and I didn’t mention my ’position’..."

"That time, I found myself standing vertically on that cliff, and I felt that cliff was the same I saw on the coastline..."

"That cliff was covered in moss, and below in the sea, there seemed to be some strangely shaped Nocturnal species, crawling up from the bottom like swarms of insects... on that cliff, it was him!"