AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 662 - 302 Illusion... ’4016’_2

Chapter 662: Chapter 302 Illusion... ’4016’_2

"Glub glub... Glub glub..."

He sank downwards helplessly without even a chance to struggle.

His will felt terrifyingly clear, yet his body had already lost the ability to resist.

He looked at the shimmering surface of the water, the dim glow like mist floating in a rainforest after rain, hazy and ethereal.

He was like a large fish quietly suspended between the water and sky, belly-up as he sank, possessing an eerie beauty akin to a falling whale.

But his size was not comparable to that of a falling whale; at best, it could be said to resemble a decaying shark.

More bizarre was the fact that the "Primordial Pollution" within him was terrifyingly calm; he couldn’t even sense the flow of supernatural power within his body.

He increasingly felt like the pilot of a large machine, helplessly watching the body sink into the abyss as the entire machine paralyzed.

The feeling of helplessness enveloped him deeply, even surpassing the terror brought by the deep-sea fear.

"Lin Yi!"

"Lin Yi!!"

In a daze, he seemed to see a figure appearing above the water, the urgent call traveling down the stream to his ears.

Yet his state of mind was unprecedentedly calm, as if the figure was not calling him.

Between the haziness, a blurry image appeared before his eyes...

In the image, a figure sat beside him, talking to him.

"If that is so... you must have a name..."

"Is a name... that important?"

"Very important."

"Then just pick any."

"Hey you got it wrong, I said it’s important! Hey hey, stop eating snacks and choose a name first!"

The figure seemed to grab a bag of snacks from his hand.

"Snack..."

"Lin Shi? What a lame name! You are the ’protagonist’ this time, can’t you be serious for once!"

"The first time... as a protagonist... then let’s not call it Snack, let’s call it Ling Yi..."

"Hey, you can’t really be this casual, can you?"

"Not really."

Lin Yi’s view was filled with a blurry scene; everything was vague except for the familiar voice, and the only clear thing among all the images was when he finally said "Ling Yi"...

A number appeared before his eyes...

"...01..."

The edges were blurred, but vaguely on the left was "4", and on the right "6."

"4016."

...

"Lin Yi!"

"Lin Yi!"

"Splash—"

The figure broke through the surface of the water, diving down swiftly like a mermaid.

"Lin Yi! Lin... Lin Zi!!"

It was Li Huiyuan.

She swam to his front, grabbing his shoulders with both hands.

Their eyes met.

But Lin Yi’s gaze was clearly bewildered.

Li Huiyuan hesitated briefly, then embracing the opportunity, she sneakily moved closer, intending to give him a breath like a mermaid.

Their faces drew closer... and closer...

Then...

With a "snap", their swimming goggles collided first.

The romantic atmosphere was instantly ruined by the goggles, followed by Li Huiyuan emitting a "ouch" in the water, then a series of disruptive "glub glub glub glub glub..."

She started to ascend with Lin Yi in her grasp, quickly lifting him above the water surface.

Then she dragged Lin Yi to the edge of the pool, pushed him onto the bank, while her heart wildly "thumped," her face flushed red, the heat on her forehead almost matching the Physical Education Teacher’s blood-steam...

Boss looked oddly at the inexplicably flushed Li Huiyuan as if seeing through her little tricks, pursed his lips trying hard not to laugh.

"Boss!!!" Realizing her trick was seen through, Li Huiyuan glared at Boss angrily, "He didn’t notice, you must not tell!"

Boss flicked her on the forehead jokingly, "A little nudge on your swimming goggles...counts?"

"I..." Li Huiyuan was fuming, puffing up like a little pufferfish about to explode.

At this moment, Lin Yi was lying silently by the poolside, not daring to say anything.

Actually, when Li Huiyuan grabbed his shoulders, he had started to break free from that eerie atmosphere, but before he could regain control of his body, Li Huiyuan suddenly attacked...

Even though she slipped up, uh, slipped her mouth, he absolutely dared not make it known.

After all, Lü Yunfei has bravely declared before, a man born between heaven and earth, when necessary, must be willing to be beneath others.

Boss patted his belly, "If you’ve recovered, then get up and tell us what happened."

Lin Yi quickly got up, looking straight at Boss, "I hallucinated again..."

"What did you see this time?"

"...Abyss."

Boss’s hand stirring the water suddenly paused.

"Repeat that."

"Ab... yss?"

"Be more specific, what did it look like?"

Lin Yi then described the scene he saw, and sneakily glanced over at Wei Liang.

Wei Liang... seemed to be having a great time swimming with Xia Lian, crying and howling, appearing to suffer yet enjoy.

He added, "I also saw something, I don’t know if it was a sculpture or something else human-shaped, it was chained in that abyss, and it seemed to be calling my name..."

"Other than that, nothing else."

"Abyss... chains... a figure..." Boss’s eyelids slightly lowered, he sighed slowly, "It’s hard to imagine how you’re still alive."

"Boss... you seem to have said this before."

"Last time I didn’t know you, this time after knowing more... the feeling is deeper."

"I’ve just realized now, any training I conducted with you seems to only awaken some of your inherent abilities, and cannot really enhance you in the true sense."

Boss’s gaze was somewhat complex.

"It may be sudden to ask this, but, before you entered the school... what exactly did you do?"

"I was a... university student majoring in architecture..."

"Anything else?"

"You can’t just remember that, can you?"

Lin Yi hesitated.

Then, some blurry images began to emerge in his mind again...

A place similar to an operating table...

A room filled with bookshelves...

A seemingly normal dormitory...

And... the recently appeared numbers... ’4016’...

His eyeballs began to shift rapidly from side to side, his gaze flickering, yet his whole body was as still as if he were a sculpture.

"That’s enough." Boss’s voice broke through his thoughts.

"Boss...?" Lin Yi was puzzled.

"Don’t think about it anymore." Boss seemed to think of something, "What should be remembered, will be remembered."

"Boss, can we not speak in riddles?" Lin Yi said bitterly.

Boss shook his head, "Riddles? I was just saying, did you misunderstand something?"

"Uh..."

"You’ve recovered, go swim." Boss said indifferently, "The ’Ashes’ on you seem to have been absorbed quite a bit, if things go as expected, we can resolve this hazard without waiting too late."

Lin Yi silently got into the water, although reluctantly, he couldn’t help but ask, "What if something unexpected happens?"

Boss glanced at him, "You’d better pray that nothing unexpected happens."

"Just so you know, on your way back, there’s a Rage Angel lying in wait for you."

"Speaking of Rage Angels, didn’t the Physical Education Teacher kill one?" Lin Yi asked, he heard from the Teacher it was a repel, but he was very curious, so he took the opportunity to ask.

Boss shook his head, "Just repelled it."

"That... I feel like the Teacher dragged a Rage Angel into the office."

"Just a... ’shell’."