AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 664 - 303 ’Whoever Bears the Angel’s Power, Ultimately Becomes the Angel’s Phantom’_2

Chapter 664: Chapter 303 ’Whoever Bears the Angel’s Power, Ultimately Becomes the Angel’s Phantom’_2

Lin Yi couldn’t help but gaze toward the end of the swimming pool.

There, against the wall, hung an ancient kerosene lamp casting a dim, yellow glow.

But on several previous occasions when Phantom Vision occurred, what he saw wasn’t a wall, but a pitch-black hole. Or rather, it wasn’t a hole at all but rather a gloomy space, as if just beyond the wall lay the cliff in front of the Watchtower, atop which stood a Night Watchman holding an Ancient Lamp.

The water of this Swimming Hall flowed toward the deep end like a waterfall.

He shook his head, refocused his spirit, only to see that the wall was still just a wall, and the light remained faintly yellow. But the ancient kerosene lamp inexplicably flickered.

When he looked again, it seemed there were some people swimming in the deep end as well.

"Is there any difference between the deep end over there and this side?" he inquired.

Li Huiyuan shook her head slightly: "I don’t know... it’s my first time at the Swimming Hall too, but the regulations said that only Sports Students at the First Order can swim in the deep end."

"There, the green mist has a stronger dispelling and transforming effect, purer, but it also induces greater negative effects."

"Okay, don’t go there, stay a bit further from the buoy," Li Huiyuan stopped Lin Yi, gesturing for him to swim back.

"Alright, but I think I just saw people swimming in the deep end..."

"Oh, really?" Li Huiyuan obviously paused for a moment, then unconsciously said, "You must be seeing things, there’s no one in the deep end..."

"Uh... alright, let’s not worry about that."

"Oh." Lin Yi agreed, and began swimming back.

But just then, he heard that intermittent calling again.

[Lin Yi...]

He looked back at Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan said nothing, with both hands emerging from the water she gestured with open palms towards Lin Yi.

But Lin Yi’s gaze drifted behind her...

Those who he initially saw swimming had vanished out of nowhere, replaced by unidentified creatures floating on the water...

They seemed to be slapping the water "plop plop plop", but the water in the deep end was like turbulent rapids, pushing them back, drifting them toward the end of the swimming pool.

The end of the swimming pool... now in his vision, again transformed into the gloomy, lightless black hole, the inside roaring with fierce and rapid winds, like the sound from within an excavated cavern wall when the wind whistles through.

A "woo woo woo" ghostly wail, both spine-chilling and goosebump-inducing.

"Slap!"

A hand landed on his shoulder.

"Stop looking, swim back quickly!" Li Huiyuan’s voice followed.

He jolted his head sharply, finding everything back to normal, except for the deep end... where no one was swimming.

"Gulp..."

He swallowed, suddenly realizing... Did Li Huiyuan just... agree with what he said to prevent a cognitive conflict?

Her exact words seemed to be... "You must be seeing things, there’s no one in the deep end"?

He inwardly sighed, then started swimming back.

Li Huiyuan glanced at Lin Yi, then looked back at the deep end, murmuring "No one’s there," then her eyes shifted back to Lin Yi’s receding figure, filled with a shade of concern.

"His illusions seem to be getting worse..."

Lin Yi kept up his pace, but occasional calling kept ringing in his ears, monotonous, incessantly calling his name.

He was becoming annoyed with it.

But as he continued swimming towards the shore, somehow the water in the pool began churning violently.

He found that the pool was still a pool, people were still swimming, but there was an indescribably odd feeling, like a dish whose taste changed as you ate, despite it clearly having been served straight from the pot.

"Whoosh... Whoosh... Whoosh..."

Waves after waves pushed toward the shore, seeping into the grates under the non-slip matting, leaving behind some sparse bubbles.

"Whoosh... Whoosh... Whoosh..."

Waves rose without wind, growing larger, Lin Yi felt as if he was drifting, pushed by the waves.

Gradually, he began to feel the waves growing larger, as if the entire swimming pool was lifted into the air, swaying like a basket, with the water inside acting as the surface he was feeling now.

The sensation of tilting and overturning grew stronger and stronger, and the wave after wave of talking also became more tumultuous.

[Lin Yi——Lin Yi——]

That voice, with the wave raised by the windless surface, became louder, like a sailor standing on the deck of a ship in a storm, calling out to him who controlled the mast.

He felt a bit confused, his head dizzy.

Just then, a wave rolled over, tipping him, completely flipping him into the water.

"Gurgle gurgle..."

He let out several bubbles, but unlike last time, although he felt a bit dizzy, his body retained control.

So he adjusted his rhythm, then began to surface.

Li Huiyuan was right; could a shallow area in a pool actually sink him?

However, as he adjusted his rhythm, what entered his field of vision nearly scared his soul out of his body.

He indeed saw the bottom of the pool, but it wasn’t beneath his feet—it seemed to be at a considerable distance from the soles of his feet.

Yet what truly frightened him wasn’t the distance, it was that he saw... Moss at the bottom of the pool!

"Moss, moss...?!"

A cold breath seemed to penetrate him from all directions and then rush out through the crown of his head, the bone-chilling dread seeming to pierce through his flesh and reach the depths of his soul.

He also discovered that the bottom of the pool... didn’t seem to have tiles.

The moss appeared to be growing on some kind of wooden board...

"Wooden planks...?"

"How could it be... wooden planks?!"

Could it be because he had just felt the calling sound like a sailor on the deck calling him, so his cognition conjured up... a sunken ship?

A ship that had sunk for who knows how many years, the wooden planks on the bottom of its cabin all decayed and overgrown with moss.

Here, time seemed to be a standstill, the dim light filtering down through the water, mist pervading with a musty odor.

The moss gave off a gloomy green glow in the dim light, accompanied by the flow of the water waves, there also seemed to be a low creaking sound, the whole world filled with an oppressively madness-inducing atmosphere.

In such a space, time seemed blurry, every second stretched, as if it could bury everything deep in the sea...

"No, this is a pool."

"This is a pool!"

"Stop messing around!"

Lin Yi’s willpower was unshakably firm, his thinking was extremely clear, his... his... wait!!

If his will and thinking were fine, then how could he be having this problem...?!

"My cognition... is it instinctively rewriting itself to save me?"

"That thing... is that something my current cognition cannot touch? Something I cannot see at all right now!"

"Gurgle gurgle... gurgle gurgle... gurgle gurgle..."

Bubble sounds started up beside his ears.

He looked around, the sparse light spots falling from the water’s surface made this place even darker and murkier, as if he heard the sound of chains screeching again.

"Clang clang clang... clang clang clang..."

That thing was coming again!

It was coming again!

This time it seemed to be tied to some place deep here, dragging the heavy chains, searching his position inch by inch in the water, and closing the distance between them.

No, it wasn’t it closing the distance with him.

It was him closing the distance with it!

Last time in the phantom vision, that thing was still in the abyss, but this time, it seemed to be in this wooden ship’s cabin.