AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 680 - 311 Pseudo-Human Half-and-Half_2

Chapter 680: Chapter 311 Pseudo-Human Half-and-Half_2

Wei Liang’s eyes indeed widened, filled with little stars.

Xia Lian seemed to realize something, putting down her leg and snorted coldly: "Dare to jump again, and I’ll get Zhou Mingche to deal with you."

"Zhou Mingche? Who’s this Miss Zhou Mingche?" Wei Liang got interested.

"Zhou Mingche is Little Zhouzi." Xia Lian scoffed.

"Hiss..." Wei Liang knelt down immediately, "I was wrong."

"Admit your mistake and shut up." Xia Lian huffed.

Wei Liang hurriedly closed his mouth, placing his hands on his knees, like a well-behaved child, causing Lin Yi to be stunned.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan asked softly, "Lin Yi... do you want to sit beside me?"

She asked very cautiously, as if after deep consideration.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.

Wei Liang delivered a frenzy of elbow jabs, nearly elbowing him off the seat.

He then silently walked over to Li Huiyuan’s side and sat down.

Li Huiyuan seriously held his hand, with a scared face, she said in a guilty tone, "It’s the Boss who said to keep an eye on you! It has nothing to do with me!"

Lin Yi silently nodded.

Li Huiyuan then lowered her voice, "There are quite a few Pseudo-Humans here, I’ve already felt them, we need to be careful."

Xia Lian also added, "That’s right, some of the students have already been transformed, and the number is more than before... But that’s not the worst part, the worst part is, nearly all of the Experience Students on this second floor got caught in the rain."

"If you got caught in the rain, wouldn’t a shower be enough?" Li Huiyuan said.

"It’s not that simple." Xia Lian said, "They can’t return to the Gymnasium for a shower until the situation here is resolved."

"Even if they could go and shower, nearly each one of them would need to wash their hair, and the space in the shower area is limited, plus... with the issues in the shower area itself, I estimate... fewer than thirty percent of them will survive."

"Ah?" Li Huiyuan’s mouth gaped open.

Lin Yi also felt a jolt in his heart upon hearing this.

There are Experience Students from 36 classes in the whole school, aside from those like Young Master Tian who left in time, about eighty percent stayed here.

Calculating two to three dozen Experience Students per class, there are around 800 people here!

With a survival rate of less than 30%, doesn’t that mean... there might be fewer than 200 people who could leave alive?

Lin Yi looked around, sweeping over the faces of the Experience Students who were still unsettled, feeling a sense of sorrow at the bottom of his heart, yet unable to truly feel sorrow...

For some reason, a cold, shocking thought emerged in his heart.

"What would those who cannot escape become?"

Do I have the chance to witness their process of being slowly contaminated... in person?

Lin Yi did not speak these words, they only echoed in his heart.

Just the thought alone sent shivers down his spine.

"I... why would I have such thoughts?!"

This absolute rationality, it’s as if he regarded everyone as laboratory rats!

Even though he himself was in the laboratory as well, he did not care much!

"How... could this be?"

This madly indifferent thought, didn’t seem like something he would have.

"Lin, Lin Yi..." Li Huiyuan’s somewhat worried voice suddenly sounded beside his ear, "You’re hurting me..."

It was only then that Lin Yi snapped back to reality and realized that the hand he was holding with Li Huiyuan’s was gripping tightly due to some "excited" emotion...

"No, I’m sorry..." Lin Yi reflexively let go after realizing, but was firmly grasped back by Li Huiyuan.

"I’m okay..." Li Huiyuan said, slightly shaking her head, but the look in her eyes when she gazed at him was somewhat fearful, "But what about you? Was everything okay just now? Your expression... was really frightening just now."

"Facial expression?" Lin Yi was startled and subconsciously touched his own face with his freed hand.

"Now it’s back to normal..." Li Huiyuan said, "Your expression just now... was so malevolent, just like those Pseudo-Human students in the classroom before..."

Lin Yi’s eyebrows knitted tightly, and his gaze flickered. He rubbed his face and realized that his facial muscles... were indeed somewhat stiff.

He swallowed a mouthful of saliva, fell silent, and stopped talking.

Li Huiyuan hesitated for a moment, then consoled, "Boss said... there’s no ’Ashes’ inside you anymore. Could there be some other effects?"

"Maybe..." Lin Yi looked down at his toes, his mind full of thoughts.

He had always been in denial... but he couldn’t deny that since he saw that faceless version of himself in the mirror this morning, he felt that, to a certain degree, he had developed some characteristics exclusive to Pseudo-Humans...

Or rather, characteristics exclusive to deep Polluters.

He didn’t know what he truly was, and the only thing he could use to define himself was Young Master Tian’s so-called signpost theory.

His expanded cognitive depth broadened his contamination tolerance threshold, enabling him to have athletic capabilities like an unusually strong recovery power while maintaining the "Experience Student" status, which were even more bizarre than those of regular Sports Students...

But is there really no price to pay for this?

Is just expanding cognitive depth enough?

It seems... perhaps not.

Expanding pollution depth might just symbolize the ability to anchor back amidst more peculiar layers of Phantom Vision, like him having increasingly strange visions and occasionally "soul" drifting away.

But it does not mean he can come and go freely within these visions.

Deepening cognitive depth means that while an ordinary person would die from a single bullet, he could take ten bullets before dying, but it doesn’t mean he’s immune to getting shot.

And scars... might stay with him forever, gradually changing him.

Until he can’t bear it anymore.

Young Master Tian often talked about making him "Adapt," but what if he doesn’t adapt in time, or what if it exceeds his limits of adaptation?

The more he thought about it, the more pessimistic he became; the pressure seemed immense, as if bearing some heavy belief or ideal.

"Old Lin, you aren’t having a stomachache too, are you?" At this moment, Wei Liang’s voice rang in his ear, pulling him out of his negative state.

"I... I’m fine." Lin Yi took a few breaths and felt a sense of relaxation as if he had suddenly let go of his obsessions.

Just now, he was like someone who couldn’t solve a problem but was stubbornly sticking to it, while Wei Liang was like someone telling him he could skip that problem for now.

He let out a long sigh.

Wei Liang couldn’t help but say, "Old Lin, it’s hard to believe you’re fine with that expression. You didn’t... have an accident in your pants, did you?"

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched fiercely: "I am really fine now..."

"However..." he gathered his thoughts and looked towards Xia Lian, "With so many Pseudo-Humans here, how do you plan to deal with them?"

Xia Lian replied, "You will soon find out. I think... Boss and the others should have already taken action."

"It will be... a Banquet."

Lin Yi’s expression perked up.

"A... Banquet?!"

What does that mean... Why does it sound different than what I imagined?

His heart was shaken, but he still calmed down and began to attentively perceive the changes around him.

In the invisible Vision, ripples spread out from his feet to the surroundings like waves...

And everything around him began to take shape in his mind, bit by bit, just like when Lin Yi observed the environment inside the Gymnasium.

The Physical Education Teacher thought that this spying ability was derived from the Sneering Angel, never imagining that it was an inherent trait of Lin Yi himself, and the Sneering Angel’s prying ability only revealed its flaw while peering into the Sports Office.

Gradually, all the areas he perceived turned into an exposed image of simple black backgrounds and white line drawings.

In his Vision, the Giant Dome gradually became a Framework...