AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 683 - 313 Prospect

Chapter 683: Chapter 313 Prospect

"Huff, huff, huff..."

Song Rentou gasped for breath as he hurriedly scrambled to his feet and dashed toward the nearest streetlight, continuously scanning his surroundings while muttering to himself.

"School gate... school gate..."

"Bus..."

"Escape..."

"Where is it..."

He looked around frantically, but the sound of being chased soon rang out behind him again.

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

Someone parted the bushes at the edge of the Green Forest Belt nearby, and a figure emerged from within.

In the backlight, the person appeared pitch black except for a pair of eyes glinting with a cold, faint golden light.

The person held a sharp wooden stake in their hand, their face stern, and with eyes gleaming with gold radiating indifference and numbness, while the corners of their mouth bore a cruel and bloodthirsty smile.

Upon seeing this person, Song Rentou’s face was filled with terror.

The next moment, that person leaped out from the Green Forest Belt towards Song Rentou, Song Rentou thought of escaping, but it was like trying to fly without wings.

In the end, he was brutally impaled through the heart by the sharpened wooden stake and nailed to the streetlight pole.

"Why, why... why..." Song Rentou struggled to speak, squirming, but it was futile.

Gradually he ceased to struggle, and then under the sun, he slowly turned into a sculpture and eventually crumbled into white powdery particles.

Only a sharp wooden stake remained on the streetlight pole.

That person took down the stake, glanced at the thoroughly deceased Song Rentou, and slowly turned around.

Under the sunlight, his face was finally revealed.

Song Rentou.

He... was also Song Rentou.

"This should be the last one, right..." he murmured, putting the stake into his bag.

At this moment, he seemed to feel an induction and looked towards the Green Forest Belt.

Sure enough, there stood another person at the edge of the Green Forest Belt.

"So fond of tailing?" Song Rentou spoke indifferently.

The one standing in the Green Forest Belt was the Mountain Man.

Mountain Man coldly glanced at him: "Just passing by."

"You’ve been trailing me for a while," Song Rentou’s voice carried a chill, "I’m leaving the school today... I just wanted to get rid of some loose ends before I go."

"I think I know what you’re up to, but you better not mess with me, nor bring trouble my way, or it’ll be more than you can handle."

Mountain Man abruptly fell silent, staring at Song Rentou for a long while.

The two locked eyes.

Mountain Man sneered: "Loose ends? You call yourself ’Song Rentou’? Maybe in the eyes of others, you are the loose end."

Song Rentou narrowed his eyes, not really disputing, but coldly responded: "Thank you for the concern, better mind your own business."

"Heh," Mountain Man scoffed, not saying anything more.

Just then, he suddenly felt an induction, his expression drastically altered.

"I’m done playing with you, goodbye!"

He decisively retreated into the Green Forest Belt, and with a few bounds propelled by his exoskeleton, he vanished into the thick woods.

The next instant, a rock fell from above, hitting the ground heavily not far from the edge of the Green Forest Belt near Song Rentou.

The rock was squarely shaped, but upon closer inspection, one could see that the patterns on it resembled feather markings, like those of some cocoon formed by something wrapping itself in feathers.

"Thump! Thump! Thump..."

From inside the rock came a strong heartbeat, as if someone were beating a drum.

Song Rentou’s face turned pale as he quickly identified the source and speedily fled the scene.

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

The heartbeat inside the feathered rock grew louder, and the feathers began to tremble root by root, as if unfolding.

Through the gaps between the feathers, blood-red steam could faintly be seen escaping...

As the feathers opened, a small, ugly Rage Angel clad in Hima Chun slowly stood firm on the spot.

"Puff— Puff puff—"

Steam faintly spewed out with its breath from its mouth and nose, and it quickly locked onto the direction of Song Rentou, then leaped up, chasing after him like a cannonball...

...

May 9, X023 year, 14:26, Gymnasium.

Song Rentou made his way to the gymnasium, mixed with some latecomers, entered the gymnasium, and started the physical education class.

14:27.

A Rage Angel statue appeared behind a tree at the edge of the Green Forest Belt outside the gymnasium, standing still.

Similarly, at a certain place in the Green Forest Belt, there was another Rage Angel with a similar appearance.

If Lin Yi were here, he would notice that the details of the patterns on this other Rage Angel were identical to those of the one that had been pursuing him.

As time passed, a sinister wind blew through the Green Forest Belt, slowly pushing the dense grey mist that lay on the ground like dust out from the depths of the woods...

Above in the sky, it seemed that some wind was gathering the clouds together, casting a precise shadow right above the gymnasium.

...

"Huff— Huff—"

As time went on, the wind grew stronger, and the leaves in the Green Forest Belt rustled loudly.

A short, robust Rage Angel slowly emerged from the depths of the Green Forest Belt, and behind it in the fog, it seemed like some tremendous creature was slowly writhing.

As the colossal creature moved, the Grey Mist accompanied it left and right, like Cloud Follows Dragon and wind accompanies tiger...

This small sturdy Rage Angel was precisely the figure Lin Yi had seen during the wrong execution of "My World", and the mysterious creature hidden in the Grey Mist was the one he nearly came face-to-face with, lurking deep in the forest.