AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 696 - 319: Song Rentou? Or is it...? _2

Chapter 696: Chapter 319: Song Rentou? Or is it...? _2

Suddenly, it seemed to have noticed something; it began to scramble towards a particular spot in the stands...

During this process, its body continuously disintegrated, while the flesh under caution kept changing into various appearances amidst squirming.

All these appearances possessed a divine charm, yet none was stable; it was as if it had many faces, or... perhaps had many different identities before.

It kept crawling, like a legless gecko advancing through water plants.

And in the stands in its direction, sat... Lin Yi.

"Save me, Lin Yi... save me..."

"Save... me..."

Its breath was as thin as a thread, continuously creeping forward.

Lin Yi, who was sitting in the stands, heard the call from Song Rentou, and when he looked down, his scalp tingled.

He saw that half of Song Rentou’s skeletal body submerged in the stream, coming towards him like a Terminator, with the part of its body immersed in the flow completely disappeared, leaving only bare bones that seemed to have been gnawed by countless ants.

And the part that was out of the water looked extremely precarious, peeling off bit by bit like a landslide.

However, eerily enough, this time, Lin Yi didn’t feel any hint of evil on Song Rentou...

Looking at Song Rentou in this state, a sentiment known as "sorrow" slowly spread in his heart, but beyond sorrow, there was indifference.

Absolute indifference.

It’s like how you might feel a bit of pity watching a tiger eat a cheetah, but without more emotional involvement.

However, at that moment, the face of Song Rentou gradually began to change...

"Save me... Lin Yi, save me..."

"I... I remember now... I..."

"I am..."

In one moment, among the continuously changing appearances, some familiar contours emerged for Lin Yi, but Song Rentou, with his face weakly hanging into the running water, didn’t say that final word until the end.

Lin Yi couldn’t tell whether Song Rentou was intentionally withholding the information to deceive him into lending a hand, or whether there was indeed an issue.

But just then, the image of Song Rentou’s death flashed before his eyes...

That contour got reconstructed in his mind, and following this familiar sensation began to fill in his face, gradually correcting the distorted facial features, and then... a face appeared in front of him...

He saw Song Rentou’s writhing mouth that seemed to be saying—

"Old Lin save me, I am Wei Liang"

Suddenly—

"Boom!"

A splash erupted just in front of the fence, and a figure emerged from below the water, a pale skeletal hand with splashes of water heavily landing on the fence.

In the mist, the originally powerless Song Rentou immersed by the water flow, came out almost skeletal, with only the last bit of rotten flesh on his face, but his whole body was entwined with a grey mist...

"Save me... I, I am... I am... Wei..."

"Plunk..."

It completely slipped into the water, then slowly sank down.

The stream was very shallow, merely submerging the stadium of the Giant Dome a bit above the ankles, but after Song Rentou’s skeleton fell, it seemed to sink into the sea, gradually disappearing without a trace...

Only at this moment did Lin Yi realize why he felt a familiar yet strange sensation when he first met Song Rentou, because there was a divine charm of Wei Liang on Song Rentou...

It seemed as if Wei Liang’s shadow was on it.

He didn’t know why, but now looking back, he belatedly realized this issue.

But... what exactly is going on?!

Wasn’t Wei Liang always by his side?

Where did that breath of Wei Liang on Song Rentou come from?

"What is the entanglement between Liangzi and Song Rentou...?"

"Wait...something’s not right!"

"Just now...!!"

Just now, Lin Yi couldn’t perceive Wei Liang, and when he realized Song Rentou’s presence, Song Rentou wasn’t actually looking at him but at... Wei Liang!

Or rather, Song Rentou was looking at both Wei Liang and him!

Song Rentou’s eyes weren’t focused but seemed to have issues, each looking in different directions.

But... but he just couldn’t figure it out, and it was becoming even more confusing.

Even the piece of paper Song Rentou left at the beginning felt like it harbored a hidden story.

But now Song Rentou is dead with no answers...

This matter ends here.

But—does it really end here?!

Could death be another beginning?

Lin Yi vaguely felt a relentless passive entanglement...

The submerged Song Rentou...

The outline of Wei Liang...

The chains piercing through the Rage Angel...

And, the figure entangled in chains within the dilapidated, sunken wooden ship he saw in the Phantom Vision, the figure searching for him in the drowned castle’s corridors...

That figure... was calling his name!

Could all this... have some connection?!

Was it a corner of the future?

Emerged in some crack of time? — Alright, there must be a limit to such wild thoughts...

So could it be a scene that already happened but was forgotten by him, now triggered by some familiar elements...?!

How confusing... It’s becoming more and more baffling.

It’s just a campus, but why...does it connect to memories he wasn’t even sure existed?

"Wait, I must ask Liangzi!"

"But...what’s the use of asking Liangzi?"

"Whenever I ask him something ’simple,’ he beats around the bush; asking him this, won’t he just stammer endlessly?"

Lin Yi felt somewhat vexed and couldn’t help rubbing his temples.

"Forget it, let’s focus on the task at hand!"

Lin Yi steadied himself and continued to calmly absorb the Supernatural Power.

Luckily, during his time of contemplation, he absorbed everything as naturally and steadily as breathing, savoring each breath briefly.

But as time progressed, his vision grew darker, whereas the trajectories of various breaths containing Supernatural Power became clearer.

And within the Grey Mist, there seemed to be some Ripples that he originally couldn’t perceive...

Those Ripples, like waves, slowly pushing forward, each wave appearing irregular, yet seemingly containing their own unique order, as if in the void behind the Grey Mist, there exists some mysterious, unknown, intangible yet terrifying presence, its breathing manifested by the Grey Mist in the form of Ripples...

Lin Yi slightly lifted his head, and gradually, his vision wasn’t limited to what was before him but began to expand through his Perception, and he soon noticed something peculiar.

This Grey Mist was indeed only filling the space above the indoor playground within the Giant Dome, not reaching up to the stands, but the Ripples seemed not to be confined by this space...

Let’s put it this way, under Lin Yi’s Perception and observation, rather than it seeming that the Grey Mist had invaded the Giant Dome, it seemed more like the Giant Dome had invaded the Grey Mist...

Imagine this scenario, a person sitting on a high-speed train, watching the landscape whizzing by through the window, rows of trees "whooshing" past his view. If we pull this camera back a bit, taking the window as a static reference point, those quickly passing landscapes shift from a static state to a dynamic flow...

And now, this Giant Dome is a huge "window," and the Grey Mist is the rapidly passing landscape...

The Giant Dome "captures" a part of the landscape, therefore the Ripples are not confined by this space!