AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 699 - 321 Descent

Chapter 699: Chapter 321 Descent

"So many!"

"Too many! Too many!!"

The Pseudo-Human Sports Students let out indistinct howls, crawling towards the Rage Angel’s skeleton like addicts, which to their eyes at the moment, seemed like the most delicious food in the world.

Indeed, this was a Banquet, and not only for the Sports Students but also, astonishingly, for the Pseudo-Human Sports Students.

However, as these Pseudo-Human Sports Students approached the skeleton of the Rage Angel, their brows gradually relaxed, and their eyes became empty and lifeless. They seemed to lose all expression, as if all emotion had been drawn out of them.

Soon, a muddled Breath like steam began to seep out from their insides, just as when the Rage Angel’s body had been torn into pieces. Yet they felt nothing and continued madly devouring all the Grey Mist, like someone whose belly had burst but still ate ceaselessly without sleep.

All the Grey Mist they consumed caused their bodies to petrify at a visible speed. Simultaneously, their bodies began to break and peel away like the Rage Angel before them, and before they could get close to the skeleton of the Rage Angel, they all turned into sculptures with nothing but skeletons remaining.

Just as the Cautions said, "Those Who Chase the Light Through the Fog End Up as Phantoms."

Yet eerily, the hearts beneath their rib cages, still maintained a strange rhythm, slowly beating.

"Thump, thump, thump..."

Dozens of skeletal lanterns, with hearts inside like the protected larvae in a cocoon, slowly beating, beating...

The Physical Education Teachers silently observed the changes below, watching those pulsating hearts with an indifferent look, as if they were still waiting for something.

...

All the Sports Students in the stands, including Lin Yi, were also constantly observing this situation. The "Banquet" they enjoyed didn’t require blindfolded contemplation like cultivators; they just needed to maintain a peaceful state of mind and then absorb the sky-blue Breath.

Therefore, they could also observe their surroundings; they just tried not to be affected by the external environment too much.

Individuals like Lin Yi, who looked around yet managed to maintain efficient "feeding," were indeed considered anomalies.

Lin Yi also noticed that the fate of those Pseudo-Human Sports Students was the same as that of the Rage Angel, leaving only a skeleton, with their flesh turning into Ashes like broken pieces that dissolved into various muddled Breaths.

However, unlike the Rage Angel, the products of their annihilation were only breaths of blue and green hues.

Lin Yi’s heart suddenly chilled. Setting aside the role that the Pseudo-Human Sports Students played in the whole event, their end seemed like a tool—a converter that transformed the inedible Grey Mist into digestible blue and green Breath!

For every consumed Pseudo-Human Sports Student, a certain amount of Grey Mist was transformed, no, purified into a certain amount of colored Breath, which in turn nourished the Giant Dome!

Si Barbarian Beasts feed on my kind; why shouldn’t my kind feed on the Barbarian Beasts? "Everything under the sky is measured; all can be consumed!" Lin Yi’s mind suddenly recalled this notion.

This is the true "Banquet"!

Only those who initiate the feast truly enjoy it!

The rest are merely fattened food!

A chill ran through his heart as he deeply understood the reason why the Boss and the others did not eradicate the Pseudo-Human Sports Students; they were the Nocturnal species with only a "skin," transformed from dead Sports Students.

Thus, keeping these things in the Gymnasium was like breeding chickens and ducks in one’s vegetable garden; it was actually a type of mixed breeding cage. When the feast began, the chickens, ducks, and fish were all slaughtered for the meal.

To achieve this, besides the Sports Students’ own defenses, the only thing needed was to prevent these captive creatures from harming the Experience Students, which is why the "Gymnasium Rules" for Experience Students included relevant rules.

The contents of these rules indeed aimed to "protect Experience Students from harm by Pseudo-Human Sports Students."

Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling fortunate that he was at least part of the "Food Eater" camp in the first-tier stands.

"But then again, does Liangzi know everything and this is why he simply refuses to eat?"

Wei Liang seems forever on that path untainted by a drop, as if even in such times, he exudes an unyielding presence, standing firm above the quagmire with the support of a bamboo pole.

Truly the unalterable Wei Liang cast in iron.

Just then, Lin Yi suddenly became aware of a peculiar noise, as if hundreds of drumbeats sounded at once, "Thump, thump, thump..." resounding over his heart, as though emitted from a large drum.

His gaze quickly locked onto those skeletal lanterns on the field that housed the Pseudo-Human Sports Students’ hearts. The sensation of the drumbeats was perfectly in sync with the rhythm of the hearts, seemingly the source of the noise, but then he felt it wasn’t...

"The source of the noise... isn’t those hearts, it’s more like..."