AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 729 - 336: Physics Itself is an Anchor Point

Chapter 729: Chapter 336: Physics Itself is an Anchor Point

"Oh?!"

Lin Yi’s eyes too flashed a sharp glint, and he quickly looked in the direction Old Mo was facing.

But as he looked over, the area was still shrouded in a foggy haze, the drifting mist constantly creating overlapping apparitions as the light shifted, making it hard for anyone to distinguish whether what lay behind was forest or rock, or some completely unknown mystical entity.

A faint golden light seemed to emerge at the bottom of his eyes, ’Field of View Insight’ almost activated under the compulsion of instinct, but just at that moment, Old Mo had already pressed down on his shoulder, pulling him out of the path of the Return to Sea Tide!

"Boom——"

Lin Yi’s vision was abruptly engulfed in whiteness, and when he came to, the vast whiteness around him began to fade slowly, and his field of view gradually cleared up. Added to that were the soft feeling underfoot and the rustling sensation, allowing him to quickly regain his bearings.

"Is this... Green Forest Belt?"

The environment here was nearly indistinguishable from the depths of the Green Forest Belt.

Although Lin Yi had never physically entered the Green Forest Belt, he had visited it several times in his dreams, so he was not unfamiliar with its environment.

As Old Mo parted the dead vines and decayed wood, he asked, "Have you been here before?"

"I haven’t... I guessed," Lin Yi shook his head.

Old Mo nodded slightly; it wasn’t difficult to assume. With one final pull, he cleared the last clump of weeds, revealing an old, abandoned lamppost with its red-paint numbers as striking as blood, showing no sign of fading even after many years.

"Red... red paint?!" Lin Yi was stunned, his gaze falling onto the scarred surface of the lamppost, barely making out the characters of the numbering that seemed like, "Lamppost with red-paint numbering?!"

"... Black Moon... 6...8...?"

"What does ’Black Moon’ mean?"

Naturally, Lin Yi knew this was "Black Moon Outpost," but to glean more information, he needed to feign ignorance, so Old Mo wouldn’t "omit any knowledge points" when explaining.

Old Mo said, "The characters are already incomplete, it should be ’Black Moon Outpost.’ The 68 is its number, similar in nature to a lamppost’s numbering."

He lightly touched the red paint numbers as if he were feeling something—or perhaps, reminiscing about something.

"Black Moon Outpost? Red-paint numbering... Old Mo, this this this this..."

Lin Yi stuttered, half in a theatrical trance and the other half genuinely shocked.

But he could never have imagined that what made Old Mo leave the path of the Return to Sea Tide was a discarded lamppost with a red-paint numbering!

"So this is the Second Order of the path towards the Art Building?"

"Second Order?" Hearing this phrase, Old Mo was momentarily taken aback before replying, "If that’s how you want to understand it, it’s not incorrect."

Lin Yi then asked, "So if we find a red lamppost while traversing the Return to Sea Tide, we can enter this ’Second Order’?"

His expression was deeply serious and earnest, exactly mirroring a studious student in class who couldn’t wait to take out a notebook and start jotting down notes.

After a moment’s thought, Old Mo said, "Imagine that the entire campus is like a giant machine operated by countless gears moving at high speeds, with two points on the far surfaces of the machine."

"If you walk from the point of the Gymnasium to that of the Art Building around the machine’s casing, it would take a lot of time, but if we go through the inside of the machine, we just need to travel a relatively straight-line distance, saving a lot of time."

"And inside a running machine, the greatest danger comes from its moving parts; a careless touch, and we could be crushed to pieces."

"Yet these parts aren’t impermeable. As they operate, they leave plenty of gaps. If we reach there during a safe time and nudge through bit by bit, we can safely traverse... Do you understand?"

After hearing this, Lin Yi pondered for a moment and mused, "So it’s like there are many huge pendulums along the way, and if we get hit, we’re done for, but when they haven’t swung our way, we’re safe?"

"And along the way there are many such pendulums, so we need to manage ’time’ and ’distance’ properly?"

Old Mo showed a chilling smile, "Talking with someone of good understanding is always easy. Look over there..."

He pointed behind Lin Yi in the direction they’d come from.

Lin Yi looked over and could vaguely make out the path of the Return to Sea Tide through the fog, which seemed like a trail splayed across the void. If not for a statue of a walking dead used as a reference, he wouldn’t have been able to spot it with just a glance.

But at that moment, a very strong wind seemed to blow through the Return to Sea Tide, causing the statue of the deceased to crumble into flying ashes as if being obliterated.

"If we were still in the ’Return to Sea Tide’ at that moment, that wind would have hit us. While it wouldn’t be lethal, it would knock us about quite a bit. But the most critical point is... it wastes time."

Lin Yi inquired, "That’s the ’high tide,’ right?"

"Right," Old Mo replied, "it’s like breathing. The closer you are, the easier it is to be crushed to pieces, so as I said, that path is hard to travel."