AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 791 - 364: The "Design" That Was…?!

Chapter 791: Chapter 364: The "Design" That Was...?!

"Hey wait a minute..." Lin Yi’s eyes suddenly lit up, as he felt a sense of familiarity with certain "frequencies" in these syllables, "Could this be...the ’Iron Law of the Night Watchman’?!"

As this thought occurred to him, a lean figure flashed through his mind again...

"Ding!"

"Ding! Ding!"

The lean figure, previously seen etching Secret Marks on a metal sheet with a chisel, appeared once again in his mind, and this time, the image was clearer...

More precisely, it was not just the image that was clearer, but also the surroundings...

The environment he was in seemed to be... right here!

It was the first floor of the Bell Tower!

"The Secret Marks on this wall... were they also made by him? Does that mean he was one of the ’Original Apostles’ who once constructed the Art Building, no, the Black Moon Outpost?!"

"Ding! Ding..."

The lean figure gently hammered on the metal sheet in Lin Yi’s mind.

Over and over, the same rhythm, as if trapped in an endless loop of playback!

The lean figure gradually faded away in his mind, its calm appearance and disappearance bringing no emotional turmoil, instead giving Lin Yi a growing sense of uneasy premonition.

"Who is he?"

"Why does he appear in my mind?"

"I don’t even know him, why do I keep having these fantasies about him?!"

Lin Yi was utterly confused. If the person was a female character from a risqué manga he recently read, or the Boss, Li Huiyuan, the Homeroom teacher-039, or even Xia Lian with whom he had interacted, he could accept it, but why was it someone he had absolutely no recollection of?

"Maybe... I could discuss this matter with Young Master Tian!" Lin Yi mused to himself. It was now midnight on May 10th, if he spent the night in the Dormitory, it would be the fourth night, and after this day passed, arriving at the dormitory in the evening would be the fifth night!

Exactly as Tian Bufan had said, the "fifth night" when "all things will be laid bare"!

Just perfect!

"Wait a minute...’Just perfect’?!"

A jolt ran through Lin Yi’s heart.

Why was his first reaction ’Just perfect’?! While it’s normal to have this thought, why does it have an indescribable feeling of coincidence in every word and line?

It’s as if the script was written in advance; could it be that even him not making it back to the Dormitory tonight was part of Tian Bufan’s plan?!

Because in terms of cognitive depth, at this point, that is, tonight, except for the Art Building and the Library which he hadn’t physically reached, he had already visited the other buildings, so there shouldn’t be any issue discussing with Tian Bufan, right?

No!

"Except for the Art Building and the Library"

Except for the Art Building and the Library...

Except for...

Lin Yi’s heart started ’thumping’ violently, his expression turning extremely grave as he seemed to stare into the void, looking solemn as if focused on the air itself.

"After you push the start button, the elevator will run automatically... After that, you must always watch the elevator’s floor indicator inside, no matter if it stops at the ’Teaching Building’ or the ’Dormitory’, no matter if ’something’ gets on or off the elevator, you cannot leave..."

"Only when the elevator stops at ’Library’, are you allowed to get off..."

"Once you’re in the Library, you’ll see the ’Library rules’... You can... also can..."

"But when the red light comes on in the Library, you must immediately go to the counter on the first floor of the Library..."

"...Once the Security Guard shows up, you can follow him and leave the Library to return to the campus..."

Old Mo’s instructions about the ways to return to the campus echoed in his ears over and over.

This fourth night, he won’t be able to return to the Dormitory because he will appear in the Art Building and then head to the Library, and eventually, he can return to the campus safely by following the Security Guard...

As such, the last two area fragments of the campus in his cognition would be completed!

This way, there would be no more "except for"!

But is this... all within Tian Bufan’s plan, no, within the Original plan?!

Lin Yi’s scalp tingled, yet he dimly sensed some elusive inspiration.

...

"Ling Yi... really sounds bad..."

"So what shall we call ourselves?"

"One, two, three, four, five? Hahaha..."

That thing that might or might not be a "memory" suddenly surfaced again.

In that intermittent and blurred fragment, the last, almost indistinguishable voice said:

"Names are not important, let’s talk about division of labor..."

This voice, so much like Young Master Tian’s voice in his impression, yet not quite right, sounded more like... it was his own voice with a touch of Tian’s tone.

Lin Yi also recalled that string of barely visible numbers:

"...4016..."

He saw that book with a blurred cover again—

The cover of the book featured a castle, with the vague words "architectural design"...

Wait, a castle?!

The Art Building...?!

Designer...?

Could it be...?!

"Could it be that this book is related to the design of the Art Building?!"

He remembered there was also a messy design drawing underneath the book, unclear, looking a bit like coiling copper wires, a bit like a reactor, yet when seen as a whole, it resembled... a strangely styled, ultra-modern geometric architecture...