AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 816 - 376 "The Contractor’s Bedroom_2

Chapter 816: Chapter 376 "The Contractor’s Bedroom_2

The Night Watchman couldn’t help but laugh and cry: "Repeater kid... at a time like this, how can you still be fixated on these? Alright, alright, when you leave, I’ll give you all the ’final payment’ I owe you first, to fulfill my agreement with that guy. Is that okay now?"

Lin Yi chuckled: "As long as you remember... that’s good enough..."

The Night Watchman felt a bit helpless, thinking to himself that this kid sure has a strong personal flavor. He didn’t seem like the type who needed "benefits" as an Anchor to ground ’human nature’...

But when he thought about Lin Yi talking about ideals and pursuits, his immediate response was "stockings and beautiful legs", he felt that things might really be more complicated than they seemed...

After all, that guy from the past would also always talk about stockings and beautiful legs, even uttering the beatable phrase "what Angels, what Root, only stockings and beautiful legs are the absolute justice," and it’s said he even proposed absurd things like uniform reform to the school staff...

Could it be that the more special the individual, the more off-beat they are?

And "human nature"... what exactly is it?

The Night Watchman stopped talking and silently followed Lin Yi’s "perspective", observing the bedroom.

"’02’... have you found what you’re looking for?" Lin Yi asked in a low voice, setting aside concepts like space folding and hidden layers, this room, at its fullest extent, is this size. It shouldn’t be hard to search, right?

But the Night Watchman said: "No rush, let’s look some more..."

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

2:33.

"Half an hour left... If you say there’s no rush, then there’s no rush."

Suddenly, Lin Yi saw a face on the ceiling reflected in the glass of his watch...

"Holy crap?! ’02’! The ceiling!"

He cried out loudly, providing the Night Watchman with a "perspective" by looking up directly!

However, there was nothing on the ceiling painted with sky blue.

"There’s nothing, what did you see just now?" The Night Watchman asked.

"I saw a blurry face in the reflection from my watch..."

"Could you have seen it wrong? Maybe it’s you? With the face you have now, it’s quite terrifying. It won’t be surprising if you mistook it for something else."

Reminded by the Night Watchman, Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. His current appearance was still that of ’Faceless’ with some irrelevant contours, resembling the faceless king from "Secret Agent 00", mystifying to anyone who saw it.

"I..."

"Alright, you must have ’seen it wrong’." The Night Watchman’s tone was somewhat heavy, as if emphasizing something.

Lin Yi’s heart shivered as if he understood something and quickly responded: "Then I must have seen it wrong... after all, the lighting here isn’t really good..."

He continued to observe, but the more he observed, the more eerie and unnatural it felt.

The bedroom was uncertain to have a window, but in the place where one would expect a window, there were light blue curtains. It seemed as though some glimmer pierced through the gaps of those curtains, scattering speckles of light on the floor.

Next to the window, there was a delicate bookshelf filled with colorful fairy tale books, and the gold lettering on the spines shimmered under the light.

Some of the book edges were slightly yellowed and curled, seemingly rubbed repeatedly by something. And when he got closer, he could smell a faint scent of decay seemingly emanating from the gaps in the pages.

However, as Lin Yi closely observed, he could notice the oddities seeping through, the bedsheet was printed with rabbits, the stitching of the eyes seemed somewhat messy, giving the rabbits’ gaze an indescribable sense of madness. The teddy bear’s grin was overly exaggerated, as if it was forcibly stretched, and its little black beady eyes from some angles seemed like they were secretly surveilling every corner of the room...

Moreover, the cartoon patterns of the snow-white rabbit on the sheets confused one whether it was a rabbit or a polar bear.

The pink wall paint, near the corners, bears some irregular dark stains, as if hiding some unspeakable secrets.

The small carpet by the bed, originally soft and fluffy, is twisted in places into tiny vortex shapes, like portals leading into the depths of darkness.

The chandelier overhead is the only one used in the Art Building, yet sometimes from within its shade comes a faint rustling sound, as if something is restlessly wriggling inside.

And on the dresser in the bedroom, Lin Yi found an exquisite music box...

"Amon’s music box".

The lid of the music box was shut, the spring wound down, seemingly always placed there, never having left.

"Indeed, it is ’Amon’s music box’, but don’t be afraid..."

"How can I not be afraid?"

"Think about it, most things in this bedroom are far from normal. For example, if we had to name some, that one over there would be ’Contractor’s teddy bear’, ’Contractor’s cute little bed’, ’Contractor’s Lolita outfit’..."

"Hey, mention Lolita and I’m wide awake!"

Lin Yi was on the verge of tears but forced a smile, understanding now that Night Watchman’s way of comforting isn’t to say "don’t be afraid", but rather "don’t be afraid of this thing, most things here are no better than it"...

Because there are many things far more terrifying, the originally terrifying seem relatively less so... No, wait, there’s something wrong with that logic, don’t you know that yourself!

Lin Yi grew more anxious; this room was filled with forbidden Extraordinary Creations!

"So it has come to being deceived by ’Original Apostles’?"

It’s like having a belt that Lord Lao Zi of the Great Monad would consider ostentatious!

His gaze moved, and suddenly he was drawn to a gap in the curtains, then couldn’t help pondering—why didn’t I take a good look at this gap before? There seems to be a painting behind it... ah, wait, that’s the painting Night Watchman mentioned, isn’t it?

"That painting... Is it related to the item you’re looking for?" Lin Yi tentatively asked.

"Don’t drag me into your suicide." The Night Watchman replied coldly.

Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck.

The Night Watchman explained, "That ’painting’ is the prison that banished the Contractor, ’painting’ is just a re-established cognition. In fact, it is an abyss world with countless layers, and her true form is imprisoned within one of the layers."

"Once, a superior being said it’s fine to take a look, but considering that this person is from ’Original Apostles’, the most loose-lipped and fond of Hell’s jokes, I don’t trust his words..."

Lin Yi’s mouth twitched, suddenly feeling that this character mentioned by the Night Watchman somewhat lowered the dignity of the beings at the ’Original Apostles’ level...

"Ah right, there’s a picture frame! Could it be of any help to you?"

"A picture frame, where?" asked the Night Watchman.

"It’s on the desk!" Lin Yi said, slowly approaching the desk by the bookshelf, but at that moment, his expression suddenly changed, and he gasped for breath.

"What now, don’t get all startled. I see the picture frame; is it that one?" Here, Night Watchman’s perceptive abilities seemed to be tremendously limited, often relying on Lin Yi’s perspective to observe.

"No doubt it’s the right one..." Lin Yi’s eyes were haunted as he stared at the picture frame on the desk, his tone dry and trembling, "but if I remember correctly, last time I ’came’ here, that picture frame, it wasn’t facing away from us!"

On the desk, a picture frame faced away from Lin Yi’s view, as if someone didn’t want him to see and deliberately turned it around.

The atmosphere in the bedroom, at this moment, slowly dropped to freezing point, a chilling sense creeping stealthily throughout...