AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 831 - 384: The Stairwell is a Well

Chapter 831: Chapter 384: The Stairwell is a Well

But Lin Yi couldn’t help it; he was wearing a watch and would occasionally glance at the time on it.

It was just a three-minute journey when he looked back at the iron gate of the Bell Tower, only to find it had disappeared. Above the staircase was a spiral staircase extending into the Fibonacci sequence, its end shrouded in gloomy mist and billowing clouds, as if it was the entrance to an abyss.

Below him was a similar realm, and walking here easily evoked a sense of loneliness, as if cut off from the world, accompanied by an unsettling feeling with no end in sight.

He continued to descend, from time to time glancing at the time on his watch.

According to Old Mo and the Night Watchman, one hour was "theoretically" enough for him to set off from here and then reach the Watchtower. Based on his understanding of this route, there were four stages from the Watchtower to the Bell Tower: the Stone Bridge area, the Art Building Hall and its corridors, the Gallery area, and the hallway and staircase area.

The Stone Bridge and Art Building areas were short, taking only about 10 minutes in total for him to run through. The key sections were this staircase and the Gallery, but even at a full estimate, 40 minutes would be quite ample...

"Don’t rush, stay calm, no need to be anxious..." Lin Yi was somewhat anxious, but at this moment, he had to convince himself not to be.

All of a sudden, a ghostly transparent hand of a Sneering Angel stretched out from the wall, reaching for Lin Yi’s old kerosene lamp.

Lin Yi was startled, but still reflexively dodged, and after the dodge, he found a baseball bat in his hand, as if he were about to smash the wall and the painting that sealed the Sneering Angel with it...

Lin Yi shivered, quickly dismissed the bat, and then repeatedly chanted in his heart: "Don’t screw up, instinct... I’m just a Dormitory Supervisor now, and I need to go back to the dormitory in an orderly manner, that’s all..."

Although I also know that I’ve become very powerful now, please be low-key.

He collected his thoughts and quickly continued downward.

However, as he walked, unsuitable whispers began to appear by his ears. He heard the urgent sounds of wind accompanied by the constant seeping of rainwater through the gaps in the wall bricks, he heard some rustling sounds, something was not quite right, but he couldn’t put his finger on what...

Instinctively, he felt discomfort, but after careful observation, these stairs were indeed stairs...

He glanced at his watch again, the time was 3:05.

He left the Bell Tower around 3:00, or maybe 2:59. In any case, the time was still quite normal at this point.

But his heart cooled immediately.

Because the time on the watch slowed down and lingered on the 23rd second of 3:05.

"Ah..." He rubbed his temples, a bitter smile appearing at the corner of his mouth.

As expected, a problem had occurred, but what was eerie was that he wasn’t at all surprised by the mishap, dammit!

Has the loser already accepted the fact that he’s unlucky?

"Time stands still, which means I’m in the ’Dream Building,’ and the layers of the dream world are continuously deepening..." Lin Yi pondered very calmly.

Of course, it’s not so much that he was brave, but rather he had raised his threshold of fear. These "small matters" were no longer enough to panic him, or rather, the things that could still scare him today had not yet emerged.

But just when he was comforting himself so, the chilling change he had expected "inevitably" surfaced...

The rustling sound by his ear unknowingly turned into the gurgling of water, the faint water seeping through the wall bricks now turned into strands of water flow, streaming across the dark green moss on the wall and flowing into the unseen Gloomy Abyss below the staircase...

When Lin Yi gazed into the Abyss, it seemed as if layers of Mist were floating within, as if those faces were looking back at him.

"Whoosh..."

"Whoosh..."

"Whoosh..."

Below, it seemed as if there were water noises...

In the air, there also seemed to be a breath floating up, salty, rotten, and filthy...

Lin Yi was suddenly alarmed, he thought of something!

"Is it... that ’well’?!"

This layer was the same layer where the well was located!

His Phantom Vision, no, he truly was in a dream-building state, as his consciousness had somehow arrived within that well!

He looked around at the walls and couldn’t help but notice that the walls had changed; his surroundings were no longer the staircase area, but the inner wall of that deep well.

The walls of the well were covered with damp and sticky green moss, the bottom of the well echoed with deep waves sound, mixed with the breath of sea winds, like the roar of some unknown behemoth shaking one’s Spirit.

"Ssshhh... Ssshhh... Ssshhh..."

The well’s walls trembled slightly, and a black viscous substance mixed with mud and sand oozed from the mist, creeping upwards...

This time, Lin Yi seemed to have sensed something, the traces of the viscous substance looked like the natural downward slide of a viscous liquid with gravity inverted...

Like some black, fishy-smelling, viscous... blood?

Is it blood?

That cold, terrifying, chilling sensation slowly invaded his mind.

All he heard were the sea winds howling through cavities, waves continuously smashing against the well’s walls, the viscous liquid slowly creeping...