AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 94 - 43: The World is Forgetting Him_2

Chapter 94: Chapter 43: The World is Forgetting Him_2

Lin Yi couldn’t help but fall into deep thought, "So, you came to me on your own initiative because you have some very important information to convey to me?"

He had many pieces of information he wanted to exchange with Tian Bufan, but Tian Bufan apparently just wanted to see him in person — to make sure whether he was dead or alive.

Therefore, Lin Yi handed the initiative of the conversation over to Tian Bufan.

Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, a glint of sharpness passing through: "I came to find you to tell you... Maozi is in trouble."

Lin Yi’s heart tightened. He still hadn’t found any clues related to Mao Feiyang, and Tian Bufan had already deduced that Mao Feiyang was in trouble?

"How do you know?"

"Because... I’m finding that I am losing my memories of Maozi; this is illogical. ’Forgetting’ like this should absolutely not happen to me," said Tian Bufan seriously.

"Are you saying you have amnesia?" Lin Yi said in surprise.

"Amnesia means not remembering anything at all, which is obviously not applicable to my situation."

"Then... dementia?"

Tian Bufan: "?"

"It’s hard to imagine someone with your intelligence saying such a thing... It seems you’ve ’restrained’ too much to avoid being influenced by the environment."

"So..." Tian Bufan touched his brow, his expression quite troubled, "with your current level of intelligence, it’s difficult for me to explain... if not, let’s wait until we get back to the dorm tonight."

Hearing Tian Bufan say this, Lin Yi didn’t show any displeasure.

"You’re saying... you’re forgetting Maozi?"

"Try to recall him yourself," Tian Bufan said, "You should know as well, but you’ve restrained yourself too much."

"No choice, if I don’t restrain myself, it’s really easy for things to go wrong... If Liangzi hadn’t been there last night, I might have had a big problem before I could ’adjust’."

"Your flaw is needing ’to adjust,’ but your advantage is also being able to ’adjust’," Tian Bufan said, "Moreover, sometimes it’s really not that you’re not ’restraining’ enough, but that you’re too sensitive to changes in the environment itself..."

"You perceive too much more than other people."

Lin Yi’s eyes slightly lowered, "I’ll try to think about Maozi’s situation..."

He tried to recall events related to Mao Feiyang and found that recent events were still very vivid, but as he looked further back in time, his memories of him grew increasingly vague.

He showed a look of shock: "I, too, am losing my memories related to Maozi!"

"It’s not just you, others are probably in a similar situation," Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi asked, "How could this be? Could it be related to that staircase?"

"Certainly related," Tian Bufan nodded, "Up to now, I cannot deduce Maozi’s whereabouts, and considering the strangeness of this campus itself, we must have lost contact with Maozi."

"It’s more than that... I feel the world is ’forgetting’ Maozi."

"Why?"

Tian Bufan said solemnly: "There’s no ’why,’ no ’how could it,’ only ’it simply is.’

Lin Yi was taken aback, feeling an overwhelming pressure.

Tian Bufan said, "I cannot determine for the time being whether there exists some indescribable ’rule’ that is altering our memories, but one thing is certain, Maozi is drifting away from us."

"Do you know what the most terrifying thing in life is?"

"Is it death? No, it’s not."

"It’s ’being forgotten,’ something even more frightening than death."

"’The forgotten have no path to return.’

"If the whole world forgets Maozi, and he’s lost in that staircase, what’s the difference between that and eternal exile?"

Lin Yi gritted his teeth, "We have to rescue him."

Tian Bufan scoffed, "Ridiculous."

"What did you say?" Lin Yi glared at Tian Bufan, "He’s our roommate!"

Tian Bufan shook his head, "Impulsiveness can make one lose reason, remaining calm is the method to solving the problem."

"With empty hands, what ’rescue’ do you speak of? You don’t even know where he is,"

"I..." Lin Yi opened his mouth but was at a loss for words on the spot.

"I’ve already checked the staircase area," Tian Bufan sneered and shook his head, "It’s ridiculous, there isn’t even a staircase!"

"The sign in front of the Teaching Building says, turn left out of the staircase for the Teacher’s Office."

"But if you turn right out of the Teacher’s Office, you’re back in the classroom."

"If we use the classroom as a point of reference, then the classroom itself is the staircase."

"However... when we reached the same Teacher’s Office door and went in, after opening the door again, I couldn’t see any of you."

"So I suspect that the location of the Teacher’s Office is constantly changing."

"Behind that door lies a, no, a whole moving Teacher’s Office."

"That’s why we end up at different classroom doors when we leave it."

After thinking for a moment, Lin Yi said, "Do you mean, if the Teacher’s Office is a separate structure inside the Teaching Building and it’s also undergoing some kind of cyclical movement, then we can use the Teacher’s Office as a transfer point to get back to the place where turning right out of the door leads to the staircase?"

Tian Bufan glanced at Lin Yi, having no doubts about the fluctuations in Lin Yi’s intelligence, and nodded, "That’s roughly the idea, but I have too little information about the Teacher’s Office."

"The student regulations and the Teaching Building regulations don’t mention the Teacher’s Office at all."

"For something that’s not mentioned in the regulations, there’s only one situation."

"That is, this thing is beyond the control of the person who set the rules."

"Before we’re absolutely sure, none of us should act rashly and probe into the Teacher’s Office."

"After all... I have a feeling that the ’class monitor’ isn’t quite normal," Tian Bufan said slowly.

Lin Yi pondered, "There’s something major off about my class monitor too..."

"We’ll consider the class monitor’s problem later," Tian Bufan raised his hand to interrupt, "The most important thing I conveyed earlier still stands, and what’s more, I’m concerned about... how are you adapting?"

"And how about being restrained?"

"Still need to be restrained... I thought it was safe enough Under the Sun, but still ran into a lot of trouble," Lin Yi shook his head.

"’Under the Sun’? Such a direct clue, it doesn’t seem like something you figured out on your own."

"The Sports Student told me that it’s possible to think freely Under the Sun."

"Heh," Tian Bufan laughed, "You’re lucky to have the Sports Student remind you of such things."

"What about you?" Lin Yi asked.

Tian Bufan shrugged, "Last night, the Sports Student and the Art Student had a fight in the classroom."

"They fought? The Art Student?" Lin Yi was shocked, "No, didn’t the Sports Student leave the classroom before 21:00?"

"Who told you that you have to leave? Um..." Tian Bufan suddenly pondered and then said, "Is it the same Sports Student who told you that you can think Under the Sun that spoke to you?"

"Yes," Lin Yi nodded.

"What else did he say?"

Lin Yi hesitated to speak and then cautiously said, "Can I tell you? Will it cause you to overthink and have problems?"

Tian Bufan looked at him, "You can tell me. But... from the sound of it, even though you’ve been quite restrained, you still stepped on quite a few landmines?"

"Uh..." Lin Yi showed an embarrassed expression and couldn’t help scratching his head, "Without Liangzi, I might... also be forgotten by the world."

He thought about that nonexistent road, which truly felt like walking on the desolate ground of a void.

Tian Bufan raised his eyebrows; although Lin Yi seemed to have faced a life-and-death crisis, he couldn’t stop a faint smile from curving his lips when he heard about it, "Interesting... I am now very intrigued by what you’ve experienced in these past two days."

"But that’s not urgent, we can talk about it in detail at the dorm tonight."

"Right now, I am more interested in hearing... what the Sports Student told you."