AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 959 - 445 The Terror of "Dream Boundary_2

Chapter 959: Chapter 445 The Terror of "Dream Boundary_2

It was as if he had always been in the gallery, never leaving at all!

He felt a chill run through his body, engulfed in the fear and dread brought by the uncertainty of the unknown and reality, as if trapped by the ink sprayed by a giant octopus, plunged into extreme cold.

"I must go back! I must go back!!"

"But I’m clearly in the Student Passage, why can’t I anchor myself?"

"Why?"

"Why?!"

"Where did something go wrong?"

"Time!"

"Of course, it’s time!"

He looked at the watch on his wrist.

The little girl seemed to realize something and hurriedly reached out to cover it, but she was already too late, Lin Yi saw the time.

10:47.

Time!

The problem was with time!

No, it wasn’t that time was the issue, rather it was time that broke the deadlock!

When he reached the bulletin board in front of the cafeteria, he specifically glanced at the time, it was 10:46 at that moment, and after taking the "Dining Hall Rules" and entering the Student Passage, it should absolutely have been more than one minute!

The problem lies here!

"I’m not even in the Student Passage?!"

As Lin Yi thought of this, the continuously flashing vision suddenly collapsed and hid under the overlapping shadows.

The countless voices calling out also disappeared in an instant, and even the "clang clang clang" sound of the wind rupture vanished without a trace.

Everything seemed as if it never happened.

And he found himself holding onto Li Huiyuan’s wrist, paused on a step within the Student Passage.

"Are you okay?" Li Huiyuan asked with concern, "You grabbed me so hard just now, it really hurt..."

Lin Yi remained silent, simply staring at Li Huiyuan.

The doubt in Li Huiyuan’s eyes grew stronger, waving her hand in front of Lin Yi’s face: "Hey hey hey, are you still daydreaming?"

"Liang Liangzi is going far ahead, shall we hurry to catch up?"

Saying this, she pulled Lin Yi’s arm trying to chase after Wei Liang’s silhouette, but Lin Yi was like a stone, staying rooted on the spot, no matter how she tugged.

"You...?"

"Double dream..." Lin Yi murmured, "You’re too impressive... If it were before, I would have been completely fooled, no, you already succeeded, just that, it’s so regrettable..."

"Just a little bit more... really just a little bit more..."

"You’re not Li Huiyuan."

Li Huiyuan’s complexion changed slightly, hurriedly saying: "Lin Yi, are you crazy?! What on earth are you saying?"

"The rules say, most of the time, ’don’t look back’..." Lin Yi continued saying to himself while looking at Li Huiyuan, "but..."

He released Li Huiyuan’s hand, then turned around to look back, glancing at the path he had come from.

Outside the Student Passage, three people stood there.

They were Wei Liang, Li Huiyuan, and... himself.

The reason he couldn’t anchor himself back was indeed because he wasn’t in the Student Passage, but outside of it!

As his mind shifted, everything around quickly blurred, and he "returned to the body"...

Just before he left, it seemed as though he heard the "clang clang clang" sound of the wind rupture again in the quickly blurring environment, and those strange calls resounded, the countless voices and environment seemed like some terrifying deep-sea whirlpool, but he had already withdrawn.

In just a few breaths, he returned to his body, yet even at the last moment, that sound still imprinted itself in his soul like a brand, chasing after him.

[Når den svarte månen vissner,kommer tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet.]

...

May 10, X023, 10:48, in front of the Student Passage entrance, cafeteria area.

Wei Liang looked at Lin Yi, who was holding Li Huiyuan’s arm but still not moving, and couldn’t help but curse: "Old Lin! Old Lin! What the hell is wrong with you, Old Lin?"

"Why aren’t you moving? Are you pretending to be dumb, damn it?"

He walked in circles around Lin Yi, left three times, right three times, like an old Taoist stepping on a mysterious pattern, but what he muttered wasn’t magic spells, just curses.

There was worry all over Li Huiyuan’s face, speaking with concern: "Liang Liangzi, wouldn’t he have fallen through the layers?"

"What layers are you talking about, damn it, why do you always talk about things I can’t understand? Besides, whether he falls or not, even if he falls down, I’ll dig him up, don’t worry." Wei Liang cursed vehemently, leaning closer to Lin Yi, studying his face.

Just then, Lin Yi took a sharp breath: "Ha—"

His body shuddered.

Wei Liang also shuddered, even jumping back a step in fright: "Damn! Old Lin what the hell, trying to send a shiver through my body? Our relationship is good, but if you have any unthinkable ideas, I’ll definitely smash your head!"

Lin Yi started to gasp for air, realizing at the same time, that the thick dense clouds above were silently fading away...

His mind quickly flashed through some scenes...

He thought he entered the Student Passage, but in reality, he hadn’t.

Yet the things he said after entering the Student Passage, his "real body" had spoken them all, even Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan had responded to him.

All of it had happened, but the only difference was, his consciousness entered the Student Passage, yet reality and the dream world formed some kind of eerie, inseparable connection.

"Lin Yi, what happened to you just now? I was so worried about you." Li Huiyuan asked, looking at the still-startled Lin Yi, filled with concern.

Lin Yi let go of Li Huiyuan’s hand, glancing at his watch.

10:48.

Another minute had passed.

He pulled up his sleeve a bit more.

On his arm, the pale golden patterns seemed to become a bit more active...

"So it was you causing trouble..."

Lin Yi’s expression turned grim, with the Secret Mark left by the contractor on him, glowing with a strange light.

There’s no doubt that all of it was caused by the contractor’s power infiltrating the layers, leading him into some Dream Building state.

The overcast cloud covering the sky, layers in intense fluctuation, the contractor using the Secret Mark to infiltrate...

It was too smooth, so smooth that any more peculiar aspect couldn’t be found.

If there’s an issue to be pointed out, it was Li Huiyuan as a Sports Student actually entered the Student Passage with him.

But he didn’t realize this issue at first, because truth be told, since he understood the underlying logic of the rules, at times, he "let his guard down."

Thus, he was misled by the contractor.

It must be said, the contractor, defined as the "Original Apostles," is truly too terrifying.

Even if exiled by time, the mark, a sliver of her power left in this world, can bring about such unbelievable changes.

If it were her true form, what kind of disaster level would that be?

"But speaking of it, could that possibly be... the true power of ’Dream Boundary Studies’?"

The one who falls for it can not distinguish between dream and reality’s authenticity, and the dream’s boundary becomes blurred; if it were ordinary people, they would likely fall into an indefinite eternal dream.

Could some Sneering Angels actually be Dream Builders trapped in endless dreams?

Never waking until death, and not even stopping when becoming a Dead Body Sculpture, those Dream Maker’s consciousness still continues to perish in the infinite dream?

"I just now... had a wet dream." Lin Yi said, almost being cornered by the contractor, it’s also considered a dream of spring, right?

"Damn!" Wei Liang cursed vehemently, "Daydreaming is enough, but a wet dream? I, Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial, am ashamed to be associated with you!"

Wei Liang snorted heavily, fiercely flinging his sleeves, and plunged into the Student Passage without looking back.

Watching Wei Liang’s back, Lin Yi frowned slightly, he couldn’t shake the feeling that Wei Liang’s figure seemed somewhat weary, as if he had exerted a lot of effort somewhere unknown.