Chapter 9 Night is their home ground
"You just need to abide by the rules honestly, be a normal student, and then leave the campus on the seventh day. Do you understand?" Xu Shunkang stared into Lin Yi's eyes, wishing he could write this sentence into Lin Yi's code.
Lin Yi opened his mouth slightly, trying to restrain himself from thinking about the meaning of Xu Shunkang's words, and then first told the trouble he encountered: "I understand, but my roommate got separated from us, so I want to find him."
"You entered school today... so the person who separated from you didn't even get his student ID card?"
"He...may not have gotten it yet." Mao Feiyang walked to the stairwell, and Lin Yi was not sure what his situation was now.
Where did you get separated?」
"In the stairs."
"Stairs?" Xu Shunkang was slightly startled, "Did he take the stairs along the left hand side?"
h "On the left hand side? No, we got separated on the stairs to the basement."
"Basement?" A trace of doubt appeared in Xu Shunkang's eyes, "Strange, the code of the teaching building says there is no basement..."
He thought about it subconsciously, and his knowledge about this teaching building flashed back in his mind.
Classroom, corridor, office... Then, the appearance of a stairwell broke into his memory.
It was a blue-grey isolated fire door with a green-lit safety exit sign on it.
But as soon as he thought about this door, a feeling of fatigue came out of his heart.
Xu Shunkang's expression suddenly changed, he shook his head violently, and then muttered: "No! That underground... that thing is outside my understanding of the rules!"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and a flash of light flashed between his eyes: "Out of recognition?!"
"Shut up! Shut up!" Seeing that Lin Yi seemed to want to say something else, Xu Shunkang's face suddenly showed a nervous look.
His eyes flickered and he looked panicked.
After Lin Yi stopped drinking, he immediately closed his eyes and kept chanting: "The teaching building does not have a basement, the teaching building does not have a basement..."
As his thoughts continued to strengthen, his understanding of the teaching building also began to consolidate again, and the fatigue that had just emerged deep in his heart was also nipped in the bud.
He opened his eyes again, and then breathed a long sigh of relief. Then he looked at Lin Yi and asked in a deep voice: "Is this why you have been thinking about the campus problem?"
"Yes."
So you feel it too. Is there a problem when we get to the campus? The strange weather, the buildings beyond our understanding, and...the sneaky figures..."
"Yes, that's why I'm thinking about this problem...isn't it? If you don't think about it when you have problems, isn't there something wrong with your brain?" Lin Yi looked at Xu Shunkang innocently.
"You... eh, what the fuck..." Xu Shunkang was already a little angry at first, but now he couldn't get angry. The words "you, what the fuck?" kept lingering in his mouth for a long time, and finally he shook his head helplessly.
Xu·Shunkang·Xue·Chan. "
"You?" Xu Shunkang took a step back subconsciously. Looking at Lin Yi's expression, he suddenly understood something, and a trace of his suppressed anger emerged again, "It's too dangerous for you to do this!"
Lin Yi shrugged and said helplessly: "There is no way, senior... I already have a roommate who is in crisis, and the guy next to me really can't give me any useful information."
Wei Liang didn't refute, just touched his nose awkwardly.
"Because the more you understand the secrets of the campus, the more you can't help yourself..."
"This kind of inability to extricate yourself is uncontrollable, just like the attraction of a magnet to an iron nail."
"You can only sense a little bit of the magnet's attraction from a distance now, but once you understand more, you will get closer to the magnet. Once it exceeds a critical value, you will be unable to get rid of this magnetic field."
"From the moment you step into the magnetic field, your cognition will be overturned and shattered. If you can't re-establish your cognition, you are doomed."
A classmate wearing the same blue and white striped sportswear as Xu Shunkang walked up to Lin Yi.
"Xie Huayang, physical education student, Fatty and I are from the same batch." He introduced himself.
Then he looked at Xu Shunkang, frowned and urged: "Okay, fat man, it's getting late. Control your emotions and don't get angry. It's time for us to leave."
"Leaving so early?" Xu Shunkang was a little surprised.
"It's early." Xie Huayang came over and lowered his voice and said, "Today we are short of manpower, and you just made us full of hatred. The right time, place, and people are not on our side. Why don't we leave early and wait for death?"
"Uh..." Xu Shunkang was choked, and his anger suddenly dissipated.
He looked at Lin Yi and Wei Liang and hesitated: "What should they do?"
Xie Huayang glanced at Lin Yi and Wei Liang indifferently: "They made you angry, and you still think about them?"
"If you ask me, their life and death are none of our business!"
"You've tried to persuade me twice, and I've said two more words. They can listen to the rest if they want to hear it. If they don't like to hear it, so be it. "Bah!"
Xu Shunkang was obviously still hesitant, but Xie Huayang suddenly said: "It's hard to persuade those who want to die. If they are like Yuan Tietou, no matter how many times we try, it will be useless."
Knowing that Xie Huayang was deliberately irritating him, when he heard the name Yuan Tietou, Xu Shunkang's anger that had just dissipated erupted again.
He grabbed Xie Huayang by the collar and growled: "Shut up! Stop mentioning Datou! Do you think that's really the case? We had a chance to save him!"
"There is a chance! He thought he understood the code, but he understood it!" Xie Huayang slammed Xu Shunkang's hand away, "Didn't we persuade him? Didn't we tell him not to do that? But he didn't listen!"
He pointed at Lin Yihe Wei Liang: "Just like those two self-righteous Shabi, they don't want to listen! We just met by chance, what nonsense are you talking to them?"
"I'm sorry to interrupt...I didn't listen..." Wei Liang raised his hands and said weakly.
“Wait a minute!” Xu Shunkang was like a pump, the anger being pumped up and down in his body.
But now I just pulled it up and then pushed it down again.
His face was full of unwillingness.
He clenched the comic book in his hand, gritted his teeth and said, "I haven't finished reading this comic yet."
"What's so good about Minotaur comics?" Xie Huayang snatched the "Green Battle of Mountains and Seas" from Xu Shunkang's hand, "Hong Kong comics just can't get rid of the cerebral palsy Minotaur plot that disgusts readers. I've finished reading this book a long time ago. The more I go to the back, the more I stretch my hips. The finale is just a mess of answers, and it's shredded. I think it's better to watch some pure H comics!"
「我那儿还珍藏了几本织田non老师的作品，回头借你品鉴品鉴。」他拍了拍徐顺康的肩膀，催促道，「哎呀，走吧走吧走吧！赶紧的！」
徐顺Kang's anger had really dissipated by now. He hesitated for a moment, and then said: "There is still a little time, I will tell them one more thing."
"Hurry up." Xie Huayang also knew not to push too hard.
"What to be careful about?" Wei Liang blurted out almost at the same time as Lin Yi.
Xu Shunkang said: "You are not allowed to leave the teaching building after 21 o'clock, so we have to take a step forward."
"After we leave, you must be careful about everyone except you."
"Because..."
He looked around, his cold eyes scanning the faces of the students who had gathered around before.
"Night is their home court..."
Lin Yi and Wei Liang were shocked.
"Remember, obeying the rules is the only way you can protect yourself."
After saying that, Xu Shunkang followed Xie Huayang and walked towards the door of the classroom.
Before leaving, he seemed to have thought of something else. He turned to look at Lin Yi and smiled: "However, theoretically speaking, it is relatively safe to spend the night in the classroom. I hope I can see you again tomorrow... I wish you good luck." After saying that, he opened the door and walked out with Xie Huayang.
The moment the classroom door opened, wisps of thick fog drifted in from the cracks in the door like noon smoke.
Outside the classroom, the biting cold wind mixed with icy water vapor is constantly washing over the campus. The entire classroom is like a sailboat sailing on the Caribbean Sea at night, which may capsize at any time amid the waves and thick fog.
With the departure of Xie Huayang and Xu Shunkang, some students in the classroom followed them one after another.
Lin Yi noticed that almost all of the students who left were wearing uniform blue and white sportswear.
In other words, they are all sports students.
After the physical education students left, the classroom door was closed again.
The cold wind outside the door no longer blows in, and the large and empty classroom gradually becomes warm again under the bright yellow light of incandescent lamps.
Watching the backs of the physical education students leaving, Lin Yi's mind floated with a sentence from Xie Huayang: [Because the more you understand the secrets of the campus, the more you will be unable to extricate yourself... This kind of inextricability is uncontrollable, just like a magnet attracting iron nails. 】
"Can't extricate myself? Is it the sense of guidance I felt before?"
"Don't think..."
"Keep thinking..."
"Damn, this is how you play, right?"
Lin Yi glanced at the clock on the wall, and then at the time on the watch.
20:47.
"It will be nine o'clock soon..."
Lin Yi took out the student rules and flipped through them, and found the one about staying overnight.
【Student Rules Article 6: Please leave the dormitory between 6:00~7:40 and return to the dormitory between 21:00~22:00. After returning to the dormitory, do not leave the dormitory outside this period... If you do not return to the dormitory before 22:00, please return to the classroom at all costs. The lights in the classroom will not be turned off. Please stay in the classroom overnight.
During this period, if you notice anything unusual outside the dormitory or classroom, please ignore it, especially if you hear a voice calling your name.
Be wary of roommates who do not stay overnight in the dormitory, especially if they ask you anything related to your student ID. 】
Look again at the rules about this period in the building code.
【Evening self-study time is after 18:00, but the school does not force students to participate in evening self-study unless the current time has exceeded 21:00.
After 21:00, you are not allowed to leave the classroom. Please study by yourself until 7:40 the next day. You can browse any books, but remember not! want! exist! teach! room! middle! sleep! (This last sentence is bold, underlined, and marked with lots of bold exclamation points).
During this period, if you see anything unusual outside the window or someone calls you outside the door, please ignore it. 】
Lin Yi rubbed his chin and started thinking.
"The student code states that the time to return to the dormitory is between 21:00 and 22:00, while the rule in the teaching building code is that it is prohibited to leave the classroom after 21:00."
"In other words, under normal circumstances, we should You should leave the classroom before 21:00, and then arrive at the dormitory before 22:00. There is up to an hour in between to travel..."
He turned to the end of the teaching building manual, opened the map, and observed the location of the teaching building and the dormitory.
The teaching buildings on the map are exactly the same as those described in the teaching building regulations. There are three buildings in total and they are built side by side. They are connected to each other by bridges in the middle, just like three "heads" placed together.
The distance from the teaching building to the dormitory is almost the same as the distance to the school gate. The road is also littered with street lights like rice.
"From the rules, one hour of traveling time should be sufficient."
"However, the student rules say that if you do not return to the dormitory after 22:00, you must return to the classroom to study for self-study until 7:40 the next day, but the rules of the teaching building say that you are prohibited from leaving the classroom after 21:00..."
"Isn't this a conflict?"
"No, no, no conflict... It is forbidden to leave the classroom, but it does not mean that entry is prohibited, so those who have no time to return to the dormitory can return to the classroom to study. That's right."
But during these 5 minutes of thinking time, he did not feel as tired as before.
"Why am I not tired or sleepy now, but so tired before?"
Lin Yi took a deep breath, then looked around, taking in the entire circular classroom environment.
There are now more than sixty students in the huge classroom, and there are about forty students who have gathered around Lin Yi before and put enough pressure on him.
These people all have a very obvious characteristic, that is, they huddle in their seats, as if they want to embed themselves in them.
They had their heads drooped, some were staring blankly at the air, and some were staring directly at other students in the classroom.
Other students, like Lin Yi and Wei Liang, looked relatively normal. The number was probably more than 20 or less than 30.
Lin Yi told Wei Liang what he had discovered.
After Wei Liang listened, he puzzled and said, "I have no problem with the thirty or forty people you said have problems, but how can you be sure that the remaining people are normal? There are some people who are neither yin nor yang and you can't tell anything abnormal just by observing them, right?"
Lin Yi shook his head: "I don't make judgments based on this level of observation."
Thank you to the book friend "Keli Fried Fish" for the reward!
(End of this chapter)