Chapter 16 How to Survive
"What? Eliminate attention...? What do you mean?" Wei Liang's eyes were wide open, and there was a question mark hanging on the side of his forehead.
Lin Yi explained: "I just tried to find a way to prevent him from staring at me."
"Ah oh oh! That's what it means!" Wei Liangzuo suddenly realized, "I understand what you said, just divert his attention!"
"Yes, that's it! "I mean." Lin Yi nodded and said, "Have you been here before? Have you encountered similar things? Or heard similar rumors."
Wei Liang's words made Lin Yi stunned for a moment, and then he immediately woke up. Wei Liang was pretending to be confused and deceived himself.
"But can we complete the seven-day experience just by doing this?"
Wei Liang shook his head and said helplessly: "So although I want to help, in fact I am helpless."
"But..."
"But what?"
"But if you really want to think about the problem, you can try it." Wei Liang stared at Lin Yi and said very seriously.
"Huh?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, "You mean?"
Wei Liang smiled mysteriously: "When you were thinking about a problem before, didn't you fall asleep thinking about it? So I can keep an eye on you and shake you awake as soon as I find you showing signs of dozing off."
"How do you feel?"
"I can't understand your feeling of being stared at, but I think you feel bad..."
"If you really feel like you are in a desperate situation, how about... ...Try it?”
“This…” Lin Yi hesitated, and then said frankly, “If you try it, will you... die?”
Wei Liang did not care about him, but said seriously: “It’s okay if you shake him awake, but he will die if he doesn’t wake up.”
"The key now is that you are being targeted by that person. Once the lights in the classroom go out, it's hard to say what will happen."
Lin Yi was silent.
The air was suddenly quiet, and Wei Liang did not urge anything. The only sound left in the silent classroom was the sound of the incandescent lamp hanging from the ceiling swinging under the long iron chain.
Lin Yi rubbed his watch, closed his eyes, and took a few deep breaths.
The wind was blowing outside the window, fine raindrops were beating on the window, and the cold air spread into white mist.
The rustling hands of the quartz watch fluctuated with Lin Yi's breathing.
On one side are students whose ability to act depends on the environment, and whose behavior patterns are still unpredictable for the time being;
On the other side is the indescribable feeling of being pulled into the abyss that will appear once you think deeply...
It seems that there are problems with both paths!
Lin Yi suddenly felt like he was racking his brains to choose a way to die.
Obviously...neither of these two options is what he wants.
If he wanted to get the experience bonus of 30,000 yuan alive to subsidize his grandma's medical expenses, he couldn't take any risks, especially in such an unknown battle with no chance of winning.
h "The thoughts I made before all appeared unintentionally, so I was able to extract them in time with the help of Wei Liang."
h "If I take the initiative to think, will I cross the red line of the rules in this environment?"
Everything is unknown.
"You can only find solutions from the rules. Complying with the rules is the means to achieve self-protection!"
"Although the process just now was extremely dangerous, in the final analysis, we escaped because we followed the rules."
"Once the rules are violated, the consequences are unimaginable."< br/>
Lin Yi took a long breath, opened his eyes, and under Wei Liang's waiting gaze, shook his head and said in denial:
"Forget it, I can't afford to gamble."
"This is not playing a game. If something goes wrong, we, no, I don't have the chance to "load the file" again."
"Then there's nothing I can do." Wei Liang was regretful and happy at the same time, "But I believe you can find a way on your own, come on!"
"Hmm." Lin Yi nodded.
Wei Liang consoled him: "Besides, maybe the lights in the classroom won't go out until dawn, right?"
"You can talk..." Lin Yi said helplessly.
Wei Liang always speaks in accordance with his decision. One second, he felt like he was desperate and would be reincarnated if he failed, and the next second he comforted him seriously...
"Liangzi can only play with the wind..."
Lin Yi gave up the idea of seeking decisive advice from Wei Liang.
He glanced at his watch.
23:55.
There are still 5 minutes until midnight.
0:00 is a very subtle time point, especially in a strange environment, it is easy to think of metaphysical rules such as not looking in the mirror.
The more wrong you are in a place, the easier it is to have an aura of terror.
Invisibly, Lin Yi also felt a double sense of oppression from time and classmates.
"Old Lin, no, I'm a little sleepy. I need to read a book for a while to refresh myself. If you have anything to do, just tell me. Don't do it alone." Wei Liang warned, and then he turned over the comic at hand.
Lin Yi nodded and said nothing.
"First of all, let's make sure...it's okay to think about problems, but you can't think about things that are "unreasonable"..."
There is no way to resolve this crisis before things get worse."
Lin Yi recited the student rules one by one in his mind, looking for everything related to the teaching building...
In the end, he only found one and the last rule:
【Please pay attention to your physical health. If you find yourself feeling dizzy, vertigo, nausea or other uncomfortable symptoms during school, please find the dormitory manager or class teacher before staying overnight. He will take you to the infirmary, and the school doctor will take you to the school gate. 】
But the rules of the teaching building also say:
【It is forbidden to leave the classroom after 21:00. Please study by yourself until 7:40 the next day. During this period, if you see anything unusual outside the window or someone calling you outside the door, please ignore it. ]
"There is a conflict between the rules again...?"
Whenever this happens, he can't help but want to understand the connection between the rules, but after suffering several losses, he decisively chose to abide by the rules of the teaching building first according to his location - the teaching building.
But other than that, he couldn't find any other rules from the official, that is, the school.
The only things left that can be included for reference are the few words of the head teacher and the few minutes of dialogue with Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang.
"There are two key points in Xu Shunchang's words. The first is to abide by the rules, and the second is not to think..."
"I have understood the meaning of the words about obeying the rules. As for not to think about it..." The exam should be what I understand as not thinking about "problematic things"..."
"It's obviously okay to think like this now. Xu Shunkang didn't make it clear because he wanted to avoid leading me to think about it..."
Just like when talking, A keeps emphasizing in negative sentences that B should not buy a blue signature pen. In the end, B buys a blue signature pen instead.
The simplest way to prevent B from buying a blue rollerball pen is to not even tell B about the blue rollerball pen.
Xu Shunkang’s approach is similar but has the same purpose.
Don't say anything at all if you don't have time to explain it clearly, so as to prevent people from thinking too much about hearing too much and causing surprises.
"Then there are the words of the head teacher... The most critical point in what the head teacher said is actually "ignore". 》
Ignorance may seem simple, but in fact it is very difficult to do. Like Wei Liang, he was able to do it only because he focused his talent on that kind of strange skills.
"Then, if you combine the limited clues together, what you get is-"
h "Don't think in thought, ignore reality in behavior...and then abide by the emergency rules when an accident occurs, you can get a "safe" environment! 》
When Lin Yi came to this conclusion, Lin Yi suddenly looked at Wei Liang who was reading the comics with gusto. A capital word "submit" slowly rose from the bottom of his heart.
"This is ridiculous...isn't it what Liangzi did?"
Wei Liang's subconscious reaction was exactly the same as the survival method Lin Yi came up with after peeling off the cocoon!
Chang Wei, you still said you don’t know martial arts? !
Wei Liang felt Lin Yi's burning gaze and trembled subconsciously.
"What's wrong, Lao Lin? The look in your eyes makes me feel bad..." He shrank his neck.
"It's nothing..." Lin Yidao.
"Is Liangzi really as wise as a fool...or is he as wise as a fool? Is there really such a coincidence?"
"But, I always feel that something is not right..."
Lin Yi feels that the phenomenon is like this, but the principle is not. There should be some kind of logic in it, and he is just going around the surface.
He wanted to think deeply, but he felt that as long as he went even a little deeper, that weird and indescribable feeling of terror would invade his will, and then... induce him to think deeply!
Can't think too much...
It is clear that he must keep thinking, but there seems to be a shackles in the range of thinking, forcing him to only carry out reasoning within a limited range, and cannot think beyond the boundary at all.
"Damn it."
Lin Yi shook his head slightly, not willing to put the half-baked conclusion he had deduced into the entire incident after the classroom lights flashed, to briefly review the situation and see if he could find out the reason why he was locked.
At this moment, Lin Yi suddenly noticed that the light and shadow in the classroom flickered again.
"?!!" Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly raised his head and looked at the ceiling.
But this time he stared at the ceiling for half a minute, and in the end he still didn't find any incandescent lamp flickering.
Just when he was having some doubts, the light in the classroom flickered again!
His pupils shrank suddenly, and he reacted instantly: "It's not the lights in the classroom that are flashing! It's... the corridor!"
He turned his head to look at the corridor, and sure enough, the lights in the corridor were beating at a strange frequency.
"How many lights are flashing together to affect the light in the classroom?"
Just when Lin Yi felt frightened, a subtle wave passed along the classroom wall tiles and reached the soles of his feet.
In the water dispenser behind the circular lecture theater, a subtle ripple appeared on the water surface.
Something seemed to be colliding outside. Every collision would cause the entire classroom to tremble slightly, and the incandescent lights in the corridor would also jump.
He looked at the classroom window. Due to the temperature difference between inside and outside, a layer of white water vapor filled the window glass.
Through the water vapor, he could only see something gray. Under the illumination of the corridor lights, the thick fog slapped the window glass like surging waves.
The whole classroom is becoming more and more like a ship sailing in the deep sea fog on a stormy night, and it seems that it will capsize at any time.
Suddenly, he saw something standing up from the fog, and the light from the corridor cast his shadow on the glass filled with moisture.
Suddenly, the rules of the student code came to his mind:
【During this period, if you notice any strange noises or see strange figures outside the window, please ignore them, especially when they call you in the dormitory room or outside the classroom. 】
He quickly withdrew his gaze and immersed himself in reading the comic book at hand.
He flipped through it casually, but his mind couldn't help but think of the pictures he had seen before.
The shadow seemed to be formed after some creatures struggled together, and the "dong-dong-dong" sound was very much like the sound of stone tools hitting each other.
Every time the sound of a collision is heard, it spreads out like a shock wave...
"Old Lin, you took the book upside down." Wei Liang's voice rang in his ears.
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then suddenly came back to his senses.
Wei Liang's voice continued to ring in our ears: "Well, this is a deep mountain in the countryside after all. It's normal for some small rolling stones to appear in abnormal weather, just don't think too much about it."
"Rolling... stones?"
"It's just the tremor just now, isn't it just a rolling rock on the mountain? Don't think too much, it's a long night, only comics to accompany you, let's read a book!" Wei Liang said.
Lin Yi's mind went around a few times before he finally understood the meaning of Wei Liang's words.
He looked solemn, and immediately straightened the comic book in front of him, no longer thinking about the situation outside the classroom, and then slowly started reading.
At this moment, Wei Liang pushed a book in front of Lin Yi and said seriously: "Your book "Dragon I just finished reading the first volume, just in time for you..."
Lin Yi took it and looked at it. The cover of the book showed a nurse in a charming pose...
His eyebrows raised slightly and he looked at the title of the book.
"Ye X Sick Building (Hardcover Edition)".
""Night X Ward" tells the story of pure love between a patient and a nurse. Although the painting style is very old, it looks good. The most important thing is that it allows you to put aside your worries and immerse yourself in the story... The most important thing is that this is a hardcover version. "
Lin Yi opened the letter hesitantly, the corner of his mouth couldn't help but twitch, and hesitantly said: "H comic...?"
Wei Liang said disdainfully: "You read it with colored glasses. This kind of comics often requires a dialectical eye, starting from the style and plot, to think about what kind of philosophical thoughts the author uses such stories to express, etc., okay? ?"
"Instead of sticking to the picture itself."
"Forget it, you don't understand what I'm telling you, just read it around!"
Wei Liang lowered his head and started reading again.
Lin Yi was stunned for a while, nodded, and started reading silently...
Not long after he flipped through the book "Night X Hospital Building", he was affected by the flickering lights in the corridor and the constant shaking of the ground.
A fierce battle seemed to have broken out outside the classroom, and powerful shock waves hit the classroom like ocean waves.
X May 7, 2023, 0:08, Class B, Class 2.
Outside the classroom, a terrifying figure was rolling in the mist, and a terrifying shock wave seemed to destroy everything.
In the classroom, more than thirty weird classmates were watching the shadows on the windows like puppets, with different brilliance flowing in the depths of their empty eyes.
Or desire, or obsession, or madness, or...
Fear!
(End of this chapter)