Chapter 59 The foggy student passage (1100 words added)
Lin Yi opened his mouth, but finally gave up the idea of asking.
The physical education student glanced at the student passage and reminded: "It's getting late, you should leave quickly...otherwise you won't be able to get out of the cafeteria when the fog comes up."
After saying that, he carried his plaster arm and walked along the edge of the cafeteria toward other passages.
"Fog?" Lin Yi was stunned. He looked at the position where the sports student had just looked, and was stunned on the spot.
I saw a layer of fog filling the student passage. The fog was not very thick, but under the illumination of the incandescent lamp in the student passage, the entire student passage looked like a bathhouse filled with water vapor.
The nearby steps can still be seen clearly, but the middle and rear sections gradually extend into the mist, making it difficult to see clearly.
As for the exit, it is even more blurry. There is only a dark shadow, like a giant opening its mouth wide and blocking it. From here, even with the light of an incandescent lamp, nothing can be seen clearly.
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment...
His intuition told him that if he walked in alone today, this student passage would basically be inaccessible.
He has a history of getting lost on the way to the stadium, so now he knows where this passage leads.
"Why haven't the Liangzi people come out yet?" he muttered.
Just as this idea came to his mind, the plastic curtain behind him was opened with a swish. Wei Liang rushed out panting, patting Lin Yi on the shoulder and gasping:
"Old Lin, are you okay? I saw it just now! You've learned Qing Gong, haven't you? Why are you jumping so fast, I can't even keep up!"
He was still breathing heavily as he spoke.
Feeling the hot breath almost blowing to his ears, Lin Yi felt a little calmer.
"Did you see it?!" Lin Yi said in surprise.
"I saw it!" Wei Liang nodded seriously, "A few green chefs suddenly came out of nowhere, and then rushed towards you like crazy, and then I saw you disappear in a flash!"
“Then did you see what was behind me?” Lin Yi asked.
"Yes!" Wei Liang said, "A chef, it seems, or a chef with a green bib! I saw him follow you to the door, and then he was beaten, and then ran away!"
Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little confused. Wei Liang saw him being chased, but nothing happened to him? What's going on?
But Wei Liang seemed to be just relaying a fact he saw.
"It's good to see you're fine." Wei Liang said happily, "Why are you still frowning?"
Lin Yi shook his head: "Nothing."
Before he finished speaking, he asked abruptly: "There are three good things about Lolita!"
Wei Liang was stunned.
Then, he looked at him with a strange expression: "Uh... Is it easy to push him down due to his light body?"
"I trust you, are you okay?" He reached out and touched Lin Yi's forehead.
"It's okay, it's okay, I'll give you the code to see if it's you." Lin Yi shook his head.
"I thought you switched from the Black Silk Royal Sister Cult to my White Silk Loli Cult..." Wei Liang curled his lips and murmured in a low voice.
Lin Yi twitched the corner of his mouth and did not continue the topic. Instead, he quickly got back to the point and said:
"Liangzi, we have to leave quickly. There is fog in the passage."
Wei Liang was startled when he heard the words, and then immediately glanced into the student passage. Then he was startled as usual and yelled "f*ck". Then he suddenly realized something and patted his chest to comfort Lin Yidao:
"Ouch, I'll go, you scared me!"
"Don't panic, don't panic, this concentration of fog is normal, small scenes, small scenes ..."
"Oh?" Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang in surprise, "Any idea?"
"You have to panic when the visibility is tens of meters higher, come on, come on, you follow me." Although Wei Liang said this, there was a hint of worry in his eyes, "Come on, if you don't go, it will be too late when the fog gets thicker."
"But..." Lin Yi hesitated, "The student code says...when encountering abnormal or foggy weather, isn't the first thing to do is to seek shelter in the nearest building?"
"That's right, but Old Lin, look..." Wei Liang pointed to other areas, "This is not an 'abnormal weather' now!"
Lin Yi was slightly surprised and followed Wei Liang's guidance.
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The sun has already set, and the campus is now shrouded in darkness. All the vegetation looks like twisted figures, and the thin mist spreads out from the mountains and forests.
But despite this, the view is not blurry...
There is fog in other places, but not much.
There is only a student passage. It seems that due to design problems, a large amount of fog has already condensed in the passage just after dark today.
Obviously - this does not conform to the description of abnormal weather in the student code at all.
"Old Lin, you are frightened and thinking wildly." Wei Liang comforted, "Don't panic, I have walked through this student passage many times, and I am very familiar with it. Put your hand on my shoulder, and I will take you away."
Lin Yi did not hesitate, and nodded immediately: "Okay."
"Let's go!" Wei Liang led the way.
Lin Yi put his hand on his shoulder and glanced at his watch.
18:20.
The two of them walked into the student passage one after another.
…
On the column of the student restaurant, the broken arm of the chef in the green bib has disappeared, replaced by an arm sculpture that is exactly the same as the broken arm and is completely carved from plaster.
The arm sculpture is lifelike. On the back of the hand, you can even clearly see the slightly raised blood vessels. At the break, you can also see the blood-like stone sculpture dripping downward.
…
X May 23, 18:20.
The moment he entered the student passage, a cold breath accompanied by thin mist slowly enveloped Lin Yi. A faint feeling of discomfort gently stimulated all the pores on Lin Yi's body, making him feel a sense of resistance to the student passage.
At this moment, Lin Yi's hair stood up and a chill ran down his spine. He felt as if he was being watched...
It was a cold, indifferent gaze without any unnecessary emotion, like a prostrate lion staring at your back in a daze, like some unimaginable existence that glanced at you one more time unintentionally.
"Is it... the chef with the blue bib who is "there but not quite there"?"
"Or something else...?"
When this conjecture came to his mind, he had the idea to turn around and take a look.
As soon as this idea appeared, it immediately grew wildly and uncontrollably, turning into a strong desire.
But he immediately developed a stronger desire to restrain:
"Don't look back! Absolutely! Don't look back!"
He gritted his teeth and restrained this desire rationally with a firm will. He felt the temperature of Wei Liang's shoulders coming from the palm of his hand, kept breathing evenly, and followed him step by step down the stairs of the student passage.
Just walking step by step, Lin Yi silently counted the steps in his heart.
When he counted to the thirty-sixth step, he felt quieter with each step he took.
This kind of silence is not normal, it’s like the whole world has lowered its pitch, and then makes certain subtle sounds louder...
He could clearly hear the sound of his feet on each step, his own unhappy heartbeat, the mist slowly spreading, the cold air spreading on the cold walls of the student passage...
He could hear the extremely subtle sound of water flowing from the inner wall of the student passage, like water flowing out of the gaps in the stone wall bricks, slowly sliding along the gaps, and then dripping on... the moss.
"Moss..."
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly.
"Is this the environmental factor that nourishes the moss?"
"No, in the student passage...where did the water come from?"
"Wait...could it be that non-existent water, taking advantage of the fog, seeped into the student passage?"
His nostrils flapped, and he vaguely smelled a... faint, salty, fishy smell in the student passage.
The breath of the sea.
"Fuck! Here we go again!"
He rubbed his temples fiercely, controlling himself not to think too much, and focused on following Wei Liang.
But Wei Liang's speed also began to slow down, as if every step he took had gone through a lot of calculations.
He followed silently. If you get lost at this time, you will definitely be in doom!
His world is getting quieter and quieter, but the sounds he can hear clearly are becoming more and more...
The extreme of silence is noisy, and the end of noisy is when the whole world seems to have left you and suddenly puts every tiny sound into your brain.
He heard the sound of the soles of his feet falling on the steps. Wei Liang had a "wide" footsteps because he wore ill-fitting shoes, and his footsteps were slightly soft...
He heard the faint breath of wind coming from The sound of blowing from the distant world, with a little sound of waves and the sound of bubbles washing on the gravel... He heard the sound of "rustling" - not behind him, but in all directions.
The sound came from the inner wall of the student passage. Under the thin mist, he seemed to see some kind of slight distortion in the wall. Not only was there a trickle on the wall, but there was also a weird relief outline with abstract lines...
That outline...twisted and squirmed, as if it was performing some ancient ritual. Just touching that outline with the eyes can generate a strong curiosity to get closer and take a closer look...
Lin Yi did not dare to look any further and quickly withdrew his gaze, locking his eyes tightly on Wei Liang's back.
The fog became thicker and thicker, and Lin Yi captured more and more sounds. There was nothing useful in these sounds, as if the noise of the whole world was stuffed into his brain.
He gradually felt it was difficult to breathe, and he was overwhelmed by this nothingness.
The lights in the student passage became increasingly blurry under the mist. If he hadn't firmly believed that Wei Liang could lead him out of the passage, he would have been holding on to the inner wall of the student passage and got lost in a dark corner...
He was still counting the steps, but he had forgotten whether he had counted more than 70 steps or more than 90 steps.
He only remembered that he kept walking down the steps.
His hand has been resting on Wei Liang's shoulder.
The fog became thicker and the sound became clearer. The shadow cast by the incandescent lamp was distorted by the fog, casting a chaotic shadow on the wall, like dancing minions, following closely behind them, as if they would be swallowed by them as soon as they stopped.
Lin Yi felt that it was getting harder and harder for him to breathe. The permeating mist was like the rising water surface, gradually encroaching on his breathing space and straining his will.
Just when he felt that his will was about to sink, the mist that hit his face suddenly became thinner like clouds. The evening wind blew in his face, and the chaotic vision suddenly became clear...
He walked out of the student passage under the leadership of Wei Liang.
"One hundred steps, no more, no less!" Wei Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead and his back was already wet.
He turned around and looked at Lin Yi, patted the latter's somewhat cold hand, and said with relief, "I've come out," and then he turned into a giggling face and said proudly, "How is it? Brother Xinliang will live forever!"
After a few shots, Lin Yi retreated from that strange state as if his soul had returned to his body.
Just like a person who had been squatting in a pit for a long time suddenly stood up, so that the blood had no time to be transported to the head, Lin Yi's brain went blank for a short time, and his ears were temporarily missing...
After he calmed down, his vision, hearing, touch and smell gradually returned to normal.
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X May 7, 2023, the exit of the student passage.
A gust of evening wind blew through, and the cool breath dissipated all Lin Yi's suffocation. He felt refreshed, his ears and eyes clear, and the filthy air accumulated in his chest was completely cleared away.
He glanced at his watch, and his clear mind suddenly froze.
18:24.
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He remembered that it was 18:20 before entering the student passage, so this long student passage that seemed as long as a century actually only lasted... four minutes? !
Four minutes?
He felt that forty minutes was about the same!
"Maybe maybe...a few minutes?" Wei Liang hesitated and said: "I feel like you are a little claustrophobic, and you were very nervous when you followed me... You shouldn't feel like you have been walking for a long time, right?"
Lin Yidao: "It feels like you have been walking for a long time." He patted his chest and said, "I took you down non-stop." Just came down."
"Anyway, I'm fine now!"
"Claustrophobia...?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, "Why do I have claustrophobia?"
He turned back and glanced at the student passage. He saw that the student passage was filled with mist, and the light and shadow showed a sickly distortion. It looked like a mine passage hundreds of meters underground that was filled with dust particles.
Depressive, suffocating, crazy and chilling.
Lin Yi frowned slightly, but immediately shook his head.
Night has fallen, it’s better not to think about so many things yet.
He and Wei Liang took off their clothes and looked carefully to make sure there was no ketchup on them before putting them back on.
The two walked to the notice board, returned the canteen rules, and then left the canteen area.
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X May 7, 2023, 18:33, on the campus road.
As night falls, a thin layer of mist fills the campus, and a piece of stage dry ice floats on the cobblestone roads.
This is the norm in mountainous campuses. In Wei Liang’s words, there is no need to be vigilant for fog with a concentration below a certain level, but you should not stay too long on the campus roads at any time - especially not close to green forest belts and shrub areas.
The easiest way is to quickly return to the building. For example, you can go back to the classroom after dinner, stay in the classroom until it is almost done, and then go to the dormitory.
The return time specified by the dormitory is 21:00~22:00 in the evening.
The time for leaving the classroom is after 21:00.
In other words, as long as the weather at night is normal, that is, there is not too much fog or rain, you can leave the classroom at about 20:30 and rush to the dormitory to wash up and sleep.
This is the experience imparted to Wei Liang by his senior.
The two walked along the cobblestone road with street lights on, and soon arrived in front of the teaching building.
The fog was not too thick tonight, and Lin Yi could clearly see the layout of the fourth floor of the teaching building through the light of the street lamp.
The teaching building is an ordinary teaching building, and the incandescent lamps are also simple incandescent lamps. From a distance, one can vaguely see figures walking through the corridors and entering their respective classrooms.
There is a teacher's office at the entrance of each class. Next to Class 1 and Class 3, there is a staircase and a bathroom.
There are no seven or eight-story teaching buildings. There are only four four-story teaching buildings.
Lin Yi shook his head helplessly, feeling that the seven or eight-story teaching building yesterday seemed to appear in a dream.
"It's not you who wait!!"
Lin Yi suddenly realized something, and his steps suddenly stopped in the distance.
"Four buildings...four floors? Why did I say four buildings?!"
He looked towards the teaching building sharply.
The moonlight shone on the mountainous area, and the mountains and fields seemed to be covered with a layer of silver frost. A thick white mist spread out from the depths of the mountain forest, and only a thin layer remained when we arrived in front of the teaching building.
And the teaching building... looking from near to far, there are clearly only one, two, three... four...
Four? !
"Four...the fourth teaching building?!"
Lin Yi looked at the back of Building C of the teaching building as if he had seen a ghost. He saw a slender covered bridge extending from the back of Building C at some point, and the covered bridge continued until it disappeared into the thick fog.
Under the thick fog, the vague outline of the fourth teaching building was vaguely visible.
It is an extremely wild and abstract building, standing at the intersection of moonlight and gray fog, visually giving people a strong sense of dreamlike unreality.
Like a mirage, a castle in the air.
It is also like a reflection of a chaotic world.
Under the moonlight, there is a faint shadow like a clock tower on this fourth building...
Added 1,100 words for the alliance leader "Full Moon and Qinghui" (Meower)! !
I still owe more than 5,000 words in total (more than 4,000 for Meower + 1,000 for No. 555 Street Light)... [I have a bit of a cold, and the speed of repaying the debt is expected to slow down in the near future...]
(End of this chapter)