Chapter 67 The Twisted and Stretched Road (1100 words added!)
Lin Yihan's hair suddenly stood up. The dormitory building gave him an unprecedented feeling. There were no emotional fluctuations, neither goodwill nor malice, only a pure, indifferent feeling of being looked down upon.
No, not even, not even looking down.
He suddenly froze...
"No...wait!"
"Why do I subconsciously personify the dormitory building?"
"Why do I think the dormitory building is looking down at me?"
Is it just because of my first impression, that it felt like it was standing over there like a giant? That's why..."
The evening breeze was slightly cool, blowing across his back, causing him to suddenly feel a frost attack as he was already breaking out in a cold sweat.
He shuddered and came back to his senses instantly.
He focused his vision in front of his eyes with continuous blinks, and then glanced at the time.
20:35.
"20:35..." He looked serious, "So I just lost my mind just now?"
Wei Liang beside him said: "What's the matter?"
Lin Yi shook his head: "I'm fine."
"Oh." Wei Liang responded, and the two continued to walk to the dormitory.
As he walked, more and more classmates gradually appeared on the road. Lin Yi guessed that they must have met up with people from other classes.
Theoretically speaking, Tian Bufan, Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji should also be among these people, but Lin Yi had no intention of looking for them.
The real rendezvous should be when we arrive at the dormitory, rather than starting to reorganize the team halfway.
The picture of the teaching building in the vision floated in Lin Yi's mind. What made him feel incredible was that when he thought about the appearance of the dormitory building, he did not feel much fear and horror, but only a kind of extreme shock and awe.
As they walked, the fog on the road gradually became thicker, and the forest-white fog covered their calves like a rising tide.
If it weren't for the uneven touch of cobblestones that could still be heard under his feet, he would really wonder if he had walked onto some kind of black stage covered with dry ice.
The cold evening wind caused the mist to float continuously, and the sound of wind rustling forest leaves could be heard in the darkness beyond the street lamp.
But a wave of cold air hit, causing Lin Yi's footsteps to stagnate.
His hearing keenly captured a "rustling" sound that was different from the rustling of forest leaves. This strange and familiar sound awakened those damn memories in him, and instantly reminded him of the image of stones rubbing against cobblestones.
But the nature of this sound is not like this.
Lin Yi clearly remembered that when the lights in the classroom were turned off by those students who were in trouble, they would make such a noise while walking!
Those who are not right in the cafeteria will also make such sounds when they move with them.
So in other words...
"Beyond the street lights, there are an unknown number of... classmates who are not right?!"
"Wait... at this point in time, Shouldn't they be in the classroom? "
"Or...the ones in the classroom are just the tip of the iceberg of their huge number?"
He was bathed in the light of the street lamp and looked at the darkness somewhere.
Outside the field formed by the lights, one can faintly see the thick fog overlapping like mountains, constantly floating with the evening breeze, like smoke waves on the river and glacial snow wind, covering mysterious and mysterious figures.
An unexplorable and strong sense of crisis invaded along the watery darkness, as if the giant mouth of the abyss was about to swallow Lin Yi.
But under the orange light, these terrifying atmospheres cannot invade at all.
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and hurriedly walked forward.
XMay 7, 2023, 20:40.
The forest white fog became thicker and thicker, Lin Yi's field of vision was compressed to less than a hundred meters, there was nothing but darkness except the light, and the sound of "rustling" became clearer and clearer.
"The fog... is beginning to thicken." Wei Liang's voice sounded with a hint of trembling.
"Liangzi, does this fall into the category of "abnormal weather" now?" Lin Yi asked.
Wei Liang replied: "This definition is difficult to define, but it is not abnormal enough now... The real 'abnormal' is the situation where you can clearly see that something is wrong."
"For example, a street lamp pole without lights suddenly appeared, or lamp poles that were supposed to be on both sides of the road..."
“Only one side is left?” This sentence was said by Lin Yi.
Wei Liang was slightly startled.
Immediately afterwards, he seemed to have a premonition of something, and a look of panic suddenly appeared on his face.
He looked ahead.
I saw orange light covering the cobblestone road, but the light source of that light was... a single street lamp pole.
"This...this, this, this..." Wei Liang rushed to the nearest lamppost, then stretched out his hands to grab it.
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly, and his heart suddenly thumped: "When...when did this become like this?!"
"I don't know." Wei Liang said in a low voice, "It would be good if I knew... No, no, no, no, no, it might be worse if I knew."
His eyes were filled with panic. He seemed to have thought of something, but he tried his best to restrain himself from thinking too much.
"Liangzi, don't be nervous first." Lin Yi held his shoulders, "Today's situation is different from yesterday!"
"Different?" Wei Liang said nervously.
His thoughts had some twists and turns. I don’t know what he was thinking. He only heard a murmur: "Yes... you are right, it’s different! We are about to reach the dormitory building, it should be in front!"
His words had a tendency to sprint forward quickly, but Lin Yi caught him and suppressed his behavioral tendency.
Lin Yi said in a deep voice: "No, Liangzi... It's not like that! Don't worry!"
Lin Yi found that Wei Liang, who was originally laughing, started to panic when the fog became thicker... It seemed that he had been lost in the fog and came back, and it seemed that he had experienced some terrible and indescribable things in the fog.
"I should know how to go, you come with me!" Lin Yi said in a low voice.
"You... know?" Wei Liang showed a surprised and confused look, "Isn't this your first time here?"
"Don't think too much, I have my own way." Lin Yi interrupted Wei Liang's thinking, "This time it's my turn to take you away from the front. Just put your hand on my shoulder and follow me."
"Uh, okay, then it's up to you..." Wei Liang put his hand on Lin Yi's shoulder with a trembling voice.
Lin Yi frowned slightly, subconsciously turned his head half way, and moved his gaze downwards, falling on Wei Liang's hand on his shoulder...
"Liangzi's hand... seems a little cold."
"And..."
I don't know if it was a problem with the lighting, but there seemed to be some minor problems with the skin color of Wei Liang's hand.
His hands became whiter, and his skin also took on an unnatural blue-gray color. His hands seemed to be filled with an extremely thin, light white mist.
Lin Yi secretly thought something was wrong, and his heart seemed to have missed a beat.
"Ryoko." He suddenly said.
“Hmm?” Wei Liang’s voice came from behind.
"Do you prefer stockings or bare legs?"
"Of course it's white stockings, why do you ask this suddenly?"
Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's nothing..."
"It seems there's nothing wrong with Ryoko's sanity..."
"But why are his hands so cold?"
h "And his skin color...?"< br/>
"Old Lin..." Wei Liang said with a trembling voice, "I... seem a little cold, and I thought of some bad things. We have to rush to the dormitory building quickly."
Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang's hand, and then withdrew his gaze.
He took a deep breath, and then looked at the number of the light pole at hand.
Dormitory building-094.
He looked at the surrounding lampposts again.
The fog is very thick now, but it is far from the situation yesterday where the visibility was less than ten meters. You can still see a lot of street light poles.
It's just that these street lamps are no longer scattered on both sides of the cobblestone road, but are scattered on the road ahead in an irregular manner like scattered stars.
并且，随着雾气的波动，这些路灯杆就像海面上的浮标一样，隐约之间给人以一种正在漂泊移动的错觉。
But soon, Lin Yi discovered that this was not an illusion, those lampposts... were really moving!
“Holy shit! These things... can move?”
But he reacted immediately.
"No, it's not the light poles that are moving, but... the ground is stretching!"
A rule emerged in Lin Yi's mind like a conditioned reflex:
"If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or experiencing any unreasonable changes, please quickly hold your student ID card and map tightly in your hands, and remind yourself of your name and student number repeatedly in your mind. Remember you are a student "This sentence is bold and underlined." 】
"So the distance between street light poles... is getting longer!"
"The road to the dormitory building is undergoing an unreasonable change!"
"Ryoko should have been affected by this change! He may be sinking like me now, embarking on a non-existent path, or... deviating from some established route!"
"Student ID card!" His eyes lit up and he became energetic.
"Ryoko, take out your student ID card and hold it in your hand! Remind yourself that you are a student!" He said in a commanding tone, while taking out his student ID card and holding it tightly.
He was not sure whether Wei Liang could respond to his words, but he could only try to call him first.
Unexpectedly, Wei Liang responded to his call.
……, Okay.”
Wei Liang also took out his student ID card and held it tightly in his hand.
Just when Lin Yi held his student ID card in his hand, he clearly felt a strong sense of crisis. The fog outside the light kept rolling, and the sneaky figure kept ringing along with the "rustling" sound.
Some indescribable force seeps out from the fog, constantly oppressing the field formed by the light.
Lin Yi noticed that the surrounding street lights were becoming blurred at an extremely slow speed. This was a phenomenon caused by the continuous stretching of the ground and the continuous erosion of the boundaries of the field lights by fog.
Once the distance between street lights is stretched to a certain extent, a dark area will appear in the area where the lights are laid. Once the fog blocks this area, they will usher in the same abnormal weather as yesterday.
He glanced at his watch.
20:43.
A kind of "walking with sports students" scene. "
You can go with sports students...
The sign in front of the gymnasium clearly stipulates that you are not allowed to go with sports students.
Xu Shunkang also made it clear that the effective time left for experience students to leave the classroom is only 15 minutes.
In other words...
Once a sports student sets foot on the road to the dormitory, the whole road will be full of unknown dangers!
Or...
The twists and turns of the road are caused by sports students taking the road? !
It is now 20:43. It is possible that the sports students have already embarked on this path, so they have been affected!
At this time, if you are a little reckless, you will run desperately towards the street light in front, or stay under the street light and wait for rescue.
But Wei Liang's body has obviously undergone some strange and incomprehensible changes. For ordinary people, the mere loss of body temperature is enough to pose a fatal threat.
So he must find a way to take Wei Liang out of here.
With this thought, Lin Yi did not act recklessly, but took out the teaching building regulations from his trouser pocket, and then directly opened the campus map appended at the end of the regulations.
This is a campus map under normal circumstances, but the streetlight numbers on the map are messed up, and the ground is undergoing some kind of supernatural changes, so theoretically speaking, this map is not a reference at all.
But he remembered one thing clearly. The student code clearly stated: [The location coordinates of each building on the map are absolutely accurate. 】
Absolute accuracy means that the rules exist - this is exactly what the head teacher reminded him.
Hence, even if there are huge problems with streetlight numbering, there must be some established pattern amidst the chaos.
This was a conjecture he made when he first looked at the map. In order to verify this conjecture, he paid careful attention to the numbers of the street lights along the way from the teaching building to the cafeteria, and then from the cafeteria to the gymnasium.
And he did discover that for every building in the campus, the street light pole closest to it was the one with the highest number!
The teaching building is "Teaching Building-108", the gymnasium is "Gymnasium-099", the canteen is "Canteen-098"...
He is now confirming the street lamp numbers in front of other buildings on the map.
The result was just as he expected, the street light number in front of the library was "Library-102", and the one in front of the dormitory building was...
dormitory building-096!
"'dormitory building-096'?!"
The street lamp in front of Lin Yi is "street lamp pole-094". He looked around, his sharp eyes swept across the street lamp poles in front of him one by one, searching for the location of "dormitory building-095".
Although there are many streetlight poles in front of him, but there is no trace of the dormitory building at all, there are many illogical things. Once the campus starts to appear, the most important thing to do is not to subconsciously find problems and think about them like when he first entered the campus. Instead, he should first tell himself that this is how it should be, and then follow this logic to grasp the current situation, and then review the problem after it is safe enough!
This is the lesson he learned from one night's experience, and it is also the change he has made!
Finally, he found the one marked "dormitory building-095" among the many street light poles!
"Liangzi, I'm ready to leave!" He reminded Wei Liang aloud.
"Okay..." A slightly weak voice came from Wei Liang behind him, "I will follow closely..."
Lin Yi patted Wei Liang's hand on his shoulder worriedly, comforted him, then gritted his teeth and led him towards the "dormitory building-095" street light pole.
An incredible scene began to appear as he left "dormitory building-094" and the street light pole began to appear.
As he stepped forward, the entire field of vision in front of him began to undergo a terrifying and earth-shaking change!
The "dormitory-095" street light pole was getting closer and closer in front of his eyes, but the other street light poles began to move away from him at a speed that could be observed by the naked eye.
It was as if his feet were a switch. When he moved it, the world moved with it.
This weird sense of space constantly impacted his perception from the visual level, making his whole world begin to distort, like someone stirring the black and white Alpine syrup with a stick, interlacing, collapsing, chaos... Countless negative emotions began to impact Lin Yi's heart.
"Liangzi, look at my back! Don't care about anything else!!!" Lin Yi's eyes were fixed on "dormitory building-095", and a vein popped out on his forehead.
This voice reminds Wei Liang, and at the same time reminds him to stay focused!
He walked towards "dormitory building-095" step by step, and the flowing world seemed to distort his figure.
He felt the darkness was eroding towards him. He seemed to hear the sound of "rustling" lingering around his body. He seemed to hear a distant song...
He suddenly grabbed the "dormitory building-095" street light pole.
The bright yellow light shattered everything, and the warm breath enveloped them again.
Lin Yi gasped violently. In the blink of an eye, the world that had fallen apart was now put together intact again, placed in front of him. The lampposts that had moved away from him seemed to have returned, but their positions... were all wrong.
Lin Yi was panting and slowing down. He could feel that Wei Liang's condition was getting worse and worse. He was a little anxious, but he told himself not to be anxious.
His eyes kept wandering among these "returning" street light poles, and finally he found the one that did not appear in the last observation at all.
「dormitory building-096」.
That one symbolizes the last light pole reaching the dormitory building.
"Liangzi, follow me!!"
Lin Yi took a deep breath, with a look of determination in his eyes. He gathered his strength and led Wei Liang towards the last stop!
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(End of this chapter)