Chapter 71 If nothing else, something unexpected happened
X May 7, 2023, 21:06.
The five cautious people in the elevator all focused their attention on the floor display.
14.
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, their floor had arrived.
The whole process can be said to be without any surprises, simply because he followed one of the most basic rules - [Don't try to understand how the elevator works].
But he did not relax his vigilance. On the contrary, he became more cautious.
Because he clearly understood that the next step was the highlight.
The elevator vibrated slightly, and the subtle friction sound was transmitted along the box to the soles of Lin Yi's feet. His breathing became calmer, and his whole person became silent, but the muscles in his body slowly tightened, like a slowly drawn bow and arrow.
In just one breath, Lin Yi had already made mental preparations to deal with any upcoming emergencies.
The elevator door opened slowly, like a wine jar with its mud seal blown away, and the cold breath began to pour into it.
"Hula la——"
In the gap in the outer wall of the elevator, the nervous wind hissed, making people feel chilling.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang stepped out of the elevator.
「锵！」
As the elevator door closed, Lin Yi felt like there was only a cold wall left behind him.
He lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
21:07.
There are ten direct elevators in total, and it takes several minutes to get up to the next floor.
Such a time span would be extremely explosive anywhere.
"There is still nearly an hour to walk back to the dormitory... If nothing else happens, there will be enough time." Lin Yi thought to himself.
But... after experiencing so many things, he felt more and more that the words "no surprise" put together seemed to be telling a joke.
He withdrew his gaze and observed the surrounding environment.
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with the corridors of the dormitory building. The corridors alone were three meters wide, which was much wider than his original dormitory space.
Furthermore, as stated in the instructions for the dormitory building, the interior of the corridor of the dormitory building is a circular structure, so from his perspective, the incandescent lamp on the ceiling is like the indicator light at the elevated corner at night, following a not too big arc and turning to the end.
Incandescent lamps cast an orange-yellow light curtain, illuminating the entire corridor at a glance. On both sides of the corridor, there are dormitories facing each other.
The house number on his left is "1401", and the one on his right is "1402".
Judging from the arc design, the inner side of the arc has all-color house numbers, while the outer side has even-numbered house numbers.
You only need to walk forward seven groups of dormitories to reach the 1414 dormitory they reserved in advance.
"So far...everything is normal." Lin Yi thought to himself.
I don’t know why, but after walking out of the elevator, the feeling of depression and discomfort he originally felt was much lessened, but this fully enclosed corridor still made him feel a little tight and irritable.
Lin Yi took a deep breath and prepared to go back to the dormitory first.
At this time, a somewhat cold hand quietly placed on Lin Yi's shoulder.
It is Wei Liang's hand.
"Holy shit, Liangzi, you fucking scared me!" Lin Yi's sense of depression was forcibly dispelled by Wei Liang's ghostly technique.
He turned his head and saw Wei Liang's somewhat white lips and nervous expression.
"Didn't you say...Liangzi has rich experience in living in a dormitory? Why do you feel more nervous than me, a first-timer?"
Lin Yi suddenly had this doubt in his heart.
"Ryoko, are you okay?" he asked with concern.
"It's okay...it's just a bit cold."
Wei Liang's eyes kept wandering in the corridor, as if he was always alert to something invisible.
Even Wei Liang himself didn't notice that he even looked a little nervous.
"Cold...?" Lin Yi was slightly startled in his heart, and couldn't help but feel that something was really wrong with Wei Liang's situation.
This corridor... is not cold at all.
"It's indeed a bit cold." He agreed.
Wei Liang thought to himself: "This is a normal phenomenon... The dormitory on campus is very humid. You don't feel it now, but you will notice it if you stay for a long time..."
As he spoke, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Yi's pupils changed slightly.
He noticed that when Wei Liang breathed out, he exhaled a breath of hot air, but in that hot air, there were some pure white ice crystal particles vaguely mixed in.
Just like the head teacher at that time.
"Ryoko is also contaminated?!"
Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. He wanted to say, "Liangzi, didn't you say you survived for seven days? What the hell did you go through in the last two days?" !
But he certainly can't say that.
He thought of the words of the head teacher, who said that a will of steel is the key to fighting pollution.
So...
"Ryoko has always thought that he is fine, so even if he deceives himself, at least with the blessing of such a "will", he can resist this pollution?"
Because "I think I have no problem", so "I really have no problem", even if "there is a problem", then "it is not my problem"?
"What the hell... is this some magical operation?!"
Lin Yi was somewhat glad that he did not blindly choose to follow Wei Liang's approach from the beginning. Otherwise, with his so-called "high inspiration", he would never be able to achieve Wei Liang's "self-deception".
Just because Wei Liang deceived himself, Lin Yi was sure that he could not remind him at this time, or even guide him to think like that at all.
If you really do that, you will harm Wei Liang.
Wei Liang will be driven crazy by this unacceptable turn of events.
"Don't worry too much about me, Old Lin..." I don't know if Wei Liang noticed the change in Lin Yiwei's expression, and reminded him aloud, "When I came here last time, it was like this in the last few days... This may be a common problem in the campus, so the experience period is only seven days."
Lin Yi felt a shiver in his heart. He thought Wei Liang was talking to him, but suddenly realized that Wei Liang was not talking to him at all, but just kept talking in a way that seemed like a conversation.
"Liangzi...is anchoring himself through me?!"
Lin Yi noticed Wei Liang's hand.
Wei Liang's hand showed a faint blue-grey color, which was very cold, but not completely cold.
There is still a hint of warmth where Wei Liang's palm touches his shoulder, but this kind of warmth is like a flame in the wind, and it doesn't know when it will go out.
Wei Liang looked panicked and muttered to himself, but he seemed to be talking to Lin Yi.
In these words, Lin Yi keenly captured a sentence:
"..., really don't worry, when you get back to the dormitory, you can take a hot shower to warm yourself up..."
"Hot shower...?!"
He suddenly felt his eyes light up.
The student code of conduct specifically lists a rule for showering in the dormitory. If there is no benefit to showering, you can just write "Use time from physical education class to go to the gymnasium to shower every two days" instead of writing a special rule for this, right?
"Could a hot bath be effective in fighting pollution...or at least alleviate it?"
He then said in a low and firm voice: "Ryoko, I'll take you to the dormitory right away. Just hold on."
As if his words triggered some incomprehensible hidden mechanism, before he finished speaking, a howling wind suddenly blew in the corridor.
It was as if something invisible suddenly lay on his shoulder, and then blew out cold breath with a subtle breathing method. He suddenly started to shiver, and he felt that the cold hairs on his body stood up uncontrollably.
Wei Liang's palm suddenly regained its temperature, his panicked expression suddenly changed, and then he lowered his voice and said: "No, Lao Lin, don't say such things, hurry up and say, 'I won't take you to the dormitory'!"
"I have a student ID card, I... can open the door by myself! You don't need to bring it with me!" Wei Liang added anxiously.
Lin Yi was slightly startled, but the creepy feeling instantly doubled his pressure. He hadn't yet understood the meaning of Wei Liang's words, but he immediately said decisively: "'I won't take you to the dormitory.'"
Hearing what Lin Yi said, Wei Liang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, the strange cold wind that blew silently retreated quietly, and the cold feeling peeled off unwillingly.
Lin Yi glanced at the door number of the dormitory next to him, and instantly realized something. He felt uncomfortable all over, and a hissing chill ran down his spine.
The door number of the dormitory in his hand is "1406", which seems to have no problem, but because the door number reminds him of a dormitory building instruction:
【When you encounter a dormitory room that does not match the house number, please remind yourself that you have made a mistake and ignore all calls from that dormitory.
Note: Abnormal dormitories will never open the door on their own initiative unless! ! ! At your invitation. (Unless the two words are circled and marked with a huge "!!!" symbol)]
There is a very scary keyword in this sentence - invitation.
The abnormal dormitory will never open the door unless invited by you!
There is too much information in the words here, and he somehow understood one of the meanings!
No matter how abnormal the dormitory is, it is impossible to open the door by oneself. The thing that can open the door must be something in the dormitory.
But this thing will not open the door unless invited.
Who will invite?
He is different from Lin.
What he said just now - "I will take you to the dormitory right away", if there is something indescribable that automatically clicks into place, wouldn't it become that "you"?
This is not only an invitation, but also a... active leadership!
Lin Yi's mind went cold. He thought of a rule about European vampires.
ceddie\ since there are no vampires here, but... there is something wrong with the students. Not only are there the students who are wrong, but there are also the sneaky figures hidden in the mist, and the terrifying and intentional creatures that enter the classroom after the lights are turned off.
Since the dormitory building is one of the most dangerous areas on campus, we might as well assume that all these weird things are likely to appear in the dormitory building.
Then let’s assume that...there is some kind of mechanism for these things, and the mechanism of one of the terrible species is that they need to be "invited".
Of course, these thoughts were all just things he understood instantly. He was not sure whether they were right or wrong, but that didn't matter.
The important thing is that after he repeated Wei Liang's words of "rejection", the strange feeling that had enveloped him really dissipated a lot.
He moved on.
1407 dormitory, 1408 dormitory, 1409 dormitory...
"It's coming soon." Lin Yi said silently in his heart.
He glanced at the corridor in front of him.
The corridor is quiet and quiet. Although the lights are very bright, behind the curve that cannot be reached by sight, there is always a vague and dangerous smell that lingers like perfume.
"Don't show up at this time, you moth!" Lin Yi clenched his teeth subconsciously, gripped the strap of his schoolbag tightly with one hand, and placed the other hand gently on Wei Liang's cold palm.
On the one hand, he comforted Wei Liang, and on the other hand, he also reassured himself.
At the same time, he also recited silently in his mind:
"My name is Lin Yi, and my student number is
"My name is Lin Yi, I..."
He repeated while leading Wei Liang forward cautiously.
Not long after, he came and walked past dormitory 1412. If nothing else happened, dormitory 1413 and dormitory 1414 should be facing each other in front of him.
But Lin Yi's steps suddenly stopped, because, if nothing else, an accident did happen.
He looked at the corridor in front of him silently, with a hodgepodge of expressions that seemed to be broken up and spliced together.
It's probably one point "Here we go again", two points "I knew it", three points "A little bit panicked", and four points "Hey, let me make a fool of you in the dormitory building XXX".
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Lin Yi sighed quietly, feeling that the "emergency situation" in front of him had become accustomed, commonplace, unremarkable, and as ordinary as water, but even so, he still wanted to know...
"Why is this right-angle turn of yours so useless? The curved corridor in front of me was completely replaced! "
As soon as he walked through the door of dormitory 1412, he was about to take out his student ID card from his trouser pocket and swipe the door to enter dormitory 1414, but there was a fucking corner in front of him!
It is simply silkier than the hair of the GG girl who uses Dove to wash her hair!
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Lin Yi suppressed his subconscious desire to peek at the environment due to his high inspiration with the help of his bellyful of complaints. Then he followed the instructions of the dormitory building and turned around slowly with Wei Liang.
"There is no corner, no corner, no corner... I say important things three times..."
Instructions for the dormitory building (code):
【If you find a right-angled turn ahead when you are looking for your dormitory, please turn around and tell yourself that there is no right-angled turn ahead, and then turn around again.
Don't move forward until you confirm that the situation ahead is back to normal. ]
He turned 180 degrees, and after reciting a few dormitory instructions as firmly as a mantra, Lin Yi turned around again and looked ahead again.
The right-angle turn is indeed gone.
But Lin Yi couldn't laugh, and even the complaints in his heart were cleared away for a while.
The right-angled turn is gone, but along with this turn, everything in front of us disappears.
There was nothing in front of him.
Let alone the corridor, there is not even a hair on it.
(End of this chapter)