Chapter 75 The feeling of peeping from the window
Lin Yi was a little surprised: "Liangzi has washed it, what's wrong?"
Tian Bufan withdrew his gaze: "Nothing, you can go and wash it too."
"Hmm." Lin Yi nodded, "The rules of the dormitory are up to you. Behind you, after taking a shower... let's have a good chat."
Tian Bufan nodded: "No problem."
Lin Yi frowned, feeling that Tian Bufan had something to say, but not sure what he meant, so he said no more and rushed into the bathroom.
…
Tian Bufan put his hands behind his back and turned to read the dormitory rules.
After reading it again, Wei Liang has not yet dried his hair.
He walked to the desk and pulled out a chair, sat down and looked at Wei Liang.
Wei Liang felt a little uncomfortable when he saw him, so he hastily blew out the last few dull hairs, then put on his peaked cap and pulled the brim of the hat down a little with his hands.
Seeing Tian Bufan, he seemed a little embarrassed, and even his eyes were a little averted.
Tian Bufan asked: "Is your class teacher okay?"
"Huh?" Wei Liang was obviously a little surprised that Tian Bufan would talk to him. He shook his head, "Teacher? I don't know..."
"Don't know? That's a pity... I thought you knew more than Lao Lin."
"Huh?" Wei Liang asked doubtfully, "Old Lin? What's wrong with Old Lin?"
Tian Bufan shook his head: "Nothing."
Wei Liang was stunned again and again, then trembled, and couldn't help but touch his arm, which had a large number of goose bumps.
Hum, is this Mr. Tian that Lao Lin talks about...What is he talking about? Why can’t I understand anything...
Hand Tian Bufan stood up with a smile, left his seat and walked towards Wei Liang.
When he passed by Lin Yi's desk, he casually turned the note pad Lin Yi left on the table to a blank page, tore off a piece of paper and wrote a few strokes, then pressed it on the table and pushed it in front of Wei Liang.
"How..." Wei Liang looked subconsciously, "...?"
"You...?!"
Immediately afterwards, the doubtful look in his eyes fluctuated strongly, as if some kind of consciousness was about to struggle out of his body...
Tian Bufan watched his changes quietly, and glanced at the bathroom door again.
There was a sound of rushing water in the bathroom.
"Okay."
He looked back at Wei Liang calmly.
The mist was curling up in the bathing area. Lin Yi kept the posture of leaning back to wash his hair that he learned from Wei Liang, thinking that he was doing something indescribable.
Feeling the comfort brought by the warm water washing over his body, Lin Yi's body, which had been tense all day, relaxed a little.
His eyes were fixed on the pattern on the ceiling of the bathing area, and he was sorting out his thoughts while washing, so that he could communicate with Tian Bufan.
Suddenly he frowned.
He felt that the pattern on the ceiling... seemed familiar.
There are two incandescent lamps in the dormitory bathroom, one on the ceiling of the bathing area, and one on the toilet side. This is designed so that there will be no impact after the waterproof curtain is pulled up.
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As the water mist spreads to the ceiling, the incandescent lights in the bathing area appear hazy, and the pattern on the ceiling also appears hazy.
"Hey, this pattern...?"
Lin Yi suddenly realized something and shuddered subconsciously.
This pattern... is very similar to the strange relief pattern in the student passage in the cafeteria!
Lin Yi didn't know if there was any connection, but aside from the design issues during construction, he always had some bad premonitions in his subconscious.
He took the time to finish washing his hair, and then began to rinse his body.
But at this moment, he felt that the water mist in the bathing area suddenly moved in an unnatural way.
It was like something blew a breath into the mist.
At this moment, a chill spread from Lin Yi's heart without any warning, and no matter how warm the water in the shower was, it could not be washed away.
He felt as if the water mist in front of him was churning like scalding hot water, and something was watching him eagerly from behind the mist.
He reacted immediately.
"It's the window!"
"Out the window...is there something peeking at me?"
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly, and his scalp suddenly tightened.
If you hear something tapping on your window, or calling your name outside your window, don’t doubt that there is something outside your window. ]
"But...it's not after lights out yet, right?"
He raised his wrist - his quartz watch was still on his wrist, which was something he had not taken off since he entered the campus.
He wiped away the water mist on the surface with his thumb and glanced at the time.
21:40.
"Still within the safe time period."
"Wait..." He also realized something, "The thing outside the window did not knock on the window, nor did it call my name..."
Don't doubt, there is indeed something outside the window.
"Nima..."
"So, there is always something outside the window, but it can only take action when the lights go out, right?"
Lin Yi couldn't help but shudder. He immediately thought of the one who turned the lock and entered the classroom after the lights went out!
According to the head teacher, that thing was not her, but something that even she couldn't stop.
It now seems that such unknown creatures have actually been wandering around the campus. They are driven away and attracted by the lights. They chase the lights because they know that there is prey under the lights.
Once the lights go out, the prey will appear in front of them in a defenseless posture.
They will enter the dormitory through the dormitory doors, windows, etc., and attack those who do not appear to be "sleeping"!
Lin Yi, who was taking a hot shower, immediately thought of the sentence in the canteen rules: [The canteen with the lights out is different from the classroom, and there is no safe area. 】
The canteen with the lights out is different from the classroom, but the dormitory with the lights out...may be similar to the classroom to a certain extent, and not only are they similar, but the safety factor is also improved.
So in the classroom you need to get under the table, but in the dormitory you can just lie down on the bed.
It is precisely because of this that the student regulations specify the priority of overnight stays - the dormitory is greater than the dormitory room and equals the teaching building!
"In that case——"
Lin Yi suddenly thought of something.
"It is 21:40 now..."
"First of all, it is the safe time before lights out."
"Secondly, I am in the dormitory, which is known as one of the safest places on campus, and I can even think and discuss without restraint."
"Finally, I currently meet all the conditions to maintain myself in a "safe" state."
"So..."
He raised his hand at the window, and the fog that gathered in front of him was pushed aside, revealing a...closed window.
The built-in blinds on the windows have even been pulled down, so the outside cannot see inside and the inside cannot see outside.
“What the hell…”
The windows are closed, the blinds are drawn down, and there is no transparency inside or outside.
So where does that feeling of being spied on come from? !
He then squinted his eyes and stopped.
After a while, the mist filled the air, and the strong feeling of being watched climbed up his body like a tentacle again...
He waved his hand again, and the mist and the feeling of being watched disappeared again.
"This..."
He couldn't help but look at this window that showed a hazy and unreal feeling behind the mist.
The window in the mist seemed... different from usual.
"Wait?!"
He shuddered and withdrew his gaze like a knife——
"I understand!"
"Layers!"
"Mist can affect layers!"
"Grass! No way..." Lin Yi was He broke into a cold sweat, which was immediately washed away by the shower. "Does the mist produced by water vapor have the same effect as the fog from the outside?"
Under the illumination of incandescent lamps, layers of water mist twist and overlap, reflecting a twisted, human-shaped outline on the waterproof curtain.
This outline is constantly distorting its posture as the water mist fills the air, as if there is really some unknown creature standing over there, just a curtain away from Lin Yi...! ! !
The feeling of being spied on once again enveloped Lin Yi, making him feel creepy.
"Behind...me?!"
Lin Yi's pupils shrank for an instant, and he turned around alertly.
The movement of turning around caused the mist to ripple, and the outline of the unknown creature reflected in the mist immediately dispersed, leaving nothing behind.
But the feeling of being spied on became stronger and stronger, and this feeling gave Lin Yi the feeling that it was still behind him, and this time, his back was just like... a window.
He turned around at an extremely slow speed, trying his best to keep the water mist in its "original shape."
Based on the judgment of the killing mechanism of the wrong classmate in the classroom, Lin Yi suddenly thought that these creatures described by the rules should all have unique mechanisms.
The first and most basic point is, do not question its existence, believe that it exists.
Believing in their existence and ignoring them at critical times are two completely different things.
In other words, there was really something lying on the window peeking at him, but it couldn't knock on the window or climb in because the conditions weren't met yet.
"Open the window and have a look."
These four words jumped out of his heart without warning.
As soon as these four words popped up, it was like opening a Pandora's box that couldn't be dissipated in his mind. Not only that, it was frantically drilling like a drill, trying to drill into the depths of his soul.
Two little people jumped out from his left and right shoulders.
The little devil with two horns kept encouraging him: "Open the window, open the window! Anyway, we are in a safe state, why panic? Open the window and take a look, don't come back again before you miss the opportunity!"
The little angel with a pair of wings advised seriously: "Don't open the window, don't believe what he says!"
The two little men were chattering, which made Lin Yi's head buzz.
He slowly stretched out his hand towards the window.
At the window, the icy wind seemed to seep through the cracks and blew in hissingly, like the smile of a ghost in a gloomy hell.
Just when his hand was about to touch the window, he waved.
The fog was blown away, and the weird feeling was completely shattered.
Lin Yi looked at the normal window with an expressionless face, turned around and turned off the shower.
At this moment, he suddenly looked at his hand that turned off the shower switch and was stunned for a moment.
It was the same hand that reached out to the window just now, but——
"Why don't I feel anything about the paranoid behavior just now?!"
Lin Yi felt a chill.
His behavior of reaching out and trying to open the window just now did not cause any problems at the time, but now looking back and thinking about it, at that time... he seemed to be controlled!
Happily, he himself didn’t notice anything was wrong!
As he began to wipe his body with a bath towel, the water mist in the bathroom also dissipated.
Just at this moment, Wei Liang's call came from outside the door, "Hey! Lao Lin, have you washed up? Don't always reward yourself while taking a shower!"
"Okay, okay! Didn't you hear me turn off the shower?" Lin Yi responded.
After a while he got dressed and opened the door.
When he left the bathroom, he couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, there was a strong excitement in his eyes.
"Wei Sang, Kuai Kuai! Are you back too?"
In the dormitory, in addition to Tian Bufan and Wei Liang, who were already there, Wei Shan, who was between fat and strong, and Kuai Hongji, who was as tall and thin as a bamboo pole, had also rushed back to the dormitory while he was taking a shower.
But compared to Kuai Hongji, who couldn't see any difference when they parted, Wei Shan's clothes were obviously a little damaged, and seemed to have a lot of white stains on them.
Wei Shan nodded when he saw this, and said with care and respect: "Well, I'm here, Lao Lin."
Kuai Hongji, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, said with a smile: "Of course I'm back, don't look at what time it is?"
Lin Yi glanced at his watch subconsciously, and then at the clock hanging on the dormitory door.
21:48.
There was a power outage in the corridor of the dormitory building, and there were only 12 minutes left.
That means... once the time is up, it means that Mao Feiyang really cannot come back.
Seeing Lin Yi's dim eyes, Tian Bufan said first: "Wei Sang, Kuai Kuai, you two wash up first, I'll chat with Old Lin, and then we wash."
"Then I'll wash first." Wei Shan was already moving when he spoke. He opened the cupboard door vigorously, picked out the clothes he needed, and then walked to the bathroom.
“Hey!” Lin Yi suddenly pointed to the sky, “Wait a minute, I’ll take out the dirty clothes first.”
He hurriedly went to the bathroom and picked up the dirty clothes.
"Throw it here!" Wei Liang helped him open the door of the thing that looked like a washing machine under the sink, and motioned for him to throw the clothes in directly.
Lin Yi glanced at the washing machine subconsciously.
This seems to be a washing machine, with a drum inside, but...there are really no clothes or socks that Wei Liang threw in before.
"Just throw the clothes in. There is a passage here, and the collected clothes will be disposed of together. If necessary, just ask the school to pick them up when you leave."
"Look." Wei Liang pointed to the washing machine, and there was indeed a sign above it.
The sign reads:
【The dormitory has prepared sufficient changes of clothes for all students. Please put all the clothes you change daily (including shoes) into the recycling channel. 】
Lin Yi didn’t expect that he even needed to change his shoes, so he stuffed all his clothes in.
When it was the turn of the shoes, his body suddenly froze.
His eyes were fixed on the soles of this pair of sneakers, and he saw a large patch of moss on the soles of these shoes.
Thanks to the book friend "cheeks slightly red" for the tip! !
PS: During New Year's Day, I may take a day off (or maybe, or try not to take leave at all), thank you...
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