Chapter 92 Art Teacher
"Empty, empty, empty, empty——"
There was a violent sound of wind outside the elevator car, and strong vibrations constantly impacted the soles of Lin Yi's feet. It seemed like a launcher that had entered the earth-lunar orbit, sprinting forward desperately with the roar and roar of the engine.
Lin Yi took a breath, and then held his breath. For a time, he felt that if he had a little more weight, he would become the last pound of flesh that caused the elevator to disintegrate...
As the sound of the wind subsided, the elevator began to slow down until it finally became completely stable.
The elevator has arrived.
Lin Yi felt a strong urge to open his eyes and take a look, but Mao Feiyang was not obedient. He closed his eyes tightly, clutched the iron chain tightly, and put it on the shoulders of the dormitory manager.
The body of the hostess was also trembling, and he kept chanting some rules of the hostel in his mouth, but Mao Feiyang turned a deaf ear to what was going on outside and could not hear a single word clearly.
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The flame of the old kerosene lamp shook violently, and the stormy atmosphere instantly filled the room.
The supervisor couldn't help but take a breath: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
"Well... I'm not afraid." Mao Feiyang said in a low voice.
The moment Mao Feiyang stepped out of the elevator, the elevator door behind him suddenly closed tightly.
Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang were both in darkness, and could only sense the surrounding environment by feeling.
Through rough perception, Lin Yi felt that there should be a spacious indoor corridor around him. There was wind but very weak, and there was the sound of burning flames, but the temperature was very cold.
The ground beneath your feet does not seem to be the floor of a dormitory building, nor does it look like floor tiles anywhere on campus. It is more like some kind of slate, with some pits and unevenness, but overall it is polished very smooth.
He deduced that the ground here was originally flat, and the potholes appeared later.
But Lin Yi gradually felt a little discomfort in his heart. This discomfort became more and more intense in the next dozen steps. After that, it was as difficult as countless ants crawling on his body.
He felt like he was being "watched" by something, a cold, vicious, and cold aura, twisting and following behind him like a poisonous snake.
No, not just behind you, but also in all directions.
Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang's minds coincidentally came up with the same sentence:
[The sculptures on campus are all busts, and they are all kept in the art building. 】
"So..." Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, "Now this is the legendary... Art Building?!"
It didn't feel very scary at first, but when I learned that the sculptures in the university in City S were not sculptures in the traditional sense at all, but some deeply polluted creatures that couldn't even be described as "creatures," the words Art Building represented an extremely terrifying fact.
"Sculpture Base Camp".
Lin Yi felt chills all over his body. He had more feelings than Mao Feiyang. At this moment, it was completely like the Tang monk and his disciples who had opened the perspective of God and entered the Xiaoleiyin Temple.
He could foresee that the gods and Buddhas in all directions were all demons and monsters, but now, he had to muster up the courage to follow the dormitory manager.
"It's an oil lamp!" He suddenly reacted, "The area formed by the oil lamp screen dispelled the darkness, allowing the dormitory manager and I to be in a safe state!"
"But the dormitory manager asked Mao Zi not to open his eyes... In other words, in this extreme situation, the oil lamp alone cannot maintain a safe state. Do you still need to "not see" them? "
"Is it "cannot see them", or is there some similar underlying logic?"
Lin Yi knew that Mao Feiyang was safe, so after suppressing the strong discomfort in his heart, he used this sense of perfect synchronization to directly start his reasoning.
"That's right... the student code at the beginning said not to look back, probably to prevent us from facing the sculpture directly."
When the layers of the campus fell, there was a "rustling" sound behind them. This is a kind of "footsteps" unique to non-human units when they move, or their "breathing". Therefore, after considering various conditions, it is easy to reach this most superficial conclusion.
It is obvious that sculptures seem to be even more important in the art building, so their location is not limited to behind Lin Yi, but can be scattered in all directions.
Hence "Don't look back" has been upgraded to the more brainless "Close your eyes and don't look".
…
Lin Yi followed the dormitory manager as he walked slowly through the art building, surrounded by the "rustling" sounds from the units moving with them.
They walked for a while and turned a few more corners. During the whole process, Lin Yi could vaguely hear the dormitory manager muttering some words, which sounded like a certain part of the rules of the "Housewarder Code".
But the sound was still too vague after all, like an old monk chanting sutras, so he couldn't hear anything clearly.
But what he could feel was that Mao Feiyang's inner defenses were gradually disintegrating under the gazes of the non-human units...
"Here we are, here we are..." Finally, the dormitory manager's voice murmured in front of him.
“Then... when can I open my eyes?” There was a strong fear in Mao Feiyang’s voice.
"Theoretically, you can open your eyes now, but I suggest you wait a little longer." The dormitory supervisor gave a cold opinion and rejected Mao Feiyang's proposal, "Before you obtain the "Code", it will not do you any good to see the things here..."
Mao Feiyang stopped talking and followed the dormitory forward silently.
Shortly after, the dormitory manager stopped.
Then, Lin Yi heard a series of knocks on the door.
「笃笃！笃笃！笃……」
当宿管敲到第三次的时候，门后响起了一道男声。
“Who?”
“I am the supervisor.” The supervisor said.
"..." The voice behind the door suddenly fell silent.
The dormitory manager hesitated for a moment when he saw this, and then said directly without paying attention to what the voice inside the door was thinking: "I am "dormitory manager-28-X0230503021". I will abide by the dormitory manager's rules and send people here. You can open the door and take them away!" "
"It's not enough to have an identity document... You know, I need to see the "light"."
The dormitory manager slowly raised the old kerosene lamp, and the warm light seemed to be able to penetrate the door.
"It's so warm..." The people inside the door seemed to have a lot of emotions.
"Hurry up, I can't stay here for too long." The dormitory touched his cold arm and gradually became impatient, "Hurry up!"
"Hurry up!"
The supervisor led Mao Feiyang into the office, then held Mao Feiyang’s hand and said, “Okay, classmate, you’re safe, now, ‘you can open your eyes.’”
…
As Mao Feiyang opened his eyes, Lin Yi’s vision also recovered.
Before he could start to observe his surroundings, a middle-aged man wearing casual clothes appeared in front of him: "The hostel is pressed for time, please come and register with me first." Lin Yi carefully observed the middle-aged man and found that his bones were Asian, and he should be Chinese to be precise, but he had silver-white hair and eyebrows.
On that knife-like face, a pair of golden eyes flowed with dim light, like the eyes of an eagle.
He was wearing overalls, hanging a pipe, and wearing a beret on his head, giving him the feeling of a private detective.
This is a character that seems to only appear in comics or movies. Lin Yi feels unrealistic at first glance, a bit like... the middle-aged Dumbledore in "The Beast and Where to Find Them".
Calm, calm, and with deep eyes...this was Lin Yi's first feeling.
Mao Feiyang followed him to a dark brown desk, and then filled out a form in duplicate. The content of the form was very simple, with only two items.
Looking at the European-style pendulum clock on the wall of the office, he was slightly startled, and then filled in:
"2:56."
The middle-aged man took the watch, and then handed the pen and the form to the dormitory manager.
The supervisor added in front of the time: "May 7, 2023...experience student."
When the time in the dormitory was written, the middle-aged man just glanced at it lightly and planned to look back. But when he saw the three words "experience student" written by the dormitory manager, his eyes widened a little, as if with unspeakable surprise.
The dormitory manager didn't say much nonsense. After he finished writing, he tore off a form and put it in his trouser pocket, and returned the rest to the middle-aged man. After finishing, he turned around neatly, opened the office door with an old kerosene lamp, and disappeared into the dark corridor.
After the door closed, only Mao Feiyang and the middle-aged man were left in the huge office.
Mao Feiyang suddenly became cautious.
"Experiencer students are reporting in...?" The middle-aged man looked Mao Feiyang up and down, a flash of brilliance flashed in his golden eyes, "Introduce yourself."
"From now on, I am your "art teacher." ”
“I don’t have a name badge, nor anything that can prove ‘I am an art teacher’, but you can trust me in the office and art classroom. If you meet me at other times... try to be wary of me.”
He said and pointed to the bookshelf next to him.
"The Code of the Art Building and the "Code for Art Students" are on the bookshelf over there. Take a copy and sit down and read it."
"Read the "Code of the Art Building" first, and then the "Code for Art Students". Make sure you don't get the order wrong."
"It's 2:58 now. You have about an hour to memorize the two codes. If you have any questions, you can ask me, but I will only answer your questions selectively."
"Is this...so thick?"
Comparing the student rules like a leaflet, the art building rules and the art student rules add up to several pages and look like a pocket book.
And different from the "traditional" codes, the texture of the Art Building Code and the Art Student Code is hard to the touch.
Mao Feiyang fiddled with the two codes subconsciously, and then discovered that the reason for this tactile feeling was that there seemed to be something like cardboard sandwiched in the art student codes.
But he did not fiddle with anything first, but carefully read the rules of the art building.
While Mao Feiyang was looking for the rules for the art building and the rules for art students on the bookshelf, Lin Yi took the time to observe the internal environment of the art office.
Compared with the cramped teacher’s office, this art office can be described as luxurious.
The entire art office is decorated in a classical and elegant European style, with carpets, fireplaces, hanging lamps, pendulum clocks... everything is available. It looks like the office of the chairman of a certain group.
In addition, there is a floor-to-ceiling curtain at the end of the art office, which looks like it covers a huge floor-to-ceiling window.
But what made Lin Yi feel weird was that there were... a total of four desks in the art office, and there were some things placed on two of them, which were obviously for people to sit on, but he did not see the art teacher.
Just when Lin Yi was confused, Mao Feiyang had already opened the rules of the art building.
He quickly concentrated on reading, trying to take advantage of this time to memorize as much as possible the contents of the Art Building Code.
When he thought about the two codes, which were as thick as these small books, he felt a tingling sensation on his scalp.
“Damn, the code is almost a thesis, how much danger must there be in it?”
But as soon as he saw the title page of the Art Building Code, his expression changed.
"Nah, isn't it? You've been playing like this since the beginning?"
At this moment, Mao Feiyang was staring at the title page of the Art Building Code, but because he knew far less than Lin Yi, the shock caused by the amount of information was far less intense than Lin Yi's.
should be written in twenty large characters, like a warning to the world: shall be written in twenty large characters, as if they are a warning: "Abandon cognition, subvert common sense, appreciate art, learn art, and transcend art."
Thank you to the book friend "青女 Cang Yuan you" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)