Chapter 98 Meeting the weird art teacher again
Mao Feiyang walked around the huge oak tree and came to the wooden pile and took a closer look. He saw road signs nailed to the wooden pile:
"Gallery←"
"Art Classroom→"
"Sculpture Classroom→"< br/>
There are several signs for art classrooms and observation decks, but some of them are marked with an "×" symbol with red paint, and some are marked with an "×" symbol along with them. There are also some broken road signs with other locations such as "Altar" and "Star Observation Deck" written on them.
Mao Feiyang found a corridor that could be regarded as "brightly lit", and then dived in.
「沙沙沙……」
ifies to hear this rustling sound constantly in his ears, but he did not dare to look around at all. He could only keep walking forward according to the directions of the road signs, hoping to see the door of a certain classroom ahead.
But Lin Yi was much bolder.
Having had the experience of getting his shoes wet by the river one day and forcing himself ashore, after being baptized by Tian Bufan and understanding the rules of the art department by heart for an hour, he has already accepted the abnormality of the art building at a cognitive level.
At least these sculptures can no longer make him feel the fear that reaches the soul level.
Of course, the inner resistance and discomfort, as well as the trembling feeling from the instinct level, are still inevitable, especially if it happens suddenly, no matter how well you are mentally prepared, it will be useless.
This is just like when riding a jumping machine or a pirate ship in an amusement park, the body's instinct will produce a resistance to the feeling of weightlessness.
Since there was no ground stretching or layer falling in the corridor, Lin Yi silently recorded the distance Mao Feiyang had moved. About one hundred and twenty to thirty meters in the corridor, Mao Feiyang finally found a door marked "Art Classroom-IV".
【When entering and exiting the art classroom, just make sure the door number is marked "Art Classroom". There is no need to pay attention to the classroom number. 】
Mao Feiyang confirmed for a moment, then reached out and pressed the door handle.
The moment he grabbed the door handle, there was a sudden whimpering sound in the corridor where there was originally only the sound of rustling sculptures moving.
The sea breeze swept everything in the quiet corridor, cutting through the stone wall of the castle like a sharp blade, rushing towards the location of Mao Feiyang.
Mao Feiyang opened the door of the art classroom without hesitation and entered the art classroom before Hai Feng arrived.
Lin Yi's vision moved quickly, but he took advantage of the last moment to look in the direction of the roaring sea wind.
There, he seemed to hear some familiar footsteps that were both strange and familiar. The sound seemed to be like the sound of high heels stepping on the ground.
「High heels...?!」
Lin Yi’s eyes twitched slightly.
"Is it the head teacher?"
"No...the head teacher at this point should still be fighting against non-human units in the teaching building, so could it be...?"
Lin Yi had a conjecture in his mind, as if to confirm his idea. Just as he had guessed, the moment Mao Feiyang closed the door, he glanced in the direction of the sound of the high-heeled shoes, and saw a group of people walking towards him in the dark and claustrophobic corridor in the sea breeze... The leader was the strange female teacher who appeared in the thick fog yesterday evening.
Behind the female teacher, there were some people dressed like student cadres.
The door of the art classroom was closed, and Lin Yi's gaze towards them was cut off.
But the moment the door closed, a strange feeling passed along the door handle and through the door leaf into Mao Feiyang's palm, which was keenly captured by Lin Yi.
It is like the tendency of someone pressing the door handle just before it returns to its original position.
Immediately afterwards, the door handle was pressed from outside the door...
"Click!"
This cold mechanical sound was like pressing on Lin Yi's heart, making his breathing freeze for a moment.
Mao Feiyang had a chill running down his spine, and the sense of crisis rushing from his subconscious made him quickly move away from the door, and then look for the nearest candlestick.
He succeeded.
Almost every corner of the art classroom was illuminated by candlelight, so it was easy for him to find a spot.
After sitting down, he curled his neck and buried his body so deeply that he wished he could bury himself in the chair. At the same time, driven by uncontrollable curiosity and fear, his eyes looked at the location of the original door.
Lin Yi suddenly understood Mao Feiyang's behavior.
Just like those people who were chased by zombies in old Hong Kong movies, they seemed to have escaped the zombies but still had to look in the original direction. In fact, they were scared, but just because of this, they wanted to see if the zombies really hadn't come after them...
As expected, after the door handle was pressed, the strange female teacher did not open the classroom door for a long time, not knowing what she was waiting for.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched hard.
What he guessed -
"She shouldn't be waiting for someone to "invite" her in, right?"
He thought of the rules about "invitation" in the dormitory rules. Although it is not written in the student rules, it may have a similar underlying logic!
So, as long as you don’t invite them in, they can’t come in?
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"They have been waiting outside for so long, they must not have been waiting for such an opportunity, right?"
"They have been staying for a long time, right? More than a day... No! It's not that long actually!"
Lin Yi suddenly realized that if he used the time of the dream as a reference, it should still be around 4 o'clock on May 7, X023, not the early morning of May 8 when he was dreaming.
This female teacher and her group probably came here after abducting those people at the school gate.
"Did they arrive early and have been waiting for someone to open the door? Or did they just arrive and then happened to meet Mao Zi?"
Lin Yi was more inclined to the first scenario.
"But... how did they get to the Art Building?"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. It seemed that the route mentioned in the Art Department's regulations was not the only way to and from the campus and the Art Building.
As Tian Bufan said, there may be more unknown paths hidden, but those paths have more stringent conditions for those who walk in them.
"In other words, just like the dormitory supervisor can bring Maozi to the art building, those weird art teachers can also bring people to the art building... But if they take that route, can those people become art students?"
Lin Yi's intuition told him that even if those people arrived in the art building, their identities would be different from Mao Feiyang's "art student" status.
At least Mao Feiyang is not much different from the experience students so far. It is actually difficult to distinguish them without looking at the identity documents.
Lin Yi slowly put down his suspicions, and then turned his attention to the overall environment of the art classroom.
The scale of this art classroom is much larger than the lecture hall in the teaching building. Whether it is the overall architectural environment or design elements, they all reveal a cult and abstract style of worship of gods and demons.
The design of the interior of the classroom is very much like an ancient Greek opera house. The podium left for teachers is like a huge semicircular "stage". There is an arched decorative wall behind the "stage". The walls are carved with murals one after another. There are countless strange graphic symbols between the murals, as if they are showing some ancient myths and secrets.
The location where students sit is equivalent to the auditorium in an opera house.
These seats are located in a semi-circular area in front of the stage and consist of a series of seats arranged like fish scales. In ancient times, these seats were usually divided into different levels, and feudal lords could easily determine the position of the audience according to different social status, but there is obviously not so much thoughtful design in art classrooms.
However, Lin Yi always felt that this art classroom might have been transformed from the opera house...
There were many doors on the stone walls around the art classroom, one of which was the door that Mao Feiyang opened and walked in.
Hence, it can be seen that there may be only one or a few art classrooms in this art building, and the doors marked "Art Classroom" in the corridor all lead to the art classroom.
That's why the code says that you only need to make sure that the door number says "Art Classroom" and don't care about the number behind it.
Lin Yi also noticed that there was a passage leading to the observation deck beside the central stage of the art classroom.
This lookout is not that lookout, not the kind of art office, but the kind mentioned in the art code as a platform for artists to sketch.
If Lin Yi guessed correctly, around 13 o'clock "today", Mao Feiyang would go to the observation deck to sketch, and then at the same time, when he returned from lunch in the cafeteria, he would have a magical look across the layers.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a strong sense of curiosity and expectation in his heart, but he was also worried that he wouldn't be able to dream for that long...
“I wonder how long this dream will last...?” He felt like he had been dreaming for a long time, and he didn’t know when he would wake up.
But something as magical and immeasurable as a dream may distort one's own perception of "time" and some of its "senses." Therefore, this dream took so long, and it's hard to say how much time has passed in reality.
He also found that almost half of the seats in the art classroom were occupied by people. Judging from the number, there were probably a few thousand students, which was equivalent to the students in an entire teaching building.
Some of these students are reading books, while others are observing the statues and murals on the stage in the center of the classroom, as if they are being influenced by the artistic atmosphere, with different expressions.
At this time, there is not much moonlight left, and the distant horizon is about to usher in the sunrise...
The last cold moonlight in the dark night passes through the glass-like dome and falls on the central stage. White powder particles float in the air like dust, and then...fall on the art students like snowflakes and merge into their bodies.
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment when he saw such a scene, and then suddenly realized that these white powder particles were not the kind of pollutants that Mao Feiyang continuously absorbed from the air into his body after being contaminated by the green bib chef, and then spread to several of them like a shunt?
"Pollutants... are everywhere in this art building!!!"
"I can actually see these pollutants clearly now?"
"Wait, did I really "see" it?"
He closed his eyes, and then he discovered that after closing his eyes, his field of vision was completely dark, but the white powder particles flying and floating in the air were still as clear as fireflies at night.
"Is this...?"
The Art Student Code says: "Perception is a magical artistic talent, and you will gradually master the ability to use this art to distinguish "goodwill" from "malice." 】
"Is this the so-called "perception"?"
"Judging from the rules, this seems to be a characteristic of art students... But maybe this is not just a characteristic of art students, but something that can be gradually observed based on individual inspiration and the degree of pollution."
"I can sense it now, is it because I am exposed to Maozi's "light", or is it because of my so-called high inspiration, or am I also contaminated?"
"Or...are all the above factors involved?"
This kind of perception is still very weak now, like a beginner swimmer who can only feel it a little bit, but this kind of thing is like a vast field. Once you set foot in it, you will be attracted by this field.
Just like the magnetic field theory mentioned by sports students, Mao Feiyang has obviously stepped into the field belonging to the identity of "art student", and now, he suspects that he has also stepped into this magnetic field...
From a time point of view, he was contaminated when Mao Feiyang looked back at the chef with a green bib. In the following time, while he was receiving the pollutants diverted from Mao Feiyang, he was constantly absorbing the pollutants, which is why he had so many hallucinations in the teaching building unknowingly.
Especially when there was fog in the teaching building, he heard a song that seemed to come from a siren...
This sound transcended layers, and to a certain extent, it even came from the pollution of Mao Feiyang.
But he didn’t know, and because he didn’t know, he subconsciously had doubts about the surrounding environment, and in a very short period of time, he even had the problem of falling off the layer.
Throughout the whole process, he didn’t know how much white powdery particulate pollutants he had absorbed!
And at this time... At this point, Mao Feiyang was constantly absorbing pollutants. What was he doing at that time?
It seems like... you are reviewing the killing logic of your non-human classmates? And then after getting rid of the opponent's attention, he was killed by that guy with a carbine?
Lin Yi still remembered that inhuman classmate. After he paid his attention away, he specially rushed over to test him based on his memory. Now it seems that there is still something fishy in it.
"Could it be that...those inhuman things locked onto me not only because I saw them, but also because there was something about me that attracted them?"