Chapter 141 The Twisted Staircase Going Down
But this is some kind of reverse matryoshka operation? ! Impossible, absolutely impossible.
Lin Yi felt that his brain would not be enough if he continued to think about it, so he shook his head and stopped thinking. Instead, he kept this conjecture in his mind and discussed it with Tian Bufan to see if Tian Bufan had any other understandings.
At this time, Li Huiyuan had been waiting for him at the stairs for almost two minutes. Lin Yi walked over and called Li Huiyuan, but he found that Li Huiyuan did not respond to his call.
Li Huiyuan didn't respond to him after calling twice. An ominous premonition instantly occupied his heart. He hurried over and patted Li Huiyuan's shoulder, only to find that her body was shaking uncontrollably, and there was even some cold breath coming from her shoulder.
Lin Yi looked a little ugly: "Oh no, the layer has dropped in just two minutes?!"
"Li Huiyuan, Li Huiyuan!"
Lin Yi shook Li Huiyuan's shoulders and pulled her back from the layer.
After Li Huiyuan came back to her senses, she looked at Lin Yi in surprise. At the same time, she also realized the problem in her body, and a cold sweat broke out from her back.
"What did you see just now? How did the layer drop?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan's face was still a little pale. She gasped and pointed in the direction of the stairwell: "I...I was just looking at the stairs and did nothing else. Then, I didn't know what happened. When I came back to my senses, it was you who was calling me..."
"Oh! I seem to have remembered it!"
Li Huiyuan's complexion changed slightly, she covered her forehead, her expression suddenly became trance-like, her eyes drifted left and right, as if she was caught in some kind of memory.
"Stairs! There's something wrong with that staircase! It...it's not normal!"
Lin Yi quickly looked towards the stairwell, but he didn't see anything wrong at first glance.
But he did not doubt Li Huiyuan. Instead, he brought her to the sunshine, let her rest for a while, and then he observed the stairwell.
After the teaching building regulations clearly stipulate that only stairs can be used to go up and down stairs, students in classes 4 or above in each teaching building need to use the stairs to return to their classrooms. Lin Yi is also an experience student with a "student ID card". There is no danger in theory going up and down stairs, let alone just staring.
One minute passed, and Lin Yi did not notice anything unusual, nor did any change in vision similar to "Spider Sense" appear.
"Is there really no problem? Or is it Li Huiyuan's own problem?" Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan, who was gradually returning to normal, and couldn't help but wonder.
But it is best to take a look above the fourth floor of the teaching building.
He looked at Li Huiyuan and asked, "How are you doing? Can you still leave?"
Li Huiyuan's eyes flickered for a moment, then she pursed her lips and stood up, nodding firmly: "Okay."
"Then you come with me, and we go into the stairwell." Lin Yi stretched out his hand, "We hold hands, and once we sense that there is a problem with the other party, the other party will immediately find a way to pull the other party out of the stairwell."
The situation is really not right, so for the sake of safety, I have to temporarily withdraw from the stairwell.
"Classmate Lin..."
"Is there a problem?"
"No problem, but...am I not cannon fodder?"
Lin Yi was speechless for a while, wondering what the hell is this Li Huiyuan, does he want to die so much?
"Cannon fodder and free money are two concepts."
Li Huiyuan was stunned for a moment, then stretched out her hand.
Lin Yi held her hand and walked slowly towards the stairwell.
Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi's hand, suddenly lost in thought, and then subconsciously followed Lin Yi's pace.
Lin Yi's hand was very warm and he held her with just enough strength. The two of them walked out of the corridor area and entered the stairwell.
The isolated fire door at the stairwell of the teaching building is always open. There is a light-transmitting window on each half floor of the stairway, and there are incandescent lights on the ceiling. Therefore, although the stairwell is darker during the day, the whole stairwell is still very bright.
But as he approached the stairwell, a faint feeling of discomfort suddenly fell on Lin Yi.
Lin Yi noticed that Li Huiyuan subconsciously squeezed his hand, and presumably he sensed something.
"It seems there is really a problem." Lin Yi stopped at the stairs, and then looked at the stairs in front of him.
Suddenly, he rubbed his eyes, then his eyes widened, and he looked at the stairs in front of him in disbelief.
In front of him, two steps appeared.
Generally speaking, the architectural style of City S, no, the architectural style of staircases in China as a whole is built in a counter-rotating direction from right to left, but what appeared in front of him now were two staircases that were mirror images of each other with the rotation axes of the stairs!
He was stunned. Usually, even if the layers fell or he had visions, he would see distorted lines and collapsed light and shadow images. This was the first time he had seen a staircase full of rules and art like this.
Hence, he took Li Huiyuan's hand and decisively exited the stairwell.
"Did you see anything just now?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan said: "I saw two steps... Classmate Lin, did you also see it?"
Lin Yi nodded.
Li Huiyuan said: "This is the problem I just mentioned... I saw these two steps at a glance just now, and then I thought of what the student code says, 'At any time, the stairs of all buildings on campus must be accessed on the right side.' But what I don't understand is..."
"The code says "walk on the right hand side", which should be the right hand side of the staircase, right? But now there are two stairs, each with a right hand side... Which one should we take?"
Lin Yi pondered: "You were thinking about this problem just now? And then you dropped the layer?"< br/>
Li Huiyuan shook her head slightly: "That's not entirely true... When I looked at the stairwell just now, I looked at the light in the stairwell, and I was a little distracted for some reason. Then I seemed to feel that the two steps were twisted like twists, and I seemed to see a downward step..."
"Are you sure it's... the steps going down?!" Lin Yi asked curiously.
"I...I'm not sure." Li Huiyuan shook her head weakly, "I can't see clearly. I feel like the stairwell I saw just now is like a paint pattern painted on the water. When the wind blows, the water surface ripples, and then the original lines are all tangled together..."
"I don't know what is going on with that step, but it seems to really exist..."
"I felt like I was attracted to that step. I seemed to want to walk up that step uncontrollably, but before I could move, you woke me up... I knew I was hallucinating."
"Is that hallucination... the "dropping layer" you said?"
Lin Yi nodded silently: "Basically, yes."
Li Huiyuan suddenly asked anxiously: "Classmate Lin, can you tell me what the dropped layers mean? Is it related to the 'pollution' I received?"
Lin Yi thought briefly, and then said: "Do you still remember the conversation I had with Mr. Tian before? It's like a glass trestle bridge in the mountains. There is a layer above the glass bridge, and there is a layer below the glass bridge. Usually I We are walking on the glass trestle, and the glass is still opaque. "
"But when we are polluted, the glass trestle will become transparent, and we will be able to see things in another layer. Some people who are afraid of heights can't stand this change, and will become anxious, short of breath, and even go crazy. Some will accidentally fall and fall into another layer without knowing whether they will live or die..."
“You and I are the people walking on the edge of the glass trestle now. Sometimes we can see what’s below, and sometimes we have one foot in the air. If we can’t step back in time, we will be doomed.” I need you to walk in front of me and help me... take the risk. Sometimes when you have problems, I can pull you back to the trestle, but as the danger increases, at some point I will be unable to save myself, and then I will not be able to save you..."
"'Cannon fodder'..." Li Huiyuan slowly spit out two words.
Lin Yi said noncommittally: "The facts are unbearable, but that's it."
Li Huiyuan had already accepted it, and she just nodded silently after hearing this.
Lin Yi on the side fell silent.
"Could what Li Huiyuan just saw... be the stairs leading to the basement of the teaching building?"
In fact, the real problem is not this, but... the stairs leading to the first floor of the teaching building were actually seen by Li Huiyuan at this time.
Who is Li Huiyuan? In terms of identity positioning, he is a "experience student who lost his student ID and was contaminated."
And they also saw the stairs leading to the first floor of the teaching building, what position were they at that time?
Based on the conversation between the dormitory manager and the art teacher, it can be inferred that he is an "experience student who has not even obtained a student ID card."
As for pollution, it does exist.
That is to say——
"Can experience students who have no identity documents and are contaminated, be able to see the stairs leading to the basement of the teaching building?"
Lin Yi rubbed his chin. If this is the case, it can also explain why Tian Bufan did not find the stairwell in the teaching building on May 7th.
Because Tian Bufan holds a student ID card, he does not meet the conditions for being able to see the stairwell. Even if he is already in the stairwell, he cannot touch the things in that layer!
However, there is another doubt about Li Huiyuan being able to see the stairwell to the basement, and that is time.
"How did she see that layer in broad daylight?"
"Or is it that she could just see it and couldn't go there?"
"Hey, wait! Maybe it's really like this!"
The place where Li Huiyuan was standing just now was actually not in an area directly exposed to the sun. In other words, it was very similar to the situation when he was thinking about a problem in the classroom and then dropped the layer...
This is understandable!
When the state is unstable, you may encounter problems if you are in any place without direct sunlight!
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at the time.
15:13.
With only 17 minutes left before the agreed time to return to the classroom, Lin Yi felt that he had no chance to go to the fourth floor to observe, but decided to take another look at the stairwell, trying to find the possible door between the layers...
He felt that this stairwell was very extraordinary.
Not the kind of extraordinary that goes in a good direction, but the kind of extraordinary that is extremely dangerous.
He felt that there should be one or even two spiral staircases on the stairs at the drawing level, one leading to the area on the fifth floor and above of the mysterious teaching building, and the other leading to the underground first floor.
Perhaps, the stairs may be another kind of hub...
When walking in the stairwell, a closed environment naturally forms an independent layer, and that layer floats between layers in a kind of supernatural map. Only when the person walking in it reaches certain conditions that can achieve self-anchoring, will the condition of leaving the stairwell be triggered.
Otherwise, it will be like them going downstairs endlessly, or like Mao Feiyang going upstairs endlessly.
Let's put it this way...
Lin Yi suddenly thought of a creepy thing - he suddenly remembered that when he followed Mao Feiyang through the dream and kept shuttling through the stairwell, he had seen a group of sculptures of various shapes. The sculptures were fixed in various postures, some struggling and twisted, as if they were frozen in some kind of terrifying and extremely painful death. Engraved...
"They...couldn't they be some creatures that were polluted and became nocturnal species. After entering the stairwell, they fell to the floor and were never able to leave. Finally, they died alone in the stairs and then became one of the sculptures, right?"
Thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly burst out with inspiration, and a picture emerged in his mind...
He saw Li Huiyuan being attracted to the stairwell, and then stepped into the stairwell uncontrollably.
Li Huiyuan's eyes were blank, her spirit was listless, as if she was sleepwalking, and she stepped on the steps with stiff steps. However, after taking this step, the steps that were supposed to be higher than the ground suddenly twisted and turned into a step below the level ground.
But Li Huiyuan didn't notice anything unusual at all, and walked down the steps step by step...
The picture in his mind was like some kind of inspired deduction. When Li Huiyuan walked down the steps, As he walked, his "lens" also followed Li Huiyuan down...
Walking and walking and walking...
Li Huiyuan suddenly trembled and woke up.
She glanced down, a spiral staircase of the Fibonacci sequence seemed endless, with no end in sight.
She looked up palely again, and saw the same Fibonacci sequence extending around her, as if she could not see the way forward.
She felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She stood on the original steps as if she had been stunned, without making any movement.
Gradually, I don’t know how long it took, she finally moved and started to stick to the wall on the right hand side and keep walking up the steps.
Just walking and walking like this, for who knows how long, her body began to undergo strange changes...
Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "Full Moon and Qinghui" for the tips! !
There will be an easter egg chapter about the stairs later, yes, it’s my style again...ahem.
PS: The book club group should know that going hiking today to relax is counterproductive. To put it simply, it is the story of "A certain suspense author wanted to find some inspiration but almost found something supernatural". I can only say that I was lucky in the end and got out of the mountain before my phone ran out of battery... I had a big head and almost died.
(End of this chapter)