Chapter 142 Staring in the Void
Because there was no light for a long time, the green scar on her back began to become thicker and thicker, from the original thickness of a hair to the thickness of a black marker, and then as thick as a green tear...
Green mist began to diffuse from her wound, lingering around her like armor.
At this time, in Lin Yi's "deduction", she has a kind of artistic conception of "the clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger"...
However, this is not a good thing.
As the green mist penetrated, the tear-stained wound continued to expand, and this time, the green mist that filled the crack actually solidified, and began to change from floating mist to green powder particles emerging one after another...
This is a scene that makes people get goosebumps all over. Just thinking about it will make people with trypophobia die on the spot. Lin Yi felt that he was almost sent away by this damn scene.
After the appearance of these green powder particles, Li Huiyuan's body also began to undergo a horrific change. Her skin color began to turn gray-white at a speed visible to the naked eye. Her whole body was like an old gray-white portrait, and her eyes began to lose their last luster...
Her steps up the steps became more and more jerky and stiff, and finally completely solidified, turning into a pure white human sculpture maintaining the posture of climbing the steps.
At this moment, the spiral Fibonacci steps were still below her, and the Fibonacci steps were still above her head, and she seemed to have become a lonely, small, insignificant speck of dust among the endless steps...
The picture "deduced" in her mind was completely frozen at this moment, and then exploded into countless crumbling fragments with a "boom".
Lin Yi suddenly came back to his senses and looked down at the time.
15:14.
"One minute!"
"Only one minute has passed?!"
But the deduction in his mind seemed to follow Li Huiyuan through a long period of time!
He glanced at Li Huiyuan beside him, only to find that Li Huiyuan was also looking at him, and there was some doubt in his eyes: "Why are you looking at me like this all of a sudden?"
"Nothing." Lin Yi shook his head, thinking that the picture floating in his mind just now was too real, as if Li Huiyuan in a parallel universe had completed that move, and then he had witnessed it with his own eyes in this layer.
"Is it because I inferred this scene that my brain imagined such a scene based on my existing "cognition"?"
Lin Yi didn't know.
But after what happened just now, he suddenly remembered something - something that he had ignored for a long time.
Or... the basic operation that he almost forgot.
"Don't move around here. I'll be back when I go." Lin Yi turned around, looked at Li Huiyuan seriously, and said something that was too complicated.
As he spoke, he wanted to let go of Li Huiyuan's hand and walk into the stairwell, but Li Huiyuan held him back.
"It's okay, I'm already sure." Lin Yi comforted.
"I...take me with you." Li Huiyuan grabbed his hand tightly, like a stray cat afraid of being left behind.
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, but you'd better keep your attention on me the whole time, and then tell me immediately if you feel confused."
"Okay." Li Huiyuan nodded heavily.
Lin Yi held Li Huiyuan with one hand, put the other hand into his trouser pocket, held the student ID card in his trouser pocket tightly, and then recited silently in his heart:
"I am Lin Yi, and my student number is " 8. I was walking from the first floor to the second floor in the stairwell of Building B of the teaching building..."
"I am Lin Yi..."
Sure enough, when he forcibly strengthened his will, the entire stairwell became normal, and then, the two steps that were symmetrical to each other about the axis of the stairwell that were still seen in the distortion layer became the one on the right hand side.
"Sure enough! I fucking knew it!" Lin Yi was overjoyed.
I have played too many high-end games, always relying on my will to correct my cognition, and almost forgot that there is such a simple and unpretentious basic operation.
Lin Yi walked up the steps, then took Li Huiyuan's hand and walked slowly up against the wall on the right, until he reached the corner, and then walked the remaining half of the floor in the sunshine, arriving at the second floor of Building B of the teaching building.
Looking at the architectural style, columns and corridor design outside the stairwell that was almost identical to the first floor, Lin Yi suddenly had a strange feeling - if he forgot the number of floors here, would it turn into a horror story?
This idea emerged immediately, and was crushed by his punch before it could take shape. Then he took a deep breath and continued to recite silently in his heart:
"I am Lin Yi, and my student number is X0230506098. I am walking from the second floor to the third floor in the stairwell of Building B of the teaching building..." "
Of course, after reaching the fourth floor, the stairs also become the end point.
He squinted his eyes and glanced at the end of the stairwell, looked at the last step, and gradually squinted his eyes.
"Lin, classmate Lin..." Li Huiyuan here suddenly called his name with a trembling voice.
At the same time, he also felt Li Huiyuan subconsciously clenching his hand, and he could also feel that the other person's body was trembling slightly.
The slight tremor caused by the unknown fear was passing down his arm to his hand. At the same time, he could clearly feel the chill emanating from Li Huiyuan's palm.
Lin Yi wanted to pat her shoulder and tell her not to worry, but thinking that his other hand was holding his student ID card in his pocket, he gave up the move after a little hesitation.
"Don't worry, we'll go back to the first floor now."
Lin Yi tried to calm Li Huiyuan's emotions with a smooth and low voice. Li Huiyuan softly said "hmm", but Lin Yi did not feel her relief. On the contrary, she clenched her hands tighter.
Lin Yi quickly recited the "Protective Mantra" silently in his heart, and then started to rush towards the first floor with Li Huiyuan.
"I am Lin Yi, my student number is r/>
He murmured to himself, and it really made him feel as if he was reciting Taoist exorcisms and evil spirits...
Not long after, the two of them successfully returned to the first floor and walked out of the stairwell.
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
15:27.
"It took 14 minutes to go back and forth... not bad."
Because he had to take Li Huiyuan with him, and Li Huiyuan had to focus on him, so he had to slow down a bit, so it only took 14 minutes to go back and forth, which was really "smooth".
But was it actually really smooth?
When Lin Yi walked out of the stairs, the fine beads of sweat on his forehead were already shining like crystal spots under the sun...
This was all because of the glance he took towards the end of the stairs when he was on the fourth floor of the teaching building.
When he arrived at the fourth floor of the teaching building, he originally wanted to take Li Huiyuan out of the stairwell and then look back to observe the environment on the fourth floor. But the moment he turned back, his intuition immediately told him - no, in fact, there was no need for intuition at all. When he arrived at the fourth floor of the teaching building and stopped silently reciting "I am Lin Yi...", he could already clearly feel the tingling sensation on his back from countless wheat beams.
It was a terrifying feeling as if being stared at by a pack of bloodthirsty rats. He could feel countless cold, evil, greedy, and bloodthirsty eyes staring at him somewhere behind him.
At that moment, his vision once again entered the quality of a black and white photo exposure, and he saw the terrifying green mist filling the background.
He then squinted his eyes and glanced at the end of the stairs.
In the sealed and severed wall, he saw a winding and twisting staircase extending from the end of the staircase.
The stairwell formed by the steps was densely packed with countless nocturnal species. They huddled in the layer that could not be observed by the naked eye. They were all squeezed into the seemingly small and claustrophobic corridor. Various fleshy lines were twisted and intertwined, and there were big eyes filled with bloodshot eyes. The beads were spinning like crazy, as if they were staring at everyone who stepped onto the stairs...
When he was stared at by those twisted nocturnal species, he felt that the green mist mark on his chest suddenly became active, as if it was releasing some kind of signal to the outside world.
He did not dare to stay any longer, so he hurriedly pulled Li Huiyuan down the stairs.
When he reached the first floor of the teaching building, completely left the stairwell, and was exposed to the sun, the feeling of being stared at slowly receded like a swarm of snakes wrapped around his legs...
His back was already soaked, and the palm that was holding the student ID card slowly loosened a little... "Li Huiyuan, we are back." Lin Yi took his hand out of his trouser pocket, put it on Li Huiyuan's hand, and said in a soothing voice.
Feeling the warmth of the sun shining on her body and hearing Lin Yi's voice, Li Huiyuan's stiff body, which was tense due to nervousness and fear, slowly relaxed a little...
She regained consciousness, and then let go of Lin Yi's hand: "Thank you..."
"It's okay." Lin Yi said calmly.
"Well..."
"It's getting late, let's go back to the classroom to meet up with Ryoko, and then go to the cafeteria for dinner..." Lin Yi added, "Well, I'll also help you find a canteen."
After confirming that the door number was correct, Lin Yi pressed the door handle and pushed the door open with a click.
When he opened the door, he was suddenly startled. He actually heard some laughing and chatting sounds from the crack in the door.
Hence pushed open the door with Li Huiyuan, and the two of them instantly attracted the attention of the newcomers in the classroom.
Lin Yi had no intention of retreating, and looked back directly against the gazes of these people, and then frowned slightly.
"Another group of "new students" have come? Do they come every day? Are there really so many people signing up?"
Hearing Lin Yi's muttering, Li Huiyuan was slightly startled, and then looked up.
Looking at the laughing and chatting figures in the lecture theater today, she suddenly felt as if she had a dream like yesterday.
Lin Yi did not rush to find Wei Liang, but followed his habit and looked at everyone in the classroom first.
Except for Wei Liang, there are currently 18 physical education students in the classroom, 24 experience students who entered the campus yesterday or before, and 7 new experience students.
Lin Yi frowned secretly and whispered to Li Huiyuan: "Another person who came in with you disappeared. We were walking back from the bathroom. We didn't meet him along the way. I guess he was killed..."
Li Huiyuan was shocked when he heard this, and his eyes dimmed. Who would have thought that the "classmates" who came in together yesterday would suffer so many casualties in just one day.
And when she thought that this might be her future, she couldn't help but feel a little sad.
Lin Yi didn't say anything else to her. He knew that Li Huiyuan would adjust her mood on her own.
Excluding him and Wei Liang, there were originally 26 experience students in the classroom, but now there are only 24 without Li Huiyuan, which naturally means that something happened to one of them.
Looking at the physical education students, there were no casualties. There were 18 when we left last night, and there are still 18 now.
As for the seven new experience students, Lin Yi originally wanted to simply memorize their characteristics so that he could see who of them died and who was still alive tomorrow morning, but he immediately realized that there seemed to be some "special" existence among these people.
7 experience students, 5 men and 2 women.
The reason why I say he is a man is because among the five people there is a very old man, who seems to be about 40 years old.
This man was wearing a khaki jacket, with sleek hair, and a bulging mountaineering bag at his feet. He was huddled in his seat and looking at the environment of the entire classroom, with a look of fear and restraint in his eyes, as if...a little scared.
The four boys who came with him and two of them laughed and joked at him, probably saying something like, "Uncle, you are here to experience college life now that you are old." The embarrassment on the uncle's face became more and more intense. In the end, he had to shrink into his seat and put the word "restricted" on his head.
In addition, the remaining two boys and two girls were attracted by Pan Jian’s female companion in the morning. They were crossing their arms and listening to the girl intermittently talking about the strange events they encountered yesterday, with some curiosity and expectation in their eyes...
Pan Jian's female companion was actually in a trance. She received too much stimulation last night, and she survived until now after "witnessing" Pan Jian's death. She has been unable to get out of the shadow of last night, so that now she can't help but feel a little confused.
(End of this chapter)