Chapter 155 A sweaty 10 minutes
The only way to break the situation right now is to rush back to the teaching building before the fog swallows them up, or to maintain the awareness of being "on the road".
The teaching building looming in the mist in the distance was Lin Yi's goal that he never gave up from the beginning to the end - he set the teaching building as an anchor point from the beginning, ensuring that he was heading towards the teaching building in any situation, so even if the cobblestone road had twisted into a twist, he never got lost in the mist.
It turns out that this is an effective way to prevent getting lost, but they cannot return to the teaching building by this alone.
It doesn't matter if they can't return to the teaching building, because what Lin Yi wants to achieve is to ensure that they are [on the road].
Chapter 7 of the Student Code of Conduct: [If you cannot find the numbered street light at the first time, please lower your head and stare at the ground under your feet to find any reference that can make you sure that you are still on the road. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or experiencing any unusual changes, please quickly hold your student ID card and map tightly in your hands, and remind yourself of your name and student number repeatedly in your mind. Remember you are a student "This sentence is bold and underlined." 】
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There is a problem with the ground now, but it doesn’t matter. I can’t anchor to the ground, but I can fucking anchor the teaching building directly.
Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan along the twisted cobblestone road slowly and slowly. When he was sure that there was something wrong with the cobblestone road, he completely gave up the idea of returning to the teaching building along the cobblestone road because there was no way he could go back.
The only thing he can do now is to stay on this road until 18:00, then find the nearest illuminated street lamp, and then return to the teaching building in the direction of increasing street lamp numbers.
What he is most worried about now is that Li Huiyuan's unstable state will be continuously amplified due to the falling of the layers, eventually causing a series of chain reactions.
He lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
17:52.
"There are 8 minutes left...don't do anything wrong. Don't do anything..."
Lin Yi was muttering something in his heart, and then suddenly realized that Li Huiyuan's hands were a little cold.
"Oh shit, it's raining all night long!"
"Li Huiyuan, are you okay?"
"I... okay, a little cold."
"The school is in a mountainous area, it's foggy again, it's normal to be a little cold, don't think too much about it." He tried to keep his tone calm.
"Yeah." Li Huiyuan nodded.
"Wait a minute..." Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. The way he just tried to use the terrain and climate of the mountainous area to rationalize the abnormal weather on campus seemed a bit familiar...
The climate in the mountains is like this. Rain and fog are common. If there is abnormal weather, don't go out and there will be no danger. 】
He suddenly recalled this sentence, but this sentence... wasn't it what Wei Liang said to him on the blue bus before entering the campus?
"Holy shit, Liangzi was aware of the abnormal weather at that time, and then started trying to inoculate me? Is it just that I didn't react at first?"
He thought that Wei Liang was full of fear when he entered the school, but later he did not show the same fear as when he entered the school...
Such a strong sense of separation, could it be...that it was played by Wei Liang?
"Liangzi pretended to be scared, so that I could focus on him and the street lamp to prevent me from falling into the layer from the beginning?"
Lin Yi was stunned again and again, but now he was convinced of this speculation.
Wei Liang does have his own unique skills, just like the green bib chef who repeatedly defeated him in the canteen.
It was only now that Lin Yi realized the truth. Wei Liang's strange skill was not an "active skill", but a "passive skill".
"We need to use some topic to draw Li Huiyuan's attention away from the surrounding environment..." Lin Yi thought about it for a moment.
“Speaking of it, Li Huiyuan.”
“Huh?”
"Are you a student? I mean, were you a student before coming here?"
"Hmm... yes."
"I am also a college student, what is your major?" Lin Yi tried to distract Li Huiyuan from the current change of generals with small talk.
"Are you a science student or a liberal arts student?"
"Huh?" Li Huiyuan was stunned, as if she didn't understand Lin Yi's question.
Lin Yi was also stunned for a moment: "Huh? What's the matter?"
"I...I haven't heard the terms "science" and "liberal arts" for a long time..." Li Huiyuan's eyes showed a trace of doubt.
"Then what major are you studying?" Lin Yixin said it doesn't matter if you don't remember, I just want to grab your attention.
Besides, once you enter the university in City S, it is rare for your brain to remain normal.
Li Huiyuan thought about it seriously, and then said: "I studied the 'Origin of Paleontology'..."
Lin Yi was surprised: "Are you studying archeology?"
Archeology is an unpopular thing, and he never expected that Li Huiyuan would have such a level of expertise.
"It's not archeology..." Li Huiyuan shook her head, "I also took "Mysterious Genealogy" as an elective, but since X999, many things have changed. Some things can only be learned in specific schools..."
Lin Yi: "???"
Looking at Li Huiyuan's serious nonsense, Lin Yi's forehead was filled with question marks. He thought, is Li Huiyuan crazy, or is the world crazy?
Occult genealogy?
What major is this?
"What about you? What's your major?" Li Huiyuan asked.
"I'm learning how to slay dragons at Kassel College!" Lin Yi originally wanted to say something normal, but Li Huiyuan said so, so he suddenly blurted out.
"Slay...slay the dragon?!" Li Huiyuan's eyes widened.
Lin Yi's mouth crooked, thinking that he must have frightened you.
Unexpectedly, Li Huiyuan’s wide eyes gradually revealed a hint of excitement: "I’ll just say there is a 'dragon'! My mentor still doesn't believe it, saying that the species 'dragon' is very different between the East and the West, and even in 'occult genealogy' it is a recommended species." Testing an unverified outline. "
"Aren't you still excited?" Lin Yi was speechless, but Li Huiyuan's attention was diverted, so he continued to chat with Li Huiyuan on this topic.
After all, the way he originally thought of to divert attention was to ask Li Huiyuan, "Li Huiyuan, do you prefer to wear black silk stockings, white stockings, or nothing at all..." However, this kind of question with strong XP characteristics is really too abstract, and it feels like having to watch another movie when the end is coming.
Although this topic is a bit abstract now, at least the abstract perspective is still very interesting.
While Lin Yi was chatting with Li Huiyuan, he was silently calculating the passage of time in his heart - he did not dare to look at his watch because he needed to lock his eyes on the outline of the teaching building looming in the mist.
At the same time, he also observed the movement trends of the humanoid sculptures around them, so as not to accidentally observe their faces.
What surprised Lin Yi was that even though they were surrounded by a phalanx of sculptures, none of the humanoid sculptures seemed to show any ill will towards them.
It was very strange, so strange that it almost made Lin Yi wonder if he had mistaken the logic of their actions.
Time passed slowly, and 10 minutes seemed like a century.
Finally, the time calculated by Lin Yi came to 17:59. If his perception of time was correct, then there was only one minute left before the campus lights turned on.
50 seconds...
40 seconds...
30 seconds...
Lin Yi's heart slowly rose to his throat.
"If the street lights on campus have not been turned on when the time is up...will we continue walking on this road indefinitely with this sculptural phalanx?"
Just imagine that in the twisted cobblestone road shrouded in thick fog, a sculptural phalanx is moving endlessly towards a mirage-like building.
A flash of light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes: "The sculpture phalanx is not hostile to us. Could it be that... it regards us as 'same kind'?"
As soon as this thought came out, he felt goosebumps all over his body, and all the bones and flesh all over his body seemed to tremble.
He simply did not dare to imagine such a scene.
20 seconds countdown...
10 seconds...
5 seconds, 4 seconds...
3, 2, 1...
Lin Yi held his breath.
18:00:00.
「Time’s up!」
As if responding to Lin Yi's call, under the thick fog not far away, a ball of yellow-orange light suddenly lit up like "bang...".
The light group hung there like a small sun, and the radiance bloomed like a balloon in the dark, opening up a medium-sized area in a world full of fog.
Under the small sun is a pitch-black circle. The pitch-black column under the circle has a number written in white paint:
"Teaching Building-105".
Lin Yi smiled with relief in his heart, and then began to pull Li Huiyuan out of the sculpture square without leaving a trace, facing the direction of the lamp pole.
At this moment, he suddenly realized another problem. He and Li Huiyuan had actually walked on the edge of the cobblestone road and were deviating from the main body of the cobblestone road. If he hadn't been anchoring themselves with the outline of the teaching building, they would have been lost. Even if the street lights were on, they were not in the area with street light poles on the campus!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in cold sweat and felt frightened for a while.
However, as they were heading towards "Street Lamp-105", the humanoid sculptures that had no redundant expressions along the way suddenly started to move "swissly". The humanoid sculptures walking in front of and side by side of Lin Yi slowed down and began to curl up to the edge of the road to an area not "affected" by the streetlights, as if to escape these lights.
Those humanoid sculptures that were originally walking behind him began to push and squeeze together, and all came directly behind him...
It was not directly behind him, but in a certain area behind him, but because he could not turn back, Lin Yi could only judge their approximate location through the "rustling" footsteps.
"Are they hiding behind me?"
“If it’s just to avoid the light, there’s no need to run behind me, do they have other intentions?”
Hence, they didn’t have any thoughts about themselves when the fog surged, but when the lights came on, they started to move.
Lin Yi was a little unsure of what they were thinking, and could only attribute it to the mechanism.
Gradually, he felt a gaze that seemed to materialize, squirming out of the darkness like a poisonous snake, then climbed onto his back, and gradually wrapped around his throat.
This is a rather "long-lost" feeling, gloomy, vicious, greedy, bloodthirsty, longing, madness... Countless negative emotions are intertwined into a web, making every step he takes towards the lamppost feel a strong sense of resistance, like a gleam on his back, like sitting on pins and needles.
"Lin Yi..."
A low voice sounded from behind him, as if there was some kind of bewitching magic, trying to make him turn around.
"Don't look back, Li Huiyuan, no matter what calls you hear, ignore them..." Lin Yi gritted his teeth and warned in a deep voice.
"Well, okay...but Lin Yi..."
"You said."
"I...I didn't hear anyone calling me. 》
Lin Yi's heart suddenly heard a roar, as deafening as the sky falling and the earth falling.
"Li Huiyuan didn't hear the call of the human sculpture?!"
"Li Huiyuan is not their target?"
· "Their target is me?!"
· "What the hell..."
· Lin Yi felt a strong sense of layering and collapse in his heart. For the first time, his faintly dizzy brain felt a sense of gnashing resentment against the reality of the dream.
It was like the T800 Terminator had escaped with John Kang for an entire episode. In order to protect John Kang, he fought to the death with the big villain Liquid Metal Robot. But when it was about to complete its merits, the big villain suddenly said "I'll finish the mission after killing you" with a twisted feeling.
The clown is myself? !
This is so damn satisfying...
Lin Yi's heart was filled with simple yet brilliant rhetoric, but he gradually realized that it was not the clown but himself, but...he was confused from the beginning.
It is not wrong that Li Huiyuan has a goal in the cafeteria, and it is not wrong that he also has an element of goal.
But at that time, the two of them were the targets of the nocturnal species and the green bib chef.
But on the way back to the teaching building, they have left the canteen area. In layman's terms, they have left the [Canteen Dungeon] and arrived at the [Teaching Building Dungeon]. In this teaching building dungeon, at least on this road, the source of danger has been replaced by a humanoid sculpture from the nocturnal species and the green bib chef.
At the beginning, he and Li Huiyuan did not become the targets of human sculptures.
So what exactly changed this?
Is it... because the street light came on, or because they started walking towards the street light?
No, no, maybe none!
"Are they here for my student ID card?"
Thanks to book friends "Lin skylark" and "book friend 20240317654_ca" for the tips! !
(End of this chapter)