Chapter 165 Under the Dense Fog (1100 words added!)
X May 8, 2023, 20:02.
Lin Yi took the lead in stepping out of the classroom and into the thick fog.
When he walked out, the light in the classroom shone through the angle of the door, and there were some subtle "rustling" sounds on the ceiling of the corridor.
Lin Yi's scalp went numb and he cried out, his intuition told him that there were some soft, rubber-shaped nocturnal species huddled in the darkness of the ceiling of the corridor.
The incandescent lamp in the corridor has a lampshade, and there are some dark areas under the lamp at the connection between the lampshade and the ceiling. Those places may have become dormant places for nocturnal species.
He subconsciously reached out and touched the wall next to the classroom door.
The smooth whitewashed walls were now filled with traces of distortion, exactly the same as the walls he had felt in his vision before.
"The outside of the classroom has begun to fall. It seems that the exposed area of the teaching building is no longer safe. We have to leave quickly."
Wei Liang soon followed and walked out of the classroom.
Lin Yi noticed that Wei Liang seemed a little afraid of the foggy campus.
To be honest, he felt that Wei Liang was not that simple, but it seemed that in this environment, the "weakness" displayed by Wei Liang did not seem to be fake.
It was as if the unusual weather had suppressed him, making his magical skills much weaker and becoming "unstable".
When he walked through the classroom door, the thick mist enveloped him like rice bran. The first hit made him feel as if he was about to suffocate, but he soon got used to it.
The fog has invaded the corridor of the teaching building. The light of the corridor lamp has been weakened a lot but it is still effective, but Lin Yi feels that Wei Liang's body seems to be trembling slightly.
"Let's walk side by side." Lin Yi suggested, "If anyone feels something is wrong, just tell him in advance and put a hand on the other person's shoulder."
"Don't be so humble, and be prepared. I will put my hand on your shoulder." Wei Liang touched his arm, and he got goosebumps in this environment.
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, and then asked tentatively: "How about... let's hold hands again?"
..."
"Okay..." Wei Liang emphasized with a straight face, "At this time, I won't insist on whether men can accept or not kiss each other, but I must solemnly declare that I have no sexual interest in the same sex at all!"
Fuck...get out of here!" Lin Yi's face darkened, and the corner of his mouth twitched again and again, "Even if you become a little boy, I will be immune. I only like the beautiful legs with black stockings!"
"And the boss's jade feet." Wei Liang added subconsciously.
"Okay, OK, let's do it."
"And the white silk lolita's pink and round little toes..."
"Get out! Don't impose your XP on me!" Lin Yi couldn't bear it. He really wanted Bangbang to punch Wei Liang twice. He said angrily, "Hey, let's go, let's take it one step at a time...bring the hooves!"
“Damn, what hooves, my hands are comparable to catkins!” Wei Liang said unwillingly.
"Don't be disgusted with me." Lin Yi gritted his teeth and retorted, then took Wei Liang's hand and found the direction of the "Teaching Building-108" street light pole, and then led Wei Liang slowly down the steps.
With Lin Yi and Wei Liang leaving, all the people in the classroom were divided into four parts.
The people who were called by the head teacher and left the classroom immediately following the footsteps of Song Rentou and Lin Yi as soon as 20:00 arrived are the first part;
The above-mentioned people who were persuaded to leave by the unusual weather outside the classroom formed the second part;
Those who were not called by name and could choose to stay in the classroom for evening self-study until 7:40 tomorrow morning, some of the experience students chose to take a risk and left the classroom with the first group of people, and these people formed the third group;
The last ones were the remaining experience students.
These four parts exactly correspond to the four choices Lin Yi thought of.
When he walked out of the teaching building, there were obviously some people who came down the steps like him, but as he walked, those people disappeared.
It was obviously the same cobblestone road leading from "Teaching Building-108" to "Teaching Building-001", but Wei Liang was the only one beside him.
This strange feeling is like playing a multiplayer online RPG game. Everyone comes to the entrance of the instance together, but only people in a team can enter the same instance.
But the metaphor is such a metaphor. You can’t apply it to the real situation in the game, right?
And it’s not like everyone has a cobblestone road under their feet in abnormal weather, right?
Lin Yi couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he decided not to think about it too much, put the idea aside, and then think about it carefully when he returned to the dormitory.
The two walked side by side, moving slowly on the cobblestone road shrouded in thick fog. The street lamp gradually became only a vague outline. But strangely, the number written in white paint on the street lamp pole seemed not to be affected by the fog. No matter how far away it was, you could distinguish it by staring at it.
Lin Yi thought of something. When he arrived at the lamppost in front of him, he took advantage of his breath and reached out to touch the white paint.
"Sure enough!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. The white paint was just as he had guessed. It felt very smooth. Its texture was not like paint, but more like... some kind of acrylic plate coating.
"This white paint seems to be the same material as the student ID card!"
"It's so amazing, what on earth is this?"
At this moment, he noticed a "rustling" sound in the surrounding fog. Needless to say, he knew that the humanoid sculptures were gathering towards them.
"Lin...Yi..."
Beyond the mist, the call of the human sculpture rang out. Lin Yi didn't need to use his eyes to see it, he had the picture in his mind.
Such a scene was almost the same as what he had calculated in the classroom before, but the difference was that it was impossible for him to respond to such a call.
"Liangzi, are you okay?" Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang.
"It's okay, it's okay..." Wei Liang waved his hands repeatedly, "This is a mountainous area, and the miasma becomes thicker at night. We have to hurry up and return to the dormitory. I can't wait to take a hot shower!"
Seeing that Wei Liang really didn't behave strangely, Lin Yi calmed down a little and continued on the road with him.
The figures of the two people quickly disappeared into the fog, and they continued to move forward under the dim and dim light. In the darkness outside the cobblestone road, in the area submerged in the fog, countless figures stared closely at the figures of Lin Yi and Wei Liang, moving slowly. Under the thick fog, there was only the sound of "rustling" mixed with the sound of the wind. It was unclear whether it was caused by the friction of stones on the ground or the sound of the wind hitting the treetops.
Amidst the sound of the wind, one can still vaguely hear the strange call that seems to be coming from a distant place.
Two figures came to the light pole of "Teaching Building-067" with some trepidation.
But this is just his disguise. Facing the strange environment, he needs to remain "sluggish" enough to keep himself safe.
"Old Nie, we have been here for four days... we can get the money if we stay for three more days." Beside Nie Yun, his friend Ge Qing, who entered the campus with him, was breathing heavily with his back against "Teaching Building-067".
"I've tried very hard not to think too much...but, I've been feeling something calling my name recently!" Nie Yun looked painful and seemed to be in a trance, "I...I seemed to hear it again. It's calling my name..."
"It seems...as if it's beside us!"
【Nie Yun...Nie Yun...]
【Nie Yun...]
"Uh..." Nie Yun's face became paler. He held the lamppost with one hand and rubbed his forehead vigorously with the other hand. He squinted his eyes and hunched over with a painful expression, "I feel so dizzy... Ge Qing, I feel so dizzy..."
Ge Qing's face changed drastically, and he quickly supported him and said anxiously: "Old Nie, Lao Nie, the rules say that if you feel unwell, tell the class teacher immediately, we... should we go back to the teaching building?"
"Hmm... okay... I, I feel really uncomfortable." Nie Yun gritted his teeth and tried his best to keep himself calm, but no matter how he breathed, he felt that his breathing was getting heavier and heavier.
At this moment, the call in his ear began to burrow into his cochlea like a poisonous snake:
【Nie Yun! Don't go back! Don't believe him! 】
【I am Ge Qing, I am Ge Qing! 】
【Don’t trust the person around you...it’s not Ge Qing...it’s not! 】
【Look behind you, the real me is in the mist behind you! ! 】
【I'm trapped! Please save me! Help me quickly...]
Nie Yun was stunned and quickly looked at Ge Qing beside him.
"Old Nie, what's wrong with you? Old Nie, are you okay?" Ge Qing looked at Nie Yun with concern.
But in Nie Yun's eyes, Ge Qing is now a white plaster-shaped "Ge Qing" with a gray complexion and pale skin. Although the other person's face is exactly the same as Ge Qing, in his eyes, it is a wriggling plaster-like face.
【Hurry and push him away! Push him away! ! 】
Nie Yun seemed to hear the voice of the "real Ge Qing". The voice was urgent and full of worry, as if he was giving an order.
Nie Yun seemed suddenly startled. Relying on the strength of his back against the lamppost, he suddenly exerted force and pushed Ge Qing who was supporting him hard out!
"Old Nie, you...?!" Ge Qing's face was full of disbelief. The moment he was pushed out, he subconsciously tried to adjust his body's center of gravity, but the cobblestone ground under his feet had already been wetted by the mist and was so smooth that he could not use his strength at all.
He not only slipped, but also fell out of the area where the light from the "Teaching Building-067" street light pole and the "Teaching Building-068" street light pole connected with each other, and fell into the shadows...
"Old Nie——"
His frightened and incomprehensible screams came from the mist, and then completely lost their sound after several tragic screams.
Not long after, the cool evening breeze carried some faint smell of blood and floated under the light and fell into Nie Yun's nose. He was stunned at first, but gradually he realized that he had smelled it wrong. It didn't seem to be the case. The smell of blood, but the smell of fresh tomatoes...
Nie Yun's mind was confused, as if he had not yet reacted to the scene just now, and the voice in his ears had not disappeared, and was still calling him.
【Well done, Nie Yun, well done! 】
【I'm behind you, please pull me up quickly! hurry up! 】
The voice became more and more urgent, as if it couldn't wait any longer.
After Nie Yun gasped for breath, he touched his still confused head and slowly turned around... Behind him was a dark area that even the orange light could not penetrate. Only intermittent calls came out of the mist, reaching Nie Yun's ears like waves hitting the beach.
【Have you seen me? Come and save me! 】
【Yes...yes, yes...that's it...come and save me...】
In the mist, someone seemed to have reached out a pair of hands, grabbing at Nie Yun's position as if asking for help.
Nie Yun approached in a daze, and with stiff steps little by little, he came to the edge of the fog.
Just when he came to the dividing line between light and darkness, the fog in front of him was suddenly separated by a strong force, and a figure standing upright like a tombstone suddenly flashed in front of him.
It is a real humanoid sculpture. Its stiff limbs seem to be difficult to make any big movements, and the entire face is as sharp and angular as if it were "cut with a real knife." Its body is entangled with a thick mist, and it is impossible to tell what it is at a glance. Is it ejected from its body, or is it connected to the surrounding mist...
It is facing Nie Yun's face, with only a fist distance between them, and the dividing line formed by light and fog between them is broken by a touch like window paper.
The stone-like eyes of the humanoid sculpture suddenly collapsed like a power furnace, and then a cold golden fire erupted like a bonfire. Its lips began to slowly stretch toward the ears. The plaster-hard face was cracked because it could not withstand the force, and half of the face was instantly covered with dark cracks.
The corner of the mouth and the smile like a crazy clown and grinned to the ears; a sound was coming from its mouth, and that sound was... ...Quickly, hahahaha——】
The voice trembled, as if it contained some kind of fear, but gradually became crazy, then became wanton and rampant, and finally, like a crazy smile that could not be suppressed at the corner of the mouth, it revealed a wanton laugh of a successful plot:
【You...see me! ! 】
Nie Yun was stunned for a moment, and his originally dazed brain suddenly woke up as if it had been struck by lightning.
But before he could react, the pure white palm of the humanoid sculpture penetrated the gray fog like a bayonet, grabbed his collar, and then dragged him out of the light of the street lamp pole and into the darkness!
Nie Yun's frightened screams came from the rolling fog.
A moment later, a strange humanoid sculpture swayed, breaking through the boundary between light and darkness, and entered the illuminated area of the "Teaching Building-067" street lamp pole.
After that, its body began to emit dark white mist like a steam train starting up. After the mist was sprayed out, it lingered around it, like the ribbon-like breath lingering on the peak of the snow-capped mountains, while the other part was connected to the mist deep in the darkness behind it like an umbilical cord.
If Lin Yi were here, he would be shocked to find that this humanoid sculpture is beginning to transform into an inhuman classmate just like the humanoid sculpture that stepped onto the steps of the teaching building before.
The mist was continuously peeled off from its body, and then slowly blended into the mist behind it.
With the loss of the mist, the pure white plaster-like texture of the human sculpture began to slowly weaken, slowly changing from pure white to off-white, blue-gray, and finally turned into a normal human skin color, and some kind of normal-looking uniform began to appear on the body.
"I... am Nie Yun..."
It tried to open its mouth, and then made a dry sound.
Suddenly, it arched its body and opened its mouth as if vomiting.
Then a torn card with mucus-like saliva was spat out...
It was a card that looked like a student ID card, but it had lost the material of the white acrylic board and looked like a small, wrinkled piece of paper drawn on it.
But Nie Yun's "non-human classmate" picked it up nonchalantly and murmured:
"I am Nie Yun, my student number is X0230504032..."
"I am Nie "Clouds..."
While muttering this sentence, it walked stiffly, swaying from side to side, like a drunken person, slowly walked to the lamppost, and then stood there, as if facing the wall of the lamppost.
Not long after, from the mist on the other side, a humanoid sculpture also walked in...
This sculpture that walked in had milky white bubbles all over its body as if it had been infected by a virus. These bubbles gradually calmed down, and eventually turned into a plaster-like substance, slowly changing its shape as it squirmed.
After it was finalized, the outline of its face was exactly the same as that of Ge Qing who had been pushed into the mist by Nie Yun.
【Very smooth. ] Ge Qing said "Sculpture". As he spoke, white mist began to appear on its body, and then it began to change like Nie Yun's "inhuman classmate".
In the end, Ge Qing, who had transformed from a "sculpture" into an "inhuman classmate", spit out a student ID card that looked like a piece of paper that had lost its original material.
"From now on, I am Ge Qing... My student number is
【More people are needed! 】
I added 1,100 words to the alliance leader "Cup of Thoughts", and I still owe 900 words (actually, two hundred and two hundred words for cutting meat with a knife is almost paid off, so next time I have 1,000, I will pay back 1,000, whatever is not enough counts)!
Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "Lin skylark" for their tips! !
PS: I originally wanted to add 200 words to make sense of it, but after thinking about it, I decided to take a day off anyway and just study hard... Well, that's right, cough cough cough... I took one day off during the Qingming Festival holiday and only worked three days this week, but I was exhausted, so I decided to take a break to catch my breath.
(End of this chapter)