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#143 - Staring into the void

Because she hadn't been exposed to sunlight for a long time, the green scar on her back began to grow darker and thicker, changing from the original thinness of a strand of hair to the thickness of a black marker, and then as thick as a green tear stain...…

Green mist began to emanate from her wound, swirling around her like armor.

At this moment, in Lin Yi's "deduction," she possessed a kind of artistic conception of "clouds following the dragon, wind following the tiger...…"

But this was not a good thing.

As the green mist permeated, the tear-like wound continued to expand, and this time, the green mist emanating from the crack actually became solid, changing from floating mist to emitting green powder particles one by one...…

This was a scene that made one's hair stand on end. Just thinking about it would send someone with trypophobia to their death. Lin Yi felt as if he was almost sent away by that damn scene.

After these green powder particles appeared, Li Huiyuan's body also began to undergo a terrifying change. Her skin color began to turn grayish-white at a speed visible to the naked eye, and her whole person resembled an old grayish-white statue, her eyes also beginning to lose their last glimmer...…

Her steps up the stairs became more and more awkward and stiff, and finally completely solidified, turning into a pure white humanoid sculpture maintaining the posture of climbing the stairs.

At this time, below her were still the spiral Fibonacci sequence stairs, and above her head were also the Fibonacci sequence stairs, and she seemed to have become a lonely, insignificant, and trivial particle in the endless stairs...…

The scene "deduced" in his mind completely froze at this moment, and then exploded into countless broken fragments with a loud "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 felt as if he had followed 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, with a hint of doubt in her eyes: "Why are you suddenly looking at me like that?"

"It's nothing." Lin Yi shook his head, thinking that the scene floating in his mind just now was too real, as if Li Huiyuan in a parallel universe had completed that action, and then he witnessed it in this layer.

"Is it because I deduced this scene, so 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 he had overlooked for a long time.

Or rather... the basic operation that he had almost forgotten.

"Don't move here, I'll be right back." Lin Yi turned around, looked at Li Huiyuan seriously, and said a sentence with overly complex components.

As he spoke, he wanted to let go of Li Huiyuan's hand and walk into the stairwell, but Li Huiyuan grabbed him.

"It's okay, I already have a grasp of it." Lin Yi comforted.

"I... take me with you." Li Huiyuan grabbed his hand tightly, like a stray cat afraid of being abandoned.

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, but you better focus all your attention on me, and tell me immediately if you feel confused."

"Okay." Li Huiyuan nodded heavily.

Lin Yi then held Li Huiyuan's hand with one hand, and put the other hand into his pocket, clutching the student ID card in his pocket, and then silently recited in his heart:

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID number is X0230506098, I am walking from the first floor to the second floor in the stairwell of Building B of the teaching building..."

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID number is X0230506098, I am 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 extremely normal, and then, the two stairs that were originally symmetrical to each other with the axis of the stairwell in the twisted layer also became only one on the right hand side.

"It really works! I fucking knew it!" Lin Yi was overjoyed.

He had been playing high-end games too much, always relying on willpower to correct cognition, and almost forgot that there was such a simple and unpretentious basic operation.

Lin Yi stepped onto the stairs, and then, holding Li Huiyuan's hand, slowly walked up against the wall on the right hand side, walked to the turning point, and then walked through the remaining half of the floor in the sunlight, and arrived 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 exactly the same as 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 thought immediately appeared, but he shattered it with a punch before it took shape, and then took a deep breath and continued to silently recite in his heart:

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID number is X0230506098, I am walking from the second floor to the third floor in the stairwell of Building B of the teaching building..."

"I am Lin Yi..."

...…

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID number is X0230506098, I am walking from the third floor to the fourth floor in the stairwell of Building B of the teaching building..."

"I am Lin Yi..."

...…

He followed suit and arrived at the fourth floor of Building B of the teaching building in this way.

Of course, after arriving at the fourth floor, the stairs also became the end.

He squinted his eyes and looked at the end of the stairwell, looking at the last step, gradually squinting his eyes.

"Lin, Lin classmate..." Li Huiyuan on this side suddenly trembled and called out his name.

At the same time, he also felt Li Huiyuan subconsciously tighten his hand, and could also feel the other person's body trembling slightly.

The slight trembling caused by unknown fear was being transmitted to his hand along his arm. At the same time, he could also clearly feel the bursts of chill emanating from Li Huiyuan's palm.

Lin Yi wanted to pat her on the shoulder to signal her not to worry, but thinking that his other hand was holding the student ID card in his pocket, he gave up this action after hesitating slightly.

"Don't worry, we'll go back to the first floor now."

Lin Yi tried to soothe Li Huiyuan's emotions with a calm and low voice. Li Huiyuan gave a soft "Um", but Lin Yi didn't feel her relieved. On the contrary, her hand clenched even tighter.

Lin Yi quickly silently recited the "protective mantra" in his heart, and then began to lead Li Huiyuan back to the first floor.

"I am Lin Yi, my student ID number is X0230506098, I am walking from the fourth floor to the third floor in the stairwell of Building B of the teaching building..."

"I am Lin Yi..."

He muttered to himself, which really gave him a sense of deja vu of reciting a Taoist exorcism mantra...…

Before long, the two successfully returned to the first floor and walked out of the stairwell.

Lin Yi looked down at his watch.

15:27.

"It took 14 minutes to go back and forth... not bad."

Because he had to bring Li Huiyuan, and Li Huiyuan had to focus her attention on him, he had to slow down a bit. This round trip only took 14 minutes, which could be considered "smooth."

But was it really that smooth?

When Lin Yi walked out of the staircase, the fine beads of sweat on his forehead were already sparkling in the sunlight...

All this was because of the glance he took at the end of the stairs on the fourth floor of the teaching building.

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When he arrived on the fourth floor of the teaching building, he originally intended to take Li Huiyuan out of the stairwell and then look back to observe the environment on the fourth floor. However, the moment he turned his head, his intuition immediately told him—no, in fact, he didn't need intuition at all. When he arrived on the fourth floor of the teaching building and stopped to silently recite "I am Lin Yi...", he could clearly feel a stinging sensation as if countless awns of wheat were pressed against his back.

It was a terrifying feeling as if he were being targeted by a pack of bloodthirsty rats. He could feel countless cold, evil, greedy, and bloodthirsty gazes staring at him from somewhere behind him.

At that moment, his vision once again entered that black-and-white photo-like quality. He saw a terrifying green mist spreading behind him.

So he squinted and glanced at the end of the stairs.

In that sealed, cut-off wall, he saw a staircase winding and twisting from the end of the stairs.

In the stairwell formed by that staircase, countless Nightlings were densely packed together. They were curled up in a layer that could not be observed with the naked eye, all squeezed to death in that seemingly narrow and enclosed stairwell. Various fleshy lines twisted and intertwined, and large eyeballs filled with bloodshot eyes rolled around, as if staring at everyone who stepped on the stairs...

When he was targeted by those twisted Nightlings, he felt the green mist mark on his chest suddenly become active, as if it was about to release some kind of signal.

He didn't dare to stay any longer, so he quickly 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 sunlight, the feeling of being targeted slowly receded like a group of snakes coiling around his legs...

His back was already soaked with sweat, and the hand that was tightly holding the student ID card slowly loosened a little...

"Li Huiyuan, we're back," Lin Yi said, taking his hand out of his pocket and placing it on Li Huiyuan's hand, comforting her softly.

Feeling the warmth of the sun shining on her body and hearing Lin Yi's voice, Li Huiyuan's stiff body, which had been tense with nervousness and fear, slowly relaxed a little...

She recovered and then let go of Lin Yi's hand: "Thank you..."

"It's good that you're okay," Lin Yi said calmly.

"Yeah..."

"It's getting late. Let's go back to the classroom and meet up with Liangzi, and then go to the cafeteria for dinner..." Lin Yi added, "Oh, and help you find the convenience store."

...

May 8, 2023, 15:32, Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan back to the classroom door of Class 2, Group B.

After confirming that the doorplate was correct, Lin Yi pressed the doorknob and pushed the door open with a "click."

When he pushed the door open, he was suddenly stunned. He could actually hear some laughter and chatting from the crack in the door.

Leading Li Huiyuan in, the two instantly attracted the attention of the newcomers in the classroom.

Lin Yi didn't mean to avoid them at all, directly met their gazes, and then frowned slightly.

"Another batch of 'new students' came? Does someone come every day? Are there really so many people signing up?"

Hearing Lin Yi's murmur, Li Huiyuan was slightly stunned, and then looked up.

Looking at the figures in the tiered classroom who were laughing and chatting today, she suddenly had a dreamlike feeling as if it were yesterday.

Lin Yi was not in a hurry to find Wei Liang, but habitually looked at everyone in the classroom first.

In addition to Wei Liang, there are currently 18 sports students, 24 experience students who entered the campus yesterday and before, and new experience students... 7 people.

Lin Yi frowned secretly and whispered to Li Huiyuan: "Another person who came in with you is missing. We came back from the direction of the toilet and didn't encounter him along the way. I guess he was killed..."

Li Huiyuan's body trembled when she heard this, and her eyes were a little dim. Who would have thought that so many casualties would occur among the "classmates" who came in together yesterday after only one day.

And thinking that this might be her future, she couldn't help but feel a little sad for the misfortune of others.

Lin Yi didn't say much else to her. He knew that Li Huiyuan would adjust her emotions.

Apart from him and Wei Liang, there were originally 26 experience students in the classroom, but now there are only 24, not counting Li Huiyuan, which naturally means that one person had an accident.

On the other hand, the sports students had no casualties. There were 18 when they left last night, and there are still 18 now.

As for the 7 new experience students, Lin Yi originally wanted to simply memorize their characteristics so that he could come and see who was dead and who was still alive tomorrow morning, but he immediately realized that there seemed to be some "special" existences among these people.

7 experience students, 5 males and 2 females.

The reason for saying males is because there is a particularly old male among these 5 people, who seems to be around 40 years old.

This person is wearing a khaki windbreaker, has neat and tidy hair, and also has a bulging mountaineering bag at his feet. He is shrinking in his seat and looking at the environment of the entire classroom, with some fear and restraint in his eyes, as if... a little scared.

The 4 boys who came with him are also jokingly teasing him, probably saying something like "Uncle, you're so old, why are you still here to experience university life?" The embarrassment on the uncle's face is also becoming more and more intense, and finally he has to shrink his body into the seat, putting the word "restraint" on his head.

In addition, the remaining 2 boys and 2 girls were attracted by Pan Jian's female companion from the morning, and are listening to the girl's intermittent account of the strange events she encountered yesterday with their arms crossed and with some curiosity and expectation in their eyes...

Pan Jian's female companion is actually a little dazed. She was too stimulated last night, and after "witnessing" Pan Jian's death, she has lived to the present. She has been unable to get out of the shadow of last night, so that now the whole person can't help but be a little muddled.

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