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Chapter 255: Disparate, Synesthesia, and Sinking…

“Haa…” He exhaled a long breath.

I must say, intensely scanning lines of clues and then repeatedly deciphering them in my brain is truly exhausting.

He glanced at Wei Liang and noticed that Wei Liang was peeking through the gaps again. But at this moment, he realized that Wei Liang might not be peeking, but like him, seemingly reading a book, but actually deciphering information in his mind…?

«Slurp…» Wei Liang sucked in the saliva that was about to drip out and then pressed down on his gun.

Lin Yi: “……”

«Alright, alright… I take back what I just thought…»

Lin Yi understood why it took Wei Liang so long to read a book. He was essentially basing the discovery of information on his own hobbies!

He could read H manga and get clues at the same time, combining work and leisure—wait, isn't this a unique skill?!

Lin Yi gently shook his head, dispelling his overthinking about Wei Liang's actions, then picked up his large stack of finished books and walked towards the bookshelf area.

But as soon as he got up, he felt a sense of oppression, as if… he had intruded into the domain of someone else's clash of auras.

Perhaps that's a bit obscure. Simply put… Lin Yi felt that his getting up had interrupted the exchange of gazes between two people, and at the same time, he had become the focus of their gazes.

He pretended to be oblivious, carrying the books up the steps, and then, as if "suddenly remembering something," he glanced back at the pendulum clock on the blackboard.

At the same time, he scanned almost the entire classroom with the corner of his eye.

«As expected, it's those two…»

Lin Yi sighed helplessly.

Song Rentou, sitting in a corner near the window in the front row of the lecture hall, and Shan Nan, sitting in the back row of the classroom near the aisle, were staring at each other, and he had inadvertently cut into their field of vision…

But what annoyed him even more was, you two can keep staring at each other, just don't move your gazes with me, damn it!

That feeling of needles on his back was too intense, especially with his current level of "perception." It felt as clear as someone putting their arm around his shoulder and secretly touching his spine.

He decisively entered the bookshelf area, and only then did the feeling of being watched gradually disappear.

«That was not easy…»

Lin Yi leaned against the bookshelf and sighed.

He looked down at his watch.

9:50.

The cafeteria's lunch hours are from 10:40 to 13:20. To be safe, he should leave the teaching building half an hour early. But from a veteran's perspective, the sun is shining brightly now, and there's almost no chance of falling through the campus layer. It might only take 10 to 15 minutes to get there.

To be safe, he'll set aside another 20 minutes, so… he only needs to leave the classroom at 10:20.

Lin Yi quickly made a plan and concluded that he still had half an hour to study H manga.

Half an hour is actually very tight.

Moreover, because he had to go to the gymnasium as soon as he finished eating, there was no time for a lunch break.

He quickly returned the books to the shelves and then quickly searched the titles, specifically looking for books that looked like H manga at a glance. Then, he took them off the shelves and started browsing them directly in the bookshelf area…

“January 29, X023… The Night Watcher rang the bell… Be prepared…”

…

“February 15, X023… We found some fragments near the streetlights that didn't belong to humans… Something has appeared on campus… Be careful…”

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“January 2, X023… An art teacher seems to have a problem… He went to find the Night Watcher… He hasn't returned yet… The situation is very wrong…”

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“July 17, X022… Brother Xian was seriously injured in the fight against the Grinning Angel… But he tore off one of the Grinning Angel's wings…”

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“August 1, X022… Brother Xian has recovered… Don't worry…”

After mastering the technique, Lin Yi flipped through the books faster and faster, and the pace of obtaining information also became faster and faster. But similarly, the consumption on him also became greater and greater.

Some of the information he obtained was fragmented, and some had some connections with each other. Aside from the consumption of deciphering, organizing it was also very troublesome.

Most importantly, Lin Yi spent a lot of effort, but the information he obtained was very limited.

He looked down at his watch.

10:02.

«At this rate of consumption, I won't even have to wait until 10:20… It's likely I'll have to rest in a little over ten minutes.» Lin Yi smiled self-deprecatingly, but still continued to look for H manga to read.

He always felt that there must be some other clues in here.

He walked along the bookshelf while studying, and information continued to be obtained by him…

The time of this information became more and more chaotic. Some were even from X021, and the earliest information could be traced back to X019, which was outrageous…

But gradually, some of the information actually lined up in his mind…

“November 12, X022… I followed the abandoned streetlights to the depths of the mountains… The Pseudo-people didn't attack me… I saw a cave… There seemed to be nameless mist surging in the cave…”

“November 13, X022… I took the teacher to find that cave… We couldn't find it… But we found some strange fragments…”

“November 14, X022… Old Li and the teacher developed some strange symptoms… They went to find the Night Watcher… They haven't returned until now…”

“November 15, X022… That cave really exists… It only opens to prey… I've been hit too… Don't go to the depths of the Green Forest Belt… Never go…”

“November 16, X022… The Night Watcher killed the teacher… He threw the teacher's body into the endless abyss… Old Li went crazy… He ran out of the art building's range… But he was still killed by the Night Watcher…”

“November 17, X022… If… if I don't leave a message tomorrow… then I must be dead… I heard a summoning sound… I seem to see light… I'm going to that cave… Something is calling me… Salvation… Is it salvation… I crave salvation…”

“November 20, X022… Gray mist invasion… This invasion… seems a little different… The Night Watcher rang the bell twelve times… Be careful…”

“November 22, X022…”

As the information arrayed, Lin Yi gradually felt a strange feeling. He thought of Mu Daxian taking Mao Feiyang through the Green Forest Belt and wandering in the depths of the mountains. Combining it with the fragments of information here, a dynamic picture gradually appeared before his eyes…

The Green Forest Belt under the sunlight was so calm that it showed no abnormalities.

The perspective slowly moved, entering the Green Forest Belt…

The perspective continued to deepen, and mist gradually filled the Green Forest Belt. The mist lingered on the ground, like a layer of dry ice…

The perspective continued to deepen, and the mist in the deep forest became thicker and thicker, like miasma that never dissipated all year round…

Gradually, gradually… The surrounding trees became more and more ancient, and the thick trunks were covered with dry, loose bark. The mottled light and shadow were like faded yellow photos.

As the perspective continued to deepen, the surrounding trees began to twist into bizarre shapes, their branches resembling an old sea captain's tangled beard, seemingly entwined with some secret.

"Shasha sha… …"

"Shasha sha… …"

The ground was covered with a thick layer of musty-smelling fallen leaves, each step seeming to awaken some dormant creature.

An indescribable sense of oppression permeated the air, as if this forest were a gateway to another world… …

Gradually… …

A white light appeared in the depths of the dim jungle, like a cave, or perhaps… …some kind of exit from the dark world to the realm of light.

That was… …"Light"… …

It was light… …

Lin Yi's perspective gradually zoomed in on the exit where that "light" was, his attention seemingly drawn by some kind of attraction.

In the bookshelf area, Lin Yi held an H-manga, his eyes gradually becoming vacant… …

"Hoo… …Hoo… …"

A sudden, inexplicable gust of wind arose from nowhere, causing Lin Yi's school uniform to sway gently, and also causing the pages of the book in his hand to flip "whirr" sound.

"Whirr… …Whirr… …Whirr… …Whirr… …Whirr… …Whirr— —"

"Whirr— —Whirr— —"

The sound of the pages turning, through several distortions of perception, gradually transformed into a sound like a forest of trees in Lin Yi's ears.

He seemed to be immersed in it.

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His perspective was getting closer and closer to the exit of that "light."

"Hoo— —Hoo— —"

He seemed to feel the sound of the wind from over there, carrying a hint of salty moisture… …

"Whirr— —Whirr— —"

He seemed to hear the sound of waves pushing onto the beach and then returning to the sea, leaving a ground of broken foam on the sand… …

The salty and moist breath of the sea breeze… …

The sound of the waves pushing… …

The other side of the light… …was it the sea?

On the desolate coastline, huge waves constantly crashed against the jagged reefs, making deafening roars.

The sea breeze was mixed with a salty and fishy smell, as if it was about to blow over the decaying aura from the depths of the ocean.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, and lightning flashed, as if foreshadowing some kind of impending terrifying event, on this coast exiled by light and shadow, it seemed that every wave could bring indescribable terror.

Lin Yi seemed to see everything… …

Saw… …this coastline.

At this moment, he heard the whistling of the wind in his ears, a sound completely different from the sea breeze, more like the sound of a train passing by.

Not "whoosh whoosh", but "clank clank clank."

At the same time, rapidly skipping frames began to appear before his eyes… …

"My Vision" was triggered silently, and in the depths of Lin Yi's deep eyes, it was as if a bit of ash had floated into a pile of dry cotton, and black-gold sparks began to appear, and then the sparks converged, and a faint blue flame rose up with a "poof"… …

The flame swayed slowly in the endless darkness, like two golden will-o'-the-wisps suddenly rising in the night.

The scene in front of him began to flicker back and forth between the translucent forest and the coastline… …but soon, a third scene also began to quietly reappear—a bookshelf!

Was it the bookshelf in the classroom… …?

Like… …but not quite like… …

"Clank clank clank… …Clank clank clank… …"

Lin Yi felt that the whole world around him was swaying and pulsating, and he seemed to be attacked by a sonic weapon, with circles of invisible ripples appearing around him… …

His vision was also wrapped in such ripples, looking like he was observing the outside world with a pair of swimming goggles.

In such a world, the sound seemed to become abnormal, sometimes like pressing his head into the water, the sound heard was all blocked gurgling, but sometimes it was as clear as if it had been enhanced by a million sound engineers… …

Lin Yi felt that he was embedded in this world, but he also felt that he was out of place with the whole world… …

Like running on non-Newtonian fluid, if you stop, you will sink a little, and sinking… …you will never be able to pull it out again.

He began to look around, in this blurred world of light and shadow, it seemed that there were countless bookshelves, this seemed to be a dilapidated abandoned classroom, but it also seemed to be somewhere else.

The broken glass windows, the huge holes were like being smashed by huge stones thrown over, the remaining fragments were like a ferocious opening.

The fierce wind blew in from outside the broken window, all the pages on the bookshelf were flipping "whirr", the remaining newspaper fragments on the bookshelf were rattling in the wind, like the remaining will of the old days that was unwilling to die… …

"Ding-a-ling-a-ling… …Ding-a-ling-a-ling… …"

There was the sound of iron chains being blown by the wind above Lin Yi's head, crisp but heavy, as if something was hanging.

He subconsciously looked up.

"Boom— —"

A huge face appeared in his vision.

Something completely sculpted… …unable to tell whether it was a pseudo-human or something else, its face twisted and hateful, as if it had experienced unspeakable pain and fear.

It was staring at Lin Yi with its eyes wide open, not knowing how many years it had died, but it seemed that from that moment on, it had been foreshadowing for this moment of staring… …

Lin Yi was so frightened that he fell to the ground, and when he sat down, everything around him trembled violently again, as if an earthquake had struck, all the bookshelves trembled "clatter clatter… …", the remaining glass on the window was full of cracks in an unknown frequency band, and then it broke with a "bang", shooting towards Lin Yi like a bullet.

Lin Yi's pupils suddenly constricted, almost subconsciously, he reached out to block the flying knife-like fragments, but his hand seemed to have been cut with a wound, and the intense pain instantly stimulated his brain, and he suddenly realized—

"I'm in the classroom!"

"Hallucination?!"

"This is a hallucination!"

"My name is Lin Yi, I'm in the classroom… …I'm in the classroom… …My student ID is… …"

【My name is Lin Yi… …】

He subconsciously recited his name and location in his heart, but just as he was about to add his student ID number, he heard some child-like, eerie whispers in his ears… …

【My name is Lin Yi… …I'm in the classroom… …】

【My name is Lin Yi… …I'm in… …】

He raised his head slightly, only to see that a large number of chains had been hung down from the ceiling in this hallucination at some point, all the iron chains were like hanging dead people, hanging one by one like dead pseudo-human sculptures, almost none of these sculptures were complete, but at this moment they were all smiling strangely, shouting loudly—

【My name is Lin Yi… …I'm in the classroom… …】

The iron chains swayed violently in the wind, they swayed with inertia like heavy fruits, the sound was sometimes near and sometimes far, like the licentious laughter and mockery of a cult… …

【Hehe he… …】

【My name is Lin Yi… …】

【Hehe… …】

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