Chapter 18 Eliminate Attention
"How did you know...cough! Don't talk nonsense!" Wei Liang clenched his fist and coughed dryly, "You are too careless, don't forget to go to bed As for my classes, other than that, I just read comics!”
“Otherwise, I have nothing to do during class. Although the classes at S City University are all formal, I can’t play video games. , I have nothing to do except reading comics!" Wei Liang argued.
Lin Yi felt that what Wei Liang said was not unreasonable.
So I silently took "Ikki as an
As he continued to immerse himself in reading, his brain's perception of the outside world began to weaken at a slow rate.
Soon, he was immersed in the stories in the comic books.
The classmate who had previously "searched for enemies in the void" was originally casting his empty gaze on the shadow of the classroom window glass. Suddenly, he sensed something while Lin Yi was immersed in reading comics, and then stiffly Turning around, he slowly cast his gaze on the rows of seats in the circular lecture theater.
He looked left and right, his face passing Lin Yi's position several times, but he still found nothing.
Lin Yi succeeded in getting rid of this classmate's attention to him, but he didn't know it.
In fact, he doesn't need to know this.
Because once he knows, he will enter this paradox cycle again.
After Lin Yi finished reading the first volume of "Yi Qi Dang X", he stretched his body for a long time, then moved his neck and glanced at his watch.
1:39.
"Before I knew it, more than an hour had passed... Reading comics was really enough to pass the time."
Lin Yi returned to his thoughts and subconsciously recalled it, and found that his memory of that classmate had become very blurry.
As soon as he turned his head, he found another pile of books beside him.
It is the follow-up part of "Yi Qi Dang X" that Wei Liang found for him.
Lin Yi smiled, picked up the second volume and started reading.
After reading three volumes so immersively, the time has come to 4:27. When Lin Yi recalled last night, only a vague shadow of the classmate remained in his mind.
The feeling of being stared at was completely gone. Apart from being a little sleepy, I didn't feel any discomfort mentally.
But the body is a little cold, especially the lower body, as if the cold air on the ground has spread to the legs.
This is caused by staying up late reading and not moving the muscles and bones.
Lin Yi stretched, yawned, and stamped his feet.
After briefly moving his muscles and adjusting his sitting posture, he was ready to continue reading.
But at this moment, some movement around him caught his attention.
"Pah! Pah! Pah! Pah..."
Someone left their seat, and not one person, but a group.
This uniform movement is undoubtedly the wrong group of students.
Lin Yi glanced at his watch.
4:30.
"At half past four in the morning..."
Lin Yi didn't know if there was anything to say about this time, but he immediately scribbled on the small book at hand: "4 :30. "
At this time, more than 4 hours have passed since the security guard struggled with that thing.
The security guard who originally rolled the thing down the steps has now disappeared.
The students who originally stood up and stared at the window glass all sat back down, but now they are standing up one by one.
Lin Yi maintained the posture of reading comics, but his eyes were rolling. He sat in the lecture theater and observed the surrounding movements with the corner of his eyes, using his hearing to supplement the details.
The reason why he dared to do this was because based on the killing mechanism of this group of classmates that he deduced, as long as he did not go to see them after lights out, they would not attract their attention.
I saw classmates dragging their stiff bodies and walking with wooden steps, step by step down the steps of the lecture theater, and then walked towards the door of the classroom.
"Are they going to leave the classroom at this point?"
"But the rules of the teaching building stipulate that leaving the classroom after 21:00 is prohibited, and the class teacher also gave the same warning..."
"Hey, wait a minute, I think I understand!"
"If the class teacher's warning is for 'protection', then aren't the sources of danger the same as those students who are not right in the classroom and the unknown creatures in the mist outside the classroom?"
"When the classroom door opens, I haven’t seen those students who are not doing well being affected, so maybe I can put them into the same category?”
“The only difference may be that some of the students who remain in the classroom still have some ‘ students' characteristics."
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but shudder.
"Sure enough, spending the night in the classroom can only be regarded as an 'option', not a 'correct answer'."
"No wonder Xu Shunkang said that he hopes to see me again tomorrow..." ”
Lin Yi was happy for his new discovery, but just when he was about to change a book to read, out of the corner of his eye, he suddenly noticed a foot stepping slowly into his field of vision.
“Huh?”
The opponent's feet were wearing a pair of old-fashioned sneakers, and there seemed to be some reddish-brown substance on the shoelaces.
Lin Yi's first reaction was that it looked familiar, but as another foot stepped into his field of vision, his dead memory began to attack him crazily.
The hair on his arms suddenly exploded, and chills ran down his spine.
"This...?!"
Looking up, Lin Yi's pupils were shocked for a moment. First they expanded, and then instantly shrank to the size of a needle's eye.
That classmate was suddenly standing in front of him, only three chairs away from him!
The classmate looked at Lin Yi's position with empty eyes, no extra expression on his face.
The weird smile that almost reached the ears that appeared in the darkness was no longer there at this time.
He was like a walking zombie, slowly approaching Lin Yi.
Lin Yi's back jumped straight, the hair on his scalp stood upright, and his eyes were full of disbelief.
"He obviously can't notice me anymore, why is he still like this?!"
"It's so haunting! It's like he can fucking sense me here!"
Lin Yi He didn't dare to act rashly, but his mind was spinning with thoughts.
The classmate moved with stiff steps, slowly crossing chairs one after another, closing the distance between him and Lin Yi.
Lin Yi's pupils shrank smaller and smaller. He gritted his teeth and was so nervous that he forgot to breathe.
But with absolute concentration, he suddenly judged something from his classmates' behavior.
A bold guess appeared in his mind!
He quickly put away all the comic books at hand, and then carefully put away the folded chair.
"Ryoko!" He whispered to the person next to him.
At this time, Wei Liang was so focused that he didn't even notice that Lin Yi had stood up. Hearing Lin Yi's voice, Wei Liang quickly pulled out of his thoughts.
"What's wrong, Old Lin... Oops, I#￥%@&%*..."
Wei Liang glanced at Lin Yi's classmates who were pressing behind him, and he was halfway through what he said. The sound turned into the inarticulate cry of the Huaguoshan monkey...
"Shhhhhhhhhh-"
Lin Yi took out a hand with difficulty and raised it up near his mouth He lifted his finger, then lowered his voice and said: "Put the book away quickly and run! Quick, quick, quick!"
At this time, the classmate was only two chairs away from Lin Yi. A strong sense of oppression surged out of his body like a tide, overwhelming Lin Yi and the others.
"I've just..."
Wei Liang was incoherent and his tongue was tied nervously.
Seeing his classmates forcing him closer and closer, under the absolute pressure, he suddenly gritted his teeth and used a magic trick that could shock Lin Yi's eyes out.
The number of comic books he had on hand was more than three times that of Lin Yi, but he actually held this number of comic books in his arms at once!
Then, under the attention of Lin Yi's almost incomprehensible "subway grandpa looking at his phone" expression, he quietly put the chair back with just the precise control of his gluteus maximus and hamstring muscles!
Lin Yi was so shocked that there were only four words left in his mind:
"It's a weird skill!"
"Holy shit, it's a weird skill!" What a coincidence!"
"What are you looking for? Let's go!" Wei Liang glared at Lin Yi fiercely and lowered his voice angrily.
"Holy shit, how can I leave if you don't leave?" Lin Yi winked at him.
“Oh! Let’s go, let’s go!”
So Wolong and Fengchu hugged the comic tightly, walking on thin ice between the chairs in the circular ladder classroom, quite like two brothers walking on the ridge of the field. feeling.
It wasn't until he walked out of the seat row that Wei Liang dared to look back at the classmate. At the same time, he couldn't help but asked worriedly: "Old Lin, what's going on? Oh my god...Old Lin Qian Is he..."
Lin Yi did not leave the seat row at all.
To be precise, he actually only walked to the chair not too far away from his original chair - the second chair on Wei Liang's left hand side and stopped.
Then he looked at the classmates’ movements calmly.
I saw that classmate coming to where Lin Yi was sitting, and then stretched out a pair of thin and white hands, constantly exploring the area like stirring water waves.
It looks like Xiao Qiao in the Canyon of Kings with three exclamation marks on his forehead, using "top prediction" to hit all the skills into a certain piece of air.
After some attempts to no avail, the classmate slowly retracted his hand, then left silently, blending into the flow of people walking up the stairs to the classroom door.
Lin Yi squinted his eyes, and a light suddenly appeared in the depths of his calm eyes...
It was like a newbie who had just entered the game and successfully cracked a certain mechanism in the level through his own efforts. , and then there was a look of excitement in his eyes!
The way Lin Yi looked at his classmates calmly and calmly shocked Wei Liang. All the words that had been on his lips were forgotten by him. At this moment, he only had one doubt:
"Old Lin, what happened just now? That guy..."
Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang and raised his eyebrows: "Now you are curious about things outside of the code again?"
"Haha, I'm curious! I don't want to be dragged into a trap by you." Wei Liang curled his lips and sneered, "I mean, have you found a way to get rid of that guy's attention?"
Lin Yi nodded and was about to tell Wei Liang that the other party should have a certain "sensing ability", but was interrupted by Wei Liang in time: "Okay, okay, stop, stop, you know the method, don't tell me."
Lin Yi knew Wei Liang's worries, but still said: "Liangzi, I think you should know some of the 'mechanisms', in case..."
"I'll stop it! I advise you not to Put a flag on me!" Wei Liang said quickly, "Nothing goes by, I won't be noticed by him before, I won't be noticed now, and I won't be noticed in the future..."
"If I know how to eliminate it, , most likely he will notice it accidentally.”
"..." Lin Yi opened his mouth, but was speechless, "Then... well, I can only say that reading comics is really a good way."
"Huh???"
"emmm...it's nothing."
"Oh, okay...ah, that's right, Lao Lin!" Wei Liang suddenly thought of it, and suddenly his expression became excited, "What did I do to you just now? See it?”
“That one, that one…” He put down the comic book and gestured, pointing at the muscles of his thighs and patting his butt. The more he looked at it, the more he looked like a monkey from Huaguo Mountain.
"It's full! My operation is really full!"
Lin Yi rolled his eyes and could only agree cooperatively: "Ah 66666..."
Then he turned He opened his chair and sat down, put down the comics, looked at the door of the classroom, and at the same time glanced at the pendulum clock hanging above the podium and his watch.
The time is all 4:46.
“It’s just one staircase and it takes a full 16 minutes!”
"This speed is completely incomparable to that after lights out!"
Lin Yi glanced at the ceiling.
"It seems that the 'light' has great restrictions on them..."
He thought of the corridor. As the lights went off and on, the figure huddled in the darkness appeared. Gone.
He also thought of the street lights in the thick fog, which seemed to have the ability to drive away unknown creatures.
Thinking of this, he immediately shook his head to stop himself from continuing to think in this direction. At the same time, he opened a small book and wrote "Light" next to "4:30".
This is an abbreviated note he made to prevent himself from forgetting key clues. When he reaches the time and place where he can think carefully, he will think about this issue.
Wei Liang took the comic book back and followed Lin Yi's gaze at the classroom wall.
"It's almost five o'clock. It's almost dawn. Let's go to the cafeteria for breakfast later?"
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded, but then asked, "But Is it too late? ”
There is a map included in the teaching building regulations. The opening hours of the canteen are marked on the map, which are 5:40~8:00, 10:40~13:20, and 16:00~20:00 every day.
"Why is it too late?" Wei Liang said subconsciously, "The door opens at 5:40!"
Lin Yi corrected: "But the rules of the teaching building stipulate that if you stay overnight, you must study by yourself. You can leave the classroom at 7:40, and you can only leave at 6 if you stay in the dormitory overnight."
Wei Liang was stunned again, then realized the problem, and couldn't help but touch the back of his head and smiled awkwardly: "Oops, I almost misremembered the time just now, but luckily you reminded me!"
"But thinking about it this way, there may not be enough time..." Wei Liang muttered.
Lin Yi waved his hand and said comfortingly: "It's okay. Let's talk about it later. If it doesn't work, just go hungry and eat more at noon."
"Well, that's all we can do..."
At this moment, the wrong classmate who was walking in the front reached out and held the door handle of the classroom door.
"Click! Click!"
After the unknown creature was dragged away by the security guard, the classroom door was not locked. Although the students' movements were very slow, they still opened the classroom door naturally. .
"Didi..."
The door opened, and the morning wind in the mountains mixed with the morning dew and the fragrance of flowers and plants flowed in like water from a stream, diluting the turbidity accumulated in the classroom overnight. breath.
As the door kept opening, Lin Yi saw a dark blue world with floating mist...
May 7, 2023, 4:53.
The slightly bright sky reflects the blue of the sea, and thin mist flows in the university in City S, as if it has sunk into the deep sea.
(End of this chapter)