Chapter 71 If nothing unexpected happens, something unexpected will happen
X May 7, 2023, 21:06.
"Ding!"
With a crisp beep, the running elevator stopped instantly.
The five cautious people in the elevator all focused their attention on the floor monitor.
"14".
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, their floor had arrived.
The whole process can be said to be without any surprises, simply because he followed one of the most basic rules - [Don't try to understand how the elevator works].
But he did not relax his vigilance. On the contrary, he became more cautious.
Because he clearly understood that the next step was the highlight.
The elevator vibrated slightly, and the subtle friction sound was transmitted along the box to the soles of Lin Yi's feet. His breathing became calmer, and his whole person became silent, but the muscles in his body slowly tightened, as if Zhang slowly opened his bow and arrow.
In just one breath, Lin Yi had already made mental preparations to deal with any upcoming emergencies.
"Clang...Cang!"
The elevator door slowly opened, like a wine jar with its mud seal blown away, and the cold breath began to pour into it.
"Hulala——"
In the cracks in the outer wall of the elevator, the nervous wind hissed, making people feel chilling.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang stepped out of the elevator.
"Qiang!"
As the elevator door closed, Lin Yi felt as if there was only a cold wall left behind him.
He glanced down at his watch.
21:07.
There are ten direct elevators in total, and it took several minutes to get up to the next floor.
Such a time span would be extremely explosive anywhere.
"There is still nearly an hour to walk back to the dormitory... If nothing else happens, there will be enough time." Lin Yi thought to himself.
But... after experiencing so many things, he felt more and more that the words "no surprise" put together seemed to be telling a joke.
He withdrew his gaze and observed the surrounding environment.
At first glance, there was nothing wrong with the corridors of the dormitory building. The corridors alone were three meters wide, which was much wider than his original dormitory distance.
And, as the instructions for the dormitory building say, the interior of the dormitory corridor is a circular structure, so from his perspective, the incandescent lights on the ceiling are like the indicator lights at the elevated turns at night. , turning into the end along a not too big arc.
The incandescent lamp casts an orange-yellow light curtain, illuminating the entire corridor. On both sides of the corridor, there are dormitories facing each other.
The house number on his left is "1401", and the one on his right is "1402".
Judging from the arc design, the inner side of the arc has all-color house numbers, while the outer side has even-numbered house numbers.
You only need to walk forward to the seventh group of dormitories to reach the 1414 dormitory they reserved in advance.
"So far...everything is normal." Lin Yi thought to himself.
I don’t know why, but after walking out of the elevator, the feeling of depression and discomfort he originally felt faded a lot, but this fully enclosed corridor still made him feel a little tight and uncomfortable. irritable.
Lin Yi took a deep breath and prepared to go back to the dormitory first.
At this time, a somewhat cold hand quietly placed on Lin Yi's shoulder.
It’s Wei Liang’s hand.
"Fuck you, Liangzi, you fucking scared me!" Lin Yi's sense of depression was forcibly dispelled by Wei Liang's ghostly technique.
He turned his head and saw Wei Liang's somewhat white lips and nervous expression.
"Didn't you say... Ryoko has rich experience in dormitory living? Why do you feel more nervous than me, a first-time visitor?"
Lin Yi suddenly had this doubt in his mind.
"Ryoko, are you okay?" he asked with concern.
"It's okay...it's just a little cold."
Wei Liang's eyes kept wandering in the corridor, as if he was always wary of something invisible.
Even Wei Liang himself didn't notice that he even looked a little nervous.
"Cold...?" Lin Yi was slightly startled in his heart, and couldn't help but feel that something was really wrong with Wei Liang's situation.
This corridor... is not cold at all.
"It's indeed a bit cold." He agreed.
Wei Liang thought to himself: "This is a normal phenomenon... The dormitory on campus is very humid. You don't feel it now, but you will notice it if you stay for a long time..."
Speak In between, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Lin Yi's pupils changed slightly.
He noticed that when Wei Liang breathed out, he exhaled a breath of hot air, but in that hot air, there were some pure white ice crystal particles vaguely mixed in.
Just like the head teacher at that time.
"Liangzi is also contaminated?!"
Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. He wanted to say, Liangzi, didn't you say you survived for seven days? Damn your last two days. What happened? !
But he certainly couldn't say that.
He thought of the words of the head teacher, who said that a will of steel is the key to fighting pollution.
So...
"Ryoko always thought that he was fine, so even if he deceived himself, at least with the blessing of such a 'will', he could resist this pollution ? "
Because "I think I have no problem", so "I really have no problem", even if "there is a problem", then "it is not my problem"?
"What the hell...is this a magical operation?!"
Lin Yi was somewhat glad that he did not blindly choose to follow Wei Liang's approach from the beginning, otherwise with his so-called "high inspiration" , Wei Liang's "self-deception" cannot be achieved at all.
Precisely because Wei Liang deceived him, Lin Yi was sure that he could not remind him at this time, or even guide him to think like that at all.
If you really do that, you will harm Wei Liang.
Wei Liang will be driven crazy by this unacceptable turn of events.
"Don't worry too much about me, Lao Lin..." I don't know if Wei Liang noticed the change in Lin Yiwei's expression, and reminded him aloud, "The last time I came here, it was like this in the last few days... This may be the campus It’s a common problem, so the experience cycle is only seven days.”
Lin Yi felt a chill in his heart. He thought Wei Liang was talking to him, but suddenly realized that Wei Liang was not talking to him at all, just using a word. Keep yourself talking as if you were having a conversation.
"Liangzi...is anchoring himself through me?!"
Lin Yi noticed Wei Liang's hand.
A faint blue-grey color appeared on Wei Liang's hand, which was very cold, but not completely cold. There was still a trace of warmth at the contact between Wei Liang's palm and his shoulder, but this kind of warmth was like a flame in the wind, and it was unknown when it would go out.
Wei Liang looked panicked and muttered to himself, but he seemed to be talking to Lin Yi.
In these words, Lin Yi keenly captured a sentence:
"..., really don't worry, when you get back to the dormitory, you can take a hot shower and you will be warm... ..."
"Hot bath...?!"
He suddenly felt his eyes light up.
The student code of conduct specifically lists a rule for dormitory showers. If there is no benefit to showering, you can just write "Use time from physical education class to go to the gym to take a shower every two days" instead of writing a special rule for this. ?
"Could it be that a hot bath can effectively fight pollution...or at least alleviate pollution?"
He then said in a low and firm voice: "Ryoko, I will take you to the dormitory right away. "Hold on."
As if his words triggered some incomprehensible hidden mechanism, before he finished speaking, a howling wind suddenly blew in the corridor.
"Huh——"
As if something invisible suddenly lay on his shoulder, and then blew out cold breath with a subtle breathing method, he suddenly opened a Shivering, I felt the hair on my body standing up uncontrollably.
Wei Liang's palm suddenly regained its temperature, his panic expression suddenly changed, and then he lowered his voice and said: "No, Lao Lin, don't say such things, hurry up and say, 'I I won’t take you to the dormitory!”
“I have a student ID card, and I will open the door myself!” Wei Liang added anxiously.
Lin Yi was slightly startled, but the creepy feeling instantly doubled his pressure. He hadn't yet understood the meaning of Wei Liang's words, but he immediately said decisively: "'I won't take you to the dormitory.' ”
Hearing what Lin Yi said, Wei Liang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time, the strange wind that blew silently retreated quietly, and the cold feeling peeled off unwillingly.
Lin Yi glanced at the door number of the dormitory next to him, and instantly realized something. He felt uncomfortable all over, and a hissing chill ran down his spine.
The door number of the dormitory in his hand is "1406". It seems that there is no problem, but because the house number reminds him of a dormitory building instruction:
[When you encounter a person who does not match the house number When entering the dormitory, please remind yourself that you are looking at the wrong place and ignore all calls from that dormitory.
Note: Abnormal dormitories will never open the door automatically unless! ! ! At your invitation. (Unless the two words are circled and marked with a huge '!!!' symbol)]
There is a very scary keyword in this sentence - invitation.
The abnormal dormitory will never open the door unless invited by you!
There is too much information in the words here, and he understood one of the meanings by accident!
No matter how abnormal the dormitory is, it is impossible to open the door by oneself. The thing that can open the door must be something in the dormitory.
But this thing will not open the door unless invited.
Who will invite?
He is different from Lin.
What he said just now - "I will take you to the dormitory right away", if there is something indescribable that automatically matches the number, wouldn't it become that number "you"?
This is not only an invitation, but also a... active leadership!
Lin Yi's mind went cold, and he thought of a rule about European vampires.
"Uninvited vampires are not allowed to cross this door."
Although there are no vampires here, but... there is a kind of wrong classmate. Not only are there wrong classmates, but also those who are not right. Sneaky figures hidden in the mist, as well as the terrifying and unpredictable creatures that enter the classroom after lights out.
Since the dormitory building is one of the most dangerous areas on campus, we might as well assume that all these weird things may appear in the dormitory building.
Then let’s assume...there is some kind of mechanism for these things, and the mechanism of one of the terrible species is that they need to be "invited".
Of course, all these thoughts were just things he realized instantly, and he wasn't sure whether they were right or wrong, but that didn't matter.
The important thing is that after he repeated Wei Liang's words of "rejection", the strange feeling that had enveloped him really dissipated a lot.
He moved on.
Dorm 1407, Dormitory 1408, Dormitory 1409...
"We will be there soon." Lin Yi said silently in his heart.
He glanced at the corridor ahead.
The corridor is quiet and quiet. Although the lights are bright, there is always a vague and dangerous atmosphere behind the curve that cannot be reached by sight, lingering like perfume.
"Don't make any mistakes at this time!" Lin Yi clenched his teeth subconsciously, tightened the strap of his schoolbag with one hand, and gently placed his other hand on Wei Liang's cold shoulder. on the palm of your hand.
On the one hand, he comforted Wei Liang, and on the other hand, he also reassured himself.
At the same time, he also recited silently in his mind in advance:
"My name is Lin Yi, and my student number is "My name is Lin Yi, I..."
He repeated as he led Wei Liang forward cautiously.
Not long after, he walked past dormitory 1412. If nothing else happened, dormitory 1413 and dormitory 1414 should be facing each other in front of him.
But Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly stopped, because, if nothing else, an accident did happen.
He looked at the corridor in front of him silently, with a hodgepodge of expressions that seemed to be broken up and spliced together.
It’s probably one point for “Here we go again”, two points for “I knew it”, three points for “I’m a little panicked”, and four points for “Hey, let me make a fool of you in the dormitory building XXX”.
"Alas..."
Lin Yi sighed quietly, feeling that the "emergency situation" in front of him had become accustomed to it, commonplace, ordinary, and as ordinary as water, but even if In this way, he still wants to know...
"How did you make this fucking right-angle turn replace the curved corridor in front of you without any sense of disobedience?"
As soon as he walked through the door of dormitory 1412, he planned to I was so happy that I took out my student ID card from my trouser pocket and swiped my card to open the door and enter dormitory 1414, but there was a fucking corner in front of me!
It is simply silkier than the hair of the advertising girl who uses Dove to wash her hair!
"Hey..."
Lin Yi suppressed his subconscious desire to peek at the environment due to his high inspiration with his bellyful of complaints, and then followed the dormitory building Guided by the instructions, Wei Liang slowly turned around.
"There is no corner, no corner, no corner ahead...I say important things three times..."
Instructions (code) for the dormitory building says:
[If you are looking for your own dormitory If you see a right-angled turn ahead, turn around and tell yourself that there is no right-angled turn ahead, and then turn around again.
You may not move forward until you are sure the situation ahead is back to normal. 】
He turned 180 degrees, and after reciting a few dormitory instructions firmly like a mantra, Lin Yi turned around again and looked forward again.
The right-angle turn was indeed gone.
But Lin Yi couldn't smile, and even the complaints in his heart were cleared away for a while.
The right-angled turn is gone, but along with it, everything in front of you disappears.
There was nothing in front of him.
Not to mention the corridor, there is not even a hair on it.
(End of this chapter)