Chapter 141 The twisting staircase going down
But this is some kind of reverse matryoshka doll operation? ! Impossible, absolutely impossible.
Lin Yi felt that his brain would not be enough if he continued to think about it, so he shook his head and stopped thinking. Instead, he kept this conjecture in his heart and discussed it with Tian Bufan to see what Tian Bufan could do. What other understanding is there.
At this time, Li Huiyuan had been waiting for him at the stairs for almost two minutes. Lin Yi walked over and called Li Huiyuan, but he found that Li Huiyuan did not respond to his call.
Li Huiyuan called him twice but did not respond. An ominous premonition instantly occupied his heart. He hurried over and patted Li Huiyuan on the shoulder, but found that her body was not in the right position. He was shaking under control, and there was even some cold breath coming from his shoulders.
Lin Yi looked a little ugly: "No, the layers have dropped in just two minutes?!"
"Li Huiyuan, Li Huiyuan!"
Lin Yi was shaking. Li Huiyuan's shoulder pulled her back from the layer.
After Li Huiyuan came back to her senses, she looked at Lin Yi in surprise. At the same time, she realized what was wrong with her, and a cold sweat broke out from her back.
"What did you see just now? How did the layer drop?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan's face was still a little pale. She gasped and pointed in the direction of the stairwell: "I... I was just looking at the stairs and didn't do anything else. Then, I didn't even know what happened. What, when I came back to my senses, it was you who was calling me..."
"Oh! I seem to have remembered it!"
Li Huiyuan's face changed slightly and she covered her head. On his forehead, his expression suddenly became dazed, and his eyes drifted left and right, as if he was caught in some kind of memory.
"Stairs! There's something wrong with that staircase! It...it's not normal!"
Lin Yi quickly looked towards the stairwell, but he didn't see anything wrong at first glance.
But he did not doubt Li Huiyuan. Instead, he brought her to the sunshine, let her rest for a while, and then he observed the stairwell.
After the teaching building code clearly stipulates that only stairs can be used to go up and down stairs, students in classes 4 or above in each teaching building need to use the stairs to return to their classrooms, and Lin Yi also holds a "student ID card" "As an experience student, there is theoretically no danger in going up and down stairs, let alone just staring.
A minute passed, and Lin Yi did not notice any abnormalities, and the change in vision similar to the "Spider Sense" did not appear.
"Is there really no problem? Or is it Li Huiyuan's own problem?" Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan, who was gradually returning to normal, and couldn't help but wonder.
But it’s best to take a look above the fourth floor of the teaching building.
He looked at Li Huiyuan and asked: "How is it? Can I still go?"
Li Huiyuan's eyes flickered for a moment, then she pursed her lips and stood up, nodding firmly: " Okay."
"Then you come with me, let's go into the stairwell." Lin Yi stretched out his hand, "We hold hands. Once we feel that there is a problem with the other party, the other party will immediately think about it. There is a way to pull the other person out of the stairwell.”
The situation is really not right, so for the sake of safety, we have to temporarily withdraw from the stairwell.
"Classmate Lin..."
"Is there a problem?"
"No problem, but...am I not cannon fodder?"
Lin Yi was speechless for a while, wondering what the hell is this Li Huiyuan, does he want to die so much?
"Cannon fodder and free money are two different concepts."
Li Huiyuan was stunned for a moment, and then stretched out her hand.
Lin Yi held her hand and walked slowly towards the stairwell.
Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi's hand, suddenly lost in thought, and then subconsciously followed Lin Yi's pace.
Lin Yi's hand was very warm and he held her with just enough strength. The two of them walked out of the corridor area and entered the stairwell.
The isolated fire door at the stairwell of the teaching building is always open. There is a light-transmitting window on each half floor of the stairway, and there are incandescent lights on the ceiling, so although the stairwell is open during the day, A bit darker, but still very translucent overall.
But as he approached the stairwell, a faint feeling of discomfort suddenly fell on Lin Yi.
Lin Yi noticed that Li Huiyuan subconsciously squeezed his hand, and he probably sensed something.
"It seems there is really a problem." Lin Yi stopped at the entrance of the stairs, and then looked at the stairs in front of him.
Suddenly, he rubbed his eyes, then his eyes widened, and he looked at the stairs in front of him in disbelief.
In front of him, two steps appeared.
Generally speaking, the architectural style of City S, no, the architectural style of the stairs in the entire China is built in a counter-rotating direction from right to left, but now what appeared in front of him were two Stairs with their rotating axes as mirror images of each other!
He was stunned. Usually, even if the layers fell or hallucinations occurred, he would see distorted lines and collapsed light and shadow images. This was the first time he had seen a staircase full of rules and art like this.
So he took Li Huiyuan's hand and decisively exited the stairwell.
"Did you see anything just now?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan said: "I saw two steps... Classmate Lin, did you also see it?"
Lin Yi nodded.
Li Huiyuan said: "This is the problem I just mentioned... I just saw these two steps at a glance, and then I thought of what the student code says, 'At any time, all stairs in all buildings on campus are 'Keep on the right hand side', but what I don't understand is..."
"The code says 'keep on the right hand side of the road', it should be the right hand side of the staircase, right? But now there are two Each staircase has a right-hand side... which one should we take?"
Lin Yi pondered: "You were thinking about this just now? And then you dropped the layer?"
< br>Li Huiyuan shook her head slightly: "That's not entirely true... When I looked at the stairwell just now, I looked at the light in the stairwell. I didn't know why I was a little distracted, and then I seemed to feel those two The steps are twisted like twists, and I seem to see a downward step..."
"Are you sure it is...a downward step?" Lin Yi asked curiously.
"I...I'm not sure." Li Huiyuan shook her head weakly, "I can't see clearly. I feel like the stairwell I just saw is like a paint pattern painted on the water. When the wind blows, the water surface It rippled, and then the original lines were all twisted together..."
"I don't know what happened to that step, but it seems to really exist..."
> "I felt like I was attracted to that step. I seemed to want to walk up that step uncontrollably, but before I could move, you woke me up... I knew I was hallucinating. "
"Is that illusion... the 'dropping layer' you said? "
Lin Yi nodded silently: "That's basically it." Huiyuan suddenly asked anxiously: "Classmate Lin, can you tell me what the dropped layers mean? Is it related to the 'contamination' I received?"
Lin Yi thought briefly, and then said: "Do you still remember the conversation I had with Mr. Tian before? Just like a glass trestle bridge in the mountains, there is a layer on the glass bridge, the glass bridge Below is a layer. We usually walk on the glass trestle, and the glass is still opaque.”
“But when we are polluted, the glass trestle will become transparent, and we can. When seeing things in another layer, some people who are afraid of heights can't stand this change and will become anxious, short of breath, and even go crazy. Some people will accidentally fall and fall into another layer to their death. I don’t know...”
“You and I are just the people walking on the edge of the glass trestle. Sometimes we can see the things below, and sometimes we have one foot in the air. If we can’t step back in time, If it fails, it will be doomed."
"It is still unknown whether the glass on this glass trestle is strong, so sometimes I need you to walk in front of me and help me... sometimes take risks. When you have problems, I can pull you back to the trestle, but as the danger increases, at some point I will be unable to save myself, and I will not be able to save you at that time..."
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"'Cannon fodder'..." Li Huiyuan slowly spit out two words.
Lin Yi said noncommittally: "The truth is unbearable, but it is what it is."
Li Huiyuan had long accepted it, and just nodded silently after hearing this.
Lin Yi on the side fell silent.
"Could what Li Huiyuan just saw... be the stairs leading to the basement of the teaching building?"
In fact, the real problem is not this, but... the stairs leading to the first floor of the teaching building were actually seen by Li Huiyuan at this time.
Who is Li Huiyuan? In terms of identity positioning, he is a "experience student who lost his student ID and was contaminated."
And they also saw the stairs leading to the first floor of the teaching building, what were their positions at that time?
Based on the conversation between the dormitory manager and the art teacher, it can be inferred that he is an "experience student who has not even obtained a student ID card."
As for pollution, that does exist.
In other words -
"A contaminated experience student without identity certificate can see the stairs leading to the basement of the teaching building?"
Lin Yi rubbed his chin, if so In this case, it can explain why Tian Bufan did not find the stairwell in the teaching building on May 7.
Because Tian Bufan holds a student ID card, he does not meet the conditions for being able to see the stairwell. Even if he is already in the stairwell, he cannot touch the things in that layer!
However, there is another doubt about Li Huiyuan being able to see the stairwell to the basement, and that is time.
"How did she see that layer in broad daylight?"
"Or is it that she could just see it and couldn't go there?"
"Hey, wait! Say! Maybe that’s really the case!”
The place where Li Huiyuan stood just now was not in an area directly exposed to the sun. In other words, it was exactly the same as when he was thinking about the problem in the classroom and then dropped the layer. Similar...
This is understandable!
When conditions are unstable, being anywhere without direct sunlight can cause problems!
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at the time.
15:13.
There were only 17 minutes left before the agreed time to return to the classroom. Lin Yi felt that he had no chance to go to the fourth floor to observe, but decided to take another look at the stairwell, trying to find any differences between the layers. The door that might exist...
He felt that this stairwell was extraordinary.
Not the kind of extraordinary that goes in a good direction, but the kind of extraordinary that is extremely dangerous.
He felt that there should be one or even two spiral staircases on the stairs at the map level, one leading to the area on the fifth floor and above of the mysterious teaching building, and the other leading to the underground first floor.
Perhaps, the stairs may be another kind of hub...
When walking in the stairwell, a closed environment naturally forms an independent layer, and that The layers are floating between layers in a kind of supernatural map. Only when the person walking in it reaches a certain condition that can realize self-anchoring, will the condition of leaving the stairwell be triggered.
Otherwise, it will be like them going downstairs endlessly, or like Mao Feiyang going upstairs endlessly.
Put it this way...
Lin Yi suddenly thought of a creepy thing - he suddenly remembered that when he followed Mao Feiyang through the dream and shuttled back and forth in the stairwell, he had seen a piece of sculptures of different shapes. Groups, those sculptures were frozen into various postures, some struggling and twisted, as if they were frozen in some kind of terrifying and extremely painful death moment...
"They...should Could it be that some creature that was contaminated and became a nocturnal species fell down to the floor after entering the stairwell, and then could never leave, and finally died alone in the stairwell, and then became a member of the sculpture? ”
Thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly burst out with inspiration, and a picture emerged in his mind...
He saw Li Huiyuan being attracted to the stairwell, and then uncontrollably. Stepped into the stairwell.
Li Huiyuan's eyes were blank, her spirit was listless, as if she was sleepwalking, and she stepped on the steps with stiff steps. However, after taking this step, the steps that were supposed to be higher than the ground suddenly became distorted and became lower than A flight of steps to level ground.
But Li Huiyuan didn't notice anything unusual at all, and walked down the steps step by step...
The picture in his mind was like some kind of inspired deduction. When Li Hui When Yuan walked down the steps, his "camera" also followed Li Huiyuan down...
Walk and walk and walk...
I don’t know how long Li Huiyuan walked. Yuan suddenly shuddered and woke up.
She glanced below and saw a spiral staircase of Fibonacci numbers that seemed endless with no end in sight.
She looked up palely again, and saw the same Fibonacci sequence extending around her, as if she could not see the way forward.
She felt as if she had been struck by lightning. She stood on the original steps as if she was dumbfounded, without making any movement.
Gradually, I don’t know how long it took, she finally moved and began to stick to the wall on the right hand side and keep walking up the steps.
Just walking and walking like this, for who knows how long, her body began to undergo strange changes...
Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "Full Moon and Qinghui" for their rewards! !
There will be an Easter egg chapter about the stairs later, yes, it’s my style again...ahem.
PS: The book friends should know that going hiking today to relax and backfire. To put it simply, it is the story of "A certain suspense author wanted to find some inspiration but almost found something supernatural". All I can say is In the end, I was lucky and got out of the mountain before my phone ran out of battery... My head was so big that I almost died.
(End of this chapter)