Chapter 155 A sweaty 10 minutes
The only way to break the situation right now is to rush back to the teaching building before the fog swallows them up, or just keep that kind of [on the road] ] cognition.
And the looming teaching building in the mist in the distance is Lin Yi's goal that he has never given up on from beginning to end - he has set the teaching building as an anchor from the beginning, ensuring that he is the anchor in any situation. [Heading towards the teaching building], so even though the cobblestone road had become twisted, he was not lost in the mist.
It turns out that this is an effective way to prevent getting lost, but they cannot return to the teaching building by this alone.
But it doesn’t matter if they can’t return to the teaching building, because what Lin Yi wants to achieve is to ensure that they are [on the road].
Student Rules Article 7: [If you cannot find the numbered street light at the first time, please lower your head and stare at the ground under your feet to find any reference that can make you sure that you are still on the road. If you find that the ground is twisting, stretching, or experiencing any unusual changes, please quickly hold your student ID card and map tightly in your hands, and remind yourself of your name and student number repeatedly in your mind. Remember you are a student "This sentence is bold and underlined." 】
[Keeping an eye on the ground under your feet] is to anchor yourself in the campus, so as to [make sure you are still on the road], so as not to get lost as the layers fall.
There is a problem with the ground now, but it doesn't matter. I can't anchor to the ground, but I can fucking anchor the teaching building directly.
Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan along the twisted cobblestone road in a leisurely manner. When he was sure that there was something wrong with the cobblestone road, he gave up completely and returned to teaching along the cobblestone road. The idea of lous disappeared because there was no way to go back.
The only thing he can do now is to stay on this road until 18:00, then find the nearest illuminated street lamp, and then return to the teaching building in the direction of increasing street lamp numbers.
What he is most worried about now is that Li Huiyuan's unstable state will be continuously amplified due to the falling of the layers, eventually causing a series of chain reactions.
He glanced down at his watch.
17:52.
"There are 8 minutes left...Don't make any mistakes. Don't make mistakes..."
Lin Yi was muttering something in his heart, and then suddenly realized that Li Hui Yuan's hands felt a little cold.
"Fuck, it's really raining all night long when the house leaks!"
"Li Huiyuan, are you okay?"
"I... okay, a little cold."
"The school is in a mountainous area. It's foggy again. It's normal to be a little cold. Just don't think too much about it." He tried to keep his tone calm.
"Yeah." Li Huiyuan nodded.
"Wait..." Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. He had just tried to use the mountainous terrain and climate to rationalize the abnormal weather on campus. Why did it smell so damn familiar...
[Mountains The climate is like this, rain and fog are common, so if you don't go out in unusual weather, there will be no danger. 】
He suddenly recalled this sentence, but this sentence... wasn't it what Wei Liang said to him on the blue bus before entering the campus?
"Holy shit, Liangzi was aware of the abnormal weather at that time, and then started trying to vaccinate me? Is it just that I didn't react at first?"
He thought of Wei Liang I was full of fear when I entered school, but later I didn’t show the same fear as when I entered school...
Could it be that such a strong sense of separation...was played by Wei Liang?
"Liangzi pretended to be scared, so that I could focus on him and the street lamp to prevent me from falling into the layer from the beginning?"
Lin Yi was stunned again and again, But now he is convinced of this speculation.
Wei Liang does have his own unique skills, just like how he repeatedly failed the green bib chef in the canteen.
It was only now that Lin Yi realized the truth. Wei Liang's strange skill was not an "active skill", but a "passive skill".
"We need to use some topic to draw Li Huiyuan's attention away from the surrounding environment..." Lin Yi thought for a while.
“Speaking of it, Li Huiyuan.”
“Hmm?”
“Are you a student? I mean, were you a student before you came here? ”
“Well...yes.”
"I'm also a college student. What's your major?" Lin Yi tried to distract Li Huiyuan from the current change of generals with small talk.
"Are you a science student or a liberal arts student?"
"Huh?" Li Huiyuan was stunned, as if she didn't understand Lin Yi's question.
Lin Yi was also stunned for a moment: "Huh? What's wrong?"
"I...I haven't heard the terms 'science' and 'liberal arts' for a long time..." There was a hint of doubt in Li Huiyuan's eyes.
"Then what major did you major in?" Lin Yixin said it doesn't matter if you don't remember, I just want to grab your attention.
Besides, once you enter the University of City S, your brain is rarely able to remain normal.
Li Huiyuan thought about it seriously, and then said: "I studied the 'Origin of Paleobiology'..."
Lin Yi was surprised: "You studied archeology?"
Archaeology is an unpopular thing. He never expected that Li Huiyuan would have such a level of expertise.
"It's not archeology..." Li Huiyuan shook her head, "I also took 'Mysterious Genealogy' as an elective, but since X999, many things have changed, and some things can only be learned in specific schools... "
Lin Yi: "? ? "
Looking at Li Huiyuan's serious nonsense, Lin Yi's forehead was filled with questions, and he thought it was Li Huiyuan who was confused. , or is the world in a state of confusion?
Occult Genealogy?
What is this major?
"What about you? What's your major?" Li Huiyuan asked.
"I'm learning to slay dragons at Kassel College!" Lin Yi originally wanted to say something normal, but Li Huiyuan said so, so he suddenly blurted out.
"Slay...slay the dragon?!" Li Huiyuan's eyes widened.
Lin Yi tilted his lips, thinking that he must have frightened you.
Unexpectedly, Li Huiyuan’s wide eyes gradually showed a hint of excitement: "I just said there is a 'dragon'! My instructor still doesn't believe it, saying that the species 'dragon' exists in There is a huge difference between the East and the West, and even in 'occult genealogy' it is a speculated and unverified outline. ”
"Aren't you still excited?" Lin Yi was speechless, but Li Huiyuan's attention was diverted, so he continued to chat with Li Huiyuan on this topic.
After all, the way he originally thought of to divert attention was to ask Li Huiyuan, "Li Huiyuan, do you prefer to wear black silk, white silk, or nothing at all...", but this This kind of problem with strong XP characteristics is really too abstract, and it feels like I have to watch another movie when the end is coming.
Although this topic is a bit abstract now, at least the abstract perspective is still very strange.
While chatting with Li Huiyuan, Lin Yi silently calculated the passage of time in his heart - he did not dare to look at his watch because he needed to lock his eyes on the outline of the teaching building looming in the fog. superior.
At the same time, he also observed the movement trends of the human sculptures around them to avoid accidentally observing their faces.
What surprised Lin Yi was that even though they were surrounded by a phalanx of sculptures, none of the humanoid sculptures seemed to show any malice toward them.
It was strange, so strange that it almost made Lin Yi wonder if he had mistaken the logic of their actions.
Time passed slowly, and 10 minutes seemed like a century.
Finally, the time calculated by Lin Yi came to 17:59. If his perception of time was correct, then there was only one minute left before the campus lights turned on. .
50 seconds……
40 seconds...
30 seconds... Lin Yi's heart slowly rose to his throat.
"If the street lights on campus haven't turned on when the time is up...will we continue walking on this road indefinitely with this sculpture phalanx?"
Imagine that among the twisted cobblestone roads shrouded in thick fog, a phalanx of sculptures is moving endlessly towards a mirage-like building.
A flash of light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes: "The sculpture phalanx is not hostile to us. Could it be that... it regards us as 'same kind'?"
As soon as this thought came up, he felt goosebumps. Pimples appeared all over his body, and the bones and flesh all over his body seemed to be trembling.
He simply couldn’t imagine such a scene.
Countdown 20 seconds...
10 seconds...
5 seconds, 4 seconds...
3, 2, 1...
Lin Yi held his breath.
18:00:00.
「Time’s up!」
As if in response to Lin Yi's call, under the thick fog not far away, a ball of yellow-orange light suddenly lit up like "Boom...".
The light ball hung there like a little sun, and the radiance bloomed like a balloon in the dark, opening up a small area in the world full of fog. field.
Under the small sun is a dark round holder. The dark cylinder under the round holder has a number written in white paint:
"Teaching Building-105".
"It's bright! It's finally bright!"
"And it's street light No. 105. Sure enough, I've walked most of the way at the beginning. I'm just missing the last bit. If the sun hadn't set a little faster, I really would have had a chance to return to the teaching building safely."
Lin Yi smiled with relief in his heart, and then began to pull Li Huiyuan out of the sculpture square without leaving a trace, facing the direction of the street light pole.
At this moment, he suddenly realized another problem. He and Li Huiyuan had actually walked on the edge of the cobblestone road just now, and were deviating from the main body of the cobblestone road. If he hadn't been relying on the outline anchor of the teaching building, Depending on themselves, they are most likely lost. Even if the street lights are on, they are not in the area with street light poles on the campus!
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but break out in cold sweat, and felt frightened for a while.
However, just as they were heading towards "Street Lamp-105", the humanoid sculptures that had no extra expression along the way suddenly started to move "swishingly", and those walking in front of Lin Yi and side by side The human sculpture slowed down its pace and began to curl up to the edge of the road to an area not "affected" by the streetlights, as if to escape these lights.
And the humanoid sculptures that were originally walking behind him began to push and squeeze together, and all came directly behind him...
Not directly behind him, but someone behind him. They were within a certain range, but since there was no way to turn back, Lin Yi could only judge their approximate location through the "rustling" footsteps.
"They are hiding behind me?"
"If it is just to avoid the light, there is no need to run behind me, do they have other intentions?"
Mist surges He didn't have any thoughts about himself when he was moving, but when the lights came on, he started to move.
Lin Yi was a little unsure of what they were thinking, so he could only attribute it to the mechanism.
Gradually, he felt a gaze that seemed to materialize, squirming out of the darkness like a poisonous snake, then climbed onto his back, and gradually wrapped around his throat.
This is a rather "long-lost" feeling, gloomy, vicious, greedy, bloodthirsty, longing, madness... countless negative emotions intertwined into a web, making him move towards the street light pole Every step I took, there was a strong sense of resistance like a ray on my back, like sitting on pins and needles.
"Lin Yi..."
"Lin Yi..."
A low voice sounded from behind him, as if it contained some kind of bewitching magic, trying to make him turn around.
"Don't look back, Li Huiyuan, no matter what calls you hear, ignore them..." Lin Yi gritted his teeth and warned in a deep voice.
"Well, okay...but Lin Yi..."
"You said."
"I...I didn't hear anyone calling me."
"?"
"?!"
Lin Yi's heart suddenly rang with a deafening roar, as if the sky was falling and the earth was falling.
"Li Huiyuan didn't hear the call of the human sculpture?!"
"Li Huiyuan is not their target?"
"Their target is me?!"
"What the hell..."
Lin Yi felt a strong sense of layering and collapse in his heart, and his brain was faintly dizzy. For the first time, I felt a gritted resentment towards a realistic dream.
It’s like the T800 Terminator escaped with John Kang for an entire episode. In order to protect John Kang, he fought to the death with the big villain Liquid Metal Robot. But when it was about to complete its merits, the big villain suddenly came. It gives a twisted sense of "I'll complete the mission once I kill you."
The clown is me? !
I'm so fucking convinced...
A piece of simple and lofty rhetoric rolled through Lin Yi's heart, but he gradually realized that it wasn't the clown but himself. , but...he was confused from the beginning.
There is nothing wrong with Li Huiyuan having a goal in the cafeteria, and it is also true that he also has elements of a goal.
But at that time, the two of them were the targets of the nocturnal species and the green bib chef.
But on the way back to the teaching building, they had already left the canteen area. In layman's terms, they left the [Canteen Dungeon] and came to the [Teaching Building Dungeon], and in this In the copy of the teaching building, at least on this road, the source of danger has been changed from nocturnal species and green bib chefs to humanoid sculptures.
At the beginning, he and Li Huiyuan did not become the targets of human sculptures.
So what exactly changed this?
Is it... because the street light came on, or because they started walking towards the street light?
No, no, maybe neither!
But...
"It's a student ID card!"
"Li Huiyuan doesn't have a student ID card...but I have a student ID card!"
"Are they coming for my student ID card?"
Thanks to book friends "Lin skylark" and "book friend 20240317654_ca" for their rewards! !
(End of this chapter)