Chapter 4 Teaching Building
Chapter 4 Teaching Building
X023年5月6日，18:54。
In the area where the teaching building of S City University is located, a chef in a green bib recommends tomato meat sauce pasta to Lin Yi and others. The scene is so still that it looks like a relief.
Lin Yi paused for a second, and fear exploded in his mind at this moment. His body trembled subconsciously, but his brain was extremely calm.
He took a deep breath, then looked at the security guard's back without even glancing at the chef and the spaghetti bolognese. He then took a step forward and followed the security guard at a leisurely pace.
The chef looked at him with a smile, constantly recommending pasta with tomato and meat sauce. His eyes were always on him and followed his movements, turning slowly like a puppet.
When Lin Yi passed by the chef, he could clearly feel the fog rolling, and he could also feel that there was no living creature emitting warmth around him.
But he could feel the gaze from the green-bibbed chef, cold, greedy, vicious, naked... and eager.
The hairs on his arms stood up suddenly.
People passed by the chef in the green bib one after another, and no one paid any attention to the existence of the chef in the green bib.
Mao Feiyang walked at the end of the group. When he was about to leave, Lin Yi's voice suddenly sounded from behind him.
"Maozi."
Mao Feiyang looked back subconsciously.
In the fog that was about to be swallowed by darkness, the chef in the green bib hung his head, with the corners of his mouth curved like a clown.
At this moment, dull thunder rolled in the deep night sky.
Thunder flashed across the sky and the campus suddenly lit up.
In the fog, strange shadows twisted and intertwined. They retreated into the depths of the fog, but always remained close to everyone.
Mao Feiyang's pupils dilated slightly.
Lin Yi's voice came out from the mouth of the chef in the green bib, with a hint of demonic flavor.
"Maozi."
"Maozi."
"follow me."
"Come with me..."
"Hey hey hey..."
……
“Tick…tick…”
A few raindrops fell on Lin Yi's face.
Lin Yi looked up at the sky. The dark night fell down like a collapsed cave ceiling, making it so depressing that it made him feel breathless.
Wei Liang's trembling voice rang out: "Lao Lin, it's going to rain..."
Lin Yi was also a little panicked. He looked at the security guard's back, but the other party still had no intention of speeding up.
Even the employees in chef uniforms following behind him didn't react at all.
So he gritted his teeth and said in a low voice: "How far is the cafeteria from the teaching building?"
"Ah?" Wei Liang was stunned.
Lin Yi glared at him angrily: "Haven't you been here before? How long does it take to walk from the teaching building to the cafeteria during lunch time?"
Wei Liang finally reacted, and after thinking for a while, he said, "About... about ten minutes, but that's under normal circumstances."
"What do you mean by 'normal'?"
"The normal situation is when the fog is not very heavy, but the weather now is very abnormal."
Lin Yi quickly checked the time.
19: 13.
"19:13... We met the security guard before 40:, and more than minutes have passed..."
He narrowed his eyes.
Tian Bufan touched his nose and muttered to himself, "The student code says that if you encounter abnormal weather, you must take shelter as soon as possible. You can even ignore some of the rules..."
"Now it seems that abnormal weather should be more dangerous than some weird buildings..."
Judging from the student code, it is clear that there are some unusual buildings on this campus.
"But why?"
Tian Bufan touched the few raindrops that occasionally fell on his face and frowned slightly.
Seeing that Tian Bufan was thinking, Lin Yi did not interrupt him. Suddenly, he realized that not far in front of the security guard, there was a shadow of a huge object faintly appearing under the thick fog, like some kind of building.
There are many dim lights like fireflies scattered around the building. They are street lights.
The light curtain cast by the street lamps formed a passage, opening up a path under the thick fog.
A road visible to the naked eye that leads to the building ahead.
"Teaching building? Or... something else?"
Lin Yi's mind frantically scrolled through every rule in the student code regarding buildings and abnormal weather, and finally came to a conclusion.
"The best solution when encountering abnormal weather is to follow the street lights to the nearest building for shelter. The second best solution is to stay where you are and wait for security."
Tian Bufan also thought of this, and he looked at Lin Yi.
After Lin Yi made his decision, he also looked at him.
"Walk?"
"Walk."
"Let's go!"
"I'll lead the way, you guard the rear! Liangzi, Weisang, Kuai Kuai, Maozi, let's go! Don't look back, don't worry about anything, just follow me!"
Lin Yi yelled and started running, using the light of the old oil lamp in the security guard's hand to rush towards the lamppost closest to him.
Wei Liang took a deep breath, pursed his lips, gritted his teeth and followed.
Others followed one after another.
"Maozi, you go first, I'll cover you."
Seeing that Mao Feiyang was standing there doing nothing, Tian Bufan quickly patted Mao Feiyang on the shoulder.
Mao Feiyang seemed to be distracted. He glanced at Tian Bufan stiffly, then immediately followed Kuai Hongji's back and rushed into the fog.
Tian Bufan frowned and couldn't help but look back at the road he came from.
The chef in the green bib had long disappeared, and only the dragon-like team of chefs, holding the chains in their hands, disappeared into the thick fog.
……
Lin Yi charged through the fog like an agile cheetah, but as he moved away from the light curtain formed by the kerosene lamp, the surging fog around him immediately rushed towards him like waves.
The sound of the waves was mixed with faint whispers and strange calls, like the sound of a whistle drifting in the wind from the other side of a distant world, transforming into pairs of invisible hands that penetrated the mist and grabbed Lin Yi's limbs.
There seemed to be some strange whispering mixed in with the ethereal sound of the whistle. The syllables of the sound were not in any human language. The vague pronunciation seemed to be saying:
【fa...nTo...me...】
【fanTo...me... fRa...】
As the sound appeared, an intense feeling of being stuck in a quagmire immediately enveloped Lin Yi.
"Shit!" Lin Yi clenched his teeth and his pupils dilated slightly. At this moment, he seemed to feel that some ominous will was drilling into his brain like a wire worm.
At this moment, the rustling sound of stones rubbing against the ground was heard again in the fog.
Without the deterrent of the security guards and the old kerosene lamps, and with the street light curtains at some distance, the creatures in the fog seized the best opportunity and approached at a faster speed.
The feeling of oppression hung over Lin Yi's head like a thousand-pound boulder, ready to crush him at any time.
At the critical moment, Lin Yi heard some calls from the whispering and whimpering sounds like the waves. The calls mixed in with the sound of [fanTome] sounded like——
"Lin Yi! Lin Yi!"
The sound came from behind him, and sounded like a hurried sound coming from Mao Feiyang's mouth.
He subconsciously wanted to turn around.
But at this moment his scalp suddenly exploded and his hair almost stood on end.
He woke up instantly.
"Student Rules!"
"You can't turn back!"
"Don't look back!"
He then stared at the lamppost in front of him, and the lamppost was the only thing left in his eyes.
At that moment, he seemed to be able to see the words on the lamppost!
"Teaching Building-108." "Go!"
Lin Yi burst out with unprecedented strength. Although every step he took was very difficult, the lamppost gave him a strong sense of security.
Especially a lamppost standing in front of the teaching building!
Lin Yi was suppressed by the fog and the feeling of obstruction and almost fell on the cobblestone ground, like a person walking on sand dunes in a sandstorm.
His eyes were slightly red due to congestion, and a beast-like roar came from his throat.
One step, two steps, three steps...
Just as the thick fog was about to engulf him, a steady and powerful force came from his back.
"Go!" Wei Shan's low roar sounded, and his powerful arm strength pushed Lin Yi through the thick fog.
“Bo…”
When he stepped into the range of light, a soft, clear yellow light curtain chopped down like a sword, completely isolating the fog behind him.
At that moment, Lin Yi felt as if the mountain pressing on him was shattered at once, and an unprecedented sense of comfort permeated his body.
He grabbed the lamppost and looked back at the fog with the help of the clear yellow light curtain. He saw Wei Shan, Wei Liang and others rushing in one after another. At the edge of the fog, dark shadows lurked and hid. The whispers that came near and far were blown into a mess in the wind.
"What are those things in the mist? They seem to be very afraid of light..."
Lin Yi looked around and found that the security guard had disappeared long ago, and the long queue that was like a dragon had disappeared. The previous experience seemed like a dream.
He looked again at the building that was almost right in front of him, just a lamppost away from them.
The light curtains hanging between the street lamps are connected to each other, forming an hourglass-like passage.
“Tick, tick…”
A few raindrops fell, and Lin Yi, who had originally breathed a sigh of relief, suddenly became nervous again.
"Now is not the time to breathe heavily. We are just out of danger temporarily." Tian Bufan looked at the building in front of him calmly, "If I am not mistaken, it should be the teaching building."
"No matter whether it is true or not, let's go over there first." Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
19: 23.
"It was just a few steps, and I ran for ten minutes?!"
Lin Yi was suddenly shocked, and this time, Tian Bufan had already taken the lead and walked forward.
"Let's go. Why are you in a daze?" Kuai Hongji elbowed Lin Yi and urged him.
"Here we come." Lin Yi and Wei Liang hurriedly followed.
Looking at the backs of his roommates, Mao Feiyang stood there, a little dazed. Suddenly, Lin Yi's voice sounded behind him again.
"Maozi."
"Stop being in a daze, let's go!"
"Follow them!"
Mao Feiyang seemed to have a headache. He held his forehead and shook his head lightly, and a hint of doubt flashed in his eyes from time to time.
"Maozi, hurry up!" Kuai Hongji's impatient and cold voice came from under the street light.
Mao Feiyang shuddered suddenly, and the calling voice lingering in his ears suddenly disappeared.
He realized something and broke out in a cold sweat.
He ran and caught up with his roommate.
……
Arriving at the last lamppost in front of the building, Lin Yi looked up.
The huge building not far in front of me rose into the dark and depressing sky like a mountain. The lights in the building were bright, like burning torches in the night.
“It’s the teaching building.”
Following Tian Bufan's gaze, he saw huge words "Teaching Building" written on the building, which could be seen clearly even in the dark.
"We've arrived at the teaching building." Only at this moment did Lin Yi feel relieved.
However, Wei Liang screamed in horror: "No! Lao Lin, no! There is something wrong with this teaching building!"
Wei Liang pointed to the teaching building with a trembling hand, and said in a panic: "The teaching building has only four floors...but it, it it it it..."
Lin Yi was stunned and looked in the direction Wei Liang pointed.
"one two three four……"
"five……"
"six……"
"seven……"
Faintly, there is the eighth floor that penetrates deep into the thick foggy sky!
"this?!"
His eyes fluctuated violently, and his heart, which had just calmed down, was suddenly tense again.
"It's not written in the student rules!" he said.
Wei Liang said: "It's not written in the student rules...but it's written in the teaching building rules!"
“Hoo—hoo—hoo—”
The fog rolls in and the drizzle is hazy.
The faint whispers and the rustling sounds of stones rubbing against each other were extremely harsh, and the dull and damp environment seemed to be able to crush everyone's psychological defenses.
"There's no time to think about it. We must go in before the rain really starts!" Lin Yi said in a low voice.
In the face of unknown dangers, it is impossible to avoid them. The only thing you can do is to choose a route with relatively lower risks.
"Let's go! To the teaching building!" Lin Yi took the lead and rushed to the teaching building.
……
He walked from the last lamppost to the teaching building without encountering any problems. It was so normal that Lin Yi felt something was wrong.
However, Lin Yi had always had an uncomfortable feeling in his heart since he entered the campus, but this feeling was significantly alleviated when he stepped onto the steps of the teaching building.
Having escaped from the crisis temporarily, Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief and began to observe the surrounding environment.
Although the Internet said that this was a newly built campus, Lin Yi could not see any signs of "newness" in the teaching building. Come to think of it, under the catalysis of such bad weather and geographical environment, any building would appear to be old.
However, what made Lin Yi feel relieved was that at least there were students in this teaching building. They were just in a hurry and even when they passed by them, they didn't even look at them.
Despite this, Lin Yi could still feel a kind of warmth from them, a feeling he had never felt in the fog all this time...
"These should be the people who arrived earlier to experience college life. Just like Wei Liang when he came last time, they did not encounter this weird and abnormal weather." Lin Yi thought.
After observing for a while, Tian Bufan immediately walked towards the stairwell of the teaching building.
Looking at Tian Bufan's back, Lin Yi couldn't help but pat his head, then shook his head gently. He felt that his mind was a little dazed, as if his cognition was affected by the environment...
But he immediately noticed a striking signboard not far away, and suppressed this dazed feeling.
He walked over and saw the sign that read:
"Dear college life experiencer, when you see this sign, it means that you have successfully overcome the influence of abnormal weather and arrived at the teaching building. Please follow the instructions below, you will get a student ID and start your college life experience journey:
1. Please go down the stairs to the basement level of the teaching building, and then look at the first door on the left. If the doorplate says "Teacher's Office", please knock on the door and let us know your purpose.
You will meet your homeroom teacher, register with him/her and receive your student ID card.
"If you see a room other than 'Faculty's Office', do not enter and continue down the stairs until you encounter the Faculty's Office."
"2. Before you get your student ID, don't trust anyone and don't step into any classroom other than the teacher's office."
"Once you have your student ID, please be careful and keep it safe. You can talk to other students about your student ID, but never lend it to anyone, even if it's just for a quick look."
"It will be very troublesome if you lose your student ID card. (This sentence is bold and underlined)"
"3. After getting your student ID, find the classroom on the corresponding floor and start your college life experience journey."
"4. If your situation does not match any of the above, and you feel lost or have some physical symptoms, please do not go downstairs, go upstairs along the stairs on the left, and leave when you see the sculpture standing at the stairs."
“You meet art teachers and go on an art journey.”
"I wish you a pleasant experience."
After reading the notice, Lin Yi looked towards the stairwell next to him.
The entrance to the stairwell is a heavy blue-gray isolation room fire door, and the emergency exit sign is glowing green.
Tian Bufan went over and pressed the door handle hard, then slowly opened the door. A cold air seeped out from the gap in the door, as if there was an underground ice cellar hidden behind the door.
He pulled the entire door open, and behind the door was a stairwell leading to the basement.
An old-fashioned incandescent lamp was hung in the narrow and claustrophobic passage of the stairwell. Dust mixed with the smell of earth was floating in the air. Gray fog particles visible to the naked eye almost occupied the entire passage. At first glance, it looked like a mine tunnel from the last century.
Just as he was about to enter the stairwell, Wei Liang suddenly grabbed his hand and exclaimed, "Lao Lin!"
Lin Yi turned his head away in confusion.
Wei Liang's face under his cap was filled with fear, and his voice trembled like a flag in the wind: "Lao Lin, don't go..."
"If I remember correctly, the teaching building... doesn't have a basement at all!"
(End of this chapter)