Chapter 8 Sports Student
Chapter 8 Sports Student
"What's wrong?" Lin Yi's reaction made Wei Liang feel like he was facing a formidable enemy. He quickly stretched his neck and came over to ask, "What's going on?"
Lin Yi pointed at the symbols of the teaching building and the school gate on the map, gestured the route between the two, and then said: "Liangzi, look..."
"There are street lights on both sides of the road from the school gate to here, and judging by the distance between the street lights, the entire journey is actually not very long..."
"But do you remember how long it took us to get to the teaching building?"
Wei Liang was stunned for a moment, then he looked like he was thinking hard, and even made calculations with his hands, then hesitantly said, "Ah, this... seems to be an hour? Oh no, it should be almost two hours, right?"
"It's one hour and forty-five minutes." Lin Yi held his forehead and helplessly corrected, "But judging from the distance on the map, this entire journey will only take about ten minutes on foot at most."
Wei Liang said, "But don't forget, Lao Lin, the fog was very thick when we came here, and we followed the security guards for a while."
He offered his own opinion: “Could it be that we have gone in circles?”
"It's unlikely that it would go in circles." Lin Yi denied. "The security guard was tied with a chain, and the chain was pulled straight by the chef. If it went in circles, the chain wouldn't be in that shape."
"Ah? Oh, you are right." Wei Liang closed his mouth and began to think.
Lin Yi said: "And did you notice that the street light numbers on the map are actually chaotic? I've looked at it many times and can't find any pattern at all."
Wei Liang grabbed the map and began to observe it carefully. He saw that there were a lot of lamp posts scattered on the not-so-long road between the school gate and the teaching building.
The distribution of these lamp posts is completely irregular, as if the person who planned the street lights grabbed a handful of rice and scattered it, and wherever the rice was scattered, a lamp post was inserted.
"There are so many lamp posts, how can you only see one at a time?"
Wei Liang hesitated and asked, "Could it be... a ghost wall?"
"..."
Wei Liang added: "If it can't be explained by science, then can it only be solved by metaphysics?"
Hearing this, Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang very seriously, and said in a sincere and earnest tone: "Then I wonder if you, the Heavenly Venerable Wei Liang, have any great magical powers?"
Wei Liang's face suddenly turned awkward: "Lao Lin, you are insulting me! Lao Lin... Lao Lin, what are you doing?"
Lin Yi was joking but he didn't dwell on the point. At this moment, he was using a pen to connect the numbers on the map from high to low.
Soon a picture that looked like a tangled ball of wool appeared on the map.
Lin Yi frowned as he looked at the picture, totally unable to make any sense of it.
At this moment, a classmate walked up to Lin Yi and Wei Liang, turned over a chair and sat on it.
He seemed to come over deliberately, and after taking a glance at Lin Yi's masterpiece, he couldn't help but say, "I advise you not to study the secrets of this campus too much. Just abide by the rules and leave after seven days."
"If you're really bored, there are comics on the bookshelf at the back. There are both serious and casual ones. You can just flip through them to kill time."
This voice interrupted Lin Yi's thoughts. He turned around and saw a male classmate in a blue and white striped sportswear looking at them with a smile.
This male classmate had a shaved head and was holding a lollipop in his mouth. The outline of his muscular body was faintly visible under his sportswear. He was holding a Hong Kong comic book in his hand.
"All the trial classes on the schedule, except for physical education, only require going through the formalities in the classroom, so... just read the comics."
Lin Yi asked curiously: "Classmate, who are you?"
“Gurgle.”
The stick of the lollipop slid from the left corner of his mouth to the right corner of his mouth.
"My name is Xu Shunkang, a sports student." He held out his hand. "Nice to meet you, newcomers."
Lin Yi was slightly stunned.
"This is... a sports student?"
Wei Liang excitedly held Xu Shunkang's hand and shook it up and down: "Big sports student! Nice to meet you! I'm Wei Liang, he's Lin Yi, we're classmates... um, I mean, we're classmates from other schools, and we came here together to experience college life."
Xu Shunkang waved his hand: "It doesn't matter where you come from. What matters is, did you hear what I just said?"
"Okay, okay, we will definitely listen to what the boss says!" Wei Liang bowed and responded with a smile.
Seeing that Lin Yi was still frowning and standing there, Wei Liang couldn't help but elbow him.
Lin Yi came back to his senses, met Xu Shunkang's gaze, and nodded: "I heard it."
Seeing Lin Yi like this, Xu Shunkang knew that Lin Yi definitely didn't listen to him. He could only open his mouth, then shook his head and sighed: "Hey, I wish you good luck."
After he finished speaking, he looked around, sweeping over the classmates who had surrounded Lin Yi before, and finally landed on the comic book in his hand.
As he flipped through the pages, he muttered, "Stupid author, he only draws these NTR plots that make even dogs sick!"
Lin Yi glanced at the cover of the comic book. The title was probably something like "Mountain and Sea Green War"...
"Do you want to see it too? If you want, I can get some over there." Wei Liang came over and whispered.
Lin Yi rolled his eyes: "I'm still thinking about the student rules..."
"As long as you stop worrying about the weird things happening on this campus, everything will be fine." Wei Liang breathed a sigh of relief. "Old Lin, let me tell you, when we were on campus, the words of the PE teachers and PE students were sometimes unpleasant to hear, but since ancient times, honest advice is unpleasant to the ears, so we still have to listen to it."
Lin Yi looked at Xu Shunkang and murmured, "From his tone, it seems that he knows a lot of secrets of the campus?"
Wei Liang said quickly: "I heard that the sports students and art students are students of this campus, not experiencers like us, so they must know more secrets, but I also advise you not to ask..."
"If the school was planning to cover up some secrets, everyone from top to bottom would be keeping it a secret. Besides... how could a school that pays 30,000 yuan for a seven-day trial class not have any secrets?"
"My idea is that we should go to class and then take the money and leave."
"Your grandma still needs money for medical treatment, so don't think too much about it!"
A look of bewilderment appeared in Lin Yi's eyes: "Milk... milk?"
Wei Liang's expression became serious: "Fuck, you even forgot this?"
Lin Yi couldn't help but frown.
Wei Liang quickly emphasized: "You are here to subsidize your grandma's medical expenses, Lao Lin!"
Hearing this, the confusion in Lin Yi's eyes faded a lot, and then he nodded: "Oh...it seems so."
He was silent for a while, then said, "Then at least... we have to wait until we confirm Maozi's safety, right?"
When Mao Feiyang entered the stairwell, he felt like he had lost something. The feeling of being isolated from the world was so strong the moment Mao Feiyang closed the door. It was so strong that Lin Yi felt that Mao Feiyang had left this world from that moment on.
This subconscious sense of completion was like an indescribable will, urging him to find Mao Feiyang.
"Before that, I still want to sort out some things as much as possible."
"Even if we don't think about the thick fog that's like a quagmire, and ignore the strange figures and bizarre street lights in the fog, at least we have to figure out what that endless staircase was, right?"
"I'm afraid Maozi will be trapped in there and can't get out."
Wei Liang hesitated for a moment: "Then... at least we have to wait until we get back to the dormitory, right?"
Lin Yi and the others knew before coming here that they would be randomly assigned to different classrooms, but the dormitory was optional, so they decided to live in the same room with six people, so that they could take care of each other. Hearing this, Wei Liang glanced out the window.
It was dark outside the teaching building, and thick fog covered the entire campus like a quilt. The raindrops kept hitting the glass windows and then slid down in the direction of the wind, just like someone was scraping the windows.
"It's raining." Wei Liang's expression turned serious. "The rain isn't heavy. I wonder if it will stop by nine o'clock..."
The student code of conduct stipulates that students can only return to the dormitory between 21:00 and 22:00. If they cannot go back, they must stay in the classroom overnight.
Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at his watch.
20: 34.
He glanced out the window again.
It was pitch black and I couldn't see anything. All that could be heard was the sound of raindrops hitting the window glass.
He didn't know what he was thinking about. He narrowed his eyes, then stood up and walked to the window.
He exhaled, wiped the glass with his sleeve, and then put his face close to it to look out the window.
But at this moment, he saw his own shadow in the glass. The shadow was very far away from himself. It was conservatively estimated that the thickness of the window glass was more than 6 cm!
"This kind of specifications?!"
His pupils suddenly dilated and he was shocked!
"Is this military-grade explosion-proof glass?!"
He quickly looked at the other window glasses, but the more he looked, the more frightened he became.
"The glass in this entire classroom is of this specification, even on the side close to the corridor!"
He took a deep breath, slowly suppressed the shock in his heart, then put his face close to the glass again and observed the environment outside the window.
The fog outside the teaching building was so thick and dense, like a quilt covering the campus, so heavy that even the moonlight could not penetrate.
He kept moving his sight, and finally found the sparse lights in the rain and fog...
That was the light from the street lamps. Looking out from the windows of the teaching building, the scattered lights looked like scattered pearls.
"It's indeed a bit complicated, and just like on the map... very scattered. Then why didn't we see street lights like this when we came here before, but only one by one?"
He narrowed his eyes again and couldn't help but recall the original scene.
Did I miss it, or is that really the reality?
He felt that his cognition was somewhat distorted...but the facts were either black or white, it couldn't be stuck in the middle and jump back and forth, right?
At this moment, that strange feeling that guided his thinking appeared again. It quietly penetrated into Lin Yi's thinking and guided him to think like this -
"What's going on?"
He then began to think without realizing it.
But as soon as he started thinking, that feeling of exhaustion rose up from the bottom of his heart again.
He felt a little exhausted and tired, and he seemed to want to stop thinking and just fall asleep...
A strong sense of alertness arose in his heart, forcing himself to step away from thinking and bring his will back to the present world.
Gradually, as he gradually woke up, Wei Liang's voice rang in his ears.
"Lao Lin! What do you want to do! Lao Lin, Lao Lin!!!"
Just then, a hand was placed on his shoulder, shaking him wildly.
He was shaken awake.
"Liangzi? I just...?!" Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in surprise.
At this moment, Wei Liang's face was full of anxiety and fear. Through his eyes, Lin Yi suddenly discovered——
I am surrounded again!
The same situation as before occurred, and he was suddenly surrounded by classmates.
They gathered here as densely as sunflower seeds, blocking him against the window.
And these students still have that weird standardized smile on their faces that looks like it was copied and pasted!
Such a smile coupled with those seemingly malnourished, waxy white faces gave Lin Yi a strong illusion that he was in a wax museum.
This time, not only Wei Liang came, but the sports student named Xu Shunkang also stood beside him at some point.
Xu Shunkang protected him and Wei Liang behind him, and he himself took a posture ready to take action at any time, confronting the densely packed group of people with a vigilant look.
But when Lin Yi woke up, these people once again dispersed slowly at very slow steps.
"Hey." Xu Shunkang spoke and stopped a group of classmates by himself.
All the students turned around slowly and in unison, their movements as stiff as puppets.
A belligerent smile appeared on Xu Shunkang's lips. He rolled up the book "Mountain and Sea Green War" and held it in his hand, pointing it at the group of people like a sharp blade, and said:
"I've already made note of this. None of you can escape."
This group of students looked at Xu Shunkang coldly, as if they also wanted to imprint Xu Shunkang's appearance in their eyes.
"Sports student, mind your own business," one of the students said in a cold tone, "Go back to the gymnasium and stink!"
"Don't mind your own business! Just take care of yourself!"
“Hehehe…” Xu Shunkang smiled solemnly, “We’ll see.”
The group of people did not respond to Xu Shunkang's words. They just turned around and slowly walked back to their seats.
Looking at the scattered classmates and their stiff backs, Lin Yi was puzzled as to how they could approach him so quietly when they looked like they were about to die.
Or... is the problem with myself?
Xu Shunkang looked at Lin Yi and naturally knew that Lin Yi had fallen into a sleep-like state because of thinking about something.
So he warned seriously: "It seems that you really didn't listen to what I said just now...Listen, Lin Yi, I warn you very seriously, please don't think about these messed up things anymore!"
"The things in this school are beyond your understanding!"
"If you insist on trying to understand with your little head..." Xu Shunkang pointed at the group of students who had retreated back to their seats and were staring at them, and said, "They will be your role models!"
"I..." Lin Yi was a little embarrassed and apologized first, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. I don't know what happened just now... It felt like something was guiding me to think..."
"But, can't I even think about the problem?" he asked.
He also remembered the almost prophetic warning Tian Bufan gave him when they parted - keep thinking and don't trust others easily.
Compared to Xu Shunkang, he definitely trusts Tian Bufan unconditionally.
Xu Shunkang narrowed his eyes, took a deep breath, and then warned: "This campus does not need people who think about problems. Don't think too much, and don't try to understand things that you can't understand..."
“Everywhere has its secrets, but once you know the secrets, you become part of them.”
"Once you become part of a secret, you can never escape it."
(End of this chapter)