Chapter 13 Classroom Lights Off
Chapter 13 Classroom Lights Off
"Oh my god!"
The violent knocking on the door seemed to hit Wei Liang's body. He screamed, and his soles seemed to be covered with 82 years of butter, and he slid to Lin Yi's side.
But as soon as he came over, he saw Lin Yi walking quickly out from the row of seats.
"Why did you come out again?" he asked puzzledly.
Lin Yi pointed to the back row of the classroom and motioned Wei Liang to rush over with him.
"go there!"
Wei Liang followed Lin Yi's instructions and suddenly realized Lin Yi's intention.
"Once the lights in the classroom start flickering, you must immediately squat under the desk and hold on to the legs of the desk and chair!"
However, there are no desks in the main part of the circular tiered classroom. During classes, the desk mats folded in the handles of the chairs are unfolded and used as desks.
So theoretically speaking, the desks near the bookshelves at the back of the classroom can be called "desks" in the true sense.
Sure enough, when Lin Yi rushed over, the only twenty or so people left in the classroom who were defined by him as "normal students" also gave up reading at the first moment and ran towards the desks with their heads down.
But those students who were originally embedded in the seats and felt something was wrong still did not show any sign of anything. Instead, as the incandescent lights flickered, the excitement in their eyes became more and more intense.
“Bo-zi-zi-zi”
Another incandescent bulb flickered.
The third lamp, the fourth lamp...
One after another, incandescent lights flickered.
When all the incandescent lights began to flicker, the huge circular lecture hall seemed to have turned into a dance hall in black and white.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang rushed under the adjacent desks and subconsciously grabbed the same table leg.
Then the two of them withdrew their hands like lightning and said in unison: "Here you go, here you go."
"Oh, you're so polite. You grab the top and I grab the bottom, let's do it all!" Wei Liang waved his hand, first grabbed Lin Yi's hand and then pressed him to the leg of the table.
Lin Yi didn't have time to argue with him about this, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed that the light in the classroom seemed to have become a little dimmer...
He suddenly raised his head and looked at the ceiling, only to see that one of the light bulbs had gone out!
"Fuck, you're trying to kill yourself, and you still dare to look up!" Wei Liang really wanted to push Lin Yi's head down, but his arms were too short to reach over.
"Don't panic, there shouldn't be any problem as long as the lights are on..." Lin Yi comforted him, and added, "And I'll only take a look."
"Aren't you afraid that it will be destroyed instantly?" Wei Liang said speechlessly.
"This should be a process, right?" Lin Yi said.
However, before he could finish his words, a series of "pop! pop! pop..." sounds were heard from the ceiling. The lights went out a little too quickly, as if they were being machine-gunned, but there was still a pattern to be followed.
"Ah, this... the speed has increased?" Lin Yi opened his mouth.
“Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop…”
The lights in the classroom dimmed visibly.
Lin Yi wanted to say something, but was stopped by Wei Liang with an angry glare: "Stop it! Stop it! Old Lin, stop the fucking bullshit!"
"Don't panic. If my calculations are correct, there are still 30 seconds before they are all wiped out..." Lin Yi argued, "That's enough time."
"Do you believe me?" Wei Liang curled his lips.
"I believe."
"..."
While talking, Lin Yi quickly cast a last look towards the circular classroom.
"One, two, three, four, five..."
With a quick glance, he took in all the students in the classroom who were not moving at all. However, due to time constraints, he did not have time to count the last few people. However, he had already accurately determined the number of people who were not right to be between thirty-five and thirty-seven.
"Stop looking around!" Wei Liang punched Lin Yi's back hard, his voice urgent and worried, "Hurry up and keep your eyes on the table legs!"
"18." Lin Yi said, but fearing that Wei Liang would worry too much, he quickly looked away.
When he took it back, he found that Wei Liang, who was squatting beside him, was holding the table legs tightly with both hands. With a serious expression on his face, he looked like a warrior holding incense and bowing to a statue in a temple.
The only discordant thing was that the warrior was squatting under a square table, which made the originally heroic and solemn atmosphere suddenly become silly and stupid.
Just at this moment, a knock on the door outside the classroom caught everyone's attention.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Bang, bang, bang!”
There was a fierce knocking sound coming from the classroom door, and the door began to shake violently. Before long, such vibrations spread to all the walls on all sides of the classroom.
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Bang, bang, bang!”
“Bang, bang, bang!”
The floor of the classroom began to tremble as well. The incandescent lights on the ceiling swayed and clanged, like a series of wind chimes being swept around by the raging wind.
“Pop! Pop! Pop…”
The incandescent lamps went out one after another as they shook. Not long after, when Lin Yi silently counted to "30" in his mind, the last lamp went out with a "pop" sound, just as he had calculated.
The entire classroom was in darkness, with only sporadic spots of light coming in from the windows.
Because of the temperature difference between inside and outside, the windows of the classroom were covered with a layer of white frost, and the raindrops hit the windows, leaving scratches.
The cold air continued to spread from outside the window to inside the window, and an indescribable weird feeling was gradually permeating the walls of the classroom.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang no longer had the mood to tease each other, and both of their faces were filled with solemn expressions.
Wei Liang pulled his baseball cap closer and tucked in his hoodie, as if he wanted to shrink himself into an iron shell that didn't exist in the first place.
The shaking of the classroom became more and more violent, until this moment Lin Yi understood.
The teaching building is not a safe area, but the classroom... isn't one either!
"The classroom is just a relatively safe area at a certain time!"
"And this time obviously does not include now!"
"After getting through tonight, I must find a way to get back to the dormitory tomorrow!"
When the thick fog climbs over the high walls and when the tide soaks the iron cages, all protection will become fragile yellow paper, and the dim light and shadow will suddenly bring everyone back to the barbaric ancient times.
In the darkness, those who hide during the day and move at night begin to show their fangs.
“Bang! Bang… Bang.”
Just as fear began to radiate from all the students who had cowered under their desks, the pounding on the classroom door suddenly stopped sounding so scary.
The classroom, which seemed to be tossed around in strong winds and waves, gradually stabilized.
In the darkness, the sound of exhalations appeared one after another, and it seemed that everyone breathed a sigh of relief silently.
"Lao Lin..." Wei Liang made a faint sound, "Are you safe?"
But Lin Yi did not answer him, but glared at him fiercely.
"Don't communicate with anyone, idiot!"
Wei Liang reacted instantly, closed his mouth, shrank his neck and stared at the table legs.
Lin Yi's expression became even more solemn.
"Something's wrong!"
“This is so wrong!”
We've been doing foreplay for twenty minutes, how could we just rush through it afterwards?
Those thirty or so classmates haven't made any move at all!
Lin Yi concentrated and held his breath, his body tense, not daring to relax at all. Sure enough, as if responding to Lin Yi's serious attitude, a crisp voice sounded in the darkness.
"Click!"
The lock of the classroom door was turned.
Someone opened the door outside.
“Crack! Crack! Crack…”
The lock tongue turned round and round, and the crisp sound seemed like a wheel rolling over everyone.
“Ka…Ka!”
When the lock tongue completed the last turn, the door handle that was slowly pressed down seemed like a heavy mountain, pressing on the hearts of everyone in the classroom.
“Beep, beep, beep—”
The door of the classroom was slowly pushed open from the outside.
"laugh--"
It was as if the door of a sealed space capsule was opened, and dark white mist poured in from outside the door.
Without the illumination of the incandescent lamp, the thick fog climbed and spread on the ground like tentacles, and the cold and damp air seeped in with a little bit of icy wind, and the whole classroom seemed to be moved into the cellar.
“Swish…”
The sound of stone rubbing against the ground appeared in the classroom.
It seemed as if something was moving in the classroom wrapped in thick fog, like the Dementors in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows dragging stones across the ground...
Lin Yi glanced at the dial of his watch with difficulty.
The classroom without light was so dim that he could only see the scale on the dial with great difficulty.
22: 00.
"Ten o'clock..."
"It's May 5th now. The sun rises in S City at least at 6 o'clock, right? There are still seven hours left. Are we going to spend it this way?"
Lin Yi's longest record was when he played a game of Baby Glory while squatting in the toilet. He defended the house for 36 minutes but still lost in the end... When he stood up, his legs were shaking and he felt uncomfortable all over. It felt like the blood and qi couldn't reach his brain...
If I keep squatting under the table for 7 hours...is it really possible?
He shook his head and cursed himself for being crazy. It had already come to this damn moment, so how could he have the right to discuss whether to squat or sit on the toilet?
At this moment, a strong light suddenly appeared in the classroom, catching Lin Yi off guard.
He glanced at his watch subconsciously.
22: 02.
"Two minutes have passed..."
"I have to say that thinking about things can really help kill time. If this is the case, maybe I can actually get by."
"Wait! Where the hell is this light coming from?!"
He subconsciously wanted to look in the direction of the light, but he didn't even need to look for it deliberately, as he saw a light source under another table not far away.
It turned out that a classmate who was hiding under the desk turned on a portable flashlight!
Lin Yi stared, and even his thinking short-circuited for a moment.
He could never have imagined that he would meet such a little genius in this randomly assigned classroom!
At first glance, you will see that you are well prepared!
At this moment, Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to use this hard-earned light to take a look at the current classroom environment, but at the same time, he immediately remembered the warning given by his head teacher before leaving.
When the lights in the classroom begin to flicker, the first step is to squat under the desk and hold on to the legs.
Then don't close your eyes and don't look at anything except the patterns on the ground or the table legs!
Thinking of the sentence "Don't look back" in the student code, Lin Yi instantly came to a horrifying conclusion.
"That thing in the mist has come into the classroom!"
"The purpose of not letting me look is to prevent me from seeing it... or is it for something else?"
Some thoughts emerged in Lin Yi's mind again.
But now he has learned his lesson.
Since the thought that shouldn't have come to me at this time, then...
He focused his sights on the table legs, and then let the Black Silk Cult and the White Silk Cult fight in his mind.
Sure enough, after thinking this way, I felt refreshed all of a sudden, and the feeling of discomfort that permeated the surrounding environment also faded a lot.
However, the drawbacks of self-paralysis soon began to emerge.
"Snapped!"
Suddenly, a dull slapping sound was heard in the silent classroom.
This is the sound made by a folded chair bouncing back into place.
Apparently, a weird classmate had left his seat.
“Tsk, tsk—”
The classmate walked slowly in the classroom with heavy steps, the rubber soles of his shoes rubbing against the floor tiles, making a sound like sandpaper rubbing against each other.
“Tsk, tsk—”
The footsteps are getting closer and closer...
"laugh--"
A foot wearing old-fashioned sneakers appeared in front of Lin Yi, less than an arm's length away from his face.
Then the other foot.
His two feet moved in front of him in a very stiff manner, rubbing against the ground. The "hissing" sound was like thousands of ants crawling over Lin Yi's body, making him feel uncomfortable all over.
A strong sense of discomfort and a sense of weirdness like a tide rose in Lin Yi's heart, but at this moment he concentrated and held his breath, staring at the legs of the table in front of him, and used his beautiful legs in black and white stockings to kick away the various thoughts that emerged in his mind.
Until the owner of these legs disappeared from the corner of his eye.
"call……"
He heaved a long sigh of relief, just a dozen seconds, but his chest seemed to be filled with centuries of foul air.
At this moment, some sudden noises choked the half-exhaled breath in his throat.
"Eh? Hey! Hey!! Hey hey hey..."
Along with the sound, the beam of light from the portable flashlight suddenly began to shake chaotically like an eel.
As a loud noise broke out, the tables and chairs were pushed away, and the owner of the portable flashlight seemed to be picked up by someone. Then, no one knew what he saw, and he let out an "Ah!" that was filled with intense fear.
At the same time, the portable flashlight fell to the floor with a snap, and the dazzling beam of light pierced out like a sword, splitting the dark classroom.
A strong light flashed across Lin Yi's face halfway through, and he subconsciously wanted to squint and turn his head, but as soon as his neck moved a little, his whole body suddenly froze there.
At the limit of his peripheral vision, a black shadow appeared that could not be dispersed by the beam of a portable flashlight!
A classmate stood next to the desk where he was hiding at some point!
Lin Yi froze in place, wishing he could take back all the tiny amount of air he had just exhaled.
“Crack, crack, crack…”
A sound came from that classmate, and then a hand appeared in Lin Yi's field of vision.
The classmate bent down at an extremely slow speed and reached out to pick up the flashlight.
The whole process is like a puppet.
Just as he was about to pick up the flashlight, his head tilted slightly due to inertia and he saw Lin Yi squatting under the desk.
(End of this chapter)