Chapter 18 Eliminating Attention

Chapter 18 Eliminating Attention

Chapter 18 Eliminating Attention
"How do you know... cough cough! Don't talk nonsense!" Wei Liang clenched his fist and coughed dryly, "You are too careless. Don't forget that you still have other classes to attend. Besides that, you can only read comics!"

"Otherwise I'd have nothing to do during class. Although classes at S City University are just formalities, I can't play video games, so I have nothing to do except reading comics!" Wei Liang argued.

Lin Yi felt that what Wei Liang said made sense.

So he silently took "Ikkito X" and "Taima X-Ninja" and started flipping through them seriously.

As he continued to immerse himself in reading, his brain's perception of the outside world began to weaken at a slow pace.

Soon, he was immersed in the story in the comic book.

The classmate who had previously "searched for enemies in the void" with Lin Yi was originally casting his empty gaze at the shadow of the classroom window glass. Suddenly, when Lin Yi was immersed in reading comics, he sensed something, then turned around stiffly and slowly cast his gaze at the rows of seats in the circular tiered classroom.

He looked left and right, his face passing by Lin Yi's position several times, but he still found nothing.

Lin Yi successfully eliminated this classmate's attention to him, but he himself was completely unaware of it.

In fact, he didn't need to know this.

Because once he knows, he will enter this paradoxical cycle again.

After Lin Yi finished reading the first volume of "Ikki Tou X", he stretched his body, moved his neck, and looked at his watch.

1: 39.

"Before I knew it, more than an hour had passed... Reading comics is a good way to kill time."

Lin Yi regained his consciousness and subconsciously recalled it, and found that his memory of that classmate had become very vague.

When he turned around, he found another pile of books beside him.

It is the sequel to "Ikki Tou X" that Wei Liang found for him.

Lin Yi smiled and picked up the second volume to read.

After finishing reading the three volumes in such an immersive way, the time has come to 4:27. Lin Yi thinks back to last night, and the impression of that classmate in his mind is only a vague shadow.

The feeling of being stared at was no longer there, and apart from feeling a little sleepy mentally, I didn't feel any discomfort at all.

But the body felt a little cold, especially the lower half, as if the coldness from the ground had spread to the legs.

This is caused by staying up late to read and not exercising.

Lin Yi stretched, yawned, and stamped his feet.

After stretching his muscles and adjusting his sitting posture, he prepared to continue reading.

But at this moment, some movements around him caught his attention.

“Pah! Pah! Pah! Pah…”

Some people left their seats, and not just one person, but a group of people.

There is no doubt that these uniform movements were made by the wrong group of students.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

4: 30.

"Four thirty in the morning..."

Lin Yi didn't know if there was any explanation for this time, but he immediately scribbled on the small notebook at hand: "4:30."

At this point, more than 4 hours had passed since the security guard had wrestled with the thing.

The security guard who had rolled down the stairs with the thing has now disappeared.

The students who had stood up and looked at the window glass returned to their seats, but now they stood up again one by one.

Lin Yi maintained the posture of reading comics, but his eyes were rolling around. He sat in the lecture hall and observed the movements around him with the corner of his eyes, supplementing the details by hearing.

The reason why he dared to do this was that according to the killing mechanism of these classmates that he deduced, as long as he did not look at them after turning off the lights, he would not attract their attention.

I saw students dragging their stiff bodies and taking dull steps, walking down the steps of the classroom step by step, and then walking towards the classroom door.

"Are they going to leave the classroom at this time?"

"But the building rules prohibit leaving the classroom after 21:00, and the homeroom teacher also gave the same warning..."

"Hey, wait a minute, I think I know!"

"If the teacher's warning is for 'protection', then the source of danger is not the strange classmates in the classroom, and the unknown creatures in the mist outside the classroom?"

"When the classroom door was opened, the students who were acting strangely were not affected, so maybe I can put them in the same category?"

"The only difference is that the students who remain in the classroom still have some 'student' characteristics."

Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but shudder.

"Sure enough, staying overnight in the classroom is only an 'option', not a 'correct answer'."

"No wonder Xu Shunkang said that he hoped to see me again tomorrow..."

Lin Yi was happy about his new discovery, but just as he was about to change the book to read, he suddenly noticed a foot slowly stepping into his field of vision out of the corner of his eye.

"Ok?"

The other person was wearing a pair of old-fashioned sneakers, and there seemed to be some reddish-brown substance on the shoelaces.

Lin Yi's first reaction was that it looked familiar, but as another foot stepped into his field of vision, his already dead memories began to attack him frantically.

The hairs on his arms stood up instantly and a chill ran down his spine.

"this……?!"

Moving his eyes upwards, Lin Yi's pupils trembled, first expanding for a while, and then shrinking to the size of a pinhole in an instant.

The classmate was standing right in front of him, only three chairs away from him!

The classmate looked at Lin Yi with empty eyes, with no extra expression on his face.

The weird smile that had appeared in the darkness and almost stretched from ear to ear was no longer there.

He was like a walking corpse, slowly approaching Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's back jumped straight, the hair on his scalp stood on end, and his eyes were full of disbelief.

"He obviously doesn't notice me anymore, why is he still like this?!"

"It's haunting me! It's like it can fucking sense that I'm here!"

Lin Yi didn't dare to act rashly, but ideas were running wildly in his mind.

The classmate moved with stiff steps, slowly passing one chair after another, shortening the distance between himself and Lin Yi.

Lin Yi's pupils shrank smaller and smaller. He clenched his teeth and was so nervous that he forgot to breathe.

But with absolute concentration, he suddenly figured out something from his classmates' behavior.

A bold guess appeared in his mind!
He quickly put away all the comic books at hand, and then carefully put away the folding chair.

"Liangzi!" He called out softly to the person beside him who was looking through the gap between people.

Wei Liang was so focused at this time that he didn't even notice that Lin Yi had stood up. Upon hearing Lin Yi's voice, Wei Liang quickly pulled back his thoughts.

"What's wrong, Lao Lin... Ouch, my #￥％@&％*..."

Wei Liang glanced at the classmates who were pressing on Lin Yi from behind, and the words he was about to say suddenly turned into the inarticulate calls of the Flower-Fruit Mountain monkeys...

“Shhhhhh—”

Lin Yi struggled to free one hand, put a finger to his lips, and said in a low voice: "Put the book away and run! Quick, quick, quick!"

At this time, the classmate was only two chairs away from Lin Yi. A strong sense of oppression surged out of his body like a tide, rushing towards Lin Yi and the others.

"I'm just a little bit..."

Wei Liang spoke incoherently and his tongue was tied due to nervousness.

Seeing his classmates getting closer and closer, under the absolute feeling of oppression, he suddenly gritted his teeth and performed a magical move that was enough to shock Lin Yi's eyes.

The number of comic books he had was more than three times that of Lin Yi, but even with this number of comic books, he managed to hold them all in one go!
Then, under the attention of Lin Yi's almost incomprehensible "old man on the subway looking at his phone" expression, he used the precise control of his gluteus maximus and interfemoral muscles to quietly retract the chair!
Lin Yi was extremely shocked, and only four words remained in his mind:
"Amazing tricks!"

"Damn it, it's all just some fucking trick!"

"What are you looking at? Go away!" Wei Liang glared at Lin Yi fiercely and said angrily in a low voice.

"Damn it, how can I leave if you don't leave?" Lin Yi winked at him.

"Hey! Go, go, go!"

So Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick held the comics tightly, and walked between the chairs in the circular classroom very cautiously, feeling like two brothers walking on the ridge of a field.

Only after they walked out of the row of seats did Wei Liang dare to look back at the classmate. At the same time, he couldn't help but ask worriedly: "Lao Lin, what's going on? Oh my god... Lao Lin, did you..."

Lin Yi didn't even leave the row of seats.

To be precise, he actually only walked to a chair not far away from his original chair - that is, the second chair to Wei Liang's left, and stopped.

Then he just calmly watched his classmates' actions.

The classmate came to where Lin Yi was originally sitting, and then stretched out a pair of skinny and pale hands, constantly exploring the area like stirring water waves.

It was just like Xiao Qiao in the Canyon of Kings with three exclamation marks on her forehead, using "top-level prediction" to unleash all her skills towards a piece of air.

After a series of unsuccessful attempts, the student slowly withdrew his hand, then left silently and joined the crowd walking up the stairs towards the classroom door.

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and a gleam of light suddenly appeared in the depths of his calm eyes...

It's like a newbie who has just started playing the game and successfully cracked a certain mechanism in the level through his own efforts, and then a hint of excitement appeared in his eyes!
Wei Liang was shocked by the way Lin Yi calmly looked at his classmates. He forgot all the words that were on his lips. At this moment, he only had one question:
"Lao Lin, what happened just now? That guy..."

Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang and raised his eyebrows: "Are you curious about things outside the rules now?"

"Haha, I'm not curious at all! I don't want to be dragged into a trap by you." Wei Liang curled his lips and sneered, "I mean, have you found a way to eliminate that guy's attention?"

Lin Yi nodded, and was about to tell Wei Liang that the other party should have a certain "sensing ability", but was interrupted by Wei Liang in time: "Okay, okay, stop, stop, you know the method, don't tell me."

Lin Yi knew Wei Liang's concerns, but still said: "Liangzi, I think you still know something about the 'mechanism', just in case..."

"Stop it! I advise you not to set a flag for me!" Wei Liang said quickly, "There is no such thing as a chance. I would not have been noticed by him before, nor now, and certainly not in the future..."

"If I knew how to eliminate it, he would probably notice it by accident."

"..." Lin Yi opened his mouth, but was speechless. "Well... well, I can only say that reading comics is really a good way."

"what???"

"Emm...Nothing."

"Oh, okay... Oh, right, Lao Lin!" Wei Liang suddenly thought of it and suddenly became excited, "Did you see what I did just now?"

"That, that, that..." He put down the comic book and gestured, pointing at the muscles of his thighs and patting his butt. The more he looked, the more he looked like a monkey from the Flower-Fruit Mountain.

"I pushed it to the limit! My operation was really pushed to the limit!"

Lin Yi rolled his eyes and could only cooperate and echo: "Ah 66666..."

Then he flipped over the chair and sat down, putting down the comic book and looking towards the door of the classroom, while also glancing at the pendulum clock hanging above the podium and his own watch.

The time is always 4:46.

"It took me 16 minutes to walk up just one staircase!"

"This speed is nothing compared to when the lights are turned off!"

Lin Yi glanced at the ceiling.

"It seems that 'lighting' is a huge limitation for them..."

He thought of the corridor, the lights flickering on and off, and the figure curled up in the darkness disappeared.

He also thought of the street lights in the thick fog, which seemed to have the ability to drive away those unknown creatures.

Thinking of this, he immediately shook his head to stop himself from continuing to think in this direction. At the same time, he opened the notebook and wrote "light" next to "4:30".

This was a note he wrote to prevent himself from forgetting the key clues. When he was in a place and time to think carefully, he would think about this problem.

Wei Liang took the comic book back and followed Lin Yi's gaze to look at the wall of the classroom.

"It's almost five o'clock. It's almost dawn. Let's go to the cafeteria to have breakfast together later?"

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded, but then asked, "But is it too late?"

教学楼守则里夹着一张地图，地图上标注着食堂的开放时间，分别是每天的5:40~8:00、10：40~13:20，以及16：00~20：00。

"How can it be too late?" Wei Liang said subconsciously, "The door opens at 5:40!"

Lin Yi corrected him, "But the building rules stipulate that if you stay overnight, you have to study until 7:40 before you can leave the classroom. Only if you stay overnight in the dormitory can you leave at 6 o'clock."

Wei Liang was stunned again, and then he realized the problem. He couldn't help but touch the back of his head and smiled awkwardly: "Ouch, I almost remembered the wrong time just now, luckily you reminded me!"

"But when I think about it this way, there really might not be enough time..." Wei Liang muttered.

Lin Yi waved his hand and consoled him, "It's okay, let's talk about it later. If it doesn't work, just go hungry and eat more at noon."

"Well, this is the only way..."

At this moment, the student who was walking in front and looked strange reached out and grabbed the door handle of the classroom door.

“Crack! Crack!”

After the unknown creature was dragged away by the security guard, the classroom door was not locked. Although the classmate's movements were slow, he still opened the door naturally.

“Ding ding ding…”

The door opened, and the morning breeze from the mountains, mixed with the fragrance of morning dew and flowers, flowed in like a stream, dispelling the turbid smell that had settled in the classroom overnight.

As the door continued to open, Lin Yi saw a dark blue world filled with mist...

X023年5月7日，4:53。

The slightly bright sky reflected the blue of the sea. A thin mist was flowing in S City University, as if it had sunk into the deep sea.

(End of this chapter)