Chapter 22 The Boundary between Safety and Danger

Chapter 22 The Boundary between Safety and Danger

Chapter 22 The Boundary between Safety and Danger
Lin Yi nodded. He noticed this when the head teacher just entered the classroom. And for some reason, he also felt a chilling aura coming from the head teacher that made him feel subconsciously uncomfortable.

For a moment, he couldn't tell whether it was the feeling given to him by the head teacher, or an illusion caused by the mist that rushed in when the head teacher opened the classroom door...

All in all, he felt something was wrong with the head teacher who pushed open the classroom door and walked into the classroom at 7:40.

But it just felt wrong.

The head teacher still had the acrylic badge with thorn lace on his chest, and the number "Head Teacher-B2-039" was still on the badge. There was nothing wrong with his behavior, so he didn't think much about it.

But when the head teacher turned around, her eyes suddenly turned golden.

Those eyes were so similar to the security guard's eyes, as if liquefied hot gold was poured into the eye sockets. There was a strong sense of oppression in the brilliance.

Although the security guard at that time did not show any hostility towards Lin Yi, Lin Yi still felt an indescribable sense of shudder.

But the head teacher’s eyes were different… The first impression the head teacher’s golden eyes gave him was evil.

This is a feeling that cannot be explained clearly, and Lin Yi doesn't know why he came to this conclusion, but just like a person would subconsciously retreat when seeing a python in the wild, he also had this feeling when facing his class teacher.

"Tell me, how did her stockings get torn?" Lin Yi asked subconsciously.

When Wei Liang heard this, countless colored images flashed through his mind, and his eyes almost curved upward into crescents: "Hehehehehe... I think, hey, Lao Lin, what do you think?"

However, Lin Yi was actually mumbling to himself, not asking Wei Liang what he meant, and continued to mutter: "She tore her stockings when she sprained her ankle, and it hurt so much that she didn't have time to change a pair?"

"But do girls change their stockings frequently? Is it necessary?"

"Even if you don't change, you shouldn't wear it to sleep, right?"

Wei Liang's ears perked up when he heard this. The look in his eyes when he looked at Lin Yi changed subtly. He couldn't help but give him a thumbs up: "Your habit of thinking is not wasted at all!"

He glanced at the H-comics and was filled with emotion: "As the saying goes, a master can only lead you to the door, but practice depends on yourself. Old Lin has already mastered the art now!"

"If this continues, why worry about not being able to spend seven days in peace?"

Just as Wei Liang was about to start talking about his own dialectical relationship between women and stockings, he saw Lin Yi shaking his head again and muttering:

"No, no, no..."

"She doesn't look like she sprained her ankle... She must have injured her waist, which indirectly affected her mobility, so she looks a little sprained."

"But why does she want to hide it from others?"

Lin Yi tapped his temple lightly, thinking about the problem.

He didn't notice that someone came up to him, then reached out... and took the half-eaten biscuit roll from his hand.

"You will die sooner or later because of overthinking." A sarcastic voice sounded, Xie Huayang opened his mouth, threw a piece of biscuit into it, and started chewing it.

Lin Yi pulled back his thoughts and looked at Xie Huayang, saying: "You are not entirely right. Some problems will not be a problem if you think about them."

Xie Huayang was stunned, and the biscuit he had put in his mouth stopped there. He was somewhat surprised by Lin Yi's discovery, and asked back: "From your tone, it seems that you have discovered an incredible 'rule'?"

Seeing Xie Huayang's reaction, Lin Yi confirmed his guess: "So it is indeed like this, right?"

"As long as you don't think about contradictory issues, you won't be in danger. It's okay to think about some issues normally." He stared into Xie Huayang's eyes, wanting to see his reaction.

Xie Huayang's eyes gradually narrowed.

The two of them looked at each other for a few seconds, and when the atmosphere seemed to be a little tense, Xie Huayang's brows suddenly relaxed.

"Interesting... somewhat interesting." He said with a smile, no one knew what he was thinking.

"Well, I have to tell you...your findings are correct."

"However, the boundary between safety and danger becomes blurred when you think about the problem. If you accidentally cross the line, you're doomed. So how can you ensure that you don't cross the line?"

Lin Yi shook his head slightly: "I haven't thought about this issue yet."

"You kid..." Xie Huayang put away his sarcastic expression, rubbed his temple, and then said, "Although I don't like smart people, but I still find it interesting to have someone like you in my boring life."

"Let me give you some hints."

"If you really want to think about something but don't want to cross the line, then go think under the sun."

"Under the sun?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted and asked, "Is the weirdness of the campus related to the sunshine?"

"There is no direct relationship." Xie Huayang denied, "But, a sunny day is also a kind of weather, do you understand?"

“On sunny days, the safety of the campus is very high.”

Lin Yi asked again: "Can we only rely on the weather to determine whether a campus is safe or dangerous?"

"That's partly the reason. Of course, there are other reasons, such as..." Xie Huayang tugged at his sportswear, "We are more active during the day."

"A sports student?" Lin Yi asked tentatively, "Why?"

"Because during the day..." Xu Shunkang walked down. He looked at Lin Yi and said with a confident smile, "Then this is our home ground!"

Lin Yi opened his mouth and wanted to ask something, but Xie Huayang waved his hand and refused: "Okay, okay, you have too many questions. I tell you, you can only think about the things I am telling you now during the day. If it's night..."

"Unless you go back to the dormitory, it's easy to cross the line if you think too much. You know the consequences, haha."

Xu Shunkang patted Lin Yi on the shoulder and said, "Although, we still don't want you to think too much."

"According to my understanding, this campus has buried too many secrets since its establishment. The school probably doesn't want anyone to explore it, unless..."

"Unless what?" Wei Liang came over and asked cautiously.

"Why the hell did you come over here?" Xie Huayang glared at him, then showed a serious expression, lowered his voice, and threatened:

"Unless... you don't want to leave."

"Fuck!" Wei Liang was shocked. "What the hell do you mean you don't want to leave?"

Xu Shunkang spread his hands and said, "As the name suggests, it means 'not leaving'."

"Then...if I don't leave, what about the experience bonus?" Wei Liang asked secretly.

"Experience bonus?" Xu Shunkang was stunned, with a bewildered look in his eyes. He thought for a long time before digging out the information about the "experience bonus" from his memory, and then said speechlessly, "Twenty-five thousand for seven days? An extra three thousand per day for more than seven days, no upper limit... Is this what you are talking about?"

"That's not right. Isn't it 30,000 in seven days?" Wei Liang said.

"Ah? Thirty thousand in seven days? It has increased by five thousand?" Xie Huayang was stunned.

Wei Liang was speechless: "That's not right, hasn't it always been 30,000?"

Xie Huayang muttered "Fuck!" and then said seriously, "There is always a trial bonus, but if you don't leave within the specified time and are left here, what will happen even if you get the money?" Lin Yi asked doubtfully, "If you don't leave within seven days, will you be detained by the school?"

"Detain? Hahahaha..." Xie Huayang seemed to have heard a joke and couldn't help laughing out loud, "Listen to me, while it's still early, let's go!"

Xu Shunkang added seriously: "Leave now, before you are... ahem, before you encounter other problems. It's still not too late to follow the security guards to the school gate and get on the school bus."

Lin Yi shook his head and said, "But I still have roommates."

"Your roommate..." Xie Huayang thought of what Lin Yi said yesterday and attacked him mercilessly, "There's nothing we can do. They can only wish for the best for themselves, especially the one you mentioned yesterday who got separated from you."

Lin Yi lowered his head and looked at the ground, his brows furrowed.

"Take care of yourself!" Xu Shunkang patted him on the shoulder and prepared to walk back to his seat.

But at this moment, he suddenly discovered something, and his eyes suddenly became stern: "Damn it, something went wrong!"

He rushed to the side of the podium, squatted down and looked at the scattered sculpture fragments and the powder that had turned into shadows on the ground, with strong hostility in his eyes.

His throat rolled slightly and he uttered a deep voice: "Last night, a sculpture appeared in the classroom!"

"Damn!" Xie Huayang also rushed to the side of the podium, picked up a piece of sculpture fragment, put it between his nose and sniffed it, "The purity is not high, it should have started to transform recently, no wonder we didn't notice it at the beginning!"

"Wait, let's talk outside!" Xu Shunkang pointed at Lin Yi and Wei Liang, signaling Xie Huayang not to say it in front of outsiders.

The two left the classroom one after another and came to the corridor.

Looking at the figures reflected on the window glass, it was not difficult for Lin Yi to imagine that the two of them were having a heated discussion.

Wei Liang tugged at Lin Yi's clothes.

Lin Yi turned around and found Wei Liang handing over a few cookies with a smile: "Xie Huayang didn't take my cookies, I left some for you, hehehe."

Lin Yi asked the sky speechlessly: "Aren't you afraid of knowing too much? Why do I feel like you were eavesdropping the whole time?"

Wei Liang quickly shook his head and said seriously: "I didn't hear anything...really."

Lin Yi thought of all the tricks Wei Liang had displayed along the way, and could only helplessly say, "Just believe it yourself."

Wei Liang shrank his neck and laughed dryly: "Hehehe... How are you going to spend your morning classes? Read comics, or... novels?"

Lin Yi said without hesitation: "Let's go get some sun."

Wei Liang was stunned, but immediately understood Lin Yi's idea.

"Let's sunbathe...just let's sunbathe." Wei Liang said, and was about to walk out of the classroom.

"Liangzi, wait a minute!" Lin Yi said, "Don't leave the classroom! Let's go to the window to bask in the sun."

Although the courses on campus are just formalities, “attending class” itself is also a form.

You are not allowed to leave the classroom during class.

Even during the day.

……

X023年5月7日，9:43。

Group B, Class 2, the row by the window.

The clear yellow sunlight poured in through the window. Lin Yi and Wei Liang sat in the sun reading. The warm sunlight gradually dispelled the coldness that had accumulated overnight and made them feel warm.

While Wei Liang was looking for comics at the bookshelf, Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then reached into his pocket and took out two folded pieces of paper.

One of the slips was a note he had torn off, which read:
[Thinking about confusing things will make you feel tired, and tiredness will make you sleepy, and sleepiness will attract classmates (it is said that the dormitory is a place to sleep. I will think about more problems when I return to the dormitory. Now I just record them.)]

Lin Yi looked at what he had written on the paper, thought of what Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang had said, and folded the paper again.

He now has the answer to the question written down on this piece of paper.

"Thinking on campus can be roughly divided into two parts. One is thinking about normal situations..."

"The other is to think about those 'unreasonable' things, including but not limited to: the problem of street lights in the fog, and..."

He snapped his fingers.

"etc……"

He reopened the folded paper, recalled yesterday's events, and wrote down some questions on the back, which he would think about during the day.

"Just remember a few questions:"

"1. The strange situation on campus seems to be related to the weather and time period, and will change with the time period."

"What is known at present is that the campus is safe on sunny days (under the sun) (from a sports student, the accuracy has not been verified yet)..."

He underlined the words in brackets and continued:
“The campus under abnormal weather (currently known to be rain and fog) is eerie and dangerous.”

"The street lights will light up in foggy weather, but the spacing is weird, some are very close and some are very far away..."

"When walking towards the street lights, there will be voices calling, footsteps and a rustling sound behind you (never look back in abnormal weather (after writing this sentence, Lin Yi added a wave of underlining))..."

“The reason for the above situation is not yet known.”

Having written this, Lin Yijiang straightened his back, stroked his chin, and organized the second thing he wanted to write down in his mind.

As he thought, he turned the pen and then subconsciously glanced out the window.

Suddenly, his pupils began to fluctuate violently.

Since S City University is located in a mountainous area, many buildings are built following the direction of the mountains, and Teaching Building B is no exception.

On one side of Teaching Building B is a corridor, at the end of which is a neatly trimmed green belt.

And in the green forest belt, he suddenly saw... a sculpture.

It was a broken sculpture. The creator had used exaggerated skill to carve a pair of wide-open eyes and an open mouth for it, and used a struggling and twisted expression to portray a terrifying expression filled with fear.

Just by taking a look at it, one can seem to feel a strong sense of horror and suffocation through the sculpture.

Lin Yi's pupils had dilated with fear, because the sculpture looked exactly like someone in his memory!
The little genius who was killed by his classmates last night and disappeared!

(End of this chapter)