Chapter 37 The Call of the Art Building
Chapter 37 The Call of the Art Building
X023年5月7日，13:24，教学楼B栋。
Lin Yi stood in front of the steps like a sculpture, his gaze focused on the moss in the cracks of the steps, but his eyes were empty, as if his soul had been hooked away.
"Sure enough, there is moss. Sure enough, there is moss..." He kept repeating this sentence, and no one knew what he was thinking.
A gentle breeze blew from the foothills surrounding the campus, brushing slowly past his ears. The leaves in the forest rustled, and for a moment it was hard to tell whether it was the sound of leaves rustling or the sound of waves hitting the reefs...
“Whew, wow, wow…”
“Whew, wow… bang~”
“Wow—Bang!”
“Wow—Bang!”
Lin Yi was in a trance, his pupils began to dilate, and the focus of his eyes became blurred...
All that was left in his sight was a patch of dark green moss covered in mud, and the moss... gradually twisted.
“Wow—Bang!”
The sound of the waves was still there, as if it was right beside his ears.
“Hualala——”
The breeze at the foot of the mountain suddenly became wild, tearing his clothes madly like a pair of hands.
He became like a person standing on the cusp of a storm, as if he could embrace the sea with his arms outstretched.
“Wow—wow—”
The waves were getting bigger and bigger, the sunlight above Lin Yi's head was getting dimmer and dimmer, a terrible storm was gathering above his head, and it seemed as if a storm was about to come.
“Boom—Kaa!!!”
A pure white lightning appeared in the storm, as if someone had struck the sky with a giant axe, and a huge crack appeared in the sky.
Lin Yi was awakened by the thunder. He looked up at the crack...
"?!" His eyes widened and his mouth opened slightly.
The thunder froze in front of him, the storm stopped in front of him, and the torn sky in front of him was like a scroll drawn in the depths of the sky...
It was as if someone grabbed a corner of the scroll and tore it off with all their strength, and the broken blank space formed a frozen thunder.
Behind the broken picture, he saw a clock tower, a school district, and a person standing on the school district looking up at the sky. That was...
he.
He was standing in front of the teaching building.
He is looking up at the sky.
He was overlooking the moss.
He didn't know what he was doing, but his eyes were meeting "him" at this moment.
"I……?!"
Lin Yi felt an unprecedented dizziness, as if he was looking down at the earth from the clouds, or as if he was hanging upside down on a cliff and staring into the abyss.
He opened his mouth wide, his heart already filled with turmoil.
"That's me?"
"Then who am I?!"
"That's the teaching building... then... where am I?!"
He stumbled back a step, looking at his hands in panic.
The skin on his hands was a little dark, and his wrists were thinner than "my own". Judging from his palms alone, he was a rather thin person.
"Wait, my clothes...?"
Lin Yi noticed his cuffs. It was a loose yellow sweater, not what he wore, but he felt an indescribable familiarity to it.
He grabbed the piece of cloth on his chest and pulled it up, confirming again and again that it was not his clothes.
He touched his face.
The face is a bit square.
People are also a bit square.
"I...how am I not me?"
He looked at the broken picture in horror and fear, looking through the blankness of thunder, staring at the campus in the blankness, looking for "himself" in front of the teaching building in the campus...
"etc……?!"
“That teaching building…!!”
He suddenly realized something!
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven... eight!"
"Eighth floor!"
"Eight-story teaching building!!"
[The teaching building only has four floors, and now there are four more floors?! ]
"Me! Where am I? Am I dreaming?!"
Lin Yi looked around.
Around him... was a castle-like building full of Gothic style.
The sharp tower, the arc-shaped roof covered with colorful prismatic glass, the dark bell tower, the dim moonlight, and... the night crow squatting on the top of the bell tower.
"I'm... in a castle?"
"Rumble--"
There was a whirlwind in the sky, and thunder rumbled within the storm.
“Wow—wow—”
The waves beneath his feet continued to wash over the reefs.
He rushed to the cold, moss-grown blue-grey bricks of the castle and craned his neck to look down.
A cliff.
This damn castle is built on a damn cliff.
Beneath the steep, moss-covered cliffs was a reef filled with vapor and mist.
Beyond the Reef…
It is a sea shrouded in thick gray fog.
He found that there seemed to be a quagmire at the junction of the reef and the cliff wall. The fishy, disgusting and nauseating smell mixed with the sea breeze that poured into his mouth came from that quagmire.
Although they were at a terrifying distance, he could still clearly see the rotten fish and shrimp, crab shells and fish bones piled up in the mud...
“Gulp…”
He swallowed and stumbled back.
“Ka…da!”
He knocked over an easel, and the canvas and paint fell to the ground.
He looked around in panic and suddenly found a large number of rough words painted in yellow paint on the brick wall of the castle.
In a dim environment, such words are out of place in the atmosphere.
The distorted words and the rough lines seemed to be...
【Welcome to the Art Building. 】
Lin Yi's pupils shrank to the size of a pinhole at this moment. A cyclone of air rushed wildly through his body and then poured into his head, leaving his brain blank.
"Art Building!"
"This is... the Art Building?!"
"I'm in...the art building?!"
He was already dizzy, and a strong feeling emerged in his heart, telling him that he was here.
“No, no, no, no!!!”
"I'm not in the art building! I'm in front of the teaching building. I just finished my meal. I... I just returned to the classroom with Liangzi!"
He kept recalling everything. He looked up at the sky, trying to find the blank space torn by the thunder!
He felt like a ship that was about to be blown out of the harbor by a storm, and he needed to drop his anchor hard.
But there was a gloomy air lingering in the dark sky, the moonlight was shining on the brick walls of the castle, and the cold air made his limbs chill.
There was no storm or thunder in the sky.
"How... could this happen?" His head felt swollen and painful, as if something was about to burst through his brain.
A cold air rushed in from all directions, and the white sea mist spread up from under the cliff, embracing him.
He touched the faded disc that had fallen to the ground.
He saw the picture that had fallen to the ground.
The picture showed a bell tower shrouded in a storm, with thunder tearing through half of the sky.
The broken painting was exactly the sky he saw.
Deep in the sky... is the campus of S City University.
A sentence popped up in his mind:
"When you gaze into the abyss... the abyss will swallow you up."
He muttered to himself, his eyes were panicked, and his gaze drifted left and right, faster and faster.
"I……"
Just as the mist was about to embrace him, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then slowly squatted down and whispered firmly:
"I'm in front of the teaching building."
"My name is Lin Yi..."
"My student number is X0230506098..."
"I'm in front of the teaching building."
"My name is Lin Yi..."
"My student number is X0230506098..."
"I'm in front of the teaching building..."
He squatted down, and his fingers touched something sticky and wet...
He opened his eyes.
At the foot of the stairs in Teaching Building B, Lin Yi squatted down, touching the moss with his fingers.
"I... am in front of the teaching building." He murmured, his tone was light and soft, but extremely firm.
He looked at the moss with a determined gaze, and deep in his eyes, some light seemed to fade away.
"Old...Old Lin?" Wei Liang's trembling voice sounded behind him.
Wei Liang's hands were hanging in the air, giving people a hesitant feeling as if he wanted to take a picture but didn't dare to.
"Are you... okay?"
He gently placed his hand on Lin Yi's shoulder, feeling the warmth from Lin Yi's shoulder to his palm, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
"call……"
"I... had a little problem." Lin Yi immediately realized that something was wrong and said, "But it's okay now."
"That's good, that's good." Wei Liang patted his chest and said, "Then let's go back to the classroom and take a rest. After eating and taking a walk, it's better to sit down and rest."
Wei Liang walked up the stairs to the classroom door.
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at his watch.
13: 25.
Only a minute had passed, but it felt like an hour.
"Liangzi, do you remember what happened to me just now?" He walked up the stairs, confirmed the classroom door number "Group B Class 2", and asked while reaching out to open the door.
Wei Liang said, "You scared me just now. I don't know what happened to you. I just saw you standing at the bottom of the stairs in a daze."
"You were in a daze for a while, then you looked up at the sky and down at your feet... and then after a few seconds, you squatted down."
"Why? You have no impression of it?"
Lin Yi opened his mouth, then shook his head helplessly: "Maybe I had low blood sugar and couldn't stand steadily..."
"I think so too." Wei Liang nodded, but still did not mention the fact that Lin Yi's body had turned cold.
After entering the classroom, Lin Yi found a seat by the window where the sun shone. After sitting down, he took out the small notebook from his pocket.
This small notebook contains his notes, and he now plans to use the lunch break to verify the notes he had written before and add some new discoveries.
But just as he was about to open the notebook, he caught a glimpse of green out of the corner of his eye.
That is the green belt outside teaching building B.
He glanced over there, then turned his attention back to Xiaoben...
"Um?!"
He suddenly shifted his gaze back and stared at the green forest belt.
After searching for a while without any results, his brows relaxed suddenly and he felt his heart sink.
The sculpture of the little genius was there in the morning.
But now it's gone.
"In the time it takes to eat a meal, the sculpture disappeared?"
"Everyone is going to eat, who would go move the sculpture?"
But the sculpture is gone!
"Is it possible that he can run away on his own?"
Lin Yi felt very strange.
He thought again of the feeling of being watched from behind when he walked towards the employee passage and along the tree-lined avenue...
I also thought of the whistling wind blowing out from the forest, as if it was hiding a lot of weird guys.
He shook his shoulders and felt a chill.
He looked up at the sky.
The cloud eventually drifted away, and the sun cast its warm rays onto his body, dispelling the coldness he had been feeling.
He calmed himself down and then turned his attention to the small notebook in his hand.
He opened the notebook, and the notes he had written before appeared in front of him again, with traces of scribbling and corrections:
———[Considering the suspicion of watering down the word count, I put the previous note in the description of this chapter, and you can see it by clicking it (I am so conscientious...)]——
He read through the previous notes from beginning to end, and after confirming that there was nothing that needed to be altered, he turned the page, recalled the experience of leaving the teaching building, going to the cafeteria to eat, and then returning home, and began to supplement the records from the 10th note.
During this time, he hesitated for a while about the fifth point [The sports student "seems (the word "seems" was erased)" to be a good person, so believe what the sports student said.], and then gave up adding.
He flipped back to read Article 5 again, then turned back and wrote:
"10. Physical exercise can help you deal with things that are not right."
"Under the sun, the athletes are very strong. (I don't know if every athlete has a bat.)"
Then, I started writing:
"11. The food in the cafeteria is the same as the blood packs in the game. It has a purification effect. As long as the weather is good, you must go to the cafeteria to eat."
"Go through the [student passage] to the student cafeteria on the first floor, line up at the No. 3 window to buy food and eat. When you are finished, put down your tray and leave immediately through the [student passage]."
After writing this sentence, he thought about the green-bibbed chef coming out of the No. 10 dry food window, so he thought about it and changed the last half of the sentence to: "After finishing your meal and putting down your plate, immediately run to the [student passage] to leave the cafeteria."
Then he added:
“Whether you encounter a green bib chef, a blue bib chef, or anyone else sitting next to you, just ignore it.”
Then wrote:
"12. If you step on the green bib chefs and those students who are not right, your shoes will be stained with ketchup."
He thought for a moment: "If that's the case, then theoretically they could get ketchup on them if they counterattack?"
Thinking about the need to throw away clothes or other items stained with ketchup, Lin Yi thought for a moment and added:
"Try to avoid them and don't fight them... maybe you can ask the sports students for help?"
He twirled his pen and thought for a while, then decided that there was nothing wrong with that, so he continued writing:
"13. The trash can is at the entrance of the employee passage, which leads to the cafeteria on the underground first floor."
"If you're going to throw your trash in a trash can, don't waste time, just throw it in quickly and leave as soon as you're done."
"Oh yeah! I almost forgot the most important point!"
Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he quickly wrote:
“14. Ketchup turns into gypsum in the sun (the reason is unknown at the moment).”
[Note: There is no time travel in this book, so everything the protagonist sees and hears is... you can just guess. I hope you are in a normal state when reading the first part of this chapter. Anyway, I didn't feel normal when I wrote it...]
Thanks to book friends "墨灵鱼" and "阿哲是我" for their tips!!
(End of this chapter)