Chapter 59: The foggy student passage
Chapter 59: The foggy student passage (1100 words added)
Lin Yi opened his mouth, but finally gave up the idea of asking further questions.
The sports student glanced at the student passage and reminded, "It's getting late, you should leave as well... Otherwise, you won't be able to leave the cafeteria when the fog starts to rise."
After saying that, he carried his plaster arm and walked along the edge of the cafeteria towards other passages.
"Fog?" Lin Yi was stunned. He looked in the direction the gym student had just looked and was stunned on the spot.
I saw a layer of fog in the student passage at some point. The fog was not very thick, but under the illumination of the incandescent lights in the student passage, the entire student passage looked like a steamy bathhouse.
The steps nearby are still clearly visible, but the middle and rear sections gradually extend into the fog and can no longer be seen clearly.
As for the exit, it was even more blurry. There was only a pitch-black shadow, like a giant with its mouth wide open blocking that side. Looking from here, even with the light of an incandescent lamp, you couldn't see anything clearly.
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment...
His intuition told him that if he walked into this student passage alone today, he would basically not be able to leave.
He had gotten lost on the way to the gym before, so now God knew where this passage led.
"Why hasn't Liangzi come out yet?" he muttered.
Just as this thought came to his mind, the plastic curtain behind him was suddenly opened, and Wei Liang rushed out panting, patting Lin Yi's shoulder and panting:
"Lao Lin, are you okay? I just saw it! Did you learn Qinggong? How come you jumped so fast? I couldn't catch up with you!"
As he spoke, he was breathing heavily.
Feeling the hot air almost spraying against his ears, Lin Yi finally felt a little calmer.
"You saw it?!" Lin Yi asked in surprise.
"I saw it!" Wei Liang nodded seriously. "A few green-looking chefs suddenly appeared from nowhere and rushed towards you like crazy. Then I saw you run away!"
"Then do you see what's behind me?" Lin Yi asked.
"Yes!" Wei Liang said, "A chef, I think he was wearing a green bib! I saw him following you to the door, and then he got hit and ran away!"
Lin Yi secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but he was still a little confused. Wei Liang saw him being chased, but he was not hurt at all? What was going on?
But Wei Liang seemed to be just relaying a fact he saw.
"I'm glad to see that you're okay." Wei Liang said with relief, "Why are you still frowning?"
Lin Yi shook his head: "Nothing."
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly asked, "Loli has three good points!"
Wei Liang was stunned.
Then, she looked at him with a strange expression: "Uh... light and flexible, easy to... push down?"
"Are you okay?" He reached out and touched Lin Yi's forehead.
"It's okay, it's okay. I'll give you a secret signal to see if it's you." Lin Yi shook his head.
"I thought you had switched from the Black Silk Royal Sister Cult to my White Silk Lolita Cult..." Wei Liang curled his lips and muttered softly.
Lin Yi's mouth twitched, and he did not continue the topic, but quickly got back to the point:
"Liangzi, we have to leave quickly. The passage is foggy."
Wei Liang was startled when he heard this, then he immediately looked towards the student passage, and then he was startled as usual, and shouted "Fuck!", then he suddenly realized something, patted his chest and comforted Lin Yi:
"Oh my gosh, you scared me!"
"Don't panic, don't panic. This concentration of fog is normal. It's just a small incident..."
"Oh?" Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in surprise, "Any explanation?"
"You are panicking when the visibility is only several dozen meters. Come on, follow me." Although Wei Liang said this, there was a hint of worry in his eyes. "Come on, if you don't leave now, it will be too late when the fog gets thicker."
"But..." Lin Yi hesitated, "The student code says...when encountering abnormal and foggy weather, shouldn't the first thing to do be to find a nearby building to take shelter?"
"That's true, but Lao Lin, look..." Wei Liang pointed to other areas, "This isn't 'abnormal weather'!"
Lin Yi was slightly surprised and looked in the direction Wei Liang pointed out.
I saw——
The sun had already set, and the campus was now shrouded in darkness. All the vegetation looked like distorted human figures, and a thin mist was spreading out from between the mountains and forests.
But despite this, the view is not blurry...
There was fog in other places, but not much.
There was only the student passage, and seemingly due to design problems, a large amount of fog had already gathered in the passage as soon as it got dark today.
Obviously - this does not conform to the description of abnormal weather in the student code at all.
"Lao Lin, you are like a frightened bird, and you are having wild thoughts." Wei Liang comforted him, "Don't panic, I have walked this student passage many times, I am very familiar with it, put your hand on my shoulder, and I will lead you."
Lin Yi did not hesitate and nodded immediately: "Okay."
"Let's go!" Wei Liang took the lead.
Lin Yi put his hand on his shoulder and glanced at his watch.
18: 20.
The two of them walked into the student passage one after another.
……
On the pillar of the student cafeteria, the broken arm of the green-bibbed chef has disappeared, and instead, there is an arm sculpture that is exactly the same as the broken arm and is completely carved out of plaster.
The arm sculpture is lifelike, and on the back of its hand, one can even clearly see the slightly raised blood vessels. At the broken part, one can also see a blood-like stone sculpture dripping downwards.
……
May day, X023, 5:18.
The moment he entered the student passage, a cold breath accompanied by a thin mist slowly enveloped Lin Yi. A slight feeling of discomfort gently stimulated all the pores on Lin Yi's body, making him feel a resistance to the student passage.
At this moment, Lin Yi's hair stood on end and a chill ran down his spine. He felt as if he was being watched...
It was a cold, indifferent gaze without any unnecessary emotion, like a lion crawling on the ground staring at your back in a daze, like some unimaginable existence, inadvertently taking one more look at you.
"Is it... the blue bib chef who's 'there but not quite there'?"
"Or something else...?"
When this guess popped up in his mind, he suddenly had the idea of turning around and taking a look.
Once this idea came into being, it grew wildly and uncontrollably and turned into a strong desire.
But he immediately developed a stronger desire to curb:
"Don't look back! Absolutely! Absolutely don't look back!"
He clenched his teeth, and rationally restrained this desire with firm will. He felt the warmth of Wei Liang's shoulder on the palm of his hand, maintained an even breathing, and followed him down the stairs of the student passage step by step.
Walking step by step, Lin Yi silently counted the steps in his heart.
When he counted to the thirty-sixth step, every step he took down felt quieter.
This kind of silence is not normal, it's like the whole world has lowered its tone, making certain subtle sounds even louder...
“Ku…Ku…Ku…”
He could clearly hear the sound of his feet stepping on each step, the sound of his already slow heartbeat, the sound of the fog slowly spreading, and the sound of the cold air spreading on the cold walls of the student passage...
He heard an extremely subtle sound of flowing water coming from the inner wall of the student passage, like water flowing out of the cracks in the stone bricks, slowly sliding down the cracks, and then dripping on... the moss.
"moss……"
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly.
"Is this the environmental factor that nourishes moss?"
"That's not right. Where did the water come from in the student corridor?"
"Wait... Could it be that the non-existent water has infiltrated the student passage through the fog?"
His nostrils flared, and he vaguely smelled a... light, salty, and slightly fishy scent in the student corridor.
The breath of the sea.
“Fuck! Here it comes again!”
He rubbed his temple violently, controlling himself from thinking too much and focusing on following Wei Liang.
But Wei Liang's speed also began to slow down, as if every step he took was a result of a lot of calculations.
He followed silently. If he got lost at this time, there would be no recovery!
His world became increasingly quiet, but the sounds he could hear clearly also increased… The extreme of quietness is noise, and the end of noise is that it is as if the whole world has left you and suddenly every subtle sound has been stuffed into your brain.
He heard the sound of feet hitting the steps. Wei Liang's footsteps made a "broad, broad, broad" sound because he was wearing ill-fitting shoes, while his footsteps were slightly lighter...
He heard the sound of a faint breeze blowing from a distant world, with the sound of some waves and bubbles rising from the sand...
He heard a rustling sound.
Not behind you, but everywhere.
The sound came from the inner wall of the student passage. Under the thin mist, he seemed to see some slight distortion of the wall. Not only was there a trickle of water on the wall, but also some strange relief outlines with abstract lines were faintly emerging...
That outline... twisted and squirmed, as if performing some ancient ritual. Just by looking at that outline, one would be eager to get closer and take a closer look...
Lin Yi didn't dare to look any longer, and quickly retracted his gaze, fixing his eyes firmly on Wei Liang's back.
The fog was getting thicker and thicker, and Lin Yi detected more and more sounds, but there was nothing useful in these sounds. It was as if the noise of the entire world was stuffed into his brain.
He gradually found it difficult to breathe, and he was suffocated by this nothingness.
The lights in the student passage became increasingly blurred in the fog. If he hadn't firmly believed that Wei Liang could lead him out of the passage, he would have been holding on to the inner wall of the student passage and lost himself in a dark corner...
He was still counting the stairs, but he had forgotten whether he had counted to the seventieth or the ninetieth step.
All he remembered was that he kept walking down the stairs.
His hand was always on Wei Liang's shoulder.
The fog grew thicker and the sounds became clearer. The shadows cast by the incandescent lamps were distorted by the fog, forming a chaotic patch of shadows on the wall, like dancing claws, following closely behind them, as if they would be swallowed by them as soon as they stopped.
Lin Yi felt that his breathing was becoming more and more difficult. The diffuse mist was like the rising water surface, gradually eroding his breathing space and prying his will.
Just when he felt that his will was about to sink, the mist that was blowing towards him suddenly became thinner like clouds, and the evening breeze blew on his face, and his chaotic vision suddenly became clear...
Led by Wei Liang, he walked out of the student passage.
"One hundred steps, no more, no less!" Wei Liang wiped the sweat from his forehead, his back was already wet.
He turned around and looked at Lin Yi, patted the latter's somewhat cold hands, and said with a sigh of relief, "I got out of it." Then he became giggling again and said proudly, "So what? Brother Xinliang will have eternal life!"
After a few shots, Lin Yi seemed to have returned to his body and came out of that strange state.
Just like a person who has been squatting for a long time and suddenly stands up, so that the blood cannot be transported to the head in time, Lin Yi's brain went blank for a short time, and his ears also disappeared for a short time...
After he recovered, his vision, hearing, touch and smell gradually returned to normal.
……
May 023, X5, the exit of the student passage.
A gust of evening breeze blew, and the cool air dispelled all of Lin Yi's suffocating feelings. He felt refreshed, his ears and eyes were sharp, and the dirty air that had been accumulated in his chest was completely cleared away.
He glanced at his watch, and his clear mind suddenly froze.
18: 24.
“18:24…?”
"Only 18:24?!"
He remembered that it was 18:20 before he entered the student passage, so this long passage that seemed to take a century actually only took... four minutes?!
Four minutes?
He felt like forty minutes was about the same!
"What's up, Fatty? Are you still in a daze?" Wei Liang waved his hand in front of Lin Yi's eyes, "Wake up, wake up, we've already walked out!"
Lin Yi asked doubtfully, "Liangzi, how long have you been anxious for us to walk?"
"How long have you walked? You mean... this passage?"
"Yes."
"Maybe maybe... a few minutes?" Wei Liang hesitated, "I feel like you seem a bit claustrophobic, and you were very nervous when you followed me... You didn't feel like you were walking for a very long time, did you?"
Lin Yi said: "It feels like we have been walking for a long time."
"People with claustrophobia will feel uncomfortable in that kind of environment, so it's normal to have some abnormal reactions." He patted his chest and said, "I took you downstairs without stopping."
"If the fog wasn't so thick, I was afraid you might slip and slowed down a bit, we could have come down in a minute or two."
"Anyway, it's okay now!"
"Claustrophobia...?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. "Why would I have claustrophobia?"
He turned around to take a look at the student passage, only to see that it was filled with fog, with the light and shadow presenting a morbid and distorted feeling. It looked like a mine passage hundreds of meters underground that was covered with dust particles.
Depressing, suffocating, maddening and chilling.
Lin Yi frowned slightly, but immediately shook his head.
Night has fallen, so let’s not think about so many things for now.
He and Wei Liang took off their clothes and examined them carefully, making sure that there was no ketchup on them before putting them back on.
The two walked over to the sign, returned the cafeteria rules, and left the cafeteria area.
……
X023年5月7日，18:33，校区道路上。
As night fell, a thin layer of fog filled the campus, and a layer of dry ice floated on the cobblestone road.
This is the norm on the mountain campus. In Wei Liang's words, there is no need to be alert when the fog is below a certain concentration, but at any time do not stay on the campus roads for too long - especially do not get close to green belts and shrub areas.
The simplest way is to quickly return to the building. For example, you can go back to the classroom after dinner now, stay in the classroom until it is almost time and then go to the dormitory.
The dormitory stipulates that the allowed return time is between 21:00 and 22:00 in the evening.
Students are not allowed to leave the classroom after 21:00.
In other words, as long as the weather is normal at night, that is, there is no heavy fog or rain, you can leave the classroom at around 20:30 and rush to the dormitory to wash up and go to bed.
This is the experience that the senior passed on to Wei Liang.
The two walked along the cobblestone road with street lights on, and soon arrived in front of the teaching building.
The fog was not very thick tonight. With the help of the street lamps, Lin Yi could clearly see the layout of the fourth floor of the teaching building.
The teaching building is an ordinary teaching building, and the incandescent lamps are also simple incandescent lamps. From a distance, one can vaguely see people walking in the corridor and entering their respective classrooms.
There is a teacher's office at the door of each class, and next to Class 1 and Class 3, there is a staircase and a toilet.
There are no seven or eight-story teaching buildings. There are only four four-story teaching buildings.
Lin Yi shook his head helplessly, feeling that the seven or eight-story teaching building yesterday seemed to have appeared in a dream.
"It's not you, wait!!"
Lin Yi suddenly realized something, and his whole body stopped abruptly in the distance.
"Four buildings... Four floors? Why did I say four buildings?!"
He looked suddenly towards the teaching building.
The moonlight sprinkled on the mountainous area, and the whole mountain seemed to be covered with a layer of silver frost. Thick white fog diffused from the depths of the forest, and only a thin layer was left in front of the teaching building.
As for the teaching building... from near to far, there are only one, two, three... four...
Four?!
"Fourth... the fourth teaching building?!"
Lin Yi looked at the back of Teaching Building C as if he had seen a ghost, and saw that a long covered bridge had extended out from the back of Building C at some point in time. The covered bridge continued to extend until it disappeared in the thick fog.
And under the thick fog, the vague outline of the fourth teaching building can be vaguely seen.
It was a building with an extremely wild and abstract style, standing at the junction of moonlight and gray fog, giving people a strong sense of dreamy unreality visually.
It's like a mirage, a castle in the air.
It also looks like a reflection of a chaotic world.
Under the moonlight, a shadow of a clock tower can be vaguely seen on the fourth building...
Add 1100 words for the leader "Yuanyue Yuqinghui" (Meower)!!
I still owe more than 5000 words (more than 4000 for Miaoer + 555 for Street Light No. 1000)... [I have a cold, so I think the speed of paying back the debt will slow down recently...]
(End of this chapter)