Chapter 68 Horrifying Auditory Hallucinations

Lin Yi took a heavy step forward.

When he took this step, the whole world in Lin Yi's perspective was crumbling. He knew that his vision was finally starting to have problems. In this broken light and shadow and distorted gray world, it was really difficult to make the vision appear normal.

He kept telling himself, "I am a student, my name is Lin Yi, and my student ID is X0230506098." He focused all his attention on the "Dormitory Building-096" lamppost.

He took a step, and it was like stepping on a link in a gear.

The twisting gears drove the puzzle pieces that made up the world. The lampposts in front of me folded in all directions like blooming petals, along with their bases and cobblestone roads. In the end, the whole world seemed to have lost its X, Y, and Z axes and turned into a ball of soft dough.

Lin Yi felt like he was walking through a quagmire; every step he took was extremely difficult.

He could feel that "Dormitory Building-095" was disappearing behind him, while "Dormitory Building-096" was still far ahead.

He walked forward step by step, and the ground beneath his feet began to lose its own characteristics.

When his feet landed, a dense, spider-web-like crack clearly expanded outward from the junction of his feet and the ground.

However, this phenomenon should have given him a feeling of walking on thin ice, but he felt as if he was stepping on a glutinous rice ball.

It was soft and sticky, and even had a strange feeling of imbalance. I almost fell down accidentally.

He clenched his teeth so hard that his back teeth were almost broken due to his excessive force.

He breathed heavily, with hot air coming out from his mouth and nose, and a low roar began to come from his throat.

As if he could really sense his heat wave that was like a steam locomotive, Wei Liang's hands that were tightly grasping his shoulders subconsciously loosened a little, as if they were scalded.

"Don't let go!"

Lin Yi held Wei Liang's hand.

"I said I'd take you away, so I'll take you away!"

He stared at the "Dormitory Building-096" lamppost in front of him, and a difficult but firm voice came out from his throat.

At this moment, the dark white mist surged wildly, twisting and turning outside the distorted and broken light field with its fangs and claws bared.

Under the light, the overlapping mists were following Lin Yi's back like dark tentacles. They did not exist, but Lin Yi seemed to have a sense in his heart, and he had a premonition that something unreasonable, strange and indescribable appeared behind him!

“Swish…”

Lin Yi seemed to have become the most delicious thing. He was like a beacon in the darkness, attracting one after another undisguised, greedy, evil, murderous gaze filled with pure malice and desire!

The abnormal weather finally arrived, and darkness came like a tide, sweeping in from all directions like a violent storm.

Lin Yi suddenly realized that the twisted and soft "cobblestone road" under his feet became slippery and sticky. He guessed something, and he also had a premonition of something, but his will had already become much tougher than 24 hours ago after a day of tempering. He told himself immediately:

"I'm almost at the dorm building, screw the abnormal weather!"

He didn't dare to look at what the road under his feet had become, nor did he dare to think about anything related to it.

He had been wrapped in the icy wind, and the whistling wind carried the sound of swirling air currents. A faint slapping sound seeped through the cyclone, like the sound of waves crashing on reefs and breaking into countless pieces of water.

In the sound waves that broke into pieces, there was a faint mixture of some completely discontinuous evil noise.

Wild beasts have their own roars, plants have their own sounds, mountains, rocks and waves all have different melodies. However, when the sounds of nature become entangled and twisted together, and the howling wind tears out another completely different and strange melody, a creepy feeling instantly envelops Lin Yi's heart like a tide.

The low roars and sharp whistles are like storms of pain surging out from an endless abyss. They sing wildly in the frenzy of the night, as if exuding some weird, manic, and crazy sense of ritual.

Lin Yi, whose whole body was gushing with heat, seemed to be pulled into a violent storm. A strong feeling of suffocation enveloped him. He gradually felt his limbs becoming cold, and the chill gathered on his spine. He stretched out his hand towards the lamppost of "Dormitory Building-096" with difficulty. The sobbing sea breeze roared in his ears, and the invisible spiral was about to devour his soul.

In his trance, Lin Yi caught some sounds that he shouldn't have heard. These sounds were mixed in the storm of pain, as if they came from some extremely distant, abandoned and ruined world. They seemed to be composed of dull, dry, ancient scales that could not be described in words, sometimes sharp and sometimes low, like a witch chanting some soul-destroying, creepy words or rituals with crying and hoarse voices:

"I AvgruNnen av tKe og mrke jaGer forTapte Sjeler fanTome"

This unreasonable and unbearable sound wave seemed to tear his spirit apart. At the critical moment, Lin Yi's wartime response instinctively began to take over the control of his body, and a low roar began to emanate from his throat.

"go!"

He stared intently at the only beacon in the twisted, collapsed and shattered space ahead - the "Dormitory Building-096" lamppost. A faint golden light floated in the depths of his dark eyes, as if the light was reflected into his eyes.

It was like a cluster of red-gold flames was ignited.

"Let's go! Lao Lin...let's go!!!"

Lin Yi seemed to hear Wei Shan's voice in his ears, and a force as heavy as a mountain seemed to appear on his back. He burst out with strength from nowhere, and took Wei Liang to break free from the dark tentacles entangled by the shadows, and rushed towards the lamppost of "Dormitory Building-096"!

"bump!"

Each of his steps was powerful and he firmly believed that this was the "only" way.

The sound of the wind in his ears grew stronger and stronger, and the sound of the waves twisted and hit back, trying to drag him into a deeper abyss, but his firm steps pushed his resolute figure forward, gradually transcending the entanglement of darkness.

"Five meters... three meters... two meters..."

"Lao Lin!" Mao Feiyang's surprised voice suddenly rang out from behind him, "Lao Lin!"

Lin Yi paused slightly.

"Maozi...? No, Old Lin, you damn it! Maozi is not here at all!"

He rushed to break through the last meter of distance in one go, stretched out his hand and firmly grasped the "Dormitory Building-096" lamppost in front of him.

At the moment when his hand grasped the streetlight pole of "Dormitory Building-096", the brief moment seemed to become extremely long, and countless broken and shattered lights and shadows began to shrink towards the junction of his palm and the streetlight pole at a speed beyond perception.

It was like the Big Bang was played backwards at a speed visible to the naked eye. It was only a matter of a second, but the broken pieces were restored, the twisted lines returned to normal, the chaotic picture was filled with order, and his world once again had the X, Y, and Z axes with a strong sense of space...

In a trance, Lin Yi found that he and Wei Liang were standing in front of the lamppost of "Dormitory Building-096".

There is a normal cobblestone road under your feet, and there is a lamppost on the other side of the road.

Outside the lights, it was dark and foggy. Leaves rustled in the greenbelt, and the moonlight overhead was thin and eventually blocked by the fog.

But under the fog, the solemn and dignified dormitory building stood in front of him like a tall tower. The dormitory building was extremely tall, extending into the depths of the clouds. A quick glance showed that it was at least more than 20 stories high.

At the same time, he suddenly discovered that there was a large crowd of people gathered in front of the dormitory building, who seemed to be other people rushing to the dormitory building.

He quickly looked down at his watch.

20: 51.

“20:51…?!”

"Only... eight minutes?!"

He felt like he was struggling to move forward in time, he felt like he was even traveling through an endless world after destruction.

That period of time seemed to be millions of years long, but... only eight minutes had passed?

"Depend on……"

He thought of the teacher's admonition:

"Sometimes, having too clear a concept of time can limit your cognition. Especially when you are traveling in fog."

"Damn, there's so much knowledge involved here that even the homeroom teacher is tight-lipped!"

"I can't think about these issues anymore at this time!"

He secretly spat and decided not to think about it for the time being.

At this moment, he suddenly felt that after breaking through the abnormal weather, Wei Liang's palms were recovering their temperature at a perceptible speed. Not long after, he walked out of the strange, cold corpse appearance and became like a human again.

"Liangzi...Liangzi?" He gently patted Wei Liang's hand and reminded him, "We are here."

"Uh, ah! Are we there yet?" Wei Liang felt as if time had been stopped. He was stunned for a moment, then shivered violently. He came to his senses in an instant and raised his eyes to see the dormitory building in front of him, standing like a stabilizing force in the dim moonlight and mist.

"F--- Shit!" Wei Liang's eyes were filled with shock, "Lao Lin, you... you really did it?!"

Lin Yi also breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he was not absolutely sure, because he could only say that he had some doubts about the roads on the campus, but he had not really thought about it much.

He had experienced the twisted ground several times during the day. Even the regular oval pebbles could be shaped into strange shapes by that indescribable force, not to mention the dark night when he came to the main place of fog.

Lin Yi actually has a very simple and conservative inference:
Since the campus is man-made, who would randomly place numbered items around when building something?

If that's the case, there's no need to include a number!

Since it has a number, it must have a meaning!

So what's the point?
It is a guide.

Think about it carefully, when do people need to use maps?
Of course it’s when you don’t know the road. When you can see the road clearly, what’s the use of a map?
It's broad daylight, just follow the street lights, who cares about whether they are numbered or not?
You only need a map when you don't know the way.

And just now was the time when I didn’t know the road.

On this map, the placement of the street lights is like grabbing a handful of thumbtacks and scattering them on the road, but when Lin Yi observed carefully, he found that all the street light poles have a communication pattern.

The lamp pole with the largest number will be built in front of the teaching building, and the one numbered "XXX-001" will be built at the edge of the area.

Therefore, Lin Yi has a conservative and crazy inference:

[When the roads in the campus undergo illogical changes such as stretching and twisting, the originally entangled street lamps will be stretched along with the ground...]

[One end of them is "XXX-001", and the other end is "XXX-099" or other larger numbers. In abnormal weather, ordinary roads will no longer exist. The only road left is the one with absolutely orderly numbers... from street lamp number to the highest numbered street lamp! ]

"Under normal circumstances, the space is twisted and folded. Under abnormal weather conditions, the originally folded and twisted space will slowly stretch out!"

"That's why the street lights are chaotic during the day, because when the day comes, the other street light poles and the ground they are on will shrink in the tangle!"

Like... some kind of magical sponge that hardens and softens.

Despite this, Lin Yi did not say a word about the nearly tortuous process, but simply said: "I did what I said."

"Hehehe, believe in Lao Lin and you will have eternal life." After leaving the range of fog, Wei Liang immediately became full of energy. The trembling and panic-stricken look he had earlier was gone, and the whole person seemed to be reborn.

He stuffed his tightly clutched student ID back into his pocket, then looked around with a grin and suddenly said, "Wow, it's only what time is it, why are there so many people?"

Hearing this, Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at his watch.

20: 53.

Only two minutes had passed.

everything is normal.

"20:53," he said.

Wei Liang quickly said, "It looks like the elevator won't be open for another seven minutes. Lao Lin, come on, I'll take you to get the dormitory building rules!"

After he finished speaking, he led Lin Yi towards the dormitory building, trying to separate the crowd as he walked:

"Excuse me! Excuse me, please!"

Lin Yi cherished the hard-earned ice-breaking tool and quickly followed.

Not long after, Lin Yi found a huge, vertical notice board in the crowded square in front of the dormitory building. The lower half of the notice board was blocked by the crowd, and the visible part read:
【Dormitory elevator ride time:
6:00~ 7:40
21:00~22:00】

[It is forbidden to take the elevator outside of this time! ]

Walking a little further, he saw more content, but suddenly, he saw a sentence on the sign, and he almost fell to the ground:
[Dear experiencer, welcome to the dormitory building. 】

【Please note!!! (super eye-catching underline symbol):
Due to some force majeure factors, the dormitory building is one of the most dangerous areas in our school!!!

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Thanks to the book friends "Xuanyuan Yun" and "Book friend 20220308215537718" for their rewards! ! (I forgot to thank you yesterday, sorry sorry...)
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