Chapter 71: As expected, something unexpected happened

Chapter 71: As expected, something unexpected happened

Chapter 71 If nothing unexpected happened, something unexpected happened
X023年5月7日，21:06。

"Ding!"

With a clear prompt sound, the running elevator stopped steadily in an instant.

The five cautious people in the elevator all turned their eyes to the floor display.

"14".

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, and they arrived at their floor.

The whole process can be said to be uneventful, simply because he followed the most basic rule - [Don't try to understand how the elevator works].

But he did not let his guard down, instead he became more cautious.

Because he clearly understood that the highlight was yet to come.

The elevator vibrated slightly, and the slight friction sound was transmitted along the box to Lin Yi's feet. His breathing became smoother and his whole body became quiet, but the muscles in his body slowly tensed up, like a bow and arrow being slowly drawn.

In just one breath, Lin Yi had prepared himself mentally to deal with any unexpected situation that might arise.

“Bang…clang!”

The elevator door slowly opened, like a mud-sealed wine jar being slapped away, and cold air began to fill in.

“Hualala——”

In the cracks of the elevator's outer wall, the tense sound of the wind hissing was chilling.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang stepped out of the elevator.

"Qiang!"

As the elevator door closed, Lin Yi felt as if there was only a cold wall behind him.

He glanced down at his watch.

21: 07.

The direct elevator could hold ten passengers in total, and it took several minutes to go up the stairs.

Such a time span would be extremely explosive anywhere.

"It's still nearly an hour to walk back to the dormitory... If nothing goes wrong, there will be enough time." Lin Yi said to himself.

But...after experiencing so many things, he felt more and more that the four words "no surprises" put together seemed like a joke.

He withdrew his gaze and observed the surrounding environment.

At first glance, there seemed to be nothing wrong with the corridor of the dormitory building. The corridor alone was three meters wide, much wider than the distance between his original dormitories.

Moreover, as stated in the dormitory building instructions, the interior of the dormitory building's corridor was a circular structure, so from his perspective, the incandescent lights on the ceiling were like indicator lights at a turning point on an elevated road at night, turning to the end along a not-so-large arc.

The incandescent lamps cast an orange-yellow light curtain, illuminating the entire corridor. On both sides of the corridor were dormitories facing each other.

The house number on his left is "1401" and the one on his right is "1402".

From the arc design, the inner side of the arc is filled with uniform house numbers, while the outer side is filled with even-numbered house numbers.

They only had to walk seven groups of dormitories forward to reach dormitory 1414, which they had booked in advance.

"So far... everything is normal." Lin Yi said in his heart.

For some reason, after walking out of the elevator, the feeling of depression and discomfort he had originally felt faded a lot, but this fully enclosed corridor still made him feel a little stuffy and irritable.

Lin Yi took a deep breath and prepared to go back to the dormitory first.

At this moment, a somewhat cold hand was silently placed on Lin Yi's shoulder.

It was Wei Liang's hand.

"Fuck, Liangzi, you scared me!" Lin Yi's depressed feeling was forcibly dispelled by Wei Liang's ghostly method.

He turned his head and saw Wei Liang's pale lips and nervous expression.

"Isn't it said that Ryoko has a lot of experience surviving in dorms? Why do you seem more nervous than me, a first-timer?"

This doubt suddenly arose in Lin Yi's mind.

"Liangzi, are you okay?" he asked with concern.

"It's okay... just a little cold."

Wei Liang's eyes kept wandering in the corridor, as if he was always on guard against something invisible.

Even Wei Liang himself didn't notice that he was behaving a little neurotically.

"Cold...?" Lin Yi was slightly startled, and couldn't help but feel that Wei Liang's situation seemed to be really bad.

This corridor...isn't cold at all.

"It's a bit cold indeed." He agreed.

Wei Liang said to himself: "This is normal... The dormitory on campus is very humid. You may not feel it now, but you will find it after staying for a long time..."

As he spoke, he let out a breath.

Lin Yi's pupils changed slightly.

He noticed that when Wei Liang exhaled, a breath of hot air came out from his mouth and nose, but in that hot air, there were faintly some pure white ice crystals.

Just like the head teacher back then.

"Ryoko is also contaminated?!"

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. He really wanted to say, Liangzi, didn't you say you survived for seven days? What the hell did you go through in the last two days? !

But he certainly couldn't say that.

He thought of what his head teacher had said, that a will of steel was the key to fighting pollution.

and so……

"Ryoko has always believed that he is fine, so even if he deceived himself, at least with the blessing of such a 'will', he can resist this pollution?"

Because “I think there’s nothing wrong with me”, so “I really have no problem”, and even if “there is a problem”, it “is not my problem”?
"What the hell is this... a magical operation?!"

Lin Yi was somewhat glad that he did not blindly choose to follow Wei Liang's approach from the beginning, otherwise, with his so-called "high inspiration", he would never be able to do Wei Liang's "self-deception".

Precisely because Wei Liang had deceived him, Lin Yi was sure that he could not remind him at this time, or even guide him to think in that way.

If you really do that, you will harm Wei Liang.

Wei Liang would be driven crazy by this unacceptable turn of events.

"Don't worry about me too much, Lao Lin..." Wei Liang didn't know if he noticed the change in Lin Yiwei's expression, so he reminded him, "When I came here last time, it was like this in the last few days... This may be a common problem on the campus, so the experience period is only seven days."

Lin Yi's heart trembled. He thought Wei Liang was talking to him, but suddenly realized that Wei Liang was not talking to him at all. He was just using a way of conversation to make him keep talking.

"Ryoko... is anchoring himself through me?!"

Lin Yi noticed Wei Liang's hand.

A light blue-gray color appeared on Wei Liang's hand, which was very cold, but not completely cold. There was still a trace of warmth where Wei Liang's palm touched his shoulder, but this warmth was like a flame in the wind, flickering and extinguishing at any time.

Wei Liang looked panicked and muttered to himself, but it seemed like he was talking to Lin Yi.

Among these words, Lin Yi keenly caught a sentence:

"...Really, don't worry. Once we get back to the dorm, we'll be warmed up by taking a hot shower..."

"A hot bath...?!"

He suddenly felt his eyes brighten.

The student code of conduct specifically lists a rule for showering in the dormitory. If showering has no benefits, it could just be written as [Use the time during physical education classes to go to the gymnasium and shower once every two days] instead of writing a special rule for this, right?

“Could it be that hot baths are an effective way to fight pollution… or at least mitigate it?”

He then said in a low but firm voice: "Liangzi, I will take you to the dormitory soon, just hold on."

As if his words had triggered some incomprehensible hidden mechanism, before he finished speaking, a cold wind suddenly blew in the corridor.

"call--"

It was as if something invisible suddenly lay on his shoulder and blew out cold breath in a subtle way. He suddenly shivered and felt the hairs on his body stand up uncontrollably.

Wei Liang's palm suddenly regained its temperature. His panicked expression suddenly changed, and then he lowered his voice and said, "No, Lao Lin, don't say such things. Hurry up and say, 'I won't take you to the dormitory'!"

"I have a student ID, I... can open the door myself! You don't need to bring it!" Wei Liang added anxiously.

Lin Yi was slightly startled, but the creepy feeling instantly made him feel more stressed. He hadn't yet understood the meaning of Wei Liang's words, but he immediately said decisively: "'I won't take you to the dormitory'."

Hearing Lin Yi say this, Wei Liang immediately breathed a sigh of relief.

At the same time, the strange and gloomy wind that blew silently also quietly retreated, and that kind of gloomy feeling peeled off unwillingly.

Lin Yi glanced at the dormitory number next to him and instantly realized something. He felt uncomfortable all over and a chill ran down his spine.

The door number of the dormitory next to him is "1406", which seems to be fine, but the door number reminds him of a dormitory building notice:

[When you encounter a dormitory room with a house number that does not match yours, please remind yourself that you have made a mistake and ignore all calls from that dormitory.

Note: The Abnormal Dormitory will never open its door unless!!! You invite it. (Unless the word is circled and marked with a huge '!!!' symbol)]

There is a very scary key word in this sentence - invitation.

The Abnormal Dormitory will never open its door unless you invite it!
There is too much information in these words, and he somehow understood one of the meanings!
No matter how unusual the dormitory is, it is impossible for it to open the door by itself. The thing that can open the door must be something in the dormitory.

But this thing won't open the door unless invited.

Who will invite?
He is different from Lin.

What he said just now - "I'll take you to the dormitory right away", if something indescribable is automatically associated with that number, wouldn't it become that number "you"?
This is more than just an invitation, it's also a kind of... active leadership!
Lin Yi's mind went cold, and he thought of a rule about European vampires.

"Uninvited vampires are not allowed to cross this door."

Although there are no vampires here, there is a kind of strange classmate. Not only are there strange classmates, but there are also sneaky figures hidden in the mist, and the terrifying and mysterious creatures that enter the classroom after the lights are turned off.

Since the dormitory building is one of the most dangerous areas on campus, it is reasonable to assume that all these strange things may appear in the dormitory building.

Let's assume again... there is some mechanism behind these things, and one of the mechanisms of these terrible species is that they need to be "invited".

Of course, these thoughts were all things he realized in an instant, and he was not sure whether they were right or wrong, but it didn't matter.

The important thing is that after he repeated Wei Liang's words and said "rejection", the weird feeling that had originally enveloped him really dissipated a lot.

He moved on.

Dormitory 1407, Dormitory 1408, Dormitory 1409...

"It's almost there." Lin Yi said silently in his heart.

He glanced at the corridor ahead.

The corridor was quiet and secluded. Although the lights were bright, there was always a vague smell of danger behind the bend that was out of sight, lingering like perfume.

"Don't let anything unexpected happen at a time like this!" Lin Yi subconsciously clenched his teeth, tightly grasped the strap of his schoolbag with one hand, and gently placed the other hand on Wei Liang's cold palm.

On the one hand, it comforted Wei Liang, and on the other hand, it also allowed myself to calm down.

At the same time, he was still repeating in his mind:

"My name is Lin Yi, and my student number is X0230506098..."

"I am on the 14th floor of the dormitory building. My dormitory is 1414. I am heading to the dormitory..."

"My name is Lin Yi, I..."

He repeated as he led Wei Liang forward carefully.

Soon, he walked past dormitory 1412. If nothing unexpected happened, the next to him should be dormitory 1413 and dormitory 1414, which were facing each other.

But Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly stopped, because, as expected, an accident did happen.

He looked silently at the corridor in front of him, his hodgepodge of expressions brilliantly appearing as if several expressions were crushed and pieced together.

It's probably one point for "here we go again", two points for "I knew it", three points for "a little panicked", and four points for "Hey, I'll give you a stupid XXX in the dormitory building".

"Ugh……"

Lin Yi sighed quietly, feeling that this kind of "emergency" was something he had become accustomed to, commonplace, ordinary, and dull. But even so, he still wanted to know...

“How did this fucking right-angle turn of yours replace the curved corridor in front of you so seamlessly!!!”

He had just walked through the door of dormitory 1412 and was about to happily take out his student ID from his pocket and swipe the card to open the door to enter dormitory 1414, but a damn corner appeared in front of him!
The hair is even more silky than the girl in the commercial who uses Dove to wash her hair!

"Hey……"

Lin Yi used his complaints to suppress his subconscious desire to spy on the environment brought on by his high inspiration, then followed the instructions of the dormitory building and slowly turned around with Wei Liang.

"There is no corner ahead, no corner, no corner...I must say this three times..."

Dormitory Building Regulations (Rules)

[If you find a right-angle turn ahead when you are looking for your dormitory, please turn around and tell yourself that there is no right-angle turn ahead, and then turn around.

You can continue moving forward only after you confirm that the road ahead has returned to normal. 】

He turned 180 degrees, and after repeating a few words of dormitory building instructions unwaveringly like a mantra, Lin Yi turned around again and looked forward again.

Sure enough, the right-angle turn disappeared.

But Lin Yi couldn't laugh, and even all the complaints in his heart were cleared out at once.

The right-angle turn disappeared, but along with it, everything in front of me also disappeared.

There was nothing in front of him.

Not to mention the corridor, there is not even a hair.

(End of this chapter)