Chapter 75: The feeling of being watched from outside the window
Chapter 75: The feeling of being watched from outside the window
Lin Yi was a little surprised: "Liangzi has washed it, what's wrong?"
Tian Bufan retracted his gaze: "It's nothing, you go wash too."
"Yeah." Lin Yi nodded, "The dormitory rules are behind you. After you take a shower... we'll have a good chat."
Tian Bufan nodded: "No problem."
Lin Yi frowned, feeling that Tian Bufan had something to say, but he was not sure what he meant, so he said no more and went straight into the bathroom.
……
Tian Bufan put his hands behind his back and turned to read the dormitory rules.
After reading it once, Wei Liang hadn't even blow-dried his hair yet.
He walked to the desk, pulled out a chair, sat down and looked at Wei Liang.
Wei Liang felt a little uncomfortable with his gaze, so he quickly blew away the last few strands of hair, put on his baseball cap, and pulled the brim down a little with his hands.
When he saw Tian Bufan, he seemed a little embarrassed, and even his eyes were a little evasive.
Tian Bufan asked, "How is your class teacher?"
"Ah?" Wei Liang was obviously a little surprised that Tian Bufan would talk to him. He shook his head, "Class teacher? I don't know..."
"You don't know? That's a pity... I thought you knew more than Lao Lin."
"Ah?" Wei Liang asked in confusion, "Lao Lin? What's wrong with Lao Lin?"
Tian Bufan shook his head: "Nothing."
Wei Liang was stunned for a moment, then shuddered and couldn't help but touch his arm which was covered with goose bumps.
Oh my god, is this the Young Master Tian that Lao Lin mentioned? What is he talking about? I don’t understand anything.
Tian Bufan stood up with a smile, left his seat and walked towards Wei Liang.
When passing by Lin Yi's desk, he casually turned to a blank page in the notepad that Lin Yi had left on the table, tore off a piece of paper, wrote a few words on it, then pressed it on the table and pushed it in front of Wei Liang.
"Why..." Wei Liang looked over subconsciously, "...?"
"you……?!"
Then, the doubt in his eyes fluctuated strongly, as if some consciousness was struggling to break out of his body...
Tian Bufan watched his changes quietly and glanced at the bathroom door again.
There was the sound of running water in the bathroom.
"All right."
He retracted his gaze and looked at Wei Liang calmly.
"We don't have much time... Let's chat for a while."
……
X023年5月7日，21：36。
There was mist in the bathing area. Lin Yi maintained the posture of leaning back to wash his hair that he had learned from Wei Liang. If you didn't know, you would think he was doing something unspeakable.
Feeling the comfort brought by the warm water rushing over his body, Lin Yi's body, which had been tense all day, finally relaxed a little.
His eyes were fixed on the pattern on the ceiling of the bathing area. He organized his thoughts while washing so that he could communicate with Tian Bufan.
Suddenly he frowned.
He felt that the pattern on the ceiling...seemed familiar.
There are two incandescent lamps in the dormitory bathroom, one on the ceiling of the shower area and another on the toilet side. This design is to have no impact when the waterproof curtain is pulled up.
“Swish, swish, swish…”
As the mist spread to the ceiling, the incandescent light in the bathing area became hazy, and the pattern on the ceiling also became hazy.
“Eh, this pattern…?”
Lin Yi suddenly realized something and shuddered subconsciously.
This pattern... is extremely similar to the strange relief pattern in the student passage of the cafeteria!
Lin Yi didn't know if there was any connection here, but apart from the design issues during construction, he always had a bad feeling in his subconscious.
He quickly washed his hair and then began to rinse his body.
But at this moment, he felt the mist in the bathing area suddenly moved in a very unnatural way.
It was like something blew a breath into the mist.
At this moment, a chill spread from Lin Yi's heart without warning, and no matter how warm the water from the shower was, it could not wash it away.
He felt that the mist in front of him seemed to be swirling like boiling water, and something was staring at him hungrily behind the mist.
"?!"
He reacted immediately.
"It's the window!"
"Outside the window... is there something watching me?"
Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly and his scalp suddenly tightened.
If you hear something knocking on your window or calling your name outside the window, don't doubt it, there is something outside the window.
"But... it's not lights out yet, right?"
He raised his wrist - his quartz watch was still on his wrist, something he had not taken off since entering the campus.
He wiped the mist off the surface with his thumb and checked the time.
21: 40.
"It's still within the safe time period."
"Wait..." He also realized something, "The thing outside the window did not knock on the window, nor did it call my name..."
Don't doubt it, there is something outside the window.
“Nah…”
"So, there is always something outside the window, but it can only move when the light goes out, right?"
Lin Yi couldn't help but shudder. He immediately thought of the person who twisted the lock and entered the classroom after the lights went out!
According to the head teacher, that thing was not her, but something that even she could not stop.
It now appears that such unidentified creatures have actually been wandering around the campus. They are driven away by the lights, yet also attracted by them. They chase the lights because they know there are prey beneath them.
Once the lights go out, the prey is revealed to them in an unguarded position.
They will enter the dormitory through doors, windows and other means, and attack those who do not appear to be in a "sleeping" state!
While taking a hot shower, Lin Yi immediately thought of the sentence in the cafeteria rules: [The cafeteria with the lights off is different from the classroom. There is no safe area. ]
A cafeteria with the lights off is different from a classroom, but a dormitory with the lights off...maybe it is similar to a classroom to some extent. Not only are they similar, but it also has a higher safety factor.
So in the classroom you need to crawl under the table, but in the dormitory you can just lie on the bed.
It is for this reason that the student code of conduct clearly states the priority of overnight stays - the dormitory is greater than the dormitory management office and is equal to the teaching building!
“In that case—”
Lin Yi suddenly thought of something.
"It's 21:40 now..."
"First, this is the safe period before lights out."
"Secondly, I am in a dormitory that is known as one of the safest places on campus, where I can even think and discuss things without restraint."
"Finally, I currently meet all the conditions to keep myself in a 'safe' state."
"so……"
He waved his hand towards the window, and the fog gathered in front of him was pushed away, revealing a...closed window.
The built-in blinds on the windows were even pulled down, so you couldn't see in from outside and you couldn't see out from inside. "What the hell..."
The windows were closed and the blinds were drawn, with no view from inside to outside.
So where does that feeling of being spied on come from?!
He then squinted his eyes and stopped.
Soon the mist filled the air, and that strong feeling of being watched once again crept up his body like a tentacle...
He waved his hand again, and the fog and the feeling of being watched disappeared again.
"this……"
He couldn't help but look at the window that looked hazy and unreal behind the mist.
The window in the fog seems... different from usual.
"etc?!"
He shuddered, and drew his gaze back like a knife.
"I see!"
"Layers!"
"Fog can affect layers!"
"Shit! No way..." Lin Yi was startled and broke into a cold sweat, which was immediately washed away by the shower. "The mist produced by water vapor has the same effect as the mist outside?"
“Don’t…?”
Just as he was looking at the window hesitantly, mist spread out from under the waterproof curtain.
Under the illumination of the incandescent light, layers of mist twisted and overlapped, casting a distorted, human-shaped outline on the waterproof curtain.
This outline kept twisting its posture as the mist spread, as if there really was some unknown creature standing over there, separated from Lin Yi by only a curtain!!!
The feeling of being watched once again enveloped Lin Yi, making him feel creepy.
"Behind... me?!"
Lin Yi's pupils shrank instantly and he turned back alertly.
The movement of turning around caused the mist to fluctuate, and the outline of the unknown creature reflected in the mist immediately dissipated, leaving nothing behind.
But the feeling of being spied on became stronger and stronger, and Lin Yi still felt that this feeling was behind him, and this time, behind him was... a window.
He turned around at an extremely slow speed, trying his best to keep the water mist in its "original shape".
Based on his judgment of the killing mechanism of the abnormal classmates in the classroom, Lin Yi suddenly thought that these creatures described by the rules should all have their own unique mechanisms.
The first and most basic point is not to question its existence, but to believe that it exists.
Believing that they exist and ignoring them at critical moments are two completely non-contradictory things.
In other words, there really was some ghost lying on the window and peeking at him, but because the conditions were not met, it couldn't knock on the window or crawl in.
"Open the window and look."
These four words popped up in his mind without any warning.
As soon as these four words popped out, it was like opening Pandora's box, lingering in his mind. Not only that, it was like a drill, drilling madly into the depths of his soul.
Two little men jumped out from his left and right shoulders.
The devil with two horns kept urging him: "Open the window! Open the window! You are safe now, why panic? Open the window and take a look. The opportunity will never come again!"
The little angel with a pair of wings advised seriously: "Don't open the window, don't believe him!"
The two little guys were chattering, making Lin Yi's head buzz.
He slowly reached out his hand toward the window.
At the window, the cold wind seemed to penetrate the cracks and blew in with a hissing sound, like the smile of a ghost in a gloomy hell.
Just as his hand was about to touch the window, he waved.
The fog was dispersed, and the strange feeling was completely shattered.
Lin Yi looked at the window expressionlessly, which showed that everything was normal, then turned around and turned off the shower.
At this moment, he suddenly looked at his hand that turned off the shower switch and was stunned for a moment.
This hand was reaching out to the window just now, but——
"Why don't I feel anything about that paranoid behavior just now?!"
Lin Yi felt a chill.
His behavior of reaching out to try to open the window just now did not cause any problems at the time, but now thinking back on it, he seemed to be controlled at that time!
But he himself didn't notice anything wrong!
As he began to wipe his body with the towel, the mist in the bathroom dissipated.
At this moment, Wei Liang's voice sounded from outside the door: "Hey! Lao Lin, are you done with your shower? Don't always reward yourself while you're taking a shower!"
"Okay, okay! Didn't you hear me turn off the shower?" Lin Yi responded.
Soon he was dressed and opened the door.
When he left the bathroom, he couldn't help but be stunned.
Then, a deep excitement welled up in his eyes.
"Weisang, Kuai Kuai! You guys are back too?"
In the dormitory, in addition to Tian Bufan and Wei Liang who were already there, Wei Shan, who was between fat and strong, and Kuai Hongji, who was tall and thin like a bamboo pole, had also rushed back to the dormitory while he was taking a shower.
But compared to Kuai Hongji, who looked no different from when they parted, Wei Shan's clothes were obviously a little damaged and seemed to be stained with a lot of white stains.
Seeing this, Wei Shan nodded and said sparingly, "Well, I'm here, Lao Lin."
Kuai Hongji, who was as thin as a bamboo pole, said with a fake smile: "Of course I'm back. Don't you see what time it is?"
Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at his watch, then at the pendulum clock hanging on the dormitory door.
21: 48.
There was a power outage in the dormitory building corridor, and there were only 12 minutes left.
That means... once the time is up, Mao Feiyang will really never come back.
Seeing Lin Yi's dim eyes, Tian Bufan said first: "Weisang, Kuai Kuai, you two go wash first. I will chat with Lao Lin and then we will wash last."
"Then I'll wash first." Wei Shan had already moved when he spoke. He opened the closet door decisively, picked out the clothes he needed, and then walked towards the bathroom.
"Hey!" Lin Yi suddenly pointed to the sky, "Wait a moment, I'll take out the dirty clothes first."
He quickly went to the bathroom and brought the dirty clothes over.
"Throw it here!" Wei Liang helped him open the door of the thing under the washbasin that looked like a washing machine, and motioned for him to throw the clothes directly in.
Lin Yi subconsciously glanced at the washing machine.
This seems to be a washing machine with a drum inside, but... there are really no clothes or socks that Wei Liang had thrown in before.
"Just throw your clothes in. There's a passage inside that will collect all the clothes for you to process. If you need them, just pick them up from the school when you leave."
"Look." Wei Liang pointed at the washing machine, and sure enough, there was a sign on it.
The sign reads:
[The dormitory has prepared sufficient change of clothes for all students. Please put all the clothes you change every day (including shoes) into the recycling channel. ]
Lin Yi didn't expect that even his shoes would need to be changed, so he stuffed all his clothes in.
When it was his turn to put on his shoes, his body suddenly froze.
His eyes were fixed on the soles of the sneakers, and he saw a large patch of moss on the soles.
Thanks to the book friend "脸頰微红" for the reward! !
PS: I may take a day off during the New Year's Day (or maybe, or try not to take a day off), thank you very much...
(End of this chapter)