Chapter 92 Art Teacher
Chapter 92 Art Teacher
“Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing—”
Outside the elevator car, there was a violent sound of breaking wind, and strong vibrations constantly hit the soles of Lin Yi's feet. It was like a launcher that had entered the Earth-Moon orbit, sprinting forward desperately with the roar and roar of the engine.
Lin Yi took a deep breath, then held it. For a moment, he felt that if he weighed just a little more, he would become the last pound of flesh that would cause the elevator to disintegrate...
“Swoosh—swoosh—”
The elevator seemed to be traveling through an infinitely long wind tunnel. After an unknown amount of time, the horrifying roar gradually began to subside.
As the sound of the wind subsided, the elevator began to slow down until it finally stabilized.
"Ding!"
The elevator arrives at the station.
Lin Yi felt a strong urge to open his eyes and take a look, but Mao Feiyang was too obedient to listen. He closed his eyes tightly, gripped the chain tightly, and leaned on the dormitory manager's shoulder.
The dormitory manager's body was also shaking, and he kept muttering something about dormitory management rules, but Mao Feiyang turned a deaf ear to what was happening and couldn't hear a single word.
“Bang…clang!”
The elevator door opened, and a cold feeling suddenly poured into this elevator that had been closed for a long time. The cold air penetrated into Mao Feiyang's trouser legs, making him shiver subconsciously.
“Hoo…”
The flame of the old kerosene lamp began to shake violently, and the atmosphere of stormy weather was instantly filled.
The dormitory manager couldn't help but take a breath: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid..."
"Well...I'm not afraid." Mao Feiyang said in a low voice.
"I'm just trying to give myself courage. Don't open your eyes. Don't open your eyes. If you open your eyes now, you'll be dead."
"Uh...Okay, I'll listen to you."
"Hold the chain tightly and follow me." The dormitory manager took a deep breath, then mustered up the courage to step out of the elevator.
The moment Mao Feiyang walked out of the elevator, the elevator door behind him slammed shut.
Lin Yi was in the dark like Mao Feiyang and could only sense the surrounding environment by feeling.
Through rough perception, Lin Yi felt that there should be a spacious indoor corridor around him. There was wind but it was very weak. There was the sound of burning flames, but the temperature was very cold.
The ground under my feet did not seem to be the floor of the dormitory building, nor did it look like the floor tiles anywhere on campus. It looked more like some kind of stone slab, with some potholes and unevenness, but overall it was polished very smooth.
He deduced that the ground here was originally flat and the potholes appeared later.
“Da…da…da…”
In the darkness, the footsteps of him and the dormitory manager were clearly audible, and other than that there was the cold clanging of iron chains and the faint sound of the wind.
However, a sense of discomfort gradually welled up in Lin Yi's heart. This feeling of discomfort became stronger and stronger in the next ten steps. Later, it felt as if countless ants were crawling on his body.
He felt like he was being "watched" by something, a cold, vicious, chilling aura that was following him like a poisonous snake, twisting its body.
No, not just behind me, but also in all directions.
“Swish…”
“Swish…”
The sound of stones rubbing against the ground could be heard everywhere, sending chills down Lin Yi's spine. What made him even more terrified was that even above his head, there seemed to be a rustling sound...
The same words popped up in Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang's minds at the same time:
[All sculptures on campus are busts, and all are kept in the Art Building.]
"So..." Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, "This is the legendary... Art Building?!"
I didn't think it was that scary at first, but when I learned that the sculptures in S City University were not sculptures in the traditional sense, but some deeply contaminated organisms that couldn't even be described as "organisms", the three words "Art Building" represented an extremely terrifying fact.
"Sculpture Base Camp".
Lin Yi felt a chill all over his body. He felt more than Mao Feiyang. At this moment, he felt like Tang Monk and his disciples entering the Little Leiyin Temple with a God's perspective.
He could sense that the gods and Buddhas around him were all demons and monsters, but now, he had to muster up his courage and follow the dormitory manager.
"It's the oil lamp!" He suddenly realized, "The field formed by the oil lamplight has dispelled the darkness, allowing me and the dormitory manager to be safe!"
"But the dormitory manager told Maozi not to open his eyes... In other words, in this extreme situation, the oil lamp alone cannot maintain a safe state, so we need to 'not see' them?"
"Is it 'can't see them', or is there some underlying logic similar to that?"
Lin Yi knew that Mao Feiyang was safe, so after suppressing the strong discomfort in his heart, he used this perfect sense of synchronization to directly start reasoning.
"Yes... At the beginning, the student code said not to look back, probably to prevent us from facing the sculpture directly."
When the layer of the campus fell, there was a rustling sound behind them. This is a kind of "footsteps" unique to the movement of non-human units, or their "breathing". Therefore, by coordinating various conditions, it is easy to reach this most superficial conclusion.
And one thing that is obvious is that the sculptures seem to be even more amazing in the art building, so their location is not limited to behind Lin Yi, but can be scattered in all directions.
Therefore, “don’t look back” has been upgraded to the even more mindless “close your eyes and don’t look”.
……
“Da…da…da…”
Lin Yi followed the dormitory manager and walked slowly through the art building. All around them was the "rustling" sound of units following their movement.
They walked for a while and turned a few corners. During the whole process, Lin Yi could vaguely hear the dormitory manager mumbling something, which sounded like some rules of the "Dormitory Manager Rules".
But the sound was still too vague, and it sounded like an old monk chanting sutras, so he couldn't hear anything clearly.
But what he could feel was that under the gazes of the inhuman units, Mao Feiyang's inner defenses were gradually crumbling...
"We're here, we're here..." Finally, the dormitory manager's whispering voice was heard in front of him.
"Then... when can I open my eyes?" Mao Feiyang's voice was filled with intense fear.
"Theoretically, you can open your eyes now, but I suggest you wait a little longer." The dormitory manager gave a cold opinion and rejected Mao Feiyang's proposal, "Before you obtain the 'Code', it will do you no good to see the things here..."
Mao Feiyang stopped talking and followed the dormitory manager silently.
Not long after, the dormitory manager stopped.
Then, Lin Yi heard a series of knocks on the door.
“Knock! Knock! Knock…”
When the dormitory manager knocked for the third time, a male voice sounded from behind the door. "Who?"
"I'm the dormitory manager." said the dormitory manager.
"..." The voice behind the door suddenly fell silent.
Seeing this, the dormitory manager hesitated for a moment, and then, without caring what the voice inside the door was thinking, he said directly: "I am "Dormitory Manager-28-X0230503021". I abide by the dormitory management rules and send people here. You open the door and take them away!"
"Identity credentials alone are not enough... You know, I need to see the 'light'."
The dormitory manager slowly raised the old kerosene lamp, and the warm light seemed to be able to penetrate the door.
"It's so warm..." The people inside the door seemed to have a myriad of emotions.
"Hurry up, I can't stay here too long." The dormitory manager touched his cold arm and gradually became impatient, "Hurry up!"
"Hold on……"
“Kacha…kacha…kacha…”
There was a sound of the lock turning at the door, and then the door in front slowly opened.
The dormitory manager led Mao Feiyang into the office, then held Mao Feiyang's hand and said, "Okay, classmate, you are safe. Now, you can open your eyes."
……
As Mao Feiyang opened his eyes, Lin Yi's vision also recovered.
Before he could start to observe the surrounding environment, a middle-aged man in casual clothes appeared in front of him: "The dormitory manager is in a hurry, come over and register with me first."
Lin Yi carefully observed the middle-aged man and found that his bone structure was that of an Asian, or Chinese to be more precise, but he had silver-white hair and eyebrows.
On that knife-like face, a pair of golden eyes flowed with a dim light, like an eagle's eyes.
He was wearing overalls, a pipe hanging from his neck, and a beret on his head, giving him the look of a private detective.
This is a character design that seems to only appear in comics or movies. Lin Yi doesn't think it's real at first glance. It looks a bit like... the middle-aged Dumbledore in "Where Are the Beasts?"
Calm, cool, and with a deep gaze... this was Lin Yi's first impression.
Mao Feiyang followed him to a dark brown desk and filled out a form in duplicate. The content of the form was very simple, with only two items.
Mao Feiyang fills in the form:
"Name... Mao Feiyang."
"Registration time..."
He glanced at the European pendulum clock on the wall of the office, was slightly stunned, and then filled in:
"2:56."
The middle-aged man took the form and handed the pen and the form to the dormitory manager.
The dormitory manager added something before the time: "May 023, X5...Internship student."
When the time was written on the dormitory, the middle-aged man just glanced at it and was about to look away, but when he saw the three words "experience student" written by the dormitory manager, his eyes widened involuntarily, as if with unspeakable surprise.
The dormitory manager did not say much nonsense. After finishing the form, he tore off a piece of it and put it in his trouser pocket, and returned the rest to the middle-aged man. After finishing, he turned around, picked up the old kerosene lamp, pushed open the office door, and disappeared into the dark corridor.
“Bang!”
After the door was closed, Mao Feiyang and the middle-aged man were the only two people left in the huge office.
Mao Feiyang suddenly became reserved.
"Internship student reporting in..." The middle-aged man looked Mao Feiyang up and down, a strange light flashed in his golden eyes, "Introduce yourself."
"From now on, I am your "art teacher."
"I don't have a name tag or anything that says 'I'm an art teacher,' but you can trust my words in the office and art classroom. If you meet me at other times... just be wary of me."
He said, pointing to the bookshelf beside him.
"The Art Building Rules and the Art Student Rules are on the bookshelf over there. Take one and sit down and take a look."
"Read the Art Building Rules first, then the Art Student Rules. Make sure you get the order right."
"It's 2:58 now. You have about an hour to memorize the two rules. If you have any questions, you can ask me, but I will only selectively answer your questions."
The art teacher's words sounded like a riddle, but Mao Feiyang didn't care about anything else at the moment. He quickly went to the bookshelf nearby to find the two rules and took them in his hands.
"This... is so thick?"
Compared to the student rules which look like a flyer, the Art Building Rules and the Art Student Rules together have several pages and look like a pocket book.
And unlike "traditional" rules, the texture of the Art Building Rules and the Art Student Rules feels rigid.
Mao Feiyang subconsciously fiddled with the two codes, and then he discovered that the reason for this feeling was that there seemed to be something like cardboard sandwiched inside the art student code.
But he didn't fiddle with the clip first, instead he carefully opened the art building rules.
While Mao Feiyang was looking for the Art Building Rules and Art Student Rules on the bookshelf, Lin Yi took the time to observe the interior environment of the art office.
Compared with the cramped teachers' offices, this art office can be described as luxurious.
The entire art office is decorated in a classical and elegant European style, with carpets, fireplaces, hanging lamps, pendulum clocks... everything you need. It looks like the office of the chairman of a certain group.
In addition, there is a floor-to-ceiling curtain at the end of the art office, which looks like it is covering a huge floor-to-ceiling window.
But what Lin Yi found strange was that in the art office... there were four desks in total, two of which had some things placed on them, and it was obvious that people were sitting on them, but he did not see the art teacher.
Just when Lin Yi was feeling confused, Mao Feiyang had already opened the Art Building Rules.
He quickly concentrated on reading, trying to remember as much of the Art Building Rules as possible.
When he thought of these two books of rules that were as thick as notebooks, he felt his scalp tingling.
"Damn, the rules are almost a thesis, how much danger is there in this?"
But as soon as he saw the title page of the Art Building Rules, his expression changed.
"Fuck, is that so? You're going to do this right from the start?"
At this moment, Mao Feiyang was staring at the title page of the Art Building Rules, but since he knew far less than Lin Yi, the shock he felt from the amount of information was far less intense than Lin Yi's.
There were twenty large characters written on the title page of the Art Building Rules, like a warning to the world:
“Abandon cognition, subvert common sense, appreciate art, learn art, and transcend art.”
Thanks to the book friend "青女苍渊you" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)