Chapter 98: Meet the Strange Art Teacher Again
Chapter 98: Meet the Strange Art Teacher Again
Mao Feiyang walked around the huge oak tree and came to the wooden stake. He looked closely and saw road signs nailed to the stake:
「Gallery←」
"Art Classroom→"
「Sculpture Classroom→」
「Observation deck←」
There are several signs for the art classroom and the observation deck, but some of them are marked with an "×" symbol in red paint. Along with the "×" symbol, there are also some damaged road signs with other locations written on them, such as "altar" and "observatory".
Mao Feiyang found a corridor that was "brightly lit" and then dived in.
“Swish…”
“Swish…”
Mao Feiyang kept hearing these rustling sounds, but he didn't dare to look around. He could only keep walking forward according to the signs, hoping to see the door of a classroom in front of him.
But Lin Yi is much bolder.
Having had the experience of getting his shoes wet by the river one day and having to force his way ashore, and after being baptized by Tian Bufan and memorizing and understanding the rules of the Art Department for an hour, he has now cognitively accepted the abnormality of the Art Building.
At least these sculptures and the like can no longer make him feel the kind of fear that goes straight to the soul level.
Of course, the inner resistance and discomfort, as well as the trembling from the instinctive level are inevitable, especially when it comes suddenly. No matter how well prepared you are mentally, it will be useless.
This is just like when you ride a bungee jumping device or a pirate ship in an amusement park, your body will instinctively resist the feeling of weightlessness.
Since there was no ground stretching or other layer falling in the corridor, Lin Yi silently noted down the distance Mao Feiyang moved. When he had walked about 120 to 130 meters in the corridor, Mao Feiyang finally found a door marked "Art Classroom-IV".
[When entering or leaving the art classroom, just make sure the doorplate is marked as "Art Classroom" and don't worry about the classroom number. ]
Mao Feiyang confirmed it briefly and then reached out and pressed the door handle.
Just as he grabbed the door handle, the sound of whimpering wind suddenly began to be heard in the corridor, where the only sound was the rustling of moving sculptures.
“Hululu——”
The sea breeze swept everything in the quiet corridor, cutting through the stone walls of the castle like a sharp blade, and rushed towards where Mao Feiyang was.
Mao Feiyang opened the door of the art classroom without hesitation and entered the art classroom before the sea breeze arrived.
Lin Yi's vision moved quickly, but he took advantage of the last moment to look in the direction where the sea breeze was howling.
There, he seemed to hear a familiar sound of footsteps that was both strange and familiar. The sound seemed very much like the sound of high heels stepping on the ground.
"High heel……?!"
Lin Yi's eyes twitched slightly.
"Is it the homeroom teacher?"
"No... At this point, the homeroom teacher should still be in the teaching building fighting against the inhuman units, so could it be...?"
A guess popped up in Lin Yi's mind, and as if to confirm his guess, the moment Mao Feiyang closed the door, he glanced in the direction of the stomping sound of high heels, and saw a group of people walking towards him in the sea breeze in the claustrophobic corridor...
The person leading the group was none other than the strange female teacher who had appeared in the thick fog yesterday evening.
Behind the female teacher, there were some people dressed like student leaders.
The door of the art classroom was closed, and Lin Yi's gaze towards them was cut off.
But at the moment the door closed, a strange feeling passed along the door handle and through the door leaf to Mao Feiyang's palm, and was keenly captured by Lin Yi.
It's like someone pressing a doorknob right before it returns to its original position.
Then, the door handle was pressed from outside...
"Click!"
The cold sound of the mechanism was like pressing on Lin Yi's heart, causing his breathing to stagnate for a moment.
Mao Feiyang felt a chill down his spine. The sense of crisis surging in his subconscious made him quickly move away from the door and look for the nearest candlestick.
He succeeded.
Almost every corner in the art classroom was covered with candlelight, so it was easy for him to find a seat.
After sitting down, he shrank his neck and buried his body deep in the chair, wishing he could embed himself into it. At the same time, driven by uncontrollable curiosity and fear, his eyes looked towards the place where the door was originally.
Lin Yi suddenly understood Mao Feiyang's behavior.
Just like those people being chased by zombies in old Hong Kong movies, they seem to have escaped from the zombies but still have to look back to the original direction. In fact, they are very scared, but that is why they want to see if the zombies are really not chasing them...
Sure enough, after the door handle was pressed, the strange female teacher did not push open the door of the classroom, and no one knew what she was waiting for.
Lin Yi's eyelids twitched violently.
He guessed something -
"Isn't she waiting for someone to 'invite' her in?"
He thought of the rules regarding "invitations" in the dormitory rules. Although they were not written in the student rules, they might have a similar underlying logic!
So, as long as they are not invited in, they can't come in?
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
"They have been waiting outside for so long, could they have been waiting for an opportunity like this?"
"They've been here for a long time, right? More than a day... No! Actually, not that long!"
Lin Yi suddenly realized that if he used the dream time as a reference, it should still be May 023, X5, a little after 7 o'clock, instead of the early morning of May 4 that he was dreaming about. The female teacher and her group should have come here after kidnapping those people at the school gate.
"Did they arrive early and wait for someone to open the door? Or did they just arrive and happened to run into Maozi?"
Lin Yi is more inclined to the first scenario.
"But...how did they get to the Art Building?"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. It seemed that the route mentioned in the Art Department's rules was not the only way to travel between the campus and the Art Building.
Just as Tian Bufan said, there may be more unknown paths hidden, but those paths have more stringent conditions for those who walk in them.
"In other words, just like the dorm manager can bring a kid to the art building, those weird art teachers can also bring people to the art building... But if they take that path, can those people become art students?"
Lin Yi's intuition told him that even if those people arrived at the Art Building, their identities would be different from Mao Feiyang's "art student" identity.
At least Mao Feiyang is not much different from the trainee so far. If you don’t look at their identity credentials, it is actually difficult to tell them apart.
Lin Yi slowly put aside his guess and turned his attention to the overall environment of the art classroom.
The scale of this art classroom is much larger than the lecture hall in the teaching building. Both the overall architectural environment and the design elements exude a cult and abstract style of gods and demons.
The interior design of the classroom is very similar to an ancient Greek opera house. The podium reserved for the teacher is like a huge semicircular "stage". Behind the "stage" there is an arched decorative wall with murals carved on it. There are also countless strange graphic symbols between the murals, as if showing some ancient myths and secrets.
The place where students sit is equivalent to the audience seats in an opera house.
These seats are located in a semicircular area in front of the stage, and are composed of a series of seats arranged like fish scales. In ancient times, these seats were usually divided into different levels, and feudal lords could easily determine the position of the audience according to their social status, but in art classrooms, there are obviously no such elaborate designs.
However, Lin Yi always felt that this art classroom might have been converted from an opera house...
There are many large doors on the stone walls surrounding the art classroom, one of which is the door that Mao Feiyang pushed open and walked in.
From this we can see that there may be only one or a few art classrooms in this art building, and the doors marked "Art Classroom" in the corridors all lead to the art classrooms.
That’s why the rules say that you only need to make sure that the doorplate says “Art Classroom” and don’t worry about the number behind it.
Lin Yi also noticed that next to the central stage of the art classroom, there was a passage leading to the observation deck.
This observation tower is not like that observation tower. It is not the kind in the art office, but the kind mentioned in the art code, a platform for art students to sketch.
If Lin Yi guessed correctly, around 13: "today", Mao Feiyang would go to the observation deck to sketch, and then at the same time when he returned from the cafeteria after having lunch, they would have a magical eye contact across layers.
Thinking of this, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a strong sense of curiosity and anticipation in his heart, but he was also worried that he wouldn't be able to dream for that long...
"I wonder how long this dream will last...?" He felt like he had been dreaming for a long time and didn't know when he would wake up.
But dreams, which are magical and immeasurable, may distort one's perception of "time" and certain "senses". Therefore, even though this dream lasted so long, it is hard to say how much time has passed in reality.
He also discovered that almost half of the seats in this art classroom were occupied. Judging from the number, there were perhaps several thousand people, equivalent to the number of students in an entire teaching building.
Some of these students were flipping through books, while others were observing the statues and murals on the stage in the center of the classroom. Their expressions varied, as if they were being influenced by the artistic atmosphere.
At this time, there was not much moonlight left, and the sunrise was about to come in the distant horizon...
The last cool moonlight in the dark night passed through the glass dome and fell onto the central stage. White powder particles floated in the air like dust, and then... fell on the art students like snowflakes and merged into their bodies.
When Lin Yi saw this scene, he was stunned at first, and then suddenly realized that these white powder particles were the pollutants that Mao Feiyang absorbed from the air into his body after being contaminated by the chef in the green bib, and then spread to them like a diversion?
"Pollution... is everywhere in this art building!!!"
"I can actually see these pollutants clearly now?"
"Wait, did I really 'see' that?"
He closed his eyes, and then found that his vision was pitch black, but the white powder particles floating and drifting in the air were still clearly visible like fireflies at night.
"This is……?"
The Art Student Guide says: [Perception is a magical artistic talent, and you will gradually master the ability to use this art to distinguish between "good intentions" and "bad intentions."]
"Is this what is called 'perception'?"
“From the code, this seems to be a characteristic of art students… But perhaps this is not just a characteristic of art students, but something that can be gradually observed based on the individual’s inspiration and degree of pollution.”
"Is it because of the Maozi's 'light' that I can sense it now, or because of my so-called high level of perception, or am I also contaminated?"
"Or...all of the above?"
This perception is still very weak now, just like a beginner in swimming who can only feel a little bit, but this thing is like a vast field. Once you set foot in it, you will be attracted by this field.
Just like the magnetic field theory mentioned by the sports students, Mao Feiyang has obviously stepped into the realm of the "art student" identity, and now, he suspects that he has also stepped into this magnetic field...
Judging from the timing, he was contaminated when Mao Feiyang turned around and looked at the chef in the green bib. In the following time, while he was receiving the pollutants diverted from Mao Feiyang, he was also constantly absorbing the pollutants himself, so he unknowingly had so many hallucinations in the teaching building.
In particular, he once heard a song that sounded like a siren's song when fog was rising in the teaching building...
This sound transcends layers and to some extent even belongs to the pollution from Mao Feiyang.
But he didn't know, and because he didn't know, he subconsciously developed a suspicion of the surrounding environment, and in a very short period of time, he even had the problem of falling layers.
During the entire process, he had no idea how much white powdery particulate pollutants he had absorbed!
And at this time...at this point, Mao Feiyang was constantly absorbing pollutants. What was he doing at that time?
It seemed like... he was reviewing the killing logic of Feiren classmate? And after eliminating the other party's attention, he was killed by that guy again?
Lin Yi still remembered that inhuman classmate. After he had stopped paying attention to him, he came over based on his memory to test him. Now it seems that there is something fishy going on here.
"Could it be that... those inhuman things targeted me not only because I saw them, but also because there was something about me that attracted them?"
I was criticized badly when I wrote about Lin Yi deducing the logic of murder and coming to the conclusion that 1+1=2. In the next chapter, I wrote about the underlying logic of the murder mechanism of closed-loop classmate... After all, I laid the groundwork for thousands of miles and endured all the abuse and pressure... Wow, it's not easy for me...
(End of this chapter)