Chapter 141 The twisted stairs going down
Chapter 141 The twisted stairs going down
But what kind of reverse nesting doll operation is this?! Impossible, absolutely impossible.
Lin Yi felt that if he continued thinking, his brain would not be enough, so he shook his head and stopped thinking. Instead, he kept this guess in mind and planned to discuss it with Tian Bufan to see if Tian Bufan could come up with any other understandings.
At this time, Li Huiyuan had been waiting for him at the stairs for almost two minutes. Lin Yi walked over and called Li Huiyuan, but he found that Li Huiyuan did not respond to his call.
Li Huiyuan didn't respond to him after calling him twice. An ominous premonition instantly filled his heart. He hurried over and patted Li Huiyuan's shoulder, but found that her body was shaking uncontrollably, and there was even a cold breath emanating from her shoulders.
Lin Yi's face looked a little ugly: "Oh no, the level has dropped in just two minutes?!"
"Li Huiyuan, Li Huiyuan!"
Lin Yi shook Li Huiyuan's shoulders and pulled her back from the layer.
After Li Huiyuan came to her senses, she looked at Lin Yi in surprise. At the same time, she also realized the problem with herself and a cold sweat broke out on her back.
"What did you see just now? Why did the layer fall off?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan's face was still a little pale. She panted and pointed in the direction of the stairwell: "I... I was just looking at the stairs, and didn't do anything else. Then, then I didn't know what happened. When I came to my senses, you were already calling me..."
"Oh! I think I remember it!"
Li Huiyuan's expression changed slightly. She covered her forehead with her hands. Her expression suddenly became dazed. Her eyes drifted left and right, as if she was lost in some memories.
"The stairs! There's something wrong with that staircase! It's…it's not working!"
Lin Yi quickly looked towards the stairwell, but didn't see anything wrong at first glance.
But he did not doubt Li Huiyuan. Instead, he took her to the sun, let her rest for a while, and then he observed the stairwell himself.
Since the building rules clearly stipulate that students can only go up and down the stairs by walking up and down the stairs, students in classes 4 and above in each building need to use the stairs to return to their classrooms. Lin Yi is also a trial student holding a "student ID card", so there is no danger in theory for him to go up and down the stairs, let alone just staring at them.
A minute passed and Lin Yi did not notice anything unusual, nor did the change in vision similar to "spider sense" appear.
"Is there really no problem? Or is it Li Huiyuan's own problem?" Lin Yi couldn't help but feel confused as he watched Li Huiyuan gradually returning to normal.
But it is still better to take a look at the teaching buildings above the fourth floor.
He looked at Li Huiyuan and asked, "How is it? Can you still walk?"
Li Huiyuan's eyes flickered for a moment, then she pursed her lips, stood up, and nodded firmly: "Okay."
"Then come with me, and we'll go into the stairwell." Lin Yi stretched out his hand, "Let's hold hands. Once we feel that the other person has a problem, the other party will immediately find a way to pull the other person out of the stairwell."
The situation was really not right, so for safety reasons, we had to temporarily exit the stairwell.
"Student Lin..."
"has a problem?"
"No problem, but...am I not cannon fodder?"
Lin Yi was speechless for a while, thinking to himself, what the hell is this Li Huiyuan, does she want to die so much?
"Cannon fodder and free gifts are two different concepts."
Li Huiyuan was stunned for a moment, then stretched out her hand.
Lin Yi held her hand and slowly walked towards the stairwell.
Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi's hand, suddenly became absent-minded, and then subconsciously followed Lin Yi's pace.
Lin Yi's hands were warm, and he held her with just the right amount of strength. The two of them walked out of the corridor and entered the stairwell.
The isolation fire door at the staircase entrance of the teaching building is always open. There is also a light-transmitting window on each half floor of the stairs, and there are incandescent lamps on the ceiling. Therefore, although the stairwell is darker during the day, it is still very bright overall.
But as he approached the stairwell, a slight feeling of discomfort suddenly fell upon Lin Yi.
Lin Yi noticed that Li Huiyuan subconsciously tightened her grip on his hand, and he seemed to have noticed something.
"It seems there is indeed a problem." Lin Yi stopped at the stairs and looked at the stairs in front of him.
Suddenly, he rubbed his eyes, then widened his eyes and looked at the stairs in front of him with some disbelief.
Two steps appeared in front of him.
Generally speaking, the architectural style of S City, no, the staircase architectural style of the entire China is built from right to left in a counter-circular manner. However, what is now presented in front of him are two staircases that are mirror images of each other with the axis of rotation of the stairs!
He was stunned. Normally, even if the layers fell off or hallucinations occurred, what he saw were distorted lines and collapsed light and shadow images. This was the first time he had seen a staircase that was full of regularity and artistic feeling like this one.
So he took Li Huiyuan's hand and decisively left the stairwell.
"Did you see anything just now?" Lin Yi asked.
Li Huiyuan said, "I saw two steps... Mr. Lin, did you see them too?"
Lin Yi nodded.
Li Huiyuan said: "This is the problem I just mentioned... I saw these two steps at a glance, and then I thought of what the student code says, 'At all times, all stairs in all buildings on campus must be accessed on the right hand side', but what I don't understand is..."
"The rules say 'keep to the right', so we should take the right side of that staircase, right? But there are two staircases now, and each has a right side... Which one should we take?"
Lin Yi pondered and said, "You were just thinking about this question? And then you dropped a layer?"
Li Huiyuan shook her head slightly: "That's not entirely true... When I looked at the stairwell just now, I was distracted by the light in the stairwell. Then I seemed to feel that the two steps were twisted like a pretzel, and I seemed to see a staircase leading downwards..."
"Are you sure it's... the stairs leading down?!" Lin Yi asked curiously.
"I... I'm not sure." Li Huiyuan shook her head weakly. "I can't see clearly. I feel that the stairwell I saw just now is like a paint pattern drawn on the water. When the wind blows, the water surface ripples, and then the original lines are twisted together..."
"I don't know what that staircase is about, but it seems to be real..."
"I felt as if I was attracted to that staircase. I seemed to want to walk up to it uncontrollably, but before I could move, you woke me up... I knew I was hallucinating."
"That illusion... is it what you call the 'falling layer'?"
Lin Yi nodded silently: "Basically, that's right." Li Huiyuan suddenly asked anxiously: "Student Lin, can you tell me what it means to drop layers? Is it related to the 'pollution' I have been exposed to?"
Lin Yi thought briefly and then said, "Do you remember the conversation between Master Tian and I? It's like a glass plank bridge built between high mountains. There is a layer above the glass bridge and another layer below the glass bridge. We usually walk on the glass plank bridge, and the glass is still opaque."
"But when we are polluted, the glass bridge will become transparent, and we will be able to see things in another layer. Some people who are afraid of heights cannot stand this change and will become anxious, short of breath, or even go crazy. Some will accidentally fall down and fall into another layer, where they may not know whether they are alive or dead..."
"You and I are now the ones walking on the edge of the glass bridge. Sometimes we can see what is below, and sometimes one of our feet is in the air. If we can't step back in time, we will fall into the air and there will be no way back."
"It's still unknown whether the glass on this glass trestle is solid, so sometimes I need you to walk in front of me and help me... take risks. Sometimes I can pull you back to the trestle when you have problems, but as the danger increases, at some point I will be in trouble and can't save myself, and I won't be able to save you then..."
"'Cannon fodder'..." Li Huiyuan slowly uttered two words.
Lin Yi said noncommittally: "The truth is unbearable, but that's how it is."
Li Huiyuan had already accepted it, and just nodded silently when she heard it.
Lin Yi on the side fell silent.
"What Li Huiyuan just saw...could it be the stairs leading to the basement of the teaching building?"
In fact, the real problem is not this, but... the stairs leading to the basement floor of the teaching building were actually seen by Li Huiyuan at this time.
Who is Li Huiyuan? In terms of her identity, she is a "student who lost her student ID and was contaminated by the experience".
What was their position at that time when they also saw the stairs leading to the basement floor of the teaching building?
Based on the conversation between the dormitory manager and the art teacher, it can be inferred that he is a "trial student who has not even obtained a student ID card."
As for pollution, it does exist.
That is to say-
"How can a contaminated student without any identity documents see the stairs leading to the basement of the teaching building?"
Lin Yi stroked his chin. If that was the case, it could explain why Tian Bufan didn't find the stairwell in the teaching building on May 5.
Because Tian Bufan held a student ID, he did not meet the requirement to see the stairwell. Even if he was already in the stairwell, he could not touch the things in that layer!
However, there is still one suspicious point about the fact that Li Huiyuan was able to see the stairwell leading to the basement, and that is the time.
"How did she see that layer in broad daylight?"
"Or is it that she can only see it but cannot go there?"
“Wait a minute! Maybe this is really the case!”
The place where Li Huiyuan was standing just now was actually not in the direct sunlight area. In other words, it was very similar to the situation when he was thinking about the problem in the classroom and then lost the layer...
This is understandable!
When the situation is unstable, you may encounter problems if you are placed anywhere without direct sunlight!
Lin Yi lowered his head and glanced at the time.
15: 13.
There were only 17 minutes left before the agreed time to return to the classroom. Lin Yi felt that he had no chance to go to the fourth floor to observe, but he decided to take one more look at the stairwell, trying to find the possible door between the layers...
He felt that this stairwell was extraordinary.
It's not the kind of extraordinary that is in a good direction, but the kind of extraordinary that is extremely dangerous.
He felt that there should be one or even two spiral staircases on the staircase, one leading to the fifth floor and above of the mysterious teaching building, and the other leading to the underground first floor.
Perhaps, stairs could be another kind of hub...
When walking in the stairwell, a closed environment naturally forms an independent layer, and that layer floats between layers in a kind of supernatural map. Only when the person walking in it reaches certain conditions that can achieve self-anchoring will the condition of leaving the stairwell be triggered.
Otherwise, it would be like they did before, endlessly going downstairs, or like Mao Feiyang, endlessly going upstairs.
So to say……
Lin Yi suddenly thought of something horrifying—he suddenly remembered that when he followed Mao Feiyang through the stairwell in his dream, he had seen a group of sculptures of various shapes. Those sculptures were frozen in various postures, some struggling and twisting, as if they were frozen in some horrible and extremely painful moment of death...
"They... Could it be that they are some nocturnal creatures that were contaminated and fell down after entering the stairwell, and then could no longer leave, and eventually died alone in the stairwell, and then became one of the sculptures?"
Thinking of this, Lin Yi suddenly had a burst of inspiration, and a picture emerged in his mind...
He saw Li Huiyuan being attracted to the stairwell and then stepped into it uncontrollably.
Li Huiyuan's eyes were blank and her spirit was depressed, as if she was sleepwalking. She stepped onto the stairs with stiff steps. However, after she took this step, the stairs that were supposed to be higher than the ground suddenly twisted and became a step below the ground.
But Li Huiyuan didn't notice anything unusual and walked down the stairs step by step...
The picture in his mind was like some kind of inspirational deduction. When Li Huiyuan walked down the stairs, his "camera" also followed Li Huiyuan down...
Walk, walk, walk...
After walking for an unknown amount of time, Li Huiyuan suddenly shuddered and came to her senses.
She looked down and saw a Fibonacci spiral staircase that seemed endless with no end in sight.
She looked up again palely, and the same Fibonacci sequence was swirling around her, as if she couldn't see where it came from.
She felt as if struck by lightning, and stood stupidly on the original steps without moving.
Gradually, after an unknown amount of time, she finally moved, and began to stick close to the wall on the right side, and continued to walk up the stairs.
She walked and walked like this, and for who knows how long, her body began to undergo strange changes...
Thanks to the book friends "usjdnshhs" and "Yuanyueyuqinghui" for their rewards! !
There will be an Easter egg chapter about stairs later. Yes, it’s my style again... ahem.
PS: Book friends in the group should know about what happened today when I went hiking to relax but the result was counterproductive. To put it simply, it was like "A suspense author wanted to find some inspiration but almost found something supernatural". I can only say that I was lucky in the end and managed to get out of the mountain before my phone ran out of battery... I was so worried and almost died.
(End of this chapter)