Chapter 154: Sculpture Square Sets Out

Chapter 154: Sculpture Square Sets Out

Chapter 154: Sculpture Square Sets Out
Suddenly, he heard some rustling sounds in his ears, and the rolling fog seemed like wandering figures.

At this moment, Lin Yi's last bit of hope was shattered. He was sure that the fog was not mountain fog, but the kind of thick fog that represented pollution.

But it was fortunate that the fog had just risen and it would take a considerable amount of time to reach the concentration of May 5. Moreover, the raindrops that symbolized abnormal weather had not yet fallen. Moreover, he made sure that the teaching building was within his sight - this was enough to anchor him on this path.

A road that says "I'm heading to the teaching building."

"Li Huiyuan!" Lin Yi called out loudly, and Li Huiyuan in front of him immediately trembled. "Wait for me here, but don't look back!"

Don't look back in the fog, this is what the student rules say. Referring to the fact that they can abide by the student rules when they enter the school, Lin Yi believes that some rules in the student rules may still be valid for Li Huiyuan.

His words were like iron laws, and Li Huiyuan stopped dead in her tracks.

He quickly caught up with Li Huiyuan and took her hand: "I have a way to anchor myself. You hold my hand. If you feel something is wrong, tell me immediately. I will do my best, ahem, I will take you back to the teaching building."

"Don't force it when it's necessary." Li Huiyuan had long been accustomed to Lin Yi's way of thinking and exposed it mercilessly.

Lin Yi looked at his nose and his heart, coughed dryly and did not respond.

Then he took a deep breath, walked hand in hand with Li Huiyuan, and headed towards the teaching building. At the same time, he also began to use traditional skills -

"I'm Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, and I'm on my way to the teaching building..."

"I'm Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, and I'm on my way to the teaching building..."

"My name is Lin Yi, and my student ID is..."

No matter when, no matter how many times he repeated this information, as long as he opened his mouth, Lin Yi would be able to feel that his will seemed to have received some kind of blessing.

Oddly enough, this kind of blessing has a kind of overbearing feeling of "those who chant my true name will see eternal life in reincarnation."

Of course he knew that this was a psychological effect, but it was this kind of psychological suggestion that enabled him to maintain a firm will and not be swayed by external things at critical moments.

He walked while muttering these words, like a Taoist holding a talisman and going deep into the underworld to order all ghosts to stay away.

But before they had walked far, Li Huiyuan suddenly spoke with some discomfort: "Lin Yi, can you please stop saying this? I feel... a little uncomfortable. Can you recite it silently in your heart?"

What Li Huiyuan meant by "uncomfortable" was literally uncomfortable. Lin Yi could feel that Li Huiyuan's tone was a little hurried and her breathing was very unstable.

"You...?" Lin Yi seemed to realize something.

"Lin Yi...when you said that, I felt my heart beating very fast..." Li Huiyuan gritted her teeth and said, "I had an irresistible urge to snatch your student ID..."

"I... I happen to know exactly where your student ID card is..."

Li Huiyuan raised her hand, and the five fingers of her hand were constantly grasping at something: "I feel like my hand is not my own, and I keep trying to get your student ID."

Her face was pale, even ugly. The thought did not belong to her, or rather, it did not belong to her subjective will, but she just couldn't help wanting to do it, as if her mind was controlled.

When she heard Lin Yi reciting her name and student number, that feeling of greed and desire emerged from the ground like Jack's magic beanstalk, and then grew wildly and savagely in her heart, occupying her conscious will.

Lin Yi frowned. After Li Huiyuan lost her identity certificate, it was not obvious under the sun, but after the sun set and night fell, her condition began to deteriorate rapidly.

No wonder it is “impossible to spend the night”. In this situation, it is not that “you cannot spend the night” at all, but that there is simply “no way” to survive a night under the continuous erosion of pollution.

"Let's go back to the teaching building first and wait until we meet our homeroom teacher."

Lin Yi stopped reading out names and student numbers, but took Li Huiyuan's hand and walked towards the teaching building step by step.

From an angle that Li Huiyuan couldn't see, his expression was terrifyingly solemn.

Because he did recite his name and student number, but without making any sound, but Li Huiyuan was attracted to him as if she heard his words.

In order to prevent Li Huiyuan from doing something evil, Lin Yi gritted his teeth and did not continue reciting in his heart.

The wind in the mountains was getting stronger and stronger, but the thick fog lingered in the air like cotton wool that could not be blown away, and then accumulated thicker and thicker like snowflakes.

Lin Yi felt a little suffocated. He seemed to see a road leading to the teaching building under his feet, but there were two rows of tsunami-like waves on both sides of the road.

The waves were all made up of a thick layer of haze. Under the dim moonlight, they looked like high walls built up of grayish-white foam, with a faint halo floating faintly on the surface of the walls.

At this moment, his ears began to echo with the "whoosh" sound like a train running at high speed close to his face, and the picture in front of his eyes began to flicker again as if skipping frames.

He found that his field of vision began to stretch continuously. The ground leading to the teaching building under his feet seemed to have turned into rubber and was pulled by a huge force, then extended infinitely. The two rows of fog walls beside him also began to penetrate into the sky as if they were growing wildly.

He realized that the whole world seemed to be stretched, and he became a tiny speck of dust in the long spatial scale.

In his rapidly flickering vision, faint green light began to surge in the fog, and all of this faint green light actually came from the nocturnal species!

All they saw were countless elongated nocturnal species hidden under the green mist. They were inserted there like pieces of bamboo rafts, looking down at them with their eyes lowered.

In another layer of fog, there are some figures with stiff limbs. They are a phalanx of sculptures...

“Swish…”

“Swish…”

The sculptures in the sculpture array each took their own steps, dragging their bodies on the uneven ground, making a "rustling" sound...

They lurked under the bamboo rafts of nocturnal plants and slowly cut into their road from an illusory road parallel to theirs, like merging lanes.

Lin Yi's pupils trembled slightly, and for a moment he couldn't tell the difference between reality and illusion.

He then discovered that this frame-skipping vision was actually the same black-and-white vision that looked like an exposed photo that he had entered before. The only difference was that the reason why he was not seeing a black and white frame now was because there was too much pollution in his vision.

The green halo almost drowned out the black and white, and the entire field of vision looked like being in the underworld. Coupled with the sculptures that were lined up like bamboo rafts and accompanied by hundreds of demons at night, there was really a sense of collapse of "a hundred demons walking at night in the underworld".

When Lin Yi noticed the sculpture array, the "people" in the sculpture array seemed to have noticed something as well, and they looked slowly in his direction with their necks stiff.

Lin Yi's scalp tingled and he quickly looked away.

After this farewell, he fell out of this perspective again, and the illusion of infinite stretching around him began to retreat rapidly. The fog wall that had penetrated into the sky was retracted, and the teaching building that had been stretched to the end of the world also moved back all of a sudden and stood again in the thick fog, revealing a top floor stealthily.

Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief as his vision was restored.

But before he could feel relieved, he suddenly found that Li Huiyuan's hands had slightly increased their strength, as if she was very nervous.

He also suddenly discovered that on the originally deserted road, some sparse figures had appeared since he did not know when.

These scattered figures were very close to them, some were even right beside them, they walked with stiff and fragmented steps on the cobblestone road where the lights were not yet on...

The zombie-like limbs and strange steps instantly made Lin Yi realize a fact - "The human-shaped sculptures in the sculpture formation entered this road?"

“No, the current situation is more like I am forced to walk into the sculpture formation? Damn…”

Feeling the cold air emanating from the human-shaped sculptures around him, Lin Yi didn't dare to breathe. His steps were a little stiff, just like a passerby who had mixed into a group of mummies. He tried his best to control himself and not show any abnormality, but the more he tried, the more abnormal he looked.

Lin Yi's mind gradually emerged with the strategies regarding sculptures in the Art Department's rules, but the problem was that he was neither an art student nor in the Art Building, so he could not use the Art Student Rules as a reference at the moment.

The only thing you can do is to abide by the most basic student rules.

The twelve-word mantra for survival: [Don’t look back], [Look for street lights], and [Stay close to buildings].

"Li Huiyuan, are you okay, Li Huiyuan?"

Lin Yi whispered, and at the same time turned his head to look in Li Huiyuan's direction. As soon as he turned a little, he saw a pale human-shaped sculpture standing next to Li Huiyuan.

This human-shaped sculpture is all white, but maintains a certain rigid posture. It looks like someone who has plaster powder smeared on his body and then goes to a joint to do performance art.

When Lin Yi's eyes caught the outline of the human-shaped sculpture, he subconsciously avoided it downwards.

"I can't look at their faces!" Lin Yi told himself in his heart. One of the mechanisms of these hairy sculptures is "void detection". As long as you see their faces, they will lock on to you and trigger a certain killing mechanism.

"I... I'm here." Li Huiyuan's trembling voice sounded weakly.

"Keep your head down and focus on me. Ignore these guys around you. Especially, don't look at their faces."

"it is good……"

Lin Yi took a deep breath, then strengthened his gaze and walked towards the gradually blurry teaching building.

He glanced down at his watch.

17: 50.

"It's 17:50..." Lin Yi's heart gradually grew colder and slowly sank to the bottom.

As the fog thickened, he estimated the time he would arrive at the teaching building based on the time points when he was walking in the normal layer. It should be around 17:50 at the latest. Taking into account that the fog blocked his vision and affected his forward speed, even if the actual situation was different from the calculation, it should not be the case that "the teaching building is still a long way away after walking for a long time".

The only explanation is that the campus layer fell off unknowingly.

"Li Huiyuan, wait a moment." In order to verify this guess, he stopped Li Huiyuan, then squatted down, reached his hand into the thick fog that had already covered his knees, and touched the cobblestones on the road beneath his feet.

“Damn it…I see!”

The pebble touched by his palm had no smooth oval shape at all. It was directly twisted and stretched into some weird maltose shape. Just by the touch, it was impossible to figure out what kind of damage the pebble had suffered to be ravaged into this weird appearance that was neither a pebble nor plasticine.

He sighed softly, then slowly stood up again.

During the whole process, his eyes remained focused forward and fixed on the outline of the teaching building in the fog "in the distance".

He was really scared. He was afraid that in the blink of an eye, the teaching building would disappear without even a trace. Then they would be in a state of losing their safety, unable to stare at the cobblestone ground beneath their feet and the street lights would not be on. That would be really terrible.

what?
Staring at the cobblestones beneath your feet?

Is this a normal pebble? If you dare to use this distorted pebble with abnormal layers to anchor your cognition, I'm afraid even the word "death" will be twisted into a knot and thrown in your face.

Lin Yi's face became increasingly ugly. He should have been able to sense the changes in the campus layer, but because it was not their layer that fell, but the layer of the campus where they were, and because most of his perception was used to guard against the humanoid sculpture formations around him, he gradually faded and ignored the changes from the campus layer, and ended up in this predicament.

Li Huiyuan seemed to be able to sense Lin Yi's self-blame, and couldn't help but say: "Lin Yi...if you really don't want to, just leave me behind and find a way to get back to the teaching building by yourself?"

"You must be joking." Lin Yi interrupted her without hesitation, "You are my only chess piece right now, how can I just send it to them for them to eat? Even if I want to send it, I have to exchange it for a chance to draw the Rook!"

"Just relax."

Feeling the warmth from Lin Yi's hand, Li Huiyuan pursed her lips tightly and said no more, but her heart was warm.

Li Huiyuan felt warm in her heart, but Lin Yi felt cold in his heart.

He did comfort Li Huiyuan, but he couldn't deceive himself.

Now they are in a desperate situation.

The campus street lights will light up in 10 minutes, but in less than 10 minutes, they will be completely submerged in the fog.

The worst thing is that as the fog spread, the coverage of the campus had already fallen off.

(End of this chapter)