Chapter 156 A moth flies into the flame

Chapter 156 A moth flies into the flame

Chapter 156 A moth flies into the flame
"That's not right... didn't I have a student ID card when I first entered school? Didn't they follow me anyway?"

"So, the student ID card is not the root cause, then what is the root cause...?"

Lin Yi fixed his sight within the range of the street lights and thought in his mind as he moved forward. While thinking, he also ignored the calls of the human-shaped sculptures behind him.

Finally, he took Li Huiyuan into the area covered by street lamps.

He reached out and grabbed the lamppost, and his body, which had been as tense as a bow, slowly relaxed a little.

He leaned against the lamp post and looked at the human-shaped sculptures chasing after him, but all he could see was white mist rolling like steam, just like on May 5th, with no human figures in sight.

One could only vaguely see the outlines of some human figures, lurking stealthily in the fog, wandering around, ready to move, but unable to move forward.

This is a very awkward state, which is completely opposite to Fang Tangjing's attitude of "I came in and I went out, come and hit me", but more like "I want to come in but I don't dare to come in, can you come and help me, wuwuwu".

Something is wrong, very wrong.

"They are repelled by the light, but also attracted to it, like... moths to a flame?!"

The moment he thought of this, Lin Yi saw a picture in his mind as if he had a psychic connection. Also, as if a cultivator had attained enlightenment, a picture emerged in his mind of countless moths flapping their wings and flying around a paper lantern.

The paper lantern continued to grow bigger, then suddenly shattered, and the fire inside the lantern also shattered into countless sparks.

These sparks swirled in the air and eventually died out, turning into fragmented ashes that fell like snowflakes.

The ashes slowly fell, slowly fell... Lin Yi's attention followed them, and then he saw a gray sky filled with snowflakes. His attention followed the falling snowflakes, and he saw a rough black sea...

Huge waves rolled on the sea, smashing one after another on the rocks on the shore. In a rotten swamp mixed with silt and yellow sand near the coastline, one after another twisted humanoid creatures covered with silt crawled out of it, stepping on their embarrassed and deformed bodies, running, crawling, or wriggling forward, and rushed to the foot of a cliff...

They spread their limbs and grabbed onto the slippery, moss-covered rock walls in an attempt to climb up, but the walls were too slippery to support their actions.

But there were too many of them. They crawled out like a swarm of insects from a dark area where one could not tell whether it was the waves, mud or yellow sand. Then, as if driven by instinct or some crazy command, they swarmed to the base of the rock wall one after another, and then trampled on each other and climbed up the rock wall desperately.

Finally, some units climbed up the rock wall. They let out hoarse and dry roars, as if they were calling out some painful but mutually inspiring melodies. They climbed and climbed on the rock wall, like ants discovering fruits on a rotten dead tree, scrambling to rush up...

In the dim sky, under the falling snow, beside the surging ocean, a group of nocturnal creatures were crawling on a cliff that was almost perpendicular to the horizon. Some of the units rushed forward and fell down helplessly due to exhaustion.

This scene was like... a moth flying into a flame, but it was so familiar that it made Lin Yi feel palpitations.

This picture... isn't this the scene he saw when he was standing vertically on the cliff when the layer fell?
He vaguely remembered that the person standing on the cliff was the super existence named "Night Watchman" by the Art Department's rules.

“Hualala——”

The images in Lin Yi's eyes flipped quickly like the pages of a book blown by the wind, and the images in his mind began to collapse rapidly. He shook his head and looked carefully. The image in front of him returned to the fog he saw when he was leaning against the street lamp and the strange shadows in the fog that kept hovering outside the light and were ready to move.

"Hu, hu, hu..." Lin Yi breathed slowly and glanced at Li Huiyuan beside him.

Li Huiyuan's face was also full of solemnity. She hesitated for several times and finally asked: "What's wrong with you, Lin Yi? Your body temperature was very low just now, but it recovered immediately..."

"I...it's nothing. I just had a little hallucination, but I'm fine now." Lin Yi shook his head slightly, not wanting to make Li Huiyuan more worried, but he suddenly realized something and his eyes fell on Li Huiyuan's feet.

"Your feet..."

Li Huiyuan's standing posture was a little strange, and her right foot showed a hint of unnatural stiffness.

She pursed her lips and said, "After I came under the light, I lost consciousness again..."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment.

"It's okay Lin Yi...it will be fine once I get used to it."

"..." Lin Yi took a few deep breaths and then looked at his watch.

18: 03.

"It's only been a minute or two. It looks like he was distracted for just a moment."

"Fortunately it was under the streetlight..."

He propped himself up, looked around, and soon found the locations of other lampposts in the fog.

The fog was already very thick now, but still less than that on May 5th. Lin Yi saw several lamp posts at a glance. The closest ones seemed to be just a dozen meters ahead. He could vaguely see the numbers on the lamp posts, while the ones farther away only seemed to have a hazy little sun.

As he shifted his attention to the lamppost, the originally blurry outline of the teaching building was completely submerged in the fog, and no trace of it could be found anymore.

He was not worried about this. As long as he found the lamppost, he would find the way back to the teaching building.

He stared at the lamppost closest to him, trying to see the blurry number on it, but he couldn't see it clearly because of the fog floating in the evening breeze.

Just as he squinted his eyes to observe carefully, Li Huiyuan beside him suddenly said: "Teaching Building-106."

"Huh?" Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan in surprise, and suddenly found that Li Huiyuan's eyes had turned golden at some point.

It was a golden luster that even cosmetic contact lenses could not show. It was like a pool of water reflecting the cold moonlight, with a floating aura that made people feel alienated.

The golden color quickly melted away like ice and snow. Li Huiyuan was stunned for a moment. After she came to her senses, she said in a daze, "I wanted to see the number clearly, and then my sight zoomed in like a telescope... It sounds incredible, but I feel like I was right."

"I believe you, let's go over there." Lin Yi said decisively, then supported Li Huiyuan and led her to walk through the orange-yellow light area towards "Lamp Pole-106".

"Is the field of vision widening..." Lin Yi muttered in his heart.

He had experienced a similar situation as Li Huiyuan before, and looking back now, did his eyes also turn golden at that time?
"When you use abilities that are not normal, will your eyes turn golden...?"

Lin Yi had always thought that golden eyes were a sign of pollution, but now perhaps his guess was correct. The fact that he had golden eyes meant that he had indeed encountered pollution, but he might have been in some special state at that time.

He thought of those inhuman classmates. When they were huddled in the rows of seats in the lecture hall, their eyes were normal color. But when the lights in the classroom went out, their eyes turned golden and began to hunt those students who fell down because of seeing them.

As the two walked, the fog around them made a rustling sound. These were the humanoid sculptures moving along with their figures. When Lin Yi knew what was in the fog and had a preliminary understanding of their movement mechanism, he no longer felt that they were scary.

The unknown is fear.

The two of them arrived at the second lamppost safely, and when they looked at the number on the lamppost, it was indeed "Teaching Building - 106".

And in the direction of the street lamp pole "Teaching Building-106", there is indeed another street lamp pole "Teaching Building-107", which means that this road is indeed correct. "Let's go, if nothing goes wrong, we will be back to the teaching building soon." Lin Yi supported Li Huiyuan and continued to walk forward.

The corners of Li Huiyuan's mouth suddenly shrank.

"what's wrong?"

"Nothing... I just felt like you were like someone who was madly sticking flags behind you..."

"..."

……

X023年5月8日，18:12，林异搀扶着李慧鸢，在路灯杆「教学楼-108」前停下了脚步了。

Looking at the steps of Teaching Building B right in front of him, Lin Yi felt that the smooth progress this time was somewhat unbelievable and dreamlike.

He looked up at the teaching building.

one two three four five six seven……

"Yeah, fuck, eight floors."

Lin Yi felt inexplicably calm, as if he was saying "I knew it". He was completely different from the person he was on May 5th.

"So the teaching building is indeed folded into four layers, and it will be revealed when the layers fall off."

At this moment, he found that Li Huiyuan's body began to feel cold. He glanced at her sideways and found that she was looking at the teaching building in front of her with her pupils contracted. Her face was full of shock, as if she had seen something that subverted her cognition.

"Li Huiyuan." Lin Yi shook her and brought her back from her trance.

"Lin Yi, this...?!" Li Huiyuan pointed at the teaching building and hesitated to speak, but suddenly found that Lin Yi's expression was very calm, "You... knew it a long time ago?"

"That's why I want to explore the teaching building." Lin Yi said calmly, "As you can see, the teaching building does have only four floors under normal circumstances, but when it's abnormal, the other floors under the glass bridge will appear."

"Anyway... don't think too much about it. Just think of it as 'this is how it should be'."

He thought Li Huiyuan still remembered the concept of the glass bridge.

Li Huiyuan nodded, not quite understanding.

"Let's go."

The light of "Teaching Building-108" stops before the stairs, but after that, the corridor lights of Teaching Building B continue to illuminate it.

Lin Yi supported Li Huiyuan and walked slowly forward, pulling his feet out of the thick fog and stepping onto the steps of the teaching building.

Lin Yi subconsciously looked at his feet when he went up the stairs. When he lowered his head, he found that the fog was high enough to cover his knees and just covered part of the stairs, just like the water vapor floating on a steamer.

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something, and a light bulb went off in his mind. When he reached the corridor, he looked at the stairs with the help of the orange-yellow incandescent light.

The scene outside the teaching building gave him a feeling that it was not real. He saw the stairs slowly extending downwards from his feet and then disappearing into the thick fog, just like the escalator in a swimming pool.

The sky in the distance had completely fallen into thick fog. The moonlight was invisible, and the outline of the mountain was also invisible. It seemed that the only thing left in the whole world was the building under his feet.

The evening breeze swept across the mountains, and the whole world was filled with fog. In addition, the only street lamps visible in the field of vision, apart from the teaching buildings, were sinking into the foggy world. Lin Yi had a sense of confusion as if he was in a world during the European Industrial Revolution, where there were many chimneys constantly emitting black smoke that blocked out the sun.

This lonely teaching building is like an isolated island built in the steel torrent of the foggy world.

"This mist..."

Lin Yi leaned down, stretched out his hand and brushed the edge of the steps, pushing away the nearby mist like splashing water.

"really!"

There was indeed a patch of moss growing on the steps under the mist.

"The moss in the teaching building and the cafeteria really grew after the fog started to spread!"

As the mist floated, Lin Yi's ears seemed to hear the sound of some water splashes, as if his palm had penetrated the mist and really touched the non-existent water surface hidden under the mist...

Lin Yi pulled his hand back like lightning, looked at his fingertips, and found nothing unusual, then he secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

"We're back in the teaching building. We should be safe now." Lin Yi patted his chest lightly and let out a breath, "Emmm... relatively safe."

Li Huiyuan looked back at the thick fog with some fear, and said anxiously, "They... won't catch up with us, right?"

"No." Lin Yi shook his head, his eyes fixed on the rolling fog. "They are afraid of lights. They dare not approach the teaching building until the lights in the teaching building are turned off."

Li Huiyuan also breathed a sigh of relief when she heard this.

But before Lin Yi could finish his words, a series of strange figures wandering in the dark fog slowly approached the teaching building in the area not covered by the street lights, surrounding the entire teaching building like a dark mass of zombies besieging a city.

"Ah this..."

Lin Yi had a bad feeling.

"Go, go, go! Damn it, something's wrong, something's very wrong!" Lin Yi grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand, looked for the location of Class 2, Group B, and hurried over.

The three classrooms on the first floor of Building B of the teaching building are on the same corridor. With Lin Yi's current knowledge, he can easily find Class 2, Group B.

Not long after Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan left, the strange figures lingering in the mist became clearer and clearer...

finally--

The fog is surging.

"call……"

A pure white sculpted foot broke through the mist like tearing a silicone membrane and stepped heavily on the steps in front of the teaching building.

Thanks to the book friend "财富自由人生" for the reward!!
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