Chapter 165 Under the Thick Fog
Chapter 165 Under the Thick Fog (1100 words more!)
X023年5月8日，20:02。
Lin Yi was the first to step out of the classroom and into the thick fog.
When he walked out, the light from the classroom shone through the angle of the door, and some slight "rustling" sounds immediately appeared on the ceiling of the corridor.
Lin Yi's scalp went numb and he exclaimed "Oh my god!" His intuition told him that there were some soft, rubbery nocturnal creatures huddled in the dark corner of the corridor ceiling.
The incandescent lamp in the corridor has a lampshade, and there are some dark areas under the light at the junction of the lampshade and the ceiling. Those places may have become the hibernation places of nocturnal species.
He subconsciously reached out and touched the wall beside the classroom door.
The smooth painted walls were now full of distortions, exactly the same as the walls he had felt in his previous vision.
"The coating has started to fall off the outside of the classroom. It seems that the exposed areas of the teaching building are no longer safe. We need to leave immediately."
Soon Wei Liang also walked out of the classroom.
Lin Yi noticed that Wei Liang seemed a little afraid of the foggy campus.
To be honest, he felt that Wei Liang was not that simple, but it seemed that in this environment, the "weakness" shown by Wei Liang did not seem to be fake.
It seemed as if the abnormal weather suppressed him, weakening his skills and tricks and making him very "unstable".
When he passed through the classroom door, thick fog came up like rice bran. At first, he felt like he was about to suffocate, but he got used to it immediately.
The fog had invaded the corridor of the teaching building. The light from the corridor lights was weakened a lot but still worked. However, Lin Yi felt that Wei Liang's body seemed to be trembling slightly.
"Let's walk side by side." Lin Yi suggested, "Whoever feels something is wrong should say so in advance, and then put his arm around the other person's shoulder."
"Don't be so modest. Get ready. I will put my hand on your shoulder soon." Wei Liang touched his arm. He got goose bumps when he was in this environment.
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then asked tentatively: "How about... we hold hands again?"
"..."
"Okay..." Wei Liang stressed with a straight face, "At this time, I won't insist on the idea of no sexual contact between men, but I must solemnly declare that I have no sexual interest in the same sex at all!"
"Fuck you...get out!" Lin Yi's face darkened, and the corners of his mouth twitched again and again, "Even if you become a little boy, I will be immune to it. I only like beautiful legs in black stockings!"
"And the boss's jade feet." Wei Liang added subconsciously.
"Okay, okay, I guess."
"And the pink and round little toes of the little Lolita in white stockings..."
"Get lost! Don't impose your XP on me!" Lin Yi could no longer bear it and really wanted to punch Wei Liang twice. He said angrily, "Hey, let's go! We'll take it one step at a time...Give me the hoof!"
"Damn, what hoof? My hands are as soft as catkins!" Wei Liang said unwillingly.
"Stop disgusting me." Lin Yi retorted with gritted teeth, then gritted his teeth and took Wei Liang's hand, found the direction of the "Teaching Building - 108" lamppost, and then slowly walked down the stairs with Wei Liang.
With the departure of Lin Yi and Wei Liang, all the people in the classroom were divided into four groups.
The first group of people were called by the head teacher and immediately followed Song Rentou, Lin Yi and others out of the classroom at 20:00.
The people mentioned above who were dissuaded by the abnormal weather outside the classroom formed the second part;
As for the students who were not called and could choose to stay in the classroom for evening self-study until 7:40 the next morning, some of them chose to take a risk and followed the first group out of the classroom, forming the third group.
Finally, there are the remaining experience students.
These four parts just correspond to the four choices that Lin Yi thought of.
……
On May 023, X5, at 8:20, Lin Yi arrived at the "Teaching Building-08" lamppost. While looking for the location of the "Teaching Building-098" lamppost, he briefly observed the surroundings and discovered an "interesting" phenomenon.
When he walked out of the teaching building, there were clearly some people going down the stairs like him, but as they walked, those people disappeared.
It was clearly the same cobblestone road from "Teaching Building - 108" to "Teaching Building - 001", but there was only Wei Liang by his side.
This strange feeling is like playing a multiplayer online RPG game, where everyone comes to the entrance of the dungeon together, but only people in the team can enter the same dungeon.
But this is just a metaphor. We can’t apply the real situation to the game, right?
And it's not possible that there would be a cobblestone road under everyone's feet in abnormal weather, right?
Lin Yi couldn't figure it out for the time being, so he decided not to think too much about it, put the idea aside, and think about it carefully when he returned to the dormitory.
The two walked side by side, moving slowly on the cobblestone road shrouded in thick fog. Gradually, the street lights were reduced to a vague outline, but the strange thing was that the numbers written on the lampposts with white paint seemed to be unaffected by the fog. No matter how far away they were, they could be distinguished just by staring at them.
Lin Yi thought of something, and when he arrived in front of the lamppost in front of him, he took the opportunity to catch his breath and reached out to touch the white paint.
"Sure enough!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. The white paint was just as he had guessed. It felt very smooth to the touch. Its texture did not feel like paint, but more like... a coating of some kind of acrylic material.
"This white paint seems to be the same material as the student ID card!"
"How amazing! What on earth is this thing?"
At this moment, he noticed a rustling sound in the fog around him, and he knew, needless to say, that the human-shaped sculptures were gathering towards them.
"Lin...Yi..."
Outside the fog, the voice of the humanoid sculpture calling out was heard. Lin Yi didn't even need to use his eyes to see, as the picture appeared in his mind.
This scene was almost the same as what he had calculated in the classroom before, but the difference was that it was impossible for him to respond to such a call.
"Liangzi, are you okay?" Lin Yi glanced at Wei Liang.
“It’s okay, it’s okay…” Wei Liang waved his hands repeatedly. “This mountain area is like this. The miasma gets thicker at night. We have to hurry back to the dormitory. I can’t wait to take a hot shower!”
Seeing that Wei Liang really didn't show any signs of abnormality, Lin Yi calmed down a little and continued on his journey with him.
The figures of the two people soon disappeared in the fog, and they continued to move forward under the dim and heavy light. In the darkness outside the cobblestone road, in the area submerged in the fog, countless figures stared at Lin Yi and Wei Liang's figures, moving slowly. Under the thick fog, there was only a rustling sound mixed with the sound of the wind. It was unclear whether it was caused by the friction of stones on the ground or the wind hitting the treetops.
And amidst the sound of the wind, one could vaguely hear a strange call that seemed to be coming from a distant place.
“Lin Yi…”
"Lin...Yi..."
……
X023年5月8日，20:13。
Two figures came to the "Teaching Building-067" lamppost with some trepidation.
"I feel like I'm going to die..."
“It’s really not going to work…”
Nie Yun is similar to Song Rentou. He is an experience student who entered the school a few batches earlier than Lin Yi and the others. When he is in the classroom, he behaves dull and sluggishly, and has no interest in anything happening in the outside world.
But this is just his disguise. Facing the strange environment, he needs to remain "sluggish" enough to keep himself safe.
"Old Nie, we've already been here for four days... We can get the money if we can hold on for another three days." Beside Nie Yun, Ge Qing, his friend who entered the campus with him, was leaning against "Teaching Building-067" and gasping for breath.
"I have tried very hard not to think too much...but, but I have been feeling that something is calling my name recently!" Nie Yun's face was painful, and his mind seemed a little dazed. "I...I seem to hear it again, it's calling my name..."
"It seems...it seems to be right next to us!"
[Nie Yun...Nie Yun...][Nie Yun...]
"Ugh..." Nie Yun's face became paler and paler. He held onto the lamp post with one hand and rubbed his forehead with the other. He squinted his eyes and hunched his body, revealing a painful expression. "I feel so dizzy... Ge Qing, I feel so dizzy..."
Ge Qing's face changed drastically, and he quickly supported him, anxiously saying, "Old Nie, Old Nie, the rules say that if you feel unwell, tell your class teacher immediately. Should we...should we go back to the teaching building?"
"Well... okay... I, I feel really uncomfortable." Nie Yun gritted his teeth, trying his best to keep himself calm, but no matter how he breathed, he felt his breathing becoming heavier and heavier.
At this moment, the calling voice in his ear began to drill into his cochlea like a venomous snake:
[Nie Yun! Don't go back! Don't trust him! ]
[I am Ge Qing, I am Ge Qing! ]
[Don't trust the person next to you...it's not Ge Qing...it's not! ]
[Look behind you, the real me is in the mist behind you!!]
[I'm trapped! Please save me! Please save me...]
Nie Yun was stunned and quickly looked at Ge Qing beside him.
"Old Nie, what's wrong with you, Old Nie? Are you okay?" Ge Qing looked at Nie Yun with concern.
But in Nie Yun's eyes, Ge Qing now is a "Ge Qing" in the form of white plaster with a grayish complexion and pale skin. Although the other person's face is exactly the same as Ge Qing, in his eyes, it is a wriggling plaster-like face.
[Push him away! Push him away!!]
Nie Yun seemed to hear the voice of the "real Ge Qing", which was rapid and full of worry, and sounded like an order.
Nie Yun seemed to be possessed by a demon all of a sudden. Relying on the strength of the lamp post with his back, he suddenly exerted force and pushed Ge Qing, who was supporting him, hard out!
"Old Nie, you...?!" Ge Qing's face was full of disbelief. The moment he was pushed out, he subconsciously tried to adjust his body's center of gravity, but the cobblestone ground under his feet had already been wet by the mist and was so slippery that he had no leverage at all.
Not only did he slip, he also fell out of the area where the light from the "Teaching Building-067" lamppost and the "Teaching Building-068" lamppost connected to each other, and fell into the shadows...
"Old Nie——"
His terrified and puzzled cries came from the fog, and then after a few tragic cries, the sound completely disappeared.
Soon, the cool evening breeze carried a faint smell of blood and floated under the light. It landed in Nie Yun's nose, which made him feel stunned at first, but gradually he realized that he was wrong. It didn't seem to be the smell of blood, but the smell of fresh tomatoes...
Nie Yun's mind was confused, and he seemed to have not yet recovered from the scene just now. The voice in his ear had not disappeared yet, and was still calling him.
【Well done, Nie Yun, well done! 】
[I'm behind you, please help me! Hurry up! ]
The voice became more and more urgent, as if it couldn't wait any longer.
After Nie Yun took a breath, he touched his still confused head and slowly turned around...
Behind him was a dark area that even the orange-yellow light could not penetrate. Only intermittent calls came out from the fog and reached Nie Yun's ears like waves hitting the beach.
[Do you see me? Come and save me! ]
[Yes... yes, yes... that's it... come and save me...]
In the fog, it seemed as if someone stretched out a pair of hands and reached towards Nie Yun's location as if asking for help.
Nie Yun approached in a daze, taking stiff steps little by little, and came to the edge of the fog.
Just as he reached the boundary between light and darkness, the fog in front of him was suddenly separated by a great force, and a figure standing upright like a tombstone suddenly appeared in front of him.
It was a real humanoid sculpture, with stiff limbs that made it difficult for it to make any big movements, and its face was as sharp as if it had been "cut with a knife and an axe". Thick mist was entangled on its body, and at first glance it was impossible to tell whether it was gushing out of its body or connected to the surrounding mist...
It was facing Nie Yun's face, only a fist's distance away from them. The dividing line between them formed by light and fog was like window paper, which would break at the touch of a finger.
The stone eyeballs of the humanoid sculpture suddenly collapsed like a power furnace, and then emitted cold golden flames like a bonfire. Its lips began to slowly stretch towards the ears, and its plaster-like hard face cracked inch by inch because it could not withstand this force. Half of its face was instantly covered with dark cracks.
Finally, its eyes glowed with golden light, and the smile on its mouth stretched to its ears like a crazy clown. A sound came out of its mouth, and that sound was...
[Nie Yun, save me quickly…save me quickly…quickly…quickly hahahaha——]
The voice trembled, as if it was filled with some kind of fear, but gradually became crazy, then became wanton and rampant, and finally, as if he could no longer suppress the crazy smile at the corner of his mouth, he revealed a wanton laugh of success:
[You... saw me! ! ]
Nie Yun was stunned, and his originally confused brain suddenly became clear as if struck by lightning.
But before he could react, the pure white palm of the humanoid sculpture pierced through the gray fog like a bayonet, grabbed his collar, and dragged him out of the range of the lamppost light and into the darkness!
Nie Yun's terrified screams were heard from the rolling fog.
A moment later, a strange humanoid sculpture swayed its body, broke through the boundary between light and darkness, and entered the illuminated area of the "Teaching Building-067" lamppost.
After that, dark white mist began to emerge from its body continuously like a steam locomotive starting up. The mist lingered around it after being sprayed out, like a belt-like breath lingering on the top of the snow-capped mountains, while the other part was connected to the mist behind it that was immersed in the darkness like an umbilical cord.
If Lin Yi were here, he would be shocked to find that this human-shaped sculpture was beginning to transform into a non-human classmate, just like the human-shaped sculpture that had stepped onto the steps of the teaching building before.
The mist was constantly peeled off from its body and then slowly merged into the mist behind it.
As the mist dissipated, the pure white plaster-like texture of the humanoid sculpture began to slowly weaken, slowly changing from pure white to grayish white, blue-gray, and finally to the skin color of a normal person, and some kind of normal-looking uniform began to appear on the body.
"I... am Nie Yun..."
It tried to open its mouth, and then made a somewhat dry sound.
Suddenly, it arched its body and opened its mouth as if vomiting.
Then it spat out a torn card with saliva like mucus...
It was a card that looked like a student ID card, but it had lost the white acrylic material and looked like a small, wrinkled piece of paper with drawings on it.
But Nie Yun "Non-human Classmate" picked it up nonchalantly, muttering:
"My name is Nie Yun, and my student number is X0230504032..."
"I am Nie Yun..."
While muttering these words, it took stiff steps, swaying from side to side like a drunk, and slowly walked to the lamppost. Then it stood there, as if facing a wall.
Not long after, a humanoid sculpture also walked in from the mist on the other side...
The sculpture that walked in was covered with milky white bubbles all over its body, as if it was infected with a virus. These bubbles gradually calmed down and eventually turned into a plaster-like substance, which slowly transformed its shape as it squirmed.
When it took shape, its facial features looked exactly like Ge Qing, who had been pushed into the mist by Nie Yun before.
[It went very smoothly.] Ge Qing said to the sculpture. As he spoke, white mist began to emerge from his body, and then he began to undergo the same changes as Nie Yun's "non-human classmate".
Finally, Ge Qing, who was transformed from a "sculpture" into a "non-human classmate", spat out a student ID card that looked like a piece of paper that had lost its original material.
"From now on, I am Ge Qing... My student number is X0230504049..."
[But this is far from enough...] Fog rolled outside the lamppost, and the "rustling" sound was mixed with noisy sounds. These were the sounds of the humanoid sculptures, and they seemed to be speaking the same language as the nocturnal species.
【More people are needed! 】
I added 1100 words for the leader “Cup of Thinking”, and I still owe 900 words (actually, I have almost paid off the debt with 1000 words from Xiaodaoqierou, so I will pay 1000 next time if I have , and if it is not enough, I will just pay as much as I can)!
Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "琳skylark" for their tips!!
PS: I originally wanted to add 200 words to show my appreciation, but then I thought better of it. I’ll just take a day off and go all in... Yeah, that’s right, cough cough cough... I’ll take a day off during the Tomb Sweeping Day holiday, and will only work three days this week, but I’m exhausted, so I plan to take a break and catch my breath.
(End of this chapter)