Chapter 169: Disturbing Street Light Pole

Chapter 169: Disturbing Street Light Pole

Chapter 169: Disturbing Street Light Pole (Additional 600 words)
Perhaps it was because his cognition had reached this level that Lin Yi, who was leaning against a street lamp, could vaguely sense their presence. These dirty things moved timidly in the darkness, daring only to wander in the darkness, like a school of fish looking up at the blue sky but not daring to approach the water. However, the inexplicable greed and desire revealed in their eyes was far greater than the fear...

They are afraid of the light, they approach the light, they wander in the fog, constantly driving the fog away, eroding the power of the light...

“Once 21:00 arrived, I didn’t see the security guards leaving, so there was no time to delay.”

Lin Yi looked at the area at the boundary of light and darkness that had been submerged in fog, and saw that part of the cobblestone road had been distorted due to the influence of the layer.

There seemed to be an invisible pressure in the fog, slowly exerting itself on him.

He didn't know whether other students were facing any difficulties, but it was obvious that the abnormal weather this time was far from being as simple as he had imagined.

"Tick, tick, tick..."

Time passed by, and Lin Yi stared at the quartz watch on his wrist while taking a breath.

20：59：02……30……50……

20：59：57、20：59：58、20：59：59……

21:00:00!!
"Time's up!" Lin Yi suddenly raised his head and swept his surroundings with a sharp gaze like an eagle, but the light in his eyes soon dimmed.

"I didn't see the security guard... I really didn't see him."

Although he had been prepared in his heart, when the incident really happened, Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

"Shit! There really is no security guard!" Wei Liang hammered the ground hard, and then felt a huge pain from the pebbles. He twisted his mouth and bared his teeth and screamed, "Ouch, shit, it hurts a bit..."

He rubbed his fists and looked around carefully: "Lao Lin, run?"

"We can only run." Lin Yi looked solemn.

The fog has suppressed the range of the light, and countless human-shaped sculptures in the darkness are glaring at them. Once the light of the street lamps dims, he cannot guarantee that everyone will maintain this sense of "mutual respect".

However, when the two of them slowly stood up holding onto the lamp post and looking for the next lamp, Wei Liang's expression suddenly changed: "Oh no!"

"Old Lin, look at that road...is it starting to twist?"

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat and he quickly stared ahead. It would have been better if he hadn't looked. Once he looked, he actually discovered that the cobblestone road ahead was twisting and stretching in a way that went against common sense...

The street lights that dotted the cobblestone road began to float left and right like buoys on the sea.

Lin Yi held onto the lamp post and took a few deep breaths, then looked ahead carefully. At this moment, the distortion of the cobblestone road disappeared again, but the lamp post actually drifted a distance...

"Damn, this isn't going to be good..."

He supported Wei Liang and said in a deep voice: "Just like yesterday, put your hand on my shoulder and I will take you back to the dormitory!"

"Lao Lin, can you do it? I think I can still hold on for a while..." Wei Liang gritted his teeth and said seriously.

Lin Yi glanced at him and said in a low voice: "You can't hold on, leave it to me! I was able to return to the dormitory yesterday, and I can do it today too!"

He said, ignoring what Wei Liang wanted to say, and grabbed Wei Liang's hand and placed it on his shoulder: "Hold it well, trust me."

"Okay..." Wei Liang nodded without hesitation, and added, "If it doesn't work, just call me. I have a few tricks that might be helpful..."

Lin Yi's eyes lit up immediately when he heard this: "Damn it, you had this trump card, why didn't you tell me earlier? Actually, I can't do it now, how about you show off your power and say 'The Great Heavenly Dragon, the World Honored One, Ksitigarbha', and I'll applaud you from the sidelines?"

"Lao Lin, I seemed to hear someone barking a dog just now." Wei Liang said seriously.

"I'll make it up, damn it, didn't you say you had a trump card?"

"Oh my god, isn't this how normal scripts are written? I say 'I still have a trump card to use', and you say 'It's just a small matter, why do I need your godfather's advice', and then you show your courage and lead me out of the encirclement or something like that..."

"Liangzi, are you taking advantage of me at this time?"

"We are each other's foster fathers, why should we care about such trivial matters?"

"If I hadn't seen you reading H-manga with my own eyes, I would have thought you were reading hot-blooded brotherly manga!"

"To a certain extent, there is not much difference between passion and bloodshed. In essence, they are both sweaty battles! Don't worry about the details!"

"So do you have a trump card?"

"'If there is'!"

"What the hell..."

The two of them chatted with each other and slowly walked out of the range of the "Dormitory Building-087" lamppost and walked towards the lamppost in front.

But Wei Liang didn’t notice Lin Yi’s increasingly pale and ugly face.

Just when Lin Yi grabbed Wei Liang's hand and placed it on his shoulder, he felt that Wei Liang's hand was terribly cold. The temperature was like picking up a brick placed in ice water and carrying it on his shoulder.

However, he saw that Wei Liang did not show anything unusual, as if he had deceived even himself.

This scene immediately reminded him of the scene in the Investiture of the Gods in which Bigan's heart was cut out. On his way home, Bigan asked the vegetable seller, "vegetables can live without hearts, but what will happen to people without hearts?" The vegetable seller said, "Of course people will die without hearts." So Bigan died on the spot.

Lin Yi felt that Wei Liang's current state was similar to that of Bigan. He could not remind Wei Liang of what had happened. He could only let Wei Liang maintain his current cognition of himself, and freeze himself in this stage like a slice of time, and pull himself back when it was safe.

But Lin Yi simply couldn't understand Wei Liang's logic behind this, and he couldn't ask, for fear that asking would disrupt Wei Liang's strange state.

There are a total of 96 lamp posts in the dormitory area. At most, it would take nine more lamp posts to reach the dormitory. However, Lin Yi did not relax at all. After all, it was because he had no idea about the distance around the campus under abnormal weather.

And based on his last experience of walking through the fog, as long as he didn't reach the "Dormitory Building-096" street lamp pole, he would not be able to see the dormitory building no matter how close he was to it.

……

Under the thick fog, two figures moved slowly forward with the help of dim street lights, like hunters walking in the snowy field with wind and snow above their heads.

As he walked, Lin Yi began to realize that something was wrong.

He found that the cobblestone road under his feet gradually lost its rounded geometric shape and began to become soft and sticky, like bubbles rising from the mud, losing the hard quality it should have.

He looked down at his feet and saw that the cobblestone road was still there in his "vision", but from the sense of touch feedback from his feet, it was a soft road. He even felt staggering and slipping when he stepped on it.

"The falling layers are affecting my perception, but because I firmly believe that I am still on the cobblestone road, what I 'see' is still what I believe, but what I 'feel' is the 'real road now' after the layers have fallen off!"

Suddenly, a gleam of light flashed across Lin Yi's eyes, and the hairs on his arms stood up instantly. He clearly sensed something...

That feeling, is like... thick fog?!

He suddenly found that the thick fog had come to his side without him knowing when, like a shaken bed sheet slowly falling down and about to cover him. Outside the thick fog, countless human-shaped sculptures swarmed in, as if waiting for the moment when he would be swallowed by the fog!
“Swish…”

“Swish…”

There were also some nocturnal species crawling on the ground like hungry hyenas, greedily watching his every move... "Layer!"

"I'm...stuck between two layers?!"

He is now like a drowning person, perhaps with his chest still struggling above the water, but the rest of him has already fallen into the water.

The water surface is the boundary between the layers. Once he sinks completely, he will be swallowed by the piranhas under the water until not even a bone is left!

"I 'see' the water surface and what's under the water surface, but what I touch is already what's under the water surface... I must row to the streetlight ahead before I sink!"

Lin Yi had to use analogies to weaken the impact of the layers. Even if he imagined himself swimming or weaving through a quagmire, it was better than assuming that he was walking with a group of human-shaped sculptures that were hungry for his flesh and blood.

His eyes were fixed on the dimly lit lamppost in front of him. He struggled with Wei Liang to hide under the lamppost, then looked up at the lamppost.

"Dormitory Building-090".

"He mlgb...jumped over two lamp posts, no wonder it looks so far away!"

He took a few breaths and then checked the time.

21: 06.

Three lamp posts, six minutes, this speed was much slower than he expected...

宿舍楼楼道是22:00开始熄灯，直到22:20彻底黑暗，但真正能够让他们回到宿舍的时间只能是22:00之前。

There are six street lamp poles...

And the dormitory corridor...

The journey seemed short, but it was as severe as two battles. Lin Yi even began to worry whether the remaining 54 minutes would be enough for them to fight these two battles.

He took a deep breath and charged into the fog with Wei Liang, continuing to "swim" in the fog as hard as a dog, gradually narrowing the distance between them and the dormitory building.

……

As Lin Yi walked through the fog, he kept telling himself in his mind, "I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, and I am walking on the cobblestone road to the dormitory building." He also glanced at the time on his watch from time to time to roughly estimate the distance he had walked...

21:09, Lin Yi reached out to push away the thick fog in front of him and saw clearly the dimly lit lamppost in front of him.

"Dormitory Building-092".

The straight lamppost with orange-yellow light looked normal at first glance. The lamppost number was also written in white paint on the lamppost. However, Lin Yi felt an indescribable sense of weirdness as soon as he saw it.

For a moment, he couldn't tell whether he had been crawling in the fog for too long and his brain had become confused, or he doubted the safety of the lamppost, or the lamppost really had some changes that he was not aware of.

But he didn't think too much. Wei Liang's cold hands had turned a little blue and were gradually turning into the previous bluish-gray state. He had to absorb the light from the street lamps and take a breath before he could continue to move forward.

There isn't much time left for him.

He then took a deep breath, gritted his teeth, and walked with Wei Liang to the lamppost of "Dormitory Building-092".

When he broke through the thick fog and entered the light range of the lamppost, the already strong feeling of discomfort in his heart became even stronger, hitting his heart like the violent rolling magma before a volcanic eruption, and his heart began to pound.

An incomprehensible and unpredictable sense of crisis seemed to envelop him like a net from the void, making him feel confused and at a loss.

"what happened?"

"What on earth is causing this strong sense of crisis?"

He looked around carefully, but couldn't find anything strange. The street lamps emitting orange-yellow light standing on the cobblestone road, didn't they represent a state of safety in the thick fog?

He still had his student ID and hadn't violated any rules, so his security status definitely couldn't have been invalidated, so where did the crisis come from?!
Lin Yi was so anxious that he was running around. His instinct urged him to run away immediately, but he had not yet found the location of the next lamppost, and Wei Liang's body had not yet recovered enough body temperature under the lamp!

If you rush out of the light without any direction, you are really risking your life.

However, the sense of crisis did not diminish in the slightest because Lin Yi did not leave the range of the street lamp. With his back against the lamppost, Lin Yi felt more and more weird. It was as if there were thousands of ants crawling on his body, making him feel uneasy.

"What's wrong?"

Lin Yi had no idea whether this uneasy feeling came from the psychological hints given to him by the surrounding environment, or whether cracks had begun to appear in his cognition and was being silently contaminated by the falling layer.

He felt that he was unable to distinguish right from wrong, and he began to doubt whether the area he was in was really safe...

He felt the metallic texture coming from the cold lamppost and felt the biting cold. Suddenly he shuddered violently.

"Oh no! Was I confused just now?"

"My will has weakened!"

The evening breeze was icy cold, chilling Lin Yi both physically and mentally.

The subtle pollution, like a frog boiled in warm water, made him shudder.

He realized that he was being affected by the layer, just like a person who has been swimming for a long time, his skin will become loose due to blisters. No matter how determined he is, if he cannot land, then the only thing waiting for him is drowning after exhaustion.

Street lights are beacons, but not the shore. Only the dormitory buildings are the shore!
He held onto the lamppost and gasped for breath, trying his best to keep his mind calm, or to keep "what he thought was a calm state", and then continued to look for the next lamppost.

He glanced sideways at Wei Liang's hand. Under the light, Wei Liang's hand still remained pale and bluish-gray and icy. The light could no longer warm it up, but it kept Wei Liang's body in this state and prevented it from deteriorating further.

He slowly withdrew his gaze - but just as he did so, he suddenly discovered that the cobblestone ground under his feet had disappeared at some point, and only moist and soft sand was left under his feet. The pebbles that should have been laid under his feet - no, at least the ground that looked like "pebbles" from the "visual" perspective, had completely disappeared!

He looked at the street lamp next to him again.

The street lamp was still there, and the light was still dim, but he finally noticed something. He stretched his neck and got close to the white paint on the surface of the lamp post, and gently touched it...

He immediately noticed that the numbers written in white paint had become much fainter, as if they had experienced countless years of wind, frost, rain and snow. He looked up at the street lamp and found that the bulb in the lampshade had also become dimmer.

His pupils dilated slightly, as if he wanted to take in more light.

But at this moment he discovered that the thing in the lampshade of the street lamp pole did not seem to be a light bulb, but... some kind of glowing stone!!

The light was originally bright, and with the presence of the lampshade and a little mist, and Lin Yi had never carefully observed the bulb of the street lamp before, he subconsciously assumed that the bulb was the traditional pear-shaped glass body with a wick.

However, as the light faded, the shape of the light bulb gradually appeared before him.

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