Chapter 175: Pieces of Paper in the Closet
Chapter 175: Pieces of Paper in the Closet
Countless twisted figures mixed together, and it was so dark that it was impossible to see how many heads there were. It was like a piece of boiling asphalt seeping out from the abyss, rushing up along the slippery cliff covered with moss.
Their movements were minimally affected by the rock environment, as if they were born for rock climbing. Although they were still a very long distance away from Lin Yi, it would not take long for them to reach Lin Yi's height.
Not to mention if Lin Yi couldn't hold on and fell off the cliff...
“Rustle… rustle…”
They surged in like a tide, and the entire rock wall seemed to tremble slightly. They crawled in strange postures and roared some obscure syllables. This sound mixed with the sound of sea breeze and waves, and was transmitted to Lin Yi's ears intermittently:
【fanTome……fRa forRidEn……】
【fanTome...fRa...forRidEn...】
This numbing syllable was like using a rusty, blunt knife to slowly pick at Lin Yi's bones. The creepy feeling flowed through his spine like cold liquid, chilling him to the bone and giving him a strong sense of terror...
It’s hard to imagine what would happen if we were drowned by them.
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze, not wanting to waste any more time on these rugged crawlers.
"We must anchor back before they overwhelm us..."
He clung to the crack of the cliff, wishing he could bury his entire body in the moss, so that he could stick as close to the slippery cliff as possible. Then, he took a deep breath and slowly closed his eyes.
According to the rules, under normal circumstances, people are not allowed to close their eyes for a long time except when sleeping, because people with high inspiration are easily affected by the surrounding environment when they close their eyes, and they may inadvertently lose the anchor and fall off the layer. But now that he has fallen off the layer, he must do the opposite.
He began to calm himself down, listening carefully to all the sounds around him, and gradually separated the sounds of I that had been shattered together like peeling off silk threads from a cocoon...
The first was the strongest sound of wind, the sound of wind howling from the sea, echoing among the mountains surrounding the cliff, and finally washing over this section of the cliff...
He felt the sound of the wind carefully and merged into it, so he could no longer hear the sound of the wind, while the rest of the sounds in the wind began to gradually become clearer.
The sound of the nocturnal "Abyss Crawlers" climbing up the cliffs, and the evil whispers coming from their mouths...
The clouds flowing deep in the sky rubbed against each other, making a low roar like thunder...
The sound of waves crashing against the shore...
as well as……
“Wow…wow…wow—”
The endless black sea, the sound of waves pushing each other.
"Found it!" Lin Yi's heart suddenly jumped, "This is it!"
"This is not the sound of the waves, this is not the sound of the waves, this is not the sound of the waves..."
He kept reminding himself in his mind.
"This is the sound of pages turning, this is the sound of pages turning, this is the sound of pages turning..."
Then, he suddenly opened his eyes!
He saw an open book.
This book was none other than the note pad that fell into the corridor when he lost hold of it at the moment the layer fell!
The notebook was open, and the pages were shaking slightly, making a crisp "rustling" sound..."
When Lin Yi saw this book, he felt an indescribable joy in his heart.
Is this a book?
Where is this book?!
This is clearly an anchor!!!
At this time, the sticky note appeared on the cliff, hanging in the air in a posture that was incompatible with this world, and the pages were swaying slowly, as if greeting Lin Yi.
"My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I'm in front of dormitory 1414... My notebook fell beside me..."
"My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I..."
He stared at the notepad intently, repeating the sentence aloud in his mind. His sight was so focused on the notepad that his surrounding vision gradually blurred.
He was like a student who covered his ears while reciting a Chinese text. He used his voice to interfere with the influence of the outside world on himself, while consolidating his understanding of the current environment, and bit by bit, he continued the iron chain between the ship and the heavy anchor.
“Rustle… rustle…”
【fanTome……fRa forRidEn……】
【fanTome...fRa...forRidEn...】
The nocturnal creatures with twisted postures swarmed over and soon arrived at the cliff twenty or thirty meters below Lin Yi. It only took less than half a minute to reach his height.
At this critical moment, Lin Yi made a move that would terrify anyone who saw him.
He...loosened his hands that were holding on to the crack of the cliff!
Is he seeking his own death?!
No, he... he didn't fall down, he - he was hanging on the cliff, as if there was some kind of powerful connection between his chest and the cliff that fixed him there!
"My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I'm in front of dormitory 1414... my notebook fell beside me..."
He supported himself on the rock wall with his hands, and pushed himself away from the cliff little by little. Then, like Spider-Man, he stood on the cliff with his feet...
In front of him was the upright sky and the ocean, but his somewhat dilated pupils seemed to be unable to see the scenery in front of him and were focused on the void in front of him.
"I was in front of dormitory 1414... My notebook fell beside me..."
"I'm in front of dormitory 1414..."
He slowly stretched out his hand and gently clenched it in the air.
He gripped a cold door handle.
"I'm right in front of dormitory 1414..." he pondered with a firm look.
“Bo…”
The entire space began to fluctuate violently, like a calm lake that was suddenly broken. Ripples quickly spread out from Lin Yi's hand holding the door handle, shattering the pattern originally reflected on the lake surface bit by bit.
As the lake light shattered, the world that sank beneath the lake surface was slowly lifted up by Lin Yi.
That world seemed to be carved out of ice. It was invisible in the water, but as it surfaced under the sun, its outline became clear again.
A door, a corridor, a building...
Lin Yi repeatedly whispered, "My name is Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, and I'm in front of dormitory 1414," like an ancient monk performing the art of Qimen Dunjia and lifting up the entire world.
Gradually, he was also covered by the waves, and his body, which was originally stuck in the gap between the layers, finally began to slowly withdraw.
Under the cliff, the countless nocturnal species sensed Lin Yi's increasingly dim aura and began to roar. Eventually, they drowned Lin Yi like a torrent. However... as they drowned Lin Yi, they passed through his body one after another. Lin Yi's body was like a virtual image projected here...
……
On May 023, X5, at 8:21, on the 13th floor of the dormitory building, in front of dormitory 14, Lin Yi held the door handle of the dormitory like a sculpture, and his scattered attention slowly gathered.
"I'm in front of dormitory 1414..."
He slowly raised his head and saw the house number: "1414".
He glanced at his feet. The notepad that had fallen to the ground was open, and the pages were drooping limply on the edge, not even fluttering. However, the lights in the dormitory corridor seemed to be dimmed.
Lin Yi bent down, picked up the notepad, dusted it off and put it away, then took out his student ID and swiped it to open the dormitory door.
“Tick-tick…Ka-ka-ka…”
The bolt turns and the door leaf opens.
Lin Yi entered and quickly closed the door. Then he leaned against the door, slid down weakly, and sat on the ground.
"Hu, hu, hu..."
"Finally safe...hahahaha..." He laughed with difficulty, and then he heard the sound of water splashing in the bathroom. It was obvious that Wei Liang was already taking a shower.
He rested for a long while, then slowly climbed up with the help of the door, and went to his closet to prepare his own clothes.
The school uniforms in the closet were stacked together, each wrapped in a nylon bag. When Lin Yi took out a brand new bag, an inconspicuous piece of paper fell from between the bags...
Lin Yi was slightly stunned and picked up the piece of paper.
I saw that this not-so-big piece of paper was covered with scribbled words, and the handwriting started out shaky and got increasingly scribbled as time went on until some of the words were completely illegible.
"I killed someone... I killed someone..."
"My roommate attracted them... I killed him... No, he killed himself..."
"They were right at the door...repeatedly saying my roommate's name and student number, and then dressed up as my roommate..."
"I don't know why they can open at this time..."
"I saw them looking for my roommate..."
"My roommate is taking a shower..."
"They couldn't find the bathroom door and were getting more and more angry... I was afraid they would hurt me... I was so scared..."
"I opened the bathroom door..."
"They rushed in and took away my roommate..."
"I killed my roommate... No, they killed my roommate, not me... not me..."
"He was the one who attracted them. If I didn't do this, I would be the one who died..."
"They are right at the door...why don't they leave...why..."
"Isn't it my roommate who attracted them...I am the one who attracted them..."
"No...it's not..."
"I have to find a way to lure them away, or prevent them from knowing my name and student number..."
"It's too late, too late..."
"My roommate is dead, and I don't have any other roommates..."
"Why is it not enough..."
"It's my turn soon..."
"I feel like I'm doomed..."
"My name is Song Rentou, and my student number is X0230402017..."
"If you see this message, tell our homeroom teacher about my roommate and I being murdered. My homeroom teacher is 'Homeroom Teacher-B2-037'. She might be able to save me..."
"I'm so scared... What should I do... What should I do... Someone please save me..."
"Here they come again..."
"They're knocking on the door..."
“They started calling my name…”
"I'm not Song Rentou, don't call me, don't call me, I'm not Song Rentou, I'm not..."
The intermittent scribbling, a few strokes here and there, but it vaguely constructed the framework of an event. Lin Yi looked at the piece of paper, and the whole story emerged in his mind...
A group of inhuman classmates wandered around the door of this dormitory, repeatedly chanting "I am so-and-so, my student number is so-and-so", and then began to violently open the door...
The man named Song Rentou huddled in bed, shivering under the quilt.
Then the dormitory door was violently opened, and several inhuman classmates whose dormitory looked exactly like Song Rentou's walked into the dormitory and began looking for his roommate, who was temporarily spared because he was taking a shower in the bathroom.
However, these inhuman classmates did not leave because they did not find their roommates. Instead, they stayed in the dormitory and refused to leave. Moreover, Song Rentou should have felt that they were becoming more and more irritable. Finally, he could not bear the pressure anymore and opened the bathroom door, allowing the inhuman classmates to find his roommate and take him out of the room.
The matter should have ended here, but he felt guilty for killing his roommate due to his impulse. Or maybe he didn't feel guilty, but just wrote down some things on this piece of paper out of fear, because some people would record some things because they have no way to tell them, and they feel that writing them down is like telling them to a non-existent self.
Whether it is for peace of mind or something else, it can at least have some psychological effect.
But what Song Rentou didn't expect was that those inhuman classmates not only did not leave, but became more aggressive, still lingering at the door of the dormitory, targeting him.
This is the "first version" that Lin Yi came up with in his mind after reading the paper scraps. However, Lin Yi himself feels that this version is too rough and lacks many details. He can only rely on guesswork to supplement the truth.
But leaving aside what happened to Song Rentou, there is one logic that is certain - those inhuman classmates would capture the identity information of the experience students and break into the dormitory by force, then drag the experience student whose name they remembered out of the dormitory and kill him.
“Wait… that’s what you mean?!”
"Those 'fake Wei Liang' non-human classmates who followed Liang Zi behind us just now are the non-human classmates who satisfy this mechanism!"
“Hiss… Damn it!”
Lin Yi took a breath of cold air. Just when he was about to swipe the card, he had a strong ominous feeling, and then he discovered those fake Wei Liangs.
His first instinct when he saw the group of fake Wei Liangs was danger, extreme danger. At the same time, his subconscious mind quickly formulated a strategy of confrontation at that moment instead of letting him escape.
His intuition told him that those fake Wei Liangs had imposed a "void search" mechanism on Wei Liang. If he didn't find a way to deal with them, Wei Liang would encounter an unexpected disaster.
But despite this, he did not make the decision to attack on impulse, but made it after careful consideration.
This decision was made because the non-human classmates were greatly restricted by the lighting, and he had a precedent of reversely polluting non-human classmates.
Otherwise, when the lights in the dormitory corridor are turned off at 22:00, if they are still wandering outside at that time, they will be dead for sure.
So that means... he happened to distort those inhuman classmates' "must-kill pursuit" of Wei Liang, and not only that, he also broke their cognition? !
Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!
I will add another 200 words.
(End of this chapter)