Chapter 234 Taking turns to stay awake

Chapter 234 Taking turns to stay awake

Chapter 234 Taking turns to stay awake (1000 words more)
"Don't we have physical education class today? I'll bring an extra pair of shoes to be safe." Wei Liang said calmly. The fear of being dominated by a muscular man and forced to give him a pair of shoes a day ago seemed to still hang over him.

"Oh, stop it, you're not sleepy, are you? Get out of bed and wash your face!"

Wei Liang put his bag on his back and urged, "I've been waiting for you. I never noticed that you can sleep so well normally. Why are you sleeping like a dead pig today?"

On the other side, Tian Bufan and the others were also ready, just sitting on the chairs, looking like they were waiting for you.

Upon seeing this scene, Lin Yi didn't bother to explain further and quickly got out of bed to wash up.

However, the moment he lifted the quilt, a large cloud of white powder was raised, and it looked like someone had sprinkled flour on his quilt.

"Cough! Cough!"

Lin Yi accidentally inhaled a small amount of powder and started coughing violently.

Seeing this, Wei Liang quickly stepped onto the desk and went to give Lin Yi a back massage: "Oh my god, Old Lin, what's going on? Is the wall paint peeling off?"

He couldn't help but reach out to touch the quilt, and then became even more confused: "Hey, why is it gone again?"

The violent coughing made Lin Yi dizzy. Hearing this, he carefully checked the quilt again, but this time there was not any white powder on his quilt. It was also extremely smooth and there was nothing abnormal at all.

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then found that he was no longer coughing. After shaking his head, he climbed down holding the bed rail.

When his feet stepped on the ground, he seemed to think of something and couldn't help but look up at the ceiling.

Yesterday, when I was half asleep and half awake, the ceiling seemed to have turned into the floor, and the entire dormitory seemed to be turned upside down 180 degrees.

Even though he is now down to earth, he still has an unrealistic sense of fantasy in his heart.

He always had a dizzy feeling, as if his soul had not returned yet, and his vision was a little vague.

He slowly walked to the washbasin, supported himself on the basin with his arms and took a breath for a while, then turned on the faucet and washed his face.

But when he was washing his face, he found that his hands felt smoother than ever before. He was stunned for a moment and looked up at himself in the mirror.

My face in the mirror had no facial features and was as smooth as a peeled boiled egg.

"?!"

Lin Yi was startled and staggered backwards. He accidentally slipped and fell to the ground. His back hit the bathroom door behind him hard before he stopped.

"What's going on?" Wei Liang rushed over and helped Lin Yi up from the ground.

Lin Yi carefully looked at the mirror again and found that the person in the mirror had returned to normal, as if it was just an illusion.

"No...it's okay." Lin Yi waved his hand and started pouring water to brush his teeth and rinse his mouth.

"Do you want me to pack a pair of shoes for you?" Wei Liang asked.

"Uh... okay." Lin Yi thought about it. The boss's shoes were good, but they were a bit tight after all.

“Gurgle, gurgle…”

He looked at himself in the mirror and began to brush his teeth and rinse his mouth. He didn't know if it was because he hadn't yet come out of the dream environment, but he always felt that the environment in the mirror was a little strange, and it seemed that even himself looked a little strange.

Suddenly, he looked through the mirror and saw the window beside him.

The dormitory window... was open.

He clearly remembered to turn it off!
In the middle of the night, the strange creature seemed to have opened the window, but it was closed again by the dormitory manager who came to check the dormitories!

"Yinbi opened the window." Wei Shan's voice came from the side, "I saw it was a bit cold so I closed it a little, but Yinbi wouldn't let me close it."

"Isn't it good to get some fresh air early in the morning?" Kuai Hongji crossed his arms and sneered, "Remember to close it after you wash up."

After saying this, Kuai Hongji picked up his bag and pushed open the door of the dormitory.

"Kuai Kuai, do you want to go first?" Lin Yi asked.

"Let's wait a moment. Old Lin is awake. A few minutes won't matter." Tian Bufan's voice also rang out.

Kuai Hongji narrowed his eyes and then silently closed the door.

"alright."

After washing up, Lin Yi went to close the window, but when he reached out to grab the window handle, he saw the outer wall of the dormitory through the gap in the window.

His eyes narrowed slightly.

"moss?"

The outer wall of the dormitory was covered with moss, and from his angle, the outer wall of the dormitory... looked like a sheer cliff.

Time was running out, so he didn't think much and closed the window immediately.

At 6:30, everything was done and everyone prepared to leave the dormitory.

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something and slapped his head: "I almost forgot about this!"

He returned to the locker, opened the door and searched around.

"Don't look for it. I have already folded the piece of paper for you and put it in your bag." Tian Bufan said calmly.

Lin Yi was looking for the piece of paper left by Song Rentou, but Tian Bufan had already predicted his move.

"It has to be you." Lin Yi couldn't help but gave a thumbs up in appreciation.

……

At 6:35, Lin Yi and his group took the elevator down the dormitory building.

The journey was very smooth, of course mainly because someone was very conscious and didn't think too much about it. He just followed the group into the elevator like a wooden man and then came to the first floor.

There were quite a few students who left the dormitory at this time, but they all focused on getting on their way and didn't pay much attention to the people around them.

On the morning after the heavy rain, a fresh and peaceful scene appeared outside the dormitory building.

The sky was washed to be exceptionally bright, with some white clouds hanging on the blue sky. The early morning sunlight shone through the clouds, casting mottled light and shadows, and the outside of the dormitory building seemed to be covered with a layer of light golden light.

The air was filled with the fragrance of earth and grass. The trees and flowers in front of the dormitory building looked more vibrant after being washed by the rain. Crystal water droplets hung on the leaves, sparkling with the morning light.

The puddles on the cobblestone road reflected the color of the sky, like countless distorted miniature mirrors, reflecting the surrounding scenery.

From time to time a breeze blew, scattering the water droplets on the leaves to the ground, making a crisp sound.

Students walked out of the dormitories one after another, breathing the fresh air, their faces filled with the joy of a morning after the rain. They were either walking on the path or chatting near the shade of the trees, enjoying this rare quiet time.

The only thing that seemed strange was that no matter how fresh the air was or how quiet the environment was, the surrounding mountains and forests never showed any signs of life.

This season is still some time away from the midsummer when cicadas are chirping, but there shouldn't be even a single bird.

This was the fourth day at school, but Lin Yi had never seen a bird flying in the sky.

The entire S City University seemed like a "Truman Show", so quiet that it made people feel depressed and manic, and made Lin Yi feel a little uneasy.

Although the boundaries of his cognition have been expanded a lot, Lin Yi feels more and more terrified, and more and more afraid of the entire campus.

Just like the world of a frog in a well is originally so small, but when he gets closer to the well mouth, his vision becomes wider.

However, as the frog got closer to the well, his curiosity gradually widened as his vision expanded and he was shocked by the boundless vastness of the world.

The frog had no other emotion except fear toward the outside world, which was countless times larger than the world at the bottom of the well.

A group of people walked on the slippery cobblestone road, stepping on the thin mist at their feet, and walked towards the cafeteria slowly.

Everyone was unusually silent along the way, as if they were all preoccupied with something. "Mr. Tian..." After walking for a while, Lin Yi slowly spoke.

"Oh?" Tian Bufan kept walking and glanced at him sideways, "Have you sorted out what you wanted to say?"

"My experience last night was... complicated."

"Yeah." Tian Bufan responded calmly, as if no matter what Lin Yi said was within his expectations.

"I mean, not only are the dreams complicated... the experiences are complicated, too."

"I know." Tian Bufan nodded.

Lin Yi opened his mouth wide: "Ah? You knew? Wait, did you know that something entered our dormitory at night?"

Tian Bufan nodded.

"No...how did you know? Were you not asleep?"

"I was already asleep at that point, but Wei Sang was awake." Tian Bufan glanced at Wei Sang.

"Wei Sang? Wait, so what you mean is..." Lin Yi thought of something.

"That's right, I deliberately slapped that dirty thing away." The chubby Wei Shan said when he heard it.

Kuai Hongji, who was standing by, crossed his arms and said sarcastically, "Old Lin, you don't really think it's such a coincidence, do you?"

"Just when that thing was about to get close to you, Wei Shan changed his position and used the pillow to knock it away?"

"Uh..." Lin Yi was stunned, "This... Wei Sang, you didn't sleep the whole night?"

"How can we not sleep?" Wei Shan asked, "I, no, we, just..."

When he said this, he hesitated for a moment and glanced at Tian Bufan, as if asking for Tian Bufan's opinion.

Tian Bufan nodded and took the initiative to say: "We just take turns staying awake to help you... "keep watch." "

"Take turns to stay awake?" Wei Liang, who was standing nearby, couldn't help but complain when he heard this, "Do you guys share the same biological clock? And you can even seamlessly connect your sleep schedules. Is this too outrageous?"

"Come on, am I the only one who can fall asleep properly?"

Tian Bufan glanced at him calmly: "Whether you are asleep or not, you know it in your heart."

"We've gotten used to it anyway."

"Yes, Liangzi, you couldn't be asleep either?" Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in surprise, thinking that every time Wei Liang talked about falling asleep, he would make a deafening sound, but in fact he was not asleep. He really couldn't tell whether Wei Liang was really asleep or just pretending.

Could it be that... he is the only one sleeping in the entire dormitory?

Wei Liang was speechless: "Of course I fell asleep, and I slept as soundly as a dead pig!"

"You can use another analogy... No one would compare themselves to a dead pig. It's too unlucky." Lin Yi said.

"It's just an analogy. How can it be auspicious or unlucky? Why should we care too much about life and death?" Wei Liang waved his hands hurriedly. "So, Lao Lin, what did you dream about this time?"

"Well... let's talk about the dream first." Tian Bufan also said.

His meaning was very clear, we still don't know anything about dreams, but you are the only one who doesn't know about your nighttime experiences.

The priorities are clear at a glance.

"The dream... is very complicated." Lin Yi wondered whether he should tell others that in addition to dreaming about Maozi's experiences, he could also dream about your experiences.

He hesitated for a moment and decided to tell Maozi's experience first, and then talk about this matter.

"The dream was like this... The timing was very magical, it just continued where it was interrupted last time, just like watching a TV series..."

He spoke slowly.

"Mao Zi and Mu Daxian came to the campus in the evening of May 5 and took the elevator in the Art Building..."

"The elevator to the Art Building is in the observatory, and the passage is filled with strange, indescribable text symbols..."

"But the number in the elevator shaft of the Art Building starts with the word '月', which should have the same meaning as the art student number on the student commemorative coins. I feel that this '月' should have some meaning in the Art Department..."

"On the way back to the campus, the elevator stopped at the library before returning to the teaching building..."

"Over at the library, a man got on the elevator. Judging from his clothes, he looked a bit like a fake art student, but he didn't exude any malice, because he had some fake characteristics, but they were not obvious, and he seemed to be obviously afraid of Mu Daxian... Art students are not afraid of Mu Daxian."

"Oh, by the way, regarding the concept of 'pseudo-art students'... they are actually the people we previously called 'weird art students'. They are... the products of art students who have been polluted beyond the boundary and transformed. They no longer seem to belong to human beings."

"There are some other concepts that I will talk about later."

"Then, according to Mu Daxian, the library is indeed Building D of the teaching building, but there seems to be some strange mechanism that prevents you from returning after arriving there..."

"This mechanism, Mu Daxian hasn't mentioned it yet. I suspect it may be similar to the movement of the stairs on the underground first floor of the teaching building. It is a one-way passage. We will have to find out the details when we have the chance."

"Then, Mu Daxian was originally registered in Class 2, Group B, where Liangzi and I were. Later, he brought Maozi to register here as well."

"It's a pity that in order to prevent them from being seen by ordinary trainees, Mu Daxian calculated the time accurately and perfectly avoided most people, so that we didn't meet each other once..."

"The message on our blackboard turned out to be left by Mu Daxian."

"That Mu Daxian... he seems to know a lot of rules. It feels like he has already done some of what we are doing now and has collected a lot of rules."

"Moreover, I feel that his understanding of the rules is not as simple as simply knowing the rules. He seems to have once been a "unit" that must abide by them. According to him, he should be an art student who was transformed from an intern, so he knows the rules of the intern series and some of the rules of the sports students..."

"He also served as a dormitory manager for a period of time, so he knows more comprehensive dormitory rules than us, including the 'Dormitory Management Rules'. I even suspect that he has mastered some of the skills of using old kerosene lamps... because he can blow up lamps with his bare hands. It seems that few people have mastered this skill. It gives me the feeling of a sudden explosion."

"Moreover, he is a close friend of a black bib chef, so he even knows the Chef Code, and it is said that it is a relatively in-depth Black Bib Chef Code... Of course, this is my own guess, because I feel that blue bib chefs and black bib chefs may have different codes."

"'Black bib chef'?" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes.

Lin Yi nodded, and explained: "In addition to the contaminated green hat and blue bib chefs, there is also a type of chef in a black bib. They are said to be responsible for 'logistics'. They are responsible for cooking in the cafeteria, but they do everything outside the cafeteria..."

"Like a group of super agents who can do everything."

He briefly introduced the black bib chef but did not dwell on the subject for long.

"In addition, Mu Daxian is a kind of 'boss' among art students. He seems to know as many rules as an art teacher. I feel that he is sometimes more like an art teacher. There is a feeling that... he can 'break through' but 'can't break through'. I don't know if it is because art students can do things that art teachers cannot do to some extent..."

Lin Yi obviously had his own insights, so when he was explaining the facts normally, he also shared his own "experiences".

As for Mao Feiyang’s experience in the dream, Lin Yi is actually telling more about Mu Daxian.

Because Mu Daxian seems to be a microcosm of the art department, we can find a lot of information and clues about the art department and non-art department from him.

"And... I think the most outrageous thing is that Mu Daxian knows a rule called the 'Iron Law of the Night Watch'."

Tian Bufan stroked his chin and muttered at a tricky angle: "The Iron Law of the Night Watch should be the rule of the legendary 'Night Watch'."

"Named 'Iron Law', besides being cool, I feel more that it reflects a certain kind of restraint..."

"Restraint..." Lin Yi was stunned for a moment. He had not thought of this.

"Just like the Global H-Bomb Agreement, the more powerful something is, the more it needs to be 'controlled' and 'constrained'..." Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes and said, "Perhaps, the Night Watchman's Iron Law is different from the Code. The Code is used to protect the adherents from being polluted and harmed, while the Iron Law... is used to restrain the Night Watchman from harming others and limit his ability to act?"

Lin Yi's eyes fluctuated. He remembered that Mu Daxian had mentioned that the night watchman seemed to have never left the art building. Could it be... really a constraint?
The night watchman protects the art building, but at the same time, is the art building also the night watchman’s prison?

Or in other words, is there some special relationship between the night watchman and the art building, just like... Lao Mo and the cafeteria?
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