Chapter 236: Malice in the Cafeteria Area
Chapter 236: Evil in the Cafeteria Area
X023年5月9日，6:43，「食堂-001」路灯处，林异的步子缓缓凝固。
His gaze slowly moved away from Tian Bufan and looked at his arm.
He seemed to see an extremely thin layer of mist floating on his hands. This mist covered his body like an invisible gauze, which was something that gathered as soon as he entered the cafeteria area.
This situation made him like a stone that suddenly appeared in the stream when he entered the cafeteria. The stream met him, raised a layer of waves, and then was split by him, flowing through his body and then converged again...
This situation lasted for a few seconds before it recovered, and the floating layer of mist dissipated like smoke blown into someone's face.
But Lin Yi didn't relax at all. Instead, he frowned, feeling something was wrong.
After "adapting" to the atmosphere here, Lin Yi developed a sense of déjà vu as if he was in a painting, and even had the illusion that the mountain was not a mountain, as if he was out of tune with the surrounding environment.
He seemed to be able to sense an invisible layer of malice, but he could not sense the source of the malice. It was also as if the entire cafeteria area was filled with malice towards him at this moment, trying to force him to leave.
He almost succumbed to this malice and took a step back, but when he saw Tian Bufan and Wei Shan slowly straightened their backs, he gritted his teeth and stood up as well.
On the other side, Wei Liang had already taken several steps without realizing it. When he realized that no one was following him, he suddenly felt a chill on his back.
When he turned around, he found that except for himself, no one else was moving at all, and he was so scared that his head collapsed.
"Fuck, what's wrong with you guys?!"
He took a step back, and his movement was so swift that it seemed as if an afterimage was left, just like Asura flashing through the air, and in a flash he was back to the group.
"Fuck, are you guys playing me? What's going on? Are you being immobilized? Why aren't you moving?"
Wei Liang was so anxious that he jumped up and down, circling around several people.
"It's almost seven o'clock now. There's still an hour left. If we don't hurry, we'll have to go to the canteen to get some snacks!"
Tian Bufan slowly came back to his senses, glanced at Wei Liang, and agreed: "Wei Liang is right..."
"Yes, let's go, let's go and have breakfast first. The sky is big and the earth is big, but the belly is the biggest!" Wei Liang said quickly.
But Tian Bufan's second half of the sentence was: "I mean, we have to go to the canteen to get some snacks..."
Lin Yi also nodded in agreement and said, "Eat breakfast first, then go get some food to stock up."
"You guys..." Wei Liang looked at them strangely and waved his hand in front of them, "...are you possessed? Eat breakfast, brother, this is not a canteen. Can you learn to comprehend the key points by listening to people talk?"
Looking at Wei Liang who was calm and unaware, Lin Yi asked tentatively, "Can you feel it, Liangzi?"
"Of course I can. Only a fool can't feel it!" Wei Liang patted his stomach speechlessly. "I feel my stomach scolding me for being heartless. I have spiritual food but I don't care about physical food..."
"You're just saying that. I seem to hear your stomach growling... Hey, hey, hey, what's with that look in your eyes? Besides feeling a little hungry, should I feel something else?"
Wei Liang was speechless: "Could it be possible that you can sense some murderous aura?"
"It's not that there's a 'murderous aura', but the entire cafeteria area seems to be filled with a kind of...malice." Lin Yi said in a low voice, "I feel like I've entered a wind tunnel. Boundless malice is blowing out from the depths like the wind, trying to push me out."
"Wow, you didn't catch a cold, did you? Let me see if you have a fever. I told you not to open the window so early in the morning! Look, isn't this..."
Wei Liang muttered to himself while reaching out to touch Lin Yi's forehead, but his accent was clearly mocking, and his pronunciation was more like "Let me see if you're horny."
"It's okay..." He shook his hands.
Tian Bufan said meaningfully: "Since Wei Liang said it's okay, let's go have breakfast."
"Why the hell did you ask me to say it's okay?" Wei Liang jumped up, "Can't you tell whether it's okay or not?"
"If that's the case, then it's okay. Let's go." Tian Bufan stretched out his arms and said with a smile.
"Tsk... why are you so nervous so early in the morning..." Wei Liang curled his lips and muttered, "Are they really all geniuses? But if Tian Bufan is a genius, it would be fine. Old Lin is not even close to being a genius..."
"Liangzi, what are you mumbling about?" Lin Yi asked.
"Ah! I say, you must be a genius." Wei Liang said without blushing or panting.
"Kuai Kuai, you and Wei Liang go together." Tian Bufan said, "Lao Lin and I will go in the middle, Wei Sang, the old rules apply."
"Okay, okay, whatever you say goes." Wei Liang curled his lips, retracted his gaze, and nonchalantly led the way with Kuai Hongji, while Wei Shan followed behind as usual.
The group walked slowly towards the cafeteria.
"Mr. Tian, do you feel... that kind of malice?" Lin Yi said to Tian Bufan in a low voice.
Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes: "Malice?"
"You didn't feel it?" Lin Yi was a little surprised, "Wei Sang, what about you?"
Wei Shan shook his head in confusion.
"If you didn't feel it, why did you react so strongly just now?" Lin Yi asked puzzled.
Wei Shan thought for a moment and uttered two words: "'Instinct'."
"Uh... well."
Instinct, sixth sense... If Wei Shan said so, what else could Lin Yi say?
But if other people don’t have this feeling, then doesn’t that mean there’s something wrong with him?
"I can only feel a 'breath of death' pervading here. It's dead and gloomy all around..." Tian Bufan lowered his voice, "It's like entering a battlefield where a battle has just ended."
"'Just finished a battle'?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up.
Gray fog invasion? Death fight at night?
"Your feeling is not impossible!"
Tian Bufan thought for a moment and said, "Your inspiration is the highest among us. I can't sense as much as you do. How about... you try to feel it a little? Then I can analyze it based on your feelings."
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded without hesitation, "But if I fall off the layer..."
"I'll wake you up before anything goes wrong."
"Okay." Lin Yi nodded.
"Kuai Kuai, try to find a path with sunlight, and let Lao Lin try to activate his "vision". "
"No problem." Kuai Hongji said calmly, "But to be honest, I personally don't really like basking in the sun."
"Just go if I tell you to, you bastard! Why are you talking so much?" Wei Shan said in a low voice. He raised his clenched fist, his face full of threats.
If it weren't for the overall situation, he would have asked Kuai Hongji to take a punch as big as a sandbag.
"Heh." Kuai Hongji smiled contemptuously, but still did it.
Bathed in the sun, Lin Yi didn't feel much warmer, but the discomfort in his heart was somewhat relieved. He turned his eyes to Wei Liang, watching his heels, and walked forward stiffly.
At the same time, his eyes began to become empty, and he focused on his hearing...
He has not yet mastered the skill "My Vision", but there is a chance that it can be activated in some special situations.
That's what he is doing.
He listened carefully to everything around him, to the sound of their footsteps as they walked on the cobblestone road, to the sound of the breeze blowing through the treetops, to the sound of dew and rain sliding down the leaves and dripping onto the ground...
He began to breathe in the air, which carried the fragrance of grass and trees and the smell of moist earth...
Everything was so natural until Lin Yi began to add some "feelings" to this "plain and simple" background.
This "feeling" is not very obvious now. It was most clear at the moment when Lin Yi entered the cafeteria area from the dormitory area. It was like the strong feeling of separation from cold water to hot water. Under the background, it seemed particularly strong just now.
It was a strange feeling that could not be easily described in words.
It's like looking at a familiar painting and feeling strange, eating a meal you always eat and feeling sick, looking at an old friend and feeling that there is an unnatural chill in his smile...
It was a weird feeling that was completely disconnected from the scene in front of him. It was evil in its plainness, as if... the entire cafeteria area was covered in the shell of a cheat meal!
"It's a layer!"
Lin Yi gradually realized something.
The problem lies in the layers.
When "entering" the cafeteria area, cross-sections of multiple layers are displayed at the junction of the areas, and they rely on "cognition" to enter the default "most normal" layer.
But the moment they entered, they still felt the "call" from other layers in the cafeteria area. That strong malice was not because the cafeteria area was rejecting them, but... that strange layer was using malice to oppress this layer, trying to squeeze them out of this layer and then make them fall into that layer!
This is a different kind of calling!
If I don't let you stay there, you can only stay here!
A kind of trap from layers!
A call from the layers!
"The campus layer... is it possible that it has 'come alive'?!"
As he was guessing this question, he gradually felt that the cobblestone road under his feet was showing signs of slight distortion.
"Um?"
Seeing this scene, he was not panicked or afraid. He first confirmed whether he was still following Wei Liang.
In front of him was Wei Liang's heels, and beside Wei Liang was Kuai Hongji.
He didn't move his eyes, he just knew by feeling that Tian Bufan was still beside him, and Tian Bufan's hand was still on him.
"Very good, very good. I'm still on this path."
Both psychologically and physiologically.
He looked at the pebbles under his feet again. Yes, the pebbles were indeed twisting... and they were twisting under the sun.
"Wait! No... the sun? Where's the sunlight?!"
Lin Yi's pupils trembled.
The sunlight...I don't know when it was blocked?!
At the same time, Lin Yi heard the sound of a rushing wind. It was not like the wind blowing out from the green forest belt that suddenly became swift, but more like... a gust of wind and waves roaring after passing through the steep stone walls of the mountain stream!
Lin Yi seemed to be struck by lightning and froze in place instantly.
“Gudong!”
He felt his heart beating violently.
“Gudong!”
He felt the world around him begin to dim, and his body began to appear double.
“Gudong!”
He felt as if he was hit hard by an oncoming heavy truck, and his heart stopped for an instant.
“Bang, bang, bang… huhuhuhuhuhu——”
The sound of rushing wind rang in his ears, and he felt as if his soul was being knocked out of his body.
He felt his body staggering a little, so he instinctively took a step back, trying to stabilize his body at the moment...
A strange scene appeared at this moment.
When he took a step back, he found that his perspective had been separated from "himself"!
"this……?!"
Lin Yi was shocked and subconsciously looked at his hands.
Empty!
No hands in sight!
He looked down at his body again.
No body!
This bizarre phenomenon was exactly the same as what he experienced in his dream!
"What the hell?! I'm not awake yet?!"
The first absurd and weird thought popped up in Lin Yi's mind.
But at this moment, he found himself being called by his body, being attracted over, and then the perspective returned to himself again.
It was as if Doctor Strange was hit by the Ancient One's soul-leaving-body palm technique, and then was forcibly pulled back into the body.
But there was no Ancient One at all.
Just as his perspective returned to himself, the familiar frame-skipping quality began to appear in front of his eyes.
The colors of the world he saw began to gradually disappear, like a fading photo, gradually losing its colorful colors, leaving only simple and pure black, white... and gray.
Compared to the first version of "My Vision", this time "My Vision" seems to have gained new life, from the exposure quality to the black, white and gray quality...
The sound of wind was still whistling in Lin Yi's ears, and the sound of the wind came and went, as if he was traveling through a canyon.
He knew that time was running out, and he had to take advantage of this magical state of uncertain duration to take a good look at the things that were wrong in the cafeteria area.
Therefore, he did not bother to think about what happened to his soul leaving his body and flying around before. He quickly calmed his breathing, adjusted his pace, and began to observe the surrounding environment.
"Huh?!" Sure enough, after a careful look, he immediately discovered the clue.
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(End of this chapter)