Chapter 246 The Problem of Moss
Chapter 246 The Problem of Moss
"What's the matter?" Lin Yi asked.
"What are your plans regarding Song Rentou's matter?"
"Ah? What do you mean by 'what to do'?" Lin Yi was stunned. "Isn't it like we agreed before to hand the paper to the class teacher and then let the bullet fly?"
Tian Bufan said: "If the sound of water had not appeared after midnight, this would have been the right thing to do..."
"But, there was a running water sound in the bathroom at 1am. What would happen if Song Rentou woke up at that time and mistook the running water sound for the sound of taking a shower...?"
Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly stopped, and the information on the piece of paper thrown by Song Ren appeared in front of him like a scroll bar.
[“I saw them looking for my roommate…”]
[“My roommate is taking a shower…”]
【…】
Tian Bufan seemed to guess that Lin Yi was thinking about Song Rentou again, so he interrupted and said, "Don't think too much about Song Rentou for now. The dream last night brought a lot of information. The key is to digest it well."
As he spoke, his expression became more serious: "As for Song Rentou, his story is very strange... The real situation may be more bizarre than what we speculated based on a piece of paper. You have to be more careful and don't let the bullet fly and hit you."
Lin Yi's expression froze and he nodded solemnly.
Tian Bufan added: "Today's exploration... let's focus on communicating with the sports students and the class teacher."
"The exploration of the stadium is the key, but... it can't be forced. Just ask as many questions as you can!"
"Yeah." Lin Yi responded.
The area of the teaching building has been almost explored, but the other buildings are difficult to explore. As a compromise, there is nothing wrong with putting the plan on the gymnasium.
"It's almost done. I'm leaving now. If everything goes well...see you at noon." Tian Bufan waved his hand, said goodbye to Lin Yi, and walked towards Building C of the teaching building.
"I'm leaving too." Kuai Hongji said lightly, and then left in the direction of Building A of the teaching building.
Looking at the backs of Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji, Lin Yi rubbed his brows and said, "Let's go too."
What Tian Bufan said was right. He now had too much information to integrate. There was no need to waste a lot of energy on solving Song Rentou's puzzle just because of the unknown true or false information on a piece of paper.
This matter will be handed over to the class teacher-040.
Lin Yi, Wei Liang and Wei Shan walked towards Teaching Building B.
During the day, there was nothing unusual about Teaching Building B from a distance, and the way back was also very safe.
By 8:03, Lin Yi and the other two had already arrived at the steps of Building B of the teaching building.
Wei Shan greeted Lin Yi, then went up the stairs and walked towards Class 3, Group B.
Lin Yi nodded and walked up the stairs, but at this moment, he suddenly noticed something that was different from usual.
So he went down the stairs again, thought for a moment, and then went up again.
Then he went down the stairs and walked up again.
This went on for three times. Wei Liang couldn't stand it anymore and interrupted Lin Yi: "Old Lin, what's wrong with you? What's the bug with your position in the void?"
Lin Yi hesitated and said, "I feel like there's something wrong... Do you feel it?"
Wei Liang puffed his lips, a little speechless: "What problem can I have?"
"Yeah, asking you is useless..." Lin Yixin said that you have turned everything into a passive state, so it's useless even if I ask.
"Hey, hurry up and come up too! If there's nothing wrong, report to the teacher and do what you need to do." Wei Liang said as he walked down and pulled Lin Yi.
But just as he walked down, he stepped on some moss for some reason, and his whole body slipped suddenly, and he almost fell down. Fortunately, he was pulled back to shape by a bridge of iron planks.
"Oh my god... this ground is a bit slippery!"
Wei Liang patted his chest and let out a breath with lingering fear.
Lin Yi then subconsciously glanced at the stairs.
This staircase is neither long nor short, and if you slip it will be no joke.
But his behavior attracted Lin Yi's attention, and when Lin Yi turned his attention over, his whole body was suddenly shocked!
"moss!"
"It's moss!" His pupils dilated and he exclaimed in surprise.
"Ah? Yes, it's moss..." Wei Liang was stunned and confused, "If it's not moss, what else can it be? Lao Lin, are you crazy?"
Lin Yi quickly said: "That's not what I meant! I meant... well, you wouldn't care even if I told you!"
He knew Liangzi's fighting style very well, so he didn't say anything else, but looked around again.
After a night of heavy rain, the moss in front of the steps seemed to be moisturized and turned a deeper green. The color had an indescribable richness, just like a color palette.
This immediately reminded him of the moss in the student passage of the cafeteria. Under the water vapor and fog, the moss in the student passage showed a strange and gorgeous feeling, and it looked particularly strange in the gray environment.
The moss in front of the steps of the teaching building now looks a bit like the moss in the cafeteria.
What’s weird is not this, but that there are large patches of moss growing on the steps of the teaching building, but there is none on the cobblestone road!
And not only that—
He rushed to the second-to-last lamppost in front of the teaching building, bent down, pushed aside the weeds, and looked at the base of the lamppost.
“As expected!”
"This is clearly the base of a lamp post that is the most suitable environment for moss growth, but there is no trace of any moss at all!"
The growth distribution of moss in this campus is completely inconsistent with its growth patterns!
Lin Yi now couldn't wait to rush to the covered bridge to take a look at the moss over there to see if the same changes had occurred there.
If so, then it can be confirmed that the mosses throughout the campus seem to follow some of the same patterns!
And "rules" are an extremely precious thing in this campus!
"and……"
Lin Yi walked back to the steps. He didn't know if he was attracted or if he had this subjective behavior. He slowly bent down and turned his face to get closer to some moss...
"call--"
A faint, cold wind seemed to blow past his ears without any warning.
He shot up from the ground as if he had been electrocuted, and looked at the moss with horror on his face.
"The sound of wind!"
"Sure enough, there is the sound of wind!" But there was complete silence all around. Not even the leaves of the green forest belt swayed. There was no sign of wind at all.
Lin Yi swallowed slowly, and a guess in his mind was confirmed.
"The moss on campus... may not be in this layer!"
Moss is not here, but it can be touched by people here... Why is this so?
Is this another form of "infiltration"?
"But...what is this infiltration all about?"
“What’s the logic behind it?”
"What is its origin?"
"What does it... represent?"
"etc!"
"In a place where tomatoes are not tomatoes, isn't moss also moss?!"
"Could it be that this moss is just the moss in 'cognition'?"
"It's not actually moss, but something... that comes from another layer, but it shows the characteristics of moss in this layer?!"
The three-dimensional ball is reduced to a two-dimensional circle. Who knows what the moss is on the other layer?!
Lin Yi felt a little confused. Just as he was thinking about this, the light around him seemed to dim in an imperceptible way, as if an invisible hand was turning the color adjustment button of the whole world, turning the color to gray little by little...
As the world changed color, the color of the moss became more and more enchanting. It twisted and grew, like deep-sea waterweed or a siren's headband, swaying without wind, twisting, growing, and deforming... Then it spread over like a tentacle, and finally the end cracked, slowly opening its thorny mouthparts like a carnivorous plant...
At the same time, Lin Yi's school uniform began to sway, as if it was blown by a wind without a source, and was gently lifted.
"Hs...hs..."
A sound like a gas leak came floating in the cold wind and lingered around Lin Yi's ears. It was invisible and very strange.
And precisely because this sound was so light, the human subconscious mind would strengthen the output of hearing, so Lin Yi's attention was invisibly strengthened. In the sound of the wind, he seemed to hear some "rustling" sounds, as if some waves rushed onto the beach, revealing the smell of bubbles all over the ground...
Lin Yi's pupils trembled violently, and his body shook almost as a conditioned reflex.
He pushed the ground hard, pulled his body out of the state of being possessed by the ear, and jumped up like a fitness fanatic.
As he suddenly came to his senses, the strange and cold aura around him broke apart like liquid sticking to his body and fell into an unknown void.
Those invisible tentacles that were like carnivorous plants also collapsed powerlessly and fell into the dark abyss.
The faded world regained its luster, the dead world gave birth to some noisy sounds again, the cold feeling went away, and the warm sunshine enveloped him again.
"Hu, hu, hu..."
Lin Yi, who had recovered from his shock, breathed slowly, his brows filled with solemnity.
"Old Lin, are you okay?" Wei Liang waved his hand in front of Lin Yi's eyes and said speechlessly, "Even if you are not full, you don't have to squat down to eat moss. Besides, don't you have food in your bag? Have you started to think about spare ingredients?"
Lin Yi: “…”
Lin Yi gave him a sidelong look and said, "It's okay, let's go back to the classroom."
Seeing this, Wei Liang walked up the stairs with a smile and then walked towards the classroom.
Lin Yi also followed. He looked at Wei Liang's back and couldn't help squinting his eyes.
"How much do you know, Ryoko?"
From leaving the dormitory to returning to the teaching building, Lin Yi's two major discoveries were both related to Wei Liang.
One, on the way to the cafeteria, draws his attention to an unnumbered lamppost, leading him to discover a sculpted black-bibbed chef, a dead newborn pseudo-human experience student, and a sculpted angel feather.
The other was that he had used the way his feet slipped when he went down the stairs to lead him to notice the moss.
What a slippery-footed fellow!
For Lin Yi, Wei Liang, a classmate who was once very familiar to him, has gradually become a mystery.
His information base is a mystery. You don't know what he knows, but he can always use a seemingly self-deprecating and unconventional way to open up new discoveries for you at the critical moment.
His actions are a mystery. You don't know what he will do next. Even when facing the blockade of the green bib chef, he seems to be able to resolve it cleverly with an action that seems to have nothing to do with the facts.
Moreover, it is still a mystery how many tricks he has. He almost destroyed the spider-like chef in the green bib by lifting a plastic curtain. He even shaved the head of the fake chef in the blue bib bald by using a washing machine while lifting a plate...
The most important thing is that he can always limit himself to the concept of "ignorance".
"Great Wisdom Appears Like Foolishness"
Wei Liang came to the door of Class 2, Group B, and paused before opening the door. He asked, "Do you want to go find Teacher Lin first, or go into the classroom first?"
"Teacher Lin?" Lin Yi was stunned at first, then he immediately realized that he was referring to the homeroom teacher, Teacher 040, Lin Shiling, so he said, "At this point...she should be waiting in the classroom to sign in, right?"
"Oh, that's right! Let's go in then!" Wei Liang slapped his head and said, "suddenly".
"Wait a minute, Liangzi, wait a minute!" Lin Yi quickly grabbed Wei Liang, and then, in Wei Liang's puzzled eyes, he pondered Wei Liang's words, wondering if there was any deeper meaning in Wei Liang's words...
Wei Liang: “…”
"Fuck, Lao Lin, you are rebelling against Tian Gang?" Wei Liang curled his lips and pushed the door open. "I emphasize again, I am the one hugging your thigh, not you hugging mine, ojbk?"
Lin Yi looked through the crack in the door and saw that the head teacher 040 was indeed sitting in front of the podium. It seemed that he had really overthought it.
The two of them then entered the classroom one after the other.
When he stepped over the threshold and entered the classroom, Lin Yi finally felt the long-lost warmth.
This warm feeling... is like turning on the heating, but it is completely different, as if this classroom is exposed to the sun.
The head teacher 040 sat in front of the podium bored, holding up his pink cheek with one hand, puffing out his breath, and moving his hands left and right.
She didn't put her hair up in a bun today. Her long, slightly wavy hair fell down her cheeks, and her slightly curled eyelashes had a kind of icy beauty under the morning light outside the window.
When the door opened, the head teacher 040's gaze drifted over there, and the black signing pen turning on his fingertips paused slightly.
"Come sign in."
The head teacher 040 opened his lips slightly, and a gentle voice slowly floated out.
Upon hearing this, Lin Yi and Wei Liang closed the classroom door and planned to walk towards the podium, but at this moment, he seemed to have a premonition of something and glanced towards the auditorium.
The next moment, Lin Yi's expression changed and his heart skipped a beat.
Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!
(End of this chapter)