Chapter 258: The Channel Changes
Chapter 258: The Channel Changes
A cold golden light suddenly flashed in the deep eye sockets of the penguin pseudo-art student: "Could he be one of the two people who escaped teacher Bu Ze?"
"It's him." Zhang Lingzhen nodded.
"It looks like a thorny onion..." The penguin pseudo-art student thought, "I have to be prepared for 'physical deployment'."
The bandaged pseudo-human artist nodded slightly: "I will do the job, don't worry."
What's weird is that when this bandaged pseudo-art student nodded, he seemed to be slightly bent with stiff movements.
The figures of several people gradually disappeared in other passages.
……
When the slightly threatening aura disappeared from Lin Yi's perception, he raised his head again and looked towards other passages.
Looking at the "people" who came in one after another, he gradually narrowed his eyes, as if thinking about something.
"It seems like there are a lot more people walking through other passages today than usual..." Wei Liang sighed beside him.
Lin Yi nodded: "Indeed..."
"It seems that they all lost their student ID cards." Wei Liang said.
Lin Yi seemed to be reminded of something and turned his head sharply to look at Wei Liang.
Wei Liang was stunned for a moment, and spread his hands in confusion: "What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
"You're not wrong, I was wrong." Lin Yi murmured.
He made a mistake, and he didn't remember it until Wei Liang casually spoke up just now.
Because of his expanded knowledge, he assumed that those who entered other channels were sports students, art students, and pseudo-art students, but he forgot that there were also those who "lost their student ID cards."
Did Zhou Yuting lose her student ID that day and was afraid that someone might take away the things on her ID card, so she begged Xu Shunkang to take her through another passage?
This means that another fake person Zhou Yuting was born?
After all, the birth of a pseudo-person is based on a person losing his identity or... his life.
He glanced down at his watch.
10: 39.
"It's almost time, shall we wait at the entrance of the student cafeteria?" He glanced at Wei Liang.
"Okay, I'll do as you say."
A minute later, after confirming the sign for the student passage, Lin Yi and Wei Liang stepped into the passage.
Just as his body crossed the boundary between the entrance and the outside, perhaps due to problems with the passage structure or other reasons, a strong wind blew along the steps from the passage, causing his body to shake.
The wind swirled around his ears, and then, like a ghost, a low and strange voice called out:
[Lin Yi... hehehe...]
【Lin Yi...】
Lin Yi's footsteps suddenly sank, but by the time he realized it, the voice had already drifted away, as if it was just a cyclone that made contact with him and then went away...
But despite this, the strange seeds seemed to have been deeply buried. Lin Yi began to feel a strange itching in his heart. He didn't know what was going on, but he just felt uncomfortable.
He looked at the student who had already entered the passage and began to feel that something was wrong.
In fact, he always felt that the problems hidden in the cafeteria area were the most serious, whether from the perspective of existing units, or from the hidden areas within it, or... from the perspective of its layers.
Especially the layer angle.
If every door in the teaching building is like crossing a layer after entering, then in the cafeteria area, in addition to plastic air curtains and other things with "door" properties that act like the boundaries between layers, student passages, which do not have portals themselves, also seem to carry the attributes of a "door".
Just when he realized this, he suddenly realized something - "It is indeed like this!"
"Lay layers!"
"It's because there are different levels, and there are countless branches at the same point in space, so... when Liangzi and I 'teamed up' to enter the student passage, there were only two of us in the entire passage!"
He looked around, and the sea of people just now seemed to have faded away and could no longer be seen!
And when he thought of this point, he seemed to see a series of phantoms around him. Each of those phantoms was an experiencer, but those experiencers and Lin Yi were like people from two different time and space.
Those people were only vague outlines as they passed by Lin Yi and Wei Liang. The whole picture seemed to have been shot using a slow-motion technique that was specifically designed to highlight the protagonist's movement in a flowing crowd.
Lin Yi understood instantly: "Actually everyone is in here, but due to cognitive or other issues... everyone has only their own 'copy'!"
Wei Liang didn't seem to notice that Lin Yi had stopped, and continued walking silently in front.
After seeing this, Lin Yi quickly followed.
But when he caught up, he found that Wei Liang seemed to be always one step ahead of him, and although he seemed to have caught up with him, he couldn't at all!
【Hehehehe... Lin Yi...】
A gust of cold wind blew and hit the back of his neck, making his hair stand on end. He shivered and his scalp went numb.
"Liangzi!" Lin Yi called Wei Liang, but Wei Liang seemed not to hear him at all and continued walking forward.
At this moment, a strong wind suddenly came from the student passage, like a gust of wind that had accelerated in the canyon after passing through some steep plateau terrain, and it immediately penetrated Wei Liang's figure in front and pounced on Lin Yi!
"That wind... penetrated Ryoko?!"
“No! Shit—I lost a level!”
Lin Yi woke up instantly, but before he could react, the fierce wind blew him backwards. At this moment, relying on his strong core strength, he twisted his body on the steps and fell to the ground, barely avoiding the tragic situation of his head hitting the ground.
But before he could catch his breath, he found that his hand was pressed into a splash of water...
“Swish, swish, swish—”
The strong wind had gone away from him, but the sound of gurgling water rang in his ears.
The steps...it's the steps that are flowing water!
His palm penetrated the splashes and touched the steps in the water, but those steps were not ordinary steps. Instead, they were stone slabs that had been eroded by the running water to be extremely smooth, yet covered with small potholes!
He wanted to stand up, but found that when he straightened his back, he was immediately hit by the strong wind again!
The wind is still blowing!
Just because of the terrain, the flow layer existed half a meter above his head!
As long as he lies down, the wind can't reach him!
But...where is this wind coming from!
Isn't this the student passage? !
"Student Passage...?!"
His pupils trembled violently, as if he had thought of something, and he tried to anchor himself, but the environment did not give him any chance to concentrate on himself.
The strong wind above my head came in waves, one after another, as if the machine that sprayed water vapor in the scenic area on a hot day was overturned by the wind.
Lin Yi heard the sound of chains colliding again and again, and that sound... was right above his head!
It's the wind!
The wind blew through the incandescent light bulb above my head!
It must be the wind!
The student passage was filled with incandescent lights. Those things, like stars, would undoubtedly become his biggest anchor at this moment! Just imagining the daytime might not be able to anchor himself back at this time, but if there was a light in a normal layer, it would be different!
At this moment, he was overjoyed, like a person in a turbulent river who discovered a branch on the shore. He quickly looked up.
"Light clang..."
What came into view was a broken human-shaped sculpture with a crooked neck and a pair of gray stone eyes staring at him intently.
"?!"
Lin Yi was frightened and lost his balance, almost slipping and falling.
His eyes kept wandering, and he saw a scene so horrifying that even the word "creepy" was not enough to describe it!
The incandescent lights that looked like numerous stars had completely disappeared. In their place were countless broken human-shaped sculptures that were chained together. They hung above the passage like lamps. The chains were clanking in the strong wind. The terrifying and strong wind slashed through their bodies like a blade, peeling off some fragments from them from time to time...
"Light and clang--light and clang--"
There are countless human-shaped sculptures hanging in the entire passage, and these human-shaped sculptures seem to be between "life" and "death"!
【Lin Yi...】
[Tell me where you are...]
[Hurry up…]
The human-shaped sculpture closest to Lin Yi suddenly spoke in human language and smiled sinisterly at Lin Yi.
It seemed to be extremely eager for Lin Yi to anchor it away!
【Lin Yi...】
[Lin Yi... hehehe...]
【Take us away...】
[Or——stay and we...]
【Hey hey hey...】
[Lin Yi... Lin Yi...]
[You can’t leave… You can’t leave——]
The stronger the wind and the faster the water, the clearer the sound of the chains became, like a kind of strange music, knocking on human bones and singing a horrible and sad funeral song.
"No...no no no..." Lin Yi withdrew his gaze and stopped looking at them.
But when he retracted his gaze, he found that the surrounding environment seemed to have changed again...
The light in the passage gradually weakened, and the darkness began to oppress him as if it were a substance. After the incandescent light disappeared, it seemed that even the light source began to disappear...
He found that the entire student passage no longer existed, or rather, he had fallen out of the layer where the student passage was located, as if someone had pushed him from the surface of the water to under the surface.
The surrounding walls were no longer made of bumpy yellow stones and bricks, but almost smooth rock walls. The stone walls were full of flowing water, but the source of the water could not be seen at all.
The place where the steps meet the wall is covered with thick moss. Occasionally, there are some cracks on the smooth wall. The shadows in the cracks reveal a faint green light, as if some kind of fluorescent algae is wriggling, but it cannot be seen if you look closely. If you don't look carefully, it looks like a ghost fire floating there.
The wind came "wooooooo" from the front, and seemed to bring some broken water droplets with it.
Lin Yi's heart gradually sank to the bottom, but he immediately cheered up again.
He knew that the more real the scenes he saw were, the deeper his resonance with this layer was. Once he really came to this layer, his hope of returning became slim.
"Anchor! We must find the anchor!" Lin Yi's mind raced. This was no longer just an illusion. The flowing water and broken water droplets at his feet, the howling wind, everything directly affected his five senses and was no longer an illusion.
If it was Vision, he only needed to imagine the boss to divert his attention, but he just got hit by a combo from the environment and missed the best opportunity to imagine the boss.
He could actually use his identity information to anchor himself, but the problem was that he had not lost himself at all... Anchoring would only allow the human-shaped sculptures hanging above his head to use him!
"There has to be some other way!"
"The key is... we need an anchor!"
"So is there something that can serve as an anchor?"
Lin Yi started thinking frantically.
The so-called "anchor" is an element that can determine my "position".
"If the layers have boundaries, then the two layers must touch each other in order for me to transfer! So what I need now is... 'return the original path'?!"
"wind!"
"The wind is the key!"
Lin Yi took a deep breath and then slowly stood up.
The strong wind blew from the front like a spiral, constantly hitting him, trying to break his spine!
He narrowed his eyes, and then vaguely saw a figure in front of him...
It’s Wei Liang.
Wei Liang was still climbing the stairs, seemingly completely unaffected by the wind!
"It's 'napkin'!"
Lin Yi thought of what Tian Bufan had once told him, that he and Wei Liang were originally on the same layer of paper, but he was and was contaminated by another layer!
So this weird place covered his original layer, and tried to use the way he established the anchor point to follow him back to his layer!
He found the anchor point, and those broken human-shaped sculptures tied with iron chains and floating in the wind found the link to return!
This is a dead end!
Either Lin Yi doesn’t go back, or... we go back together!
【Lin Yi...】
【Hey hey hey...】
【Lin Yi... where are you? 】
[Go back quickly... Go back quickly...]
[My name is Lin Yi... I am in the classroom... My name is Lin Yi...]
【hey-hey……】
As if they had heard Lin Yi's inner voice, the human-shaped sculptures also revealed their true colors and started to jeer and make a fuss, like countless lonely ghosts hanged in the wilderness. They shouted and laughed eerily, and the sounds rose and fell like devilish music.
Lin Yi clenched his teeth, endured the strong wind, and tried to block out the noise, but he couldn't block it out.
He looked at Wei Liang's gradually receding back, and finally squatted weakly on the steps.
But at this moment, as he was touching the steps, he suddenly had a huge inspiration!
He thought of something that could serve as an anchor!
This anchor point does not need to know where it is, nor does it need identity information. No, this may not be an anchor point at all, but it can get him out of here!
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