Chapter 263 The Tempting Scent in the Store
Chapter 263 The Tempting Scent in the Store
"This matter... must also be discussed with Master Tian. If he encounters such a thing, he must have a way to deal with it."
Thinking of this, Lin Yi stepped into the student passage.
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X023年5月9日，11:29，食堂小卖部。
Through the portal filled with chaotic mist, several figures stepped into the store as if they had penetrated a crystal film.
"Is this the canteen?" Zhang Lingzhen looked at the canteen that looked like an air-raid shelter, feeling curious and surprised.
The penguin pseudo-art student ignored Zhang Lingzhen, and instead glanced at the bandage pseudo-art student: "Take some supplies and leave here first, then go and give those two guys some food...don't let them get away."
"See you in class when we're done."
"Okay, Xiaoliu, come with me." The bandaged pseudo-human artist gave a low response, then took another pseudo-human artist into the shelf area and walked towards the exit of the convenience store.
Zhang Lingzhen looked at the back of the bandaged art student, frowning slightly, as if thinking about something.
"Ah Zhen, come with me. I'll take you to get the student commemorative coins..." said the penguin pseudo-art student, "Although that thing is useless, it is an indispensable item in the "Glorious Evolution" link."
Zhang Lingzhen didn't quite understand and just nodded weakly.
Just as she was about to follow the penguin artist out, an inexplicable gust of wind suddenly blew through the door frame, and the sound of fluttering papers came from behind Zhang Lingzhen.
Zhang Lingzhen was stunned for a moment, then looked over and happened to see the notice on the frame of the convenience store that seemed to be fluttering in the wind.
"Hey, Senior Ren, there seems to be a tip here!" Zhang Lingzhen exclaimed.
"Don't worry about it." Senior Penguin Art Student Ren's expression changed slightly, but he stopped Zhang Lingzhen from observing the store's instructions. "That thing will affect your judgment. You just need to do what I say. This place... has too many traps."
Zhang Lingzhen's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he quickly turned his neck.
But when she quickly turned her neck, some tiny cracks seemed to appear on her neck. For a moment, it was hard to tell whether they were marks left by the makeup powder being wiped away by the wrinkles of the skin, or... marks that appeared directly on the neck.
Zhang Lingzhen silently followed the pseudo-art student Ren and walked forward. After walking for a while, she seemed to smell something delicious, her nostrils fluttered, and then she looked towards a certain shelf area.
"Senior Ren, what's that over there?" Zhang Lingzhen asked curiously, pointing to where the alluring scent was coming from.
Senior Ren paused, looked in the direction Zhang Lingzhen had pointed, and then, he didn't know what he saw, but a hint of surprise and fear flashed in his eyes.
"Nothing... let's go."
"Oh... okay." Zhang Lingzhen curled her lips, but her heart was itching, just like when she once instigated others to press the door button of the blue bus. She had a rebellious nature in her heart and did not want to listen to advice. After listening to what Senior Ren said, she felt a strong curiosity about the shelf... and hunger.
Her intuition told her that there must be something delicious there.
Zhang Lingzhen responded with a tone that was inconsistent with her heart, but her eyes kept glancing towards the shelf area from time to time, and she became more and more reluctant to leave.
As she walked, she became absent-minded and went off the track... until she accidentally bumped into a shelf with a "bang" and cried out "Ouch" in pain, and then she turned her attention away from that direction.
"It hurts so much..." She rubbed her body and realized that she had lost contact with Senior Ren and the others.
"Senior Ren?"
"Senior Ren...?"
"Senior Ren!"
Zhang Lingzhen found that she had completely lost contact with Senior Ren and the others after just turning a corner. She became anxious and shouted loudly, trying to attract their attention.
But after calling out several times, she didn't get any response.
“Hoo—Hoo—”
There were faint gusts of wind blowing through the small shop that was built as an air-raid shelter. In that deep dark area where even the incandescent light couldn't be found, it seemed as if a pair of eyes were staring at her, making her feel cold and her hair stood on end...
Just then, she smelled that faint but extremely tempting fragrance again.
"Gudu..."
She swallowed deeply. She hadn't smelled such a mouth-watering scent in the past few days since she entered the school. At this moment, her stomach was growling.
"Never mind... let's go take a look first..." Zhang Lingzhen muttered to herself, and then, driven by rebelliousness and curiosity, she deviated from the route that was already a little off, and began to walk towards the place where the alluring smell came from...
On the other side, Senior Ren, who was walking in the shelf area, suddenly noticed something wrong. He turned around and immediately found that Zhang Lingzhen was missing.
"Not good!" Senior Ren's face changed drastically. He suddenly thought of the smell that Zhang Lingzhen had just mentioned, and a chill ran down his spine. "You guys go find the student commemorative coins first. I'll go find Ah Zhen and meet up at the shopping terminal!"
The remaining few pseudo-art students nodded immediately: "Okay..."
Senior Ren quickly returned along the same route, and after several turns, he returned to his original position. Then he looked in the direction that Zhang Lingzhen had pointed to. He vaguely "sensed" the presence of Zhang Lingzhen, but he was also sure that the other party had continued to walk forward for a while.
He continued to move forward following the sensation, and then walked through a crooked path and saw the shelf that Zhang Lingzhen had hit. There were still some white powder particles remaining on the surface of the shelf, as if they were left there after the collision with Zhang Lingzhen's face and chest.
"Ah Zhen...?"
He sensed the traces left by Zhang Lingzhen, and then followed the path Zhang Lingzhen had taken, carefully walking into the depths of the dark shelf area...
As we continued to move forward, the light from the surrounding incandescent lamps became dimmer while the number remained the same.
As he was walking, Ren heard some rustling sounds, mixed with some clacking sounds...
As he went deeper, the "Baji, Baji" sound became clearer and clearer...
"Ah Zhen?"
Senior Ren vaguely saw a figure squatting on the ground in the darkness in front of him. The outfit was exactly the same as Zhang Lingzhen’s sailor suit. Her body was trembling slightly, and the "baji, baji" sound came from that side continuously.
Going further ahead, there are some old light bulbs that occasionally emit a few sparks. The light bulbs flicker, as if they are short of electricity. They flicker from time to time but never go out.
Deep inside, there was a dark and deep hole. In the dim light, in the limited field of vision, one could already see the piles of corpses piled up like garbage...
The corpses were unrecognizable, and some of the skeletons still had traces of being violently smashed by some kind of giant soldier like a sledgehammer...The corpses of some of the nocturnal creatures killed by Mu Daxian were now discarded here like discarded parts!
In the garbage dump, there were debris and broken limbs everywhere. Some of the limbs still had sticky paste between them, hanging there like broken lotus roots and tangled threads. Some of the flesh was hanging there like tattered cloth, swaying with the gusts of cold wind in the air-raid shelter...
Zhang Lingzhen was at the edge of the garbage dump, chewing on a piece of fleshy bone. She was making loud smacking sounds, and saliva and some unknown substance were splattering as she chewed. "It's so delicious..."
“It’s really delicious…”
She was like the character in "Food Wars: Shokugeki X-Shōgeki", who seemed to eat so much that she became wet, and her body was shaking constantly.
She ate with relish, her eyes were empty and tears were streaming down her face, her face and body were covered with sticky stains and rotten debris...
“Baji, baji… baji, baji…”
She was just like a carrion rat in a damp nest, constantly gnawing on food, completely ignoring Senior Ren's call, or even... not hearing it at all.
"Ah Zhen?"
"Ah Zhen...?"
Senior Ren reached out and patted Zhang Lingzhen on the shoulder, but Zhang Lingzhen suddenly didn't notice.
A look of pity appeared in Senior Ren's eyes. He increased his strength and continued to pat Zhang Lingzhen's shoulders.
"Woo--Ah!" Zhang Lingzhen turned around suddenly and opened her mouth towards Senior Ren like a wild beast!
Her mouth stretched from ear to ear, and half of her head was open like the upper jaw of a person eating soybeans, and she was about to bite Senior Ren directly.
Seeing that he was about to be torn apart by the bloody mouth, Senior Ren's eyes suddenly seemed to be ignited by a dark fire, and a cluster of golden green flames ignited.
He turned half his body to the side to avoid Zhang Lingzhen's bite, then chopped her on the back of the head with his hand, knocking her to the ground unconscious.
"Bang!"
Zhang Lingzhen rolled her eyes and fainted on the spot.
"..."
Senior Ren looked down at Zhang Lingzhen, who was killed in one move by him. In his narrowed eyes, golden flames burned unquenchably.
"It's still too late..."
He squatted down and straightened Zhang Lingzhen's body as if he was fiddling with a puppet, then put her head, which was split apart with a bloody wound, back together again. Then he picked her up in a princess hug and slowly walked out of the shelf area.
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X023年5月9日，11:38，学生通道出口处。
Lin Yi, who had just walked out of the student passage, imitated Wei Liang's previous movements, stretched his waist, and then deliberately raised his voice and said, "Five minutes! One hundred steps, just finished!"
Tian Bufan glanced at him, seemed to have thought of something, and nodded: "It is indeed a hundred steps."
Several people walked towards the notice board in front of the cafeteria one after another. After returning the cafeteria rules, Lin Yi said, "Mr. Tian, I had a kind of hallucination today that I have never seen before... It happened when I was reading in the bookshelf area in the classroom."
Tian Bufan was slightly stunned: "You went to the bookshelf area to read books?"
"You still won't be too excited just because you have mastered the method of deciphering encrypted information... Any questions?"
"No... I'm just a little surprised. Please continue."
Lin Yi nodded, his expression becoming more serious: "I received too much information at once, and then subconsciously summarized and sorted out some of it... When I had almost pieced together the information, it was as if my soul had left my body, and I entered a strange vision..."
“I seemed to see myself constantly shuttling through the green forest belt, and saw the light deep in the mountains… I passed through that closed door and saw a coastline…”
"The world where the coastline is located... I didn't have time to take a closer look before it was covered by another vision..."
"That second vision... was very scary."
"It was a dilapidated bookshelf area. The books on the bookshelf were covered with dust. In some places, there were broken papers stuck in the gaps between the broken wooden boards and the books..."
"The glass and windows on the dome of the bookshelf area were all broken. A cold and damp wind blew in from outside, and the pages of the books kept turning..."
"There are dark iron chains hanging down from the dome, and countless human sculptures are hanged on the chains. Those human sculptures are broken, in a state of 'dying but not dead'..."
"They captured my name, and seemed to try to anchor themselves into the layers of reality through me..."
"The scariest thing is that they haunt me. Even after I came back, I seemed to have accidentally fallen off a layer in the student passage just now and saw them... Moreover, the hallucinations seem to be getting worse and worse..."
"I'm not sure what the connection is between me and the Vision. I haven't even found any clues... but they seem to be haunting me. I wonder if this has anything to do with the 'He-I' mark..."
Tian Bufan asked sternly: "Why didn't you tell me earlier that you had such a serious visual hallucination?"
"I'm worried about cognitive overlap or arousing your anger, so I want to tell you after we leave the cafeteria." Lin Yi said, "Because I had the problem in that student passage..."
"Okay... your concerns are not unreasonable, but next time you can explain it earlier and we can work together to find a solution." Tian Bufan said.
Lin Yi nodded slightly: "Then...what do you think?"
Tian Bufan smiled bitterly and said, "Do you think I'm a god? Can I know so much information just by counting with my fingers? The collection, organization, and analysis of information... It seems simple, but it actually takes a lot of effort."
"Uh... did you 'decompress' any information?" Lin Yi asked.
Tian Bufan covered his face speechlessly, and quickly corrected Lin Yi's gradually deviant thoughts: "Don't impose your definition of me... This is a human brain, okay!"
"Okay..." Lin Yi spread his hands, "Then you should be more careful. You have so many things to think about, and you are more likely to go astray than me..."
Tian Bufan patted his shoulder and said, "Don't worry, I will know my limits."
"Yeah." Lin Yi nodded.
At this time, Wei Liang asked, "Lao Lin, do you plan to go to the gymnasium through the classroom, or go directly to the gymnasium?"
He held the teaching building rules in his hand and waved towards Lin Yi.
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PS: Let me correct you. The three types of angel sculptures are: Smiling Angel, Wrathful Angel, and Alien Angel. The first one I wrote was Punishment Angel (Wrathful Angel). Later, considering that Punishment Angel sounded a little off, I changed it to Wrathful Angel. But then I found that there was a previous chapter that I didn’t change, so I changed it today.
In addition, I will add a hundred words.
(End of this chapter)