Chapter 292: Experience in the Basement
Chapter 292: Experience in the Basement
"The PE teacher who brought me into the office was very calm... He even greeted other people, then he took out a folder from his desk and started to register me..."
"Then he took me to the third floor of the gymnasium..."
"On the third floor of the gymnasium... at the deepest part there is an office with a sign that says 'Infirmary'..."
"The physical education teacher knocked on the door of the infirmary..."
"The person who opened the door was an old lady who looked very old..."
"She was wearing a white jacket with a badge on her chest that said 'school doctor' but no number..."
"She took me to the infirmary, and the PE teacher stayed at the door..."
"There are many doors in the infirmary... There are doors on the walls all around..."
"I couldn't see carefully. As soon as I entered the infirmary, I felt dizzy and couldn't tell the direction of gravity..."
"I felt really bad, like I was being grilled..."
"The school doctor briefly asked about my condition and then gave me a simple examination... I was actually so dizzy that I couldn't tell east from west, south from north, and was being led around by her like a lost puppet..."
"After a while, she sent me out of the infirmary..."
"The physical education teacher was waiting at the door. He listened to the school doctor and then... took me to the basement..."
When Li Huiyuan said this, her body began to tremble uncontrollably, as if she had thought of some horrible experience.
Lin Yi quickly reached out and gently pressed his hand on her shoulder, calming her down: "If you don't want to talk about it... just skip this part..."
Li Huiyuan pursed her lips and shook her head, and continued: "The basement... is entered from the passage over at the swimming pool."
"There's a passageway over there that's full of very old kerosene lamps. At the end of the passageway is a door, and behind the door is a basement... I don't know if the basement over there is connected to the basement from outside..."
"Its interior is very large, like a dungeon or maze without any light, damp and dark, with bursts of rapid and sharp sounds, much like the sound of wind whistling in a cave, but I didn't feel any wind flowing..."
"There are some glowing stones hanging on the walls of the basement, a bit like torches, but I'm sure I'm not mistaken, they are stones... a round stone that looks like a night pearl..."
"There is also a disgusting smell in the basement that makes me feel very sick... that smell... is like the smell of a cave where carrion rats live and amphibians that eat corpses..."
"My professional knowledge tells me that there must be something in this mysterious map... but I have never seen it... I always thought that the theory in the textbook was divorced from practice..."
"The teacher took me to one of the rooms..."
"It was a prison-like room, covered with dry grass, with keyholes all over the walls and many iron chains hanging from the keyholes..."
"He pulled the chains over and tied me up, hanging me in the middle of the room, making me feel like I was caught in a spider web made of chains, unable to move..."
"My teacher told me that the pollution in my body would turn me into a creature very similar to the 'Green Bib Chef', but as long as I can survive one night in this room, I will not turn into that thing and I can still survive."
"He told me that I didn't need to think about anything and just had to keep repeating my own name in my heart..."
"After saying that, he left behind a spherical stone and then left..."
"That stone... is very similar to the glowing stone in the basement corridor, the only difference is that it doesn't glow..."
"I just waited like that... but I immediately discovered a problem. The room was very dark, with only a glowing stone on the wall providing a faint light... There was no way to judge the passage of time..."
"So I had no way of determining how long the so-called 'one night' was. All I could do was keep repeating in my mind 'I am Li Huiyuan, I am in the gymnasium'. Every time I repeated it silently, I reported my serial number..."
"I don't know when I arrived at the gymnasium, so I just use 20:00 when I left the teaching building as the time. In this way, I only need to calculate the elapsed time of at most 10 hours to conclude that it must have been past 6:00 the next day..."
"In this case, I will definitely be considered to be 'staying overnight'..."
"But I miscalculated. I made a very basic mistake - I didn't take the environment and human factors into consideration."
"Probably after the teacher walked away, some very scary noises began to appear in the basement... At first it sounded like the screams of someone being tortured, but after a while it didn't seem like that..."
"That kind of shouting... can easily make people think of something bloody and painful. Rather than a human voice, it is more like the roar of an unknown beast, or the sound made when a ship passes through a canyon filled with a hurricane..."
"Those sounds made me feel uncomfortable all over, as if something was being torn out of my bones..."
"At that time, I seemed to hear some kind of strange call... like the intermittent sound of a flute coming from the depths of a vast ocean, mixed with the sea breeze and the whispers of some mysterious creatures..."
"I have never seen the so-called 'mysterious creatures' outside of textbooks, but since X999, everything has changed, so I have never doubted that these things really exist..."
"My mentor calls them 'forerunners'...something that was influenced by a supernatural or unknown force and took a step ahead on the biological evolution map..."
"I feel like I may have heard the call of this kind of creature... or had similar auditory hallucinations... because I'm not sure if I had clear cognition at that time... The only thing left for me was to silently recite my name and blindly record the passage of time..."
"About ten minutes later, I heard some heavy noises in the corridor outside the room... It sounded like a huge crowd of people were pressing against the wall and crawling forward..."
"The vibration was transmitted to the chains on my body along the wall... It felt like a butcher was sharpening a knife over there, and the sound of it gave me goose bumps all over my body..."
"That feeling continued, and around 22:30... it seemed like a strange wave was passing through my body."
"That feeling is like... when you are swimming and the waves from the people next to you push your body..."
"Then, the spherical stone that the teacher left behind began to glow..."
"When the light first appeared, the room felt like it was on fire, scorching hot, like a fireball was lit, and I felt like I was going to be burned to death..."
"Then I gradually lost consciousness. When I came to, the person standing in front of me was the boss..."
……
X023年5月9日，6:13，体育馆地下室。
In the dim room covered with hay, the spider-web-like chain suddenly trembled, and Li Huiyuan slowly opened her sleepy eyes...
"Well……"
As her blurry vision gradually became clear, a figure wearing a black tights with blue and white stripes and a loose blue and white school uniform gradually appeared in front of her...
"Are you...a teacher?"
"Call me... 'Boss'." Boss spoke slowly, "Do you remember your name?" "I... I am..." Li Huiyuan's eyes were hazy, as if she was lost in a long memory, "I am Hui... Hui... Li... Li Hui..."
"me……"
She hesitated and seemed lost.
"If you can't remember, from today on, just call me... 'Hui Hui Li'..."
"'Hui... Huihui... Li'...?" Li Huiyuan was confused, "It seems... a bit unpleasant..."
"Then let's call her 'Hui Hui Zi'."
"I... I seem to remember... my name... I... my name is... Li Hui... Li Hui... Yuan..."
The moment the name was spoken, there seemed to be a light in Li Huiyuan's eyes, and she suddenly woke up.
"My name is Li Huiyuan! Boss, my name is Li Huiyuan!"
"But you can also call me 'Hui Hui Zi'... hehe..."
……
"I later found out that the boss used 'Hui Hui Zi' to anchor me when I was confused. If I really couldn't remember my name, I would become a sports student named 'Hui Hui Zi'. But fortunately, I was able to come back with my own thought anchor..."
Li Huiyuan said with a smile.
"So, next time you find yourself in this situation, if I call you 'Lin Lin Zi', you must remember your name!"
"Anchors that you find yourself are the most effective. Anchors given to you by others...need to be 'maintained' from time to time, otherwise there is a risk of failure."
"Then, I obtained the 'sports student certificate' and officially became a sports student. The boss also handed the sports student certificate to me."
"Sports student ID?" Lin Yi asked in surprise, "Don't sports students have student IDs? Oh, I see! Student IDs are only for students on trial, and the ID card for sports students is something called 'Sports student ID'... I'm stupid."
Lin Yi did not ask any more questions about the sports student certificate.
He thought to himself... Li Huiyuan had mentioned "mysterious genealogy" many times in a serious manner, and now it seemed to be true.
However, regarding "time", perhaps there was something wrong with Li Huiyuan's calculations.
"Is the stone that the teacher left in the room a fist-sized stone with some concentric circle-like patterns on it?" Lin Yi asked while gesturing.
Li Huiyuan was surprised and asked, "Hey, how did you know?"
"It's a light bulb!" Lin Yi's heart trembled, and he said: "I've seen that thing, it's actually somewhat similar to the light bulbs on campus..."
"Light bulb?" Li Huiyuan was stunned again and again, with some blur in her eyes, but soon it became clear.
Lin Yi regretted his words as soon as they came out of his mouth, fearing that his subconscious words would disrupt Li Huiyuan's cognition. But when he saw that she quickly recovered, he breathed a sigh of relief...
"It seems that the wave that Li Huiyuan sensed was most likely the wave caused by the lights in the dormitory being turned off at midnight..."
The lights in the dormitory building are turned off at 0:, and a strange wave will be released at that time, and then the elevator in the teaching building can lead to the art building...
Lin Yi wasn't sure, but he guessed that it was most likely true.
"If that's the case..."
「李慧鸢是从20:00开始计时的，她认知里的22:30是现实里的0点……那也就是说，她抵达的体育馆是在9:30前后……」
"The security guard's route starts from Class 2 of Group B in the teaching building and walks through every floor at the back, then passes the library in Building D and walks along the green belt of the campus to the gymnasium... It takes a total of one and a half hours."
Lin Yi silently noted down the time value.
In fact, there are many more details in the experience Li Huiyuan described, but he doesn't have time to dig into it now.
Because he had so little time, he didn't even watch the videos he shot with his digital camera!
At this time, the boss walked out from the direction of the locker room and came in front of them.
"How's the chat going?" The eldest said calmly, "If it's about right, go take a shower and then go to swimming class."
"I have already found the classmate who will be watching over you when it rains. You will see him when you go in... Li Kai, you two should have met each other before."
"Uh...Okay, boss." Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then nodded.
"It seems like there's something else you haven't finished saying?" The boss glanced at the two of them.
Putting aside the experience, Lin Yi actually wanted to ask Li Huiyuan some details about the school doctor and the basement. Of course, there was also the most crucial point -
"Boss, I want to take a look at the Sports Student Code...Is it possible?"
"Okay." The boss said lightly. This reaction made Lin Yi stunned for a moment.
"Gah?"
"Is it so easy to do so?"
The boss glanced at him and said, "Except for the fact that you are not a sports student and do not have a sports student certificate, your other comprehensive conditions are no worse than those of sports students. In some ways, you have even surpassed sports students at Huihuizi's stage..."
"So, I will give you a copy of the Sports Student Code, which you can use as a more detailed and comprehensive code, and you can also use it as a reference when the situation is appropriate."
"However, except in the gym, I still recommend that you choose some relatively conservative methods in other situations..."
"Uh... the kind that doesn't fight back when being beaten?" Lin Yi asked.
The boss shook his head slightly: "The angle of 'being beaten' is too one-sided. The real danger often does not come from a certain individual, but from the environment, layers, and even those spiritual pollutions that can penetrate silently..."
"Let's go, after we take a shower, we'll go swimming and absorb the remaining 'ashes'."
Seeing the boss turning around and leaving, Lin Yi did not forget Wei Liang and quickly said, "Boss, Liangzi also wants to take swimming lessons together..."
(End of this chapter)