Chapter 301 Lin Yi's Hallucination
Chapter 301 Lin Yi's Hallucination
Although she had been unable to resist getting closer to Lin Yi before, when he really approached her, she subconsciously felt a sense of resistance.
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.
He didn't feel it when he hugged her just now, he just thought it was a soft cushion, but when Li Huiyuan jumped away by herself, the warm and cool touch disappeared in a flash, and he began to feel a sense of loss.
"I just..." His eyes flickered and he tried to recall.
That's right...
Didn’t you just see a reflection in the water, and then saw that reflection reaching out its hand?
He just wanted to solve the problem once and for all while the boss was still around!
"But how did you catch Li Huiyuan?"
"No, no, no...that hand...is Li Huiyuan's hand!"
“What’s going on…?”
"what is going on?"
"boundary!"
"The hand that stretched out was either Wumian's or Li Huiyuan's, but... when did the vision end?"
His thoughts suddenly became confused, because he felt that the boundary between "reality" and "illusion" in his cognition seemed to become blurred...
Just as he was about to start thinking about these things again, a strange singing voice suddenly sounded:
"For a moment, I felt lost~"
"Unconsciously, it has faded ~ the love in my heart ~"
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and his thoughts that were about to sink were suddenly interrupted.
On the one hand, it is really hard to describe the singing of this song. Apart from the fact that the beat is on point, the Cantonese flavor in it is really poor.
On the other hand, he looked in the direction of the singing and saw a cowering figure swimming along the edge of the pool...
It’s Wei Liang.
"Forgive me for my unruly and free-spirited love in this life~"
He seemed very happy and swam over to show off.
"I am also afraid that one day..."
A lifebuoy flew over from a long distance, drew an arc, and was put on his dog's head with a "bang".
Xia Lian on the shore pulled the lifebuoy line and pulled him back like a kite that had fallen to the ground.
Coincidentally, at this time he sang the "ohoh~" after the line "I'm also afraid that one day I will fall", so this embarrassed look plus the "ohoh" sounded like "oh~ON!".
This back and forth made Lin Yi dumbfounded.
"No... Ryoko swam over here specially to provide me with background music? What the hell is that..."
Lin Yi was stunned by this absurd feeling, and Li Huiyuan was also stunned. For a moment, she even forgot to ask Lin Yi, "Dashachun, what are you doing?"
At this time, the boss said, "What happened just now?"
Lin Yi then got up from the ground and said, "I...seem to be hallucinating."
"Hallucination?" The boss was slightly startled. "What did you see?"
"A me without a face." Lin Yi replied.
"Don't say that about yourself. Even though you were a bit excessive, rude, and disrespectful just now, I forgive you!" Li Huiyuan saw Lin Yi reflecting on himself, and her arrogance dissipated on its own.
"No... I mean, I saw myself in the swimming pool, without a face." Lin Yi shook his head.
The boss frowned slightly: "No face? Any more details?"
"Other details on the exterior are gone..." Lin Yi shook his head regretfully, "but I also noticed that there were no incandescent lights on the ceiling reflected in the swimming pool. Where the incandescent lights used to be, they were all turned into sculptures tied up with chains and then hung up."
"It's a broken human sculpture with missing arms and legs," he added.
The boss narrowed his eyes, thinking about something.
"Boss, have you seen that kind of sculptures? Where are they?" Lin Yi asked.
The boss looked at him and said, "Do you know where they are?"
Lin Yi hesitated for a moment and said, "When I was hallucinating, I saw that they seemed to be in... Class 18, Group C."
He said this while observing the boss's expression, but saw that there was no change on the boss's face.
"So the boss knows this too?" he thought secretly.
"Group C, Class 18?" Li Huiyuan opened her mouth wide. "Did you explore the teaching building again this morning?"
"You entered other classes? That's not right. There is only 4th floor in the teaching building. It ends at Class 12. How can there be Class 18?"
Hearing this, the boss just looked at him, as if waiting for his answer.
Lin Yi shook his head and said, "I haven't been there, so I said it was an illusion..."
"Boss, do you know this class?"
"Of course I know." The eldest brother said calmly, "It's just an abandoned classroom."
"Uh...anything else?"
"No more." The old man said, "Whether it was an illusion or you really ran there but thought you hadn't been there... this is not a good thing."
"It seems that absorbing "ashes" as an 'experiencer' will indeed bring about some uncontrollable negative changes..."
Lin Yi hesitated and said, "Boss, are you saying that this is all the influence of Ashes?"
The boss shook his head: "It's hard to say, but since you entered the campus, all the abnormal changes can be attributed to "pollution", and the pollution naturally includes the part that comes from "ashes". "
"It's just that... the changes that have occurred in you seem to be much more dangerous than I imagined."
Lin Yi pursed his lips subconsciously.
The boss looked at him and said, "Get in the water first, and talk later."
"Okay." Lin Yi decisively squatted down by the pool, but just before he entered the water, he suddenly thought of something and looked at Li Huiyuan and said, "Did I squat down just now?"
Li Huiyuan rolled her eyes: "How about I put my hand in front of you and let you pull it? Do you think I'm a telescopic man?"
Lin Yi was speechless for a moment, but his heart skipped a beat.
"Crouching down?"
“I really squatted down!”
He just saw the "maskless version of himself" reflected in the pool squatting down, but the fact was - it was not just that the "maskless version of himself" squatted down strangely, but it reflected his own behavior!
He squatted, and then the shadow squatted.
But he didn't know he was crouching. "Is it the same situation with Class 18 of Group C...?"
"I've been there, but I didn't know it. When I recalled it, the first thing that appeared in the mirror was the faceless version of me, and then Mr. Tian's face!"
"Even Mr. Tian's face... is an illusion created by my brain to protect my cognition, just like... the glass-like humanoid silhouette I saw that looked like an angel or 'Him-I'?"
There was some confusion in his eyes, and he was a little confused.
I really can't tell the difference.
My thoughts should be getting clearer and clearer, but why is it that the more information I learn, the more confused I become? !
The boss looked at the confusion and struggle that kept appearing in his eyes and said, "Lin Yi."
Lin Yi was shocked.
"Boss?"
"Get into the water."
"Uh... ok."
Lin Yi responded blankly, then went down the swimming pool wall into the water.
As soon as he entered the water, the water in the swimming pool was slightly cool, which stimulated his brain to become much clearer and he felt a new feeling.
He felt that the "primitive pollution" flowing through his body seemed to become active. At the same time, part of his "breath" seemed to be awakened, as if a strange disturbance was generated in the depths of his soul...
He subconsciously felt this breath, and then he found that some green breath appeared in his body...
These auras permeated his body like some kind of smoke. Unlike the sky blue aura that was integrated into his bones and flesh and could be sensed immediately, these green mists seemed to be lurking somewhere deeper in his body and were not stimulated until he entered the swimming pool.
This green mist feels very cold, just like wearing summer shorts at the beginning of autumn.
The boss asked again: "When did the hallucination you mentioned begin to appear?"
Lin Yi thought for a moment and said, "It should be the second day after entering school..."
"I heard from Xiao Xuzi that you entered the school on May 5th. In other words, you had this problem on May 6th?"
"Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I didn't have time to return to the dormitory that night?" He actually saw the areas on the 5th floor and above of the teaching building on the first night, but at that time it was more like "seeing it with my own eyes" than a hallucination, so he didn't say anything.
"External factors are part of the reason, but more of it is definitely related to your nature. No-Maj can't climb trees."
Lin Yi was silent.
"I'm a little curious, what did you see in your hallucinations?" the boss asked again.
Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to speak, but suddenly remembered that the last time the word "sea" came to his lips, the boss kicked him into the swimming pool...
So this time he asked timidly: "Boss, is this something I can say?"
"That's all you can say this time." The boss said calmly.
"Uh... then you won't physically interrupt me again, right? For example, kicking me into the water or something..." he asked weakly.
As if he had predicted it, the boss's face flashed with embarrassment, but he quickly returned to normal: "I will consider it."
Lin Yi: “…”
"Well, it seems there is still a risk..."
He drew his neck into the water, like a crocodile with its nostrils sticking out of the water.
"Go ahead and let me listen." The old man said, but seeing that Lin Yi was still hesitant, he explained, "I interrupted you last time because I had my own considerations... The situation is different now."
"Look, did I give you training last time you came?"
"Gurgle gurgle... Yeah, that's right. Okay then." Lin Yi slowly emerged from the water.
He briefly recalled, then put on some armor for himself: "I... sometimes I can't tell whether it's what I really saw or what came out of my hallucination. I'll try to speak slowly. If you interrupt, try to give me a starting move. I'm very good at observing people's expressions and will stop on my own..."
The boss leaned down, sat down by the swimming pool, and glanced at Li Huiyuan beside him.
"Huihuizi, you should get in the water too."
"Ah? Oh!" Li Huiyuan was listening attentively. What was meant by "one foot in the water"? It made her eager to try it out, and her feet even felt itchy.
She then took a step towards the pool, and her whole body pierced into the water like a needle, without even making much of a splash.
Lin Yi had almost finished recalling everything, so he said, "In addition to seeing the Class 18 of Group C and the broken sculpture hanging from the ceiling that I mentioned before, I seemed to have seen a road leading to Building D on the other side of Building C... but then I couldn't see it anymore."
"I later saw a staircase leading up to the 4th floor on the stairs inside the teaching building, but that staircase seemed to be blocked by nocturnal species..."
"Then, I also saw a piece of sky in the corridor of the dormitory building..."
"It was a black sky covered in fog. There seemed to be a black sun in the sky, and black sea water. The light was too dim, and it looked completely pitch black..."
"Then, I don't think I've ever been to the green belt on campus, but from time to time I have some images of running in the green belt... Oh, yes, this only started to appear today."
"Then... I seemed to see something huge deep in the greenbelt. It was hidden in the woods, and when it moved, it made some heavy metal scraping sounds with other things..."
"I also saw a ray of light in the deepest part of the green forest, and behind the light I saw a sea..."
He carefully observed the boss's movements, and when he saw that the boss did not move, he continued: "...the coastline, there seems to be a mountain on the coastline, and there is a castle on the mountain..."
"In different visions, I saw many details in the castle..."
"There was no light in the castle, only candlesticks... Each candle on the candlestick was very short, as if it was about to burn out, but it just wouldn't burn out."
"There are also some murals...strange patterns..."
"In the castle's lobby there is a model of what looks like the 'World Tree'... and a spiral staircase that goes up..."
"I also saw a person...a person standing on the edge of a cliff!"
"The man was wearing a windbreaker, standing in the storm, holding what seemed to be a... very old copper lamp..."
If the boss's expression was only slightly solemn when Lin Yi said the previous things, then when Lin Yi said this sentence, the calm expression on her face showed a ripple for the first time, and a light suddenly flashed in her eyes.
"But this is not the first time I saw him. No, it was not the first time I saw him in a hallucination. I actually saw him on May 5th."
"It was during the last class. Right here, at this spot... by the swimming pool!"
"I stared at the end of the swimming pool, and I seemed to see a deep black hole. I heard a rapid sound of wind in my ears, and then... I saw him."
"That was the first time. The second time..."
"There's a second time?" The boss couldn't help it.
"The second time was when I was returning to the dormitory that night. I had hallucinations in the corridor of the dormitory building. I saw the black sky and the sun. I didn't tell you my "location"..."
"At that time, I found that I was standing vertically on the cliff. I felt that the cliff was the cliff I saw on the coastline..."
"That cliff is covered with mosses, and there seem to be some strange nocturnal creatures in the sea water below. They are climbing up from the bottom like a swarm of insects along with the sea water... That's him on that cliff!"
(End of this chapter)