Chapter 317 Feast and Guests

Chapter 317 Feast and Guests

Chapter 317 "Feast" and "Guests"

Xia Lian said calmly, "This entire dome is like a boiler... Students above stage one or two will capture all invaders during the gray fog invasion and throw them into this furnace to be burned."

"At the same time, in order to relieve the positive pressure from the angel statue on the gymnasium, we often guide the experience students or first-stage students who are taking refuge here to the dome to attract the angel statue to descend here."

"That way, we can maximize our chances of dealing with them all in one fell swoop."

"When the dome is closed, the positions of food and diners are reversed... The 'pollution' carried by the angel sculptures and those invaders will be expelled from the body during calcination and become 'original pollution'. We can take the opportunity to attract the 'original pollution' into the body and make it our own strength."

"I don't know if you can understand what I'm saying."

She was sharing her experience with Li Huiyuan, but at the same time she was also providing Lin Yi with scientific knowledge.

"I think I understand a little bit... It's just like in novels, where some ancient beast is boiled into food and then used as an external application or internal food!" Lin Yi said, "In that case, it seems that they are full of treasures!"

Xia Lian rolled her eyes: "The food chain is not unique... They are food at this moment, but aren't we also food in their eyes at other times?"

"Believe me, once the gray fog invades, the smell of meat will spread for miles once you leave the gymnasium."

Lin Yi shuddered: "Senior Xia Lian, your sudden humor gives me chills... "

“BOOM!”

The dome closed with a rumble, and the boss and the physical education teachers hung chains above the dome and then entered the dome before the dome closed.

"Is the next step to start the 'furnace'?" Lin Yi asked expectantly.

Xia Lian shook her head and said, "It's not time yet. Wait a little longer. There are still guests who haven't arrived yet."

"'Guest'? What is this?" Lin Yi asked.

"You'll know soon." Xia Lian said.

"No, can't you just tell me directly?" Lin Yi was speechless.

Xia Lian smiled and said, "You guessed it right, right? How about another guess?"

"Could this guest be ironic? Are there any intruders yet to come? Any other angel statues?"

This makes sense, after all, the gymnasium really has a "swinging language" feel.

Just as Van Gogh was once an art student, who dares to say that Confucius would not be a sports student?

Confucius said: When friends come from afar, share the food.

It's like hanging the word hospitality on a plaque in the gymnasium!

But Xia Lian shook her head.

Lin Yi asked tentatively: "Is that the real guest?"

Xia Lian nodded.

"Could it be... a chef? A cook who is both a cook and a diner, eating while cooking?"

Xia Lian shook her head.

"Uh... it's so hard to guess!" Lin Yi put on a bitter smile, "You wouldn't invite an art student as a guest... eh? Senior Xia Lian, the expression on your face... is that true?"

Xia Lian raised her eyebrows and looked at him with interest, but did not answer him.

Lin Yi's heart trembled. He knew that he might have guessed right, but... an art student came to the gym? !
Doesn't the rule say they shouldn't go to the gym?
[The stadium is a building consisting of a stadium and a dome. If you accidentally walk into the stadium area, please leave as soon as you realize it.

Do not stay in the stadium area (you can check the area by the light poles)】

——《Art Students' Guidelines》

The contents of the "Guidelines for Art Students" immediately popped into his mind.

Xia Lian joked, "How can you be so sure that art students won't come? Unless you... have read the rules for art students?"

Lin Yi's mind was dazed, but he remained calm and said, "What? I just feel it's impossible..."

After he said that, he turned his gaze to the playground area under the stands.

Song Rentou was thrown to the edge of the playground, and was constantly squirming. His body was seriously injured, with his spine almost broken, and no one knew how many bones in his body were shattered.

Even so, with the help of the gray mist in its body, its body is still recovering at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Gray fog..." Staring at Song Rentou's figure, Lin Yi's brows slowly tightened.

Gray fog...what on earth is going on?
What is the connection between the units filled with gray fog and the "Gray Fog Invasion" event?

Before Lin Yi started to think about this problem, he felt that the ground beneath his feet seemed to be...shaking.

This slight shaking feeling is a change that is not easy to detect but cannot be ignored, just like a person standing on the ground can feel the tilt of the ground under his feet no matter what.

And with Lin Yi's keen perception, such changes were magnified many times.

He felt that his body's center of gravity had shifted slightly, and this shift was irregular. It felt like he was standing on a boat, and the originally calm lake surface was blown by a gust of wind, causing ripples to form on the entire lake surface.

Before he could get used to the amplitude of the swing, he immediately discovered that gray fog began to seep out of the playground on the first floor of the dome!

Gradually, the gray fog covered the entire ground. The green grass on the playground was obscured by the gray fog, and the entire earth seemed to be shrouded in a cloud.

“Wow…wow…wow…”

Faintly, beneath the gray fog, there seemed to be the sound of surging water.

Lin Yi tried to concentrate and looked, and then at the edge of the first floor of the stands, he saw the faint flow of water under the gray fog.

"Water?!" he cried out, "How could there be water accumulation?"

He looked at Xia Lian, trying to find the answer from her face.

"Don't look at me. I don't know the principle either." Xia Lian shrugged, "I just know that this is part of the 'process'."

"Don't worry too much. Even if it's just one floor of the stands, it's still much higher than the ground. The water won't spread to just one floor."

Lin Yi did not listen to Xia Lian's words of comfort. He seemed to have thought of something and rushed to the fence on the first floor of the stands.

"Hey, what are you doing? Are you trying to kill yourself?!" Xia Lian quickly grabbed Lin Yi, but when she was about to catch Lin Yi, she saw a series of blurry afterimages, and then lost sight of Lin Yi.

"?"

Xia Lian was stunned for a moment, and then she found Lin Yi lying on the fence, staring at the outer wall of the first floor of the stands. "That's right! Moss!"

Lin Yi muttered to himself, his eyes flickering.

"There's also moss on the walls inside the dome..."

"I sensed something was wrong a while ago. I should have noticed it... but I ignored it..."

"So there really is 'water' on campus!"

"This seems to explain the moss that appears in many places on campus!"

"The moss on the outer wall of the teaching building's corridor bridge, the moss on the teaching building's steps, the moss in the canteen's corridor..."

"Too many, too many... The mosses in those places seem to be similar to the ones here!"

"When the gray fog invades, it will drag the entire campus into a certain layer of 'water'!"

"So the students on the stands are not just bait to attract the angel statues, but are also used as cognitive anchors to keep the sinking dome stable on the 'campus' layer?"

So in that case... where is the campus itself located?

"Is the entire campus on the sea?!"

"Did I get it wrong from the beginning?"

"It's not the art building's layers that are abnormal, but the layers of the entire campus are wrong. Just like a floating island on the ice, the entire campus is underwater, and the part that emerges from the water is the so-called 'normal' part, which is... the campus!"

"When the layer is abnormal, the water level scale line will float on the layer, so the campus will sometimes have the phenomenon of 'seepage'..."

"If this conjecture is true, then 'moss' would be another 'coordinate' on campus!"

At this moment, he discovered that there were some figures appearing under the water...

He blinked, only to find that the figure underwater had disappeared again.

"Is there something under the water?" Lin Yi whispered, with some uncertainty in his tone.

"Underwater?" Li Huiyuan opened her eyes wide and kept looking at the water surface covered by gray fog.

The water level now has completely submerged the playground and is about ankle-high.

"No...did you see it wrong?" Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi in confusion.

Lin Yi was silent for a moment: "Then maybe... I saw it wrong."

Before he finished speaking, there was some noise coming from not far away in the stands. Lin Yi looked in the direction of the sound and found that the noise came from the emergency passage.

No, not the safe passage, at least, not the safe passage they came through.

There are many safe passages inside the dome, and now strange noises were heard from one of them.

Soon, a huge crowd of people came out from the passage. They were wearing green school uniforms. They were——

"Art students?!" Lin Yi exclaimed subconsciously. Not only that, he also saw Yan Jinming and... Mao Feiyang among those art students!

“Furry?!”

Lin Yi was surprised and happy, and wanted to shout and say hello from afar, but he soon realized that something seemed wrong. After the Maozi came out, they did not sit down as if they had arrived at the dome. Instead, they continued to walk in a certain direction. After a while, they sat down one after another.

"What Maozi 'sees' seems to be different from what I see. It seems like he can't see me!"

"etc!"

"Weren't the Maozis just walking down that staircase, being chased by the Laughing Angel? They kept walking and walking, and finally they came to the gymnasium?"

Lin Yi felt like his brain was a little confused.

What's going on? Are the art building and the gymnasium connected?

Or is it that the staircase that looks like a "staircase" is actually a "passage" on some level?

Full of doubts, Lin Yi decided to watch patiently.

"Are they art students?" Li Huiyuan looked at Maozi and others, her eyes full of curiosity.

Xia Lian nodded: "The meal is too sumptuous. Invite them to eat together so that not a single cent will be wasted... Let's begin."

Lin Yi perked up upon hearing this and quickly looked around.

At this moment, the dome, except for the stands, was completely shrouded in gray fog.

Under the gray fog, the angry angels have taken shape, but they are still wrapped in wings. Their bodies are trembling slightly, rising and falling rhythmically, like people sleeping soundly.

Above the gray fog, the group of pseudo-human sculptures and angry angels strung together with iron chains became irritable after absorbing the gray fog. They struggled one by one, trying to break free from the chains, but some graphic symbols that looked like cuneiform, oracle bone inscriptions, or some distorted numbers were faintly floating on the cold iron chains with a metallic luster.

When this symbol appeared, the gray mist that had gathered together collapsed as if it was being dispersed.

This graphic-like text seems to be some kind of "font" with extraordinary properties, like the talismans in Chinese mythology, the spells in European magic civilization, etc., and contains an extremely special extraordinary power.

"Time is up!" The boss's cold voice echoed in the dome. She was standing on a protruding wall somewhere under the dome, higher than the second floor of the stands. She was holding an old kerosene lamp in her hand, like a female general going to war. "Line up! Hold the lanterns!"

At about the same height as her, a group of physical education teachers stood up with old kerosene lamps in their hands, forming a circle of old kerosene lamps above the dome.

I don’t know why, but the boss’s movement of turning around and opening his arms, coupled with his cold voice, gave me a sense of déjà vu of the Yellow Eyebrowed King shouting “Since you have seen the future, why don’t you worship?” in Xiaoxitian. Add to that the circle of PE teachers holding “magic instruments”, and it’s a gymnasium, clearly a big electronic music temple…

Moreover, when this group of people stood there, for some reason, it gave Lin Yi a different feeling of a forest of tombstones for the dead...

The next moment, the boss and the physical education teachers all spoke slowly, and a grand and mysterious ancient syllable slowly unfolded above the dome like an ancient scroll...

The sound mixed with the rushing wind and the rippling water, as if it had crossed time and space and was guided out from a broken period of time by them, and slowly echoed in the dome. To Lin Yi, that sound was so strange and yet so familiar...

All the sports students fell silent. They sat down on the nearest chairs and began to listen to their voices as if they were listening to an ancient teaching.

Gradually, Lin Yi also heard a familiar rhythm from it. It seemed to be the admonition that both the Night Watchman and Mu Daxian had said before - the admonition from "The Iron Law of the Night Watchman":

"De som jager lyset i tke blir til slutt fantomer"! "

["Those who chase the light through the fog will eventually become illusions"]

(End of this chapter)