Chapter 409 Return to Campus
Chapter 409 Return to Campus
As they got closer, the light became clearer and clearer, and finally, Lin Yi saw a familiar cobblestone road.
At a certain point in the road, there is a lamp post standing upright. The dim light of the lamp shines on the road, illuminating everything around.
Compared with the distorted space just now, this place seems particularly normal and peaceful.
The security guards slowed down their pace, and the endless darkness that had enveloped them slowly dissipated like a tide...
Lin Yi felt a strange feeling in his heart, as if a submarine was rising. The dark, strange and twisted space was gradually left behind by him.
Lin Yi began to feel the cold breeze of the early morning brushing against his cheeks. Although his physical fitness had improved a lot, this feeling of coldness that was almost imprinted in his "cognition" still made him shiver subconsciously.
It's like when you see someone else's balls being blown up, you'll feel a dull pain.
After a few steps, the ground under Lin Yi's feet had become uneven pebbles, and the touch of this made him feel extremely secure.
As they approached the streetlight ahead, their shadows were stretched out, as if they had escaped from the abyss of darkness and returned to the real world.
The chefs in black bibs seemed to have gotten used to it, but Zhao Lingxiao obviously breathed a sigh of relief, as if he still had a trace of fear about the environment just now.
The security guard led them to a place near the lamp post and stopped. Then he turned to look at them and spoke in a solemn and deep voice:
"This is the school grounds. It's almost dawn, so they won't dare to act too recklessly... You can return to the teaching building as long as you follow the corresponding rules."
The security guard issued an eviction order.
Lin Yi consciously loosened the chain and walked towards the lamppost.
Zhao Lingxiao did not hesitate and followed Lin Yi's steps.
Looking at Lin Yi's back, the security guard seemed to be thinking about something.
A chef in a black bib hesitated and said, "Why not take him to the cafeteria?"
"No need." The security guard shook his head. "In any sequence, there is destined to be only one honorable position... An Ash Apostle who is not a 'human' has sneaked into the campus. He will find that kid."
"We can protect him for a while, but we can't protect him forever."
"If he fails..." the black bib chef pondered, "Won't it be very troublesome?"
"As long as we're on campus, it won't be a problem. If that day comes..."
"I will crush his pain with my own hands...even if he is the Chosen One."
After the security guard finished speaking, he turned and walked into the darkness. Only the majestic and cold voice remained, vaguely hovering in the darkness.
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X023年5月10日，5:16。
In the early morning on campus, it is still dark and the sky has not yet turned pale. The whole world is still shrouded in hazy darkness. Only the navy blue sky faintly indicates that the long night is about to pass and dawn is about to come.
The campus at this point was both eerie and scary. The air was filled with thick humidity that blended with the fog, making the entire campus seem as if it was lifted into the clouds.
The faint moisture made Lin Yi's skin feel wet and cold; even the light from the lamppost could not provide any warmth.
Lin Yi quickly arrived at the lamppost and confirmed the number of the lamppost immediately.
「Library-102」
"It's indeed 102!" Because he had expected it, after confirming it, he felt more like "it's true".
This was indeed the lamppost that Tian Bufan had arrived at before, the so-called "end of the road" and "no library in sight, only a green belt."
"The map is indeed 'absolutely accurate'..." Lin Yi couldn't help but sigh. Although this small code only contained a few words, the more he understood the campus, the more he felt the terrifying deep meaning hidden behind the few words of the rules, as well as the horror of the officials who formulated the rules.
He looked around and found that the road he came from had turned into a green forest belt at some point, and there was no trace of darkness at all.
Perhaps, it was originally a green forest belt, but they were only allowed to appear here because they were led by security guards.
There are no roads in the world, but where the security guard walks, it becomes a road.
"Hey, hey, hey, why don't you wait for me!" Zhao Lingxiao's voice sounded behind him.
She kept rubbing her arms as if to drive away the cold.
"How can you leave a lovely girl like me alone here in the dead of night?" She complained in a low voice, but her tone was mostly joking.
"Sorry, sorry..." He repeatedly interrupted Zhao Lingxiao's skill casting, but was extremely perfunctory and had no intention of continuing.
He really had no interest in this woman who would try to be cunning from time to time.
Compared to Zhao Lingxiao, he prefers the feeling of being entrusted with one's life by Li Huiyuan...
Mainly because of what happened in the library, he always felt that this guy Zhao Lingxiao would try to trick him at any time.
He simply identified the direction and then walked towards the lamppost in front.
Zhao Lingxiao followed Lin Yi without hesitation.
Lin Yi stopped and looked at her with a frown: "Why are you still following me?"
Zhao Lingxiao rolled his eyes: "Come on, I've taken this path too, don't be so self-indulgent."
Lin Yi then silently returned along the original route to the "Library-102" street lamp post.
Zhao Lingxiao: “…”
"You! That's too much! Why are you like this?" She stamped her feet. "Okay, okay, I just want to follow you! Just keep going!"
"How about you go first?" Lin Yi raised his hand and gestured to Wu Jing.
"Wow, don't you think it's safer to go together?"
"Is it true?" Lin Yi questioned seriously.
"You!" Zhao Lingxiao bit her lower lip and stared at him resentfully, but seeing that Lin Yi looked like a poor monk who had come from the Tang Dynasty in the East to the West to worship Buddha and seek scriptures, she understood what was going on. She stamped her feet, snorted, and without further entanglement, she turned around and disappeared into the darkness in front of the lamppost, walking down the lamppost alone.
Looking at Zhao Lingxiao's back, Lin Yi sighed softly, but his heart felt a little more at ease.
Before, he might have felt that it would be safer with two people, but now the sense of security Zhao Lingxiao gave him was negative.
It's okay to have someone to accompany you, but the things he does are more satisfying when done alone.
He glanced at his watch. The time was 5:18. Soon the sun would rise and the night would pass. He didn't have much time left.
I still remember that his former class teacher-039, now art teacher Bai Fangshuo, once told him that if he was still outside the classroom after 22 p.m. one day, he should go into the office and take away a dictionary she left behind. Once he got the dictionary, he would know what to do next.
The study time in the teaching building is from 21:00 in the evening to 7:40 the next day.
During this period, if you do not return to the classroom, then according to the location information, you are considered "outside the classroom".
In principle, the possible situations that could happen at that time are, first, studying late in the classroom, and second, sleeping in the dormitory.
Apart from these two situations, all others were "unsafe conditions", and the homeroom teacher-039 asked him to get the dictionary at this time, and specifically told him not to wake up his new homeroom teacher.
Lin Yi didn't know how many mysteries were hidden in the dictionary that his homeroom teacher left for him, but he knew the problem was definitely not simple.
Because from experience, anything that comes into contact with outside the rules is abnormal.
But for now, it doesn’t matter.
After all, it is hard to call him a "normal person" now.
He followed the guidance of the lamppost and left the library area, then turned around at the dividing line between "Library-001" and "Teaching Building-001" and headed towards the teaching building.
At this moment, his speed was not slow, but because he had to identify the direction, he was still a little slow. When he left the library area and entered the teaching building area, the time on his watch had reached 5:26.
At 5:26 on campus, the sky was already getting light. The pseudo-human sculptures had already begun to evacuate from the teaching building and retreated back into the green forest belt. The nocturnal species that had been crawling in the dark in the green forest belt also gradually evacuated after sensing the light.
The campus at this point seemed extremely safe, but Lin Yi always felt a little uneasy.
So he stopped for a moment when he arrived at the "Teaching Building-062" lamppost, and then looked around in the light of the lamp, mainly to see the source of his uneasiness - the situation in the green belt.
However, the Green Forest Belt was so strange that there was not even a trace of the pseudo-human sculpture (sculpture formation). There was only one explanation for this abnormality.
When the big ghost comes out, the little ghost retreats.
Sure enough, Lin Yi soon found a spherical stone in the green forest belt.
Although the light was very dim, the clear fish-scale-like feather texture on the surface of the stone still shone with a different luster under the dim light.
Lin Yi recognized it at a glance. It was the sculpture of an angry angel in the "off state"!
And now, the furious angel sculpture seemed to have detected his presence and began to shake slightly, then gradually woke up...
Although it seems outrageous to encounter an angry angel just after leaving the security guard, for Lin Yi who has experienced so much, it is not surprising.
If it was an inexperienced newbie who encountered an angry angel, he would definitely run away in panic, but Lin Yi was different...
He was very calm in his escape.
According to his experience, the awakening of the angry angel statue was a very slow process, and he had plenty of time to sprint towards the teaching building.
Then according to the "Teaching Building Rules" and other rules, as long as you reach the building, you will be safe - of course, the premise of all this is to abide by the rules, and his appearance here at this point is obviously inconsistent with the rules, and he is not very clear whether he will be protected by the building.
But he had to return to the teaching building anyway, so naturally he would go back first.
If that doesn't work, just get rid of it...
Emmmm...yes, that's right, "Just Get Rid of It".
When this thought came into Lin Yi's subconscious mind, he was shocked.
"What the hell is this?" He shuddered.
It was as if he heard his instinct telling him, "You, go kill the angry angel!"
"Am I so fierce now?" Lin Yi was also a little stunned, but he knew that although the Wrathful Angel, the Smirking Angel, and the Alien Angel all belonged to the category of angel sculptures, the Wrathful Angel was the lower limit of angel sculptures. It was a product of the research of fanatics and was relatively low-level. Perhaps it was easier to deal with...
After all, this guy is real, unlike the Laughing Angel who is just a fake...
As Lin Yi charged towards the teaching building, he "senses" the fluctuations of the angry angel's aura...
The thin fog on the campus does not have much impact on him now.
At low tide, even children can play on the beach and enjoy the waves.
The feathers of the angry angel sculpture in the green forest belt were peeled off from the surface of the sphere bit by bit, and blood-colored steam began to spew out from the gaps, as if the door of a life capsule was opened.
As his wings spread, a dwarf hugged his knees and slowly raised his head, like an ostrich that had just woken up.
It stretched its body, and its petrified skin slowly faded from its lime color to become like flesh and blood.
It twisted its neck, and the eyeballs on its cheeks slowly moved, then locked onto Lin Yi like a radar.
【laugh--】
The corners of its mouth curved into a grin, and a hint of pure bloodthirstiness suddenly emerged in its cold golden eyes.
It arched its body, and a bloody aura gushed out from its body, entangled around it. Its muscles trembled, and then it ejected...
"Boom——"
Accompanied by a heavy sound, the nearby green forest belt shook twice.
It shot out like a cannonball, drawing a beautiful arc in the air, and rushed towards Lin Yi with a whoosh, carrying with it a strong gust of wind.
That long distance was easily crossed by it.
Lin Yi's perception extended like tentacles, taking in all the changes around him and frantically capturing all kinds of information. When the angry angel entered his perception range, his brain worked rapidly and he immediately determined its landing point. When he was about to be caught, he flashed away for a distance with a beautiful "Asura Flash".
"Boom!"
The sculpture of an angry angel smashed to the ground, dust and dirt flew up, and the shock was so strong that Lin Yi almost staggered.
【laugh--】
"Boom——"
With a dull sound, the Furious Angel's ejection seemed to have no "cooling down" and no need to "charge" at all. It hit the ground like a rubber man, and then immediately used the force to shoot out from the dust at a faster speed, killing Lin Yi.
The murderous look in the smile on its lips became even stronger. It looked at Lin Yi as if it saw the most sumptuous meal.
Lin Yi would not give it a chance to move its mouth. He glanced at the nearest lamppost and then quickly rushed towards the teaching building.
(End of this chapter)