Chapter 568: Teaching Building Area Layer

Chapter 568: Teaching Building Area Layer

Chapter 568: Teaching Building Area Layer

The sky, which was only slightly dim, suddenly became gloomy. The mist wafting from the green forest belt made the whole world look as if it was wrapped in a translucent shroud. The damp air was mixed with some inexplicable smell of decay.

The whole picture exudes a Silent Hill-like sense of horror.

There were shadowy figures in the green forest, all of them were fake human sculptures, but they did not give Lin Yi any sense of horror. On the contrary, there was only an endless breath of death.

"Are those sculptures... pseudo-human sculptures?"

It doesn't seem like it, because it doesn't give him the unique feeling of a pseudo-human sculpture, nor does it make him feel like he is being hunted by the void.

Is it because he is now in a high position and the pseudo-human sculpture dare not challenge him?

No way?
Void search is the basic mechanism of the pseudo-human sculptures. Even if a dog glares at them, they will be searched, right?

He continued to observe and strengthened some of his perceptions. Gradually, as the fog flowed, more outlines appeared in the green forest belt, like a silent army... no, like a silent... group of corpses.

Hundreds of sculptures are frozen in various strange postures on the hillside, between rocks, and even hanging on tree branches. Some of them are entangled by tree roots, some are penetrated by vines, and many are in postures that violate the laws of physics, petrified in the green forest belt.

He saw the faces of the sculptures clearly. Most of their expressions were full of humanity, some were even frozen in a moment of extreme fear, with their mouths wide open and their eyes almost bursting out of their sockets.

Some were kneeling on the ground, looking up at the sky, with their palms stretched out with five fingers spread out, as if they were trying to grab something, their faces full of morbid piety and fanaticism.

But no matter which kind of sculpture it is, all of them are incomplete, as if they were hit by some kind of force before or at the moment of sculpture, causing them to completely become like this.

Sculpture of the dead body.

“Gulp…”

Lin Yi swallowed and listened carefully, but there was only the wind blowing through the mountains and no singing could be heard.

There was no singing, which meant that there was no pollution of even a little bit of grade in this layer. He couldn't even hear the warning "In the abyss of fog and darkness, lost souls pursue phantoms", which meant that there were really no nocturnal species here.

However, why are there no human figures among the fake human sculptures all over the mountains?

So weird!

He moved slowly, his eyes following the hillside, and more disturbing details began to come into his sight.

He saw some sculptures "flowing" down from the rocks like liquid, but in the flow they became states...

Some of the sculptures were half buried in the soil, with only their distorted faces showing...

Some seemed to be embedded into the tree trunks, with the petrified skin blending into the wood texture...

There are also some sculptures whose faces are distorted into a faceless appearance, with expressions like they are shouting.

"What did you see?" Tian Bufan's voice came from outside the layer.

Lin Yi was slightly startled. He didn't see Tian Bufan around. Where did the voice come from?

What is certain is that this sound definitely does not come from the heart, but from somewhere around.

"Here." Tian Bufan knew that Lin Yi was looking for him, so he reminded him.

Lin Yi looked in the direction of the sound and found that a faint ripple appeared around him from time to time. The existence of the ripple was like a curtain. If he didn't look carefully, he couldn't see anything. But when he looked closely, he could see the picture of the surface world through the curtain.

Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji and Wei Liang were actually always by his side, but he couldn't see them unless he looked carefully.

"I saw a lot of dead body sculptures, but there were no shadows of any nocturnal species or pseudo-human sculptures." Lin Yi said, "Hey, hey, hey, can you hear me?"

"I can hear you." Tian Bufan said, "It seems that your perception has begun to capture a layer that we could not see before. Look carefully and see if you can find the lamppost in this layer."

"Let me look for it." He looked for a while and found a lamppost not far away. "I found it, but it's broken... Wait! It's a lamppost painted red!"

Tian Bufan touched his chin and said, "Then my guess is correct... The layer you saw might be a layer beneath the surface of the campus."

"A certain level?" Lin Yi was stunned.

"Come back first, and don't keep your consciousness here for too long." Tian Bufan's voice came from beside him.

Lin Yi took a deep breath and wiped his eyes with his hand. The golden flames in his eyes went out. When he looked again, he had returned to the normal campus layer.

"What happened just now?" Lin Yi couldn't help but ask.

Tian Bufan explained: "I think what you saw should be a place where corpses are piled up in the layers of the campus... Just like the dinosaurs in ancient times, they continued to sink with the movement of the earth's crust. After the sculptures died, they might also continue to sink in the layers and eventually settle somewhere..."

Lin Yi's face was solemn: "I seem to see countless sculptures!"

Tian Bufan pondered and said, "Since the history of the campus, countless people have died in the construction or exploration of the campus, and countless people have died after being transformed into non-human units. What you see may just be the tip of the iceberg..."

"If you go to those areas that have completely fallen into the "Dark Zone", you will understand what "mountains of corpses" mean."

"Hey, you also know the concept of the 'Dark Zone'?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, "It seems that I am the only one who knows nothing. So, in fact, you all know everything about mysticism, and I am the only one who doesn't know many things?"

Tian Bufan was slightly startled, then asked back: "How could you not know? We are professionals in architecture, Lao Lin!"

"In the occult, architecture is a super difficult major!"

Tian Bufan had a rare stern look on his face, and his expression was very serious.

Architecture... Lin Yi's mouth twitched fiercely: "Is our architecture... really a manly one?"

"Don't you know whether you are a real man or not?" Tian Bufan asked with a sneer.

Lin Yi was stunned. Yes, how could he not know?
Although architecture sounds like plastering, he actually repaired the cracks in the stadium wall...

"Will our architecture major be of great use?" Lin Yi asked.

Tian Bufan looked at him and smiled without saying anything.

"Okay, okay...I get it." Lin Yi curled his lips and waved his hands repeatedly.

He knew that if he continued talking, Tian Bufan would definitely start using "him" to endorse him again.

He had already accepted the reality, so he sighed and changed the subject back to the campus: "So should we... 'ignore him'?"

Tian Bufan nodded: "Well, don't worry about him. Many times, the corpses under our feet are like the stars above our heads. They are always there, but they don't have much intersection with us."

"But don't you feel something else?"

"Something else?" Lin Yi was puzzled. "What is it?"

Tian Bufan shook his head: "Nothing." "Hey, you...?" Lin Yi was speechless.

Tian Bufan said: "I can't tell you something that you don't know at all."

"Okay." Lin Yi spread his hands.

"Let's go to the teaching building first. When it's almost time, we will go our separate ways." Tian Bufan added.

Lin Yi's heart shuddered, and he suddenly remembered that Tian Bufan said he would go to the desolate land and the forest of bones today.

"Take care of yourself!" he said with concern.

"Worry about yourself." Tian Bufan replied coolly, choking him. "Before taking action, try not to cause any unnecessary trouble. Of course, I said... 'try your best'."

"Hiss... so cold." Lin Yi muttered in his heart: "Got it."

As they talked, they continued walking towards the teaching building.

On the way, Lin Yi also secretly released his perception, trying to sense the world inside the campus.

Suddenly, he found a hideous sculpture on the landslide in the green forest belt. The sculpture was forever frozen in a struggling posture.

When it was alive, it seemed to be entangled by countless roots and dragged into the soil, while it struggled to break out, and eventually it became a sculpture in this state.

If it was just this posture, then Lin Yi would definitely not be able to focus on it.

Lin Yi noticed it because the sculpture was dressed in a suit and had a white acrylic ID card faintly visible on its chest...

This is a "class teacher"!
And it died here!

This was the first time that Lin Yi saw the sculpture of his homeroom teacher since he entered the school, and it was "displayed" in such a tragic form.

Seeing this, the image of the homeroom teacher-040 flashed through his mind. For some reason, at this moment, his heart seemed to skip a beat.

"Oh no! Is she going to be in trouble?!"

People are like this. When they see something bad, they always subconsciously associate the disaster with people they are familiar with.

This is not a curse, but a worry that arises from the subconscious.

Lin Yi quickly withdrew his will and placed it on the teaching building in front of him, but the feeling of uneasiness in his heart became stronger and stronger.

He subconsciously quickened his pace.

Soon, Teaching Building B appeared before his eyes.

Everyone said goodbye here. Lin Yi, Wei Liang and Wei Shan returned to Building B, while Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji went to Building A. Kuai Hongji was going back to Building A, and the road Tian Bufan was going to was on the way from the teaching building to the gymnasium, which was generally speaking, in the direction of Building A.

As soon as he approached the teaching building, Lin Yi's eyelids began to twitch faster. He didn't know why, but he had a vague feeling that when he began to get closer to the teaching building, he couldn't help but begin to feel some resistance and opposition in his heart, as if the teaching building was some kind of troubled place.

“What’s going on…?”

He covered half of his face with his hand, golden flame burning in his left eye. Through the gaps between his fingers, he began to see the secrets of the teaching building.

One picture was normal, the other was abnormal. The two pictures overlapped in his vision to form a weird picture. If a person's cognition was not strong enough, his spirit would collapse on the spot after seeing it.

Even if Lin Yi observed the teaching building with his current cognitive strength, he still felt dizzy.

In that normal field of vision, the four-story teaching building stood quietly among the mountains and green trees. The dim light gave the building, which was covered with ivy, a somewhat ancient look.

However, with the vision of his left eye, he can see more things through this layer.

He saw that there were four floors above the fourth floor of the teaching building, and in the area above the fifth floor, the whole world became more hazy, and there was an additional foggy feeling in the original dim environment.

Although it was only a five-story area, the fog created a feeling of being immersed in the clouds.

But in that gray fog, he sensed something familiar—ashes.

Countless pieces of ashes, as if born from an unknown void in a higher dimension, slowly drifted down and filled the area between the 5th and 8th floors of the teaching building.

What's strange is that these ashes did not fall into the area below the 4th floor. When they fell below the boundary, they melted away like snowflakes.

"Hey, those ashes... why do they look like the same as the ones on the chef sculpture?"

Ashes also have concentrations and sizes. The ashes on the chef sculpture are too trivial, but they are exactly the same as the ashes on the 5th floor and above.

"Is someone using the chef sculpture to gather ashes?" He thought of the fanatic's operation, but it didn't seem likely. The ashes on the chef sculpture seemed to be naturally accumulated. If they were gathered, it would not appear like that.

He loosened his grip and released the state of "Vision Insight".

At this time, he just arrived at the steps of the teaching building.

The time on the watch was 7:52.

Arriving at the teaching building at this time is considered early in these days.

He looked down at the steps and saw that they were covered with moss. With so much moss formed in the day without sunlight, one could imagine how brutal and crazy the battle was last night.

Wei Shan said goodbye to Lin Yi and went to his classroom. Lin Yi and Wei Liang also came to Class 2, Group B.

Lin Yi slowly reached out and grasped the door handle of the classroom.

The moment he touched the door handle, his vision suddenly flickered, and he seemed to sense the door attributes hidden in the classroom door. When the door touched the skin inside his palm, the secret pattern in the door swept over his body as if detecting his identity.

He didn't have this feeling before, but now, like Neo who saw through The Matrix, he gradually understood the various codes within the campus.

“Ka…”

He pressed the door handle and slowly opened the classroom door.

The door opened, and a thick yet warm breath rushed in, like lifting the heavy curtain of a chicken coop.

There was an unpleasant smell in the classroom that had never been there before.

It smells like rotten meat mixed with a smell of decay, or like the smell of mud covering up the smell of blood.

He pushed the door open, his perception surpassing his sight, and he was the first to rush into the classroom and began to observe all the situations in the classroom.

But as he observed, his heart finally sank to the bottom.

(End of this chapter)