AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 45 - 45 21 Sculpture Fragments

45: Chapter 21: Sculpture Fragments 45: Chapter 21: Sculpture Fragments Lin Yi stepped onto the podium, and before he reached the notice board, he suddenly noticed some white powder and fragments on the ground near the podium.

“Eh?

What’s this?” A look of confusion surfaced in Lin Yi’s heart, and he reached out to pick up a fragment.

It was a thin and fragile piece that resembled coconut flakes, and together with the white powder, it was easy for one to associate them with broken chalk.

He looked up at the chalk trough in front of the blackboard.

There was no chalk in the trough.

He then glanced at the podium.

There was no chalk box on the podium.

“There’s no chalk in the entire classroom…” he frowned secretly, “so where did this stuff come from?

It seemed that the homeroom teacher didn’t notice it when signing in?”

Just then, Wei Liang’s startled cry exploded in Lin Yi’s ears like a burst: “Damn, isn’t this…

isn’t this plaster fragments?!”

Wei Liang stared intensely at the fragment in Lin Yi’s hand, jumping as high as a rabbit whose tail had been stepped on.

Then, he noticed the white powder at Lin Yi’s feet, circling around it while repeatedly exclaiming “Damn”, the color of fear in his eyes growing stronger.

Startled by Wei Liang’s reaction, Lin Yi no longer cared about the white fragments and quickly calmed Wei Liang down, then asked, “What’s the matter, Liangzi?

Did you discover something?”

Wei Liang, trembling, pointed at the white fragment in Lin Yi’s hand: “Old Lin, that thing you’re holding is a plaster fragment!”

“I recognize it now.” Lin Yi gently snapped it, and the plaster fragment broke apart with a “snap”.

Lin Yi tossed away the fragment, dusted off his hands, and looked at Wei Liang’s horrified expression, asking puzzledly, “But it seems to be just an ordinary plaster fragment…

I don’t see any problem.”

Wei Liang took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, then said, “You’re right, Old Lin, but the presence of plaster fragments means somebody brought something made of plaster into the classroom and left these fragments and powder behind…

”

“So you’re saying…

what in the campus is related to plaster?”

After thinking briefly, Lin Yi’s pupils shrank sharply, and he blurted out, “Sculpture?!”

As the word “sculpture” left his lips, a violent thought storm erupted in his mind.

The plaster was from fragments of a sculpture, but there was no sculpture in the classroom yesterday, which meant…

“After the classroom was closed yesterday, did someone move a sculpture here?!”

Last night’s memories started surging uncontrollably, and the fragmented clues began to combine…

“After the lights went out, the classroom door opened…”

“Then the mist from outside the Teaching Building also came into the classroom, and those strange classmates started to act, one after another…”

“So the object on the podium was actually a sculpture, and later the Security Guard passed by and took it out of the classroom with a chain, getting into a fight with the unidentified creature that had moved it there?”

“These fragments…

they fell when the chain whipped the sculpture!”

“Why did the Security Guard pass by the classroom but not come in?”

“And what’s with the sculpture?”

Lin Yi subconsciously started to think, his brain spinning like a motor, and began to overload.

“Wait, wait, wait!!!”

“The student handbook says that all sculptures are stored in the Art Building!”

“But…

neither the Teaching Building regulations nor the attached campus map mark the location of the Art Building!”

Lin Yi became the center of thought, his mind inexorably becoming chaotic.

It seemed as if something beyond cognition was silently slicing into his domain of understanding…

The terrifying thought storm seemed to be destroying everything; Lin Yi stood petrified in place, while the temperature around him seemed to drop.

The white powder on the podium’s floor tiles trembled slightly…

“Crack—snap!”

Right when Lin Yi was caught in the thought storm, about to be devoured by the messy fragments of thought, the classroom door was opened from the outside.

…

The classroom door opened, and warm sunlight flooded through the doorframe into the classroom, overwhelming Lin Yi.

Caught in the mire, Lin Yi suddenly felt a white, hazy light fall from the void, enveloping him completely.

A sense of warmth and comfort he hadn’t felt since following the blue bus into the mountainous region enveloped him again.

“So warm…”

Lin Yi stopped thinking subconsciously, and the terrible thought storm gradually subsided.

He slowly retracted his thoughts, hearing a calling voice that seemed to come from far away in his ears.

The calling was urgent: “Old Lin…

Old Lin…

Old Lin…”

As the voice grew louder, he felt someone shaking him.

He retracted his thoughts and slowly opened his eyes, his vision transitioning from blur to clarity, and saw Wei Liang’s anxious face.

At that moment, Wei Liang was vigorously shaking his shoulders, trying to wake him.

Seeing him awake, Wei Liang let out a long sigh of relief and wiped the sweat from his forehead: “Old Lin, you finally woke up.

If you hadn’t, I was about to resort to extreme measures.”

Lin Yi suddenly realized something and quickly looked at his watch.

8:13.

“8:13?

I spaced out for half an hour?!” He looked at Wei Liang in shock.

Wei Liang was still panting and waved his hands hurriedly: “Not that long, not that long, at most twenty minutes.

At first, I thought you were thinking, but then I realized you were standing there as if you were possessed!”