AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 48 - 48 22 The Boundary Between Safety and Danger_2

48: Chapter 22 The Boundary Between Safety and Danger_2 48: Chapter 22 The Boundary Between Safety and Danger_2 “Because during the day…” Xu Shunkang came down, he looked at Lin Yi, grinned with confidence, and said, “then this place is our home turf, yeah!”

Lin Yi opened his mouth, wanting to ask something else, but Xie Huayang waved his hand and refused, “Alright, alright, you have quite a few questions.

I’ll tell you, the things I’m telling you now, you can only think about them during the day.

If it’s night time…”

“Unless you are back in the dorm, otherwise if you think too much, it’s very easy to cross the line, and you know the consequences, hehe.”

Xu Shunkang patted Lin Yi on the shoulder and said, “That being said, we still don’t really hope you think too much.”

“According to my understanding, this campus has buried too many secrets since its establishment.

The school authorities probably wouldn’t like anyone to explore, unless…”

“Unless what?” Wei Liang leaned in and asked cautiously.

“Why the hell are you joining in, too?” Xie Huayang glared at him, then put on a serious expression, lowered his voice, and threatened:

“Unless…

you don’t want to leave.”

“Damn!” Wei Liang jumped in fright, “What the hell do you mean ‘don’t want to leave’?”

Xu Shunkang spread his hands and said, “Just as the name suggests, it means ‘not leaving’.”

“Then…

if you don’t leave, what about the experience bonus?” Wei Liang asked sneakily.

“Experience bonus?” Xu Shunkang was taken aback, looking a bit bewildered.

It took him a long time to dig out the information about the “experience bonus” from his memory, then he said speechlessly, “Twenty-five thousand for seven days?

Three thousand extra per day if you stay longer than seven days, no cap…

is this what you’re talking about?”

“That’s not right, isn’t it thirty thousand for seven days?” Wei Liang said.

“Ah?

Thirty thousand for seven days?

It went up by five thousand?” Xie Huayang was startled.

Wei Liang said with exasperation, “Isn’t it always thirty thousand?”

Xie Huayang muttered “dammit,” then said earnestly, “There has always been an experience bonus, but if you don’t leave within the specified time, and you get left here, what good would the money do for you?”

Lin Yi asked puzzledly, “If you don’t leave after seven days, can you be detained by the school authorities?”

“Detained?

Hahaha…” Xie Huayang seemed to hear a joke and couldn’t help but laugh out loud, “Listen to me, it’s still early, hurry up and leave!”

Xu Shunkang seriously added, “Leave now, while you haven’t been…

cough, haven’t encountered other problems yet.

Follow the security guard to the school gate and you can still catch the school bus.”

Lin Yi shook his head and said, “But I still have roommates.”

“Your roommates…” Xie Huayang, thinking of what Lin Yi said yesterday, unmercifully struck down, “No way, they can only hope for the best, especially the one who got separated from you yesterday.”

Lin Yi looked down at the ground, his eyebrows tightly furrowed.

“Take care!” Xu Shunkang patted his shoulder, then turned to head back to his seat.

But just then, he suddenly found something, his gaze became stern: “Damn, there’s a problem!”

He rushed to the edge of the platform, squatting down looking at the scattered fragments of the sculpture and the already shadowed powder, his eyes filled with intense hostility.

He swallowed slightly, his voice coming out low and deep: “Last night, a sculpture appeared in the classroom!”

“Damn!” Xie Huayang also hurried to the edge of the platform, picked up a fragment of the sculpture, and sniffed it near his nostrils, “Not very pure, must have just started transforming recently, no wonder we didn’t notice at first!”

“Wait, let’s talk outside!” Xu Shunkang signaled with his eyes to Lin Yi and Wei Liang, indicating to Xie Huayang not to speak in front of outsiders.

The two left the classroom one after another and went to the corridor.

Seeing the reflections on the window glass, Lin Yi could imagine the intense discussion between the two.

Wei Liang tugged at Lin Yi’s clothes.

As Lin Yi turned around, he saw Wei Liang passing him some cookies with a grin, “Xie Huayang didn’t take my cookies, I saved some for you, hehehe.”

Lin Yi asked heaven speechlessly, “Aren’t you afraid of knowing too much?

Why do I feel like you’ve been eavesdropping all along?”

Wei Liang quickly shook his head, saying earnestly, “I didn’t hear anything…

really.”

Thinking of all the crafty tricks Wei Liang had demonstrated along the way, Lin Yi could only helplessly say, “If you believe it, that’s good enough.”

Wei Liang shrank his neck and chuckled, “Hehehe…

How do you plan to pass the time in the morning classes?

Reading comics, or…

novels?”

Lin Yi replied without hesitation, “Let’s go out and get some sun.”

Wei Liang was taken aback, but quickly understood Lin Yi’s idea.

“Just…

let’s just bask in it then,” said Wei Liang, about to step out of the classroom.

“Liangzi, wait up!” Lin Yi said, “Don’t leave the classroom!

Let’s go by the window to soak up the sun.”

Although courses within the campus were mostly a formality, the act of “attending class” was also a formal requirement.

During class time, you were not supposed to leave the classroom.

Even during the day.

…

May 7th, Year X023, 9:43 AM.

Class B, Group 2, by the window row.

The amber sunlight streamed through the window, and Lin Yi and Wei Liang sat under the sun to read.

The warm sun gradually dissipated the cold they had accumulated overnight, filling them with a cozy warmth.

While Wei Liang went to the bookshelf to look for comics, Lin Yi hesitated for a moment and then reached into his pocket, pulling out two folded notes.

One of the notes was a piece of paper he had torn off, and it read:

[Pondering over some puzzling thoughts can be tiring, weariness induces sleepiness, and sleepiness attracts ‘classmates’ (the dormitory is said to be a place where one can sleep, consider more issues when back in the dormitory, for now, just take notes.)]

Lin Yi looked at the words he had written on the paper, thought of what Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang had said, and then folded it back up.

The problems noted on this piece of paper, he now had answers to.

“Thinking within the campus generally falls into two categories: one is thinking about normal situations…”

“The other is about thinking on those ‘unreasonable’ matters, including, but not limited to: problems with street lamps in the mist, and…”

He snapped his fingers.

“Wait a minute…”

He unfolded the note again, then recalling the events of yesterday, he noted some questions on the back, which he would ponder over during the daytime.

“Just note down a few questions:”

“1.

The strange occurrences in the campus seem to be related to the weather and time periods, and change with different times of day.”

“What is known for now is, the campus under sunlight (‘Under the Sun’) is safe (source: Sports Student; accuracy yet to be verified)…”

He underscored the words within the brackets multiple times, then continued writing:

“Abnormal weather (current knowledge includes rainy and foggy conditions) on campus is strange and very dangerous.”

“Street lamps light up in the fog, but the intervals between them are odd, some very close and some far apart…”

“When walking towards a street lamp, one may hear calling, footsteps, and a rustling sound (never look back in abnormal weather (after writing this, Lin Yi underscored it several more times))…”

“The reasons for the above conditions are unknown for the time being.”

As Lin Yi wrote this, he straightened his back, stroked his chin, and organized in his mind the second thing he wanted to note down.

He pondered while twirling his pen, then subconsciously glanced outside the window.

Suddenly, his pupils trembled violently.

Since S city university was located in a mountainous area, many buildings were constructed following the terrain, and the Teaching Building B was no exception.

One side of the Teaching Building B was a corridor, and at the end of the corridor was a neatly maintained Green Forest Belt.

And in the Green Forest Belt, he suddenly saw…

a sculpture.

It was a damaged sculpture; the creator had exaggerated the features to carve out bulging eyes and a wide-open mouth, portraying a twisted expression of fear.

With just one glance, it was as if you could sense an intense terror and suffocation coming from the sculpture.

Lin Yi’s pupils had already dilated in fear, for the appearance of that sculpture was exactly like someone he remembered!

The one who was killed by a classmate last night, the missing—Little Genius!

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