AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 57 - 57 27 Student Cafeteria

57: Chapter 27 Student Cafeteria 57: Chapter 27 Student Cafeteria Lin Yi stood at the top step at the end of the Student Passage, facing a corridor densely packed with incandescent lights, his eye sockets regularly pulsated as if breathing, his glaring eyes vacantly focused on an unknown place.

At that moment, countless thoughts flashed rapidly through his mind, his eyes seemingly rolling with endless information.

Moss thrives in shade and moisture, requiring a damp and dark environment to grow.

If it were just the dense fog and deep mountain night rain conducive to the growth of moss, then there should be moss outside the channel…

The situation now was that within the Cafeteria area, only the Student Passage and the basement had moss, yet there was nothing on the flat ground sandwiched between the Student Passage and the basement!

Lin Yi thought of the village where he had lived as a child.

The steps and stone bricks along the river were covered with moss due to the changes in water level during the rainy season, but beyond the water level, the area was dry and devoid of moss.

If one were to compare the steps to the Student Passage, they would understand why the moss in the Student Passage grew up to the end of the steps…

That was because the Student Passage was frequently flooded.

Why was there none outside the Student Passage?

Because the water came up from the basement.

But there was no moss on the floor of the basement, only on the walls…

That was because…

The water didn’t exist!

“So either there’s some sort of wet creature that climbed directly from the basement over the floor and into the passage!”

“Or…

there’s an unreal flood, that periodically drowns the Student Passage and the basement…

just like the tide!”

Both were extremely bizarre speculations, especially the second one!

As for the first, considering that he had already encountered some indescribable horror in the dense fog yesterday, it wasn’t impossible to accept that this creature could exude a large amount of water.

Moreover, it wasn’t just one, but a group, hidden in the dense fog, roaming at night, with motivations and goals unknown…

“Is it something from the deep mountains?

Or something else…”

Lin Yi thought of the Security Guard.

The first and only time he saw the Security Guard, he remembered that not only was the guard wrapped in a chain, but he also held a club that looked like it was made of plaster.

No, rather than a club, it was more like a mace in the shape of a club.

“Wait!

Wait?!

That club…”

The image of the Security Guard holding the plaster club flashed through Lin Yi’s mind.

“That club isn’t metal, fundamentally speaking, it should be…

some kind of sculpture!”

“A sculpture shaped like a mace!!”

“No, no, no…

the school rules say all sculptures in the campus are busts and are kept in the Art Building…

so what the Security Guard had was simply a product of plaster, not considered a ‘sculpture.’ ”

Lin Yi realized he was thinking too much, not only too much but also chaotically.

These flashes in his mind, devoid of logic and ordered organization, were more of a mental construction and speculation, lacking sufficient reference.

He took a deep breath.

“And the second guess…”

“A…

nonexistent flood.”

Like the tide, it flooded the Student Passage and then receded, never to return, under the repeated washing of the water, moss covered the passage.

It was an utterly irrational speculation!

But this was the only answer Lin Yi could come up with based on the current environment.

The reason wasn’t unfounded, precisely because last night, in the dense fog, he had twice imagined a scene where the Teaching Building steps were shrouded in fog, seemingly like a ship lost in a deep-sea fog under the moon.

In his ears, he seemed to hear the sound of the waves and the distant song of the Sea Monster…

He felt it was a Phantom Vision, auditory hallucination, a hallucination.

But the bizarre growth of moss seemed to be reminding him that if his Phantom Vision was real, then the Cafeteria and the Teaching Building were washed by some kind of water wave at some moment…

Lin Yi tried his best to recall the scene he observed when leaving the classroom under the stairs but regretfully, his attention had been focused entirely on the white powder, and he hadn’t noticed whether there was moss on the steps.

Even if he had seen the moss then, without the bizarre spatial distribution of the Cafeteria, he wouldn’t have thought too much about it.

But now it was different, if he returned to the classroom, being able to find moss on the stairs could provide a sliver of evidence for this nearly absurd speculation.

Especially when—the Security Guard pulled the creature down the podium steps with a metal chain, it was impossible not to leave any marks on the surrounding steps and floor!

And if…

they had fallen into the water, then everything would seem reasonable!

Thinking this, he lost all appetite for food; if he hadn’t eaten just half a biscuit in nearly 12 hours, he really would want to go back to the Teaching Building now, to see if there was moss on those steps!

“Old Lin!

Old Lin!

Are you okay?” A hand waved in front of Lin Yi’s eyes like a windshield wiper.

Lin Yi snapped his attention back, seeing the panic-stricken face of Wei Liang.

“Liangzi, what’s wrong?

Why are you so panicked?”

Relieved to see Lin Yi come to his senses, Wei Liang scoffed, “What’s up, dude?

Why are you playing the victim?”

“My panic is because of you!”

“What were you doing just now?

Running up and down the stairs like a madman?

You had me running around after you, I’m dead tired!”

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