AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 73 - 73 34 Staff Passage_2

73: Chapter 34 Staff Passage_2 73: Chapter 34 Staff Passage_2 “Wait wait wait!!!!”

He suddenly thought of something, almost leaping up from the ground.

“Tomato sauce!”

“Is this tomato sauce?!”

An image flashed through his mind—the trash can in the Teacher’s Office!

He remembered, there was a lunch box in the trash can smeared with a dark red substance!

He recalled the trash can was placed in a dark corner of the office, and at first, he hadn’t seen clearly what it was, only remembered something dark red and viscous, which now seemed—

“It’s tomato sauce!!”

“So the class teacher ate food containing Tomato Element!”

“Yesterday?!”

His memory began to race back, and he thought of the scene where the security guard walked through the mist with a group of chefs chained together.

He thought of the chef in green apron mixed in the queue of chefs in blue aprons!

That chef was holding a lunch box filled with tomato meat sauce pasta!

And the first destination or via point of that group was—The Teaching Building!

Suddenly several clues intertwined in his mind, he and his roommate along with Wei Liang had broken off from the group close to the Teaching Building and then entered into its vicinity.

They seemed to have arrived before the security guards, but actually, just traversing the distance of two street lamps to reach the Teaching Building took them almost half an hour, and descending the stairwell to the basement took another twenty minutes.

If the security guard had led the chefs ignoring the thick mist, they would have reached the Teaching Building far earlier than them, plus…the Teacher’s Office of class B2 was actually the only one on the first floor, just needed to step up to arrive.

So—

“Before I met the class teacher…

that chef in the green apron had already delivered the tomato meat sauce pasta to her hands!”

“She…

ate it?!”

Lin Yi’s pupils shuddered, recalling the eerie closed atmosphere and bizarre time shift he felt last night entering the Teacher’s Office, he didn’t know then whether the origin was the tomato sauce in the trash can or…

the class teacher?

But regardless, the unsettling oppressive feeling that the class teacher gave him was undeniable.

And…

“The class teacher’s eyes, they glow!

Spit spit spit…

goddamn glowing, the class teacher’s eyes had the same color as the security guard, but…

they felt very chilly to me!”

“Though cold…

there was no hostility, unlike those creepy classmates and strange chefs…”

“Strange, this is so strange…”

Lin Yi shook his head, tucking away this thought slowly—now under the sun, he dared to ponder a bit more.

“Wait, if it’s on the way, I still need to return to the classroom, jot down the latest ideas on a sticky note.”

Sticky notes are great things, to prevent oneself from missing anything, jotting on sticky notes and flipping through them every night before sleep can have the effect of “old knowledge leading to new understandings.”

Indeed, writing sticky notes could be done anywhere, wasn’t particular about places, but writing on the go like this…

Even under the sun, it still seemed a bit bold.

The classroom was better.

At least during this time period, the classroom was a relatively safe “stronghold.”

But as soon as he thought of the classroom, Lin Yi immediately remembered the white plaster-like substance under the podium and the dragged plaster traces all over the classroom floor.

“If the white plaster-like substance was tomato sauce transformed by the sun, does it mean that last night, something was dragging tomato sauce around the classroom in circles?”

“And the tomato sauce…”

Lin Yi’s mind was filled with chaotic inspirations, surely there were lots of connections among these ideas, but he couldn’t link them all together in the moment.

He couldn’t deduce from where the tomato sauce had entered the classroom.

He only had a vague notion, but no evidence to prove that the tomato sauce was related to “that thing.”

He took a deep breath, deciding not to keep pondering the issue.

“Old Lin!

Are you fucking playing hide and seek with ghosts?!” Just then, Wei Liang’s voice came from behind him, followed by a hand on his shoulder.

Wei Liang leaned out from beside him, his body shaking with gasps of rough breath.

He grumbled, “What’s with you, man?

I’ve been calling you for ages and you didn’t respond?”

Lin Yi was slightly stunned.

After experiencing so many strange calls from behind and the eerie rustling wind among the trees, his first instinct was that it wasn’t Wei Liang’s voice.

Turned out he was wrong.

Yet faced with Wei Liang’s piercing gaze and the sad motions deep in his eyes as if “I could follow behind you like a shadow chasing a light in a dream,” Lin Yi was momentarily at a loss for words.

Though he didn’t know what to say, as soon as he opened his mouth, a top-notch nonsense line slipped out without thinking:

“Uh…

the slope was too steep, I couldn’t brake in time.”

Wei Liang blinked.

Wei Liang blinked again.

Wei Liang watched Lin Yi with a serious look that said “the facts are as they are, there’s no need for us to argue”, his eyes blinking again and again.

He looked down at the somewhat worn soles of his Feikun limited edition sneakers, seemingly thoughtful, then said,

“This slope…

it’s indeed quite steep.”

“And it’s also kind of wearing out the shoes.”

Lin Yi: “…”

“Ahem.”

“Right, that’s what I felt too.” Lin Yi gave a wry smile, rubbed the back of his head, and then walked towards the trash can carrying his shoes.

Just then, he suddenly sensed a faint vibration.

Coming from beneath his bare feet.

He was slightly startled.

Following that, an almost imperceptible sound suddenly spread through the air.

“Thump!”

“Thump!”

“Thump…”

The sound, initially quite faint, approached from afar and soon became as loud as a heart beating.

“Thump!”

“Thump!!”

The sound grew louder and the vibration stronger.

Eventually, it turned into a heavy noise like the beating of drums!

This massive sound resonantly drifted from the depths of the Staff Passage, as if tangible sound waves were floating in the air.

“Thump!”

“Thump!!”

The deafening noise made Lin Yi feel as if all his internal organs were resonating subtly.

His complexion began to flush;

his blood began to surge;

his heartbeat started to follow this rhythm.

“Thump!”

“Thump!”

“Thump…”

Gradually, Lin Yi could feel his heart pounding inside his chest, his blood boiling, as if it wanted to burst out!

“What the hell is this?!”

A terrifying oppressive feeling spread through the Staff Passage, If the Pocket Chef and unsettling classmates brought a sinister, eerie feeling, now this drumming was a face-to-face terror.

It was as if some indescribable giant creature lying dormant in the Exotic Abyss was awakening!

No!

It couldn’t even be called awakening, but rather…

snoring!

“Old Lin!

Old Lin, for fuck’s sake, I can’t stand it anymore, what is this noise, it’s too unbearable!!” Wei Liang tightly covered his ears but couldn’t shield against the drumming.

This was not just a sound, but a powerful sound wave that shook the body and mind!

“Throw…

throw away the shoes!

Then run!

Quick!” Lin Yi’s eyes were bloodshot, and he gritted his teeth and roared.

“Okay, okay!” Wei Liang painfully took off the shoes on both feet, then held them in his hands.

The two clenched their teeth, resisting the erosion of the sound waves, and struggled toward the trash can.

The trash can was only three to five meters away from them, but this short distance felt as vast as a river, hard to cross!

“Damn!

To think we might end up stuck here after getting out of the Cafeteria!” Lin Yi felt a deafening sensation from the impact of the sound waves, struggling even to stand firm.

Wei Liang was no better off; the two of them staggered, like a pair of gym novices faltering on a treadmill.

At a crucial moment, Lin Yi suddenly felt something pushing against their backs, pushing them to the front of the trash can.

“Huh…?!” Lin Yi was slightly taken aback.

“Idiots, aren’t you going to throw it away?

I’m not just talking at you, but both of you.” A calm voice came from behind them.

Xu Shunkang, with a baseball bat covered in plaster dust on his back, was pushing Lin Yi with his left hand and Wei Liang with his right, managing both, he brought them in front of the trash can.

“Damn, what are you dazing about, you think this is easy for me?

I can’t hold this for long!”

Veins popped on Xu Shunkang’s forehead, his eyes shimmered with a golden light, and the sound waves sliced through his body, clearly outlining the muscle contours under his sports clothes.

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