Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 261 Miskatonic University
Chen Yan tried his best to look far away, but could only vaguely see the Star Observation Building not far from the gate inside the school—as a landmark building of Miskatonic University, the 20-story Star Observation Building has long been a landmark of the high street. One of the buildings.

Especially in the case of the empire's extensive use of coal in these years, the star observatory building of Miskatonic University is often submerged in the haze like clouds, and the scene looks quite spectacular.

Fortunately, the weather was fine today, and there were a few students coming and going at the school gate. Everything could still prove that there were living people in this school.

University campuses on the High Street are mostly open, and Miskatonic University is no exception. In fact, there are not even gate posts here, and the campus can be entered and exited by anyone.

Chen Yan walked all the way into the campus, but his vision was still not very wide. The reason is that there are dome oak trees growing on the campus for an unknown number of years—those reddish-brown crowns are still lush in winter, and they are all over the roads inside the campus.

'This tree must have been fertilized, otherwise how could it be so lush. '

Chen Yan smelled a faint, faint fishy smell from the air, like blood, and when he wanted to smell it carefully, the fishy smell disappeared again.

'It's so strange... Is it my hallucination? '

Heading towards the Star Observatory, there are fewer and fewer students on both sides of the road.

The arrival of Chen Yan seemed to have attracted the attention of some students. After seeing him, those students who were dull-eyed and seemed to be stupefied in their studies all stood in the same spot and just stared at him blankly.

This kind of staring caused Chen Yan great discomfort, so he walked very fast, and in less than ten minutes, he came to the front of the star observatory.

The cylindrical tower-like building is covered with faded, cracked dark blue paint, and the inside of the cracks is pitch black. The building is built of bricks and stones of unknown material.

When Chen Yan was looking at those dark cracks, his eyes flickered, as if he saw a dim light flashing past.

He was only stunned for a moment, and when he focused his gaze again, he could only see formless darkness from the crack.

He was a little confused, so he went straight into the Star Observatory.

The hall on the first floor of the Star Observation Building is extremely empty, the black marble floor covers the entire hall floor, but there is no chandelier on the ceiling, but only a luminous prism.

Chen Yan seemed to have seen this kind of prism in newspapers.

After the prism, there should be a wide pipe. There are prisms arranged at special angles at intervals in the pipe, until the wall leading to the end of the pipe-there are also one or more prisms on the wall , to collect external sunlight.

The external sunlight will eventually pass through the prism inside the pipe, refracted multiple times, and finally refracted to the prism inside the building for illumination.

Such a complicated and extremely wasteful thing of manpower and material resources, I am afraid that only places with money and leisure like universities will actually manufacture it and use it as a light source.

Today's sunshine is good, and the light refracted by the prism to the lobby on the first floor of the Star Observation Building is also very sufficient. Chen Yan saw the [elevator] in the center of the lobby at a glance.

It is said to be an elevator, but it is actually an open stone platform. In the center of the platform is the engraved emblem of Miskatonic University——

The school emblem made up of a bunch of gears, locomotives and small balls looks very strange, like several planets of different sizes connected by mechanical arms.

The rotation of these planets is actually driven by gears.

It's... interesting.

When Chen Yan came to the platform, he saw the buttons for each floor from 1-20 on the stone pillar standing in the center of the platform.

Different from ordinary elevator buttons, most of the buttons on the stone pillars have a keyhole in the center. It seems that the key is used to unlock the access to each floor?

Chen Yan tentatively pressed the buttons with keyholes, but found that they couldn't be pressed.

And the only button without a keyhole is the 20th floor.

'Tsk...only the 20th floor is open to the outside world...'

Chen Yan pressed the button for the 20th floor.

The next moment, the platform began to rise slowly.

The rising speed of the platform was very slow, Chen Yan didn't obviously hear the sound of the motor running, and thought to himself, isn't this "elevator" powered by electricity?
Is it some kind of organ technology from ancient times?

He became more and more curious.

As the elevator ascended, the floors starting from the second floor also appeared in front of Chen Yan. The entrances of those floors were closed, and it seemed that they would only be opened when the elevator arrived—this was also a similar "organ".

When the elevator passed the 10th floor, there was a moment of raving in Chen Yan's ear.

The raving sound appeared for too short a time, and he almost thought he had an auditory hallucination.

Until he looked through a glass window behind the 10th floor and saw the scene on the campus at this moment.

In a glimpse, he suddenly saw the dilapidated campus full of zombies, the crown-like oak tree with blood-stained soil on its roots, and the suture butcher chasing zombie students with a meat cleaver like a mountain of meat...

'What the hell is going on! '

The hairs on Chen Yan's back stood up.

'Did I inadvertently turn on my spirit vision just now? !Is this what Miskatonic University really looks like? !its not right!Anyway, it is a famous university on the high street, a top university that reports every three days, how could it be like this! ? '

Chen Yan knew that it was too late to regret at this time, he could only pray that Miss Du Ling was really on the 20th floor of the Observatory.

As the elevator continued to rise, Chen Yan saw more things from each floor.

A humanoid creature with an electric eel head soaked in a sticky green container, a giant fat pig with eyes full of eyes and a crow with eyes full of eyes, a human head flower blooming in a sunflower, holding a chain with thorns for self-cultivation The punishing faceless muscular man looked at his maid doll with his eyes open in a weird pose...

Before Chen Yan had a nervous breakdown, the "elevator" finally reached the 20th floor of the Star Observation Building.

The elevator came to a complete stop, Chen Yan stumbled out, his mind was full of those weird monsters, he felt dizzy for a moment, he took two or three steps forward to the pillar, and held onto the cold, unknown texture Zhu Zhu spat out with a "wow".

When he vomited, he vomited until the sky was dark, all thoughts in his head were gone, and the only thing left was pain.

While he was vomiting desperately, he felt a light pat on his back, and a familiar female voice appeared beside his ears.

"Ah, Mr. Chen, I forgot to remind you, I'm really sorry..."

Another equally familiar male voice appeared shortly thereafter with glee at his misfortune.

"Ha! This is the price you paid for blackmailing me! Just wait! You will do it again when you go down later!"

The female voice sighed helplessly: "Colin, put away your rudeness, I finally invited Mr. Chen here."

The male voice hummed resentfully: "For your sake, let him go."

A third voice appeared immediately: "Mr. Chen, do you remember me?"

Chen Yan straightened up with the support of a fragrant and limp limb, and when he opened it for the first time, he saw the brain in the container.

(End of this chapter)