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Chapter 308: The Gymnasium's Auxiliary Building, the "Giant Egg"

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May 9, X023, 15:40, Gymnasium Auxiliary Building, the "Giant Egg."

Looking from inside the Giant Egg, the entrance to the safety passage was dim and yellow, like the mouth of a dust-filled pit.

Suddenly, heads surged in the dim light, and the crowd, a mix of sports students and experiential students, emerged from it, then poured out like a stream, rushing to the bottom level of the Giant Egg.

"Boom—"

Following the crowd out of the safety passage, Lin Yi felt a sudden flash of white before his eyes, followed by a sudden broadening of his vision, and the environmental layout inside the Giant Egg was clearly displayed before him.

Under the dazzling light of the LED lights, the huge circular stands tightly wrapped the entire stadium like a bowl.

The seats in the stands were arranged in a stepped manner, extending from the bottom layer to the highest point, each layer designed just right, seemingly taking into account the sight lines of the audience.

All the seats in the stands were sky blue, which perfectly matched the unified color scheme of the sports department.

Lin Yi quickly discovered that there were actually some other safety passage entrances on the bottom level of the Giant Egg.

But he clearly remembered that there was only one safety passage between the Giant Egg and the gymnasium, so what were those other safety passages?

Without time to think too much, he quickly followed the crowd and ran up to the second-floor stands of the Giant Egg.

Before leaving, Lin Yi quickly observed the safety passage, but he didn't see the security passage number, only a sign marked [Safety Passage].

But just as his foot stepped onto one of the stand steps, the hairs on his body suddenly stood on end, and the surrounding light suddenly dimmed…

"High-Level Perception" triggered, everything around him was almost in "time stop"!

The surrounding crowd was frozen in place at this moment!

"What's going on?!"

"What's going on!!"

Lin Yi's heart was pounding wildly, and a strong sense of unease instantly occupied his heart. He looked around, but couldn't find anything that posed a threat to him!

At this moment, his gaze followed the top of the safety passage and pierced through it. That direction… looking straight ahead, it was a certain position where the basketball court and the entrance of the gymnasium were connected!

With a "poof," his right eye turned into a golden pupil, as if ignited by golden flames. At the same time, his vision flashed rapidly.

The long-lost black and white picture quality of exposure began to appear before his eyes. Everything in front of him turned into the picture under infrared perspective. The walls in front of him were like illusions, and the buildings were only simple outlines.

He saw it!

At the entrance of the gymnasium, there was an extra sculpture!

It was a small sculpture, short but strong, with wings behind it gathered forward like a cocoon, wrapping it up.

It stood there like a stone lion, its face frozen in an expression of stunned rage, like a miniature version of an angry Vajra.

Lin Yi's heart sank, and he thought to himself that things were not good. Another statue of an enraged angel had appeared in front of the gymnasium!

Judging from that posture, it was like a general calling out in front of the city gate before attacking.

His eyes flickered rapidly, and his vision began to slide along the ceiling of the safety passage at a strange speed, like skipping frames, constantly approaching the enraged angel!

He instinctively resisted, but the more he resisted, the more focused his vision became. Just as his vision was about to get close to the enraged angel's face, the stiff enraged angel's eyeballs suddenly trembled slightly…

"Glug…"

The eyeballs trembled, as if trying desperately to break free from the petrified state.

Lin Yi felt a tingling in his scalp, and at the same time, his vision collapsed at an extremely fast speed. Before the enraged angel made eye contact with him, he distorted his own vision!

As his vision faded, he seemed to see the environment outside the gymnasium…

Outside the gymnasium, it was drizzling, and countless soil-like substances floated downward in the air, like flowers falling in the mist.

In such a rain curtain, his vision was severely obstructed, and he couldn't see much further at all.

Soon, this sense of threat disappeared for some reason. He shook his head gently, and some noisy sounds began to appear in his ears again.

He began to follow the crowd up the steps, walking towards the second-floor stands of the Giant Egg.

The crowd surged, and after going up to the second floor, they dispersed like fish returning to the sea. Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan also found a place with relatively few people to stay.

The stand space inside the Giant Egg was too large. The first floor alone could probably accommodate all the teachers and students of the school. Now, the people in their part were only enough to occupy a corner of the second floor of the Giant Egg.

Lin Yi cautiously observed his surroundings, but didn't know what to do next.

Because according to the "Gymnasium Rules," the order of things was not like this. Instead, when a problem was discovered in the gymnasium and it had already started to rain outside, they needed to immediately come to the second-floor stands of the Giant Egg, and then listen to the arrangements of the sports teacher. But the sports teacher had arranged for them to come here in advance.

So what were they here for, just to wait?

He scanned his surroundings and carefully observed the environment of the Giant Egg. Then he discovered that there were no incandescent lamps on the top of the Giant Egg, only LED lights. Moreover, the Giant Egg was open-air. Except for the area of the stands, there was no shelter above the stadium at all.

In other words, the rain and mist could fall from there.

In fact, this was indeed the case. Looking out from the open-air area of the Giant Egg, the sky was a hazy gray, like a sky obscured by the smoke and dust of the Industrial Revolution. Some materialized dust slowly fell from the air, along with some fine raindrops, onto the green field.

But miraculously, it was unknown what kind of design was inside the Giant Egg, but after these rain and mist fell, they mostly fell to the outer edge of the green field, and didn't even touch the edge of the first-floor stands.

This place was like a rain shelter. Outside the eaves, rain and dew flew, but under the eaves, there wasn't even a drop of rain.

Around them, sports students gathered in twos and threes, but didn't know what they were discussing.

The experiential students were shrinking on the chairs one by one, like frightened little animals drenched in the rain, glancing around from time to time, their eyes full of fear and apprehension.

They didn't seem willing to have too much communication with each other. Only a few people who seemed to know each other from the beginning barely got together.

People continued to come in from the safety passage, including some sports students.

But after observing for a while, Lin Yi found that he didn't see the shadows of some familiar-looking sports students such as Xu Shunkang, Lao Du, and Zhang Yuansong.

Even until no more people came in from the safety passage, Lin Yi didn't see them.

Some doubts gradually arose in his heart. Why did one part of the sports students come over, but the other part didn't?

Could they have stayed in the gymnasium… to confront the anomalies?

"Also… wait a minute!"

Lin Yi became aware of another issue.

"It's one thing for the other athletes not to show up, but why haven't Tian Gongzi and his group appeared either?"

"Could it be that they left the gymnasium at the first possible moment, exiting the gymnasium area before the fog thickened and the rain started?"

That's the only explanation, but—

"Why isn't Liangzi here either?"

Wei Liang was right behind him!

He left the swimming pool earlier than Wei Liang, and he showered as quickly as possible.

That is to say, he should have left the gymnasium before Wei Liang, so he should have arrived here before Wei Liang. Why isn't Wei Liang among the people who came in later?

Wei Liang's timing is quite delicate. He couldn't have left the gymnasium area before the rain started, so he would inevitably come to the second floor of the Giant Egg, but he's not on the second floor of the Giant Egg…

So where did he go?

Could he have gone back to defend the gymnasium too?

The Dao of Heaven collapses, I, Fusheng Wei Liang, Heavenly Venerable, can only use one sword to open the gates of Heaven??

What the hell, Fusheng Wei Liang, Heavenly Venerable, opens the gates of Heaven… Lin Yi shook his head, dismissing this absurd and unrealistic thought, and couldn't help but worry about Wei Liang's safety.

After a while, some figures appeared again in the previously silent safety passage.

Lin Yi quickly looked over, hoping to see Wei Liang and the others among them.

However, the people who appeared this time made his heart sink.

The people who appeared this time were all athletes, but they were all injured, and not just ordinary injuries. Basically, their bodies had visible defects.

They were wearing school uniforms, but some sleeves were empty, while others quickly tied a knot at the end of their empty trouser legs.

They supported each other and silently gathered in a corner, forming a square formation.

Lin Yi saw Xie Huayang's figure among them.

Xie Huayang had a broken arm, sitting silently, with some anger in his eyes, but he didn't explode.

And after that, no one else came out.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

The time now is 15:58.

Normally, it would already be time to prepare to go to the cafeteria for dinner, but today he knew that even if this incident hadn't happened, he shouldn't go to the cafeteria to eat.

The crisis in the cafeteria has already begun to erupt. It's best not to go near it as it gets dark.

Thinking of this, he also became worried.

How will he spend this night?

If there are constant problems, will he be trapped here all night?

Although it's still early, it's not impossible.

After Xie Huayang and the other athletes sat down, the atmosphere on the second floor of the Giant Egg became oppressive.

They are students from different classes, so many students may have seen one or two of them, just like Lin Yi saw Xie Huayang yesterday.

But when they met again today, Xie Huayang had already lost an arm.

Moreover, it wasn't a fracture of the bone, but a direct loss of the arm.

Such an injury would require lying in bed for a period of time to recover at any time, but Xie Huayang was acting as if nothing had happened.

There were hundreds of athletes in similar situations to him.

After watching for a while, Lin Yi reluctantly withdrew his gaze.

"What's wrong, Lin Yi?" Li Huiyuan asked with concern.

Lin Yi told her that he hadn't seen Wei Liang and the others, and his eyes were a little lonely.

Li Huiyuan wanted to comfort him, but Lin Yi suddenly thought of something, sighed softly, then put his backpack on the ground, calmed down, and began to do what he hadn't had time to do before.

Li Huiyuan curiously leaned her head over.

"What's wrong?" Lin Yi asked.

"I'm a little curious… what's in such a big bag of yours?"

"It's nothing, really." Lin Yi pulled down the zipper, and a backpack full of water, bread, and biscuits appeared in front of Li Huiyuan, and Li Huiyuan's expression suddenly became a little strange.

"You… you prepared so much food? Could it be that you anticipated that we wouldn't be able to go to the cafeteria tonight? No, this… why are there shoes too?!"

Her expression was strange. What kind of normal person carries a pair of sneakers in their bag!

"Just for backup." Lin Yi didn't want to explain too much. After rummaging for a while, he took the digital camera out of the inner pocket of the bag.

This digital camera was originally in his pocket. When he was changing in the swimming pool, he moved it from his pocket to the bag.

"Isn't this the digital camera of that so-and-so?" Li Huiyuan asked in surprise.

"Pan Jian's." Lin Yi added, "Anyway, no one's cleaning up, so I just looted the bag."

"Okay…" Li Huiyuan didn't say anything more, and silently sat aside, looking around.

He put his feet together, placed the digital camera on his lap, and then stepped into the album step by step.

The digital camera's battery is now nearly full. It's easy to guess that Tian Bufan specially changed the battery this morning to watch the video.

He quickly found the latest video. The video showed a duration of 43 minutes and 08 seconds. In Tian Bufan's words, it wasn't that the battery didn't have enough power to record that much, but that there wasn't enough memory, so the digital camera automatically stopped after recording for only 43 minutes.

Clicking on the video, the time was immediately displayed in the upper right corner of the digital camera:

「23：59：31 / 7 / 8 / X023」

Obviously, Tian Bufan took the battery issue into account and started shooting as close to 0:00 as possible.

The video started quickly. At first, everything was normal, and there were no strange scenes, but when the time came to 「00:29:56」, a current seemed to appear on the lens of the digital camera, and it flickered like snowflakes…

Then, the scene of the dormitory flipping began to appear in the lens.

Although he had already imagined such a scene in his mind, there were still many changes in the details compared to what he actually saw.

First of all, the quilt on Gai Zi's body completely retained the appearance of naturally drooping after initially experiencing gravity, and the shoes by the bed also retained their original appearance, as if they were stuck to the floor, without any change.

It looked as if everyone was abiding by their own laws of gravity, and then they were still at peace.

"What… what are you watching?" Li Huiyuan's voice was in his ear, and a sentence seemed to wake him up like a thunderbolt, "Why does this look so awkward? It feels like two unrelated pictures have been superimposed on each other?"