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Chapter 432: Arrival! Teaching Building "Forbidden Area B-5F"!

Before long, a shadow rapidly approached the teaching building from a distance.

Lin Yi's eyes lit up: "The opportunity has come! Let's go!"

He took the lead, quickening his pace and rushing into the stairwell, with Li Huiyuan following closely behind.

"Right, just in case, let's hold hands first!"

"Okay!"

The two entered the stairwell hand in hand. After reaching their position, Lin Yi patiently waited for the moment when the light outside would dim.

In less than half a minute, the light outside the stairwell began to dim.

At the same time, a chilling aura began to slowly permeate the stairwell...

"Shasha... Shasha..."

The space faintly distorted. The nocturnal species squeezed within the layers began to emit sharp, hoarse growls, like a large patch of duckweed slowly rising from the water, wriggling, twisting, and crawling darkly, gradually appearing at the end of the stairwell...

Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from outside the stairwell and turned his head, only to hear Li Huiyuan let out a cry of surprise.

"Ah!"

Lin Yi looked over immediately and suddenly discovered the source of Li Huiyuan's exclamation—the nocturnal species that almost filled the entire stairwell passage!

These nocturnal species were like bats mutated after being exposed to radiation, their skin tattered and torn. Some were even like shattered canvas, clinging to their bones and flesh.

Beneath their skin, their muscle fibers were clearly visible, wriggling incessantly with their breathing and squeezing, like living old tree roots.

Upon seeing Li Huiyuan, their bulging eyes, bloodshot and squeezed, all looked over, rolling around and around. Then, their deformed mouthparts all grinned and laughed:

[You... saw me!]

[Saw me!!!]

Li Huiyuan's face turned pale in an instant, her body trembling slightly in fright, but she quickly reacted, shouting angrily. Secret patterns surged within her palm, and azure blue aura intertwined, forming a bat—slightly smaller than a regular one—in her hand.

As soon as the bat materialized, the nocturnal species not only showed no fear, but instead grinned even more wildly, their eyes filled with a surge of desire, and saliva began to drip from their gaping mouths...

[Such a delicious bat...]

[Want to eat...]

[Really want to eat...]

"Perverts... perverts!" Li Huiyuan gripped the bat, her voice trembling because of the attitude of these nocturnal species, not out of fear, but because she had never seen such perverted things.

"Slurp... slurp..."

The nocturnal species had a morbid and bizarre expression, like living corpses.

"I'll handle it."

Lin Yi gently pulled the hand holding Li Huiyuan's, signaling her to step behind him. At the same time, he faced these nocturnal species directly, adjusted his state, brewed his emotions, and then slowly opened his mouth...

In the next moment, a low, drawn-out tone, mixed with some unspeakable and terrifying rhythm, surged like a howling wind within Lin Yi's chest, and finally, slowly released from his throat:

"[De——som jager——lyset——i tke blir—— til slutt—— fan——tomer!!!]"

Precept—"Those who chase the light through the fog eventually become phantoms"!!!

"Hooosh——"

A terrifying wind surrounded Lin Yi like a blade, enveloping Li Huiyuan's body as well. The wind had no form, but it formed ripple-like waves around them.

The nocturnal species did not pay attention to these winds, because the moment they heard the precept, they all showed expressions of horror, stopped making those strange syllables, and then screamed and scattered to both sides.

A passage covered in mucus and unknown filth was thus presented before Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan.

The starting point of the passage was right at Lin Yi's feet, looking somewhat illusory, like a slide projected onto the ground by a projector, or the bottom of a swimming pool with ripples.

The fluctuations in the layer were very unstable. Lin Yi felt that this might be related to external factors.

The clouds might be about to drift past the teaching building, and the shadows were fading.

"Go!"

Lin Yi roared in a low voice, grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand and crossed this boundary. The moment they crossed the boundary, a cool sensation rippled across Lin Yi's skin like water waves, and the world before him seemed to be covered with a foggy filter.

The nocturnal species were all curled up on both sides of the stairs, looking at Lin Yi with expressions of horror and desire, seemingly wanting to approach Lin Yi, yet fearing the precept he had shouted out.

Long, drawn-out tones echoed everywhere in the passage. The precept seemed to be cut by time, broken into countless fragments of sound, flying around randomly.

"De…som…jager…lyset…i…take…blir…til…slutt…fantomer——!!!"

"Lin Yi, Lin Yi, Lin Yi… I, I, I…" Li Huiyuan was shocked by this strange scene. As soon as she opened her mouth, she found that her voice also carried countless responses from strong to weak, so she quickly covered her mouth.

Lin Yi was also crossing such a layer for the first time. He was a little curious and a little restrained. With Li Huiyuan, he felt a sense of inexplicable responsibility, and he dared not do anything wrong. He just confirmed the end of the road ahead and led Li Huiyuan up the stairs.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch and found that the movement of the hands seemed to have slowed down a bit.

"The flow of time in this layer really has some fluctuations…"

He vaguely felt that outside the stairs, there seemed to be a strong calling, but he did not dare to act rashly or make any excessive moves. For his first adventure, everything had to be stable.

But although he sought stability, as Head Teacher -040 said, small probability events were likely to occur in such a campus.

He began to discover some figures exuding an evil aura at the corners of the stairs. The reason he said 'some' was because he could not observe the number of those figures with the naked eye.

They were shadows formed by countless overlapping afterimages, all of them grinning angels covering their faces with their hands, but each of them had different details, like different people tracing the same grinning angel and then overlapping these appearances.

He didn't know how many grinning angels were stacked into one, huddled in the corner.

When Lin Yi scanned it, its form seemed to change subtly in the two seconds before and after.

After passing the corner, the walls of the stairs actually began to twist as well. Many uneven marks appeared on the walls, like something being buried alive in the wall. The buried thing struggled desperately before death, trying to break through the wall, but could not break free.

The things inside the wall emitted some strange calls, which entered Lin Yi's perception.

Icy, sinister, eerie, dark… yet also carrying a certain itch that stirred deep within one's heart for no reason. It was impossible to describe what it was, but it simply made one feel a powerful urge to help the thing within the wall shatter its prison.

Li Huiyuan's expression was somewhat unpleasant; she too had been summoned by that sound. However, her will was relatively strong, so firmly gripping the object in her hand was enough to counteract the discomfort brought about by this feeling.

“Buzz… Buzz… Buzz…”

Lin Yi's ears also began to pick up wave after wave of sonic vibrations. He was like an old-fashioned radio, beginning to receive bands of frequencies released from an unknown station. However, apart from disrupting his attention, these frequencies had no other effect.

He saw the fifth floor of the teaching building right in front of him, only a few steps away.

However, those few steps felt as distant as walking from the violently rocking cabin of a ship in a storm to the deck.

[som… lyset… ]

[fant… ]

[fantmoer… ]

[till… ]

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The Nightwalkers began to emit low moans, intertwining with the calls from within the wall, constantly invading Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan's minds, eroding their sanity.

Li Huiyuan's breathing began to quicken, golden sparks flickering in her eyes as if ignited. Her gaze flickered incessantly, as if she had reached the edge of bewilderment, yet she relied on her last shred of willpower to persevere.

Lin Yi knew that he could not delay any longer. Thus, he once again brewed that feeling, gathering a brilliant light in his eyes, and then he said in a deep voice:

“「De som jager lyset i tke blir til slutt fantomer——！！！」”

The Body of the Singer achieved the nexus of transcendence, the Admonition descended from the void!

The powerful aura seemed capable of tearing apart this twisted passage, yet the deep voice pierced through the distorted corridor space like roaring thunder!

The invisible wind blades that surrounded him seemed to turn into a misty fog, draped over his body. At this moment, he seemed to be a 'Mist-Cloaked Light Chaser'.

He began to feel the golden aura within his body stirring faintly, but this speed was far lower than when he was on the stone bridge in the art building.

After all, this Admonition was like a gear. Each shout would cause his own energy to resonate with the power within the Admonition, and back then on the stone bridge, he had recklessly burned his power, shouting the Admonition countless times, deepening the resonance to an unknown extent…

And here, twice was enough.

Taking advantage of the gap where the Admonition transformed language into transcendent power, Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan through the fluctuations of the layer, stepping out of the twisted passage and arriving on the stairs of the fifth floor of the teaching building!

…

Just as Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan into the stairwell, a figure in the corridor on the fourth floor suddenly stared blankly at their backs.

The figure was located at the teacher's office of Class 12 in Group B. It seemed that she had walked out of a classroom to go to the bathroom and saw Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan—especially when she saw Lin Yi, she paused for a moment, and her brow furrowed.

If Lin Yi were here, he would definitely realize that this person was none other than Zhao Lingxiao, the former 'Dorm Manager - 36 - X0230507012' who had a brief interaction with him—the one who smiled on the surface but actually had no trust in him at all.

Soon, Zhao Lingxiao heard Li Huiyuan's scream coming from the stairwell.

She rushed over without hesitation, but when she arrived in front of the stairwell, Lin Yi had just led Li Huiyuan into the stairwell leading to the fifth floor of the teaching building.

Therefore, she didn't find anything.

“That's strange… I clearly heard a female voice…” Zhao Lingxiao muttered to herself, “And that back view seems a bit like that heartless jerk who doesn't cherish women at all…”

After she finished muttering, she turned and walked towards the toilet.

…

May 10, 2023, 9:36 AM, Teaching Building 'Forbidden Zone B-5F'.

“Da! Da!”

Lin Yi had just stood firm when Li Huiyuan, who was still a little dazed, bumped into him from behind.

Lin Yi was almost knocked down by the impact, but with his current physical strength, he naturally held Li Huiyuan and resisted the inertia to avoid falling.

“We’re here,” Lin Yi said softly, helping Li Huiyuan to stand upright.

Li Huiyuan gradually regained her senses, her rapid panting turning into heavy gasps. She touched her chest, took a few deep breaths, and then asked with lingering fear, “Lin Yi, was that the so-called layer fluctuation that the teacher mentioned? Are those disgusting things also Nightwalkers? They feel very similar to the things in the elevator, but they also feel a bit different somewhere.”

After becoming a physical education student, Li Huiyuan had indeed changed. Although she was also quite frightened, she didn't panic. Instead, she was able to maintain a rational judgment as much as possible after encountering anomalies.

Lin Yi explained, “Those are also Nightwalkers. The reason you feel they are different may be related to the call coming from the wall.”

Having experienced the synesthesia during the previous perceptual leap, Lin Yi knew that Li Huiyuan must have sensed what he had sensed.

“The call from the wall…” Li Huiyuan frowned, “Perhaps… Let’s not worry about that for now. So, this is the fifth floor?”

She turned her head to look at the stairwell behind her. The exit was indeed marked with the words “5F”, confirming that it was indeed the fifth floor of the teaching building.

She suddenly felt a little dazed.

Seeing this, Lin Yi couldn't help but ask, “What's wrong?”

Li Huiyuan shook her head slightly and smiled self-deprecatingly, “I just thought of the content of the 'Teaching Building Rules'… Although the boss and the physical education student rules say that we only need to abide by the physical education student rules, and we can act according to the situation at other times, I still feel a little uneasy about actually doing things that 'violate the rules'…”

Lin Yi was slightly stunned and immediately reacted. What Li Huiyuan was talking about should be 【The teaching building has only four floors, no basement, no elevator, and no Building D. If you accidentally discover areas other than the four floors of the teaching building, you are prohibited from going there.】

“Some of the rules no longer apply to us,” Lin Yi said, “The rules are not wrong, we are wrong.”

“We are now gradually breaking away from the category of those who are bound by a portion of the rules.”

“There is one thing that I have recently realized.”

“What?” Li Huiyuan asked.

Lin Yi said, “The so-called rules are ready-made test papers with answers… If we only come in as ordinary trial students, then the questions we encounter will be those in the test papers, either sample A, sample B, sample C, or D…”