AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016

30: Chapter 14 “Ignore 30: Chapter 14 “Ignore At this moment, Lin Yi felt a chilling air racing up his spine, stabbing straight into his brain like a drawn blade, then turning into countless streams of icy breath, bursting out crazily from the apical bone on the top of his head.

His limbs instantly stiffened, his mind went blank, and all the black and white threads in his thoughts disappeared, leaving only the face of his classmate.

When that classmate turned his face towards him, Lin Yi heeded the head teacher’s warning and did not let his gaze wander to observe him at all.

But even though Lin Yi’s eyes were firmly fixed on the legs of the desk in front of him, the field of vision and imaging capabilities of the human eye still presented the classmate’s face in a relatively complete way.

It was a dull and young face, covered with a thick layer of greasy substance, as if a layer of white wax had been smeared onto the face after being blurred.

In his field of view, there was also a blurry drop of black material, akin to long hair, but it might be something else.

And it seemed there was something on the classmate’s face reflecting a yellowish crystalline light.

Lin Yi was fully focused on the desk leg in front of him, his body so stiff with extreme terror that he seemed to have merged with the desk leg.

He held his breath with concentration, not daring even to take a deep breath, wishing the air in his nostrils could circulate a few more times.

The classmate stared at Lin Yi dumbly for a while, then clenched the flashlight and slowly straightened up.

Lin Yi’s tense body finally began to relax.

But at that instant.

“Swoosh!”

The classmate returned abruptly, bending halfway again, cocking his waxen head toward Lin Yi’s location!

At this moment, there was less than a fist’s distance between him and Lin Yi!

He seemed to sense something but also seemed unable to see Lin Yi, just staring blankly at the spot where Lin Yi’s face was, as if wanting to catch Lin Yi’s notice.

But Lin Yi’s gaze stayed on the desk leg the whole time.

The breath Lin Yi was about to exhale was now stuck between his chest and throat, and in just a few seconds, his face turned red and his neck thickened, his body shaking unconsciously.

An indescribable sense of terror spread in his heart, igniting his desire to observe like a campfire, tempting him to look at that face.

“Look at me…”

“Take a look at me…”

“I know…you can see me…”

“Quick, look at me…”

“Please…

I’m begging you…”

Lin Yi showed no reaction and dared not make any.

He just stared hard at the desk leg, and if the gaze could indeed act like the edge of a knife, he would have already carved the desk leg into a rounded, straight, slender beautiful leg…

As Lin Yi held his breath until his eyes were bloodshot and his consciousness nearly failed him, the classmate still refused to give up and reached out with an arm as pale as if it was coated in plaster, toward where Lin Yi was.

“You motherf***er!!!”

Lin Yi’s eyes were about to pop out, but when pushed to the brink, one can only react with insanity or become insane.

Everything seemed to slow down enormously, countless rules scrolling through Lin Yi’s mind…

The student code, the Teaching Building regulations…

“Damn it, what else?!”

“Right!

What Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang said!”

“And…

what the head teacher said!”

A storm of words formed in Lin Yi’s mind, at this moment he felt not an ounce of exhaustion, but instead a sense of resolute will, clear-headed and refreshed.

Just as the classmate’s hand was about to reach his shoulder, he made an extremely crazy move!

His gaze moved down along the desk leg and landed on the floor.

The composite tiles had messy patterns on them, like the scribbles of a child’s artwork.

At that moment, lights and shadows interwove above his head, the classmate’s hand groped back and forth where Lin Yi had been, and after fruitless attempts, it pulled away begrudgingly.

“It’s true!

It works!!”

Lin Yi’s heart pounded wildly, but his body trembled due to the extreme breath-holding.

Despite this, he gripped the desk leg firmly.

Such was his force that his knuckles had turned white.

But his excitement outweighed everything, as if he had injected himself with adrenaline, pushing beyond the limits of his physical strength.

Because so far, he had finally received his first positive feedback from the rules!

Xu Shunkang had said before leaving:

“Following the rules is a means of self-protection.”

And the student code’s statements about evening self-study were:

“During this period, if you encounter any unusual sounds or see strange shadows outside the window, please ignore them, especially when they call out to you from the Dormitory Management Office or outside the classroom.”

He had memorized the student code countless times in his heart, but not a single one mentioned how to deal with the situation he had just encountered.

Was that the problem with the student code?

Obviously not.

The student code summarized the emergency situations they could encounter into a dozen simple rules, and the situation just now was clearly included in this one.

If any unusual sounds occur in the classroom, the best action is to “ignore” them.

Moreover, the several warnings issued by the head teacher before leaving were:

“Don’t close your eyes!

Don’t look around or look up!

Don’t communicate with anyone!”