AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016

31: Chapter 14 “Ignore”_2 31: Chapter 14 “Ignore”_2 “Don’t pay attention to any sounds!”

All these warnings were an extension of the concept of “ignoring.”

Whether it was the class advisor or Xu Shunkang and the others, they seemed to know more than Lin Yi did, but they appeared to have reservations, so they could only remind him in such a way.

“Could it be that they’re afraid talking too much will make people think too much about this aspect?”

Lin Yi felt his guess was correct.

Thinking was allowed, but one must not ponder over phenomena that seemed off, let alone attempt to understand some of the peculiar things that appeared ominous.

The few bouts of intense fatigue he had experienced before were because he had thought about these things.

“So whether they can see me or not, does it have to do with whether I look at them?”

“Or is this rule based on some kind of underlying ‘logic’?”

“This whole set of actions, including ‘ignoring,’ is based on one most fundamental ‘law.'”

This thought surfaced subconsciously in his mind.

At the same time, he subconsciously wanted to focus his attention on the classmate who had just walked away…

At the critical moment, he shattered the attention he was about to place on his classmate with a soul-questioning distraction—

“Which is better, the Bare Legs Cult or the Stocking Cult?”

“The Stocking Cult is absolutely unbeatable, but if faced with some special circumstances within the Bare Legs Cult…”

“emmm…”

As slender legs and stocking-clad beauties gradually filled his mind, Lin Yi felt the previous suffocation and discomfort were being alleviated.

“Phew—”

“Alright, it’s okay now…”

Hearing that his classmate seemed to have started to turn away and leave, Lin Yi let out a long sigh of relief, his nerves that had been stretched to the breaking point finally relaxed in this moment.

He suddenly understood why the shelves in the ring-shaped lecture hall would have comics, especially adult ones…

In times when one must change the direction of their thoughts, the core driving force provided by salacious material outweighs everything else.

“But come to think of it, what would girls think about at times like these?”

Lin Yi shook his head; the question was beyond the scope of the issue at hand.

He gathered his spiritual power, sensing the pulse of the earth like Voldemort, with both hands gripping the desk legs as though he was a turtle nailed to the floor tiles by the desk.

Suddenly, a strange noise came from above, on the desk, as though a sandbag had hit the leg of the desk.

A heavy force traveled through the desk to the corner, causing Lin Yi’s alleviated spiritual tendons to tense up again.

He gripped the desk legs tight, striving to prevent the desk from moving.

“What’s happening now?!”

“Are they going to flip the desk?”

“Fine, fine, you want to play it this way?”

He clenched his teeth, but suddenly the desk stopped moving.

Just as Lin Yi was perplexed, a large, dark shadow slid off the edge of the desk and landed with a “thud” right in front of him…

It was the Little Genius who was initially holding a portable flashlight.

He had already lost his vital signs, his eyes rolled back to show only the whites, his twisted face etched with intense fear and despair…

He fell to the ground, his large white eyeballs staring at Lin Yi, as though he wanted to release all the terror he felt before death.

But Lin Yi didn’t see him.

Having grasped part of the survival rules, he had already been focusing on the patterns on the floor before the Little Genius’s body slid down.

The horror was like a tide, but he was as steadfast as a rock, unmoving even as darkness fell upon him.

But the Little Genius’s body began to slowly slide…

It was the earlier classmate, one hand holding the Little Genius’s foot, the other grasping the portable flashlight, slowly moving through the classroom.

He was like an orderly, evil Night Patroller, randomly casting beams of light, dragging the corpse, roaming amidst the desks.

“Ah—”

Some classmates hiding under the desks accidentally saw the appalling state of the Little Genius and couldn’t withstand such oppressive fear, screaming in collapse.

Just then, a gruff voice came from the throat of that classmate:

“You…

saw me!”

The voice, hoarse as if filled with sand, sounded as uncomfortable as worms crawling over one’s skin.

“I…

found you!”

“We…

found you!”

“Shh!

Shh!

Shh!

Shh…”

In the classroom, gazes fell upon the dark corner under the desks, locking onto the students who were screaming.

“Pop!

Pop!

Pop!

Pop…”

One by one, the seats snapped back, and thin, straight figures gradually rose from their seats.

May 6, 2023, 22:43.

In Classroom 2B of the Teaching Building, where darkness prevailed.

Shadowy figures began to patrol around the dark classroom; occasionally, a beam of light would cross, casting their elongated shadows straight across the floor.

Thick mist howled into the room through the open classroom door, tossing pages on the bookshelves and creating a rustling sound.

The night grew deeper, the fog thicker, lightning ripped through the night sky outside the window, and in the classroom, figures moved stiffly, eerily reminiscent of a forest of steles.

…

Lin Yi lay prostrate on the floor tiles, his gaze fixed on the patterns of the ground, concentrating his hearing to distinguish the ticking of the watch’s hands from the intermittent screams.

“Click!

Click!

Click!

Click…”

He silently counted each tick of the hands, time seemingly flowing through his fingertips.

Until the 1,358th second ticked by, the long-extinguished incandescent light in the classroom suddenly flickered, then gradually faded amidst a sizzling noise.

“Clang— Clang—”

Outside in the corridor, the sound of chains scraping along the ground echoed.

“Thud!

Thud!

Thud…”

Heavy footsteps reverberated in the hallway.

A towering figure cast a shadow on the frost-covered windowpanes.

“It’s the Security Guard!” Lin Yi’s heart leapt, but he remained immobile.

The silhouette of the guard moved slowly across the reflection on the window pane, shifting from the rear to the classroom’s entrance before coming to a halt.

The sound of chain dragging on the floor ceased with the stopping of the footfalls.

But in the next instant, the chain scraped rapidly across the ground, and Lin Yi visualized the guard’s mountainous figure wielding the chain.

The chain, with a powerful whoosh, flew into the classroom, and the next thing Lin Yi heard was it wrapping around some resilient object.

“Get out here!”

The guard’s thick, deep voice resounded like a rumble of thunder on a summer night.

With a fierce tug, the object twined by the chain was yanked out of the room!

Afterwards, the classroom door slammed shut with a bang.

With the closing of the door, it was as though two worlds had been cleaved apart.

The last reflection on the glass showed the guard tumbling down the steps, cradling some dark object.

The whole world seemed to fall silent.

Those unsettling students in the classroom stood frozen in place.

Only one of the incandescent lights on the ceiling continued to flicker erratically: “Pop…

sizzle…

pop…

sizzle…”

Before long, the incandescent lights in the classroom began to flicker in succession.

As the lights came back on, brightness gradually returned to the room, and the mist creeping across the floor tiles disappeared swiftly, as if vanquished by its nemesis.

Lin Yi kept his eyes on the floor, intently observing the frequency of the changing light and shadows to gauge the recovery of the classroom lights.

Only when the light no longer flickered did Lin Yi slowly rise from the floor, shifting his gaze from the tiles to the table legs, watching the classroom’s movements from the corner of his eye.

But because he had recently been through the distressing experience of that strange student’s persistent tugging three times, even though he felt the classroom was safe, he had no intention of leaving the desk.

He was waiting to see if any fool dared to stick their neck out first.

Then he heard a voice beside him as though spared from execution: “Old Lin…

are you alright?

Damn, that just now scared me to death!”