The only explanation is that no nocturnal species have actually reached here...
Between the cracks in the stone slabs on the ground, moisture seems to seep out faintly, carrying a scent of decay.
Occasionally, a droplet of water would drip up from the cracks beneath the stone slabs, rising with an anti-gravity float, looking extrely bizarre.
The corridor below is shrouded in darkness, like a gateway to another world, with only the vague outline of steps and a few shadows swallowed by the dark, and the wind roars inside and outside the walls like a low growl or a sorrowful wail, making one’s heart chill...
Only the chaotic footsteps of the art students remained in the hallway, and the whole world seed to be imrsed in a kind of hair-raising silence and fear. On the other side of the wall, countless unseen sneering angels seed poised to attack them.
Lin Yi suddenly thought of sothing.
"Right! This staircase... Why do I have no impression of it at all?"
He was sowhat puzzled, not that he necessarily had to have an impression of this place or anything, but he once spread his consciousness over the entire Art Building under the influence of the Quantum giant clock "Holy Hall", yet never encountered an area like this in his mory...
"Strange, really strange..."
With questions in his heart, Lin Yi observed even more curiously.
Suddenly, so water stains in the stairs caught his attention.
"These water stains... how are they reversed?"
The tide Qi seeped through the yellow-brown square tiles into the stairway, forming spreading root-like damp trails. However, such trails should have spread downward continuously, now they instead extended upward, growing like withered trees, blooming like flowers.
Lin Yi seed to have an epiphany and looked down at the stone slabs underfoot, mainly at the anti-gravity floating water droplets...
"Hiss... Wait, could it be...?!"
Lin Yi gently released that perception, letting it spread from Mao Feiyang outward, every detail around was relayed back to his mind as the perception extended.
"Sure enough, that’s it!"
He discovered the problem.
The entire hallway was inverted.
These art students are walking on the backside of the staircase.
From their perspective, everyone is going downstairs, but from the actual spatial dinsion, they are going upstairs.
"Inverted space..."
Lin Yi suddenly felt a strange sense of familiarity, this absurd and illogical symtry, why did it seem familiar?
"Wait... in the dormitory!!"
A peculiar light flashed in Lin Yi’s eyes.
The dormitory building also experienced reversed gravity rules after midnight at a certain ti, very similar to the situation here.
Moreover... to say the least, the dormitory building also has an infinite Fibonacci sequence of stairs.
The sa endless staircase, could it have so similarity to the steps here?
In the dormitory... Art Building... Gymnasium...
Could there be so eerie connection between these three types of buildings?
Or, on a certain layer, is there so... logical overlap between these three buildings?!
Wait, if you insist, even the Teaching Building seems to be connected?
Lin Yi felt his head itch, as if he was growing a brain.
In his mind appeared a giant web diagram, with various buildings in the campus positioned at different points on the web, and various eerie connections ford between them because of the staircases.
Just then, Yanjing Ming’s voice rang out: "Pull yourselves together! You’re all fucking half asleep, do you want to die? Imdiately return to the Art Building, everyone back to the classroom! Rember, everyone!"
"Next, just follow us obediently, each person only needs to follow the one in front of them!"
"Keep your eyes fixed on the back of the person in front of you, don’t look around!"
"Whatever you hear, don’t pay any heed to it, and definitely don’t respond!"
"No matter what happens, you don’t need to handle it!"
"Rember, none of the matters require your consideration!"
"Move faster! The situation is starting to go awry!"
"If sothing happens due to not following instructions, don’t bla for not warning you!"
"There will be so unevenness ahead, so watch out! Go!"
Lin Yi’s thoughts were interrupted by Yanjing Ming, and he refocused his attention on the hallway.
As expected, the hallway ahead had beco sowhat twisted, looking a bit uneven. This path was the part Lin Yi had not seen before, and he had captured a hint of anomaly there.
This path’s sense of distortion was very subtle, looking just like an uneven section of road, and together with the staircase of the corridor, its eerie point was diluted a lot, but as Lin Yi’s perceptive coverage increased, the sense of distortion in the hallway was gradually magnified, and the overall pattern pieced together, gradually presenting a structure resembling surreal geotry.
And this structure is like...
"The ’Möbius Ring’...?"
Infinite loop, start and end...
"I understand now!"
An inspiration flashed in Lin Yi’s mind as he suddenly comprehended the logic of the hallway’s existence!
The entire hallway is not only a part of so staircase inside the Art Building, but also the unfolding and folding of certain areas of the Art Building. When it is required to walk this path, the path will appear... or it appears at a certain fixed ti!
A hidden path, appearing at a specific ti, harboring so pattern, but this pattern itself violates physical laws.
However, just when Lin Yi thought he had unveiled the mystery, the true "Layer Transition" pathway had just begun!
As the art students continued along the Möbius band-like corridor, the surrounding layers also started to present issues.
While the art students strictly followed Yanjing Ming’s orders, staring intently at the backs of those ahead, Lin Yi wasn’t required to do so. Thus he could clearly observe the changes occurring at this layer level.
He saw the corridor under the art students’ feet begin to beco dilapidated. This dilapidation was fundantally different from the decayed nature of artifacts or the worn-out city wall. The current corridor’s dilapidation was like a mulberry leaf after being gnawed by silkworms.
A layer-level dilapidation, as if the corridor had been struck by so spatial force after being built, resulting in void eroding what was once there, and now so areas have turned into nothingness, as the nothingness continuously corroded the boundaries, finally becoming the present dilapidated form.
But such deteriorated corridor was not surprising to veteran art students like Yanjing Ming. They navigated the corridors silently, afraid of disturbing so eerie presence in the void.
Just as the thought crossed Lin Yi’s mind that sothing might exist in the void, his consciousness felt as if it had touched so weak electrical current, catching so kind of low murmur...
[Sorgens... skygge...]
"What...?" Lin Yi was startled.
[Min skygge...]
[Gi opp...]
But the more he focused on it, the deeper the voice sank. Yet, when he tried to locate the origin of the sound, he couldn’t find it at all...
Having heard chants like cautions and distant songs repeatedly, Lin Yi couldn’t differentiate which were cautions and which was the eerie call, relying only on an innate perception to determine whether this call harbored malice towards him...
This seed to be the only thod of distinction—at least for now, he could only differentiate this way.
As Lin Yi searched for the source of the sound, in a daze, he seed to capture so tracks of creatures in the void.
"What is that...?"
Lin Yi focused his gaze and vaguely saw so shards of mirror flashing with brilliant light in the corridor being consud by nothingness...
"It seems like... the Mirror World?"
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