305: Chapter 141 Void Stare_2 305: Chapter 141 Void Stare_2 anwhile, he could feel Li Huiyuan’s grasp on his hand tightening subconsciously, and he could sense her body trembling slightly.
That faint trembling, born from the fear of the unknown, was traveling up his arm to his hand.
At the sa ti, he could clearly feel the chill emanating from the palm of Li Huiyuan’s hand.
Lin Yi wanted to pat her shoulder to signal her not to worry, but considering his other hand was holding the student ID card in his pocket, he hesitated for a mont and then decided against the gesture.
“Don’t worry, we’re going back to the first floor now,”
Lin Yi tried to calm Li Huiyuan with a gentle and low voice.
Li Huiyuan responded with a quiet “mmm,” but Lin Yi did not feel her reassurance.
On the contrary, her grip tightened even more.
Lin Yi quickly recited the “Protective incantation” in his mind and then started to hurry Li Huiyuan down to the first floor.
“I am Lin Yi, my student number is X0230506098, I am walking from the fourth floor to the third floor in the stairwell of Teaching Building B…”
“I am Lin Yi…”
He murmured to himself, giving him a sense as if he was reciting a Daoist exorcism and evil repellent mantra…
Before long, the two successfully returned to the first floor and exited the stairwell.
Lin Yi looked down at his watch.
15:27.
“Going there and back, it took 14 minutes…
not bad.”
Because he was with Li Huiyuan, who had to focus on him, he had to slow down his pace.
Even so, the round trip taking only 14 minutes was indeed “smooth.”
But was it really smooth?
When Lin Yi stepped out of the stairs, the fine beads of sweat on his forehead were already sparkling under the sunlight…
All this because of the glance he had thrown towards the end of the stairwell when he was on the fourth floor of the Teaching Building.
When he reached the fourth floor of the Teaching Building, he originally planned to walk Li Huiyuan out of the stairwell and then turn back to observe the surroundings of the fourth floor.
However, the mont he turned around, his intuition imdiately told him—no, intuition was not necessary.
When he reached the fourth floor of the Teaching Building and stopped reciting “I am Lin Yi…” in his mind, he could already feel a piercing sensation like innurable sharp awns pressing against his back.
It was a type of terror as if being stalked by a bloodthirsty rat horde; he could feel countless cold, evil, greedy, bloodthirsty stares sowhere behind him.
In that mont, his vision once again entered into that quality of a black and white photograph exposure, and he saw a terrifying green mist spreading behind him.
So he squinted and glanced towards the end of the stairs.
Within that sealed, dead end wall, he saw a step extending sinuously from the end of the stairwell.
Packed densely in the stairwell ford by that step were countless Nocturnal species.
They curled up in a layer that the naked eye simply could not observe, all cramming to death in what appeared to be a narrow and claustrophobic corridor, with various fleshy threads twisted and entwined, and nurous bloodshot eyes rolling about, as if watching every person who stepped on the stairs…
When he was targeted by those twisted Nocturnal species, he felt the Green Mist Mark on his chest suddenly beco active, as if trying to release so sort of signal outward.
He dared not linger any longer and quickly pulled Li Huiyuan down the stairs.
By the ti he reached the first floor of the Teaching Building and left the stairwell completely, escaping into the sunlight, the feeling of being watched finally receded like a horde of snakes unwinding from his legs…
His back was drenched in sweat, and only then did the hand tightly holding the student ID card slowly relax a bit…
“Li Huiyuan, we’re back,” Lin Yi pulled his hand out of his pocket and placed it on Li Huiyuan’s, soothingly saying.
Feeling the warmth of the sunlight on her body and hearing Lin Yi’s voice, Li Huiyuan’s tense and stiff body finally began to relax a bit…
She regained her composure and then let go of Lin Yi’s hand: “Thank you…”
“It’s all right.” Lin Yi said calmly.
“Hmm…”
“It’s getting late, we should head back to the classroom and et up with Liangzi, then go to the cafeteria for dinner…” Lin Yi added, “And, we also need to help you find a convenience store.”
…
May 8, 2023, 15:32, Lin Yi brought Li Huiyuan back to the classroom door of Class B Group 2.
After confirming the door plaque was correct, Lin Yi pressed down the handle and pushed the door open with a “click”.
As he pushed the door open, he suddenly paused in astonishnt; he could hear the sound of laughter and chatting through the gap in the door.
Entering the classroom with Li Huiyuan, the two instantaneously drew the attention of the newcors in the room.
Lin Yi didn’t show any intention of backing away, eting the gazes of the others head on, then slightly furrowing his brows.
“Another batch of ‘newborns’ has arrived?
Are there new people every day?
Are there really that many people signing up?”
Upon hearing Lin Yi’s muttering, Li Huiyuan was slightly taken aback, then quickly looked up.
Looking at the figures in the tiered classroom who were laughing and chatting, new that day, she suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.
Without rushing to find Wei Liang, Lin Yi, as was his habit, scanned the people in the classroom.
Besides Wei Liang, there were 18 Sports Students in the room, 24 Experience Students who had entered the school area since yesterday or earlier, and the newly arrived Experience Students…
7 people.
Lin Yi frowned internally and whispered to Li Huiyuan, “Another one of the people who ca with you yesterday has disappeared.
We ca back from the direction of the washrooms and didn’t co across anyone on the way.
I’m guessing they t with foul play…”
Li Huiyuan shuddered at his words, her eyes dimming slightly.
Who could have anticipated that the “classmates” who had entered with her just yesterday would suffer so many casualties in one day.
And facing the prospect that this could be her future, she couldn’t help feeling a lancholy sorrow.
Lin Yi didn’t say much else to her, knowing Li Huiyuan would adjust her emotions on her own.
Excluding him and Wei Liang, there were originally 26 Experience Students in the classroom, but now there were only 24, not counting Li Huiyuan, which naturally suggested soone had experienced misfortune.
By contrast, the Sports Students hadn’t suffered any casualties; there were 18 people when they left last night, and there were still 18 people now.
About the seven new Experience Students, Lin Yi had initially intended to simply morize their features so that the next morning he could easily check who survived and who didn’t.
However, he quickly realized there seed to be “special” individuals among them.
Seven Experience Students, five males and two females.
The reason he said males was because one of these five was an especially older man, appearing to be around 40 years old.
This man, dressed in a khaki windbreaker with short practical hair and a bulging backpack at his feet, sat curled in his seat, surveying the classroom environnt with a touch of panic and restraint in his eyes, as if he was…
sowhat afraid.
The four boys who ca with him were humorously teasing him, probably saying sothing like, “Old man, at your age you still co to experience college life,” while the old man’s face grew increasingly embarrassed, finally shrinking further into his seat, essentially wearing the word “restraint” on his forehead.
Besides him, the remaining two n and two won were captivated by the female companion of Pan Jian from that morning, listening with arms crossed and keen interest to her intermittent stories of the strange happenings they encountered yesterday.
Their eyes were filled with a mix of curiosity and anticipation…
Pan Jian’s female companion was actually sowhat dazed; the shock of last night’s events, coupled with having “witnessed” Pan Jian’s death and still surviving to this mont, ant she had yet to erge from the shadow of the previous evening, leaving her sowhat confused and hazy.
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