AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016

The "burial body" that was constantly struggling suddenly paused: "You... ? You... ?!"

"Really..." the convenience store owner murmured.

"... I'm not lying to you." In the sky above the cafeteria area, the convenience store owner, who looked like an uncle wearing a sun hat, floral shorts, and a beach vacation suit, whispered the latter half of the sentence.

The two images of the convenience store owner, one appearing inside the convenience store suppressing the "burial body," and the other suspended in the sky.

Aside from their appearance, they were exactly the same, like twin stars.

The convenience store owner lowered the brim of the hat slightly, under the messy loose hair, revealing a pair of extremely cold eyes.

He saw the dazzling light sphere.

Even through the door attribute's barrier, he still clearly saw it.

"Who... picked up the fallen fragments of 'it'?"

For the first time, an extremely sharp intent to kill appeared in his lazy eyes.

"Is it that rule-level 'ashen apostle' that truly ascended in the campus?"

"Could the words worshipped by the zealots be correct..."

His expression became sinister and cold, the figure that surfaced in his mind was exactly the "primordial ash apostle" Lin Yi mentioned.

"Hmm...? She was attracted too?" He looked in surprise towards the direction of the gymnasium.

...

In the gymnasium area, at the same time when Lin Yi was condensing the dazzling light sphere, Li Huiyuan, who was with the boss, suddenly stood up abruptly!

Her lips quivered, mumbling strange syllables inarticulately, as if possessed by a demon.

The boss suddenly noticed and quickly got up, pressing Li Huiyuan's shoulder, and at the same time, a glint of dazzling brilliance flashed in her eyes.

"This breath...?!

She quickly turned her head, looking towards the direction of the teaching building.

At the same time, a fiery golden radiance flowed rapidly in her eyes, as if her eyes could see through everything.

Her vision suddenly broadened, as if the heavens opened eyes, directly overlooking the entire teaching building from the sky, and captured in an instant the light sphere that Lin Yi had transformed into!

With a thought, her presence in the gymnasium closed her eyes, while her will quickly penetrated the campus's door attribute, descending directly from the void, stirring the layer fluctuations, transformed into a vague human figure shrouded in pure white light.

When she appeared, Lin Yi had just disappeared.

But she still discerned Lin Yi's breath from the residual fluctuations in the air.

She looked towards that illusory pathway, with a faint black crescent floating behind her.

The appearance of this black crescent seemed to be able to tear apart the pathway where Lin Yi was, yet she did not take action, just silently dissipated away...

In the gymnasium, the boss opened her eyes.

Her eyebrows furrowed slightly, and her red lips tightened: "How could it be Lin Yi...? What is he up to again?"

At this moment, the body of Li Huiyuan, whose shoulder she was holding down, trembled again and again, and the incoherent mumblings from her lips became clearer.

"'Nothing'... Don't die... Don't die..."

"I can't let you die..."

"Can't..."

"No... can't!!" She suddenly opened her eyes, then, like a person who had been suffocating suddenly got a lot of air, began to breathe and cough violently.

"Huff, huff, huff... cough... huff... cough..."

"Boss... boss? Was I sleepwalking just now?"

The boss lowered her eyelids slightly, then gently shook her head: "You weren't sleepwalking."

After a pause, she continued: "Did you perceive Lin Yi just now?"

"Hmm!" Li Huiyuan nodded solemnly, then said somewhat sadly, "It feels like I saw him turn into a sun, and then... that sun went out... Boss, is this my illusion? Or... I'm suddenly really worried about Lin Yi... Will he be okay?"

Seeing Li Huiyuan's sudden emotional turmoil, the boss reassured her: "Lin Yi is fine, don't worry."

Upon hearing this, Li Huiyuan finally let out a long sigh of relief.

But the boss remained silent, repeatedly muttering one word in heart—"Nothing".

Such a familiar term...

But... why is there no impression of it at all?

She squinted her eyes, as if some unprecedented, fragmentary, blurry scenes appeared in her mind...

...

On May 11, 20X3, 19:12, on an unknown layer transition road...

Lin Yi was shuttling through a nihility realm filled with particles.

Initially, the tunnel seemed like a silent night, but soon those particles appeared like fireflies, merging and swirling with each other, forming spiral vortices akin to a star moon night.

Lin Yi kept shuttling, and in the void, various particles continued to emerge, aside from those forming vortices, others burst forth like twilight tearing through clouds, their colors suddenly turning from dark to brilliant, resembling the flickering of starlight, laying out an illusory trajectory throughout the tunnel in a brief instant.

Lin Yi was traveling through such a tunnel...

"Oh my gosh... is that the true strength of the boss?!" He wiped the non-existent sweat off his forehead, letting out a long breath, "Just from a released breath, I feel like I'm going to be wiped out!"

He sighed a bit but received no response, then hurriedly called upon the "navigator": "Young Master Tian, Young Master Tian, are you there?"

Tian Bufan spoke slowly, as if forced to speak from a state of silence: "Present..."