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#13 - Classroom lights off

"Holy crap!"

The violent knocking on the door felt like it was hitting Wei Liang himself. He cried out in alarm, and his feet felt like they were smeared with '82 butter, sliding him right next to Lin Yi.

But as soon as he got there, he saw Lin Yi quickly walking out from the row of seats.

"Why are you coming out again?" he asked, puzzled.

Lin Yi pointed to the back of the classroom, signaling Wei Liang to rush over there with him.

"Go over there!"

Wei Liang followed Lin Yi's direction and suddenly realized Lin Yi's intention.

«Once the lights in the classroom start flickering, you must immediately crouch under the desk and grab the legs of the desk and chair!»

However, the main part of the tiered classroom wasn't designed with desks. During class, they would unfold the tablet from the armrest of the chair to use as a desk.

So, theoretically, the desks near the bookshelf at the back of the classroom could be considered "desks" in the true sense of the word.

Sure enough, when Lin Yi rushed over, the remaining twenty-odd people in the classroom who he defined as "normal students" also abandoned their books at the first moment, lowering their heads and running towards the desks.

But those strange students embedded in the seats still didn't show any reaction. On the contrary, as the fluorescent lights flickered, the excitement in their eyes grew stronger and stronger.

«Pop—Zzz—»

Another fluorescent light flickered on.

The third, the fourth…

One after another, the fluorescent lights began to flicker.

When all the fluorescent lights started flickering, the huge tiered classroom seemed to turn into a dance hall with only black and white tones.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang rushed under adjacent desks and subconsciously grabbed the same table leg.

Then, they both withdrew their hands like lightning, saying in unison: "You take it, you take it."

"Oh, you're so polite! You grab the top, I grab the bottom, we're all over it!" Wei Liang waved his big hand, first grabbing Lin Yi's hand and pressing it onto the table leg.

Lin Yi didn't have time to argue with him about this, but just then, he suddenly noticed that the light in the classroom seemed to have dimmed a bit…

He suddenly raised his head and looked at the ceiling, only to see that one of the light bulbs had gone out!

"Damn, are you trying to die? You still dare to look up!" Wei Liang really wanted to press Lin Yi's head down, but unfortunately, his arms were too short to reach.

"Don't panic, there shouldn't be a problem as long as the lights aren't all out…" Lin Yi comforted, adding, "And I only took one look."

"Aren't you afraid they'll all go out in an instant?" Wei Liang said speechlessly.

"There should be a process, right?" Lin Yi said.

However, before he could finish speaking, a series of "Pop! Pop! Pop…" sounds rang out on the ceiling. The speed of the lights going out was a bit fast, as if they were being swept by a machine gun, but there was still a pattern to follow.

"Ah, this… Has the speed increased?" Lin Yi opened his mouth.

«Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop…»

The light in the classroom visibly dimmed.

Lin Yi wanted to say something, but Wei Liang stopped him with an angry glare: "Stop, stop! Lao Lin, don't jinx it!"

"Don't panic, if my calculations are correct, there are still thirty seconds before they all go out…" Lin Yi defended, "There's enough time."

"Do you even believe that?" Wei Liang curled his lips.

"I believe it."

"…"

Taking advantage of the time he had to speak, Lin Yi quickly cast a last glance at the tiered classroom.

«One, two, three, four, five…»

He took a quick glance, taking in all the students in the classroom who hadn't moved at all, but because time was tight, he didn't have time to count carefully when he scanned the last few people, but he had already narrowed down the number of strange people to between thirty-five and thirty-seven.

"Stop looking around!" Wei Liang heavily punched Lin Yi's back, his voice hurried and worried, "Quickly stare at the table leg!"

"18." Lin Yi said, but fearing that Wei Liang was too worried, he quickly withdrew his gaze.

When he withdrew, he found that Wei Liang, who was squatting beside him, was now tightly gripping the table leg with both hands, coupled with the serious and earnest expression on his face, he looked like a warrior holding a high incense stick in a temple, bowing to a statue to embolden himself.

The only discordant thing was that this warrior was squatting under a square table, which suddenly made the originally solemn atmosphere silly and foolish.

Just then, the knocking on the classroom door caught everyone's attention.

«Knock! Knock! Knock!»

«Knock! Knock! Knock!»

«Knock! Knock! Knock!»

The violent knocking sound was transmitted from the classroom door, and the classroom door began to tremble violently. Before long, such fluctuations were transmitted to all the walls in all directions of the classroom.

«Knock! Knock! Knock!»

«Knock! Knock! Knock!»

«Knock! Knock! Knock!»

The floor of the classroom also began to tremble, and the fluorescent lights on the ceiling swayed jinglingly, like a string of wind chimes being swept everywhere by a raging wind.

«Pop! Pop! Pop…»

The fluorescent lights flickered and went out one after another in the shaking. Before long, when Lin Yi silently counted to "30" in his heart, the last light also went out with a "Pop" sound as he had calculated.

The entire classroom was in darkness, with only a few spots of light squeezing in from outside the windows.

Because of the temperature difference inside and outside, the windows of the classroom were covered with a layer of white frost, and the rain hitting the windows drew streaks of engravings.

The cold air continued to spread from outside the window to inside, and an indescribable sense of weirdness was gradually permeating the walls of the classroom.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang had already lost the mood to tease each other, and both of their faces were full of solemnity.

Wei Liang pulled down his baseball cap and tightened his hoodie, seemingly trying to shrink his whole body into a non-existent iron shell.

The shaking of the classroom became more and more intense, until at this moment Lin Yi understood.

The teaching building was not a safe zone, but the classroom… was not either!

«The classroom is just a relatively safe area at a specific time!»

«And that time, obviously, does not include now!»

«After getting through tonight, I must find a way to get back to the dormitory tomorrow!»

When the thick fog crossed the high walls, when the tide soaked the iron cage, all protection would become fragile yellow paper, and the dim light and shadow suddenly brought everyone back to the barbaric ancient times.

Under the darkness, those who were active at night began to show their fangs.

«Bang! Bang… Bang.»

Just as fear began to emanate from all the students cowering under the desks, the classroom door suddenly stopped being hammered so terribly.

The classroom, which had originally been like a boat bumping in a stormy sea, gradually stabilized.

Sounds of exhalation appeared one after another in the darkness, and everyone seemed to breathe a sigh of relief silently.

"Lao Lin…" Wei Liang let out a weak voice like a mosquito, "Is it safe?"

But Lin Yi didn't answer him, instead, he glared at him fiercely.

«Idiot, don't communicate with anyone!»

Wei Liang instantly reacted, feeling that he closed his mouth, shrinking his neck and staring at the table leg.

Lin Yi's expression became even more solemn.

«Something's not right!»

«Something's very wrong!»

The foreplay has been going on for twenty minutes, how could it possibly end so hastily?

Those thirty-odd students haven't made any moves yet!

Lin Yi concentrated and held his breath, his body tensed, not daring to relax in the slightest.

As expected, as if responding to Lin Yi's serious attitude, a crisp sound rang out in the darkness.

"Click!"

The lock tongue of the classroom door was turned.

Someone was opening the door outside.

"Click! Click! Click..."

The lock tongue turned round and round, and the crisp sound seemed to roll over everyone like a wheel.

"Crack... Click!"

When the last turn of the lock tongue was completed, the slowly pressed doorknob seemed like a heavy mountain, pressing down on the hearts of everyone in the classroom.

"Di Di Di—"

The classroom door was slowly pushed open from the outside.

"Shh—"

As if opening the door of a sealed space capsule,森white mist poured in from outside the door.

Losing the illumination of the incandescent lamp, the thick fog crawled and spread on the ground like tentacles, and the cold and humid breath infiltrated with a little bit of ice wind, as if the entire classroom had been moved into a cellar.

"Swish swish swish..."

The sound of stone rubbing against the ground appeared in the classroom.

It seemed that something wrapped in thick fog was moving in the classroom, as if a Dementor in "Harry X Potter" was dragging a stone and crawling on the ground...

Lin Yi struggled to glance at the dial of his watch.

The classroom was too dark after losing its light, and it was very difficult for him to see the scale on the dial clearly.

22:00.

"Ten o'clock sharp..."

"It's May 6th now. It won't be dawn in S City until at least five o'clock, right? There are still seven hours. Are we going to spend it like this?"

Lin Yi's longest record was playing a round of 宝宝 Glory while squatting in the toilet. He defended his base for 36 minutes but still lost in the end... When he got up, his legs were shaking and disobedient, he felt uncomfortable all over, and he felt that his blood couldn't even reach his brain...

To maintain a squatting position under the table for 7 hours... is that really possible?

He shook his head and cursed himself for being an idiot. He had already reached this damned moment, so how could he be qualified to discuss whether the posture was squatting or sitting?

At this moment, a strong light suddenly appeared in the classroom, catching Lin Yi off guard.

He subconsciously glanced at his watch.

22:02.

"Two minutes have passed..."

"I have to say that瞎 thinking can really kill time. If that's the case, maybe we can really survive."

"Wait!! Where the hell did this light come from?!"

He subconsciously wanted to follow the light to look over, but he didn't even need to look for it deliberately. He saw a light source under another table not far away.

It was actually a classmate who had shrunk under the desk and turned on a portable flashlight!

Lin Yi's eyes widened, and even his thinking short-circuited for a moment.

He couldn't have imagined that he could meet such a little genius in this randomly assigned classroom!

He could tell at a glance that he came prepared!

At this moment, Lin Yi subconsciously wanted to use this hard-won light to see the current classroom environment, but at the same time, he immediately remembered the warning from the head teacher before parting.

When the lights in the classroom start to flicker, the first step is to squat under the desk and grab the legs of the desk.

Then, don't close your eyes or look at anything other than the patterns on the ground or the legs of the table!

When he thought of the sentence in the student code, "Don't look back", Lin Yi instantly came to a terrifying conclusion.

"That thing in the mist is here in the classroom!"

"Is the purpose of not letting me look around is to prevent me from seeing it... or is it because of something else?"

Some thoughts appeared in Lin Yi's mind again.

But he had learned to be good this time.

Since thoughts that shouldn't have come at this time have come, then good...

He focused his gaze on the table legs, and then let the Black Silk Cult and the White Silk Cult fight in his mind.

As expected, after thinking about it this way, his whole person suddenly felt refreshed, and the discomfort that permeated the surrounding environment also faded a lot.

However, the drawbacks of self-paralysis soon began to appear.

"Pa!"

In the dead silence of the classroom, a muffled clapping sound suddenly rang out.

This was the sound of a folded chair springing back into place.

Obviously, a strange classmate had left his seat.

"Shh—shh—"

This classmate dragged his heavy steps and walked slowly in the classroom. The胶质sole of his shoe rubbed against the floor tiles, making a sound like sandpaper rubbing.

"Shh—shh—"

The sound of footsteps was getting closer and closer...

"Shh—"

A foot wearing old-fashioned sneakers appeared in front of Lin Yi, less than a forearm's length away from his face.

Then came another foot.

The two feet moved forward on the ground in a very stiff manner, and the "shh shh" sound was like thousands of ants crawling over Lin Yi's body, making him feel uncomfortable all over.

A strong sense of discomfort and a tide-like sense of strangeness rose in Lin Yi's heart, but at this moment, he concentrated his mind and held his breath, staring at the table legs in front of him, and constantly kicked away the various thoughts that emerged in his mind with black silk beautiful legs and white silk beautiful legs.

Until the owner of these legs disappeared from the corner of his eye.

"Huff..."

He breathed a long sigh of relief. It was only a short ten seconds, but his chest seemed to be filled with turbid air that had been sealed for centuries.

At this moment, some suddenly appearing noises stuck the breath he had only half exhaled in his throat.

"Eh? Hey! Hey!! Hey hey hey..."

Along with the appearance of this sound, the beam of light emitted by the portable flashlight suddenly swayed erratically like a loach.

As a burst of noise rang out, the desks and chairs were pushed away, and the owner of the portable flashlight seemed to be picked up. Then, he didn't know what he saw, and let out a "Ah!" sound full of intense fear.

At the same time, the portable flashlight fell to the floor tiles with a snap, and the dazzling beam of light pierced out like a sharp sword, splitting open the dark classroom.

The strong light swept across Lin Yi's face halfway, and he subconsciously wanted to squint and turn his head, but as soon as his neck moved a little, his whole body suddenly froze there.

At the limit of the corner of his eye, a shadow appeared that the beam of light from the portable flashlight could not split apart!

A classmate was standing next to the desk where he was hiding, he didn't know when!

Lin Yi froze in place, wishing he could take back all the weak airflow he had just exhaled.

"Crack crack crack..."

Some sound rang out from that classmate's body, and then a palm appeared in Lin Yi's field of vision.

The classmate bent down at an extremely slow speed and reached out to pick up the flashlight.

The whole process was like a marionette.

Just as he was about to pick up the flashlight, his head tilted slightly due to inertia and saw Lin Yi squatting under the desk.

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