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Chapter 137 The Mystery of the Bridge
Lin Yi looked at the covered bridge and after some observation, he found that the bridge looked quite normal. If nothing unexpected happened, it might be necessary to wait until an accident happened before we could see its abnormal side.

He suddenly understood why.

"It's normal that the sun is shining brightly now, so we can't see any problems... Maybe we need to wait until abnormal weather comes, or go to some very dark corners to observe it?"

He shook his head slightly, deciding to hurry up and look at the next place.

But just as he was about to leave, gusts of wind swept through the mountains and forests, and the leaves in the distant mountains and nearby fields suddenly rustled, like the sound of waves in the forest...

Lin Yi suddenly thought of something, and quickly came to the entrance of the bridge, then observed the outer wall of the bridge.

"There is indeed a problem!" A gleam of light flashed in Lin Yi's eyes.

I saw a layer of moss growing on the outer wall of the covered bridge...

How can moss grow like this in the sun?

So that's the problem.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch. It was 14:36. He walked decisively to the corridor and slowly walked towards Building C of the teaching building.

As he walked, he observed the environment of the covered bridge.

There were also incandescent lights on the ceiling of the bridge, but they were not turned on during the day. He mainly began to observe the growth of the moss as he walked.

Three minutes later, he walked across the corridor bridge and arrived at Building C of the teaching building.

Li Huiyuan followed him here silently. She was a little puzzled by his behavior along the way but did not say anything.

In Building C, the students had already returned to the building. It was the afternoon self-study time. There were a few people walking in the corridor, but not many. They did not show any extra expression when they saw Lin Yi.

Lin Yi stood at the exit of the corridor of Building C of the teaching building, stroking his chin and thinking.

"The distribution of moss on the bridge is not in a straight line, but rather a bit twisted... But even if we consider that the bridge itself has ups and downs, then the growth of these mosses can't be crooked, right?"

Lin Yi seemed to have caught some inspiration, and quickly continued to reason based on this feeling...

"We can't think about the moss problem in the conventional way. We have to take the falling of the layers into consideration, and add the previous conjecture about the moss..."

The moss before was, of course, the moss in the student passage of the cafeteria, the moss in front of the steps of the teaching building, and the moss that covered the mountain wall on the underground first floor of the cafeteria...

"Assuming that the layer of the bridge does not fall, the growth environment of the moss may depend on the mountain fog and water vapor at night... But if that is the case, it cannot grow so unevenly. It should grow all over the wall."

"So this hypothesis doesn't hold true. What if the moss finishes growing when the layers fall?"

"If that's the case..."

Lin Yi slowly narrowed his eyes, seemingly staring ahead, but in fact he was distracted and lost in some kind of thought...

Three row of teaching buildings were constructed in his mind, connected to each other by the Wolf Corridor Bridge, and then... Lin Yi imagined a mountain fog spreading out from the mountains and slowly spreading to the teaching building area...

As the fog rolled in, the shape of the teaching building began to become unstable, with a sense of twisting and stretching...

This feeling was difficult to deduce in his mind, so he changed a method, using the moss as the baseline in his mind, and slowly pulled the twisted lines into a horizontal straight line...

"Hiss... it's a bit difficult..."

Trying to distort a square regular building like a teaching building through imagination is really a bit illogical. After Lin Yi tried it, he felt a bit of a headache.

"We need to break some stereotyped thinking..."

Lin Yi scratched his head and glanced at Li Huiyuan: "Li Huiyuan?"

"Ah? I'm here." Li Huiyuan suddenly stood up straight.

"I have something to think about. Please wait and see me for a while. If there is anything wrong with me, just wake me up immediately." Lin Yi said as he walked into the sun.

Upon hearing this, Li Huiyuan asked, "Is it the same way you shook me vigorously?"

Lin Yi was suddenly stunned, thinking, I asked you to guard a place, why the hell did you get so excited? Are you trying to get revenge and shake my brains?

"That's about right. Anyway, if you feel something is wrong with me, just shake me hard and yell while shaking. The harder the better." Lin Yihu ordered sternly.

"Uh... okay." Li Huiyuan nodded slightly, not knowing what she was thinking about.

Lin Yi took a deep breath and looked at his watch.

14: 40.

So far so good...

He then shook his head violently, like a boxer doing warm-up exercises before a punch, and then began to concentrate and hold his breath, fantasizing in his mind...

"I can't imagine it as a teaching building. I want to imagine it as... a teaching building made of plasticine..."

"Soft and floppy... yeah..."

Imagine a handful of plasticine in the shape of a teaching building, and it becomes much easier to knead it.

Lin Yi was delighted: "Twisting solids in the mind and imagining kneading plasticine in the mind are really different in difficulty!"

He then began to slowly straighten the twisted lines formed by the moss. As the lines were straightened, the square outline of the teaching building began to collapse, and in its place, stones began to arrange themselves like Transformers...

When the moss is stretched into a horizontal straight line, the original shape of the building completely disappears, and is replaced by a postmodern architectural work with an extremely strong style.

Like the fortress in Alien, an architectural fortress with extremely abstract lines and strong style.

When he saw this building, he felt that he had a vague understanding of what the teaching building would look like after the layers fell off, but this seemed to be just the tip of the iceberg of the real situation...

But the clues he knew at the moment were just a few, and it was unrealistic to try to deduce further, so he gave up the idea of ​​continuing to think about it, stopped thinking, and came back to his senses.

"It seems that when the campus is normal, the clues that can be obtained from the corridor bridge are very limited. But then again... how is it possible that every place on the campus has a big problem?"

Lin Yi laughed at himself, then turned to Li Huiyuan and said, "Let's go, let's go upstairs..."

His voice suddenly stopped, and a "long-lost" chill down his spine enveloped him at this moment - Li Huiyuan was gone.

"Fuck... Li Huiyuan?!" Lin Yi cursed in his heart. His first reaction was that something happened to Li Huiyuan right under his nose, but he immediately realized a more serious problem.

It’s not that Li Huiyuan has a problem, it’s… that he has a problem!!!

He found that the covered bridge in front of him was fucking distorted into the shape he had kneaded out of plasticine in his mind!

Who is the problem? No need to say more, right?
"Li Huiyuan didn't shake me awake? Or... even Li Huiyuan didn't notice that there was something wrong with me?!"

If it's the former, it's fine, but if it's the latter, then it's a big problem...

It's bad enough that he fell off the layer silently, and no one even noticed him. Doesn't that mean he won't know when he died? !

Lin Yi suddenly felt a little panicked, but his instinct told him in an extremely rational tone - I know you are panicked, but don't panic yet.

So he took a deep breath and calmed himself down.

Why can he remain calm?
Lin Yi himself couldn’t explain it, but maybe it was because... the strange scene he saw before his eyes was deduced by him?
It’s like looking at a painting you drew yourself. No matter how outrageous it is, it doesn’t look that scary because you drew it yourself?

Lin Yi gradually calmed down. In this environment, he didn't seem to feel any danger - even though the teaching building in front of him was twisted into this strange shape.

At this moment, a voice sounded in his ears...

"Student Lin...Student Lin..."

This familiar voice made his heart tremble.

He glanced sideways and suddenly saw Li Huiyuan who had disappeared.

"Hmm? Li Huiyuan appears again...?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and for a moment he actually had a feeling of unreality, "Could it be that Li Huiyuan also fell into this layer? This shouldn't be..."

Lin Yi was a little confused. He had never seen anyone else drop this layer...

Oh no, he had met a little genius with plaster sculpture-like qualities who was disguised as Wei Liang...

Speaking of which, the little genius at that time should also be considered a "nocturnal species", right?

Although Xu Shunkang did not mention that state, Lin Yi guessed it, because Xu Shunkang had an original sentence: "Once they break the rules, what awaits them is only death, and something more terrible than death."

The so-called "things more terrible than death" might be the situation of the little genius.

Dead, but not completely dead. I don’t know what torture I will suffer.

"Could this Li Huiyuan also be fake?"

When this thought popped up in Lin Yi's mind, he was also stunned, thinking, could it be that I have also started to go crazy?

But on second thought, he couldn't help but have this idea. After all, there were the nocturnal creatures pretending to be Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan before, and he might encounter them again now.

But he soon found out that this was not the case, this Li Huiyuan was real, because... Li Huiyuan was really shaking him!
Li Huiyuan put her hands on his shoulders, shaking him violently like a bear, as if she was doing bench press in the gym, and she herself was also shaking a little...

Watching Li Huiyuan's increasingly violent shaking, Lin Yi couldn't help but feel that she had some personal grudges involved...

"Is it true that I almost shook her brain before... Was I really that strong at that time?" Lin Yi couldn't help feeling a little guilty. In order to save Li Huiyuan at that time, he really didn't care much about anything.

I just remember calling her name while doing it, and as she didn't wake up, I kept increasing my strength... I have no idea how much strength I used in the end, but at least the effect was good.

But at this moment, he discovered another problem...

The person that Li Huiyuan was shaking was him, but - not the "him" of now.

He could see himself and Li Huiyuan at the same time, and could also clearly see that the ground beneath their feet was a normal teaching building, not the distorted texture of the floor tiles he had now.

There was only one step between him and "them", so close that it seemed as if there was a veil between them...

Lin Yi gently approached himself behind the gauze. As soon as he took a step, the environment around him began to collapse and change, as if a huge machine that had wrapped him suddenly dismantled its encirclement and began to evacuate from him...

He found that the dim environment around him began to quickly withdraw from the ground under his feet, the ground above his head, the pillars beside him... like a wriggling liquid, and then quickly moved away from him. At the same time, the originally distorted corridor bridge and abstract teaching building also began to gradually return to the normal state that "should have been".

He had started to take steps, but finally froze in place after taking half a step.

Looking at himself behind the gauze and Li Huiyuan who was shaking him, two thoughts emerged in his mind.

Go back immediately or not go back yet?
These two completely different ideas were like two martial arts masters standing on the top of a mountain facing each other, and then starting to fight desperately, forming a terrible thought storm in his mind.

He felt he could go back any time.

But he felt that his current layer was very stable...

It is very stably located in another layer, which seems to be completely dependent on his own imagination.

It’s like... entering into one’s own painting.

No, it’s not quite right to call it a painting.

It was more like... more like playing "Minecraft". He imported the area of ​​the teaching building that he had already explored into his mind, and then, as an editor, he arbitrarily distorted the "module" of this area according to his own subjective consciousness, editing it into the way he wanted.

And now, he is like an editor touring this "new teaching building" in Minecraft.

That layer of gauze is like a switch to exit this world. Once he passes through it, he will return to "reality".

“So… I don’t feel the discomfort and weirdness of this ‘world’ because I’m the creator of this ‘layer’?!”

Four words emerged in his mind: "Daytime fantasy".

This was a chapter he had read in a comic about vampires. It was about a vampire elder named Last who tried to use his special powers to create a "daytime" so that his "daughter" could move around in the sun...

And now he has almost imagined a teaching building out of thin air? !
Finally he retracted the foot he had stepped forward and slowly placed it on the ground.

With just this one operation, the "environment" that had receded like the tide immediately returned, and the corridor bridge that had recovered from the distortion was distorted into that abstract appearance again...

(End of this chapter)