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Chapter 151 Mist pours in
"Then let's think about it and look for other shelves." Lin Yi took the lace socks and square-toed leather shoes from Li Huiyuan's hands, and helped her put them on carefully.

Lin Yi stood up and helped Li Huiyuan up, then looked at the shelf over there with some fear, then retracted his gaze and took Li Huiyuan to the shelf again to look for student commemorative coins.

There were some racks nearby, but those were not on the path of the blue sign that said "Exit".

Now they are at the end of their rope, but they cannot give up, so they can only take a risk and try over there.

Just as they turned around, a low and hoarse voice suddenly sounded from the shadow area behind them...

"Lin...Yi...(Li...Hui...Yuan...)"

The two of them paused in unison, then looked at each other, seeing a hint of surprise in each other's eyes.

"You... heard it too?" Lin Yi said.

Li Huiyuan nodded palely.

"Don't worry about it, let's go find the student commemorative coins." Lin Yi said in a low voice.

"Lin...Yi...(Li...Hui...Yuan...)"

The sound was like the hot steam coming out of the stove in a country cottage when rice is cooked, lingering on the beams for a long time.

The two did not dare to respond, and supported each other as they left the blue-marked path and entered the surrounding shelf area.

After entering other areas, Lin Yi discovered that the original exit path was not unique. There were many blue signboards in this area. Although these signboards were distributed differently, they all pointed to the same exit direction.

"It looks like that's the exit of the store..." Lin Yi retracted his gaze and helped Li Huiyuan move through other shelf areas.

Just like that, a few minutes later, at 17:15, Lin Yi heard a strange noise.

"Boom!"

Lin Yi paused and listened carefully, then he heard the "dong" sound again. At the same time, he seemed to feel that the ground beneath his feet was beginning to vibrate slightly.

The cards on the shelves also began to tremble "da da da da...", and ripples appeared on the horizontal surface of the drinks in the beverage area.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

“Boom…”

In the shadow area, the faint calling voice that came along with the strange noise was like a devil's sound piercing the ears, making people tremble slightly.

"This sound...?!" Lin Yi's pupils shrank slightly, as if he had thought of something. "Why does it sound like the sound I heard in the employee passage?"

But compared to this, the terrifying pressure suddenly faded a lot.

But Lin Yi not only did not feel relaxed, but felt enormous pressure.

Because such calls were like countless little bugs buzzing in his ears, as if they were trying their best to get into his brain.

As time goes by, the sound becomes louder and louder, making people feel dizzy.

“This store should also have some kind of pollution depth threshold. The longer you stay, the greater the impact. That’s why the store instructions tell us to leave after buying things!”

"Oh shit……"

Lin Yi felt something was wrong, but seeing Li Huiyuan clenching her teeth and searching for the student commemorative coin, he calmed down and said through gritted teeth: "Li Huiyuan, let's walk towards the exit and look for it on the shelves along the way."

Li Huiyuan was also affected by the call, and knew the priorities, so she quickly responded: "Okay..."

The purpose of looking for student commemorative coins is to maintain one's own safety. If you force yourself to stay here to look for them, even if you can really find them, if something unexpected happens in the end, wouldn't that be as dangerous as not finding the student commemorative coins?

……

The two walked and searched, and the time soon came to 17:20, but they still couldn't find the student commemorative coins on the shelves along the way.

There are even some shelves that don't even have the boxes for student commemorative coins.

Lin Yi didn't know what proportion student commemorative coins accounted for among other commodities, but from this round of observations, the proportion would not be too large.

But the small proportion is not the crux of the problem. The crux of the problem is that there are no student commemorative coins on all the shelves.

Lin Yi felt something was wrong and subconsciously tightened his grip on the merchandise in his hand.

"Li Huiyuan!" Lin Yi said in a deep voice, "Let's go to the snack food area!"

"Ah?" Li Huiyuan was stunned.

"Something must have gone wrong in the store! Something must have happened at some point before we got here!" Lin Yi was quick-witted and confirmed his guess almost instantly, "Go to the snack area and grab a roll of cookies! Now, right now!"

The chance of getting the student commemorative coins is too slim, so now I have to consider another thing - [take at least one item away].

Considering that the things with the least hidden dangers are in the snack area, and the snack area is not far away, for the sake of safety just grab a roll of biscuits or something like that in your hand.

"Okay." Li Huiyuan chose to obey Lin Yi's words absolutely.

Two minutes later, Li Huiyuan came to the snack area with the help of Lin Yi and grabbed a roll of biscuits. She thought about it and then grabbed a piece of bread next to it.

She can take away up to three items. If she finds student commemorative coins, that will be the third item. If not, she can take two snacks.

Just as she put the biscuits and bread into the pockets of her pleated skirt, the whole store seemed to be suddenly bombed by something. There was a loud "boom", and the arched dome shook violently. Sand, gravel and dust fell down with a "rustling" sound accompanied by the violently swinging incandescent lamp. The turbid cyclone seemed to shuttle between the blurred light and shadow, as if the underground world had suddenly encountered the quicksand of death.

All the shelves around Lin Yi began to shake with a "clattering sound". A strong sense of crisis and dust instantly filled his heart.

"Snapped……"

His ears moved slightly, as if he caught a slight fluctuation in the noisy noise of the shaking shelves and incandescent lights.

“Hoo—Hoo…”

Then there was a heavy breathing sound...

Lin Yi's pupils suddenly shrank. This time the sound was similar to the strange sound in the darkness, but different. It came from the "normal" area in the lighted store.

Following these words, I always felt that he turned his head to take a look, and what he saw were rows of shelves, but the strong sense of alertness seemed to "sensing" and constructed a picture of a monster out of the cage in his mind!
At the same time, a barely perceptible golden light flashed through the depths of his eyes. At the moment when the light passed by, his vision quickly expanded like an eight-fold or sixteen-fold telescope, and continued to penetrate the rows of shelves, and finally saw a door behind the shelves. The door of the store.

The source of that strange noise.

At this moment in Lin Yi's field of vision, the dark white fog and darkness blended together, completely eroding the area of ​​orange-yellow light fog at the entrance of the convenience store.

There were eerie shadows wandering in the mist. Although they were at a very long distance, Lin Yi could clearly feel that the chef in the green bib in the form of a humanoid spider was behind the door, glaring at them hungrily, and it seemed that he would follow the mist to break through the door and rush into the store at any time.

“No! No, no…”

Lin Yi suddenly heard a "whooshing" sound of wind, like that made by a train passing by, and three different images flashed before his eyes as quickly as if skipping frames.

One was the scene he was seeing now, with the incandescent lights flickering in the store and the mist lingering and surging outside the store door;
The second is the scene from Mao Feiyang's perspective where the light is shaking, fog has already poured into the store, and there is also a scene where the nocturnal creature reaches out its hand;

The third type is a doomsday-like store with constant buzzing alarms and red lights...

In the 24 frames per second video, these three images jumped wildly, and in this flickering fragment, he seemed to foresee the scene where the fog broke through the door of the convenience store!
A strong sense of crisis suddenly surged out from behind the convenience store door like a tide and rushed towards him!
“Huff…”

The whole process lasted no more than three seconds before his vision returned to normal, but that prophetic feeling lingered in his mind like a ghost.

"Student Lin?" Li Huiyuan's voice sounded in his ears, with a hint of doubt, "Is there any problem?"

"No problem for now..." Lin Yi retracted his gaze, and the golden light in his eyes had long disappeared.

But just as he shook his head slightly to say that it was okay, he suddenly noticed some pure white stains on the nearby floor tiles out of the corner of his eye.

The stain looked like someone had dipped a mop in white chocolate syrup, thrown it on the ground, and let it dry and harden.

"Wait, this is... ketchup?!"

This is what is formed after tomato paste is gypsum!
Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat.

The scene of Mu Daxian exploding and killing the strange night creatures flashed through his mind. In the scene, the night creatures' short limbs flew everywhere, ketchup splattered all over the ground, and finally turned into white sculpture-like fragments. Wasn't it exactly the same as the stain in front of him? !
"So, what I just saw was a scene that was happening at the same time in another layer?"

"The two layers are somehow interpenetrable? So that's why the ketchup splashed over?"

"Or...if the layer is still the same layer, I saw what happened at another point in time?"

Mao Feiyang didn't have a watch on his wrist, and there was no pendulum clock in the store.

The only way he could make a judgment was to wait until night time to see if he could rely on dreams to relive what Mao Feiyang had experienced.

But no matter which guess it is, it all indicates one thing - we can’t stay in the convenience store any longer!
"We have to leave here immediately!" Lin Yi's face was full of solemnity. He pointed in the direction of the canteen entrance and said, "The fog has already submerged the student cafeteria and will soon seep in from the canteen door!"

Li Huiyuan followed Lin Yi's direction and looked in the direction of the canteen. She didn't know what she saw, but her pupils suddenly dilated, and she was filled with fear: "Lin, Lin... Run! Run!!!"

Lin Yi was originally looking in the direction of the canteen, and upon hearing that, he glanced over there.

"Grass!"

At just one glance, he felt as if he was struck by an electric current from head to toe. His scalp was numb, and he quickly supported Li Huiyuan and ran towards the direction of the blue sign.

I saw that the door of the convenience store had disappeared, and in its place was a spreading white mist.

The thick fog was as sticky as paste. The incandescent lamps along the way flickered "hissing" in the thick fog as if they were short-circuited, and finally went out weakly, making that area disappear into darkness.

“Rustle… rustle…”

The non-human classmates and nocturnal creatures walked through the fog like a swarm of insects. Some of the nocturnal creatures that had not yet transformed from their clay forms into human-like forms were crawling along the arched ceiling of the store like twisted human skin.

Mixed in with these inhuman units were green-bibbed cooks.

They "harmoniously" mixed in the same team, and as the fog surged, they spread rustlingly in the store, and as the darkness continued to advance, the encirclement continued to shrink.

The convenience store instantly turned into a biochemical poison circle where people had to fight for their lives. If they couldn't escape from here before the fog completely submerged the convenience store, the consequences would be disastrous.

Suddenly, Li Huiyuan stumbled, and her entire weight fell on Lin Yi, causing him to become unstable and almost fall to the ground.

Lin Yi quickly grabbed Li Huiyuan, otherwise she would be in trouble if she scraped her knees while mopping the floor: "Are you okay?"

"I... I have no feeling in my feet..." Li Huiyuan's face was pale, and a dry smile appeared on the corner of her mouth. "Student Lin... I feel like I may not be able to run away..."

"Since we haven't found the student commemorative coins yet, why not... why not just leave it at that."

"Run, run quickly... leave me alone."

"Don't forget, we agreed that I am cannon fodder."

Lin Yi looked at her face, then glanced at the fog that was coming like a nightmare behind her, then helped her sit on the ground.

"You take a rest first."

After saying that, he rushed out without looking back.

Looking at Lin Yi's back, even though Li Huiyuan had prepared herself mentally, when this scene happened before her, she couldn't help but feel a strong sense of sadness.

Although it has already been said...

Although……

But I tried so hard to survive...

But... I really don't want to accept this...

She felt an unprecedented heartache. It turned out that what was more terrifying than a slow death was being abandoned by a friend who she had finally trusted...

However, just as her tears were welling up in her eyes and were about to blur her vision, she suddenly saw a figure coming back from afar.

Not only did he turn back, but he was also holding a piece of cloth in his hand and running panting like a superman in a cape.

"Lin...Yi?"

Li Huiyuan looked at Lin Yi in disbelief. The other party was holding a bed sheet covered with big red flower patterns.

Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!
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