Rules of the Uncanny: 4016
Chapter 166

Beneath the thick fog

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May 8, Year X023, 20:02.

Lin Yi was the first to step out of the classroom, plunging into the thick fog.

As he emerged, light spilled through the gap at the classroom door, and faint rustling immediately came from the corridor ceiling.

Lin Yi's scalp prickled. "Holy shit," he blurted. His instincts told him that some limp, rubbery Night-Walking Species were curled up in the dark recesses of the corridor ceiling.

The corridor's Incandescent Light had a shade, and there were blind spots where the shade met the ceiling, places the light could not reach. Those spots had probably already become lurking places for the Night-Walking Species.

He instinctively reached out and touched the wall beside the classroom door.

The smooth, painted wall was now covered in warped marks, exactly like the wall he had felt in his Visual Hallucination before.

"The area outside the classroom has already started dropping through Layers. Looks like the exposed parts of the Teaching Building aren't safe anymore. We need to leave now."

Soon, Wei Liang followed him out of the classroom.

Lin Yi noticed that Wei Liang seemed somewhat afraid of the fog-shrouded Campus.

Honestly, he felt there was more to Wei Liang than met the eye, but in this environment, the "weakness" Wei Liang displayed looked even less like an act.

It was as though the Abnormal Weather had suppressed him, greatly weakening his Unorthodox Tricks and making them very "unstable."

As he passed through the classroom doorway, the dense fog wrapped around him like rice bran. For an instant, it actually gave him the illusion that he was about to suffocate, but he quickly adjusted.

The fog had invaded the Teaching Building's corridor. The corridor lights were greatly weakened but still worked, yet Lin Yi felt that Wei Liang's body seemed

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