"Perhaps..." Hearing that, Lin Yi said nothing more and simply began carefully observing his surroundings.
[Lin Yi...]
Just as he began looking around, a call sounded in his ears.
The sudden call made his scalp prickle. Immediately afterward, a rapid series of clanking sounds rang in his ears, like a train speeding past right against his face in a cramped tunnel.
That sound, which he had not heard in a long time, instantly put Lin Yi on edge.
[Lin Yi...]
[Lin Yi...]
Amid the rushing wind, those ghostly calls grew faster and louder.
Lin Yi's vision kept flickering. He seemed to see another world hidden beneath the Student Passage. In architectural terms, the underlying frameworks of the two worlds were almost identical, but one world had been built into the Student Passage, while the other had been constructed as a different kind of passage.
The two passages flickered rapidly before his eyes like overlapping afterimages, accompanied by the rushing wind and the calls.
He looked at Li Huiyuan beside him and Wei Liang ahead. The three of them were still climbing the steps at an unhurried pace toward the Student Passage's exit, yet he seemed to be the only one who saw the flickering Afterimages.
[Lin Yi, oh, Lin Yi...]
[Lin Yi...]
[You're here...]
[Take us with you...]
Countless broken sculptures suddenly appeared in the passage, bound in chains and suspended upside down. They swayed in a wind Lin Yi could not feel, swinging their arms or heads as they chanted that eerie hymn:
[Nr den...]
[svarte mnen...]
[vissner...kommer...]
[srgemoerne... tilbake fra...]
[det... uendelige...]
[dyphavet...]
The fragmented hymn drifted on the wind, vaguely seeming to gather into an ancient Admonition:
[Nr den svarte mnen vissner...kommer srgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet...]
The murmuring seemed to engrave itself upon Lin Yi's