Rules of the Uncanny: 4016
Chapter 67

The twisting, stretching road

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Lin Yi's hair suddenly stood on end. The feeling the dormitory building gave him was unlike anything before: no emotional fluctuations, neither goodwill nor malice, only a pure, indifferent sense of being looked down upon.

No, there was not even that.

He suddenly froze...

"No... wait!"

"Why am I subconsciously personifying the dormitory building?"

"Why do I think the dormitory building is looking down at me?"

"Is it just because my first impression was that it stood there like a giant? Is that why..."

The evening breeze was cool. It swept across his back, making him, already damp with cold sweat, instantly feel as though frost had invaded him.

He shuddered and instantly came back to his senses.

He blinked repeatedly to focus his vision on what was before him, then checked the time.

20:35.

"20:35..." His expression was grave. "So I only spaced out just now?"

Beside him, Wei Liang asked, "What's wrong?"

Lin Yi shook his head. "I'm fine."

"Oh." Wei Liang acknowledged him, and the two continued toward the Dormitory.

As they walked, more and more students appeared along the road. Lin Yi guessed they must have converged with people from other classes.

In theory, Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, and Kuai Hongji should have been among them too, but Lin Yi had no intention of looking for them.

They should wait until they reached the Dormitory to truly regroup, rather than start reorganizing their teams halfway there.

Images of the Teaching Building from his hallucination floated through Lin Yi's mind. What he found incredible was that when he thought of the dormitory building's appearance, he felt little fear or horror, only an overwhelming sense of shock and awe.

As they walked, the fog along the road gradually thickened. The ghostly white fog rose like a tide, reaching

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