CHAPTER 1088: CHAPTER 510: LEAVING THE TEACHING BUILDING (2)

Class Teacher-040 hadn’t reacted to that extreme sense of contrast and could only nod.

"Old Lin, are we going or not?" Wei Liang tilted his neck, with a hint of urging in his tone.

"Of course, we’re going!" Lin Yi quickly responded, waving over at Wei Shan who was waiting not far away: "Wei Sang! Let’s go!"

Upon hearing Lin Yi’s voice, Wei Shan seemed to have received some command and started slowly walking over with an umbrella through the corridor.

When Wei Shan started moving, the rain that had swept into the corridor seemed to have its trajectory distorted, crashing into the umbrella in Wei Shan’s hand. The amount of water actually falling on Wei Shan was remarkably minimal.

The umbrella in Wei Shan’s hand appeared somewhat bizarre, always giving Lin Yi a sense of motion, as if it possessed life. But when he looked closely, he couldn’t find any problems.

Class Teacher-040 only looked towards where Wei Shan was after hearing Lin Yi call out, and her expression changed, as if she had seen something terrifying.

Her body tensed slightly, and it seemed a slight change occurred in her gold-rimmed glasses...

But at that moment, Lin Yi’s voice sounded in her ear: "Teacher, I’m leaving now!"

"Boom!"

Class Teacher-040’s body shuddered slightly, as if being pulled out from some indescribable eerie state, and a layer of fine sweat appeared on her forehead.

She looked at the place where Wei Shan stood with a bit of horror, yet this time she saw Wei Shan clearly.

The fear in her eyes hadn’t fully dissipated, followed closely by a hint of confusion.

She pursed her lips as she looked at Lin Yi: "Safe travels..."

Before finishing, she unexpectedly added: "See you tomorrow."

Lin Yi was slightly stunned, then smiled: "I will, see you tomorrow."

Class Teacher-040 couldn’t help but glance at Wei Shan again, hesitated for a moment, and then pushed the classroom door open and went inside.

As the door opened, Lin Yi’s perception followed and quickly scanned the classroom.

Unexpectedly, Lu Zhao’s group of four was not in the classroom.

"They actually left the classroom?" Lin Yi was briefly stunned.

When Class Teacher-040 pushed the door open, she too was briefly stunned but then shut the door in the next moment.

After bidding farewell to Class Teacher-040, Wei Liang pulled a cheap raincoat from his pocket and handed it to Lin Yi: "Stop looking, if you keep looking, she’ll really make you stay overnight and you won’t be happy about it. Here! Do you want to put this on?"

Lin Yi glanced at the chicken glove-sized raincoat and said helplessly: "In this kind of weather, does putting this on even matter?"

"It’s mainly for making your backpack waterproof!" Wei Liang said, "Otherwise, if it gets soaked, you’ll say I have good stuff and won’t share with you."

Lin Yi took the raincoat, but such a poor-quality raincoat was hard to wear in the wind and rain, sticking to the body without breathability, not opening up properly.

Luckily, at the last moment, Wei Shan got to them, using the umbrella to block some of the windy rain, giving Lin Yi a chance to put on the raincoat.

After changing into the raincoat, Lin Yi didn’t forget to glance at the time on his watch.

20:09.

Nearly 50 minutes of travel time, which was theoretically ample.

"Ready?" Wei Liang asked.

"Ready." Lin Yi nodded. After identifying the position of the nearest lamp post in the rain, he didn’t dawdle any longer, taking the lead down the steps.

Wei Shan followed with the umbrella: "Old Lin, the umbrella!"

"Oh!" Lin Yi naturally ducked under.

"Me too, me too!" Wei Liang barked as he joined in.

"There’s no space for you." Wei Shan said slowly.

"I can hold an umbrella myself!" Wei Liang said unceremoniously.

Wei Shan glanced at him mercilessly: "Do you want me to stick the umbrella on your head?"

Wei Liang, having met his match, quickly ducked his head in, tightening the cheap raincoat around him, laughing: "I have a raincoat, I have a raincoat... hehehe..."

Lin Yi then curiously looked at the umbrella: "Wei Sang, where did you get this umbrella?"

Wei Shan mumbled: "I borrowed it."

"Borrowed? Who’s so kind?" Lin Yi was greatly surprised. In this kind of weather, someone would lend an umbrella?

What a kind-hearted person!

"The smell... it’s quite strong." Wei Shan nodded seriously, "Initially they didn’t want to lend it, no matter how I pleaded, finally I convinced them with virtue."

As Lin Yi listened, he felt something strange in Wei Shan’s words, but said nothing more. After all, good umbrellas don’t question their origins, as long as they work.

Wei Liang quietly shrunk to the edge of the umbrella, relying on the raincoat as he followed them down the steps.

The three were immediately swallowed by the curtain of rain, and soon disappeared within it.

As the three left, the corridor gradually returned to tranquillity, leaving only the intertwining sound of wind and rain crashing against the walls, echoing wave after wave.

Amid this sound, there seemed to be another kind of sound mixed within...

"Rustle... Rustle..."

"Rustle..."

Like the sound of pages of an open book turning continuously in the wind.

On May 10, X023, at 20:11, under the dim hallway lights of the Teaching Building, a piece of paper was wedged into the doorplate of the "Class B2" office, the fragile paper like a yellowed dead leaf on the twig, being battered continuously by the wind and rain, emitting a weak, crisp sound...

"Rustle... Rustle..."

"Rustle..."

...

On May 10, X023, a section of cobblestone road leaving the School Building Area in the school district.

The sky was covered with dark clouds, like a giant dark pot turned upside down, immersing the entire campus in darkness.

Howling winds carried rain freely shuttling between the mountain forests, shaking the trees back and forth, making a "creaking" sound. The bean-sized raindrops fell relentlessly, pounding on Wei Shan’s umbrella with a "pitter-patter," as if the umbrella’s surface might tear if handled carelessly.

The rain that wasn’t blocked by the umbrella fell onto the cobblestone road, shattering against the stones, creating a kind of grayish-white mist.

The lamppost amidst the rain curtain appeared somewhat lonely, the dim light struggled under the storm masked by darkness, as if it might be swallowed by the dark at any time.

Lin Yi and the others shared an umbrella, moving like a snail in the rain, the mist subtly mingling with the fog around them, forming a large, vague and hazy mist...

Within that mist, there were unknown numbers of pseudo-human sculptures and nocturnal species. When they noticed Lin Yi and his friends’ movements, they began wriggling and following, making a "rustling" sound in the rain...

This kind of sound was something Lin Yi had long accustomed to, yet it still subconsciously produced a sense of unease.

It’s like seeing a snake, some people even through a screen, seeing a wriggling snake, still feel psychological discomfort, and Lin Yi is the same.

Ahead of them, the streetlight in the rain curtain formed a vague halo, barely illuminating a small area around.

Suddenly, Wei Liang spoke: "Old Lin, have you ever read an essay about an old father picking up his son from school? Because the umbrella wasn’t big enough, the father would tilt it towards his son, and so every time when they got home, the father’s side was wet..."

Lin Yi replied: "So, are you implying that Wei Sang’s umbrella isn’t big enough?"

Wei Liang shouted in the wind and rain: "I’m saying, if we don’t move faster, the father’s side will catch a cold from the dampness!"

Lin Yi was speechless: "Wow, Liangzi, you’re even going to take advantage of this?"

"So dear father, how about we swap places?" Wei Liang, rubbing his shoulders, used the most domineering tone to demonstrate what a man should be capable of when faced with the whims of heaven and earth.