"Bzzz..."
Of the eight screens on the console, the one in the upper-right corner suddenly emitted a malfunctioning noise as Duan Yanyan turned around to speak.
The sound was piercing and shrill, unlike anything a machine could make. It sounded more like the wail of a woman being strangled.
Duan Yanyan covered her ears. The moment she turned her head, her entire body suddenly distorted and became insubstantial, ceasing to look real within half a second.
It was as though she had changed from a living person into a mass of "pixels," her figure turning layer by layer into bleak gray-black lines.
Ji Li's gaze sharpened. Rather than moving, he carefully observed the Black Figure nearby.
To his astonishment, he discovered that the Black Figure was pixelating at the same time.
The Black Figure had already been strange, like a paper cutout smeared over with ink. Now that it was twisting, it looked even more bizarre.
The synchronized distortion made Ji Li realize something was wrong, yet he did not dare act rashly.
Exactly one second later, Duan Yanyan and the Black Figure vanished before his eyes at the same time.
Exactly another second later, the Black Figure returned to the Monitoring Room, maintaining its original sideways stance.
Ji Li stood at the doorway and witnessed everything. He began calculating in his mind.
The Black Figure was the trigger for the Special Path. What had just happened clearly meant that Duan Yanyan had also been pulled into the Special Path.
"Sure enough, no matter what identity one has in this university, they must remain under the Rules. Even counselors are no exception."
Based on the intelligence so far, the Black Figure differed from Li Cheng and Long-haired Senior Sister, but it shared similarities with the Red-clothed Ghost.
Li Cheng and