Zhou Yao ignored the strange looks from his classmates and hurriedly rummaged through Liu Wenjun's drawer for test papers and textbooks.
His movements were hurried and frantic. He flipped open and shut textbook after textbook, pulling out each test paper for careful inspection.
Nothing!
The name field on the cover of the first notebook was blank.
Nothing!
The second workbook had no signature either.
Nothing there, either!
Math exercise books, English test papers, Chinese composition books... every place where the three characters Liu Wenjun should have been written was completely blank.
He kept searching and finally found the ranking sheet from the previous senior-year monthly exam at the very bottom of the drawer.
It was a printed A4 sheet that clearly recorded every student's exam results, rankings, and scores in each subject.
Zhou Yao's gaze swiftly moved to the student ranked first. The scores for every subject were clearly listed, but the name field before that row of results was blank.
It was as though those scores had never had an owner to begin with, nothing more than a string of meaningless numbers.
"Cognitive alteration... interfering with reality?"
Zhou Yao's voice was low and hoarse, trembling with disbelief.
"How is that possible?!"
His gaze remained fixed on the blank sheet, his eyes filled with shock and fear.
Zhou Yao had long known that the Yin Mountain Metro could alter cognition.
It had gradually made the entire city accept the metro's existence, even though Yin Mountain City had never built one.
But that alteration had been limited to cognition alone, a mental influence. Some written records in Yin Mountain City still confirmed that the city had no metro.
And now, that power had begun interfering with reality!
It had not only erased people's memories of Liu Wenjun—even written records in the