"That explains the students who vanished from the school as well."
Zhou Yao moved away from the metro station entrance, found a secluded spot, and quietly analyzed the situation.
"Not many people took the metro early in the morning to begin with; passenger traffic was nowhere near as heavy as during rush hour.
Most passengers at this time were students hurrying to school, along with office workers who had just gotten off after working through the night, and elderly people accustomed to rising early for exercise or outings."
"These people were trapped on that strange Yin Mountain Metro, completely cut off from the outside world.
And once they were trapped on the metro, every trace of their existence was altered by the Yin Mountain Metro's power, as though they had been utterly erased from this world."
"Not only would the living forget them, even the names recorded in reality would be wiped away. That was why there were so many blank names on the grade sheets."
As Zhou Yao muttered to himself, a thought suddenly stirred in his mind.
"So that means... Liu Wenjun is on the Yin Mountain Metro too?"
Zhou Yao's brow furrowed slightly.
If he had been asked to plunge headfirst into the Yin Mountain Metro and launch a rescue operation without knowing anything, Zhou Yao definitely would not have agreed.
That would have been no different from walking straight into a trap and getting himself dragged down as well.
But things were different now.
Yellow Wind Little Sage was already inside the Yin Mountain Metro. Since that was the case, Zhou Yao naturally did not mind lending a hand to his deskmate while he was at it.
After all, Liu Wenjun had always taken good care of him, and their relationship was fairly good.
His consciousness