Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from the Cafeteria's outer wall and looked around.
The Cafeteria area was already packed with Experience Students. Familiar faces and strangers crowded together in considerable numbers, all waiting for the Cafeteria to open like hungry chicks clamoring to be fed.
Although the Cafeteria did not technically close, no one dared enter the Student Passage early. They all waited at its entrance, behaving themselves impeccably.
Lin Yi glanced down at his watch.
15:59.
There was less than a minute left until the Cafeteria opened.
Just then, he suddenly seemed to hear a pleading voice nearby, its broken words drifting to his ears on the wind.
The voice... came from the Other Passage.
Lin Yi looked toward the sound. At the Other Passage downhill along the mountain path, a girl sat slumped at the entrance, trying to grab Xu Shunkang's sleeve as she desperately pleaded with him.
"That girl...?" A flicker of something unusual crossed Lin Yi's eyes. He recognized her. Wasn't she Pan Jian's female companion? She was also the one who had said that morning that the Digital Camera was an ill omen.
Lin Yi soon picked out some information from her pleading. Essentially, the girl was terrified, finding life on Campus frightening and unbearable. She wanted Xu Shunkang to take her into the Student Dining Hall through the Other Passage, and kept saying things like she "only trusted Athlete Students" and "begged the Athlete Students to help her"...
Lin Yi sighed inwardly. That morning, she had merely been extremely tense, sensitive to and afraid of everything around her. But after a day, she had already become somewhat unhinged. Although she still had her Student ID, her will seemed to have been destroyed.
"Huh, did she skip breakfast and lunch?" Lin Yi suddenly realized that