Suddenly, a boom reverberated through his mind. His field of vision abruptly shattered, and a scene emerged in his mind as though a simulation were playing out-
The scene showed a dim Lecture Hall. A film of condensation spread across the classroom's thick blastproof windows, and raindrops battered the glass. The damp, cold air seemed capable of seeping into the classroom.
This was Group B Class 2 on May 6, X023, after the lights went out...
A normal scene appeared in Lin Yi's mind. Then, as though from a god's-eye perspective, he saw the Nonhuman Classmates, their expressions crazed and possessed, pull themselves out of their deeply sunken seats like blades being drawn from sheaths, then slowly move around the classroom on stiff legs.
In this classroom, Little Genius huddled beneath a desk, took a flashlight from his person, and switched it on to examine the classroom.
After a while-or perhaps very soon-the concept-level Sculpture opened the classroom door, and green fog carrying an intense aura of contamination poured inside.
The Nonhuman Classmates who absorbed the green fog began turning into Humanoid Sculptures. Witnessing this, Little Genius suffered an immediate collapse of cognition, his pupils losing focus...
Then the green fog burrowed into Little Genius's body. As though they had smelled delicious food, the Humanoid Sculptures all crowded toward him and dragged him out from beneath the desk...
What followed was a bloody, brutal scene. The Humanoid Sculptures mangled Little Genius beyond recognition, and his limbs might also have been torn to pieces.
When Little Genius's flashlight fell to the floor and was inadvertently kicked by the Humanoid Sculptures, some of the less attentive students were drawn to its light and witnessed a scene that collapsed their cognition too. Thus, at that moment, Little Genius had fired a shot with