At 6:43 on May 9, Year X023, by the "Cafeteria-001" streetlamp, Lin Yi's steps slowly froze.
His gaze slowly shifted away from Tian Bufan and toward his own arm.
He seemed to see an extremely thin layer of fog floating over his hands. Like an invisible gauze robe, it covered his body, something that had gathered around him the moment he entered the Cafeteria area.
It made him seem like a stone that had suddenly appeared in a stream when he entered the Cafeteria area. The stream met him, swelled into a ripple, then split around him, flowed past his body, and came together again...
This lasted a few seconds before returning to normal, and the floating layer of fog dissipated like smoke someone had blown into his face.
Yet Lin Yi did not relax in the slightest. Instead, he knitted his brows, sensing that things were very wrong.
After "adjusting" to the atmosphere here, Lin Yi experienced a sense of déjà vu, as though he had stepped into a painting. He also had the illusion that the mountains were no longer mountains, as though he did not belong in his surroundings at all.
He seemed able to sense an invisible layer of malice, but not its source. It also felt as though the entire Cafeteria area was filled with malice toward him at that moment, trying to force him out.
He nearly yielded to that malice and stepped backward, but when he saw Tian Bufan and Wei Shan slowly straighten their backs, he gritted his teeth and stood straight as well.
Meanwhile, Wei Liang had already walked several steps without noticing anything. When he realized no one beside him had followed, he first felt an abrupt chill behind him.
Turning around, he discovered that everyone except him had barely