With that, Lao Mo silently turned and left. A ring of dark shadows seemed to coil around the Pig Slaughtering Knife in his hand, but under the scouring of that liquid-nitrogen-like aura, they soon vanished again...
Holding the light bulb, Lin Yi slowly straightened up, his gaze never leaving Lao Mo's retreating figure.
"Lao Lin, what just happened?" Tian Bufan followed Lin Yi's gaze toward an empty spot.
He hadn't seen Lao Mo.
"You... didn't see Lao Mo?" Lin Yi asked in confusion.
"Lao Mo was here?" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes. After a pause, he asked, "Did you intersect?"
Lin Yi quickly recounted what had just happened, then added, "Lao Mo absorbed the power the light bulb had just gathered, then told me I absolutely had to go to the Gymnasium."
"Oh, right, the Grinning Angels! They really do seem to be some kind of quantum-state thing!"
"I'm just not sure how I was locked onto yet. It most likely has something to do with the mark from 'It-I.' It probably didn't lock onto me just through my imagining it..."
Tian Bufan lowered his eyes slightly, thought for a moment, then said, "In that case, hurry up and eat, then head to the Gymnasium. I'll wait for Wei Sang."
"Yeah, that works..." Lin Yi nodded. "Also, I feel like Lao Mo was different from how he was in my dream... His apron turned black again, and the kitchen knife in his hand became a larger Pig Slaughtering Knife with a wider blade. Of course, that wasn't all. Mainly, he just 'felt' different to me."
"But I can't really say what changed about him. Anyway... it was just strange..."
Tian Bufan mused, "Maybe... he never left the Cafeteria area at all, neither now nor this morning. It's just... the layer