"Huh?" Wei Liang paused, puzzled. "Was I supposed to run into something?"
"Uh... nothing." Once Lin Yi caught his breath, a sudden chill ran down his spine, and his scalp tingled. His instincts told him that the Grinning Angel seemed to have finished off the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student and started pinpointing his location...
"Liangzi, get to the Gymnasium! No time to explain. Run with me!" Lin Yi nudged Wei Liang's arm with his elbow, picked up his pace, and started jogging toward the Gymnasium.
Fortunately, this stretch of mountain path went downhill, so jogging wasn't strenuous.
Seeing this, Wei Liang hurried after him, calling, "Hey! Wait for me, Lao Lin!"
Before long, the Grinning Angel appeared at the bend in the mountain path where Lin Yi had looked back. Just as it was about to follow Lin Yi's scent in pursuit, the scent it picked up through its nostrils seemed to become muddled, briefly interrupting its movement.
It floated there quietly, then slowly descended to the ground, motionless as a sculpture.
A dozen seconds later, it slowly adjusted its direction, gently rose into the air, and drifted toward the side of the Pebble Road near the Wooded Belt...
Its body passed straight through the trees in the Wooded Belt as though it didn't exist at all. After floating several dozen meters deeper inside, it finally discovered a broken Streetlamp Pole at the boundary between light and shadow.
A "person" was bound tightly to that Streetlamp Pole, all four limbs removed and stuck into the hemp ropes beside it like flowers in an arrangement.
It struggled desperately. Its limbs clawed wildly as though each had a mind of its own, yet it could never break free of its restraints.
Had the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student still been there, it would