"Hm...?"
That voice... wasn't quite like the Sculpture's...
It was a delicate female voice...
"Lin Yi... Lin Yi..."
The voice grew increasingly urgent...
"Lin, Linlinzi..."
"Hm...?"
"'Linlinzi'...?"
"Who's 'Linlinzi'..."
"Is that me...?"
This feels so familiar...
Who is it...
Calling me...
That strange yet familiar feeling gradually spread through Lin Yi's heart. He found his vision flickering rapidly, and something he had forgotten was about to break through the surface...
[Call me Huihuizi.]
[Linlinzi...]
[Let's train together! Liangliangzi!]
Lin Yi's memory suddenly returned. He remembered... hadn't he been in the Gymnasium?!
At that moment, his rapidly flickering vision slowly settled, too. This bizarre environment began to dissipate, replaced by the increasingly bright LED lights before his eyes...
"That's..."
Those were the LED lights hanging from the ceiling of the Gymnastics Hall. There were also some incandescent lights beside them, but their soft orange-yellow glow looked much dimmer next to the LEDs.
His blurry vision gradually cleared. What greeted him was Li Huiyuan's pretty face, covered in anxiety, her large, watery eyes looking as though she was about to cry.
Boss stood on the other side, calmly looking down at him, seemingly never having worried about anything.
As his thoughts returned, pain engulfed his body like a tide.
It felt as though countless ants were gnawing at his flesh, sinews, and bones, a needlelike pain accompanying the aching numbness.
Lin Yi hurt too much to speak. And this was no ordinary pain, but the pain of already numbed flesh being stimulated again, as though his muscles had been drawn into glass filaments, then grabbed together and twisted over and over. Pain and numbness, each wave of numbness bringing another wave of pain, cycling endlessly, alternating without pause...
May 9, Year X023, 13:21, in the Gymnastics Hall.
The speed Lin Yi