Li Huiyuan watched, somewhat entranced. For a moment, she actually forgot to paddle, and her body slowly sank into the water. Only when the pool water rose past her nose and choked her did she jolt and quickly come back to her senses.
"That was so creepy!" Li Huiyuan couldn't help shivering. When she looked toward Lin Yi again, light still shimmered around him, but that sense of light and shadow shattering and blending together was gone.
It seemed what she had just seen had only been a hallucination.
Just then, she saw Xu Shunkang enter the Swimming Hall in his swimwear and head straight for Boss.
Xu Shunkang said something to Boss, but Boss's expression didn't change in the slightest, as though everything had been expected.
Xu Shunkang froze for a moment. Then Boss gave him some further instructions, and unusual looks repeatedly flashed through his eyes before he quietly withdrew.
Lin Yi noticed this too, but didn't know what had happened.
In the instant his attention wandered, another call sounded beside his ear:
[Lin Yi...]
At the same time, he seemed to feel something cold and sinister silently winding around his feet...
"?!"
His heart jolted. He realized he really couldn't move his feet, and he was about to sink.
He hurriedly held his breath, submerged himself, and looked down at his feet.
He couldn't find anything wrapped around his feet at all. But he soon noticed that, with the shifting light and shadows, the shadow of a beam of light fell across his feet. Right where that shadow lay, a powerful gripping sensation arose, as though it had bound his feet.
He tried stirring up the water, but the light and shadows underwater remained unaffected by the ripples.
He felt the shadow's restraint growing stronger and stronger.