Standing nearby, Lin Yi saw Lao Mo nod. Although he still could not understand the strange expression that had appeared on Lao Mo's face afterward, he knew his analysis should have been correct.
Just then, some noises came from not far behind him. The Purebred Night-Walking Species that had been trailing them all along had finally passed through the Covered Corridor and entered the Art Building's lobby. Close behind them were the Grinning Angels, whose translucent bodies defied the laws of physics.
The Grinning Angels drifted through the blood mist without any resistance, still pursuing Lin Yi and Lao Mo. Meanwhile, upon sensing the Art Students, the Purebred Night-Walking Species charged at them recklessly, like starving ghosts crashing a billionaire's banquet.
Lin Yi grew anxious, breaking into a cold sweat for the nearest Art Student. "This is bad! The Night-Walking Species are attacking them!"
Lao Mo grabbed him. "Don't panic. Watch what happens next."
Sure enough, before Lao Mo had even finished speaking, the Purebred Night-Walking Species closest to an Art Student had already reached its viscous hand, with its dull gray nails, toward that student.
But before it could touch the Art Student, its outstretched arm seemed to encounter an invisible force field, drying out from its viscous state at a speed visible to the naked eye.
As it continued drying, pieces of something resembling dried, dead skin began peeling off its surface, and the drying spread throughout its body at an even more ferocious pace.
The entire process took barely a breath or two. In the end, the Purebred Night-Walking Species's body became a rigid, gray-black sculpture.
Strangely, as its "skin" peeled away, its gray-black surface gradually turned bluish gray, then as white as mutton-fat jade. But that whiteness soon disappeared, and its entire body scattered like yellow