It was past four on Campus, and the elevator entrance in the Teaching Building was pitch-black. Without light, the Impersonator Classmates took the form of sculptures.
When the light of the Old Kerosene Lamp fell on them, their illuminated sides hissed and released white smoke as though they had been placed on a grill, transforming into Impersonator Classmates. Yet perhaps the lamp's light was simply too intense for them: white powder particles immediately began showering off their somewhat "fleshlike" bodies.
At the same time, the Impersonator Sculptures let out low, bovine moans and instinctively covered their eyes, hoping, in an act of self-deception, that this would keep the light off them.
They shoved backward, only to be pushed forward again by the Impersonator Sculptures behind them, which had no idea what was happening. Within a few breaths, they became sculptures without any trace of life.
The light spread, cutting a swath straight through the Impersonator Sculptures around the elevator.
Lin Yi suddenly remembered how, back in the Dream, he had borrowed Maozi's perspective and watched those Impersonator Sculptures emerge from their classrooms one after another around four in the morning, then line up and follow the Corridor toward the Stairwell. Now it turned out they had been coming to take the elevator!
"Wait... four o'clock!"
[You have to get on the elevator and leave the Art Building before four, or you'll have to wait until the next day.]
Lao Mo's words also surfaced in his mind.
Could four o'clock be the point in time when the Impersonator Sculptures left the Teaching Building?
Lin Yi had initially thought those Impersonator Sculptures would leave Campus through the Wooded Belt in pursuit of the Art Building. Now, however, it seemed they first departed together by elevator at four, and only fled through the