Sweat poured off Lin Yi at those words, his heart lurching.
"Who taught you to put words together like that?!"
"Friend! P-eng, peng, not p-ao, pao, okay...?"
Li Huiyuan's eyes, however, sparkled so brightly that even Lin Yi felt a little frightened.
Putting words together?
Heh heh!
Who said cannon fodder was bad? This cannon fodder was fantastic!
Lin Yi hurriedly cut her off. "So are you coming with me, or staying in the classroom to read?"
"Do you even need to ask?" Li Huiyuan said. "Of course I'm coming! Reading is so boring. If I go, maybe I can even..."
"Hmm?"
"Uh, n-no, nothing..." Li Huiyuan guiltily pursed her lips and blew out a breath, looking this way and that.
Lin Yi gave a wry chuckle and shifted his gaze from Li Huiyuan toward the Stairwell. But as his eyes swept past the Wooded Belt outside the Covered Corridor, he could not help frowning.
For some reason, a faint unease arose in his heart, as though something was approaching from deep within the Wooded Belt.
He stared into the Wooded Belt, trying to make something out. But no matter how he observed it or extended his perception, once his perception entered the Wooded Belt, the thin fog suffusing it quickly obstructed him. It was like moving through a mire, exceedingly difficult.
He withdrew his gaze.
"What's wrong?" Li Huiyuan asked with concern beside him. Following the direction he had been looking, she glanced at the Wooded Belt. "Is something wrong with the sculptures in there?"
Lin Yi shook his head slightly. "I don't know... but something feels strange. I have a bad feeling."
"Maybe your perception has become sharper, so it's magnifying the effects of the gray fog..." Li Huiyuan comforted him.
Although he knew that was not the