Meanwhile, Lu Zhao was still studying the documents in his hands with interest, as though the dim light could not affect his vision at all.
But as time passed, the playful expression gradually faded from Jin Jiuyao's face. He sprang from his chair and stood beside Lu Zhao, scanning his surroundings warily. A murky glimmer drifted through his left eye, as though he had deployed some kind of surveillance field.
Chen Xue also seemed to sense something and slowly left her seat.
Her hands still formed a frame as she moved them about, searching for something. Whatever she saw, a grave expression gradually appeared on her face.
Little by little, darkness enveloped the entire classroom. It felt as oppressive as an underwater work site that had lost contact with its ship and begun sinking steadily toward the seabed under gravity's pull.
Rumble-rumble-
Thunder exploded deep within the clouds. The sound waves seemed to take tangible form as countless pale arms, tearing vein-like fissures through the thick fog.
Lin Yi's heart trembled. As though answering some summons, he instinctively looked toward the very back of the Bookshelf Area-all the classrooms in the Teaching Building shared the same layout, so there were windows behind the Bookshelf Area too!
In some classrooms Above the 5th Floor of the Teaching Building, the windows in the Bookshelf Area were broken, but those in Group B Class 2 were naturally intact.
Now, however, lightning tore through the sky and briefly turned the world white. The sinister figures that seemed to writhe darkly in the fissures between layers were illuminated by the flash, casting a mass of hideous, branching human shadows across the moisture-covered windowpanes.
Chen Bing, who was observing the outside world by the window, seemed to catch a close-up glimpse of the sight outside and