"Hiss..."
As Lin Yi realized this, he sucked in a sharp breath, and his heart seemed to skip a beat.
His pupils contracted slightly, and the Teaching Building rapidly enlarged in his vision...
But the Teaching Building itself was actually fine. What was truly wrong was the Wooded Belt surrounding it.
The setting sun tilted low, its lingering light spilling down as thin mist rose through the Wooded Belt like an enormous steamer.
A breeze drifted past. Branches and leaves swayed in the Wooded Belt, rustling and whispering as though something were crawling among the boughs, ready to emerge at any moment.
Something occurred to Lin Yi. He placed a hand on Wei Liang's shoulder and was just about to call out to him...
"Holy fucking shit!" But Lin Yi's sudden movement gave Wei Liang a massive fright.
He reflexively dodged half a body's width to the side, instinctively raising both arms into a stance that looked ready to unleash a barrage at any moment.
But when he realized it was Lin Yi who had tapped him, that powerful aura, like a sword drawn from its sheath, instantly deflated like a punctured ball.
"Lao Lin? What did you stop me for? Fuck, you nearly scared me to death!" Wei Liang let out a long breath, staring wide-eyed at Lin Yi. "Hey, hey, hey, why aren't you saying anything?"
He waved a hand in front of Lin Yi's face.
Lin Yi had not spaced out. He was simply staring at Wei Liang in disbelief, his hand still frozen in midair in its shoulder-patting position. He had yet to recover from what he had just witnessed.
For that brief instant, Wei Liang had seemed like a completely different person from his usual self. Lin Yi even wondered whether he would have unleashed