Countless noises disrupted Lin Yi's thoughts. The mingling of identity information and sinister chanting grew increasingly irritating to him. He felt some kind of distortion taking place around him, and as the Forest of the Dead's Steles chanted, that distortion seemed to envelop him like a vortex.
Within this vortex, countless strange things floated around him like ribbons. Through the gaps between them, he saw a twisted, winding Pebble Road. It snaked out of the Fog, extending bit by bit through the haze until it reached his vortex.
[My name is Lin Yi! My Student Number is X0230506098! I am on the Pebble Road to the Dormitory Building...]
The evil repetitions of the Forest of the Dead's Steles suddenly penetrated the vortex and reached his ears.
At the same time, he noticed that the Pebble Road outside the vortex had begun moving like a conveyor belt. For a moment, the bizarre change left him unable to tell whether the road was being swallowed bit by bit by the vortex, or whether the vortex was advancing along the road...
Finally, he saw a distorted figure appear in the thin Fog ahead. No, not one figure, but two.
It looked like someone carrying another person on his back.
"What is that...?"
He seemed to have forgotten everything. At that moment, all he wanted was to go over and look at that figure carrying someone.
The instant that thought arose, the vortex seemed to come alive. It rapidly approached the figure ahead, breaking through some invisible restraint in one rush and causing Lin Yi to accidentally collide with that figure's back...
That figure...
Was so very familiar, especially those clothes. It seemed to be...
Just then, Lin Yi heard the figure ahead speak in his voice...
"Liangzi, oh, Liangzi... if you really can