Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat. As he ran, he hurriedly pulled his backpack around to his chest and started fishing out tomatoes.
Just then, one dormitory door after another opened along the hallway. Impersonators like walking corpses emerged from them, filling the entire Covered Corridor in an instant.
Lin Yi was just about to force his way through when Tian Bufan spoke up. "We don't have much time. Don't complicate things. If they drag us down a few layers, we'll waste all our time! Move! Straight to the elevator!"
As Tian Bufan spoke, he kept weaving past people, his bear-like frame displaying superhuman agility. Wei Shan and Wei Liang were surprisingly nimble too, slipping through the crowd like fish.
Lin Yi, on the other hand, found his speed severely hampered by all the restrictions.
He was practically a first-team dump truck now! He really was afraid he might accidentally knock an Impersonator apart with a single back-to-the-basket move!
He hurriedly glanced back at Kuai Hongji, only to find him strolling along as though in a courtyard. The Impersonators along the way even stepped aside for him!
"Kuai Kuai, you go first. I'll follow you!" Lin Yi decided to ride in his wake.
Kuai Hongji turned him down, however. "Everyone has to find their own way across. Following me isn't a good thing. You go ahead."
Lin Yi froze briefly, then seemed to understand something and continued moving at his original pace.
They soon reached the elevator without incident, while the Impersonators gathered in the hallway began slowly converging on them.
Tian Bufan glanced at the Impersonators, then started pressing the elevator's down button. Feeling the vibrations behind the iron gate of the Elevator Area, he explained steadily, "You've seen these Impersonators too."
"I think these Impersonators are the reason