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Chapter 629

Hitching a Ride on a Streetlamp Pole

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If Wei Liang had been there to see Lin Yi stroking the Streetlamp Pole, he would definitely have struck an Erkang pose and cried, "Lao Lin, don't! That thing's hard and thick, it's not something men should play with-pah, pah, pah, women shouldn't either!"

But Wei Shan only asked, "How much fun is it?"

Lin Yi said, "At night, the Campus's Layers change, and the Streetlamp Poles go from a disorderly arrangement to an orderly one, right?"

"Hmm... yeah. And?" Wei Shan asked, puzzled.

"Oh, Wei Sang, why haven't you figured it out yet?" Lin Yi realized he only seemed a little clever when he was with Wei Shan. At other times, his intelligence never stood out enough.

"I think we don't need to move anymore at all. We can just stay beside this 'Gymnasium-009' Streetlamp Pole. Once the Layers change, won't we only have to walk past eight Streetlamp Poles to reach the Teaching Building Area?"

"Lao Lin, you're a genius!" Wei Shan praised him.

"Uh... don't say that." Lin Yi rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment. He wasn't being modest; he really was terribly embarrassed...

He did have some self-awareness. At the very least, the word "genius" had absolutely nothing to do with him.

He beckoned Wei Shan over to hug the Streetlamp Pole with him. To eliminate the Old Kerosene Lamp's influence on the Layer changes, he even specifically asked Wei Shan to put it away.

Then he deliberately closed his eyes, too.

Sight was actually a basic function for anchoring Layers, but Lin Yi no longer needed to rely purely on his five senses to anchor the world.

Closing his eyes also helped the Layers shift and change.

Otherwise, he would get stuck in this process like a screw.

After deciding to "hitch a

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