May 7, X023, 19:45.
Group B Class 2's classroom was filled with chatter. The twenty-five newly arrived students had no idea how serious the situation was and were still laughing and joking.
Lin Yi wondered whether something was wrong with their attention. They all seemed to vaguely overlook the thirty-eight classmates who were not quite right.
He briefly surveyed the classroom, looking over each of those thirty-eight classmates' faces beneath the incandescent lights.
"Hm... something changed?"
If he remembered correctly, sixteen of those thirty-eight classmates had originally worn crazed expressions, staring wide-eyed at the other students in the classroom.
The remaining twenty-two had vacant, unfocused eyes. They curled up in their seats like hermit crabs, never even blinking, like motionless, lifeless lumps of cold stone.
Today, however, he discovered that the number of strange classmates with vacant eyes had risen from twenty-two to twenty-five, while those with crazed expressions had decreased by three.
In other words, three of the classmates with crazed expressions had turned into classmates with vacant eyes.
It probably has something to do with the depth of "contamination"... I wonder whether their contamination got worse or lighter, Lin Yi murmured inwardly.
He looked at the other classmates.
Including him and Wei Liang, there were currently forty normal classmates in the class.
Of the other thirty-eight normal students-Experience Students-thirteen had arrived in earlier batches than him. By now, their expressions had grown somewhat numb, as though they had sealed themselves inside their own little worlds.
As if mimicking autism, they built high walls out of books, fortifying themselves within them and ignoring everything outside.
Looking at them, Lin Yi felt they had probably noticed something wrong, but were doubting themselves because their inspiration was insufficient.
Yet sometimes they were even more sensitive to the slightest disturbance, leaving them