Tian Bufan's class was Group C Class 8, so he left by the Covered Bridge when they reached the third floor. Kuai Hongji belonged to Group A, Class 1, so he only parted ways with them once they reached the first floor.
Not long after Lin Yi and the others left the fifth floor of the Teaching Building, a nimble figure cautiously entered the area.
Had Lin Yi been there, he would have immediately recognized her as Zhao Lingxiao.
Zhao Lingxiao had changed into a very clean Experience Student uniform. She looked as though she had gone back to the Dormitory and enjoyed a good night's sleep, and seemed much more normal now, nothing like the fanatical figure who had crawled on the ground licking up the scent of ashes the day before.
She pushed up her glasses, her nostrils flaring constantly as she tracked the scent Lin Yi had left behind like a dog.
Her eyes caught a little light, but behind those lenses, her gaze was nowhere near as calm as it appeared on the surface. Instead, it harbored a madness and fanaticism so extreme that they seemed utterly tranquil.
Only this time, as she moved, a great many furtive Night-Walking Species followed her in places she paid no attention to. They hid in the darkness. They had not dared approach before, but now, faced with Zhao Lingxiao, they no longer felt so much instinctive fear.
"Rustle, rustle, rustle-rustle, rustle, rustle-"
Whenever Zhao Lingxiao moved, they slowly followed, making that grating sound of grit rubbing together that made one's whole body feel uncomfortable-
Zhao Lingxiao could sense their presence, but paid them no attention whatsoever. The closer she got to the eighth floor of the Teaching Building, the more her body would occasionally spasm, as though another