"This... moss?"
Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply, and a fine sheen of cold sweat had already formed on his forehead.
"When did I step in this?"
Almost immediately, he ran through several locations in his mind...
The Student Passage?
He had specifically checked his clothes and shoes when leaving. There had been no moss on them at all.
The steps outside the classroom?
The steps outside the Dormitory building?
There was perhaps a slight possibility, but moss this thick... as thick as sludge, was nothing like anything he could have picked up on Campus!
"Wait...? Not the Campus!"
Lin Yi's thoughts raced, and the image of himself standing on the Cliff like Spider-Man involuntarily flashed through his mind.
The ocean and sky each occupied half of that dark world, with its pitch-black water and wind and the gold-rimmed Black Sun, and that sheer Cliff... had been covered in moss!!
He cautiously brought his nose closer and sniffed.
Immediately afterward, an extremely grave look appeared in his eyes.
Hidden within this patch of moss was an exceedingly subdued, faint smell.
It smelled of the rot and fishy stench found in sludge where dead fish and shrimp were buried, along with a strong, cold, salty dampness that almost instantly brought to mind that eerie world shrouded in darkness.
This really was moss from that sheer Cliff!
"I... brought something back from that world?!"
At that moment, an extremely absurd thought arose in his mind. Something seemed to have gone wrong with the boundaries between Layers, and through some strange accident, he seemed to have obtained something from another world.
Even if it was only a patch of moss stuck to his sole.
He took a deep breath, then stuffed his shoes into the washing machine as well.
"Huh, looks like there's some