Recaps

Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 about the chanting Impersonators and learned that he carried an Angel's mark, which could be removed at the Gymnasium. He left with instructions to reach it at midday without traveling alongside Athlete Students, while questions about Angels, the Campus, and his ability to leave remained unresolved.

• Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 that the Occult Scriptures Choir had surrounded him, and she identified it as an Impersonator Symbiote called the Forest of the Dead's Steles.
• Head Teacher 040 explained that Lin Yi had an Angel's mark and warned him not to call the Angels, which answered every plea and came for those who summoned them.
• Head Teacher 040 told Lin Yi to go to the Gymnasium after lunch when the sun was strongest, explain his situation to the Athlete Students, and avoid going there with any Athlete Students.
• Lin Yi asked whether he could become an Athlete Student or leave early, and Head Teacher 040 said his inspiration would prevent him from leaving through normal channels.
• Lin Yi declined to test the School Doctor option, suspecting that the Rules' reference to feeling unwell concealed a danger.

Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 about the Dormitory flipping at night, his dream of the Grinning Angel, and a strange presence in his bed, prompting her to record the unprecedented dream and urge him to seek help at the Gymnasium. He then showed her a note attributed to Song Rentou, and their check-in records revealed a suspicious stretch of absences before Lin Yi left the office.

• Lin Yi asked Head Teacher 040 whether Xenomorphic Sculptures could be in a symbiotic state, and she said some could.
• Lin Yi described the Dormitory flipping after midnight and realized it reminded him of the Hourglass held by the Grinning Angel; Head Teacher 040 questioned him about his dream and wrote it down.
• Lin Yi reported hearing water in the Bathroom and feeling something soft crawl onto his bed, and Head Teacher 040 told him to go to the Gymnasium and ask Xu Shunkang for answers.
• Lin Yi gave Head Teacher 040 a note bearing Song Rentou's name and student number, and she found his April check-in sheet.
• Head Teacher 040 and Lin Yi saw that Song Rentou had several consecutive absence marks before normal check-ins resumed, followed by a mark showing he had left the Campus.

Lin Yi discovered that the markings in the Hentai Manga encoded fragmented records of the Gray Fog Invasion, while Head Teacher 040 investigated Song Rentou's records and questioned why Lin Yi had been placed in the classroom. Lin Yi decoded warnings about past events and an approaching invasion, but the clues remained incomplete.

• Lin Yi returned to class after speaking with Head Teacher 040, and Wei Liang teased him about the visit while Song Rentou and Mountain Man watched him.
• Lin Yi counted the students remaining after the night and recorded the numbers in his notepad as an anchor against his worsening Visual Hallucinations.
• Head Teacher 040 questioned why the company had placed Lin Yi in the classroom, then examined Song Rentou's records and found a document dated March 2.
• Wei Liang's rapid page-turning revealed that the manga's markings could form encoded scenes, and Lin Yi copied Wei Liang's reading method to decode them.
• Lin Yi uncovered messages about a failed event on March 3, a hidden path sought on March 9, an impending invasion on May 2, and other events involving the Night Watchman, Night-Walking Species, and Impersonator Art Teacher.

Lin Yi’s attempt to gather clues from Hentai Manga drew him into a vision of a foggy forest, a storm-lashed coast, and a ruined classroom filled with hanging sculptures. He realized he was experiencing a visual hallucination, but the sculptures began repeating his identity as he tried to ground himself.

• Lin Yi noticed Song Rentou and Mountain Man watching him, then returned books and planned to leave for lunch at 10:20.
• Lin Yi deciphered scattered entries describing a cave in the mountains, a deadly encounter with the Night Watchman, and a voice calling someone toward supposed salvation.
• Lin Yi became absorbed in a vision that followed a path through the Wooded Belt to a cave’s light and then to a desolate coastline.
• Lin Yi’s Vision activated as the scene shifted into a ruined classroom, where a monstrous sculpture startled him and broken glass cut his hand.
• Lin Yi recognized that he was in a visual hallucination and tried to recite his name and location, but hanging Impersonator Sculptures echoed his words and mocked him.

Lin Yi escaped a terrifying hallucination by combining memories of Boss and Wei Liang, then left the classroom with Wei Liang to eat before heading to the Gymnasium. As they departed the Teaching Building, the voice calling Lin Yi returned, and the building seemed to merge with the shadowy Wooded Belt like a structure sunk beneath the sea.

• Lin Yi used a fantasy of Boss with Wei Liang’s face to break free of the hallucination and realized the manga clues needed to be pieced together, with desire helping anchor readers.
• Lin Yi noticed the manga’s fragmented warning that the world was broken and time was running out, then saw the surviving experience students looking increasingly numb while Mountain Man assembled a device.
• Lin Yi told Wei Liang that Teacher Lin had warned him something supernatural was attached to him and ordered him to go to the Gymnasium after eating.
• Wei Liang joked about the Campus’s spooky reputation and promised that his luck would help them, while Lin Yi suspected he was dodging the truth.
• As Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the Teaching Building, Lin Yi heard a voice call his name again and saw the building and Wooded Belt appear to overlap in a gloomy, underwater-like vision.

Lin Yi went to the Cafeteria with Wei Liang, where his growing paranoia made him notice a strange afterimage and the transformed Sailor Uniform Girl. The Impersonator Art Students planned to recruit Lin Yi, while Zhang Lingzhen revealed he had been in the same batch as her.

• Lin Yi and Wei Liang headed to the Cafeteria, where Lin Yi found that the Cafeteria Rules had been restocked and noticed an afterimage among the waiting Experience Students.
• Wei Liang pointed out the green-tinged Sailor Uniform Girl, and Lin Yi saw a Penguin-like Impersonator Art Student step between them and meet his gaze.
• The Penguin-like Impersonator Art Student called Lin Yi a promising prospect and assigned a bandaged Impersonator Art Student to approach him outside the Cafeteria area.
• Zhang Lingzhen told the Impersonator Art Students that Lin Yi might be the person she sensed and that he had been in the same batch as her.

Lin Yi entered the Student Passage with Wei Liang and was pulled into a terrifying layer of rushing water, wind, and chained Humanoid Sculptures that tried to lure him into anchoring himself. Trapped between the hostile layer and his original one, he realized the steps might offer a way out.

• Lin Yi realized that the crowds entering the Other Passage could include people who had lost their Student IDs, and wondered whether Zhou Yuting had produced an Impersonator.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered the Student Passage, where an eerie voice called Lin Yi’s name and the surrounding people appeared to occupy separate layers.
• Lin Yi fell into a layer of flooded steps and violent wind, where chained Humanoid Sculptures urged him to anchor himself and take them back with him.
• Lin Yi recognized that using an anchor could let the Humanoid Sculptures follow him into his original layer, leaving him trapped as Wei Liang continued ahead.
• While crouched on the steps under the wind, Lin Yi suddenly realized that something there could serve as a way out.

Lin Yi escaped the Student Passage’s endless Layer by relying on his certainty that it had one hundred steps and took just over four minutes to cross. After rejoining Wei Liang and Tian Bufan, he discussed the camera footage, the Head Teacher’s warning, and what an “Angel” might be, while a new sense of unease lingered.

• Lin Yi climbed the flooded steps and escaped the Layer on his hundredth step, using his memory of Wei Liang’s claim that the Student Passage had exactly one hundred steps and his own time checks.
• Wei Liang laughed at Lin Yi’s windblown hairstyle, while Lin Yi felt a sudden chill and glanced behind him, finding nothing there.
• Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that the Digital Camera had recorded the Dormitory flipping over and strange noise, but its limited memory had run out before the Dorm Supervisor appeared.
• Lin Yi explained that the Head Teacher suspected Maozi’s mark had drawn something’s attention to him, and he and Tian Bufan considered why the effect had not affected everyone.
• Tian Bufan suggested that the Head Teacher and Art Students might use “Angel” for an entity with vague boundaries, and Lin Yi wondered whether it referred to a range of It-I contamination.
• Lin Yi told Tian Bufan that the Head Teacher had shown him Song Rentou’s last sign-in record, which contained only a few clues.

Lin Yi and Tian Bufan discussed Song Rentou’s disappearance, clues hidden in Hentai Manga, and Tian Bufan’s discoveries about Building D and the Night-Walking Species. After the light bulb drew the attention of a mysterious presence, Lao Mo appeared, destroyed its stored power, and warned Lin Yi that the Grinning Angel had marked him.

• Tian Bufan suggested that the Head Teacher knew more about Song Rentou’s missing days than she had told Lin Yi, and Lin Yi shared his method for decoding Gray Fog Invasion clues in Hentai Manga.
• Tian Bufan described how he had deduced the locations of Building D and the areas above the fifth floor, and said Night-Walking Species could travel between Layers.
• Tian Bufan gave Lin Yi a petrified sphere he had found near Building D’s Library, and sunlight transformed it into the light bulb Lin Yi recognized.
• When Lin Yi held the light bulb in sunlight, he sensed that something was watching him, then Lao Mo appeared and absorbed the light bulb’s power.
• Lao Mo used his Pig Slaughtering Knife to confront a doorway concealed in Lin Yi’s shadow, where the Grinning Angel appeared before the doorway vanished.
• Lao Mo warned Lin Yi to hide the light bulb and not charge it, and said the Gymnasium could remove the mark that would draw them back to him.

Lin Yi and his companions entered the Student Dining Hall, where Lin Yi recognized a Green Apron Chef disguised as Li Huiyuan and helped destabilize its stolen identity. The creature fled Meal Window No. 3, while the group continued through the cafeteria.

• Lin Yi told Tian Bufan that Lao Mo had appeared unseen by others and urged him to go to the Gymnasium after eating.
• Wei Shan arrived, kicked open the Plastic Air Curtain, and followed Tian Bufan, Lin Yi, and Wei Liang into the Student Dining Hall.
• Lin Yi spotted Li Huiyuan's stolen identity at Meal Window No. 3 and recognized the chef as Ge Qing from the Student ID digits on its badge.
• Tian Bufan confused the chef by disputing which dish Lin Yi had ordered, and Wei Shan and Wei Liang further muddled its identity.
• Wei Liang pointed out that the chef's badge looked like a Student ID, causing the creature to collapse into boneless sludge and crawl toward the exit.

Lin Yi and his companions avoided a dangerous cafeteria line, then noticed Zhang Lingzhen’s group entering the abnormal Convenience Store. After buying supplies and leaving the Student Dining Hall, Lin Yi was left facing the still-vivid memories of their earlier ordeal.

• Wei Liang dispersed some Experience Students from Meal Window No. 3, and Lin Yi’s group dumped their meals and ordered food elsewhere.
• Tian Bufan warned Lin Yi not to risk himself trying to save people who could not distinguish danger from safety.
• Lin Yi spotted Zhang Lingzhen, the Sailor Uniform Girl, and two Impersonator Art Students watching from the dining hall, then later saw Zhang Lingzhen’s group head toward the Convenience Store.
• Wei Liang led the group to the noon sunlight, where they joked about Lin Yi’s swimming lessons and Wei Liang declared his admiration for Boss.
• Lin Yi’s group saw Zhang Lingzhen’s group disappear through the Convenience Store entrance, bought biscuits and water, and left the dining hall.
• Lin Yi stopped at the Student Passage and recalled the terrifying ordeal they had recently survived.

Zhang Lingzhen followed a tempting aroma into the dark depths of the Convenience Store and began devouring corpses before Senior Ren found and subdued her. After leaving the Student Passage, Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about his worsening visions of Humanoid Sculptures, and the group prepared to head to the Gymnasium.

• Senior Ren warned Zhang Lingzhen not to read the Convenience Store Instructions and led her toward the Student Commemorative Coins.
• Drawn by the aroma, Zhang Lingzhen lost track of Senior Ren and wandered into a dark area filled with corpses.
• Senior Ren found Zhang Lingzhen eating a meaty bone; she attacked him, and he knocked her unconscious before carrying her away.
• After leaving the Student Passage, Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about visions of chained Humanoid Sculptures that seemed to be using his name to anchor themselves in reality.
• Tian Bufan urged Lin Yi to report serious visions sooner, and Lin Yi warned him to be cautious too.
• Wei Liang asked Lin Yi whether he would take the route past the classroom or go straight to the Gymnasium.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered the Gymnasium area, where an Impersonator Art Student trapped Lin Yi in a distorted Cognition Overwrite and bound him. As the creature prepared to eat him, Lin Yi recognized something familiar in its face.

• Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the Cafeteria area for the Gymnasium while Tian Bufan kept Wei Shan with him, explaining that an Impersonator Art Student was following Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang noticed the Gymnasium area felt unusually cold, damp, and oppressive as they followed the Pebble Road.
• Lin Yi discovered that the pebbles and surrounding landscape were distorting, then realized an Art Student had trapped him inside a Cognition Overwrite.
• A bandaged Impersonator Art Student emerged and discussed whether to kill and eat Lin Yi or use him for Bu Ze.
• The Impersonator Art Student bound Lin Yi with its bandages and dragged him close, but Lin Yi recognized something familiar in its face.

Lin Yi was trapped by a bandaged Impersonator Art Student, but a violent power awakened in him and he shattered it. After recognizing the sculpture as Little Genius, he realized the bandages were the key and noticed the distorted cartoon scenery still surrounded him.

• The bandaged Impersonator Art Student restrained Lin Yi and cut at his throat, but its attack only left a faint scratch as Lin Yi’s body began radiating sky-blue steam.
• Lin Yi broke free, kicked the Impersonator Art Student away, and fought it with enhanced strength and speed.
• The Impersonator Art Student struck Lin Yi’s chest, but Lin Yi endured the blow and counterattacked, eventually smashing its body into fragments.
• Lin Yi returned to normal and recognized the shattered sculpture as Little Genius, who had disappeared only three days earlier.
• Lin Yi concluded that the bandages, rather than Little Genius, were controlling the sculpture and realized the surrounding scenery remained distorted.

Lin Yi discovered that the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student had hidden its true body on its puppet’s back, but the resulting battle opened a passage for the Grinning Angel to enter the overwritten Layer. Lin Yi escaped and caught up with Wei Liang on the Gymnasium Pebble Road, while the Grinning Angel drained the Impersonator and followed Lin Yi’s scent.

• Lin Yi realized the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student’s bandages formed an overwritten world and that its true body had emerged from the cylinder on its back.
• As the true Impersonator attacked, the shadow beneath Lin Yi opened into another Layer, allowing the Grinning Angel to pass through.
• The Grinning Angel shattered the bandage-made overwrite, and Lin Yi fled while the Impersonator chased after him.
• The Grinning Angel drained the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student until it collapsed into sludge, then followed Lin Yi’s scent.
• At 12:18 p.m. on May 9, Lin Yi caught up with Wei Liang on the Gymnasium Pebble Road and asked whether he had encountered trouble.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang fled toward the Gymnasium as the Grinning Angel was diverted by a bound Impersonator Art Student, but the mountain path shifted into a foggy, sunlit storm. The chapter left Lin Yi exposed to contaminating sun rain while realizing he and Wei Liang were experiencing different Layers.

• Lin Yi hurried Wei Liang toward the Gymnasium, and the Grinning Angel found a dismembered Impersonator Art Student tied to a streetlamp pole and began draining its aura.
• Lin Yi noticed the streetlamps were missing, then he and Wei Liang rounded a bend into stronger wind and spreading fog.
• The wooded path briefly transformed into a towering forest, and eerie green sun rain began falling on Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi experienced boiling blood, distorted vision, and fading senses, while Wei Liang identified the rain as sun rain.
• Lin Yi realized the wind affected him and Wei Liang differently, suggesting they occupied different Layers and that he was more exposed to the rain.

Lin Yi followed Wei Liang through the sunshower toward the Gymnasium, but the rain and shifting layers distorted his perception until Wei Liang disappeared. Lin Yi became lost in a strange forest and tried to find details that could anchor him back to the Campus.

• Lin Yi realized he could use the first building he saw after discovering the rain to determine which route to take, then asked Wei Liang to run ahead as a guide.
• Lin Yi followed Wei Liang through the sunshower, reasoning that the real sunlight limited the contamination and that he could wash away its effects at the Gymnasium.
• The Grinning Angel watched Lin Yi from behind the sunshower’s boundary, then covered its face with its hands and gradually turned transparent.
• Lin Yi discovered that Wei Liang had vanished and realized he had dropped into another layer while crossing the distorted landscape.
• Lin Yi lost his bearings and found himself in a dense, unsettling forest, where he searched for details that could anchor him back to the Campus’s Wooded Belt.

Lin Yi realized his distorted vision had come from his consciousness entering “Minecraft,” found his way back to his body, and returned to himself near Wei Liang. Before fully rejoining him, he spotted a Wrathful Angel sculpture hiding by the Wooded Belt.

• Lin Yi heard a creature speaking in the language of the Night-Walking Species and the Occult Scriptures Choir beyond the boundary to the mountain forest’s depths.
• A short figure passed through Lin Yi, leading him to realize he was a disembodied consciousness inside “Minecraft” and that the creature had been drawn to the figure, not him.
• Lin Yi tested the direction of his connection and worked out that his body lay behind him and to his right.
• Lin Yi retraced his path through the Wooded Belt, realized Sun Rain had intensified his perception, and headed toward his body after seeing the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi spotted a small winged Wrathful Angel sculpture hiding among the shrubs before returning to his body beside Wei Liang.

Lin Yi realized the Wrathful Angel had targeted him and raced toward the Gymnasium, hoping to trigger the rules for dealing with Angel Sculptures. As he neared the entrance, an unfamiliar voice called to him from a mysterious staircase that the Notice Board had warned him not to use.

• Lin Yi inferred that the Wrathful Angel was preparing to attack, and Wei Liang slipped on a patch of oil and sped down Pebble Road toward the Gymnasium.
• The Wrathful Angel launched itself at Lin Yi, who dodged with a burst of sky-blue steam and fled toward the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi decided to draw the Angel into the Gymnasium so he could follow the Gymnasium Rules and seek help from the Gym Teacher.
• Lin Yi caught up to the entrance as Wei Liang reached the Gymnasium, but an unfamiliar voice called to him from a nearby staircase.
• Lin Yi recognized the staircase as the one mentioned in the Notice Board’s warning not to use any stairs or doors besides the main entrance.

Lin Yi followed the Gymnasium rules to escape the pursuing Wrathful Angel and reached the Gym Office, where he reported that he was being hunted. The Gym Teachers acknowledged him and one of them went out, captured the Wrathful Angel, and dragged it back inside.

• Lin Yi rushed into the Gymnasium, swiped a copy of the Gymnasium Rules, and followed its map toward the Gym Office with the Wrathful Angel close behind.
• Boss and Li Huiyuan spotted Lin Yi and the unseen Wrathful Angel, while Boss decided Lin Yi could handle the situation because he had reached the office.
• Lin Yi gripped his Student ID, shut his eyes, pushed open the Gym Office door, entered, and told the Gym Teachers that a Wrathful Angel was hunting him.
• The Gym Teachers recognized Lin Yi's Student ID and sent one teacher out to deal with the Wrathful Angel.
• The Gym Teacher returned dragging the struggling Wrathful Angel into the office, while Lin Yi remained inside with his eyes closed.

After surviving an encounter with the Wrathful Angel, Lin Yi tried to report to Boss and Li Huiyuan, but unsettling signs followed him through the Gymnasium. The chapter ended with him discovering a Castle-style candlestick on the Stairwell wall.

• The Gym Teacher told Lin Yi to stay in the Gymnasium because the Wrathful Angel had targeted him, while Lin Yi noticed the Gym Teacher had apparently dragged something into the office.
• Lin Yi saw drag marks on the floor vanish, then met Wei Liang and decided to report his situation to an Athlete Student.
• Lin Yi spotted Boss and Li Huiyuan on the second floor, and Wei Liang headed to the Swimming Hall while Lin Yi went to meet them.
• Lin Yi saw the floor flicker between normal and damaged and heard chains clinking, then noticed the Gymnasium had few visitors and no entrance guards.
• As Lin Yi climbed the enclosed Stairwell, a chilly gust and flickering light led him to discover a bronze Candlestick from the Castle in the Art Building on the wall.

Lin Yi entered Mao Feiyang’s perspective in a transformed stairwell inside the Art Building’s Castle, where Art Students climbed through a passage battered by a storm. After a thunderclap revealed Purebred Night-Walking Species and Grinning Angels outside the walls, the stairwell’s candlelight restored Lin Yi’s ordinary vision, and Yan Jinming urged Mao Feiyang to move.

• Lin Yi saw a candlestick transform the Art Building stairwell into an ancient stone passage and found himself experiencing events through Mao Feiyang’s perspective.
• Mao Feiyang followed a crowd of Art Students up the packed stairs while Yan Jinming protected him and explained that they needed to move quickly.
• Lin Yi sensed a fierce storm and waves striking the passage, along with scraping sounds and vibrations coming through its thick walls.
• A thunderclap synchronized Lin Yi’s and Mao Feiyang’s vision, revealing Purebred Night-Walking Species crawling over the Castle and Grinning Angels swarming outside.
• The Grinning Angels turned toward Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang, but a violent impact and the candlelight shattered Lin Yi’s strange vision.
• Yan Jinming kept Mao Feiyang close and told him to move because their situation was worsening.

Lin Yi witnessed Yan Jinming contain the Grinning Angel’s breach in the Art Building Stairwell before returning to the Gymnasium and spotting an Old Kerosene Lamp. He then read the Gymnastics Hall’s safety notice and recognized the chibi figure on its notice board as Boss.

• The Grinning Angel dragged an Art Student through a crack in the Stairwell wall, and Yan Jinming silenced the panicked students by forcing one into the breach before overwriting the damage.
• Lin Yi realized Yan Jinming’s overwriting had restored the wall and that the students’ shared understanding could help preserve the Stairwell’s intact state.
• Lin Yi’s vision returned to the Gymnasium Stairwell, where he found an Old Kerosene Lamp and speculated that Gym Teachers might transform into Security Guards.
• Lin Yi went to the second floor and read the rules posted outside the Gymnastics Hall about changing clothes, practicing, unlit areas, and showering.
• Lin Yi recognized the chibi cartoon on the notice board as Boss.

Lin Yi entered the Gymnastics Hall to report an encounter with a suspected Angel to Boss and the Athlete Students. After hearing his account, Boss focused on the exact place where the incident occurred.

• Lin Yi read the Gymnastics Hall rules, changed into a gymnastics uniform, and entered the hall, where he found Boss training Li Huiyuan.
• Zhang Yuansong and Li Kai recognized Lin Yi in the locker room, and Lin Yi sensed that the Athlete Students had heard about him.
• Boss greeted Lin Yi and asked how he had provoked the Wrathful Angel.
• Lin Yi recounted how Mao Feiyang had fallen in the Wooded Belt and picked up the aura of a suspected Angel, changing some details while preserving the core events.
• Boss asked Lin Yi where he had fallen.

Lin Yi learned that he had encountered three kinds of Angel Sculptures after Mao Feiyang picked up the Angel’s aura, surviving each encounter with help. Boss examined Lin Yi and discovered that the substance attracting the Angels was irremovable Ashes rather than an Angel’s Mark.

• Lin Yi told Boss how the Security Guard had rescued him from the Forest of the Dead's Steles and how Lao Mo had helped him escape a Grinning Angel.
• Boss deduced that Lin Yi had also faced a Wrathful Angel, and Lin Yi realized he had narrowly survived attacks from all three kinds of Angel Sculptures.
• Boss tested Lin Yi’s resistance by gripping his shoulder, causing the shadow beneath Lin Yi to writhe and reveal a faint ring of Ashes.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi had picked up Ashes from another source, not an Angel’s Mark, and that Ashes could not be removed.