Arc 12Chapters 280–304
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Lin Yi learned that absorbing the Sun’s ashes could remove his contamination faster than waiting, but the process required training in the Gymnasium. He chose to return to the Dormitory rather than become an Athlete Student, and Boss began training him with Li Huiyuan.
Lin Yi learned about Athlete Student stages and began a punishing warm-up under Boss’s supervision. As he struggled to carry a Cloth Bag across the Gymnastics Hall, he noticed Li Huiyuan’s strength and blue steam improving, while Boss worried about what his arrival might mean.
Lin Yi trained under Boss and discovered that he could draw on sky-blue energy to ease the weight of a Cloth Bag, while Li Huiyuan helped him carry two bags on his back. As Lin Yi’s training continued, Athlete Students discussed the strange new students and the deaths around them, then watched him begin to emit sky-blue steam.
Lin Yi gradually increased the weight of the Cloth Bag as Boss discovered that his body absorbed primal contamination and converted only what it needed, while traces of ashes entered his sweat and drew Li Huiyuan’s attention. The scene then shifted to the Shower Area, where a Green Apron Chef attacked an Athlete Student from behind.
Lao Yan sacrificed himself to destroy the Green Apron Chef, but Li Kai emerged from the shower as an Impersonator and attacked Wei Liang before an accidental sneeze knocked it away. Later, Wei Liang arrived at the Gymnastics Hall hoping to go swimming, but Boss assigned him to train alongside Little Zhouzi.
Boss explained that Lin Yi would use recovery training to strengthen his ability to withstand Angel Sculptures, whose attacks could not be reliably avoided. She assigned Li Huiyuan to spar with him while he was only allowed to take hits, using controlled injuries to activate his sky-blue aura and absorb contamination and ashes.
Lin Yi discovered that he could instinctively evade attacks through a rare form of advanced perception, which Boss suspected was connected to Art Department powers and possibly to Maozi. Boss then began a new recovery-training exercise, leaving Lin Yi facing a much more frightening incoming strike.
Lin Yi was struck by Boss and plunged into a disturbing vision of an abandoned Teaching Building, where he discovered the sign for Group C Class 18 and saw Tian Bufan’s face in a mirror. The vision blurred with his surroundings as he heard someone urgently call his name.
Lin Yi woke after Boss’s kick had shattered his body, while the strange ashes transformed him and Li Huiyuan absorbed their impurities. Boss concluded that Lin Yi’s recovery ability needed to be trained deliberately and ordered Li Huiyuan to spar with him once he had mostly healed.
Boss explained Lin Yi’s near-death self-recovery range and how primal contamination could repair the body while risking sculpturization. She discovered that Lin Yi already absorbed and used contamination instinctively, leaving him unsure whether he had undergone training he could no longer remember.
Lin Yi trained with Boss to sense and control Primal Contamination as it repaired his injuries, while vague, unfamiliar memories surfaced. At ninety percent recovery, he unexpectedly dodged Li Huiyuan’s kick, then developed cracks across his skin and bones as Boss realized something about his condition.
Lin Yi continued Boss’s injury-based training with Li Huiyuan and discovered how primal contamination changed into sky-blue energy as he dodged. After Li Huiyuan finally struck him, he lay injured but began sensing and slightly controlling the photons that repaired his body.
Lin Yi observed his subconscious repairing his body and discovered that his injuries healed more easily as he studied the sky-blue energy and Ashes. After Boss struck him, he entered a detached Minecraft-like state, and Boss sensed the Grinning Angel's presence in his shadow.
Lin Yi sparred with Li Huiyuan as Boss tested his abilities and explained that his Advanced Sensing only activated when an attack posed a real threat. After the training, Boss ended the sparring and planned to take Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan to Swimming Class, while Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan began talking during their recovery.
Li Huiyuan recounted how the head teacher sent her with the security guard through a hidden route to the Gymnasium after she suffered severe contamination. Her account ended as she described the terrifying Gym Office, before explaining what happened with the school doctor.
Li Huiyuan recounted how a Gym Teacher took her through the Infirmary and into the Basement, where she endured strange sounds and a supernatural trial before Boss found her. Lin Yi pieced together clues about the Basement’s timing, and Boss agreed to give him the Athlete Student Rules before sending him to shower and Swimming Class.
Lin Yi discovered that the Li Kai watching him shower was an impostor and found Lao Yan’s final message on a shower curtain. The message suggested that Yan Bujiao had died fighting the Green Apron Chef and warned Lin Yi to beware of Li Kai, leaving him to work out which shower rule had led to the deaths.
Lin Yi tested the Impersonator Li Kai while pretending to wash his hair, then discovered that the shower water harmed it and revealed a new red aura of Contamination. He connected the red aura to the Gym Teacher and the Wrathful Angel, but its significance remained unknown.
Lin Yi fought Impersonator Li Kai in the Gymnasium’s Shower Area, discovering that water damaged its exposed flesh and using showerheads and a soaked towel to injure it. When Impersonator Li Kai trapped him and began to swallow him, Lin Yi entered a perception state that made time seem almost stopped, and he realized a desperate option might free him.
Lin Yi escaped Impersonator Li Kai’s flesh trap by crushing and tearing free his own left arm, then used the showerheads and his advanced perception to find an opening for an attack. He crushed the creature’s heart with a blazing strike, but Impersonator Li Kai remained alive and seized him, leaving Lin Yi to search for another way to kill it.
Lin Yi survived Impersonator Li Kai’s self-destruction but found his perspective drawn into a strange forest filled with gray fog and a mysterious portal. After hearing the Occult Scriptures Choir’s cadence and sensing an enormous creature, his vision passed through the portal and arrived at a desolate coastline, where he heard something behind him and felt he must not look back.
Lin Yi recovered after killing Impersonator Li Kai and left the Changing Room, where Boss and Li Huiyuan had been waiting for him. Boss took him to the Swimming Hall and ordered Athlete Students to clean up, while the cleanup team found only a small remnant of the Impersonator.
Lin Yi told Boss how he survived Impersonator Li Kai’s self-destruction, then learned from Li Huiyuan that several strange academic majors really existed. Boss warned that tonight would be the hardest night yet, while Lin Yi remained uneasy about the strange people in his class.
Lin Yi experienced another view interaction in the Swimming Hall, then saw a faceless version of himself and chained sculptures calling to him in the pool’s reflection. He mistook Li Huiyuan for the apparition and dragged her from the water, leaving him shaken and unsure what he had seen.
Lin Yi told Boss about his increasingly confusing hallucinations and the strange places and figures he had seen. As he described a trench-coated person carrying an old copper lamp, Boss reacted sharply, and Lin Yi revealed that he had seen the figure twice, including on a cliff above a sea of crawling Night-Walking Species.