Arc 13Chapters 305–329
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Lin Yi began swimming under Boss’s supervision after glimpsing the Night Watchman, while Boss agreed to obtain the Athlete Student Rules for him. As Lin Yi swam, Xie Huayang reported that Green Hats had appeared on the third floor, and Li Huiyuan noticed strange lights and mist around Lin Yi.
Lin Yi was trapped underwater by an abyssal hallucination that called itself Wei Liang and saw a chained sculpture before Li Huiyuan rescued him. Afterward, Boss questioned his missing memories and warned that a Wrathful Angel was waiting for him on the way back.
Boss explained how Wrathful Angels preserve their origins in hidden portions while acting through false bodies, then sent Lin Yi swimming under Li Huiyuan’s watch. Lin Yi’s worsening hallucinations transformed the deep end into a sunken ship, where he realized he was moving toward a chained presence.
Lin Yi experienced a series of visions of a sunken ship, a flooded Castle passage, and a stormy sea, where he met the Night Watchman and was returned to the pool. After Boss confirmed his remaining ashes had vanished, mist began spreading over the pool, and Lin Yi and Boss sensed a new danger.
As green fog seeped through the Gymnasium floor, Lin Yi tried to survey the building and accidentally drew the Gym Teacher’s attention. The Grinning Angel emerged to protect him, but Teacher Wang subdued it with an Old Kerosene Lamp, and Boss arrived as the Angel became a sculpture.
Boss and the Gym Teacher freed a young man trapped inside a Grinning Angel sculpture as the invasion advanced and the Gymnasium evacuated its students. Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan entered the Safety Passage for the Giant Dome, where Lin Yi saw a vision of a flooded castle passage and heard a mysterious voice calling his name.
Lin Yi reached the Giant Dome and discovered that a Wrathful Angel sculpture had appeared at the Gymnasium entrance. As injured Athlete Students gathered in the stands while Wei Liang and other familiar students remained missing, Lin Yi began reviewing Tian Bufan’s recording of the Dormitory anomaly.
Lin Yi used the Dormitory recording to reason that darkness created a safe Layer, then connected a Dorm Supervisor’s transformation into a Grinning Angel to the Old Kerosene Lamp and suspected the Gym Teachers were being restrained from becoming Wrathful Angels. After hearing strange noises in the recording, he turned to Li Huiyuan and discovered she had another copy of the Athlete Student Rules, different in thickness from the first.
Lin Yi received and read the Athlete Student Rules, learning the dangers and procedures governing Athlete Students on Campus. He finished memorizing the rules and planned to study them more carefully after returning to the Dormitory.
Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan read the Athlete Student Rules and learned how Athlete Students should respond to a Gray Fog Invasion. Wei Liang and Xia Lian arrived at the Giant Dome, where Wei Liang’s strange account suggested he had stopped a group of Green Apron Chefs.
Lin Yi and his companions gathered in the Athlete Students’ home base as they discussed the Impersonators and the danger facing the Experience Students. Lin Yi recognized troubling signs of contamination in himself, then sensed that a feast Xia Lian mentioned was beginning as the Giant Dome took shape in his vision.
Lin Yi sensed the auras inside the Giant Dome, discovered that Wei Liang was imperceptible to him and Song Rentou carried a gray aura, then experienced fragmented memories of his old life. As Lin Yi tried to sense the Gymnasium, Song Rentou watched him hungrily; an earlier scene showed Song Rentou fleeing through the Wooded Belt and healing from injuries.
Song Rentou killed another version of himself and fled a pursuing Wrathful Angel, while fog and rain trapped students around the Gymnasium. At the Giant Dome, Lin Yi finally saw the strange phenomenon on the field as snow.
Lin Yi watched Wrathful Angels form across the Gymnasium Giant Dome as Athlete Students and Gym Teachers gathered to respond to the invasion. Boss appeared among the Gym Teachers, ordered Lin Yi to join the first tier, and revealed her power by swinging a chain strung with sculptures, including what appeared to be Wrathful Angels.
Lin Yi watched the gym teachers prepare for a mysterious feast while Song Rentou was exposed and attacked after trying to sneak through the stands. The Giant Dome began closing, and Lin Yi realized the Angel Sculptures were meant to be the feast’s food.
Lin Yi learned how the Gymnasium used the Giant Dome to gather and refine contamination during a gray fog invasion, then suspected the Campus was partly submerged in another layer. As Art Students arrived through the passages and Boss began a mysterious ritual, Lin Yi recognized its words as an Admonition from the Night Watchman Iron Laws.
Lin Yi watched the Giant Dome Furnace strip contamination from the chained Wrathful Angels and Impersonator Sculptures, then learned how the students absorbed the refined supernatural power. As he identified the light bulbs forming from the Wrathful Angels’ wing-eyes, he noticed the Art Students were absorbing white powder particles rather than Gray Fog.
Lin Yi realized that contaminated flesh could break down into white powder and that tomatoes contained heterogeneous supernatural power, then continued absorbing only some of the auras around him. At the Giant Dome, Boss and the Gym Teachers discussed the unusually early Gray Fog Invasion and outdated rumors that the Authorities might send an Architect to stabilize the Campus, leaving Boss uncertain whether Lin Yi was that person.
Lin Yi watched Song Rentou dissolve in the flooded Giant Dome, then recognized a possible connection between him and Wei Liang. As Song Rentou vanished, Lin Yi turned back to absorbing supernatural power and perceived the gray fog as a vast, moving expanse beyond the Giant Dome.
Lin Yi observed how the gray fog and colored auras behaved in the Giant Dome while his body absorbed red aura and converted it into blue energy that strengthened his bones and muscles. As Boss and the gym teachers prepared to respond to an invasion at the Art Building, impersonator athlete students transformed under the influence of contamination and headed for the Wrathful Angel’s skeleton.
Lin Yi realized the Giant Dome’s waves came from beneath the water, then was seized and dragged into a sunken void where a chained behemoth called his name and begged him to take it away. As he struggled, he discovered the bubbles rising from him were not coming from his breath.
Lin Yi struggled to return to his body as the Forest of the Dead's Steles formed from the fused skeletons and tried to absorb his will. By tracking the Giant Dome's distortion with his vision, he discovered the Gymnasium's true form as a city wall, where Boss and the Gym Teachers faced the dark tide beneath a phantom Night Watchman.
Lin Yi perceived the Giant Dome as a city wall and discovered that the black tide and Forest of the Dead's Steles were slowly damaging it. As his body instinctively converted surrounding energy into golden power, he realized he might use it to resist the Steles and return to his body.
Lin Yi used his golden aura to weaken the Forest of the Dead's Steles, then experimented with using its remains and Minecraft to repair the City Wall. As his body continued transforming without him, he suspected that his future self was influencing the past through dreams to prevent the Wall's collapse.
Lin Yi used the Forest of the Dead's Steles' remains and golden energy to repair a tiny section of the wall before returning to his body. Boss and the Gym Teachers realized the mysterious golden figure was repairing the wall using its blueprints, though they questioned whether it was really an Architect.