Recaps

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan left the classroom to visit Head Teacher 040, while Wei Liang stayed behind reading. Mountain Man approached Wei Liang and questioned him about a missing student, Song Rentou.

• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan traded jokes with Wei Liang before settling down to read hentai manga in the classroom.
• Lin Yi watched Wei Liang, then noticed Li Huiyuan's embarrassment and said he planned to return clothes to Head Teacher 040 and explore the Teaching Building.
• Li Huiyuan insisted on accompanying Lin Yi, claiming she would keep an eye on him for Boss, and they left the classroom together.
• Xu Shunkang and the Athlete Students discussed Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan's closeness, Lin Yi's contamination, and Xu Shunkang's hopes of pursuing Senior Xia Lian.
• Mountain Man approached Wei Liang after Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan left, and asked whether Wei Liang had been involved in Song Rentou's disappearance.

Mountain Man confronted Wei Liang about his identity and past, then left after warning him about people carrying “ashes.” Lin Yi investigated Yuan Lijian’s records and the mysterious figure who fled the classroom, learning why the figure might be dangerous while deciding the Memo Pad needed to be destroyed.

• Mountain Man questioned Wei Liang about Song Rentou and whether Wei Liang had been at the school in Year X999, then left after warning that some people would do anything to carry “ashes.”
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan visited Head Teacher 040, and Lin Yi reviewed Yuan Lijian’s sign-in records, which showed no unusual activity.
• Head Teacher 040 explained that Yuan Lijian’s contamination kept growing because he apparently had not returned to the Dormitory to shower, prompting Lin Yi to treat worsening suspicions as conclusions when necessary.
• Lin Yi asked about the nonexistent person who had rushed out of the classroom, and Head Teacher 040 said she believed it was nonhuman but could identify no known kind of creature it matched.
• Head Teacher 040 warned that recordings of dangerous entities could become sources of contamination, and Lin Yi resolved to destroy the Memo Pad he carried.

Lin Yi and Head Teacher 040 connected Yuan Lijian to the puppet assembled in the classroom and discussed how Lin Yi could reach the Teaching Building’s fifth floor and above. Head Teacher 040 explained that a brief layer fluctuation caused by clouds blocking the sun could provide an opportunity, and Lin Yi left to investigate before asking who the office door was meant to keep out.

• Head Teacher 040 realized that the nonexistent person might be a puppet, and Lin Yi linked the idea to Yuan Lijian stealing mystical substance and assembling one.
• Lin Yi and Head Teacher 040 agreed to treat Yuan Lijian as a suspect, though Lin Yi said he would focus on his own plans.
• Lin Yi asked how to reach the Teaching Building’s upper floors, and Head Teacher 040 explained that layer fluctuations could let him enter during a sub-shadow state when clouds blocked the sun.
• Head Teacher 040 warned Lin Yi to protect himself and avoid risks, while Lin Yi checked the time and prepared to leave for the Teaching Building.
• Lin Yi asked why the Teachers’ Office door was locked by day but left unlocked at night, wondering whom it was meant to guard against.

Lin Yi deduced that the Yuan Big Head incident had been a ritual engineered to bring an Ashes Apostle onto the Campus, and Head Teacher 040 confirmed that a similar creature had likely injured her. After leaving the office with Li Huiyuan, he observed Mountain Man's visit and invited her to explore the Teaching Building's upper floors.

• Head Teacher 040 explained that she had left the office door open to hunt nonhuman entities after suffering injuries while testing a passing creature's strength.
• Lin Yi connected Teacher 039's mistaken identification of an Ashes Apostle with the Yuan Big Head incident and deduced that the Infiltration Force had used Yuan Big Head and Mu Daxian to bridge two layers during the seventieth Gray Fog Invasion.
• Lin Yi concluded that Yuan Big Head and the students with him had died when the Ashes Apostle descended, while the Night Watchman might have saved Mu Daxian.
• Head Teacher 040 agreed that an Ashes Apostle had probably injured her and reassured Lin Yi that his treatment had revealed no ashes in her body.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan encountered Mountain Man outside the office, then secretly watched as Head Teacher 040 admitted him after he identified himself as Yuan Lijian.
• Lin Yi invited Li Huiyuan to explore the fifth floor of the Teaching Building and above as his friend rather than as cannon fodder.

Little Genius returned to Campus as a puppet, but Wei Shan tore it apart and an impersonator named Wei Liang devoured its head. Meanwhile, Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan reached the fourth floor of Teaching Building B and watched the clouds while planning when to continue upstairs.

• Lin Yi sensed something strange in the Wooded Belt and left for the Stairwell with Li Huiyuan.
• Little Genius emerged from the Wooded Belt and approached Teaching Building B, but Mountain Man avoided it by ducking into Group B Class 2.
• Little Genius knocked on the Teachers' Office door until Wei Shan recognized it as nonhuman, dragged it to the Men's Restroom, and dismembered it.
• An impersonator calling himself Wei Liang retrieved Little Genius's head and ate it, while Little Genius cried out in terror.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan reached the fourth floor, where Lin Yi observed the clouds and waited for a chance to continue upstairs.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan crossed the unstable Layer in the Teaching Building’s Stairwell, fending off Night-Walking Species and resisting the passage’s mind-warping calls to reach the forbidden fifth floor. There, Lin Yi reassured Li Huiyuan that some Teaching Building Rules no longer applied to them and began explaining what the Rules meant.

• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan entered the Stairwell hand in hand as the light faded, and a swarm of Night-Walking Species appeared.
• Lin Yi used his Admonition to make the Night-Walking Species scatter and opened a path through the Layer, then led Li Huiyuan up the stairs.
• They encountered overlapping Grinning Angels, hostile calls from inside the walls, and other disturbances that weakened their minds.
• Lin Yi shouted his Admonition again and brought Li Huiyuan through the Layer to the Teaching Building’s fifth floor.
• Zhao Lingxiao heard Li Huiyuan’s scream on the fourth floor and hurried to the Stairwell, but Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan had already vanished inside the Layer.
• Li Huiyuan worried that entering the forbidden fifth floor broke the Rules, and Lin Yi told her they were moving beyond the category of people bound by some of them.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan explored the fog-shrouded fifth floor of the Teaching Building, where they encountered a group of Fanatics. Lin Yi agreed to follow their leader to meet a teacher, planning to learn more while preparing to fight if necessary.

• Lin Yi explained to Li Huiyuan that he was studying the Campus rules so he could find a way to rescue his roommate from the Art Building.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan examined the fifth floor, where dense white fog obscured the corridors and classrooms.
• A Fanatic appeared behind Lin Yi and asked whether they had been invited; Lin Yi realized the rules' warning about familiar people changing referred to Fanatics.
• More Fanatics emerged from the fog and surrounded Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan, including figures dressed in bandages.
• Lin Yi agreed to follow the Fanatic to see the teacher and told Li Huiyuan to keep holding his hand, ignore what she saw, and wake him if he fell into another Layer.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan followed a Fanatic through the fog-shrouded Forbidden Zone B-5F to Group B Class 15, where Lin Yi learned the area had suffered a disaster about ten years earlier. Inside the ruined classroom, he encountered the Weird Art Female Teacher again, and she greeted him as they met once more.

• Lin Yi teased Li Huiyuan about her miniature Baseball Bat, and she threatened to tell Boss about his past misadventure with the Head Teacher.
• Lin Yi confronted the Fanatic escorting them and slammed his head against a wall until he explained that the area had been operating normally before a disaster roughly ten years ago.
• Lin Yi questioned the Fanatic about their destination, then followed him and Li Huiyuan into Group B Class 15.
• Lin Yi examined the fog-filled classroom and found hostile Fanatics among its battered desks, scattered papers, and unfinished chalk writing.
• Lin Yi recognized the female teacher as the Weird Art Female Teacher he had encountered before, and she smiled at him and said they had met again.

Lin Yi questioned the Weird Art Female Teacher about the Black Moon Apostles and the Campus, but she could answer almost none of his questions. When he brought up the Ashes Apostles, her reaction confirmed his suspicions, and she blocked him from leaving.

• The Weird Art Female Teacher recognized that Lin Yi had returned, and he agreed to speak with her while giving the false name Xiao Zi.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher described her group as Black Moon Apostles pursuing Glorious Evolution and becoming light, while Lin Yi connected that goal to becoming Angels.
• Lin Yi learned that the classroom had once been part of the Teaching Building and that the Campus Rules could be updated, but the teacher could not explain when the building changed or what had happened there.
• When Lin Yi asked about the Ashes Apostles, the Weird Art Female Teacher reacted sharply, confirming that the name mattered to her.
• Lin Yi tried to leave with Li Huiyuan, but the Weird Art Female Teacher ordered him to stay as the Fanatics turned toward him and tightened their encirclement.

Lin Yi and the Weird Art Female Teacher exchanged information about Lao Mo, the Ashes Apostles, and the Fanatics’ plans for Campus. As she explained an ancient disaster that reshaped the Teaching Building, Lin Yi suddenly connected it to other clues.

• Lin Yi claimed Lao Mo had investigated an Ashes Apostle, while the Weird Art Female Teacher said Lao Mo had opposed the Angel and died at the Clock Tower with his heart removed.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher explained that Lao Mo’s heart could power a mystical vessel, and Lin Yi secretly realized it was inside his backpack.
• Lin Yi combined his account with her information and suggested that someone had brought an Ashes Apostle onto Campus to collect its ashes and cause chaos around the Angel.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher revealed that the Fanatics wanted to turn people into Godfolk and would destroy Campus if it no longer served their recruitment needs.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher described an early failed assault on the Art Building that opened a channel for the Angel’s power, summoned Ashes Apostles, and killed a Night Watchman.
• Lin Yi suddenly connected several clues as he listened to her account of the old disaster.

Lin Yi connected Mountain Man and the Ashes Apostles to the Dark Upheaval, then learned that an Ashes Apostle was in the Campus and could be lured by those bearing Ashes. The Weird Art Female Teacher suspected a faction was feeding it, leaving Lin Yi fearing it would come for him that night.

• Lin Yi connected Mountain Man's return to the Campus with the Dark Upheaval and wondered whether the broken sculptures had been calling for Night Watchman-01.
• Lin Yi told the Weird Art Female Teacher about Mountain Man, and she explained that Ashes Apostles were powerful beings who had touched the light and competed for a unique sequence.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher said an Ashes Apostle had entered the Campus after the Principal disappeared and was gradually weakening as its Supernatural Power declined.
• Lin Yi realized the Ashes he carried could draw the Ashes Apostle to him, while the Weird Art Female Teacher explained that Ashes-marked people became its targets and nourishment.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher concluded that a faction collecting Ashes might be trying to feed the Ashes Apostle.

Lin Yi realized the Infiltration Force might be arranging people and resources to create or feed Ashes Apostles, and he feared he was being prepared as material for one. When Zhang Lingzhen returned as a Fanatic and fixated on him, Li Huiyuan stepped in, provoking Zhang Lingzhen into unleashing hostile green aura.

• Lin Yi considered that the Fanatics might be researching a way to create Ashes Apostles together, with the Wrathful Angels as byproducts.
• Lin Yi feared the Campus authorities or the Infiltration Force intended to use him as high-grade material for the existing Ashes Apostle.
• Zhang Lingzhen arrived at the Art Classroom with Senior Ren and other former Blue Bus passengers, many of whom had joined the Fanatics.
• Lin Yi suspected the first passengers to leave the bus had been planted by the Infiltration Force and wondered what role he played in their plan.
• Zhang Lingzhen approached Lin Yi with greed and aggression, and Lin Yi sensed that her body had been rebuilt with parts that were not originally hers.
• Li Huiyuan pulled Lin Yi behind her and confronted Zhang Lingzhen, who shifted her attention to Li Huiyuan and erupted in hostility.

Li Huiyuan defeated Zhang Lingzhen in close combat, but Lin Yi absorbed Zhang Lingzhen’s dark green aura before it could injure her. After Ren Jianxiong reported Grinning Angels in the Teaching Building, the Weird Art Female Teacher led the Fanatics, Lin Yi, and Li Huiyuan out, where Lin Yi discovered the aura of ashes and suspected the Fanatics were collecting it.

• Li Huiyuan shattered Zhang Lingzhen’s fangs with her Mini Baseball Bat and kicked her away, but Zhang Lingzhen’s dark green aura ensnared Li Huiyuan.
• Lin Yi absorbed the aura and rescued Li Huiyuan, alarming the Weird Art Female Teacher and the other Fanatics.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher stopped Zhang Lingzhen from attacking again, while Ren Jianxiong pulled her aside and reported Grinning Angels in the Teaching Building.
• The Weird Art Female Teacher ordered the Fanatics to leave and told Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan to follow them, and Lin Yi agreed so he could see how they avoided the Grinning Angels.
• Outside Group B Class 15, Lin Yi sensed the aura of ashes in the fog and realized the Fanatics were collecting it too.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan escaped a distorted floor of the Teaching Building after discovering that the Grinning Angels were drawing Ashes from the Fanatics and consuming the steam released as they burned. They returned to Forbidden Zone-B-5F, where Lin Yi found more Grinning Angel sculptures appearing around the Covered Corridor and Stairwell.

• Lin Yi realized the Grinning Angels had warped the floor and awakened, while the Weird Art Female Teacher led away those who remembered their names and left the other Fanatics behind.
• Lin Yi sensed Ashes falling with the volcanic ash and saw the Fanatics attract and absorb it as the Grinning Angels inhaled the steam from their bodies.
• Lin Yi took Li Huiyuan away from the group after sensing that the Ashes would make the Fanatics catch fire.
• A Fanatic burned to death, and the flames spread through the Grinning Angels as a crystalline substance began forming within the fire.
• Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan out of the distorted space and returned to Forbidden Zone-B-5F, where he spotted more Grinning Angel sculptures near the Covered Corridor and Stairwell.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan escaped the Grinning Angels by entering the sealed Group B Class 13, where they discovered the Nonexistent Person trapped beside a breach in the window. Lin Yi investigated the figure and found it had changed since morning, but its nature and the danger posed by the ashes remained unclear.

• Lin Yi used Minecraft and Domain Insight to map the fifth-floor Forbidden Area, spotted shelter in Group B Class 13, and led Li Huiyuan past awakening Grinning Angels.
• Li Huiyuan used her Athlete Student ID to unlock the classroom door, and Lin Yi shut and locked it behind them as Grinning Angels gathered outside.
• Lin Yi searched the abandoned classroom and found a breach in the window letting in salty sea air and drifting ashes.
• Lin Yi recognized the trembling figure as the Nonexistent Person from Group B Class 2 and noticed scratches showing it had failed to open the door.
• Lin Yi stopped Li Huiyuan from approaching and carefully examined the Nonexistent Person, discovering that it had changed since morning.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan slipped Layers into the Bookshelf Area, where the broken sculptures urged Lin Yi to take them away and repeated a cryptic line about the Mourners returning from the Endless Deep Sea. After they returned to the abandoned classroom, an Ashes Apostle attacked, and Lin Yi threw it into the Covered Corridor with the lingering Grinning Angels and locked the door.

• Lin Yi noticed the nonexistent person had survived bearing Ashes and spotted the Art Building through the fog beyond the classroom window.
• Li Huiyuan slipped Layers, and Lin Yi's consciousness followed hers into the Bookshelf Area, where the broken sculptures begged him to take them away.
• Lin Yi guided Li Huiyuan back to her body, then returned himself while the sculptures repeated, “When the Black Moon Withers, the Mourners return from the Endless Deep Sea.”
• Li Huiyuan woke as Lin Yi raised his hand to slap her, and she angrily accused him of going too far.
• The Ashes Apostle: Fire Man attacked Lin Yi, who dodged its charge and hurled it through the classroom door into the Covered Corridor.
• Lin Yi locked the door between the classroom and corridor, leaving the Ashes Apostle: Fire Man surrounded by the lingering Grinning Angels.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan found that the Grinning Angels had been petrified by the fire-wielding Ashes Apostle and discovered refined ashes stored in Blood Bodhi Stone Pillars. Lin Yi harvested the pillars before fleeing back to the Campus, while the Ashes Apostle began breaking the remaining pillars and absorbing their contents.

• Lin Yi realized that Mountain Man's Fire Man might be an artificial ashes collector, and he and Li Huiyuan left Group B Class 13 after the Grinning Angels fell silent.
• Lin Yi found petrified Grinning Angels in the Covered Corridor and led Li Huiyuan toward the Stairwell by Group B Class 15.
• Lin Yi identified the Blood Bodhi Stone Pillars as refined ashes made from Fanatics and Grinning Angels, then absorbed the contents of the pillars he encountered.
• When the Fire Man sensed the refined ashes, Lin Yi grabbed a pillar and hurried with Li Huiyuan into the Stairwell, using the pillar to drive off the Night-Walking Species.
• After Lin Yi crossed back to the Campus, the Fire Man arrived and began smashing the remaining pillars to absorb their ashes.

The Fanatics returned to find the Ashes Apostle had destroyed their harvest, and Zhang Lingzhen transformed into a new Ashes Apostle after being left behind. Lin Yi admitted to Li Huiyuan that he had absorbed Ashes again and planned to leave Campus, then set out to report the Fanatics’ attack and meet Wei Liang for lunch.

• The Weird Art Female Teacher and the Fanatics discovered the Fire Person consuming the Ashes, then fled and left others behind to cover their retreat.
• Ren Jianxiong noticed Zhang Lingzhen was missing, but abandoned the idea of going back for her and followed the Fanatics toward the Barren Land.
• The Fire Person killed the Fanatics left behind, and Zhang Lingzhen emerged from her charred body with the power of an Ashes Apostle.
• Lin Yi returned to Teaching Building B with Li Huiyuan, absorbed the Ashes he carried, and told her he had picked them up again at the Art Building.
• Li Huiyuan urged Lin Yi to have Boss remove the Ashes, but Lin Yi said they had fused with him and that leaving Campus might keep him safe.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan decided to head toward the Cafeteria, with Lin Yi planning to report the Fanatics to Head Teacher 040 and Li Huiyuan going to fetch Wei Liang.

Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 about the Fanatics gathering ashes and the infiltrators hidden among his classmates, then learned Mountain Man’s forbidden method for becoming an Ashes Apostle. The exchange revealed that Mountain Man’s fire-like creation was bait meant to expose the Realm of God’s remaining operatives, and Lin Yi left the office at mealtime.

• Lin Yi reported that Fanatics on the fifth floor were using collected ashes and Blood Bodhi Stone Pillars in an effort to become Ashes Apostles, and that infiltrators from his batch had joined them.
• Lin Yi told Head Teacher 040 about Mountain Man’s fire-like creation in the abandoned classroom, and she explained that Mountain Man had called it bait.
• Head Teacher 040 said Mountain Man had learned that becoming an Ashes Apostle required turning oneself into a vessel through regeneration and adaptation, and that he was experimenting on himself with controlled amounts of ashes.
• Head Teacher 040 explained that Mountain Man intended to use the bait to lure out and kill the Realm of God’s planted operatives, then take the ashes they had collected.
• Lin Yi asked whether Head Teacher 040 had any other information, then left the office when she told him to get lost.

Mountain Man warned Head Teacher 040 that Wei Liang was dangerous, and her review of the student records raised suspicions about his identity. As Lin Yi, Li Huiyuan, and Wei Liang headed to the Cafeteria, Lin Yi heard an unseen voice calling his name and sensed that the Campus was growing unstable.

• Mountain Man warned Head Teacher 040 that Wei Liang had made him feel more fear than the monsters at Black Moon Outpost and might be connected to the missing Song Rentou.
• Head Teacher 040 found no sign-in record for Wei Liang, then compared the class records with a letter from Head Teacher 039 and became alarmed.
• Lin Yi met Li Huiyuan and Wei Liang outside the Teachers' Office, and Head Teacher 040 watched Wei Liang as they left.
• Near the Cafeteria, Lin Yi sensed drifting ashes and heard a voice calling his name, while unseen Chef sculptures appeared in the Wooded Belt beneath gathering clouds.
• In the damp Student Passage, Lin Yi took Li Huiyuan's hand and realized Wei Liang's remarks had given him an idea about controlling Layer fluctuations.
• Lin Yi felt the passage grow colder and its exit distort, but Li Huiyuan sensed nothing unusual as Wei Liang said rain was coming.

Lin Yi was drawn into a dreamlike distortion caused by the Law-Crafting Master's Mystical Runes, but used the time discrepancy to realize he was outside the Student Passage and escape. He returned to his Original Body at 10:48, recognizing the danger of Dream Boundary Studies as Wei Liang entered the passage.

• Lin Yi saw overlapping passages, chained sculptures, and pale golden patterns as eerie calls and rushing wind destabilized his Layer.
• Lin Yi realized the apparent Li Huiyuan was the Little Girl and noticed the watch showed only 10:47, despite the time spent walking.
• Lin Yi identified the scene as a Double Dream, looked back, and saw himself, Li Huiyuan, and Wei Liang outside the Student Passage before returning to his Original Body.
• Lin Yi confirmed the Law-Crafting Master's Mystical Runes had drawn his consciousness into the dream, while the dark clouds receded and the time reached 10:48.
• Lin Yi considered how Dream Boundary Studies could trap people in endless dreams, then Wei Liang cursed him and entered the Student Passage.

Lin Yi was drawn into a dreamlike version of the Student Passage by the Law-Crafting Master’s power, but escaped by using the passage of time to realize he was outside it. He returned to reality shaken, recognizing the danger of Dream Boundary Studies and the growing activity of the Law-Crafting Master’s mark on his arm.

• Lin Yi saw overlapping passages, heard eerie calls, and watched pale golden patterns appear on his arm as his blood surged.
• Lin Yi mistook the Little Girl for Li Huiyuan, then noticed the time had advanced only from 10:46 to 10:47 and realized he was not truly inside the Student Passage.
• Lin Yi looked back and saw himself, Wei Liang, and Li Huiyuan outside the passage, then pulled his consciousness back into his original body.
• Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan watched Lin Yi recover outside the entrance as the clouds overhead began to recede.
• Lin Yi concluded that the Law-Crafting Master had used her mark to pull him into a dreambuilding state and wondered whether Dream Boundary Studies trapped people in endless dreams.
• Lin Yi called his experience a wet dream, and Wei Liang cursed him before entering the Student Passage.

Lin Yi explored the Student Dining Hall’s shadowy area, sensed a possible link to the well in the Art Building, and then exploited the Green Apron Chef’s tomato-swapping behavior. The chapter ended with Lin Yi accepting one more tomato despite his tray already being piled high.

• Lin Yi probed the darkness in the Cafeteria and heard whispers that seemed connected to the well in the Art Building.
• Lin Yi considered whether the Cafeteria and the well were linked across Layers, while suspecting the Law-Crafting Master might be influencing his perceptions.
• The Green Apron Chef offered Lin Yi its new dry-tossed noodles, and Lin Yi memorized the Name Badge of Cafeteria lady Chef-0256 before collecting his food.
• Lin Yi swiped his Student ID, causing nearby Experience Students to react like Impersonator Classmates, then began trading yogurt for tomatoes as the Green Apron Chef repeatedly swapped them.
• Lin Yi filled his tray with tomatoes and yogurt, then took another tomato from the Green Apron Chef when it offered one, leaving him with little room on the tray.

Lin Yi took the Green Apron Chef’s heart-tomato, triggering its petrification and making the other chefs fear him. After helping himself to a meal, he faced a pleading Experience Student and then used his understanding of space to foil another chef’s charge.

• Lin Yi took the tomatoes from the Green Apron Chef, found its last one in its chest, and pulled out its heart as it tried to kill him.
• The Green Apron Chef petrified into a Corpse Sculpture, and the other chefs and Impersonator Classmates became wary of Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi dumped his tomato-tainted food, joined the line at Meal Window No. 4, and made the chef promoting tomato noodles withdraw in fear.
• An Experience Student asked Lin Yi to save him, but Lin Yi directed him to seek his Head Teacher and walked away.
• A Green Apron Chef lunged from Meal Window No. 10, and Lin Yi used Advanced Perception to manipulate the spatial lines and keep it from reaching him.

Lin Yi reached the Convenience Store through the mist, where he discovered hound-shaped night-walking species held back by its light and heard iron chains beyond them. At the entrance, he found ashes binding him to the doorway and realized he might be caught in a trap meant for him, perhaps because the Convenience Store Owner was gravely injured.

• Lin Yi used the Green Apron Chef's spatial force to jump to the Convenience Store, while Mountain Man entered the Student Dining Hall and ignored the Chef's recommendation.
• Lin Yi found the Student Dining Hall had vanished behind him and saw hound-shaped night-walking species prowling beyond the Convenience Store's protective light.
• Lin Yi detected iron chains in the mist and wondered whether the Campus's hidden layers extended beyond the apparent real world.
• Lin Yi noticed ashes floating across the Convenience Store's entrance and suspected the store could carry and collect them without being affected.
• Lin Yi entered the store, but the ashes clung to him and stretched into a binding tether that pulled him back toward the doorway.
• Lin Yi suspected the ashes formed a trap and considered that the Convenience Store Owner might be gravely injured.