Recaps

Lin Yi saw the sailor-uniform girl from the bus enter the Other Passage, then watched Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang use it too. Inside the Student Passage, he discovered moss growing throughout it and around Basement Level One, and his inspection left him terrified by what he saw at the passage’s end.

• Lin Yi recognized the sailor-uniform girl from the bus, and Xu Shunkang blocked her gaze before she hurried into the Other Passage.
• Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang later entered the Other Passage, but Lin Yi and Wei Liang chose to go to the Cafeteria without reporting them to a Security Guard.
• Lin Yi noticed many students, including several in athletic uniforms, using the Other Passage, then entered the Student Passage with Wei Liang.
• Lin Yi found moss growing along the Student Passage steps and confirmed that moss also covered the walls around Basement Level One.
• Lin Yi rushed to the end of the Student Passage and turned to look back, whereupon he felt a chill spread through his body.

Lin Yi reasoned that the moss around campus might be evidence of a recurring, invisible tide, then discovered that dangerous thoughts could overtake him in the dining hall unless he stood in direct sunlight. As he followed Wei Liang away from the entrance, a Chef emerged from the shadowy corner and approached him.

• Lin Yi connected the moss in the Student Passage and Basement Level One to either a wet creature or an invisible tide, and wondered whether the Teaching Building's steps also bore moss.
• Wei Liang told Lin Yi that he had slipped on moss on the Dormitory steps, leaving Lin Yi worried that the campus's moss was not harmless.
• Inside the Student Dining Hall, Lin Yi saw a pitch-black abyss and nearly fell toward it before Wei Liang pulled him back to the entrance.
• Lin Yi realized he could think freely only in direct sunlight, not merely during daylight, and hurried after Wei Liang without dwelling on the danger.
• A Chef emerged from the shadowy corner Lin Yi had been watching and slowly walked toward him.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang joined the line at Meal Window No. 3, where Lin Yi faced a Green Apron Chef who violated the Cafeteria’s rules and tried to sell him tomato-sauce pasta. Wei Liang pulled Lin Yi away, unknowingly stepping on the chef’s face, while a drop of tomato-like sauce clung to his shoe.

• Lin Yi realized the Cafeteria’s shifting darkness and weak lighting could be dangerous, and he joined Wei Liang in the bright line at Meal Window No. 3.
• A Green Apron Chef addressed Lin Yi, but Lin Yi remembered the rules and froze, trying to ignore the stranger without looking at him.
• The Green Apron Chef lay on the floor and forced his face into Lin Yi’s view, then offered him free Tomato Meat Sauce Pasta.
• Lin Yi kept his attention blank until Wei Liang noticed the gap in the line, grabbed his hand, and dragged him forward.
• Wei Liang stepped on the Green Apron Chef’s face, and Lin Yi pulled his gaze away and followed him.
• The Green Apron Chef stood up with a shoe print on his face and watched Wei Liang, whose shoe sole had picked up a drop of tomato-like red substance.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang encountered increasingly dangerous anomalies in the Student Dining Hall while trying to follow its rules. They escaped the dining area, leaving the blue-apron chef behind as he ate a tomato and watched them go.

• Lin Yi noticed a dark red stain on Wei Liang’s shoe and realized it had come from stomping on the Green Apron Chef, but he could not warn Wei Liang before he ordered food.
• Wei Liang demonstrated his flashy way of swiping his Student ID, then stopped when a sinister chill rose from his foot and spotted the Green Apron Chef watching them from a seat.
• As Lin Yi drew his Student ID, the students stared at him with hostile intent, but he copied Wei Liang’s technique and swiped the card without openly revealing it.
• A blue-apron chef appeared in the dining hall, offered Lin Yi a tomato instead of milk, and reminded him to take the milk; Lin Yi recognized the rule and ignored him.
• Lin Yi urged Wei Liang to follow him without paying attention to anything, and the two fled as the chef offered Wei Liang milk.
• The blue-apron chef watched them leave, then bit into the tomato and chewed as its juice ran down his face.

Lin Yi realized the Cafeteria’s food could cleanse the discomfort caused by the campus and decided to leave after eating, but he and Wei Liang were surrounded as strangers filled every seat at their table. The chapter ended with Wei Liang trying to alert Lin Yi without speaking plainly.

• The Blue Apron Chef replaced a student’s milk with a tomato and followed him away from the serving counter.
• Lin Yi warned Wei Liang to check his meal for tomato and noticed tomato sauce on Wei Liang’s shoe, telling him not to remove it inside the Cafeteria.
• Lin Yi discovered that the Cafeteria’s food warmed and seemed to cleanse his body, and he suspected students needed to eat there within a time limit.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang joked while eating, helping Lin Yi ignore the eerie activity around them.
• Strangers gathered until all eight seats at Lin Yi and Wei Liang’s table were occupied, and Wei Liang tried to get Lin Yi’s attention with strange swallowing sounds and a kick.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang used muffled eating noises to communicate and followed the Cafeteria Rules while Lin Yi reasoned through the dangers around them. After finishing their food, they prepared to leave, but Wei Liang felt something licking his shoe.

• Lin Yi realized Wei Liang's strange eating noises meant they were surrounded, and the two began communicating through exaggerated gibberish.
• Lin Yi told Wei Liang to focus on eating and ignore strangers, while Wei Liang struggled to concentrate on his food.
• Lin Yi reviewed the Cafeteria Rules and reasoned that responding to the chefs might trigger danger, while darkness and leaving with tomato sauce could also threaten them.
• Lin Yi finished his meal and saw in the reflection of his tray that the surrounding people were staring at him and Wei Liang.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang prepared to leave together, but Wei Liang cried out that something was licking his shoe.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang fought their way through the unnaturally cold crowd in the Student Dining Hall and tried to escape by following the Cafeteria Rules. Lin Yi spotted the Green Apron Chef emerging from Meal Window No. 10 and raced for the Student Passage as the chef pursued him.

• Lin Yi and Wei Liang rammed through the rigid crowd, then fled toward the tray return as the students began pursuing them.
• Wei Liang avoided handing his tray to a suspicious chef after Lin Yi warned him that Cafeteria employees could not appear in the Student Dining Hall, then ran for the exit.
• Lin Yi ignored Kuai Hongji's call and noticed the hidden Meal Window No. 10, where a Green Apron Chef forced his way out while the queue remained unresponsive.
• Lin Yi recalled the rule about the Green Apron Chef, chose the Student Passage over the Convenience Store, and sprinted for the doors without looking back or answering.
• The Green Apron Chef called to Lin Yi and rapidly pursued him, setting up a race to the Student Dining Hall's exit.

Lin Yi escaped the Student Dining Hall while Xu Shunkang stayed behind and struck the Green Apron Chef with a Baseball Bat. Outside, Lin Yi and Wei Liang searched for a trash can to discard their tomato-sauce-stained shoes and found one beside the Staff Passage.

• Lin Yi sprinted toward the Student Dining Hall exit as the Green Apron Chef pursued him, and Xu Shunkang let him pass before blocking the chef with his Baseball Bat.
• Xu Shunkang knocked the Green Apron Chef back into the dining hall, where the walking-corpse-like students swarmed him, then used sunlight to clean the substance from his bat.
• Lin Yi followed the cafeteria rule and did not look back as he ran through the Student Passage after Wei Liang, who struggled to slow down after racing ahead.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang decided to discard their stained shoes before returning the cafeteria rules, but found no trash cans until they spotted one beside the Staff Passage.
• Lin Yi judged that they could use the trash can without crossing into the Staff Passage, while Wei Liang discovered that his own shoe had also been stained and mourned his sneakers.

Lin Yi discovered that the tomato sauce on his shoes had turned into plaster and connected it to the Head Teacher and the Green Apron Chef’s delivery. As he and Wei Liang tried to discard their shoes, a powerful pounding sound erupted from the Staff Passage, and Xu Shunkang helped push them toward the trash can.

• Lin Yi hurried toward the Staff Passage after sensing a chilly presence behind him, but discovered the substance on his shoes had hardened into plaster.
• Lin Yi recalled the tomato-stained lunch box in the Teachers' Office and deduced that the Green Apron Chef had delivered tomato meat sauce pasta to the Head Teacher before he met her.
• Wei Liang caught up with Lin Yi, who claimed he had sped ahead because the slope was too steep to brake on.
• A booming, heartbeat-like sound came from the Staff Passage and overwhelmed Lin Yi and Wei Liang as they struggled toward the trash can with their shoes.
• Xu Shunkang appeared with a plaster-dusted Baseball Bat and pushed Lin Yi and Wei Liang toward the trash can while resisting the sonic waves.

Xu Shunkang rescued Lin Yi and Wei Liang from the dangerous Staff Passage and warned them about the Cafeteria’s rules and PE. As Lin Yi returned toward the Teaching Building, the tomato-sauce-like powder on the pebble path triggered a frightening reaction, and he froze at the sight of moss on the classroom steps.

• Xu Shunkang helped Lin Yi and Wei Liang escape the Staff Passage and explained that lingering there could expose them to danger.
• Xu Shunkang advised them to return to the classroom for midday rest and reach PE fifteen minutes early because the route to the Gymnasium was dangerous.
• Lin Yi realized the abnormal sounds came from the Cafeteria’s Basement Level One and left the Cafeteria with Wei Liang as clouds dimmed the sunlight.
• Lin Yi noticed white powder between the pebble paving stones and became overwhelmed by fear, while Wei Liang spotted several pebbles distorted into strange shapes.
• At Teaching Building 3, Wei Liang found Lin Yi frozen and cold as Lin Yi stared at moss on the steps and muttered in disbelief.

Lin Yi experienced a terrifying vision in which he seemed trapped in a Gothic Art Building, then grounded himself by repeating his identity and returned to the steps of the Teaching Building. Back in class, he noticed the Little Genius statue had vanished and added new survival notes about the Cafeteria and Tomato Sauce.

• Lin Yi saw a storm-torn image of the campus inside a painted sky and found himself in a castle marked as the Art Building, but repeated his name and student number until he was back at the Teaching Building.
• Wei Liang found Lin Yi crouching by the steps and escorted him back to the classroom, where Lin Yi said he was fine and blamed low blood sugar.
• Lin Yi noticed that the Little Genius statue was missing from the Wooded Belt outside Building B.
• Lin Yi reviewed his notebook and recorded that the Athlete Student could fight dangerous things, Cafeteria food had a cleansing effect, and he should leave the Cafeteria quickly after eating.
• Lin Yi added that Tomato Sauce could get on his shoes if he stepped on dangerous classmates and turned into plaster under the Sun.

Lin Yi connected the Head Teacher’s identity, tomato sauce, and injuries, then hypothesized that the unknown creature in the classroom had been the Head Teacher after she became abnormal. He found tomato sauce seeping from the classroom door’s keyhole, lending support to his theory.

• Lin Yi realized that a person’s identity might depend on both physical identification and unwavering belief, and suspected the Head Teacher’s office reflected her confused state.
• Wei Liang explained that the Head Teacher’s torn stockings looked scuffed rather than cut, prompting Lin Yi to wonder if her injuries came from a struggle.
• Lin Yi hypothesized that the unknown creature was the Head Teacher, that the Security Guard had injured her with his chains, and that she had locked herself out after becoming abnormal.
• Lin Yi inspected the plaster-like substance on the teaching platform and noticed it was visible from the classroom doorway.
• Lin Yi found white powder on the classroom door and dark-red tomato sauce seeping from inside its keyhole.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang headed toward the Gymnasium, where Lin Yi discovered that buildings disappeared from his view when he left their designated areas. At the Gymnasium notice board, they learned rules for reaching the building and responding to rain, strange buildings, and suspicious people.

• Lin Yi found tomato sauce emerge from a keyhole, harden into white fragments, and vanish from the napkin, leaving him more distrustful of the classroom.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang left for PE, and Wei Liang used extra socks from Lin Yi’s bag to cover his bare feet.
• Lin Yi realized he could see the Teaching Building only within its streetlamp-numbered area, while Wei Liang could still see it from the Gymnasium area.
• Lin Yi worried about his roommates, especially Mao Feiyang, as he and Wei Liang continued toward the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached the Gymnasium notice board and read its rules, including instructions for rain, a Castle, and encountering an Athlete Student.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang set out along the path to the Gymnasium after reading the emergency rules, but Lin Yi encountered foul sea wind and a sudden storm that seemed to affect only him. When he caught up to Wei Liang, the figure turned out to be the missing Little Genius sculpture, which continued walking through the gale after a lightning strike.

• Lin Yi memorized the Notice Board's emergency rules, while Wei Liang proposed hugging a streetlamp during bad weather and revealed that he had brought raincoats.
• As Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked toward the Gymnasium, Lin Yi noticed a faint fishy, rotten smell and discovered that the wind carried a foul sea breeze.
• The wind rapidly intensified, the sky darkened, and Lin Yi saw that all the other classmates had disappeared from the path.
• Lin Yi struggled through the gale to reach Wei Liang, but when the figure turned around, he saw the missing Little Genius sculpture wearing Wei Liang's clothes.
• The sculpture reached toward Lin Yi as plaster flaked from its arm, then turned and continued along the path after a thunderclap and lightning strike.

Lin Yi became trapped on a road without streetlamps as the storm, fog, and sea wind warped the world around him. By following the pebbles and repeating his identity, he escaped the danger and found himself back on the normal path beside Wei Liang.

• Lin Yi realized the Gymnasium and surrounding buildings had vanished, leaving him alone with the Little Genius sculpture on a road without streetlamps.
• As the storm gathered and fog spread, Lin Yi recalled the Student Rules and identified pebbles beneath his feet as proof that he was still on the road.
• Lin Yi closed his eyes, held his Student ID, repeated his name and student number, and crawled along the pebbles with his back to the sea wind.
• When rain fell, a nearby creature attacked, but Lin Yi slid forward along the pebbles and avoided being struck.
• Lin Yi followed the pebbles until they returned to normal, then opened his eyes on a regular path beside a streetlamp, where Wei Liang stood over him.

After escaping a strange road where time and people seemed to disappear, Lin Yi deduced that the Gymnasium’s notice board relied on firm belief and ignoring the wind. He and Wei Liang reached the Gymnasium, where Lin Yi felt an overwhelming sense of safety and was directed to pick up the Gymnasium Rules.

• Lin Yi recovered from the strange road and realized his watch showed that only two minutes had passed despite his long walk; Wei Liang said he had briefly turned around and seen Lin Yi rushing toward his feet.
• As Lin Yi and Wei Liang headed toward the Gymnasium, Lin Yi noticed nearby students disappearing and suspected they had been diverted onto the nonexistent road by the sea-scented wind.
• Lin Yi recalled the Gymnasium notice board and concluded that believing there was only one road to the Gymnasium and ignoring the wind could help people avoid the abnormal route.
• Wei Liang explained that he could not smell the wind because his nose was blocked, then told Lin Yi about the Giant Dome connected to the Gymnasium.
• At the Gymnasium entrance, athlete students carrying Baseball Bats hurried Lin Yi and Wei Liang inside and threatened Wei Liang with ball practice.
• Lin Yi felt an intense sense of safety as soon as he entered the Gymnasium, and Wei Liang directed him to the Self-Service Lending Machine to get a copy of the Gymnasium Rules.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang collected the Gymnasium Rules and went to the Gymnasium for PE, where Wei Liang recounted his terrifying previous class. While studying the map and inspecting the building, Lin Yi spotted kerosene lamps leading toward a forbidden corridor and what appeared to be a staircase to the basement.

• Lin Yi and Wei Liang each collected a Gymnasium Rules booklet, which warned them to stay in marked trial areas and prohibited entry to the basement.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang arrived at the basketball court for a free activity period because the Gym Teacher had not appeared.
• Wei Liang told Lin Yi that a Gym Teacher had once held him underwater for an entire swimming class, then went upstairs to the gymnastics room.
• Lin Yi unfolded the map and examined the Gymnasium, noticing incandescent lights among the LEDs and a lit kerosene lamp.
• Lin Yi recognized the kerosene lamp as identical to the Security Guard's and realized it hung in a prohibited area.
• Lin Yi followed the lamps' direction with his eyes and glimpsed a door and staircase leading toward the basement.

Lin Yi met Tian Bufan in the Gymnasium, where they discussed their fading memories of Mao Feiyang and the shifting Teachers’ Offices connected to the Stairwell. Tian Bufan warned that the world seemed to be forgetting Mao Feiyang, then asked Lin Yi what the Athlete Student had told him.

• Lin Yi resisted the Basement’s pull and reunited with Tian Bufan beside the Gymnasium’s Kerosene Lamps.
• Tian Bufan said he was forgetting Mao Feiyang, and Lin Yi realized his own memories of Mao Feiyang were fading too.
• Tian Bufan concluded that Mao Feiyang was slipping away from them and said the world might be forgetting him.
• Tian Bufan explained his theory that the Teachers’ Offices moved and could be connected to the Stairwell, but warned Lin Yi not to enter them rashly.
• Lin Yi told Tian Bufan that an Athlete Student had advised him to think freely under the Sun, and Tian Bufan asked what else the student had said.

Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about his encounters with Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang, then experienced a disorienting vision while listening to Tian explain the old lamp’s history. As PE continued, a formidable Sports Department Girl arrived with Xu Shunkang and his exhausted group, and her attention fixed on Lin Yi.

• Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about meeting Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang, and Tian suggested that Lin Yi had caught someone’s attention.
• Tian Bufan described the old lamp as a relic from a distant era, and Lin Yi briefly sensed a terrifying, ancient presence before Tian reassured him.
• Tian Bufan left for the second floor, and Lin Yi reviewed the Gymnasium Rules before looking for equipment to borrow.
• Athlete Students made way for a tall Sports Department Girl carrying a club coated with a plaster-like substance, with the exhausted Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang behind her.
• Xu Shunkang beckoned Lin Yi over, but the group’s pressure made Lin Yi falter as the Sports Department Girl struck her iron bar against the floor and fixed her flaming eyes on him.

Sports Department Girl summoned Lin Yi to swim and warned him about the fog and the women’s changing room. In the men’s locker room, Lin Yi found a note ordering him not to swim and to run, just as Sports Department Girl approached him in her swimsuit.

• Sports Department Girl approached Lin Yi, sniffed him, and invited him to swim while Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang worried that something was wrong with him.
• Sports Department Girl warned Lin Yi that an overly precise sense of time could limit his cognition, especially while traveling through fog, then sent him to the men’s changing room.
• Lin Yi read the changing-room notice, including instructions for safely washing his hair, and changed into the swimwear from a locker he opened with his Student ID.
• A nearby locker sprang open and revealed a note telling Lin Yi not to swim and to run.
• Sports Department Girl came over to hurry Lin Yi, who stood frozen after reading the warning.

Lin Yi followed the Sports Department Girl to the swimming pool, where he experienced a deadly vision after sensing the Ancient Bronze Lamp at the pool’s far end. After he returned to his senses, the girl threw him into the pool when he began describing what he had seen, then said it was hard to imagine he had made it to the Gymnasium alive.

• The Sports Department Girl tore down a strange locker note and led Lin Yi through the water curtain to the swimming pool.
• Lin Yi stared toward the pool’s far end and became trapped in a vision of a cliff, a dark abyss, and a Security Guard holding an Ancient Bronze Lamp.
• Lin Yi focused on the lamp and repeated his identity until the vision faded, then found himself back at the pool, where the Sports Department Girl confirmed he had zoned out for about ten seconds.
• The Sports Department Girl asked Lin Yi what he had seen, and when he began to describe a sea, she hurled him into the pool to interrupt him.
• The Sports Department Girl sat at the pool’s edge and told Lin Yi it was hard to imagine he had made it to the Gymnasium alive.

While the Sports Department Girl forced Lin Yi to keep swimming, he fell into a terrifying abyssal vision beneath the pool and fought his way back to the surface. She then drew strange white particles from his body, which began covering her leg as the chapter ended.

• The Sports Department Girl kept Lin Yi swimming past the end of PE and pushed him underwater when she said his back was sticking out.
• Lin Yi found that the pool had become an endless abyss, resisted its pull, and hauled himself back to the surface.
• Lin Yi accidentally knocked the Sports Department Girl down while grabbing her hand, then resumed swimming when she ordered him to continue.
• A girl came from the changing rooms, whispered to the Sports Department Girl, and left after receiving instructions.
• The Sports Department Girl lured white particles out of Lin Yi with her foot, then stepped on his back to draw out the final surge, which crawled up her leg.

After swimming class, Lin Yi sensed a sinister presence in the Gymnasium changing room and tried to escape without looking back. The entity cornered him and offered what appeared to be a pulsing heart disguised as a tomato.

• The Sports Department Girl, whom Lin Yi learned to call Boss, finished his swimming lesson and warned him not to wash his hair without an Athlete Student keeping watch.
• Lin Yi noticed a surge of yin energy in the Shower Area, hurried to dress, and found the changing room apparently empty.
• An icy presence appeared behind Lin Yi, but he kept his eyes fixed on his locker and backed away without looking back.
• The presence followed Lin Yi as he retreated, then stopped him by pressing its cold body against his back.
• A pale hand offered Lin Yi a scarlet, pulsing object, and he realized it was a heart rather than a tomato.

Lin Yi escaped a Green Apron Chef in the Swimming Hall and fled to the Women's Locker Room, where Boss killed the pursuer. As Boss escorted him from the Gymnasium, Lin Yi told her about his earlier encounter with the chef and hinted that he knew who had accepted the Tomato Meat Sauce Pasta.

• Lin Yi evaded the Green Apron Chef, returned his towel, swimsuit, and waterproof card holder to the Swimsuit Recycling Bin, then ran from the Swimming Hall to seek help.
• With no Athlete Students nearby, Lin Yi rushed into the Women's Locker Room, and Boss charged out to confront the Green Apron Chef.
• Boss told Lin Yi to wait inside, then returned and said she had killed the chef; Lin Yi obeyed her orders and waited by the exit.
• Boss emerged in sportswear, said she had cleaned up the chef's remains, and escorted Lin Yi toward the Gymnasium entrance before sunset.
• Boss questioned Lin Yi about his arrival at the school and the fog, then asked about his encounter with the Green Apron Chef.
• Lin Yi told Boss that the chef had offered him Tomato Meat Sauce Pasta and said he thought he knew who had accepted the serving.

Lin Yi told Boss about the strange signs involving his head teacher, and Boss warned him to avoid her during Abnormal Weather. After Boss gave Lin Yi her shoes and found Wei Liang a pair, the two friends left the Gymnasium and noticed thin fog near the Teaching Building.

• Lin Yi described the head teacher's discarded pasta, the classroom intruder, and the strange tomato sauce and plaster fragments to Boss.
• Boss said something had gone wrong with the head teacher and warned Lin Yi not to trust her or get close to her during Abnormal Weather.
• Boss learned Lin Yi was in Group B Class 2, said the group lacked enough people to keep watch there, and told him to return to the Dormitory early.
• Boss gave Lin Yi her sneakers, then ordered Little Zhouzi to give Wei Liang his shoes when Lin Yi offered Wei Liang his spare boot.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang returned the Gymnasium Rules and walked toward the Teaching Building, keeping each other talking as they passed the Notice Board.
• Lin Yi noticed thin fog gathering around the Teaching Building and reacted with alarm.