Arc 22Chapters 543–567

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Ch. 543The Principal had a notebook

Tian Bufan explained the Black Moon Outpost’s history, the Gray Fog’s connection to the Torch Dragon, and the Principal’s role in holding back the Gray Fog World. He revealed that the Authorities sent them to retrieve the Principal’s notebook, and Lin Yi concluded that it might be the Principal’s identity credential, leaving him wondering who would become Principal if they found it.

  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that the Black Moon Outpost was founded by the First Apostles and that the Gray Fog Invasion might be caused by the Torch Dragon breathing in its sleep.
  • Tian Bufan explained that the Principal had remained at S City University as the Campus held back the Gray Fog World, but the Principal eventually entered that world and the Campus began to collapse.
  • Tian Bufan said the Authorities sent them to find the Principal’s notebook, which might contain clues or a pathway connected to the Campus’s collapse.
  • Lin Yi connected the notebook to the Principal’s identity credential and suggested that whoever obtained it might become the new Principal.

Ch. 544Was Maozi's opening planned from the very start?

Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi was part of the Authorities’ special combat force and that the team had shaped his experiences to help him adapt to the Campus. Lin learned why his memories had been suppressed and what he had studied, but the team’s mission and the danger of Contamination remained unresolved.

  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that the team was the Authorities’ highest trump card, with Lin Yi carrying the team’s Inspiration while Tian Bufan directed operations and Kuai Hongji and Fatty handled support and combat.
  • Tian Bufan revealed that Maozi had been sent to the Art Building from the start to break open the situation, while Lin Yi’s attempts to rescue him had also encouraged Lin Yi’s adaptation; Wei Liang had learned the route on a previous run.
  • Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi’s memories had been altered so supernatural beings would have a harder time learning about him before he adapted, and said the team had controlled events and prevented threats while preparing him for the mission.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that his memories of the outside world and the world with Mystical Genealogy were real, and that Grandmother served as a necessary Anchor.
  • Tian Bufan confirmed that Lin Yi had studied architectural design and dabbled in all mystical disciplines, while Kuai Hongji said the Authorities feared both their team’s failure and its members losing control.

Ch. 545Wei Liang, two sheets of paper

Lin Yi learned that Song Rentou had been an Impersonator Wei Liang secretly arranged to eliminate, while Wei Liang slept through questions about his latest plans. After Tian Bufan returned from the Bathroom, Lin Yi turned to ask Kuai Hongji what he had been doing.

  • Tian Bufan stopped Lin Yi from rushing into the Bathroom as Wei Shan fought unseen creatures there, then Wei Shan emerged healed and said he had killed things that latched onto him.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi to ask Wei Liang about his past actions, but Wei Liang pretended to sleep and answered only in broken, cryptic fragments.
  • Wei Liang's sleep-talk revealed that Song Rentou was an Impersonator he had recognized upon entering school and helped trap and kill using a sheet of paper.
  • Lin Yi recalled Wei Liang taking paper from his Notebook twice and wondered what the latest sheet had been used for, but Wei Liang kept snoring.
  • Wei Shan suggested beating Wei Liang to interrogate him, then Kuai Hongji went to shower when Tian Bufan returned and offered to explain what Kuai Hongji had been doing.

Ch. 546Could this be another anchor?

Lin Yi questioned Tian Bufan about Song Rentou and whether Tian’s revelations were another anchor, then learned the likely routes to the Principal’s Office. Tian left him with three suspected locations, ending on the Stargazing Platform as the most likely.

  • Lin Yi asked whether Tian Bufan and the others had manipulated Song Rentou’s death, and Tian explained that the real Song Rentou died while an Impersonator could leave campus but would need to return.
  • Tian Bufan revealed that some Experience Students were already Impersonators and explained that only those who could see the Blue Bus could leave campus.
  • Lin Yi wondered whether Tian’s truths were another anchor, but accepted that he would judge them for himself as Tian described the mission to find the Principal’s notebook and deliver it to the Authorities.
  • Tian Bufan proposed that the Principal’s Office might be on a hidden 40th floor of the Dormitory Building, reachable through a stairwell on the 39th floor, or accessible through the School Doctor’s Office.
  • Tian Bufan named a bedroom outside the prison in the Art Building as another possible location and revealed that he had perceived Lin Yi’s experiences through their shared dreams.
  • Tian Bufan identified the Stargazing Platform as the most likely location and warned Lin Yi to hear him out.

Ch. 547Tactical planning

Tian Bufan explained that the principal’s notebook could define the principal’s office and outlined a dangerous plan to investigate the Campus and retrieve it from the Art Building. As Lin Yi questioned how Maozi could leave as an Experience Student, Wei Liang’s unfinished scheme began to surface through the name Bai Fangshuo.

  • Lin Yi connected The Starry Night’s hidden coordinate to the principal’s office, and Tian Bufan explained that the principal’s notebook could make any location its forbidden ground.
  • Tian Bufan described the team’s Campus investigations and proposed checking their suspected locations before attempting to retrieve the notebook from the Art Building.
  • Tian Bufan suggested Lin Yi might use Dream Boundary Studies to guide Maozi to the Stargazing Platform, but warned that failure could leave the team with one perilous chance to return for the notebook.
  • Tian Bufan explained that Maozi needed an Experience Student identity to board the Blue Bus and leave the Campus, and Lin Yi objected when he thought the plan required Maozi to kill someone.
  • Tian Bufan said the Experience Student procedures had already been completed and prompted the sleeping Wei Liang to explain his setup; Wei Liang muttered Bai Fangshuo’s name before abruptly waking to protest Tian Bufan’s accusation.

Ch. 548Maozi's escape plan

Tian Bufan explained how Maozi could use Bai Fangshuo’s identity to leave the Art Building and outlined the team’s plans to search for the Principal’s Notebook. He assigned Lin Yi to support Kuai Hongji and Maozi from the Campus, leaving Lin Yi alarmed at the prospect of confronting Night Watchman 002.

  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that Wei Liang had arranged Bai Fangshuo’s enrollment identity so Maozi could overwrite his identity and exit the Art Building as Bai Fangshuo.
  • Tian Bufan said the team would investigate suspected Principal’s Office locations and planned for someone taking the Dorm Supervisor pathway to retrieve Maozi and the Principal’s Notebook.
  • Tian Bufan assigned Kuai Hongji to take the Dorm Supervisor pathway and told Lin Yi to coordinate support while Wei Shan and Tian Bufan investigated other locations.
  • Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi would stay on the Campus during the operation and use the layers to shield Kuai Hongji and Maozi from threats, including Night Watchman 002.
  • Lin Yi questioned whether Tian Bufan expected him to confront Night Watchman 002 alone, and Tian Bufan confirmed that was the assignment.

Ch. 549He would save him once, and only once

Tian Bufan explained the team’s plan for Lin Yi’s mission, including how Lin Yi would adapt, escape the campus, and rely on Wei Sang and Wei Liang for support. As the team prepared for lights-out, Lin Yi questioned their shared memories and learned that their dream studies let them exchange experiences, while he alone could sometimes interfere through the time dimension.

  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that his growing adaptability and the Ouroboros Ring could help him face the Night Watchman, but the team had only seven days to finish the mission and escape before drawing the attention of powerful entities.
  • Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi would keep moving across distorted campus layers while Wei Sang protected him, and that Wei Liang would stay near the closest streetlamp and could save him once at his own discretion.
  • Tian Bufan said he would sleep in the Dormitory and use his will to coordinate the mission and take over Lin Yi’s body when Lin Yi’s will entered the Art Building.
  • The team used the toilet and got into bed, while Lin Yi noticed condensation covering the dormitory window and learned that Tian Bufan’s digital camera had broken while crossing layers.
  • Lin Yi asked why he sometimes saw other perspectives, and Tian Bufan explained that their dream studies let the team share experiences, while Lin Yi could also sometimes interfere through the time dimension.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that Maozi could share their memories too, since the team used that connection to pass information and coordinate across the Art Building.

Ch. 550"The Shadow of the Root is calling us."

Lin Yi questioned Tian Bufan about the Shadow of the Root, the Ouroboros Ring, and the Art Building’s true nature as the Dormitory prepared for Tian Bufan’s exploration the next day. Tian Bufan confirmed that the Shadow of the Root was calling all of them and explained that the Art Building anchored the shattered Black Moon Outpost, before Lin Yi began connecting that revelation to the Gymnasium.

  • Lin Yi learned that Kuai Hongji had altered and detonated the Wrathful Angel matrix in the Wooded Belt as part of Monster Control, and Tian Bufan explained that the group’s power grew as Lin Yi adapted to their shared contamination.
  • Lin Yi described his visions of the Shadow of the Root, and Tian Bufan said that all of them heard its call through Lin Yi and that he would explore the Wooded Belt the next day to seek clues.
  • Tian Bufan explained that the Shadow of the Root had been created by the First Apostles and imprisoned between the Forest of Bones, the Returning Tide, and the Layers as a barrier against the Gray Fog Invasion.
  • Tian Bufan said Lin Yi had received the Ouroboros Ring because finding the Quartermaster completed the Authorities’ deal with the Night Watchman, and the group’s plan had required the ring to reach Lin Yi.
  • Tian Bufan revealed that Black Moon Outpost was shattered and that the Art Building had later been formed by overwriting reality to anchor both the outpost and itself, prompting Lin Yi to wonder about the Gymnasium’s fog.

Ch. 551Could It Actually Be the Principal?

Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles, the Law-Crafting Master’s rune, and the strange sculptures haunting him, seeking explanations for their origins. Tian Bufan planned to investigate Lin Yi’s encounter with the Apostles through a Dream and warned him not to underestimate the sculptures, while Lin Yi’s theory that they came from a Library chessboard remained unconfirmed.

  • Tian Bufan explained that the Gymnasium’s anomalies came through cracks in its Layer-level City Wall and warned Lin Yi to refuse an Athlete Student recruitment attempt.
  • Lin Yi described hearing the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles mention a Notebook, a Compass, and being lost, and wondered whether the Apostles were transmitting a message from the Principal; Tian Bufan postponed discussing it until he could observe the encounter in a Dream.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi that his growing difficulty controlling the Law-Crafting Master’s rune came from his own weakness and suggested he might learn more by visiting her bedroom.
  • Tian Bufan identified Lin Yi’s vision of a hammering figure as the Divine Artisan, and explained that Lin Yi’s heightened Inspiration could pick up lingering supernatural signals.
  • Tian Bufan warned Lin Yi that the broken sculptures haunting him could possess a dangerous mechanic despite seeming harmless, and advised him not to provoke them.
  • Lin Yi proposed that the broken sculptures were projections of the Library’s black-and-white chessboard, and Tian Bufan said his theory might be correct.

Ch. 552Don't lose yourself in the dream's time

Lin Yi entered Mao Feiyang’s dream after Tian Bufan warned him not to lose himself in its sense of time. He witnessed the events of May 9 unfold from Mao Feiyang’s perspective and realized Yan Jinming was taking him to the Gymnasium’s Giant Dome for the “feast.”

  • Lin Yi asked Tian Bufan whether similar Xenomorphic Sculptures might be parts of a larger parent entity, and Kuai Hongji offered to accompany Tian Bufan and use the Fanatics’ matrix during the next day’s operation.
  • Tian Bufan told Lin Yi to guide Mao Feiyang toward the Law-Crafting Master's room or the Stargazing Platform and warned him not to lose himself in the dream’s time.
  • Lin Yi fell asleep at midnight and entered a dream in which he found himself among Art Students in a passage under attack by Grinning Angels.
  • A Grinning Angel broke through the passage wall and killed an Art Student, while Lin Yi’s instinctive guidance helped Mao Feiyang dodge the attack.
  • Yan Jinming led Mao Feiyang out of the Stairwell to the Gymnasium’s Giant Dome, and Lin Yi realized they were heading to the “feast.”

Ch. 553Boss's Perception

During the Feast, Lin Yi’s drifting consciousness approached Boss, saw the distorted two-dimensional Campus, and encountered the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles. Its touch showed him a vision of the Campus’s future collapse and left him wondering whether it was his future self and whether the Time Compass could help him change what was coming.

  • Lin Yi watched Boss observe the Feast and dodged Boss’s sudden killing strike after Boss sensed his presence.
  • Lin Yi looked beyond the Giant Dome and saw the Campus flattened, distorted, and filled with moving figures.
  • The Proto-Type Ashes Apostles appeared behind Lin Yi, targeted him, and touched the will of his past self as it returned to its body.
  • Lin Yi saw a vision of black tides destroying the Campus and realized it matched the supposed hallucination from May 9.
  • Lin Yi wondered whether the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles was his future self and whether its words about notes, a compass, and being lost pointed to the Time Compass, Time Zero.

Ch. 554The pathway from the Gymnasium to the Art Building

Lin Yi followed Maozi, Yan Jinming, and the Art Students from the Gymnasium toward the Art Building, discovering an inverted, Möbius-strip-like corridor involved in their Layer Leap. As the corridor crumbled into the void, he heard strange calls and glimpsed what looked like the Mirror World.

  • Lin Yi realized his dream perspective became unstable when it moved too far from Maozi, then followed the Art Students out of the Giant Dome.
  • Lin Yi observed the eerie stairwell and realized its space was inverted, with the Art Students walking on the underside of the stairs.
  • Lin Yi connected the inverted staircase to the Dormitory Building’s gravity reversal and suspected the Campus buildings shared overlapping layers or logic.
  • Lin Yi recognized the distorted corridor as a Möbius-strip-like hidden path that appeared at specific times and unfolded parts of the Art Building.
  • As the corridor crumbled into the void, Lin Yi heard strange calls and glimpsed crystalline mirror fragments that resembled the Mirror World.

Ch. 555The exit of that pathway...

Lin Yi discovered that the students’ Layer Leap had taken them through the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor and back to the Art Building, where he realized the building’s dome would soon be breached. An invasion began earlier than expected, scattering the students in the corridor as Yan Jinming rushed to protect them.

  • Lin Yi recognized the Mirror Worlds and Obsession Sculptures along the route as signs that the Layer Leap led through the Obsession Sculpture Covered Corridor.
  • The Art Students emerged from the corridor into the Art Building, and Lin Yi checked the Grandfather Clock and saw that it was 18:23.
  • Lin Yi noticed that the dome was intact despite remembering it breached later, and concluded that it would be struck within the next two hours.
  • Yan Jinming sent Mao Feiyang toward the classroom, but the Art Building shook from an impact and Yan Jinming was ordered to escort the new students while the others took their positions.
  • At 18:25, a sinister wind swept through the corridor, the students panicked and scattered, and some who stepped into the darkness fell silent.

Ch. 556Dream Boundary, Telepathy

Lin Yi discovered that he could communicate telepathically with Mao Feiyang through the dream boundary, and Mao Feiyang set out to follow their plan through the Art Building. Mao Feiyang headed toward the Clock Tower while avoiding the Gallery until he could find a Grinning Angel and use the rules for protection.

  • Yan Jinming found Mao Feiyang safe in Art Classroom-IV and warned him to stay there until morning.
  • Lin Yi entered Mao Feiyang's consciousness, and Mao Feiyang told him to share only what he needed to do now, not information about the future.
  • Lin Yi transmitted his map of the Art Building, and Mao Feiyang chose to visit someone at the Clock Tower first.
  • Mao Feiyang left the classroom carrying an easel and confused a newly born impersonator by calling it Zhang Lang and inventing a shared memory.
  • Mao Feiyang explained that he was avoiding the Gallery until he could encounter a Grinning Angel and follow the rules that would protect him.

Ch. 557Möbius Strip Time Paradox

After Lin Yi’s prediction causes the Art Building’s dome to break, Mao Feiyang realizes their words can anchor future events in time and uses the resulting Grinning Angel to draw it away. He enters the Gallery with the Angel in pursuit, where its eerie surroundings begin to change as he calls for the Night Watchman.

  • Lin Yi tells Mao Feiyang that a Grinning Angel will come through a broken dome, and the Art Building’s intact dome breaks moments later.
  • Mao Feiyang explains that Lin Yi’s foreknowledge may have anchored the event in time, then runs to lure the Grinning Angel away before the Art Students can organize.
  • Mao Feiyang strikes the newly arrived Grinning Angel with a sculpture fragment, draws its attention, and races toward the Gallery as Art Students clear his route.
  • Yan Jinming recognizes Mao Feiyang running with the Grinning Angel, while Mao Feiyang remains focused on reaching the Gallery.
  • Mao Feiyang enters the oppressive Gallery and refuses to let Lin Yi tell him what lies ahead, then calls for the Night Watchman after noticing something strange.
  • As Mao Feiyang repeatedly calls for help, the Gallery’s candlelight grows warmer and its distorted paintings begin returning to normal.

Ch. 558I hope you can handle this proof

Lin Yi watched the Night Watchman destroy the Grinning Angel and open a path back to Mao Feiyang’s classroom, but Mao Feiyang instead demanded passage to the Clock Tower. After Mao Feiyang proved his agreement by beginning to recite a secret code, the Night Watchman transported him near the Clock Tower, where Mao Feiyang revealed he had visited many times in simulations.

  • The Night Watchman petrified and shattered the Grinning Angel as Mao Feiyang emerged from the Gallery, and Lin Yi realized the Gallery had multiple exits.
  • The Night Watchman opened a route through a Covered Corridor back to the Lookout linked to Mao Feiyang’s Art Classroom, but Mao Feiyang asked for a different route to the Clock Tower.
  • The Night Watchman threatened Mao Feiyang unless he gave a reason, and Mao Feiyang said he was going to collect the first payment as agreed.
  • When the Night Watchman demanded proof, Mao Feiyang began reciting the numbers “4,” “0,” and “1,” prompting the Night Watchman to accept his claim and silence him before he could continue.
  • The Night Watchman used his power over space to transport Mao Feiyang near the Clock Tower, where Lin Yi recognized a Corpse Sculpture marking its entrance.
  • Mao Feiyang told Lin Yi that although this was his first time there in person, he had been there many times in simulations.

Ch. 559Are you hiding something from me that wasn't in the plan?

Mao Feiyang brought Lin Yi to the Clock Tower to collect a Deposit from Night Watchman-02, who gave him a mysterious Bronze Key connected to another Clock Tower and a sculpted feather for protection. Mao Feiyang left with a promise to begin the requested task, while Lin Yi suspected that Mao Feiyang and Young Master Tian were hiding part of their plan from him.

  • Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi crossed into the Clock Tower, where Mao Feiyang studied its inscriptions and stopped short of the upper level after a gust cut his cheek.
  • Night Watchman-02 tossed Mao Feiyang a Black Wooden Box containing a Bronze Key that Mao Feiyang identified as the key to a different Clock Tower.
  • Mao Feiyang told Lin Yi that he would soon learn more about the other Clock Tower, prompting Lin Yi to suspect Mao Feiyang and Young Master Tian had concealed a plan from him.
  • Mao Feiyang promised Night Watchman-02 he would begin the agreed task after leaving and said the person collecting the Final Payment would arrive that night or the next day.
  • Night Watchman-02 gave Mao Feiyang a sculpted feather that could protect him from being killed until he returned to the Safe Place.
  • Mao Feiyang asked Night Watchman-02 for a ride to the Gallery, but Night Watchman-02 ordered him to leave and threatened to throw him down the Staircase.

Ch. 560Soliciting a blessing

Mao Feiyang used the Night Watchman’s blessing to grant himself a way around the Art Student Rules and set out toward the Bedroom, while revealing his hidden plan involving the Time Compass. He also confirmed that the Stairwell led to the Ancient Deep Well, whose mysterious occupant might know Lin Yi.

  • Mao Feiyang entered the Medium Portal after the Night Watchman reluctantly wished him good luck, and Night Watchman-02 complained about him afterward.
  • Mao Feiyang avoided killing the contaminated Art Student, then planned to reach the Bedroom by using his self-created identity as a Messenger to bypass the Art Student Rules.
  • Mao Feiyang explained that he had turned the Night Watchman’s blessing into a buff by overwriting his own Cognition, and revealed that the Clock Tower held the Time Compass, Time Zero, as a backup plan.
  • Mao Feiyang said the Clock Tower drifted through the Layers and could be located with its key, then confirmed that the bottom of the Stairwell was the Ancient Deep Well.
  • Mao Feiyang warned Lin Yi that the Well’s possibly living occupant could know about anyone who learned of it, and said he might understand its identity when Lin Yi became strong enough to protect himself.

Ch. 561Feather Sculpture

Mao Feiyang used the Feather Sculpture to protect himself and Lin Yi from the Night-Walking Species and the Gallery’s supernatural atmosphere while searching the Art Building for the Bedroom. As he inspected the Gallery’s paintings, he asked Lin Yi whether he remembered the images that had appeared before his consciousness reached the Little Girl’s Bedroom.

  • Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi left the Stairwell, and Mao Feiyang chose to search for the Little Girl’s Bedroom first to honor his agreement with Night Watchman-02.
  • The Art Building shook as Night Watchman-02 rang the Sanctuary to begin the Gray Fog Invasion, and Mao Feiyang went outside carrying the Feather Sculpture.
  • The Feather Sculpture repelled the Night-Walking Species and created a temporary protective domain around Mao Feiyang in the Gallery.
  • Mao Feiyang explained that Feather Pupils came from Grinning Angels and that the Feather Sculpture’s protective field was gradually consuming it.
  • Mao Feiyang searched the Gallery’s paintings and asked Lin Yi whether he remembered the images that had appeared before his consciousness reached her Bedroom.

Ch. 562The paintings in the Gallery

Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang searched the Gallery for the pathway to the Little Girl’s Bedroom and found a painting that served as the starting point for a layer leap. Mao Feiyang entered the painting’s fog and continued forward as a sinister chant filled the space.

  • Mao Feiyang led Lin Yi through the Gallery with the Feather Sculpture, whose haze kept the hostile artworks and creatures at bay.
  • Mao Feiyang found a painting of a European manor and explained that it marked the starting point of a special pathway between layers.
  • Mao Feiyang put away the Feather Sculpture, and fog revealed the manor as a ruined cemetery beneath a blood-red sky while a gaunt, illusory face appeared beside him.
  • Mao Feiyang plunged into the fog toward the painting as Lin Yi watched and heard an ominous chant spread around them.
  • Mao Feiyang told Lin Yi to stay calm and said he could keep moving forward by firmly believing he was doing so.

Ch. 563Super Chant

Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang crossed the Gray Fog and reached the graveyard inside the painting, where they discussed how each Layer’s reality depended on belief and cognition. A strange figure appeared in the cemetery, and Mao Feiyang warned that people drawn too deeply into a Layer could become trapped Lost Souls.

  • Mao Feiyang struggled through the Gray Fog as an ancient chant surrounded him, while Lin Yi tried to keep him focused.
  • Mao Feiyang explained that the chant marked their approach to the place of Time Exile, and warned that creatures from the gaps between Layers were drawing near.
  • Mao Feiyang completed the Layer Leap and brought Lin Yi into the graveyard inside the painting, where the fog and chanting began to fade.
  • Mao Feiyang told Lin Yi that denying their existence could cause the Layer to erase them, and described philosophy and science as anchors for cognition.
  • Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang heard footsteps and spotted a human figure in the mist; Mao Feiyang identified such beings as Lost Souls trapped in the Layer and warned Lin Yi not to become immersed in its illusions.

Ch. 564Maozi knows my skills?

Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang searched a cemetery for a route to the next layer while a dangerous old cowboy pursued them. Mao Feiyang found a broken Wordless Stele, incapacitated the cowboy, and left Lin Yi wondering how Mao Feiyang had used a skill Lin Yi had only recently learned.

  • Mao Feiyang explained that lost souls were bound to the paintings’ worlds and that Lin Yi and he needed to find a gravestone that matched Lin Yi’s memory of “her” Bedroom.
  • Lin Yi used Domain Insight to spread his perception through the cemetery as an old cowboy emerged from the mist and charged at them with a shovel.
  • Mao Feiyang dodged the cowboy’s attacks while searching, and Lin Yi recognized the familiar flow of the cowboy’s movements as resembling Wei Liang’s Unorthodox Tricks.
  • Mao Feiyang suddenly used a movement like Lin Yi’s Asura Flash, leaving Lin Yi to wonder how he had learned the recently awakened skill.
  • Mao Feiyang found a broken Wordless Stele and used Advanced Perception to slow the cowboy, cut the muscles in his legs, and escape the attack.
  • Lin Yi asked Mao Feiyang whether he recognized the gravestone.

Ch. 565[At least take your baseball bat]

Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang found the Quartermaster in a sunken ship’s hold, where it recognized them and said it had been waiting. After they escaped, Mao Feiyang explained that the Quartermaster had summoned them and hinted at a connection involving Lin Yi’s future self and time.

  • Old Cowboy summoned the Layer Natives and pursued Mao Feiyang as he ran toward the place Lin Yi sensed.
  • Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang found a gravestone marked “PUDDING,” and Mao Feiyang implied that Lin Yi already knew who “she” was.
  • Mao Feiyang closed his eyes and transitioned through a sea-like vision into a rotting ship’s hold, where Lin Yi recognized the Quartermaster from his hallucinations.
  • The Quartermaster spoke of a promise and waiting for them, while Mao Feiyang warned Lin Yi not to draw its attention to “02” and led him away.
  • Lin Yi realized he had encountered the ship’s hold in the Gallery, and Mao Feiyang explained that the Quartermaster had summoned them and might not be allied with the Night Watchmen.
  • Mao Feiyang suggested Lin Yi’s future self might meet the Quartermaster through a time vortex, then warned that the Dream Boundary and time were dangerous.

Ch. 566Arrival at the Bedroom

Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi reached the Little Girl's Bedroom, where Mao Feiyang survived the iron door's deadly attack after a mysterious force pulled him inside. They searched the room for the Principal's Office, but the chapter ended as Mao Feiyang noticed a fairy-tale book on the bookshelf.

  • Mao Feiyang used the Feather Sculpture to cross layers and arrive with Lin Yi at the Bedroom's stairwell.
  • When Mao Feiyang touched the iron door, its rust became a deadly door god, but a gentle, unseen force pulled him through the door.
  • Inside the Bedroom, Mao Feiyang found the teddy bear seated opposite the door, though it did not attack him.
  • Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang discussed whether the Night Watchman and Quartermaster might be on opposing sides, then began searching the room before the Feather Sculpture ran out of power.
  • Mao Feiyang peered through a gap in the curtain and saw a brilliant starry sky, then checked the bed and rug before examining the bookshelf.
  • Mao Feiyang spotted a book among the fairy tales and smiled helplessly.

Ch. 567It was also a winding key

Mao Feiyang used the Bronze Key to wind Amon's Music Box, revealing that the Quartermaster was hidden in the painting behind the curtains and that its music could guide Night Watchman-02 to the location. After Lin Yi left the dream, Mao Feiyang departed the Bedroom, and a shadowy little girl appeared and took the music box.

  • Mao Feiyang told Lin Yi that the Quartermaster was in the painting behind the curtains and that Amon's Music Box could reveal the route.
  • Mao Feiyang used the Bronze Key as the music box's winding key and set it playing, causing the painting to show the Black Moon Outpost, the cliff, and the rotting ship below.
  • Mao Feiyang said the Principal's Office was not on that side and that he would return to the Art Classroom before seeking the Stargazing Platform.
  • Mao Feiyang asked whether the plan was proceeding as planned, and Lin Yi said Young Master Tian had the situation under control before leaving the dream.
  • Mao Feiyang turned a cartoon picture frame toward the wall, pushed the trembling books back into the bookcase, and exited the Bedroom.
  • A shadowy Gothic-dressed little girl emerged in the Bedroom, sang a nursery rhyme, and picked up Amon's Music Box.
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