Arc 23Chapters 568–593
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Lin Yi emerged from Mao Feiyang’s Dream Boundary with clues about the Quartermaster, Amon’s Music Box, and the Bronze Key, then entered Kuai Hongji’s perspective in the Wooded Belt. He discovered Kuai Hongji was preparing by carving symbols resembling Admonition into trees and Wrathful Angel Sculptures, raising the possibility that Kuai Hongji understood the powerful script.
Lin Yi used Tian Bufan’s perspective to investigate the strange wind beyond a broken classroom window, where Domain Insight revealed a distorted sea and a vortex. A figure warned him about time, urged him not to save someone and to run, while a chorus of sculptures promised to await him in the Wasteland.
Lin Yi revisited the rainy night of May 9 through his Dream Boundary and discovered that he had spoken a powerful Admonition in a mysterious language while fighting the High-Rank Alien Angel. As the dream began to break apart, he also glimpsed a figure resembling the Proto-Type Ashes Apostles.
Lin Yi revisited a Library memory, heard the Little Girl warn him not to cry, and recovered an Admonition about the Mourners returning. In a frozen memory of the classroom battle, he heard the Principal’s message urging him to find the Notebook and Time Compass, destroy or reconstruct the notes, and escape the Campus.
Lin Yi heard the Proto-Type Ashes Apostle call itself the Principal and feared that his identity and memories were part of a cycle. His dream then revealed Wei Shan fighting Grinning Angels with the power of Supreme Judgment, leaving Lin Yi wondering what Wei Shan would face before he woke.
Wei Shan fought off the night-walking species and Grinning Angels, but their attacks and apparent attempt to contaminate him drove him into a chaotic frenzy. Kuai Hongji and Tian Bufan arrived as Wei Shan turned on them, and Tian Bufan restrained him while Kuai Hongji dispelled his baseball bat.
Tian Bufan subdued the berserk Wei Shan, while Kuai Hongji marked the remaining Grinning Angels with mysterious Runes that Lin Yi learned to read. The Security Guard destroyed the Angels and their corpses, and Lin Yi’s Dream continued into a vision of Zhao Lingxiao.
Lin Yi discovered that Zhao Lingxiao had followed traces of his Supernatural Power and glimpsed him through the Dream Boundary. After he fled, she recovered from the Layer’s disruption but was haunted by a vision of herself as a Faceless chained sculpture, then remembered Lin Yi and became fascinated by his scent.
After a dream filled with past fragments, Lin Yi woke with a clue linking the Gallery’s sinister figure to the Convenience Store Owner and discovered that the Art Building’s Layer remained visible over the Campus in daylight. Tian Bufan suspected the Gray Fog Invasion had risen in rank because Lin Yi’s adaptation and their arrival had drawn “Its” attention.
Tian Bufan explained that Lin Yi’s exposed coordinates in the Dream Boundary may have triggered the Gray Fog Invasion, while the Art Building Layer’s passage into the Campus continued to stabilize. As Lin Yi’s group prepared to leave the Dormitory, every nearby door handle began to turn, and Tian Bufan rushed them toward the Elevator Area.
Lin Yi's group escaped the Impersonators by using a tomato to clear the elevator entrance, then reached the first floor. A team led by Su Yao mistook them for Realm of God elites and decided to follow them, prompting Lin Yi to warn his companions that they were being watched again.
Lin Yi and his companions headed to the Cafeteria, where Tian Bufan explained why Lin Yi had not been told about the plan involving Maozi and warned him to keep a clear objective when penetrating the dream boundary. The group reached the Cafeteria area, where Lin Yi sensed the smell of rain-soaked mud and blood.
Lin Yi and his companions found the Cafeteria grounds scarred by a deadly battle, then discussed how Star Script related to cosmic laws and the supreme Supernatural Creations. They reached the Cafeteria entrance still uncertain about Lao Mo and the damage elsewhere on Campus.
Lin Yi entered the Student Passage, endured a vision of the Library, and found Lao Mo restored but apparently without his memories. In the Student Dining Hall, Lin Yi ate tomato and egg noodles and purified the supernatural contamination inside them, but Green Apron Chefs suddenly appeared beside him, Wei Shan, and Kuai Hongji.
Lin Yi’s group triggered an explosion at Meal Window No. 10 to escape the Green Apron Chefs, then discussed what it revealed about the Cafeteria’s collapse and the Convenience Store Owner’s possible motives. Afterward, Su Yao’s group suspected Lin Yi’s companions were Athlete Students, while Lao Mo appeared in the Student Passage and fixed his gaze on Su Yao.
Lin Yi heard the Broken Sculptures’ song while in his normal state, then discovered that the Cafeteria’s walls contained flesh from the Burial Body. After sensing an invisible boundary around the Teaching Building, he crossed it with Tian Bufan and began revealing the death-filled Layer within.
Lin Yi discovered a hidden layer beneath the Campus’s Surface Layer, filled with the remains of dead sculptures, and learned that Architecture might have an occult purpose. When he returned to Teaching Building B, he sensed something was wrong and found a foul stench inside Group B Class 2; his perception revealed a scene that made his heart sink.
Lin Yi found Head Teacher 040 unconscious and gravely contaminated in the Teachers' Office, then used his Perception to repair most of her injuries. Head Teacher 040 woke and questioned his abilities as he continued treating her and began absorbing her contamination.
Lin Yi treated Head Teacher 040 and learned that an unidentified tentacled creature had attacked the campus during the Gray Fog Invasion, prompting him to suspect it was connected to the Burial Body. He revealed what he had discovered in the Cafeteria, leaving Head Teacher 040 stunned by how much he had explored.
Lin Yi used a Child Book to leap his will into the Art Building and contact an Art Student who was recording messages. The student sensed Lin Yi and demanded proof that he was human, leaving their exchange unresolved as an Art Teacher called for him.
Lin Yi took control of Li Zidan’s body to question the Art Teacher about the Art Building’s attack and its casualties. He learned that the Night Watchman had destroyed the invading tentacles and the Art Students had eliminated the Grinning Angels, then shared what he knew about the Campus before withdrawing.
Lin Yi learned that the Art Building and Campus had endured a devastating night attack, then discovered that the ruined writing in his Memo Pad seemed to form Admonition when he flipped the pages quickly. He was left wondering how his notes had changed into those strange words.
Lin Yi discovered that the Broken Sculpture could overwrite his perception without breaking through his resistance, then learned that Li Huiyuan had been injured the previous night. After revealing his power to the Athlete Students, he heard that Boss had brought Li Huiyuan to the School Doctor’s Office and that the circumstances of her injury remained unclear.
Lin Yi learned about the Gymnasium attack and Li Huiyuan’s condition, then answered Tian Bufan’s call through the Dream Boundary. Tian Bufan summoned him to the Forest of Bones, where he asked Lin Yi to make Puppets from the strange growths around them.
Lin Yi helped Tian Bufan gather materials and build two sacrificial Puppets in the Forest of Bones, then learned that Tian Bufan planned to take him to meet an old acquaintance. As Lin Yi projected his will into a Puppet with Tian Bufan, he learned that a dangerous crisis awaited them that night and that their chances of success were slim.