Recaps

Lin Yi saw signs of danger gathering in the Wooded Belt, then found the Cafeteria and the Student Passage had vanished when he and Wei Liang arrived at its Notice Board. As his perception and sense of location began to collapse, Lin Yi desperately searched for a reference point to keep himself from being lost in the distortion.

• Lin Yi stopped Wei Liang from looking toward the misty Wooded Belt and studied it while Wei Liang stood guard.
• Lin Yi noticed a cold presence and scraping sounds within the Wooded Belt, but pulled away before he became sleepy and went with Wei Liang to get dinner.
• Figures resembling terracotta soldiers trudged toward the Wooded Belt's edge as Lin Yi and Wei Liang traveled to the Cafeteria.
• Lin Yi froze at the Cafeteria's Notice Board when he could no longer see the Cafeteria, the Student Passage, or the road behind it.
• Lin Yi reaffirmed that he was at the Cafeteria, but distorted light and shadow made him dizzy and threatened to overwhelm his senses.
• Lin Yi recalled the Student Rules' advice to find a reference point and searched for one, but the pebbles beneath his feet had already twisted.

Lin Yi escaped a three-minute reality distortion by using the Notice Board as a fixed reference, then reconsidered the Cafeteria’s passages and the school’s identity rules. He concluded that the passages corresponded to students with Student IDs, staff with name badges, and people without recognized identities, though the dangers facing those “other people” remained unclear.

• Lin Yi used the Campus Map and the unchanged Notice Board to escape the distorted world, then realized only three minutes had passed.
• Wei Liang said Lin Yi had abruptly charged at the Notice Board, and the two headed toward the Student Passage.
• Lin Yi noticed fog gathering on Basement Level One and resolved to ask Tian Bufan about what he had seen.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang spotted students entering the unmarked Other Passage, prompting Lin Yi to recall that Athlete Students and other unusual people used it.
• Lin Yi connected the passages to the school’s identity rules and concluded that losing a Student ID could make him an “other person.”
• Lin Yi suspected that using a passage that did not match one’s identity could cause a terrifying transformation.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang encountered a cafeteria employee whose distorted perception turned their orders into tomato dishes, then followed the rules to discard the food. As a crowd of students fixated on their trays, a chef in a dark green apron blocked the Utensil Return Area and questioned them for throwing the food away.

• Lin Yi experienced strange frost-like sights and sounds in the Student Passage, ignored a Blue Apron Chef at its exit, and entered the Student Dining Hall with Wei Liang.
• At Meal Window No. 3, the cafeteria lady served Wei Liang stir-fried tomatoes and eggs while calling it beef with green peppers, and Wei Liang accepted the tray without correcting her.
• Lin Yi recognized the danger described by Rule 8, memorized the cafeteria lady's number, Chef-0391, and accepted a tray containing stir-fried tomatoes and eggs after agreeing with her distorted description.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang headed for the Utensil Return Area to discard their food, but students crowded after them, drawn to the tomatoes and eggs.
• A chef wearing a dark green apron appeared beside the return area and asked why they were wasting food without eating it.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang avoided the Green Apron Chef by dumping their tomato-and-egg meal instead of trying to leave the cafeteria. As they queued for more food, Lin Yi realized the tomato-seeking students were consuming something tied to hearts and blood, and the chapter ended with Wei Liang questioning Lin Yi’s claim that the chef only attacked people leaving.

• Lin Yi warned Wei Liang to ignore the Green Apron Chef, and Wei Liang remembered the cafeteria rule about ignoring staff in the dining hall.
• Lin Yi deduced that the Green Apron Chef attacked only when students tried to leave, so he and Wei Liang could safely dump their food and buy another meal.
• The Green Apron Chef tried to take Lin Yi’s tray, but Lin Yi dumped the food himself, and Wei Liang followed before they walked past it.
• The Green Apron Chef retrieved the tomatoes and tempted nearby students, who ate them as the chef inhaled white powder seeping from their skin.
• Lin Yi realized the tomatoes drew the strange students and connected tomatoes with hearts, tomato sauce with heart’s blood, and plaster, then noticed he had accepted those ideas without feeling drowsy.
• Wei Liang asked what they should do next, and Lin Yi said the Green Apron Chef only attacked when they left, prompting Wei Liang to ask where Lin Yi had gotten that experience.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang tried to get food while avoiding the chefs watching them in the Student Dining Hall. Lin Yi escaped the nameless cafeteria lady’s dangerous serving window, but the Blue Apron Chef slipped a tomato onto Wei Liang’s tray as they prepared to leave.

• Lin Yi explained to Wei Liang that he had escaped the Green Apron Chef at noon by running, and they decided to look for Xu Shunkang or Boss while leaving time to eat and get out.
• Lin Yi saw the Green Apron Chef watching him in the queue, then noticed the Blue Apron Chef staring at him through the dining hall glass.
• At Meal Window No. 1, Lin Yi spotted that the cafeteria lady had no name tag and briefly saw an identical green-aproned figure with the tag Chef-0154 behind her.
• Lin Yi called over a male server with the name tag Chef-0105, who served food while the Green Apron Chef tried and failed to add scrambled eggs with tomatoes.
• The Blue Apron Chef placed milk on Lin Yi’s tray, then secretly put a tomato in Wei Liang’s hand, and Wei Liang set it on his tray without noticing.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang searched the Student Dining Hall for athlete students, then Lin Yi followed a group of them while trying to avoid the tomato-related anomaly. When a fake Wei Liang and a tomato appeared behind him, Lin Yi copied the athlete students’ unusual tray-return ritual and fled with them toward the exit.

• Lin Yi discovered that the milk on his tray had become a pulsing tomato, then pretended it was milk and put it back among the cartons.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang spotted four athlete students in casual clothes and decided to eat beside them before following them out.
• As Lin Yi considered the Student ID’s importance and his own strange changes, he and Wei Liang finished their meal without incident.
• A fake Wei Liang appeared behind Lin Yi, and Lin Yi saw the milk on his tray repeatedly turn into a tomato while he kept moving toward the tray return.
• Lin Yi noticed the athlete students pause just before setting down their trays, copied them, and ran with them after they counted down and dropped their trays.

Lin Yi escaped the Student Dining Hall but discovered that the plastic strip curtain seemed to separate two incompatible versions of the space. After an Athlete Student broke off the Green Apron Chef’s arm, Lin Yi learned that knowing too much about such things could be a curse.

• Lin Yi raced for the Student Dining Hall exit while the Green Apron Chef pursued him, and he saw Athlete Students turn their clothes inside out and attack their pursuers with baseball bats.
• Lin Yi spotted a Blue Apron Chef beyond the exit, but it vanished as he passed through the plastic strip curtain; the Green Apron Chef also seemed to disappear from view.
• When Lin Yi approached the curtain, the Green Apron Chef thrust a pale hand through it, and an Athlete Student smashed the arm with a baseball bat until it broke off.
• Lin Yi saw the broken arm’s horrifying cross section before the Green Apron Chef withdrew; the curtain fell, and the severed limb became a plaster-like object.
• An Athlete Student helped Lin Yi up, picked up the plaster arm to take it to the Gymnasium, and warned him that learning too much could become a curse.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang crossed the fog-filled Student Passage, where Lin Yi experienced strange sounds and visions despite the short journey. After reaching the Teaching Building, Lin Yi noticed a fourth building had appeared beyond Building C, partly hidden in the mist.

• Wei Liang returned to Lin Yi, confirmed he had seen the Green Apron Chef chase Lin Yi, and agreed to lead him through the foggy Student Passage.
• Lin Yi followed Wei Liang down the passage while resisting the urge to look back and enduring eerie sounds, sea-scented air, and shifting wall reliefs.
• Wei Liang led Lin Yi out after one hundred steps, though Lin Yi’s watch showed that only four minutes had passed.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang returned the Cafeteria Rules, then walked toward the Teaching Building after discussing the Campus’s nighttime fog and curfew rules.
• Lin Yi realized the Teaching Building had four buildings rather than three and spotted a covered bridge leading to a fourth, unfamiliar building in the mist.

Lin Yi noticed Teaching Building D emerging through abnormal fog and suspected it was connected to the nonexistent Art Building. He returned with Wei Liang to Group B Class 2, where the classroom was crowded with new arrivals, and began updating his notes.

• Lin Yi reasoned that Teaching Building D appeared during localized abnormal weather and might be the Art Building he had glimpsed before.
• Lin Yi spotted a lantern-bearing group that looked like Security Guards and Chefs heading from Teaching Building C toward Teaching Building D, then followed Wei Liang away.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang returned to Group B Class 2 at 18:40 and found fog clinging to Teaching Building B.
• Lin Yi counted the classroom’s abnormal and normal students and noticed about twenty-five newcomers who seemed unaware of the danger.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang found new seats, and Lin Yi checked the time before opening his notebook to record the day’s events.

Lin Yi recorded campus anomalies and remembered that he needed to report two cafeteria workers for serving food with tomato elements. After leaving to find the Head Teacher, he encountered a missing office sign and cautiously verified that he had found the correct room.

• Lin Yi tried to write that tomatoes were hearts and tomato sauce was blood plasma, but the information caused such terror that he crossed it out and added notes about Green Hats, spatial boundaries, moss, the Gymnasium, and Building D.
• Lin Yi realized he had been adapting to the campus’s inexplicable rules and discussed Rule 8 of the Cafeteria Rules with Wei Liang, who urged him to report the cafeteria workers’ badge numbers to the Head Teacher.
• Wei Liang borrowed Lin Yi’s notebook and secretly wrote a sentence on a torn-out page before Lin Yi left the classroom at 19:02.
• Lin Yi found that the Head Teacher’s office door sign was missing and, amid fog and distant sounds of waves, felt his way back to the Group B Class 2 door.
• Lin Yi entered the classroom for warmth, then cautiously checked the neighboring office sign and confirmed it read Teachers’ Office, with small print identifying Group B Class 2.

Lin Yi entered the Head Teacher’s office to report two cafeteria employees’ numbers and discovered that the office was an independent space with something outside trying to get in. After the Head Teacher had him copy the numbers, an icy aura and white fog suddenly filled the room as he tried to leave.

• Lin Yi resisted the Head Teacher’s invitation until fog outside seemed to approach, and she pulled him into the office despite the painful cold of her grip.
• Lin Yi realized the office’s interior was an independent space, then heard someone outside pounding on the door and learned the Head Teacher had lured him in as a catch.
• Lin Yi reported the numbers Chef-0391 and Chef-0154, and the Head Teacher made him write them again.
• The Head Teacher asked Lin Yi what color the writing was; he concealed its distorted green gleam and said it was blue.
• As Lin Yi turned to leave, an icy aura surged from the Head Teacher and white fog appeared inside the office.

Lin Yi learned that his unusually high spiritual sensitivity meant he could not survive by blindly following rules and that the company should never have admitted him to the Campus. The Head Teacher explained the danger of Green Skin and left Lin Yi with questions about why he had been admitted and what contamination had done to her.

• The Head Teacher restrained a hostile change in herself and warned Lin Yi not to turn away or open the office door.
• She explained that Green Skin could not normally harm anyone with a Student ID, then realized Lin Yi had encountered it before receiving his ID and questioned how that was possible.
• After examining Lin Yi’s file, the Head Teacher concluded that someone with his extreme spiritual sensitivity should never have been admitted and suspected the company’s higher-ups had tampered with the Campus.
• The Head Teacher told Lin Yi that he needed to think through the logic behind rules rather than obey them blindly, because those rules might not apply to someone like him.
• She said Green Skin could result from contaminated Blue Apron Chefs, warned that its origins remained uncertain, and urged Lin Yi to avoid it or seek help from the physical education department.

The Head Teacher explained the dangers around the school and asked Lin Yi to keep confirming her identity while she removed her uniform. She revealed that she was losing the anchors that held her identity together and warned Lin Yi this would likely be their last meeting.

• The Head Teacher told Lin Yi how to avoid Green Skins, survive Abnormal Weather, and seek shelter in the Gymnasium or use a desk as an Anchor.
• The Head Teacher made Lin Yi watch her and ask who she was every minute while she changed, warning him to leave if she could no longer answer correctly.
• Lin Yi described the creature that had entered his classroom, and the Head Teacher realized some had slipped past her efforts to stop them.
• The Head Teacher warned Lin Yi away from the Dorm Supervisor's Office when possible and explained that Anchors could help resist dangerous forces.
• The Head Teacher admitted she needed Lin Yi to stabilize her Cognition as she lost her identity's Anchor, and said this would probably be the last time he saw her.

Lin Yi escaped the Head Teacher’s office as she fought off contamination, then returned to Group B Class 2. The Head Teacher prepared to leave with the Security Guard, carrying a green envelope and handing the contaminated food to the Blue Apron Chef.

• The Head Teacher warned Lin Yi about a dictionary in the cabinet, then told him to keep asking her identity until she lost control or ordered him to run.
• The Head Teacher’s identity faltered as she removed her clothes and badge, and Lin Yi fled when she told him to go.
• Lin Yi suspected the tomato meat sauce pasta in the office trash had physically contaminated the Head Teacher, then returned to the classroom as mist gathered outside.
• The Head Teacher regained some control, packed her uniform and badge, and waited with a green envelope and the contaminated trash bag.
• The Blue Apron Chef arrived with a meal container and apologized that the Cafeteria had also failed; the Head Teacher gave the Security Guard the envelope and Chef’s numbered sheet.
• The Blue Apron Chef took the trash bag and praised the Head Teacher’s sacrifice as she followed the Security Guard into the fog.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the classroom after Xu Shunkang warned that the fog was thickening, then walked toward the Dormitory. Lin Yi discovered that the Dormitory occupied an independent space and saw its enormous, terrifying building at the end of the road.

• Lin Yi noticed that three classmates with crazed expressions had become vacant-eyed, while he and Wei Liang discussed waiting until they returned to the Dormitory before thinking through their situation.
• Xu Shunkang warned the class at 20:15 to leave for the Dormitory before the fog worsened, and Lin Yi and Wei Liang packed up and followed the earlier-arriving Experience Students out.
• A girl in a Lolita Uniform asked Lin Yi and Wei Liang to carry her luggage, but Lin Yi refused and Wei Liang complimented her stockings before leaving too.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang walked through the fog toward the Dormitory, and Lin Yi noticed that the Teaching Building disappeared as they entered the Dormitory building's section.
• Lin Yi saw a vast, ominous building looming at the end of the road and realized it was the Dormitory building.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang encountered supernatural fog and a road that stretched and twisted as they headed for the Dormitory Building. Lin Yi used the streetlamp numbers and his Student ID to navigate the distortion, then led Wei Liang toward the final lamppost marking their destination.

• Lin Yi noticed the fog and heard the scraping footsteps of abnormal students following them beyond the streetlights.
• A single streetlamp appeared as the road changed, and Wei Liang began to panic and grow unnaturally cold.
• Lin Yi recognized that the ground was stretching, told Wei Liang to grip his Student ID, and used the Campus Map to identify the lamppost sequence for the Dormitory Building.
• Lin Yi followed the lamppost marked Dormitory Building-095 through the twisting space and found Dormitory Building-096 among the displaced poles.
• Lin Yi charged toward the final lamppost with Wei Liang as Wei Liang's condition worsened.

Lin Yi forced his way through warped space and abnormal weather, carrying Wei Liang to the Dormitory Building-096 streetlamp pole. They reached the Dormitory Building with time apparently barely passing, where Lin Yi saw a warning that the building was one of the school’s most dangerous areas.

• Lin Yi clung to his identity and the Dormitory Building-096 streetlamp pole as he struggled through distorted space with Wei Liang, resisting the fog and sinister sounds.
• Lin Yi ignored Mao Feiyang’s apparent voice and reached the pole, causing the broken world to snap back to normal around him and Wei Liang.
• Lin Yi checked his watch and found it was 20:51, only eight minutes after they had set out, while Wei Liang recovered from his icy, corpse-like state.
• Lin Yi reasoned that numbered streetlamps marked the route through the campus when abnormal weather warped the roads, but he kept his deduction to himself.
• Wei Liang led Lin Yi through the crowd toward the Dormitory Building’s notice board before the elevators opened at 21:00.
• Lin Yi read that elevator use was restricted to listed hours and that the Dormitory Building was one of the school’s most dangerous areas.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached the Dormitory Building, where Lin Yi read rules warning that the building was dangerous despite the safety of individual dorm rooms. As they entered at 21:00, Lin Yi noticed the elevators seemed to return empty only seconds after carrying students away.

• Lin Yi read the Dormitory Building notice and collected a copy of its rules from the racks.
• Lin Yi studied the rules, which warned about anomalous rooms, distorted corridors, dangerous darkness, and strict conduct around Dorm Supervisors and other callers.
• Lin Yi asked Wei Liang to return to the dorm with him, and Wei Liang insisted on accompanying him despite Lin Yi's concern that something might happen.
• As thunder rolled and Fog spread outside, some students turned back toward the Teaching Building to spend the night in their classrooms.
• At 21:00, Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered the Dormitory Building with the crowd, and Lin Yi saw an elevator reopen seconds after students boarded it, now empty.

Lin Yi rode a dormitory elevator that behaved impossibly, skipping floors and carrying passengers into strange corridors. After a student left on the twentieth floor, he became trapped in a supernatural hallway and was overwhelmed by a monstrous presence.

• Lin Yi noticed that passengers vanished from each elevator after its doors closed, then boarded Elevator-23 with Wei Liang and eight others.
• The elevator climbed for far longer than expected, stopped at the eighteenth floor without stopping at the selected floors, and a book-reading girl got out before rushing back as the doors closed.
• Lin Yi saw faint wisps of fog around the girl's feet, then watched the elevator stop on the eleventh and twentieth floors as passengers left.
• On the twentieth floor, the student who had cursed the girl walked around a corner that was not there and fled from an unseen pursuer.
• The student struck an icy wall, saw an incomprehensible room number, and was consumed by terrifying visions and information until he could only cry out.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached the fourteenth floor, where Lin Yi realized Wei Liang was showing signs of contamination and narrowly avoided inviting something from an abnormal dorm room. After following the rule for a right-angle turn, Lin Yi found that the hallway and everything ahead had vanished.

• Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the elevator and entered the fourteenth-floor hallway, where Wei Liang appeared cold and exhaled ice crystals.
• Lin Yi suspected Wei Liang was contaminated and hoped a hot shower might help, but Wei Liang urgently told him to say he would not take him to the dorm.
• Lin Yi repeated Wei Liang's refusal, and the sinister wind around them receded as Lin Yi realized his earlier offer might have counted as an invitation to something in an abnormal room.
• Lin Yi led Wei Liang past the dorm rooms while repeating his identity and destination to stay grounded.
• Lin Yi encountered a right-angle turn, followed the instruction to turn around and deny it, and then saw that the hallway ahead had disappeared.

Lin Yi was pulled into a strange world where he stood on a cliff above an upright-seeming ocean, and his belief that he was in the dormitory building began to fail. As an ancient voice threatened to overwhelm him, the Security Guard appeared with the Ancient Bronze Lamp and drove the darkness away.

• Lin Yi stepped backward from the blank expanse and found himself standing on a steep, moss-covered cliff in an unknown world beneath a black sun.
• Lin Yi recognized the place from his earlier vision in the Gymnasium and realized gravity was pulling him off the cliff.
• Lin Yi used his willpower to imagine the dormitory corridor and briefly weaken gravity, but the sea wind and ancient screams began eroding his belief.
• The Security Guard appeared above Lin Yi with the Ancient Bronze Lamp, whose yellow light banished the darkness, eerie sound, and sea wind.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached Room 1414 after escaping the distorted world outside, with Wei Liang narrowly evading a swarm of strange creatures before entering. Inside, Lin Yi found the dormitory rules and began reading a special-circumstances version that suggested the supposedly safest place had exceptions.

• Lin Yi used his will to restore his perception, found Room 1414, and brought Wei Liang to its door.
• Lin Yi swiped his Student ID quickly and entered the dormitory; Wei Liang faced a swarm of shadowy creatures before unlocking the door and following him inside.
• A Security Guard examined a footprint on the cliff while Lin Yi checked the normal-looking dormitory and noticed the rules posted on the door.
• Wei Liang quickly checked the time and rules, gathered supplies, and went to take a hot shower.
• Lin Yi read seven dormitory rules, then discovered a special-circumstances version for residents who could not sleep after lights-out.

Lin Yi analyzed the dormitory rules, focusing on lights out and theorizing that light might anchor buildings to a normal layer. As he and Wei Liang prepared for the night, Tian Bufan returned and immediately asked whether Wei Liang had already showered.

• Lin Yi compared the dormitory rules and concluded that students should return before 22:00, wash up, and be in bed before midnight.
• Lin Yi noticed that the rules repeatedly distinguished between buildings before and after lights out, and wondered whether light anchored them to a normal layer.
• As Tian Bufan and the others failed to return, Lin Yi grew anxious; Wei Liang finished showering and showed Lin Yi how he washed his hair without closing his eyes.
• Wei Liang warned Lin Yi to remove useful items before putting clothes in the washing machine, which only looked like a real machine.
• Tian Bufan entered the room, and Lin Yi greeted him happily; Tian Bufan frowned when he saw Wei Liang drying his hair and asked whether he had showered.

Lin Yi realized that the mist in the Dormitory shower could distort layers and make him feel watched by something outside the window, which nearly compelled him to open it. After returning to the room, he saw Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji had arrived, but Mao Feiyang was still missing, and he discovered moss on his shoes.

• Tian Bufan showed Wei Liang a note that caused a strange consciousness to stir in him, then began a hurried conversation while Lin Yi showered.
• Lin Yi sensed something watching him from the shower window and concluded that the mist could affect layers, then resisted an urge to open the window that seemed to control him.
• Lin Yi finished showering and found Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji back in the Dormitory, while only twelve minutes remained before the corridor lost power and Mao Feiyang's return became unlikely.
• Wei Liang explained that the Dormitory laundry chute collected students' daily clothes and shoes, and Lin Yi noticed a large patch of moss stuck to his sneakers.

Lin Yi discovered moss from the eerie Cliff on his shoe and, with Tian Bufan, examined his fading memories and the Campus’s layered nature. The chapter ended with Tian Bufan explaining how dense fog could push the Campus into an abnormal state, his intense fascination unsettling Lin Yi.

• Lin Yi found strange moss from the dark world on his shoe and put the shoe in the washing machine.
• Tian Bufan pointed out that Lin Yi was forgetting Mao Feiyang and could no longer remember why he had come to the university; Wei Liang supplied the answer about Lin Yi’s grandmother, then became frightened and went to bed.
• Lin Yi asked Tian Bufan why he seemed to know so much, and Tian Bufan promised to explain on the fifth night if they met again without trouble.
• Lin Yi proposed that S City University occupied a different Layer from the outside world and cited the School Gate and Student Rules as evidence.
• Tian Bufan used threads to explain how fog could lower the Campus’s Layer past a threshold into an abnormal state, revealing a disturbing fascination with the phenomenon.