Arc 7Chapters 153–177

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Ch. 153Escape from Certain Death!

Lin Yi carried the injured Li Huiyuan through the Convenience Store while darkness and night-walking creatures pursued them, and he reached the exit after an unexplained burst of speed and lost time. Outside, they entered a campus passage that transformed into a familiar foggy corridor, where Lin Yi recognized the Student Passage and saw the Blue Apron Chef waiting behind them.

  • Lin Yi secured Li Huiyuan to his back with a bedsheet and sprinted through the Convenience Store as the Green Apron Chef and a swarm of night-walking creatures chased them.
  • A voice calling Lin Yi's name overwhelmed him near the exit, and he realized he had lost several minutes and somehow run the remaining distance at incredible speed.
  • Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan checked out their food and the bedsheet, and Li Huiyuan admitted she had felt an urge to steal his Student ID.
  • Lin Yi carried Li Huiyuan through the Convenience Store exit, where he glimpsed an unnoticed figure standing beside the doorway before the white light swallowed him.
  • Lin Yi descended a tunnel marked toward campus, watched it transform into a foggy stone passage, and recognized the Student Passage with the As If Present Blue Apron Chef behind him.

Ch. 154The fog came like an avalanche

After escaping the Cafeteria through the Student Passage, Lin Yi chose to hurry with Li Huiyuan toward the Teaching Building before darkness and abnormal fog made the Campus dangerous. The fog surged across the Pebble Road, Li Huiyuan regained sensation and strength in her foot, and Lin Yi ran toward the increasingly obscured building as the Sculpture Phalanxes emerged.

  • Lin Yi discovered that the Convenience Store's exit led to the Student Passage, then decided he and Li Huiyuan had to reach the Teaching Building before sunset rather than return to the dark Cafeteria.
  • Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan left the Cafeteria and followed the Pebble Road toward the Teaching Building as the Sun set and Li Huiyuan's body temperature fell.
  • The fog burst out of the Wooded Belt and swallowed the Cafeteria area first, while Lin Yi realized that the low-lying building was especially vulnerable to it.
  • Li Huiyuan regained sensation and strength in her right foot, and Lin Yi worried that the contamination might have given her traits shared with the Green Apron Chef.
  • Sculpture Phalanxes appeared in the Wooded Belt as darkness and fog engulfed the Campus, and Lin Yi struggled to find his way toward the fading outline of the Teaching Building.

Ch. 155The Sculpture Phalanx took to the road

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan tried to reach the Teaching Building as contamination thickened, but the campus layer dropped and the Sculpture Phalanx entered their road. They were trapped among the sculptures in the fog, with the streetlamps still ten minutes from turning on.

  • Lin Yi called Li Huiyuan to wait for him, took her hand, and led her toward the Teaching Building while repeating his name and student number silently.
  • Li Huiyuan revealed that hearing Lin Yi recite his identity made her uncontrollably want to steal his Student ID, so Lin Yi stopped reciting and hurried them back toward safety.
  • Lin Yi's vision shifted into a contaminated layer where he saw Night-Walking Species and the Sculpture Phalanx moving through the fog.
  • Humanoid sculptures appeared around Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan, and Lin Yi warned her to lower her head and avoid looking at their faces.
  • Lin Yi checked the time and found the Teaching Building still distant; touching the distorted pebbles confirmed that the campus layer had dropped.
  • Li Huiyuan offered to let Lin Yi leave her behind, but he refused and tried to reassure her as the fog continued to spread.

Ch. 156Ten sweat-drenched minutes

Lin Yi kept himself and Li Huiyuan on the distorted road until the campus lights came on, then led her toward Streetlamp-105 while the humanoid sculptures gathered behind him. He realized the sculptures were calling only to him and suspected they were targeting his Student ID.

  • Lin Yi abandoned the attempt to follow Pebble Road back and anchored himself to the Teaching Building while waiting for the streetlamps to light at 18:00.
  • As Li Huiyuan grew cold and confused, Lin Yi distracted her with conversation about their studies, and she described studying the origins of ancient life and Mystical Genealogy.
  • Lin Yi noticed that the humanoid sculptures surrounded them without showing hostility, then wondered whether they regarded him and Li Huiyuan as one of their own.
  • At 18:00, Streetlamp-105 lit up, and Lin Yi began guiding Li Huiyuan out of the sculpture phalanx toward it.
  • The sculptures shifted into the darkness and gathered behind Lin Yi as he approached the lamppost; he heard them calling his name, but Li Huiyuan heard nothing.
  • Lin Yi concluded that the sculptures had not targeted either of them before, and suspected they were pursuing him because he carried a Student ID.

Ch. 157Moths to a flame

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan escaped the fog by following numbered streetlamps to the Teaching Building, where four hidden floors appeared after the Layer Drop. Lin Yi realized the fog concealed something like water, but the eerie figures gathered around the building and a sculpted foot emerged onto its steps.

  • Lin Yi brought Li Huiyuan beneath a streetlamp and realized the humanoid sculptures were drawn to the light but afraid to enter it, triggering a vision of Night-Walking Species crawling up a cliff toward the Night Watchman.
  • Li Huiyuan lost feeling in her foot again, then used a strange golden-eyed ability to magnify her vision and read the next lamppost number.
  • Lin Yi led Li Huiyuan through the fog from lamppost 106 to 108, where they saw the Teaching Building's four normally hidden floors revealed.
  • Lin Yi noticed moss growing beneath the fog and suspected the mist concealed a water-like surface, then assured Li Huiyuan that the figures would not approach the lit building.
  • Eerie figures surrounded the Teaching Building, so Lin Yi hurried with Li Huiyuan toward Group B Class 2 as a sculpted foot broke through the fog and landed on the steps.

Ch. 158The Humanoid Sculptures Climbed the Steps

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan reported her encounter at the Convenience Store to Head Teacher 040, while humanoid sculptures began entering the illuminated Teaching Building and transforming into Nonhuman Classmates. Lin Yi suspected that the classmates might turn back into sculptures when the lights went out, and his increasingly dangerous thoughts began affecting him.

  • Lin Yi escorted Li Huiyuan to Head Teacher 040's office and stayed while she described her encounter with the chefs, the Art Student, and the fog at the Convenience Store.
  • Head Teacher 040 warned Lin Yi to protect his Student ID and not reveal his real Student Number in an abnormal environment.
  • Lin Yi spotted a humanoid sculpture climbing the steps, and Head Teacher 040 said the sculptures were harmless under the lights.
  • As the fog drained away from the sculpture, it changed into a Nonhuman Classmate, then entered the corridor and passed Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan without reacting.
  • More sculptures crossed into the illuminated corridor, and Lin Yi wondered whether Nonhuman Classmates became sculptures when the lights went out and whether they killed Experience Students.
  • Lin Yi tried to suppress his thoughts about the transformation, but his speculation continued and the temperature around him began to fall.

Ch. 159Another piece of the puzzle from the evening of May 6

Lin Yi reconstructed Little Genius’s death on May 6, then became trapped in a contaminated Corridor while seeing through Mao Feiyang’s perspective. He escaped the hallucination by grounding himself in his identity and returned to Group B Class 2, where the familiar warmth felt subtly wrong.

  • Lin Yi’s mental reconstruction showed Little Genius being killed by Humanoid Sculptures after green fog entered the classroom, with his corpse later becoming a Sculpture in the Wooded Belt.
  • Lin Yi realized he had fallen into another layer of the Corridor and saw Little Genius emerge from the shadows.
  • Lin Yi discovered he was seeing through Mao Feiyang’s perspective and began absorbing contamination during the Abnormal Weather.
  • Lin Yi recited details about his identity and surroundings until he recovered his own perspective and Student ID, causing the Corridor and Little Genius to vanish.
  • Head Teacher-040 told Li Huiyuan to return to the classroom and said she would be taken away later, while Lin Yi worried about the dangers awaiting them that night.
  • Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan entered Group B Class 2 at 18:29, where the warmth returned but something felt wrong to Lin Yi.

Ch. 160The message on the blackboard

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan entered a classroom where the Experience Students argued over whether to stay or flee after finding a warning on the blackboard. Lin Yi suspected the message was written in contaminated blood and refused to trust it until he could identify its source, while two students—including Zhou Yuting—were missing.

  • Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan entered the classroom and found the Experience Students arguing about whether to spend the night there or leave for the Dormitory area.
  • Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan read a blackboard message warning that a storm would kill anyone who stayed and urging them to reach the Dormitory area before it rained.
  • Lin Yi examined the writing and deduced that it was plaster made from the blood of a Night-Walking Species or a Severely Contaminated person, with contamination still dispersing as green vapor.
  • Lin Yi warned Li Huiyuan that the message could be a malicious trap and said they needed to establish who had written it before acting on it.
  • Lin Yi counted the classroom's remaining occupants, noted that all eighteen Athlete Students were absent, and identified Zhou Yuting and a middle-aged Experience Student as the two missing people.

Ch. 161Revising the Notes

Lin Yi returned to the classroom with Li Huiyuan and learned that the mysterious words on the blackboard had appeared between 15:30 and Wei Liang’s return at 17:08, making an Athlete Student a likely but unconfirmed writer. As they waited for Head Teacher 040 to discuss where everyone should spend the night, Lin Yi revised his notes about the Cafeteria, the green fog, and the strange students.

  • Lin Yi asked the arguing students whether they knew who had written on the blackboard, then helped Li Huiyuan reach Wei Liang.
  • Wei Liang said the writing was already there when he returned at 17:08, and Lin Yi inferred that someone had entered the classroom during the afternoon, possibly an Athlete Student.
  • Wei Liang told Lin Yi that the Head Teacher had asked the students to wait until she came to the classroom before deciding whether to stay overnight.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang joked while Li Huiyuan read a manga, and Lin Yi considered the Head Teacher’s delay a sign that she was working on a solution.
  • Lin Yi updated his notebook, adding observations about Night-Walking Species, Humanoid Sculptures, the green fog, and the Cafeteria’s possible layers.

Ch. 162"Mountain Man"

Lin Yi recorded new rules and watched Mountain Man test the Blackboard’s message before deciding to leave the classroom. Mountain Man said he was returning to the Dormitory, though the elevator would not open until 21:00, leaving Lin Yi wondering what made him confident he could go now.

  • Lin Yi added notes about the Convenience Store, contamination, night-walking species, and the Student Passage to his notebook.
  • Wei Liang joked that the returning middle-aged Experience Student looked like a Pokémon Mountain Man, while Lin Yi suspected Wei Liang was hiding unusual insight.
  • Mountain Man checked his watches, studied the Blackboard, and scraped some of its writing onto paper to test it outside the classroom.
  • Mountain Man returned with a grave expression, gathered his bags, and sat briefly before preparing to leave.
  • When Experience Students questioned him, Mountain Man said the Blackboard was right and that they could not stay in the classroom.
  • Mountain Man told them he was going back to the Dormitory, despite the elevator not opening until 21:00.

Ch. 163Emergency Response Plan, Appendix B

Lin Yi weighed Mountain Man’s attempt to reach the Dormitory Building before the elevators opened, then learned Head Teacher 040’s emergency plan for getting students there safely at 20:00. The chapter ended with Lin Yi suspecting that the teacher had singled out twelve students because their high inspiration made staying in the classroom especially dangerous.

  • Mountain Man left the classroom to try reaching his dorm, while Lin Yi and Wei Liang discussed the risks of using the stairwells or waiting beneath the Dormitory Building-096 streetlamp.
  • Head Teacher 040 took attendance, calling more names than there were students present and marking several absent students, including people Lin Yi knew had died.
  • Head Teacher 040 moved eight students, including Lin Yi and Wei Liang, near the classroom door and announced an evacuation plan: leave at 20:00, follow streetlamp numbers to Dormitory Building-001 and then Dormitory Building-096, and seek a Security Guard if they became lost.
  • Head Teacher 040 took Li Huiyuan away, telling Lin Yi not to support her because she needed to move; Lin Yi watched her follow the teacher into the fog.
  • Lin Yi counted twelve students selected to leave and wondered whether Head Teacher 040 had chosen them because their high inspiration made it dangerous to remain in the classroom.

Ch. 164"Material" (an extra 200 words)

Lin Yi connected the university’s identity-related objects to a strange white material and deduced that night-walking creatures and humanoid sculptures coveted Student IDs. He imagined a night scene in which the sculptures used a student’s name and number to imitate him and attacked when his ID was exposed, leaving him with a chilling new theory about the campus’s dangers.

  • Lin Yi decided to follow Head Teacher 040’s advice and return to the Dormitory, then reviewed the Student, Teaching Building, and Dormitory Rules.
  • Wei Liang pointed out that the booklets Lin Yi could carry seemed cheap, while the Cafeteria and Gymnasium Rules had more valuable-looking cases.
  • Lin Yi realized that the Cafeteria and Gymnasium Rules, Student IDs, name badges, commemorative coins, and Head Teacher Rules shared a white acrylic-like material.
  • Lin Yi connected the material to the rule about hiding Student IDs while swiping cards, Li Huiyuan’s urge to steal his ID, and night-walking creatures’ calls for him.
  • Lin Yi imagined humanoid sculptures silently echoing a student’s identity until a streetlamp drove them away, then swarming him when a familiar voice made him turn and his Student ID became exposed.

Ch. 165Leaving the classroom

Lin Yi’s deduction of how Humanoid Sculptures could steal Student IDs nearly overwhelmed him, but Wei Liang pulled him back to reality. At 20:00, Lin Yi and Wei Liang prepared to leave the classroom and seek shelter in the fog as Head Teacher 040 had instructed.

  • Lin Yi envisioned a Humanoid Sculpture taking a Student ID and transforming into its owner, then became trapped by the cries of agony until Wei Liang jolted him out of the state.
  • Lin Yi reasoned that strange entities might steal Student IDs both to usurp identities and to consume the special material they were made from, and wondered whether the IDs carried contamination.
  • Lin Yi recovered while Wei Liang returned a photo book to the bookshelf area, and the Experience Students grew increasingly tense as Head Teacher 040’s 20:00 deadline approached.
  • At 20:00, one Experience Student opened the classroom door, recoiled from the fog, and retreated, while Song Rentou walked out decisively.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the classroom to find shelter, with Wei Liang admitting he feared the dense fog and Lin Yi agreeing to look out for him.

Ch. 166Beneath the thick fog

Lin Yi and Wei Liang crossed the fog-shrouded Campus toward the Dormitory as Humanoid Sculptures called Lin Yi’s name from the darkness. Elsewhere, Nie Yun was deceived into pushing Ge Qing into the fog, and both men were transformed into Nonhuman Classmates as the Sculptures sought more people.

  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the classroom, held hands, and walked down the Pebble Road through the fog while Lin Yi noticed the walls had begun dropping through Layers.
  • Lin Yi discovered that other students walking the same route had vanished, examined the smooth white paint on a lamppost, and continued toward the Dormitory with Wei Liang as Humanoid Sculptures called his name.
  • Nie Yun heard voices warning him that the Ge Qing beside him was an impostor, then shoved Ge Qing beyond the lamplight into the fog.
  • A Humanoid Sculpture lured Nie Yun to the edge of the darkness, seized him, and dragged him out of the light.
  • Nie Yun and Ge Qing emerged as Nonhuman Classmates with damaged Student IDs, while the Humanoid Sculptures in the fog called for more people.

Ch. 167The Nonhuman Classmates Lying in Wait

Lin Yi and Wei Liang encountered the Nie Yun and Ge Qing Nonhuman Classmates, who were luring Experience Students into the fog. Lin Yi recognized them and tried to exploit their uncertain identities, leaving the two creatures confused as the Humanoid Sculptures called out reminders.

  • The Nie Yun and Ge Qing Nonhuman Classmates lured an Experience Student beneath Streetlamp Pole-067 and pushed him into the fog, where the Humanoid Sculptures killed him.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang approached the streetlamp and Lin Yi recognized the two figures as Nonhuman Classmates who had replaced Nie Yun and Ge Qing.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang attempted to slip past the pair, but the Nonhuman Classmates blocked their way and the Humanoid Sculptures stirred in the fog.
  • Lin Yi called the Ge Qing Nonhuman Classmate Nie Yun, while Wei Liang challenged its identity, causing the two creatures to become confused about who was who.
  • The Humanoid Sculptures shouted reminders to the Nonhuman Classmates, but their overlapping calls made the pair even more agitated and uncertain.

Ch. 168Reverse cognitive contamination

Lin Yi and Wei Liang escaped the Teaching Building-067 streetlamp after using reverse cognitive contamination to confuse two nonhuman classmates, while Wei Shan brutally destroyed three more. Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached Teaching Building-001 and discovered that the routes to the Cafeteria, Gymnasium, and Dormitory Building converged there after the Layer Drop.

  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang confused the Ge Qing and Nie Yun nonhuman classmates about their identities, kicked them into the fog, and caused them to merge into an unstable two-headed sculpture.
  • The Ge Qing and Nie Yun nonhuman classmates returned beneath the Teaching Building-067 streetlamp with Li Jiannan, then confronted Wei Shan as he emerged from the fog.
  • Wei Shan pushed the three nonhuman classmates into the fog, pulled Ge Qing back partly transformed, and tore off his sculpted arm.
  • Wei Shan used Ge Qing's arm to smash all three transformed classmates, leaving their bodies shattered beneath the streetlamp.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached Teaching Building-001 and found streetlamps for the Gymnasium, Cafeteria, and Dormitory Building at the same junction.

Ch. 169"Gray Fog Invasion"

During the 73rd Gray Fog Invasion, the school staff arranged for Li Huiyuan to go with the Security Guard to the Gymnasium while discussing the campus’s weakening defenses. Lin Yi and Wei Liang waited for the Security Guard beneath a dimming dormitory streetlamp as the fog closed in.

  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang spotted a figure resembling Zhou Yuting inhaling the painted words beneath the Cafeteria-001 streetlamp and chose to leave her alone.
  • Head Teacher 040 sent Li Huiyuan with the Security Guard to the Gymnasium because of her high spiritual sensitivity.
  • Chef-0213 told Head Teacher 040 that the 73rd Gray Fog Invasion had begun, the Convenience Store Owner was missing, and the campus defenses had weakened.
  • Head Teacher 040 locked the classroom and stayed in the office after the Security Guard, Chef-0213, and Li Huiyuan left.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang reached Dormitory Building-087, noticed streetlamps were skipping numbers and dimming, and waited for the Security Guard as the fog surrounded their shrinking pool of light.

Ch. 170The unsettling streetlamp pole

Lin Yi and Wei Liang tried to return to the Dormitory Building after no security guard appeared by 21:00, but the fog distorted the road and threatened Lin Yi’s grip on reality. At the streetlamp marked Dormitory Building-092, Lin Yi sensed that the light was failing and discovered the road had become sand and the lamp’s glowing object was not a bulb.

  • At 21:00, Lin Yi and Wei Liang found no security guard and set off toward the Dormitory Building as the fog closed in.
  • Lin Yi supported the strangely cold Wei Liang and struggled through distortions in the road, reaching the Dormitory Building-090 pole at 21:06.
  • Lin Yi reached the Dormitory Building-092 pole at 21:09 and felt an intense, unexplained danger despite standing beneath its light.
  • Lin Yi realized the streetlamp could no longer warm Wei Liang and noticed the Pebble Road beneath them had become damp, soft sand.
  • Lin Yi examined the fading streetlamp and discovered that its light came from a glowing stone rather than a conventional bulb.

Ch. 171"Monkey Standing on a Stick, Viewing the Sea"

Lin Yi carried Wei Liang through the failing streetlamps toward the Dormitory Building, discovering that the lamps’ supernatural light suppressed the Nonhuman creatures. After fighting off the Nonhuman Classmates beneath Dormitory Building-094, he continued toward Dormitory Building-095 as the road began cracking and distorting beneath him.

  • Lin Yi realized that miraculous stones powered the streetlamps and that their supernatural radiance drove off Nonhuman creatures.
  • When the Dormitory Building-092 lamp went out, Lin Yi climbed its pole with Wei Liang and used his enhanced vision to locate the route toward Dormitory Building-096.
  • Lin Yi carried Wei Liang through the fog, reaching the lights at Dormitory Building-093 and Dormitory Building-094 for brief shelter as Nonhuman creatures pursued them.
  • At Dormitory Building-094, Lin Yi resisted a Nonhuman Classmate’s lure, attacked the creatures with the bedsheet wrapped around his fist, and escaped when the lamp began to waver.
  • Lin Yi ran toward Dormitory Building-095 as mist from the defeated Nonhuman Classmates clung to him, while the road cracked and warped beneath his feet.

Ch. 172Occult Scriptures Choir

Lin Yi struggled to cross the twisting road to the dormitory while falling deeper into the layer occupied by the night-walking species. As he neared collapse, he discovered they feared his gaze, then saw an unknown person lying on Wei Liang’s back.

  • Lin Yi realized the road’s apparent shifts came from his position and perception breaking down, and the distortions dragged him into the layer of the nonhuman entities.
  • The entities formed an Occult Scriptures Choir, repeating Lin Yi’s identity information while the road beneath him revealed itself to be made of night-walking species.
  • Freezing wind and the choir’s warped chants pushed Lin Yi toward collapse as he crawled toward the Dormitory Building streetlamps with Wei Liang on his back.
  • Lin Yi noticed the night-walking species fled whenever he looked at them, but Wei Liang remained unresponsive as Lin Yi reached his limit.
  • Lin Yi turned to check on Wei Liang and discovered another person lying on Wei Liang’s back.

Ch. 173His perception of time had been affected

Lin Yi defeated the Xenomorphic Sculpture and was rescued with Wei Liang by the Security Guard, who explained that the layers had distorted Lin Yi’s perception of time. After reaching the dormitory, Lin Yi and Wei Liang rode the elevator to their room, where an unusually normal walk left Lin Yi shaken with disbelief.

  • Lin Yi beat the Xenomorphic Sculpture to pieces after it tried to steal his Student ID, then saw fractured images showing that his watch’s true time was earlier than he perceived.
  • The Security Guard arrived, restored Lin Yi’s strength with the Old Kerosene Lamp, and guided him and Wei Liang toward the Dormitory Building.
  • The Security Guard explained that the layers had contaminated Lin Yi’s perception of time, and Lin Yi realized that the ordeal had lasted less time than he thought.
  • The Security Guard escorted Lin Yi and Wei Liang to the Dormitory Building-096 Streetlamp Pole, where Wei Liang recovered and joked that Lin Yi had told him not to use his trump card.
  • Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered Elevator-12 and reached the fourteenth floor, then walked to room 1414 without encountering the usual disturbances.
  • Lin Yi marveled at the unusually normal walk to their room and asked Wei Liang to swipe his Student ID first so he could savor the feeling.

Ch. 174A crowd of fake Wei Liang Nonhuman Classmates

Lin Yi confronted a corridor full of Nonhuman Classmates imitating Wei Liang and discovered that their identities depended on fragile self-anchoring. He exploited their confusion until their forms collapsed and they surged toward Dormitory 1401.

  • Lin Yi saw numerous fake Wei Liangs gather outside Dormitory 1414 after the real Wei Liang entered.
  • Lin Yi punched one fake Wei Liang and unsettled the others by challenging their claims to be Wei Liang.
  • Lin Yi impersonated Li Huiyuan in his thoughts and used a fake Student ID to make the Nonhuman Classmates imitate her instead.
  • Lin Yi threw the uniform-wrapped paper among the fakes and called out to Wei Liang, triggering an argument over their identities.
  • The fake Wei Liangs lost their forms and crawled toward Dormitory 1401 as Lin Yi watched.

Ch. 175He hadn't even gone inside, and his dorm room was gone?!

Lin Yi restored his sense of identity after tricking the nonhuman classmates, but the dormitory door vanished and he was thrown into the Art Building’s layer. Clinging to a sheer cliff above a vertical ocean, he faced rising gravity, hostile whispers, and climbing night-walking creatures.

  • Lin Yi used his Student ID and notepad to re-anchor himself as Lin Yi after impersonating Li Huiyuan to deceive the nonhuman classmates.
  • When Lin Yi tried to stand, he discovered that the wall and the door to dorm room 1414 had vanished, and the layer began pushing him out.
  • Lin Yi passed through the gap between layers and emerged on a sheer cliff in the Art Building’s layer, where gravity pulled him toward a black abyss.
  • Lin Yi clung to cracks in the mossy cliff as gravity strengthened and the sea wind’s whispers attacked his mind.
  • Lin Yi heard night-walking creatures and saw countless twisted figures swarm up the cliff toward him.

Ch. 176The scrap of paper in the wardrobe

Lin Yi escaped the abyssal layer by using his Sticky Note Notebook as an anchor and returned safely to Dormitory 1414. A scrap of paper from Song Rentou revealed how nonhuman classmates targeted dorm residents, leading Lin Yi to realize he may have disrupted the creatures tracking Wei Liang.

  • Lin Yi calmed himself with the sound of pages turning, found his Sticky Note Notebook on the cliff, and used it to anchor himself back to Dormitory 1414.
  • Lin Yi returned to the hallway, picked up the notebook, entered his dorm, and collapsed against the door while Wei Liang showered.
  • Lin Yi found Song Rentou’s note in the wardrobe, which described nonhuman classmates forcing their way into the dorm and taking Song Rentou’s roommate.
  • Lin Yi inferred that the nonhuman classmates used residents’ names and student numbers to target and abduct them.
  • Lin Yi realized the fake Wei Liangs that had followed Wei Liang were using the same targeting mechanism, and that he might have disrupted their pursuit.

Ch. 177What major were we studying in college again?

Lin Yi found Song Rentou’s note, discovered a strange figure lingering outside the dormitory, and realized that he could no longer remember anything from before boarding the Blue Bus. After the others returned, Lin Yi asked Wei Shan how he could attack the nonhuman entities so directly, leaving Wei Shan’s secret unresolved.

  • Lin Yi recognized Song Rentou’s name on the note and wondered whether the Song Rentou in class was the survivor who had returned or a nonhuman impostor.
  • Lin Yi discovered a peephole in the dormitory door and saw a strange figure muttering that it was Li Huiyuan before it wandered away.
  • Lin Yi questioned Wei Liang about their major, then realized he could not remember his life before boarding the Blue Bus or why he had come to campus.
  • Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji, and Tian Bufan returned to the dormitory, and Tian Bufan said Song Rentou’s note contained interesting information.
  • Lin Yi asked Wei Shan how he could attack Nonhuman Classmates and the Green Apron Chef directly.
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