Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi and his companions avoided a dangerous cafeteria line, then noticed Zhang Lingzhen’s group entering the abnormal Convenience Store. After buying supplies and leaving the Student Dining Hall, Lin Yi was left facing the still-vivid memories of their earlier ordeal.

• Wei Liang dispersed some Experience Students from Meal Window No. 3, and Lin Yi’s group dumped their meals and ordered food elsewhere.
• Tian Bufan warned Lin Yi not to risk himself trying to save people who could not distinguish danger from safety.
• Lin Yi spotted Zhang Lingzhen, the Sailor Uniform Girl, and two Impersonator Art Students watching from the dining hall, then later saw Zhang Lingzhen’s group head toward the Convenience Store.
• Wei Liang led the group to the noon sunlight, where they joked about Lin Yi’s swimming lessons and Wei Liang declared his admiration for Boss.
• Lin Yi’s group saw Zhang Lingzhen’s group disappear through the Convenience Store entrance, bought biscuits and water, and left the dining hall.
• Lin Yi stopped at the Student Passage and recalled the terrifying ordeal they had recently survived.

Zhang Lingzhen followed a tempting aroma into the dark depths of the Convenience Store and began devouring corpses before Senior Ren found and subdued her. After leaving the Student Passage, Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about his worsening visions of Humanoid Sculptures, and the group prepared to head to the Gymnasium.

• Senior Ren warned Zhang Lingzhen not to read the Convenience Store Instructions and led her toward the Student Commemorative Coins.
• Drawn by the aroma, Zhang Lingzhen lost track of Senior Ren and wandered into a dark area filled with corpses.
• Senior Ren found Zhang Lingzhen eating a meaty bone; she attacked him, and he knocked her unconscious before carrying her away.
• After leaving the Student Passage, Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about visions of chained Humanoid Sculptures that seemed to be using his name to anchor themselves in reality.
• Tian Bufan urged Lin Yi to report serious visions sooner, and Lin Yi warned him to be cautious too.
• Wei Liang asked Lin Yi whether he would take the route past the classroom or go straight to the Gymnasium.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang entered the Gymnasium area, where an Impersonator Art Student trapped Lin Yi in a distorted Cognition Overwrite and bound him. As the creature prepared to eat him, Lin Yi recognized something familiar in its face.

• Lin Yi and Wei Liang left the Cafeteria area for the Gymnasium while Tian Bufan kept Wei Shan with him, explaining that an Impersonator Art Student was following Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi and Wei Liang noticed the Gymnasium area felt unusually cold, damp, and oppressive as they followed the Pebble Road.
• Lin Yi discovered that the pebbles and surrounding landscape were distorting, then realized an Art Student had trapped him inside a Cognition Overwrite.
• A bandaged Impersonator Art Student emerged and discussed whether to kill and eat Lin Yi or use him for Bu Ze.
• The Impersonator Art Student bound Lin Yi with its bandages and dragged him close, but Lin Yi recognized something familiar in its face.

Lin Yi was trapped by a bandaged Impersonator Art Student, but a violent power awakened in him and he shattered it. After recognizing the sculpture as Little Genius, he realized the bandages were the key and noticed the distorted cartoon scenery still surrounded him.

• The bandaged Impersonator Art Student restrained Lin Yi and cut at his throat, but its attack only left a faint scratch as Lin Yi’s body began radiating sky-blue steam.
• Lin Yi broke free, kicked the Impersonator Art Student away, and fought it with enhanced strength and speed.
• The Impersonator Art Student struck Lin Yi’s chest, but Lin Yi endured the blow and counterattacked, eventually smashing its body into fragments.
• Lin Yi returned to normal and recognized the shattered sculpture as Little Genius, who had disappeared only three days earlier.
• Lin Yi concluded that the bandages, rather than Little Genius, were controlling the sculpture and realized the surrounding scenery remained distorted.

Lin Yi discovered that the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student had hidden its true body on its puppet’s back, but the resulting battle opened a passage for the Grinning Angel to enter the overwritten Layer. Lin Yi escaped and caught up with Wei Liang on the Gymnasium Pebble Road, while the Grinning Angel drained the Impersonator and followed Lin Yi’s scent.

• Lin Yi realized the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student’s bandages formed an overwritten world and that its true body had emerged from the cylinder on its back.
• As the true Impersonator attacked, the shadow beneath Lin Yi opened into another Layer, allowing the Grinning Angel to pass through.
• The Grinning Angel shattered the bandage-made overwrite, and Lin Yi fled while the Impersonator chased after him.
• The Grinning Angel drained the Bandaged Impersonator Art Student until it collapsed into sludge, then followed Lin Yi’s scent.
• At 12:18 p.m. on May 9, Lin Yi caught up with Wei Liang on the Gymnasium Pebble Road and asked whether he had encountered trouble.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang fled toward the Gymnasium as the Grinning Angel was diverted by a bound Impersonator Art Student, but the mountain path shifted into a foggy, sunlit storm. The chapter left Lin Yi exposed to contaminating sun rain while realizing he and Wei Liang were experiencing different Layers.

• Lin Yi hurried Wei Liang toward the Gymnasium, and the Grinning Angel found a dismembered Impersonator Art Student tied to a streetlamp pole and began draining its aura.
• Lin Yi noticed the streetlamps were missing, then he and Wei Liang rounded a bend into stronger wind and spreading fog.
• The wooded path briefly transformed into a towering forest, and eerie green sun rain began falling on Lin Yi.
• Lin Yi experienced boiling blood, distorted vision, and fading senses, while Wei Liang identified the rain as sun rain.
• Lin Yi realized the wind affected him and Wei Liang differently, suggesting they occupied different Layers and that he was more exposed to the rain.

Lin Yi followed Wei Liang through the sunshower toward the Gymnasium, but the rain and shifting layers distorted his perception until Wei Liang disappeared. Lin Yi became lost in a strange forest and tried to find details that could anchor him back to the Campus.

• Lin Yi realized he could use the first building he saw after discovering the rain to determine which route to take, then asked Wei Liang to run ahead as a guide.
• Lin Yi followed Wei Liang through the sunshower, reasoning that the real sunlight limited the contamination and that he could wash away its effects at the Gymnasium.
• The Grinning Angel watched Lin Yi from behind the sunshower’s boundary, then covered its face with its hands and gradually turned transparent.
• Lin Yi discovered that Wei Liang had vanished and realized he had dropped into another layer while crossing the distorted landscape.
• Lin Yi lost his bearings and found himself in a dense, unsettling forest, where he searched for details that could anchor him back to the Campus’s Wooded Belt.

Lin Yi realized his distorted vision had come from his consciousness entering “Minecraft,” found his way back to his body, and returned to himself near Wei Liang. Before fully rejoining him, he spotted a Wrathful Angel sculpture hiding by the Wooded Belt.

• Lin Yi heard a creature speaking in the language of the Night-Walking Species and the Occult Scriptures Choir beyond the boundary to the mountain forest’s depths.
• A short figure passed through Lin Yi, leading him to realize he was a disembodied consciousness inside “Minecraft” and that the creature had been drawn to the figure, not him.
• Lin Yi tested the direction of his connection and worked out that his body lay behind him and to his right.
• Lin Yi retraced his path through the Wooded Belt, realized Sun Rain had intensified his perception, and headed toward his body after seeing the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi spotted a small winged Wrathful Angel sculpture hiding among the shrubs before returning to his body beside Wei Liang.

Lin Yi realized the Wrathful Angel had targeted him and raced toward the Gymnasium, hoping to trigger the rules for dealing with Angel Sculptures. As he neared the entrance, an unfamiliar voice called to him from a mysterious staircase that the Notice Board had warned him not to use.

• Lin Yi inferred that the Wrathful Angel was preparing to attack, and Wei Liang slipped on a patch of oil and sped down Pebble Road toward the Gymnasium.
• The Wrathful Angel launched itself at Lin Yi, who dodged with a burst of sky-blue steam and fled toward the Gymnasium.
• Lin Yi decided to draw the Angel into the Gymnasium so he could follow the Gymnasium Rules and seek help from the Gym Teacher.
• Lin Yi caught up to the entrance as Wei Liang reached the Gymnasium, but an unfamiliar voice called to him from a nearby staircase.
• Lin Yi recognized the staircase as the one mentioned in the Notice Board’s warning not to use any stairs or doors besides the main entrance.

Lin Yi followed the Gymnasium rules to escape the pursuing Wrathful Angel and reached the Gym Office, where he reported that he was being hunted. The Gym Teachers acknowledged him and one of them went out, captured the Wrathful Angel, and dragged it back inside.

• Lin Yi rushed into the Gymnasium, swiped a copy of the Gymnasium Rules, and followed its map toward the Gym Office with the Wrathful Angel close behind.
• Boss and Li Huiyuan spotted Lin Yi and the unseen Wrathful Angel, while Boss decided Lin Yi could handle the situation because he had reached the office.
• Lin Yi gripped his Student ID, shut his eyes, pushed open the Gym Office door, entered, and told the Gym Teachers that a Wrathful Angel was hunting him.
• The Gym Teachers recognized Lin Yi's Student ID and sent one teacher out to deal with the Wrathful Angel.
• The Gym Teacher returned dragging the struggling Wrathful Angel into the office, while Lin Yi remained inside with his eyes closed.

After surviving an encounter with the Wrathful Angel, Lin Yi tried to report to Boss and Li Huiyuan, but unsettling signs followed him through the Gymnasium. The chapter ended with him discovering a Castle-style candlestick on the Stairwell wall.

• The Gym Teacher told Lin Yi to stay in the Gymnasium because the Wrathful Angel had targeted him, while Lin Yi noticed the Gym Teacher had apparently dragged something into the office.
• Lin Yi saw drag marks on the floor vanish, then met Wei Liang and decided to report his situation to an Athlete Student.
• Lin Yi spotted Boss and Li Huiyuan on the second floor, and Wei Liang headed to the Swimming Hall while Lin Yi went to meet them.
• Lin Yi saw the floor flicker between normal and damaged and heard chains clinking, then noticed the Gymnasium had few visitors and no entrance guards.
• As Lin Yi climbed the enclosed Stairwell, a chilly gust and flickering light led him to discover a bronze Candlestick from the Castle in the Art Building on the wall.

Lin Yi entered Mao Feiyang’s perspective in a transformed stairwell inside the Art Building’s Castle, where Art Students climbed through a passage battered by a storm. After a thunderclap revealed Purebred Night-Walking Species and Grinning Angels outside the walls, the stairwell’s candlelight restored Lin Yi’s ordinary vision, and Yan Jinming urged Mao Feiyang to move.

• Lin Yi saw a candlestick transform the Art Building stairwell into an ancient stone passage and found himself experiencing events through Mao Feiyang’s perspective.
• Mao Feiyang followed a crowd of Art Students up the packed stairs while Yan Jinming protected him and explained that they needed to move quickly.
• Lin Yi sensed a fierce storm and waves striking the passage, along with scraping sounds and vibrations coming through its thick walls.
• A thunderclap synchronized Lin Yi’s and Mao Feiyang’s vision, revealing Purebred Night-Walking Species crawling over the Castle and Grinning Angels swarming outside.
• The Grinning Angels turned toward Lin Yi and Mao Feiyang, but a violent impact and the candlelight shattered Lin Yi’s strange vision.
• Yan Jinming kept Mao Feiyang close and told him to move because their situation was worsening.

Lin Yi witnessed Yan Jinming contain the Grinning Angel’s breach in the Art Building Stairwell before returning to the Gymnasium and spotting an Old Kerosene Lamp. He then read the Gymnastics Hall’s safety notice and recognized the chibi figure on its notice board as Boss.

• The Grinning Angel dragged an Art Student through a crack in the Stairwell wall, and Yan Jinming silenced the panicked students by forcing one into the breach before overwriting the damage.
• Lin Yi realized Yan Jinming’s overwriting had restored the wall and that the students’ shared understanding could help preserve the Stairwell’s intact state.
• Lin Yi’s vision returned to the Gymnasium Stairwell, where he found an Old Kerosene Lamp and speculated that Gym Teachers might transform into Security Guards.
• Lin Yi went to the second floor and read the rules posted outside the Gymnastics Hall about changing clothes, practicing, unlit areas, and showering.
• Lin Yi recognized the chibi cartoon on the notice board as Boss.

Lin Yi entered the Gymnastics Hall to report an encounter with a suspected Angel to Boss and the Athlete Students. After hearing his account, Boss focused on the exact place where the incident occurred.

• Lin Yi read the Gymnastics Hall rules, changed into a gymnastics uniform, and entered the hall, where he found Boss training Li Huiyuan.
• Zhang Yuansong and Li Kai recognized Lin Yi in the locker room, and Lin Yi sensed that the Athlete Students had heard about him.
• Boss greeted Lin Yi and asked how he had provoked the Wrathful Angel.
• Lin Yi recounted how Mao Feiyang had fallen in the Wooded Belt and picked up the aura of a suspected Angel, changing some details while preserving the core events.
• Boss asked Lin Yi where he had fallen.

Lin Yi learned that he had encountered three kinds of Angel Sculptures after Mao Feiyang picked up the Angel’s aura, surviving each encounter with help. Boss examined Lin Yi and discovered that the substance attracting the Angels was irremovable Ashes rather than an Angel’s Mark.

• Lin Yi told Boss how the Security Guard had rescued him from the Forest of the Dead's Steles and how Lao Mo had helped him escape a Grinning Angel.
• Boss deduced that Lin Yi had also faced a Wrathful Angel, and Lin Yi realized he had narrowly survived attacks from all three kinds of Angel Sculptures.
• Boss tested Lin Yi’s resistance by gripping his shoulder, causing the shadow beneath Lin Yi to writhe and reveal a faint ring of Ashes.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi had picked up Ashes from another source, not an Angel’s Mark, and that Ashes could not be removed.

Lin Yi learned that absorbing the Sun’s ashes could remove his contamination faster than waiting, but the process required training in the Gymnasium. He chose to return to the Dormitory rather than become an Athlete Student, and Boss began training him with Li Huiyuan.

• Boss warned Lin Yi that the contamination could take at least two days to fade and might let Angel Sculptures invade the Gymnasium through him.
• Boss explained that Lin Yi could absorb the ashes, a dangerous but valuable form of contamination, and Lin Yi chose that option.
• Boss asked whether Lin Yi intended to become an Athlete Student, and Lin Yi chose to leave the Gymnasium and return to the Dormitory that night.
• Boss planned to train Lin Yi to leave Campus by 20:00 and paired him with Li Huiyuan, whose injury had healed.
• Li Huiyuan explained that Athlete Student stages depended on physical condition rather than time spent as a student.

Lin Yi learned about Athlete Student stages and began a punishing warm-up under Boss’s supervision. As he struggled to carry a Cloth Bag across the Gymnastics Hall, he noticed Li Huiyuan’s strength and blue steam improving, while Boss worried about what his arrival might mean.

• Li Huiyuan told Lin Yi that second-stage Athlete Students could leave the Campus, though senior students who had completed the courses had chosen to stay.
• Lin Yi asked Li Huiyuan about her Baseball Bat and what had happened before she became an Athlete Student, but Boss interrupted before she could explain further.
• Boss ordered Lin Yi to carry a heavy Cloth Bag across the hall as a warm-up, then had Li Huiyuan carry two bags alongside him.
• Li Huiyuan adapted to the two bags as pale blue steam rose around her, while Boss urged her to improve faster and privately wondered whether Lin Yi’s arrival was good or bad.
• Lin Yi struggled through the Gymnastics Hall and saw the blue steam around Li Huiyuan begin to condense as she overtook him.

Lin Yi trained under Boss and discovered that he could draw on sky-blue energy to ease the weight of a Cloth Bag, while Li Huiyuan helped him carry two bags on his back. As Lin Yi’s training continued, Athlete Students discussed the strange new students and the deaths around them, then watched him begin to emit sky-blue steam.

• Lin Yi finished his first carry and, after Li Huiyuan described seeing intermittent blue energy around him, realized he could use a sky-blue aura to lighten his load.
• Boss ordered Lin Yi to carry two Cloth Bags on his back, and Li Huiyuan carefully adjusted how much weight he bore as he walked.
• Xu Shunkang and other Athlete Students discussed Lin Yi, Tian Bufan, Wei Shan, Kuai Hongji, and Wei Liang, including A-Man’s recent death and their suspicions about the newcomers.
• As Lin Yi trained under the two bags, the watching Athlete Students saw pale sky-blue steam rise from his body and recognized that he was harnessing contamination.

Lin Yi gradually increased the weight of the Cloth Bag as Boss discovered that his body absorbed primal contamination and converted only what it needed, while traces of ashes entered his sweat and drew Li Huiyuan’s attention. The scene then shifted to the Shower Area, where a Green Apron Chef attacked an Athlete Student from behind.

• Lin Yi asked Li Huiyuan to increase the weight and wipe his sweat while he continued adapting to the load.
• Boss observed that Lin Yi’s body converted primal contamination into sky-blue vapor while also allowing some primal contamination to pass through unchanged.
• Li Huiyuan smelled Lin Yi’s sweat and absorbed traces of the aura of ashes, after which she became unusually attentive to him.
• In the Shower Area, a Green Apron Chef crept up behind an Athlete Student while Li Kai washed his hair in a nearby bathroom.
• The Athlete Student sensed the Green Apron Chef too late, struck it with a blind elbow, and hurt his own elbow in the process.

Lao Yan sacrificed himself to destroy the Green Apron Chef, but Li Kai emerged from the shower as an Impersonator and attacked Wei Liang before an accidental sneeze knocked it away. Later, Wei Liang arrived at the Gymnastics Hall hoping to go swimming, but Boss assigned him to train alongside Little Zhouzi.

• The Green Apron Chef severed Lao Yan's arm, while Li Kai broke the shower rules and vanished into a strange, dark place.
• Lao Yan stabbed the Green Apron Chef with his broken arm bone and poured his sky-blue steam into it; both turned to stone and shattered, but the cold aura entered Li Kai, who emerged as an Impersonator.
• Wei Liang returned from the Swimming Hall and accidentally knocked the Impersonator away with his sneeze and a backward thrust, then watched it flee.
• Lin Yi finished hauling Cloth Bags, and Wei Liang hesitated at the Gymnastics Hall entrance before Lin Yi spotted him and greeted him.
• Li Huiyuan and Boss stopped Wei Liang from leaving and ordered him to train with Little Zhouzi, leaving him dismayed.