Chapter Summaries

Lin Yi began swimming under Boss’s supervision after glimpsing the Night Watchman, while Boss agreed to obtain the Athlete Student Rules for him. As Lin Yi swam, Xie Huayang reported that Green Hats had appeared on the third floor, and Li Huiyuan noticed strange lights and mist around Lin Yi.

• Lin Yi named the Night Watchman and briefly saw the figure before Boss promised to get him the Athlete Student Rules.
• Boss hurled Lin Yi into the pool, where he began swimming as Li Huiyuan watched over him.
• Xu Shunkang, Yi Hang, and Tian Hengyu discussed Lin Yi’s unusual spiritual sensitivity and Li Huiyuan’s recorded supernatural specialties.
• Xie Huayang arrived wounded and reported that contaminated students had turned into Green Hats upstairs, prompting Tian Hengyu to gather help and Xu Shunkang to seek Boss.
• Xu Shunkang revealed that Lao Yan had died fighting a Green Hat in the Gymnastics Hall Shower Area, and Xie Huayang hurried to report the situation.
• Lin Yi swam through the pool as green fog emerged from him, while Li Huiyuan saw drifting mist and a ring of light and shadow around him.

Lin Yi was trapped underwater by an abyssal hallucination that called itself Wei Liang and saw a chained sculpture before Li Huiyuan rescued him. Afterward, Boss questioned his missing memories and warned that a Wrathful Angel was waiting for him on the way back.

• Li Huiyuan saw Lin Yi surrounded by strange light, while Xu Shunkang spoke with Boss and then quietly left the Swimming Hall.
• A shadow bound Lin Yi underwater as a voice claiming to be Wei Liang called to him from a dark abyss and urged him to come closer.
• Lin Yi lost control of his body and sank, where fragmented memories surfaced along with the number 4016.
• Li Huiyuan pulled Lin Yi to the pool deck, and he told Boss about the abyss, its chains, and the figure that had called his name.
• Boss questioned Lin Yi about his past, then told him to keep swimming because the Ashes in his body were nearly absorbed and a Wrathful Angel awaited him on the way back.
• Boss explained that Gym Teacher had only driven off a Wrathful Angel and that the one Lin Yi sensed being dragged into the office had been a shell.

Boss explained how Wrathful Angels preserve their origins in hidden portions while acting through false bodies, then sent Lin Yi swimming under Li Huiyuan’s watch. Lin Yi’s worsening hallucinations transformed the deep end into a sunken ship, where he realized he was moving toward a chained presence.

• Boss told Lin Yi that a Wrathful Angel could hide part of its origin and use the rest to control a false body, and explained that killing it destroyed the origin contained in that body.
• Boss ordered Lin Yi to swim while Li Huiyuan kept him away from the deep end, and Li Huiyuan said Lin Yi had previously sunk in the shallow end during a hallucination.
• Lin Yi saw the deep end become a lightless opening filled with strange creatures, but Li Huiyuan urged him to swim back and insisted nobody was there.
• As Lin Yi swam, waves grew turbulent and a repeated voice called his name, overturning him underwater.
• Lin Yi saw moss-covered wooden planks instead of the pool floor and realized his cognition was disguising something he could not safely perceive.
• Lin Yi heard chains scraping through the water and sensed that he was moving closer to the chained presence.

Lin Yi experienced a series of visions of a sunken ship, a flooded Castle passage, and a stormy sea, where he met the Night Watchman and was returned to the pool. After Boss confirmed his remaining ashes had vanished, mist began spreading over the pool, and Lin Yi and Boss sensed a new danger.

• Lin Yi passed through visions of a flooded passage and a stormy sea before seeing the Night Watchman, who raised the Ancient Bronze Lamp and shattered the visions.
• Lin Yi came to in the pool's deep end, where Li Huiyuan and Boss explained that he had swum past the buoy and remained motionless underwater.
• Lin Yi told Boss about the Night Watchman and wondered whether their eye contact had ended his visions and cleared his remaining ashes.
• Boss said Lin Yi should record any future episodes and consider whether the effect could become a lifesaving trump card.
• Mist drifted across the pool as Boss sensed danger, and Lin Yi felt his heart being squeezed.

As green fog seeped through the Gymnasium floor, Lin Yi tried to survey the building and accidentally drew the Gym Teacher’s attention. The Grinning Angel emerged to protect him, but Teacher Wang subdued it with an Old Kerosene Lamp, and Boss arrived as the Angel became a sculpture.

• Boss ordered everyone out of the pool and told Lin Yi to shower, change, and meet her at the Changing Room entrance.
• After changing, Lin Yi observed the evacuation and used a perception technique to map the Gymnasium, but crimson energy from the Gym Office shattered his ripples.
• Teacher Wang charged Lin Yi and struck him, but the Grinning Angel appeared from the light mist covering him and attacked Teacher Wang.
• Teacher Wang grabbed Lin Yi, used an Old Kerosene Lamp to make the Grinning Angel tangible, and turned it into an Angel Sculpture.
• Boss and Li Huiyuan arrived, and Boss identified Lin Yi as her underling and told Teacher Wang to put him down.

Boss and the Gym Teacher freed a young man trapped inside a Grinning Angel sculpture as the invasion advanced and the Gymnasium evacuated its students. Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan entered the Safety Passage for the Giant Dome, where Lin Yi saw a vision of a flooded castle passage and heard a mysterious voice calling his name.

• Boss explained that she had weakened the Grinning Angel by helping Lin Yi remove the ashes from his body, and the Gym Teacher said he had struck when it left Lin Yi’s shadow.
• Boss cracked open the Grinning Angel sculpture and found Dorm Supervisor-28-X0230503021 inside, while the Gym Teacher recovered three Old Kerosene Lamps.
• The Gym Teacher reported that rain signaled the invasion had moved forward, and Boss carried the rescued young man away while directing Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan to shelter on the second floor of the Giant Dome.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan joined the evacuees in the Safety Passage, where Lin Yi sensed Impersonators and green-aproned chefs among the crowd.
• A voice called Lin Yi’s name as he saw the passage transform in a vision into a flooded, moss-covered castle tunnel, then he shook off the hallucination and continued with Li Huiyuan.
• Lin Yi noticed strange murals and blue carpet in the passage before the crowd emerged into white light.

Lin Yi reached the Giant Dome and discovered that a Wrathful Angel sculpture had appeared at the Gymnasium entrance. As injured Athlete Students gathered in the stands while Wei Liang and other familiar students remained missing, Lin Yi began reviewing Tian Bufan’s recording of the Dormitory anomaly.

• Lin Yi entered the Giant Dome and saw a new Wrathful Angel sculpture near the Gymnasium entrance through his Golden Pupil.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan settled in the second-tier stands beneath the open roof, where rain and gray mist stopped short of the turf’s edge.
• Lin Yi noticed that Wei Liang and several familiar Athlete Students had not arrived, then saw Xie Huayang and more than a hundred injured Athlete Students gather in formation.
• Lin Yi took Pan Jian’s Digital Camera from his backpack and opened Tian Bufan’s latest recording.
• Lin Yi watched the recording show the Dormitory flipping over, and Li Huiyuan asked why the image looked like two unrelated scenes superimposed.

Lin Yi used the Dormitory recording to reason that darkness created a safe Layer, then connected a Dorm Supervisor’s transformation into a Grinning Angel to the Old Kerosene Lamp and suspected the Gym Teachers were being restrained from becoming Wrathful Angels. After hearing strange noises in the recording, he turned to Li Huiyuan and discovered she had another copy of the Athlete Student Rules, different in thickness from the first.

• Lin Yi realized the Dormitory had separate Layers and that ignoring everything while asleep kept students safe from Night-Walking Species.
• Lin Yi connected the Dorm Supervisor who had taken Maozi to the Art Building with the Grinning Angel that later followed him, and suspected the Old Kerosene Lamp had been involved in the transformation.
• Lin Yi theorized that Old Kerosene Lamps might suppress Gym Teachers’ transformation into Wrathful Angels, making the Gymnasium’s safety more complicated than it seemed.
• Lin Yi replayed the recording at higher volume and heard indistinct, strange noises as the Dormitory flipped.
• Li Huiyuan explained that she had been checking the Athlete Student Rules, then pulled out a second copy that was a different thickness from the first.

Lin Yi received and read the Athlete Student Rules, learning the dangers and procedures governing Athlete Students on Campus. He finished memorizing the rules and planned to study them more carefully after returning to the Dormitory.

• Li Huiyuan lent Lin Yi the Athlete Student Rules and insisted that they keep holding hands so they could wake each other if danger arose.
• Lin Yi read that Athlete Students could eventually leave Campus after completing their coursework and passing a physical examination, but were forbidden to leave without authorization during their studies.
• The rules explained how Athlete Student IDs, physical and mental abnormalities, training, attendance, and instructors governed student life.
• Lin Yi learned procedures for Evening Self-Study, Cafeteria visits, suspicious classmates, and remaining in illuminated areas.
• The rules warned Athlete Students about dangers in the Gymnasium, including flickering lights, green-clothed units, Angel Sculptures, and changes to the swimming pool.
• Lin Yi closed the booklet, found its contents scrolling through his mind, and decided to prioritize survival before studying the rules more deeply.

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan read the Athlete Student Rules and learned how Athlete Students should respond to a Gray Fog Invasion. Wei Liang and Xia Lian arrived at the Giant Dome, where Wei Liang’s strange account suggested he had stopped a group of Green Apron Chefs.

• Li Huiyuan found the rules for a Gray Fog Invasion, which ordered Athlete Students to return to the Gymnasium and gather on the Giant Dome’s second floor when fog or rain appeared.
• Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan prepared to read Li Huiyuan’s appendix together, but Lin Yi sensed someone approaching.
• Wei Liang and Xia Lian arrived, and Wei Liang teased Lin Yi about Li Huiyuan before Xia Lian reprimanded him.
• Xia Lian explained that she had found Green Apron Chefs lying across the Men’s Changing Room and had kept Wei Liang under watch.
• Wei Liang claimed that water from a dropped showerhead had stopped the Green Apron Chefs, and Xia Lian covered his mouth as Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan reacted with curiosity.

Lin Yi and his companions gathered in the Athlete Students’ home base as they discussed the Impersonators and the danger facing the Experience Students. Lin Yi recognized troubling signs of contamination in himself, then sensed that a feast Xia Lian mentioned was beginning as the Giant Dome took shape in his vision.

• Wei Liang joked with Lin Yi and Xia Lian while Li Huiyuan read the Athlete Student Rules and then joined Xia Lian.
• Li Huiyuan warned Lin Yi that many Impersonators were present, and Xia Lian said many Experience Students had been caught in the rain and fewer than thirty percent might survive.
• Lin Yi had a disturbing thought about watching people become contaminated and realized his expression had resembled an Impersonator’s.
• Lin Yi considered that his resistance to contamination might not prevent lasting changes, but Wei Liang’s interruption helped him break out of his spiral.
• Xia Lian said Boss and the others had begun dealing with the Impersonators and called it a feast, while Lin Yi sensed the Giant Dome forming in his field of vision.

Lin Yi sensed the auras inside the Giant Dome, discovered that Wei Liang was imperceptible to him and Song Rentou carried a gray aura, then experienced fragmented memories of his old life. As Lin Yi tried to sense the Gymnasium, Song Rentou watched him hungrily; an earlier scene showed Song Rentou fleeing through the Wooded Belt and healing from injuries.

• Lin Yi used his perception to distinguish students' auras and found that Wei Liang registered as a void while Song Rentou carried a gray aura and watched him.
• Lin Yi's memories of the outside world surfaced in fragments, including the number 4016 and conversations about names, but the images vanished before he could recall them.
• Lin Yi suspected Song Rentou was becoming more dangerous as the abnormal weather and sunset approached, then focused on sensing the Gymnasium.
• Song Rentou continued staring at Lin Yi, inhaling his scent and murmuring that he was hungry.
• In an earlier scene on May 9, Song Rentou fled through the Wooded Belt, struck a tree and rock, and emerged onto the Pebble Road with his injuries healed.

Song Rentou killed another version of himself and fled a pursuing Wrathful Angel, while fog and rain trapped students around the Gymnasium. At the Giant Dome, Lin Yi finally saw the strange phenomenon on the field as snow.

• Song Rentou killed a Song Rentou double, confronted Mountain Man, and fled when a feathered stone released a Wrathful Angel.
• Wrathful Angels and other Humanoid Sculptures gathered in the Wooded Belt as fog spread around the Gymnasium.
• Rain fell as Experience Students tried to escape the fog, and the crowd turned chaotic as they rushed back inside.
• Tian Bufan and Wei Shan left the Gymnasium area, discussing the campus sinking and waiting for Lin Yi to return to the Dormitory.
• Song Rentou watched the Gym Teacher take away fragments of the Grinning Angel sculpture, then followed Lin Yi into the Safety Passage.
• At the Giant Dome, Lin Yi used his golden-eyed perception and saw what looked like snow falling over the field.

Lin Yi watched Wrathful Angels form across the Gymnasium Giant Dome as Athlete Students and Gym Teachers gathered to respond to the invasion. Boss appeared among the Gym Teachers, ordered Lin Yi to join the first tier, and revealed her power by swinging a chain strung with sculptures, including what appeared to be Wrathful Angels.

• Xia Lian explained that the gray fog was forming Angel Sculptures and warned that the Gymnasium was not the real battlefield.
• Nearly a thousand injured Athlete Students emerged through the Safety Passage while Wrathful Angels continued taking shape on the field.
• Gym Teachers appeared atop the Giant Dome and ordered Experience Students on the second tier to grip the handrails, repeat their location, then close their eyes and ignore everything.
• Boss called Lin Yi and Wei Liang to the first tier; Wei Liang stayed behind and followed the Gym Teachers' instructions, while Lin Yi went down with Xia Lian and Li Huiyuan.
• Xia Lian told Lin Yi that Boss led the entire Physical Education Department, and Boss swung a black chain strung with sculptures that included apparent Wrathful Angels.

Lin Yi watched the gym teachers prepare for a mysterious feast while Song Rentou was exposed and attacked after trying to sneak through the stands. The Giant Dome began closing, and Lin Yi realized the Angel Sculptures were meant to be the feast’s food.

• Lin Yi speculated that Mu Daxian had once been a dorm supervisor who became a Grinning Angel before returning to his original form in the Gymnasium.
• Song Rentou tried to stomp on Wei Liang, but Wei Liang baited him into tumbling down the steps and exposing himself to the athlete students.
• Song Rentou escaped over the railing and ran along the stands’ outer wall, but Xu Shunkang and a pitcher struck him with a baseball that sent him crashing down.
• The athlete students carried the injured Song Rentou onto the field as the Giant Dome began shaking and its roof started to close.
• Lin Yi realized the gym teachers had left the dome open so the Angel Sculptures inside could serve as food for the feast.

Lin Yi learned how the Gymnasium used the Giant Dome to gather and refine contamination during a gray fog invasion, then suspected the Campus was partly submerged in another layer. As Art Students arrived through the passages and Boss began a mysterious ritual, Lin Yi recognized its words as an Admonition from the Night Watchman Iron Laws.

• Xia Lian explained to Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan how the sealed Giant Dome trapped intruders and Angel Sculptures so their contamination could be expelled and absorbed.
• Gray fog and water spread across the Giant Dome's field, leading Lin Yi to theorize that the Campus sank into another layer during invasions and that moss marked its changing waterline.
• Lin Yi glimpsed figures beneath the water before Art Students, including Yan Jinming and Mao Feiyang, emerged from the safety passages and took their seats.
• Boss and the Gym Teachers raised Old Kerosene Lamps as strange symbols appeared on the chains holding the sculptures and angels.
• Boss and the Gym Teachers began reciting ancient syllables, and Lin Yi recognized the cadence and words of the Night Watchman Iron Laws' Admonition.

Lin Yi watched the Giant Dome Furnace strip contamination from the chained Wrathful Angels and Impersonator Sculptures, then learned how the students absorbed the refined supernatural power. As he identified the light bulbs forming from the Wrathful Angels’ wing-eyes, he noticed the Art Students were absorbing white powder particles rather than Gray Fog.

• The Night Watchman Iron Laws roused the Wrathful Angels, whose struggles stripped contamination from the chained Impersonator Sculptures until the sculptures died and the chained angels became skeletons.
• Xia Lian explained that the Furnace was refining high-purity contamination for the students to absorb, and Lin Yi realized the Gymnasium feast made Cafeteria meals unnecessary for some students.
• The unchained Wrathful Angels wore themselves out as their feathers transformed into clusters of eyeballs, which began merging into the light bulbs found inside Streetlamp Poles.
• Boss urged Lin Yi to join the feast, and Lin Yi calmed himself until he could perceive colored auras and watch Athlete Students and Art Students absorb different substances.
• Lin Yi realized the Art Students were absorbing white powder particles, not Gray Fog, and looked toward the chained Wrathful Angels to investigate further.

Lin Yi realized that contaminated flesh could break down into white powder and that tomatoes contained heterogeneous supernatural power, then continued absorbing only some of the auras around him. At the Giant Dome, Boss and the Gym Teachers discussed the unusually early Gray Fog Invasion and outdated rumors that the Authorities might send an Architect to stabilize the Campus, leaving Boss uncertain whether Lin Yi was that person.

• Lin Yi realized that white powder formed from contaminated flesh and that Art Students and Athlete Students could absorb supernatural power from tomatoes containing an Origin.
• Lin Yi discovered that he absorbed only some of the colored auras around him, while Boss and the Gym Teachers also absorbed supernatural power at the Giant Dome.
• Teacher Wang and the Gym Teachers noted that the Gray Fog Invasion had begun unusually early and involved around a hundred Wrathful Angels, with a fiercer wave likely to come after sunset.
• The Gym Teachers discussed the Campus's weakening defenses, the Principal's absence, and rumors that the Authorities might send an Architect to stabilize the Campus.
• Boss wondered whether Lin Yi could be the rumored Architect, but the Gym Teachers discovered Teacher Zhang's information was months old and remained unsure whether the Authorities had ever sent anyone.

Lin Yi watched Song Rentou dissolve in the flooded Giant Dome, then recognized a possible connection between him and Wei Liang. As Song Rentou vanished, Lin Yi turned back to absorbing supernatural power and perceived the gray fog as a vast, moving expanse beyond the Giant Dome.

• Boss observed Lin Yi absorbing the mixed auras without being contaminated while Song Rentou struggled to survive in the water.
• Song Rentou frantically consumed the auras, heard eerie murmurs, and crawled toward Lin Yi as his body melted away.
• Song Rentou begged Lin Yi to save him and tried to say he was Wei Liang before sinking beneath the water and disappearing.
• Lin Yi recalled Song Rentou looking toward both him and Wei Liang, and wondered whether Song Rentou, Wei Liang, and the chained figure from his vision were connected.
• Lin Yi resumed absorbing supernatural power and perceived ripples in the gray fog, realizing the Giant Dome seemed to have captured a moving section of a larger expanse.

Lin Yi observed how the gray fog and colored auras behaved in the Giant Dome while his body absorbed red aura and converted it into blue energy that strengthened his bones and muscles. As Boss and the gym teachers prepared to respond to an invasion at the Art Building, impersonator athlete students transformed under the influence of contamination and headed for the Wrathful Angel’s skeleton.

• Lin Yi inferred that the Giant Dome intersected a layer of gray fog and noticed that the colored auras followed complex, nested paths.
• Lin Yi’s body resisted his attempt to stop it from absorbing red aura, broke it down into sky blue aura, and used it to modify his bones and muscles.
• Boss announced that the Art Building was under a full-scale daytime invasion, and the gym teachers agreed to handle the danger at the Gymnasium before sending support after nightfall.
• The athlete students began showing signs of contamination, and Lin Yi recognized that the affected students were impersonators.
• The impersonator athlete students sought gray fog mixed with other auras, grew increasingly frenzied as they consumed it, and moved toward the Wrathful Angel’s skeleton.