The end of the cloth is precisely the endless Green Forest Belt.

"The seawater seeped through the layers, carried over by the wind, so on my first sports class, the sea breeze and rain I felt... they indeed came from over there!"

"Because of the infiltration and blending of the layers, the path Old Mo took me on... in fact, I could see it once my perception deepened!"

Lin Yi's heart trembled endlessly, and as he murmured to this point, he suddenly thought of something: "The Möbius Ring!"

"Could it be that the school's layers are actually a gigantic Möbius Ring!"

They were at a point on the Möbius Ring, while the Art Building layer was at another point, seemingly overhead, yet it could be directly reached through a certain route!

If this conjecture holds, then he would like to call it—"The Möbius Ring Space Hypothesis" or "The Möbius Ring Space Paradox"!

And on the layers he observed, where these layers blended, there was a massive structure—a gigantic city wall!

That city wall, unlike the Giant Dome that Lin Yi saw in the Gymnasium, was like a Great Wall-like barrier, built along the blending points of the Art Building layer and the current world layer, winding and twisting, appearing like a line from afar.

The Giant Dome of the Gymnasium seems to be just a section of the city wall!

"The Gymnasium, sure enough, it's just like the other buildings! A part of the city wall, dragged into reality from the layers, that's what the Gymnasium is!"

Lin Yi suddenly understood, no wonder they called the Gymnasium the first line of defense, that endlessly long city wall standing between the two layers is indeed the first line of battle!

He realized that the black seawater in front of the city wall is a part of the Black Ocean!

Once the city wall collapses, the Black Ocean will surge into the reality layer!

"Could the apocalyptic flood recorded in 'Holy J' be the seawater of the Black Ocean? Was the water Great Yu managed also from the Black Ocean?!" Lin Yi muttered to himself, the more he guessed, the more farfetched it seemed.

As he speculated, he suddenly felt an irresistible call from the Black Ocean towards him, some distant song, like it was spreading from the Black Ocean's side...

At the same time, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated, "thump thump thump" it pounded.

Underneath that distant song, he felt a strong sense of calling!

[...Sorgens skygge...]

[...Min skygge...]

[...Sorg...]

[...Uopprettelig...]

[...Gi opp...]

Lin Yi's spirits were greatly shaken, yet he maintained clarity with his staunch will, striving hard to capture the words within these calls, ultimately managing to roughly translate some of the characters' meanings: "Shadow of Sorrow", "Irreversible", "Give up"...

The more unclear it became, the more he yearned to hear it clear, and unknowingly, he was still shrouded in mist and chasing light, gradually approaching the Black Ocean.

At a certain moment, a sharp pain flooded his consciousness.

His heart felt torn apart, his scalp tingled, and amidst the haze, he sensed that as he approached the Black Ocean, he began to be exposed to some terrifying entity's attention!

The terrifying entity in the Black Ocean... who else could it be?!

"Angel"!

The strongest unit under the "Root", only a shadow hidden within the black tide can almost suffocate the Night Watchman-02, who presides over the Quantum Giant Clock "Holy Hall", a terrifying existence!

In a fantasy novel, this would undoubtedly be a master of a restricted zone, having lived for several lifetimes!

At this moment, Lin Yi suddenly realized that he had seemed to be apart from his body for a long time, so he hurriedly returned to his body.

Just the moment when his will turned, the space behind him suddenly collapsed like mottled wall powder drying and peeling away... from within the barrier, black winds and water waves howled up, countless deformed and illusory Sneering Angels surged forth, eager to engulf Lin Yi.

Lin Yi seemed completely unaware, just sliding towards his body along the virtualized space layers around him.

Thus, countless deformed Sneering Angels followed the path that Lin Yi was traversing, beginning to invade the school area.

The Sneering Angels had twisted and eerie smiles on their faces, as if Lin Yi, like a charioteer, was pulling them away from the layers of the Black Ocean, once they entered the school area, it would be like fish entering the ocean, sky high, sea wide.

This was the approach the Convenience Store Owner had abandoned due to the thought of unintended consequences, now Lin Yi, obscured by the call of the Black Ocean, was indeed about to bring disaster.

But just as those deformed Sneering Angels were about to follow Lin Yi's path and reach the school's layers, a mass of pitch-black shadow suddenly split off from Lin Yi's spirit, opening a gaping bloody mouth, and swallowed these deformed Sneering Angels whole...

After the shadow devoured these Sneering Angels, it transformed into an identical figure behind Lin Yi, only the figure's head was shrouded in a grayish mist, with blurred facial features—the startling Shadow of the Big Snake.

The Shadow of the Big Snake's mouth was still moving, as if chewing on something, and then, before Lin Yi had any perception, it merged again into his shadow.

...

X023 Year, May 11, 14:37, at the notice board in front of the Gymnasium.

Lin Yi suddenly shook, like one waking from a sickness-induced stupor, coming back to his senses abruptly.

As soon as he regained consciousness, he raised his wrist to check the time!

"14:37".

"It only took a little over a minute! Indeed, it was a Dream Building state!" Lin Yi patted his chest quietly.

The "Ouroboros Ring" wasn't worn on him either, it seemed... from start to finish, the "Ouroboros Ring" had been quietly lying in the black wooden box.

Wei Liang glanced at Lin Yi's feet.

Under the dim sky, even shadows were indistinct, but it seemed like Lin Yi's shadow... lightly twitched.

"It seems I just went over there for a moment!" Lin Yi did not conceal anything and directly told Wei Shan and Wei Liang.

Wei Shan nodded, "Hmm, seeing you unmoving, I knew you were Dream Building again."

But he had no interest in what Lin Yi discovered, didn't even ask.

Wei Liang adjusted his baseball cap: "Okay, okay, if nothing's up, let's head out."

"Hmm." Lin Yi nodded, they had already wasted enough time today, they should focus on their journey ahead—if possible.

The three of them then passed the notice board, following the cobblestone path towards the Gymnasium.

However, both Lin Yi and Wei Shan had unclear shadows, while Wei Liang had no shadow.

Wei Liang's shadow lagged in place, like it had a delay, disappearing several seconds later.

Then, on the other side, under Wei Liang's feet, his shadow inexplicably reappeared.

...

Within the Gymnasium area, the wind indeed picked up again, forcing the three to lower their heads and rush on.

Wei Liang loudly spoke: "Old Lin, luckily there's no rain now, otherwise, if we were to use an umbrella, it might blow like a horn!"

"And you said it, if we wore your ultra-thin breathable raincoat, we'd probably become like vegetables in a greenhouse!" Lin Yi joked and scolded.

"No more scolding, the thick raincoat I couldn't even bring in, okay!" Wei Liang retorted against Lin Yi, "If you dare, don't use what's left of mine!"

The three jested and hurried on, seemingly unfazed by this path in the Gymnasium area.

Not long after, Lin Yi suddenly noticed a few figures ahead.

These figures were all Experience Students, seemingly also stuck in this layer of the area.

"There are people ahead," Lin Yi said.

"Overtake at the curve, overtake at the curve!" Wei Liang grumbled, "We are not trailers, move along, Old Lin, like mud Buddha crossing the river!"

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