"Teacher, I am Li... Li Huiyuan."

"Just a moment."

"Um... okay, teacher." Li Huiyuan hesitated for a moment and then quickly agreed, but Lin Yi could see she was very nervous, her fingers interlocking in front of her, constantly fidgeting, and her feet also making small movements within the confines of a few footprints.

Lin Yi quickly spoke up to comfort her, "Don't be nervous."

"Lin Yi, do you think the teacher might already know there's something wrong with me?" Li Huiyuan asked anxiously.

Lin Yi forced a smile, "The homeroom teacher is not a fairy, how could she know? She's probably just checking your identity information."

"Ah... that seems right."

At that moment, the voice of homeroom teacher 040 came from inside the door, "Li Huiyuan."

"Yes, teacher, I'm here!" Li Huiyuan quickly responded.

With a "click," the peephole on the office door was slid open by homeroom teacher 040 from the inside, and then she looked out at Li Huiyuan through the door.

"Student ID number."

"The student ID number is... X023050704...046."

Lin Yi squinted slightly, involuntarily glancing over at Li Huiyuan.

"Are there other people around you?"

"Uh... yes."

"Who? Report your name and student ID number as well." Homeroom teacher 040 exhibited an extremely professional vigilance.

Lin Yi and Wei Liang cooperated with homeroom teacher 040 and reported their identity information.

"Okay, why did you knock on the door? What do you want?" homeroom teacher 040 asked from behind the office door.

Li Huiyuan took a deep breath, then said, "Teacher... I've lost my student ID."

The peephole "snap!" shut quickly, and at the same time, accompanied by the sound of a chain bolt turning, the door of the "B group 2 class" teacher's office was swiftly opened.

Homeroom teacher 040 looked at the three of them, her brows tightly furrowed, "All three of your student IDs are lost?"

"No, just mine is lost."

"You knocked on the door just to report this?"

"Yes, that's right... teacher..." Li Huiyuan lowered her head.

"Don't be nervous, child." Homeroom teacher 040 patted her shoulder, "Come in and talk. Do you two want to wait for her or go back to class first?"

Lin Yi knew that the teacher's office was not a place one could easily enter, so he replied, "We'll wait for her here."

Homeroom teacher 040 nodded her head and took Li Huiyuan with her into the office.

The office door "clang!" shut.

Lin Yi slowly exhaled, looking down at his watch.

11:57.

He stretched his limbs a bit, then leaning against the wall between B group 2 class and the teacher's office, he began to recall the events that had happened in the cafeteria and slowly pondered Tian Bufan's claims about the blue-pocketed chef, while waiting for the outcome of Li Huiyuan's meeting with the homeroom teacher.

But he suddenly felt something, reflexively stood up straight, and then turned to look at the wall.

The interior design of this Teaching Building was a bit old-fashioned, with half-human-height ceramic tiles on the walls, and everything above the windowsill was coated with plain white wall putty.

In theory, a wall that has been painted with wall putty should have a smooth texture. Even if the school has some years on it, at most, the wall putty might show some gray changes due to the damp climate in the mountain area plus the erosion over time. Some might even peel off, exposing the wall behind the putty.

But the wall putty in the corridor of the Teaching Building didn't show this kind of change, and when Lin Yi leaned against it, it felt as if he could feel a texture scratching his back through his clothes.

And this texture was clearly not because the clothes themselves were wrinkled.

So he approached the wall to have a closer look, but with the naked eye, he could not discern any abnormalities, nor could he feel anything out of the ordinary even when he gently touched the wall.

He straightened his clothes and leaned against the wall again, but strangely, the sensation of something scratching his back was still there...

"Weird...what's wrong with this wall?" Lin Yi furrowed his brow.

"Old Lin, what are you doing?" Wei Liang looked at him oddly, "Don't you think your behavior is very odd?"

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi got excited, "What did you discover?!"

Wei Liang took a half-step back and said seriously, "Old Lin, do you realize... the way you were touching the wall just now... almost made me feel like you were foreplaying with the wall!"

"When the hell did your imagination get so freakin' weird?"

"Could it be spring fever, getting excited over a smooth wall...?"

Lin Yi's face turned black in an instant, "I thought you had some amazing discovery that could 'awaken someone from a dream'!"

"Come on, isn't my discovery 'shocking' enough?" Wei Liang widened his eyes, "You're practically dating the wall! Dating the wall, Old Lin! Are you having mental issues?"

Lin Yi was speechless, "Please, I just felt something was off about this wall, so I decided to examine it more closely, okay?"

Wei Liang pursed his lips, folded his arms across his chest, "This wall is painted so smoothly, what could possibly be wrong with it? Unless someone drew a few lines on it?"

Lin Yi shrugged helplessly, spreading his hands, "Alright, maybe I'm overthinking it... Wait!"

His eyes suddenly brightened, "Liangzi, what did you just say?"

Wei Liang hesitated, then said cautiously, "D-dating the wall...?"

"The sentence after that!"

"Uhh...the wall is painted smoothly? Seeing that Lin Yi had no reaction, Wei Liang repeated the previous statement tentatively: "Unless someone drew a few lines on it?"

Lin Yi was already deep in thought, his mind working rapidly like a turbocharged engine.

"Someone... drew a few lines... someone... drew a few lines..."

"Right! Right!!"

Lin Yi touched the wall, his thoughts becoming clearer!

"There's definitely something wrong with this wall! However, the problem wouldn't have occurred at this time!"

"When the abnormal weather comes, the lights in the corridor go out, Conceptual level sculptures and some unknown non-human entities wander the hallway, the class adviser will fight them, and the passing Security Guard will attack them. In that situation, any minor scratch or scrape would certainly leave marks of varying depths on the wall. How could it be as smooth as it is now?"

"Abnormal weather... layers..."

"Extension, distortion...?"

Lin Yi's mind flashed back to the scene on the night of May 6th when he went to the bathroom, where at some moment, the hallway seemed endlessly long, as if it couldn't be walked to the end at all!

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