Lin Yi cautiously rounded the corner, only to see Li Huiyuan stumbling over from the direction of the women's restroom, her face etched with panic.

"Classmate Lin! Classmate Lin!" she seemed to be terrified, running with disordered steps.

"Li Huiyuan!" Lin Yi's heart trembled slightly, just as he was about to approach, his vision suddenly zoomed onto "Li Huiyuan's" face like the lens of a pinhole camera focusing in an instant!

He saw that the panic on "Li Huiyuan's" face seemed stiff, without any subtle expression changes, as if it had been calculated with precision before being displayed on her face.

"That's not Li Huiyuan!" A chill rushed up his spine, causing his intended approach to pause slightly while he instinctively took a half step back.

Meanwhile, "Li Huiyuan" continued running towards him, quickly closing the distance between them.

"Run?" The thought flickered through Lin Yi's mind, but he immediately dismissed the decision.

Although he didn't know whether this "Li Huiyuan" and the non-human classmates, the sculptures, shared some sort of logic, the fact that it could move in a corridor without direct sunlight meant its "grade" was definitely not low; it was safer to overestimate than to underestimate, making him feel that if he wanted to run, he probably wouldn't be able to.

What was left was to confront it head-on.

Lin Yi forced himself to calm down and swiftly surveyed the surroundings. The distance between him and Li Huiyuan was less than 20 meters; he had to quickly come up with a response before his observation of the environment was complete.

"Classmate Li!" Lin Yi suddenly called out, then ran towards "Li Huiyuan" with quick steps, "Don't be afraid, I'm here!"

"Old Lin! Something's not right!" Wei Liang tried to cry out to stop him, but it was already too late – Lin Yi was about to collide with Li Huiyuan!

"Classmate Lin!" "Li Huiyuan" maintained her terrified expression, stumbling and nearly falling into Lin Yi's arms.

Lin Yi quickly pretended to reach out to help, but as his hand was about to touch Li Huiyuan, he suddenly shifted half his body to the side like a Peking opera master deflecting an opponent's thrusting dagger.

"Li Huiyuan," caught off guard, lunged forward like an athlete who slips just before reaching the finish line of a hundred-meter dash; Lin Yi acted quickly, delivering a swift kick to its rear, propelling it like a punching bag out of the corridor, down the steps, and onto the road outside the Teaching Building.

The fierce midday sunlight streamed down from the clouds, nailing it to the ground of the Teaching Building like a billion Cloud Piercing Holy Swords.

Disregarding the texture that came back from that kick, Lin Yi squinted at the "Li Huiyuan" who had fallen outside the corridor and said sternly, "You are not Li Huiyuan."

[You are not Li Huiyuan.]

Upon hearing these words, "Li Huiyuan's" body trembled violently as if about to lose some kind of protection.

"No... Classmate Lin, I am Li Huiyuan! I am Li Huiyuan!!" It let out a pained growl, but its face began to warp with twisted lines and even its voice subtly distorted.

"No, you're not," Lin Yi said coldly.

These last four words resounded with a firmness like iron, as if pronouncing its death sentence, stripping away its identity with relentless force and tearing its disguise to shreds.

"No—I am—I am... I... Ah—"

"Li Huiyuan" tried to push itself off the ground with its hands, but as Lin Yi's judgment was pronounced, it seemed to lose some kind of self-anchoring ability and began to convulse violently under the sunlight.

Soon its shape became unstable, melting and deforming like heated rubber, its face warped and slumped onto the ground like a repulsive, viscous liquid; its entire form began to undulate and fade in color, gradually turning into a clump of pure white, plaster-like viscous fluid...

Wisps of white mist emerged from its body as if evaporating in a sauna, then slowly dispersed into the sky and vanished.

Looking at the mist, Lin Yi's vision suddenly underwent a brief change, the entire world in front of him once again became like an overexposed photograph in high-contrast black and white, but in that black and white vision, the gypsum-liquid human-shaped creature wasn't white but green!

Its body was coursing with a kind of dim green fluorescent substance, and with the sunlight shining on it, these materials kept evaporating from its body as if undergoing purification, transforming into a mixed gas of green powder particles and green smoke, rising into the air as if coming out of a chimney.

This hybrid gas, after being diluted by the air, eventually dissipated completely, to the point where even his overexposed-photo-like vision could no longer observe it.

This vision of his lasted for about six or seven seconds before gradually returning to normal.

Six or seven seconds, for him, that already counted as the longest observation record he had, while previously when the frame jumped, it would just be two or three seconds.

But even though his vision had returned to normal, the gypsum-liquid human-shaped creature hadn't stopped writhing. It was becoming more and more like a lump of rubber, undulating continuously under the sun, its edges turning into dry, hardened gypsum-like material as the white mist evaporated completely.

As the white mist evaporated, more and more regions of its body began to harden, ultimately transforming into an initially outlined human-shaped sculpture… a stinky white mud figure.

And Lin Yi also discovered something—the white mist observable with normal vision would be observed by him in his overexposed-photo-like vision as green hybrid mist!

"This is the difference between normal white mist and abnormal white mist!"

"The white mist representing contamination is actually a kind of green mist that normal people cannot observe!"

And that gypsum-liquid human-shaped creature seemed to be a kind of unit that could move freely as long as it stayed hidden in the shadows… or rather, a unit.

Regrettably, Lin Yi couldn't determine what it was attached to for existence, because he hadn't encountered anything similar throughout the entire day of May 7th.

Wei Liang was somewhat astonished as he looked at the heap of human-shaped white stinky mud sculpture on the ground, then at Lin Yi's foot, suddenly revealing an expression like that of an old man in the subway looking at a smartphone: "Old Lin, did you just... kick this human-shaped poop's ass?"

Human-shaped poop... Lin Yi's expression darkened, and the corners of his mouth twitched violently, thinking damn, could your point of focus be more normal?

"Thanks, I feel disgusted."

"But... does this count as 'Phobia of Light'?" Wei Liang showed a surprised look, walked down the steps, picked up a rock and threw it over.

"Smack!"

The stinky white mud sculpture instantly crumbled to pieces, breaking into numerous irregular fragments, which then continued to collapse, finally turning into white powder particles, drifting away like sand...

Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang in astonishment: "Liangzi... you?"

"Uh this..." Wei Liang was also stunned in place.

The atmosphere froze for a moment. Wei Liang also felt that awkward sense as if Yu Chuchu accidentally killed Sword Saint Dugu on the steps of the Under Heaven Society.

"I didn't do it on purpose!" he emphasized.

Shrugging his shoulders, Lin Yi suddenly had an idea and exclaimed, "Let's go, check on Li Huiyuan!"

Wei Liang hurriedly restrained his laughter and followed Lin Yi towards the women's restroom.

Arriving at the women's restroom, Lin Yi hesitated for a moment and then called out, "Li Huiyuan, are you still there?"

"Lin... Is that Classmate Lin?" Li Huiyuan's voice was extremely shaky, also filled with disappointment and a trace of terror, faintly coming from a deep corner inside the women's restroom.

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