It was like during a video game, when what was originally a 5V5 team battle, with both sides going at it with a screen full of special effects, suddenly only one unlucky person ended up dead, and no one knew who had done it. But at this moment, a broadcast suddenly popped up on the screen—

["Black-White Contrast Thigh-Highs Loli" has killed "Internet Café War God Yellow Hair Tassel!"]

Well, now everyone knew, whether they should or shouldn't, that "Internet Café War God Yellow Hair Tassel" had been killed by someone called "Black-White Contrast Thigh-Highs Loli".

Time might cause people to forget just who Internet Café War God Yellow Hair Tassel was, but above the head of Black-White Contrast Thigh-Highs Loli there would always hang a kill count.

And right now, Lin Yi was this Black-White Contrast Thigh-Highs Loli. Even if others didn't know how he had killed a Nocturnal species, the Green Mist Mark representing the "kill count" was nevertheless very real on his body.

And this Green Mist Mark was essentially telling the Nocturnal species, "I've fucking killed one of your guys."

"Damn..."

Having deduced this much, Lin Yi felt a chill down his spine. The Green Mist Mark was fine during daylight, to hang there was to hang there, at worst I just bask in the sunlight and stand on invincible ground.

But the sun wasn't always out, and once night came, or when strange weather caused the layers to fall, when the Nocturnal species began to dominate the home court, then his Green Mist Mark would be as obvious as a lighthouse atop his head.

Not only that, but it seemed like there was an Alimu atop the lighthouse, dancing the New Treasure Island while shouting, "You hit me, come on~ You hit me, come on~~"

It was like a blatant call for death!

Feeling a surge of cold, Lin Yi thought of this and couldn't help but shiver. Unfortunately, he couldn't avoid these things!

It wasn't him who had struck first this time!

It was the Nocturnal species that had targeted him first!

Lin Yi sighed deeply... but then another image flashed through his mind.

Wei Shan... seemed to have beaten up the Nocturnal species?

Huh...?!

Right, Wei Shan had struck the Nocturnal species!

He remembered his dream from the night before, where he dreamt that Wei Shan fought bloody battles with Sports Students against inhuman classmates in a darkened Teaching Building. And at that time, the inhuman classmates still had the air of the Nocturnal species on their home court!

Wei Shan fought fiercely, kicking the Nocturnal species without them making a sound...

"There is a theory!" Lin Yi suddenly brightened up, "Has Wei Sang already 'penetrated the mystery of the runes'? Does he know something, otherwise how could he take down a Nocturnal species with one punch?"

Moreover, Wei Shan had even brought up covering their retreat from the Cafeteria twice!

"Wait...?"

"Speaking of covering the retreat... Young Master Tian once stopped Wei Sang, could it be he also knew something early on?"

"No, there's no 'could it be', Young Master Tian must know a lot of things, it's just..."

The thing was, Lin Yi felt that Tian Bufan was like a compressed file with a lot of secrets. As the time spent in the campus area increased, more and more of the contents got decompressed...

But if Tian Bufan knew everything, why would he be exploring the campus area?

Ah, it's puzzling...

Lin Yi shook his head silently, the first thing he could be sure of at the moment was that the Green Mist Mark couldn't be erased by conventional means, but Tian Bufan and Wei Shan should know some clues related to it.

"When dinner time comes, I'll ask them about this... I have to clear it up before going to bed at the latest." Lin Yi didn't want to sleep with such a big question hanging over him.

He looked down at his watch.

15:03.

Tsk... He frowned slightly.

He had originally planned to rest for just three minutes and get up at 14:55 to set out, but he hadn't expected to delay a few extra minutes because of the Nocturnal species business.

Only half an hour remained before they would have to head to the cafeteria.

"Half an hour... theoretically, that should be enough time," he thought to himself, but he felt no confidence in his heart.

After all, just a peek at the Corridor Bridge had led to so many incidents, and there were still two other places he intended to "take a glance at" — the stairwell and the fourth floor of the Teaching Building.

He wanted to search the fourth floor for the staircase leading to the fifth floor of the Teaching Building. It was still that edge-of-the-rule probing method: take a look, and if it's not found, then it's fine, but if it is, just get a shallow view of it.

According to the rules of the Teaching Building: [If you inadvertently discover any area outside of the fourth floor of the Teaching Building, you are forbidden to proceed.]

Therefore, he might "inadvertently discover" but not proceed, skirting around the safe zone's edge, executing a handbrake turn like drifting on inertia through a drain.

And the visits to the stairwell and the fourth floor of the Teaching Building, when all was said, could be considered a single task since going upstairs inherently required using the stairs.

"Let's go, back to Building A," Lin Yi returned the mirror to Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan put away the mirror, then looked at the statue-like object with some worry, hesitating, "Classmate Lin, should we smash that statue before we leave?"

Lin Yi looked at her in surprise, "You want to smash it?"

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips, "Didn't the student before us use a baseball bat to shatter that Nocturnal species?"

Lin Yi hesitated, "But I don't have a baseball bat..."

"What should we do then?" Li Huiyuan grew worried, "If we don't smash that thing now, might it come back to life at night?"

"Emmm..." Lin Yi frowned and looked around, suddenly having an idea, "Stay here and don't move, I'll be right back."

With that, he walked down from the steps of Building C of the Teaching Building, took the Cobblestone path, and went to gather some stones from the roadside.

The 3 p.m. sunshine was still warm, casting a strength-giving sensation onto his back, making Lin Yi feel like his "years of chronic rheumatism had been cured."

Just as he had gathered enough stones and was about to bring them back to Building C of the Teaching Building, standing up from under the sunlight, he suddenly felt a dizzy spell as if he had been squatting for too long and then stood up too quickly, low blood sugar causing his mind to spin. At the same time, his vision started to fracture, with black and white lines beginning to twist and blend...

10 minutes!

In less than 10 minutes, he had entered this distorted vision once again!

He quickly looked down at his chest, and sure enough, he saw the Green Mist Mark, but this time he didn't focus on the mark, as another image in front of him deeply shocked him.

He saw Building C of the Teaching Building before him, completely turned into an X-ray-like image that had been dialed, with the twisted black and white lines clearly visible on the overexposed film, while the edges and contours of the Teaching Building were much more faded...

However, what really shocked and terrified him was not the image of the Teaching Building, but those shrinking and lurking lines between the lines of the Teaching Building, like the flesh and life itself, slowly writhing green banana-shaped substances!

Nocturnal species!

Countless Nocturnal species!

Lin Yi's scalp suddenly tingled, feeling a current of electricity shooting from the soles of his feet straight to his forehead, then brutally flipping open his Apical bone!

He saw countless Nocturnal species hanging upside down in the dark corners of the Teaching Building, the slow rhythm of their expansion and contraction akin to a beating heart, yet he still felt a profound sense of terror.

In that moment, to his eyes, Building C of the Teaching Building had turned into a nest of the Nocturnal species!

Like a bat cave.

The Nocturnal species hung like countless bats, densely populating the roof of the cave, dark, damp, and mysterious. A chilling sense of Mist crept slowly toward him, sending shivers down his spine.

"Could it be that I was wrong from the beginning?! Is the Teaching Building the real nest?!"

[21:00 No leaving the classroom. ]

This rule suddenly burrowed into his brain.

Shit, so after 21:00 you're not allowed to leave the classroom because... the Nocturnal species all emerge at night?

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