Mao Feiyang stepped on the moist soil covered with withered leaves, slipped, and immediately lost his balance, tumbling down the slope.

Fortunately, the slope wasn't too steep, and there were many camphor trees growing on it, so after rolling a few times, Mao Feiyang hit a tree trunk, causing a numbing pain in his old back.

"Ouch, my back..."

He opened his eyes with a face full of dust, only to suddenly discover a human sculpture slightly bending over, looking down at him.

"?!," Mao Feiyang's pupils dilated instantly, his complexion turned pale, and beads of sweat seeped from his forehead as if struck by lightning, "The, the sculpture!"

Using his hands and feet, Mao Feiyang scrambled through the dried leaves, his bottom scraping the ground as he stumbled backward, but after only a few shuffles, he bumped into a cold, hard rock.

Turning his head, he saw another pure white human sculpture.

This sculpture was still and unmoving, yet Mao Feiyang felt an intense discomfort, as though it was staring at him.

He turned his head and found that the human sculpture from before had moved behind him, reaching out its hand toward him, its expression frozen in a look of greed and madness.

Mu Daxian jumped down from the small slope, holding a brush and drew directly over the eyes of these sculptures.

The motionless human sculptures suddenly made extremely stiff limb movements, slowly bringing their hands towards their heads, then slowly covering their eyes.

They seemed to be greatly limited in making these movements, as if forcibly twisting their petrified bodies, causing cracks to appear at some of their joints due to the forceful stretching. Even worse, one sculpture's arm broke off at the elbow due to the forceful twisting and fell to the ground, rolling down the slope.

At the same time, their faces contorted, mouths opening and closing as if expressing a kind of agonizing howl, yet no sound emerged.

[Ah—ah!!]

[Ah—ah...]

This sound could not be captured with the ears but felt like it transmitted directly into the spirit, and was perceived by Lin Yi.

They still wriggled their bodies slowly retreating as if a group of beasts being driven away by a jungle explorer wielding a torch.

Mu Daxian extended his hand to pull Mao Feiyang up from the ground, "My fault... are you alright?"

"No, no problem," Mao Feiyang looked around apprehensively. At this time, he had accidentally rolled to the edge of the Green Forest Belt, and it was twilight; the play of light and shadow made some human sculptures come sniffing around.

"The 'contamination' on your body is deep; it's not strange they targeted you," Mu Daxian looked at the sky, then at the mist-shrouded Green Forest Belt, and decided to take Mao Feiyang down the Cobblestone path first.

"Those are the... sort of human sculptures mentioned in the rules, right?" Mao Feiyang said, still shaken.

Mu Daxian nodded, "Yes, a type of low-level Pseudo-Human stuck at the boundary of the layer, unable to enter the campus area, and unable to reach the Art Building, wandering in the dark like lost souls."

"They feed on 'contamination,' are attracted by it, fear light, yet... they yearn for light," he said.

"Pitiful, yet not deserving of pity."

Mao Feiyang pursed his lips, asking, "Can you kill them?"

Mu Daxian replied, "Too easy, but they are numerous and not worth the effort to deal with them."

He paused, then added, "They are already of no use; what truly demands attention are some of the newborn sculptures. When encountering a newly transformed human sculpture, it's necessary to eliminate it immediately... Do you still have your Student Souvenir Coin?"

Mao Feiyang paused, then patted his pocket, "Still here."

"Good, let's go," Mu Daxian nodded then reminded him, "Always pay attention to your Student Souvenir Coin, if it's lost, we'll head to the Convenience Store to replenish it."

"Uh, okay," Mao Feiyang hurriedly followed.

Along the way, Mu Daxian stopped numbering the street lamps and simply led Mao Feiyang along the Cobblestone path towards the Cafeteria.

As they approached the Cafeteria, more and more students appeared on the road.

Mao Feiyang curiously observed these people; most of them were Experience Students wearing their own clothes, while a few wore blue and white tracksuits as Sports Students.

Soon, Mu Daxian led him to the Cafeteria area. Mao Feiyang was about to go look at the notice board when Mu Daxian stopped him.

"No need to go there," he said.

Mao Feiyang paused, pointing at the notice board, "There's a notice board over there, it seems there are Cafeteria rules too..."

Mu Daxian shook his head, "That's for the Experience Students; Art Students don't need to follow anything beyond the Art Student Rules."

Mao Feiyang sneered to himself, noting that the Art Student Rules required a visit to the Cafeteria every 24 hours, something Mu Daxian also seemed not to follow...

"But... the rules say we can choose to follow them," Mao Feiyang couldn't help but speak up.

Mu Daxian said, "You can follow but there's no need; theoretically, you could know all the rules of the campus area, but the problem is, if there's an emergency and because you know too much you choose an approach not meant for you, it can be deadly."

"But if you only know the approaches meant for you, then there's no chance of making a mistake, understand?"

Mao Feiyang pursed his lips, "Right... wait, aren't you taking the Student Passage?"

"We are Art Students; we take a different path," Mu Daxian called from ahead, "Let's go, we'll go back after eating. Try not to leave the Art Classroom except for meals during this time."

The other path and the Student Passage weren't much different; it was a staircase leading upwards. If anything, Lin Yi saw some doors along the other path, but since Mao Feiyang didn't ask, he couldn't get more information.

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