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Chapter 548 - 247 【Run! Lin Yi!! Run!!】

Chapter 548: Chapter 247 【Run! Lin Yi!! Run!!】

Lin Yi’s heart trembled slightly.

Seen before?

How could he have seen him before?

"Have you seen him?" Lin Yi’s eyes showed confusion. He didn’t need to pretend; he truly hadn’t met Song Rentou before.

"Maybe I remembered wrong, sorry," Song Rentou said, showing a trace of embarrassment.

"It’s okay," Lin Yi replied flatly, then turned and pressed down the door handle, walking out of the classroom.

’Click... Bang!’

The moment he pulled the classroom door closed behind him, Lin Yi let out a long breath. A few short sentences had tensed him up as if he were facing a great enemy.

Of course, this was somewhat because of a "guilty conscience."

Lin Yi adjusted his breathing, feeling that even if he hadn’t sweated profusely, he had at least broken out in a cold sweat.

He had originally planned to pretend to go to the bathroom, to walk past the podium to check Song Rentou’s sign-in sheet and take a glance at Song Rentou.

But unexpectedly, when he got close to Song Rentou, what had been a peaceful encounter turned into feeling some sort of domain or aura emanating from Song Rentou...

This unforeseen change caught Lin Yi off guard, but it also assured him that there was something wrong with Song Rentou.

Originally, he hadn’t planned to go to the bathroom, but now it was different.

He calmed his mind, then, leaning against the wall, he stood up and walked towards the direction of the bathroom.

He needed to go to the bathroom, not to use it, but rather to...

Look in the mirror.

...

Watching the closed classroom door, Song Rentou appeared thoughtful.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he sharply turned his gaze towards a certain part of the lecture classroom.

However, he saw an empty classroom where Teacher Hu Chuanzhang was pulling something out of his bag.

He squinted his eyes, continuing to scan the classroom, faintly feeling as if someone had been watching him, but... he saw nothing. Eventually, his gaze settled on the bookshelf area at the back of the lecture classroom...

...

May 9, 2023, 8:19 AM, Teaching Building B, corridor.

At this hour, students had started to return from the cafeteria. Lin Yi paid them no mind, walking straight through the corridor, past the corner, and saw the path leading to the bathroom.

But at that moment, his gaze was drawn to another direction along the path, towards the elevator hall.

"This elevator... Maozi and Mu Daxian had returned to the Art Building from here! So inside...there had once been four Sneering Angels hiding?!"

Like a boomerang, a line from the "Teaching Building Rules" flashed through Lin Yi’s mind:

[The Teaching Building has only four floors...no elevators... If you inadvertently find an area outside of these four floors, do not go there.

If anyone invites you to go to these areas, refuse. If you cannot refuse, seek help from the nearest Sports Student or Teacher, and if necessary, seek help from a Security Guard.

Be wary of anyone exhibiting such behavior; they are no longer the person you know.]

What seemed like clear instructions now felt even more chilling with the knowledge of the Sneering Angels!

He had thought that staying away from the elevators was because they harbored Nocturnal species, but it turned out that Nocturnal species were deadly for Experience Students yet quite innocuous in front of Art and Sports Students...it was the Sneering Angels in the elevator that posed a real threat!

Lin Yi gradually understood why the campus rules were so indiscriminately strict.

Because there was simply no need to explain in detail.

Rather than saying the zoo has not only water snakes, pythons, anacondas... it’s better to say stay away from the zoo entirely.

Not only to stop things at their origin, but also to stop the motivation, keeping the Experience Students forever at "zero" rather than "point zero something."

Looking at the elevator, Lin Yi suddenly thought—no, Maozi and Mu Daxian did not return through this elevator!

They had left in the early hours of May 9, but not necessarily through this elevator; on May 8, it seemed they had initially entered the elevator in Building A, then arrived with five Sneering Angels at the elevator hall on the other side of this Teaching Building.

It was this one, however, that had not been activated...

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat: "Could the Sneering Angels still be in some layer of the elevator?"

"How to deduce if the Sneering Angels are there or not?"

"Surely they can’t always be there?"

"Right! The Sneering Angels follow ’It-I,’ whether for escort or other reasons. They surely wouldn’t appear when the layer is normal!"

These thoughts surfaced in Lin Yi’s mind in the brief moment he saw the elevator, and after a few breaths, he gathered his attention back and walked to the sink in the bathroom.

Just now, while looking at Song Rentou, he felt something change in his eyes; he felt his eyeballs were about to burst or become bloodshot—dry and uncomfortable—and he didn’t know why...

He wanted to wash his face, or at least his eyes, or at least, to look in the mirror to see what was wrong with his eyes.

He turned on the faucet, and the water flowed out "whoosh," but the sound of the water, when it appeared, suddenly awakened the sound of the waves he had heard before, making him step back like a spooked bird.

He looked at the water flow and suddenly felt a bit paranoid.

"It’s okay, it’s okay, it’s okay... just washing my face..."