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Chapter 722 - 332 Awakening, Departure (Happy National Day!!)_2

Chapter 722: Chapter 332 Awakening, Departure (Happy National Day!!)_2

On his wrist, the quartz watch was still silently ticking away the time, but when he saw the time, his mind buzzed.

20:15.

"What?! It’s already eight fifteen?!"

"Shh... What about the banquet?"

He suddenly woke up from his dream, his eyes snapping open!

...

In the year X023, May 9th, 20:15, at the "Giant Dome," an annex of the Gymnasium, on the first-level stands.

Lin Yi, whose eyes had suddenly opened, found his perspective to be oddly angled, resting his head on something fragrant and soft, looking up, but he could only see a slightly raised landscape.

"Boss..." he instinctively started to say, remembering the blurry sight of the Boss’s face as he fell, but before he could finish, the realization jolted his survival instincts, prompting him to immediately correct himself, "Li Huiyuan?"

The raised landscape tilted back slightly, revealing a smooth chin, which quickly looked down—it was indeed the face of Li Huiyuan.

"Ah, you’re awake~"

At this moment, Li Huiyuan, from Lin Yi’s perspective, really resembled the bowing expression of the four disciples.

"Um...yeah, I’m awake." Lin Yi quickly replied, thinking to himself that if he didn’t wake up, he would end up spending the night in the gymnasium!

He subconsciously tried to get up, noticing that one hand found nothing beside him, while the other was... holding a delicate, boneless soft palm.

The palm of Li Huiyuan.

Li Huiyuan then pulled him up slightly, her other hand naturally supporting his back, straightening him up.

After sitting up, Lin Yi still felt a numbness in his body, as if there was still some fatigue, but this tiredness seemed to quickly fade as he woke.

He looked at the already restored playground and asked, "Has the banquet ended?"

"It ended a long time ago... everyone is gone." Li Huiyuan replied, "Boss was worried about your rest, so he had me look after you."

"Boss also mentioned that if you wake up and it’s still early and the weather is fine, I should send you off."

Despite not wanting to just let Lin Yi leave, she still followed the Boss’s instructions.

"Right! ’Liang Liangzi’ mentioned before leaving that he’ll wait at the gymnasium for you to walk together."

Lin Yi was also considering returning to the dormitory early to discuss all the events of the day with Tian Bufan and the others and he had a lot of questions to ask them. Naturally, he followed the Boss’s instructions, especially when he heard about Wei Liang, quickly getting up: "No time to delay, I’ll leave now!"

Watching Lin Yi’s decisive manner, Li Huiyuan unnoticeably pouted, thinking if Liang Liangzi was a girl, wouldn’t you just stick by him?

But she immediately got up as well, patting her slightly numb thighs, "The Boss asked me to send you off. Let’s go together."

"Sure!" Lin Yi didn’t refuse, and the two walked toward the safety passage from the first-level stands; behind them, Xia Lian also followed, and Lin Yi entered the safety passage, then becoming aware of Xia Lian’s presence.

"Senior Sister Xia Lian?"

"Just noticed?"

"Um... well..."

"No need to explain. Let’s go."

Lin Yi awkwardly smiled and pushed open the safety passage door, returning to the Gymnasium.

Inside the Gymnasium, the LED lights and incandescent lamps were emitting light as usual, the floor of the first-floor basketball court still slightly reflective. Sports Students were scattered around, none playing basketball, but each doing their own warm-up exercises, as if preparing for a battle.

Many familiar faces were not seen by Lin Yi; the sports students left here were mostly the more ordinary ones, and in a corner of the Gymnasium, there seemed to be some Experience Students.

There appeared to be quite a few Experience Students, but compared to the thousands, only a little over a hundred were left.

Scanned around several times, Lin Yi couldn’t find Wei Liang and got a bit puzzled. He looked at Li Huiyuan, whispering, "Did some of the Experience Students leave?"

"I’m not sure either... haven’t we been together all the time?" Li Huiyuan thought to herself, wondering if he had forgotten that she made her leg a pillow for him.

She then looked at Xia Lian for help, but noticed that Xia Lian seemed to be looking for Wei Liang too.

Finally, she gritted her teeth, "That guy, he wouldn’t have run away because he was afraid I would trouble him, right?"

"Who?" Li Huiyuan was slightly stunned, then seemed to realize something, "Liang Liangzi Boss?"

"Hmph!" Xia Lian sneered, "Next time I see him, I’m definitely going to break his legs!"

Lin Yi quickly shrank his neck, "Liangzi said he would wait for me, he wouldn’t just run away like that, would he?"

"It was just a verbal agreement..." said Xia Lian, "If the Teacher required some Experience Students to leave the Gymnasium, it would have been hard for him to stay."

Lin Yi pondered for a moment, while Xia Lian had already thrown out a sentence and then started walking towards the entrance of the Gymnasium, "I’ll go ask about the situation."

"Let’s go check as well." Lin Yi thought it over and went with Li Huiyuan.

At the entrance of the Gymnasium, some Sports Students were guarding the area, like gatekeepers.

When Lin Yi rushed over, he heard a Sports Student saying, "After the heavy rain, the weather cleared up briefly, and the Teachers let some of the screened Experience Students go."

"Do you have any description of that Wei Liang?"

Xia Lian frowned and recalled, then couldn’t help muttering, "Good physique...?"

"Huh? Senior Sister, what did you say?"

"Ah? No... I meant he... emmmm..." Xia Lian coughed, rethinking Wei Liang.

Lin Yi was stunned and thought, Senior Sister Xia Lian, what exactly happened between you two...

So, he reluctantly described, "He looks a bit off, cheeky, wearing a duckbill cap..."

He gestured as he spoke.

Such a description would be difficult to identify someone with elsewhere, but let’s not forget, this is the Gymnasium. Most Experience Students are in worrisome mental states. In such a crowd, someone who looks normal or even abnormally so would definitely leave an impression, especially with Wei Liang’s distinctive duckbill cap.

Suddenly one Sports Student realized, "I remember now, there was such a person; he has already left."

「As expected, he left...」Lin Yi pondered, then asked, "Did he leave any message?"

That Sports Student shook his head.

At that moment, the Boss came out from somewhere inside the Gymnasium.

"Lin Yi."

"Ah, Boss? You..." Lin Yi was a bit flustered, "Where did you pop out from?"

"From the office." The Boss explained coldly, then handed him two small booklets, ""Sports Student Code" with an appendix; take a look when you have time."

"The first booklet is the ’Sports Student Code’, and the second one is the appendix, mainly containing some concepts and emergency procedures..."

"Time is of the essence, and I can’t say much more. As the Grey Mist hasn’t enveloped the campus yet, you better go now, head straight to the Dormitory, it should be about time when you get there."

Lin Yi listened, his expression growing solemn, then took out the "Gymnasium Code" and returned it to the returning machine.

However, just as he had just stepped out of the Gymnasium’s main door, a voice rose from the darkness, calling his name.

"Lin Yi."

Hearing this voice, Lin Yi was inwardly shocked, yet his face remained unchanged—mere auditory hallucinations, commonplace, just ignore them.

But this time, the Boss swiftly followed up, grabbed Lin Yi’s arm, and pulled him back behind the Gymnasium’s main door, then focused on the area floating with darkness and thin Mist.