It's all for naught now.

6:00:00 is here!

"Hoo—"

Clouds fluttered around Lin Yi's surroundings, and suddenly he felt a gentle supporting sensation on his back.

Immediately, the clouds gradually dissipated, and with a blink, he found himself staring at the dormitory ceiling, lying on the bed.

He sat up abruptly, gasping for air, trying hard to capture that last flicker of inspiration.

Anyone who has dreamed knows, the glint of light in a dream is the hardest to grasp. Even if you were just dreaming a moment ago, as soon as you wake up, 99% of that stunning arc in the dream completely eludes recollection.

Only a mere 1% of people can remember it, and even then, if it's not recorded immediately, that inspiration slips away in an instant.

Lin Yi's eyes lost focus as he poured all his attention into chasing that elusive inspiration, his brows furrowed and his eyeballs trembled as if they were printing machines.

He soon felt dizzy, but at the same time, he began to catch up with that fleeting flash of inspiration and grasped it in his hand!

In that spark of inspiration, there were only two clusters of mist; in one was the Convenience Store Owner in his suit and tie, and in the other, the silhouette outlined by the mist in the Gallery—a lean, cold figure exuding a sinister aura.

And now, in his inspiration, those two figures, along with the floating mist, silently fused together!

The sinister figure that appeared in the Gallery turned out to be almost identical to the image of the Convenience Store Owner in the store…!

"The figure in the Gallery… is… the Convenience Store Owner?!" Lin Yi murmured, beads of sweat forming on his forehead, "Or… at least related to the Convenience Store Owner?"

His eyes flickered, as if he had discovered something terrifying.

At that moment, Wei Liang's voice came from under his bed: "Hey hey hey, Old Lin, what are you prattling on about this early in the morning?"

"Get up and wash up, you all!"

Lin Yi snapped back to his senses, realizing that all his dorm mates were already up and about.

He quickly tidied up the black wooden box and notebook beside his head and got down to wash up and dress.

But just as he reached for the wooden box, he suddenly discovered that the "Ouroboros Ring" inside had mysteriously disappeared again.

He hurriedly checked his hands, but found that the "Ouroboros Ring" was not on his hand.

"The 'Ouroboros Ring'… disappeared?"

As he felt puzzled, he suddenly felt a cool sensation from the chest area below his neck, and upon pulling open his pajama collar, he noticed that the "Ouroboros Ring" was now hanging around his neck without him knowing when it got there.

"Seems like the 'Ouroboros Ring' enhanced my power of dream building…," Lin Yi pondered, and this time before the dream ended he even saw countless flashing fragments, which never happened before.

Perhaps it's a special effect of the "Ouroboros Ring"?

He gently touched the "Ouroboros Ring," then took it off his neck and stored it in the black wooden box.

The power of the "Ouroboros Ring" was too strong, and he only needed to use it at specific times. Under normal circumstances, it was more prudent to keep it stored in the black wooden box.

He packed the black wooden box and notebook and descended from the bed.

As he got off, there happened to be a space at the washing area, so he didn't have to crowd by the washbasin to freshen up.

"Huh? Where's Wei Sang?" Lin Yi noticed Wei Shan's absence after getting down, and couldn't help asking.

"Cleaning the toilet," Kuai Hongji replied with a sinister tone.

"Yin Bi, you wanna die?!" Wei Shan's voice indeed echoed from the bathroom.

"Look," Kuai Hongji turned to Lin Yi, smiling like Zhen Zidan, and pointing towards the toilet.

Lin Yi pursed his lips, refraining from intervening in Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji's squabble, and silently proceeded to the washbasin to wash up.

The vast content from the grand dream hadn't been properly sorted; he planned to wash his face first and then on the way, discuss the key points with Young Master Tian, starting their mission the moment they stepped out of the dormitory.

He scooped up water and rigorously washed his face, rubbing it repeatedly.

After washing up, Lin Yi felt refreshed, a remarkable sense of clarity.

Suddenly, from the corner of his eye, he glimpsed the window and it was as if something struck him. He stepped up to the window and wiped the condensation off the glass.

Leaning close, he peered through the glass to the outside world.

"What…? Is this…?!"

After a night of violent wind and rain, indeed, the rain had ceased outside. The weather had improved significantly, but the heavy clouds seemed as if laden with lead, smeared over the sky making the dawn light sparse.

The entire sky looked like an enormous bald old man's scalp placed there.

If it were just this scenery, Lin Yi wouldn't have been so taken aback. After all, over the past few days, what storms hadn't he encountered?

Yet the cause of his distress was in the depths of those thick clouds, where he saw a churning black tide.

In the clouds, he saw no dividing line between the ocean and beach, saw cliffs, and even saw… a castle!

The day has broken!

The day had broken!

However, the Art Building's layers remained suspended in the sky!

Between the campus and the Art Building, they gazed at each other through the sky, and mutually permeated!

"How can this be?!" Lin Yi exclaimed in a daze, "The day has broken, yet the change in layers hasn't disappeared?!"

"What are you babbling about?" At this time, Wei Liang's voice sounded in his ear, simultaneously patting his shoulder, "Washing your face in the morning without putting on clothes, peeping outside like a lunatic from a psychiatric hospital."

Lin Yi quickly responded: "Liangzi, come and see… Forget it, calling you to see is pointless, Young Master Tian, you come and have a look!"

"Hey, what's pointless to see?" Wei Liang objected, pushing Lin Yi aside, "Out of the way, let me have a royal look!"

He opened the window, pushed it open and took a peek outside.

"A whole lot of nothing?" Wei Liang turned his head from the window, looking at Lin Yi, "Is there something out there?"

"Sigh, I knew you wouldn't see it!" Lin Yi said, "Let Young Master Tian take a look."

"Hmph, let! Just! Let!" Wei Liang moved aside a bit.

Tian Bufan then came over from the desk side.

Lin Yi immediately directed Tian Bufan to look outside the window: "Young Master Tian, look there, the Art Building's layers… huh? Wait, huh?"

He was suddenly amazed to discover that from the window Wei Liang opened, the outside scenery was normal overcast—the clouds were heavy, the sunlight couldn't penetrate, but there was no rain.

Yet when he pulled the window back down a bit, looking through the glass, the campus then presented the scene he initially saw!

"Seems that what's seen through the glass is what's happening under the layers now," Tian Bufan deduced from Lin Yi's behavior and could see the campus's dual transformation, "It appears that after yesterday's storm, the layers of the Art Building began to fuse with the campus…"

Lin Yi quickly asked: "Does this happen every time during a Grey Mist Invasion?"

"No," Tian Bufan shook his head, but clearly he knew, "Normally, after reaching the peak as yesterday's Grey Mist Invasion did, it should wind down and end soon, not evolve into this."

"Then what is this?" Lin Yi pressed on.

Tian Bufan's gaze slowly shifted from the outside back to Lin Yi: "The most likely possibility is, with your 'adaptation,' our arrival inevitably drew 'its' attention, causing the position of the Grey Mist Invasion to start elevating…"

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