"If you go to those areas that have completely fallen into the 'Dark Zone,' you'll understand what 'mountains of bones' means."

"Oh, you also know the concept of the 'Dark Zone'?" Lin Yi squinted his eyes. "It seems like I'm the only one who doesn't know anything, so in fact, you all know everything about the occult, but I'm the only one in the dark?"

Tian Bufan was slightly stunned, then asked back, "How could you not know? We are people from the architectural field, Old Lin!"

"In the occult world, being in the architectural field is super difficult!"

Tian Bufan's face, unusually solemn, wore a serious expression.

Architecture... Lin Yi's mouth twitched hard: "Isn't our architecture... reliable?"

"Don't you know whether it's reliable or not?" Tian Bufan retorted with a sneer.

Lin Yi was taken aback, indeed, how could he not know?

Although architecture sounds like mixing cement, he seems to have really repaired the cracks in the Gymnasium's city wall...

"Could our architecture major have a significant function?" Lin Yi asked.

Tian Bufan looked at him, smiling without speaking.

"Alright, alright... I get it." Lin Yi pursed his lips, waving his hand repeatedly.

He knew that if the conversation continued, Tian Bufan would definitely start citing "him" again.

He had already accepted reality, sighed, and shifted the topic back to the campus: "So should we... 'leave it alone'?"

Tian Bufan nodded: "Yeah, leave it alone. Many times, the corpses at our feet, like the stars above our heads, have always been there but won't intersect with us much."

"But, don't you feel something else?"

"Something else?" Lin Yi was puzzled, "What thing?"

Tian Bufan shook his head: "Nothing."

"Hey, you...?" Lin Yi was tongue-tied.

Tian Bufan said, "What you haven't fully realized, I can't tell you."

"Alright then." Lin Yi shrugged.

"Let's go, head to the Teaching Building first, and when the time comes, we'll each take action," Tian Bufan added.

Lin Yi's heart tightened; he suddenly recalled that Tian Bufan mentioned he would visit the Desolate Land and the Corpse Bone Forest today.

"Take care of yourself!" he said with concern.

"Worry about yourself," Tian Bufan replied coolly, leaving Lin Yi at a loss for words, "Before taking action, try not to cause complications. Of course, I mean... 'try.'"

"Gosh... so cold-blooded." Lin Yi muttered to himself, "Understood."

As they spoke, they continued walking toward the Teaching Building.

On the way, Lin Yi clandestinely released his perception, attempting to sense the inner world of the campus.

Suddenly, he discovered a grotesque sculpture on a landslide in the Green Forest Belt, forever frozen in a struggling pose.

In its lifetime, it seemed to be dragged into the soil by countless roots while it desperately tried to break free, ultimately becoming a sculpture in this state.

If it were just this pose, it certainly wouldn't have caught Lin Yi's special attention.

Lin Yi noticed it because the sculpture was dressed in a suit, with a faintly visible white acrylic ID tag on its chest...

This was a "Homeroom teacher!"

And it died here!

This was Lin Yi's first time seeing a homeroom teacher's sculpture since entering the school, especially one "displayed" in such a tragic form.

Seeing this, the image of Director-040 flashed across his mind, and he didn't know why, but at this moment, his heart seemed to skip a beat.

"Oh no! Could she be in trouble?!"

It's human nature; when seeing something bad, we subconsciously relate the disaster to someone familiar.

This isn't a curse but a worry emerging from the subconscious.

Lin Yi hurriedly redirected his will to the Teaching Building in front of him, but the sense of unease in his heart grew stronger.

He instinctively quickened his pace.

Soon, Teaching Building B appeared before his eyes.

The group said their farewells here, Lin Yi, Wei Liang, and Wei Shan returned to Teaching Building B, while Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji headed toward Teaching Building A—Kuai Hongji was going back to Teaching Building A, and Tian Bufan's route was on the way from the Teaching Building to the Gymnasium, generally speaking, also in the direction of Teaching Building A.

As he approached the Teaching Building, Lin Yi's eyelids started twitching rapidly, an unexplained feeling crept in when nearing the building, a resistance and repulsion as if the building were a place of turmoil.

"What's going on...?"

He covered half of his face with his hand, with a golden flame burning in his left eye, and through the fingers, he began the insight into the secrets of the Teaching Building.

One normal eye, one abnormal eye, the two images overlapped in his vision, forming a bizarre picture; those without strong cognition would mentally collapse upon viewing.

Even with Lin Yi's current cognitive strength, observing the Teaching Building made him feel dizzy.

In the normal visual realm, the four-story Teaching Building stood quietly among the green trees on the mountain, the dim light rendering the building, with some climbing ivy, a bit ancient.

Under his left eye's field of view insight, he saw more things beyond this layer.

He saw four more layers above the four stories of the Teaching Building, where the world appeared even more obscure, adding a misty touch to the originally dim environment.

Even though it was only the area five stories high, the pervasive mist created an illusion of reaching into the clouds.

Amid that grey mist, he sensed something familiar—ashes.

Countless fragmented ashes seemed to emerge from an unknown void of higher dimensions, gently drifting down, filling the area between the 5th and 8th floors of the Teaching Building.

Strangely, these ashes didn't fall below the 4th floor; when they reached below the boundary, they disintegrated like snowflakes.

"Hey, those ashes...seem similar to those on the chef's sculpture?"

Ashes varied in concentration and size; the ashes on the chef's sculpture were so fragmented, but they matched the ashes in the 5th and above regions perfectly.

"Could someone be leveraging the chef's sculpture to gather ashes?" He thought of the zealot's actions but felt it unlikely; the ashes on the chef's sculpture seemed naturally accumulated, if it were gathered, it wouldn't present that way.

He released his grip, ending the "Field of View Insight."

At that moment, he reached the steps of the Teaching Building.

His watch showed the time was 7:52.

Arriving at the Teaching Building at this time was considered early these days.

He looked down at the steps, which were covered in moss; the extent of the moss without sunlight indicated how fierce and frenetic the battle must have been last night.

Wei Shan bid farewell to Lin Yi and went to his classroom, and Lin Yi along with Wei Liang arrived in front of Class B2.

Lin Yi slowly extended his hand, gripping the classroom door handle.

The moment he touched the handle, his vision flickered; he seemed to perceive the door attribute hidden within the classroom door, as the door and the skin on the inside of his hand made contact, the secret mark within the door scanned him, like verifying his identity.

Previously, he wouldn't have sensed this; now, like Neo seeing through The Matrix, he was gradually decrypting the internal codes of the campus.

"Click..."

He pressed down the handle and slowly opened the classroom door.

As the door opened, a murky and warm breath rushed out, like pulling back the heavy curtain of a chicken coop.

The classroom contained a previously absent foul odor.

A scent resembling decaying meat mixed with a rancid smell, like muddy earth buried with a fibrous smell.

He entered, perception surpassing vision, flooding into the classroom, beginning to observe everything inside.

But as he observed, his heart finally sank into the depths.

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