Lin Yi squinted his eyes. Seeing Wei Liang say this, he looked at Wei Shan and then passed the lamp over.

"So... should I keep it first?" Wei Shan hesitated as he glanced at Lin Yi.

"Uh... what's there to worry about? Liangzi already said it, just hold onto it first. I'll ask the Boss later and then you can give it to me." Lin Yi said.

Wei Shan nodded, "Alright."

He took the old oil lamp from Lin Yi's hand.

As soon as Wei Shan touched the old oil lamp, which had long been extinguished due to supernatural power, a faint dark spark suddenly flickered out.

"Huh?!" Lin Yi was suddenly startled and turned around instantly, but the spark had already vanished.

"Just now... did something flash by? I think I saw a tiny bit of light!" he shouted in surprise.

Wei Shan's eyes showed some confusion, "What?"

"Didn't you see it?" He looked towards Wei Liang.

Wei Liang shook his head.

Lin Yi was immediately puzzled.

Wei Liang messing around was one thing, but if Wei Shan also claimed not to have seen it, then most likely they really didn't see it.

"Forget it, just put it away first." Lin Yi said helplessly, thinking that once they found the Boss at the Gymnasium, many questions would get resolved.

Wei Shan nodded, unstrapped his backpack, and stuffed the old oil lamp inside.

...

May 11, X023, 14:35.

Lin Yi, Wei Liang, and Wei Shan finally left Teaching Building B and started heading towards the Gymnasium area.

As soon as they descended the steps, Lin Yi felt as if he had perceived something and looked up at the darkened sky.

Above the thick clouds, the inverted layers of the Art Building were faintly visible, and the outline of a black ocean seemed to strangely overlap with the school's sky.

An inexplicable thought emerged in Lin Yi's mind: "Could the sky and the ocean, on a layered level, be a folding and extension of a certain area?"

Just like... like that pit seen in the bathroom?

He used what he learned on the spot and began to imagine.

Who said they couldn't be frogs viewing the sky from the bottom of a well?

"What are you spacing out for?" Wei Liang patted him on the shoulder and asked, "Are we going to gym class or not?"

"Uh, yes! Let's go, let's go, right away! I just zoned out!" Lin Yi quickly snapped back, saying a bit sheepishly.

Wei Liang immediately showed a disdainful expression, "We're about to see the Boss, and you still zone out, really unbelievable."

Lin Yi scratched the back of his head, "It's just... my brain lagged a bit, okay?"

"Ah, come on, let's go! You might not want to see the Boss, but I want to check out Xia Lian!" Wei Liang said as he walked down the steps.

"Hey, who said I don't want to see the Boss!" Lin Yi called out, hurriedly following with Wei Shan.

At this time, almost no normal Experience Student remained in the School Building Area, even those muddle-headed ones were already heading towards the Gymnasium, adhering to the scheduled time.

They were numb but not seeking death.

As they approached the area near the Gymnasium, the clouds seemed thicker than elsewhere, making the entire world's brightness seem much reduced.

Despite this, Lin Yi did not perceive any anomaly or pressure from the Gymnasium area.

This situation didn't put him at ease; it made him feel uneasy.

For the less he perceived, the more it indicated that the Gymnasium area was maintaining a high level of secrecy, to the point where not a hint of the bizarre could leak out.

Following the cobblestone path past a corner, at a location where the Teaching Building could hardly be seen, Lin Yi and the others finally saw the boundary between the School Building Area and the Gymnasium area, marked by the "Teaching Building-001" lamppost and the notice board in front of the Gymnasium.

Due to the existence of the notice board, the Gymnasium area within the campus was different from other areas.

Even though the Cafeteria area also had a notice board, it was located in front of the Cafeteria itself, and immediately after passing it, you would be at the Cafeteria. But the notice board for the Gymnasium was placed at the "entrance" of the Gymnasium area, requiring a long walk past it to actually reach the Gymnasium.

Lin Yi instinctively paused at the boundary line, a certain ominous premonition growing stronger in his heart.

Wei Liang and Wei Shan silently stopped as well.

"I hope things aren't too bad..." Lin Yi murmured, preparing himself mentally for the worst before stepping into the Gymnasium area.

The instant he entered the Gymnasium area, the whole world seemed to darken, giving the illusion of entering the wrong time, as if he walked from afternoon to early evening.

"Why is it so dark?" Lin Yi looked around anxiously, feeling a chill in his heart from the scene in front of him.

Wei Shan's face was also becoming gloomy, his usually simple smile replaced by a low and sinister expression, as if a personality that didn't like confined and dark spaces emerged from within.

Lin Yi took a deep breath, activated "Field of View Insight", and extended his perception tendrils like a radar, sensing everything nearby wave after wave.

"Dark?" Wei Liang's surprised voice suddenly sounded in Lin Yi's ear, "It's just a bit dim, how is it 'dark'?"

Lin Yi was taken aback; could he have been mistaken?

He quickly moved to the notice board, grabbed onto it, and closed his eyes...

As soon as he closed his eyes, his perception tendrils' capture of the external world began to rapidly collapse due to the lack of "vision", as if a sinister terrifying world was about to emerge, and an eerie wind carrying dismal calls started swirling around his ears.

Yet his will was exceptionally firm, undisturbed by these sounds, and merely meditated with closed eyes for a few seconds before reopening them.

This time, as soon as he opened his eyes, he found that the nearly dark Gymnasium area he had seen earlier had been restored to "brightness", albeit not much, but at least it had gone from "dark" to "overcast and likely to rain".

"Could it be that I accidentally saw another layer earlier?" Lin Yi scratched his head, looking dubiously at Wei Shan.

Wei Shan's earlier behavior wasn't much different from his own.

Wei Shan, caught by Lin Yi's gaze, scratched his head sheepishly, "I was just following your feeling, you led me astray."

"Oh, Wei Sang, repeating notes right in my face?!" Lin Yi facepalmed, muttering, "Forget it, forget it, as long as everything's fine, that's all that matters."

"Hehe..." Wei Shan laughed awkwardly, but once he turned his head, that simple smile disappeared, replaced by a fierce look, like a wild beast catching a whiff of danger.

He cautiously sniffed a certain scent in the air, a ferocious glint in his eyes, appearing like a formidable beast.

Lin Yi was about to release the notice board when he suddenly saw the rules near his hand:

[...if you look up and see buildings other than the specified ones, especially a Western-style castle, look around until you find the Gymnasium or the Teaching Building...]

The rule about encountering unusual weather on the Gymnasium path suddenly caught his eye, especially the word "look up".

These two words had an almost supernatural hold on his vision.

Not because of anything else but because... he realized that since last night, he'd been in a strange state where he could "look up and see the Art Building".

Even...

He slowly raised his head only to find the dark sky above, heavy as a wet cotton quilt, also cloaked the illusionary outline of the Art Building.

...now too.

"Could this notice board's 'look up' really mean to physically lift your head?"

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