He instinctively blinked rapidly a few times, trying to see more clearly, but as he blinked, the already eerie Phantom Vision suddenly became even stranger.

It was as if he could see two images at the same time: one was the normal view of the brightly-lit dormitory building corridor, and the other was like a shattered glass window covered with powder particles.

As he blinked, these two images flashed back and forth like a strobe until the elevator door completely closed and they disappeared.

With the closing of the elevator doors, that feeling of being cut off from the world surged again, accompanied by a strong discomfort toward the enclosed space.

"Huff...Huff..." Another heavy breathing sound emerged beside his ear. Wei Shan was gripping the elevator's handrail, his palm continuously exerting force, and his breathing becoming increasingly coarse.

Lin Yi asked with concern, "Wei Sang, how do you feel?"

"I... I'm fine! Huff——Huff——" Wei Shan heaved like a massive bear, his nostrils flaring as if he had smelled something. He lowered his voice and growled, "I can feel its breath..."

"We're close to it..."

"It's right here... It's hiding here! This elevator! No—not the elevator, the elevator room!"

"Huff Huff Huff... Huff Huff Huff..."

"I really want to tear it apart!"

Kuai Hongji huddled in a corner of the elevator room, his back against the elevator car's right angle. Hearing Wei Shan's deep roar, he unusually did not mock but instead gently placed his hand against the wall of the elevator, closing his eyes to feel something.

He seemed to be feeling the vibration of the elevator, or perhaps chasing something...

Suddenly, Lin Yi felt a profoundly pure, cold breath. He turned his head in surprise only to see Kuai Hongji, huddled in the elevator corner as if merged with the elevator, emitting a kind of indescribable coldness not from the elevator... no, from outside the elevator...

Suddenly, Kuai Hongji opened his eyes. For a moment, Lin Yi thought he saw a flash of brilliant gold in Kuai Hongji's eyes, but when he frowned and looked again, he found Kuai Hongji's eyes were as normally black as ever.

A mystery surged in his heart, but Kuai Hongji then said to Wei Shan, "Fatty, you sensed it wrong."

"You're wrong but I'm not!" Wei Shan roared, suddenly looking toward the glass-covered, red-"X" marked "↑" button.

He squinted his eyes, observed carefully, then shook his head: "Not this... But it's still here! It's always been here!"

Wei Shan's reaction surprised Lin Yi as well, prompting him to cautiously look around, but all he could hear were the howling winds in the elevator room and the rumbling vibration of the elevator car.

"What's going on, what's going on?" Wei Liang was affected by the environment, suddenly becoming panicked in a dandy way, "Don't scare me!"

Wei Shan tightly grasped the handrail, his body slightly arched as if ready to explode at any moment.

Just then, Lin Yi suddenly noticed that the elevator car, illuminated by the LED lights, was inexplicably covered in white powder particles, which were now being absorbed by Wei Shan in a startling manner!

"Wei Sang...?! Is this contamination brought by Maozi, or... a new contamination affecting him?"

Lin Yi tried to awaken Wei Shan, but found that the air around him had distorted, and his body seemed to be emitting a kind of blue steam that could only be detected through "Perception."

But the entire process quickly halted as the elevator began to slow down...

"Huff Huff——"

The elevator and the room continued to emit intense friction sounds, and the elevator overall began to slow down and then finally stabilized.

By then, Wei Shan's breathing gradually calmed, while Kuai Hongji was coldly scanning the elevator cabin's ceiling.

At this point, Lin Yi could no longer see any change in Wei Shan, even that scene he had witnessed in "Perception" seemed like an illusion.

"Wei Sang, are you alright?" he asked with concern.

Wei Shan shook his head slightly: "Old Lin, I'm fine."

"Hehehe... If he were not okay, he wouldn't be this quiet." Kuai Hongji spoke in a gloomy tone at this moment.

"Get lost!" Wei Shan spat angrily, "It was definitely you who did it! They're following us!"

"It's daytime; it's already over," Kuai Hongji said coldly, shrugging.

"But I feel like they're right here!" Wei Shan angrily pointed at the elevator beneath his feet, emphasizing, "Here! Here!"

"You're feeling wrong."

Wei Shan grabbed Kuai Hongji by the collar. "Whether I'm wrong or not, you know better than I do!"

"Alright, alright, alright!" Seeing that Wei Shan was about to start a fight, Lin Yi quickly intervened, his expression quite ugly, "So can one of you tell me what exactly is going on? I don't want to hear unclear things, and who are 'they'?"

Wei Shan snorted coldly and turned his head away without speaking.

"Kuai Kuai, you speak." Lin Yi stared at Kuai Hongji.

Kuai Hongji forced a sinister smile. "Who else could it be but the things that knock on doors at midnight? They probably couldn't get in, then hid in the elevator shaft, and followed us out... Fatty, that's what you wanted to say, right?"

Wei Shan humphed again, still saying nothing.

"Statue?" Lin Yi squinted his eyes, tentatively asking.

After he spoke, his gaze circled Wei Shan's and Kuai Hongji's faces.

Unexpectedly, both of them appeared eerily calm, as if not at all surprised.

"Anything with characteristics of a statue might be possible." Tian Bufan interjected to break the topic and sternly reminded, "We're leaving the dormitory soon, don't bring up anything beyond your understanding."

"If you have something to say, wait until tonight and discuss it together back at the dormitory."

At the end, he swept Wei Shan and Kuai Hongji with a distinctly warning look, then nodded at Lin Yi to continue, "Old Lin, keep talking about that dream sequence of yours."

Lin Yi frowned. He didn't enter Kuai Hongji's perspective in his dream, so he didn't know what was special about Kuai Hongji. However, it was clear that in Wei Shan's dream, Wei Shan had initiated an attack on a non-human classmate and had achieved some effect.

But he always felt there might be some side effects from attacking non-human classmates.

Otherwise, if it was really possible to retaliate against non-human classmates, the rules wouldn't have remained silent.

He had a suspicion that attacking non-human classmates, whether he got hurt or they did, would increase his own contamination, because the blood that flowed out after an injury would turn into Tomato Sauce, and Tomato Sauce itself was a contaminant.

But he had no evidence to prove this guess yet, and he also didn't know if the blood of an 'Experience Student' would turn into Tomato Sauce before their perception was shattered.

Because before Little Genius was harmed, his perception might have already collapsed, so his blood had already been contaminated.

Nor could he possibly slit his own hand to verify this guess, as he was, to some extent, already categorized as an 'Experience Student' who appeared normal but was contaminated.

Among them, it seemed only Wei Liang was still normal.

"Fuck, Old Lin, don't look at me like that! It freaks the hell out of me!" Wei Liang's will to survive surged.

Lin Yi silently withdrew his gaze.

'Liangzi has been contaminated too... he just deceived himself.'

He shook his head helplessly in his mind.

Speaking of which, weren't any of them normal now?

Suddenly realizing this, Lin Yi's neck tightened, feeling a surge of cold sweat.

'Fuck, today I finally realize this is who I am?'

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