She felt increasingly uneasy, yet didn't dare to think too deeply, fearing she might truly stumble upon something that would cause her to mentally collapse.

After a hazy night's sleep, she had breakfast in the cafeteria and then returned to the classroom, only to find that overnight, many students had disappeared, and those who remained looked entirely different from when they arrived yesterday...

By now, even with her slow reaction, she understood that there was a problem with S City University's Experience Project, and that the thirty thousand for seven days wasn't going to be easy to come by.

However, she didn't know where the problem lay, nor did she want to understand where it might be; she just wanted to escape from the campus as soon as possible. The idea of thirty thousand for seven days was impossible for a normal person to achieve!

As for those internet celebrities who claimed to have received the money, like seasoned big Vs, well-known review-uppers, adventure bloggers... that stuff was too unreliable to be credible!

She felt she had awoken to the reality that S City University was a trap, in some ways more terrifying than a scamming syndicate.

But she also noticed that all anomalies within the campus stemmed from the unknown, and those unknowns were vaguely recorded and avoided in amendments like the Student Handbook, Faculty Building Rules, Dormitory Rules, etc., as if the campus intentionally guided the Experience Students away from considering those aspects.

And as for leaving the campus... apart from the method detailed in the Student Handbook of applying to the class teacher due to ill health, then being taken to the school doctor and sent on a blue school bus, the only other option was to complete the seven-day, thirty-thousand-dollar experience activity.

In terms of abandoning the rules or using the map provided in the Faculty Building Rules to head to the school gates and then quietly leave the campus... she had thought about it, but didn't feel it was right.

Every rule associated with each building told her that to survive on campus, she must follow these rules diligently; if she violated them, the dangers she might face were unpredictable.

Besides, she couldn't just make herself sick, as she had a premonition... There was something suspicious about that means of departure which she couldn't quite pinpoint.

Anyway, her intuition told her that it wasn't a viable path.

Failing to find a way to escape, the only option left was to figure out how to survive the seven days. She knew that in a place as unknown and dangerous as this campus, the difficulty of surviving alone was next to impossible, so she decided she needed to find a strong ally to stick with.

All these things, she had thought out while lying in bed that night...

If Lin Yi knew about her roundabout thoughts, he would definitely give her a thumbs up and spell out "AWESOME" in capital letters.

Why?

Because only in the dormitory can you dare to think about such things. In other places, thinking so much would have led to cognitive dissonance already.

And she had inadvertently devised a straightforward plan while in a state of presumed safety...

Of course, there were surprises, like when the girl went back to the classroom, planning to observe her classmates and find a "strong ally," she suddenly found that, let alone a so-called strong ally, the only people in the class who could be considered "normal" were Lin Yi and Wei Liang.

As for the Sports Student... she decisively gave up the idea of seeking support from the Sports Student because they clearly belonged to the "traditional students" of the campus. It seemed that they had already adapted to the campus environment and were not going to leave.

This was completely contrary to her initial plan to escape.

So, once the idea of finding a strong ally had fallen through, the only thought left in her mind was to form a team.

If she couldn't rely on a strong ally, she could still form a team, right?

After all, many hands make light work!

After weighing her options, she approached Lin Yi and Wei Liang...

...

On the other hand, Lin Yi naturally had no idea about the girl's thoughts or that she once considered him a "strong ally," but upon receiving her "request to team up," he didn't even have to think before he rejected it.

Why so abrupt?

Because forming a team essentially involves a group of individuals with common objectives and various abilities coming together to achieve a unified goal through teamwork.

Everyone has their strengths and can handle certain difficulties. Most importantly, the more hazardous the environment, the more teams need mutual trust, and this girl clearly didn't meet these criteria.

As for Lin Yi and Wei Liang... although neither truly came to conquer, they at least shared absolute trust with one another. In times of danger, they could rely on each other implicitly.

On the other hand, Lin Yi had his considerations.

He didn't want to drag others down because, according to what he'd experienced since entering the school, his circumstances were far more outrageous than 90% of the Experience Students, and the dangers he'd faced were also greater than 90% of them. If he had to bring someone else alongside him, there was a high likelihood that person would end up harmed because of him.

Emmm... Of course, this excludes Wei Liang, as his performance was becoming increasingly odd—but he was someone who had completed one round of the experience.

Based on that, in Lin Yi's view, Wei Liang already fell outside that 90% category.

Secondly, he didn't want to be a burden to others, and more importantly, he didn't want others to be a burden to him.

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