"3. If the Convenience Store owner lacks a badge or the badge is abnormal, try to divert their attention before they show strong malice towards you (approximately one minute), and immediately flee in the direction indicated by the blue signs."

"When you see an exit with a [No Entry] sign in the direction of the blue signs, enter it right away. You will shake them off and might encounter a Security Guard."

"If you come across a Security Guard, inform them about the situation, but do not follow them back."

"Throughout the process, remember:

Do not try to attack or provoke them, as this will hasten the onset of their malice!"

You are not and will definitely not be a match for them!

Run! Run fast!"

"4. If you are an Experience Student possessing a Student ID card, treat the content on this side as a dumb joke aimed to prank you, ignore this notice, and proceed to read the other side, which contains the genuine rules… dear~"

The end of the notice even included a cute heart gesture emoji, oddly clashing with the dark and eerie content of the instructions.

Although the notice was short, compared to the lengthy Art Student Rules that resembled a small essay, the Convenience Store Notice was straightforward and clear.

Lin Yi also found it very understandable; since the person seeing this notice has already been introduced to the rules associated with their status, accepting the Convenience Store Notice felt natural.

Lin Yi realized that there were only two categories for people entering the Convenience Store, which essentially meant that, in the eyes of the Convenience Store, Sports Students and Art Students... seemed to belong to "the same category of people."

Lin Yi slightly narrowed his eyes but did not dwell on it, committing the two sets of instructions to memory after reading them.

With time pressing, the first thing to do was to follow the rules and leave the Convenience Store, and then consider the twists and turns later when it was safe.

Lin Yi quickly reviewed the two sets of instructions in his mind, and then looked around him.

The Convenience Store, akin to a bomb shelter tunnel, was lined with shelves, but overall it still felt quite spacious. The hanging incandescent lights cast fragmented patches of light, adding to the feeling of an open and chilly space.

Hanging from the ceiling of the Convenience Store were blue rectangular signboards, like exit signs in an underground car park, with [Exit (accompanied by an arrow)] written on them.

In the shelving area, there were signboards marking four categories of goods: Snacks, Beverages, Daily Necessities, and Others.

Lin Yi looked down at the roll of biscuits he had previously taken and saw that the packaging indeed had a food code sticker labeled 'Biscuits', and not far away on the snack shelf, there were other food items with the same packaging.

"The products at the entrance of the Convenience Store must come from here, so the Student Souvenir Coin... should belong to the 'Others' category."

"Yeah." Li Huiyuan nodded, excited at the thought of soon obtaining a Student Souvenir Coin.

"We're short on time, but it's best not to split up." Lin Yi glanced at the time, his watch showed 16:59; reading the Convenience Store Notice had taken them a total of 7 minutes, "I'll go with you."

A person could buy up to three items, he had taken a roll of biscuits, theoretically he could take two more, but it wasn't important for him whether he took anything else. The main point was to follow the rules for leaving.

Li Huiyuan nodded in agreement.

So, they followed the exit signs toward the section with 'Others' merchandise.

But just as he began to move, he suddenly felt the lights behind him dim momentarily...

A sudden sense of unease surged in his heart, and he turned around to look back at the Convenience Store's door decisively.

At that glance, he was greatly alarmed.

He saw that the domain formed by the orange-yellow brilliance outside the Convenience Store had been nearly obliterated by the darkness, and the ghostly white mist was like an invisible wall, blocking the door of the Convenience Store as if it could invade at any moment.

Within that mist, one could clearly see the outlines of human shapes; they had arrived at the doorstep of the Convenience Store, along with the darkness, but seemed halted by the light, eventually stopping at the threshold.

Suddenly, Lin Yi felt a slight distortion in his vision, as if the doorway was a ship being washed by waves, rocking at sea.

Then, the lights around him began to dim, and a long, piercing buzz started to resound within the shelter; the ceiling's incandescent lights dimmed and then suddenly brightened, but released a color of light he had never seen before on campus—

Red!

This red light instantly submerged the original color of the incandescent light, turning the entire Convenience Store into a closed, arc-shaped shelter bathed in flashing red light, like the evacuation alarms blaring at the onset of doomsday, pulling a person's sense of oppression and tension to their peak.

Lin Yi's vision began to distort even more, and though he wanted to move, he found that he couldn't, as if his body was not his own.

Then, the invisible barrier on the Convenience Store's door suddenly vanished, and the pale white mist flooded into the doorway like a tide.

"Whoosh—"

It was as if a container filled with liquid nitrogen had been suddenly opened, and the dense mist poured out, with frost forming ice cracks around the center of the Convenience Store's doorway, spreading outwards...

"Crack, crack, crack..."

As the frost spread, the temperature inside the Convenience Store plummeted, and together with the flickering red light and the shrill, prolonged buzzing alarm, the doorway connected to the first floor of the Cafeteria became the gates to Hell.

Behind that doorway, it seemed as if some unspeakable, incomprehensible, unsettling presence was slowly awakening from a prolonged dream...

"Rustle, rustle, rustle!"

"Rustle, rustle, rustle!"

"Rustle, rustle, rustle..."

Within the frost and mist, dark, eerie shapes wandered about like swarms of insects; they seemed like the harbingers of Hell's master, stirring restlessly in the shadows.

Suddenly, a bloodless hand shot out from the doorway "Swoosh!" and landed heavily on the floor.

It clutched the ground tightly, with gnarled veins pulsing on an ashen arm, as if it were making a herculean effort to cling to a cliff face.

Then, its somewhat twisted body emerged from the mist, like a serpent-like humanoid monster, "Chirp, chirp, chirp", calling out; its eyes were closed, and its head shook like a sparrow's, while vile, sticky saliva dripped from between its teeth, "plop, plop", falling onto the floor tiles...

It seemed to want to open its eyes, but the writhing eyelids appeared glued shut, refusing to part no matter how hard it tried.

It seemed to want to stand up, but its somewhat soft and ashen body, spineless like some crawling freak, kept it low to the ground.

Its nostrils flared as if it had picked up a scent, baring its mouth with a "hiss" breathing out air, looking ferocious and terrifying.

"What is... this thing?!"

This creature seemed to be a monster with a form between that of non-human classmates and the Nocturnal species, but in terms of the sense of threat, it was far greater than either, and to Lin Yi, it even seemed more terrifying than the sinister Art Students!

At that moment, an indifferent voice sounded in his ear, "There's nothing good to see..."

He was taken aback, and before he could react, he saw a figure walking out from his right.

This figure was dressed in a dark green Western-style school uniform, with a square painting board strapped on his back, looking like a flattened Ninja Turtle.

His steps were swift, like a phantom crossing Lin Yi's position, and he quickly approached the eerie Nocturnal species.

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