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Chapter 236: "Malice" in the Cafeteria Area

May 9, X023, 6:43 AM, at the "Cafeteria-001" streetlight, Lin Yi's steps slowly froze.

His gaze slowly shifted away from Tian Bufan and towards his own arm.

He seemed to see a layer of extremely thin mist floating on his hand, a mist that covered him like an invisible veil, something that had gathered around him as soon as he entered the cafeteria area.

This made him, upon entering the cafeteria area, like a stone suddenly appearing in a stream. The stream, encountering him, formed a wave, then split around him, flowing around him before rejoining…

This situation lasted for a few seconds before returning to normal, and the floating mist dissipated as if smoke had been blown into his face.

But Lin Yi didn't relax at all; instead, he frowned, feeling a sense of foreboding.

After "adapting" to the atmosphere here, Lin Yi had a sense of being in a painting, and even a delusion of seeing a mountain and not seeing a mountain, as if he was out of place with the surrounding environment.

He seemed to be able to sense a layer of invisible malice, but he couldn't sense the source of the malice. It was as if the entire cafeteria area was filled with malice towards him at this moment, wanting to force him to leave.

He almost succumbed to this malice and took a step backward, but when he saw Tian Bufan and Wei Shan both slowly straightening their backs, he gritted his teeth and stood up straight as well.

On the other side, Wei Liang had already walked several steps without noticing. When he realized that no one was following him, he suddenly felt a chill down his back.

Turning around, he found that everyone else except him hadn't moved much at all, and he was immediately so frightened that his scalp tingled.

"Damn, what's wrong with you guys?!"

He took a step back, his movements so swift that he seemed to leave an afterimage, like an Asura Flash, instantly returning to the others' side.

"Damn, are you guys messing with me? What's going on? Were you all frozen in place? Why aren't you moving?"

Wei Liang was anxious, pacing around the others.

"It's almost seven o'clock, and in another hour, we'll only be able to get some snacks from the convenience store to tide us over!"

Tian Bufan slowly came back to his senses, glanced at Wei Liang, and agreed, "Wei Liang is right…"

"Right, let's go, let's go eat breakfast first. Our stomachs are the most important thing!" Wei Liang said quickly.

But Tian Bufan's next sentence was: "I mean, we have to go to the convenience store to get some snacks…"

Lin Yi also nodded in agreement, "Let's eat breakfast first, then go get some stuff to stock up on."

"You guys…" Wei Liang looked at them strangely, waving his hand in front of them, "…are you possessed? It's breakfast, guys, not the convenience store. Can't you learn to grasp the main point when listening to people?"

Looking at Wei Liang, who was calm and completely unaware, Lin Yi tentatively asked, "Can you feel it? Liangzi."

"Of course I can, only an idiot wouldn't be able to!" Wei Liang said speechlessly, patting his stomach, "I can feel my stomach scolding me for being heartless, caring about spiritual food but neglecting physical food…"

"Don't even mention it, I seem to hear your stomach growling… Hey, hey, hey, what's with that look? Besides feeling a little hungry, am I supposed to feel something else?"

Wei Liang was speechless, "Could it be that I can sense some kind of killing intent?"

"It's not exactly 'killing intent,' but the entire cafeteria area seems to be filled with a kind of… malice." Lin Yi said in a low voice, "I feel like I've entered a wind tunnel, with boundless malice blowing out from the depths like wind, wanting to push me out."

"Whoa, you wouldn't have caught a cold, would you? Let me see if you have a fever. I told you not to rush to open the window so early in the morning! See, isn't this…"

Wei Liang mumbled, reaching out to touch Lin Yi's forehead, but his accent had a clear teasing tone, and his pronunciation was more like "Let me see if you're horny."

"I'm fine…" He shook his hand off.

Tian Bufan said meaningfully, "Since Wei Liang says you're fine, then let's go eat breakfast."

"What do you mean, I say I'm fine!" Wei Liang jumped up, "Don't you guys feel anything?"

"Since that's the case, then you must be fine, let's go." Tian Bufan stretched his arms and said with a smile.

"Tch… why are you guys so neurotic so early in the morning…" Wei Liang pouted, muttering, "Could they really all be geniuses? But if Tian Bufan is a genius, that's one thing, but Lao Lin is as far from a genius as you can get…"

"Liangzi, what are you muttering about?" Lin Yi asked.

"Ah! I said, you're probably a genius." Wei Liang said without blushing or panting.

"Kuai Kuai, you and Wei Liang walk together." Tian Bufan said, "Lao Lin and I will walk in the middle, Wei Sang, same as always."

"Alright, alright, whatever you say." Wei Liang pouted, retracted his gaze, and nonchalantly led the way with Kuai Hongji, while Wei Shan brought up the rear as usual.

The group slowly walked towards the cafeteria.

"Young Master Tian, did you feel it… that malice?" Lin Yi said softly to Tian Bufan.

Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes slightly, "Malice?"

"You didn't feel it?" Lin Yi was a little surprised, "Wei Sang, what about you?"

Wei Shan shook his head in confusion.

"If you didn't feel it, why was your reaction so big just now?" Lin Yi asked, puzzled.

Wei Shan thought for a moment and uttered two words: "'Instinct'."

"Uh… okay."

Instinct, sixth sense… If Wei Shan said that, what could Lin Yi say?

But if no one else felt it, wouldn't that mean there was something wrong with him?

"I can only feel a '气息 of death' permeating here, everything around is lifeless…" Tian Bufan lowered his voice, "It's like entering a battlefield that has just been fought on."

"'Just fought on'?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up.

Gray Mist Invasion? Nighttime deathmatch?

"Your feeling isn't impossible!"

Tian Bufan thought for a moment and said, "Your inspiration is the highest among us. I can't sense as much as you can. How about… you try to sense it a little? Then I'll analyze it a little based on your feelings."

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded without hesitation, "But if I fall into the layered world…"

"I'll wake you up before you have any problems."

"Okay." Lin Yi nodded.

"Kuai Kuai, try to find a road with sunlight, let Lao Lin see if he can activate his 'Vision'."

"No problem." Kuai Hongji said calmly, "But to be honest, I personally don't really like sunbathing."

"I told you to leave, you son of a bitch! Why are you still yapping?" Wei Shan said in a low voice, raising his clenched fist, his face full of threat.

If it weren't for the big picture, he would have already treated Kuai Hongji to a fist the size of a sandbag.

"Heh." Kuai Hongji sneered, but he still did as he was told.

Bathing in the sunlight, Lin Yi didn't feel much warmer, but the discomfort in his heart was somewhat alleviated.

He turned his gaze to Wei Liang, watching the back of Wei Liang's heels, his body moving forward stiffly.

At the same time, his eyes began to become hollow, and he focused his attention on his hearing...

He hadn't mastered the skill "My Vision" yet, but it had a chance of being activated in certain special situations.

That's exactly what he was doing.

He carefully listened to everything around him, hearing the soft footsteps of his group walking on the cobblestone road, hearing the breeze blowing through the treetops, the dew and rainwater sliding down the leaves and dripping onto the ground...

He began to breathe in the scent of the wind, in the wind, there was the fragrance of grass and trees and the earthy smell of moist soil...

Everything was so natural, until Lin Yi began to add some "feeling" to this "unadorned" base color.

This "feeling" was not very obvious now; it was most clear at the moment when Lin Yi entered the cafeteria area from the dormitory building area, like the strong sense of separation from entering hot water from cold water, which was particularly strong by contrast.

It was a strange feeling that could not be easily described in words.

It was like feeling unfamiliar with a painting that was all too familiar, feeling nauseous after eating a bite of rice that was usually eaten, looking at an old friend but always feeling that there was some unnatural coldness in his smile...

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It was a strange feeling completely separated from the scene in front of you, with evil hidden in the ordinary, as if... the entire cafeteria area was covered with a deceiving shell!

"It's layers!"

Lin Yi gradually realized something.

The problem lies in the layers.

When "entering" the cafeteria area, the cross-sections of multiple layers were displayed together at the junction of the area, and they relied on "cognition" to enter the default "most normal" layer.

But at the moment of entering, they still felt the "call" from other layers in the cafeteria area, that strong malice was not the cafeteria area rejecting them, but... that strange layer was using malice to oppress this layer, so as to try to squeeze them out of this layer, and then let them fall into that layer!

This is an alternative kind of summoning!

I won't let you stay there, you can only stay here!

A call from the layers, a request to enter the urn!

"The layers of the campus... are they 'alive'?!"

When he guessed this question, he gradually felt that there were slight twisting signs in the cobblestone road under his feet.

"Huh?"

Seeing this scene, he didn't panic or fear, first confirming whether he was still following Wei Liang forward.

In front of him were the back of Wei Liang's heels, and beside Wei Liang was Kuai Hongji.

He didn't turn his eyeballs, but he knew by feeling that Tian Bufan was still beside him, and Tian Bufan's hand was still on his body.

"Very good, very good, I'm still on this road."

Both psychological and physical are there.

He looked at the cobblestones under his feet again, yes, the cobblestones were indeed twisting... and, it was twisting under the sun.

"Wait! No, that's not right... the sun? Where's the sunlight?!"

Lin Yi's pupils shook.

The sunlight... I don't know when it was blocked out?!

At the same time, Lin Yi heard the rapid sound of wind in his ears, not like the wind blowing out of the green belt suddenly becoming swift, but more like... a gust of wind whistling after passing through steep mountain cliffs!

Lin Yi seemed to be struck by lightning, instantly stiffening in place.

"Gudong!"

He felt his heart beat violently.

"Gudong!"

He felt the world around him begin to dim, and his body began to appear with double images.

"Gudong!"

He felt as if he had been hit hard by an oncoming heavy truck, and his whole heart stopped for a moment.

"Kuang kuang kuang... Hu le le le--"

He heard the rapid sound of wind in his ears, he felt his soul being knocked out of his body.

He felt his body was a little staggering, so he instinctively took a step back, trying to stabilize his figure at this moment...

A strange scene appeared at this moment.

When he took a step back, he found that his perspective was peeling away from "himself"!

"This...? !"

Lin Yi was horrified, and subconsciously looked at his hands.

Nothing!

Can't see hands!

He looked down at his body again.

No body!

This bizarre phenomenon was just like when he was in a dream!

"What the hell? ! Am I... still not awake?!"

An absurd and strange thought jumped out of Lin Yi's mind for the first time.

But after all, at this time, he found that he seemed to be summoned by the body, attracted to it, and then the perspective returned to himself again.

It was as if Doctor Strange had been hit by the Ancient One's soul-out-of-body palm technique, and then forcibly pulled back into his body.

It's just that, there is no Ancient One at all.

Just as his perspective returned to his body, the familiar frame-skipping image quality began to appear in front of him.

The world he saw began to gradually disappear in color, like a photo that was beginning to fade, gradually losing its colorful colors, leaving only simple and pure black, white... and gray.

Compared to the previous initial version of "My Vision", this time's "My Vision" seemed to have gained vitality, changing from exposure image quality to black, white, and gray three-color image quality...

The sound of wind was still whistling in Lin Yi's ears, the sound of wind was sometimes far and sometimes near, as if he was traveling through a certain canyon.

He knew that time was running out, and he had to take advantage of this magical state with uncertain duration to take a good look at the strange points in the cafeteria area.

Therefore, he didn't bother to think about what was going on with the previous soul-out-of-body, soul-flying situation, quickly calmed his breath, adjusted his pace, and began to observe the surrounding environment.

"Huh? !" Sure enough, after taking a closer look, he immediately discovered the clues.

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