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Chapter 440 Burning
"Is there a possibility..."

"Entering the school during abnormal weather conditions is a setting for infiltration forces?"

The school knows so much about the situation on campus, there is no reason to make a special case for admission in abnormal weather conditions, right?
The only explanation is that everything was designed.

even--

"I am also a pawn... but I don't know if I am a pawn placed by the authorities, or a pawn placed by the infiltrating forces, or maybe neither..."

Things are getting more and more complicated...

Lin Yi's thoughts were surging in his mind, while the team was constantly moving forward.

Suddenly, the weird art teacher slowed down her pace.

Lin Yi felt something in his heart and looked towards the front of the team. In an instant, golden light surged in his eyes, and extraordinary power poured into his eyes...

The white mist gradually disappeared from his eyes and could no longer affect his vision, and his field of vision also expanded rapidly, as if he had turned on a telescope.

Soon, he discovered that this floor of the teaching building was filled with smiling angels.

All the smiling angels were slightly bowed, with their faces covered and weeping, and the feathers behind them were covered with petrified water droplets.

None of them have awakened, but their distribution is very particular.

Invisibly, they seemed to form a passage, and even only allowed people to pass through the path they left.

It was past 10 o'clock at this moment, and the sun was at its highest point in the sky, but the sunlight could not penetrate the thick smog surrounding the teaching building. Lin Yi and the others felt like they were walking in a dusty desert when they walked here.

The female teacher of weird art led the team through the group of weird laughing angels. Although everyone knew that the weird laughing angels mainly relied on sensing to lock onto their targets, they still concentrated and held their breath, not daring to even breathe.

Lin Yi's behavior was very despicable. He took Li Huiyuan and carefully retreated to the middle of the fanatics' team to ensure that if any accidents occurred, the fanatics in the outer circle would absorb the first wave of firepower.

After walking for a while, Li Huiyuan suddenly whispered, "Brother Lin, Brother Xiao Zi, do you think these smiling angels will never wake up?"

Lin Yi frowned slightly: "I don't think so. The teacher is so cautious, which means there must be something mysterious. Be careful. Don't leave me. If there is any emergency, I will take you away directly."

[****... Don't leave me...****] As soon as Li Huiyuan caught the key words, she automatically extracted them and ignored everything else Lin Yi said. Many pink bubbles popped up in her mind...

Sure enough, Lin Yi soon noticed something unusual.

He heard some rustling sounds in the air...

Then he discovered that all the sculptures of the smiling angels were moving along with the movement of their team!
And the road ahead seems to never end!
"Oh no! The layer has been changed!" Lin Yi reacted quickly. The eerie laughing angel sculptures collectively distorted the layer. At this moment, they were lost in the spatial scale!
"No!" Lin Yi thought to himself that this was not good. At this moment, he had to make a choice between "believing that the weird art teacher would be able to lead them to avoid the attack of the weird laughing angel" and "finding a way to break the situation himself".

Without a second thought, Lin Yi chose to break the impasse on his own - there was absolutely no way he would place his hopes on someone else, especially when this "someone else" was a fanatic.

He slowed down his pace - in fact, the pace had no meaning in terms of spatial scale, but in his "psychology", it served as a hint that he was "leaving the team".

At this moment, a subtle voice broke the depressing and silent environment.

“Kacha…”

The weird art teacher's footsteps paused violently.

The next moment, more and more shattering sounds were heard one after another.

“Click, click, click…”

The Smiley Angel sculpture began to shed its sculptural form, transforming into a flexible, translucent form...

Lin Yi scanned the limited field of vision with a limited visual distance, and was surprised to find that among all the smiling angels he observed, there was not a single one holding an hourglass!
All the weird smiling angels are veteran weird smiling angels!

"Something's wrong! Something's very wrong!"

A sense of uneasiness rose in his heart.

Why would a thing like the Laughing Angel appear in broad daylight? !
Is it possible that the so-called daytime is related to the sun, and this place at this moment, judging from the "anchor point" of "identity", has lost the anchor point of "daytime"? !
Is "daytime" without "sunshine" still considered "daytime"?!

Lin Yi felt more and more uneasy. He began to observe the situation around him, ready to run away at any time.

At this moment, the "coping method" that he had been waiting for for a long time from the weird art teacher was finally revealed by her.

The weird art teacher gave the order: "Everyone who still remembers their name, follow me, the rest, rest where you are! We will remember your sacrifice!"

After the weird art teacher finished speaking, she led Ren Jianxiong, Zhang Lingzhen and the others away without even looking back, and even quickened her pace...

"Ah?" Lin Yi was shocked by the arrangement made by the weird art teacher. "Is this her way of avoiding the weird laughing angel?"

"Depend on!"

What kind of method is this? Isn't this just risking your life?

She also said some high-sounding words like "We will remember your sacrifice". Such words, when spoken by the class teacher, were so admirable. But when spoken by the weird art teacher, Lin Yi felt it was extremely absurd and ridiculous.

Die for me, I'll remember you. What's that?

Lin Yi took a breath and felt that he sometimes really overestimated the fanatics.

But a large number of the fanatics did indeed slowly walk in front of the laughing angel.

Lin Yi realized that these fanatics were like zombies. They looked very much like pseudo-human sculptures, yet there were significant differences between them and pseudo-human sculptures.

It's like... a fake human sculpture among the fanatics!

Ordinary pseudo-human sculptures are usually transformed from experience students, or from nocturnal creatures whose student ID cards have been taken away, but the pseudo-human sculptures here are transformed from fanatics.

Strictly speaking, these are all "pseudo-fanatic sculptures".

Sculpting and nocturnal transformation seem to be two extreme transformations of dehumanization after pollution...

Lin Yi slowed down his pace, and his perception spread out like a tide, silently spreading along the almost stagnant space.

The road he came from gradually appeared in his perception, and the road that he had not yet touched also gradually became clear... The space here was stretched, but it was only stretched. The changes in the layers were not too strange. Perhaps it was the distortion and aberration caused by the collective arrival of the weird laughing angels.

It was not known whether the Laughing Angels sensed the power of perception released by Lin Yi, or were stimulated by the fanatics, but they all accelerated their awakening speed. The originally dim environment began to become dim and bright, as if the lights were flickering.

This is an illusion.

In fact, in Lin Yi's perception, along with the awakening of the Smiley Angel, circles of invisible waves began to ripple out from them as the center. Those waves seemed to show a wave-particle duality. They interfered with each other, overlapped or offset each other. When the peaks and troughs appeared, the light also flickered.

Then, Lin Yi also vaguely sensed that with the appearance of the Smiley Angel, some volcanic ash-like substances seemed to begin to fall in the air. The familiar feeling before came from this volcanic ash...

He looked at the volcanic ash, and then he discovered that there were "ashes" hidden in the volcanic ash!
Of course, the volcanic ash was only the size of a snowflake, and the proportion of "ashes" in it was more like a hair, but even this insignificant amount was still captured by Lin Yi's perception.

But this is also normal. After all, his body survived the ravages and devouring of the alien angel lurking in the black sea of ​​the art floor layer.

That's right, his perception of "Ashes" has already surpassed most of the units on campus. After all, he is the only one who carries "Ashes" in a "mortal" body.

Emmmm... "A mortal body?" Lin Yi was slightly startled, and finally laughed at himself, "I guess... right..."

The other Ash Apostle who carried the ashes had turned into a conceptual sculpture that was neither human nor ghost.

At this moment, the fanatics who came out of the line began to release the dark green aura in their bodies desperately, using this aura to attract the snowflake-like volcanic ash, and the magical thing was that the volcanic ashes were really attracted to them.

After these "ashes" floated down, they landed on them, then quickly melted like rain and quickly seeped into their bodies.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak—”

As soon as they came into contact with the ashes, steam began to come out of their bodies as if they were on fire, but there was no expression of abnormality on their faces, as if it had nothing to do with them.

At the same time, the awakened laughing angels also showed hideous and terrifying smiles to these fanatics. They gathered around the fanatics in groups of three or five and sucked the steam coming out of their bodies.

Their expressions were twisted, perverted, obsessed and enjoying themselves, as if they were inhaling some horrible powder, and their transparent bodies began to flow with evil colors.

What's weird is that the fanatic didn't show any abnormal reaction when being penetrated by the ashes, and the Laughing Angel didn't even show any painful reaction when inhaling the steam. Instead, his expression became more and more refreshed, as if he was about to take off.

However, in Lin Yi's perception, the ashes had already accumulated in the bodies of the fanatics along with the accumulation of volcanic ash, causing the fanatics' bodies to gradually turn red and warm...

If this continues, the fanatic's body will burn like cotton wool stained with sparks.

"This is not good!"

"Let's go! The wind is blowing!" After noticing the problem, Lin Yi no longer planned to stay. He grabbed Li Huiyuan's hand and backed away.

Li Huiyuan did not resist at all and let Lin Yi grab her and take her away, but she asked curiously: "Where are we going?"

Lin Yi responded, "I don't know. Let's separate from them first. They're going to become dangerous soon."

"Okay, I also think it's better to separate." Li Huiyuan nodded. Zhang Lingzhen had deep hostility towards her, and she really wanted to smash Zhang Lingzhen's head with a baseball bat.

Lin Yi pulled Li Huiyuan and retreated along the same path they came from, constantly avoiding the falling volcanic ash on the way so as not to attract the attention of the Laughing Angel.

Not long after they escaped, the first fanatic appeared because the ashes had accumulated to the limit and could no longer carry any more.

With a "puff" sound, a cluster of flames exploded in the fanatic's body, and then the fire instantly swept through the fanatic's entire body, enveloping the fanatic completely.

"what……"

The fanatic finally couldn't bear the pain anymore and let out a roar.

But the flames and steam soon enveloped him, and in the flames, only the shadow of the skeleton remained, and soon, the skeleton was turned into ashes.

The Laughing Angels turned a blind eye to this, still greedily sucking in the steam, but soon the flames swept up and flowed into their ethereal bodies along with the steam...

"raging……"

The laughing angel was like a bellows blown by a strong wind, and a raging flame suddenly burst into flames.

The illusory angel with a strange smile seemed to have become some kind of fuel. However, in the flames, it seemed as if some kind of crystalline substance was being slowly cast...

Lin Yi withdrew his perception and remained silent.

He seemed to have discovered some secret.

Some kind of...secret of the Ash Gatherers.

He secretly memorized this location, and without looking back, he took Li Huiyuan out of the distorted space and returned to the normal - no, relatively normal - "Forbidden Area - B-5F" of the teaching building shrouded in white mist.

……

X023年5月10日，10：05，教学楼「禁忌区域-B-5F」。

Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan stopped at the corridor, their brows gradually furrowed.

"Tsk! Damn..."

Lin Yi rubbed his brows and saw a row of angels with strange smiles suddenly appearing in the depths of the corridor.

However, these eerily smiling angels have not yet been activated and still maintain their sculptural state of covering their faces and crying.

Lin Yi was startled and looked towards the stairwell again.

You don't know until you see it. When you look over, you will see a few sculptures of angels with strange smiles in the stairwell, maintaining the standard posture of covering their faces and crying with their hands raised.

He looked toward the covered bridge again.

The corridor where they were was closer to the stairwell, and on the other side there were bridges leading to Building A and Building C, but they were all hidden in the fog.

The weird art teacher led the scientific explorers to escape to Building A, which was closer to the green forest belt. Lin Yi guessed that their destination was to enter the green forest belt and go to the barren land deep in the green forest belt to seek the protection of the matrix.

(End of this chapter)