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Chapter 569 The Class Teacher - 040's Incident
Last night, before he left the classroom, there were 26 participants in the experience class.

This number already excludes Shan Nan, who had already acted alone, and if we exclude him, Wei Liang, and Lu Zhao's group of four, then there are only 20 participants left.

Now, only 12 of the original 20 participants remain. The 8 missing participants could not possibly have survived in this environment, and their deaths are almost certain.

Even the remaining 12 participants were all in a state that was almost like a human sculpture.

They sat listlessly in their chairs, their faces haggard, their eyes sunken, and their dark circles as thick as smoky makeup; they looked almost inhuman.

His senses hadn't fully spread throughout the classroom yet, but his heart was already ice-cold.

What upset him the most was that his homeroom teacher, 040, wasn't sitting at the podium!

At this time, she will definitely be sitting by the podium.

But she didn't.

"Something must have happened to her!" Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and the ominous feeling grew stronger.

"Old Lin, what are you standing there for? Why don't you go in?" Seeing Lin Yi staring blankly at the doorknob, Wei Liang couldn't help but speak up, interrupting his thoughts.

Lin Yi pushed the door open a little and said in a deep voice, "Teacher Lin is not here."

"Huh?" Wei Liang's expression changed slightly: "Then what about our sign-in?"

"No, you're still thinking about signing in?" Lin Yi couldn't help but ask. The homeroom teacher's disappearance was of great importance; it wasn't just a matter of signing in.

Wei Liang slapped his forehead and quickly apologized sincerely: "Uh, you're right... I feel like the whole classroom is dark and lifeless when I can't see those beautiful legs, sigh..."

"Liangzi, can you be serious for once..." Lin Yi rubbed his forehead, feeling a bit overwhelmed by Wei Liang's state. "Never mind, you go in first, I'll go to the office to check."

"You're going to see Teacher Lin? Uh... then be careful," Wei Liang warned.

"I know." Lin Yi nodded, then temporarily parted ways with Wei Liang and went to the teachers' office in front of "Group B, Class 2".

"Knock knock knock..."

He knocked on the door tentatively, but received no response.

"Knock knock knock..."

Lin Yi knocked again, but there was still no response from inside the door.

Oh no, something really happened to the homeroom teacher, 040! Lin Yi felt heavy-hearted.

"Teacher...?" Lin Yi asked softly, "Teacher, are you there?"

No response at all.

"How to do?"

Lin Yi stood in front of the door, his brows furrowed.

After knocking on the door to no avail, the office door could not be opened.

"If only we could break down the door. Wait... break down the door?"

Lin Yi suddenly remembered the feedback he felt when he grabbed the doorknob earlier, and at the same time, he recalled the gymnasium rules that mentioned that "sports students can open most of the things with 'door attributes' on campus," as well as the Night Watchman's words that "unless you are confident, do not easily open things with 'door attributes'."

Of course, the former specifically refers to the campus, while when the night watchman told him, he was referring to the art building floor, especially the little girl's bedroom door.

"Perhaps... I can give it a try?"

After a brief consideration, the thought came to Lin Yi's mind, and he said, "Teacher... should I open the door?"

Lin Yi was asking a question he already knew the answer to, so naturally there was no response from the office.

Lin Yi then reached out and slowly grasped the doorknob.

As the palm made contact with the doorknob, an invisible wave quietly spread out and permeated the doorknob.

As the fluctuations permeated, the doorknob gradually transformed in Lin Yi's perception into something woven from grid lines, within which were hidden some mysterious patterns.

The pattern resembled a keyhole, with some wrinkles, and he used his sensory tentacles to manipulate those wrinkles, gradually smoothing them out, just like inserting a key.

"Click-clack click-clack..."

The sound of mechanical gears turning gradually emerged, and Lin Yi slowly "cracked" the office door lock.

When the last crease became smooth, Lin Yi tried pressing the doorknob.

“Crack!”

The doorknob was indeed pressed down, and at the same time, he successfully pushed it open a crack!
"It's done?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. He felt as if an achievement titled "King of Chinese Locks" had popped up above his head.

"Teacher...I'm coming in?" Lin Yi said softly, his senses probing into the doorway first.

The office lights were on, and everything was neatly arranged, showing no signs of anything unusual.

"Could she have left?" Lin Yi thought of Class Teacher-039. Could it be that Class Teacher-040 also left the campus because of the pollution?

It just so happens that there's no one here now because the homeroom teacher hasn't arrived yet.
"wrong."

There was no uniform that the homeroom teacher-040 had changed out of on the desk.

Back then, Class Teacher-039 neatly shed the identity of "Class Teacher-039".

His sensory tentacles slowly extended behind the bookshelf. As soon as he got there, he sensed the strong polluted smell coming from the small room, as well as the aura of the homeroom teacher -040!
"Found it!"

A thought struck him, and he quickly closed the office door before rushing into the small room.

Lifting the curtain, there indeed was the homeroom teacher, 040, standing there.

However, the homeroom teacher -040 was now lying by the bed. It was clear that she had tried very hard to climb into bed, but due to her negative state, she was exhausted and fell unconscious with half of her body slumped over the edge of the bed.

And what she was wearing was not a teacher's uniform, but the battle suit she had worn when she fought him.

The starry liquid-like battle suit is now extremely tattered, leaving the homeroom teacher-040's skin unprotected. She looks as if she's been thrown into a whirlpool of blades, her entire body covered in wounds.

Some small wounds had already scabbed over, but some shocking wounds not only failed to scab over, but instead showed signs of ulceration. In those wounds, the blood had turned into jelly-like crystals, and some of the jelly-like blood even showed signs of petrification...

The homeroom teacher-040 has been contaminated.

Lin Yi could tell her condition at a glance, but unlike the other units that were mentally corrupted, Class Teacher-040's body was corrupted. Her body seemed to have been impacted by a materialized supernatural force, suffering serious injuries, to the point that she had fallen into a coma.

The homeroom teacher-039 may have been injured before, which led to her being gradually corrupted.

However, Class Teacher-039's injuries were much lighter than Class Teacher-040's, which is why she had the opportunity to become an art teacher. Class Teacher-040, on the other hand, was practically dying a slow death.

But luckily, she met Lin Yi.

Even more fortunately, Lin Yi had just learned how to pick locks, and the first lock she picked was the one in her office.

Lin Yi gently placed his hand on the exposed skin of Class Teacher-040, while suppressing most of his senses, allowing them to flow into Class Teacher-040's body through his palm to better understand Class Teacher-040's injuries.

Just in case, he kept some of his senses outside for defensive purposes.

Upon sensing the condition inside the homeroom teacher-040's body, Lin Yi gasped sharply.

The homeroom teacher's body was a complete mess, filled with all sorts of mixed supernatural powers, each inflicting different forms of pollution. If this continued, she would soon turn into something resembling an alien angel.

After clearly perceiving all the injuries and contamination within Class Teacher-040's body, Lin Yi, like a humanoid computer, constructed a mental image of Class Teacher-040's condition.

Even more fortunately, because Lin Yi had treated Class Teacher-040 in the early hours of yesterday morning, he still retained Class Teacher-040's "physical data" from his "peak period".

Therefore, Lin Yi used the previous "body data" as a reference and began to align the severely injured body of Class Teacher-040 with that data...

He suddenly realized that he really was like an architect; his colleagues used blueprints to repair buildings, while he was repairing his body based on his body data.

What he is doing to the body of the homeroom teacher-040 now goes beyond the usual meaning of "treatment" and is more like a "data rollback".

It was an extremely difficult process, but Lin Yi felt like he was getting into the swing of things.

His brows were furrowed, his expression grave, but a glint of fanaticism would occasionally flash in his eyes, as if he were completely absorbed in this frenzied "operation"...

Time passes little by little.

Finally, he restored the physical condition of the homeroom teacher -040 to 80%, and the wounds on his body were almost healed.

Just then, the homeroom teacher's long, curled eyelashes trembled slightly...

"Hey..."

A soft groan escaped her throat, her brow furrowing suddenly before slowly relaxing.

Suddenly, she opened her eyes wide, and a strong killing intent burst forth from her. At the same time, she leaped up with lightning speed, maximizing her mobility in an instant. She darted into a corner like a nimble fish, her eyes warily fixed on Lin Yi.

Her nerves were on edge, as if she hadn't yet recovered from last night's state.

Come to think of it, she fainted by the bedside yesterday, so her mind was still caught up in that intense battle.

Lin Yi raised his hands in surrender: "It's me, Lin Yi."

"Lin Yi...? Impossible!" the homeroom teacher-040 said in a low voice, "Who exactly are you?"

"It really is me." Lin Yi was somewhat helpless, but genuinely understood his homeroom teacher. "If it wasn't me, how would you explain your injuries? I treated you yesterday, remember?"

After Lin Yi's reminder, Class Teacher-040 slowly pulled himself out of the deadly fighting state he had been in yesterday.

"Huh, my body...?!" The homeroom teacher-040 was shocked as she felt her injuries almost completely healed. "My injuries?! This...? How... how did you do that?"

Lin Yi waved his hand: "Alright, alright, as long as you believe me... Now come here obediently, lie down, I'm not finished yet!"

"Finished...?" The homeroom teacher-040 instinctively hugged herself tightly. "You..."

"I meant to help you with your treatment." Lin Yi didn't bother to explain further. "Come and lie down."

"Okay." Class teacher-040 pursed his lips, and without any hesitation, obediently walked to the window and lay down.

"I feel like I'm fully recovered," the homeroom teacher-040 suddenly said.

Of course, that's exactly how she felt.

Although she didn't understand how Lin Yi did it.

Lin Yi frowned slightly: "I said it's not healed, and that means it's not healed. I know your body better than you do now... If you insist, then I can give up treatment, but you'll have to bear the consequences yourself."

It wasn't that Lin Yi felt obligated to save her just because they had met; rather, he always felt that if you were going to do something, you should do it well. If you fell short by even the slightest bit, it would be like trying to solve a problem that could be solved completely but was only half done.

A person's sense of self-satisfaction will be very poor.

He will be unhappy if he has a poor sense of self-satisfaction.

He simply didn't want to be unhappy.

The homeroom teacher, 040, was unaware of Lin Yi's thoughts and could only lie there, letting him do as he pleased.

"Do we need to remove the suit?" she suddenly asked.

"Remove the battle suit?" Lin Yi's heart stirred slightly. Removing the battle suit... wouldn't that... a beautiful fantasy image full of springtime scenes flashed through his mind, but he restrained himself.

"No need... this is fine."

The homeroom teacher, 040, showed no expression, but for some reason, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Yi then continued to place his hand on the wound of the homeroom teacher-040, continuing the treatment.

Besides some injuries, the homeroom teacher-040 also had some pollutants in his body that he was unaware of.

This part of the pollution is the focus of the cleanup, but the body must be repaired first before proceeding to the next step.

"With injuries like yours, anyone else would be dead," Lin Yi said while treating the patient. "It's truly incredible that you survived... Your will is incredibly strong."

A proud look appeared on the homeroom teacher's lips: "You can underestimate my combat power, but you can't underestimate our will... Hiss... be gentle."

“It’s very mild, this is neuralgia,” Lin Yi added. “I’m absorbing your pollution, your pain is just pain in your ‘perception’, not physical pain.”

"Your physical body has been restored to its peak condition from yesterday, but the pollution within your body has not been completely removed..."

Listening to Lin Yi's words, the homeroom teacher-040 couldn't help but look at that young face. In a daze, she felt that Lin Yi was like a death surgeon in a white coat, coldly speaking to her on the operating table.

When he saw her looking over, Lin Yi met her gaze with cold indifference.

She paused, then turned her head slightly: "I feel like you're the most outrageous one. It's one thing to be able to treat the kind of injury you had yesterday, but how did you heal this kind of injury?"

"Uh...classified," Lin Yi said. He didn't know how to explain. Should he say that he used your body to reinforce a city wall?
To say something like that would be incredibly disrespectful.

"And... why can you absorb pollution?" Class Teacher-040 asked. "As strategic allies, you're not going to just shut up and say nothing, are you?"

"I released it...you just didn't hear me." Lin Yi muttered, and seeing that his homeroom teacher-040 was about to erupt, he quickly added, "Absorbing pollution, I think that belongs to the power of the 'Ash Apostle'."

(End of this chapter)