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Chapter 588 Solo Bathroom Cleaning

Then, they disassembled the other parts of the Grinning Angel one by one.

Wei Shan was right. He had just mastered the technique of constructing puppets in the Forest of Corpses that morning, and now he could dissect the Smiling Angel as if he were a master butcher.

Most importantly, the disassembled Grimace Angel's various parts were still able to move, just like... the artificial organs in Stephen Chow's "The God of Cookery".

"This grinning angel looks just like some of the organs on the Corpse Forest!" Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaim.

Wei Shan didn't answer, but his silence gave Lin Yi a sudden inspiration: "Wow, Wei Shan, do you think the fanatics want to 'upgrade' themselves into angel statues?!"

Lin Yi suddenly understood; he seemed to have figured it out!

Through years of research, the fanatics created the Forest of Bones;

Despite failing in his experiment to create an angel sculpture and instead producing the "Angry Angel," he still didn't stop his research.
In addition, he had personally witnessed a bizarre art teacher and fanatics using organs from the bone forest to replace parts of their own bodies...

Everything makes sense now!

It's all because the fanatics want to upgrade themselves into "Grim Reaper Angels." Their so-called glorious evolution is basically... turning into... a Grim Reaper Angel?!
Wei Shan honestly replied, "I don't know. You should discuss this with Young Master Tian. I... am too lazy to think about such things."

"Oh..." Lin Yi responded, then added, "But I feel like the problem isn't that simple... Wait! Could it be related to the ashes?!"

When Kuai Hongji dealt with the eerie art teacher and her companions, he brought back crystallized ashes!
"Ashes!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. Yes, this might be a crucial clue!

He then continued to dismantle the Grinning Angel, and finally, inside the Grinning Angel's body, he discovered traces of ash crystals!
At the heart of the grinning angel, a black-gold ash crystal is encased within the translucent heart.

He removed the ash crystals, and all the parts of the grinning angel petrified neatly.

"How amazing!" Lin Yi couldn't help but exclaim, then muttered shamelessly, "I wonder if the official research on the Grinning Angel is as extensive as mine?"

Wei Shan said, "The official research on mysterious creatures is very limited... To study the Grinning Angel, one must first have a golden aura."

"The authorities do not have this power."

Lin Yi's eyes lit up: "If I sell this secret to the authorities, can I get more money?"

Wei Shan: "..."

"Uh... is there a problem?" Lin Yi asked.

"Theoretically yes, but... there are still four left. Should we dismantle them or not?" After Lin Yi regained control of his body, Wei Shan was clearly less irritable. Only at this moment did his tone begin to reveal a cruel aura.

Lin Yi glanced at the four grinning angels, then his mouth twisted into a sinister smile: "Since you're already here..."

A moment later, Lin Yi dismantled the three grinning angels. During this process, Wei Shan occasionally let out excited breathing sounds in Lin Yi's mind, making Lin Yi feel as if there was an excited husky hiding inside him.

But just as Lin Yi was aiming at the last smiling angel, the hourglass in the other's hand suddenly cooled him down from his intense dismantling session.

His first thought was, "Weisang, this smiling angel is holding an hourglass, so there seems to be hope."

"Kill them all! Kill them all!" Wei Shan was really into it. Lin Yi was the driver and he was the passenger, but he was still having a great time watching Lin Yi drive.

Lin Yi paused for a moment, then nodded, and without further ado, dismantled the smiling angel.

“You’re right, Weisan.”

I shouldn't have hesitated.

"There's a difference between being able to save someone and having a 100% chance of saving them."

Back then, Old Mo killed a grinning angel who was holding an hourglass.

The leader chose to go and rescue her because the sly, smiling angel from before was in the gymnasium, and she could easily bring her into the basement.

As for him?
Although physical education class is about to start, but... does he really want to keep this sly-smiling angel under his control and drag him to the gymnasium like this?

impossible.

Lin Yi would never do something so overly sentimental.

Let's just grab it and refine it instantly.

With this thought in mind, Lin Yi did not hesitate to break up this smiling angel.

In the end, all Lin Yi had left was that sculpted hourglass.

As he extracted the crystallized ashes from the heart of the grinning angel, the hourglass immediately cracked and then fell apart.

Unlike the Grimace, the hourglass did not dissipate after it shattered.

The part that disappeared was only the surface of the hourglass, while its inner layer was actually an old kerosene lamp.

"Wow, Wei Sang, we got some loot!" Lin Yi picked up the old kerosene lamp and couldn't help but start playing with it.

The wick of this old kerosene lamp has gone out, but the body is still there, so there may still be a way to light it again.

Once lit, it's like he has an extra weapon—regardless of whether the old kerosene lamp is useful to him or not, having it or not is a completely different matter.

"Hmm." Wei Shan's voice slowly rang out, "It should be the dormitory supervisor's light."

Lin Yi said, "Yes, these lantern-carrying, grinning angels are all former dormitory supervisors, so... I just killed a dormitory supervisor, right?"

“That’s not how you say it,” Wei Shan denied. “We took down ‘zombies’.”

Lin Yi was taken aback, but then he thought about it and realized it made sense.

Once a person becomes a zombie, they are no longer human. Killing a zombie is eliminating a scourge—it's the same principle as killing the Laughing Angel.

What to eliminate depends on the target's current "identity".

Lin Yi vaguely remembered that extraordinary substances could power lamp wicks, and the Wry Eyes of the Smile Angel seemed to have a similar effect, but he didn't know exactly how it worked.

"Weisang, do you know how to turn on the light?" Lin Yi asked.

Wei Shan said, "Old Lin, you should know more about these things than I do, or... you can ask the boss during PE class later?"

"Boss?" Lin Yi's eyes lit up. "Right, we can ask her!"

"Well, if there's nothing else, I'll be going now." After saying that, Wei Shan fell silent.

Lin Yi picked up the old kerosene lamp and silently turned to leave.

However, before leaving, he reconsidered and decided to smash the remaining fragments of the grinning angel sculpture that were scattered on the ground but had not yet turned to dust before departing.

As he left, the surrounding layers rippled, and the once empty elevator car was once again filled with pseudo-human classmates and night-walking creatures.

Light and shadow distorted behind Lin Yi, making the dark elevator seem as if it were shrouded in yellow sand.

Lin Yi walked out of the corridor where the elevator was located and glanced down at his watch. "14:16"

More than 40 minutes have passed since I left the homeroom teacher's office (040), and most of that time was spent dismantling the "Grimace of Smiles".

After confirming the time, he turned and walked towards the bathroom.

The restrooms here were his real purpose for this trip; the stairwells and elevators were just things he needed to visit.

There's no time to stay in the classroom today. I'm going to the restroom in a bit, and when I come back, I need to call Wei Liang for PE class.

Because of what happened last night, he plans to leave a little earlier today, so he will have more time to observe the environment inside the stadium on the way.

Meanwhile, several students were using the restroom, seemingly unaware of Lin Yi's approach.

It wasn't until Lin Yi arrived at the restroom that anyone noticed his presence, was startled, and immediately left the restroom.

There seemed to be a strange aura about Lin Yi. All the students who were in the toilet seemed to feel uncomfortable and quickly finished their business before leaving.

Lin Yi didn't pay much attention to these participants, but it wasn't until he stepped across the bathroom threshold that he suddenly realized why they were so surprised when they looked at him.

"Door attribute..." Lin Yi was shocked. This bathroom had no door, but he clearly sensed the existence of the door attribute the moment he stepped through it.

Before this, he had never noticed anything unusual about the bathroom!
"why?"

"Is it because my understanding has deepened that I'm now being constrained by the door's attributes?"

The more you know, the more rules and regulations you can ignore, but conversely, the more restrictions you will face.

Lin Yi seemed to have touched upon a paradox: "the stronger you become, the weaker you become."

However, as he arrived, the other women in the restroom were affected by his aura, and they even had trouble urinating properly, so they quickly pulled up their pants and left.

Soon, only Lin Yi and a stall with its door tightly closed remained in the bathroom.

And this toilet stall has been running continuously since he entered the bathroom, as if the flush switch has been pressed down firmly.

Lin Yi glanced indifferently at the closed door, then walked unhurriedly to the urinal and began to relieve himself.

His position was with his back to the toilet stall, but he didn't need to look at it at all; his sensory tentacles had already spread out, covering the entire toilet.

The amazing thing is that the door attribute is indeed omnipresent. His perception can easily capture everything around him, but he can't sense the pit with the door tightly closed, as if it has been removed from his perception.

That toilet stall, when the door is closed, seems to achieve a self-contained layer structure, separating itself from the restroom, which is quite strange.

Lin Yi, refusing to believe it, reached out and rubbed his eyes, activating "Visual Insight" to enhance his sensory tentacles and simultaneously uncover the secrets of the bathroom.

This behavior is no less than scanning a toilet with the most advanced radar; the logic itself is extremely perverse... But in S City University, a restroom is not necessarily just a restroom, and insight is necessary.

Lin Yi came here with a specific purpose: he felt that he had explored the entire teaching building, but hadn't properly studied... the restrooms.

But the bathroom was indeed extraordinary; even with his vision wide open, he still couldn't decipher the secrets of the layers within.

It wasn't that he couldn't see through it, but rather that, in his field of vision, the area where the bathroom was located... was actually nothingness!
Unlike elevator lobbies or student cafeterias, this entire restroom doesn't have layers of different levels; its lower level is simply a pure void.

This kind of nothingness was just like what he had seen before in the cracks between the layers of the Corpse Forest. Beneath the interlaced layers was a hazy, empty place where even light and shadow could not exist.

In terms of its nature, the layer beneath the toilet... has already reached that level.

"Wouldn't that mean I'd just die on the spot if the layer slipped here?!" This thought suddenly popped into Lin Yi's mind.

With no results from the thorough investigation, Lin Yi turned his attention to the tightly closed door of the pit.

The sound of water gushing out could still be heard continuously from inside the pit.

Lin Yi then raised his hand and knocked on the door.

"Knock! Knock!"

"Is anyone there? I need to fix the toilet!" Lin Yi called out, sounding like an experienced plumber, but after several calls, there was still no sound from inside except for the sound of running water.

Lin Yi then slowly placed his hand on the lock of the door.

Without exception, all the locks on the pits were locked from the inside, and Lin Yi wasn't sure if he could force them open.

Of course, the most explosive thing would be if you opened the door and actually found someone squatting on the toilet.

Lin Yi greeted them gently while activating his lock-picking divine power.

As his extraordinary power continued to penetrate the door pages, he gradually realized that the essence of overcoming the door's attributes was not to crack the lock on the door, but to use the actual door pages as a reference anchor to tear open the gaps between layers.

"The so-called 'door' is actually just a node! Just like a staple that holds two pieces of paper together, it is precisely the existence of the door that makes the pathway between the layers visible!"

Lin Yi exerted his comprehension, and extraordinary power quickly filled the entire door. In fact, the more he perceived the door, the more he felt as if he were peering into some kind of "infinitely" vast city wall.

That's the boundary of the layer behind the door!
"No need for that... I just need to make one hole! Just one hole!"

As Lin Yi analyzed the page, countless creepy, wriggling worms began to appear on the layer level. These worms resembled countless maggots, yet also seemed like countless mouths biting each other together.

Thanks to Lin Yi's tireless efforts, the maggots finally began to wriggle and separate somewhat...

"Click, click, click..."

The sound of the latch turning and starting echoed in Lin Yi's mind.

There is no latch on the door of the pit.

This is the sound of the door property between layers being activated.

It turns out that Lin Yi had already caught such a sound on the very night he entered the school.

As the door attribute was broken at the layer level, the red "occupied" door on the bathroom layer also began to rotate, and finally with a click, it jumped to the green "free".

Lin Yi's spirits lifted, and he quickly opened the door.

There was indeed no one in the pit; only the water was constantly flowing and turning.

However, there was a foreign object stuck in the drain that wouldn't flush down.

The object was almost unrecognizable, but Lin Yi's perception clearly recreated its appearance in his mind.

In that instant, Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply.

“What, what is this…?!”

This is the baseball cap that Wei Liang wore from beginning to end.

(End of this chapter)