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Chapter 598 Ice Slag
He simply couldn't imagine how terrifying the power of a kick his boss unleashed with all his might could be.

"Let's end this part of the training here," the leader said slowly, exhaling lightly as if her breathing was slightly disordered. "I almost didn't hold back with that kick just now."

Lin Yi slowly got up from the ground. Because his boss had held back, his injuries were not serious. As he got up, his flesh and blood slowly regenerated and healed. When he stood up, his body was completely healed.

In reality, his body was no longer a conventional body governed by the laws of physics, but rather an ash body reshaped by ash.

He glanced down at his watch.

15: 46.

Judging from the timeline, the physical education class seems to have ended.

Of course, for him, this is just the beginning.

"Are we going to be 'boiling a frog in lukewarm water' next?"

The eldest brother nodded slightly: "Go take a shower first, then go to the swimming pool."

"Okay!" Lin Yi replied decisively.

The eldest brother said calmly, "This time, just don't drown."

"I'll wait for you at the entrance of the gymnastics hall."

The leader said a few words and then turned and left.

Finally, seeing that Li Huiyuan was still somewhat dazed, he added, "Huihuizi, come with me."

Li Huiyuan quickly got up from the ground and ran happily to her boss's side.

"Take control of your expression," the leader said calmly.

Li Huiyuan was slightly taken aback, and subconsciously reached out to touch her face, only to find that her face still held that stiff, joyful expression, as if someone had replaced her head with a radiant, spring-like sculpted figure...

She shuddered, quickly rubbing her face to regain her composure, then stammered in terror, "Boss, I, I, I just...?"

“You just experienced a qualitative change. Perfect, let me see what happened.” The leader glanced at her left arm and then led her into the women’s changing room.

Li Huiyuan subconsciously glanced at her left hand, touched her smooth, lotus-root-like arm, and a look of doubt flashed in her eyes.

"Okay, boss!" She quickened her pace and caught up with her boss.

On the other side, Lin Yi frowned.

He didn't actually want to eavesdrop on the conversation between the boss and Li Huiyuan, but he couldn't help himself and ended up hearing it.

At the same time, he also sensed some changes in Li Huiyuan.

Now, Li Huiyuan exudes a faint aura that makes him feel close to her. It's a pity that Lin Yi didn't hear the few songs that Li Huiyuan hummed. Otherwise, he would have felt a chill run down his spine and understood that this sense of closeness was actually due to the connection between him and Li Huiyuan that was now formed by the golden secret pattern of the little girl.

As he looked at Li Huiyuan's back, he had a strange feeling that there was something inexplicably familiar about her back.

Especially when Li Huiyuan walked beside the boss, the two of them moving in staggered positions, the feeling of familiarity was even stronger.

"Clang, clang, clang..."

"Clang, clang, clang..."

For no apparent reason, Lin Yi heard the roar of trains passing close to his face, and blurry images kept flashing through his mind. An indescribable, intense emotion swirled in his chest, ready to burst forth.

But at the crucial moment, another voice drowned out all others.

"Ding!"

There was only one crisp striking sound.

But a spark seemed to appear in the darkness, illuminating everything.

The sound of the "master craftsman's" hammer.

The image that Lin Yi had been trying to form in his mind was shattered like a mirage.

Lin Yi felt dizzy and lightheaded, and collapsed headfirst onto the floor in front of him.

"Boom!"

He slammed his fist on the floor, bounced back with a springy bounce, and then remained motionless.

A few seconds later, he seemed to regain consciousness and managed to get up from the ground.

"What...what just happened..." He held his head, feeling a little confused. After thinking for a moment, he looked down at his watch.

15: 52.

What seemed like just a moment ago actually took him two minutes to stand there in a daze on the floor.

He shook his head, composed himself, and then silently walked into the men's changing room.

He needs to take a shower.

……

There were only a few people in the men's changing room at this hour. Almost all of them were gymnastics students training. The trial participants should have left long ago. Come to think of it, he didn't seem to have seen any trial participants in the gymnastics hall today.

Back in front of the locker, he suddenly remembered something and couldn't help but turn to look at the locker where Wei Liang had been standing.

His senses penetrated the lockers in that area, only to find that there were no Wei Liang's clothes at all.

"Liangzi has already left?" He frowned, suddenly feeling that Wei Liang's behavior in the gymnasium was mysterious. He couldn't even remember whether Wei Liang had appeared in the gymnastics hall.

Even if it appeared, was it because he was being trained to the point of exhaustion by his boss, so he was too busy to notice it?
Or...did he already go somewhere else?

He couldn't figure it out.

But Wei Liang said earlier that he would be staying at the gymnasium today, so... could it be that Xia Lian really dragged him to take a bath, no, to go swimming?
He should see Wei Liang at the swimming pool, right?

He stopped thinking about Wei Liang, picked up a towel, and headed towards the shower area.

Although there was no one in the men's restroom at that moment, the shower area was still filled with white steam.

As soon as Lin Yi stepped into the shower area, he felt a warm, humid, and stuffy sensation.

He remembered that the last time he took a shower, his boss gave him a surprise test, asking him to take down a fake sports student.

That sports student, I think his name is Li Kai?

Not important anymore.

"The boss probably won't give me any more tests this time, right?"

Lin Yi pondered for a moment, then shrugged, randomly chose an empty shower stall, crawled inside, and pulled the waterproof curtain shut behind him.

"Whoosh—!"

The moment he pulled the waterproof curtain closed, the temperature in the entire shower area dropped instantly...

Lin Yi's brows furrowed immediately.

"No way...? There really is a test?"

"What kind of test could possibly break me down at this point?"

Lin Yi couldn't help but mutter to himself.

It's not that he's arrogant. Right now, apart from the boss, who else in the entire stadium can threaten him?
He didn't pay much attention to it. The moment the waterproof curtain was drawn, the entire shower room became a separate area defined by the door's properties. Without his permission, no creature could possibly enter. Of course, if one did manage to enter, it's unlikely any creature could get out.

He still has that much confidence.

Lin Yi turned on the tap and, while waiting for the hot water to come out, slowly extended his sensory tentacles out from under the waterproof curtain.

The shower area was still the same shower area, and the steam was still warm, but it felt cold to his sensory hands.

A layer of ice shards was spreading along the anti-slip floor mat, slowly reaching him.

"They really came for me?" Lin Yi was slightly taken aback, but then he realized that he was the only person in the entire shower area at this time. If they weren't after him, who else could they be after?

Just then, the warm water came out, and Lin Yi rinsed his body while waiting for the other party to make a move.

But strangely, the other party did not make any move until he finished showering.

Even his sensory tentacles didn't find anything in the bathing area; the only strange thing was a patch of ice shards on the ground.

"Wait...? Something's not right..."

He found the source of the ice shards.

That place appears to be another shower room within the shower area.

Because of the waterproof curtain, that side was also blocked by the door, but even so, ice crystals slowly seeped out of the shower area, giving the impression of someone in the bathtub cutting their wrists and letting the blood flow out.

Lin Yi frowned, turned off the tap, dried himself off, pulled back the waterproof curtain, and silently walked out of the shower room.

Strangely enough, after he pulled back the waterproof curtain, the cold feeling in the shower area disappeared, and the ice crystals on the floor also vanished.

Clearly, the thing that releases ice shards isn't in this layer.

"Isn't this the boss's assessment?" This thought popped into Lin Yi's mind.

But driven by curiosity, he still decided to take a look.

After all, he's become quite daring and skilled these days.

So he followed the location he had sensed and slowly walked to the source of the ice shards.

But he froze after taking only a few steps.

There was no way forward for him.

"Even that shower room is in the layer?" Lin Yi was surprised.

Then he turned and left.

Although he was somewhat curious, he wasn't going to waste his time on something like this.

I'll tell the boss what I found first and see what he says.

This situation doesn't seem like a test at all.

……

X023年5月11日，16:03，体育馆2F，体操馆出口。

But when Lin Yi left the men's quarters, he didn't see the boss, nor did he see Li Huiyuan.

"Huh? Did I go too fast?"

He then went to the sign with the cartoon version of the boss and waited there, feeling rather bored.

After waiting another five minutes, he glanced at his watch, then took a few steps outside and came to the handrail.

Standing here, he wouldn't be out of sight of the locker room entrance. The boss and Li Huiyuan could see him as soon as they came out, and he could also check the situation on the first floor of the stadium.

On the huge basketball court on the first floor of the gymnasium, many physical education students were playing basketball, while others were moving around freely on the edge.

Overall, there are many sports students, but the proportion of sports students like Xu Shunkang is not high. Most of them are beginner sports students, which are a group of chicks who can't help at all during the gray fog invasion.

Thinking of this, a self-deprecating smile appeared on Lin Yi's lips.

"Little chick...heh...that's probably how Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang viewed themselves back then..."

Who would have thought that in just one week, this little chick would grow into a KFC chicken?

He leaned over the second-floor handrail, his gaze sweeping across the first floor before settling on the PE teacher's office.

"'Sports Office'..." Upon seeing that sign, Lin Yi immediately thought of that soft, fleshy feeling, as if he were stepping on flesh. He couldn't say for sure whether the stadium was also parasitized by some mysterious creature.

But perhaps he could ask the boss, after all, the boss's position is indeed quite high. As someone who has existed since the founding of the school, she may know far more secrets than the authorities have discovered over the years.

However, Lin Yi was a little curious. Since the boss knew so much, why did the official team choose to explore on their own instead of directly asking the boss?
Is it also a consideration of "adaptability"?

The authorities can't know too much all at once, can they?

Or perhaps... the real world outside the campus can't handle too much information from the supernatural side all at once?
Just like how physicists limit the extraordinary to a certain range?
and also……

An old kerosene lamp.

Lin Yi's gaze fell on the row of old kerosene lamps along the wall of the gymnasium.

In this gymnasium filled with LED lights, the dim light of the old kerosene lamps is almost indistinguishable from the decorations. But in the hands of the physical education teacher, these old kerosene lamps can become a powerful tool to suppress the grotesque angel.

"Speaking of which..." Lin Yi muttered to himself, "It seems that physical education teachers don't possess the power of 'Supreme Judgment'..."

Judging from the boss's tone, the lower limit of the "Supreme Judgment" approach is security, while there is no upper limit.

Even Old Mo, who was able to pull the Smiling Angel out of the layers and kill it, seemed to have only touched the path of "Supreme Judgment".

That means that Wei Shan is now at roughly the same level as Lao Mo was back then.

His overall strength might be slightly better than Wei Shan's... No wonder the boss said he was not even as good as the security guard.

As for the physical education teacher... the physical education teacher carrying an old kerosene lamp, if we disregard other aspects, his combat performance alone might be at the level of Lao Mo and Wei Shan.

In this way, the combat strength is matched.

"We'll have to ask the boss how to light the old kerosene lamp later..."

"I wonder if Wei Shan and Young Master Tian have met up yet... I probably won't have a chance to go to the 'school clinic'. I wonder if Wei Shan could go to the 'school clinic' to check on things."

A few minutes later, some noise finally came from the women's changing room.

Lin Yi looked in the direction of the sound and saw the eldest brother and Li Huiyuan walking together.

Li Huiyuan's face was flushed, her breathing was unsteady, and her steps were somewhat unsteady, as if she had just gone through a high-intensity training session that had left her almost exhausted.

The eldest brother, however, frowned, a rare look of solemnity on his usually cool face.

"What... happened to you guys?" Lin Yi went up to them, his eyes full of confusion, and he also began to wonder what the boss and Li Huiyuan had done in the women's quarters.

The eldest brother glanced at him and said, "In the end, it's all about you."

Li Huiyuan also sobbed, "Linlinzi, you have to take full responsibility for me this time."

"Huh?" The guy who was entirely responsible looked completely bewildered. "You guys should at least explain yourselves clearly!"

The eldest brother gave a signal with his eyes, and Li Huiyuan slowly raised her left hand.

(End of this chapter)