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Chapter 613 Student ID Fades

"Huh?" The homeroom teacher's expression changed slightly. She whispered, "Wait, let's talk about this later. After you sign in, we'll talk in my office later."

"Is it that serious?" Lin Yi asked in surprise.

"It's not a matter of how serious it is. There are so many people here. Do you really want to say this here?" the homeroom teacher-040 retorted.

Lin Yi didn't really care where it was said, but since his homeroom teacher-040 had said so, he naturally had to agree.

"Then I'll sign in first, and then go downstairs to sit down," Lin Yi said.

"Hmm," the homeroom teacher responded softly.

After Lin Yi finished signing in, he said, "Liangzi, that is, Wei Liang, spent the night at the gymnasium. I'll sign in for him tonight."

"There's no such thing as signing on behalf of someone else." Class teacher-040 shook his head slightly, not allowing Lin Yi to do that.

She drew an "〇" next to Wei Liang's name: "That's fine."

Lin Yi didn't say much, and silently walked down from the podium and up the steps.

Watching Lin Yi leave, the homeroom teacher-040 pulled her foot out of her high heels again and continued to sway it back and forth.

Lin Yi could sense that the group of newcomers were observing him, and several senses were sweeping over him, as if they were performing dialysis on him. The rough and intense feeling of being spied on was unlike that of official personnel who were restrained; they were probably just random people.

This was Lin Yi's first impression.

He originally wanted to sweep it back, but when he saw the seats he and Wei Liang had been sitting in for several days, he felt empty inside.

He didn't know why, but he always felt a sense of separation from Wei Liang... as if it would be a long time before he could see him again.

And it seems as if we will never see them again.

He sat down in his seat with a somewhat dejected expression, and then began to observe the entire classroom.

He actually intentionally restrained his sensory tentacles because he wanted to observe through his field of vision first before letting the sensory tentacles intervene to see what special sensations he would experience.

After he sat down, he placed his backpack beside him.

Then it was discovered that the erotic comic Wei Liang had been reading before PE class was still on the ground and hadn't been returned.

This guy... I don't know if he's forgotten or what, but it's like he really will come back.

But he didn't come back.

Lin Yi suddenly felt a little sad. It was like two buddies sitting on a hillside chatting and laughing when they suddenly received a draft and joined the army. Many years later, only one of the buddies returned. When he passed by that hillside, he suddenly remembered the words his buddies hadn't finished saying, but they disappeared so naturally.

It's as if they'll come back and continue the conversation.

Lin Yi wouldn't normally think about so many things—but he happened to pass by Wei Liang's horde of corpses and saw so much.

It's hard not to make him overthink things.

He lightly slapped himself twice to stop himself from getting too involved, then picked up the H comic that Wei Liang had seen from the ground and placed it on the folding table.

He didn't look at it, but instead began to observe the situation in the entire classroom.

The time is 18:42. There are an astonishing 63 people in the classroom, but of these 63 "people", 42 are fake students and only 21 are actual students, including Lin Yi.

Of the 21 participants, 3 were new, making it seem like a small group.

In other words, if no new people arrive, the number of participants has been reduced to 18 today, compared to this morning...

Compared to this morning...

Compared to...

Huh, why doesn't he have any recollection of how many people were in the classroom this morning?
Strange……

Oh, right!
Lin Yi slapped his forehead. After entering the classroom in the morning, he didn't observe the classroom at all. He directly covered his head and used his will to infiltrate Tian Bufan to negotiate with the "Shadow of Origin".

No wonder he had no recollection of the number of people!

These three newcomers were clearly no ordinary people.

"It seems... the authorities aren't just constantly filling the numbers of the test takers. At least they know that letting ordinary test takers in under these circumstances would be tantamount to feeding them to the enemy, so they've let in those teams with some skill."

Lin Yi understood.

For example, the captain, Su Yao, and others he met that morning, as well as these few savages who clearly weren't from official factions.

"Is the authorities planning to take advantage of the chaos?" Lin Yi narrowed his eyes. But the authorities are the ones in overall control; why would they need to do such underhanded things?
Could it be... that they're planning a covert operation?
His gaze swept across the entire classroom, taking in all the fake students. He planned to deal with them all later.

For no other reason than to see if they were involved in any conspiracy.

The remaining three newcomers were three women.

Of these three girls, two look very capable, while the other is slightly less so but still exudes a cool and confident aura.

Their eyes were firm and fearless, and their skin was somewhat dark, suggesting they were of Chinese descent. Yet, they possessed a quality of having lived year-round in the scorching sun and deserts, radiating a tenacious vitality.

This pure physique seems to have surpassed that of ordinary beginner-level athletes, though it is still far from comparable to that of second-level athletes.

However, the woman in the lead exuded the aura of a second-tier physical education student.

The several senses that swept over him came from the woman and the petite girl, respectively.

Lin Yi then released his sensory tentacles, silently covering the entire classroom.

When his sensory tentacles covered the three women, even the leader did not feel anything. However, when he covered the homeroom teacher-040, her body tensed slightly, and her high heels accidentally fell off.

She glanced at Lin Yi suspiciously, her eyes seeming to say: What kind of trouble are you up to now?

Lin Yi then whispered, "How about I take care of all the fake people in the classroom later?"

The homeroom teacher, 040, was taken aback. Clearly, she hadn't expected Lin Yi to be able to transmit his voice directly to her ear. Then she tried to mutter, "Whatever, even a PE student would do that... Can you even hear me like that?"

"I can hear you," Lin Yi replied.

If he could be a little more deliberate, he could even hear the heartbeat of his homeroom teacher, 040.

The homeroom teacher's words made Lin Yi suddenly realize something. That makes sense. According to the rules, physical education students would call on art students to attack the fake students. However, since fake students are actually very difficult to kill completely, they would not attack unless their combat power was absolutely overwhelming.

As for "absolute crushing combat power"—isn't that exactly what he is like now?
Since Xu Shunkang and his team had to deal with the gray fog invasion, he figured he might as well take care of the fake human classmate while he was at it! In Wei Shan's words, it was just a warm-up.

He then focused his sensory tentacles on the three women and easily analyzed their skill levels.

Their strength is roughly equivalent to one second-tier sports student and two sports students who haven't reached the second tier.

To his surprise, the female captain and the petite yet spirited girl also seemed to have good mental fortitude, and some even had the air of art students.

"Are they the kind of people who improve both mentally and physically?" Lin Yi became somewhat interested.

Then, he found some small pieces of equipment in their bags. These pieces of equipment had a cyberpunk feel to them and were clearly technological products powered by supernatural matter.

However, this equipment is somewhat lacking compared to the mountain man's full exoskeleton armor.

Of course, there's really no comparison. Shan Nan's equipment took a lot of effort to smuggle in. It took him three days just to put it all back together on campus.

"What a pity..." Lin Yi sighed silently in his heart. The three girls were indeed quite strong, but in terms of their maximum strength, they were not as good as Shan Nan, and in terms of their overall strength, they were not as good as Lu Zhao and the other four.

With such a trio, Gou Ge could definitely leave the campus in seven days, but if he wanted to do something on campus, he would most likely be adding another soul to Gui Hai Chao.

What Lin Yi found regrettable was that these three people hadn't come in to collect money, so their fate was already sealed.

"Are all the teams outside this strong?" Lin Yi couldn't help but have some doubts, but he also began to understand the necessity for the authorities to let their team in.

Compared to those four people having tea by the roadside in some so-called "divine realm," they were practically divine intervention.

The only drawback is that they are a team that needs to warm up and develop beforehand.

While other teams can land and take action, most of them are eliminated immediately upon landing—and often without even getting any equipment.

Lin Yi also noticed that the three women hadn't taken their eyes off him since he entered the classroom, looking at him as if he were some valuable resource, their gazes extremely unrestrained.

Those who don't know might think they came from a land of women and had never seen a man before.

At this moment, the homeroom teacher-040 closed the attendance folder and gracefully walked down the steps in her high heels.

Lin Yi glanced at the clock above the black and white screen in surprise. It was only 18:50, not even 19:00 yet, and the homeroom teacher -040 had already left.

Why doesn't she wait until just before 9 PM to leave?
But he only hesitated for a moment before he understood why the homeroom teacher-040 did this—probably because no one would come to sign in anymore.

Those who could come all came; those who couldn't come all died.

Once the check-in is complete, you can leave.

Without hesitation, Lin Yi got up, picked up his backpack, and walked down the steps.

As for the H comics that Wei Liang had been reading, Lin Yi put them back under the table and chairs and left them there.

He had already read all the information in the book, so there was no need to read it again. He didn't return it simply because he didn't have the time.

After he left the classroom, the three women got up from their seats and walked over to Lin Yi's seat with great interest. They brazenly took out the H comics and read them separately.

As soon as they opened it, their expressions changed.

It's not that I've become strange, but rather that I've become driven by interest.

"Sister Zhou, my judgment was right!" said the second woman among the group, who was not very noticeable.

The petite girl's eyes lit up: "Yeah, Sister Zhou, you know what, don't let his refined appearance fool you, he's such a closet pervert! Last time, Sister Zhou and Sister Zhong both caught men, now it's my turn, right?"

Looking at the book "Super Fighting! The Secret Awakening of Magical Girls!" in her hands, Sister Zhou gradually fell silent.

After a long silence, she slowly spoke, "I've seen repressed perverts in this kind of environment, but I've never seen one as perverted as this... How about I take a look first? You guys line up?"

The petite girl pursed her lips and then slowly said, "Sister Zhou, I have my germaphobia, can I go first?"

……

X023年5月11日，18:58，教师办公室「B组2班」。

"Crack... Bang!"

Lin Yi skillfully opened the office door, entered, and closed it behind him.

The homeroom teacher, 040, had just entered the room and put down the blue folder when she turned around and glanced at him, teasingly saying, "Oh, you really know your way around, huh? You don't even knock now?"

When she turned around, her waterfall-like black hair flowed smoothly through her hair, giving her a captivating and alluring look.

Lin Yi raised his hand and made a few grasping motions, then chuckled and said, "Nothing special, just practice makes perfect."

The homeroom teacher, 040, said sternly, "You still have the mind to laugh? Quickly take out your student ID and let me see it."

"Oh right, right, right!" Lin Yi quickly took out his student ID from his pocket and handed it to the homeroom teacher, 040.

He had complete faith in his homeroom teacher, Mr. 040, both personally and out of trust in the rules.

The homeroom teacher, 040, did not take Lin Yi's student ID. He merely looked at the ID from a distance, and then his expression became serious.

"Lin Yi, to be honest, I've never encountered a situation like yours before."

"That's not the case. None of what I've learned has mentioned this situation."

"Student IDs can be lost or damaged, but... fading them away is unprecedented!"

Lin Yi frowned, surprised that even someone with her professional background had never seen such a situation before, and she suddenly felt a sense of unease.

The homeroom teacher, 040, gently stroked her smooth chin with her slender, delicate fingers: "However, considering that your student ID represents your identity on campus, the fading of the student ID means you are losing your 'identity'..."

Lin Yi said, "I thought of that too, but I can't figure out why I'm losing my identity. Is it because my behavior is becoming less and less like that of an intern, so I'm starting to change my identity?"

“It’s not that simple,” Class Teacher-040 said seriously. “I have another interpretation. If the identity on your student ID represents you, then, could the fading of that identity also mean… you are losing your life—at an extremely fast pace?”

"Really?" Lin Yi asked doubtfully. He knew all too well that he was practically indestructible; no matter how badly he was injured, he would recover completely. "You forgot, I have a very strong self-healing ability!"

The kind that can recover even after being reduced to ashes.

Of course, the second half of this sentence must never be said, otherwise it would be too much of a shock to the homeroom teacher -040.

The homeroom teacher-040 pondered for a moment and said, "I'm not talking about physical death from injury, but the kind of death when one's lifespan is about to end, the kind of death where 'the King of Hell wants you to die at midnight.'"

(End of this chapter)