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Chapter 619 Repaying Kindness with Evil

"Ouch, you've crushed my poop!!" Girl number three cried out.

Sister Zhou and the second girl quickly moved aside.

Girl number three scrambled to her feet, about to brush off her clothes, when she suddenly saw Lu Zhao, who had already walked to the front of the teaching building.

"Huh? That person looks familiar. Wait, isn't that Lu Zhao? No, something's off about his aura..." Girl number three's eyes widened. Forgetting to complain about Lin Yi's lack of romantic understanding, she immediately called out to her two teammates, "Sister Zhou, Sister Lizhi, isn't that Lu Zhao? Has something happened to him? I feel like his aura is disordered, he doesn't seem like a living person."

Sister Zhou also noticed Lu Zhao, but unlike the hesitation of the third girl, she could tell at a glance that Lu Zhao was not human.

“He’s dead.” Her expression turned serious as she said this. “According to the information, they entered the school yesterday. How… could they just die like that?”

She felt a dim light before her eyes, as if the world was collapsing—not because she had any close relationship with Lu Zhao, but because she subconsciously projected her image onto the trio—all elites of their own organizations, but Lu Zhao's "God's Domain" was far superior to them in overall strength. Now that even a team of Lu Zhao's strength had been killed by the campus's first encounter, wouldn't the three of them also be doomed?
Sister Zhou's eyes flickered, and she almost instantly devised a plan: "After the imposter seizes the identity, he will firmly believe that he is Lu Zhao. We don't know how much of Lu Zhao's memory he has retained after being replaced..."

"How about we try to engage it in some back and forth, pretending it's Lu Zhao, and see if we can get some information out of it?"

Real-time information and intelligence are crucial resources. First-hand information obtained directly is more critical to the direction of the situation than information from the organizers.

With that in mind, Sister Zhou suddenly realized that Lin Yi was still by her side.

She immediately thought of Lin Yi's actions in the classroom, and looked at him, asking, "Excuse me, Lin, if I may ask, Lu Zhaosheng was someone we knew before. Could you let us ask him about the situation first?"

Lin Yi was slightly taken aback and couldn't help but ask, "It seems you know I'm going to send him on his way?"

Sister Zhou chuckled self-deprecatingly: "If I didn't even have this much sense, I wouldn't have the face to talk to you."

Since she had accepted in her heart that Lin Yi was someone who had touched the path of supreme judgment, she had become much more respectful when facing Lin Yi.

"Then do as you please, I'll just watch from the sidelines." Lin Yi's confidence stemmed from his ability to back up his decision. He could easily defeat the fake Lu Zhao in one move, so it was fine for them to have some fun with him.

Besides, he was also curious about what they wanted to say to the fake Lu Zhao; perhaps he could even get some information out of them.

"Thank you," Sister Zhou said with unusual politeness.

Both girl number two and girl number three felt that the sun had risen in the west.

They waited in the corridor as Lu Zhao walked up the steps.

Lu Zhao arrived quickly, its ascent was somewhat slow, and the powdery particles on its body, like dandruff, would occasionally break off and release some powdery particles. Compared to the ordinary pseudo-human classmate, it seemed to be more intelligent.

Lin Yi leaned against the wall, leisurely watching them, but after leaning down, he suddenly realized that the raw material of the wall didn't seem very "clean," so he stood up straight again.

At this moment, Lu Zhao finally arrived at the steps. It was pale and somewhat thin, and it was still holding its fire axe in its hand.

However, its uniform was tattered, and the copper chain on the handle of the fire axe was broken.

Because it had become a fake human, there were no visible scars on its body.

Upon closer inspection, Lin Yi couldn't help but narrow his eyes. This Lu Zhao gave him a feeling that was different from ordinary fake people.
Lu Zhao's skin was constantly fluctuating in a strange rhythm, as if an invisible, powerful fan was blowing fiercely at him.

However, its tattered uniform showed no signs of being blown by the wind.

And under its skin, it constantly makes sounds like arthropods crawling or a group of small crabs blowing bubbles, which gives you goosebumps.

Its mouth kept murmuring, "I want to live... I want to live..."

Its eyes were dull and gray, as if it couldn't see anything. After climbing the steps, it didn't notice the "Hell Rose" group, but instead vaguely pointed towards Lin Yi.

It seemed to sense Lin Yi's presence, and a hint of resentment began to flicker in its originally dull eyes.

But before it could take any further action, and seeing that it was about to pass by, Sister Zhou spoke up: "Lu Zhao?"

Lu Zhao hadn't noticed them at first, but when Sister Zhou called out to it, its perception process seemed to be interrupted, and it stopped, then slowly turned towards her.

"I am Lu Zhao...I want to live...I am Lu Zhao..."

"I have discovered the secret of the ashes... I will make a name for myself..."

"I want to live...I want to live...to leave the campus..."

"I...I...you...who are you? I think...I remember you..."

"You are... Zhou... Zhou... Yi?"

"It's me." Zhou Yi breathed a sigh of relief. This Lu Zhao actually retained some memories. He was indeed an elite. Even in a zombie movie, he would be considered a thousand-year-old corpse!
"Where are the rest of you? What happened?" she asked with concern.

Lu Zhao said, "I am Lu Zhao... I found the gray... no, I, we..."

“They’re all dead…they’re all dead…the Forest of the Dead…”

"Torrential rain...the legendary...Ashes Apostle..."

"Jin Jiuyao is dead... Chen Bing and Chen Xue are dead too... I... no, I'm still alive... still alive..."

"I need to take this message out of here..."

"ash……"

"I saw it...I really saw it..."

Zhou Yi and the other two exchanged glances, then she quickly asked, "What is the mystery of the ash? Please tell me, and I'll help you pass on the message..."

“I am Lu Zhao…I…okay…okay…come here…I will only tell you…one person…” Lu Zhao said.

Zhou Yi quickly moved closer.

Lin Yi frowned. This Lu Zhao was intelligent, and quite intelligent at that.

what happened?

Shouldn't it have died immediately?
When I saw it on that road in the stadium area in the afternoon, it wasn't like this.

Back then, Lu Zhao was a complete walking corpse. How come he seems to have regained his intelligence now?
What happened that afternoon?
And there are little geniuses...

Wait, a little genius?!
Is it...

He covered his left eye with one hand and instantly entered the "Vision Insight" state. Through his vision and advanced perception, he tried to observe whether Lu Zhao also had a "fishing line" similar to that of the little genius behind him.

"No fishing line...it doesn't seem to be 'Grandpa's' bait. That's strange, what's going on?"

Just then, Zhou Yi suddenly let out a sharp scream and instantly retreated a distance.

"Lu Zhao—! Damn it!!"

Zhou Yi's clothes at the chest were torn, revealing a smart, form-fitting leather armor underneath her loose coat.

On the other side, Lu Zhao's fingernails had become much sharper, and the tips of his fingers were still covered in fabric from Zhou Yi's body.

It did not use the fire axe in its hand because the fire axe cannot be fired instantly and is easier to detect and dodge.

If Zhou Yi hadn't been wearing close-fitting armor, her chest would most likely have been ripped open by this attack.

"I am Lu Zhao... No one... can get any information from me!!" Lu Zhao is dead, but his obsession runs deep.

At that moment, Lin Yi suddenly realized what was going on with that strange feeling.

Lu Zhao today is somewhat similar to those obsessive sculptures in the art building.

However, its obsession is a little different.

It is dead and has indeed become a pseudo-human, but the last vestige of its obsession still occupies its body and has even overwhelmed the Nightwalker or the pseudo-human, playing a dominant role.

It's like being suspended by a celestial aura.

Lu Zhao's first attack failed, so he immediately pulled out a fire axe and began to chop fiercely at Zhou Yi.

Zhou Yi's expression was grim as she immediately discerned Lu Zhao's condition: "He is completely dead, but his obsession from his lifetime has taken over his body after death!"

"We're getting no news! We can't waste time fighting! Back to the classroom! Let's get back to the classroom and break its aggro!"

Not wanting to waste her energy, she immediately called her two teammates back to the classroom. At the same time, she looked at Lin Yi, knowing that he could definitely handle Lu Zhao, but she still said, "Lin, let's go back to the classroom. There's no need to waste our energy on it!"

This action was actually unnecessary, but Zhou Yi knew that social skills were essential to gaining Lin Yi's favor.

"You guys go first," Lin Yi said. "I'll take care of it."

Zhou Yi said, "Then be careful!"

After saying that, he returned to the classroom with the three girls.

But the moment they stepped inside, Lu Zhao's venomous roar came from behind them: "It's you!! Lin! Xiao! Zi!! Why didn't you save me! Why didn't you save me!"

"You—you!! You've really ruined my life!!"

Lu Zhao had already sensed Lin Yi's presence, and after losing Zhou Yi as its target, it turned its attention back to Lin Yi.

Driven by an intense obsession, he immediately locked onto Lin Yi and recognized him as the same Lin Xiaozi who had saved him yesterday!

It gripped the fire axe tightly, intending to chop Lin Yi to death.

Its previously broken voice became clear and fluent at this moment: "It's you! It's you! It's you! You could have saved us! Why! Why didn't you save us!!"

"Why?!"

"I'm going to kill you! Kill you!!"

The fire axe fell, but Lin Yi snatched it away.

The next moment, a sky-blue aura and the power of ash were poured into it, and a large number of patterns immediately appeared on the surface of the fire axe, as if it had been enchanted with a powerful force.

Lin Yi, expressionless, swung the fire axe and cut Lu Zhao in half at the waist!

However, Lu Zhao, who was severed from his body, felt no pain and continued to attack Lin Yi.

On its cross-section, however, one can clearly see nocturnal creatures huddled and wriggling beneath its shell.

Lin Yi, expressionless, extended a finger and suddenly waved it in the air.

"Hyakushiki Oni-yaki"!!

"boom--!"

The azure aura, carrying waves of fire, surged forth and instantly reduced Lu Zhao to ashes!

【Ahhhhh—Ahhhhh—】

Inside Lu Zhao's body, the night-walking creatures that had been curled up scattered and fled, but were all burned to death by Lin Yi.

He turned around silently, flames flickering behind him.

Real men never look back to see the explosion.

The body of the imposter Lu Zhao has vanished without a trace.

Lin Yi frowned.

Is this repaying kindness with ingratitude?

He originally rescued Lu Zhao out of compassion, and even helped him with the survival plan calculated with his homeroom teacher-039. Unexpectedly, Lu Zhao became resentful because he felt that the rescue was not thorough enough.

They even harbored resentment to the point of obsession.

It's infuriating and incredibly sad.

He glanced down at the time on his watch.

20: 23.

Judging by the time, Tian Bufan and Kuai Hongji should already be on their way to the dormitory.

Lin Yi didn't hesitate and opened the classroom door.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Yi and the other two were still behind the door and had not left.

"You...have a voyeuristic fetish?" Lin Yi asked with a strange expression.

"No, no!" Girl number three stood up straight immediately. "We were just worried about you."

"I'm fine." He went into the classroom and then closed the door behind him.

"This door..."

As he closed the door, he couldn't help but grip the doorknob a few more times.

The classroom door's resistance to him has increased again.

"Hey, could this be related to my student ID fading?" Lin Yi suddenly connected the two things. "The increased rejection from the 'door' attribute is because I'm losing my status as an intern student, and also my status as an insider in this classroom! If that's the case, being rejected... seems quite reasonable?"

He thought about it for a moment, accepted the conjecture, and then chose a seat relatively close to the door, flipped up the chair, and sat down.

Previously, if we didn't leave the classroom, we needed to hide under the desks and chairs in the back row to avoid the lights going out, so we had to choose a seat in the back row.

He was going to leave the classroom this time, so he naturally chose a convenient spot to leave.

Zhou Yi and the other two exchanged glances and quickly followed after them.

Lin Yi had just sat down, not even putting his bag down, when he saw Zhou Yi and the other two like this, he asked, "Is there anything else? If it's something like before, then forget it."

He seemed a little awkward when he said this. Things like "the protagonist's imposing presence is enough to draw a crowd to welcome him" are things from old-fashioned TV dramas. How could this possibly come true in real life?
Besides, Lin Yi isn't like others who can just drift along a deserted riverbank when spring tides bring rain and evening rushes by!

(End of this chapter)