I set you up on a blind date, and you've managed to overcome all the weirdness?

Just as Lin Yan realized that the faceless man outside the window was gone and was about to walk towards the door, the light dimmed under the crack in the door.

There's someone outside!

With a loud bang, a fire axe pierced through the wooden door of the guardhouse, its sharp blade going straight through the wooden planks.

Lin Yan happened to be standing at the doorway, and the axe blade was less than five centimeters from the tip of his nose.

Wood chips flew everywhere. The firefighter's suit, which was originally meant to be chopped vertically, was now pulled horizontally to the side, causing the door panel to groan under the strain.

The fire suit was pulled back, leaving a hole in the door panel.

The faceless man pressed his head against the hole and tried desperately to squeeze in, as if he wanted to crawl in.

As more and more of him squeezed in, a stench of rotting flesh assaulted our senses.

The faceless man's move was too oppressive. Lin Yan looked around but couldn't find a suitable weapon.

He knew very well that even with the Nine Revolutions Hell Bone Body Axe Blade's enhancement, his mortal body would find it difficult to confront the opponent head-on, unless...

"Saya?" Lin Yan called out in his heart.

He tried to touch the scissor mark on his heart.

no respond.

Normally, he would get hot whenever he was in danger, but now it was as if he was shrouded in a fog. Although he could feel its presence, he could not activate it on his own.

The mermaid ripple mark was the same; its light was dim, and it could not invoke its authority.

Damn it.

Lin Yan was indignant. Ever since the contract was formed, either he didn't dare to use it casually before he had trained his body, or he always encountered special circumstances that prevented him from using it.

"This godforsaken place must really be from thirty years ago, otherwise there's no reason why we can't even call out to Saya and the others."

In this world built upon his senior's obsession, his causal ties in reality are severely disrupted.

It's like a game with a network latency of thousands of milliseconds; he can feel the power, but he can't squander it at all.

Although he felt he could forcibly invoke a small portion of his authority, it was too weakened to be meaningful.

Forcibly moving them would not only fail to resolve the faceless man in front of them, but might also attract other things prematurely.

That's not enough. Although he can no longer use his authority, he still has a little thing by his side that he can use whenever he needs it.

"Stop playing dead! Get out here!" Lin Yan roared in his mind.

"Master, Master!" The voiceover, which had been lurking in the subconscious, went online.

"The suppression of rules here is terrifying! Its status is far higher than mine; my prophecy can't interfere with that faceless monster!"

"Don't interfere with it, interfere with the other inanimate objects!"

The faceless man tried to squeeze in for a while, but found he couldn't fit. He retreated and was about to pull out his axe to chop a second time.

Lin Yan's eyes flashed with fierceness as he kept a close eye on the faceless man's movements. At the same time, he instructed the person beside him:

"Use the smallest possible coincidence you can control to create a way for me to survive!"

"Yes, yes!"

The faceless monster swung its axe again, widening the hole, and poked its head inside once more.

"Look closely!"

"The water pipes in the gatehouse have been in disrepair for years, and the violent tremor just now has brought them to the brink of collapse."

"Finally, it feels like it's about to explode!"

The voice just fell.

A muffled thud came from above; the water pipe had burst.

The high-pressure water jet washed away the old rust and black mud, drenching the faceless man's head.

Dirty water dripped down its empty face.

"Ugh!!"

The faceless man's face was smeared with the sudden black water.

Although it has no eyes, it seems to rely on some kind of sensory organ on its face to lock onto its prey.

Now that it had been splashed with dirty water, it hurriedly pulled its head back.

Not long after, the third axe blow came down.

It was inaccurate; it was purely a form of venting.

The thing was covered in smears, so it couldn't see or sense where Lin Yan was hiding. The axe veered off course, grazing the door frame before striking the wall hard.

Broken bricks were scattered all over the ground.

"Now! Continue!"

Lin Yan seized the opportunity and pointed to the crack that had been split open in the wall.

"yes!"

The narrator instantly understood Lin Yan's meaning and excitedly said:

"Look closely! The contractor cut corners when this wall was built; the cement grade is seriously substandard!"

"After suffering a series of severe blows, it is on the verge of collapse!"

Just to confirm the narrator's explanation, the wall next to the door, after taking the monster's axe blow, really did collapse as if it were made of building blocks!

Even the walls inside the gatehouse began to shake and crumble.

Lin Yan made a quick decision: since the entrance was guarded, they would find another way.

He kicked the wall on the other side.

As the dust settled, a hole about half a person's height was revealed.

It was pitch black, and I had no idea where it led.

Lin Yan's eyes lit up. Taking advantage of the moment when the faceless man was still shaking his head to clean the black mud at the door, he pounced and darted into the hole.

"Tell me! The rusty iron plate above the cave entrance fell due to the vibration and just happened to block the entrance!"

Lin Yan crawled forward in the pipe using both his hands and feet while giving commands to the narrator.

With a crash, a cast iron inspection cover fell from above, fitting perfectly into the opening.

Lin Yan leaned against the pipe. It was so narrow that he couldn't even straighten his back. He could only sigh as he gasped for breath.

survived.

"Master, your wisdom is truly remarkable!" The narrator began to flatter again.

"Shut up, conserve your energy, and stay alert."

Lin Yan interrupted it, saying that there were too many unexpected things in this godforsaken place, and that they had to prevent any possible bad things from happening.

He crawled along the dark, damp pipe, where rats occasionally scurried across the back of his hand, but he didn't make a sound.

After climbing for about ten minutes, Lin Yan noticed that the pipe was starting to slope upwards noticeably.

He climbed uphill for a while longer and bumped his head into a louvered vent.

He slowly pried open the blinds with his palm and peeked out.

A corridor, deserted.

Lin Yan climbed out of the ventilation duct, dusted himself off, and looked around.

He discovered that he had somehow crossed the playground and entered the main teaching building!

Looking out the window, I estimated the height and layout of the building; this should be the second floor.

Lin Yan wiped the dirty water off his face, but deliberately left a little bit on his neck.

Before Lin Yan could shake off the dirt on his body, the sound of a piano suddenly rang out from nearby.

But there was clearly nothing in front of me, and the sound was exactly the same as the piano music I heard in the guard room earlier.

Lin Yan cautiously walked forward along the corridor, following the direction of the piano sound.

At the end of the corridor, on the left, there is a classroom with its front door ajar.

The sign reads four characters:

[Music Classroom]

The classroom lights shone through the slightly ajar door, spilling onto the corridor floor.

Lin Yan then noticed that a girl's school uniform was lying there.

Security Department Rules, Article 2:

Do not litter on campus. If you find a girl’s school uniform in a non-dormitory area, do not touch it. Please find a newspaper or blackboard eraser to cover it and mark it with an “X” in the patrol log.

The second instruction from the Academic Affairs Office:

Discarding clothing is an extremely serious violation of discipline. If a girl's school uniform is found outside the dormitory area, it must be picked up immediately and taken to the music classroom on the top floor for Teacher Chen to handle.