Lu Zhao couldn’t help but ponder, "How many things can there be in modern tis? Does he really need a history book to fill in the gaps in his mory?"
"Should we try to test it out?" Jin Jiuyao quietly asked.
Lu Zhao glanced at him, as if to say think before you speak, "Do you want to get caught in the vortex of ti? We can’t even figure out what Xiao Zi really is... It’s fine if our hypotheses are wrong, but what if they are right? Have you thought about what might happen if you get close to him?"
"The reason we think ’ti’ isn’t frightening is because we’re just dust attached to the moving clock hand, not understanding what ti is. When dust attempts to stroke against the clock hand, it faces an infinite power beyond words."
"Even a sliver of the aftermath is enough to trap us in endless devastation."
He gave Jin Jiuyao a deep look, "Think before you speak next ti, don’t always be daydreaming. I won’t remind you too much."
Jin Jiuyao closed his mouth.
"Let’s keep observing," Lu Zhao decided, "and... keep our distance."
...
Lin Yi ca over to Wei Liang and sat down quietly, flipping through these white sheets.
He hadn’t turned many pages when Wei Liang had finished reading the original ecchi comic and stretched his body.
While stretching, Wei Liang’s gaze landed on the pages in front of Lin Yi, his eyebrows slightly furrowed.
"Why are you reading that?" Wei Liang asked curiously.
Interrupted by Wei Liang, Lin Yi looked over imdiately, then pushed the book forward, saying, "Liangzi, look here..."
Wei Liang took the book, "Let see..."
As he was about to take a closer look, he suddenly realized sothing, then carefully scanned the pages, finally changing the subject, "Old Lin, what are you showing ? I thought there’d be so hidden information. I’ve looked at it every which way, but I can’t find anything."
Lin Yi, who had been frowning, finally relaxed upon hearing this, smiling gently, "I’ve been puzzled why there are books with all blank pages in the bookshelf area... I just wanted you to see if there’s any secret hidden in them."
Wei Liang was speechless, "What can I figure out from this?"
"Aren’t you Fortune Life Wei Liang the Celestial?" Lin Yi retorted.
"How about I do so calculations for you?" Wei Liang followed up, "Not to brag, I might be good at peeping through cracks, but you want to look at blank pages like an imaging scanner, that’s really asking too much of ."
Saying this, Wei Liang flipped through the book, "Damn, besides the cover, it’s all really blank pages! How dishonest is this?"
"Having fake plastic books on the shelves of a model ho is one thing, but why are the shelves at this campus so dishonest, playing with such superficial things?"
Even Wei Liang couldn’t help but complain.
He suddenly noticed the book’s cover.
"Huh? Historical books?" He looked at the other books Lin Yi brought over, "All historical books?"
"Yes." Lin Yi nodded.
"I recall you never cared for history when you studied..."
"I wasn’t into masonry much, yet I still picked the architecture departnt, didn’t I?"
"I know you didn’t choose architecture just to build houses, but for ’design’... As for masonry, it’s not like I don’t know you."
Lin Yi was silent for a mont.
Had Wei Liang not ntioned it, he would’ve almost forgotten why he chose the architecture departnt back then.
"Now I’ve beco a bit interested in history..." Lin Yi said.
Wei Liang curled his lips, "You didn’t study well before, and now when you need it, you’re regretting the lack of books, aren’t you?"
"What’s with you, really?" Lin Yi laughed bitterly, "Is there a way I can learn so history? Even a few words would do."
His current thirst for knowledge about history left him no ti to pay attention to Wei Liang’s teasing.
Wei Liang furrowed his brow slightly, "Is there really no history book here that’s not blank?"
Lin Yi replied, "I haven’t looked through all of them, but those I’ve seen are all blank..."
Wei Liang pondered aloud, "Mmm—if you really want to see history books... why not look for biographies or art appreciation works? There might be so historical traces in them..."
Wei Liang’s words sparked Lin Yi’s realization, making his eyes shine, "You’re right!"
Since he couldn’t directly see text-recorded history, why not peek into history from soone else’s perspective!
"Thanks, Liangzi, you’ve really helped !" Lin Yi said, hugging those history books with blank pages as he left.
Wei Liang watched Lin Yi leave, exhaling helplessly, then wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"Old Lin... finally starting to investigate history..."
He reopened an ecchi comic, then suddenly thought of sothing, and turned his head back towards the bookshelf area, shouting, "Help grab a couple of manga while you’re at it!"
"Got it!" Lin Yi’s voice ca from the bookshelf area.
...
May 10, X023, 17:33.
"Click—"
The classroom doorknob was pressed down, then pushed open from the outside.
"Whoosh—"
A figure shrouded in mist rushed in, quickly turning to close the classroom door.
"Bang!"
The door shut, sealing the classroom off from the outside world again.
At the mont the door closed, through the door gap, one could glimpse so eerie figures, their twisted tentacles seemingly rging with the mist, extending into the doorway, but as the door closed, those tentacles were severed and vanished as the mist dissipated.
With the mist gone, the figure wrapped within revealed itself—it was Chen Bing, who had left earlier.
After entering, Chen Bing quickly scanned the classroom, his expression slightly changing when he saw Wei Liang’s position hidden by a standing ecchi comic, and he quickly moved back to Lu Zhao and the others.
Upon Chen Bing’s entrance, Lu Zhao and the others naturally looked over, seeing Chen Bing’s grave expression, as if the truth was self-evident.
"How’s the situation?" Jin Jiuyao asked anxiously, "What about the horoom teacher..."
Lu Zhao interrupted Jin Jiuyao and asked with concern, "You didn’t encounter any problems coming and going, did you?"
He said this while glancing at Jin Jiuyao.
Jin Jiuyao quickly shut up...
Chen Bing spoke while catching his breath, "The situation outside is more complicated than imagined... Tonight won’t be easy, let’s talk about the horoom teacher’s side first..."
"Alright." Lu Zhao replied.
Chen Bing said, "In conclusion, Xiao Zi and Wei Liang... these two are indeed not on the attendance list."
With these words, Lu Zhao’s brow furrowed even deeper.
He had hoped this wouldn’t be confird, as it would an a much more serious issue.
"Are you sure you looked carefully?" Jin Jiuyao asked impatiently.
Chen Bing glared at him, "How could the horoom teacher let see the list? But does she have any reason to lie to ? She checked the list; these two nas are not on the attendance list."
She added, "...at least not recently."
"What about the long-term list?" Jin Jiuyao asked again.
Lu Zhao pressed down on Jin Jiuyao, his expression serious.
Jin Jiuyao quickly shut his mouth; this ti, he realized where he had been foolish.
If they’re not on the recent list, is there a need to ask about the long-term one?
When a zombie has been around long enough, and you can’t even handle soone from several dynasties ago, does it matter if it’s an ancient progenitor or a millennia-old zombie you’re facing?
Either way, you’re not likely to escape being wiped out in a single strike.
And the sa applied to Xiao Zi’s situation as well.
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