Lin Yi said earnestly, "I feel you might become a rather unique 'student.'

"That's all thanks to you!" Li Huiyuan grumbled, but her tone seemed to lack any real discontent.

Unconsciously, the two arrived in front of the Swimming Hall.

"Well, I'll head in first. See you by the pool~" Li Huiyuan waved to Lin Yi, took a deep breath, then walked in the direction of the women's changing room.

Lin Yi thought for a moment, glanced at his watch, then turned towards the men's changing room.

This time, the process of changing into his swimwear was completely smooth, unusually hassle-free, making Lin Yi feel an unreal sense as if dreaming.

Passing through the water curtain, he arrived at the poolside and glanced at the clock on the wall.

16:26.

He looked towards the direction of the women's changing room. Li Huiyuan was changing a bit slower and hadn't come out yet.

Lin Yi walked to a spot closer to the women's changing room so that Li Huiyuan would see him as soon as she emerged, and of course, so would the Boss.

Once over there, Lin Yi scanned the Swimming Hall and noticed quite a few sports students swimming, but he couldn't spot Wei Liang anywhere among them.

"Really weird, where did Liangzi go?" Lin Yi muttered to himself.

Inside the Swimming Hall, neither Wei Liang nor Xia Lian were present.

Both openly professed their love for swimming, yet neither appeared in the Swimming Hall, as if they were involved in some private affairs of their own.

But with that said… Lin Yi's demeanor took on a hint of peculiarity. Liangzi and Xia Lian, those two, wasn't this yet another sign of an unconventional tacit understanding?

At present, Li Huiyuan hadn't come, and the Boss certainly wouldn't come, so Lin Yi waited a while by the pool, unsure of what to do.

He recalled the Boss's repeated cautions not to swim recklessly, so he found a lounge chair by the pool, lay down, stared at the pool absent-mindedly, while also beginning his wait.

This pool was larger than any he had known, the sports students practicing swimming in the water, one ripple after another clashed and canceled each other out, forming new ripples, order hidden amidst chaos, and chaos giving rise to countless ripples beyond understanding and calculation…

"Splash—splash—splash—"

The sound of the waves varied, resembling a distant song, occasionally near, occasionally far.

Lin Yi looked at the anti-slip mat at his feet; when the pool water surged onto the shore, it shattered into countless bubbles on the mat, as if seawater cresting upon a beach, turning into spray.

His gaze settled by the poolside, watching the chaotic splashes from repeated collisions, his focus slipping, his mind wandering.

In a trance, he noticed the pool lights dimming unexpectedly, and the blue pool water grew dark and turbid. In just a few surges, all the water in the pool transformed into a black tide.

The surging tide grew more and more torrential, wave after wave pushing forward.

The noise of the sports students in the pool gradually shattered under the sound of the waves, mixed with the urgent rush of wind, low murmurs, distant singing, and certain indescribable ancient chants…

[...Når den...]

[... svarte må...nen vissner...]

[...kom...mer sørge...moerne...]

[... det uendelige...]

[Når den... svarte månen... vissner...kommer sørgemoerne... tilbake fra... det uendelige dyphavet...]

Lin Yi subconsciously caught the keywords, triggering the cognitive effect in his mind, those characters gradually pieced together to form the injunction he already knew—

[Når den svarte månen vissner, kommer sørgemoerne tilbake fra det uendelige dyphavet.]

Caution: "When the Black Moon withers, the mourners return from the endless deep sea."

"How did the caution voice come from the pool?" Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a bit doubtful, gazing at the pool, yet seemingly seeing an endless black sea.

As his vision expanded, the original pool seemed to vanish, replaced instead by a somewhat familiar beach, with the black sea just ahead of it.

At this moment, Lin Yi terrifiedly propped himself up from the lounge chair, only to find the floor wasn't tiled with anti-slip mat but rather filled with sandy beach.

He seemed to have a premonition, turning his head to see at the end of the distant horizon, an unseen peak towering like a knife's edge. On the cliff at the summit, a black castle stood immovable.

"Splash—splash—splash—"

Black tide surged continuously, like waves crashing one after another, and quickly, the splashes approached his lounge chair.

Within the splash, the calling that seemed like warnings grew gradually urgent and louder, increasingly overwhelming everything else.

[...Når...den...svarte må...]

[... nen vissner...om...me...]

[...kr sørge...moerne...]

[Rør... ved mine...]

[...dypblå pupiller... sprekker...]

[...mitt stjerneskelett...]

[... forsyner min råmåne...]

"Splash—"

A wave surged up, engulfing Lin Yi's legs.

Lin Yi shivered violently, within the splash… there was something!

He looked down to see a grayish-blue, broken hand being pulled away with the retreating tide!

He felt a chill, and the next moment, the tide surged again, this time carrying countless broken sculptures beneath!

[...mine... dypblå... pupiller...sprekker...mitt...stjerneskelett...forsyner min...]

This time, the water rose to his waist, those shattered sculptures scrambling to clutch his body, hoping to cling like barnacles.

[...Brenn min... beinfla...mmende ild... gjør min bølgeornament...uendelig...]

The waves of calling grew louder and louder, then like a choir, drowning out the "splash splash splash" sound of waves, shaking his spirit!

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