"Yes, when did I fully accept the anomalies of the campus?"

He recalled several fragments in his mind, yet he found none of them precise enough.

After much thought, only the words of Tian Bufan remained in his mind.

[Cognition hasn't been overturned, but covered.]

Everything had changed imperceptibly, and he had even unconsciously adapted to these completely illogical things.

"Wait... 'adapted'?!"

"Is this what Young Master Tian meant by 'adapted'?"

"Kuai Kuai." Lin Yi called out to Kuai Hongji, who had just finished stuffing clothes into the washing machine and was about to get into bed.

Kuai Hongji looked at him indifferently.

"Could you pass me the notebook and a pen, thanks."

Kuai Hongji silently handed the small notebook to Lin Yi.

Lin Yi flipped the notebook to the page where he had previously written down notes and looked at the fourteenth entry.

[14, Tomato sauce turns into plaster under the sun (reason unknown).

"Tomato is the heart.

Tomato sauce is plasma. (These two sentences were heavily crossed out with chaotic and vigorous strokes.)"

Tomato Element attracts the attention of unusual students.

Tomato isn't tomato, there is no tomato.]

He looked at the heavily crossed-out lines "Tomato is the heart" and "Tomato sauce is plasma," took a deep breath, then picked up the pen and tried to rewrite...

"Tomato is... heart..."

He wrote the sentence smoothly without feeling any discomfort, even when he looked back at it.

The feeling that almost sent him away initially didn't appear at all.

"My cognition... has really reached this layer!"

"This...?!"

...

May 7, 2023, 22:05.

The sound of Tian Bufan showering came from the bathroom, and Lin Yi sighed deeply.

"Maozi really didn't come back."

He lay in bed, resting his head on the pillow and staring at the ceiling, continuously digesting the words Tian Bufan had said to him.

Ten minutes later, Tian Bufan turned off the shower, and the sound of water in the bathroom ceased.

Eight minutes later, Tian Bufan finally leisurely left the bathroom.

Lin Yi propped himself up and looked at Tian Bufan, "Is there a problem?"

Tian Bufan opened the washing machine and threw in the laundry, "There's something peeping outside the window."

"I encountered it too," Lin Yi said, "but I didn't find it... no wait! Different layer!"

"You've learned to apply it quickly." Tian Bufan closed the door of the washing machine, "That thing was crouching on the window while the mist distorted the senses."

"You didn't see it clearly?"

"I saw it clearly."

"Uh..."

The plain tone of Tian Bufan made Lin Yi feel the gap between them widen a bit more...

"So... what did you see?"

"From its form, it resembled 'Non-human Classmates'."

"'Non-human Classmates'?" Lin Yi was startled and immediately said, "I just remembered, they have a killing mechanism that can sense those who observe them, and then execute a Void Target Search."

"No, no, no... there's light in the bathroom, this mechanism only activates after the lights go out... I panicked."

Lin Yi shook his head repeatedly.

But Tian Bufan said, "It's alright, knowing in advance can prepare you mentally so you won't be completely caught off guard when the time comes."

Dormitory Rule 2 "Special Edition" mentioned: after lights out at midnight, if you hear something knocking on the dormitory windows or calling you from outside, don't doubt it, there is definitely something out there.

"It seems that after the lights go out, the layer of the dormitory building also gets lowered, and those Non-human Classmates that only appear outside the bathroom through the mist will climb to that window like humanoid spiders," Lin Yi pondered and pointed to the window between the sink and the bathroom.

"And possibly, they might climb in," Tian Bufan added.

"Hehehe... It looks like if you're still awake by then, you'll have to share a room with those filthy things," Kuai Hongji sneered coldly, "Fatty, isn't it especially thrilling to think about staying in a dark, closed dormitory with those corpse-like things?"

"Yin Bi, fuck off!" Wei Shan cursed, and the bed even shook a bit.

"Hehe..." Kuai Hongji laughed sinisterly.

But Kuai Hongji's eerie laugh amplified the irritation Wei Shan felt.

"Yin Bi, I'm going to tear you apart sooner or later!"

"No need to wait, if you've got the guts, do it now," Kuai Hongji scoffed.

"You're really asking for it!"

"Alright! Stop the noise!" Lin Yi frowned and interrupted, "It's getting late. If you guys have something to discuss, discuss it together, otherwise hurry up and sleep. Young Master Tian and I still have things to discuss!"

"Heh... Sleep, sleep!" Kuai Hongji turned over and covered himself with the blanket.

"Hmph!" Wei Shan sneered, but lay there without falling asleep, just staring blankly at the ceiling, lost in thought.

Lin Yi placed the notebook under his pillow, glanced at Tian Bufan who was also preparing to get in bed, and asked, "Shall we continue talking?"

"Hmm, keep going like earlier, you continue," Tian Bufan responded.

"I just thought of something," Lin Yi said, "All those non-human classmates and abnormal art students left the classroom around 4:30 today. What do you think that means?"

He remembered this because he had written it on a small piece of paper, which he saw while flipping through his notes earlier.

Tian Bufan replied, "I'm not sure about this, considering the special enhancements they get after lights out, as well as how streetlights can provide some protection to us, it's not hard to assume that light and daytime probably have a significant impact on them."

"And the time... 4:30..."

"Now it's May, and given the location of S city, it's about dawn."

"The sun coming up broadly speaking counts as 'daytime', right?"

"Maybe that's why they were in such a hurry to leave, what do you think?"

Lin Yi took a deep breath, quite pleased, "It's rare that you and I think so similarly."

Tian Bufan glanced at him, probing, "You didn't bring up this topic just to find some confidence, did you?"

"..."

Lin Yi's mouth twitched fiercely, saying wordlessly, "Of course not! Am I that self-deceptive? It's just that I suddenly thought of this, so I wanted to match answers with you!"

"Oh, okay, okay, keep talking then."

"..." Lin Yi pursed his lips, then continued, "Next up is the streetlight issue."

"About this issue..." Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then said, "I think it should be discussed in terms of layers."

"Speaking of which," Tian Bufan got off the bed ladder, walked over to Wei Liang's bed, and pretended to pull a thread.

"Damn! Are you starting to pluck fur now?" Wei Liang rolled around on the bed, not giving Tian Bufan a chance.

Tian Bufan silently withdrew his hand.

Wei Liang snorted and tightly wrapped himself in the blanket.

Tian Bufan looked towards Lin Yi, "Give me a piece of paper."

"I don't have paper! Do you want toilet paper?" Wei Liang made a spitting fire gesture.

"I'm not asking you; I'm asking Old Lin."

Wei Liang's expression changed dramatically; he pretended to clutch his chest and cough blood, then buried his head back under the pillow.

Lin Yi was stunned by Wei Liang's antics.

'Isn't Liangzi, you damn said you were going to sleep?'

'How come you're here pricking up your ears, listening more intently than I am?'

'What's wrong with you?'

He silently tore off a piece of paper and handed it to Tian Bufan.

"And the pen too."

"Oh."

Tian Bufan took the pen then one second, two seconds, three seconds passed...

The dormitory fell silent.

Suddenly, Tian Bufan looked up at Lin Yi, "Keep talking."

"Uh... I was planning to watch your performance," Lin Yi said.

Tian Bufan replied, "Idiot. Keep talking. I want to see if it matches what I'm thinking."

"Ah? Oh, okay!" Lin Yi complied, "Last night, the campus' map layer fell through the mist, and then we found a streetlight pole..."

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