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Chapter 39 - 39 18 Eliminating Distractions

39: Chapter 18 Eliminating Distractions 39: Chapter 18 Eliminating Distractions “How did you know…

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Don’t talk nonsense!” Wei Liang coughed into his fist, “You’re too careless.

Don’t forget we still have other classes, and only after those do we get to read comics!”

“Otherwise, there’s nothing to do during class anyway, although it’s true that S City University’s classes are just a mere formality, but I can’t play video games, so reading comics is the only thing left to do!” argued Wei Liang.

Lin Yi felt that what Wei Liang said made some sense.

So, he silently picked up “Ikkitousen” and “To-M*ru Ninja,” and started reading seriously.

As he immersed himself in the reading, his brain’s perception of the outside world began to weaken at a slow pace.

Soon, he was absorbed in the stories of the comic books.

That classmate who had previously used “Void Target Search” on Lin Yi, initially casting empty gazes towards the shadow on the classroom window glass, suddenly sensed something as Lin Yi was engrossed in reading, then stiffly turned around, slowly shifting his gaze to the rows of seats in the amphitheater classroom.

He looked left and right, his face swept past the spot where Lin Yi was sitting several times, but he never found anything.

Lin Yi successfully avoided this classmate’s attention, unaware of it himself.

And in fact, he didn’t need to know about it.

Because once he knew, he would enter this paradoxical cycle again.

When Lin Yi finished the first volume of “Ikkitousen,” he stretched his body and moved his neck then glanced at his watch.

1:39.

“Unknowingly, more than an hour has passed…

reading comics really does kill time well.”

Lin Yi’s thoughts returned, and on reflex, he recalled that his memory of that classmate had become very vague.

Turning his head, he noticed that an extra stack of books had appeared beside him.

It was the next part of “Ikkitousen” that Wei Liang had found for him.

Lin Yi smiled and picked up the second volume to continue reading.

After immersing himself in reading three volumes, the time had reached 4:27.

Lin Yi reflected on the night before, and in his mind, the impression of that classmate was just a blurry shadow.

That feeling of being watched had also completely disappeared; aside from feeling a bit tired mentally, there was no discomfort.

However, his body felt somewhat cold, especially the lower half, which grew slightly chilly as if the cold from the ground had crept up his legs.

This was due to staying up reading without moving much.

Lin Yi stretched lazily, yawned, and then stamped his feet.

After a brief moment of moving his limbs and adjusting his posture, he was ready to continue reading.

But right then, some noises around him caught his attention.

“Tap!

Tap!

Tap!

Tap…”

People were leaving their seats, and it wasn’t just one person; it was a group.

These uniform movements, no doubt, belonged to those cautious classmates.

Lin Yi glanced at his watch.

4:30.

“Four thirty in the morning…”

Lin Yi didn’t know if this particular time meant anything, but he still marked it down in his notebook right away: “4:30.”

This time, four hours had passed since the security guard struggled with that thing.

The security guard, who had rolled down the steps with that thing, was now nowhere to be seen.

The classmates who had stood up to watch through the window glass had all taken their seats again, but now they were getting up one by one.

Lin Yi maintained his reading posture, but his eyeballs were rolling around, using peripheral vision from his seat in the amphitheater classroom to monitor the movements around him, supplementing details with his hearing.

The reason he dared do this was based on his inference of these classmates’ murdering mechanism: as long as he didn’t look at them after the lights out, he wouldn’t attract their attention.

One by one, the classmates, dragging their stiff bodies and walking with leaden steps, went down the steps of the amphitheater classroom and headed towards the classroom door.

“Could it be that they’re leaving the classroom at this point?”

“But the teaching building rules clearly forbid leaving the classroom after 9:00 PM, and the class teacher also issued the same warning…”

“Hey, wait a minute, I think I know!”

“If the teacher’s warning is meant to ‘protect,’ then the source of danger must be those weird classmates in the classroom and the unknown creatures in the mist outside, right?”

“When the classroom door was open, those weird classmates were not affected, so maybe I can categorize them together?”

“The only difference perhaps is that those who stay in the classroom still retain some ‘student’ characteristics.”

Thinking this, Lin Yi shivered.

“Apparently, staying overnight in the classroom is just an ‘option,’ not the ‘correct answer.'”

“No wonder Xu Shunkang hoped he would still see me tomorrow…”

Lin Yi felt pleased with his new insight, but just as he was about to switch to a different book, something caught the corner of his eye: a foot slowly stepped into his field of view.

“Hmm?”

The foot was clad in an old-fashioned sneaker, which seemed to have some reddish-brown substance on the laces.

Lin Yi’s first reaction was a sense of familiarity, but as another foot stepped into his view, memories he thought had died began to violently flood back.

The hair on his arms instantly stood on end, and a chill shot up his spine.

“This…?!”