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With a flick of the tongue,

Despite the fishy smell in his nostrils, despite the lack of any ambient sound, Luo Di still suddenly turned around.

The moment he turned his head,

A face was almost pressed right up against his,

Even Luo Di couldn’t help but be startled, almost instinctively raising his knife to slash.

However, the face filling his vision exuded the same gentleness as always, which made the arm holding the knife relax.

“Startled, huh?

Heh~”

The class president wore his usual smile, with no sense of tension from being out of danger.

“Can you still joke at a time like this?”

“Since the threat in the basement has been completely eliminated, it’s a pity the Corner-like Space has not been lifted.

The dormitory manager seems to have no direct connection with the transformation of the dormitory building.”

Luo Di also gave his conclusion, “This thing is too weak, far weaker than what we’ve encountered with Ms.

Wu Huazhen before, even the practice zombies are stronger.

Unconscious, incomplete, not even a Pseudo-Person.

Even the blood flowing from this thing’s body doesn’t interest my knife.”

The next second, Luo Di’s tone changed, “Class president, how did you end up here?

With your skills, you shouldn’t be trapped by something that doesn’t qualify as a Pseudo-Person, right?”

“I hurried back to the dorm to grab my clothes, greeted the auntie when I went up the stairs.

Who knew, just after changing into the investigator’s uniform and drinking a sip of the leftover mineral water because I was thirsty, I woke up to find it was already now.

After all, it’s Admissions season, who would have thought something like this would happen.

Luckily, you guys came to the dormitory building in time to find me, otherwise, I might have been eaten while I was unconscious.”

“Where’s your sword?”

“I guess the Monster hid it or threw it away, forget it!

Let’s try to leave the dormitory building first.”

The class president took a little hop step to the slain dormitory manager, picked up the metal crowbar as a weapon for self-defense.

Seeing Luo Di dealing with the sealed basement door,

The class president turned to Xiao Ying, who was excited, the two didn’t say much, a simple hug was enough.

Bang!

Just as the two embraced, a loud noise came.

Luo Di let his entire right leg undergo zombification, lifted a foot, and completely broke the door hinge, kicking the whole wooden door flying out.

“Let’s go!”

The class president and Xiao Ying hand in hand, followed closely behind Luo Di.

Just as they were about to exit the overgrown corridor, Luo Di whispered: “The current situation may be worse than we imagined.”

The class president seemed unconcerned, “There are so many PE teachers in the school, and it’s Admissions season, security should be better than usual.

Even if a Pseudo-Person really breaks in, or one is born within the school,

Maybe we just need to hide first and wait for the teachers to completely resolve the danger.”

“Is it really that simple, class president?

What if this incident is the ‘Seam’ mentioned at the back of the textbook?”

At this, the class president was stunned, his cheerful expression vanished instantly, and Xiao Ying was frightened stiff.

“Are you sure?

Has the school environment changed?”

“Um…

but I’ve only seen a part of the changes through the window, let’s leave the dormitory building before jumping to conclusions.”

The three walked out of the stairwell, returning to the original girls’ dormitory building.

However, when they wanted to leave the building via the normal staircase of the dormitory, they were stunned at the staircase entrance.

The entire stairwell had become complicated and intricate, the original simple staircase structure was replaced with various narrow steps, only allowing one person to pass.

Moreover, these steps had no handrails, crisscrossed with each other, some leading to sealed walls, while others connected to other staircases through certain curves.

The whole dormitory building seemed to be undergoing structural changes over time,

Thankfully, the changes to the building weren’t too drastic at the moment.

The total height of the floors remained the same, and one could see the lobby on the first floor through the gaps between the small steps.

Luo Di resorted to jumping and climbing to get downstairs, and the two girls following him were also adept at this, smoothly reaching the ground floor.

“Door!”

Xiao Ying was shocked to see the dormitory’s main door that she passed through every day had turned into a vortex shape, with an opening only half a meter wide, just wide enough for one person to squeeze through.

Luo Di also recalled the dormitory manager previously seen twisting and coiling together, who had a similar form.

The class monitor looked at the vortex with a particularly unsightly expression on his face, but that was quickly covered up.

Since the vortex was too bizarre, they did not choose to exit through the main door.

They turned and entered the dormitory manager’s rest room, which seemed normal, with the logbook properly recording student information and daily patrol details.

On the wall was a family photo of one of the dormitory managers; at least from the current information, there was no indication of any psychological problems with the dormitory manager.

The transformation of the dormitory manager, perhaps, like the dormitory’s main door, was a change brought by “some external force.”

Moreover, the class monitor’s sword was not found in the dormitory manager’s rest room.

With the dormitory being so large, it was unknown how many additional spaces had been created.

It was definitely not worth the time spent to look for a mere weapon, so they decided to give up.

Using the open balcony in the dormitory manager’s rest room, the trio easily climbed out, finally leaving the dormitory building safely.

But their expressions worsened, as the situation outside was beyond their imagination.

During the half-hour attempt to rescue the class monitor, the entire campus had undergone an earth-shaking transformation.

1.[Lighting]-The campus, once equipped with a vast array of lighting fixtures, had its illumination reduced by at least 80%.

The lighting either lost power or was destroyed by an external force.

The entire campus was in a “dim state.”

The sky, as Luo Di had seen before, was covered with dark clouds swirling in a vortex, nearly completely obscuring the bright moon.

2.[Space]-The campus was no longer “open.”

The “walls” that were once used to ensure campus security had grown into plants, extending into the campus itself along the sides of the road.

The walls turned the open campus space into a “semi-enclosed” one, creating a labyrinthine feeling.

The pathways between the walls were about five meters wide, severely limiting the space for movement.

The walls themselves were about ten meters high, with a dense array of high voltage cables along the top.

Unless one could truly fly, attempting to scale the wall would likely result in being scorched.

Street lamps within the walls provided faint illumination.

The class monitor, looking at everything before him, murmured to himself, “This is really a ‘Seam’…

and it’s different from the description in the textbooks.”

The class monitor immediately recalled the dangerous content described in red at the end of the textbook for senior year three,

“The Seam, Limbo, Corner-like Space (Complete Form).

This is a membrane that exists between reality and the true Corner, or rather, a transitional space.

It requires four or more Pseudo-Persons, who have been in disguise for over a year, are fully mature, possess the ‘qualifications’, and are very familiar with this region, having left their mark here, to build it together.

They will receive arrangements from the Corner, arriving at different edges of the region at the same time,

Projecting the Thought Corner onto their faces, forming a ‘Blood Flesh Corner’ that is visible to the naked eye.

Using four or more Blood Flesh Corners as a base,

A perfect polygonal space is constructed, possessing the most perfect disguise characteristics, invisible to individuals from the outside world.

Once the ‘Seam’ is formed, it signifies the start of the ‘screening’.

These mature Pseudo-Persons, gathered in the school for their ‘common traits’, will receive the ‘final task’ from the Thought Corner.

In the next 12 hours, they will engage in a life-and-death screening within the space, and the Pseudo-Persons who survive will be promoted, gaining official access to the Corner.

Moreover, the flow of time within the Seam is different,

The 12-hour qualification screening will end in just one hour to the outside world.

It happens to be an important physical examination time now, and no one will notice this hour, nor will outsiders come to disturb it.”

Xiao Ying, who had never even dealt with the most ordinary Pseudo-Person, was completely dumbfounded, “We…

we got caught up in the Pseudo-Persons’ promotion event?

No such thing has ever happened in Fourth Middle School, let alone in middle schools across the country.”

The class monitor then consoled:

“Based on what we know, the formation of the Seam isn’t targeting us, but is a selection process amongst the Pseudo-Persons themselves.

As long as we wait for their mutual slaughter to end, the Seam will automatically dissipate.

We just need to ensure our own survival before everything concludes.

If we can manage to meet up with the physical education teachers, our chances of survival will be significantly increased.”

CREATORS’ THOUGHTS 549690339 [free document] Publicly Available Intelligence – Seam (Limbo):

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[Corner-like Space (Complete Type)]

Also known as limbo, the Seam, a diaphragm between reality and the Corner, or a transitional space.

Being here means complete isolation from the outside world; all means of communication will cease to function.

“Construction Method”: Four or more Pseudo-People, fully matured, qualified, and very familiar with this region, who have left their traces here, standing at the four corners of this space at the same time.

Using a cracked face as the Blood Flesh Corner to construct a perfect polygonal space.

“Disguise”: The space’s own disguise properties are far superior to those of the Corner-like Space.

Moreover, the flow of time in this space will be significantly decreased; a 12h screening will in reality have only lasted 1h.

“Purpose”:

To screen for a sufficiently powerful Pseudo-Person, granting them the qualifications to enter the Corner, achieving a sort of promotion in a certain sense.

“Influence”:

Any humans enveloped in the Seam, being closer to the true Corner, their thoughts will be more easily influenced.

Those with inherent psychological flaws or weaker mental defenses may rapidly develop Thought Corners in this space.

Among the Pseudo-People constructing the Seam, if there is a special kind, his abilities might also amplify this effect.

The four competing Pseudo-People will not only slaughter each other but are also likely to exert various influences on the humans in the Seam—killing, transforming, etc.

This space is also subject to stretching, bending, or even complete transformation, making the original region seem familiar yet strange.

Physical Corners are more likely to form in the Seam; once approached, one will be drawn into them.

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