Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat: "What did I miss?!"
"Could it be the layers are still wrong?"
"Was the person who went to the bathroom with me from the beginning not Liangzi?!"
"Then where is the real Liangzi?"
Lin Yi turned and hurried away from the men’s bathroom, but as soon as he turned around, he bumped into someone, "bang," almost seeing stars from the collision.
"Ouch, what are you doing?" The lament came from Wei Liang, and as Lin Yi opened his eyes, he saw Wei Liang fall on his bottom, clutching his forehead and looking at him with a grievance.
"Liangzi, what are you doing running behind me?" As Lin Yi felt relieved, he couldn’t help but voice his speechless criticism.
"Damn it, what do you mean I ran behind you? You suddenly started moonwalking halfway through washing your hands and slid a distance backward, then charged back into the restroom. I thought you had a psychotic episode again and was about to call you, but then you turn around and elbow me flying!" Wei Liang was full of resentment as he gritted his teeth and got up from the ground.
Lin Yi, unconcerned with Wei Liang’s complaints, asked directly, "When did you finish peeing?"
"Damn it, I called you when I was done peeing and washing my hands, didn’t you even grunt in response? Don’t you remember?" Wei Liang widened his eyes, "You think I pee endlessly like you? I’m a boy scout, my pee repels evil spirits!"
"You left first? And you talked to me about it?" Lin Yi muttered to himself.
"What the hell, how come I have no recollection of that? Emmm... But I was thinking about something at that time, it’s possible I just grunted to brush it off, but even so, I couldn’t possibly have no memory of it at all, right?"
Moreover, the encounters he experienced felt seamless, from finishing his business and washing his hands, to seeing the fake Wei Liang, and then bumping into Wei Liang, with no sense of layer disruption whatsoever!
It felt like one continuous event!
Even the time... had no issues!
Lin Yi looked at the time on his watch—13:06.
No problem, no problem at all.
But... reality was obviously not like that!
His body had synchronously completed all the actions he encountered with the fake Wei Liang in reality.
It’s as if his original path was a black silk, and suddenly one segment of it was obscured by a white silk, and then he experienced both the black and white segments of that path before returning to the original black silk...
But the problem is, he had no recollection of what happened in the segment covered by the white silk.
"I have a gap in my memory! Although it’s only a short minute or so, but... I’ve definitely lost that part of the memory!"
Wei Liang, somewhat impatient, slid up in front of him and waved his hand in front of his face: "Did you pee your brains out?"
Lin Yi collected himself, then shook his head, signaling to Wei Liang that he was not dumb, and then said gravely, "I’m fine, too."
"Mine can also repel evil spirits."
Wei Liang paused, then defensively said, "Mine is of higher quality."
"If it becomes more potent, then I’ll acknowledge your statement."
"Damn it! Get lost!" Wei Liang bit his teeth.
After a few more verbal jabs, suddenly, a fearful scream came from the direction of the women’s restroom.
Lin Yi and Wei Liang looked at each other, immediately realizing what was happening, and exclaimed, "Li Huiyuan!"
"Wait a second, Liangzi, don’t rush!," Lin Yi said, blocking Wei Liang, "Be careful of being tricked, let’s first... uh..."
After Wei Liang exclaimed, he had no intention of running over and just stood there.
"You’re the one who’s in a panic, Old Lin," Wei Liang touched his nose.
Indeed, both of their actions were surprisingly consistent—they didn’t rush towards the women’s restroom; instead, they stayed put and remained calm.
In fact, Lin Yi had never been impulsive since he started at S City University. He tended to get dragged into pondering before forcibly changing the situation to escape from the twisted layers, like the current emergency he was facing for the first time.
Lin Yi had never suffered from impulsiveness, nor did he plan to suffer from it.
The moment he heard Li Huiyuan’s scream, an idea surged in his heart—curiously, it wasn’t "Li Huiyuan is in danger, I must save her" but rather a doubt about the situation after encountering the fake Wei Liang... "Is it really Li Huiyuan screaming?"
"What should we do, go over?" Wei Liang asked for Lin Yi’s opinion.
Lin Yi nodded slightly, "Move slowly, we’re not sure if it’s really Li Huiyuan... But, we can’t rule out the possibility that it’s really her calling for help."
If it was indeed Li Huiyuan crying for help, and he had declared that he would offer assistance if capable, it would be unreasonable not to even take a look now.
"Then..." Wei Liang hesitated.
Knowing Wei Liang’s "strategy," aware that he wanted to live through the seven days in the most low-key way possible, not wanting to get dragged down by Li Huiyuan’s troubles, Lin Yi spoke solemnly: "Liangzi, how about you head back to the classroom, and I’ll check on Li Huiyuan?"
Wei Liang narrowed his eyes as if pondering for a moment before shaking his head: "I’ll just follow behind you. If I see anything off about you, I can stop you right away."
Lin Yi asked back: "You think there won’t be any issues doing that?"
Wei Liang replied: "I have a sense of it."
Lin Yi was touched for a moment, then thought he heard Wei Liang mutter under his breath: "If I see it’s no good, I’ll just run away..."