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Chapter 276: This Isn't the Aura of an Angel (Requesting Monthly Tickets at the Beginning of the Month ~)

No one had ever asked about this before, not even the homeroom teacher!

Lin Yi tried hard to recall, and then said, "It should be on the road from the teaching building area to the cafeteria... Oh, that's right, I remember now, there are probably a few streetlights nearby, numbered 'Teaching Building - 032', 'Teaching Building - 041', and... 'Teaching Building - 090'."

Lin Yi's memory was amazing. He recalled the streetlight poles that Mu Daxian had added numbers to. Coincidentally, Mao Feiyang had slipped and fallen roughly around that time.

Upon hearing this, the boss couldn't help but lower her gaze, squinting at the floor beside her feet, as if deep in thought.

Lin Yi's gaze followed the boss's downwards...

The boss wasn't wearing a tracksuit, but a one-piece black yoga suit. This kind of one-piece suit was very form-fitting, but the boss actually didn't need to modify it at all, as she already had perfect lines. Lin Yi stared blankly, finding it hard to imagine that such a leg, comparable to a work of art, could kick out the earth-shattering kick that instantly killed the green-aproned chef.

"Alright... I understand," the boss's voice brought Lin Yi back to attention. "So, you safely spent the night after being contaminated with the aura of an angel? You should have returned to the dormitory; you would have certainly died in the teaching building..."

Li Huiyuan, who was beside her, felt a tightness in her chest when she heard this, not expecting that Lin Yi had encountered so many dangers.

Lin Yi thought to himself that it was actually contaminated on May 7th, but it wouldn't be easy to explain that, so he nodded and said, "Uh, yes..."

"Unbelievable, you were actually able to return to the dormitory smoothly?"

"Actually, it wasn't smooth at all. I encountered the Heretic Chanting Choir, 'Awoo--' which is that 'Graveyard of the Dead'. I unknowingly gave it the name Heretic Chanting Choir," Lin Yi quickly said. "I was almost corrupted by it, thanks to the security guard who appeared in time and brought me back to the dormitory building."

"It seems your luck isn't bad..." The boss slightly nodded her head. "Between 21:00 and 22:00, the security guard does patrol between the teaching building and the dormitory building, but the probability of being rescued by him isn't high."

"Then it seems my luck is really not bad," Lin Yi also nodded seriously.

The boss glanced at him, somewhat speechless: "'Misfortune'... is also a part of luck."

The topic was directly ended by the boss's word 'misfortune', and Lin Yi was left speechless.

However, the boss was right... he had a lot of luck, but it didn't seem to be the good kind.

"After this, have you encountered anything else that was inconceivable?" the boss asked.

"'Inconceivable' ah..." Lin Yi murmured. In fact, everything he encountered was inconceivable, but as time went by, these inconceivable things were gradually understood by him, so much so that he was now somewhat unable to distinguish the boundaries of the inconceivable.

"I've been experiencing some strange hallucinations recently..." Lin Yi confessed.

"'Recently'? Weren't you only contaminated by the aura of an angel yesterday?"

"Uh... Ah, this..." Lin Yi was stunned, thinking that the boss was Sherlock Holmes. Don't hold onto the details so tightly...

"I understand... Being contaminated with the aura is just a trigger for the Wrathful Angel to attack you; you yourself are somewhat special." The boss didn't listen to Lin Yi's explanation and directly gave her own judgment, which also explained why Lin Yi absorbed so much pollution the last time he came, and even swimming couldn't completely purify it.

"That's not right..." The boss suddenly realized something, slowly approaching Lin Yi. A faint fragrance with a sense of oppression fiercely invaded Lin Yi's nostrils. "From whom else did you learn about the different classifications of the angel statues?"

"Uh... it was the homeroom teacher. Is there a problem?" Lin Yi thought carefully. The homeroom teacher - 040 did mention it to him, but at that time, she only talked about the Smiling Angel and didn't mention the remaining two.

But now there was no other way, he could only push it to the homeroom teacher.

"It's impossible for the homeroom teacher to tell you this in such detail, unless... you encountered attacks from other angel statues before reporting the situation to the homeroom teacher?"

Lin Yi thought to himself, boss, don't speculate anymore. If you keep speculating, my pants will be turned inside out...

"Boss..."

"Hmm? Is there anything else you want to say?"

Lin Yi quickly confessed: "I, actually... before being chased by the Wrathful Angel, I was also targeted by the Smiling Angel..."

"It was a blue-aproned chef who looked a little abnormal in front of the cafeteria who helped me resolve that crisis..."

"..." The boss was speechless for a moment, then a look of reminiscence appeared in her eyes, and she murmured, "You met Old Mo..."

"It seems you're not all misfortune..."

"Being contaminated with the aura of an angel will naturally attract the hunt of angel statues..."

"Speaking of which, you encountered three types of angel statues in a short period of time, and actually retreated unscathed... It's really a mix of misfortune and good luck."

"Ah? Three types of angel statues?!" Lin Yi opened his mouth wide. "I haven't encountered the Aberrant Statue...?"

"Oh, no, that's not right! I remember now, the homeroom teacher mentioned that the Heretic Chanting Choir, no, the Graveyard of the Dead, is a type of Aberrant Statue!"

"No! Wait a minute, Aberrant Statue... is it the Aberrant Angel?!"

The boss's thin lips slightly parted: "There's a difference between Aberrant Statues and Aberrant Angels. The range of Aberrant Statues is very large, while Aberrant Angels are at the top of the pyramid among them... without exception."

"The Graveyard of the Dead is a lower-level type of Aberrant Angel; basically, you only need to have an iron will to retreat unscathed."

After being told this by the boss, he suddenly woke up a bit, and the three encounters instantly and clearly reflected in his mind!

The sign that he truly showed signs of being contaminated with the aura of an angel was not today after waking up, but yesterday evening when he encountered the Heretic Chanting Choir!

Mao Feiyang came to the campus with Mu Daxian on the evening of May 7th and was injured when going to dinner. Then, on May 8th, he was contaminated by the aura, and thus encountered the attack of the Aberrant Angel, which is the Graveyard of the Dead, when the gray fog invaded at night!

He encountered the Graveyard of the Dead and was fortunately rescued by the security guard and returned to the dormitory.

Then, after a night of rest, he barely widened his cognition using dreams, thus acquiring the concept of the three types of angel statues, but under the continuous pollution of the angel aura, he sensed the Smiling Angel during the day today!

That kind of vision was not only because he conceived the Smiling Angel, but also because the Smiling Angel was looking for the angel aura on him, thus creating a kind of quantum entanglement on a dimension he couldn't understand...

In a less practical way, it's "mutual attraction".

The Smiling Angel tracked him through his shadow, but Old Mo briefly severed that connection, essentially saving him once.

And the Rampaging Angel that followed was likely drawn to him as well!

This time, he was lucky. Due to a twist of fate, the homeroom teacher arranged for him to come to the gymnasium ahead of time, allowing him to escape the Rampaging Angel's pursuit and be saved by the gym teacher!

In other words, in the short span of a day after Maozi became tainted with angelic energy, he had already visited the gates of hell three times at the hands of three different angel statues?!

Especially when he first encountered the Necropolis of the Fallen, he truly felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness. If the security guard hadn't appeared, he might have become one of the human-shaped tombstones in the Necropolis.

Lin Yi had the dramatic feeling of receiving both good news and bad news at the same time. The bad news was that he had encountered all three angel statues, and the good news was that he had been saved from all of them.

If the matter wasn't still unresolved, he might have laughed out loud.

"So, don't you find it incredibly strange to encounter something like an Aberrant Angel?" the Boss asked.

Lin Yi scratched his head: "At first, I did find it a bit incomprehensible, but gradually… I got used to it."

It's like confessing your love and being rejected repeatedly; one more rejection doesn't seem so strange anymore.

A complex look couldn't help but surface in the Boss's cold eyes. She looked at Lin Yi's innocent face and sighed softly: "Some things are better not gotten used to…"

"Once you get used to it, you can't escape."

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, but then he sighed helplessly: "But if I can't get used to it, how can I safely get through these seven days?"

The Boss didn't know his situation and couldn't imagine the problems he had to face.

He understood, so he felt somewhat helpless.

The Boss looked at him, her expression gradually returning to its cold state.

"Turn around," she said blandly.

"Huh?"

"Turn around," a hint of undeniable light flashed in the Boss's eyes. "I want to see how much angelic energy you have left."

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"Okay, Boss!" Lin Yi quickly complied, turning around and leaving his back to the Boss.

Immediately afterward, he clearly felt the Boss's fingers gently touch his neck, then move along the lines of his muscles to his shoulders.

His body suddenly tensed, and he subconsciously straightened up.

The next moment, the Boss's hand sank slightly, and her five fingers clasped his shoulder blades.

"Ouch, Boss…" Lin Yi's heart jumped, and he felt a slight ache in his shoulder blades, causing him to cry out subconsciously.

Li Huiyuan, who was at the side, was also startled by this sudden scene and accidentally pulled a muscle, causing a burst of soreness in her calf.

"Use your power to resist for a moment," the Boss's cold voice rang in Lin Yi's ears with a commanding tone. As soon as she finished speaking, she didn't care whether Lin Yi was ready or not and directly exerted force, tightening her five fingers.

Lin Yi had just reacted when a strong sense of soreness and pain came from his shoulder blades. He cried out, "Ugh ah," and subconsciously wanted to pull his shoulder blades out of the Boss's hand, but the Boss's fingers were like shackles, firmly clamping him down, making him unable to move.

"Don't try to struggle; it's futile. Use your will to resist this sense of oppression."

The Boss's voice was still calm, as if such clamping force was as simple as eating and drinking for her.

Lin Yi couldn't hear a word of what she was saying. He only felt that his shoulder blades were about to be crushed by the Boss. The intense pain constantly impacted his nerves, and he felt like his shoulder blades were about to burn.

The Boss frowned slightly and continued to exert force with her five fingers.

Lin Yi felt like his bones were about to break. He struggled constantly and subconsciously grabbed the Boss's hand with both hands, trying to pry it open.

But everything he did was futile. His strength was less than that of an infant in front of the Boss.

Li Huiyuan's eyes were full of heartache and worry: "Boss…"

"Just watch from the side," the Boss interrupted her. "Treating an illness also requires addressing the root cause. If you can't find the source and mess around, the effect will only be counterproductive."

Li Huiyuan pursed her lips, and when she thought of what she had experienced when she first arrived at the gymnasium, she stopped talking.

Gradually, some distorted forms appeared in Lin Yi's shadow, like living liquid extending twisted tentacles in all directions, baring their fangs and claws, as if countless threads were interwoven to form a bizarre spider web.

The Boss looked down at the black shadow, which writhed with tentacles like a living octopus, her expression icy and devoid of any extra emotion.

Finally, a faint layer of aura floated on Lin Yi's shadow, like rolling dust commonly seen in sandy lands, but this dust appeared incomparably clear in the clean gymnasium.

"So it turns out you picked up some 'Ashes'… No wonder they are flocking to it."

Looking at the extremely thin circle of dust, the Boss sighed softly.

"'Ashes'…?" Lin Yi was a little dazed. "Where?"

"In the shadow," the Boss released Lin Yi's shoulders. "More precisely, at the intersection of light and shadow."

Lin Yi quickly said: "The homeroom teacher asked me to come here to purify this aura, no, these Ashes…"

The Boss shook her head slightly: "Ashes cannot be eliminated."

"Huh? But the homeroom teacher…"

The Boss interrupted: "The homeroom teacher can't distinguish it so clearly. She definitely wouldn't have told you that. Think carefully, what were her exact words at that time?"

Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, then recalled.

"No matter what, go to the gymnasium. They have ways to help you eliminate the mark."

"The homeroom teacher said… you have ways to help me eliminate the mark."

The Boss nodded: "That's right, so I'm telling you, this is not a 'mark that can be eliminated,' but 'Ashes that cannot be eliminated.'"

"Is there any difference between these Ashes… and the mark?" Lin Yi said dejectedly.

The Boss explained: "A mark is the aura of an angel, and Ashes… let's just say this, a mark is like body odor, and Ashes are like perfume."

"Your homeroom teacher thought you had picked up the body odor of an angel, but in reality, what you picked up was a perfume from another source, and even for angels, it's just something they picked up."

Thanks to book friends "usjdnshhs" and "Wooden Hummingbird" for the rewards!!

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