Bang!
After the worker who threw the brick was sent flying by Jiang Lin, the entire construction site fell silent for a moment.
Countless gazes fell upon Jiang Lin.
Workers bending over to tie rebar looked up, and those carrying materials stopped in their tracks, turning to look this way.
Even the person operating the crane overhead lowered their gaze, looking expressionlessly at Jiang Lin on the ground.
Creak—
The crane, forming a 'ten' shape in the air, moved.
The cement slab, suspended tens of meters in the air, slowly shifted, turned, and began to move towards Jiang Lin.
It looked as if it was about to be dropped directly onto Jiang Lin.
At the same time, other workers wearing yellow hard hats began to move.
They chanted as they picked up handy weapons and converged on Jiang Lin.
"What is the surface area formula for a cylinder?"
"How do you calculate the volume of a prism?"
Everyone was expressionless, their movements synchronized.
It exuded an eerie aura.
"I don't know, ahhh—stop asking, what the hell are you asking!"
Just as Jiang Lin was about to make a move, a sound of footsteps echoed from a distance, followed by loud, drawn-out cries.
"Even if you ask me a hundred times, I won't know!"
The teenager, tall at one meter seventy-eight, had the hem of his blue school uniform jacket fluttering as he ran. A palm-sized red Iron Man model was perched on his head.
His long legs, clad in white sneakers, carried him at a rapid pace, kicking up clouds of dust wherever he went.
However, Jiang Lin looked closely.
Within the vast cloud of dust behind the teenager, there were countless figures charging forward, wielding weapons.
Faintly, he could still hear many questioning voices:
"What are the sine and cosine formulas for triple angles?"
"What is the general equation of a circle?"
"Running? Where are you running to? Hurry back and answer the question!"
...
"Let the child go! I'm still a minor!"
The teenager ran past Jiang Lin without looking back, like the wind.
After running only a couple of steps, he suddenly braked.
He sharply turned his head to look at Jiang Lin.
Then he looked at the workers with weapons approaching him, and the crane overhead that was almost directly above Jiang Lin's head.
!!!
Good heavens, is this newcomer?
So calm?!
Or has he been scared stiff?
The teenager stared with wide eyes, shouting at Jiang Lin:
"Run! Why are you still standing there like an idiot? Those guys can beat you to death!"
After saying that, he bolted.
His speed was certainly worthy of his long legs.
Jiang Lin glanced at the teenager, casually batted away a few pursuing workers, and then followed.
These must be the humans who got caught up in this, as mentioned by the mission center.
However, he didn't know where the other ghost envoys were.
As he followed, Jiang Lin's gaze inevitably fell upon the teenager's head.
Why... was he wearing a red toy on his head?
Why...
Did the toy not fall off when he ran like that?
Was it stuck to his head?
...
"This way, this way!"
The teenager with the red toy on his head seemed very experienced, leading Jiang Lin through twists and turns, finally hiding in a narrow tin shed.
Quickly closing and locking the door, he peered out through the gap in the door and watched the demonic workers leave.
Fu Jie then breathed a sigh of relief, slid down the door panel to the ground, and regulated his breathing.
After catching his breath, he peeked out through the door gap again, confirming that the demonic workers had gone far.
"Hey, are you new here today?"
He looked at Jiang Lin, dressed in white with a tall hat inscribed with 'Prosperity at First Sight'.
"That's the attire of a White Impermanence? You actually want to be a White Impermanence?"
"Awesome!"
Fu Jie whispered, giving Jiang Lin a thumbs-up.
Jiang Lin pondered the other person's words, his gaze falling on the red toy on his head, "This is...?"
Fu Jie's mouth twitched, "You mean this on my head? Iron Man, cool, right?"
Jiang Lin: "..."
He couldn't tell if it was cool or not, but why was he wearing it like that?
Recalling what the teenager had said earlier, Jiang Lin quickly formed a line of thought in his mind.
This space should possess the ability to materialize certain imaginations.
In the teenager's view, Jiang Lin wanted to be a White Impermanence, hence his appearance as one?
If so, then this teenager must want to be Iron Man?
"My name is Fu Jie, Fu from 'to give', Jie from 'Capricorn'. What's your name?"
Fu Jie changed the subject and asked.
Jiang Lin glanced at the teenager, realizing the other person thought he was human.
However, in this strange ghost realm, Jiang Lin wasn't surprised.
After all, outside the ghost realm, this teenager and those workers wouldn't have been able to get close to him.
For the ghost realm, he was indeed like the teenager, here for an examination.
"Jiang Lin."
Jiang Lin said indifferently.
...
"!!!"
Upon seeing this, the viewers in the live stream room's eyes lit up in unison.
They finally knew the streamer's full name!
This was a significant gain, they had to jot it down in their little notebooks!
Well done, Brother Fu!
...
Inside the tin shed.
Fu Jie muttered, "Jiang Lin, a forest by the river?"
Jiang Lin: "..." If you want to interpret it that way, that's fine.
The characters are correct.
"None of this is important,"
Fu Jie suddenly sat up straight and said expectantly, "Among all subjects, are you particularly good at any?"
Particularly good at... subjects?
Jiang Lin thought for a moment, "Can I plan well?"
"Physical education?"
Fu Jie's expression immediately became troubled, and he pouted, "Then you're just like me, but being able to run is a good thing."
"If you encounter questions you can't answer, just run hard."
Jiang Lin: "What if I can't outrun them?"
Fu Jie lazily raised his eyes, "Then just wait to die."
Jiang Lin: "Can't I fight back?"
Does this space only offer two options: answering questions or running?
But when he batted away that brick-throwing worker earlier, didn't this ghost realm seem to have no reaction mechanism?
Wait, it seemed to.
At that time, all the workers looked over and began to surround him.
"Fight back?"
Fu Jie chuckled, "Do you think they are human? Those devils won't die."
"Even if they die, more devils will appear."
"It's simply a nightmare."
Fu Jie muttered, "Yes, it's a nightmare, a nightmare from which one can never wake up."
Jiang Lin asked, "What kind of place is this?"
Fu Jie leaned back against the door panel again, "I don't know either. Anyway, I wake up here every day."
"This place is like a school, with classes, breaks, and dismissal every day."
It's just that this 'school's teaching method' is a bit terrifying and a bit unconventional.
"This class is math, we just need to endure until the end of class, and then we'll meet up with others," Fu Jie said.
If they hadn't gotten separated midway, he wouldn't have been running for his life alone here.
He had originally hoped the newcomer would know some math, but it turned out to be the same as him.
Alas...
Now, they could only wait for this nightmare to end.
Tap,
Tap,
In the silence, a strange sound suddenly came from outside the tin shed where the two were located.
Fu Jie's expression changed, and he quickly got up and looked out through the gap in the door.
"Holy crap!"