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Chapter 182 Night Breed "Super"? (Bonus 1000 words!)

But the problem is—

"Why would the dormitory supervisor be in the teaching building?" Lin Yi asked.

"Your perspective is too narrow, Lao Lin."

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"If Maozi can walk from the teaching building's stairs all the way to the dormitory building, why can't the dormitory supervisor walk from the dormitory building to the teaching building?"

"Oh, right…" Lin Yi slapped his forehead, chiding himself for forgetting that at such a crucial moment.

"But if it's the dormitory supervisor, who are the people he's with… Wait a minute?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of something, slapping his thigh.

D Building's connecting bridge… From that style, doesn't it look a bit like the old stone bridge between the art building's castle and the watchtower?

And the dormitory supervisor… takes the students who are lost in the dormitory building's corridors to the art building by elevator.

Lin Yi still remembered that on the night Mao Feiyang entered the school, after exiting the elevator with the dormitory supervisor, he seemed to have walked a distance before opening his eyes upon entering the art office.

Could it be that the dormitory building's elevator can reach the layer where Teaching Building D is located, and then… reach the art building through that D Building connecting bridge?!

Nothing is impossible.

After the layer collapsed, the entire world's spatial dimensions cannot be fathomed with common sense. Who can guarantee that on a certain layer with a certain depth of pollution, the spaces of the art building and Teaching Building D are not overlapping?

Moreover!

What does the art student code say about art students returning to the art building from the campus layer?

【You can also use the dormitory building elevator to return to the castle, but it must be between 0:00 ~ 6:00, and you need the dormitory supervisor's assistance.】

This, this, this… Doesn't this make sense?!

However… this chain of logic seems a bit off. Within this flash of inspiration, there is always a sense of oversight that can't be explained, as if something hasn't been considered thoroughly or is being considered incorrectly.

Moreover, the appearance of the art building… is somewhat similar yet completely different from what it looks like when viewed from C Building.

"It's good to keep the speculation, Lao Lin," Tian Bufan stamped a seal of termination on Lin Yi's speculation. "I'm just giving you a direction to think, not saying that that's my conclusion."

"The teaching building has a D Building that resembles a castle. The people going to D Building might be a food delivery team led by security guards, or it might be newly admitted art students being led to the art building by the dormitory supervisor… Both guesses are valid."

"Of course, the most bizarre point is… according to the student code's reminder, the location of the art building is not fixed, so if the D Building connecting bridge leads to the art building… then wouldn't the location of the art building become fixed?"

"Moreover, look carefully again. The time to use the dormitory building elevator to return to the castle must be between 0:00 ~ 6:00, and you need the dormitory supervisor's assistance. The time when Maozi encountered the dormitory supervisor in your dream was also during the period when the dormitory building corridors' lights were turned off."

Lin Yi pondered, "What you said is also right…"

So after the two discussed, they still felt that the possibility of a security guard food delivery team was greater.

"Let's talk about something else," Tian Bufan ended the discussion on Teaching Building D, which was extremely lacking in clues.

"Okay, oh right, I recently discovered that I seem to have comprehended a very interesting 'deduction' ability that can't be explained in a few words," Lin Yi described his experience of entering the [My World] state when the layer collapsed, using the most expressive way he could.

"The most important point is that since entering the 'My World state' that time, my observation of many things' details seems to have risen a level, and I can also deduce the state of things at a certain moment in the future based on some dynamic factors, just like when predicting the lights going out in the cafeteria…"

"Am I… going to become a freaking Superman?"

"Superman, the one who flips over and draws three cards, or the one who wears his underwear on the outside?" Wei Liang's voice suddenly squeezed out from under the pillow like toothpaste. "If you really have this feeling, I suggest you bring an extra pair of underwear tomorrow so you can temporarily wear it on the outside when transforming. It's a pity that the quilt you bought was taken away by Emperor Security Guard; otherwise, you would have really collected the Superman suit."

"Liangzi, can you please discuss with us if you want to discuss, don't always focus on some weird focal points!" Lin Yi said speechlessly.

Wei Liang muttered in a low voice, "If I didn't focus on weird points, wouldn't I be drawn into your discussion?"

"Ga, what did you say?"

"I said aba aba aba aba…"

"Okay, my son, stop barking. Continue eavesdropping on your uncles' discussion," Lin Yi seamlessly switched into this combo, leaving Wei Liang dumbfounded.

"Damn it, Lao Lin, how dare you take advantage of me!"

"Oh right, I suddenly remembered that I also bought two rolls of biscuits when I went to the convenience store this time…"

"Damn… Liang has drifted for half his life, only regretting not meeting a wise master. If you don't abandon me, I am willing…"

"Get lost!" Lin Yi scolded with a smile, throwing a roll of biscuits over. Wei Liang, who was covered in his blanket, still accurately caught it, showing off his 100% bare-handed blade catching skills.

"Hehehe…" Wei Liang laughed, shrinking his neck. These biscuits were real emergency supplies. "Lao Lin, I'll help you keep these for now, just in case, ha. You guys continue, continue. Oh right, let me remind you about that connecting bridge you mentioned earlier."

Wei Liang smiled and put the biscuits next to his pillow, then made a "whirring" sound again, making Lin Yi really want to give him a Crow Sitting Airplane.

He straightened his expression and continued, "I also have a discovery on the connecting bridge… I saw that the walls along the outer edge of the connecting bridge had unevenly distributed moss."

"Then I stretched the moss from distorted into a straight line in [My World]…"

Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, "Are you saying… you changed the frame of reference of the teaching building in your mind? Treating the moss as an ink line, stretching the original reality?"

"Just like you drew routes on paper with cotton thread yesterday, but I reversed the operation," Lin Yi said. "When I twisted the moss into a straight line, the original teaching building became a post-modernist architectural work with an extremely strong style. It looked very much like the interior structure of a fortress in the movie Alien. It was a kind of fortress, an architecture with extremely abstract lines and a strong style."

Upon hearing this, Tian Bufan suddenly said, "What you said gave me inspiration. If you can see the moss distribution on the D Building connecting bridge and stretch it, will you get a different Teaching Building D?"

Lin Yi's eyes lit up, "That makes sense."

"It makes sense, but I'm not asking you to do that," Tian Bufan quickly stopped him. "The exploration of D Building is not urgent. This kind of building hidden in the layer must be fully prepared, especially after clarifying the round trip route, otherwise, it will be troublesome if you go and can't come back."

"Yeah," Lin Yi nodded. "Also, when I was deducing [My World], I don't know what happened, but I found that the very thick fog was permeating under the connecting bridge. In that world I deduced, the whole world was shrouded in fog, leaving only the connecting bridge and the teaching buildings in front and behind still clear."

"The visibility is very limited, and I can't see the mountains and trees."

"Moreover, there seems to be the sound of water in the fog under the connecting bridge. I'm not sure if it's seawater, but my intuition tells me it is."

"That scene, except for the lack of cold air, is like throwing the connecting bridge onto liquid nitrogen. Below is the rustling liquid nitrogen, and above is some vaporized white fog. You can't see anything else."

"The most important point is… I can clearly feel the malice from the seawater below the connecting bridge, as if something is spying on me from below, trying to crawl out but can't…"

Tian Bufan was silent for a while before saying, "This ability you're talking about is very similar to 'profiling,' but it's much stronger than profiling. It's like building a sandbox in your mind and then manipulating them at will…"

"And that fog and seawater you mentioned…"

"I guess it might be something originally hidden under or outside the sandbox. When you create gaps in certain areas by distorting the sandbox… the 'void' that originally didn't exist on this side of the sandbox comes out to fill that piece, just like this…"

While speaking, he stretched his hand from his bed to Wei Liang's bed connected to his, grabbing a handful of Wei Liang's bed sheet.

The bedsheet was crumpled, with the edges pulled back, revealing the bed board underneath.

“My understanding is roughly this, though I don't know if I'm right... Basically, this thing is like a virus that was forcibly inserted into your sandbox editing by an incomprehensible force. It's definitely caused by a power beyond our current understanding.”

“Okay, okay, okay... ‘My understanding is roughly this,’ so does that mean my bedsheet is almost done for?” Wei Liang shot up in bed, despite being on his deathbed, hands on his hips, eyebrows raised. “Yesterday it was pulling threads, today it's ripping the sheets. Are you just targeting me? Are you trying to make me sleep naked?”

“Damn, Wei Shan, are you laughing? Don't laugh!”

“I'm not laughing,” Wei Shan said.

“The vibrations from your bed are about to shake mine apart, and you're saying you're not laughing?! Damn it, Lao Lin, we're switching beds tomorrow!”

Kuai Hongji chuckled darkly, “They're just messing with you on purpose. But you want to listen and don't listen, don't want to listen and eavesdrop. Young Master Tian is doing this to give you a sense of participation in the discussion.”

“Don't panic, Liangzi, we have an extra bed in the dorm. When Young Master Tian takes apart your bed, you can just switch to the new one,” Lin Yi said.

“……”

Tian Bufan smoothed out his blanket: “Besides Building D, what else did you find?”

“Huh, don't you have anything to say?” Lin Yi was a little surprised. This wasn't like Tian Bufan. Why didn't he say something shocking?

“I did say something,” Tian Bufan said helplessly. “It's not like every day can be like last night with so many new discoveries, right? Besides, my focus today wasn't on Building D.”

“Oh, so what was your focus?” Lin Yi asked curiously.

“I went to look at the elevator and the stairs,” Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi's eyes widened: “I also looked at the elevator and the stairwell. Doesn't that mean our explorations overlapped?”

“I went into the elevator.” Tian Bufan's words immediately silenced Lin Yi.

“Sorry, I was a little loud just now, so…”

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“You tell me your findings first, and then I'll tell you mine. This part... is quite interesting.” Tian Bufan smiled, but for some reason, the smile felt somewhat like Kuai Hongji's dark chuckle, giving Lin Yi a creepy feeling down his spine.

「The elevator is full of Nightwalkers, but Young Master Tian can go in...? How did he do it?」

“I found that the elevator was completely filled with Nightwalkers. They were packed into the elevator's interior like clay, like rotten meat filling a large trash can... Oh, I just learned about the 'Nightwalker' concept today. Did you guys know about it?”

“We all know now. Keep going.”

Lin Yi wasn't surprised that Tian Bufan knew this. After all, Tian Bufan was constantly exploring.

After he told everything about his elevator exploration, he waited for Tian Bufan's words.

“A little pity,” Tian Bufan said. “If you could find a way to drive all the Nightwalkers out of the elevator, you could see what's inside.”

“Yeah…” Lin Yi sighed. “Actually, there is a way. Although the elevator's location is a bit out of the way and can't be directly exposed to sunlight, if we could get a large enough mirror to shine on them, we might be able to force them out.”

“So you actually thought of a method, but you didn't put it into practice,” Tian Bufan said.

“Ah? Do you have such a big mirror?”

“I don't,” Tian Bufan said, but immediately added, “But isn't there a ready-made mirror?”

“Ah?”

“I opened the elevator in the morning and saw the situation inside. I broke off a long branch on the side of the road when I had lunch, and after returning to the teaching building, I took down the mirrors in the bathroom and toilet, then went to the elevator, set up a good position, and started working...”

“Uh…”

“What's so surprising about that?”

“I'm just a little shocked…” Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a sense of incongruity when he imagined Tian Bufan, with his cold face, taking apart the mirrors.

“You didn't think I did it alone, did you?” Tian Bufan asked.

“Didn't you?”

“Idiot, there's ready-made labor in the classroom!”

“You… mobilized the masses?!”

“Mobilized my ass, I directly asked the sports students for help. When they heard I was going to have a barbecue, they were all very enthusiastic.”

“Okay…” Lin Yi spread his hands helplessly. “Then you used the branch to remotely press the elevator's open button, while arranging for the sports students to adjust the angle of the mirror, roasting the Nightwalkers?”

“Yeah, I also conducted some small experiments along the way, and studied their structure and transformation methods a little.”

“Plus, with the sports students around, I almost figured them out.”

Lin Yi immediately became interested and quickly said, “Tell me about it.”

Tian Bufan paused for a moment, then said, “Let's talk about the results first. 'Nightwalkers' are extremely afraid of sunlight. Even the light reflected by a mirror has a strong lethal effect on them.”

“After being exposed to sunlight, the pollution in their bodies will be quickly released in the form of mist, and their muscles will turn into white plaster sculptures. But according to the sports students, the Nightwalkers after being sculpted haven't actually died. Once abnormal weather arrives and they receive pollution, they will return to their Nightwalker form.”

“To put it simply, they're like balloons, and pollution can inflate them.”

“Moreover, simply smashing them is not enough. Their structure is like 'metal liquid robots.' After being smashed, the 'parts' of different individuals will attract each other after absorbing pollution, merge with each other, and then turn into something that's neither human nor ghost. According to the information I got out of them, that form is the prototype of the 'Aberrant Sculpture.'”

“As far as I know, Aberrant Sculptures are very troublesome things. Once formed, they can't be easily dealt with by the sports students. So when facing ordinary Nightwalkers, you must completely eliminate them once you take action.”

“And the way to completely eliminate them is very simple, just break them under the sun.”

“Sunlight will completely kill them, turning them into white powder particles. That kind of thing is pure pollutant, and it's one of the components of the 'mist' during abnormal weather.”

“Wait, wait, wait… I'm a little confused.” Lin Yi was a little lost. “Are you saying that after the Nightwalker's body is crushed, it will be assimilated by pollution and become part of the pollution? Then… this pollutant can be absorbed by the sculpted Nightwalkers, allowing them to return to their Nightwalker form.”

“Then, conceptually speaking, isn't the Nightwalker itself the materialized form of a certain part of the pollutants in the mist?”

Tian Bufan paused: “Doesn't this composition remind you of something?”

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes: “I wouldn't have thought of it if you hadn't asked, but now I subconsciously think of 'water'.”

“The three states of water.”

“Nightwalkers tending towards the liquid state, plaster sculptures tending towards the solid state, and… white powder particles tending towards the gaseous state.”

“Then could it be that the source of pollution in the campus is a super Nightwalker?!”

“Emmmm… or should we call it… Nightwalker 「Super」?!”

Originally, after listening to Tian Bufan's description, the first thing Lin Yi thought of was Tsunade's super large summon slug from 《Naruto》, which could split into countless small slugs and merge into the main body, which was extremely similar to the Nightwalkers described by Tian Bufan.

But when he looked at the campus, he immediately thought of another similar concept…

“That… non-existent ocean?!”

Isn't the ocean made up of countless water?

And in a recent hallucination, he also saw countless Nightwalkers emerge from the waves like a tide, appear on the black reefs, and then begin to climb up the cliffs!

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