Chapter 79 Path
Chapter 79 "Path"
Lin Yi thought about everything that happened after the lights in the classroom were turned off, and nodded in agreement.
"By the way, did the athlete tell you all this?"
"Correct."
"But... why would a jock tell you that? And the jock I met just told me not to think?!"
"Then I don't know." Tian Bufan shrugged, "Maybe... you look stupid?"
"..."
"You have been slained!"
Lin Yi was immediately choked with anger, but he couldn't help but ask, "But, they told you too much, didn't they?"
"They talk a lot because I ask a lot!" Tian Bufan said speechlessly, "You should ask! If you don't ask, what will they talk to you about?"
"Double kill!!"
"..."
"I asked!" Lin Yi said, "But they told me that the secret of this campus is like a magnetic field. Once I step into the magnetic field, my cognition will be overturned and shattered. If I can't rebuild my cognition, I'm doomed."
"That's not a problem." Tian Bufan nodded and looked at Lin Yi with a sneer, "But although the magnetic field theory is interesting, it doesn't apply to us."
"Ask yourself, even if you knew all this, would you not have stepped into this magnetic field? Would you have been able to avoid stepping into the magnetic field?"
"Don't be naive, Old Lin."
“Our inspiration meant that we had already stepped into the magnetic field from the moment we entered the campus.”
Lin Yi was nailed to the bed by Tian Bufan's words.
Tian Bufan continued: "They told me similar things, but I told them that I had already prepared to enter this magnetic field, so they told me."
"Trible kill!!"
"..."
"So..." Lin Yi's tone was a little dry, "You were prepared for this from the beginning?"
"'Enlightenment'?" Tian Bufan sneered, "Are you kidding me? Have you forgotten that I am not here to 'survive for seven days'? I came here with the idea of 'exploration' from the beginning?"
"Quadra kill!!!"
"Hiss..." Lin Yi took a breath of cold air. He suddenly realized that when faced with the same strange campus, Tian Bufan, who actively overwrote his cognition from the very beginning, was much more successful in accepting it than him, who passively overwrote his own cognition!
"So... the sports student told you everything?"
"Maybe they are also happy to have a sports student like him." Tian Bufan said.
"A fellow sports student?! Damn! Are you really planning to stay here?" Lin Yi asked in surprise and worry.
Tian Bufan glanced at him and said with a half-smile: "Hey... How do you know that you can't leave after becoming a 'sports student'?"
Lin Yi was stunned.
"Yeah, why would I think so?"
"strangeness……"
“That’s really strange…”
"Maybe because... sports students don't have student ID cards?" Lin Yi said.
"That's right, sports students don't have student ID cards, so they can't leave the campus through normal means."
"So... you really don't plan to leave?"
"How could we not leave? We agreed to leave together before we came here, so of course no one can stay."
"So why do you want to be a sports student?"
"If I don't say that, how can they tell me the information I want to know?"
"Panta kill!!!" Lin Yi's expression suddenly changed, and he felt that he had suddenly become so stupid.
Tian Bufan took a deep breath and said earnestly: "Old Lin, you have to admit that we can't escape the attraction of the layers. Since we can't avoid it, we can only find a way to find a 'way'."
"In a place like this, intelligence is everything."
"Only when we have enough information and deduce useful approaches can we take the initiative, right?"
"'Path'?" Lin Yi asked solemnly, "What is the 'path' you want to know?"
Tian Bufan tapped the table, his eyelids slightly lowered, with a feeling of planning a strategy. He said slowly: "Including but not limited to..."
"One, the means of getting between different buildings on campus."
"Second, a single building's way of floating and sinking between different layers."
"as well as……"
“Third, the pathways for transformation between experience students, sports students, arts students, and other ‘identities’ or units within the campus.”
Lin Yi's scalp suddenly tightened, and he felt a tingling sensation: "I can understand the first two, but what does the third one mean? Identity transformation?"
"The sports students told me." Tian Bufan said, "From being an experience student like us to becoming a sports student or an art student, it can be considered a way."
"Have you played the game?"
"Do you understand 'upgrade' and 'job change'?"
"The scope of activities for the experience students is equivalent to the 'newbie village'. They stay on the 'surface' of the campus. Once the seven days are up, you will be withdrawn."
"After changing to another 'identity', the corresponding range of activities and 'layers' are expanded. You can use certain professional characteristics to move around in the 'inner layers' of the campus."
"Our situation is very dangerous because the 'boundary' of the Novice Village is very vague to us, so once we cross the line, all we can do is cross the boundary and return to the Novice Village in time, or... master a new identity and gain the ability to act in the 'inner layer'."
"Or rather... 'rights'."
"Of course, I don't know how to convert this way. And, judging from the situation of athletes, it seems difficult to convert back."
"Besides, if I become an art student, the situation will be much worse than I imagined."
"In short, for safety reasons, I don't plan to take risks before I have a thorough understanding of the 'path'. I will only conduct some explorations and attempts within the scope that I can control."
A row of “…”s slowly tapped out on Lin Yi’s forehead. Tian Bufan’s words were expressed using the “game theory” he had proposed earlier, so Lin Yi could understand them and fully comprehend them.
But what confused him was - "Damn it! Xu Shunkang and the others only told me not to think too much, but they told everything to Master Tian!"
Lin Yi felt like his whole body was numb.
Why is there such a huge difference between people?!
"No! So you can think about problems late at night?" Lin Yi asked unwillingly.
He just "simply" thought about the problem a little bit, and it almost caused big problems.
"I just stood on the shoulders of others and simply thought about some things." Tian Bufan looked at Lin Yi calmly.
"'Simple thinking'?! Come on! That's what I wanted to say!" Lin Yi complained madly.
But in the end, he could only swallow his breath.
"All right……"
"We can talk about the means after you have figured it out. Let's continue talking about the art students. I mean... last night, the sports students fought with them." "Okay." Tian Bufan nodded slightly. "I just told you that after entering the classroom, I briefly observed the situation of the classmates, and then talked to the sports students and obtained some information."
"The sports students told me that the fog was too thick last night and we (experience students) could not return to the dormitory, so we could only study in the classroom until the next day."
"They also told me that in abnormal weather conditions, the lights in the classrooms often go out."
Lin Yi nodded slightly and listened silently, but he soon discovered that the way the physical education student told Tian Bufan about turning off the lights in the classroom was actually different from what the head teacher and even Xu Shunkang told Lin Yi!
First, Tian Bufan’s head teacher also came to the classroom to take roll call at around 21:00, and then left the classroom after 21:30 and locked the door.
Secondly, the sports students in Tian Bufan’s class...did not leave the classroom.
After the classroom was locked, Tian Bufan's classmates who were athletes told them very forcefully: If the lights in the classroom started flickering later, they should either crawl under the desks immediately or hide next to their athletes.
It was obvious that Tian Bufan chose to stand next to the athlete.
That's how he witnessed a battle between sports students and art students.
"To be precise, there were two parties involved in the fight. The sports students and the normal art students were on the same side, and the other side was the abnormal art students and those who were not classmates."
Lin Yi was puzzled and asked, "Normal art students and abnormal art students...are not in the same group?"
Tian Bufan said: "Normal things are in one camp, and abnormal things are in another camp. Is this understandable?"
"I see... I'm just surprised that there are two types of art students."
"What's so surprising about this? People also have good and evil, right and wrong. It's just that the good and evil of art students are more extreme on campus."
Lin Yi thought of the killing mechanism of the abnormal classmates and asked in confusion: "You stared at those things that were not classmates, but you were not attacked by them?"
Tian Bufan said: "33 sports students plus 15 normal art students, against 30 abnormal art students and inhuman things, not only the number but also the combat power are overwhelming, they have no time to care about me."
Lin Yi was horrified when he heard this, and even a picture appeared in his mind.
Last night, it rained heavily outside the window, thunder rumbled in the sky, and a ray of light streaked across the darkness, lighting up the dark classroom.
Tian Bufan stood in a corner with a calm expression, watching everything that happened in the classroom calmly, indifferently and calmly.
He was like a cold robot, calculating everything through indifferent observation.
And everything seemed to be under his control.
Just by imagining that scene, Lin Yi would feel a suffocating and terrifying rationality from Tian Bufan.
A kind of almost pure and tolerant rationality.
However, Tian Bufan did not describe the details of the battle to Lin Yi.
Until Lin Yi said, "Last night, something entered our classroom. What about you? Was there anything in your classroom?"
"Also."
Lin Yi was startled and asked hurriedly: "Did you see clearly what that thing is?"
“I saw it, but not clearly.”
"So...what is that?"
Tian Bufan was silent for two seconds, then slowly uttered two words: "... sculpture."
"Sculpture?! Is it the kind of sculpture I understand? Or is it the angel sculpture mentioned in the gym rules?"
"It shouldn't be an angel sculpture, it's simply a human sculpture." Tian Bufan added, "a full-body sculpture."
Lin Yi was stunned, and another picture appeared in his mind——
Under the dim moonlight and in the thick fog, a sculpture walked across the cobblestone ground. Its feet rubbed against the cobblestone ground, making a rustling sound.
It climbed up the steps, polished its plaster-like fingers in a perverted way, turned them into the shape of a key, and then slowly inserted them into the keyhole...
It twisted its fingers, and the lock tongue made a "click-click-click" sound.
Then, it slowly opened the door.
"squeak--"
It saw Tian Bufan.
Tian Bufan also saw it.
"hiss……"
Lin Yi shuddered violently, and the "vision" in front of him disappeared instantly.
"So the plaster-like substance left in the keyhole is actually from the sculpture!"
"Those things... transform back and forth between plaster-like substances and ketchup?"
"The homeroom teacher was trying to stop them from entering the classroom last night?"
"It wasn't until the security showed up that they were completely driven away?"
From Tian Bufan's words, Lin Yi got a key piece of the puzzle, and this piece of puzzle directly pieced together part of the truth of last night!
"What are you thinking about?" Tian Bufan asked.
Lin Yi told Tian Bufan what had happened to him.
"Blood turns into ketchup, and ketchup turns into plaster under the sun?" Tian Bufan showed an interested expression, but Lin Yi got another message from his eyes - he already knew this.
"Mr. Tian only took one day to get so much information? How did he do it?"
Sometimes, he also felt incredible.
Tian Bufan said: "Do you remember the transformation method I mentioned to you?"
Lin Yi nodded.
"I mentioned the concepts of 'identity' and 'unit'."
"Generally speaking, all things with autonomous activities can be called 'units'. Those of us who have a demonstrable 'identity' belong to a unit, and things like sculptures that have no 'identity' also belong to a unit."
"Sports students, art students, homeroom teachers, and teachers all belong to the same unit."
"Units have 'hostile', 'cooperative', or 'independent' relationships with each other."
"And it is obvious that as a member of the abnormal unit, the sculpture will pose a huge threat to us."
"Both the sports students and the class teachers will provide some help to the experience students and even protect our safety to a certain extent."
"Remember what the student rules say?"
“[All the sculptures on campus are busts, and all are kept in the Art Building.] Although the words ‘Art Building’ have been painted over, you can still see them clearly if you look closely.”
"The people who made the rules obviously wanted us to know this and be wary of the 'art building', so they used the method of smearing and smearing without cleaning it up."
The student code of conduct is printed uniformly. If you really don't want others to know, you can simply delete it instead of deliberately crossing it out.
“Combined with the statement that there are normal and abnormal art students, I came to a conclusion – the sculptures on campus are biological units that can move freely under certain circumstances, and they are contained in the art building.”
“But when the campus layer fluctuates, they move away from the arts building that’s not on the map and invade other buildings.”
"Normal art students, sports students, etc., have the ability to fight against them to a certain extent."
"The above is my inference, and I think the accuracy rate is as high as 99 percent."
Thanks to the book friend "Chuan Yaming" for the reward! !
(End of this chapter)