Chapter 122 What does it mean to not live for a few days? [Add 1000 words! ]

Chapter 122 What does it mean to not live for a few days? [Add 1000 words! ]

Chapter 122 What does it mean to not live for a few days? [Add 1000 words! ]

Lin Yi couldn't help but think back to the situation at that time and recalled it.

[What you are about to do is very dangerous...]

[Isn’t it a good thing to have a cannon fodder who trusts you...]

【What’s wrong with that…】

[She won’t live long anyway, so it’s better to talk openly about some things…]

[Didn't you notice... that guy in the blue bib has been staring at her from the beginning, as if he was looking at a dead person? ]

"Cannon fodder? Dead people?"

Lin Yi suddenly had an idea: "Did you make this guess based on the way the chef in the blue bib was looking at her?"

He thought that the chef in the blue bib "Ru Zai" was not staring at everyone. As far as he could remember, he only stared at them. Apart from that, he was also staring at Li Huiyuan.

"No... then according to what you said, we won't live long either?" Lin Yi asked in surprise.

Tian Bufan smiled and patted his shoulder: "Congratulations on discovering the blind spot."

Lin Yi's expression froze, and he couldn't help but touch the goose bumps on his arms: "Mr. Tian, ​​this joke is not funny at all!"

"Do you think I'm kidding you?" Tian Bufan asked back, but he didn't continue speaking. Instead, he glanced at Wei Liang and Li Huiyuan.

Wei Liang was slightly startled, then he consciously took out a napkin, rolled it up and stuffed it into his ears, then covered them with his hands...

The operation was smooth and silent, and he was so skilled that Lin Yi wanted to beat him up.

"He still 'refused' to listen, so..." Tian Bufan glanced at Li Huiyuan, "For the rest of our conversation, you can listen, but don't think about any doubts you have. When it's over, just ask Lao Lin directly, and treat what Lao Lin tells you as a fact or truth that you must accept. Do you understand?"

Li Huiyuan was still immersed in the nightmare of losing her student ID card. Hearing this, she just nodded blankly.

But Tian Bufan patted her shoulder heavily, his expression cold and serious. With his 1.9-meter-tall body, he gave off an oppressive feeling like a giant bear looking down at Little Red Riding Hood: "I'm not 'explaining' things to you, I'm 'commanding' you something, do you understand?"

Li Huiyuan was shocked by Tian Bufan's aura. She trembled violently, and her brain, which had been shutting down, started to work quickly: "I, I know!"

Tian Bufan nodded slightly, and then said to Lin Yi: "Maozi was polluted as soon as he entered the school, which caused us to be polluted as well. This is an invisible crisis in itself. There is a sword in ancient Greek legend called the 'Sword of Damocles', which means 'sword hanging over the head', and now, this sword is hanging over all of our heads."

"Once the pollution gets worse and the thread that wraps around the hilt is severed, we will all be buried here. Do you think we won't live long?"

Lin Yi groaned and said, "You mean, her situation is the same as ours?"

Tian Bufan said: "I think so. When you have time, you can ask her what she experienced when she entered the school."

Lin Yi nodded slightly.

"That blue bib chef must have some mechanism, but it must react to 'pollution'. This shows that she must also be contaminated. I just don't know the extent of her contamination. I don't know the exact method to judge the depth of contamination yet, but you can ask the sports student to help take a look at her condition."

Lin Yi said: "Okay."

Sports students have a way to distinguish between art students and experience students, and can even judge normal art students from weird art students and inhuman classmates. This shows that they may also have a kind of "perception" ability, but I don't know whether the perception ability of sports students and art students is the same.

"But Lao Lin." Tian Bufan said calmly, "You accidentally got a question wrong."

"What went wrong?"

"When I said she had a problem, I wasn't talking about how to save her, but what I was talking about...how to maximize the effect."

When Tian Bufan said this, he did not consider the feelings of Li Huiyuan who was listening at the side at all. It was as if he was directly tearing open her wound and revealing the bloody reality.

When Li Huiyuan heard this, her face turned pale, but she lowered her head slightly, bit her lips, and tried her best to control her emotions that were about to collapse.

Tian Bufan spread his hands and explained the cold facts indifferently, as if he was making a report: "We don't even know how to save our own people, how dare we shamelessly save others?"

“All we can do is take what we need.”

"She's been corrupted, and she doesn't know what's right... Then it's perfect. Let her be a pawn for us to test the boundaries of the school's rules."

"It is extremely dangerous for a planet to explore the universe, but if you can have a satellite orbiting you, gradually expand your boundaries and proceed step by step, then it will be much better in all aspects."

"We are now like a planet, and she is our satellite."

"If she can find a way to save herself in the end, then she can be saved too."

"Frankly speaking, this is good for us because it reduces the risk of our actions, but for her... the risk is probably slightly higher than if she acted alone."

Tian Bufan did not intentionally conceal the risk factor in order to ensure that Li Huiyuan standing next to him could also obtain the same "objective" amount of information as Lin Yi.

"Of course, compared to 'satellite', there is a more naked term for her - cannon fodder."

"If we're unlucky, she might die a horrible death, and there's nothing we can do about it."

Hearing the word "cannon fodder", Lin Yi frowned subconsciously, feeling that using others as pawns to test the school rules was a bit inhumane, but he couldn't say anything to refute.

Tian Bufan's analysis is very objective and rational.

They have mastered more cognitive and rule elements, and Li Huiyuan has no way out... In this desperate situation, if she agrees to be cannon fodder, then they will act together and win if they can. If she disagrees, then they will go their separate ways and it's up to her to win or lose.

Lin Yi also understood why Tian Bufan asked Li Huiyuan to listen to their conversation, because this was indeed an open and frank negotiation, and they could even ignore Li Huiyuan and let her fend for herself.

Because they have just started exploring the campus.

Because they don't necessarily need a cannon fodder.

Besides... who says they themselves are not cannon fodder?

Once they start exploring the campus, they are ultimately just bigger cannon fodder.

Therefore, everything depends on Li Huiyuan's own decision.

"You don't need to make a decision now." Tian Bufan glanced at Li Huiyuan calmly, "You and Lao Lin are in the same classroom, so you still have time to make a decision. Of course, you'd better make a choice as soon as possible..."

"When you first enter a dungeon, you start by killing small monsters and then slowly kill the elite monsters, and when you join in the middle of the dungeon and fight the elite monsters together, the difficulty is completely different."

"You may still have a little time, but all things considered, the time left for you is not much."

Li Huiyuan remained silent, her mind extremely conflicted, as if she was caught in a whirlpool of deep thought.

"Sorry for the long wait, I'm back." At this time, Wei Shan's voice came from not far away. He had thrown away his shoes and was walking back along the mountain road.

"Then let's go back to the teaching building." After Wei Shan completely reunited with them, Lin Yi nodded, then glanced at Li Huiyuan.

"I..." Li Huiyuan took a deep breath, as if she had made an extremely difficult decision, and then said apprehensively, "I want to tell my homeroom teacher about the loss of my student ID first, and then... I can make a decision later, is that ok?"

She looked at Lin Yi and Tian Bufan with a glimmer of hope in her eyes, fearing that they would be abandoned because of this and would not even be qualified to be cannon fodder.

Tian Bufan smiled slightly: "We just said that you still have time, you can certainly do this." Li Huiyuan breathed a sigh of relief: "Then... that's settled, thank you."

……

X023年5月8日，11:45，前往教学楼的鹅卵石道路上。

Lin Yi told Tian Bufan about what he saw as the trainee crossing the blue bib chef at the entrance of the student cafeteria.

Tian Bufan nodded slightly: "Actually, when I came here, I also saw... an interesting phenomenon. Do you have any guesses about this?"

Lin Yi had indeed thought of something, so he expressed his thoughts: "I think it is a bit like what Wang Yangming said, 'There is nothing outside the mind'..."

"It was obvious to us that the chef in the blue bib was standing there, but because those who experienced it did not cognitively see its existence, they let the fact that 'it did not exist' take effect on them."

"It looks like...the glass stacks in scenic spots."

"Oh?" Tian Bufan's eyes lit up, and he actually showed a hint of joy, "You actually thought of the glass plank road? Tell me in detail!"

Lin Yi didn't expect Tian Bufan to be interested in this statement: "I feel that the role of 'cognition' is like the glass on the glass plank road. For us, the glass is transparent and we can see the world under the glass, or the 'layer' under the glass."

"But for the students, the glass is opaque and no different from the floor tiles, so they can't see the other 'layer' under the glass, nor can they sense the blue bib chef in that 'layer'."

Part of his inspiration came from the plastic curtain at the entrance of the student cafeteria.

"And I guess the degree of strength and transparency of the 'glass' should be related to our cognition."

"By walking on it, we can capture more information, and when our cognition begins to transform or distort, the properties of the glass change, allowing us to see the blue bib chef, or we may fall into the 'layer' below the glass."

"The blue bib chef is like a person clinging to the back of the glass. It can see us and perhaps communicate with us, but I don't know if it has some special mechanism, and I don't know what will happen if it intersects with the blue bib chef."

"But the best way for us to deal with it now is to ignore it and avoid any contact with it through the five senses."

Tian Bufan smiled and said, "You have made rapid progress since you woke up?"

Lin Yi touched his nose a little embarrassedly: "Now that I have some confidence, of course I won't be timid anymore, and I will be bolder when thinking about problems."

"Mr. Tian, ​​what about you? What do you think?"

"How can you be sure that what I was thinking about was not what you just said?" Tian Bufan asked.

Lin Yi coughed dryly: "I always feel that no matter how much I think of, you can think of more than me. It is possible that when I was talking just now, you have already discovered more details..."

Tian Bufan was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke up with an even weirder guess: "The idea of ​​the glass plank road is very interesting. It allowed me to combine it with my previous inspiration and broaden my ideas a little bit..."

Lin Yi quickly pricked up his ears.

"It's still a question from a cognitive perspective." Tian Bufan reminded him first, then slowly said, "Imagine a shiny black tile, and we are a group of people wearing ski goggles, with stiff necks and heads down, walking on this tile."

"This tile is smooth and translucent, bright enough to reflect our shadows clearly."

"Ski goggles have a limited field of view, and our vision is limited to the area in front of us."

"So in fact, we have always been watching the limited shadows moving in the tiles... The world we think of is just what our hearts perceive based on this extremely limited vision, but in fact it is not like this..."

"We are in the real world, but what we see is a false reflection. Is it possible that the chef in the blue bib is actually in the real world, but its shadow cannot appear in our limited vision?"

"One day... we learned to move our heads to expand our vision, and then we saw more of the world, thus adding more details to the 'real world' in our cognition..."

"Then as our field of vision widened, we saw the blue bib chef, and the blue bib chef also spotted us because of the way we were swaying..."

"It's possible that the blue bib chef has always been standing next to us, but... we haven't met the conditions to trigger more of its mechanisms."

Lin Yi's mind suddenly buzzed: "Like in The Matrix? A true or false world? Once we find out that the world is fake, we will be attacked by the so-called maintainers of order in this world? Sculptures?"

After hearing what Tian Bufan said, Lin Yi instantly thought of a lot of things.

"That's not what I meant." Tian Bufan smiled helplessly and shook his head. "It's just an analogy. If S City University is fake, then what about our previous world? We are not the 'natives' here!"

Lin Yi was awakened: "Yes, yes, we came here in the blue school bus..."

"So you just need to listen first, and don't think too much. Like I said just now, it's just an interesting guess I made." Tian Bufan said, "The more guesses we make about this world, the more divergent our cognition will be. When we really encounter an outrageous discovery, we won't be scared to the point of having strange hallucinations..."

"It indirectly strengthens our ability to resist when our cognition is distorted."

Lin Yi exhaled slowly and nodded: "What you said makes sense, I'll make a note of it."

……

X023年5月8日，11：49。

Everyone walked along the cobblestone road back to the teaching building. After saying goodbye to them, Tian Bufan took the fork in the road leading to Building C, while the rest of the people continued to walk towards Building B.

Li Huiyuan had been listening to the conversation between Lin Yi and Tian Bufan. One moment they were talking about "glass plank road", the next moment they were talking about "imagine the reflection of tiles", and then they were talking about "real world" and "broaden your horizons". These were all very confusing words and she felt completely lost.

It's like a person who has never played games suddenly heard two game geeks analyzing the use of "131-point lane" and "41-point push" in different lineups. It's like feeling something like a "generation gap"...

She lowered her head and followed Lin Yi and the others instinctively. She couldn't help but think about the student ID card in her mind, wondering how she should tell her homeroom teacher later, and how the homeroom teacher would treat her later...

Although she had prepared herself to be used as a "cannon fodder" by Lin Yi, she was still extremely nervous and panicked in her heart, because cannon fodder was not a good word after all.

The more she thought about it, the more frightened she became. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that her body was terribly cold. She was walking in the sun, but she felt like she was in an ice cellar.

so cold……

Li Huiyuan subconsciously stroked her arms and suddenly found that a layer of fine frost had somehow grown on her arms, which felt like ice chips when she touched them.

How can I feel cold when the sun is so bright?
She had some strange feelings in her heart, and then she realized that the light around her seemed a little dim...

it's dark?
She looked up at the sky.

I don't know when the clear sky was filled with thick clouds. The clouds blocked my vision, leaving only dim light and shadows floating between heaven and earth. The dust in the sky was like yellow sand, making the whole world lose its color...

Deep in the thick clouds, the sun seemed to be just a silhouette...

A cold wind suddenly blew past her ears, causing her to shiver subconsciously.

"call--"

There seemed to be the sound of some leaves swaying in the wind, rustling like waves.

Waves… ?
She was stunned for a moment, then an idea flashed across her mind. The sound of the leaves colliding became louder and louder, just like turning a knob on a stereo, until it became as violent as the sound of ocean waves...

She felt as if the cobblestone road beneath her feet had changed. It looked dark and smooth, like a reef or some kind of gravel on the seashore...

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If nothing unexpected happens, starting from today, I will add 1000 words every day until I pay off my debt~
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