Chapter 177 "Corner" Conjecture
Chapter 177 "Corner" Conjecture
Lin Yi felt that Tian Bufan was a bit like a compressed file that knew a lot of secrets. As he stayed on campus longer, more and more secrets were unpacked...
But if Tian Bufan knew everything, why would he explore the campus?
He can't understand...
Lin Yi shook his head secretly. The first thing that could be confirmed at the moment was that Wei Shan must have made special achievements in "beating inhuman units".
Moreover, he also wanted to ask Wei Shan whether he knew anything related to the Green Mist Mark.
After attacking the nocturnal creatures, his body was branded with the Green Mist Mark, which could not be erased by conventional means... and since Wei Shan had been attacking them all the time, he must have been infected with the Green Mist Mark as well.
So he wanted to know what Wei Shan thought about this.
Wei Shan paused while washing his hands: "Is there any problem with this?"
Lin Yi then slowly expressed his doubts. He even suspected that Wei Shan had "figured out the secret of the Green Mist Mark". Otherwise, how could he kick the Nocturnal Creature and trample on the cuckold?
"Old Lin, you asked the wrong person for this kind of question." Wei Shan shook his head and answered without thinking, "For a systematic and theoretical answer, you should ask Master Tian."
"What Fatty said is correct." Kuai Hongji said at the side, "Fatty doesn't rely on his brain to handle things, but on his 'instinct'."
"Instinct..." Lin Yi frowned slightly. The biggest difference between humans and beasts is rationality. If one acts based on instinct, what is the difference between Wei Shan's approach and that of a beast?
Kuai Hongji smiled, not sure whether he was praising Wei Shan or scolding him: "'Blindness and stupidity' can sometimes resist pollution better than 'reason'. Fatty may be the strongest among us in this regard."
"Of course, the main reason is that he has no brains..."
Before he finished speaking, a pillow came flying at him like a sandbag. Kuai Hongji dodged the pillow easily, but someone howled:
"Fuck! My pillow!"
Wei Liang, who was lying on the bed, half of his head was poked out, looking at the pair of super enemies below like a resentful little ghost.
Lin Yi coughed dryly and picked up the pillow for him.
After Wei Liang got the pillow, he kept muttering something like, "You guys are really awesome. One of you likes to pull the thread on my sheets, and the other likes to pull my pillow. Next time, please tell me what you want to pull in advance, and I'll prepare it for you..."
He turned over and buried his head under the pillow.
"But..." Wei Shan said, "Attacking non-human units will cause pollution, and pollution will attract the attention of non-human units. So, once we take action against them, we will fall into a vicious cycle."
"So... the rules don't mention whether we can actively attack them?" Lin Yi thought, "Because in some cases, we have to attack them in order to defend ourselves. It's better to knock them down and force them to absorb the pollution than to be killed by them directly."
Wei Shan nodded: "If you have to analyze it, it's more or less like this, but I didn't think too much about it... When I saw them, I got very angry and wanted to tear them to pieces, just like..."
He frowned and looked at Kuai Hongji.
"Hey, hey, hey, this is not funny at all." Kuai Hongji raised his hands in surrender, "I am not like them."
"It's different, but I always want to beat you up."
“Just think about it.” Kuai Hongji smiled sinisterly, “Don’t do it for real, otherwise… hehehehehe… I won’t hold back.”
"Okay, okay, Kuai Kuai, don't change the subject." Lin Yi rubbed his brows. These two guys would fight after three sentences.
"Weisang...do you have the 'Green Mist Mark' on your body?"
The Green Mist Mark is his summary of the pollution from the green mist produced when the nocturnal creatures are killed, but he has already explained this concept just now, so there is no need to explain it further, just ask directly.
Wei Shan shook his head: "Actually, I don't really understand what the mark you are talking about is... What does that thing look like?"
This was easy to say, so Lin Yi took off his pajamas and pointed to his chest: "Look, this is it... But you can only see it under special circumstances."
Wei Shan shook his head: "I can't see or feel anything unusual."
"It should be invisible now..." Lin Yi said.
"But... I don't feel anything wrong." Wei Shan insisted, "Maybe it's gone?"
"What's there to argue about?" Wei Liang turned over in bed and said speechlessly, "From your tone, it's not a tattoo. Maybe it was washed off when you took a shower!"
Wei Liang's words startled Lin Yi. He did remember rubbing off a lot of dirt when he took a shower today, and he thought it was caused by sweating a lot during the day, but maybe... the green mist mark was indeed washed away by the water?
"Bathing" has actually always been something that can purify pollution, but he overestimated the adhesion of the green mist mark.
"What you said makes sense, Liangzi." Lin Yi said seriously.
"Damn it, I was just talking nonsense." Wei Liang turned over and rolled back to the face-to-face position of a cricket pupa, burying his head under the pillow.
"Liangzi, just try to fool us by covering your ears. Don't be afraid of fooling yourself..." Lin Yi reminded helplessly.
"I can't hear what you're barking at." Wei Liang's voice rolled off the bed.
At this time, Tian Bufan finished his shower and threw his clothes into the washing machine: "Kuai Kuai, go wash them."
"Okay." Kuai Hongji, who was leaning against the wall and scanning the piece of paper left by Song Rentou, gently pushed the wall, straightened his body with the recoil, put down the piece of paper, picked up his clothes, and exchanged positions with Tian Bufan.
"Do you have any ideas?" Tian Bufan suddenly asked.
"What?" Kuai Hongji paused.
"Paper."
"Oh." Kuai Hongji raised his eyebrows, "The more you try to hide something, the more obvious it becomes."
"It looks pretty much like what I thought."
"Haha." Kuai Hongji glanced at Tian Bufan, "What do you want to test?"
"Nothing, I'm just looking forward to your interpretation."
"It's better to just look forward to it...you guys chat first, I'll come back after I take a shower to see how you guys are chatting." Kuai Hongji smiled coldly and walked towards the bathroom with his clothes.
After Kuai Hongji entered the bathroom, Lin Yi turned to look at Tian Bufan and Wei Shan, wondering, "What's wrong with you?"
"It's nothing serious. Just wait until Kuai Kuai finishes his shower." Tian Bufan pointed at the desk, "Let's talk about this Song Rentou thing first? It looks quite interesting."
Lin Yi glanced at the pendulum clock on the wall.
21:48. "Okay."
The lights in the dormitory are turned off at midnight, so there is still plenty of time and we can have a good chat.
After Lin Yi sat down, he asked, "Were you followed by any non-human classmates on the way back?"
"Yes." Tian Bufan nodded. "Didn't we have it yesterday? Actually, it happens every day, but today is special."
Lin Yi was stunned for a moment when he heard this, but he reacted immediately.
Tian Bufan was right. The nocturnal species had actually been in darkness and thick fog the entire time. The "rustling" sound was the sound of them moving behind them...
"No, that's not what I meant." Lin Yi was almost fooled, and told the story about the non-human classmate he met in the corridor today who turned into a fake Wei Liang non-human classmate following behind them.
Wei Liang, who was lying on the bed, couldn't help but stick half of his head out of the bed when he heard this.
"..."
But he didn't say anything, and looked thoughtful. After a while, he silently shrank back and buried his head under the pillow again. I don't know whether he fell asleep or not.
Lin Yi sat with his back to Wei Liang and didn't notice his little move: "When I looked outside through the peephole just now, I could still see those inhuman classmates in the corridor. Did you encounter them when you came back?"
"Cat's eye?" Tian Bufan was slightly stunned.
"It's right over there, not very obvious." Lin Yi stood up and walked to the door, then fumbled around and found the location of the grille.
"No need to cut it open, I see it." Tian Bufan stopped him.
His face was slightly tense and his brows were slightly wrinkled. His serious look frightened Lin Yi.
"Is there something wrong with this cat's eye?" Lin Yi noticed something.
Tian Bufan said helplessly, "The position of the peephole is obviously wrong, isn't it? Who would design a peephole in the lower middle of the door? You have to bend down to see outside, it's like installing it upside down."
"Now that you put it that way, it does seem a bit problematic..." Lin Yi nodded seriously, "So did you encounter those inhuman classmates?"
"I encountered them." Tian Bufan nodded. "I don't know why, but I saw them everywhere on the way back today. I felt like they were all coming out in droves."
"There are too many in the teaching building, on the way back, and in the corridors. Moreover, they don't come up by elevator."
"Yes, they didn't take the elevator." Lin Yi pondered, "Even if they took the elevator, there wouldn't be enough space for so many people in one elevator, and... they seemed to emerge from a corner and pour out endlessly."
"Well, that's the problem." Tian Bufan said.
"You mean...?!" Lin Yi's eyes lit up.
"I guess this problem may be related to the 'corner'. Of course, this is my guess based on all the known conditions. Do you remember what the dormitory rules say?"
Lin Yi then recalled carefully...
[Each floor of the dormitory building is a circular structure (the corridor looks like a smooth arc). The first dormitory on each floor is next to the last dormitory, connecting the end to the end. There is absolutely no right-angle turn.
If you find a right-angle turn ahead while looking for your dorm, turn around and tell yourself that there is no right-angle turn ahead, then turn around again.
You can continue moving forward only after you are sure that the road ahead has returned to normal.
Don’t think that you are dazzled and try to find your way to the dormitory by closing your eyes and then reopening them again. 】
"'There are absolutely no right-angle turns.'" He seemed to have grasped a point.
Tian Bufan said: "There is no way to hide something that does not exist, just like the rules tell us that the teaching building has only four floors."
"I speculate that when the layer is unstable, this unstable corner will appear in the corridor of the dormitory building. Its position should be random, or it may use our 'anchoring' of our own position to graft itself over..."
"Then, those inhuman classmates will come out from this corner and attack the experience students according to a certain mechanism."
"These are all my guesses. To make them more reasonable, I added the two characteristics of 'randomness' and 'dependence'. You just listen to them and I will verify them when I have the chance."
Lin Yi followed Tian Bufan's line of thought and thought for a while, then said, "Perhaps there really is a clue. After Maozi left the stairs, he arrived at the corridor of the dormitory building. The stairs he took were definitely not the stairwell that came with the dormitory building itself."
"Perhaps the location where his door opens is the 'corner'?"
"And the human-shaped sculptures will slowly turn into non-human beings under the lights. There are countless sculptures in Maozi's stairwell, including many human-shaped sculptures."
Under Tian Bufan's guidance, Lin Yi connected many memory fragments at once and deduced a very reasonable idea.
Then, referring to the human sculptures on campus, they would read the words they said in their hearts that anchored their identity, so these non-human students should also have this ability.
When on campus, they read "I am so-and-so, my student number is so-and-so, and I am heading to building so-and-so," tracking the student to that destination.
During this process, once the experiencer is disturbed by the sound and turns back, he will suddenly see a human-shaped sculpture that looks very similar to himself, which can easily cause strong mental fluctuations, lead to the crisis of falling layers, and trigger the "void search" mechanism of the human-shaped sculpture.
After arriving at the dormitory building, as long as they have not completely reached the dormitory, what they read is "I am so-and-so, my student number is so-and-so, and my dormitory number is so-and-so."
With this anchoring method, they can also reach the corresponding dormitory in a lumbering manner.
"But..." Lin Yi touched his chin, as if he had discovered something wrong. "But if that's the case, they can only reach the dormitory entrance at best, because without a student ID, they can't get in at all!"
"Yes." Tian Bufan had an interesting smile on his face. "So have you thought of anything?"
Lin Yi rushed to the desk, grabbed the piece of paper Song Ren threw, and read it carefully from beginning to end.
But as he read it repeatedly, Lin Yi's brows furrowed more and more, and his expression became more and more solemn. He explained why he felt so weird when he first saw the piece of paper. He could clearly imagine what happened based on the information on the paper, but he always felt that the whole thing seemed to be shrouded in a mystery, full of an indescribable sense of weirdness.
And now, he finally knew where these strange feelings came from.
because--
"What's written on this piece of paper... doesn't seem right!" Lin Yi seemed to have touched upon a glimpse of the truth, and his expression suddenly turned ugly.
(I'll add this sentence temporarily, and delete it after the update tomorrow: I don't know if there is anyone who can figure out the truth about the thing on the paper written by Song Rentou before the next chapter is updated (welcome to join the group discussion, hehehe), the clues and hints have actually been given, and will be revealed in the next chapter. I added this paragraph after I published the chapter, because the chapter points are calculated based on the time of update, so this paragraph will not affect the paid word count, so don't worry.)
Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!
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