Chapter 184: Pollution comes from the extraordinary?
Chapter 184: Pollution comes from... the extraordinary? (Additional 2700 words)
"I think that conceptual sculptures cannot be measured with common sense." Tian Bufan said solemnly, "If 'He' is the source of pollution, then theoretically it is everywhere, and we cannot use the word 'individual' to describe it."
"It's like something in a quantum state, which can exist in multiple places at the same time. The projection is the real thing."
"But He was restrained by the security guards, who even expelled Him."
“So I think His life level is at least similar to that of a security guard.”
Only things at similar life levels can fight each other.
You will ignore a dog if it barks at you because you simply don't care and if you really want to fight it, you have countless ways to kill it.
But you won’t do that if someone yells at you. In the simplest cases, they will just yell at you and start fighting.
"So 'He' is definitely not the source of the pollution. At most, he is a super-pollution aggregate... But he could be an individual, or he could be an aggregate of multiple individuals."
"What I mean is, if the 'emergency plan' corresponds to some special events, such as the collective invasion of inhuman classmates that we are facing now, it means that this incident is not uncommon in the campus..."
"Of course by 'not uncommon' I mean the frequency of this happening is based on the time scale of building a school district from scratch."
"The frequency of this incident is so frequent that the school and the so-called company mentioned by the homeroom teacher 039 have to deduce and formulate an "emergency response plan" step by step... It's really intriguing."
"Also... I don't know if you've noticed that under the normal layer, there are still a considerable number of unnumbered lamp posts on campus."
"Ah? I haven't noticed this before!" Lin Yi said in surprise, "Although the lamp posts on both sides of the cobblestone road are randomly distributed, they are all numbered."
"But the numbers of those street lights... are not complete." Tian Bufan said slowly.
Lin Yi's voice suddenly stopped, his heart skipped a beat, and he suddenly thought of something: "You mean..."
The street lights on campus are numbered from "XXX-001" to the highest number of a building in the area. There will be no omissions unless -
"In previous similar incidents, there have been frequent cases of inhumane students licking the street light numbers, causing the street light numbers to fade and disappear?!"
"Yes, that's what I guessed." Tian Bufan said seriously, "Do you remember the street lights we passed on the day we entered the school? They were numbered "Teaching Building-025" and "Teaching Building-023"? "
"There is no "Teaching Building-024"! The street lamp pole of "Teaching Building-024" may have been worn away by an inhuman classmate in a previous incident?" Lin Yi widened his eyes, "I thought of it! At that time, Liangzi and I also saw a street lamp pole without a street lamp number, which was very close to the "Teaching Building-023" we found later!"
"Could it be that it is "Teaching Building-024", but... the number was licked off by an inhuman classmate? But... if the paint number disappeared, how could the street light not light up?"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and thought for a while: "Could it be related to the extraordinary characteristics?"
The street lights on campus were not powered by the electricity system, but by some kind of energy with extraordinary properties. The light bulb under the lampshade was not a light bulb at all, but a round sphere with a golden thread-like pattern.
"Could it be that the non-human students are not licking the paint at all... but are using their own methods to absorb the energy from the street lamps?"
“And could the white paint on the street lamps be something like a thermometer that can show the extraordinary characteristics of the street lamps in an intuitive way?”
"The brighter the streetlights are, the clearer they are. When the streetlights are off, they disappear."
Tian Bufan said: "It is very likely that this is the case."
Lin Yi's expression changed slightly and he couldn't help but gasp.
"What's wrong? Are you surprised?" Tian Bufan asked.
"Of course!" Lin Yi responded, "Don't you think it's incredible that Feiren can absorb a certain energy source with extraordinary properties?"
"I don't understand." Tian Bufan shook his head. "What do you think is so incredible? In this place where even the dead can be turned into sculptures and zombies, and taking out the heart will turn it into a tomato, is there anything outrageous that you can't accept?"
"Uh..." Lin Yi thought, yes, this is so fucking outrageous, why can't I accept it?
Even the dead can move!
Come on, if we put aside the possibility that you might encounter things more terrifying than death here, it’s really... super exciting, isn’t it - bah, it’s not exciting at all.
Damn it, my life is more important.
"It's just... I'm still a little confused about the fact that my non-human classmates absorb the extraordinary characteristics of street lamps." Lin Yi glanced at the two lamps in the dormitory. "If street lamps can be absorbed, then wouldn't the lights in the dormitory and teaching building also absorb energy?"
He began to doubt whether the so-called power supply system in the building actually existed. Could there really be some kind of system that did not supply electricity, but instead supplied some kind of energy with extraordinary properties? If so... then wouldn't the non-human students be able to absorb them as well?
"I see..." Tian Bufan said, "What you are concerned about is that your non-human classmates are able to absorb extraordinary characteristics."
"Correct."
"Haha..." Tian Bufan smiled, "Change your way of thinking. You separated the white powder particles from the extraordinary properties, but what if... the white powder particles themselves are a kind of energy that contains extraordinary properties?"
Lin Yi's pupils fluctuated instantly. Tian Bufan's words gave him a new idea!
White powder particles... are also energy sources with extraordinary properties? !
"You mean... pollution itself carries extraordinary properties?!"
"No, the concept is reversed!" Tian Bufan said, "It's not that pollution carries extraordinary properties, but... the pollution we are exposed to is actually a kind of acceptance of extraordinary properties!"
"The pollution we are suffering from comes from something that contains super-powerful extraordinary properties..."
"Just like taking medicine, the right dose won't cause any problems for the person taking it, but once you overdose, any medicine can be lethal!"
"I am more inclined to speculate that all the pollution on campus comes from the same supernatural property, but the differences in 'quantity' and 'form' cause different differences."
"Drinking cold water, drinking hot water, eating smoothies, eating ice cubes... they are all ingesting water but the process is completely different."
"Eating too much ice will upset your stomach, and drinking too much hot water... will kill you."
"So, the street lamps you mentioned being absorbed are probably absorbing something that they are not in a form that they can swallow..."
"It can be absorbed forcefully, but after absorption, it may not be beneficial to oneself."
Lin Yi's expression suddenly turned ugly. He had a bad premonition: "These non-human students who are afraid of light actually actively devour the light... Are they seeking death?"
Tian Bufan took a deep breath and said, "If absorbing the light really makes them die, then the problem behind this incident is even bigger."
"On my way here, I seemed to hear the humanoid sculptures or the nocturnal creatures, anyway, those things hidden in the darkness saying things like 'not enough' and 'more people are needed'..."
"I think it's possible that my brain received the thought fluctuations from them at a certain frequency band when the layers fluctuated."
"And considering the fact that they were willing to self-destruct in order to devour the lights... don't you think that [all the non-human students were willing to destroy the street lights even at the cost of their own lives] is terrifying in itself?"
"Behind these inhuman units, there is an existence that is manipulating the entire thing and giving orders to all of them... And the purpose of this existence is the crisis of this incident!"
"What exactly is its purpose? How many people does it want to drag into this incident?"
"The school must know something, otherwise there wouldn't be an emergency plan."
Lin Yi frowned, "But if they can really absorb the extraordinary properties of the street lamps, then wouldn't there be no safe place in our entire campus?"
In fact, Lin Yi has found a lot of evidence to support Tian Bufan's speculation.
For example, when the lights in the classroom or cafeteria are flashing, it seems as if they are saying that something is coming, so run and hide.
And when that thing leaves, the lights that were supposed to be on will return to normal.
"I don't think so." Tian Bufan denied Lin Yi's statement, "There must be some restrictions. Otherwise, with the number of human-shaped sculptures in the mountains, a single charge would be enough to flatten the entire campus."
"It's a mystery how powerful the security guards are, but they shouldn't be invincible. There must be some kind of balance of power on campus, otherwise if it were broken, we wouldn't be in this situation now."
"And this kind of incident is obviously a battle in which one side breaks the balance and launches an attack on the other side."
Lin Yi thought: "Do you have any ideas about the restrictions you mentioned?"
This is a point that Lin Yi has not thought about yet. Now that time is running out, it would definitely be better to ask Tian Bufan directly.
"For example... you need a non-human student who has just seized the status of a trial student to meet the requirements?"
"Think carefully, whether it's Zhou Yuting, Nie Yun, or Ge Qing, aren't they all among those whose identities were taken away today?"
"That is to say... only the newly born non-human students can absorb the extraordinary characteristics of the street lamp."
"So, they need to absorb the extraordinary properties of the street lamps while 'trapping' the experiencers, killing them and letting the human-shaped sculptures take over their identities. After anchoring, they can continue to absorb the extraordinary properties of the street lamps in the form of non-human classmates."
After hearing this, Lin Yi thought about it carefully and found that it seemed to be true.
"But in this case, returning to the dormitory would require facing ambushes and traps from inhuman classmates. Wouldn't that be even more dangerous?"
"Really? But don't forget that all the sports students have left the classroom. Once the layer falls, the lights in the classroom will inevitably go out. At that time, the experience students who remain in the classroom will need to stay in the same room with the non-human students."
"It's OK for ordinary students who are on trial. They can hide under the desks and no one will do anything to them, so they can probably get through it safely."
"But the high-level experience students are contaminated. Even if they hide under the desk, they cannot avoid the "perception" of the contamination by their non-human classmates. It is difficult to protect themselves."
Lin Yi was startled, and suddenly realized that the non-human classmate bent down to look at him on the first night, not because he saw something, but because he carried "pollution" in his body, which allowed the non-human classmate to sense him, and then reached down to grab him tentatively a few times.
But this also indirectly reflects that those non-human classmates should be "dead non-human classmates". If they are "non-human classmates who have not died yet", they will have a certain wisdom like those non-human classmates in the fog.
If he caught the attention of "the non-human classmate who hasn't died yet" on the first night...
"hiss……"
Lin Yi shuddered suddenly. The consequences would be disastrous!
Lin Yi suddenly felt a little fortunate that at that time point on the first night, the pollution he received from Mao Feiyang was not particularly great. If it were the situation today, once the lights were turned off, it would definitely attract the "attention" of the non-human classmates.
The process of returning to the dormitory tonight made him feel like the great migration of African animals. There was a river ahead, full of crocodiles, but you had to walk through the river.
Lin Yi's face looked a little ugly.
This campus is like an onion. Every time he thinks that the secret is over after peeling off one layer, the campus will tell him that there is another layer inside.
He peeled layer after layer, sinking deeper and deeper, and the onion seemed to have endless layers.
After talking about the nocturnal species, the two naturally moved to the stairwell.
Regarding the floors above the 5th floor of the teaching building, Lin Yi said that the magical vision he passed through was like seeing through a layer of layers, and he directly saw the densely packed nocturnal species filling the stairwell, and raised the question of whether the teaching building might be the nest of the nocturnal species.
Tian Bufan shook his head after hearing this: "Speaking of nocturnal species nests, Lao Lin, don't you think that the entire campus is a bit like a nocturnal species nest?"
"Hmm...?" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment.
Tian Bufan explained: "S University is built in the mountains, and except for the campus area, the rest of the mountain area is covered with vegetation. I wonder how many human-shaped sculptures are hidden in the mountains. When you think about it, do you feel like you are surrounded by human-shaped sculptures?"
Lin Yi's body shivered subconsciously.
Yes, after being reminded by Tian Bufan, he remembered those bad details again, such as the fact that all the windows on the outside side of the classroom were made of explosion-proof glass, which was simply to prevent the human-shaped sculpture from breaking through the window when the layers fell!
"Oh, by the way, I also know what the staircase leading to the underground first floor is..."
"That stairwell is actually the stairwell of the teaching building, but it can only be seen by people with unstable mental states when the layers fluctuate."
"Li Huiyuan saw the staircase leading to the underground first floor, and seemed to feel a sense of attraction...but I didn't."
"But there is actually another suspicious point here, that is, the location of the stairwell is different from the day we entered the school." Lin Yi said, "The stairwell was right after the steps that day, and that location is probably in the classroom... I don't understand this yet."
"But I still feel that the teaching building and the dormitory building are connected in a certain layer, and the stairs and elevators may be connected." Lin Yi said in a deep voice, "Even... could it be that the elevators in the campus are the same elevator, but because of the difference in layers, it seems to be in a normal layer, but in fact it runs through the entire campus?"
"Like a thousand-layer cake, with a skewer running through the cake from top to bottom, so the skewer can be seen in every layer?"
"Your idea is very interesting." Tian Bufan laughed.
"You didn't deny my guess?" Lin Yi felt a little surprised.
"Why deny it?" Tian Bufan asked back, "Any interesting conjecture is worth thinking about. What if this is the answer?"
Lin Yixin was right. Careful exploration, bold assumptions, and patient verification have always been Mr. Tian's style. He is as steady as an old dog.
"By the way, Mr. Tian, did you only study the elevator today?"
Tian Bufan frowned slightly: "Pay attention to the wording, what do you mean by 'only'? Roasting all the nocturnal species in an entire elevator is a very time-consuming job. Don't forget that the elevator is not a device with one per floor, but two per building."
"Uh... I was careless." Lin Yi was embarrassed and responded quickly.
That's right... Tian Bufan brought a mirror and sent a night-walking plant in an elevator to the sky! This feat is much more violent than his random wandering.
"But I did find time to do something else." Tian Bufan added.
"whats the matter?"
"I tried to find the exit of the campus."
Lin Yi couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this. Tian Bufan, who was determined to explore the campus, actually wanted to find the exit of the campus?
"Are you trying to find a way out for us?"
"You think too much." Tian Bufan sneered, "After entering, there is no way out. I just wanted to take a look at the school gate with the idea of exploration."
"But guess what?"
Lin Yi immediately said: "Since you asked this, you must have not found the school gate, right?"
"Yes, theoretically it shouldn't be possible not to find the school gate." Tian Bufan's tone was very calm, as if he had already expected this. "This shows that the location of the school gate is not on the normal layer."
"Can you believe that the entrance and exit of a campus are abnormal?"
"I wouldn't have believed it before, but now I have to believe it." Lin Yi was very calm as soon as he spoke, "But how did you find the school gate?"
"You forgot, we have a map!" Tian Bufan reminded, "There is a folded map attached to the back of the teaching building rules, and the location of the school gate is on the map."
Lin Yi was stunned, and quickly got out of bed, took out the teaching building rules from his schoolbag, got into bed with the student rules, and then turned to the map to take a look.
The location of the school gate was indeed marked on the campus map, and the direction vaguely matched the direction he remembered coming from.
There is a small sign not far from the school gate - "Security Room".
This icon, which had always been there but he had subconsciously ignored it, was suddenly noticed by him at this moment.
"Why is there a 'security room' here?! Damn, I haven't noticed it before!" Lin Yi said in surprise.
"You haven't noticed it?" Tian Bufan was also stunned. "Maybe it's because the directions on this map are too easy to remember, so you never looked at it again after you looked at it once?"
The campus map was indeed very simple, with a total of five buildings: teaching building, cafeteria, dormitory building, gymnasium, library, plus some roads and randomly dotted street lights. Lin Yi memorized it immediately after reading it for the first time and never took it out again.
His focus had always been on the buildings, and the densely packed small symbols with street lamp numbers on the map made him subconsciously ignore the school gate at the corner and the symbol marked with "security room" over there.
Thinking about it carefully, it seemed that when they entered the school and encountered thick fog, they could still see the shadow of the security room in the fog at first, and those weird art teachers and art students did not dare to approach the school gate... Now I seem to understand it.
They are afraid of the security room, so they dare not come near!
"Hiss... That is to say, in fact, all of us were safe at the beginning. Even if we really got off the bus, we were relatively safe near the security room. Those weird art department teachers and students didn't dare to force their way in. However, the passengers on the bus took the initiative to approach them..."
Lin Yi's scalp tingled and he put himself in the shoes of the girls in sailor uniforms. He felt a chilling sensation as if the little lambs had skinned him clean and sent him into the tiger's mouth.
"That group of people really had a hell of a start... Although Maozi had a bit of a shambles at the start, he at least got the student commemorative coins and the status of an art student, while those people were directly led astray by the weird art teacher. I wonder what path they will take!"
"Uh, that's not right... From the vision, Maozi lost the student commemorative coins within a day of receiving them."
"What on earth did he do? He really made my mouth crooked..."
"Then you came back?" Lin Yi asked.
"I haven't finished yet." Tian Bufan said helplessly, "The fun has just begun."
"Ah?" Lin Yi thought it was over if he couldn't find the school gate.
"I walked along the direction marked on the map towards where the school gate 'should be', and then I found..." Tian Bufan paused, "The end of the road leads to a green forest belt."
"Hiss——" Lin Yi took a deep breath of cold air. During this discussion alone, he almost sucked out all the air in the dormitory like an exhaust fan.
"Green Belt?!" He opened his mouth wide, "What the hell, how could this happen?"
"If the layer where the school gate itself is located is abnormal, then this makes sense."
"But!" Lin Yi corrected, "The rules say that all buildings except the Art Building are marked on the map!"
Tian Bufan said, "Nothing is wrong. Look carefully. It says 'building'. Whether the school gate is a 'building' or not is unclear, but its location... is indeed marked on the map, but I just can't find it."
"Uh..." Lin Yi was speechless for a moment.
"If you look at the map again, you will find another interesting thing." Tian Bufan reminded.
"Ah?" Lin Yi quickly scanned the campus map, but found nothing after several scans. "Uh... I guess I'm a little confused. Why don't you just tell me?"
Tian Bufan said, "Okay, and this is exactly what I want to say."
Lin Yi nodded repeatedly.
"We've been in school for a few days, but there's a building we haven't come into contact with yet. Don't you think it's strange?"
"You mean..." Lin Yi looked at the campus map in his hand and said thoughtfully, "Library?"
"Yeah..." Tian Bufan sighed faintly, "The library."
"Any questions about the library?"
"You see, with our schedule, we only go to the cafeteria, the teaching building, and the dormitory every day. We go to the gymnasium when we have physical education class, so it is impossible for us to have any contact with the library. The rules should just state that we should not go into the library when we see it. Why do we need to remind us that we can only take the elevator in the library? Isn't that redundant?"
"Uh... your perspective is always so unique." Lin Yi said admiringly, "So?"
"So I boldly speculate that there must be some special mechanism in the library that makes it very likely that people will arrive there unintentionally... In this way, the content mentioned in the code will be useful."
"So I went to look for the location of the library." Tian Bufan raised the campus map, "With a map, I won't get lost!"
"Then?"
"Then the interesting thing is... after I came out of the cafeteria, I found the "Library-001" street lamp pole, and then walked towards the library according to the general route on the campus map. When I arrived in front of the "Library-102" street lamp pole, what appeared in front of me was..."
Lin Yi held his breath.
But Tian Bufan lowered his voice and slowly uttered three words:
"The Greenbelt."
Added 2700 words for the leader "Mountains and Seas Separate the Nine Provinces", and still owes 3000 words!!
Thanks to book friends "琳skylark" and "usjdnshhs" for their tips!!
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