Chapter 196 The Difference Between Art Students and Sports Students
Chapter 196 The Difference Between Art Students and Sports Students (1100 words more!)
"Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci." Mu Daxian said, "There should be no one with the same name in history."
"But they... don't seem to be from the same era?" Mao Feiyang knew nothing about history, let alone the history of European art.
As common sense, he only remembered that Van Gogh was the one who painted "Sunflowers" and "Starry Night", while Leonardo da Vinci seemed to be a Ninja Turtle.
"The two people lived in different eras, 400 years apart." Mu Daxian explained.
Mao Feiyang was confused. "Wait, even if that's true... I checked online before, and it seems that S City University was built in X999. The school has only been in existence for more than 20 years. How could it be related to Van Gogh?"
Mu Daxian smiled and said, "The Art Building was only later assigned to the University District of City S. You've often heard that a certain university was merged into a certain university for some reason, and then it became a certain college affiliated to a certain university, right?"
“Isn’t this easy to understand?”
Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment: "It seems to be the case..."
Mu Daxian said calmly: "Van Gogh...his ability to control colors is unmatched. He has an extraordinary understanding of 'color', and because of this, he has suffered from extraordinary powers throughout his life..."
"Being able to touch extraordinary power requires talent, but at the same time, it is also a curse."
"He spent his life in pain and torture, but despite this he still maintained a clear understanding of himself and was full of love for life..."
"'Starry Night' is a work that he created by bearing pressure that we cannot understand and depicting his feelings about extraordinary power."
"The real 'Starry Night' is in the observatory of the Art Building. It is ten times larger than the 'Starry Night' known to the world, and is painted inside the observatory..."
"The Starry Night exudes an incomparable pollution, and later the observatory was closed and not open to ordinary art students."
"As for Leonardo da Vinci, he was almost fanatical about his research on sculpture. Some of the school's secrets about sculpture came from his original manuscripts. But it is said that his later research direction became increasingly incomprehensible and weird, so the original art building stopped his research..."
Listening to Mu Daxian introducing a historical figure who was completely different from the public's perception but also very confusing, Mao Feiyang's mind was in a dream and he couldn't utter a word for a while.
Even Lin Yi was so shocked that he didn't know what to say.
When he first heard Li Huiyuan say that she was studying "Mystical Genealogy", he joked that he was slaying dragons at Kassel College. Now it seems that what he said about studying to slay dragons was a bit conservative!
Mao Feiyang couldn't help but ask, "Then...what about the sports student route?"
Mu Daxian put down his chopsticks and wiped the corners of his mouth. "Compared to those who tend to sense supernatural powers, athletes are better at combining supernatural powers with themselves through long-term training, so that they can have super high explosive power at any time. They have a physique stronger than that of wild beasts, and their physical fitness is comparable to steel."
Mu Daxian thought for a moment, then abruptly uttered a name: "Van Helsing."
"Ah?" Mao Feiyang was startled, then immediately realized something and couldn't help but blurt out, "Fuck, don't tell me that Van Helsing was a sports student from a certain class!"
"Van Helsing was the best student in the class of X887. Of course, there was no gymnasium at that time."
"He spent his whole life wandering around Europe, chasing after the 'Angel'. During this time, he defeated Count Dracula, but eventually died on the way to hunt for the 'Angel'..."
Mao Feiyang opened his mouth wide: "Aren't the stories of Van Helsing and Dracula made up?"
Mu Daxian squinted his eyes and said, "What do you think the phrase 'This story is based on a true story. Any similarity is purely coincidental' in many books means?"
Mao Feiyang looked strange: "Europe also believes that?"
"Van Helsing once had a good friend who passed down his story. One of his descendants was Bram Stoker, who later became the author of the horror novel Dracula..."
Mao Feiyang opened his mouth wide, unable to utter a word.
Mu Daxian sneered, "Should I tell you again that in Van Helsing's time, there was a doctor named Victor Frankenstein who, based on Leonardo da Vinci's original manuscripts of sculpture research, created a pseudo-human stitched monster. That thing was also named 'Monster Frankenstein', which once caused a small-scale panic in Romania..."
Mao Feiyang held his forehead and said, "Wait, wait a minute..."
"Am I stupid enough to really believe what you said, or is this world going crazy?"
"My mind is a little confused, please let me slow down..."
As Mu Daxian cleaned up the dishes, he said, "The entire campus is, to some extent, a huge screening field. It's just that some people have choices, some don't, and some don't even have the chance to see the options."
He spoke very slowly this time, trying to give Mao Feiyang time to digest the information.
"Look at me, the dark green aura is burning like a flame, right? This is the sign of an art student."
“If you look at the sports students, you’ll see a hint of blue, and the darker the color, the more pollution it represents.”
“Whether it’s art students or sports students, they are the ones who have been given the option.”
"It's just that some people make a choice and some people don't have a choice."
"You are the type who has no choice. The only path you have is to become an art student. The dormitory manager will take you to the art building, and the art teacher will guide you on your path."
"And those people in your batch were abducted by the fake art teacher. They were the ones who didn't even have the chance to see the options."
"If you don't have the corresponding identity and you are still contaminated, you will emit an unstable aura. Take a look at this cafeteria. Almost everyone has a faint green aura coming out of their body, right?"
Mao Feiyang looked around and nodded.
"Take another look at yourself," said Mu Daxian.
Mao Feiyang looked down at himself.
“See the difference?”
Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment, thought about it, and replied: "Is mine more 'stable'?"
"That's right. 'Stability' represents a relative 'safe state' for the contaminated." Mu Daxian said, "Just like running, it is much easier to achieve results by maintaining a steady pace and smooth breathing than by those with messy steps."
"Their state is extremely unstable and they are caught in a vicious cycle, making them easy targets for pseudo-human attacks."
"But some people were only slightly contaminated, and the rate of contamination was not high, so they survived until the time to leave the campus in a daze."
“And those who can’t make it through are completely trapped in school, becoming fake people, or something worse than fake people.”
Mao Feiyang was silent for a moment, then asked, "Fake people... is that the fate of those people in my batch?"
Mu Daxian sneered: "That's good enough."
Mao Feiyang was shocked: "Can it be worse?"
"The bottom line is just like stockings." Mu Daxian suddenly said, "As long as you give enough, you can keep taking it off until there is nothing left."
Mao Feiyang opened his mouth and thought to himself, after all, he is an artist, and his words are so naked.
"Let's go after you finish eating." Mu Daxian said and stood up from his chair with the food tray.
Although Mao Feiyang ate very slowly, he had finished eating and now stood up.
Mu Daxian took Mao Feiyang to the food plate recycling area.
What surprised Lin Yi was that there were several plate recycling points in the direction of other passages. However, the locations of those plate recycling points seemed to be in the shadow area.
It wasn't a shadow area in the pure sense, but... if he looked from where he usually entered the student cafeteria, that area should be a shadow area. But now...
"Wait!" Lin Yi seemed to have thought of something, "Could it be that the student cafeterias that are entered through different passages are on different levels?"
He immediately thought of the student cafeteria he saw before and after the plastic curtains. It was just different!
"That is to say, there is indeed a possibility that there are multiple layers superimposed in the student cafeteria!"
"People from different layers have met in the same space..."
"Is the green bib chef a separate layer of existence?"
"People in different layers can intervene in other layers in some special way, causing pollution or other effects?"
"So the rules mention not caring about other people, partly to prevent interference and contamination from different layers?"
Lin Yi seemed to have caught some inspiration, and even a vague conceptual model emerged in his mind. He felt that he only needed some time to figure out the logic here, but now was not the right time.
When Mao Feiyang stood up and left the table, Lin Yi suddenly had a strange feeling, and he was stunned for a moment as if he had seen something.
Then he immediately looked back at the place where his eyes had swept before, and followed the strange feeling to look in the direction...
"?!"
Lin Yi was stunned and couldn't help but blink a few more times before he was sure that he was not seeing things.
Meal purchase window No. 10.
He clearly saw the location of purchase window No. 10 - right next to purchase window No. 5!
In the original student cafeteria, that location was a shadow, and theoretically, even if there was light shining there, it was still a wall, but now he could clearly see the existence of that window!
This weird feeling was as if the area of the student cafeteria was suddenly stretched a little by the darkness, and then a meal window No. 5 was forcibly inserted into the space between meal window No. 10 and the wall!
What’s even more outrageous is that there was a queue in front of the meal purchase window No. 10!
There’s a queue!
An and his men seemed to be fine, but through Mao Feiyang's perspective, he could clearly see messy green mist floating around them.
"It's a fake person! No, there are more than just fake people!"
He opened his eyes wide, trying to grasp this hard-earned opportunity and take a good look at the secret of the meal purchase window No. 10 before Mao Feiyang left the cafeteria!
Among the people queuing up to buy food, he found a fake art student, fake classmates (non-human classmates), and...someone who was in the same batch as him and the girl with a hairpin and a sailor uniform!
It’s not that Lin Yi has a photographic memory and can remember the appearance of everyone in the car, but because he has a very deep impression of this person.
Because it was this big guy who pressed the bus door button at the instigation of others.
"So the No. 10 window is actually the window for those fake people to buy food."
He glanced at the No. 10 purchase window from afar, wanting to see what was inside, but the distance was too far and it was pitch black, with only a few blurry figures emitting green mist swaying around there.
Soon Mao Feiyang followed Mu Daxian to the plate recycling area, and Lin Yi also took a deep breath, squinted his eyes and stared at the meal purchase window No. 10.
He hadn't had the chance to observe carefully when he was eating by himself before, but now that it was Maozi's turn to play the exciting game of chase with the green-bibbed chef, he had to take a good look at what was going on with that group of cuckolds.
However, even someone like Mu Daxian, who was extremely extraordinary among art students, caused the chef in the green bib at the meal window No. 10 to move when he put down his plate.
"Light clang—"
The noise of pots and pans banging around in the No. 10 food purchasing window was heard immediately...
Mao Feiyang was also attracted by the sound and subconsciously looked in the direction of the meal purchase window No. 10.
It was precisely at this glance that Mao Feiyang and Lin Yi achieved a kind of synchronization in their vision, and a desire to "see clearly" emerged in their minds.
Then, a golden halo suddenly appeared in Lin Yi's eyes, and immediately spread out quickly like ink drops in clear water. In just one breath, Lin Yi's eyes were dyed into a bright golden color.
At this moment, Lin Yi's vision quickly zoomed in towards the No. 10 meal purchase window as if it had been magnified. The originally dim light also became more vivid and brighter at this moment, just like a DNA fragment stained with isotopes. Every breath seemed to become active...
Before Lin Yi had time to marvel at the change in his vision, he could already see clearly what was happening inside the No. 10 meal purchase window.
I saw a chef in a green bib stuffing his body into the gap of the window desperately, twisting and deforming his body and covering it with blood, with no sign of stopping.
It had a hideous face and crazy eyes, and it stared at Mu Daxian's figure like a starving ghost, struggling to pull itself out little by little.
At this time, the plate in Mao Feiyang's hand subconsciously fell to the plate recycling area, so the other chef in a blue bib who was originally helping the pseudo-human to get food at the No. 10 purchase window suddenly stopped his actions as if someone had pressed the pause button.
As soon as it loosened its grip, the plate and spoon in its hands all fell to the ground, making a harsh "light clang" sound.
Then, its head began to twitch on its neck, like a puppet with its strings cut, trying to raise its head and look forward.
The frame-by-frame movements made it look like a gecko lying on the wall. The static body and dynamic head seemed to be controlled by two completely unconnected drives, giving off a weird sense of disconnection.
Finally, it began to adjust the twisting degree of its body so that its neck could drive its head and lock its sights on Mao Feiyang.
The whole process seemed long, but it only lasted for Lin Yi's two breaths.
Its actual action was as if everything Lin Yi had just seen was compressed into the time of just two breaths using tape-like frame-skipping and fast-forwarding.
It was precisely because of this that the strange sense of separation was so obvious, making Lin Yi feel a chill.
And when it completed the transformation, the blue bib on its body had turned into a green bib at some point...
"Stop looking and let's go!" Mu Daxian grabbed Mao Feiyang's clothes and dragged him quickly towards other passages.
Such urging voices also woke up Lin Yi, but did not affect Lin Yi's continued observation.
The next moment, the chef in the green bib repeated the actions of the previous chef in the green bib, becoming crazy and mad, exuding strong malice, and began to squeeze out from the extremely limited window gap and chase after Mao Feiyang.
What followed was the chase-and-run segment that Lin Yi had long been accustomed to. Lin Yi discovered that after the chef in the green bib came out of the food purchase window, he did not have a human form, but swam quickly along the ground in the shadow area like a snake.
The muscles beneath their bodies flow as fast as liquid in a water hose, and like countless gastropods, they gain a movement speed far beyond normal running speed.
They quickly closed the distance between them and Mao Feiyang, forcing Mu Daxian to run instead of walking, dragging Mao Feiyang out of the restaurant entrance.
"It seems that these green-bib chefs are indeed very different from the fake people. They actually make Mu Daxian so fearful..." Lin Yi thought secretly in his heart, and his eyes followed Mao Feiyang's departure as he left the student cafeteria.
When the plastic curtain at the entrance of the student cafeteria was lowered, Lin Yi could not help but realize that after he passed through the plastic curtain, he could no longer see the chef in the green bib. Instead, he saw a very peaceful student cafeteria with very natural lighting...
The student cafeteria in this scene is almost the same as the one seen in the student passage.
However, the plastic air curtain from the student passage cannot reach the student cafeteria on this floor.
In other words... neither he nor Maozi had ever actually been to the student cafeteria that they "saw before their eyes".
That student cafeteria looks so safe, as if there is no danger at all... Lin Yi suddenly thought so in his heart.
But somehow, although such a thought clearly popped up in his mind, when he looked through the plastic curtain at the student cafeteria again, this seemingly quiet and beautiful student cafeteria suddenly gave him an unknown, creepy and indescribable sense of horror.
That feeling, rather than being safe, was more like...death silence.
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