Chapter 244 The Mountain Man Passing By
Chapter 244 The Mountain Man Passing By
"Let me think about it." Lin Yi recalled for a moment, then shook his head, "I... I think I have explained everything from my perspective. Did I miss something?"
Tian Bufan said, "I have doubts about some details... For example, Mu Daxian exploded the street lamp with his hands and then charged the light bulb... Speaking of which, did you forget to tell us about the clue about the street lamp?"
"Uh..." Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, a trace of embarrassment appeared on his face, "Now that you mention it, I seem to have forgotten to say it..."
"It doesn't matter. Now that you've thought of it, just tell me. I'm actually quite curious." Tian Bufan said.
Lin Yi said: "The lights in the campus do not use electricity, but supernatural power. They absorb supernatural power and then emit light, forming a safe zone similar to a domain."
"This kind of field has a strong deterrent effect on units like nocturnal creatures and pseudo-humans..."
Lin Yi briefly and concisely told all the information he knew about light bulbs.
"Just now I saw some ketchup that looked like magma under the cobblestone road. The ketchup was full of extraordinary power. It absorbed the sunlight and continuously charged the light bulb..."
"Then at 18:00, all the street lights will light up at the same time..."
"But what puzzles me is that since these street lights are not dependent on electricity, how can they all light up at 18:00?"
"How is it controlled, or who is behind it?"
"If the lights in the gymnasium are also like this, then how do they stay on all the time? Also, the lights in the student passage are also always on, why are they not affected by the lights-out time?"
"In addition, the elevators in the teaching building seem to have something to do with the lights going out in the dormitory building... As soon as the lights in the dormitory building are turned off, the elevators in the teaching building can be used. This is also very strange."
"If I can't figure it out..." Tian Bufan thought for a moment and said, "Maybe we got too little information."
"Or maybe our approach to solving the problem is wrong?"
"Electric vehicles and motorcycles both look like they have two wheels and move automatically, but the way they convert energy is completely different."
Lin Yi's eyes lit up: "Are you saying that I look at things too superficially?"
"It's not too superficial, but the conditions are limited." Tian Bufan denied, "We can't add things beyond our cognition to the reasoning."
"What should we do then?" Lin Yi asked.
Tian Bufan said: "Find a way to continue exploring, or... directly ask some people who know the answer. However, the information obtained from the inquiry is full of subjective assumptions of the other party, and its authenticity needs to be discussed."
Lin Yi realized something: "Information is like sand. You have to sift and sort it out before you can find the gold."
"That's what I mean." Tian Bufan nodded slightly.
"Who do you think is the best person to ask this question?"
"The best thing to do is to ask the black bib chefs, but we can't find them, and we can't just run around the cafeteria...so the best thing to do is to ask the homeroom teacher."
Lin Yi nodded secretly. The safety of the cafeteria had become less reliable after the problem with the convenience store owner.
“Will the head teacher explain it?”
"Then it depends on your ventriloquism."
"Ventriloquism, what ventriloquism?!" Wei Liang seemed to have caught some key words, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he instantly perked up.
Lin Yi was stunned at first, then his face darkened: "Get lost, we are talking about business!"
"Damn it, I'm the best at ventriloquism!" Wei Liang was very dissatisfied and showed an exaggerated expression of sticking out tongue with venom.
"How about...you go ask your new class teacher?" Kuai Hongji sneered sinisterly.
Wei Liang restrained his expression instantly: "Aba Aba Aba..."
With just one move, he silenced several people.
"Then I... will give it a try." Lin Yi took a deep breath and said seriously.
"As for the others, just ask them based on the situation." Tian Bufan said, "When our scope of cognition has expanded, it is better to ask them directly about certain details. After all... today is already the fourth day, and we don't have much time left to save Maozi."
"Yeah!" Lin Yi nodded.
As they were talking, several people kept walking on the cobblestone road. They met many experience students along the way. Some of them really looked like the Early Eight War God, as if they could enter and exit the cafeteria in just three minutes.
Therefore, even though it is already 7:50, they are still charging towards the cafeteria.
Just then, a hurried figure, accompanied by a strong smell of wind, passed by them.
The figure seemed familiar. Lin Yi thought about it for a moment before he reacted!
He turned around suddenly and his eyes fell on the man. It was indeed the mountain man!
"Why is he going to the cafeteria at this time?" Lin Yi showed surprise. It would be fine if an ordinary trainee went there, but Shan Nan actually went there too?
Tian Bufan asked doubtfully: "Do you know him?"
"Isn't that the 'Mountain Man'?" Wei Liang was also a little surprised. "That bag looks like it's filled with Geodudes. It looks very powerful."
Lin Yi was slightly stunned, and as he moved his gaze, he could not help but notice that Shan Nan's backpack was bulging, as if it was stuffed with many irregular items.
Lin Yi withdrew his gaze from Shan Nan, and faced with everyone's doubts, he said in a deep voice: "I saw him in my dream."
Wei Liang had a solemn expression, and felt something was wrong in his heart. He thought to himself that there was something wrong with Lao Lin. How could he dream about a mountain man?
What kind of erotic dream is so overbearing!
Lin Yi kicked Wei Liang in the butt.
"Ouch! Lao Lin, what are you doing?!" Wei Liang covered his butt and jumped up.
"Laugh, laugh, laugh! I know it's not a good thing just by looking at your nasty face!" Lin Yi sneered.
"How could that be? If you slander me like this, be careful that I will tell my boss that you are not only a homosexual, but also fencing in your dreams!"
"..." Lin Yi's face was filled with black lines, "Liangzi, are you a fucking lesbian?"
"Get lost, get lost!" Wei Liang patted his chest, "I only like loli!"
"Okay, stop arguing." Tian Bufan interrupted, "Lao Lin, do you mean that Maozi encountered that mountain man?"
Lin Yi calmed down his expression and said, "There was no intersection, and Shannan should not have discovered Maozi. This is what happened..."
He then told Mu Daxian and Mao Feiyang about how they discovered Shan Nan.
After hearing this, Tian Bufan couldn't help but squint his eyes, and there seemed to be a gleam of brilliance between his eyes: "Exoskeleton... Interesting, it's getting more and more interesting..." At a certain moment, Lin Yi seemed to see a trace of indifference in Tian Bufan's eyes, so cold that it made people tremble.
Looking at Tian Bufan's expression, Lin Yi actually felt a little strange: "Aren't you... curious?"
"Curious." Tian Bufan said, "I am indeed interested in this mountain man."
"Uh... I thought you would be interested in exoskeletons..." Lin Yi scratched his head with a strange look on his face.
"Well... as for the exoskeleton, it's okay."
Tian Bufan's reaction to the exoskeleton was so bland that Lin Yi found it a little unbelievable: "No, this thing, an exoskeleton! I've seen it on TV. It seems to exist only in concepts!"
Tian Bufan seemed to have thought of something, and his expression was slightly moved. Then he said, "That's right..."
"That's right. Although it's 23 years now, exoskeletons have not become popular in this sense. Haven't the issues of energy and materials always been a problem?" Lin Yi said.
Tian Bufan was silent for a moment, then said: "Didn't you also say that supernatural powers can charge light bulbs? Then perhaps some organization has mastered the technology of using supernatural powers to power exoskeletons? Didn't you say that yourself?"
"I... I don't think I've said this yet?" Lin Yi was obviously stunned.
"You've already told me. If you don't believe me, ask Wei Sang." Tian Bufan said without changing his expression.
"Wesan?"
"Ah? Oh! I have, I have!" Wei Shan said quickly, "Lao Lin, maybe you mentioned it inadvertently, and you didn't pay attention to it."
"Uh...really?" Lin Yi was a little confused.
Did I really say that?
But how could Mr. Tian know if I didn’t say it?
But have I really said that?
"Liangzi, did I really say that?" Lin Yi looked at Wei Liang.
"Aba Aba Aba..." Wei Liang covered his ears and his mouth was full of the taste of kimchi as soon as he opened his mouth.
Lin Yi: “6…”
At this time, Tian Bufan continued to ask: "Is this Shannan in the same class as you?"
"Yeah! What do you mean, do you need to pay attention to him?"
"That's not necessary." Tian Bufan shook his head slightly, and his words were very similar to Mu Daxian's. "He shouldn't have any interactions with us. Just observe him a little bit, when he leaves the classroom, when he returns, and whether there are any changes..."
"Isn't this called 'attention'?" Lin Yi asked in surprise.
Tian Bufan said: "You can understand it however you want. Anyway, what I mean is that you should not waste too much energy on this mountain man. Under the premise of not causing trouble for yourself, just give him some simple observation as much as possible..."
"What he came here for and what his background is have nothing to do with us spending seven days and then leaving."
Lin Yi nodded, and it seemed like this: "But this so-called 'gray fog invasion' incident seems to be a very dangerous period of time, and Maozi... I'm worried that he will stay in the Art Building and not want to leave."
"It's useless to say these things. Let's find a way to get in touch with Maozi first." Tian Bufan shook his head and said, "There is a lot of information in the dream... but we still need to sort out a general idea. For the part that cannot be sorted out, there is no more useful information to infer anything."
Lin Yi said: "So... can we talk about why everyone doesn't sleep?"
"Of course, but..." Tian Bufan nodded slightly and glanced at the lamppost beside him, "Why don't we talk about the 'gray fog invasion' first?"
"It sounds like a big event. Don't you have anything you want to tell us?"
"Okay..." Lin Yi's expression became serious. The invasion of gray fog was indeed a big event, but just like Tian Bufan wanted to know the clues in his dream, he also wanted to know what happened in the dormitory after he fell asleep, so he wanted to take advantage of the time when he had finished talking about the most critical things and ask about the things he cared about first.
"As for 'Gray Fog Invasion'... we have to start with the incident on the Art Floor..."
Seeing that they were about to enter the teaching building area, Lin Yi couldn't talk much on the way, so he quickly got to the point and told what he knew.
Tian Bufan listened, his expression gradually becoming solemn, as if some sealed box was slowly opened, and a lot of information flowed out...
"How's it going? Have you 'unzipped' some things again?" Lin Yi was already used to it, so he asked quickly.
"What do you mean by 'decompress'?" Tian Bufan was stunned for a moment. He couldn't think of what label Lin Yi had given him in his mind...
Lin Yi quickly corrected him: "Uh... did you 'remember' something again?"
Tian Bufan glanced at him and said, "Some fragments flashed by... like some pictures and some documents... I will tell you after I sort them out today."
"Mr. Tian really has something..." Lin Yi thought to himself, "Okay, I'll wait for you tonight!"
Wei Liang, who was covering his ears until his hands were a little sore, heard these words just after he loosened his hands. He instantly felt as if he was facing a great enemy, sweating profusely, and feeling as if there were thorns at his back. He quickly quickened his pace to the teaching building.
"This 'gray fog invasion'... just listening to Mu Daxian's words makes it sound very dangerous, and it seems that the most dangerous time has not yet arrived." Tian Bufan said, "The crisis in the cafeteria may just be the beginning. These last three days will surely be very difficult. Everyone must be careful..."
"Especially you...Kuai Kuai." Tian Bufan looked at him deeply.
Kuai Hongji raised his eyebrows slightly: "I know how to do things."
"That's what I meant. Because you know your limits... you need to be extra careful." Tian Bufan said, "Leave yourself some wiggle room. Old Lin... isn't ready yet."
Lin Yi: “???”
"Ready for what?" he asked.
Tian Bufan glanced at him and said, "Get ready to save Maozi."
Lin Yi was slightly silent.
He always felt that this was not what Tian Bufan meant.
"So what do you say now? Let's talk about what happened after I fell asleep last night?"
Tian Bufan nodded and said, "Okay."
He continued, "In fact, when we learned that you could see what Maozi experienced in your dreams, we decided to take turns keeping watch for you."
"Of course, after what happened yesterday, we were also a little curious about what would happen in the dormitory at night..."
"Hiss..." Lin Yicai took a deep breath, pondered for a moment and couldn't help but asked, "But the term 'night watch' doesn't seem to be addressed to a living person, right?"
"And...are you worried that I'll wake up in the middle of the night? And not be able to continue dreaming?"
Thanks to the book friend "usjdnshhs" for the reward!!
(End of this chapter)