AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1031 - 482: Stop investigating the "Ashen Apostle," investigate "Lin Yi" instead!

Chapter 1031: Chapter 482: Stop investigating the "Ashen Apostle," investigate "Lin Yi" instead!

"Since that’s the case..." Class Teacher-040 mused, "Then you say you’re this disabled person..."

Lin Yi suddenly became anxious: "Wait, hold on! Why am I a disabled person?"

"Memory defects, isn’t that brain damage?"

"No, brain damage counts as a disability too?!"

Lin Yi was a bit speechless, "I suspect you’re taking the opportunity to insult me... Can we not focus on trivialities and get to the point?"

Class Teacher-040 curled his lip: "What I mean is, is there a possibility that all the people in your car were supposed to be abducted, but you narrowly escaped disaster because someone tampered with your memory?"

"Are you saying... I was also arranged here by ’God’s Domain’?" Lin Yi pointed at his nose, wondering what was going on. Eight people in the military dispute and only four remain, and you’re telling me my identity was mistaken, and I’m actually a mole?

This time, it was Class Teacher-040’s turn to analyze based on the investigation report combined with Lin Yi’s description.

"That batch of people with Zhang Lingzhen was sent in by ’God’s Domain’, and your memory defects... Is it not reasonable to suspect something similar?"

"I have a roommate!" Lin Yi emphasized.

"Is your roommate normal?" Class Teacher-040 asked.

"Hey—" Lin Yi couldn’t hold it anymore.

But Class Teacher-040’s expression was very serious: "You say... are all your roommates normal?"

"You’re the only one in the dormitory who’s abnormal, don’t you find it strange? Or... is the problem with your memory arising from here, so you’ve never suspected your roommate?" Class Teacher-040 rubbed his chin, looking at Lin Yi with a hint of a smile, "Lin Yi, though I don’t know how your relationship is with your roommate, I must remind you..."

"In a room with a light source, the darkest place is ironically under the lamp, which is the principle of ’blind spots’."

Lin Yi bit his lip: "I’ve never suspected my roommate."

Class Teacher-040 stared into his eyes: "Then that’s your problem."

"You... go on." Lin Yi felt his brain swelling.

Even though his instincts strongly resisted Class Teacher-040’s words, he indeed had never doubted his roommate from deep within—including Liangzi, but now, he must continue to listen to Class Teacher-040’s analysis.

Class Teacher-040 said: "I don’t understand your roommates, nor do I know them, so I can only analyze based on your entire batch of people."

"You’re right, the experiments conducted by ’Burial Body’ are indeed projects under official management, with many sub-projects including but not limited to the study and expansion of mysterious biological genealogy, the flow and transformation of supernatural power, and changes in the consciousness of the deceased, etc..."

"And the ultimate goal of the ’Burial Body’ project is indeed similar to that of the Heroic Spirit Hall, and the final outcome will only be ’destruction’. And using it to delve again into the depths of the Art Building’s layer ocean... is also considered the maximization of resource utilization."

"Very capitalistic." Lin Yi pressed his lips, but couldn’t say much, allowing the black sea to "digest" the ’Burial Body’ is better than letting the ’Burial Body’ erupt in the real world.

"But in fact, regarding the research on the ’Burial Body’, there are multiple attitudes held within the official circle... ’God’s Domain’ might have reached cooperation and consensus with one of the factions during its infiltration..."

Lin Yi’s expression changed slightly: "They have another faction as a ’Protective Umbrella’? No wonder they’re able to penetrate so deeply..."

Class Teacher-040 said: "These things, before I received information from Teacher 039 and you, were almost completely unknown... Now it’s just an expansion along your established problem-solving path."

"Lin Yi, you say, if Zhang Lingzhen and the others succeeded in collecting the ashes, who would benefit?"

"Certainly ’God’s Domain’!" Lin Yi replied without hesitation.

"What if they failed, who would benefit?"

"Failed...? How could there be a beneficiary... Wait, you’re saying..." Lin Yi said while thinking, "If they failed, with some ’good’ luck they might become part of the ’Burial Body’ like Zhang Lingzhen, and with worse luck, they’d become heavily contaminated and turn into something like Pseudo-Human Sculptures. Then these people would go to the No. 10 meal window to eat dishes made from ’Burial Body’s’ remains, also becoming part of the ’Burial Body’!"

"As long as they fail, aside from directly becoming nocturnal species, they would generally be absorbed by the ’Burial Body’!"

"The beneficiaries... naturally would only be the official entities!"

Regardless of the factions, they are all part of the official structure.

In the grand scheme, the voices within the official structure remain unified, differences only lie in the handling of details.

"Correct." Class Teacher-040 said gravely, "But there’s more to it, think about it, even if ’God’s Domain’ actually collected the ’Ashes’, could they really swallow it all for themselves? Surely there would be revenue sharing."

Lin Yi suddenly realized: "So the biggest beneficiary, in essence, no matter what, is the official entities?"

"To be precise, it’s a certain faction within the official entities." Class Teacher-040 corrected.

Her face was stern, even her tone was hostile, it was clear that the faction held significant differences in ideology compared to the majority of the official entities.

Indeed, what kind of faction would fish out the pond to exhaustion!

"Looks like no matter when, under the Protective Umbrella, things are always easier to accomplish." Lin Yi helplessly chuckled, "Perhaps... the official entities have always known?"

Class Teacher-040 shook her head: "That I don’t know, but since even Teacher 039 doesn’t know, it indicates the matter is highly classified... As a ’Class Teacher’, we can investigate, but only after fulfilling the duties of a ’Class Teacher’ first."