AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 1033 - 483: The Last Meeting with the Mountain Man

Chapter 1033: Chapter 483: The Last Meeting with the Mountain Man

Being pointed out by the homeroom teacher, Lin Yi’s gaze instantly became clear and foolish.

"Huh?" Lin Yi was a bit stunned, "Collect what?"

"Collect you!" Class Teacher-040 looked a bit speechless, "Do you want to take off your socks and put them over your head?"

"Hiss... as you say that..." Lin Yi took a sharp inhale.

"Are you really tempted?! There’s no saving you now, you’ve been ensnared by lust!" Class Teacher-040 sighed.

"Is the venerable master trying to save me?" Lin Yi said with a playful smile.

"Get lost!" Class Teacher-040 said with mock annoyance, but then changed the topic, "But I know you have a PE class tomorrow, and I heard you’re pretty close with the sports students, especially that boss...?"

"Hiss..." Lin Yi had a premonition that things were going south!

Sure enough, Class Teacher-040 continued, "I’ll have the sports students pass a message to the boss for you, saying you want to put on her worn stockings over your head."

"Holy crap...!" Lin Yi jumped off the sofa, he’s in real trouble now!

Teasing the Class Teacher-040 was fine, but if this got to the boss’s ears—he’d definitely be dismantled like a piece of machinery by her, then slowly crushed at her feet!

Just thinking about the boss’s legs made his scalp tingle!

That kind of divine artifact, even a kick to the chef in the green apron would not leave even a bit of residue!

Something that can only be viewed from afar and never blasphemed!

The recovery training back then was just child’s play, if the boss really gave him a kick, wouldn’t even his bone golden body be likely to bear a "happy footprint"?!

"Teacher, let’s talk about other points of suspicion instead." Lin Yi’s expression turned serious, looking as solemn as a university student about to attend an academic defense.

Class Teacher-040 walked to the desk, pulled out a chair, sat down, and deliberately extended her long legs in black silk in a beautiful scissor cross-legged position towards him.

After sitting down, she gently pushed up her gold-rimmed glasses, "Mm, go ahead."

Gulp... Lin Yi silently swallowed a mouthful of saliva.

Deliberate!

Definitely deliberate!

But he’s now a true sage, and immediately composed himself, saying, "This point of suspicion relates to Mountain Man’s puppet fireman, that fireman was incinerated in a single encounter by the heatwave of the ’Primordial Ash Apostle’."

"That just means the fireman was lacking, doesn’t it?" Class Teacher-040 asked.

Lin Yi disagreed, "No, that fireman, when I saw it in the morning, it didn’t give me an overwhelming sense of threat, but it definitely wasn’t weak either."

"After recalling carefully, the fireman... might have been the first to see the ’Primordial Ash Apostle’ during that wave of battle just now!"

"What do you mean?!" Class Teacher-040 straightened up a bit.

Lin Yi said, "When I encountered it in the morning, it was in the bookshelf area, looking at the world outside through the broken window... and then it was absorbing the ash drifting from outside the teaching building, and only attacked me after seeing me."

"There might be some details I overlooked here, such as... could the ’Primordial Ash Apostle’ be in the world beyond the broken window?"

"Imagine, the teaching building is a ship, and everything outside is a fog-filled ocean, with the ’Primordial Ash Apostle’ hunting on the sea, while the fireman saw the ’Primordial Ash Apostle’ from afar, and started losing its layers then, but due to some special reason it didn’t die immediately, only burning up in the afternoon?"

"When it burned, I couldn’t discern how it ignited."

"And just now, I think I was trying to... ahem..." He almost said "trigger the ashes," but kept consistent with his words and corrected himself, "I was trying to lure Zhang Lingzhen over, the ripple of our fight made the teaching building a ’lighthouse’-like object, attracting the attention of the ’Primordial Ash Apostle’."

Class Teacher-040 still focused on the fireman, "So what do you make of the fireman’s hasty demise?"

"I’m puzzled by Mountain Man’s true purpose in creating the fireman?" Lin Yi said, "Since Mountain Man set this up, he would certainly want the fireman to achieve his goal... I’m pondering what the fireman’s purpose was?"

"Could it be that, before completing its mission, that fireman prematurely became obsolete?" Class Teacher-040 speculated.

Lin Yi mused, "That’s why I insist that there’s an issue here, the fireman was simply made of subpar materials, its behavior logic seemed sound, and Mountain Man indeed tried his best with the materials, but what he could find to construct the ’puppet’ with just wasn’t good enough."

Ultimately, when constructing Ah-Gui, Lin Yi did indeed consider some of Mountain Man’s psychology, that Wuling theory, which he felt also applied to the fireman.

As long as it functions, even if it’s a one-time use, achieving the goal is enough.

The key issue is, what was Mountain Man’s purpose?

Could it simply be collecting some ashes and then leaving?

Was there a more profound motive?

If it was just about collecting ashes, no need to fiddle around creating a fireman, right?

"I feel like Mountain Man achieved his goal, but my feelings are vague, it’s not an overstatement to call it an intuition." Lin Yi said, "Moreover, when my consciousness was escaping, I saw Mountain Man in the gap between the layers of the 4th and 5th floors, he was definitely there to take something, which was certainly one of his aims using the fireman."

Unfortunately, he had no way to prove this point.

Firstly, time was tight back then, he only felt there was a problem, but he couldn’t figure out what problem there was.