AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 170 - 78 "The Way" _2

Chapter 170: Chapter 78 "The Way" _2

Lin Yi’s forehead slowly produced a row of "..." Tian Bufan’s words, utilizing the "Game Theory" he’d previously proposed, were understandable to Lin Yi, who could listen and completely comprehend them.

But what threw him into disarray was— "Damn! Xu Shunkang and the others just told me not to overthink things! But they told Young Master Tian everything!"

Lin Yi felt his entire body about to go numb.

Why was there such a huge disparity between people?!

"No way! So you just can think through issues late at night?" Lin Yi asked unwillingly.

He merely "simply" thought over a tiny bit of a problem and nearly encountered a big issue.

"I just stood on the shoulders of others and simply pondered over some stuff," Tian Bufan said indifferently, glancing at Lin Yi.

"’Simply pondered’?! Please! Those were all the things I wanted to say!" Lin Yi ranted in frustration.

But in the end, all he could do was swallow his breath in silence.

"Alright..."

"Let’s talk about the Transformation Pathways later, once you’ve thoroughly grasped them. Let’s continue with the Art Student topic, I mean... about last night, the fight between the Sports Students and them."

"Okay." Tian Bufan nodded slightly, "As I was telling you earlier, after entering the classroom, I briefly observed the situation of the classmates and then chatted with the Sports Students to gather some information."

"The Sports Students told me that last night the mist was too thick, and we (Experience Students) couldn’t return to the dormitories, so we had to study by ourselves in the classroom until the next day."

"They also mentioned that the classroom lights often went out during abnormal weather conditions."

Lin Yi nodded silently, listening, but he quickly realized that the actions described by the Sports Students to Tian Bufan when the classroom lights went out were different from what the class advisor, even Xu Shunkang and others, told Lin Yi!

First, Tian Bufan’s class advisor also arrived in the classroom to conduct a roll call around 21:00, then left and locked the classroom door after 21:30.

Second, the Sports Students in Tian Bufan’s class... didn’t leave the classroom.

After the classroom was locked, Tian Bufan’s Sports Students forcefully told them: if the classroom lights started flickering later, they should immediately dive under their desks or hide next to the Sports Students.

Clearly, Tian Bufan chose to stand next to the Sports Students.

For this reason, he personally witnessed a battle between the Sports Students and the Art Students.

"To be precise, the fight involved two sides, the Sports Students and the normal Art Students were on one side, and the other side consisted of abnormal Art Students and those not belonging to the students."

Lin Yi, puzzled, asked, "The normal Art Students and the abnormal Art Students... are they not together?"

Tian Bufan replied, "The normal entities are on one side, the abnormal entities on another side. Does that make sense now?"

"I get it... I’m just surprised that the Art Students are actually divided into two categories."

"What’s so surprising about that? People also have good and evil, right and wrong; it’s just that the goodness and evil of Art Students are displayed more extremely within the school," Tian Bufan explained.

Lin Yi thought about the killing mechanism of the off-kilter students and asked doubtfully, "Did you stare at those things that weren’t students and not get attacked?"

Tian Bufan replied, "33 Sports Students plus 15 normal Art Students, against 30 abnormal Art Students and those not human, we had an overwhelming advantage in both numbers and combat strength, they simply had no time to deal with me."

Lin Yi listened with a racing heart; he even visualized the scene in his mind.

Last night, sudden downpours raged outside, thunder roared across the sky, a startling bolt of lightning streaked through the darkness, illuminating the lights-out classroom.

Tian Bufan stood coolly in a corner, composed, detached, and calmly observing everything happening in the classroom.

He was like an ice-cold robot, coldly calculating everything with indifferent observation.

And everything seemed to be within his control.

Just imagining that scene, Lin Yi could sense from Tian Bufan an oppressive and chilling rationality.

A kind of nearly pure and restrained reason.

However, Tian Bufan did not elaborate much to Lin Yi about the details of that battle.

Until Lin Yi said, "Last night, something entered our classroom. What about yours? Was there anything in your classroom?"

"Yes, there was."

Lin Yi was taken aback and quickly asked, "Then, did you get a clear look at what it was?"

"I saw it, but not clearly enough."

"So... what was that thing?"

Tian Bufan fell silent for two seconds, then slowly spat out two words: "...Sculpture."

"Scul...pture? Are you talking about the kind of sculpture I’m thinking of, or the Angel Sculpture mentioned in the gymnasium’s rules?"

"It’s probably not the Angel Sculpture, just a humanoid sculpture," Tian Bufan added, "A full-body sculpture."

Lin Yi was struck motionless on the spot as another image emerged in his mind—

Under the dim moonlight, through the thick mist, a sculpture walked over from the cobblestone ground, the friction of its feet against the ground making a ’shasha’ sound.

It ascended the steps, grotesquely shaping its plaster-like fingers into the form of a key, then slowly inserted them into the keyhole...

It twisted its fingers, and the latch made a ’kaka’ noise.

Then, it slowly opened the door.

’Creak—’

It saw Tian Bufan.

Tian Bufan also saw it.

’Hiss...’

Lin Yi shuddered violently, and the "Phantom Vision" in front of him instantly vanished.

"So the plaster-like substance left in the keyhole was actually from the sculpture itself!"

"Those things... do they transform back and forth between the plaster-like substance and tomato sauce?"

"Was the head teacher last night trying to prevent them from entering the classroom?"

"Until the security guard arrived and completely drove them off?"

In Tian Bufan’s words, Lin Yi obtained a crucial piece of the puzzle, and this piece directly assembled part of last night’s truth!

"What are you thinking about?" Tian Bufan asked.

Lin Yi then recounted to Tian Bufan the things he had encountered.

"Blood turns into tomato sauce, and tomato sauce turns into plaster in the sunlight?" Tian Bufan showed an interested expression, but Lin Yi read a different message from his eyes—this piece of information, he already knew.

’Young Master Tian obtained so much information in just one day? How did he do it?’

Sometimes, he found it truly baffling.

Tian Bufan said, "Do you remember the Transformation Pathways I mentioned to you?"

Lin Yi nodded.

"I’ve talked about the concepts of ’Identity’ and ’Unit’."

"Overall, all entities with autonomy can be referred to as ’Units’, we who have something that proves our ’Status’ belong to one type of Unit, and things like those sculptures, which lack ’Identity’, also belong to a Unit."

"Sports Students are, Art Students are, and so are the class head teacher and the other teachers; they all belong to a Unit."

"Between Units, there exist relationships of ’hostility’ or ’assistance’, or ’independence’."

"And clearly, as an abnormal Unit, the sculptures pose a great threat to us."

"Sports Students and the head teacher both offer a degree of assistance to Experience Students and even protect our safety to a certain extent."

"Remember what the student code says?"

"[All sculptures within the campus are busts, and they are all kept in the Art Building], although the words ’Art Building’ were rubbed out, if you look closely, you can still see them quite clearly."

"The person who made the rule obviously wanted us to know this and to maintain a certain level of caution towards the ’Art Building’, which is why they used the method of smudging without completely erasing it."

The student code was uniformly printed; if they truly wanted to keep it a secret, they could have completely deleted it, instead of choosing to express it through smudging.

"Combining the statement about Art Students having normal and abnormal states, I came to a conclusion—the sculptures in the campus are a type of living Unit that can move freely under certain conditions, contained within the Art Building."

"However, when there’s a fluctuation in the campus’s layout, they leave the unmarked Art Building on the map and infiltrate other buildings."

"And the normal Art Students, Sports Students, and so on, have the capacity to resist them to a certain extent."

"This, is my speculation, which I believe has a ninety-nine percent accuracy."

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