AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 175 - 81: The Negative 1st Floor of the Teaching Building Is Just a Concept

Chapter 175: Chapter 81: The Negative 1st Floor of the Teaching Building Is Just a Concept

Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, just as he was about to say they couldn’t do that, Tian Bufan had already spoken, "However, we know very little about the Teaching Building, and we must not carelessly touch the red lines of the rules when we have no chance of winning."

"What we should do is explore the campus based on differing rules while being highly vigilant about the parts that are expressly forbidden."

Tian Bufan warned with a grave expression, like a cautious general setting up defenses.

Lin Yi breathed a sigh of relief inwardly, thinking this was the Tian Bufan he knew.

Lin Yi then mentioned that he saw a figure that looked like a Security Guard leading a team that seemed to be security guards from Building C to Building D, but they ended the discussion on this point quickly since there was still too little to discuss in depth.

Four: [After the layers of the Teaching Building fell, the areas above the fifth floor and Building D were revealed. Homeroom teachers won’t leave the Teaching Building to go to the Cafeteria; instead, Security Guards will bring chefs to deliver meals to the homeroom teachers.] — √

"Speaking of which... the homeroom teacher used the term ’exercise’ to cover up the abnormalities in the school area," Lin Yi mentioned, "but I feel the students clearly don’t believe it much."

After all, what happened last night, several Experience Students actually vanished into thin air.

Tian Bufan shook his head, "Usually, of course they wouldn’t believe it."

"But under extreme fear, a person can lose some or all of their rationality, and at that point, they’ll believe anything you say."

"What they’re lacking is not answers to the unknown, but a reason that offers them a sense of security."

"The homeroom teacher knows this well, which why he used such phrasing to provide those who experienced the bizarre night a feeling of reassurance, which they indeed needed."

Lin Yi looked down at the quilt, deep in thought... from the perspective of human psychological weaknesses, it indeed seemed so.

But when he thought about how he was still pondering whether the term ’exercise’ had some extended metaphor or implication, while Tian Bufan had already seen through this point and was thinking at a higher level about human flaws, Lin Yi felt once again what was called the tiered nature of intelligence.

Lin Yi took several deep breaths, intending to continue talking, when he suddenly felt a chill at the back of his neck.

He seemed to sense something, his gaze instinctively turning towards the crack of the dormitory door.

The space between the door crack and the floor was pitch black.

He quickly glanced at the wall clock.

22:20.

"The corridors of the Dormitory building... have gone completely dark."

Looking at the door crack, Lin Yi felt as if the darkness within it coiled like ink, emanating a cold Breath that made his heart flutter—as if tentacles from Hell were about to seep into the room at any moment...

It was hard to imagine what a suffocating scene the corridor was now.

Tian Bufan also realized this, and he handed back the pen to Lin Yi, threw the crumpled paper into the trash bin, then climbed up to his bunk and lied down.

"It’s getting late; let’s talk about the rest while lying in bed."

"Old Lin, continue," he said.

Lin Yi put the notebook and pen back under his pillow and also lied down, staring at the ceiling while continuing his previous train of thought, suddenly saying, "Did we just overlook... the basement of the Teaching Building?"

"It’s not that we overlooked it, but if you insist that we did, it’s not entirely wrong," Tian Bufan replied, "In my view, the minus first floor of the Teaching Building doesn’t actually exist."

Lin Yi was greatly puzzled, "The minus first floor doesn’t exist, what do you mean by that?!"

At this moment, he really couldn’t understand.

Tian Bufan then guided him, "Think about the problem by incorporating our earlier discussion of layers and space, and try to reflect on that."

Lin Yi was slightly taken aback, although his reaction was a bit slow, he quickly grasped the meaning in Tian Bufan’s words.

"Young Master Tian, you mean, the minus first floor is just an area that has been revealed after the Teaching Building’s layers unfolded? No, that’s not quite right to say... tsk..."

Lin Yi showed a conflicted expression, with his descriptive power, articulating the problem about the minus first floor all at once still seemed to him like trying to see flowers through the fog—visible, but indistinct.

Tian Bufan then said, "The minus first floor is actually just a concept of a layer."

"Any place can be the minus first floor."

"Its definition is... the place one arrives at after entering the stairwell that leads to the minus first floor of the Teaching Building and opening the door."

"When we enter the stairwell, regardless of how long we go downstairs, the first door we see and push open to go out leads us to the ’minus first floor’."

"The minus first floor does not exist."

"Or rather... every floor, as long as it can be defined with the stairwell as a reference, can become the ’minus first floor’."

"It is part of the area that the Teaching Building unfolds after the layers have dropped, its meaning should be as a ’transfer station’."

"By connecting to the ’Teacher’s Office,’ it sends people who arrived at the Teaching Building during abnormal weather when the layers have dropped, back into the normal layers of the Teaching Building."

"It’s a bit complicated, try to understand."

Lin Yi mulled over it a bit, then nodded, "Alright... What’s next then?"

"What’s next," Tian Bufan said, "is the crux of the problem."

"The issue with the minus first floor of the Teaching Building is not just that it’s a ’conceptual’ thing, but that it’s related to certain things—the Teacher’s Office and the stairwell that leads to the minus first floor."