AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 393 - 180 Kuai Hongji’s Warning (Extra 1000 words!)

Chapter 393: Chapter 180 Kuai Hongji’s Warning (Extra 1000 words!)

"Just like ’qi’ in metaphysics and ’waves’ in science, and so on, complex concepts must be artificially defined before people forcefully acknowledge their existence... It’s like rules, we obey the rules, we understand the rules, and we gradually overwrite the cognition related to them, and then accept this world that is so different from ’reality.’"

"No, who says that what we initially know is ’reality’? Just like in ’The Matrix’, perhaps the world beyond the campus is the Garden of Eden, and the campus is a means to access the ’truth’?"

"Could it be that the world we slowly overwrite is the actual world?"

"This has gone too far off topic." Tian Bufan slightly shook his head and returned to the matter at hand.

"This Conceptual Rank stuff... is part of my exploration plan, but my cognitive domain isn’t strong enough to confront ’It’ directly."

"We cannot face what exceeds our cognition, just as students cannot attempt a problem filled with advanced formulas... We don’t even know what the symbols in advanced formulas mean, thus we don’t have the qualifications to read the question. When faced with such things, the best choice is to avoid the problem."

"This isn’t a mandatory question, so we can return to it later when we have more knowledge, then try to read the problem."

Lin Yi nodded in agreement.

"Speaking of which, did you all see Zhou Yuting when you went to the cafeteria?" With the matters related to the slip of paper and Song Rentou temporarily brought to a close, Lin Yi shifted the discussion back to the events of the day, "The girl in front of the cafeteria."

Lin Yi briefly introduced what he knew about Zhou Yuting.

"Right, when I left the School Building Area, I also saw her in the cafeteria district, licking the paint off a lamppost. The way she acted didn’t seem human anymore, probably because her identity had been seized by a Human Sculpture, replaced."

Tian Bufan said, "I saw her too when I went for dinner. Her behavior was very noticeable, slumped at the entrance of another pathway, shaking uncontrollably and crying, hard to overlook."

"But she was gone when I left."

"I did see her when I left," Kuai Hongji’s voice came from his bunk, drawing Lin Yi’s attention, "I happened to see her staggeringly standing up, as if called by something, leaving the road, and diving headfirst into the Green Forest Belt."

"According to Old Lin, she must have had her identity stolen by a Human Sculpture."

Lin Yi sighed, "Her condition is extremely unstable, and her emotions have already collapsed. She’s the complete opposite of Li Huiyuan, beyond saving."

"Don’t say ’beyond saving.’ Even if she could be saved, it shouldn’t be us doing it," Kuai Hongji replied coldly, "risking oneself for a stranger is the behavior of a fool, not someone who will live to leave the campus."

"You seem to be implying that I helped Li Huiyuan." Lin Yi frowned.

Kuai Hongji replied indifferently, "You’ve helped too much. ’Cannon fodder’ should be just that, a chess piece, only when you make a crucial move at a critical moment does it become a brilliant move. If I could sacrifice a piece to capture a more valuable one, I would definitely make that move."

"I think the same," Lin Yi corrected, "it’s just that I haven’t encountered the moment when I need to use Li Huiyuan as cannon fodder."

"No, you’re making excuses," Kuai Hongji shook his head slightly, "Your heart is too soft, even at that time, you might not be able to do it. It’s only the third day, there are still four days left, Old Lin... If I were you, to test the boundaries of the rules, I would sacrifice her without hesitation, for instance, to gather more information in the Convenience Store."

Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, his tone becoming slightly heavier, "I haven’t told you about Li Huiyuan’s matter yet, how do you know these things?"

"Do I need to be told?" Kuai Hongji sneered, "You didn’t flee when the cafeteria lights flashed; obviously, leaving would have to be through the Convenience Store, and someone without a Student ID in there is perfect live mine material, an opportunity I wouldn’t miss."

"You... your thoughts are too dangerous!" Lin Yi was startled by Kuai Hongji’s ideas, but he suddenly realized that maybe it was precisely this kind of thinking that allowed one to piece together the closest approximation to the truth from the scraps of information left by Song Rentou.

"Dangerous?" Kuai Hongji scoffed, "Compared to the unknown dangers within the campus, all my other risks are inconsequential."

"What will you do if our collective Contamination worsens and conditions continue to deteriorate?"

"Try to ’convert’ the Contamination with ’kindness’?"

"Do those in the West believe in God because God is kind?"

"Of course not, but rather because they know God can easily destroy a world and then offer each species a chance to live with His so-called ’kindness.’"

"If all the species in the world could only survive as one pair, what do you think those ’doomed’ species that have to die would do?"

"Noah’s Ark, people pray for God’s kindness, yet God unleashed a world-destroying flood, soaking the whole world. Do you think those drowned by God would be thankful for His kindness?"

"Heh, bloody kindness."

"If you can’t be capable, don’t play the bodhisattva. If you want to be a bodhisattva, be Namo Gatling Bodhisattva." Kuai Hongji sneered once more.

Namo Gatling Bodhisattva, Six Senses Purifying Depleted Uranium Bullet, thirty-six hundred turns in a single breath, with great compassion, delivers sentient beings.

After saying that, Kuai Hongji cut himself off, like a ruthless swordsman who, capable of killing his opponent, instead thrusts the blade an inch away from the heart, withdrawing his sword and elegantly turning to leave.