AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 397 - 181: Nocturnal Species ’Super’? (Extra 1000 words!)_2

Chapter 397: Chapter 181: Nocturnal Species ’Super’? (Extra 1000 words!)_2

He straightened himself and continued, "I’ve made another discovery near the Corridor Bridge... I saw moss growing unevenly on the walls along the outer edge of the Corridor Bridge."

"Then, in ’My World’, I stretched the twisted moss into a straight line..."

Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes, "Are you saying... you changed the frame of reference for the Teaching Building in your mind? You used the moss as if it were a line of ink, stretching the reality?"

"It’s like when you drew routes on paper with cotton threads yesterday, but I did it in reverse," Lin Yi said, "When I straightened the moss into a line, the original Teaching Building turned into an extremely postmodern architectural work, looking very much like the interior structure of a fortress in the movie Alien, it was a bit like a fortress, with very abstract lines and a strong style."

Upon hearing this, Tian Bufan suddenly spoke, "What you said has inspired me, if you can see the distribution of moss on D Block’s Corridor Bridge and then stretch it, might you get a different version of Teaching Building D Block?"

Lin Yi’s eyes lit up, "That makes sense."

"Sense is one thing, but I didn’t say for you to go do that," Tian Bufan quickly cautioned, "Exploring D Block isn’t something we need to rush. We must fully prepare before tackling architecture hidden in layers, especially confirming a clear path to and fro before exploring, otherwise, if we go and can’t return, that would be troublesome."

"Mm," Lin Yi nodded, "Also, while extrapolating ’My World,’ for some reason, I found that there was very thick mist wafting beneath the Corridor Bridge. In that world I deduced, the whole world was shrouded in mist, leaving only the Corridor Bridge and the Teaching Buildings before and after it clear."

"The limited visibility was significant, I couldn’t see any mountains or trees."

"Moreover, it seemed like there were sounds of water in the mist under the Corridor Bridge, I’m not sure if it’s seawater, but my intuition tells me it is."

"That scene, except for the lack of coldness, was like dropping the Corridor Bridge onto liquid nitrogen, with the sound of bubbling liquid nitrogen beneath and white vapor above, unable to see anything else."

"The most crucial point is... I could distinctly feel malice emanating from the seawater beneath the Corridor Bridge, as if something was lurking below, trying to climb out but unable to do so..."

Tian Bufan fell silent for a while before saying, "The ability you described, it’s a lot like ’Profiling,’ but much stronger than that, as if you’ve constructed a sandbox in your mind and you’re freely manipulating it..."

"And that mist and seawater you mentioned..."

"I suspect it might be something that was originally hidden beneath or outside the sandbox, and when you distort the sandbox, causing certain areas to become vacant... The ’void’ that didn’t originally exist on this side of the sandbox comes to fill that space, just like this..."

While talking, he reached out from his own bed and grabbed Wei Liang’s bedsheet on the adjacent bed Wei Liang was sleeping on, grabbing it forcefully.

The bedsheet crumpled, and the edges were exposed, revealing the bed underneath.

"My understanding is more or less like that, not sure if it’s correct... Mainly, this thing is like a virus suddenly inserted into your sandbox editing, definitely caused by a force beyond our current understanding," he said.

"Alright, alright... ’My understanding is more or less like that’, are you saying my bedsheet is also ’more or less like that’?" Wei Liang, as if struck by a severe illness, shot up, hands on hips and eyebrows raised, "Yesterday, it was pulling cotton, today, it’s sheet pulling, just targeting me for a good fleece, huh? If this continues, will I end up sleeping naked?"

"Damn, Wei Shan, are you laughing? Don’t laugh!"

"I’m not laughing," Wei Shan said.

"Your bed is shaking so much it’s about to fall apart, and you haven’t laughed yet?! Damn it, Old Lin, we’re switching beds tomorrow!"

Kuai Hongji laughed slyly, "They’re just messing with you. But you want to listen and you don’t, you don’t want to listen yet you eavesdrop; Young Master Tian’s actions give you some sense of involvement in the discussion, don’t they."

"Don’t worry, Liangzi, we have an extra bed in our dorm. Once Young Master Tian disassembles your bed, you can just switch to a new one," Lin Yi said.

"..."

Tian Bufan smoothed out the blanket, "Besides D Block, have you made any other discoveries?"

"Eh, don’t you have anything to say?" Lin Yi was a bit surprised. This didn’t seem like Tian Bufan at all. How come there weren’t any mind-blowing revelations?

"I did say something," Tian Bufan replied with resignation, "You can’t expect to have so many new discoveries every night like last night, right? Besides, my focus today wasn’t on D Block."

"Oh, what was your focus on?" Lin Yi asked curiously.

"I checked out the elevators and the staircases," Tian Bufan said.

Lin Yi’s eyes widened, "I also looked at the elevator and stairwells; doesn’t that mean our explorations overlapped?"

"I went into the elevator," Tian Bufan said, silencing Lin Yi.

"Sorry, I spoke a little loudly just now, so..."

"You first tell me your findings, then I’ll tell you mine. This part... is quite interesting," Tian Bufan smiled, but for some reason, that smile seemed to carry a sly quality reminiscent of Kuai Hongji, making Lin Yi feel a shiver down his spine.

"The elevator is full of Nocturnal species, yet Young Master Tian could go in...? How did he manage that?"

"I discovered that the elevator was filled entirely with Nocturnal species, packed in the space inside like clay, like rotting flesh filling a large garbage can... By the way, I just learned the concept of ’Nocturnal species’ today, do you guys know it?"