AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 447 - 197 Wound’s Tomato Sauce_2

Chapter 447: Chapter 197 Wound’s Tomato Sauce_2

Mao Feiyang clenched his teeth and began to focus his attention, and then... Lin Yi miraculously discovered that sweet taste was fading, and soon it completely disappeared.

"Shit... what?!" He looked at Mao Feiyang in shock, wondering if Maozi had just... could it be that he initiated control over the blood change?

Lin Yi took a sharp breath. It was only Maozi’s second day at school, and he was already beginning to control the contamination within his body... no, it should be said that he was already beginning to learn how to control his supernatural powers?!

So quickly?!

A scene flashed through Lin Yi’s mind...

"False teacher" Dark King Rayleigh:

"Build the foundation,"

"Experience it yourself,"

"Learn through actual combat."

"True master" Kaido of the Beasts:

"With one stick, learn Streaming Sakura!"

"With two sticks, comprehend Overbearing Entanglement!"

"With three sticks, help with the Awakening!"

Could it be that fantasy novels are real, that desperate situations are the true path to rapid growth, and that Nocturnal species are the real teachers in controlling contamination?!

"Sorry..." After adjusting, Mao Feiyang pursed his lips and spoke with a hint of regret.

"Apologizing to me is useless. The one you’re letting down isn’t me, it’s yourself." Mu Daxian shook his head, "I’ve done my best. If you still carelessly turn into an exploding pollution doll, then there’s nothing I can do. At most..."

"At most what?"

"At most personally send you on your way, allowing you to leave this world with a ’human’ status." Mu Daxian suddenly turned around on the steps above, his figure looming as the harsh fluorescent light poured down from above, casting a cold and indifferent silhouette.

Mao Feiyang got startled and immediately pursed his lips, silently following Mu Daxian.

He suddenly understood why so many Art Students held Mu Daxian in awe; the seemingly approachable Mu Daxian had his principles. As long as you didn’t touch his principles, anything goes, but once crossed, he would act strictly according to his "principles."

Without the slightest chance of turning back.

Suddenly, Lin Yi noticed something like fragments and debris in his vision.

From the angle Mao Feiyang was looking at Mu Daxian, in the ceiling corner behind Mu Daxian, there seemed to be... something wriggling!

"Purebred Nightwalker?!" Lin Yi was alarmed, and then, as if his eyes suddenly became enlightened, he involuntarily scanned his surroundings...

This glance sent a chill through him, making his hair stand on end.

"Fuck..."

He saw that in this stairwell, on the walls, in the corners, on the ceiling... were completely covered with Purebred Nightwalkers!

These Purebred Nightwalkers stuck to the walls like paint, their physical form allowing them to blend in with the walls as if they were wallpaper.

And once Lin Yi realized this, he could no longer look directly at the stairwell’s walls.

It was like those optical illusion puzzles where, once convinced it’s a convex shape, trying to force yourself to see it as concave becomes extremely difficult.

If you try to force the change, you see a flickering contradiction of convex and concave shapes.

Now Lin Yi understood that once you glimpse what you believe to be the real corner, trying to turn back becomes very difficult.

"It’s ’perception’!!" Lin Yi slightly grasped the concept. "Everyone who enters the stairwell subconsciously believes it’s ’just’ a stairwell, and the Purebred Nightwalkers exploit this ’perception’ to anchor themselves to the stairwell!"

The principle was simple, like those who hear someone’s identity and then try to anchor themselves to become a Human Sculpture of that person.

The difference is, the Teaching Building isn’t alive.

"So... is that how the wrinkles on the walls of the Teaching Building came to be?"

"In the layers of falling paint, numerous Purebred Nightwalkers form... wall powder?"

"I’ve actually leaned against countless Nightwalkers before?"

"Ugh..."

Lin Yi suddenly felt his stomach churn, as if about to vomit out his dinner from the night before.

This sensation lasted until they left the stairwell.

Lin Yi looked back at the stairwell. What previously seemed an unremarkable stairwell now appeared in his eyes as a den populated with an unknown number of Purebred Nightwalkers.

Purebred Nightwalkers wriggled slightly on the walls as if they were breathing and pulsing. The distorted lines outlined the silhouettes of countless Purebred Nightwalkers, depicting their deformed, twisted, perverted forms so vividly that one’s sanity plummeted while goosebumps crawled up the arms.

However, when Lin Yi shifted his gaze back, he found that it wasn’t just the walls of the stairwell that were afflicted but also the walls in other areas of the Teaching Building, which were all Purebred Nightwalkers!

"?!!"

Lin Yi immediately realized a problem.

If all the walls in the Teaching Building had Purebred Nightwalkers, then was there a problem with the world, or... was it my own senses that were experiencing a problem upon witnessing such a scene?

Not only was there a problem, but it was also a big one; the real question was whether the problem was with me or the world?

This was originally a philosophical dialectic issue, but now it needed to fuck philosophy and dialectics.

Whether it was the world or me that had the problem, I was the one deeply immersed in crisis, and the only constant was just that.

If the Purebred Nightwalker was a "color," then the moment my cognition equated it with wall paint, it gradually became the wall...

But what if I just ignored it?

This is the wall, this is the wall paint, this is just the plain Teaching Building...

He silently suggested to himself, trying to convince himself that a convex surface is a concave one, at least from the current "angle" and time that he was in, it must be a concave one.

It has to be, whether it is or not.

Just like... a tomato is a tomato, not a heart.

I know you are a heart but now you have to be a tomato, whether or not you actually are.

As for whether it actually is one or not.

Only Lin Yi knew.

Or perhaps... there will come a moment when Lin Yi will indeed go mad and then no longer be able to tell the difference.

’Threshold!’

’The threshold of contamination!’

Lin Yi suddenly understood, if the world was truly as he saw it at some point, then Mu Daxian, the representative of Art Students with High Sensitivity, would have found out a long time ago.

But Mu Daxian chose to turn a blind eye.

Why?

Because everyone has a different Pollution Range—those were Tian Bufan’s words!

Tian Bufan’s Novice Village theory!

Mu Daxian’s Milestone theory!

Right at this moment, these two theories began to subtly merge in Lin Yi’s heart!

[Our cognitive range is the Novice Village. We can observe the outside world at the boundaries of our cognition. We can expand the boundaries of the Novice Village by broadening our cognition, gradually encompassing those previously unknown domains...]—Novice Village theory.

[Supernatural Power is a road. Each stage has a milestone. You have now crossed the entrance and are heading towards the first milestone. You can now return to the entrance and leave, but once you’ve crossed the first stretch of road, it’ll be difficult to turn back after the milestone...]—Milestone theory.

That means, a milestone is equivalent to the boundary of the Novice Village.

It will be difficult to return to the Novice Village once you surpass the boundary, but what if you can keep pushing the milestones further back?

The same path (area), with an expanded boundary of the Novice Village, is like moving the milestone backward...

Doesn’t that mean the contamination capacity one can bear increases?

An original Novice Village area of 10 units in size, the first milestone length of 10 units—the threshold of 10 units of contamination.

Once you surpass the threshold, it’s impossible to stay within the layer of normal people, and you begin to transform into a Nightwalker.

But if with the deepening cognition, the 10 units of contamination threshold become 100 units, that turns the 10-unit Novice Village area into 100 units, and then the first milestone’s unit length also becomes 100!

Then, under the "Experience Student" status, one could do things with 100 units of Contamination Power!

One could also forcibly twist one’s cognition within a 100-unit contamination threshold... as long as it’s within this threshold, right?

If the Sports Student’s contamination threshold is indeed 100 units, then... in some way, isn’t that equivalent to being on par with the Sports Student?

Emmmmm... Considering the bizarre physique of the Sports Student, Lin Yi felt that even if there were equivalencies to draw, they shouldn’t be about physical strength. Perhaps there were other aspects...

For example, Wei Sang’s kind of sky-blue steam?!

Or perhaps... his own kind of "My Vision" and "My World"?!