AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 521 - 233: Taking Turns Staying Awake (Extra 1000 Words)_3

Chapter 521: Chapter 233: Taking Turns Staying Awake (Extra 1000 Words)_3

"However, the number inside the Art Building’s elevator shaft starts with the character ’moon’, which probably has the same meaning as the Art Student number on the Student Souvenir Coins. I feel that this ’moon’ must hold some significance within the Art Department..."

"On our way back to campus, the elevator stopped at the Library momentarily before returning to the Teaching Building..."

"At the Library, someone got on the elevator. They looked a bit like a Pseudo-Human Art Student, but they didn’t emit any malice. They had some characteristics of a Pseudo-Human, but not too obviously, and they seemed to clearly fear Mu Daxian... Art Students are not afraid of Mu Daxian."

"Oh right, about the concept of ’Pseudo-Human Art Student’... They are actually what we previously called ’the eerie Art Students’. They are products of transformation after Art Students cross the boundary of contamination, and seemingly no longer belong to humanity."

"There are some other concepts I’ll talk about in a bit."

"Then, according to Mu Daxian, the Library is indeed Building D of the Teaching Building, but there appears to be some strange mechanism that prevents return once you reach it..."

"This mechanism, Mu Daxian hasn’t mentioned before, I suspect it may resemble the way the stairs of the Teaching Building’s basement floor move, like a one-way passage. As for the specifics, we’ll need to find an opportunity to understand."

"Also, Mu Daxian was originally registered in the same Class 2 of Group B as Liangzi and me, and he later registered Maozi there too."

"Unfortunately, to prevent them from being seen by ordinary Experience Students, Mu Daxian calculated the timing precisely and avoided most people so perfectly that we never once crossed paths..."

"That message on our blackboard was left by Mu Daxian after all."

"This Mu Daxian... He seems to know a lot of rules, almost as if he had already done a part of what we are currently undertaking, and has collected quite a number of them."

"Moreover, I feel that his understanding of the rules is not just about obtaining them— he appears to have once been one of those ’units’ obliged to abide by them. He claimed to be an Art Student transformed from an Experience Student, so he knows the rules for Experience Students and some for Sports Students..."

"In addition, he has served as a Dormitory Supervisor for some time, which means he knows a more comprehensive set of Dorm rules, including ’Dormitory Supervisor rules’. I even suspect he has some mastery over the use of old kerosene lamps... because he can blow out a lamp with his bare hands, a skill that seems to be in few hands and feels to me just like seed bursting."

"Also, he’s best buddies with a Pocket Chef in a black apron, so he knows even ’Chef rules’, and supposedly it’s the more in-depth ’Black Apron Chef rules’...Of course, that’s just my guess, because I think perhaps the chefs in blue aprons and those in black aprons have different sets of rules."

"’Black Apron Chef’?" Tian Bufan narrowed his eyes.

Lin Yi nodded and began to give a brief explanation, "Aside from Student Cafeteria Chefs who are non-contaminated, apart from those in green hats and blue aprons, there’s also a type of chef with a black apron. They are said to be responsible for ’logistics’, like cooking and preparing meals in the Cafeteria, but once out of the Cafeteria, they can do anything..."

"Like a group of super spies who can do everything."

He briefly introduced the Black Apron Chefs, without dwelling too much on the subject.

"Besides, Mu Daxian himself acts like a ’Boss’ among the Art Students, and possesses a set of rules that seems comparable to those known by an Art Teacher. I sometimes feel he’s more like an Art Teacher, with a sense... he could ’break through’ but chooses ’not to break through’, unsure if it’s because Art Students, to some extent, can do some things that Art Teachers can’t..."

Clearly, Lin Yi had his own insights, so while explaining facts, he also conveyed his own "findings."

As for Mao Feiyang’s experiences in the dream, they were actually more about Lin Yi recounting the person Mu Daxian.

Because Mu Daxian seemed to be a microcosm of the Art Department, and through him, one could learn much about both the Art and non-Art Departments’ information and clues.

"And... what I find most outrageous is that Mu Daxian knows of a rule called ’Iron Law of the Night Watchman’."

Stroking his chin and muttering at a tricky angle, Tian Bufan said, "The Iron Law of the Night Watchman must be the rules of the legendary ’Night Watchman’."

"Named ’Iron Law’, beyond the pretense, what I sense more is a form of binding force..."

"Binding force...?" Lin Yi paused, having not considered this point.

"It’s like the ’Global H-bomb Treaty’, the more powerful the entity, the more it needs to be ’controlled’ and ’constrained’..." Tian Bufan said, squinting his eyes. "Maybe, the Iron Law of the Night Watchman is different from regular rules; rules protect their adherents from contamination, while the Iron Law... is used to restrain the Night Watchmen from injuring others, limiting their capacity for action?"

Lin Yi’s gaze fluctuated slightly. He remembered Mu Daxian mentioning that Night Watchmen never seemed to leave the Art Building. Could it really be a form of restraint?

The Night Watchman protects the Art Building, but at the same time, is the Art Building also the Night Watchman’s prison?

Or rather, could there be some special relationship between the Night Watchman and the Art Building, just as there is between Old Mo and the Cafeteria?