AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016
Chapter 693 - 318 "Architect"...?

Chapter 693: Chapter 318 "Architect"...?

Gold flames rose in his eyes, and his vision seemed to magnify and draw closer to the sculpture-like flesh. He then discovered that the flesh, which was difficult to peel off, was not unchanged, but was disintegrating and decomposing at an imperceptible and slow pace.

The material that formed after its disintegration was none other than white powder particles!

Lin Yi then thought about how Tomato sauce turns into sculptural fragments and how the Nocturnal species also turn into sculptures under sunlight and then shatter into such white particles...

A thought struck him hard. He had always been looking for differences among the white powder particles resulting from different substances, such as whether there was some connection between the Tomato sauce from the Chef in the green apron and the Nocturnal species, and the relationship between the white powder particles and Contamination.

But now he realized he had been overthinking the problem. He just needed to draw a simple equivalence between the two, without having to further complicate the matter to find corroborating evidence.

In other words, this kind of white powder particle is the "material" that all Polluters disappear into after death...

Any creature carrying Contamination has the potential to turn into white powder particles, which only requires certain "catalytic" conditions.

Sometimes this catalytic condition is extremely simple—just an excess of Contamination.

And the Art Students, they can actually absorb it and transform it into their green Breath!

"So could this be the reason why Art Students can eat Tomatoes?"

Why can’t Experience Students eat Tomatoes?

Because the Contamination is extremely high.

But Art Students are themselves one of the pathways within Contamination, or even units that have stepped out of these pathways, so naturally, they are not afraid.

Therefore, the Art Student Rules mentioned that they could eat them when necessary.

And such necessary times probably refer to when they desperately need to supplement some Supernatural Power.

But the rules imply between the lines that Tomatoes have side effects, hence why they warn against overeating them.

So the reason Sports Students can eat Tomatoes is the same, and after eating, they still need to report to the Teacher.

Thinking about it, a Tomato is a heart, and it’s not just "human" hearts; Pseudo-Humans also have hearts.

Lin Yi thought of Pseudo-Human Li Kai—normally the heart is the seat of the Origin in Pseudo-Humans.

Wait, the seat of Origin?

So, Tomatoes are not just hearts; they are hearts that contain the Origin!

"So that means..."

Lin Yi understood.

The heart containing the Origin of the contaminated unit, it contains not only the kind of colored Supernatural Power that Art Students or Sports Students can absorb but also other colors of Supernatural Power, a very diverse collection of Supernatural Powers.

In the end, it’s best for fire-type cultivators to absorb fire-type Crystal Cores, and water-types respectively, while a diverse crystal core should not be absorbed unless necessary, but in a moment of desperate need with no other choice, it is not impossible to use it.

As to the consequences, those are not what one should be considering at such times.

Just as Mu Daxian said, if he had enough Time to prepare, there would be no need to risk an arm, diminishing his fighting power, to blow up a streetlight and get a lightbulb.

But at such times, what needs to be considered is "efficiency," not "injuries."

Suddenly having clarified a part of the underlying logic of the rules, Lin Yi felt the joy of enlightenment, as if he had solved an enigma.

And he also suddenly realized that while pondering these things just now, his body had unconsciously been absorbing the Breath wandering in the air—the green, blue, gray, golden, red... wait, why was he absorbing Breaths of all these colors?!

"I’m really not picky?!"

Lin Yi himself was shocked.

"Eh? It seems that’s not the case..."

He tried to sense himself and indeed found that any Breath lingering around him entered his body unhindered, but he did not absorb all these Breaths. He only absorbed parts of the Sky Blue Aura and the light green Breath. The rest of the Breaths just made a turn in his body and then were expelled.

This situation is just like when he first absorbed "Primordial Pollution."

Only take one scoop from the vastness of weak water.

Truly a bit ungrateful.

Lin Yi felt a bit pained, as if he had suffered a significant loss, and then continued methodically absorbing these Supernatural Powers, not thinking too much about other things for the moment.

The Boss standing on the protruding structure of the Giant Dome, along with the Physical Education Teachers, was also absorbed in drawing these pure Supernatural Powers; their absorbed Breath consisted mainly of Sky Blue Aura and blood-red Aura, while the old kerosene lamp they held swayed unhurriedly, taking in all the surrounding Breath indiscriminately.

As the Breath was absorbed, the light in the old kerosene lamp seemed brighter, but not significantly more radiant than originally.

But if one looked closely, they would find that the Physical Education Teachers were not just absorbing red and blue Breath but also seemed to be faintly absorbing other Breaths—of all colors, but not much...

"This Invasion... is quite extraordinary," Mr. Wang reflected as he watched the myriad colored Auras fluttering like butterflies in the air, murmuring thoughtfully.