"Uh... go ahead."
"There’s a mural over at the Observatory, and according to official reports, it’s an original painting of ’Starry Night’ by Vincent William Van Gogh."
"’Starry Night’ is said to hide a ’coordinate’."
"You an that ’coordinate’...?! Lin Yi’s pupils slightly narrowed, recalling that Old Mo had ntioned sothing similar to him.
The first ’Apostle’ who stabilized the layer’s visual field observed the fluctuations during a layer transition and linked them to the mysteries within ’Starry Night.’
Later, after a prolonged exploration and intense discussion by a group of ’Apostles’ about layer transitions, they concluded that [’Starry Night’ is highly likely a coordinate].
A coordinate that can only be found during a layer transition and pertains to endless mysteries and the transcendent!
Words from Old Mo when he first introduced this to Lin Yi resurfaced in Lin’s mind:
["The ’Apostles’ speculate that Van Gogh did not ’leave sothing at the coordinate,’ but rather ’used the coordinate to locate sothing.’ The ’Apostles’ firmly believe that this might be the coordinate for ’His’ location, or perhaps the position of the ’Root’ in the ocean."]
Now, hearing Tian Bufan’s words, Lin Yi couldn’t help but link them together, exclaiming, "Do you an... that coordinate corresponds to the location of the ’Principal’s Office’?!"
"But it can’t be right!"
"The logic doesn’t add up, does it?"
"And there’s no way the ti aligns!"
Lin Yi fired off a series of questioning remarks, finishing with, "The Principal’s existence couldn’t possibly be earlier than the ’Apostles,’ right?"
Tian Bufan calmly retorted, "But have you ever considered that the ’Principal’ might be one of the ’Apostles’ themselves?"
"...?!" Tian Bufan’s composed words made Lin Yi’s heart skip a beat, and he took a sharp breath, "Hiss—could it be...?"
"I don’t know either." Tian Bufan shrugged, "The issue really isn’t about sequence, and the only reason you have that confusion is that you’ve got the logic of the question wrong."
"What I’m saying is not that the ’coordinate’ in ’Starry Night’ corresponds to the ’Principal’s Office,’ but that the Principal used the place corresponding to that coordinate as the ’Principal’s Office.’"
"Perhaps the Principal deciphered so kind of secret from Van Gogh’s ’Starry Night’ and regarded the point corresponding to that ’coordinate’ as the Principal’s Office."
"All this ti, I’ve been emphasizing one point to you: the ’Principal’s Office’ itself is not fixed... What I an is, wherever the ’Principal’ considered the ’Principal’s Office’ before leaving, that is the ’Principal’s Office.’"
"The existence of a ’Forbidden Land’ does not lie in the location but in its owner."
"And the key factor influencing this decision point is the notebook representing the ’Principal’s’ identity."
"Wherever the Principal’s notebook is among all potential ’Principal’s Office’ locations, that’s where the Principal’s Office is."
"Do you... understand?"
Tian Bufan looked deeply at Lin Yi.
Lin Yi, as if driven by an inexplicable force, looked profoundly at his own notebook.
A bizarre and eerie thought ca unbidden to his mind.
"If the Principal’s notebook is here... then this is the ’Principal’s Office’?"
Tian Bufan was taken aback, obviously not expecting Lin Yi to be inspired to ask such a question, but he still said, "In a certain sense... that’s correct."
Lin Yi fell silent, only silently pulled the notebook closer and gently clicked it.
"Take my notebook, for example..." he said slowly, "If my notebook were to fall into the wrong hands, the damage it could cause would certainly be imnse."
Tian Bufan squinted, "What are you trying to say?"
"I was just thinking... my notebook has only a little bit of information and it’s like this. If the Principal’s notebook were taken out of the campus... what level of danger would it pose?"
"Could it directly trigger so kind of large-scale contamination and mutation?"
Tian Bufan pondered, "As long as there is tily containnt, it won’t..."
"The authorities have sufficient containnt thods and control asures, but the best resources must be used wisely. Such thods must be reserved for facing truly valuable entities; otherwise, it’s like using a cannon to kill a mosquito. Effectiveness aside, it might even risk harming our own people."
Upon hearing this, Lin Yi remained silent, furrowing his brow, pondering sothing unknowable.
Tian Bufan, unperturbed by his frown, continued, "Therefore... we need to conduct a comprehensive exploration of the campus before we can target specific areas for exploration."
"And this is precisely why I’ve been guiding you to explore the campus step by step."
"Not just you, but Kuai Kuai, Wei Sang, and even Maozi, we’re all exploring the campus to varying extents, just observing different sections."
"As a result, this step took us five days."
"But the outco is excellent."
At this point, a trace of satisfaction appeared on Tian Bufan’s face.
"What we need to do tomorrow is to act separately, investigate the respective locations associated with the aforentioned guesses... to confirm each one,"
"As long as we confirm one, we can take action imdiately. If not, we have one more night to plan and deliberate."
"However, if the Principal’s notebook is discovered in the Art Building, so risk-taking action will be necessary."
"Because the maximum cycle for movent within the campus is 24 hours... in other words, any two locations on campus can complete a one-way trip within 24 hours, but considering the return route, ti-wise, we only have one chance to make a round trip to the Art Building."
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