"That is inevitable." Boss glanced at him and said indifferently, "These are two fundantally different things."
"The kerosene lamp doesn’t care whether you’re using it or not; once it’s relit, it starts consuming."
Lin Yi suddenly understood, Old Mo’s use of supernatural power is a horizontal line, consuming it only at critical tis, while the old kerosene lamp is a downward slope, consuming whether used or not.
Moreover, it seems that reigniting the old kerosene lamp inevitably requires consuming a lot of supernatural power.
He decides not to bother with it for now. Instead, he’ll pick up whatever’s ready and change it for another lamp, then, when he has the chance later, slowly study the way to recharge the old kerosene lamp.
Lin Yi thought for a mont, then asked, "Boss, how many things happened at the Gymnasium yesterday? I heard... quite a few people seed to have sacrificed."
Boss showed little signs of sadness; it seed she had long been accustod to these things, and numb to them.
"Sacrifice is inevitable... No one can be assured of surviving one sphere of invasion after another," she said slowly, "Every ti they experience a Grey Mist invasion, it’s like they’ve undergone a trial, their understanding of the Sports Departnt will take a qualitative leap."
"Yet, at the sa ti, the contamination they suffer also deepens considerably."
"So near the spiritual realm point, I usually arrange for them to leave the campus for a period of ti, but they fear their power prowess, worried about losing control outside, so choose to continue training..."
"So will voluntarily apply to enter the basent when on the verge of losing control."
"And so choose to burn themselves out..."
"Everyone chooses a different thod, but essentially, it’s a form of ’sacrifice’."
Boss paused, her tone much softer: "Many tis, the ones who live have to carry more than those who sacrifice."
Lin Yi’s heart skipped a beat, and his expression beca more solemn.
"Therefore, I’ll lead them to assist at the Art Building... Especially those ready to profoundly sublimify, I’ll let them bloom in the Art Building Layer in the most dazzling way."
"Leaves wilt on the ground and turn into new waste, nurturing the newborn."
Lin Yi was silent for a while, then switched topics: "So Boss... Where is the ’School Clinic,’ I’ve heard from Li Huiyuan that the School Clinic seems to have many doors. Can she appear anywhere on campus at any ti?"
"The ’School Clinic’..." Boss lightly skimd the water surface, eyes slightly drooping, "With your condition, you hardly need the School Clinic, why suddenly ask?"
"Out of curiosity." Lin Yi didn’t make any excuses, he didn’t need to evade in front of Boss.
Boss thought for a mont, then nodded subtly, as if speaking to herself or to him, "Indeed, after all, you are piecing things together bit by bit, being curious about the School Clinic is natural..."
"However, for the current you, the School Clinic can’t provide much help."
"Firstly, the function of the ’School Doctor’ is to determine the contaminator’s contamination level and provide appropriate treatnt or handle it on the spot."
"The School Clinic exists for only two functions, one is to offer a stable base for the ’School Doctor,’ the other is to provide special pathways to so areas within the campus."
"For these two functions, firstly, given your current level, be it physical or spiritual, you can surpass the School Doctor in treating or combating the contaminator."
"Secondly, you can’t yet do it, but it’s estimated to be soon."
"As long as you can unveil the operational logic of the campus, you can easily perceive the many pathways within the campus, reaching your destination at the fastest speed."
Lin Yi said, "Is it the Layer Transition?"
"It’s a spatial level transition," Boss corrected, "Imagine yourself as a warp space engine. The campus’ spatial layers can be arbitrarily folded before you, allowing you to achieve spatial leaps through shortcuts."
"Can humans do that?" Lin Yi widened his eyes—this is teleportation, right?
Boss glanced at him speechlessly: "Dream Boundary, Layer Transition, Will Transition... None of these are achievable by humans’ biological level, yet you’ve mastered them."
"Even so, have you not accepted the fact that you’ve already transcended beyond ’human’?"
"Sotis I wonder if soone put a cognitive lock on you—while wielding ’immortal techniques’ of moving mountains and seas, you still believe you’re a ’mortal’ who gets sick..."
Lin Yi felt a bit baffled by himself upon hearing this.
"Boss, you have a point, sotis, I really can’t discern which version of myself is the genuine ."
Right now, he was sowhat like a contradiction combination. For instance, he was swallowed by the jellyfish-like nocturnal species in the black sea layers with more fearso thods than Lingchi; even his bones were annihilated by fibrous substances, yet he didn’t utter a single sound, and could still view everything indifferently.
But while walking down the road, being stepped on by Wei Liang, he would feel pain so intense it seed fatal.
Is it Wei Liang’s invincible foot strength?
Certainly not; it’s his cognitive lock that’s exceptionally flexible.
At certain tis, his cognition felt unbound by constraints.
But once back to normal, he believed himself as a "flesh-and-blood" person.
Boss seed to have thought of sothing, then suddenly took a breath and patted Lin Yi’s shoulder: "Feel it well, everything is a valuable experience."
"Huh?" Lin Yi was startled, what did Boss an? Why does it feel like Phantom Vision—a doctor telling a patient to eat and drink as usual?
For a mont, they were silent.
Lin Yi and Boss were both unsure what to say next; with one leaning against the poolside, the other sitting beside it, legs dangling in the water, occasionally kicking the water or stirring the surface with a hand.
Lin Yi watched Li Huiyuan, suddenly rembering sothing: "Oh right, Boss."
"Hmm, speak up, I’m listening."
Lin Yi said, "What happened when Li Huiyuan went over to the Corpse Bone Forest last night?"
From Boss and Li Huiyuan’s words, he felt there was sothing fishy.
At least, there seed to be sothing fishy in Boss’s words; he felt Boss said so things that she didn’t say in front of Li Huiyuan.
After all, just covering up a few details can make a fact vastly different from the original truth.
Boss didn’t answer Lin Yi’s question but instead fell deep into thought.
But Boss was not adept at lying, so her expression fell into Lin Yi’s eyes, creating a strong contrasting cuteness, just like a little girl among a heap of dolls seriously contemplating which ones to give away.
"Actually, I did conceal sothing." Boss picked the dolls, "However, mainly because I’m uncertain myself, fearful of influencing your judgnts, that’s why I didn’t ntion it."
"What is it exactly?" Lin Yi frowned, "Boss, you deliberately kept it hidden, so there’s surely a problem!"
Boss’s expression turned complex: "I can’t say for certain, but I have a kind of illusion even I can’t clearly recollect, I distinctly rember, the call Huihuizi heard seed to be my call... Yet, she said she heard your call."
"Moreover, the fact is indeed your call—it’s only to your call that she has such a significant reaction."
"But the issue is, if she didn’t rember wrong, then I must have rembered wrong?"
"And why would I call her? Even I am clueless."
"Boss actually called Li Huiyuan?" This was simply too outrageous, for Lin Yi, it was undoubtedly a big bombshell.
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