Capítulo 1440: Chapter 684: Penetrating the Structure of the Cafeteria (Part 2)
Unfortunately, without an outstanding ntor, coupled with suitable “teaching materials,” and being only over 20 years since the Great Catastrophe of X999, the outside world had to go through nurous asures of reconstruction, integration, and planning before beginning extraordinary research, which was really rushed in terms of ti, leading to the lack of a few decent investigators and operatives?
In his view, the captain and his team already had a very strategic approach, but for such a team to face an existence on the level of the “Burial Body,” there should be no possibility of survival.
Still too weak.
The outside world is still developing too slowly.
“Got it all sorted? If not, let’s head to the cafeteria first.” Tian Bufan’s voice rang in his ear.
Once over the small hill in front, the cafeteria would be within reach.
Taking a shortcut proved very effective; it’s just that this path was extrely perilous. If it were anyone else, they would have already been surrounded by the Pseudo-Human Sculptures and couldn’t pass through the Green Forest Belt like they did, causing the statues to avoid them like the plague, like a bulldozer traversing through the forest.
Lin Yi took a deep breath: “Got it sorted… But what special relationship is there between the Convenience Store Owner and the Burial Body?”
He’s only sorted out a rough Transformation Pathway but hasn’t figured out the “interpersonal relationships” within.
“Isn’t the Burial Body contained inside the Convenience Store? Could it be that so sort of cooperative relationship has been established between the containnt and its owner?” This was what he was most curious about.
Kuai Hongji spoke quicker than Tian Bufan: “What I can be sure of is that the underlying logic of the Convenience Store Owner will not betray humans, although his thods might deviate from the established safety zone sowhat, but I don’t know how much.”
The “Mourner” has integrated the will of the “Fog Nightmare Hunter,” and its fundantal starting point was to protect human survival.
In their underlying logic, this is one of the principles, akin to the Three Laws of Robotics.
However, when a paradox arises, it’s unsure what choice they will make.
Especially now, the Convenience Store Owner seems to have sprouted so notions.
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May 12, X023, 7:22, Cafeteria Redion.
Taking a shortcut was indeed quick, taking less than ten minutes to reach the cafeteria from deep within the Green Forest Belt.
Part the bushes, and after walking a few further steps, the cafeteria ca into view.
Lin Yi, Tian Bufan, Kuai Hongji, Mao Feiyang, and Wei Shan, a group of five, arrived as if they were the leaders with cadres of an Emperor-level Pirate Group, stepping onto the mountain top, overlooking the giant-corn-like cafeteria below, each with a mischievous yet handso expression, exuding an extraordinary aura.
The “4016” Dormitory crew all gathered, first stop—cafeteria.
Lin Yi squinted his eyes, energy flowed within the slits, and the cafeteria’s structure was like a lens decomposing and layering in front of his vision.
While observing the cafeteria, Lin Yi’s mind was engraving it into “My World” with imnse computational power.
The entire cafeteria was actually composed of over a dozen interpenetrating Layers, with each Layer in Lin Yi’s vision thin as a cicada wing, overlapping each other, influenced by supernatural light and shadow factors, causing different numbers of layers to float in the reality layer.
The units moving within also get interpenetrated by layers, which forms the super-complex layer structure.
Besides the Map Level expression, the cafeteria itself had so clear structures that blurred and indistinct layer structures into clear pathways, which were likely the work of those early “Architects” constructing the campus.
They anchored, locked, and aggregated various forms of the cafeteria, ultimately forming a near-complete entity in reality.
In Lin Yi’s eyes, the entire cafeteria was like a birdcage subrged in water.
The birdcage’s Frawork was constructed by the “Architects,” making the cafeteria appear as a “cafeteria” on any reasonable map level.
And beneath the birdcage was the cafeteria’s minus-one floor.
On the minus-one floor of the cafeteria, Lin Yi saw various spaces—black apron chefs and green apron chefs both had bases there.
However, the green apron chefs’ negative one-floor area was filled with a massive root network ford by Burial Body Roots.
While the black apron chefs’ negative one-floor seed relatively filled with regular architectural styles.
Lin Yi looked towards the Burial Body Roots.
The roots of the Burial Body were like the roots of a millennial old tree, with sprawling root systems distributed in the green apron chefs’ area, making it look like a swarm nest, with roots nurturing seed after seed, which upon landing slowly transford into green apron chefs.
The green apron chefs born this way were the first batch closest to the Origin, and among all green apron chefs, had the highest degree of contamination.
Simply put, it was as if the powerful scent of Sister Yu’s foot, one whiff, would sweep soone away.
And those converted green apron chefs were mildly sweet and fragrant, velvety smooth to taste, without being too sour or pungent.
Following the roots’ trajectory, Lin Yi’s vision traveled over three Layers, seeing the small store deep within the cafeteria area.
On the Map Level, the small store appeared flat, but upon Lin Yi’s observation, he realized the small store’s layer was a closed-loop flat layer, which though appeared flat, manifested as a curved surface, a… barrel-shaped surface when in reality!
The boundaries on the left and right sides of the small store were joined together, like a sheet of paper rolled and glued at the edges!
Thus, when he reached the small store, what he saw was a bunker-shaped circular arc structure!
And because of this, when he looked to one side earlier, he couldn’t see any end because it wasn’t that the small store was endless, but because he looked from the left to the right, plus light and shadow changes within the layers, creating an illusion of endlessness.
This illusion even blinded his Perception.
If he hadn’t been now inspecting the cafeteria area’s Frawork, he couldn’t have deduced this even if he racked his brain.
And the Burial Body’s existence was like a pencil piercing through the small store’s “paper sheet,” itself stuck here.
Its protruding part of the paper was contained within the small store, while the lower part spread and grew on the Map Level, reaching the minus-one floor.
In this complex birdcage cafeteria, various structures and units functioned under and above the water surface like microorganisms, except the Burial Body was a unique case.
Burial Body was precisely the canary in this birdcage cafeteria.
The entire cafeteria was designed to entrap the Burial Body.
After seeing through the cafeteria’s “bottoms,” Lin Yi stroked his chin and pondered: “Strange… the Convenience Store Owner isn’t inside the cafeteria.”
Tian Bufan gave him a surprised look: “You already finished looking this quickly?”
“Uh? I’ll take another look.” Lin Yi felt there was more to Tian Bufan’s words, wondering if he missed sothing?
Indeed it was possible, given he just discovered this 24k Map Level Root intention, so inaccuracies were understandable.
Kuai Hongji said: “The Convenience Store Owner indeed shouldn’t be inside the small store.”
“After finishing negotiations with yesterday, I guessed he’d head straight to the ‘Principal’s Office.'”
“Negotiations? When did that happen?” Lin Yi looked at Kuai Hongji in surprise, “How could you have had any interaction with the Convenience Store Owner yesterday?”
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