"Let tell you, won like the Boss are the ones who pay the most attention to your little quirks."
"Hiss——" Lin Yi inhaled sharply, "With what you just said, I feel like my life is hanging by a thread..."
"Enough with the chit-chat, let’s get moving." Mao Feiyang barked mischievously, "Old Lin can hold up the Boss, and Kuai Kuai and I will go find the School Doctor."
"Scram, how did this get pinned on out of nowhere?" Kuai Hongji imdiately put on a sinister villain face, "I never said I’d go looking for her."
"Ah, right right right, it’s not you looking, it’s , okay?" Mao Feiyang said, pulling a pained expression, while clutching his leg and moaning painfully, "Ouch, my leg is broken! It hurts so much, I can’t take it... hurry and take to the School Doctor! Ouch..."
Kuai Hongji was speechless: "If ti weren’t so pressed, I’d really want to give you a beating."
Wei Shan said, "I second that."
"Damn! Isn’t there anyone on my side?" Mao Feiyang fud, then imdiately surrendered with raised hands, "Alright, alright, I give up, I give up! Go if you want!"
Everyone except Kuai Hongji burst into laughter, and seeing the atmosphere lighten up, Tian Bufan stepped in to end the topic: "Alright, alright, given the situation, let’s head into the gymnasium area first!"
"...Old Lin." He looked at Lin Yi.
"Ah?" Lin Yi looked over.
Tian Bufan said, "When transitioning between areas, pay attention to the changes occurring, it’s a rare observational opportunity."
Lin Yi’s expression sharpened, then he nodded very seriously, "Okay."
He looked towards the gymnasium area ahead. Strangely enough, though the noonday sun was at its peak, he couldn’t feel much warmth, as if this Sun was fake.
And this feeling beca increasingly pronounced as he got closer to the gymnasium area.
He couldn’t help but look up at the sky again.
Everything seed normal, yet there was an indescribable sense of anomaly.
"Gymnasium area..." Lin Yi sighed softly, looking at the gymnasium area just a stone’s throw away. At the thought of the Boss, he suddenly felt a bit restless.
But he quickly composed himself, then slowly lifted his foot and stepped into the gymnasium area.
The mont he entered, he deliberately kept his entire mind and body relaxed, because only then could he rely purely on intuition to conduct a vague perception of the gymnasium area in a very enigmatic state.
"Buzz..."
He passed through the layer before the gymnasium area, and the layer seed to ripple lightly the mont he entered...
He didn’t try to perceive deliberately, but a subtle feeling suddenly surged in his heart.
In a trance, he heard the "crashing" of sea waves, a sound from a distant black sea striking the City Wall of the gymnasium. He also heard the wind howling over sea peaks, also originating from the black sea.
At the sa ti, he saw the outline of the Black Moon Outpost hovering in mid-air, along with the silhouette of the even dimr Library...
These two structures were like two sharp points erging from a sea of clouds, giving a sense of ethereal mystery.
And as for the gymnasium... when he looked at the gymnasium, he suddenly froze.
In his perception, the previously boundless City Wall seed to break into countless fragnts floating mid-air, then pieced together in an incredibly miraculous fashion, much like the display of Cybertron compression technology.
It was as if sothing was being shown off.
But just at that mont, the subtle perception brought by entering the gymnasium area lted away like snow.
The structures pieced together in his "Phantom Vision" scattered like countless fragnts falling down...
"No! How can you escape just like this?!" Lin Yi’s spirit suddenly tightened. He gathered all the ntal power he’d relaxed a mont ago, elevating his perceptual ability to the utmost, just to extend this fleeting inspiration for even a mont longer!
However, the inspiration he strained to capture only reappeared for a final glimr—at the mont the fragnts collapsed, he seed to see the outline of a streamline object like a part of an abandoned hull?
Quickly, the collapsing fragnts landed back and reverted into that section of the boundless City Wall.
And Lin Yi gasped deeply, as if pulled vigorously out of water!
After a few heavy breaths, he hurriedly remarked, "Ship!! This gymnasium seems to be part of a ship!"
Tian Bufan nodded slightly, "Did you see anything else?"
Lin Yi was taken aback. Looking at Tian Bufan’s expression, he suddenly felt sothing odd, "You guys... already knew, didn’t you?"
Kuai Hongji said, "Found out ’not long ago’, the campus design plans were altered. Those plans... seem to have been modified towards an ’Ark’ angle, but how extensively, I can’t say."
"Hiss..." Lin Yi gasped, "I always felt the campus buildings were connected, could the whole campus combine into a ship?!"
Lin Yi felt an absurd and funny sensation, like one day the gymnasium would suddenly leap up, shout ’I’ll form the head!’, and the whole campus would wake up and assemble into a ship...
"The Ark setting sail was originally our plan." Tian Bufan slowly stroked his chin, "But turning the campus into an Ark... is beyond our control."
Kuai Hongji continued, "And the key aspect is, such modification must’ve been designed from the campus’s very construction start. The Principal couldn’t accomplish this; to do so, to be frank, if it wasn’t the ’Original Apostles’, it couldn’t be much less..."
"I’m suspicious, just saying, I’m suspicious." Even the usually rational Tian Bufan spoke of suspicion, "Either, there’s an unknown mastermind modifying the campus plans, or it’s the work of the Contractor."
"Contractor?" Lin Yi mused, "You an, she perated through Ti?"
Tian Bufan said, "I don’t doubt her perating Ti, but that she left Ti Exile at X999... She left long ago and tampered with the campus plans from start to finish."
On hearing this, Lin Yi almost reflexively said, "You’re basically hypothesizing the ’Boss is the Contractor’, right?"
Tian Bufan shrugged, "Sotis, I use so foolish thods for substitution, and until now, only two are older than the campus: the Principal and the Boss."
"Excluding the Principal, the possibility of the Boss altering the plans is very high."
Lin Yi marveled, "So you’re suggesting, the Boss orchestrated the campus’s construction?"
"If she’s the Contractor, it makes perfect sense." Tian Bufan said, "’The Angel’ penetrated Ti Exile, through which she inadvertently grasped the secrets of Ti, and given her nature, she would lay in wait, so the ’campus’ construction is certainly part of her defenses."
"The Contractor isn’t soone who entrusts everything to others, not even us."
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