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Chapter 135 Nocturnal Species [Additional 1000 words! ]

He looked at Xu Shunkang, waiting for his answer. If Xu Shunkang and the others didn't intend to say more from the bottom of their hearts, then he would have to hurry to the next place and not waste time in this place.

Xu Shunkang was stunned for a moment, then he couldn't help but touch the back of his head and asked a little embarrassedly: "Where were we talking about just now?"

"Nocturnal species and sculptures." Lin Yi reminded.

"Oh, oh, oh!" Xu Shunkang suddenly realized, but glanced at Li Huiyuan with some worry, and whispered, "But I see that your... girlfriend's condition seems to be unstable. If I tell her everything, will her condition continue to worsen?"

"Can her condition continue to deteriorate?" Lin Yi asked in surprise. Li Huiyuan's expression also changed slightly.

Xu Shunkang said speechlessly: "There are only zero and positive pollution. Either there is no pollution at all, or once it is polluted, it will continue to deepen, unless you can escape from the campus in time, or..."

"'Or'? It can also be 'or'?" Lin Yi was stunned.

Xu Shunkang looked at him and Li Huiyuan deeply, and then said: "Or... let 'pollution' master the power that he can use."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment, thinking, is this a transformation of identity?

"I... I believe in classmate Lin, so please continue." Just when Lin Yi was silent, Li Huiyuan's voice slowly sounded from beside him.

Li Huiyuan had calmed down by now. She seemed to have gotten used to the strange feeling of falling layers, and she was recovering faster and faster.

Xu Shunkang nodded and said, "Since you insist on knowing, I will continue."

"I just mentioned a 'deep contamination', right?"

Lin Yi nodded.

"In the campus, every individual has his own 'pollution zone'. As long as he is within the 'pollution zone', he can maintain the corresponding state of this individual."

"For example...you, no, you, use you as an example." Xu Shunkang originally pointed at Lin Yi, but after hesitating for a moment, he changed his point to Li Huiyuan.

Lin Yi, ah Lin Yi, this is your own choice, don’t blame me for telling you these things in advance...Xu Shunkang said in his heart.

When Xu Shunkang named her, Li Huiyuan was stunned and panicked at first, but she immediately pursed her lips and calmed down, then nodded: "Okay, take me as an example. I also want to know what I will become if I continue to be polluted."

Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan with some surprise, and for a moment he couldn't understand why she was willing to do so.

What's even more outrageous is that he actually saw a kind of resolute look in Li Huiyuan's eyes. This kind of expression of willpower is not like that of a person who had just fallen through a layer a few minutes ago.

"Or... has some idea awakened in her heart?" Lin Yi was confused, but did not interrupt Li Huiyuan.

Because he himself also wanted to know about this information.

Xu Shunkang took a deep breath, then sorted out his thoughts and said, "Let me tell you from the beginning."

"You are all people who registered on the school's official website. After being screened by the company that cooperates with the school, the company will arrange for you to be sent to the campus by blue school buses."

"At this point, you have acquired your first 'identity'."

"Pay attention to the 'identity' I mentioned. This does not have an ordinary meaning. It refers to your 'positioning' on campus."

"Have you ever played chess? It doesn't matter if you haven't, at least you know a little bit about it, right? General, general, elephant, horse, chariot, cannon, soldier... Each 'identity' has its own 'positioning' and 'characteristics'."

"When you boarded the blue school bus and entered the mountain area, you had already acquired your first identity, which is called 'informal experience student'."

"Once you enter the campus and obtain a 'student ID' from your homeroom teacher, you will become 'official experience students', or 'experience students' for short, and the student ID is your corresponding identity in this chess game."

"Only those who have an 'identity' can obtain the protection of the corresponding rules. If you don't have the corresponding credentials to prove your 'identity'... then you will become a wandering ghost in the chess game."

Li Huiyuan's face turned pale instantly, but she took a deep breath and kept herself calm so that she could listen to Xu Shunkang's explanation of the important information with Lin Yi.

"The entire chessboard is actually filled with a kind of pollution source. You can broadly understand it as a kind of 'fog'. This fog is usually white, but it is possible that it sometimes has some special colors... I don't think you can see other colors, right?"

"Green..." Li Huiyuan said weakly. In order to make it easier for Xu Shunkang to use her as an example, she also mentioned her own situation, "I have seen... green mist."

Xu Shunkang's expression suddenly changed: "You can even see the green mist?"

When Lin Yi heard this, he yelled in his heart, "How the hell can I see that too... It looks like the pollution is at a relatively serious depth? !
Xu Shunkang immediately stared at Li Huiyuan's pretty face, then narrowed his eyes.

At this moment, a golden light flashed in his eyes, which was like the expression of "eyes opening" in anime...

After staring at Li Huiyuan for a while, he suddenly frowned, then quickly came behind Li Huiyuan and looked at her back.

"Fuck, you were scratched by a cuckold?" Xu Shunkang said in shock.

"Let me see!" Xie Huayang suddenly jumped up and came behind Li Huiyuan.

The two big men just stared at Li Huiyuan's back with their golden eyes, giving a sense of déjà vu as if two calligraphy masters were observing Tang Yin's precious work with magnifying glasses, with an unspoken sense of professionalism in their eyes.

However... staring at a girl's back with this kind of eyes, the aura of a calligraphy master is not only cut in half, but the aura of a pervert is suddenly diffused...

Li Huiyuan twisted her body somewhat unnaturally, with a strange look on her face. She wanted to say something but didn't know what to say.

People are looking at the scratches on the chef in the green bib, and they are not embarrassed at all. What the hell are you doing by being so timid and self-indulgent... Li Huiyuan cursed herself in her heart and endured it with self-awareness.

Xu Shunkang and Xie Huayang did not have any extra thoughts and also demonstrated solid professional knowledge.

"It's strange... If you are scratched by a green hat, you will definitely be marked, just like a hunter marks his prey, but why is her mark gone?" Xu Shunkang pondered for a moment, then looked at Lin Yi with hesitation, "Did you do it?"

Lin Yi thought of the bright green light in the exposure image, and asked immediately, "Are you talking about the nail-like thing?"

"The mark of every green hat is different, but... since you said so, then it should be this, did you peel it off?" Xu Shunkang asked.

Lin Yi nodded: "It really fell off once I peeled it off... and then it evaporated when it was exposed to light, so I don't know what it is."

"You... you took it off with your bare hands?" Xu Shunkang was dumbfounded. "Brother, are you okay? Didn't you encounter any bad things after you took it off?"

"What the hell?!" Lin Yi was shocked. "Is it so serious? I don't know anything!"

"You don't know how dare you pick it up?"

"I don't feel any danger, do I?"

"You, you f*cking... you f*cking..." Xu Shunkang stared at him with his golden eyes wide open, his expression becoming more and more weird, "You f*cking awesome, this is nothing!"

The conversation between the two was full of mothers, which made Li Huiyuan, who was caught in the middle, feel a little embarrassed... Xu Shunkang waved his hand and ended the topic: "Okay, okay, now that the mark has been removed and you are fine, that's good, let's continue."

"That kind of pollutant looks like a kind of 'fog'. If you observe it with the naked eye, it is a kind of fog that is similar to natural mountain fog, but it is thicker. However, to people whose pollution level is serious enough, it will appear in a different color, such as green..."

"The campus is actually full of fog, but it is usually difficult for students to come into contact with it. Sometimes, even if there is fog, you just need to resist the influence of the fog and follow the rules to quickly take shelter in the building."

"The school has used rules to minimize the possibility of contamination for the students who are on trial, and even if they are contaminated, it can basically be controlled within an ideal range. When the trial period is over and they leave the campus, the pollutants remaining in their bodies will disappear over time."

"However, the speed of this pollution will be aggravated by the relaxation of the will of different experience students and the cognitive conflicts caused by some special situations within the campus."

“‘Perception’ is like a protective shield. Once your perception of the campus is distorted, cracks will appear in the shield and pollution will seep in.”

“So sometimes, when cognition is unstable, you need to use a firm will to forcibly suppress the distortion of cognition, so that the cracks in the protective shield disappear.”

"You know how to pull her back from that... unstable state. You must also know the relationship between cognition and will."

Lin Yi nodded.

Xu Shunkang continued, "This is why I told you not to think about the problem the night before yesterday, because the problems on campus are too big, especially for those who spend the first night in the classroom. If you think about it 100%, you will have problems."

"I don't know how you managed to survive, but since you are alive and well now, it means that your situation is beyond my expectations, so I won't say anything more to you."

Xu Shunkang glanced at Li Huiyuan, then said: "As for you..."

"The pollution range for the 'experiencer' has a lower limit. Once it exceeds the lower limit, all kinds of problems will arise... Simply put, it's like installing an airplane engine on a van. Once you step on the accelerator, the body of the van will not be able to hold up."

"On the chessboard, it's like a pawn moving out of the knight's mobility. Anyone with a discerning eye can see the problem right away. So once a pawn stops looking like a pawn and starts looking like a knight, it will attract the knights' attention. What's worse is that it won't just attract the knights' attention."

"Let's talk about the experiencer. When the experiencer is polluted, part of him can rely on his own will to pull himself back to the normal world, while the other part will begin to swing between 'normal' and 'unstable state'. It is even easy to enter the 'unstable state' directly due to some external stimulation, just like her."

"The unstable 'experiencers' are like light polluters, and they will be coveted by heavy polluters."

"For heavy polluters, light polluters are similar to them... But being similar doesn't mean they will be 'treated kindly'. Only a small number of heavy polluters remain rational, and most of them act based on 'perception' and 'instinct'."

"It's like throwing a cub into a group of greedy and hungry beasts. Almost no one would choose to 'protect' it. Most beasts would rather devour the cub and have a full meal..."

"But the heavy polluters are restricted by the weather, so they can only wait and see. Foolish hunters are still relying on 'perception' to hunt prey, while smart hunters have already started to mark their prey..."

"In this situation, unstable experiencers can easily start to break the rules... After being polluted, their brains' thinking and their own behavioral logic will deviate due to cognitive distortion. The terrible thing is that even if they realize that a problem is happening, they have no way to pull themselves back on track, and some may not even know that they are sinking."

"Once they break the rules, all that awaits them is death, or something more terrible than death."

"Those who have managed to survive the heavy polluters will face more problems, such as losing their student ID cards."

"Not to mention being taken away." Xu Shunkang narrowed his eyes, and a strange smile with a hint of sarcasm appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Imagine... what would it be like if you threw away your own student ID card?"

Lin Yi's scalp tingled, and he suddenly felt terrified and trembling about the unknown situation.

"You threw away your own student ID card? What kind of thing would cause you to do that?"

He didn't dare to imagine, nor could he imagine what kind of crazy and twisted mental state the people at that time were in.

"If the student ID card is lost, the intern will lose some of the protection effects of the rules." Xu Shunkang said, "Of course, it doesn't mean that having a student ID card can get the kind of protection effect I mentioned."

"Rather, the student ID card is a key item used to anchor one's identity at critical moments, and it is also needed in many places, right?"

"If you lose them, you can't use them. For example, you can't swipe your card even if you go back to the dormitory, or you can't swipe your card to eat in the cafeteria even if you go there, etc."

"The inability to conduct key events related to identity positioning is the most dangerous consequence of losing identity credentials."

"In this situation, it's difficult for you to anchor yourself back from the unstable state, unless..." He glanced at Lin Yi, "unless someone helps."

"If this continues, pollution continues to worsen, and the situation changes from an unstable state that can be saved to an unstable state that cannot be saved, then... the problem will be serious."

"After losing self-awareness, the protective shield of the students against pollution will completely collapse, and the 'fog' will begin to transform the human body like radiation, causing the students to gradually change from 'humans' to heavy polluters who carry pollution... In other words, the 'inhuman classmates' you mentioned."

"We have a more professional name for them - 'nocturnal species'."

Having said this, Xu Shunkang paused. On the one hand, he was giving Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan time to digest the information in his words, and on the other hand, he was observing their expressions to see how they would react.

But the two of them looked normal, not only did they not show any signs of dropping layers, but... they looked like they were listening to a lecture and learning knowledge!

It's simply out of the ordinary.

……

"So... this is how the 'Nocturnal Species' came about?" Lin Yi frowned slightly. This seemed to be different from the transformation path deduced by Tian Bufan...

"Oh? Then where do you think they came from?" Xu Shunkang asked curiously.

Lin Yi hesitated for a moment, then guessed, "I thought it was an artistic change."

"Art students transformed?" Xu Shunkang was slightly stunned. "Have you ever seen an art student? There are no strict art students in our class right now."

Lin Yixin said, "I have seen them in my dreams. Not only have I seen art students, but I have also seen art teachers. However, such words cannot be said out loud. If they are said out loud, you may get hit with a baseball bat."

He then said, "I thought I had seen... Wasn't there a girl at dinner the other day? Did you say she was an art student?"

"Which girl?" Xu Shunkang asked puzzledly.

Lin Yi then recounted the story of the girl in the sailor suit with a pink hairpin that they had seen together that day, and helped Xu Shunkang recall it: "Well, do you remember it? I remember you said that day that she was an art student."

Xu Shunkang suddenly realized, and then said contemptuously: "I remember it now, but the question is, if I told you that she was a 'nocturnal species' at that time, would you be able to react to it?"

"???" Lin Yi was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized that Xu Shunkang was judging her by her appearance, but he immediately widened his eyes and exclaimed: "Damn, she is a 'nocturnal species'?!"

Xu Shunkang said speechlessly: "I'm just making an analogy, don't take it seriously..."

"That scared me..." Lin Yi wiped his sweat, thinking that the group of people came to school in the same car with him, and they just spent a night there after being abducted. If they became nocturnal species so quickly, then the pollution in the art building was too outrageous.

"Then...what does she belong to?" Lin Yi asked curiously.

An additional chapter for the leader “Cup of Thinking”, 4000 words still owed!
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