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Chapter 609 The Boss's Situation

The leader explained, "I only recently started stepping into the art building. Before that, even if I reached the floor where the art building was located, I never went deep inside... It was as if I had a subconscious thought of 'don't go in,' but recently, that thought has disappeared."

Lin Yi's expression turned serious: "Recently...when did this start?"

"It's been a while, but if I had to pinpoint it, it probably started when the principal went missing at sea," the leader said slowly. "I saw the school doctor, and this is her explanation, but I don't quite understand the logic behind it..."

As she said this, she suddenly turned to look at Lin Yi: "If one day you find this logic, then tell me the answer."

Lin Yi was slightly startled. He didn't quite understand why his boss would suddenly say that, but he still nodded solemnly: "I'll go through fire and water for you, boss!"

"Stop being so glib. Living well is what really matters." The eldest brother glanced at him, splashed some water with his hand, and then suddenly said, "If I remember anything, I'll tell you too."

"Okay, sure!" Lin Yi, who hadn't been very hopeful, nodded anyway.

"Huihuizi." The eldest brother looked at Li Huiyuan.

"Aww! Here!" Li Huiyuan instinctively stood up straight in the water.

"The pool water is just right now. You can try swimming and train a bit."

Li Huiyuan's eyes lit up: "Great! I'll start training right away!"

After replying to the boss, she turned her head and slowly began to swim.

Seeing that Li Huiyuan was finally gone, Lin Yi seized the opportunity to secretly ask his boss, "Boss, boss, what's wrong with Huihuizi today? Why is she so different before and after I went swimming? It's like she's a completely different person..."

Upon hearing this, the eldest sister couldn't help but suppress a smile. She glanced at Li Huiyuan, who was swimming, before saying, "Actually, she initially wanted to save you, but she sank herself..."

"Don't let her carefree attitude fool you, she's actually quite thick-skinned, except towards you. After I pulled her out of the water, she was afraid you'd find out, so she's been holding back a lot of anger..."

"I see..." Lin Yi felt a warmth in his heart. Huihui, you little rascal...

I still need to practice more, hehehehehe!

Otherwise, how can you save me?

He couldn't quite suppress the corners of his mouth.

While swimming, Li Huiyuan suddenly sensed the laughter of her aunt and uncle. She lost focus for a moment and choked on some water because she was not swimming steadily.

After hurriedly adjusting herself, she turned around with some suspicion and muttered, "Strange... why do I feel a chill down my spine, like I've been stabbed in the back? That wretched Linlinzi, did she stab me in the back in front of the boss again?"

"Eek! How awful Hagirin is!"

"I'm going to train hard and give you a powerful flying kick like the boss did!"

"Anyway, I can't kill you with that kick!"

She started paddling, making humming noises.

Lin Yi leaned against the poolside, enjoying a rare moment of leisure since entering the school.

At this moment, he really felt like he was on a "vacation," rushing through seven days and taking away 30,000 yuan as an "experience student."

Seven days have passed, and today is the sixth day...

Before I knew it, time had flown by, and every minute and second felt incredibly fulfilling.

But time seemed to pass very slowly; while it wouldn't be described as days dragging on endlessly, it certainly felt like days dragging on endlessly.

At this moment, Lin Yi leaned against the edge of the pool, watching the ripples from Li Huiyuan's swimming as she swam, the waves of water pushing against his chest one after another, and listening to the sound of his boss gently splashing the water. Suddenly, he felt an unprecedented sense of peace.

The pool surface shimmered under the LED lights, and in a daze, Lin Yi seemed to see a blue sea, a golden beach, a group of vacationers playing on the sand, while he himself was lying on a deck chair, curled up under a parasol, dozing off in the sea breeze...

But he quickly came to his senses, then chuckled self-deprecatingly, wondering why he had imagined such a scene.

After soaking in the water for a while, Li Huiyuan swam in the pool for a while as well.

Lin Yi suddenly remembered something and quickly looked at his boss: "By the way, boss, since I don't have anything to do right now, I happen to have some questions I'd like to ask you."

"You said."

"Um, I've managed to get my hands on a kerosene lamp. I was wondering if you know how to light it again."

The eldest brother looked at him in surprise: "Where did you steal it from?"

She wasn't shocked at all; it seemed that Lin Yi hiding a grenade in his crotch was something she could understand.

Lin Yi was speechless. Why could his boss accept the fact that he was about to become a monster so calmly?

"Actually, I was lucky today. I killed a 'smiling angel.' That guy was probably a dorm supervisor. After the hourglass in his hand broke, a kerosene lamp was revealed. I put it away, thinking that if I could light it, it would be a decent weapon..." He explained.

The old man said, "Recharging a kerosene lamp in the gymnasium is quite simple. Just give me the lamp later, and I'll go and replace it with one from the wall."

"The method of recharging old kerosene lamps is not fixed; the underlying logic is to infuse them with pure, extraordinary power."

Lin Yi exclaimed in surprise, "Does that mean I can charge it?"

“If the light bulb is still there, it’s possible,” the old man said. “However, recharging an old kerosene lamp might consume more energy than recharging Old Mo.”

Lin Yi immediately looked surprised: "The consumption is so outrageous?"

“That’s for sure.” The eldest brother glanced at him and said calmly, “These are two completely different things.”

"The kerosene lamp doesn't care whether you're using it or not; it starts consuming oil as soon as it's lit again."

Lin Yi suddenly realized that Lao Mo's use of extraordinary power was a horizontal line, only being consumed at crucial moments, while the old kerosene lamp was a downward line, being consumed regardless of whether it was used or not.

Moreover, it now seems that it would require a great deal of extraordinary power to make the old kerosene lamps shine again.

He decided against further experimentation and simply accepted the existing lamp as a replacement. He would research the recharging methods of old kerosene lamps later when the opportunity arose.

Lin Yi thought for a moment and then asked, "Boss, how much happened at the stadium yesterday? I heard... quite a few people seem to have died."

The leader's face showed little sadness; she seemed to have long been accustomed to and numb to these things. "There are always sacrifices... No one can be sure they can survive one invasion after another," she said slowly. "Each Gray Fog invasion is like a trial, and their understanding of the physical education department will undergo a qualitative leap."

"But at the same time, the pollution they suffer from also increases significantly."

“For those who are close to the Spirit Realm, I usually arrange for them to live away from the campus for a period of time, but they are afraid of their power and worried about losing control in the outside world, so they choose to continue training…”

"Some of them will voluntarily request to enter the basement when things are on the verge of getting out of control."

"And some will choose to burn themselves out..."

"Everyone chooses a different way, but in essence, they are all a kind of 'sacrifice'."

The eldest brother paused, his tone softening considerably: "Often, those who survive have to bear more burdens than those who sacrifice themselves."

Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, and his expression became more serious.

"Therefore, I will lead them to support the art building... especially those who are preparing for the ultimate sublimation, I will let them bloom in the most magnificent way on the art building's level."

"The fallen leaves will become new waste, nourishing new life."

Lin Yi was silent for a moment, then changed the subject: "So, boss... where is the 'school clinic'? I heard Li Huiyuan say that the school clinic seems to have many doors. Can she appear in any corner of the campus anytime, anywhere?"

“The school clinic…” The eldest brother gently stirred the water, his eyelids slightly lowered. “Looking like you, you almost never need the school clinic. Why are you suddenly asking about it?”

"Because of curiosity." Lin Yi didn't make up any excuses or reasons; he didn't need to beat around the bush in front of his boss.

The eldest thought for a moment, then nodded slightly, as if speaking to himself, or perhaps to him, "That's true. After all, you've been picking up those things little by little, so it's natural for you to be curious about the school clinic..."

"However, the school clinic can't offer much help to you right now."

"First, the role of the 'school doctor' is to determine the level of contamination in those affected and to provide appropriate treatment or on-site care."

"The school clinic serves only two purposes: first, to provide a stable location for the 'school doctor,' and second, to offer special routes to certain areas within the campus."

"These two functions, firstly, with your current level, whether physically or mentally, you are able to bypass the school doctor to treat or combat contaminated individuals."

"As for the second one, you can't do it yet, but I guess you'll be able to soon."

"As long as you can see through the operating logic of the campus, you can easily perceive the many paths that exist within the campus and reach your destination as quickly as possible."

Lin Yi asked, "Is it a layer transition?"

“It’s a leap in space,” the leader corrected. “Imagine you are a warped space engine, the spatial layers of the campus can be folded arbitrarily in front of you, and then you use shortcuts to achieve a spatial leap.”

"Is this even something a human can do?" Lin Yi's eyes widened. Was this teleportation?

The eldest brother glanced at him speechlessly: "Dream boundaries, layer jumps, will jumps... none of these things are things that a 'human' can do at the biological level, but you have mastered them all."

Even so, haven't you accepted the fact that you've already transcended the realm of 'human'?

"Sometimes I wonder if you've been put under a cognitive lock, using incredible 'divine methods' to move mountains while firmly believing you're still a 'mortal' who gets sick..."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi was also somewhat puzzled by himself.

"Boss, what you said makes sense. Sometimes, I really can't tell which version of me is the real me."

He is now somewhat of a contradiction. For example, his flesh and blood were devoured by the jellyfish-like nocturnal creatures in the black sea layer in a way more terrifying than being slowly sliced ​​to death, and even his bones were annihilated by the fluffy substance, yet he still didn't utter a sound and was even able to look at everything indifferently.

However, if Wei Liang steps on his foot while he's walking on the street, he'll feel excruciating pain.

Is it because Wei Liang has unparalleled leg strength?

It's definitely not that; rather, it's his cognitive lock that's extremely flexible.

At times, his perception seemed to have no limits.

But once he recovered, he considered himself a "flesh and blood" person.

The leader, seemingly lost in thought, suddenly took a breath and patted Lin Yi on the shoulder: "Enjoy it all; it's a rare experience."

"Huh?" Lin Yi was stunned. What did that mean? Why did he have this hallucination of a doctor telling a patient to eat and drink as usual?
Speechless for a moment.

Lin Yi and the boss seemed to be at a loss for words. One leaned against the edge of the pool, while the other sat there with his legs dangling in the water, occasionally kicking the water and splashing the surface with his hands.

Lin Yi looked at Li Huiyuan, then suddenly remembered something: "Oh right, boss."

"Yes, go ahead, I'm listening."

Lin Yi then asked, "What exactly happened when Li Huiyuan went to the Forest of Corpses last night?"

He listened to what the boss and Li Huiyuan said and felt that there was something fishy going on.

At least, there seemed to be something fishy about what the boss said. He felt that the boss hadn't said some things in front of Li Huiyuan.

After all, a fact can be completely different from the original truth simply by concealing a few details.

The eldest brother did not answer Lin Yi's question, but fell into deep thought.

But the eldest sister wasn't good at lying, so her expression, as seen by Lin Yi, had a strong contrast that made her look adorably different, like a little girl seriously considering which of her many dolls to give away.
"Actually, I did hide something." The eldest brother finished selecting the doll. "However, I didn't tell you mainly because I wasn't sure myself and was afraid of influencing your judgment."

"What exactly happened?" Lin Yi frowned. "Boss, the problem is because you deliberately kept it from us!"

The eldest brother's expression was complicated: "I can't quite put my finger on it, but I have this strange feeling that I can't quite remember. I clearly remember that the call Huihui heard seemed to be one that I made... but she said that she heard your call."

"And it is indeed true that it is your call that makes her react so strongly—she only responds so strongly to your call."

"But the problem is, if she's not mistaken, then I'm the one who's mistaken?"

"Besides, why am I calling for her? I don't even know myself."

"The boss actually summoned Li Huiyuan too?" This is too outrageous. For Lin Yi, this is definitely a bombshell.

(End of this chapter)