Upon seeing the homeroom teacher's reaction, Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat: "She really... isn't!"
"Wait, Teacher! What do you mean by 'so that's how it is'?" Lin Yi asked in shock.
Class Teacher-040 took a deep breath, her expression grave as she said, "In the 'Homeroom Teacher's Code', there is a rule prohibiting the solo research of the construction of the Teaching Building!"
"I never quite understood this, until you mentioned it just now!"
Lin Yi's expression changed slightly, and he said with some guilt, "Didn't I just cause trouble for you by telling you those things earlier?"
Class Teacher-040 shook her head and said, "The rule prohibits 'solo' investigation; we're two people, so technically... it doesn't count, right?"
"If you ask me, I also can't give you an answer, I've never even read the 'Homeroom Teacher's Code'... how about you show it to me, and I will try to read and understand it?" Lin Yi replied.
"Wishful thinking." Class Teacher-040 laughed coldly, "The other codes are manageable, but the 'Homeroom Teacher's Code' cannot be shown to any Unit other than the 'Homeroom Teacher'. I suppose you're not ready to become a 'Homeroom Teacher'?"
"It's not like I can't temporarily take over..." Lin Yi said with thick skin.
Class Teacher-040 gave him a sidelong glance: "Having no shame indeed makes one invincible, but no matter what you say, it's useless. To have the 'Homeroom Teacher' Identity, you must go through the trial of official willpower, and someone like you should just forget about it."
Lin Yi was furious: "Teacher, how can you accuse me out of nowhere? Clearly, it's you who brought up the 'Homeroom Teacher's Code' first. My good intentions have really gone unappreciated! Ha ha..."
Class Teacher-040 was slightly taken aback by Lin Yi's self-deprecating yet aggrieved appearance, but when recalling the Lin Yi she remembered, her lips curled into a cold smile.
Observing the situation, Lin Yi quickly said, "But let's return to the main topic... Is there anything you want to tell me now? I've given you everything I know without holding back."
"Get lost!" Class Teacher-040 glared at him mercilessly, returning to the topic, "When I first cognized the campus, I felt something odd about the Teaching Building's positioning. Every time I sleep, it feels like the Teaching Building is spontaneously engaging in some activity unique to living organisms."
"That is to say, in my Perception, the Teaching Building has at least acquired the attribute of being 'alive'..."
"You sleep too?" Lin Yi asked in surprise.
Class Teacher-040 was left speechless: "I am also human, I need to sleep too!"
"Except, during the special periods of the Grey Mist Invasion, I must stay alert."
"When you all go to physical education class in the afternoon, I take a shallow nap."
"Unlike some people, who can't die even when injured, like they're equipped with infinite energy."
"Oh, oh, oh..." Lin Yi responded, "Then tell me what you perceive when you fall asleep."
Ever since he learned about Dream Studies, he realized that dreams might have significant meanings. However, the vast majority of ordinary people cannot touch the threshold of Dream Building. But, people like Class Teacher-040 might have inadvertently touched upon something, although not entering that Domain yet.
Class Teacher-040 continued, "I feel the Teaching Building is like some magical marine creature, a creature with entirely different forms above and below water. The Layers are like a body of water - when an anomaly occurs in the Layers, the Teaching Building dives and gradually unfolds into a different shape. When the Layers recover, the area above the water becomes the Teaching Building again."
"Dual-state..." Lin Yi squinted his eyes, "What you described sounds like a Kun... I mean Kunpeng. Oh, I almost forgot, you probably don't know about Chicken Beauty."
Class Teacher-040: "?"
Lin Yi hurriedly said, "In the Northern Darkness, there is a fish named Kun. It transforms into a bird called Peng... Does the Teaching Building in your Perception have a similar sense?"
Class Teacher-040 nodded: "The Teaching Building might exhibit different things depending on the Layers, and perhaps what it looks like depends on the perceiver's state rather than... its own state."
"Nothing exists outside the heart..." Lin Yi scratched his head. Though he understood what Class Teacher-040 was explaining, he felt his brain needed to grow, "Could it be that Wang Yangming was also a famous Dream Building Master?"
Class Teacher-040 looked at him with a peculiar expression.
Lin Yi was startled: "What? Is there something on my face?"
"I was just surprised... Wang Yangming indeed was a Dream Building Master, why did you use a rhetorical question?" Class Teacher-040's remark nearly made Lin Yi's jaw drop.
"Yes, yes..." He laughed awkwardly. Considering that in this strange historical view where Van Gogh's 'Star Moon Night' is on par with Buddha's powers in the Palms of Buddha Country, it's quite normal for Wang Yangming to be a Dream Building Master, right...
Perhaps Confucius really is an advocate of violent aesthetics, or rather the Supreme Judge?
If so... could Zhuangzi, who wrote 'Carefree Travel', be an observer of the Layers?
Could the Kunpeng be some transcendent mysterious being traversing the great sea of Layers?
Traveling from the North Sea in the morning to Cangwu in the evening, could it mean Layer Transition-level movement?
Heh—no way, yet it's hard to deny!
Zhuang Zhou's Butterfly Dream might actually be the earliest Dream Studies experience recorded in Huaxia history!
He initially thought it was a classic tale, but unexpectedly, it was a significant academic document?!
"Heh..." Lin Yi took a sharp breath.
"Why has your complexion suddenly worsened?" Class Teacher-040 asked.
Lin Yi wore a mournful expression: "I suddenly feel like I should study history more seriously..."
The stories he thought he knew turned out to likely be documentary Classics.
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