It's hard for people to naturally speak against their conscience, especially when they are being bluntly exposed like this.

Tian Bufan continued, "Setting Maozi aside, Old Lin, do you still remember why you came here?"

"For... what did I come for?" Lin Yi was stunned once again.

"For what?"

"Yes, why did I come here?"

"What was it...?"

He thought over and over, always feeling like there was some shadow lingering in his mind, something about to break free, but he couldn't remember anything.

Tian Bufan said, "You came for…"

"Have you forgotten?" Tian Bufan's words were interrupted by Wei Liang, "Old Lin, you came here to help subsidize your grandma's medical expenses!"

"Gra... grandma?" Lin Yi chewed on this exceedingly unfamiliar yet somewhat familiar word, a look of bewilderment emerging in his eyes.

Wei Liang was beside himself with worry, scratching his head as if he were the one with amnesia.

But Lin Yi, in the end, could only shake his head in utter bewilderment.

"I... I don't remember."

Wei Liang froze, looking at the bewildered Lin Yi and Tian Bufan, who was wearing a faint smile. He felt a chilling dread, and even a sense of panic began to emerge in his eyes.

It wasn't because of Tian Bufan, but because Lin Yi had so smoothly forgotten the original purpose of his visit.

He had forgotten his grandma.

But his grandma...

Wei Liang also suddenly froze.

Wait...

Old Lin's... grandma?

Did Old Lin... have a grandma?

Wasn't... who were they just talking about, Maozi?

Wei Liang suddenly felt dizzy, his mind a bit muddled.

He reached into his pocket, where his student ID card and a piece of paper were.

Paper?!

He remembered that this was something he had written on a piece of paper from Lin Yi's notebook in the classroom, but suddenly he couldn't remember what he had written on it.

So he subconsciously pulled out the paper.

There was only one sentence on the paper, no, not even a full sentence written.

After reading this short sentence, he subconsciously looked around the dorm room.

Then he quickly climbed onto his bed and lay down.

The commotion on Wei Liang's side also startled Lin Yi.

"Liangzi, what's wrong?"

"I'm fine! I'm going to sleep first, you guys keep talking!" Wei Liang covered himself with the quilt, and through the quilt, one could still see him shivering.

"This..." Lin Yi opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but considering they were in the dormitory and that what he was about to say might not fall within what Wei Liang was supposed to "know," he could only say, "Then, good night."

"Good night," Wei Liang replied,

Tian Bufan's gaze shifted back from Wei Liang and said lightly, "It seems someone still doesn't want you to remember too much, huh?"

Wei Liang's shivering body suddenly stiffened, then he buried his head into the pillow, appearing from Lin Yi's perspective like an ostrich sticking its rear end up.

"Indeed, haste makes waste," Tian Bufan smirked, "So, where would you like to start?"

"Let's go through them one by one." Lin Yi thought to himself, 'Are you fucking kidding me? I was just about to start with Maozi, and you interrupted me.'

He took out the student rules booklet, flipped to the last page, and spread out the 'normal' campus map.

"I need to thoroughly review with you and bring up some unresolved issues for discussion," Lin Yi admitted, "Besides... I have another question before we discuss."

"Go ahead."

"Although it's also your first time here, why... do I feel like you know everything?"

"Regarding that question," Tian Bufan stated, "I can't tell you now. I can only tell you... I know what you all know, just that I can know more, that's all."

"What is this, a tongue-twister puzzle?" Lin Yi felt a bit dizzy.

But Tian Bufan clearly didn't want to waste time here. He said, "The fifth day."

"On the evening of the fifth day, if we can still meet in the dormitory smoothly, then I will tell you everything."

"Of course, with your adaptability, perhaps you will have figured it out by then on your own."

"Let's start debriefing at your own pace, perfect... I need to sort out my thoughts too."

"Hold on, Young Master Tian," Lin Yi said, "What if it's not 'smooth'?"

Tian Bufan looked at him and smiled, but did not speak.

Lin Yi immediately deflated: "Let's debrief!"

"In order not to miss any details, let's start from the moment we entered the school gate," Tian Bufan reminded.

"Okay," Lin Yi responded.

Already having organized his thoughts, he decided to start with a big move.

"I believe that the entire campus of S City University is not on the same layer as the outside world."

Tian Bufan showed a slightly surprised look but didn't reveal too much emotion, then said, "State your reasons."

"First, there's that stretching sensation when stepping through the gate, and then, once we entered, we could never find the gate again."

"Second, the Student Rulebook mentioned something: [Please pay attention to your health. During your stay at school, if you experience symptoms like dizziness, blurry vision, nausea, or other discomforts, please locate the Dormitory Supervisor or head teacher before spending the night. They will take you to the infirmary, where the school doctor will escort you to the school gate. Upon seeing the blue school bus, immediately board it. The driver will take you out of the campus, ending your experience.]"

"As of now, in all the rules I've seen, this is the only one that deals with how to leave S City University."

"The subtext here seems to say that we can't leave on our own."

"Young Master Tian, what do you think?"

Tian Bufan shook his head slightly and said, "You're being too absolute. We should view this issue from a more relative perspective."

"For instance, there should be a bandwidth to the layer of S City University."

"Look."

Tian Bufan pulled a thread from Liangzi's bedsheets and placed it on the table.

Lin Yi quickly looked down from the bed.

"Assume this thread represents the layer where S City University exists."

"First, let's establish a relatively normal frame of reference."

"From our standpoint, 'normal circumstances' should mean the time periods where we can move safely, right?"

"So we presume 'sunny and breezy daytimes' as normal situations."

"Under normal circumstances, the layer of S City University looks like this."

"Now, when there are special circumstances, the layer would fall downward."

Tian Bufan pressed his finger in the middle of the thread and moved it downwards.

The thread looked like a "√."

"These external factors that could cause the campus layer to fall include 'mist', but mist alone isn't enough; the mist must be dense enough to alter the campus layer," he continued.

"This means... the normal state of the campus should have a range."

"Or rather, it has a critical value when falling."

Tian Bufan walked to Liangzi's bed, pulled another thread, then came back to the table and placed it horizontally over the "√",

making it look like a simple graph, with the second thread acting as the X-axis, positives above and negatives below.

"So, when mist appears and the campus layer begins to fall, but as long as it remains above the X-axis, it is normal."

Lin Yi slightly nodded, which was somewhat similar to the observation method Wei Liang described, generally corresponding to the scenario where the "mist isn't dense enough."

"When the mist's density exceeds a certain level, the campus layer falls below the X-axis and enters a 'negative' state. That's when the campus becomes abnormal... Yesterday when we entered the campus, it corresponded to this situation."

"In fact, what truly interests me is exactly this situation." Tian Bufan's eyes sparkled with strong exploratory desire, but this look gave Lin Yi a chill at the base of his spine.

For he had seen similar eyes before.

Those slightly insane eyes, filled with craving... just like those off-kilter classmates!

However, Tian Bufan's eyes, compared to theirs, held something extraordinarily more... rational, calm, and a disturbing, obsessive focus.

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