"There are no full-body sculptures within the campus, only half-body sculptures!"

The Little Genius Sculpture from yesterday was incomplete; calling it a half-body or a broken sculpture might barely fit the description, but the sculptures he was seeing now were all full-body statues!

"Rule conflict!"

This was the first thought that crossed Lin Yi's mind, but he immediately shattered it.

"No no no, I shouldn't think like this, I mustn't think this way..."

"If I follow the map attached to the Teaching Building rules, under normal circumstances, I would never get close to the Green Forest Belt, and I wouldn't see them, so..."

"No good, no good... I fucking can't make this up anymore!"

Lin Yi suddenly discovered that the ability to deceive oneself was a great skill, but he just couldn't do it!

"Wait a minute... 'If you see a complete human sculpture anywhere else on campus, please find a numbered lamppost nearby and follow it back to the building closest to you'!"

"I'm already inside a building right now, right? Then, according to the Art Student Rules, I'm still in that 'safe state protected by the rules'."

"Since I'm in a 'safe state,' then I should explore the edges of the rules as much as possible... to uncover the underlying logic of the school's regulations!"

Once he calmed down, Lin Yi immediately thought of Tian Bufan's plan. So, once he ensured his own safety, he heaved a quiet sigh of relief and tentatively looked back at the phalanx of sculptures.

Not long after, a cloud conveniently drifted across the sky, casting a shadow over the Green Forest Belt.

In the moment when the sunlight was obscured by the clouds, a terrible sense of foreboding suddenly surged in Lin Yi's heart.

That long-lost sensation unexpectedly fell out of the blue, right onto his head, and that sensation was unmistakably...

"'Void Target Search'?!"

"There are no non-human classmates here, who the fuck is targeting me? Wait... could it be?!"

He cautiously looked toward the phalanx of sculptures and suddenly noticed that several sculptures that drew most of his attention had, at some unknown time, turned their heads, gazing in his direction across the vast distance...

"Fuck, what the fuck is this...?!"

Lin Yi felt his hair stand on end. His eyeballs were about to pop out from fright. He hunched over like a frightened tortoise, quickly ducking down and using the parapet to block the gaze of the turned sculptures.

However, he forgot that the lock-on of Void Target Search couldn't be eliminated this way. Thus, even though he did this, he could still feel a searing sensation of a thorn in his back.

What surprised him, though, was that this burning sensation disappeared after just a few seconds.

"Huh?" He was puzzled for a moment, peeked out from behind the wall, and then he discovered the reason.

"It's the clouds, no, it's the sunlight!"

The cloud had passed by, and the sunlight shone directly onto the earth again, casting its rays upon the sculptures in the phalanx.

"So, sculptures under direct sunlight pose no threat..."

Even though the faces of those few sculptures were still turned towards Classroom 2B of Teaching Building B.

Just as he came to this realization, he couldn't help but glance at the sky.

Clouds were floating in the clear sky, and based on the moving shadows, it wouldn't be long before another cloud covered the Green Forest Belt again.

He then made a bold decision to test his hypothesis.

He continued to crouch down, hiding himself under the windowsill, while silently calculating the time it would take for the cloud to drift over.

Sure enough, about fifteen seconds later, that ticklish sensation of being targeted by Void Target Search emerged in his heart again.

He then came to a conclusion.

"Direct sunlight suppresses the sculpture's locking mechanism but cannot reset the mechanism. The only known way to remove Void Target Search is to divert attention."

The thing is actually very simple.

Lin Yi envisioned Boss in a swimsuit in his mind, and effortlessly diverted his attention away from the sculptures.

After lifting the debuff of "Void Target Search", he popped his head back up and looked at the statues again.

The statues' faces were still in this direction, but a few had turned back to their original positions, so he stopped dwelling on it and moved away from the windowsill.

"However, if 'Void Target Search' is Non-human Classmates' killing mechanism... do these Human Sculptures have it too?"

"According to the Transformation Pathways speculated by Young Master Tian, after the contamination deepens, Non-human Classmates turn into sculptures. Couldn't the killing mechanism also be inherited, no, passed on?"

He touched the bridge of his nose, and furthermore... the mechanism of 'Void Target Search' in the sculptures was obviously more terrifying than that of the Non-human Classmates.

To activate the killing mechanism of the Non-human Classmates, there was another condition, which was the lights going out in the classroom.

Meaning, incandescent light and sunlight could effectively suppress the mechanism of the Non-human Classmates.

But the sculptures… he saw the sculptures in direct sunlight, yet as soon as they were covered by clouds, they immediately initiated the 'Void Target Search' response.

For Non-human Classmates, it was as if he noticed them under the incandescent light, but the moment the light went out, he would be chased down and killed by them.

That's outrageous.

Keep in mind, he was still within the Teaching Building in the normal layer, ostensibly in a "safe state!"

"Sculptures... really are a terrifying group."

"But if sculptures can move in the shadows, doesn't that mean they can move freely at night?"

"Can protection only be offered by streetlights?"

Lin Yi wasn't sure, if taken literally from the rules for students, staying under the streetlights should provide adequate protection, but whether an "absolutely safe" environment could be achieved amidst an encirclement of sculptures remained uncertain.

To be absolutely safe, he would need to return to the nearest lit building.

"Wait a moment... 'the nearest building' likely also implies 'a building with lights,' right?"

"So, the light should protect those under it from the sculptures' attacks, but if 'Void Target Search' can't be lifted, it's as if an unrelenting and presumably lifeless entity is tailing the targeted person..."

Being stalked by something untiring and seemingly lifeless, where any slip-up could lead to being done for... just thinking about it made him sweat profusely.

What made Lin Yi cautious was that he did not know whether the sculptures possessed other mechanisms or behavior patterns.

But the threat from the sculptures was definitely greater than that from the Non-human Classmates.

Besides, there were simply too many sculptures, just within the Green Forest Belt alone there was a phalanx worth, not to mention the unknown numbers elsewhere.

Moreover, the crucial point was, aren't the sculptures supposed to be in the Art Building?

How did they get to the Green Forest Belt?

Could there be some unknown pathways hidden here?

"A pathway not recorded by the rules!" Lin Yi's heart skipped a beat, but he quickly realized such a pathway might indeed exist, yet it's very likely one that humans could not traverse, or even, this pathway might not belong to "living" entities!

Lin Yi glanced at his watch, it was now 9:07, which meant he had spent 14 minutes testing the sculptures.

He then returned to his seat, unfolded the chair to sit down, and began to silently write down the Art Department Rules from his carry-on notebook.

Over 40 minutes flew by, and by the time he finished writing down the Art Building Rules and Art Student Rules, and looked down at his watch again, it was 9:50.

"Sigh... half an hour!"

He shook his somewhat sore wrist, twisted his neck, stretched his limbs, and took a long breath.

No help for it, just the Art Student Rules alone were around 2000 characters. He barely managed to finish it, despite writing furiously...

But there was no choice, Tian Bufan said just listening wasn't enough, he had to have a paper copy, making it seem like a collector's habit, and he couldn't use "Void Printing"...

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