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Chapter 194 "Library - 2F" (Bonus 2000 words!)

The other end of the stone bridge.

Mao Feiyang looked at Mu Daxian with an excited expression and asked, "What did you just do?"

Mu Daxian smiled and said, "Dealing with a body of Teacher's level would have been a bit tricky, but I had a flash of inspiration just now and did something to it, I hope it will like it."

Mao Feiyang: "?"

"You will understand later." Mu Daxian patted Mao Feiyang on the shoulder, said nothing more, and walked towards the exit of the stone bridge.

Having witnessed everything, Lin Yi's shock was beyond words.

He knew what Mu Daxian had done!

"Overwrite!"

Mu Daxian used a paintbrush to directly "overwrite" the pseudo-human art teacher's leg into a chicken leg, but the best part was not this, but that he used the unintelligent purebred Nightwalkers hidden under the stone bridge to briefly anchor what he needed to "overwrite"!

It is not surprising that this kind of overwriting can deceive purebred Nightwalkers, but what is incredible is that Mu Daxian used the "cognition" of purebred Nightwalkers to pollute the pseudo-human art teacher to a certain extent!

If the pseudo-human art teacher observed for a while longer, it would definitely be able to see the clues, but it didn't.

This deceptive "overwriting" is completely ineffective for Lin Yi, but it is too useful for those purebred Nightwalkers who only have instincts.

As for Mu Daxian saying that it was a bit tricky to deal with, that's because to completely eliminate the pseudo-humans, you must use sunlight or something with the same characteristics as sunlight.

And in the art building layer, which has been in the dark for a long time, it is not realistic at all.

Walking on the stone bridge, Lin Yi suddenly thought of something and couldn't help but look around the environment.

Affected by the bad weather, Lin Yi's visibility was terribly low, and only an extremely blurred outline of the castle behind him remained. If it weren't for the sporadic candlelight, it would be impossible to distinguish it from the darkness.

"If the art building is Teaching Building D… then the stone bridge I am passing now should be the corridor bridge of Building D…"

"Then… shouldn't the elevator on the lookout platform in front be the elevator of Teaching Building C?"

Although the distortion and overlap of the layers are difficult to completely understand, if you use the overlapping parts between the layers as anchors bit by bit, you may be able to find some sporadic clues.

These clues may be very incomplete, but like a puzzle, finding one piece now and another piece later, once the quantity increases, you may be able to piece together some secrets under certain opportunities.

Below the stone bridge is a cliff, and below the cliff is the sea.

If you don't count the extension of the spatial distance, then it really looks more and more like it…

"Wait… who said the extension of spatial distance doesn't count?"

Doesn't the cobblestone road in the school district get stretched under the abnormal layer?

Since there is horizontal stretching, then vertical stretching may not be impossible!

Lin Yi looked back at the outline of the art building again. Although the castle of the art building is still somewhat different from the castle he saw in the exposed image quality of "My Vision", even Teaching Building C, after he used "My World" to reconstruct and edit it, showed that abstract architectural structure.

Maybe the art building is like that in the school district layer. When you get to the art building layer, it will completely unfold and become this magnificent, desolate, and ancient super castle!

"If Maozi arrives at Building C after exiting the elevator later, then my deduction is almost correct!" Lin Yi couldn't help but feel a little expectant.

Walking out of the stone bridge, he saw a wooden sign nailed to a stone pillar. The words [Welcome to the Art Building!] looked a bit strange in the wind and rain, and the tetanus iron sheet hanging under the sign with rusty iron chains was also clanging in the wind and rain.

Walking past the sign, the shadow of a dark building slowly emerged from the mist.

This lookout platform, which has stood in the storm for who knows how many years, has mottled walls and is full of traces of wind and rain erosion. The flame on the top floor is still beating in the current storm, and it is a true lighthouse in the mist.

Next to the lookout platform is an elevator shaft that looks like a subway entrance.

It looks like a subway entrance, but there are no steps extending diagonally downwards. This entrance is like a simple canopy, only providing some shelter from the wind and rain, and the art building elevator is about ten meters away from the entrance.

Mao Feiyang followed behind Mu Daxian, and after leaving the stone bridge, he quickened his pace and rushed into the entrance of the elevator shaft in the rain.

Some candlesticks are hung on both sides of the elevator shaft, and the warm light seems to be able to dispel the moisture brought by the rain hitting the body.

Some art students walked out from the depths of the elevator shaft. When a few of them brushed past Mao Feiyang, they exuded some malice that could not be concealed even after being extremely restrained…

These people immediately attracted Lin Yi's attention.

Through observation, Lin Yi found that their performance was very similar to that of the pseudo-humans. Needless to say, they were pseudo-human art students.

"Clearly, art students like Mu Daxian don't get along with the pseudo-humans at all, and it seems that the pseudo-human art teacher may not be able to beat Mu Daxian. Why don't the art teachers and art students directly kill the pseudo-humans in the art building layer, and let them go to the school district layer to harm the experience students?"

Lin Yi was very puzzled.

But Mao Feiyang didn't have so many thoughts at the moment, he just followed Mu Daxian slowly to the elevator entrance.

With the help of the dim light, Lin Yi observed the environment inside the elevator shaft.

On the walls inside the elevator shaft, there are very abstract characters that look neither like hieroglyphs nor cuneiform. At first glance, they look like scribbles, but if you look closely, you will find that there are indeed some similar structures in these characters…

Okay, this is really a kind of writing, but unfortunately I can't understand it.

Looking back at the elevator shaft, Lin Yi saw a row of elevator entrances. About 5 were illuminated by the candlesticks. There was a candlestick on the wall between every two elevators, which gave a sense of the opening and closing doors in the Conan transition animation, except that the wooden door needed to be replaced with an elevator door.

The elevator in front of them had a number: "Moon - IV".

Looking to the left are "Moon - III", "Moon - II"…

And looking to the right are "Moon - V", "Moon - VI"…

"There are more elevators here… than I saw outside." Mao Feiyang said unexpectedly.

"The design is indeed exquisite." Mu Daxian nodded and said, "It is said that the school invested a lot of effort in building public facilities in the beginning."

"When you come in to take the elevator, just take whichever is closer."

Mu Daxian said and pressed the button of the "Moon - IV" elevator.

Interestingly, there is only one "↓" button in front of each elevator, which couldn't help but remind Lin Yi of the "↑" button sealed with a red glass cover in the dormitory elevator. It looks really good together.

Before long, a "ding" sound rang behind the door, and then the elevator door opened with a "clang".

There was no one behind the door, it was an empty elevator.

"The elevators here are one-way, so you don't have to worry about anyone coming out." Mu Daxian led Mao Feiyang into the elevator.

When Mao Feiyang entered the elevator, Lin Yi obtained a view of the inside of the elevator as soon as possible.

He knew that time was tight, so he seized the time to observe.

The interior of the art building elevator is an environment that is completely different from the style of the art building. Compared with the overall cult, weird, abstract, and dark style of "this world" where the art building is located, the interior of the art building elevator can be described as extremely simple.

And this kind of elevator made Mao Feiyang's mind react to a sentence in the art building rules—[In order to create an artistic atmosphere, our school is trying out a cutting-edge technology that can create virtual environments.]

Lin Yi found that the interior of the art building elevator was generally the same as the dormitory elevator and the teaching building elevator. The only difference was the elevator floor panel.

On the floor panel of the dormitory elevator, in addition to the regular opening and closing doors, there is only one "↓" button.

After Mu Daxian went in, he pressed the button casually. There were still a few art students planning to enter the elevator, but when they saw Mu Daxian with Mao Feiyang, they consciously stepped aside.

A few seconds after the elevator door closed, Lin Yi felt the entire elevator begin to sink slightly, and then with a "clang", he didn't know if it had switched to another track…

Lin Yi had been carefully feeling the changes in the elevator, but other than feeling some bumps, he couldn't feel anything else. In the process of the elevator moving, he could hear the intense wind, which was similar to when the dormitory elevator was running, but other than that, he didn't feel much, even… he didn't feel much of a sense of falling.

Mu Daxian silently calculated the time, then narrowed his eyes: "Move a little closer to the corner, someone is going to get on the elevator."

"?"

Mao Feiyang was stunned for a moment, but he consciously shrunk into the corner.

Sure enough, about 10 seconds later, Lin Yi felt the elevator appear to be braking and decelerating.

"Ding!"

The elevator made a crisp sound, and a string of text popped up on the floor display.

Lin Yi subconsciously looked over, but when he saw the floor panel, his "body" seemed to be frozen in place, and all the hairs on his body stood on end.

"Library - 2F"

"Li, Library…?!" Lin Yi took a deep breath, his eyes staring at the words "Library - 2F", then shifted his gaze down to the elevator door.

"Could it be that Maozi's student commemorative coin was lost in the library?"

In that instant, many thoughts flashed through his mind. He focused his attention, trying to observe the mysterious library, which was clearly recorded on the map but could not be observed, the moment the elevator door opened.

"Clang—clang!"

The elevator door slowly opened, and an unspeakable warm aura poured into the elevator with the opening of the elevator door.

However, Lin Yi's plan to observe the library was immediately broken. When the elevator door opened, a person appeared at the elevator entrance in a standing posture with their face almost touching the elevator door.

This person was wearing a loose, dark green coat, his head drooped with messy hair, and his face was pale and expressionless. Anyone who didn't know better would have thought he was a student skipping class from Slytherin.

The moment the elevator doors opened, his somewhat sluggish gaze locked onto Mao Feiyang like an automatic targeting system. In that instant, a chilling glint suddenly burst forth from his eyes, which had previously been devoid of any spirit.

"Hey, classmate, coming from the art building? Where are you headed?" A smile began to slowly spread across his face, but each muscle seemed to have its own idea, wriggling as it pleased. Mao Feiyang felt a constant stream of cold air rising up his back, and his mind conjured up many terrifying scenes from movies.

Mu Daxian quietly reached out and pressed the close door button.

"Clang—!"

The elevator doors closed quickly, taking the classmate by surprise, and also catching Lin Yi off guard.

Lin Yi quickly took advantage of the last moment to peek at the library through the gap beside this classmate.

Unfortunately, his field of vision was affected by Mao Feiyang's, so even with his best efforts to observe, he could only see a slightly blurred environment.

From his perspective, he could only see a wall decorated with carved, brownish-yellow wooden panels, with a framed painting hanging on the wall.

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That fleeting glimpse was over in an instant, so much so that Lin Yi couldn't even see the content of the painting clearly. He only felt that it looked like an oil painting or some kind of impressionistic work, with hasty lines and bold brushstrokes outlining a corner of some war. Of course, it might not have been a war, but some kind of ritual.

At this moment, the classmate also noticed that there was another person in the elevator besides Mao Feiyang whom he had not "sensed"—Mu Daxian.

Mu Daxian subtly shifted his body, moving out from the corner of the elevator and standing between Mao Feiyang and the classmate.

The classmate initially didn't react much, until he saw the drawing board that Mu Daxian was carrying on his back…

He turned around and wanted to run, but crashed headfirst into the elevator doors.

He turned around, leaned against the elevator doors, and shivered, trying to shrink back, but there was no escape behind him.

Mu Daxian, however, had no intention of making a move. He simply crossed his arms and watched him with a smile that was not quite a smile.

The atmosphere inside the elevator gradually became gloomy, and Lin Yi also gradually realized that Mu Daxian's presence seemed to make those types of beings like Pseudo-humans particularly fearful. But for a moment, he couldn't distinguish whether the source of this fear was Mu Daxian himself, or… the drawing board that Mu Daxian was carrying on his back.

That drawing board was indeed something special, like the Non-Attack from Qin's Moon, usually just an ordinary drawing tool, but as long as it underwent some assembly techniques, it would become an extremely lethal weapon, seemingly even more efficient than a gym student's baseball bat.

Soon, the elevator began to decelerate again, and after it came to a complete stop, a crisp "Ding" sound rang out.

Lin Yi quickly looked at the floor display with anticipation, silently chanting "Building C", "Building C", "Building C" in his heart…

Soon a line of words popped up:

"Teaching Building - A-1F"

"Ah?" Lin Yi was stunned. "It's not Teaching Building C, but the 1st floor of Teaching Building A?"

This scene simply and directly shattered the conjecture that Lin Yi had just put forward, leaving him opening his mouth but not knowing what to say.

He looked at the words "Teaching Building - A-1F" with some complexity, and a sense of loss could not help but rise in his heart. At the same time, he felt that the secret of Teaching Building D was even more incomprehensible.

After guessing for so long, didn't he even get a consolation prize?

This was too hurtful!

The only valuable clue he got from this elevator ride was: [Taking the elevator from the art building to the teaching building will pass by the library].

"But… after pressing '↓' on the art building side, it goes to the library first and then to the teaching building. Could it be… that the library is located on the 4-8th floors of the teaching building?"

When the layers are distorted, the 4-8th floors of the teaching building may not necessarily be distorted to the "Library - 102" streetlight pole side!

The teaching building stairs can even lead to the dormitory, so it's not unacceptable that the 4-8th floors of the teaching building are slightly warped!

In the fleeting moment of thought in Lin Yi's mind, the student leaning against the elevator doors immediately switched from back-to-the-basket to a direct drive, trying to rush out of the elevator through the door gap.

Mu Daxian looked indifferently at his fleeing figure, but had no intention of making a move. Instead, he waited until he had run far away before walking out of the elevator with Mao Feiyang.

"Was that just now… a Pseudo-human art student?" Mao Feiyang asked with lingering fear.

"That's right," Mu Daxian replied. "He should have been planning to go to the cafeteria for dinner, but he didn't expect to run into me."

"They seem to be very afraid of you?"

"Those who have done something wrong are naturally afraid of being talked about by others. Let's go, I'll take you to the cafeteria."

"Uh… okay."

…

After Mu Daxian finished speaking, he led Mao Feiyang away from Teaching Building A and walked onto the cobblestone road, but he only took a few steps before leading Mao Feiyang off the cobblestone road and into the mountain path.

Mao Feiyang didn't know why, but silently followed. Lin Yi, however, watched with a sudden twitch in his eyelids.

Mu Daxian actually didn't walk on the cobblestone road?!

He quickly discovered that Mu Daxian was shuttling through the mountain path without a cobblestone road, and even brushed aside some scattered branches, before arriving at a streetlight pole.

The position of this streetlight pole was in a thicket of weeds and shrubs. Mu Daxian squatted down to clear away the dead branches and fallen leaves that covered the base of the streetlight pole, then stood up and gently stroked the streetlight pole, with a look of loneliness in his eyes.

Then he saw him take out a paintbrush from his cloth bag and slowly trace on the streetlight pole.

Lin Yi watched with a puzzled look, and saw that the character "孝" (xiào, filial piety) had already appeared under Mu Daxian's brush. His heart trembled, as if he had guessed something. Sure enough, after Mu Daxian finished writing, a character "教" (jiāo, teaching) that looked like it was written with pure white paint appeared on the streetlight pole!

"Teaching Building?!"

"Mu Daxian is writing numbers on the streetlight poles?!"

"Is this a 'prank' or is he really writing numbers on the streetlights?"

Lin Yi stared wide-eyed, and after Mu Daxian finished writing, the words "Teaching Building - 032" appeared on the streetlight pole.

Lin Yi hadn't paid attention to the font of the numbers on the streetlight poles before, but now he noticed that Mu Daxian's font was almost indistinguishable from the white paint numbers he usually saw on the streetlight poles!

After finishing writing, Mu Daxian put away his paintbrush and continued to walk forward with Mao Feiyang.

They walked on the mountain path beside the cobblestone road. The mountain path was a bit rugged and not easy to walk on, and some areas even overlapped with the green belt, but even so, Mu Daxian had no intention of walking on the cobblestone road.

Along the way, Mu Daxian rewrote the numbers on three streetlight poles, namely "Teaching Building - 032", "Teaching Building - 041", and "Teaching Building - 090", but the streetlight poles he passed were not just these few.

Finally, Mao Feiyang couldn't help but ask: "Are you writing numbers on the streetlight poles?"

"That's right," Mu Daxian said calmly. "Since I'm here, I'll just do it."

"But why don't you write numbers on some of the streetlight poles?" Mao Feiyang asked.

Mu Daxian then smiled and said: "In your opinion, I am writing numbers on them, but in reality, I am charging them."

"Ah?"

Mu Daxian smiled: "You can understand it as, those few streetlight poles are out of power, so they need to be recharged, otherwise when it comes to 18:00, all the other streetlights will be lit, but they won't be able to light up."

"As for those that I didn't write numbers on, it's because they are different from the streetlights you see… those are fake."

"Pseudo-humans have created fake streetlight poles to deceive others. Ordinary people cannot distinguish between the real and fake streetlight poles, and it is easy to be fooled after being contaminated. Most people can only distinguish them by the brightness of the streetlights and the numbers."

"But we can."

"Why?"

"Because this thing was originally built by the first batch of art students. If you have the ability, try to maintain the normal existence of the streetlight numbers in the campus… especially during this time."

"'This time'?"

"The Night Watchman rang the bell of Doomsday, which not only warned the Pseudo-humans, but also warned us." Mu Daxian glanced at Mao Feiyang. "No one in the campus can be immune to Doomsday. Everyone needs to work together to overcome the difficulties."

Mu Daxian added: "Supplementing the numbers is not within the scope of the art students' responsibilities. It can only be said that if you see it, just supplement it."

"Oh…" Mao Feiyang didn't ask anything further, because he couldn't ask anything further.

Lin Yi, on the other hand, captured a lot of information from it.

Supplementing the streetlight numbers can charge the streetlights, so the fading of the streetlight numbers can indeed be considered as the streetlight's extraordinary characteristics are being lost.

What shocked Lin Yi was that the streetlight poles in the campus were actually built by art students!

However, this can also be understood, because "participating in construction" and "all built by art students" are two different things. Since the streetlights need to take effect after the layers are distorted, it is very reasonable for art students to participate in the construction.

The point that is really worth exploring is "which people" participated in the process of building the streetlights.

Because knowing how many "forces" participated in the process of building the campus, you will also know how many "forces" belong to the "school" and the "company".

Suddenly, Mao Feiyang screamed and almost fell to the ground.

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