"Holy crap! Is it really happening?!" Lin Yi's expression changed slightly as Tian Bufan's will indeed permeated the layers and descended upon him, and his face immediately showed a look of ecstasy.

"Is there something wrong?" Tian Bufan asked.

Lin Yi was overwhelmed with joy, and upon hearing this, he momentarily froze and blurted out, "Uh, did you have lunch?"

Tian Bufan: "…"

"No, what I meant to say is..." Lin Yi quickly came back to his senses, "I just found the location of the Nocturnal species and the Phalanx of sculptures! Can you see it?"

He turned his visual field back to that 'cluster'.

"I see it," Tian Bufan said.

"What do you make of it, or do you know what this situation is?" Lin Yi inquired.

"Let me take a look." Tian Bufan fell silent after speaking.

A moment later, he said, "Kuai Kuai says they are assembling into some sort of component—a part used to build a matrix."

"Matrix?" The only matrix Lin Yi knew was the Stonehenge in the Desolate Land, "Can this also form a matrix?"

Tian Bufan said, "It's not about 'can this also', rather, they themselves are part of some 'matrix'."

"Think about it, the Pseudo-Human students in the elevator and the Nocturnal species, aren't they like they have some underlying logic, enabling them to interlock in an unconventional form, becoming a bizarre hybrid state?"

"That pliable, clay-like state may not be their inherent trait but rather a 'shape memory effect' they acquire after becoming part of the matrix."

"Think carefully, this trait exists in the Graveyard of the Deceased as well."

Lin Yi was taken aback: "Could it be that the genealogy of these supernatural entities is a vast river, winding back to the sea?"

"Isn't that so?" Tian Bufan countered, "The current discovery is that they can form 'matrix modules' or 'matrix submodules', but Kuai Kuai hasn't figured out its underlying logic yet."

"Kuai Kuai..." A flash of insight struck Lin Yi's mind, "Could it be that Kuai Kuai has been tinkering with this all along?"

"Perhaps," Tian Bufan replied.

"'Perhaps'? So you aren't sure either?"

"Matrix design is a mysterious and complex thing. Just to give a simple analogy: consider it as a city; the matrix in the Desolate Land might be a building, and what you see could be another building. The buildings are independent, but they are likely part of a larger matrix."

Lin Yi suddenly understood: "Oh—I see!"

"Anything else? If not, I'll be off."

"Uh... should I say goodbye or just hang up?"

"…up to you."

Tian Bufan's voice disappeared.

Lin Yi "hung up the phone," first feeling a bit troubled by the discovery of the matrix, but then immediately feeling happy because he could indeed call upon Tian Bufan.

It seemed like they had formed some kind of "local area network."

Perhaps the pathway that once transmitted contamination had been upgraded as well?

Unclear, but it didn't matter.

Not long after, Lin Yi and the others arrived in front of the Teaching Building.

For some reason, Lin Yi now felt a faint sense of resistance when looking at the Teaching Building, as if it had been tainted with some ominous aura.

He looked up at this eight-story building, vaguely sensing an indescribable strangeness at its boundaries.

"Hey, why did you stop again, Old Lin?" Wei Liang couldn't help but ask when he saw Lin Yi stop in his tracks.

Lin Yi shook his head, "I feel a bit of resistance..."

"Resistance? Resistance to what?" Wei Liang couldn't understand; after all, they were just arriving at the Teaching Building, what's there to resist?

"Resistance... to the Teaching Building."

"Ah? No, what... what nonsense is this? Is this Teaching Building supposed to be a demon's lair, what's there to resist?" Wei Liang was speechless.

Wei Shan also nodded along, "Old Lin, are you overthinking it?"

Even Wei Shan said so, prompting Lin Yi to squint his eyes. Just as he was about to dismiss his doubts, he suddenly discovered the Teaching Building's walls exhibited an inexplicable distortion. The discomfort he felt earlier stemmed from this.

With the increasing depth of his Field of View Insight, the creeping sensation on the outer walls of the Teaching Building became more pronounced. The pale, slightly dirty wall powder resembled swollen skin, while the subtle bulges looked like blisters.

Silently, Lin Yi walked up the steps into the corridor of the Teaching Building, then reached out his hand to gently touch the walls.

Initially, when he leaned against the wall, he could feel a wriggling, creased sensation, as if the entire wall was a living creature. But now, it appears the wall, though not a living being, fundamentally wasn't part of the real world.

At least, this thing at the layer level was problematic, much like... the folds of a brain!

"Moreover, this wall...?!" Lin Yi's pupils contracted sharply. As he touched it, the wall's material felt eerily similar to a solid-state Extraordinary Material, but not just that; interspersed among the Extraordinary Material were... powder particles!

"This wall powder application method, it's strikingly similar to the one I used for creating puppets!"

"Could this be architecture?!"

Plastering, civil engineering, geomancy...

Could it be that architecture in mysticism involves using Extraordinary Material and that powder to create 'extraordinary concrete,' and then constructing structures?

If that's the case, his operation of repairing the City Wall inside the Gymnasium might indeed align with "architecture" to some extent.

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