Lin Yi's pupils fluctuated momentarily; Tian Bufan's comment had opened up new ideas for him!

White powder particles... could they also contain energy with supernatural traits?!

"Are you saying... the contamination itself carries supernatural traits?!"

"No, you have the concept backward!" Tian Bufan said, "It's not that the contamination carries supernatural traits, but rather... the contamination we experience is actually a form of acceptance of supernatural traits!"

"The contamination we experience comes from something that inherently possesses strong supernatural traits..."

"Like taking medicine, the right dose doesn't cause problems for the user, but once overdosed, any drug has a lethal dose!"

"I am more inclined to speculate... that all the contamination in the campus origins from the same supernatural trait, only it appears different due to the 'amount' and 'form' of it."

"Drinking cold water, drinking hot water, eating a slushie, eating ice cubes... all involve consuming water but the processes are starkly different."

"Eating ice cubes too quickly causes stomach trouble, while chugging hot water... can be deadly."

"So, the point you made about street lights being absorbed, it's very likely that they are absorbing some form of things that aren't suited for their consumption..."

"They can forcibly absorb, but after absorbing, it might not necessarily benefit themselves."

Lin Yi's expression turned ugly, and he had an ominous premonition: "Non-human classmates who fear light suddenly choosing to devour it... Are they seeking death?"

Tian Bufan took a deep breath: "If absorbing light truly causes them to 'die', then the underlying issue in this incident is even more significant."

"On my way here, I seemed to hear either the Human Sculptures or Nocturnal species, basically those hidden in darkness, saying things like 'not enough' and 'need more people'..."

"I think, this might be my brain picking up on their thought waves during some frequency fluctuation."

"Combining this with their willingness to self-destruct to devour light... don't you think that [all non-human classmates giving up their lives just to destroy the street lights] is a terrifyingly detailed thought itself?"

"Behind these non-human Units, there is an entity orchestrating the whole situation, commanding all the non-human Units... and the motive of this entity is where the crisis of this incident truly lies!"

"What exactly is its purpose? How many people does it want to involve in this incident?"

"The school authorities definitely know something, otherwise they wouldn't have an emergency plan."

Lin Yi furrowed his brows: "But if they really can devour the supernatural traits in the street lights, then isn't our entire campus unsafe?"

In fact, Lin Yi had already found much evidence supporting Tian Bufan's speculation.

For instance, the flickering classroom lights, cafeteria lights, seemed to signal that something was coming, urging everyone to run and hide.

And when that thing left, the lights that should have been on would come back on.

"I don't think so." Tian Bufan disagreed with Lin Yi's statement, "There must be some restrictions, otherwise with the number of Human Sculptures in the mountains, a single charge would really flatten the entire campus."

"How strong the security guard is remains a mystery, but they can't be invincible, there definitely exists some form of combat balance in the campus, otherwise, if it was broken, we wouldn't be seeing the current scenario."

"And this incident, obviously, is one side breaking the balance, thus launching an attack on the other... a battle."

Lin Yi thoughtfully asked: "The restrictions you mentioned, do you have any direction for speculation?"

This was a point Lin Yi hadn't considered yet; given the urgency of the moment, it would be better to ask Tian Bufan directly.

"Like... does it need non-human classmates who have just taken over the Identity of Experience Students to meet the conditions?"

"Think about it, aren't Zhou Yuting, Nie Yun, and Ge Qing all just taken over identities today?"

"That means... only newly emerged non-human classmates can absorb the supernatural traits of the street lights."

"So they need to absorb the street lights' supernatural traits while 'luring and capturing' Experience Students, eliminating them, letting the Human Sculptures take their identities, anchoring it, and then in the state of non-human classmates, continue to devour the supernatural traits of the street lights."

Upon hearing this, Lin Yi pondered deeply and found that it really seemed to be the case.

"But this way, going back to the dorms means facing ambushes and traps by non-human classmates, isn't that even more dangerous?"

"Is it? But don't forget, all the Sports Students have left the classroom, and once the layer falls, the classroom lights going out is inevitable, then the Experience Students left in the classroom will need to coexist with the non-human classmates."

"Ordinary Experience Students are alright, hiding under the desk, if no one stirs up trouble they might just safely get through it."

"But Highly Perceptive Experience Students, affected by the contamination, even if they hide under desks, cannot avoid the non-human classmates' perception of the contamination. It's very hard to preserve themselves."

Lin Yi was startled, suddenly realizing that on the first night, the non-human classmates bending down to look at him wasn't because he saw something, but because he carried "contamination" in his body, which made the non-human classmates sense him and then reach out to tentatively grab at him.

But this also indirectly showed that those non-human classmates were probably 'dead non-human classmates'; if they were 'not yet dead non-human classmates', they would behave like the non-human classmates in the mist, possessing a certain level of intelligence.

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