AnalogHorror: Rule Kaidan 4016

He gradually felt that the outer wall of the Teaching Building...seemed to belong to another layer!

His perception tentacles, during the ascent, gradually produced a sensation of crawling over a gelatinous membrane.

This strange membrane seems to encapsulate the entire Teaching Building at the map level, somewhat reminiscent of the texture inside an egg. Its presence appears extremely fragile, yet it can completely block his perception tentacles' reverse infiltration into the building's architecture.

After a few attempts, he gave up.

Simultaneously, he also understood, perhaps this is why the "Primordial Ash Apostle" once appeared outside the broken window on the fifth floor of the Teaching Building but was still unable to descend—it was restricted by this layer-level membrane!

However, the presence of this membrane is very mysterious; it gradually becomes clearer as it transcends from the normal Teaching Building layers 1 to 4 and yet almost invisible in reality.

And this might be the fundamental reason why it can't descend beyond the fifth floor but could appear within the campus.

The new discovery made Lin Yi understand some issues—although these issues are of no help to him now.

Of course, he was still somewhat bewildered, an unknown unit capable of dimensional penetration could not break through a membrane, this was absurd in itself.

But he could only attribute everything to the architects who originally built the campus; perhaps there are many secrets in the overall campus construction that he does not know.

His perception tentacles were still ascending, and the form of the upper levels of the Teaching Building was fed back into his mind through the perception tentacles. Strangely, what he perceived was actually identical to the abstract geometric shape of the surrealism he saw when approaching the Teaching Building before.

"These buildings didn't feel wrong at all when I was inside, but from outside they look so outlandish... Could it be because the layers inside and outside are different?"

"Is it because of that membrane?"

The presence of that membrane causes the Teaching Building to be distorted and stretched at the map level into such an abstract shape, thus...

"No, it should be, precisely that membrane's existence keeps the Teaching Building safe within the map level!"

Just like the outer shell of a glutinous rice ball, when the shell is intact, it can be molded into various shapes, but once the shell is damaged, the inside would burst out.

This phenomenon gave Lin Yi a sudden flash of insight, and he momentarily developed a constructive self-protection idea.

That membrane, could it be... a "cognitive shell"?

A cognitive shell existing for the stability of the campus!

Not unreasonable, nor impossible.

"Do I have any way to get such a membrane to protect myself?"

He pondered for a while and realized he did not have it yet, so he had to put this thought aside temporarily and continue climbing.

His perception tentacles gradually scaled the whole Teaching Building and began to extend towards the heavens above.

The entire extension process was so peculiar that Lin Yi himself felt incredible. At the map level, his perception tentacles, with their continuous extension, started to integrate, intertwining into strands, becoming strong and resilient like braided pigtails.

Gradually, his perception changed from tentacle-like to rope-like, growing like a Heaven-Reaching Rope from the Teaching Building towards the Sea of Sky.

It looked a bit like Wukong extending his Ruyi Stick from Kalin Tower to the Heavenly God Hall.

Lin Yi never imagined his perception tentacles could extend to such a terrifying length in this manner, but thinking of this length not only as a physical extension but as a map level extension might make it much easier to understand.

He gradually perceived the thin clouds and the fierce wind in the night sky, but when his perceptual rope of connection pierced through the clouds, a peculiar feeling suddenly sent feedback to his soul.

This feeling initially made him freeze for a moment, but soon he realized, this feeling was almost exactly the same as when he was drowning in the swimming pool.

"This... this feeling? Could it be my perception extended into... that black ocean?!"

The Art Building hanging inverted in the depths of the sky, almost merging with the black ocean, the layers of reality and illusion had begun to blend together, so when his perceptual rope of connection roamed across the map level, it equally touched the... black ocean that existed in the layer level?

He's not quite sure, but this black ocean felt very peculiar to him, far less terrifying than the black ocean he encountered when drowning.

Compared to the former, the previous black ocean was more like deep sea, whereas now what he perceived seemed like a shallow area.

His perception continued to extend, slowly, he really sensed a touch of the Art Building's breath.

Only his perceptual rope of connection's position seemed to be far from the Art Building, surrounded by layers filled with oddly shaped Nocturnal species, and the surface was freighted by numerous Sneering Angels.

These Sneering Angels were like dragonflies flying low before the storm, seemingly searching for some kind of path.

When his perceptual rope of connection appeared, those Sneering Angels gathered around him as if catching a certain scent.

However, the Sneering Angels could not see Lin Yi.

They only had a vague induction towards Lin Yi, just as Lin Yi had a vague induction towards the Art Building.

Just then, Tian Bufan's voice resonated in his mind: "Old Lin, have you sensed the location of the Art Building?"

"Induction achieved." Lin Yi replied, "What should I do?"

"Wait for me to enter the dream."

"Haven't you fallen asleep yet?"

"Just finished drying my hair, almost..."

"... Done!"

As the word 'done' echoed, Lin Yi suddenly felt the surrounding space slightly twist, and immediately, a phantom silhouette of Tian Bufan gradually appeared, then bumped into his perceptual rope of connection.

A bizarre, water and milk mingled fusion sensation appeared within his soul.

"Whoa, Young Master Tian, you're fusing with me?" Lin Yi was shocked, following the logic of Dragon Ball, they might now transform into Lin Fan, or... Tian Bu Yi?

"I'm here, don't shout." Tian Bufan said, "Listen, having sensed it is fine, but your position is skewed and has plunged into the Sneering Angels heap... this position cannot be our Will Transition point, try again."

"Okay." Lin Yi is an elite Executor, Tian Bufan spoke, and he withdrew his perceptual rope of connection without hesitation.

The extension of perception was just a process of skill proficiency, having had the first time, every subsequent attempt becomes increasingly smooth and skilled.

His perceptual rope of connection, upon retracting to the Teaching Building, quietly decomposed, returning into numerous perception tentacles.

Eventually, these perception tentacles contracted like terminal nodes into the body of Lin Yi, who was at the window in Class B2, pressing his face against the window peering out.

"Young Master Tian, are you still there?" Lin Yi murmured softly, cautiously inquiring.

"I'm here," Tian Bufan responded, "Next, I will guide your Will Transition, go to join Maozi for action."

"Okay!" Lin Yi knew this was the bottom logic of Mao Feiyang's actions.

On the first day, he entered the game himself and planted an anchor in the Art Building.

After these few days of buildup, all they needed to do now was to go over and rendezvous with him.

Tian Bufan continued: "But, be cautious during the operation, don't alert the Night Watchmen. The 'Holy Hall' appearing on our opposite side is not just a playful occurrence."

The Quantum giant clock 'Holy Hall,' is indeed one of the three phantoms in mysterious creations, if one was to indiscriminately consume it on the map level, it wouldn't be shattered east and west, but rather pulverized like cotton.

Brother Ni wouldn't even be able to salvage it.