Logic Made Complete

As a city, Infinite City is itself Super Large Supernatural Tale, a fact that is common knowledge in the Infinite City Weird Tale circle, and can even be easily found in the library.

But no one knows how this high-tech park became a source of Weird Tale.

Even if it embodies the decadence, pain, confusion, and despair of generations of people in the East, it is ultimately without consciousness, and the people of the East cannot subconsciously imbue a community with consciousness. Even if there are one or Chuunibyou, it is impossible for everyone to simultaneously feel that the city is alive.

So, how exactly did the Infinite City survive?

Is it really true that it first becomes Phantom Object, then Omen, and finally re-establishes consciousness to become Weird Tale?

So how did such a large high-tech park become Phantom Object?

Feng Xue squinted, his gaze involuntarily drawn to the school model. Only then did he finally focus his attention on the Paper Scraps used as potting soil.

"These must be the Exam Paper. Hmm, it seems the reason this mosaic is piled up to such an alarming level is because of the endless, year-after-year exams."

Feng Xue flipped through the Paper Scraps. Under the watchful eye of her Golden Finger, most of them were False Thing templates. This was quite normal, though. Unless Phantom Object possessed elements like [regeneration], [repair], or [infinity], it would generally disintegrate into False Thing after being destroyed. Feng Xue had often used this mechanism before to destroy Reforge useless Phantom Object.

However, in extremely rare cases, Phantom Object may unexpectedly gain elements such as "[damaged]" or "[broken]" after being broken, but such occurrences are not only rare but also useless.

However, given the current situation, Feng Xue had to consider one more step:

"The [consciousness] that created these Phantom Object must have been provided by this Omen. It's like I tore down my east wall to patch up my west wall, and then tore down my west wall to patch up my east wall. After patching back and forth like this, both walls were patched up, and there was even a surplus. What kind of sphere-dividing paradox is this?"

Feng Xue grinned, but then another question popped into his head—

Why can't I print out the Phantom Object Exam Paper anywhere other than the Copy Room?

He had previously thought that the Teaching Building itself was a separate Weird Tale or Phantom Object, or that there was some kind of Phantom Object Rule Book or School Rules that stipulated that Exam Paper must be printed in the Copy Room.

But now this Omen has confirmed that the entire school, including the Teaching Building and dormitories, even the playground and the surrounding Shopfront House, falls within the influence of this Omen. So why is it that only the Copy Room can print exam papers?

He didn't think this Omen was clever enough to send specific [consciousness] to a specific area.

"No, that's not right, maybe I'm thinking wrong! Just as the power of the Phantom Object isn't activated by the Phantom Object's own will, the Omen's ability to create Phantom Object might not be its own subjective consciousness, but some kind of external arrangement."

Thinking of this, Feng Xue couldn't help but think of the senior who hadn't been resurrected yet, and vaguely felt that there was probably some kind of scheme involved.

At the same time, Feng Xue recalled the Ghost King she had seen when she visited the grave before.

"At the time, I thought the Ghost King was going to become Weird Tale, but I didn't know the specific method that led to his conscious manifestation of an Omen. But now that I think about it, given his behavior and logic, his initial goal was probably to become Omen, or rather, all the levels in this game are actually designed to create this kind of Domain Type Omen that can control the entire level."

Thinking about this, Feng Xue suddenly felt that her previous thoughts suddenly connected. Perhaps the reason why Infinite City could turn into Phantom Object was the same as the reason why the scrolls printed in the video room could turn into Phantom Object?

But while figuring this out, another, even bigger bug was born.

When Feng Xue first saw the Ghost King, she thought that this senior wanted to create a Supernatural Tale World in the human world similar to Infinite City by creating Domain Type ghost Weird Tale, and then revive herself in this "Infinite City- like" Weird Tale to become a true "Progenitor of Supernatural Tales Weird Tale".

But now it seems that what the predecessors were trying to create was not Weird Tale, but Omen.

Assuming this predecessor wasn't unable to resurrect due to some accident, but rather deliberately created such a commotion in an attempt to return in a more powerful way, why would they choose Omen?

After Omen, even without a systematic training in Weird Tale (to be precise, only Infinite City has such training), one can still sense the potent corruption inherent in any Weird Tale. Even among the desperate individuals in Infinite City, only a very small minority would choose to merge with Omen in search of a glimmer of hope. How could a powerful Weird Tale make such an unwise choice?

Although there is no definitive answer yet, Feng Xue vaguely felt that the reason why this Omen could continuously allow [consciousness] to multiply in a relatively closed cycle was probably the reason why this senior chose the Omen.

Is this reason related to the fact that "only the Copy Room can print exam papers"?

All the questions returned to normal, but Feng Xue suddenly felt that she might have vaguely grasped some key point.

Are specific locations and specific actions the correct way for Phantom Object to be created?

Thinking about it this way, aren't the so-called Companion Phantom in Weird Tale simply things that the Weird Tale used at specific times and places to do specific things?

Does this mean that creating Phantom Object using Tag, or having one's own Golden Finger to create Phantom Object, is essentially a "heretical" practice?

"Speaking of which, I've had a similar feeling for a long time. When Reforge based on True Thing, the time, place, and the template used as the base for Reforge all affect the formation of the Phantom Object."

"At the time, I thought it was the 'True Thing elements' that the Golden Finger couldn't observe that were affecting the result, but now that I think about it, the so-called True Thing elements are actually just the ubiquitous cognition in reality, right?"

"Following this logic, could we roughly conclude that symbolic locations and actions help to gather [consciousness]? And in an environment where [consciousness] is abundant enough, corresponding Phantom Object can easily be born?"

As for why this school has an unusually large number of exam papers...

"Perhaps at first they were all sorts of Phantom Object, but because the school consumes the most test papers, the probability of them appearing is high. As the number increases, the part of the [consciousness] that constitutes this Omen becomes more related to test papers, making it easier for new test papers to produce Phantom Object. Over time, the number of test papers increases."

All the clues connected in Feng Xue's mind, forming a complete logical chain, but this chain was still missing the final link—

How does [consciousness] multiply?

This problem is not difficult; once the overall logic is established, the answer becomes obvious.

"The process of students answering questions, the thought process they put into it, their reflection on the questions, and their anxiety about their grades—all of these are forms of knowledge!"

The transformation of Ouija board spirits into Weird Tale and the transformation of Phantom Object into Weird Tale are two completely different things.

Because the Ouija board is a derivative of Phantom Object, like a grain of salt in a bag of infinite salt, or a poison that a ghost hand inexplicably pulls out, it is not essentially part of Phantom Object. Even if the Ouija board becomes Weird Tale, a pen is still a pen. You might even be able to pull out a new Ouija board spirit by using it.

To give a simple example, it's like the Double Body Warrior in Yu-Gi-Oh! -Oh!... the "Double" in "Double- Double Body Warrior. If a card with an effect that involves "the Synchro Material used to Summon this Card" is activated, it will not involve Double Body Warrior.

To put it in a more fantastical way, it's normal for Summoning Circle to summon creatures, but for the Summoning Circle to transform into a creature itself is quite absurd.