Rules of the Uncanny: 4016
Chapter 127

The figure down the corridor

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"Hmph!!" Wei Liang ground his teeth with an audible creak, crouched down, and began picking the books up off the floor.

Lin Yi thought that settled the explanation nicely. With Wei Liang, the more you explained, the more he fantasized. Admit it outright, and he refused to believe it.

"Your books!" Wei Liang picked up the books, opened the folding desk, and slammed them down on it. Then he began sorting them, quickly slapping the stack down in front of Lin Yi and Li Huiyuan.

Recalling the appearance of those white, plaster-like fragments and considering what Lin Yi had told her, Li Huiyuan unwittingly accepted several books Wei Liang had picked out, even thanking him out of habit.

She sat down and began leafing through the books distractedly, her mind still occupied with what had happened earlier.

Watching her, Lin Yi gradually confirmed something to himself-the conditions that allowed someone to think were not as rigid as Xu Shunkang had made them out to be.

The conditions for thinking were not fixed. They were very flexible.

[You may only think in sunlight.]

That was a broad statement, or rather, "reasonable advice" that Xu Shunkang, an Athlete Student, had offered ordinary Experience Students.

In reality, sunlight represented a safe state. In that state, an Experience Student's mental will seemed to receive some sort of reinforcement, effectively resisting the effects of a layer drop.

In other words, the condition of being [under the sun] had been established to prevent, at its root, the cognitive collapse caused by thinking.

That meant that once cognition had been overwritten, a person became much more adapted to the parts that would originally have distorted, greatly reducing the possibility of cognitive collapse.

That was precisely why Li Huiyuan could think inside the classroom. Of course, another part

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