"Just like 'qi' in mysticism or 'waves' in science, complex concepts have to be defined by people before people will force themselves to accept their existence... like rules. We obey the rules, understand the rules, overwrite our related cognition bit by bit, then gradually accept this world so different from 'reality.'"
"No, who says what we knew at the beginning was 'reality'? Like in The Matrix, maybe the world outside the Campus is the Garden of Eden, and the Campus is a pathway to the 'truth'?"
"Could the world we overwrite bit by bit be the real world?"
"We're getting sidetracked." Tian Bufan shook his head slightly and returned to the subject.
"Something Concept-Level like this... is part of my exploration plans, but my sphere of cognition isn't enough to support facing 'Him' directly yet."
"We can't directly face something beyond our cognition, just as a student can't attempt a problem full of advanced formulas... we don't even know what the symbols in those formulas mean, so we aren't qualified to even read the problem. When we encounter something like that, the best choice is to leave the problem alone."
"It isn't a compulsory question, so we can come back later with more knowledge and try reading it then."
Lin Yi nodded.
"Speaking of which, did you all see Zhou Yuting when you went to the Cafeteria?" With the matters of the scrap of paper and Song Rentou settled for the moment, Lin Yi brought the discussion back to what had happened that day. "The girl outside the Cafeteria."
Lin Yi briefly explained what he knew about Zhou Yuting.
"Oh, and when I left the Teaching Building area, I saw her licking the paint on a Streetlamp Pole in the Cafeteria area. From the way she looked, she didn't seem