Chapter 184: Did the contamination come from... the supernatural? (2,700-word bonus update)
"I don't think we can judge a concept-level sculpture by ordinary standards," Tian Bufan said gravely. "If 'He' is the original source of the contamination, then theoretically, He would be everywhere, and we couldn't describe Him as an 'individual.'"
"Something like a quantum state, capable of existing in multiple places simultaneously, with every projection being the true body."
"But 'He' was restrained by the Security Guard. The Security Guard even drove 'Him' away."
"So I think 'His' level of existence is at least similar to the Security Guard's."
Only things on similar levels of existence could be said to fight each other.
If a dog barked at you, you wouldn't give a damn, because you couldn't be bothered, and if it really came to blows, you had countless ways to kill it.
But if a person yelled at you, that was different. At its simplest, "What are you looking at?" and "You, got a problem?" could lead straight to a fight.
"So 'He' definitely isn't the original source of the contamination. At most, He's some kind of super-concentrated mass of contamination... but He could be an individual, or an amalgamation of multiple individuals."
"What I mean is, if the Emergency Response Plan addresses certain special incidents, such as the mass invasion by Nonhuman Classmates we're experiencing now, that means incidents like this aren't uncommon on campus..."
"Of course, by 'aren't uncommon,' I mean when you consider their frequency over the entire period since the campus was first established."
"These incidents have happened frequently enough for the university and that so-called company Head Teacher 039 mentioned to gradually work out and draft the Emergency Response Plan... that's really thought-provoking."
"Also... I don't know if you've noticed, but even in