Rules of the Uncanny: 4016
Chapter 215

Those Who Chase the Light Through Fog Become Phantoms

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Mu Daxian looked down at the two deformed Impersonators writhing on the ground and said coldly, "Besides, Impersonators like these might look freshly transformed, but they're already beyond saving. If you see them and have the ability to eliminate them, you have to do it. Otherwise, once they contaminate Experience Students during the day, it'll spread like a virus."

"Spread like a virus?!" Mao Feiyang exclaimed.

Mu Daxian said, "The rules for Experience Students primarily exist to keep the contamination they can encounter within a certain range. Once their cognition develops problems, their own 'contamination resistance' weakens."

"Two people might both walk from the Teaching Building to the Cafeteria. One arrives without anything unusual happening, while the other sees one or two incredibly lifelike humanoid sculptures along the way."

"Even without considering any later variables, the mere fact that he 'saw humanoid sculptures' has already become a variable in his experience of life here."

"If thoughts like 'all the sculptures are in the Art Building,' 'why are there sculptures here?' or 'who put them here?' arise in their subconscious, then even if they come up with nothing at first, they'll still think about it from time to time afterward."

"Curiosity has always driven humans to explore the unknown. That's why very few people can stop thinking after a question arises and consistently maintain that state of not thinking."

"And once you start thinking, the 'gears of fate' start turning... No one can escape the infiltration of contamination. No one can stop it."

"That's the difference between 'zero' and 'nonzero.'"

[If I never encounter it, naturally I won't know anything. If I don't even know, how could I think about it?]

*[If I don't think about anything, I won't attract contamination at all. And the contamination ordinarily present on campus isn't

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