"Could... the 'Law-Crafting Master' have already escaped her prison?" Lin Yi asked, his voice trembling.
The Night Watchman fell silent for a while, then said, "No... the world as it is now can no longer fulfill the conditions for undoing 'Time Exile.' She absolutely cannot return, but one possibility cannot be ruled out... her will, which permeated time and Layers, ultimately affected the Layer that is the outpost."
"Your visual and auditory hallucinations... are very likely connected to her influence on the Art Building..."
Lin Yi rubbed his arms, where his hair stood on end. "You mean... the 'Call of the Art Building' I've been sensing all this time was actually the 'Call of the Law-Crafting Master'?!"
"The Law-Crafting Master's Call penetrated the Layers and found me as soon as I arrived on Campus?!"
Working out the timing, he had heard the "Call of the Art Building" on the afternoon of his second day at school. A cloud had blocked the sunlight, and then his field of vision had interacted with Maozi's after Maozi arrived at the Art Building... that was also right after Maozi absorbed the first wave of green powder particles in Art Classroom-IV!
Given the characteristic of contamination sharing a common source, that was indeed when he had begun hearing the "Call of the Art Building" continuously, and tonight was his first time reaching the Art Building!
So when he arrived at the Gallery, the Law-Crafting Master had appeared in his visual hallucination holding a music box?!
It wasn't that he had hallucinated and seen the Law-Crafting Master, but that the Law-Crafting Master had extended her will and made him see her?!
"This..."
"But why...?"
"Out of all those people, she just had to find a sucker like me? Couldn't she go find Liangzi? Liangzi's the one