Head Teacher 040 immediately asked, "Then tell me how you felt."
The images he had seen while falling through the layers surfaced in Lin Yi's mind. He said slowly, "Your considerations aren't unreasonable, but you're looking at it from the wrong angle... is it possible that, in some respects, the 'Proto-Type Ashes Apostles' has already reached a level where it can break the rules?"
"The closer an existence is to the rules, the more it is bound by them, but that doesn't include... the existence that makes the rules."
"That thing, the 'Proto-Type Ashes Apostles'... its very existence might be a rule. And when rules conflict, perhaps its 'code' takes priority over the Campus's!"
"The Convenience Store Owner said it was some kind of projection of the Ashes Apostles Pathway in the real world, a rule given concrete form. Starting from that point... its existence was actually affected by Big Head Yuan's ritual..."
"Perhaps it couldn't project itself here originally, but the ritual Big Head Yuan performed provided some kind of 'coordinates' for its birth... after descending, what it needed might not have been pure slaughter, but rather... 'energy' that might allow it to maintain its 'existence.'"
"Then Its killing..." Head Teacher 040 couldn't quite follow for a moment.
Lin Yi explained his thoughts. "Humans originally caught fish to eat just to fill their stomachs, but to the fish, it was slaughter... we 'humans' rank too low in the hierarchy of life. Whether we live or die isn't in our own hands. If obtaining pure Supernatural Power and ashes is like eating delicious food to It, then is it possible that It wouldn't care about anything else while eating?"
"So... that was why I was lucky enough to look directly at it without dying..."
"And those Grinning Angels... their power