At this point, Lin Yi's expression instead grew grave. "Judging by the incident itself, all I can say is that her body was burned away, but her will... might still exist. My will could escape; the Burial Body is so deeply rooted that it couldn't possibly have no means at all."
"So what are you saying?" Head Teacher 040 pressed. She vaguely sensed some problems, but they still felt unclear, so she did not voice them.
"I mean that part of her will is still there," Lin Yi said. "If it was only the Burial Body's will guiding everything, that would be one thing. But if Zhang Lingzhen's will merged with the Burial Body, and Zhang Lingzhen was then in control... wouldn't that mean all the corpses fused into the Burial Body retained their individual wills?"
At this, Head Teacher 040's expression changed sharply, her face suddenly turning deathly pale. "You mean... the Burial Body serving as the Angel Sculpture would, when necessary, be... an army of the undead?!"
Lin Yi said gravely, "Something like that was also recorded in Northern European mythology..."
Head Teacher 040 pressed her lips together. "You mean the Hall of Heroes?"
In Northern European mythology, the king of the gods, Odin, built the Hall of Heroes to receive the souls of the dead. The souls of warriors who died bravely in battle would be brought there by Valkyrie.
When Ragnarök came, the army of heroic spirits would charge out of the hall and fight until the world ended.
The fundamental reason the Zhang Lingzhen incident continued to weigh on Lin Yi was not the incident itself, but the enormous web of logic implicated behind it.
If everything was more or less as he suspected, then the Burial Body itself was a mobile arsenal-no, a mobile