Jin Jiuyao was still reluctant to accept it. He wanted to ask again whether Xiao Zi and William might have used false names, but this time, his mind caught up before the words left his mouth-they could not have been false names, nor should they have been.
Because if they had been false names, there would have been a problem with their corresponding identity anchors.
The purpose of the Student ID was to anchor an Experience Student's identity in conjunction with their name. If they used a false name, once their self-perception was overwritten by that name, the Student ID would lose its anchoring effect. In that case, the protection the Student Rules afforded them would disappear as well.
That raised a problem. Lin Yi and Wei Liang's existence now constituted some kind of paradox. Whether they existed or not, neither seemed entirely reasonable.
Their existence conflicted with their identities.
Because back when Lin Yi had been deceiving the Night-Walking Species, he had once anchored himself to Li Huiyuan's identity. As a result, his appearance had begun to distort, undergoing certain mutations toward Li Huiyuan's appearance.
Although he had eventually returned to normal, if that anchored cognition had become an indelible stamp, there would have been no need to say anything more about what remained.
Thus, the only explanation was that Xiao Zi and William did not exist. They were lingering ghosts wandering the Campus, still unable to escape the shadows that trapped them after so many years.
Meanwhile, Lin Yi had been walking through the Bookshelf Area for a long time. Following Wei Liang's advice, he soon found the first book-Echoes of the Black Mist.
The book's cover was extremely old, carved with strange patterns. The words "Echoes of the Black Mist" gave off waves of eerie light.