"But they were singing a song calling to me..."
Tian Bufan countered, "Isn't it possible they were actually calling to everyone who could hear them?"
"But that singing..."
"You've sunk too deep, Lao Lin," Tian Bufan interrupted. "Seven minutes left. Have you decided what to say?"
Lin Yi hurriedly shut his mouth. His thoughts raced, and he voiced his final question. "When I faced the Forest of the Dead's Steles' attack tonight, a thought suddenly struck me. Could Xenomorphic Sculptures with fairly similar forms, like the Forest of the Dead's Steles and the Snake Nest, all be separate entities split off from the same parent body?"
"Doesn't that Hokage Tsunade in 'Water Shadow Ninja' have a slug summoning beast? Could they be like that summoning beast, with all those Xenomorphic Sculptures that invaded the reality layer essentially being one and the same?"
"Ummm..." It suddenly occurred to Lin Yi that Tian Bufan might not have read that comic. Perhaps only Wei Liang would easily understand an analogy like this.
"I understand what you mean... a fishing net, right?" Tian Bufan said slowly. "Suppose there's a parent Xenomorphic Sculpture trapped in a fishing net. Its flesh gets squeezed out through the net, looking like individual chunks."
"And the fishing net is like a layer. Those individual entities squeeze through the net, penetrate the layer, and reach reality, looking like separate individuals."
"Yes, yes, exactly!! Nobody gets things like you do, Young Master Tian!" Lin Yi clapped his hands.
"You're the one who can't even explain things coherently..." Tian Bufan was speechless.
"Heh, heh..." Lin Yi laughed sheepishly and hurried on. "So I was thinking, if the Snake Nest over in Little Japan and the Forest of the Dead's Steles here on Campus are both parts of the original body, just how