Chapter 585: Was the Teaching Building... "alive"?! (Start of the month, asking for monthly votes~)
"Holy shit! It actually worked?!" Lin Yi's expression shifted slightly. Tian Bufan's will had indeed penetrated the Layer and descended upon him, and wild delight immediately spread across his face.
"Need something?" Tian Bufan asked.
Lin Yi was still reveling in his delight. At the question, his brain briefly froze, and he blurted out, "Uh, have you had lunch?"
Tian Bufan: "..."
"No, I mean..." Lin Yi immediately came to his senses. "I just found where the Night-Walking Species and the Sculpture Phalanx are! Can you see them?"
He directed his Visual Domain back toward that "clump."
"I see them," Tian Bufan said.
"Any thoughts? Or do you know what's going on here?" Lin Yi asked.
"Let me take a look." Tian Bufan fell silent after saying that.
A moment later, he said, "Kuai Kuai says they're combining into some kind of component-a component used to assemble a Matrix."
"A Matrix?" The only Matrix Lin Yi knew of was the stone formation in the Barren Land. "Even this can form a Matrix?"
Tian Bufan said, "It's not that 'even this can.' They themselves are part of a certain 'Matrix.'"
"Think about it. Those Impersonator Classmates and Night-Walking Species in the Elevator-didn't they seem to have some kind of underlying logic that allowed them to fit together in an unconventional form, becoming a bizarre hybrid state?"
"That modeling-clay-like state of theirs might not be an inherent characteristic. It might instead be a 'shape-memory effect' they only acquired after becoming part of the Matrix."
"Think carefully. The Forest of the Dead's Steles actually has that characteristic too."
Lin Yi was astonished. "Could the genealogy of bizarre creatures be one enormous river that winds around and eventually returns