Hearing this, intense fear immediately rose in Lin Yi's heart. "Something like that can actually happen?!"
"All I can say is that it has happened before," Boss said. "Fortunately, it was discovered in time. Otherwise, letting a unit like that escape the Campus would truly be letting a tiger return to the mountains, with endless trouble to follow."
"Then, Boss, do you know what those Broken Sculptures actually are?" Lin Yi asked. "They've been troubling me for a long time, especially these last few days. My Visual Hallucinations of them have been getting more and more frequent... whether it's that calling or the other sounds they mentioned."
"Broken Sculptures?" A trace of confusion appeared in Boss's eyes. "What sort of Broken Sculptures?"
Lin Yi's heart gave a sudden jolt. Oh no. Boss doesn't know?
Could this be something else in Boss's memory blind spots?
He hurriedly explained the Broken Sculptures, then added, "I first discovered them while exploring the fifth floor and higher areas of the Teaching Building. They were hanging upside down from the ceiling in groups, tightly bound in iron chains, with less than half their bodies left free to move."
"Later, I saw them in the Library and the Student Passage too..."
"After that, I kept hearing their voices and calls from time to time..."
As Boss listened to Lin Yi's description, her brows involuntarily furrowed. "First, I need to make one thing clear."
"Ever since construction began on the Campus, there have been damaged sculptures here, but nothing like these Broken Sculptures you described, hanging upside down from the ceiling in iron chains."
"At least, I've never heard of them."
[I've never heard of them] seemed like a simple statement, but coming from a veteran whose history stretched back further than the Campus itself, it was