The timing didn't add up! Lin Yi thought.
Kuai Hongji said, "One strand of the Convenience Store Owner's will attached itself to a painting in the Gallery. I spoke with him when I entered."
"The Gallery?" Lin Yi paused, then seemed to remember something. "There was indeed a painting in the Gallery. I always felt something in there watching me. Was that the Convenience Store Owner? But that doesn't make sense-if the Convenience Store Owner could manifest in the Art Building, why did he need Lao Mo to anchor his coordinates?"
When Lao Mo took him to the Art Building the previous night, he had provided the Convenience Store Owner with the Clock Tower's coordinates, allowing his projection to cross layers and descend upon the Art Building. If the Convenience Store Owner could attach his will to a painting in the Art Building, couldn't he do the same thing and make arrangements in the Clock Tower too?
Kuai Hongji said, "The two things are fundamentally different."
"At the Clock Tower, he actually had to fight. In the Gallery, he only needed to plant a lookout."
Lin Yi seemed to understand something. "Oh-but what was the Convenience Store Owner going to the 'Principal's Office' for?
"Did he know where the 'Principal's Office' was?"
"He didn't originally, but now, he very likely knows those coordinates," Kuai Hongji said. "He's clashed and fought with the 'proto-type ashes apostles.' After that many collisions, he wouldn't have discovered nothing."
"The Principal's condition had already trapped him in a time paradox loop. It was only a matter of time before the coordinates were exposed."
"I told the Convenience Store Owner he had one chance precisely to maximize the value of our resources."
"With or without him, the coordinates of that 'Principal's Office' would be exposed before