With no time to grow sentimental over romantic feelings that might not even exist, Lin Yi swiftly pulled his thoughts back to what Boss had said.
He had never imagined that Boss knew exactly where the Hall of Heroes was, when even Tian Bufan and the others did not. More than that, she had dismantled it and hidden it throughout the Campus. Wasn't that a little too impressive?
He also understood now that the Gym Teachers who had not appeared in the Gymnasium were probably sleeping in other Layers, waiting to awaken when needed, or when a certain "Feast" began.
As though sensing Lin Yi's shock, Boss said slowly, "I knew you would summon the Ark someday and sail toward the Black Sea shrouded in Mist. These little designs merely added a few minor functions to the Ark."
"Added a few minor functions?"
"Wait, what Boss just mentioned was-the Ark, right?!" Lin Yi froze briefly, then a host of scattered clues immediately surfaced in his mind!
The voyage Tian Bufan had mentioned-
The "Preparations" Kuai Hongji had supposedly been tinkering with in the Campus all this time-
And the Design Plan designated "HX-S1" that the Principal had been "born" with-
"Could that Design Plan actually be the Design Plan for the Ark?!"
The scene inside Dormitory 4016 sprang into his mind. He remembered an Architectural Blueprint on the desk, with the faint outline of the Clock Tower on it.
Could their former selves have designed the Ark, then dismantled it like a model kit and converted it into the various buildings throughout the Campus, so that once they returned and everything was ready, they could somehow "combine" them to recreate the legendary Ark?
And had everything Kuai Hongji had been doing since entering the school involved setting up Mystical Runes