"Wait! Wait, wait, wait!!!"
Something suddenly occurred to Lin Yi, and a brilliant flash of lightning seemed to streak through the back of his mind like a thunderclap.
In that instant, he seemed to have grasped a spark of inspiration, one that seemed to point straight to the underlying logic behind the Nonhuman Classmates' killing mechanism!
"'Erasing Attention'... 'ignore them'... 'don't look at them'..."
"'Don't look back'..."
"'Stare'..."
He turned these key phrases over and over, his brain racing. A distorted framework even appeared in his mind, as though linking these things together with the right clues would reveal the underlying logic!
"I'm still missing a clue..."
"What is it... what am I missing?!"
He tugged at his hair, suffering the agony of reaching the crucial step in solving a problem.
Suddenly, he noticed those dustlike particles of white powder, and a flash of inspiration lit up his eyes!
"The last piece of the puzzle-'contamination'!"
"I get it!"
"I get it!!!"
"Whether it's 'don't look back' when you hear a sound behind you while walking around campus, or not looking around when you hear strange noises after the classroom lights go out and 'staring at the desk legs' instead... all those measures are meant to stop Experience Students from looking directly at those nonhuman entities!"
Had this been last night, Lin Yi's deduction would have ended here with a proof that "1 + 1 = 2." But now he had more conditions to work with, allowing him to deduce another step, or even several steps, from this foundation-just like Tian Bufan.
Namely, why did the rules prevent Experience Students from looking directly at Nonhuman Classmates?
It had to be because looking directly at them would overturn their existing cognition. Once something went wrong with their cognition, they would lose their