"We all know that, continue with your story."
Lin Yi wasn’t at all surprised that Tian Bufan was also aware of this; after all, Tian Bufan too was constantly exploring.
After he detailed the exploration of the elevator, he began to wait for Tian Bufan to speak.
"It’s a pity," Tian Bufan said, "if you had a way to drive all the nocturnal species out of the elevator, we could have known what’s inside."
"Yeah," Lin Yi sighed, "there actually is a way. The location of the elevator’s construction is a bit off and can’t be directly hit by sunlight, but if we could get a big enough mirror to reflect the light onto them, we might be able to force them out."
"So you’ve thought of a method too, you just haven’t put it into practice," Tian Bufan noted.
"Ah? You have a mirror that big?"
"I don’t," Tian Bufan said, but quickly added, "But aren’t there ready-made mirrors?"
"I opened the elevator this morning and saw the situation inside. I broke a long tree branch at lunchtime by the roadside, and when I returned to the Teaching Building afterward, I took down the mirror in the restroom, then went over to the elevator, found a good position, and started working..."
"What’s there to be astonished about?"
"I’m just a little shocked..." Lin Yi imagined Tian Bufan with a stern face taking down the mirror and found it very incongruous.
"You don’t think I did it all by myself, do you?" Tian Bufan retorted.
"Silly, there’s ready labor right in the classroom!"
"You... mobilized the masses?"
"Mobilize my ass, I directly asked the Sports Students for help. When they heard I was doing a barbecue, they were all very enthusiastic."
"Okay then..." Lin Yi spread his hands in resignation, "and then you had the sports students adjust the angle of the mirror while you remotely pressed the elevator’s open button with the tree branch, roasting the nocturnal species?"
"Yes, and I also conducted some minor experiments, briefly researching their structure and transformation methods."
"Plus, with the sports students there, I almost completely figured them out."
Suddenly interested, Lin Yi quickly said, "Tell me about it."
Tian Bufan organized his thoughts, then spoke, "Let’s talk about the results first. The ’nocturnal species’ are extremely afraid of sunlight, even the light reflected from a mirror has a strong deadly effect on them."
"After being exposed to sunlight, the contamination within their bodies is released quickly in the form of mist, and the body turns into a white gypsum-like sculpture. But according to the Sports Students, the sculpted nocturnal species don’t actually die. As soon as abnormal weather comes, and they absorb contamination, they go back to being nocturnal species."
"Put simply, they’re like balloons, and pollution inflates them."
"Also, just smashing them up doesn’t work—their structure is like that of a ’metal liquid robot.’ After being broken, different individuals’ ’parts’ attract each other upon absorbing contamination, merge, and then transform into something neither human nor ghost. According to the information I’ve obtained, such a form is the precursor to the ’Alien Sculpture.’
’From what I understand, the Alien Sculpture is a troublesome thing. Once formed, it’s not something the Sports Students can easily deal with, so when dealing with ordinary nocturnal species, you have to completely annihilate them once you engage."
"And the method of complete annihilation is very simple, you just need to smash them under the sun."
"Sunlight will kill them completely, turning them into white powder particles. That substance is pure Contamination, and also one of the components of the kind of ’mist’ in abnormal weather."
"Wait a minute... I’m a bit confused," Lin Yi got a little lost, "are you saying that after the nocturnal species’ bodies are shattered, they will be assimilated by Contamination and become part of it? Then... such contaminants can be absorbed by the sculpted nocturnal species, allowing them to revert to the shape of the nocturnal species."
"So conceptually speaking, isn’t the nocturnal species just the physical embodiment of a part of the mist in Contamination?"
Tian Bufan paused, "Does this form remind you of anything?"
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes, "You asking makes me subconsciously think of ’water.’"
"The three states of water."
"The nocturnal species, trending towards the liquid state, the gypsum-like sculpture trending towards the solid state, and... the white powder particles trending towards the gaseous state."
"Then could it be that the contamination source in the campus is a Super Nocturnal Species?!"
"emmmm... or shall we call it... Nocturnal Species ’Super’?!"
Initially, Tian Bufan’s description made Lin Yi first think of the Super Summoned Beast slug from "Water Shadow Ninja," which could both split into countless smaller slugs and merge back into the main body, similar to the nocturnal species that Tian Bufan described.
But as he surveyed the campus, he immediately thought of another similar concept...
"That nonexistent sea?"
Isn’t the ocean made up of countless amounts of water?
And in a Phantom Vision not long before, he had seen countless nocturnal species emerge like a tide from the sea waves, appear on the black rocks, and then start climbing up the cliff faces!